California Code
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...

Section 7706. - 7706. Each application for lands shall be accompanied by a...

ARTICLE 2 - Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents

Section 7723. - 7723. Certificates of purchase, and all rights acquired thereunder, are...

Section 7724. - 7724. All such sales shall, when the deed or assignment...

Section 7725. - 7725. The recorder is entitled to receive from the purchaser,...

Section 7729. - 7729. Whenever a person becomes entitled to a patent, the...

Section 7730. - 7730. The patent or deed shall then be signed by...

Section 7731. - 7731. No patent shall issue until the lands are relinquished...

Section 7732. - 7732. The commission shall record all patents in books to...

Section 7733. - 7733. Where a patent for lands is issued in the...

ARTICLE 6 - Contests

Section 7921. - 7921. When a contest arises before the commission concerning the...

Section 7922. - 7922. After such order is made, either party may bring...

Section 7923. - 7923. Any person, legally qualified to purchase from the State...

Section 7924. - 7924. When any contest arises as provided for in this...

Section 7925. - 7925. When a copy of the final judgment of the...

Section 7926. - 7926. Unless the party contestant commences his action within 60...

Section 7927. - 7927. Whenever the commission receives a plat of a survey...

ARTICLE 7 - Correction of Incorrect Descriptions of Patented Lands

Section 7951. - 7951. When payment has been made in full for any...

Section 7952. - 7952. After the map or plat and field-notes constituting the...

Section 7953. - 7953. After the filing and recording of the map or...

Section 7954. - 7954. Upon the filing of the petition, the court shall...

Section 7955. - 7955. If, after the hearing, the court is satisfied that...

Section 7956. - 7956. The cost of making the survey, map or plat...

Section 7957. - 7957. Certified copies of the decree entered in the suit...

Section 7958. - 7958. Any number of land owners whose lands are contiguous...

ARTICLE 8 - Procedure on Improper Sales and Abandonment of Entries

Section 7971. - 7971. If any land was not the property of the...

Section 7972. - 7972. In all cases where money has been paid since...

Section 7973. - 7973. The authority of the commission to issue such certificate...

Section 7974. - 7974. If the land sold was swamp and overflowed, the...

Section 7975. - 7975. Whenever a purchaser of land upon credit desires to...

Section 7976. - 7976. Whenever any person has, in conformity with law, conveyed...

Section 7977. - 7977. Upon the issuance of such patent, the commission shall...

ARTICLE 9 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to State Lands

Section 7991. - 7991. The shore and the bed of the ocean or...

Section 7992. - 7992. If any person, under any pretense of any claim...

Section 7993. - 7993. When State lands, upon which the full purchase price...

ARTICLE 10 - State Maps and Surveys

Section 8001. - 8001. As used in this article, “department” means the Department...

Section 8002. - 8002. The state base map shall consist of complementary planimetric,...

Section 8003. - 8003. The state base maps shall have delineated thereon plane...

Section 8011. - 8011. The department shall investigate mapping; shall prepare a complete...

Section 8012. - 8012. The technical methods used in preparation of the state...

Section 8013. - 8013. The department may enter into cooperative agreements with any...

Section 8014. - 8014. The department may enter into contracts with public and...

Section 8014.5. - 8014.5. With the approval of the Director of General Services...

Section 8015. - 8015. The department is authorized to accept grants from the...

Section 8016. - 8016. To enable the coordination of the programs of the...

Section 8017. - 8017. The department shall collect information relative to maps and...

Section 8018. - 8018. The Department of Water Resources may reproduce copies of...

Section 8019. - 8019. The department shall prepare and distribute to public officials,...

Section 8020. - 8020. On the requests of the state departments the Department...

Section 8022. - 8022. No part of any money appropriated or otherwise made...

Section 8023. - 8023. All money received for matching purposes shall be deposited...

Section 8024. - 8024. All money received from the sale of maps or...

Section 8025. - 8025. The Department of Water Resources shall keep a record...

ARTICLE 11 - Exemption From Condemnation

Section 8030. - 8030. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all 16th and...