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CA Pub Res Code § 6339 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 2.5 - Survey and Mapping of Ungranted Tide and Submerged Lands|Section 6339.

6339.  (a) Boundaries established by boundary agreements entered into and recorded pursuant to Section 6336, as to all parties thereto, shall be fixed and permanent without change by reason of fluctuation due to the forces of nature, except that any lands that may thereafter be submerged or become subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, shall, so long as such conditions exist, be subject to the easement in favor of the public for commerce, navigation, and fisheries.(b) Boundaries mapped and described pursuant to this article, other than boundaries established by parties to a boundary agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6336, shall not be binding upon any upland owner or other party affected thereby, whose rights, if any, shall not be affected by any provision of this article. If any such rights have been previously determined pursuant to law, they shall remain unaffected by the provisions of, and proceedings undertaken pursuant to, this article. If any such rights have not been previously determined, they may be determined pursuant to any law existing as of January 1, 1976, or that may be thereafter enacted. However, any such upland owner or other person affected by the master map and description may consent in writing to bind his land or any claimed title or interest therein to the boundaries so mapped and described. Such consent shall be acknowledged by the party executing it and shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the land affected thereby is located. The consent shall thereafter have the same effect as if a boundary agreement had been entered into pursuant to Section 6336, and the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section shall be applicable thereto.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 706.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6340 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 2.5 - Survey and Mapping of Ungranted Tide and Submerged Lands|Section 6340.

6340.  The inventory required by this article shall not extend to, or have any bearing upon, the determination of the seaward boundary separating lands belonging to the state and lands belonging to the United States.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 706.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6341 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 2.5 - Survey and Mapping of Ungranted Tide and Submerged Lands|Section 6341.

6341.  Any boundary line agreement entered into pursuant to Section 6336 or 6357, or any consent recorded pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 6339, or any exchange of land made pursuant to Section 6307, shall be conclusively presumed to be valid unless held to be invalid in an appropriate proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to determine the validity of such boundary line agreement or consent or exchange commenced prior to January 1, 1977, or within one year after the execution and recording of such boundary line agreement or such consent or exchange, whichever is later.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 706.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6342 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 2.5 - Survey and Mapping of Ungranted Tide and Submerged Lands|Section 6342.

6342.  The commission may enter into boundary line agreements with any person or public entity, describing and defining the boundary line between ungranted tidelands and adjacent uplands owned by such person or public entity. Such boundary line agreements shall be executed on behalf of the commission, and upon recordation shall be binding and conclusive as between the state and all persons and public entities executing such agreements, and the provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 6339 shall be applicable thereto.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 706.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6357 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 3 - Procedure on Establishment of Ordinary High-Water and Low-Water Mark|Section 6357.

6357.  The commission may establish the ordinary high-water mark or the ordinary low-water mark of any of the swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide, or submerged lands of this State, by agreement, arbitration, or action to quiet title, whenever it is deemed expedient or necessary. The amendment hereby made is declaratory of the existing law and any such agreements heretofore made establishing the ordinary high-water mark or the ordinary low-water mark of any of the swamp, overflowed, marsh, tide, or submerged lands of this State hereby are ratified and confirmed.(Amended by Stats. 1961, Ch. 394.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6358 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 3 - Procedure on Establishment of Ordinary High-Water and Low-Water Mark|Section 6358.

6358.  On receipt of a request from the legislative body of a county, city, or other political subdivision or agency of the State, to which a legislative grant of tide and submerged lands has been or may be made, or at its own instigation, the commission may survey, monument, plat, and record in the office of the recorder in the county or counties in which such lands are located, the area of state lands described in such act of the Legislature. Whenever such survey and plat has been made at the request of a grantee of the State, the costs thereof shall be repaid by such grantee to the commission.(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 977.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6359 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 1 - ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL OF STATE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Administration and Control of Swamp, Overflowed, Tide, or Submerged Lands, and Structures Thereon|ARTICLE 3 - Procedure on Establishment of Ordinary High-Water and Low-Water Mark|Section 6359.

6359.  Whenever by legislative enactment tide or submerged lands of the State are granted or conveyed or authorized to be granted or conveyed or whenever a previous enactment is amended, and no prior survey has been made, and such act does not contain a description of such lands by metes and bounds, the commission shall within two years following the effective date of such act survey, monument, and record a plat and a metes and bounds description of such lands in the office of the county recorder in the county or counties in which such lands are located. Upon recordation, the survey, monuments, plat and description shall be binding upon the State, the grantee, and their successors in interest.No such grant or conveyance or amended grant or conveyance shall be effective until completion of the survey and recordation. The cost of such survey and recordation shall be paid by the person or entity to which the grant or conveyance is made.(Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1711.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6801 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6801.

