CHAPTER 2. Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands [7501. - 7556.]

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.

§§ 7501–7556 · 25 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Swamp and Overflowed Lands Subsequent to September 19, 1939 § 7501 · 1 section

   • § 7501 Swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the state may be sold by the commission under rules and regulations prescribed by it and at a price fixed by it,…
2. ARTICLE 2. Swamp and Overflowed Lands Sold Prior to September 19, 1939 §§ 7521–7537 · 17 sections

   • § 7521 The swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the State were sold prior to September 19, 1939, at the rate of one dollar ($1) an acre. Twenty per cent of the…
   • § 7522 The commission shall not approve any application nor issue evidence of title for swamp and overflowed land, until six months after the land has been segregated…
   • § 7523 No claim shall be made by the State to any land as swamp or overflowed, which has not been returned as such by the United States, nor to lands for which…
   • § 7524 Any person desiring to purchase swamp and overflowed lands shall make an affidavit and file it in the office of the commission, that he is a citizen of the…
   • § 7525 Any false statement contained in the affidavit defeats the right of the applicant to purchase the land, or to receive any evidence of title thereto, and if…
   • § 7526 If at any time after such affidavit is filed in the office of the commission, and prior to the issuance of a patent for the lands described therein it is made…
   • § 7527 Within 30 days from the date of such order of reference, the party filing the affidavit raising such questions shall commence, in such court, an action to…
   • § 7528 If upon the trial of such action it appears that any of the statements made in the affidavit filed by the person desiring to purchase the land were false, or…
   • § 7529 Upon the filing with the commission of a copy of the final judgment of the court, the commission shall, if the judgment of the court cancels the location or…
   • § 7530 Any person desiring to purchase lands, as provided in this article, which have been segregated by authority of the United States, but which have not been…
   • § 7531 All payments shall be made by the purchaser to the county treasurer of the county in which the land is situated. The treasurer shall receive the amounts to be…
   • § 7532 Upon the first day of July of each year the county treasurer shall prepare a report showing all moneys received for swamp and overflowed and tide lands during…
   • § 7533 These reports shall be forwarded to the commission, and upon receipt thereof the commission shall enter the payment so reported to the credit of the purchaser,…
   • § 7534 The county treasurer shall retain all money arising from the sale of swamp and overflowed lands and place it to the credit of a separate trust fund or trust…
   • § 7535 If a reclamation district is organized in any county, the board of supervisors of each county in which any portion of the lands of the district are located,…
   • § 7536 If any expenses pertaining to land in a reclamation district have been paid from the county swamp-land fund including expenses for attorney’s fees in the…
   • § 7537 Sections 7535 and 7536 do not apply to districts upon which controller’s warrants are outstanding, until after all of the warrants are paid.
3. ARTICLE 3. Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands §§ 7551–7556 · 7 sections

   • § 7551 Settlers upon swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the State who occupy such lands for farming or grazing purposes, and whose occupation is evidenced by…
   • § 7552 Lands within this State which are returned by the United States as swamp and overflowed lands, and shown as such on approved township plats, shall, as soon as…
   • § 7552.5 Where lands above the ordinary high-water mark, granted to the state by the Arkansas Swamp Lands Act, Act of September 28, 1850, have been conveyed into…
   • § 7553 When the original patent to swamp and overflowed land of the State has been lost or destroyed, and is not of record in the county where the land is situate,…
   • § 7554 Any person having a vested interest in any swamp and overflowed land, covered by a patent lost or destroyed, and not of record in the county where the land is…
   • § 7555 (a) In a case in which the state has sold lands acquired by it as swamp and overflowed lands, the person claiming or deraigning title to any lands through or…
   • § 7556 All swamp and overflowed lands within one mile of the State Prison at San Quentin, within the City and County of San Francisco, City of Oakland, or within five…