“Responsible agency” means a public agency, other than the lead agency, which has responsibility for carrying out or approving a project.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21069
Definitions
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Resource Defense Fund v. Local Agency Formation Commission (1987)
Most recently applied in Washoe Meadows Cmty. v. Dep't of Parks & Recreation (November 2017)
Added 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.