6801.  A lease or prospecting permit under this chapter shall be issued only to and held by:(a) Persons or associations of persons who are citizens of the United States or who have declared their intention of becoming such, or who are citizens of any country, dependency, colony, or province, the laws, customs, and regulations of which permit the grant of similar or like privileges to citizens of the United States.(b) Any corporation or corporations organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the United States or of any state or territory thereof; or any corporation or corporations 90 percent or more of the shares of which are owned by persons eligible to hold a lease or permit under subdivision (a) or (c) of this section; or any corporation or corporations 90 percent or more of the shares of which are owned either by a corporation eligible to hold a lease or permit hereunder, or by any combination of such eligible persons or corporations, or both.(c) Any person who is not a citizen or national of the United States entitled thereto by virtue of any treaty between the United States and the nation or country of which that person is a citizen or subject.(d) In every case of joint bidding, the names of all persons, firms, or corporations interested in a particular joint bid shall be specified.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 296, Sec. 57. (AB 1096) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6802 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6802.

6802.  Any interest held in violation of this chapter shall be forfeited to the State by appropriate proceedings for that purpose brought by the State in the superior court for the county in which the property or some part thereof is located, except that any ownership or interest forbidden in this chapter which is acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years and not longer after its acquisition.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6803 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6803.

6803.  The commission, in issuing any lease under this chapter, may reserve to the State the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within the lease, in so far as the surface is not required by the lessee. If such a reservation is to be made, however, it shall be so determined before the offering of the lease.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6804.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6804.1.

6804.1.  Notwithstanding any provisions of this code to the contrary, a lessee may at any time make and file with the commission a written quitclaim or relinquishment of all rights under any lease or of any portion thereof comprising a 10-acre parcel or multiple thereof in a compact form, or of any separate or distinct zone or geological horizon or portion thereof underlying such 10-acre parcel or multiple thereof. Such quitclaim or relinquishment shall be effective as of the date of its filing, subject to the continued obligation of the lessee and his surety to make payment of all rentals and royalties theretofore accrued and to place all wells on the lands or in the zones or horizons to be quitclaimed or relinquished, in condition for suspension or abandonment in accordance with the applicable lease terms and regulations; thereupon the lessee shall be released from all obligations thereafter accruing under said lease with respect to the lands, zones or horizons quitclaimed or relinquished, but no such quitclaim or relinquishment shall release such lessee or his surety from any liability for breach of any obligation of the lease with respect to which such lessee is in default at the time of the filing of such quitclaim or relinquishment.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1724.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6805 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6805.

6805.  The commission shall reserve and may exercise the authority to cancel any prospecting permit or lease upon which a commercially valuable deposit of minerals or geothermal resources other than oil or gas has not been discovered or upon which oil or gas has not been discovered in paying quantities upon failure of the permittee or lessee (after 30 days’ written notice and demand for performance) to exercise due diligence and care in the prosecution of the prospecting or development work in accordance with the terms and conditions of the permit or lease. After discovery of a commercially valuable deposit of minerals or geothermal resources other than oil or gas on lands subject to any permit or lease issued pursuant to this chapter, or after discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities on lands subject to any lease, the permit or lease may be forfeited and canceled only upon failure of the lessee after 90 days’ written notice and demand to comply with any of the provisions of the permit or lease or of the regulations applicable thereto and in force at the date of the permit or lease. However, in the event of any cancellation the lessee under any oil or gas lease or the permittee or lessee under any geothermal resource permit or lease shall have the right to retain under the permit or lease any and all drilling or producing wells as to which no default exists, together with a parcel of land surrounding any well or wells and any rights-of-way through the lands, under permit or lease, as may be reasonably necessary to enable the permittee or lessee to drill and operate the retained well or wells. In the event of the cancellation of any permit or lease the permittee or lessee shall have a reasonable time within which to remove any and all property, equipment and facilities owned or used by the permittee or lessee in connection with operations under the permit or lease. The commission shall insert in every permit or lease issued under this chapter appropriate provisions for its cancellation in accordance with the provisions of this section.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 676, Sec. 276.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6806 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6806.

6806.  Any permit or lease under this chapter shall reserve to the commission the right to allow, upon such terms as the commission may determine to be just, the joint or several use of such easements or rights of way, including easements in tunnels, upon, through, or in the lands leased or permitted, as may be necessary or appropriate for the working of such lands or of other lands containing the deposits described in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6807 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6807.

