Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

“Holder-in-due course,” means the purchaser of a loan or loans from a financial institution that participates in, arranges, or finances a loan pursuant to the provisions of this part, and who takes the loan instrument: (a) For value; (b) In good faith; and (c) Without notice that…

“Structural improvements” means alterations or additions to a designated building intended to enhance energy conservation and efficiency of building space utilization. (Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1033.)

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Roberti Affordable Housing Fund, which is hereby created. Moneys in the fund shall be allocated and utilized in accordance with Part 8 (commencing with Section 53130). (Amended by Stats. 1990, C…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Home Building and Rehabilitation Fund. Moneys in the fund shall be allocated and utilized in accordance with Part 8 (commencing with Section 53130), as added by Senate Bill 1692 of the 1987–88 R…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund, which is hereby created. Money in the fund shall be allocated and utilized in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 53533). (Added by Stats…

The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006 is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Legislature intends that the proceeds of bonds deposited in the fund shall be used to fund the housing-related programs described in this chapter over the course of the next decade. …

(a) (1) For purposes of the Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007 established pursuant to Section 53545.13, in the City and County of Los Angeles, where the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted an authority, as defined in Section 34203, a waiver effect…

For the purposes of the grant program established in Section 53545.13, the following definitions apply: (a) “Capital improvement project” means the construction, rehabilitation, demolition, relocation, preservation, acquisition, or other physical improvement of a capital asset, a…

(a) The Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007 is hereby established to be administered by the department. (b) Upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature for the purpose of implementing paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 53545, the department shall establish and admi…

(a) Upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature for purposes of implementing paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 53545, the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Development, shall administer loan…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, funds appropriated for deposit into the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund by Item 2240-101-9736 of the Budget Act of 2007, as reappropriated by Item 2240-492 of the Budget Act of 2010; Item 2240-101-9736 of the Budget Act of 2008,…

Of the one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) transferred to the Affordable Housing Innovation Fund established in the State Treasury under subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 53545, the following amounts shall be allocated as follows: (a) The depa…

The Affordable Housing Bond Act Trust Fund of 2018 is hereby created within the State Treasury. It is the intent of the Legislature that the proceeds of bonds (exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 54026) be deposited in the fund and used to fund the housing-rel…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the Department of Housing and Community Development may provide technical assistance to eligible counties and eligible cities, or developers of affordable housing within eligible counties and eligible cities, to facilitate…

(a) The Legislature may, from time to time, amend any law related to programs to which funds are, or have been, allocated pursuant to this chapter for the purposes of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of those programs or to further the goals of those programs. (b) The L…

Programs funded with bond proceeds shall, when allocating financial support, give preference to projects that are “public works” for purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1720) of Part 7 of Division 2 of the Labor Code and other projects on which all construction workers…

The primary purpose of the unit is to facilitate the development and construction of residential housing on local surplus land. In furtherance of this purpose, the unit may do any of the following: (a) Facilitate agreements between housing developers and local agencies that seek …

This part shall not relieve a local agency or a housing developer from complying with any disposal requirements or conditions applicable to disposal of government owned property, including any of the following: (a) Article 8 (commencing with Section 54220) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 …

The unit may adopt, and from time to time amend and repeal, rules or regulations, not inconsistent with this part, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the unit and the conduct of its business. If the unit acts by rule or regulation, the rule or regulation shall be ado…

(a) (1) The unit shall, by December 31 of each year, submit an annual report, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, of its activities under this part for the preceding year to the Governor, the Secretary of California Housing and Homelessness, the Director of Ho…

There is hereby established the Housing Development and Finance Committee within the California Housing and Homelessness Agency. (Added by Stats. 2026, Ch. 68, Sec. 25. (AB 179) Effective July 13, 2026.)

