This division shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes and objectives.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 30009
Findings and Declarations and General Provisions
Known as the California Coastal Act
The act spans §§ 30000 to 30900 (326 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates, LLC v. City of Los Angeles (2012)
Most recently applied in Kalnel Gardens, LLC v. City of Los Angeles (September 2016)
Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1330.
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.