Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This act is named the Public Resources Code.”
The Legislature states that increased requests to take water from state streams, especially for electric energy, may harm streamflows and dependent fish and wildlife resources. The Director of Fish and Game must identify and list state streams and watercourses that need minimum flow levels, include significant ones with findings, rank them by need, and finish the initial list by January 1, 1984. The Director of Fish and Game must prepare proposed streamflow requirements for each identified stream or watercourse and send them to the State Water Resources Control Board. The Director of Fish and Game may review any streamflow requirement and may propose changes, and any proposed change must be sent to the State Water Resources Control Board. The Department of Fish and Game must start studies to develop proposed streamflow requirements, and finish each study within three years.
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How the instrument operates
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Enacted 1939. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.
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The owner or operator of a well must, when the supervisor asks, show that water is not moving into oil- or gas-bearing strata or contaminating groundwater or surface water; they must also give the district deputy adequate notice before…
Section 3222.
The board must prepare and adopt a strategic plan within two years after hiring an executive officer.
Section 32376.
This section defines key terms used in the Baldwin Hills and Urban Watersheds Conservancy Act.
Section 32553.
The conservancy must not interfere with listed water-management powers, rights, orders, projects, or water-system operations. It must give 45 days’ written notice to affected water associations before approving covered actions, and it must consult other…
Section 32621.
This section sets out an interstate oil-and-gas compact: member states must adopt and keep laws that prevent waste and related harms, and the compact creates a commission with recommendation powers.
Section 3276.
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Source and current-law status
Source record view
Source record from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · Enacted 1939
The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.