“Public agency” includes any state agency, board, or commission, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, public district, redevelopment agency, or other political subdivision.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21063
Definitions
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 18 Cal. 3d 190 - Wildlife Alive v. Chickering (1976)
Most recently applied in Center for Biological Diversity v. County of San Bernardino (May 2016)
Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1154.
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.