Public Resources Code section 7991

The shore and the bed of the ocean or of any navigable channel or stream or bay or inlet within the State, between ordinary high and low water mark, over which the ordinary tide ebbs and flows is hereby withheld from sale.

Source: Section 7991, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PRC§ionNum=7991. (updated Jan. 1, 1943; accessed Nov. 3, 2025).

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Original Source: Section 7991, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PRC§ionNum=7991. (last accessed May 12, 2025).