California Fish and Game Code

§ 5800

FGC § 5800 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 6 · Part 1 · Ch. 2 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)It is unlawful to conduct any mining operation in the Trinity and Klamath River Fish and Game District between July 1 and November 30, except when the debris, substances, tailings or other effluent from those operations do not and cannot pass into the waters in that district.

(b)It is unlawful between July 1 and November 30 to pollute, muddy, contaminate, or roil the waters of the Trinity and Klamath River Fish and Game District, or to deposit in or cause, suffer, or procure to be deposited in, permit to pass into, or place where it can pass into, those waters, any debris, substance or tailings from hydraulic, placer, milling, or other mining operation affecting the clarity of those waters. The clarity of those waters shall be deemed affected when those waters at a point a distance of one mile below the confluence of the Klamath River and the Salmon River or at a point a distance of one mile below the confluence of the South Fork of the Trinity River and the Trinity River, contain 50 parts per million, by weight, of suspended matter, not including vegetable matter in suspension and suspended matter occurring in the stream or streams due to an act of God.

(c)It is unlawful, between July 1 and November 30 to carry on or operate any hydraulic mine of any kind on, along, or in any waters flowing into the Trinity and Klamath River Fish and Game District.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 132, Sec. 114. (AB 1760) Effective January 1, 2024.