Cal. HNC § 5837
This is the official text of Cal. HNC § 5837, part of California’s Harbors and Navigation Code — regulates ports, harbors, and boating.
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Official statutory text
If the improvement, development, protection, maintenance, management or control of a harbor or any part thereof, proposed to be imporved or developed, is vested in or exercised by a harbor commission, the petition shall be submitted to and approved by the harbor commission, before it is presented to the board of supervisors, and all investigations of the improvement or development work, and its estimated cost, ordered or directed to be made by the board of supervisors, shall be made by or under and subject to the approval of the harbor commission.
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