Section 27255 Of Article 2. Books From California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 3. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 2.
27255
. (a) The county recorder in each county shall develop and
maintain, within the existing indexing system, a comprehensive index
of conservation easements and Notice of Conservation Easement on land
within that county. The conservation easement index developed and
maintained pursuant to this subdivision shall include all
conservation easements recorded on and after January 1, 2002.
(b) For the purposes of this section, "conservation easement"
means any limitation in a recorded instrument that contains an
easement, restriction, covenant, condition, or offer to dedicate,
which is or has been executed by or on behalf of the owner of the
land subject to that limitation and is binding upon successive owners
of the land, and the purpose of which is to retain land
predominantly in its natural, scenic, historical, agricultural,
forested, or open-space condition. "Conservation easement" includes a
conservation easement as defined in Section 815.1 of the Civil Code,
an open-space easement as defined in Section 51075 of this code, and
an agricultural conservation easement as defined in Section 10211 of
the Public Resources Code.
(c) On and after January 1, 2002, when a county recorder records a
new conservation easement affecting property within the county, he
or she shall include the easement in the index developed and
maintained pursuant to subdivision (a), if the document containing
the easement is entitled "Conservation Easement," or the following
document is properly filled out by the submitter, and recorded at the
same time, or at a later date: