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- § 1. This act shall be known as the Public Resources Code.
- § 10.
- § 2. The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as exis
- § 7. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, an administrative power is granted to a
- § 12.2.
- § 15.
- § 500. As used in this chapter,
- § 506. The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3,
- § 508.5. Notwithstanding Section 14, or any other provision of law, the City and County of
- § 510. The department may adopt, alter, change or amend any state master plan of shoreli
- § 513. The department, as a means of furthering the interpretive and educational functio
- § 513.1. The department may provide space and facilities for schools to use for environmen
- § 521. The department may enter into a statewide agreement with a park support organizat
- § 522. The director and the Director of Finance, or their respective designees, may serv
- § 524. In order to advance the purposes described in subdivision (a) of Section 521, an
- § 530. There is in the department the State Park and Recreation Commission. The members
- § 531. The members of the commission shall be selected from areas distributed throughout
- § 538. The commission may designate, delete, or modify state marine reserves, state mari
- § 541.5. The department shall not close, or propose to close, a state park in the 2012
- § 542. The department may encourage and render assistance in the promotion of training p
- § 546. The director may authorize any employee of the department to exercise any power g
- § 563. Notwithstanding Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 65) of Chapter 2 of Division
- § 600. As used in this chapter,
- § 605. The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, o
- § 612. The department shall prepare, update, and maintain Important Farmland Series maps
- § 612.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is in the
- § 617. Upon an appropriation by the Legislature, or as other funds become available and
- § 660. There is in the department a State Mining and Geology Board consisting of nine me
- § 662. One member of the board shall be a professional geologist with background and exp
- § 713. The department is responsible for the fire protection, fire prevention, maintenan
- § 732. Each member of the board shall hold office for four years from the expiration of
- § 735. Each member of the board shall receive compensation for each day during which the
- § 738. The Governor shall designate the chair of the board from among the members of the
- § 741.5. On or before July 1, 2025, the Range Management Advisory Committee, established p
- § 745. The board shall implement a public information program on matters involving fores
- § 750. This article may be known and cited as the Professional Foresters Law.
- § 754.
- § 2202. The director may do any of the following: (a) (1) Make a collection of typical ge
- § 2204. The director may receive on behalf of this state, for the use and benefit of the
- § 2205. The State Geologist may do all of the following: (a) Make, facilitate, and encour
- § 2207. The owner or the operator of a mining operation within the state shall forward to
- § 2208. The department may at any time enter or examine any and all mines, quarries, well
- § 2621. This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake F
- § 2621.7. This chapter, except Section 2621.9, shall not apply to any of the following: (a)
- § 2621.8. Notwithstanding Section 818.2 of the Government Code, a city or county which know
- § 2621.9. A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is loca
- § 2622. In order to assist cities and counties in their planning, zoning, and building-re
- § 2630. In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the State Geologist and the board
- § 2690. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act.
- § 755.
- § 757. This article does not apply to a landowner who is a natural person and who person
- § 761. The board shall keep a complete record of all applications for registration and c
- § 765. The examining committee shall adhere to the rules and regulations of the board. A
- § 770. Examinations shall be given by the board as often as it is deemed necessary, but
- § 775. The board may upon its own motion, and shall upon the verified complaint in writi
- § 778.5. The board shall develop criteria to determine whether a felony is substantially r
- § 783. In case a person defaults in payment of the renewal fee, the person
- § 800. It is the policy of the State of California that the location and operation of th
- § 825. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Aquaculture Develo
- § 829. As used in this chapter,
- § 1001. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The biodiversity of
- § 1002. It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state to: (1) Ensure th
- § 2001. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth shal
- § 2002.
- § 2003.
- § 2006.
- § 2008.
- § 2200.5. For the purposes of this chapter,
- § 663.1. For the purposes of this section,
- § 664. Each member of the board shall hold office for four years. Vacancies shall be imm
- § 669. The Governor shall designate the chair of the board from among the members of the
- § 671. The director shall have no power to amend or repeal any order, ruling, or directi
- § 673. The board shall also serve as a policy and appeals board for the purposes of Chap
- § 690. The Geologic Energy Management Division shall be in charge of a chief, known as t
- § 701.6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 2007, the Dep
- § 706. The department shall have possession and control of all records, books, papers, o
- § 710. The director shall have no power to amend or repeal any order, regulation, ruling
- § 2699. Each city and county, in preparing the safety element to its general plan pursuan
- § 2699.6. This chapter shall become operative on April 1, 1991.
