2023 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 10.2 - CALIFORNIA FARMLAND CONSERVANCY PROGRAM ACT
CHAPTER 2 - California Farmland Conservancy Program
Section 10235.
10235. (a) The director shall not disburse any grant funds unless the applicant agrees that the grant funds shall be used by the applicant only for the purpose for which the funds were requested and awarded. For a grant for an agricultural conservation easement, the director shall not disburse any grant funds unless the applicant agrees that no other use, sale, or other disposition of the easement shall be permitted unless approved by the director, or where the easement may be transferred to a public agency or nonprofit organization, for management purposes.
(b) If a local government or nonprofit organization holding the easement is dissolved, it shall be transferred to an appropriate public agency or nonprofit organization, as provided in this division.
(c) The easement, or any of its terms, may only be amended with the consent of all of the necessary parties to the easement, including the landowner, the easement holder, and the director. The director shall determine that the amendment is not inconsistent with this division before it may be amended.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 502, Sec. 15. (AB 2964) Effective January 1, 2023.)
