Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission control over specified public lands in the state, including tidelands and submerged lands. Existing law requires that all rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the commission be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund, except for certain income from state school lands, royalties received from the extraction of minerals on the surface of those lands, and all rental income from surface uses for lands at Lake Tahoe.
This bill would additionally exclude from the above requirement relating to the use of rental income received from surface uses of public lands, all rental income from surface uses for lands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined. The bill would create the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Abandoned Vessel Removal Account in the General Fund and would require that moneys in the account be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the commission for the removal of abandoned and derelict commercial vessels on lands, including tidelands and submerged lands, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.