Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

For purposes of this article, “flammable liquids” shall mean any liquid having a flashpoint below 100°F (37.8°C) and a vapor pressure not exceeding 40 pounds per square inch (absolute) at a temperature of 100°F (37.8°C). Flammable liquids may include crude oils and cutback asphal…

The State Fire Marshal shall prepare and adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (commencing with Section 11340 of the Government Code), which in his or her judgment are designed to promote the safe use of portable internal combusti…

The authority for the enforcement of the provisions of this article shall be in accordance with Sections 13145 and 13146, Health and Safety Code.

No person, firm, or corporation shall use, permit, or instruct any other person to use or permit, any portable internal combustion engine-driven pump used for the transfer of any flammable or combustible liquids unless such pump conforms to the regulations adopted by the State Fi…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the California Fire Service Training and Education Program Act.

The Legislature finds and declares that the purposes of this article are as follows: (a) To reduce the costs in suffering and property loss resulting from fire through standardized fire training and education programs. (b) To provide professional fire service training and educati…

The California Fire Service Training and Education Program is hereby established in the office of the State Fire Marshal. The State Fire Marshal, with policy guidance and advice from the State Board of Fire Services, shall carry out the management of the California Fire Service T…

The State Fire Marshal shall employ under civil service a program manager and staff as necessary to perform the functions for which the program has been established. All personnel of the State Fire Training Program with the Department of Education shall be eligible to transfer to…

The State Fire Marshal, with policy guidance and advice from the State Board of Fire Services, shall have the following responsibilities: (a) To make fire service training and education programs, including training and education in the use of heavy rescue equipment, available on …

(a) The State Fire Marshal shall establish additional training standards that include the criteria for curriculum content recommended by the Emergency Response Training Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 8588.10 of the Government Code, involving the responsibiliti…

There is established in the State Treasury the California Fire and Arson Training Fund. All revenue collected pursuant to Section 13159.8 shall be paid into this fund and these moneys shall be available when appropriated by the Legislature for the office of the State Fire Marshal…

(a) The Division of Apprenticeship Standards, in collaboration with the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee (CAL-JAC), shall develop a statewide firefighter preapprenticeship program designed to recruit candidates from underrepresented groups. (b) The firefighte…

(a) For purposes of this section, the State Fire Marshal shall be referred to as the SFM. (b) The SFM may accept certification by the United States Department of Defense as a firefighter as an alternative for the basic SFM training and certification standards for the position of …

The State Fire Marshal shall annually review, revise as necessary, and administer the California Fire Service Training program, shall establish priorities for the use of state and federal fire service training and education funds applicable to statewide programs, other than those…

(a) The Office of the State Fire Marshal shall develop and make available on its internet website a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Safety Building Standards Compliance training intended for use in the training of local building officials, builders, and fire service personnel. This…

(a) The State Fire Marshal shall establish additional training standards that include the criteria for curriculum content recommended by the Statewide Training and Education Advisory Committee involving peer-to-peer suicide prevention programming. (b) The State Fire Marshal shall…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the California Fire and Arson Training Act.

The State Fire Marshal, with policy guidance and advice from the State Board of Fire Services, shall: (a) Establish and validate recommended minimum standards for fire protection personnel and fire protection instructors at all career levels. (b) Develop course curricula for arso…

The State Fire Marshal shall: (a) Jointly, with the California Professional Firefighters, promote participation in, sponsor, and administer the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program as the preemployment recruitment, selection, and training system to be utilized for …

(a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the California Building Standards Law. (b) The California Building Standards Commission shall continue within the Department of General Services.

All references to the State Building Standards Code, Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations shall mean the California Building Standards Code.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this part.

“Adopting agency” means a state agency responsible for the adoption of building standards.

“Adoption” or “adopt” means, with respect to the procedure for promulgation of a building standard, the final act of a state agency that has the legislative authority and responsibility to take proposed building standards to public hearing.

“Approval” means, with respect to the procedure for promulgation of a building standard, the action of approval by the California Building Standards Commission. Until there is approval of the standard by the commission, it shall be a proposed building standard or regulation.

(a) “Building” means any structure used for support or shelter of any use or occupancy. “Structure” means that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, e…

(a) “Building standard” means any rule, regulation, order, or other requirement, including any amendment or repeal of that requirement, that specifically regulates, requires, or forbids the method of use, properties, performance, or types of materials used in the construction, al…

“Code” means the California Building Standards Code, including the triennial editions and supplements.

“Codification” or “codify” means to arrange building standards in the publication format of the code as determined by the commission.

“Commission” means the California Building Standards Commission.

“Emergency standard” means a building standard or an order of repeal of a building standard filed for publication in the code by the commission pursuant to Section 11346.1 of the Government Code.

“Executive director” means the Executive Director of the California Building Standards Commission.

“Local agency” means a city, county, and city and county, whether general law or chartered, district agency, authority, board, bureau, department, commission, or other governmental entity of less than statewide jurisdiction. Local agency includes any entity of regional jurisdicti…

“Model code” means any building code drafted by private organizations or otherwise, and shall include, but not be limited to, the latest edition of the following: (a) The International Building Code of the International Code Council. (b) The Uniform Plumbing Code of the Internati…

“Occupancy” means the purpose for which a building, structure, or other improvement to property, or a part thereof, is used or intended to be used.

“Propose” refers, with respect to the procedure for promulgation of a building standard, to the state agency that has the legislative authority and responsibility to write proposed building standards.

“Publication” or “publish” means to print and make available to the public the California Building Standards Code or administrative regulations that apply directly to the implementation or enforcement of building standards.

“Secretary” means the Secretary of Government Operations.

“State agency” means a state agency as defined in Section 11000 of the Government Code.

“Regulation” means any rule, regulation, ordinance, or order promulgated by a state or local agency, including rules, regulations, or orders relating to occupancy or the use of land. “Regulation” includes building standards.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law.

“District,” as used in this chapter, means a police protection district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Board,” as used in this chapter, means the board of supervisors of the county in which it is proposed to form a district, or in which a district has been formed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“District board,” as used in this chapter, means the board of police commissioners of a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Commissioner,” as used in this chapter, means a member of the district board. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any reference in this chapter to a county or county officer is a reference to the county or officer of the county in which a district is situated. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

No tax levied, assessed, or collected, and no election held, pursuant to this chapter is illegal, void, or voidable on account of any error, omission, or informality, or failure to comply strictly with this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

A “precinct area” as used in this chapter means, with respect to the proceedings for the formation of an unincorporated town as a police protection district, an election precinct or such portion thereof as is located within the boundary of such town at the time that the petition …

No district shall be created or organized pursuant to this chapter after October 1, 1959. The organization, existence, or powers of any district heretofore created by, or organized pursuant to, this chapter shall continue to exist and any such district may exercise any of the pow…

Any district in existence on January 1, 2008, in an unincorporated town may protect and safeguard life and property, and may equip and maintain a police department, including purchasing and maintaining ambulances, and otherwise securing police protection.