§ 5020 The Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee is continued in existence …
§ 5020.1 As used in this article:(a) “California Register” means the …
§ 5020.2 (a) The commission consists of nine members appointed by the …
§ 5020.3 (a) The commission shall meet at least four times per year in …
§ 5020.4 (a) The commission shall do all of the …
§ 5020.5 (a) The commission shall develop criteria and methods for …
§ 5020.6 (a) The Governor shall appoint the State Historic Preservation …
§ 5020.7 The Legislature recognizes that the long-term preservation and …
§ 5021 The department shall consider all recommendations for registration …
§ 5022 The department may contract with or cooperate with public or private …
§ 5022.5 There shall be two categories of places of historical significance: …
§ 5022.6 The department shall adopt standard design and detail for the marker …
§ 5023 (a) It shall be the duty of the Department of Transportation to …
§ 5024 (a) On or before January 1, 1982, each state agency shall …
§ 5024.1 (a) A California Register of Historical Resources is hereby …
§ 5024.5 (a) No state agency shall alter the original or significant …
§ 5024.6 There is in the department the State Office of Historic Preservation, …
§ 5025 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is a …
§ 5025.11 The department shall, with the advice of the Historical Landmarks …
§ 5025.12 The department is authorized to place suitable markers along these …
§ 5025.2 It shall be the duty of the department to keep in repair, or cause to …
§ 5025.3 The Governor’s Mansion, located at 1526 H Street, Sacramento, shall …
§ 5026 Upon receipt of an application for an entry on the National Register …
§ 5027 Any building or structure that is listed on the National Register of …
§ 5027.1 (a) As required by Section 5027, the Legislature hereby approves …
§ 5028 (a) No structure that is listed on the National Register of …
§ 5029 (a) The commission shall, within 90 days after the approval by …
§ 5029.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, fifty percent …
§ 5029.6 Notwithstanding the nomination process established pursuant to …
§ 5029.7 (a) Subdivision (f) of Section 5024 shall not apply to the San …

Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 5 > Chapter 1 > Article 2 - Historical Resources

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • California Register: means the California Register of Historical Resources. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Commission: means the State Historical Resources Commission. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes "city and county. See California Public Resources Code 14
  • County: includes city and county. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 15
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the Department of Parks and Recreation. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Director: means the Director of Parks and Recreation. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Folklife: means traditional expressive culture shared within familial, ethnic, occupational, or regional groups and includes, but is not limited to, technical skill, language, music, oral history, ritual, pageantry, and handicraft traditions which are learned orally, by imitation, or in performance, and are generally maintained without benefit of formal instruction or institutional direction. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Historic district: means a definable unified geographic entity that possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Historical landmark: means any historical resource which is registered as a state historical landmark pursuant to Section 5021. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Historical resource: includes , but is not limited to, any object, building, structure, site, area, place, record, or manuscript which is historically or archaeologically significant, or is significant in the architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, agricultural, educational, social, political, military, or cultural annals of California. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • National Register of Historic Places: means the official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture as authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Office: means the State Office of Historic Preservation. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Officer: means the State Historic Preservation Officer. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, general partner of a partnership, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 19
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Point of historical interest: means any historical resource which is registered as a point of historical interest pursuant to Section 5021. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 12.2
  • State Historic Resources Inventory: means the compilation of all identified, evaluated, and determined historical resources maintained by the office and specifically those resources evaluated in historical resource surveys conducted in accordance with criteria established by the office, formally determined eligible for, or listed in, the National Register of Historic Places, or designated as historical landmarks or points of historical interest. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Substantial adverse change: means demolition, destruction, relocation, or alteration such that the significance of an historical resource would be impaired. See California Public Resources Code 5020.1
  • Surcharge: means a tax or taxes levied by this state. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 41013
  • surcharges: as used in this part , refers to two separate charges, one related to 911 service and one related to 988 service. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 41013