California Code, Public Resources Code - PRC § 5006.2

The Director of Parks and Recreation with the consent of the Director of Finance may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation any interest, including options, in those properties known as Aptos Forest, Santa Cruz County, more particularly described in that deed from Agnes K. Marks, et al., to the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit corporation of District of Columbia, recorded August 3, 1962 in Book 1487, page 11, Official Records of Santa Cruz County, upon such terms and conditions he may see fit for proper development, use and control of the area as a state park.

When such properties are so acquired, they shall be included in the state park system under the exclusive control of the officers administering the state park system, provided that the Director of Parks and Recreation shall have no authority, under other provisions of law except by permission of the Legislature, to grant, give, or suffer easements, permits, leases, rights, or rights-of-way therein other than those necessary for the orderly development, use, and control of the park.  Where under other provisions of law park property may be taken by eminent domain, it shall not be deemed to include any part or interest in the above-described property except by specific permission of the Legislature.

Because of the uniqueness of the proposed park and the very generous gifts of the grantor in establishing this large state park to be preserved for posterity and notwithstanding restrictions hereinabove enumerated the Director of Parks and Recreation, with the consent of the Director of Finance, may within the Hinkley Basin Unit, some 2,500 acres, more or less, more particularly described as those lands deeded by the Santa Cruz County Title Company, a corporation, and Alzoe K. Marks, wife of Andrew P. Marks, to Agnes K. Marks, Herman H. Marks, and Andrew P. Marks, recorded June 13, 1951, Volume 827, page 66, in the Official Records of the County of Santa Cruz, lease to the grantor his heirs and assigns the right to explore for, extract, and remove oil and gas and hydrocarbons including the right to disturb the surface under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.  He may with the consent of the Director of Finance issue permits for access to any drill site as may be selected including easements for power, telephone, water, and pipe lines which are to be used exclusively by lessee in his exploration and extraction for oil, gas, and hydrocarbons and by the State as suits their needs for park purposes.