Gov. Code, § 7924.510 · Article 2. Pollution
Gov. Code, § 7924.510
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Any information, analysis, plan, or specification that discloses the nature, extent, quantity, or degree of an air contaminant or other pollution that any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance will produce, which any air pollution control district or air quality management district, or any other state or local agency or district, requires any applicant to provide before the applicant builds, erects, alters, replaces, operates, sells, rents, or uses the article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, is a public record.
(b) All air or other pollution monitoring data, including data compiled from a stationary source, are public records.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d) and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99150) of Part 65 of Division 14 of Title 3 of the Education Code, a trade secret is not a public record under this section or Section 7924.700.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all air pollution emission data, including those emission data that constitute trade secrets as defined in subdivision (f), are public records. Data used to calculate emission data are not emission data for the purposes of this subdivision and data that constitute trade secrets and that are used to calculate emission data are not public records.
(e) Data used to calculate the costs of obtaining emissions offsets are not public records. At the time that an air pollution control district or air quality management district issues a permit to construct to an applicant who is required to obtain offsets pursuant to district rules and regulations, data obtained from the applicant consisting of the year the offset transaction occurred, the amount of offsets purchased, by pollutant, and the total cost, by pollutant, of the offsets purchased is a public record. If an application is denied, the data shall not be a public record.
(f) As used in this section, “trade secret” may include, but is not limited to, any formula, plan, pattern, process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data, or compilation of information that satisfies all of the following requirements:
(1) It is not patented.
(2) It is known only to certain individuals within a commercial concern who are using it to fabricate, produce, or compound an article of trade or a service having commercial value.
(3) It gives its user an opportunity to obtain a business advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.
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History
Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 614, Sec. 2. (AB 473) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative January 1, 2023, pursuant to Sec. 7931.000.
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- Gov. Code, § 7921.505Printed as Sections 7924.510 and 7924.700
- Gov. Code, § 7923.600Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7923.700Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7923.800Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7923.805Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7924.505Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7925.000Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7925.005Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7925.010Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.000Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.100Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.210Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.215Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700
- Gov. Code, § 7926.220Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.225Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.230Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7926.235Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.000Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.100Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.200Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.300Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.415Printed as Sections 7924.510 and 7924.700
- Gov. Code, § 7927.500Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.700Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7927.705Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7928.000Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7928.100Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7928.405Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7928.410Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7928.705Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.000Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.200Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.205Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.400Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.405Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.410Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.415Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.420Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.425Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7929.605Printed as Sections 7924.510, 7924.700, and 7929.610
- Gov. Code, § 7930.110Printed as Sections 7924.510 and 7924.700
- Gov. Code, § 11125.1Printed as Section 7924.100, 7924.105, 7924.110, 7924.510, or 7924.700 of this code
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