BILL NUMBER: AB 1169	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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