State parks: concessions: contracts.

Existing law establishes the Department of Parks and Recreation and vests the department with the control of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation to negotiate or renegotiate a concession contract within state parks if specified conditions exist, including, among others, whenever the concession has been severely and adversely impacted through no fault of the concessionaire by an unanticipated calamity, park closure, major construction, or other harmful event or action. This bill would add drought, restricted access, and fires to that list of events or actions. Existing law requires the Department to prepare an invitation to bid for a contract authorizing occupancy by the concessionaire of any portion of the state park system for a period of more than 2 years, as provided. This bill would instead require the department to prepare an invitation to bid for a contract authorizing occupancy by the concessionaire for a period of more than 3 years, as provided.