City of Crescent City

Jan 3, 2024 | Grantees

A seagull perched on Citizens Dock, Crescent City.

Citizens Dock, Crescent City, CA by Ellin Beltz (Own work) [Public domain]

The City of Crescent City was granted certain sovereign lands in trust in 1868. The grant was amended in 1963, in part, to describe the sovereign land granted to the City and to provide that the land be used for the establishment, improvement, and conduct of a harbor, for the construction, reconstruction, repair, maintenance and operation of wharves, docks, piers, slips, quays and all other works, buildings, facilities, utilities, structures, and appliances incidental, necessary or convenient for commerce, navigation and fisheries, and for public recreation purposes.

City of Crescent City

The City is required by Section 6306 of the Public Resources Code to complete an annual financial statement and standardized reporting form for trust lands on or before December 31 of each year.

Below is a list of reports the City has submitted:

Statute Description
Chapter 299, Statutes of 1868
Sections 3 and 4 REPEALED by Chapter 977
An Act to cede certain property to the Town of Crescent City.
Chapter 137, Statutes of 1870 An Act to amend an Act to cede certain property to the Town of Crescent City, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Chapter 1085, Statutes of 1949 An Act to amend Section 3 of an act entitled “An Act to cede certain property to the Town of Crescent City,” approved March 26, 1868, as amended, relating to the cession of certain tidelands and submerged lands to the Town of Crescent City.
Chapter 977, Statutes of 1963 An act to amend Sections 1 and 2 of, and to repeal Sections 3 and 4 of, Chapter 299 of the Statutes of 1867-68, relating to the cession of certain tidelands and submerged lands to the Town of Crescent City.
Staff Report Description
01/30/1964 (23) Service Agreement with the Commission, as contractor, providing for surveying services to be rendered for the City
06/26/1969 (16) Dredging permit
01/15/1976 (05) Consideration of substantial compliance
09/01/2011 (03) Dredging lease
02/22/2013 (21) Amendment of dredging lease