7051. (a) The board of supervisors, boards of trustees, directors or other governing body of any county or other public or quasi-public corporation, body or agency authorized to acquire and hold real property pursuant to the statutory authority under which such county, corporation, body or agency is created may, under such limitations and restrictions as are […]
7052. Lands may be leased in tracts of such size and shape as the governing body may determine. Before executing a lease of any such property, the governing body shall in open meeting, by not less than a two-thirds vote of its members, adopt a resolution declaring its intention to lease the property. The resolution […]
7053. At the time and place fixed in the resolution for the meeting, all sealed proposals which have been received shall in public session be opened, examined, and recorded by the governing body, and the property may be leased to the highest responsible bidder in the judgment of the governing body. The governing body may, […]
7054. An order to lease made by the governing body shall authorize and direct the execution and delivery by the chair or other presiding officer of a lease to the lessee. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 213, Sec. 13. (AB 2768) Effective January 1, 2011.)
7054.5. No lease or modification thereof or amendment thereto for the production, extraction, or removal of minerals, oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons from tide or submerged lands which have been granted by the State to a public agency in trust wherein the State has not reserved the minerals, shall be effective or shall be delivered […]
7055. Any money accruing from leases under this chapter shall be paid into the general fund of the county or other public or quasi public corporation, body or agency for the use of the county or other public or quasi public corporation, body or agency, as the case may be. (Amended by Stats. 1945, Ch. […]
7056. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all counties and to such public or quasi-public corporations, bodies and agencies as are not otherwise authorized by law to lease for the production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbons, or for the mining of other minerals, lands owned by such public or quasi-public corporation, body […]
7056.5. The provisions of Sections 7051 to 7056, inclusive, shall apply to operating agreements and all other types of agreements entered into by the agencies mentioned in Section 7056 for the purposes described in Section 7051. This section does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, the pre-existing law. (Added by Stats. 1959, […]
7057. The property of any city may be leased for the purpose of producing or effecting the production of minerals, oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances for a period not to exceed 35 years unless such property shall have been dedicated or acquired as a park, highway, street, walk or public playground, in which event […]
7058. Any city, county, city and county, or district, in the interest of increasing the ultimate recovery of oil or gas, or of the protection of oil or gas from unreasonable waste, or of the possible arresting or amelioration of land subsidence, may enter into unit or co-operative agreements with respect to all or any […]
7058.5. Before a lease or any operating agreement or other type of agreement for the production of oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons is entered into after the effective date of this section, the governing body of a city shall in open meeting adopt a resolution declaring its intention to take such action. The resolution shall […]
7059. At the time and place fixed in the resolution for the meeting, all sealed proposals which have been received shall in public session be opened, examined, and recorded by the governing body of the city, and the property shall be leased to, or the agreement shall be made and entered into with, the highest […]
7060. (a) No such lease or agreement shall be effective unless prior to adopting the resolution provided for by Section 7058.5 the city shall have petitioned the State Lands Commission for approval of the proposed resolution, and the proposed resolution shall have been approved by the State Lands Commission. (b) No city shall consent to the modification […]
7061. The provisions of Sections 7058.5 to 7059, inclusive, shall be applicable to all general-law cities and shall be applicable to general-law and chartered cities with respect to tide or submerged lands granted in trust to such cities by the State where mineral rights have not been reserved to the State. Section 7060 shall be […]
7061.1. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7058, no city, county, city and county, or district may enter into a unit or cooperative agreement pursuant to that section under which exploration for, drilling for, or production of petroleum products is proposed with respect to any part or parts of an oil and gas field located in […]
7062. (a) On or before October 1st of each year, each city shall cause to be made and filed with the State Lands Commission a detailed statement of all revenue and expenditures thereof from any operating agreement or other type of lease or agreement for the production of oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons, including obligations incurred […]
