California § 5096.308. 5096.308. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 461, Sec. 1.)

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§ 5096.308. — 5096.308. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 461, Sec. 1.)

California § 5096.308.

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Div. 5.DIVISION 5. PARKS AND MONUMENTS

Ch. 1.692.CHAPTER 1.692. Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (The Villaraigosa-Keeley Act)

Art. 1.ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

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As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a)“Acquisition” means the acquisition from a willing seller of a fee interest or any other interest, including easements and development rights, in real property from a willing seller.

(b)“Board” means the Secretary of the Resources Agency designated in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 5096.362.

(c)“Certified local community conservation corps programs” means programs operated by public or private nonprofit agencies pursuant to Section 14406.

(d)“Committee” means the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Finance Committee created pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 5096.362.

(e)“District” means any regional park district, regional pa

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As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a)
“Acquisition” means the acquisition from a willing seller of a fee interest or any other interest, including easements and development rights, in real property from a willing seller.
(b)
“Board” means the Secretary of the Resources Agency designated in accordance with subdivision (b) of
Section 5096.362.
(c)
“Certified local community conservation corps programs” means programs operated by public or private nonprofit agencies pursuant to Section 14406.
(d)
“Committee” means the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Finance Committee created pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 5096.362.
(e)
“District” means any regional park district, regional park and open-space district, or regional open-space district formed pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Chapter 3, any recreation and park district formed pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 5780), or an authority formed pursuant to Division 26 (commencing with Section 35100). With respect to any community or unincorporated region that is not included within a
district, and in which no city or county provides parks or recreational areas or facilities, “district” also means any other district that is authorized by statute to operate and manage parks or recreational areas or facilities, employs a full-time park and recreation director, offers year-round park and recreation services on lands and facilities owned by the district, and allocates a substantial portion of its annual operating budget to parks or recreation areas or facilities
(f)
“Fund” means the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Bond Fund created pursuant to Section 5096.310.
(g)
“Historical resource” includes, but is not limited to, any building, structure, site area, place, artifact, or collection of artifacts that is historically or archaeologically significant in the cultural annals of California.
(h)
“Program” means the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Program established pursuant to this chapter.
(i)
“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
(j)
(1)
“Stewardship” means the development and implementation of projects for the protection, preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and improvement of natural systems and outstanding features of the state park system and historical and cultural resources. Those efforts may not include activities that merely supplement normal park operations or that are usually funded from other sources.
(2)
(A)
“Cultural resources stewardship” may include, but is not limited to, stabilization and
protection of historical resources, including archaeological resources, in the state park system. Those resources may include sites, features, ruins, archaeological deposits, historical landscape resources, rock art features, and artifacts making up the physical legacy of California’s past.
(B)
“Cultural resources stewardship” does not include the rehabilitation, restoration, reconstruction, interpretation, or mitigation of historical resources typically required as part of a development program.
(3)
“Natural resources stewardship” may include, but is not limited to, such objectives as the control of major erosion and geologic hazards, the restoration and improvement of critical plant and animal habitat, the control and elimination of exotic species encroachment, the stabilization of coastal dunes and bluffs, and the planning necessary to implement those objectives.
(k)
“Wildlife conservation partnership” means a cooperative acquisition, restoration, or management of wildlife habitat for which the Wildlife Conservation Board provides matching funds to leverage other public, private, or nonprofit resources to maximize the conservation benefits to wildlife and wildlife habitat.