Cal. PRC § 5003.05
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 5003.05, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
Rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section 5003 shall also apply on any granted or ungranted tidelands or submerged lands abutting property of the department and used for recreational purposes by members of the general public in conjunction with their use of the department’s property between the boundary of the lands under the jurisdiction of the department and a line running parallel to and 1,000 feet waterward of the ordinary high water mark, so long as the rule or regulation being applied is not inconsistent with any rule or regulation of any other public agency which is applicable to those tide or submerged lands.
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