In mitigating or avoiding a significant effect of a project on the environment, a public agency may exercise only those express or implied powers provided by law other than this division. However, a public agency may use discretionary powers provided by such other law for the purpose of mitigating or avoiding a significant effect on the environment subject to the express or implied constraints or limitations that may be provided by law.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21004
Policy
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 39 Cal. 4th 341 - City of Marina v. Board of Trustees of California State University (2006)
Most recently applied in City of San Diego v. Board of Trustees of the California State University (August 2015)
Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1438, Sec. 3.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.