CHAPTER 3. Placer Mining Water Pollution

Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 259, Sec. 11.

§§ 3960–3968 · 9 sections

• § 3960 This chapter does not apply to any placer mine operator who holds a permit to operate from the California Debris Commission.
• § 3961 Any person, firm, or corporation who engages in the operation of a placer mine on any stream or on the watershed of any stream tributary directly or indirectly…
• § 3962 The verified statement shall be verified by the operator or by someone in his or her behalf and shall contain all of the following information: (a) A…
• § 3963 Within 10 days after an owner or operator changes his or her address, or transfers the ownership or changes the operator of any mining property, a notice…
• § 3964 No placer mining operator shall mine by the placer process on any stream or on the watershed of any stream tributary directly or indirectly to the Sacramento…
• § 3965 Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 3964, any placer miner who is operating by dredging process, and who desires to transport his or her dredger across…
• § 3966 Any person, firm, or corporation who violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 3967 The operation of any placer mine on ground not covered by a permit issued to the operator from the California Debris Commission, without compliance with this…
• § 3968 Nothing in this chapter deprives the state, any city, county, district, person, firm, or corporation of any right to maintain any action or proceeding, in any…