California Public Resources Code

§ 6817

PRC § 6817 Effective Jan 1, 1998Div. 6 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)The Controller shall annually as of June 30 apportion, for the fiscal year ending on that date, to each city or county having within its boundaries ungranted tide and submerged lands or other tide and submerged lands granted to it by the state, in which the state has reserved the rights to the mineral deposits contained therein, 1 percent of the revenues paid to the state under Article 4 (commencing with Section 6870) from those tide and submerged lands that are within the limits of the particular county or city, except that the total amount apportioned to each city or county in each year shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per mile, or fraction of a mile, of ocean frontage that is within, and owned or operated as a park by, that city or county and leased by the commission for the production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons, and which ocean frontage is available to the public free of charge for recreational purposes. However, that limitation on the amount that may be apportioned to each city or county in each year does not apply to revenues from leases within the limits of the particular county or city that exceed the revenues paid to the state during the 1983–84 fiscal year. Any city that is fronted, in whole or in part, by a state oil and gas lease shall be qualified to receive an apportionment under this section based on the formula contained in this section. For purposes of this section, tide and submerged lands within the limits of a city shall not be deemed to be within the boundaries of a county except in the case of a city and county. The commission shall, at the time of remitting revenues to the State Treasury received under Article 4 (commencing with Section 6870), report to the Controller the total amount of the revenue paid from the tide and submerged lands to the state, shown with respect to each city or county to which that amount is applicable. The apportionment for any given fiscal year shall be based upon the physical facts with respect to each city or county existing on June 30 of the next preceding fiscal year. The report of the commission and the apportionments of the Controller shall be final.

(b)In addition to any amounts payable to a city or county pursuant to subdivision (a), 20 percent of revenues paid to the state under Article 4 (commencing with Section 6870) that are derived from the production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons from a state tideland lease, not to exceed a total amount of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000), adjusted annually to reflect increases in the cost of living, as measured by the California Consumer Price Index, shall be paid to the city or county within whose boundaries the lease is located, for a period not to exceed 20 years from commencement of payment, if oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons are extracted under the lease under any of the following circumstances, except as provided in subdivision (c):

(1)The lease was not under production at any time during 1994.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 17, Sec. 120. Effective January 1, 1998.