CHAPTER 7. Wetlands Preservation

Chapter 7 added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 462.

§§ 5810–5818.1 · 11 sections

• § 5810 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Keene-Nejedly California Wetlands Preservation Act.
• § 5811 The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The remaining wetlands of this state are of increasingly critical economic, aesthetic, and…
• § 5812 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following terms mean: (a) “Agency” means the Resources Agency. (b)…
• § 5813 (a) Nothing in this chapter abrogates or supersedes any existing local, state, or federal law or policy pertaining to wetlands, or establishes maximum or…
• § 5814 (a) The agency shall update all of the state’s existing wetlands inventory resources in order to prepare a study to accomplish the following goals: (1) To…
• § 5815 The agency, in preparing the wetlands priority plan and program pursuant to Section 5814, shall give particular recognition to the conservation, recreation,…
• § 5815.5 In compiling data for the wetlands inventory required by Section 5814, the agency and the departments shall, as a first priority, rely on existing sources of…
• § 5816 The agency shall give particular recognition to opportunities for protecting and preserving wetlands lying within, or adjacent to, existing units of the state…
• § 5817 Any of the departments may enter into operating agreements with cities, counties, and districts for the management and control of wetlands, or interests in…
• § 5818 All acquisitions made pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11 (commencing with Section 15850), Division 3, Title 2…
• § 5818.1 (a) The Coastal Wetlands Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury and shall be an interest-bearing fund administered by the Department of Fish and…