(1) Existing law requires the State Lands Commission to prepare every 10 years a summary report on the ownership of public land in this state by the United States, the state, counties, cities, and districts and any other public agency or body within the state, and authorizes the commission to sell copies of the report at a reasonable charge that will provide for reimbursement of its costs of reproducing the report.
This bill would repeal these provisions.
(2) Existing law authorizes the commission to cooperate with the Beach Erosion Board of the United States Government, and to expend those moneys as are necessary for cooperative work with that board out of any appropriations made for those purposes.
This bill would, instead, authorize the commission to cooperate with the
Coastal Engineering Research Board of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(3) Existing law grants title to the state in all mineral deposits in public lands, and prohibits a purchaser of public land from acquiring any right, title, or interest in those deposits.
This bill would authorize the commission to sell to a surface property owner, as defined, for not less than fair market value, the state’s reserved mineral interest in specified lands located in Riverside County, upon those terms and conditions, and subject to any reservations or exceptions as the commission determines are in the best interests of the state, and would require that the proceeds of such a sale be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the School Land Bank Fund.
(4) The bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances pertaining to the County
of Riverside, with respect to the ownership of mineral deposits in the county, that the bill is intended to remedy, a general statute within the meaning of specified provisions of the California Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is necessary.