Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The local health officer may issue, and first responders may execute, an order authorizing first responders to immediately isolate exposed individuals that may have been exposed to biological, chemical, toxic, or radiological agents that may spread to others. An order issued …

(a) After the declaration of a health emergency or a local health emergency pursuant to Section 101080, the director or local health officer may do any or all of the following: (1) Only in the case of a release, spill, escape, or entry of waste as described in paragraph (2) of su…

(a) For purposes of this section, the terms “handler,” “administering agency,” “hazardous material,” “release,” and “threatened release” shall have the meaning given in Section 25501. (b) After a release or a threatened release of a hazardous material from the premises of a handl…

When requested by the person furnishing the information furnished pursuant to Section 101085, the portions of the information that might disclose trade secrets or secret processes shall not be made available for inspection by the public, but shall be made available to governmenta…

Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical, toxicological, or other information required pursuant to Section 101085, or falsifying any information provided pursuant to Section 101085 is guilty of a misdemeanor and is also subject to any other criminal or civil penalties …

The government of the authority shall be vested in a board of directors that shall consist of nine members, selected as follows: (a) Five members, one from each supervisorial district, shall be appointed by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors. (b) One member, who shall be a …

The board at its first meeting, and thereafter annually at the first meeting in January, shall elect a chair who shall preside at all meetings, and a vice chair who shall preside in his or her absence. In the event of their absence or inability to act, the members present, by an …

The board shall establish rules for its proceedings. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the board shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the board. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The acts of the board shall be expressed by motion, resolution, or ordinance. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Except for initial staggered terms that may be established by the board, the term of office of each member shall be four years and, in addition, such time as necessary until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effecti…

The bodies that originally nominated or appointed a member whose term has expired shall nominate or appoint the successor for a full term of four years, except that members who are nominated by the professional advisory board or by the community advisory board shall serve a one-y…

Any vacancy on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by nomination or appointment by the bodies that originally nominated or appointed the member whose office has become vacant. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The Professional Advisory Board shall review and comment on all proposed policies and actions of the board dealing with arrangements for health care within the board of jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The Community Advisory Board shall review and comment on matters relating to the accessibility and availability of services arranged by the board. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The health officer of any approved local health department, as defined in Article 1 (commencing with Section 101175) of Part 3 of Division 101 and approved thereunder, is the local registrar in and for all registration districts within that health jurisdiction and shall perform a…

In other areas, the State Registrar shall appoint a local registrar of births and deaths for each registration district, whose term of office shall be four years. The State Registrar may remove such appointee forthwith for failure or neglect to perform his or her duty. (Added by …

The county recorder is the local registrar of marriages and shall perform all the duties of the local registrar of marriages. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Each assistant or deputy of a local registrar may perform all of the duties of the local registrar in the name and place of his or her principal. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Each local registrar is hereby charged with the enforcement of this part in his or her registration district under the supervision and direction of the State Registrar and shall make an immediate report to the State Registrar of any violation of this law coming to his or her know…

Each local registrar shall supply blank forms to persons who require them. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The local registrar of births and deaths shall carefully examine each certificate before acceptance for registration and, if any are not completed in a manner consistent with the policies established by the State Registrar, he or she shall require further information to be furnis…

The local registrar of marriages shall carefully examine each license before acceptance for registration and, if it is incomplete or unsatisfactory, he or she shall require any further information to be furnished as may be necessary to make the record satisfactory before acceptan…

The local registrar shall affix his or her signature to each certificate in attest to the date of acceptance for registration in his or her office. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The local registrar shall number the certificates of live birth, fetal death, and death consecutively in separate series, beginning with number one for the first event in each calendar year. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The local registrar shall number each marriage certificate consecutively beginning with the number one for either the first event occurring, or first event registered in, each calendar year. Numbering may be based on either the year that the event occurs or the year of registrati…

The local registrar shall make a complete and accurate copy of each certificate accepted for registration and shall preserve it in his or her office as the local registrar’s copy of the record in the manner directed by the State Registrar. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. …

Each local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit a copy of each original birth certificate and death certificate to the county recorder for the special county record, and shall, at the same time, forward the original certificates to the State Registrar pursuant to Section…

(a) The local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit each week to the State Registrar all original certificates accepted for registration by him or her during the preceding week. (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 1993. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Se…

(a) The local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit each month to the Department of Industrial Relations a copy of each certificate of death for which the death has been marked as work-related and which was accepted for registration by him or her during the preceding mont…

The county board of supervisors may, by resolution, require the local registrar to send a copy of each certificate of death to the physician and surgeon whose statement appears on the certificate pursuant to Section 102825. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective Januar…

The local registrar of marriages shall transmit to the State Registrar not less than quarterly all original marriage certificates accepted for registration by him or her during the preceding quarter. Certificates shall be batched by calendar year of event prior to transmission. C…

(a) For purposes of Section 102233, the local registrar of marriages shall submit to the State Registrar, at least annually, all of the following information concerning marriage certificates that are accepted for registration by them during the same calendar year and in which one…

The local registrar of births and deaths shall furnish to the registrar of voters or county clerk not later than the 15th day of each month a notification of all deceased persons 18 years of age and over whose deaths were registered with him or her or of whose deaths he or she wa…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a local registrar of births and deaths, after two years from the date of registration and with the approval of, and under the supervision of, the State Registrar, shall dispose of the local registrar’s copies of the records, if both of the follo…

The local custodian of records is hereby authorized to receive original records or abstracts of records of any birth or death that were filed with any political subdivision prior to July 1, 1905, and to retain them as a special county record of the events. (Amended by Stats. 1996…

Special county records of birth certificates and death certificates transmitted and filed with the county recorder under this article shall be open for inspection by the public in accordance with regulations adopted by the department for local registrars. Nothing in this section …

The county recorder and the local registrar of births and deaths, with the approval and under the supervision of the State Registrar and with the approval of the board of supervisors of any county or city and county by ordinance, may authorize the transfer of special county recor…

If a public agency or private nonprofit agency that receives copies of records pursuant to this section is unable to assure the continued preservation and protection of those records for public use, the records shall be returned to the contributing local registrar or county recor…

Any record of death and marriage transferred to a public agency or private nonprofit agency pursuant to Section 102380 is exempt from Sections 102230 and 103245. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Special county records of birth, death, and marriage and the local registrar’s records of birth, death, and marriage shall be subject to Sections 26205.5 and 26205.7 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The Legislature finds and declares that decades after the war on cancer was declared, it remains an insidious killer of Californians. Simultaneously, cancer absorbs millions of dollars from California’s economy through health care costs, and takes an horrendous toll on the person…

The Cancer Research Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund shall be available for expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The fund shall consist of money accepted by the department from grants and donations from private …

(a) The moneys in the Cancer Research Fund, established pursuant to Section 104180, shall be expended for the purpose of cancer research. (b) The State Department of Health Services shall establish and administer the Cancer Research Program created by this article in a manner tha…

The department, in awarding grants under this program, shall not encumber money allocated in any fiscal year other than the fiscal year in which the appropriation was made beginning with nonobligated 2000–01 fiscal year funds, subject to receiving multiyear spending authority for…

Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2002 and any other provision of law, commencing with the appropriation for the 2002–03 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, any amount appropriated to the department for the Cancer Research Program …