ARTICLE 3. Parks [5150. - 5164.]

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC 3.
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Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5151. Section 5151.

Any county or city may donate, convey, and grant to the State any real property owned by it, or which it may acquire, for a park, playground, recreational center, or beach used for recreational purposes. It may use any part of its funds, including funds received by bequest, gift, donation, and those received in trust for the acquisition of such properties, as may be necessary to assist the State in acquiring any park, playground, recreational center, or beach for recreational purposes, to be cared for, maintained, and controlled under any agreement or arrangement authorized by article one of chapter one of this division.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5152. Section 5152.

The board of supervisors or governing body of any county or city within which any park forming a part of the State park system is established, may relinquish any road, highway, or trail, or portion thereof, or right of way therefor, existing within the park, to the authority charged by law with the management and control of the park. Jurisdiction over any such road, highway, or trail shall vest in the park authority, upon the acceptance by it of the road, highway, trail, or right of way.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5153. Section 5153.

Relinquishment to the park authority of any road, highway, trail, or right of way shall be by resolution of the board or governing body having jurisdiction, spread upon its minutes, after notice and hearing. A certified copy of the resolution, with the acceptance of the park authority endorsed thereon, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the road, highway, or trail is located, and a certified copy shall be filed with the park authority.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5155. Section 5155.

The board of supervisors of any county may, by a unanimous vote, expend any portion of the moneys in any of the funds named in section 5156 for the payment of principal or interest, the redemption or purchase of bonds of the county or of a special assessment district within the county if special assessments have been or are to be levied for such payments, and the proceeds of the bonds have been used for the acquisition of lands or the improvement or maintenance of lands or public parks within the county.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5156. Section 5156.

Expenditures authorized by Section 5155, may be made from any one of the following funds: (a) The general fund of the county. (b) The proceeds of any county bond issue voted for the purpose of acquiring lands or improving or maintaining them as a public park within the county, or from any other fund available for such purposes.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5157. Section 5157.

Any county may purchase or lease, or obtain by gift, lands located in the county, or in other counties and may hold, improve, and maintain such lands for public parks, public beaches, public recreation areas or public boulevards. Before land situated in another county may be so acquired and held, improved, and maintained, the consent by resolution of the board of supervisors of that county shall be obtained. Land acquired in conformity with the requirements of this section is subject to the jurisdiction, laws and ordinances of the acquiring county.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5157.5. Section 5157.5.

Under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, and in addition to jurisdiction and powers otherwise conferred, boards of supervisors in their respective counties shall have jurisdiction and power to construct within the incorporated as well as the unincorporated area of the county works for the prevention of beach erosion or for the restoration of eroded beaches or both. Such work may be performed along any portion of the ocean front regardless of ownership of the adjacent upland. Before any such work is performed by a county within the incorporated area of any county, the consent of the governing body of such incorporated area shall first be obtained.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5158. Section 5158.

The commissioners of any public park in this State may accept and receive donations and aid from individuals and corporations, and may receive legacies and bequests, and the moneys derived therefrom shall be a portion of the public funds belonging to the park commissioners, and are applicable under the direction of the park commissioners to the purposes of preserving and embellishing the parks under their respective management and control.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5159. Section 5159.

If these funds at any time exceed the sums necessary for immediate expenditure on the park grounds, or if it is advisable to invest them and make them productive, the park commissioners may invest them or any portion, in interest-bearing bonds of the government of the United States, or the State of California, and the commissioners may use the interest and income. The commissioners may, if necessary, sell and dispose of the bonds.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5160. Section 5160.

The board of supervisors of any county may by a four-fifths vote of the members use or dedicate for county highway purposes any portion of any county public park acquired in whole or in part with county funds or acquired through special assessment district proceedings conducted by such board of supervisors when public funds have been contributed to such district proceedings or for the payment or retirement of bonds or assessments thereof.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5161. Section 5161.

Whenever any county, city and county, city or the state owns land within the limits of any area designated as a state historical monument, it may, with the consent of the department, sell such land to, or exchange such land with, any other public, private, or former owner of land within the same area upon a determination by the state or other governmental agency that the sale or exchange of the land will facilitate the development of the historical monument.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5162. Section 5162.

