CHAPTER 15. Rivers, Streams, and Harbors

Chapter 15 added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.

§§ 39900–39965 · 16 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. General §§ 39900–39901 · 2 sections

   • § 39900 When a city legislative body determines that it is beneficial to the city and if an equal or greater sum of money has been made available from private sources,…
   • § 39901 A city whose limits include or bound upon a harbor, bay, estuary, or other navigable body of water may: (a) Establish, acquire, construct, improve, and…
2. ARTICLE 2. Establishment of Harbor Lines by Cities Generally §§ 39930–39938 · 9 sections

   • § 39930 As used in this article: (a) “Navigable water” includes a harbor, bay, inlet, and estuary. (b) “Tidelands” includes submerged lands. (c) “Owns tidelands” means…
   • § 39931 By ordinance a city which owns tidelands situated within the city boundaries and fronting on a navigable water within the city boundaries may fix and establish…
   • § 39932 A city may exercise such power to the same extent which the State may exercise it or to which the State can grant such power to a city. Harbor lines shall not…
   • § 39933 All navigable waters situated within or adjacent to city shall remain open to the free and unobstructed navigation of the public. Such waters and the water…
   • § 39934 To secure the benefits of this article and of Article XV of the Constitution to such city and to the people generally, a city in which a navigable water is…
   • § 39935 The authority granted by this article may be exercised by a city over, along, or upon the water frontage or tidelands which it owns or which one claimed or…
   • § 39936 City ordinances for the laying out, establishing, opening, constructing, maintaining, or otherwise improving of public streets and other public rights of way…
   • § 39937 When by ordinance a city declares that any right of way to a body of navigable water in the city over, upon, or along the frontage of city tidelands is…
   • § 39938 Ordinances of a city owning tidelands fronting on a navigable water situated within the city boundaries which were adopted prior to August 10, 1913, and which…
3. ARTICLE 3. Powers §§ 39961–39965 · 5 sections

   • § 39961 The legislative body may: (a) Improve the rivers and streams flowing through or adjoining the city, widen, straighten, and deepen their channels, and remove…
   • § 39962 It may also acquire, own, construct, maintain, and operate wharves, chutes, piers, breakwaters, bathhouses, and life saving stations on lands bordering on a…
   • § 39963 Pursuant to contract and through its legislative body, a city may join with another city of the same class or with a county in: (a) Acquiring an existing ferry…
   • § 39964 Each contracting party may pay its proportionate share of the cost of acquiring and operating the ferry out of its general fund.
   • § 39965 In the discretion of the legislative bodies of the contracting parties, the ferry may be operated either as a toll or free ferry.