“Negative declaration” means a written statement briefly describing the reasons that a proposed project will not have a significant effect on the environment and does not require the preparation of an environmental impact report.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21064
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Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 24 Cal. 3d 605 - Horn v. County of Ventura (1979)
Most recently applied in 59 Cal. 4th 1029 - Tuolumne Jobs & Small Business Alliance v. Superior Court (August 2014)
Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1312.
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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.