§ 4049 State Harbor Exemptions

Harbors and Navigation Code·California

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This law says that certain rules don't apply to harbors, bays, or other water areas that are run by the state or local government, or where the state has given control to a local government.

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•This law is about where certain water rules don’t apply.
•If the state or a town runs a harbor or bay, these rules don’t count there.
•It also doesn’t apply if the state gave control of the water area to a town.

Example

A small town runs its own harbor where boats park.

The rules in this chapter don’t apply to that harbor because the town is in charge of it.

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§ 4049 State Harbor Exemptions

This chapter does not apply to any harbor, bay, inlet, or other arm of the sea, or any portion thereof, maintained or operated by the State or any municipality or to any harbor, bay, inlet, or other arm of the sea, in which the State, since the present State constitution was adopted, has ceded or granted to any municipality the whole or any portion of the salt-marsh or tidelands. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

Last verified: January 11, 2026

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harbor bay inlet arm of the sea salt-marsh tidelands

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Harbors and Navigation Code. Section 4049.

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