CHAPTER 4. Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally

Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.

§§ 7705–8030 · 54 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Applications for Purchase of Lands §§ 7705–7706 · 2 sections

   • § 7705 No application for the purchase of state lands shall be accepted for filing for land situated in more than one county, or land situated in more than one United…
   • § 7706 Each application for lands shall be accompanied by a reasonable filing fee, not in excess of one hundred dollars ($100), as prescribed by the commission by…
2. ARTICLE 2. Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents §§ 7723–7733 · 8 sections

   • § 7723 Certificates of purchase, and all rights acquired thereunder, are subject to sale, by deed or assignment, executed and acknowledged before any officer…
   • § 7724 All such sales shall, when the deed or assignment is recorded by the county recorder, be reported by him to the commission, to be entered in its books.
   • § 7725 The recorder is entitled to receive from the purchaser, for making such report, a fee of fifty cents ($0.50).
   • § 7729 Whenever a person becomes entitled to a patent, the commission, upon the surrender of the full-paid certificate of purchase or the submission of an affidavit…
   • § 7730 The patent or deed shall then be signed by the Governor, attested by the Secretary of State, sealed with the Great Seal of the State of California, and…
   • § 7731 No patent shall issue until the lands are relinquished to the State by authority of the General Land Office at Washington. Such relinquishment is not required…
   • § 7732 The commission shall record all patents in books to be kept in its office for that purpose, and then deliver them to persons entitled thereto.
   • § 7733 Where a patent for lands is issued in the name of a deceased person, the title is vested in the heirs, devisees, or assignees of such person in the same manner…
3. ARTICLE 6. Contests §§ 7921–7927 · 7 sections

   • § 7921 When a contest arises before the commission concerning the approval of a survey or location, or concerning a certificate of purchase or other evidence of…
   • § 7922 After such order is made, either party may bring an action in the superior court of the county in which the land in question is situated, to determine the…
   • § 7923 Any person, legally qualified to purchase from the State public lands of the same character as the land involved in the action, may, after such order of…
   • § 7924 When any contest arises as provided for in this article there shall be filed with the commission a statement by the contestant of the grounds of contest, and…
   • § 7925 When a copy of the final judgment of the court is filed with the commission, it shall approve the survey or location, or issue the certificate of purchase or…
   • § 7926 Unless the party contestant commences his action within 60 days after the order of reference is made, his rights in the premises and under his application…
   • § 7927 Whenever the commission receives a plat of a survey pursuant to the provisions of Section 27564 of the Government Code, any action by the commission to contest…
4. ARTICLE 7. Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands §§ 7951–7958 · 8 sections

   • § 7951 When payment has been made in full for any lands which were public lands of the State and a patent has been issued therefor, and the purchaser or his successor…
   • § 7952 After the map or plat and field-notes constituting the survey have been made, the field-notes and the map or plat shall be submitted to the commission for…
   • § 7953 After the filing and recording of the map or plat and field-notes, the purchaser or his successors in interest holding lands under such patent may file a…
   • § 7954 Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall set a day for the hearing thereof not less than 20 days from the date of the filing of the petition. A copy of…
   • § 7955 If, after the hearing, the court is satisfied that the descriptions as corrected are the true descriptions, it shall render a decree confirming the…
   • § 7956 The cost of making the survey, map or plat and field-notes and all other necessary costs incurred in a suit brought under this article shall be apportioned…
   • § 7957 Certified copies of the decree entered in the suit shall be filed in the office of the county recorder and in the office of the commission.
   • § 7958 Any number of land owners whose lands are contiguous or would be affected by the decree may unite in one petition under this article.
5. ARTICLE 8. Procedure on Improper Sales and Abandonment of Entries §§ 7971–7977 · 7 sections

   • § 7971 If any land was not the property of the State, at the date application was filed therefor, or if the land applied for was swamp and overflowed land but the…
   • § 7972 In all cases where money has been paid since the passage of the act of March 20, 1889, on account of the purchase price of lands where the certificates or…
   • § 7973 The authority of the commission to issue such certificate and likewise the authority of the auditor and Controller to issue their warrants, as provided in…
   • § 7974 If the land sold was swamp and overflowed, the county auditor of the county in which the land is situated shall, upon the surrender to him of the certificate…
   • § 7975 Whenever a purchaser of land upon credit desires to abandon the location or entry made by him, he may do so by conveyance of his title to the State and…
   • § 7976 Whenever any person has, in conformity with law, conveyed any land to the State by quitclaim deed, duly executed, delivered, and accepted by the commission,…
   • § 7977 Upon the issuance of such patent, the commission shall make and issue to the patentee therein named, his heirs, assigns, and successors in interest, a…
6. ARTICLE 9. Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to State Lands §§ 7991–7993 · 3 sections

   • § 7991 The shore and the bed of the ocean or of any navigable channel or stream or bay or inlet within the State, between ordinary high and low water mark, over which…
   • § 7992 If any person, under any pretense of any claim inconsistent with the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State, intrudes upon any of the waste or ungranted…
   • § 7993 When State lands, upon which the full purchase price has not been paid, have been sold to the State for delinquent taxes and the deed therefor to the State has…
7. ARTICLE 10. State Maps and Surveys §§ 8001–8025 · 18 sections

   • § 8001 As used in this article, “department” means the Department of Water Resources.
   • § 8002 The state base map shall consist of complementary planimetric, mosaic, and topographic maps prepared in units of convenient size and scale.
   • § 8003 The state base maps shall have delineated thereon plane rectangular coordinates which shall conform to the provisions of Division 8 (commencing at Section…
   • § 8011 The department shall investigate mapping; shall prepare a complete report thereon including plans and recommendations for an adequate mapping program for…
   • § 8012 The technical methods used in preparation of the state base map, the terms of the contract, the specifications, and acceptance of the base maps or units…
   • § 8013 The department may enter into cooperative agreements with any department of the State qualified in the making and using of surveys and maps for the performance…
   • § 8014 The department may enter into contracts with public and private agencies for mapping and surveys not now the direct responsibility of existing state agencies…
   • § 8014.5 With the approval of the Director of General Services the department may enter into cooperative agreements with the federal government or any agency or…
   • § 8015 The department is authorized to accept grants from the Federal Government or any of its agencies, or from any county, city and county, or city or other…
   • § 8016 To enable the coordination of the programs of the several map-making agencies, the department shall cause data to be assembled covering the various types of…
   • § 8017 The department shall collect information relative to maps and surveys of the State of California or parts thereof and provide a public information service for…
   • § 8018 The Department of Water Resources may reproduce copies of maps and survey data of the state which are not otherwise available to the general public. Such…
   • § 8019 The department shall prepare and distribute to public officials, uniform specifications and regulations for aerial photographic mapping procedure and for the…
   • § 8020 On the requests of the state departments the Department of Water Resources shall prepare specifications for the making of maps of the various types suited to…
   • § 8022 No part of any money appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out the provisions of this article shall be expended for the original production of maps…
   • § 8023 All money received for matching purposes shall be deposited in the Water Resources Revolving Fund and shall be expendable for paying expenses incurred pursuant…
   • § 8024 All money received from the sale of maps or reports and data related thereto shall be deposited in the General Fund.
   • § 8025 The Department of Water Resources shall keep a record of all expenditures chargeable against each portion of the Water Resources Revolving Fund derived from…
8. ARTICLE 11. Exemption From Condemnation § 8030 · 1 section

   • § 8030 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all 16th and 36th sections, both surveyed and unsurveyed, owned by the state or the United States, which are now or…