This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 2710
General Provisions
Known as the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act
The act spans §§ 2710–2796 (76 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 12 Cal. 4th 533 - Hansen Brothers Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors (1996)
Most recently applied in 219 Cal. Rptr. 3d 28 - Hardesty v. State Mining & Geology Bd. (April 2017)
Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1131.
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.