CHAPTER 2. Powers and Duties [33600. - 33605.]

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC 2.

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Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33600. Section 33600.

The conservancy shall have and may exercise all rights and powers, expressed or implied, necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this division, including, but not limited to, the rights and powers expressly set forth in this division.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33601. Section 33601.

The conservancy may do all of the following: (a) Sue and be sued. (b) Determine the qualifications of, recommend the salary of, and appoint, an executive director who shall be exempt from civil service and serve at the pleasure of the conservancy. In addition, the conservancy may employ other staff pursuant to the State Civil Service Act and as may be authorized in the annual state Budget Act. (c) Enter into contracts pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code, for services requiring knowledge, experience, and ability not possessed by the conservancy’s staff. (d) Enter into other agreements with public agencies, private entities, and persons necessary for the proper discharge of the conservancy’s duties. (e) In order to further the conservancy’s purposes as set forth in Section 33501, award grants to cities, counties, resource conservation districts, or nonprofit organizations that are described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 33702 and that are qualified as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C.A. Sec. 501(c)(3)).

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33602. Section 33602.

The conservancy may adopt regulations governing the use by the public of conservancy lands and provide for their enforcement. Any regulation shall authorize only those uses of conservancy lands that are consistent with the protection, enhancement, or restoration of those lands and the resource values specified in Section 33500. The violation of any regulation is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or both that fine and imprisonment. One-half of the amount of any fine collected shall be remitted to the conservancy for expenditure, upon appropriation, for carrying out the purposes of this division.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33603. Section 33603.

The conservancy may provide interpretive services and facilities and make the minimal improvements necessary to negate the deleterious influence of man on, and to facilitate the public’s enjoyment of, and to enhance the public’s recreational and educational experiences on, conservancy lands. No improvement shall be undertaken unless it is in furtherance of the conservancy’s purposes, as set forth in Section 33501.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33604. Section 33604.

Any expenditure by the conservancy that exceeds the amount specified in Section 20162 of the Public Contract Code, except expenditures for the acquisition of land for the purposes of Section 33501, shall be subject to the requirements of Article 4 (commencing with Section 20160) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 33605. Section 33605.

The conservancy may accept any revenue, money, grants, fees, rents, royalties, goods, services, donations, bequests, or gifts of any interest in real property from any public agency, private entity, or person for any lawful purpose of the conservancy subject to the requirements of Sections 11005 to 11005.7, inclusive, of the Government Code. A gift of personal property that is subject to the requirements of Sections 11005 and 11005.1 of the Government Code shall be deemed approved by the Director of Finance, unless it is disapproved within 60 days of receipt of a request from the executive director of the conservancy to approve the gift.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026