Civ. Code, § 1899.1 · Chapter 1.5. Loans to Museums for Indefinite or Long Terms
Civ. Code, § 1899.1
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
For the purposes of this chapter:
(a) A “museum” is an institution located in California and operated by a nonprofit corporation or public agency, primarily educational, scientific, or aesthetic in purpose, which owns, borrows, or cares for, and studies, archives, or exhibits property.
(b) A “lender’s address” is the most recent address as shown on the museum’s records pertaining to the property on loan from the lender.
(c) The terms “loan,” “loaned,” and “on loan” include all deposits of property with a museum which are not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property.
(d) “Property” includes all tangible objects, animate and inanimate, under a museum’s care which have intrinsic value to science, history, art, or culture, except that it does not include botanical or zoological specimens loaned to a museum for scientific research purposes.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 61, Sec. 1.
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