(a) The department may receive and accept in the name of the people of the state any gift, dedication, devise, grant, or other conveyance of title to or any interest in real property, including water rights, roads, trails, rights-of-way, buildings, facilities, and other improvements, to be added to or used in connection with the state park system. It may receive and accept gifts, donations, contributions, or bequests of money to be used in acquiring title to or any interest in real property, or in improving it as a part of or in connection with the state park system, or to be used for any of the purposes for which the department is created. It may also receive and accept personal property for any purpose connected with the park system.

(b) Subdivision (a) is subject to the requirements and exceptions set forth in § 11005 of the Government Code, except that conditional gifts or bequests of money valued at one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or less, shall not require the approval of the Director of Finance.

Terms Used In California Public Resources Code 5005

  • department: means the Department of Parks and Recreation and "director" means the Director of Parks and Recreation. See California Public Resources Code 5001.1
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

(c) The department shall annually report to the Department of Finance all conditional gifts or bequests of money valued at one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or less that it accepts and receives pursuant to subdivision (b).

(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 559, Sec. 3. (AB 549) Effective January 1, 2016.)

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