Sts. & Hy. Code, § 5100

(a) All streets, places, public ways, or property, or rights-of-way, or tidelands, or submerged lands owned by any city, open or dedicated to public use, and any property for which an order for possession prior to judgment has been obtained, and all tidelands or submerged lands to which all the right, title, and interest of the state have been granted to any city, all tidelands or submerged lands for which a permit, license, or easement has been issued by the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the state for work to be done pursuant to subdivision (m) of Section 5101, and all tidelands or submerged lands which have been leased by the state to any city for the construction of improvements authorized by subdivision (g) of Section 5101, are open public streets, places, public ways, or property or rights-of-way owned by the city, for the purposes of this division, and the legislative body of the city may establish and change the grades of the respective ways, properties, and rights-of-way hereinbefore enumerated and fix the width thereof and is hereby invested with jurisdiction to order to be done therein, over or thereon, either singly or in any combination thereof, any of the work mentioned in this division under the proceedings described in this part.

(b) Nothing in this section shall supersede the legislative body’s obligation to obtain a lease or permit from the State Lands Commission for the use of state-owned tidelands or submerged lands.