- § 2704. It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide adequate
- § 2705. A city, county, and city and county shall collect a fee from each applicant for a
- § 2705.5. The California Geological Survey shall advise counties and cities as to that port
- § 3206. No later than May 1 of each year, the operator of any idle well shall do either o
- § 3206.1. By June 1, 2018, the division shall review, evaluate, and update its regulations
- § 3206.1.5. On or before March 1, 2025, the division shall identify all low-production wells
- § 3206.2.
- § 3206.3.
- § 3208.1. To prevent, as far as possible, damage to life, health, and property, the supervi
- § 3209. The provisions of Section 3207 as to termination and cancellation shall also appl
- § 3210. The owner or operator of any well shall keep, or cause to be kept, a careful and
- § 2710. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Surface Mining and Reclamatio
- § 2711. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the extraction of minerals is esse
- § 2713. It is not the intent of the Legislature by the enactment of this chapter to take
- § 2715.5. The Cache Creek Resource Management Plan, in conjunction with a site specific pla
- § 2715.6. For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1)
- § 2717. Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the board shall submit to
- § 2718. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circ
- § 2727.
- § 2730.
- § 2732.5.
- § 2734.
- § 3212. The core record shall show the depth, character, and fluid content of cores obtai
- § 3214. The log shall be kept in the local office of the owner or operator, and, together
- § 3215. Within 60 days after the date of cessation of drilling, rework, well stimulation
- § 3222. The owner or operator of any well shall, at the request of the supervisor, demons
- § 3224.5. After making a determination, based upon a site inspection, that a well poses a r
- § 3226.3. The division shall annually provide to the State Water Resources Control Board an
- § 3227. The owner of any well shall file with the supervisor, on or before the last day o
- § 3228. Before abandoning any well in accordance with methods approved by the supervisor
- § 3233. The division may develop field rules which establish volumetric thresholds for em
- § 2741. The members of the committee shall receive no compensation for their services, bu
- § 2758. Such policy shall include objectives and criteria for all of the following: (a) D
- § 2761. On or before January 1, 1977, and, at a minimum, after the completion of each dec
- § 2762. Within 12 months of receiving the mineral information described in Section 2761,
- § 2763. If an area is designated by the board as an area of regional significance, and th
- § 2770. Except as provided in this section, a person shall not conduct surface mining ope
- § 3234.
- § 3236.2.
- § 3236.5. A person who violates this chapter or a regulation implementing this chapter is,
- § 3236.6. The supervisor, or the supervisor
- § 3237.
- § 2770.6. Whenever surface mining operations are proposed within the boundaries of the San
- § 2772. The reclamation plan shall be filed with the lead agency, on a form provided by t
- § 2772.1.
- § 2772.6. In addition to meeting the requirements of Section 2773.1, the financial assuranc
- § 2773.1. Lead agencies shall require financial assurances of each surface mining operation
- § 2773.1.5. Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 2773.1, a financial assurance mechanis
- § 2773.2. The mineral owner and owner of the surface estate, if legally entitled to do so,
- § 2773.3. In addition to other reclamation plan requirements of this chapter and regulation
- § 2773.4.
- § 2774. Every lead agency shall adopt ordinances in accordance with state policy that est
- § 2774.1.
- § 2774.2. Within 30 days of the issuance of an order setting administrative penalties under
- § 2774.2.5. A lead agency shall submit to the supervisor, in an electronic format determined
- § 2774.4. The board shall exercise some or all of a lead agency
- § 2774.5. If, upon review of an ordinance, the board finds that it is not in accordance wit
- § 2777. Amendments to an approved reclamation plan may be submitted detailing proposed ch
- § 2777.3. The construction and operation of a renewable energy generation facility on distu
- § 2777.5. An operator who has failed to properly report a mine
- § 2779. Whenever one operator succeeds to the interest of another in any incompleted surf
- § 2793. The board may, by regulation adopted after a public hearing, terminate, partially
- § 2796.5. The supervisor, with the consultation of appropriate state and local agencies, ma
- § 2800. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The state
- § 2802. The department shall develop jointly with the United States Geological Survey a p
- § 2804. The department and the Seismic Safety Commission may solicit and receive gifts an
- § 2805. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Earthquake Educati
- § 2810. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Most of the state
- § 2811. As used in this chapter: (a)
- § 2815. The Office of Emergency Services may enter into agreements with local, regional,
- § 3003.
- § 3004.
- § 3006.
- § 3008.
- § 3012. The provisions of this division apply to any land or well situated within the bou
- § 3014.
