ARTICLE 1. Organization and General Powers
Article 1 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.
§§ 600–617 · 18 sections
- § 600 As used in this chapter, “department” means the Department of Conservation and “director” means the Director of Conservation.
- § 601 There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Conservation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the…
- § 603 The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural…
- § 603.1 The director is hereby vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Geologist as Chief of the California…
- § 604 The department may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration of the…
- § 605 The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land and other…
- § 606 The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director. The director may…
- § 607 The work of the department shall be divided into at least the following: (a) California Geological Survey. (b) (1) Geologic Energy Management Division. (2) Any…
- § 608 The director, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept on behalf of the various divisions of the department federal grants for the purposes for…
- § 609 Whenever the department has received and deposited any money in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund in an excessive amount or in error, or…
- § 610 For the purpose of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the department may issue publications, construct and…
- § 611 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 18901)…
- § 612 The department shall prepare, update, and maintain Important Farmland Series maps as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 65560 of the Government Code and…
- § 612.5 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is in the state’s public interest to have an accurate inventory of the state’s soil…
- § 613 The department, through the California Resources Information System and as budgetary resources permit, may provide informational assistance to local agencies…
- § 614 The department may do any of the following: (a) Advise a city, county, city and county, special district, including a resource conservation district, state…
- § 615 Grants administered by the department, including, but not limited to, those awarded pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 9001), Division 10.2…
- § 617 Upon an appropriation by the Legislature, or as other funds become available and are appropriated for these purposes, the department may provide grants and…