Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The department may request, and a manufacturer shall provide upon request, technical documentation, including analytical test results, to demonstrate compliance of a hair relaxer product with Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980) for the ingredients described in Section…

(a) The department shall issue a notice of violation to a person or entity if either of the following occurs: (1) The department’s testing of a hair relaxer product or review of a hair relaxer product’s ingredient label indicates that a hair relaxer product contains an intentiona…

(a) A violation of Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980) for the unlawful manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce of a cosmetic product containing any of the ingredients described in Section 108985.2 is punishable by a civil penalty, by…

(a) (1) The Combating Unsafe ReLaxers (C.U.R.L.) Act Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (2) Moneys from penalties collected pursuant to Section 108985.6 shall be deposited in the C.U.R.L. Act Fund. (b) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the C.U.R.L. Act F…

(a) The Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Program and the Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Fund are hereby created. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, moneys in the BEGIN Fund shall be made available upon appropriation by the Le…

The department shall issue a notice of funding availability to all cities, counties, or cities and counties specifying when funds are available for the BEGIN Program, the terms of the program, and due date for applications. The application shall include a description of the incen…

A city, county, or city and county that receives a grant from the BEGIN Fund shall use the proceeds from the grant for downpayment assistance to a prospective first-time home buyer who enters into an agreement to purchase a newly constructed home, or a newly erected manufactured …

Downpayment assistance provided pursuant to this chapter shall be in the form of a second mortgage loan. The maximum amount of the loan shall be set in the current Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), but in no case shall the loan exceed 20 percent of the sale price of the resi…

Grants shall only be made to a qualifying city, county, or city and county that has demonstrated that it has provided incentives or reduced or removed regulatory barriers to affordable housing for an identified or specified project. The department shall establish the types of loc…

The department shall prioritize and quantify the criteria it establishes pursuant to Section 50863 by assigning points to each of the criteria. Applications of a city, county, or city and county that has a housing element that the department has found substantially complies with …

The department may administer the BEGIN Program through guidelines that shall not be subject to the requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, following at least one consultation with the potential beneficiaries of, an…

No more than 5 percent of the funds deposited in the BEGIN Fund may be used to pay the costs of administration of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 724, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)