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CA Pub Res Code § 7537 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 2 - Swamp and Overflowed Lands Sold Prior to September 19, 1939|Section 7537.

7537.  Sections 7535 and 7536 do not apply to districts upon which controller’s warrants are outstanding, until after all of the warrants are paid.(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 154.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7551 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7551.

7551.  Settlers upon swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the State who occupy such lands for farming or grazing purposes, and whose occupation is evidenced by actual enclosure, or by ditches or monuments showing the actual extent thereof, are preferred purchasers of such lands for six months after segregation.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7552 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7552.

7552.  Lands within this State which are returned by the United States as swamp and overflowed lands, and shown as such on approved township plats, shall, as soon as patents are issued therefor by this State, be held to be of the character so returned. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights of any homestead or preemption settler claiming under the laws of the United States, nor to prejudice the rights of any settler located upon such lands to perfect title to the lands if permitted under existing laws.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7552.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7552.5.

7552.5.  Where lands above the ordinary high-water mark, granted to the state by the Arkansas Swamp Lands Act, Act of September 28, 1850, have been conveyed into private ownership by the State of California pursuant to an act authorizing the sale and conveyance of swamp and overflowed lands, such swamp and overflowed lands, by definition, are taken free of the common law public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries. Where a private owner, deriving title by virtue of such a conveyance of swamp and overflowed lands, dredges or has dredged such lands pursuant to then existing law, and such dredging results or has resulted in the navigable waters of the state flowing over such lands, such acts shall not operate to create or impose the common law public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries with respect to such lands. Such acts shall operate to create a navigational easement, in favor of the public, upon the waters which flow over the affected real property. The navigational easement so created may be extinguished only upon the lawful removal of the navigable waters from the real property.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 123, Sec. 1.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7553 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7553.

7553.  When the original patent to swamp and overflowed land of the State has been lost or destroyed, and is not of record in the county where the land is situate, and no duplicate or copy thereof is in the office of the Secretary of State or in the office of the commission, a patent shall be issued to the original purchaser for the same land, as other patents are issued, when it is proven to the satisfaction of the commission from the data in the office of the Secretary of State, or in the office of the commission, that an original patent has been lawfully issued to the original purchaser, and from other satisfactory proof that it has been lost or destroyed, and is not of record in the recorder’s office of the county in which the land is situate. The patent so reissued shall have the same force and effect as the original patent, and shall contain the clause “This patent is issued to take the place of the original patent issued for the same land, on the (give date of original patent, and by whom issued), and is not intended to change the title of the persons in whom the land is now vested and only to complete the record title from the State of California.” The commission shall collect the same fee therefor as in issuing original patents.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7554 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7554.

7554.  Any person having a vested interest in any swamp and overflowed land, covered by a patent lost or destroyed, and not of record in the county where the land is situate, in order to obtain the reissuing of the patent as provided in Section 7553, shall make an affidavit and file it in the office of the commission, setting forth that he has a vested interest in the land, or a part thereof, to which he makes application for a patent to be reissued from the State of Califoria. He shall also state in the affidavit the chain of title from the original patentee to and including the present owners of the land described in the original patent.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7555 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7555.

7555.  (a) In a case in which the state has sold lands acquired by it as swamp and overflowed lands, the person claiming or deraigning title to any lands through or under a purchase of the lands from the state may bring suit against the state in a court of competent jurisdiction of the state to establish the boundaries of, and to quiet title to, the land or a portion of the land, and may prosecute the suit to final judgment. The complaint in the action shall contain a plat of the property described in the complaint, which plat shall show the location of the property in respect to a section corner, the location of which is shown on an approved United States government township plat, or in respect to a monument that has been established by reference to a section corner.(b) Service of summons in the suits shall be made upon the Chair of the State Lands Commission and upon the Attorney General, and the Attorney General shall represent the state in the suits.(c) Costs against the state shall not be allowed in the suit.(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 296, Sec. 261. (AB 1023) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7556 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 2 - Sale of Swamp and Overflowed Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Provisions Relating to All Swamp and Overflowed Lands|Section 7556.

7556.  All swamp and overflowed lands within one mile of the State Prison at San Quentin, within the City and County of San Francisco, City of Oakland, or within five miles of the corporate limits of either, are excluded from the operation of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7705 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 1 - Applications for Purchase of Lands|Section 7705.

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 States land district or for any section or portion of a section of school land or land obtained in lieu thereof belonging to the State which is situated within the exterior boundaries of a military or Indian reservation created by authority of the United States, except as otherwise specifically permitted by Chapter 1 (commencing at Section 7301) of this part.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 241.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7706 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 1 - Applications for Purchase of Lands|Section 7706.