- § 3100. For the purposes of this chapter, the state is divided into districts, the number
- § 3103. The chief deputy shall be a competent engineer or geologist, preferably licensed
- § 3104. Each district deputy shall be a competent engineer or geologist, preferably licen
- § 3105. An office under the supervision of a district deputy may be maintained in each di
- § 3109. The supervisor may publish any publications, reports, maps, or other printed matt
- § 3110. All money paid to the Treasurer pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 34
- § 3113. Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the division shall, in co
- § 3114. By July 30, 2019, and annually thereafter, the Department of Conservation, in con
- § 3115. On or before July 1, 2023, the division shall develop and implement an education
- § 3131. To ensure the appropriateness of a proposal by the state for an exempted aquifer
- § 3150.
- § 3190.2. A well that has been permitted or operated as a Class II well, as defined in Sect
- § 3155.
- § 3159.
- § 3160. On or before January 1, 2015, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall
- § 3161. The division shall finalize the regulations governing this article on or before J
- § 3180. As used in this article,
- § 3181. The operator of a gas storage well shall submit for the supervisor
- § 3181.5.
- § 3185. The division shall perform unannounced random onsite inspections of some gas stor
- § 3187. All materials provided to the division and approved by the supervisor to comply w
- § 3190.1. The supervisor, after consulting with the State Water Resources Control Board and
- § 3152.
- § 3190.4. The division shall require mechanical integrity testing before the conversion of
- § 3190.5. A gravity-based energy storage well that has lost its mechanical integrity shall
- § 3190.7. The division shall identify all wells converted to or being operated as gravity-b
- § 3190.8. On or by January 1, 2033, the division, in consultation with entities operating g
- § 3201. The operator of a well or production facility shall notify the supervisor or the
- § 3202. A person who acquires the right to operate a well or production facility, whether
- § 2692.1. The State Geologist may include in maps compiled pursuant to this chapter informa
- § 2694. A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is loca
- § 2695. The board, in consultation with the survey and the commission, shall develop all
- § 2698. Nothing in this chapter is intended to prevent cities and counties from establish
- § 3203. The operator of any well, before commencing the work of drilling the well, shall
- § 3204. An operator who, on or after January 1, 2018, engages in the drilling, redrilling
- § 3205.1. Notwithstanding Sections 3204 and 3205, a person who engages in the drilling, red
- § 3205.3. The division may require an operator filing an individual indemnity bond pursuant
- § 3205.5. In lieu of the indemnity bond required by Sections 3204, 3205, 3205.1, 3205.2, 32
- § 3205.7.
- § 3205.8.
- § 3251.5. Notwithstanding Section 3251, a well shall be deemed a hazardous well if it has b
- § 3252. As used in this article,
- § 3255. Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the supervisor may order to
- § 3258. The division shall not make expenditures from the Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Admini
- § 3260. For purposes of this article,
- § 3262. The division may adopt regulations to implement this article.
- § 3270.1. Within three months of its acquisition of a production facility or at the time of
- § 3270.4. In addition to the bonding requirements under Article 4 (commencing with Section
- § 3270.5.
- § 3275. The Legislature of the State of California hereby ratifies and approves
- § 3281. Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1, 2023, the division shall not
- § 3282. Commencing July 1, 2026, all oil or gas production facilities or wells with a wel
- § 3283. All operators with a production facility or well with a wellhead in a health prot
- § 3284. Before commencing any work that requires a notice of intention under Section 3203
- § 3285. Every operator shall submit to the division by July 1, 2025, a sensitive receptor
- § 3288. The division, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Water Resources Contro
- § 3300. The unreasonable waste of natural gas by the act, omission, sufferance, or insist
- § 3304. The place of hearing shall be in the county or in any of the counties in which th
- § 3306. Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the supervisor shall determine whether or not
- § 3346. The provisions of this article shall supersede any conflicting provisions contain
- § 3350. The operator of a well or a production facility to whom the supervisor or distric
- § 3351. A hearing shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
- § 3352. A hearing conducted by the director shall adhere to the following: (1) When an or
- § 3357. In any proceeding before the director, and in any proceeding instituted by the su
- § 3358. Witnesses shall be entitled to receive the fees and mileage fixed by law in civil
- § 3400. The charges directed to be levied by this article are necessary in the exercise o
- § 3403.5. The Legislature finds that there are underground storage facilities for gas that
- § 3404. The charges authorized by this article are in addition to any and all charges, ta
- § 3405. The department shall prescribe the form and contents of all reports for making th
- § 3407. The department may, for good cause shown, by order entered upon its records, exte
- § 3410. The department shall, on or before June 15th of each year, acting in conjunction
- § 3421. Every payment on a delinquent charge shall be applied as follows: (a) First, to a
- § 3423. If any person fails to pay any charge or penalty imposed under this chapter at th
- § 3423.9. It is expressly provided that the remedies provided herein of the state shall be
- § 3424. All charges assessed and levied shall be paid to the State Treasurer upon the ord
- § 3427. The Attorney General shall commence and prosecute any such action to final judgme
- § 3432. The Attorney General shall defend the action. (b) The provisions of the Code of C
- § 3434. If the department determines between June 15, 2024, and March 1, 2025, that the e
- § 3450. The Legislature takes notice of the existence of the Conservation Committee of Ca
- § 3309. A copy of the supervisor
- § 3313. In such suits a restraining order shall not be issued ex parte, and a temporary o
- § 3315. It is hereby found and determined: (a) That the people of the State of California
- § 3316.2.
