§ 388.Copy of Pleading In Action Alleging Pollution Or Adverse Environmental Effects Furnished Attorney General

Section 388 sits inside the chapter on intervention because it exists to make intervention possible: the Attorney General cannot decide whether to step into a case affecting the public if the Attorney General never learns the case exists.

The section applies to an action brought for relief other than solely money damages, where a pleading alleges facts or issues about pollution or adverse environmental effects capable of affecting the public generally. Whoever files that pleading must furnish a copy to the Attorney General of the State of California within 10 days after filing.

The requirement does not give the Attorney General a right to intervene by itself — that still runs through § 387 — but it puts the office on notice early enough to evaluate whether the public interest calls for a state voice in the litigation.