CHAPTER 3. Powers and Duties Generally

Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.

§§ 6201–6225 · 53 sections

§ 6201 The commission may periodically classify any or all state land for its different possible uses, and, when it is deemed advisable, may require the Department of…
§ 6202 The commission may make surveys and subdivisions of lands belonging to the state to be sold, leased, or to have the boundary established, and the county…
§ 6203 On or before the first Monday in March in each year, the commission shall make out and transmit to the assessor of each county where lands or lots lie that…
§ 6204 The commission shall, when required, survey and mark the boundary lines of counties and cities.
§ 6206 The commission shall provide the necessary record books and cause all lists or patents for lands from the United States to be recorded therein.
§ 6206.5 The commission is hereby empowered to apply to the United States Department of the Interior for patents to the numbered school sections in place and to accept…
§ 6207 The commission shall keep separate accounts and records in relation to each class of lands to which the State is entitled, which shall show: (a) The number of…
§ 6208 The commission shall also keep plats of such lands, upon which all approved locations and surveys shall be designated by their numbers.
§ 6209 When certificates of purchase or patents are issued, the fact shall be noted on the plats.
§ 6210 The commission shall represent the State in all contests between it and the United States in relation to public lands.
§ 6210.1 When the commission desires to take testimony under the provisions of the act of Congress to quiet land titles in California, passed July 23, 1866, or any act…
§ 6210.2 The commission may withdraw from sale any of the public lands belonging to the State and may restore any or all public lands so withdrawn, or other public…
§ 6210.3 The commission may grant easements and rights-of-way to the Department of Transportation to or over any of the public lands of the state for the purposes of…
§ 6210.4 No lands owned by the State which lands front upon or are near to any lake, navigable stream or other body of navigable water, convenient access to which is…
§ 6210.4a All conveyances by the State of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, or lands acquired in lieu thereof, or of swamp and overflowed lands shall be made…
§ 6210.5 No lands owned by the State, which lands provide the only convenient means of access to other lands owned by the State, shall ever be sold, leased or rented…
§ 6210.6 Notwithstanding Section 6210.5, the commission is not required to reserve an easement on school lands if it determines that selling the school lands without…
§ 6210.7 The commission may amend or terminate any lease, easement, or contract under its jurisdiction, with the consent of the other party thereto.
§ 6210.8 Whenever a navigable river or slough becomes abandoned and is no longer useful for navigation, the commission may sell, for cash, or exchange for lands having…
§ 6210.9 If the commission has public land, including school land, tide or submerged lands, and lands subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and…
§ 6211 (a) Whenever a parcel of timbered land under the jurisdiction of the commission is totally surrounded by, or is contiguous to, a national forest or a state…
§ 6212 (a) Upon appropriation of moneys by the Legislature for the purposes of this section, the commission shall, within two years, administer a coastal hazard and…
§ 6212.2 The commission may, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, issue permits for the taking of cores or other samples by means of drilling…
§ 6212.3 (a) The commission may authorize, by permit, the conduct of geophysical surveys on state lands under its jurisdiction, including granted and ungranted…
§ 6213 Whenever it appears by final decree of any court of competent jurisdiction that title to any land subject to sale by the State was obtained, or sought to be…
§ 6213.5 (a) (1) The commission shall consult, and enter into any necessary negotiations, with the owners of the property known as Martins Beach, consisting of two…
§ 6214 Fees shall be charged and collected by the commission pursuant to its rules and regulations for the following: (a) Certificates of purchase or duplicates…
§ 6215 As to lands heretofore sold by this State with a reservation to the State of a one-sixteenth interest in the oil and gas or other minerals therein, pursuant to…
§ 6216 This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the State Lands…
§ 6216.1 The commission may remove or cause to be removed any artificial structures or obstructions from ungranted lands under its jurisdiction if the commission…
§ 6216.5 The commission may prescribe such rules and regulations for the noncommercial hobby collection of minerals from state lands as are in the best interests of the…
§ 6217 With the exception of revenue derived from state school lands and from sources described in Sections 6217.6, 6301.5, 6301.6, 6855, and Sections 8551 to 8558,…
§ 6217.1 (a) This section and the process described in this section governs the expenditure of any funds received by the State of California from the federal government…
§ 6217.2 Notwithstanding Section 16304.1 of the Government Code, a disbursement in liquidation of an encumbrance for a project funded pursuant to the Coastal Watershed…
§ 6217.3 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection…
§ 6217.5 Except for the revenues distributed pursuant to Section 3826, all net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the use of school lands and lieu lands shall be…
§ 6217.6 All rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the State Lands…
§ 6217.6.1 (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Account” means the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement…
§ 6217.7 All net revenues, moneys, and remittances from the sale of school lands and lieu lands shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the School…
§ 6217.8 (a) For purposes of this section, “fund” means the Oil Trust Fund established pursuant to subdivision (b). (b) The Oil Trust Fund is hereby established in the…
§ 6218 The commission may charge and collect reasonable fees for services performed by it, not exceeding the actual cost to the state of such services. In any case…
§ 6219 The commission may, if it determines it is in the best interests of the state, accept on behalf of the state any gift, devise, grant, quitclaim, or other…
§ 6220 Whenever authority is not vested in another officer, agency or commission to accept quitclaim deeds on behalf of the State, the authority is vested in the…
§ 6221 Any instrumentality, district, agency, or political subdivision of the state occupying or using, pursuant to law, lands owned by the state and under the…
§ 6222 No county, city, district, political subdivision, agency or officer of the State shall request or make application to have any lands owned or controlled by the…
§ 6223 Applications for purchase, or lease of state lands shall be given the priority of time of filing; except that applications filed by any county, city, or…
§ 6224 The commission may adopt rules and regulations which provide for the payment of either a penalty or interest, or both, by any person who fails to pay the…
§ 6224.1 Any person who trespasses upon any lands owned or controlled by the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission, including, but not limited to,…
§ 6224.2 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), any person who appropriates or converts any mineral deposits reserved to, or owned by, the state and under…
§ 6224.3 (a) A person shall not construct, place, maintain, own, use, or possess a structure or facility on land that is under the commission’s jurisdiction and that is…
§ 6224.4 (a) Before the commission considers whether to pursue a remedy provided under Section 6224.3, the commission shall first provide a written notice to the person…
§ 6224.5 (a) If, as of January 1, 2013, a person is in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 6224.3, that person shall not be subject to a penalty pursuant to that…
§ 6225 (a) The commission shall conduct research, investigations, and title searches on the real property in this state of the beaches of Lake Tahoe which is…