California Government Code

§ 8670.66

GOV § 8670.66 Effective Jun 20, 2014Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 7.4 · Art. 9

Statute text

(a)Any person who intentionally or negligently does any of the following acts shall be subject to a civil penalty for a spill of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more than one million dollars ($1,000,000), for each violation, and each day or partial day that a violation occurs is a separate violation:

(1)Except as provided in Section 8670.27, fails to follow the direction or orders of the administrator in connection with a spill or inland spill.

(2)Fails to notify the Coast Guard that a vessel is disabled within one hour of the disability and the vessel, while disabled, causes a spill that enters waters of the state. For purposes of this paragraph, “vessel” means a vessel, as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, of 300 gross tons or more.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 54. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014.