Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

For removing and selling the movable property, the officer is entitled to charge and receive the same fees as he would for levying upon and selling like property on execution; and for closing the premises and keeping them closed, a reasonable sum shall be allowed by the court.

The proceeds of the sale of the movable property shall be applied as follows: First—To the fees and costs of the removal and sale. Second—To the allowances and costs of closing and keeping closed the building or place. Third—To the payment of the plaintiff’s costs in the action. …

If the proceeds of the sale of the movable property do not fully discharge all of the costs, fees, and allowances, the building and place shall then also be sold under execution issued upon the order of the court or judge and the proceeds of the sale shall be applied in like mann…

(a) If the owner of the building or place has not been guilty of any contempt of court in the proceedings, and appears and pays all costs, fees, and allowances that are a lien on the building or place and files a bond in the full value of the property conditioned that the owner w…

Whenever the owner of a building or place upon which the act or acts constituting the contempt have been committed, or the owner of any interest therein, has been guilty of a contempt of court, and fined in any proceedings under this division, the fine is a lien upon the building…

Every sheriff, chief of police, or the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, upon the arrest for any of the controlled substance offenses described in Section 11350, 11351, 11351.5, 11352, 11353, 11353.5, 11353.7, 11354, 11355, 11358, 11359, 11360, 11361, 11363, 11366, 1…

(a) Every sheriff or chief of police, upon the arrest for any of the controlled substance offenses described in Section 11350, 11351, 11351.5, 11352, 11353, 11353.5, 11353.7, 11354, 11355, 11358, 11359, 11360, 11361, 11363, 11366, 11366.5, 11366.6, 11368, 11370.1, 11378, 11378.5,…

All registration requirements set forth in this article, as it read on January 1, 2019, are terminated. The statements, photographs, and fingerprints obtained pursuant to this section, as it read on January 1, 2019, are not open to inspection by the public or by any person other …

The department, with the approval of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, may contract with any public or private agency for the performance of any of the functions vested in the department by this chapter. Any department of the state is authorized to enter into…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall amend Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 10000) of Division 4 of Title 9 of the California Code of Regulations to comply with Part 8 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as published in the Federal Register on…

The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interests of the health and welfare of the people of this state to coordinate narcotic treatment programs to use narcotic replacement therapy and medication-assisted treatments for substance use disorders in the treatment …

(a) The department shall cease review of an application for a license if either of the following occur: (1) An application for a license indicates, or the department determines during the application inspection process, that the applicant was issued a license under this article a…

A narcotic treatment program license shall automatically terminate if the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration withdraws or revokes its approval of the program, or if the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, revokes the progra…

Except as provided in Section 11839.16, proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of a license or cessation of review of a renewal license under this article, except where there has been a failure to pay required fees, under this article shall be conducted in accordan…

(a) The withdrawal of an application for a license after it has been filed with the department shall not, unless the department consents in writing to the withdrawal, deprive the department of its authority to institute or continue a proceeding against the applicant for the denia…

For purposes of this article, a conviction means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere. Any action that the department is permitted to take following the establishment of a conviction may be taken when the time for appeal has elapsed, or …

The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation of Section 11839.7, or the violation of a departmental order issued pursuant to Section 11839.16, in the superior court in and for the county in which the violation occurred. Any proceeding under this section shall conform …

(a) (1) The director shall, in addition to any other remedy, issue an order that prohibits a narcotic treatment program from admitting new patients or from providing patients with take-home dosages of a narcotic drug if the director determines, pursuant to the compliance inspecti…

(a) In cases where a program is closing and the licensed entity that has agreed to assume temporary operation of the closing program is unable to do so, the department may assume temporary operation of the closing program or designate another licensed entity willing to do so. In …

Any licensee may petition the director for waiver of licensure fees or late payment penalties for the current fiscal year based upon financial hardship. Prior to the granting of relief, the licensee shall demonstrate hardship by production of appropriate financial records. The di…

(a) The department shall not license the establishment of a narcotic treatment program without a written application by the treatment facility that meets evaluative criteria required by the department. (b) The department shall not require disclosure of the identity of patients or…

The following medications are authorized for use in narcotic replacement therapy and medication-assisted treatment by licensed narcotic treatment programs: (a) Methadone. (b) Buprenorphine products or combination of products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration fo…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in licensing narcotic treatment programs to provide a means whereby the patient may be rehabilitated and will no longer need to support a dependency on opiates. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that each narcotic treatment program sh…

The State Department of Health Services shall establish criteria for acceptable performance from those laboratories performing urinalysis or other body fluid analysis and shall not permit utilization of laboratories unable to meet an acceptable level of performance. The results o…

The state department shall require a system to detect multiple registrations by narcotic treatment program patients.

