§ 37383 City Mineral Lease Authority

• •A city can rent out its land (not park land) to companies for up to 35 years.
• •The land can only be used to dig up things like oil, gas, or minerals.
• •The city can't rent out park land for this.

A city owns an empty field that isn’t a park. An oil company wants to drill there.

The city can rent the field to the oil company for up to 35 years to drill for oil. But if the field were a park, the city couldn’t do this.