(a) (1) The Governor may appoint an executive director of the committee who shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. (2) The executive director appointed pursuant to this section shall be exempt from civil service pursuant to Section 4 of Article VII of the California C…

(a) (1) The Governor may appoint a chief deputy director who shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. (2) A chief deputy appointed pursuant to this section shall be exempt from civil service pursuant to Section 4 of Article VII of the California Constitution. (b) (1) Up…

(a) Upon appropriation, specified multifamily affordable housing programs shall be administered by the committee and the committee shall have all authorities, duties, powers, purposes, and responsibilities related to the programs. (b) Upon appropriation as described in subdivisio…

In accordance with the policy direction and priorities set by the Secretary of California Housing and Homelessness, and consistent with statewide housing initiatives, regulatory frameworks, and funding strategies, the committee shall engage in ongoing coordination with the Depart…

For the purposes of this chapter, the committee has all of the following powers: (a) To sue and be sued in its own name. (b) To have an official seal and to alter it at its pleasure. (c) To make and execute contracts and all other instruments necessary or convenient for the exerc…

This chapter shall become operative on July 1, 2026. (Added by Stats. 2026, Ch. 68, Sec. 25. (AB 179) Effective July 13, 2026.)

(a) The Housing Development and Finance Committee may require an employee, prospective employee, volunteer, contractor, or subcontractor to undergo a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history background check. (b) The Housing Development and Finance Committee or the D…

(a) Any responsible party may request the office to designate a consolidated permit agency for a repair or maintenance project to administer the processing and issuance of a consolidated permit for the repair or maintenance project subject to this division. The office is not auth…

(a) Within 15 working days of the date that the consolidated permit agency is designated, the consolidated permit agency shall convene a meeting with the consolidated permit applicant for the repair or maintenance project and with the participating permit agencies. The meeting ag…

The consolidated permit applicant may withdraw from the consolidated permit process by submitting to the consolidated permit agency a written request that the process be terminated. Upon receipt of the request, the consolidated permit agency shall notify the office and each parti…

The consolidated permit agency shall coordinate the activities of the participating permit agencies in order that each participating permit agency is able to act on its component repair or maintenance project permits within the time limits set pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivi…

Each repair or maintenance project permit incorporated in the consolidated permit shall have the legal status and the regulatory effect that is specified in the statute and regulations under which the repair or maintenance project permit would be separately issued and shall be ad…

(a) A consolidated permit agency may charge and collect a reasonable fee from any person seeking a consolidated permit to recover the estimated costs incurred by the consolidated permit agency and the office in carrying out this division. (b) The fees charged shall recover only t…

A petition by the responsible party for review of a public agency action in issuing, denying, or amending a repair or maintenance project permit, or any portion of a consolidated permit, shall, to resolve conflicts among the permit conditions, be submitted by the responsible part…

If the consolidated permit applicant petitions for a significant amendment or modification to a consolidated permit application or any of its component repair or maintenance project permit applications, the consolidated permit agency shall reconvene a meeting of the participating…

If the consolidated permit applicant fails to provide information required for the processing of the component repair or maintenance project permit applications for a consolidated permit or for the designation of a consolidated permit agency, the time limits set pursuant to parag…

(a) On or before December 31, 1997, the office shall adopt regulations establishing an expedited appeals process by which a petitioner or responsible party may appeal any failure by a public agency to take timely action on the issuance or denial of a repair or maintenance project…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 161 of the Statutes of 1891, or the provisions of the Sanitary District Act of 1919, as the provisions of these acts existed at the time of their repeal, the board of any sanitary district organized or reorganized under and continuing in …

The board shall declare its election by resolution and shall file a certified copy with the auditor and the assessor of the county on or before the first Monday in February of the year in which the district proposes to use the county assessment roll. Thereafter, until the board b…

Following the board’s election, the county auditor shall on or about the third Monday in August of each year transmit to the board a written statement showing the total value of all property in the district, which value shall be ascertained from the assessment roll used by the co…

Before the first day of September the district board shall fix the rate of taxation for district purposes and for the payment of the principal and interest of that year upon outstanding bonds and the payment of the principal and interest that the board believes will become due du…

The board shall designate the number of cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) to be levied for each fund and the fund into which the proceeds shall be paid, using as a basis the value of property as assessed on the county roll. The district board shall immediately transmit to …

The county auditor shall compute and enter in the county assessment roll the respective sums to be paid as a district tax on the property in the district, using the rate of levy as fixed by the board and the assessed value as found on the assessment roll. The taxes so levied shal…

The taxes are a lien on all the property in the district, and the taxes, whether for the payment of a bonded indebtedness, or for other purposes, shall be of the same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection shall be enforced by the same means as provided f…

(a) Every person who knowingly mutilates or disinters, wantonly disturbs, or willfully removes any human remains in or from any location other than a dedicated cemetery without authority of law is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as provided in Section 5097.99 of the Public Resour…