The State Department of Health Services shall adopt and publish rules and regulations to be used in approving and governing the operation of laboratories engaging in the performance of tests referred to in Section 11839.24, including, but not limited to, the qualifications of the…

Substance use testing for narcotic treatment programs operating in the state shall be performed only by a laboratory approved and licensed by the State Department of Public Health for the performance of those tests.

Each laboratory in this state that performs the test referred to in Section 11839.24 shall be licensed by the State Director of Health Services. The laboratory, other than a laboratory operated by the state, county, city, city and county, or other public agency, or a clinical lab…

The State Department of Health Care Services shall enforce this article and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article.

The State Department of Health Services shall annually publish a list of approved and licensed laboratories engaging in the performance of tests referred to in Section 11839.24.

Every laboratory that has been approved and for which a license has been issued shall be periodically inspected by a duly authorized representative of the State Department of Health Services. Reports of this inspection shall be prepared by the representative conducting it upon fo…

Any license issued pursuant to Section 11839.25 may be suspended or revoked by the State Director of Health Services. The State Director of Health Services may refuse to issue a license to any applicant. Any proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Cha…

(a) In addition to the duties authorized by other statutes, the department shall perform all of the following: (1) License the establishment of narcotic treatment programs in this state to use narcotic replacement therapy in the treatment of addicted persons whose addiction was a…

The State Director of Health Services may deny a license if any of the following apply to the applicant, or any partner, officer, or director thereof: (a) The person fails to meet the qualifications established by the State Department of Health Services pursuant to this chapter f…

The State Director of Health Services may suspend, revoke, or take other disciplinary action against a licensee as provided in this chapter, if the licensee or any partner, officer, or director thereof does any of the following: (a) Violates any of the regulations promulgated by …

The State Director of Health Services may take disciplinary action against any licensee after a hearing as provided in this article by any of the following: (a) Imposing probation upon terms and conditions to be set forth by the State Director of Health Services. (b) Suspending t…

All accusations against licensees shall be filed within three years after the act or omission alleged as the ground for disciplinary action, except that with respect to an accusation alleging a violation of subdivision (c) of Section 11839.31, the accusation shall be filed within…

After suspension or revocation of the license upon any of the grounds set forth in this article, the license shall not be reinstated or reissued within a period of one year after the effective date of suspension or revocation. After one year after the effective date of the suspen…

The department shall impose a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) per day for a program that fails to timely submit a corrective action plan, or to timely implement any corrective action when it has been found to not be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations a…

In addition to the duties authorized by other provisions, the department shall be responsible for licensing narcotic treatment programs to use narcotic replacement therapy and medication-assisted treatment in the treatment of addicted persons whose addiction was acquired or suppo…

(a) No sooner than July 1, 2022, the department shall establish a program for the operation and regulation of mobile narcotic treatment programs. A mobile narcotic treatment program established pursuant to this section shall do all of the following: (1) Operate under the license …

(a) (1) Each narcotic treatment program authorized to use narcotic replacement therapy in this state, except narcotic treatment research programs approved by the Research Advisory Panel, shall be licensed by the department. (2) Each narcotic treatment program, other than a progra…

The director may deny the application for initial issuance of a license if the applicant or any partner, officer, director, 10 percent or greater shareholder, or person proposed to be employed by the applicant under the authority of subdivision (c) of Section 2401 of the Business…

(a) The director shall suspend or revoke any license issued under this article, or deny an application to renew a license or to modify the terms and conditions of a license, upon any violation by the licensee of this article or regulations adopted under this article that presents…

The Legislature finds, declares, and intends all of the following: (a) Continuing care retirement communities are an alternative for the long-term residential, social, and health care needs of California’s elderly residents and seek to provide a continuum of care, minimize transf…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the interpretation of this chapter. (a) (1) “Affiliate” means any person, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity th…

Each provider shall adopt a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan specifying policies for evacuation, relocation, continued services, reconstruction, organizational structure, insurance coverage, resident education, and plant replacement.

(a) An entity shall apply for and hold a currently valid permit to accept deposits before it may enter into a deposit agreement or accept a deposit. (b) A provider shall hold a currently valid provisional certificate of authority or certificate of authority before it may enter in…

(a) This chapter shall not apply to either of the following: (1) An arrangement for the care of a person by a relative. (2) An arrangement for the care of a person or persons from only one family by a friend. (b) This chapter shall not apply to any admission or residence agreemen…

An entity may conduct a market test for a proposed continuing care retirement community and collect reservation fees from persons interested in residing at the proposed continuing care retirement community without violating this chapter if all of the following conditions are met:…