Any beach or seashore recreation area owned, leased, operated, controlled, maintained or managed by a city or county which is open to the use of residents of such city or county shall be open to all members of the public upon the same terms, fees, charges and conditions as are applicable to the residents of such city or county.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5163. Section 5163.

(a) No person shall initially be employed in connection with a park, playground, recreational center, or beach used for recreational purposes by a city or county in a position requiring contact with children, or as a food concessionaire or other licensed concessionaire in that area, unless the person produces or has on file with the city or county a certificate showing that within the last two years the person has been examined and has been found to be free of communicable tuberculosis. (b) Thereafter, those employees who are skin test negative shall be required to undergo the foregoing examination at least once each four years for so long as the employee remains skin test negative. Once an employee has a documented positive skin test which has been followed by an X-ray, the foregoing examination is no longer required and a referral shall be made within 30 days of the examination to the local health officer to determine the need for followup care. “Certificate” means a document signed by the examining physician and surgeon who is licensed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, or a notice from a public health agency or unit of the tuberculosis association which indicates freedom from active tuberculosis.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5163.1. Section 5163.1.

The examination shall consist of an approved intradermal tuberculosis test, which, if positive, shall be followed by an X-ray of the lungs. Nothing in Sections 5163 to 5163.2, inclusive, shall prevent the governing body of any city or county, upon recommendation of the local health officer, from establishing a rule requiring a more extensive or more frequent examination than required by Section 5163 and this section.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5163.2. Section 5163.2.

The X-ray film may be taken by a competent and qualified X-ray technician if the X-ray film is subsequently interpreted by a licensed physician and surgeon.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 5164. Section 5164.

(a) (1) A county, city, city and county, or special district shall not hire a person for employment, or hire a volunteer to perform services, at a county, city, city and county, or special district operated park, playground, recreational center, or beach used for recreational purposes, in a position having supervisory or disciplinary authority over a minor, if that person has been convicted of an offense specified in paragraph (2). (2) (A) A violation or attempted violation of Section 220, 261.5, former Section 262, 273a, 273d, or 273.5 of the Penal Code, or a sex offense listed in Section 290 of the Penal Code, except for the offense specified in subdivision (d) of Section 243.4 of the Penal Code. (B) A felony or misdemeanor conviction specified in subparagraph (C) within 10 years of the date of the employer’s request. (C) A felony conviction that is over 10 years old, if the subject of the request was incarcerated within 10 years of the employer’s request, for a violation or attempted violation of an offense specified in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 207) of Title 8 of Part 1 of the Penal Code, Section 211 or 215 of the Penal Code, wherein it is charged and proved that the defendant personally used a deadly or dangerous weapon, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 12022 of the Penal Code, in the commission of that offense, Section 217.1 of the Penal Code, Section 236 of the Penal Code, an offense specified in Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 240) of Title 8 of Part 1 of the Penal Code, or an offense specified in subdivision (c) of Section 667.5 of the Penal Code, provided that a record of a misdemeanor conviction shall not be transmitted to the requester unless the subject of the request has a total of three or more misdemeanor convictions, or a combined total of three or more misdemeanor and felony convictions, for violations listed in this section within the 10-year period immediately preceding the employer’s request or has been incarcerated for any of those convictions within the preceding 10 years. (b) (1) To give effect to this section, a county, city, city and county, or special district shall require each such prospective employee or volunteer to complete an application that inquires as to whether or not that individual has been convicted of an offense specified in subdivision (a). The county, city, city and county, or special district shall screen, pursuant to Section 11105.3 of the Penal Code, any such prospective employee or volunteer, having supervisory or disciplinary authority over a minor, for that person’s criminal background. (2) A local agency request for Department of Justice records pursuant to this subdivision shall include the prospective employee’s or volunteer’s fingerprints, which may be taken by the local agency, and any other data specified by the Department of Justice. The request shall be made on a form approved by the Department of Justice. A fee shall not be charged to the local agency for requesting the records of a prospective volunteer pursuant to this subdivision. (3) A county, city, city and county, or special district may charge a prospective employee or volunteer described in subdivision (a) a fee to cover all of the county, city, city and county, or special district’s costs attributable to the requirements imposed by this section.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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