ARTICLE 8. Environmental Actions
Article 8 added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1518.
§§ 12600–12613 · 14 sections
- § 12600 The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) It is the policy of this state to conserve, protect, and enhance its environment. It is the policy of this…
- § 12601 The provisions of this article are not exclusive, and the remedies provided for in this article shall be in addition to any other remedies provided for in any…
- § 12602 If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the chapter and the…
- § 12603 This article shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.
- § 12604 As used in this article, “person” includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company,…
- § 12605 As used in this article, “natural resource” includes land, water, air, minerals, vegetation, wildlife, silence, historic or aesthetic sites, or any other…
- § 12606 The Attorney General shall be permitted to intervene in any judicial or administrative proceeding in which facts are alleged concerning pollution or adverse…
- § 12607 The Attorney General may maintain an action for equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California against any person for the protection of…
- § 12608 In any action maintained under Section 12607, the defendant may also show, by way of an affirmative defense, that there is no more feasible and prudent…
- § 12609 Any action brought pursuant to Section 12607 to review, set aside, void or annul any decision in any zoning matter of an administrative body or of a…
- § 12610 In granting temporary and permanent equitable relief, the court may impose such conditions upon the defendant as are required to protect the natural resources…
- § 12611 (a) Whenever proceedings before an administrative agency are pending or available to determine the legality of the defendants’ conduct, program, or product,…
- § 12612 (a) In any administrative, licensing, or other such proceeding or in any proceeding for judicial review thereof which is made available by law, the Attorney…
- § 12613 There is continued in existence in the Department of Justice a Bureau of Environmental Justice.