California Fish and Game Code 1857 – (a) The Fish and Wildlife Regional Conservation Investment …
(a) The Fish and Wildlife Regional Conservation Investment Strategy Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
(b) The department shall collect fees or other compensation from a person or entity that proposes to enter into a mitigation credit agreement, and from a public agency or federally recognized tribe that proposes a regional conservation investment strategy or a regional conservation assessment, to pay for all or a portion of the department’s costs relating to the mitigation credit agreement, proposed strategy, or proposed assessment. Fees received pursuant to this subdivision shall be deposited in the Fish and Wildlife Regional Conservation Investment Strategy Program Fund.
Terms Used In California Fish and Game Code 1857
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 37
- Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
- Person: means any natural person or any partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, or other type of association. See California Fish and Game Code 67
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Fish and Game Code 83
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Fish and Game Code 73
- Wildlife: means and includes all wild animals, birds, plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and related ecological communities, including the habitat upon which the wildlife depends for its continued viability. See California Fish and Game Code 89.5
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 463, Sec. 6. (AB 2805) Effective January 1, 2023.)