- § 3316.5.
- § 3316.10.
- § 3316.14.
- § 3316.16.
- § 3318. An order of the supervisor which involves tide or submerged lands which may have
- § 3319. The supervisor, upon the supervisor
- § 3319.1. Prior to the adoption of a fieldwide repressuring plan and general specifications
- § 3320. The policy of conducting voluntary repressuring operations in a pool or pools, or
- § 3320.1. An agreement for the management, development and operation of two or more tracts
- § 3320.2. If the supervisor determines that sufficient of the working interest owners and r
- § 3320.3. In determining, as required by Section 3320.2, whether the estimated cost of init
- § 3320.5. No working or royalty interest owner shall be liable for any loss or damage resul
- § 3321. Subject to the limitations specified in this article, the supervisor shall have t
- § 3322. An order of the supervisor requiring unit operation, pursuant to Section 3321, ma
- § 3325. The supervisor shall make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary or prop
- § 3328. The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned tract shall be dee
- § 3329. The unit operator shall be authorized on behalf of and for the account of all the
- § 3330. When unit expenses incurred by a unit operator on behalf of the unit have not bee
- § 3333. A final order of the supervisor shall be subject to judicial review by filing a p
- § 3337. The division shall exercise surveillance over all repressuring operations in the
- § 3342. To the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this art
- § 3344. Whenever it appears that any person is violating or threatening to violate any pr
- § 3345. No finding or determination made by the supervisor under the provisions of this a
- § 3466. The board shall prescribe guidelines for providing safe and conveniently located
- § 3475. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Used Oil Collection Demonstra
- § 3477.
- § 3478.
- § 3482. A local agency shall not use more than 5 percent of any grant for administrative
- § 3485. Grant funds shall be made available on a competitive basis to local agencies if r
- § 3490. Storage containers, such as drums and tanks, used to store used oil shall be in g
- § 3494. Funds transferred from the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account by this article sha
- § 3503. Each day during which natural gas is wilfully allowed wastefully or unnecessarily
- § 3602.2. In determining the area of parcels of land for the purposes of this chapter, the
- § 3603. For the purposes of this chapter, an alley which intersects or lies within any bl
- § 3605. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any field producing oil or gas on
- § 3606. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where a parcel of land cont
- § 3608. Where land aggregating less than one acre is surrounded by other lands, which oth
- § 3630. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the management, development, and o
- § 3635.2.
- § 3635.4.
- § 3636.1.
- § 3637.1.
- § 3637.3.
- § 3643. The unit agreement shall be approved, if, after a public hearing, the supervisor
- § 3647. The owner of any working interest or royalty interest in a tract which is the sub
- § 3648. Any unit agreement approved by the supervisor shall contain a provision under whi
- § 3650. If at any time after the entry of an order of unitization issued pursuant to Sect
- § 3652. The supervisor
- § 3656. No unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to the provisions of this c
- § 3690. This chapter shall not be deemed a preemption by the state of any existing right
- § 3701. For the purposes of this chapter,
- § 3704.
- § 3706.
- § 3707.
- § 3708.
- § 3709.
- § 3714.5. The supervisor, pursuant to regulation, shall designate geothermal resources area
- § 3717. Upon request, the supervisor shall notify the Department of Fish and Game and the
- § 3720. For the purposes of this chapter, the state may be divided into one or more distr
- § 3724. The owner or operator of any well, before commencing the original drilling of a w
- § 3724.2. If, after study by the supervisor, it is determined that one or all of the wells
- § 3724.35. The supervisor may adopt regulations governing intermediate and deep wells drille