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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Wallis</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add Section 1928 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to conservation. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act: single-family residence: exemption.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>The Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act prohibits any person or public agency from importing into the state, exporting out of the state, or taking, possessing, purchasing, or selling within the state, a western Joshua tree or any part or product of the tree, except as specified. The act authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to permit the taking of a western Joshua tree if specified conditions are met, including, but not limited to, that the permittee mitigates all impacts to, and taking of, the western Joshua tree through measures that are roughly proportional in extent to the authorized taking of the western Joshua tree. The act authorizes, in lieu of completing the mitigation measures,
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<html:p>This bill would exempt from the act a project or activity located within a parcel that contains, or will contain, a single-family residence that has been continuously owned by the same person, as specified, on or before July 10, 2023, and the parcel owner complies with applicable local ordinances regarding western Joshua trees as those local ordinances read on July 10, 2023.</html:p>
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Section 1928 is added to the
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<html:p>This chapter does not apply to a project or activity located within a parcel that contains, or will contain, a single-family residence that meets all of the following criteria:</html:p>
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(a)
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(1)
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The parcel has been continuously owned by the same person on or before July 10, 2023.
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(2)
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For the purpose of this subdivision, “continuously owned by the same person” shall include all subsequent owners that obtained the property by gift or inheritance and no consideration was provided for transfer of ownership of the parcel.
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(b)
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The parcel owner complies with applicable local ordinances regarding western Joshua trees as those local
ordinances read on July 10, 2023.
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