ARTICLE 1. Administration and Control Generally

Article 1 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.

§§ 6301–6314 · 27 sections

§ 6301 The commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the State, and of the beds of navigable rivers, streams,…
§ 6301.2 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1969 for the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of California State…
§ 6301.5 The commission may act in behalf of the State of California pursuant to Section 7 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, an Act of Congress approved by the…
§ 6301.6 If any funds are impounded pursuant to Section 6301.5 under the custody and control of the State of California, such impounded funds may be invested and…
§ 6301.7 The commission may negotiate with, and with the approval of the Governor may enter into agreements with, the United States, or any official, agency, licensee,…
§ 6302 The commission may eject from any tide and submerged lands, beds of navigable channels, streams, rivers, creeks, lakes, bays, and inlets under its…
§ 6302.1 (a) (1) The commission may take immediate action, without notice, to remove from areas under its jurisdiction a vessel that is left unattended and is moored,…
§ 6302.2 (a) The commission shall, in consultation with other relevant state and local agencies directly involved in the removal of abandoned vessels, by July 1, 2019,…
§ 6302.3 (a) The commission, at a properly noticed commission hearing, may take title to an abandoned vessel subject to disposal pursuant to Section 6302.1 for the sole…
§ 6302.4 (a) At the request of the commission, an employee or agent of the commission or a peace officer of the federal or state government or a city, county, or other…
§ 6303 (a) The commission may grant the privilege of depositing material upon or removing or extracting material from swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide or submerged…
§ 6303.1 Any person who knowingly and willfully fills, dredges, or reclaims any state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the commission underlying any navigable…
§ 6304 The commission may cooperate with the Coastal Engineering Research Board of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and may expend such moneys as are…
§ 6305 The powers granted by this chapter to the commission as to leasing or granting of rights or privileges with relation to the lands owned by the state are hereby…
§ 6306 (a) For purposes of this division, “local trustee of granted public trust lands” means a county, city, or district, including a water, sanitary, regional park,…
§ 6306.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Lands Commission and the City of Los Angeles, acting by and through its Board of Harbor Commissioners,…
§ 6306.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to mitigate the effects of the project which is the subject of the Department of the Army Permit No.…
§ 6307 (a) The commission may enter into an exchange, with any person or any private or public entity, of filled or reclaimed tide and submerged lands or beds of…
§ 6307.1 (a) This section applies only to land in which California has a sovereign interest that lies within the boundaries of the State of Arizona and land in which…
§ 6308 If an action or proceeding is commenced by or against a county, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the state involving the title to or the…
§ 6309 (a) The commission shall administer the Shipwreck and Historic Maritime Resources Program, which consists of the activities of the commission pursuant to this…
§ 6310 Whenever tide and submerged lands granted in trust to a county by the Legislature are included within a city’s boundaries as the result of that city’s…
§ 6311 It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that any grant of tidelands or submerged lands made after January 1, 1971, within an area which has been…
§ 6311.5 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Local trustee” means a local trustee of granted public trust…
§ 6312 Neither the state, nor any political subdivision thereof, shall take possession of lawful improvements on validly granted or patented tidelands or submerged…
§ 6313 (a) The title to all abandoned shipwrecks and all archaeological sites and historic resources on or in the tide and submerged lands of California is vested in…
§ 6314 (a) A person who removes, without authorization from the commission, or a person who destroys or damages an archaeological site or a historic resource, that is…