CHAPTER 1. Private Wharves and Piers

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.

§§ 4000–4017 · 18 sections

• § 4000 The board of supervisors of any county may, upon approval of the Public Utilities Commission, grant authority to any person to construct a wharf, chute, or…
• § 4001 The board of supervisors of each county may upon approval of the Department of Finance through the Chief of the Division of State Lands, grant authority to any…
• § 4002 Application for such authority is made by publishing notice as required in the next section, and by filing a petition in writing, containing: (a) The name and…
• § 4003 Each applicant shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper in each county which the wharf or chute touches, and in which it is located or which it will…
• § 4004 When any lands sought to be appropriated and used for a wharf or chute are not owned by the applicant or if a right of way and use has not been obtained by…
• § 4005 If the owner of the land is a nonresident of the county, the sheriff may make service by leaving a copy of the notice of application with the occupant, or…
• § 4006 On the day named in the notice, or to which the hearing is adjourned, the board shall hear proof of the publication and service of notice. If the proof is…
• § 4007 The grant conveys to the grantee or applicant the right of way and all necessary use, for the purposes of the wharf or chute, of any of the overflowed,…
• § 4008 The grant carries with it the right to have unencumbered and unobstructed the land and water on each side of the wharf or chute from high-water mark to…
• § 4009 After authority to construct a wharf or chute has been granted, until the grantee has procured from the owner the right-of-way and other necessary incidental…
• § 4010 The wharf or chute shall not be of a greater width than seventy-five feet, and it may extend to navigable water. A wharf constructed upon any of the navigable…
• § 4011 The orders granting authority, and agreements, contracts, deeds, and decrees of courts granting the right of way and other use of lands, shall be filed and…
• § 4012 The board shall annually fix the rate of tolls or wharfage for the use of the wharf or chute, to produce an income of not less than fifteen nor more than…
• § 4013 When the wharf or chute is completed and the tolls or wharfage fixed, the owner is entitled to a license to take tolls for the term of one year. The license…
• § 4014 An owner or keeper of a wharf or chute who takes toll or wharfage for its use forfeits the sum of twenty-five dollars, and is liable for all damage occasioned,…
• § 4015 Authority shall not be granted under this chapter which will interfere with vested rights, or interfere with or infringe grants made by State authority.…
• § 4016 The lands of the State situated in the city of San Francisco, and those otherwise disposed of or situated within the limits of any incorporated town or city of…
• § 4017 A board of supervisors of a county may grant any railroad corporation authority to construct a wharf on or in front of any lands owned by it bordering on any…