ARTICLE 2. Qualifications and Organization [30310. - 30319.5.]

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC 2.
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Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30310. Section 30310.

In making their appointments pursuant to this division, the Governor, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Speaker of the Assembly shall make good faith efforts to assure that their appointments, as a whole, reflect, to the greatest extent feasible, the economic, social, and geographic diversity of the state.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30312. Section 30312.

The term of office of commission members shall be as follows: (a) (1) A person appointed by the Governor and qualified for membership because the person holds a specified office as a locally elected official shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. However, the membership shall cease 60 days after the member’s term of office as a locally elected official ceases, or when a person has been appointed to fill that position by the Governor, if that occurs sooner. (2) A person appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules or by the Speaker of the Assembly and qualified for membership because the person holds a specified office as a locally elected official shall serve a term of four years. However, the membership shall cease 60 days after the member’s term of office as a locally elected official ceases, if that occurs sooner. (b) (1) A member appointed by the Governor shall serve for two years at the pleasure of the Governor, and may be reappointed for succeeding two-year periods, provided that the member may continue to serve beyond the two-year term until the Governor has acted and the appointee is authorized to sit and serve on the commission. (2) A member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules or the Speaker of the Assembly shall serve for four years, and may be reappointed for succeeding four-year periods, provided that the member may continue to serve beyond the four-year term until the member’s appointing authority has acted and the appointee is authorized to sit and serve on the commission. If the Senate Committee on Rules or the Speaker of the Assembly has not acted within 60 days after the expiration of a member’s term, the position shall become vacant until a person is appointed to a four-year term, calculated from the expiration date of the preceding term. (c) If a vacancy occurs before the expiration of the term for the vacated seat, the appointing authority shall appoint a member for the remainder of the unexpired term pursuant to this chapter. (d) On the effective date of the act adding this subdivision, the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly shall each appoint two members to serve two-year terms and two members to serve four-year terms. All subsequent terms shall be for four years.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30313. Section 30313.

(a) Vacancies that occur shall be filled within 30 days after the occurrence of the vacancy, and shall be filled in the same manner in which the vacating member was selected or appointed. (b) The executive director of the commission shall notify the appropriate appointing authority of any expected vacancies on the commission. If the expected vacancy is a person qualified for membership because he or she holds a specified office as a locally elected official, whose term of office as a locally elected official is expected to expire or has expired, then the appointing authority shall notify the boards of supervisors and city selection committees of each county within the affected region of the expected vacancy.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30314. Section 30314.

(a) Except as provided in this section, members or alternates of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties to the extent that reimbursement for those expenses is not otherwise provided or payable by another public agency or agencies, and shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for each full day of attending meetings of the commission. In addition, members or alternates of the commission shall receive twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) for each hour actually spent in preparation for a commission meeting, provided that for each meeting no more than eight hours of preparation time shall be compensated as provided in this section. (b) An alternate shall be entitled to payment and reimbursement for the necessary expenses incurred in participating in commission meetings, provided that only the member or the member’s alternate shall receive that payment and reimbursement, and if both the member and alternate prepare for, attend, and participate in any portion of a commission meeting, only the alternate shall be entitled to that payment and reimbursement. (c) For the purposes of this section, “full day of attending a meeting” means presence at, and participation in, not less than 60 percent of the total meeting time of the commission during any particular 24-hour period.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30315. Section 30315.

(a) The commission shall meet at least 11 times annually at a place convenient to the public. Each meeting shall occur not more than 45 working days after the previous meeting. All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public. (b) A majority of the total appointed membership of the commission shall constitute a quorum. An action taken by the commission under this division requires a majority vote of the members present at the meeting of the commission, with a quorum being present, unless otherwise specifically provided for in this division.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30315.1. Section 30315.1.

Adoption of findings for any action taken by the commission requires a majority vote of the members from the prevailing side present at the meeting of the commission, with at least three of the prevailing members present and voting.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30315.5. Section 30315.5.

Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall make the notice of any public meeting or hearing of the commission available in both English and Spanish, and may also make the notice available in any other language.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30317. Section 30317.

The headquarters of the commission shall be in a coastal county, but it may meet and may exercise any or all of its powers in any part of the state. The commission may maintain regional offices, if it finds that accessibility to, and participation by, the public will be better served or that the provisions of this division can be implemented more efficiently through the maintenance of those offices.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30318. Section 30318.

This division shall not preclude or prevent a member or employee of the commission who is also an employee of another public agency, a county supervisor or city councilperson, member of the Association of Bay Area Governments, member of the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments, member of a joint powers authority, member of a local agency formation commission, delegate to the Southern California Association of Governments, or member of the San Diego Association of Governments, and who has in that designated capacity voted or acted upon a particular matter, from voting or otherwise acting upon that matter as a member or employee of the commission. This section shall not exempt a member or employee of the commission from any other provision of this article.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30319. Section 30319.

Any person who applies to the commission for approval of a development permit shall provide the commission with the names and addresses of all persons who, for compensation, will be communicating with the commission or commission staff on the applicant’s behalf or on behalf of the applicant’s business partners. That disclosure shall be provided to the commission prior to any such communication. Failure to comply with that disclosure requirement is a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, the person shall be punished by a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, and, in addition, shall be subject to immediate denial of the permit.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 30319.5. Section 30319.5.

An applicant whose permit is denied due to the applicant’s failure to comply with Section 30319 may not apply to the commission for approval of an identical or similar project for two years from the date of the permit denial.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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