Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

Commencing July 1, 2022, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, an office within the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement, succeeds to, and is vested with, all the duties and responsibilities of the State Department of Public Health re…

In the event of any conflict between Sections 131050, 131051, and 131052, Section 131052 shall prevail over Section 131051, and Section 131050 shall prevail over Sections 131051 and 131052. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 34. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007…

(a) All regulations and orders adopted by the former State Department of Health Services and any of its predecessors in effect immediately preceding the operative date of this section shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable unless and until readopted, amended, or re…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 131050, commencing on July 1, 2012, the State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health as they relate…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2013, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs as they relate to the Office of Probl…

The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings for any or all of the following purposes: (a) To enforce its regulations. (b) To enjoin and abate nuisances dangerous to health. (c) To compel the performance of any act specifically enjoine…

With the approval of the Department of Finance, and for use in the furtherance of the work of the department, the director may accept (a) grants of interest in real property, and (b) gifts of money from public agencies or from organizations or associations organized for scientifi…

(a) The State Department of Public Health shall investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities regarding promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity, including, but not limited to, those available under the federal Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public L…

The State Department of Public Health may investigate, apply for, and enter into agreements to secure federal or nongovernmental funding opportunities for the purposes of advancing public health, subject to the provisions of Section 13326 of the Government Code for federal fundin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the department is authorized or required by statute, regulation, the due process provisions of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution, and of subdivision (a) of Section 7 of Article I of the California Constitutio…

The department may enjoin and abate public nuisances. (Added by renumbering Section 100175 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

The department may advise all local health authorities, and, when in its judgment the public health is menaced, it shall control and regulate their action. (Added by renumbering Section 100180 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by…

Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the laws of this state relating to the preservation of the public health, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by renumbering Section 100182 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, S…

(a) The department may perform any of the following activities relating to the protection, preservation, and advancement of public health: (1) Studies. (2) Demonstrations of innovative methods. (3) Evaluations of existing projects. (4) Provision of training programs. (5) Dissemin…

(a) The department, in the licensing and certification of health professions in accordance with this chapter, shall not prohibit earn and learn programs for training of personnel. The department shall use licensing and certification standards that authorize the use of earn and le…

The department may provide for consultant and advisory services and for the training of technical and professional personnel in educational institutions and field training centers approved by the department, and for the establishment and maintenance of field training centers in l…

The department shall cause special investigation of the preparation and sale of drugs and food and their adulteration. (Added by renumbering Section 100195 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 24. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

The department shall perform duties as required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food and drink, and for the punishment of persons guilty of violation of any law providing against their adulteration. (Added by renumbering Section 10…

The department shall examine and may prevent the pollution of sources of public domestic water and ice supply. (Added by renumbering Section 100205 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 26. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

(a) The department shall maintain a program of Environmental Management. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014. (Repealed (in Sec. 126) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 127. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014. Section operative July 1, 2014, by its own provi…

The department may maintain a mental health service that shall advise and assist local departments of health and education in the establishment of mental health services, particularly in connection with maternal and child health conferences and in the schools of the state. The de…

The department shall enforce Section 383b of the Penal Code. (Added by renumbering Section 100225 by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 29. Effective January 1, 2007. Operative July 1, 2007, by Sec. 37 of Ch. 241.)

(a) Any person who willfully sells, keeps for sale, or offers for sale any food, drug, device, or cosmetic knowing, after a written notice from either (1) a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, or importer, or (2) the department or a local health officer that the product linked…

Whenever any person violates any provision of Section 131130, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the defendant to pay, in lieu of any fine, any expenses, both direct and indirect, incurred by a local health department or the department in monitoring compliance with…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Essential Services Buildings Seismic Safety Act of 1986. (Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1521, Sec. 1.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that essential services buildings, which shall be capable of providing essential services to the public after a disaster, shall be designed and constructed to minimize fire hazards and to resist, insofar as practical, the forces generated by ea…

There is continued in existence in the Government Operations Agency a California Building Standards Commission consisting of the Secretary of Government Operations and 10 members appointed by the Governor subject to confirmation by the Senate. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Se…

(a) The appointed members of the commission shall be selected from, and represent the public, design professions, the building and construction industry, local government building officials, fire and safety officials, and labor in accordance with the following: (b) Four members s…

The Secretary of Government Operations or the secretary’s representative shall serve as the chair of the commission. The commission shall elect a vice chair annually from among its members. (Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 346. (AB 1317) Effective September 26, 2013. Operat…

(a) The term of office of members of the commission shall be four years and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of their successors, not to exceed 180 days after the term is expired. (b) The terms of members of the commission shall be staggered based on…

The members of the commission shall serve without compensation. Members of the commission who are not state officers shall be paid their actual necessary travel expenses. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1152.)

This chapter does not apply to any of the following buildings: (a) Any building not intended primarily for occupancy by human beings and located entirely outside the limits of a city or city and county. (b) Any building designed and constructed for use exclusively as a dwelling b…

Any city, city and county, or county may establish by ordinance construction standards higher than those established by this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The elective officers of a local hospital district shall be a board of hospital directors consisting of five members, each of whom shall be a registered voter residing in the district and whose term shall be four years, with the exception of the first board. The first board of di…

The board of hospital directors shall meet on the first Monday subsequent to 30 days after the completion of organization of the district and shall organize by the election of one of their members as chairperson or president and one as secretary. (Added by renumbering Section 321…

A petition to increase the number of members of the board of directors of any district providing at least 225 hospital beds from five to seven members may be signed and filed with the board of directors at least three months prior to any general hospital district election by regi…

The election of directors to fill the additional vacancies on the board created by expansion shall be an election at large. A director elected at the election but receiving the lesser number of votes in the election shall hold office until a successor takes office pursuant to Sec…

If the majority of votes cast in the election specified in Section 32100.01 are in favor of expansion of the board of directors, the board of directors of the district, which has been divided into zones pursuant to Section 32100.1, shall by resolution divide the district into sev…

A district which has added additional directors pursuant to Section 32100.01, but has not been divided into zones, may, in the manner provided by Section 32100.1, divide the district into zones, except that the resolution of the board of directors shall divide the district into s…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 32100 and 32100.01, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single hospital district may, pursuant to subdivisions (k) and (n) of Section 56886 of th…

A petition for election of directors by zones may be signed and filed with the board of directors by registered voters residing within a local hospital district, equal in number to at least 15 percent of the number of votes cast in that district for the office of Governor at the …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term of any member of the board of directors shall expire if he or she is absent from three consecutive regular meetings, or from three of any five consecutive meetings of the board and the board by resolution declares that a vacanc…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 32100, the members of the first board of directors of a health care district formed, after the effective date of the act that added this section, in the County of Trinity shall be elected at large. (b) At their first meeting, the members of the directo…

A hospital district general election shall be held in each local hospital district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year, at which a successor shall be chosen to each officer whose term shall expire when the successor takes office purs…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the voters of the Eden Township Hospital District may file a petition with its board of directors pursuant to the provisions of Section 32100.1, to elect its directors either by zones or from zones; provided, however, that the petition …

Notwithstanding Section 32100.01, the Board of Directors of Valley Health System, a local hospital district, may adopt a resolution to increase the number of members of its board of directors from five to seven without the necessity of a petition or approval thereof by voters res…