6807.  The commission, in the name of the State, may purchase or receive by donation or lease any right of way or easement in real property, or any real property in fee simple, necessary or proper for sites for drilling operations, storage of oil, dehydration plants, absorption plants, or other operations necessary or proper under this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6808 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6808.

6808.  The commission, if it deems such action for the best interests of the state, may condemn, acquire, and possess in the name of the state any right-of-way or easement, including surface rights, for any operation authorized or contemplated under this chapter, that may be necessary for the development and production of oil and gas from state-owned land and for their removal, transportation, storage, and sale.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1239.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6809 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6809.

6809.  Any interests in lands, or lands in fee simple, acquired by the commission by purchase, donation, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, may be made available to any lessee of the State for the purposes contained in this chapter and upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the commission.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6810 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6810.

6810.  The provisions of this chapter authorizing the commission to acquire interests in real property include the acquisition of structures and improvements situated on lands sold by the State subject to the reservations provided herein. Such structures and improvements shall be acquired, however, only upon the written request of a lessee under this chapter, to whom the State has granted the right to extract the oil and gas or other minerals from such lands, and only upon the agreement by the lessee to reimburse the State for the cost and expense of such acquisition and the deposit by the lessee with the commission of such security as it may require.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6811 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6811.

6811.  The commission may, prior to the receipt of any bid for a lease under this chapter, withdraw any offer to receive bids therefor, and it may reject all bids therefor filed pursuant to invitation of the commission. At any time before the awarding of a lease thereon, all or any portion of a tract proposed to be leased may be withdrawn by the commission and eliminated from the proposal.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6812 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6812.

6812.  Whenever by the terms of this chapter the commission may grant a lease of State lands, the commission may make and execute an easement of surface or subsurface rights, or both, in lieu thereof and upon the same terms and conditions and subject to the same limitations and prohibitions as are provided for a lease of such lands.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6813 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6813.

6813.  For the purpose of this chapter, the commission may enter into agreements with any person, association of persons, corporation, city, or county, the United States or any agency thereof, or any of them, claiming the oil and gas in lands adversely to the State of California, which agreements may:(a) Establish the respective interests of the parties to the agreement in the oil and gas underlying such land.(b) Establish the boundary line between lands claimed by the State and other parties to the agreement in those cases in which oil or gas is known or believed to exist in such lands or in the vicinity thereof, and, pending the establishment of any such boundaries, provide for the administration, exploration and development of any lands embraced within the conflicting boundary claims.(c) Fix the amount of damages for past or future production of oil and gas from wells drilled under color of title on or into land claimed by the State.Any agreement entered into by the commission with the United States or any agency thereof under this section shall first be approved by the Governor in order to make it effective.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 686.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6814 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6814.

6814.  The commission, in the name of the people of the State, may bring action to determine the title to oil and gas in land against persons, associations of persons, and corporations claiming the oil and gas adversely and to recover damages for oil and gas removed therefrom. Any person, association of persons, corporation, or city not a party to such a suit and claiming the oil or gas in the land, or any part thereof, may intervene in such an action and have his rights adjudicated. The State hereby consents to be sued by any person, association of persons, corporation, or city for the purpose of quieting title to the right to oil or gas, or both, in any land, claimed by the State and by such person, association of persons, corporation, or city. Any other person, association of persons, corporation, or city not made a party to such an action but claiming any interest in the oil or gas may intervene in such suit.All such actions shall be brought and tried in the county where the land or some part thereof is situated.(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
CA Pub Res Code § 6815 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS|PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases|ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands|Section 6815.

6815.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may negotiate and enter into agreements for compensation for drainage or oil and gas leases on state-owned lands, other than those not available for lease pursuant to Section 6871.1 and that are described in Section 6871.2, if any of the following circumstances exist:(1) Wells drilled upon private or public lands, including state-owned lands, are draining or may drain oil or gas from state-owned lands, provided that where wells are drilled on state-owned lands and other state-owned lands are or may be subject to drainage, the development is allowed only by drilling from already developed state lands.(2) The lands are determined by the commission to be unsuitable for competitive bidding because of such factors as their small size or irregular configuration, or their inaccessibility from surface drill sites reasonably available or obtainable.(3) The state owns a fractional interest in the lands.(4) The lease or agreement is determined by the commission to be in the best interests of the state.(b) Whenever wells drilled upon private or public lands, including state-owned lands, are draining or may drain oil or gas from state-owned lands not available for lease pursuant to Section 6871.1 and that are described in Section 6871.2, the commission may negotiate and enter into agreements for compensation for drainage or oil and gas leases, provided that the development of those lands shall be allowed only by drilling from adjacent lands.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1171, Sec. 3.)