2016 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 37 - CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT FOR MARINE PRESERVATION
CHAPTER 2 - Definitions
Section 71520.
71520. Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this division:
(a) Board or endowment board means the Board of Directors of the California Endowment for Marine Preservation.
(b) Endowment means the California Endowment for Marine Preservation.
(c) Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) means the zone as measured from the mean high tide line seaward to 200 nautical miles as set forth in the Presidential Proclamation 5030 of March 10, 1983, in which the United States proclaimed jurisdiction over the resources of the ocean within 200 miles of the coastline.
(d) Nonprofit organization means any nonprofit corporation qualified to do business in California, and qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(e) Open coastal marine resource means those marine resources that use open coastal waters as their habitat.
(f) Open coastal waters means the area composed of the submerged lands of the state that are below the mean lower low water extending seaward to the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 687, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2011.)
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