Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District Act: land grants, acquisitions, and dispositions.

Existing law, the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District Act, regulates the use of specified tide and submerged lands within Humboldt Bay and provides for the fill, improvement, and reclamation of those tidelands, as prescribed. The act further requires that all grants, franchises, leases, permits, rights, or privileges be made in accordance with those rules and regulations as the board of commissioners of the district prescribes by resolution, and prohibits irrevocable grants of fee title from being granted or issued. This bill would eliminate that provision prohibiting irrevocable grants of fee title, thereby authorizing these grants subject to the other provisions of the act. The act authorizes the district to acquire, hold and enjoy, and lease and dispose of real and personal property of every kind, within the district, necessary to the full or convenient exercise of its powers. The act requires that all money received or collected by the district be deposited in the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation District Fund, and prohibits money in the fund from being appropriated or used for any purpose except those purposes enumerated in the act. This bill would prohibit the district from making an expenditure of trust moneys from the fund to purchase or otherwise acquire any real property without first having provided at least 90 days' written notice, containing specified information, of the proposed expenditure to the State Lands Commission. The bill would authorize the district to proceed with the purchase or acquisition if the commission does not object within 90 days of the commission's receipt of the notice. The bill would also require the district to give the commission at least 90 days' written notice, containing specified information, of a proposed disposition of any interest in real property held in trust by the district.