This division shall be known and may be cited as the California Environmental Quality Act.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21050
Short Title
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 3d 779 - Fullerton Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Education (1982)
Most recently applied in Tanimura & Antle Fresh Foods, Inc. v. Salinas Union High Sch. Dist. (April 2019)
Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1312.
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.