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 rule or regulation, and no application shall be filed, or noted in any way until the fee is paid.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1205.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7723 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7723.

7723.  Certificates of purchase, and all rights acquired thereunder, are subject to sale, by deed or assignment, executed and acknowledged before any officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of conveyances of real property.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7724 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7724.

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.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7725 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7725.

7725.  The recorder is entitled to receive from the purchaser, for making such report, a fee of fifty cents ($0.50).(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7729 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7729.

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 by a person having an interest in the land or any portion thereof that the certificate of purchase is lost, destroyed or beyond the control of the owner or owners of the land, shall prepare a patent for the land. The patent shall be issued in the name of the original applicant. The commission shall send it to the Governor, together with a certificate that the laws in relation thereto have been complied with, that payment in full has been made, and that the person named in the prepared patent is entitled to it. The patent so issued shall inure to the benefit of the assigns, grantees, or successors in interest of said original applicant. The United States shall not be required to make payment for state land until the patent is delivered.(Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 243.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7730 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7730.

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 countersigned by the commission.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 742, Sec. 13. (SB 1493) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7731 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7731.

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 for locations of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in place, or for swamp and overflowed lands, shown to be such by the official surveys made by authority of the United States.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7732 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7732.

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.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7733 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents|Section 7733.

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 as if the patent had issued to such person during life.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7921 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7921.

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 title, the commission may, when the question involved is as to the survey, or one purely of fact, or whether the land applied for is a part of the swamp or overflowed lands of the State, or whether it is included within a confirmed grant, the lines of which have been run by authority of law, proceed to hear and determine the contest. When, in the judgment of the commission, a question of law is involved, or when either party demands a trial in the courts of the State, the commission shall make an order referring the contest to the superior court of the county in which the land is situated, and shall enter the order in a record book in its office.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7922 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7922.

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 conflict, and the production of a certified copy of the entry made by the commission gives the court full and complete jurisdiction to hear and determine the action.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7923 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7923.

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 reference has been made, present to the commission his application, in due form as required by law, to purchase the land, or any part thereof not less than the smallest legal subdivision. Upon presenting to the court in which the action is pending, a certificate of the commission, showing that such application has been so presented, and a certified copy of such application, the court may, at any time before the trial, upon such terms as may be just, allow such party to intervene in the action and contest the right of any other party thereto to purchase the land applied for by the intervenor, and to have his own right determined.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7924 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7924.

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 such statement, other than as to matters of record or law, shall be corroborated by the affidavit of some competent person having personal knowledge of the facts set forth therein.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7925 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7925.

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 other evidence of title in accordance with the judgment.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7926 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7926.

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 cease.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7927 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 6 - Contests|Section 7927.

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 such survey shall be commenced within 90 days from the date of receipt of the plat of the survey.(Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1121.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7951 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7951.

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 in interest has, for a period of five years, been in possession, claiming under such patent the lands intended to be described therein and thereby, but which lands are incorrectly described in the patent, the person so in possession of the lands may have a new and correct survey made of the lands covered by the patent. The plat or map and field-notes constituting the survey shall be made and certified by the county surveyor of the county in which the land is located or by any other surveyor licensed by the State.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7952 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7952.

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 approval. If approved by it, the commission shall so certify and a copy of the map or plat and field-notes shall be filed in the office of the commission and a copy recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the land is situated. Such map or plat shall thereafter be the official map or plat of the land so surveyed.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7953 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7953.

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 verified petition in the superior court of the county in which all or the greater part of the property is located for the correction of the errors in the description. He shall set forth a copy of the patent in the petition, together with a statement showing a correct description of the lands intended to be described therein as is shown upon the plat or map and field-notes, and shall pray that a decree be entered by the court confirming the descriptions as so amended.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7954 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7954.

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 the petition and of the order fixing time of hearing shall be served upon all owners of lands which are or may be affected by the decree of confirmation at least 10 days before the hearing and such owners may appear upon the day fixed and oppose the petition.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7955 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7955.

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 descriptions, which thereafter shall have the same effect as if the patent described the land in accordance with the corrected descriptions.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7956 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7956.

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 among the petitioners and owners of lands affected by the decree in such proportions as the court may deem equitable.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7957 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7957.

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.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)
CA Pub Res Code § 7958 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 3 - SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Provisions Relating to Public Lands Generally|ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands|Section 7958.

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.(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)