§ 5820 Harbor Improvement Districts

Harbors and Navigation Code·California

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This law lets any county that touches the Pacific Ocean set up a special area to improve or build a harbor.

Key Takeaways

•Counties with a Pacific Ocean shoreline can form a harbor district.
•The district can do work like dredging channels and building jetties, breakwaters, wharves, and other harbor structures.
•The purpose is to improve or develop the harbor for ships and boats.

Example

A coastal county wants to make a better place for fishing boats to dock.

The county can create a harbor district and then dig deeper channels, build piers, and put up seawalls so boats can safely come in and out.

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§ 5820 Harbor Improvement Districts

Any portion of a county in this state, the exterior boundaries of which include a bay, harbor, inlet, or navigable water of the Pacific Ocean, may be formed into a district for the improvement or development of a harbor. The work may include the dredging of channels, shipways, ship berths, anchorage places, and turning basins, and the construction of jetties, breakwaters, bulkheads, seawalls, wharves, ferry slips, and warehouses. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 195, Sec. 9.)

Last verified: January 11, 2026

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district harbor improvement dredging jetties breakwaters wharves

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Harbors and Navigation Code. Section 5820.

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