California Harbors and Navigation Code 72.75 – (a) The department may grant funds to any public agency for the …
(a) The department may grant funds to any public agency for the construction or procurement of vessel pumpout or dump stations and ancillary items.
(b) The department shall establish general policies for determining appropriate bodies of water and locations thereon for placing vessel pumpout or dump stations. The department may adopt rules and regulations that it finds necessary to carry out this section.
Terms Used In California Harbors and Navigation Code 72.75
- Vessel: includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, steamships, canal boats, barges, sailing vessels, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place for the transportation of merchandise or persons. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 21
(c) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this section is to furnish vessel pumpout or dump station facilities on bodies of water where needed to meet the needs of boaters and where the presence of the vessel pumpout or dump stations may lessen environmental degradation of those bodies of water.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1233, Sec. 8. Effective September 30, 1994.)