California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1169

Introduced by Assembly Member Gomez

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Section 6359 of the Public Resources Code, relating to submerged lands.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1169, as introduced, Gomez. Submerged lands.

Existing law establishes the State Lands Commission in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes the functions and duties of the commission. If tide or submerged lands are conveyed by a legislative enactment and a prior survey has not been made and the act does not contain a description of those lands by metes and bounds, existing law requires the commission to survey, monument, and record a plat and a metes and bounds description of those lands within 2 years of the effective date of the act in the county recorder’s office in the county or counties where those lands are located. Upon recordation, existing law provides that the survey, monuments, plat, and description are binding upon the state, the grantee, and their successors in interest.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 6359 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

6359.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert Whenever by legislative enactment tide or
submerged lands of the begin delete State end delete begin insert state end insert are granted or conveyed or
authorized to be granted or begin delete conveyed end delete begin insert conveyed, end insert or whenever a
previous enactment is amended, and begin delete no end delete begin insert a end insert prior survey has begin insert not end insert been
made, and begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert act does not contain a description of begin delete such end delete begin insert those end insert
lands by metes and bounds, the commission shall within two years
following the effective date of begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert act survey, monument, and
record a plat and a metes and bounds description of begin delete such end delete begin insert those end insert
lands in the office of the county recorder in the county or counties
in which begin delete such end delete begin insert those end insert lands are located. Upon recordation, the
survey, monuments, begin delete plat end delete begin insert plat, end insert and description shall be binding
upon the begin delete State, end delete begin insert state, end insert the grantee, and their successors in interest.

begin delete

No such

end delete

begin insert ( end insert begin insert b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert A end insert grant or begin delete conveyance end delete begin insert conveyance, end insert or amended grant or
begin delete conveyance end delete begin insert conveyance, end insert shall begin insert not end insert be effective until completion of
the survey and recordation. The cost of begin delete such end delete begin insert the end insert survey and
recordation shall be paid by the person or entity to which the grant
or conveyance is made.