Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

The city source reduction and recycling element shall include a program for management of solid waste generated within the city, consistent with the waste management hierarchy provided in Section 40051. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

The city source reduction and recycling element shall place primary emphasis on implementation of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting programs while identifying the amount of landfill and transformation capacity that will be needed for solid waste which canno…

Each city source reduction and recycling element shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following components for solid waste generated in the jurisdiction of the plan: (a) A waste characterization component. (b) A source reduction component. (c) A recycling component. (…

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Authorized collection site” means a location where an authorized collector operates a secure collection receptacle for collecting covered products. (b) “Authorized collector” means a person or ent…

(a) The board shall prepare and adopt certification regulations for local enforcement agencies. The regulations shall specify requirements that a local agency shall meet before being designated as an enforcement agency. The regulations shall include, but are not limited to, all o…

(a) An enforcement agency that has been designated by the local governing body and certified by the department pursuant to this chapter has the authority provided, and the duties required, by this part, Part 5 (commencing with Section 45000), and Part 6 (commencing with Section 4…

After August 1, 1992, no enforcement agency shall be designated pursuant to this article unless the board determines that the agency fully complies with one or more of the certification types specified in Section 43200. No enforcement agency shall, after August 1, 1992, exercise …

An enforcement agency may be designated by the local governing body and certified by the board to act to carry out this chapter within each jurisdiction. If an enforcement agency is not designated and certified, the board, in addition to its other powers and duties, shall be the …

The designation of the enforcement agency shall be made by any one of the following procedures: (a) The board of supervisors of the county may designate the enforcement agency to carry out this chapter in the county. The designation is subject to the approval by a majority of the…

No enforcement agency may exercise the powers and duties of an enforcement agency until the designation is approved by the board. After August 1, 1992, the board shall not approve a designation unless it finds that the designated enforcement agency is capable of fulfilling its re…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if no enforcement agency is designated and certified, the board shall be the enforcement agency and shall assume all the powers and duties of an enforcement agency pursuant to this chapter, subject to the agreement required pursuant to S…

A designation made pursuant to this article may be withdrawn in the same manner in which it was made. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

No local governmental department or agency, or any employee thereof, which is the operating unit for a solid waste handling or disposal operation shall be the enforcement agency, or an employee thereof, for the types of solid waste handling or disposal operation it conducts unles…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, and Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure, no local governing body may enact, issue, enforce, suspend, revoke, or modif…

The enforcement agency, within its jurisdiction and consistent with its certification by the board, shall do all of the following: (a) Enforce applicable provisions of this part, regulations adopted under this part, and terms and conditions of permits issued pursuant to Chapter 3…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if an enforcement agency receives a complaint, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 41705 of the Health and Safety Code, from an air pollution control district or an air quality management district pertaining to an odor emanating …

For those facilities that accept only hazardous wastes, or accept only low-level radioactive wastes, or facilities that accept only both, and to which Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 20 or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 114960) of Part 9 of Division 10…

(a) For those facilities that accept both hazardous wastes and other solid wastes, the Department of Toxic Substances Control shall exercise enforcement and regulatory powers relating to the control of the hazardous wastes at the facility pursuant to Chapter 6.5 (commencing with …

(a) If the board is the enforcement agency, the board may impose fees to recover its costs of operation on the local governing body, a solid waste facility operator, or a solid waste enterprise that operates within the jurisdiction of the enforcement agency, and shall collect tho…

If the board is the enforcement agency, the local governing body and the board shall enter into an agreement which shall identify the jurisdictional boundaries of the enforcement agency; address the powers and duties to be performed by the board as the enforcement agency, and ide…

The enforcement agency may, upon a majority vote of its local governing body, prescribe, revise, and collect fees or other charges from each operator of a solid waste facility or from any person who conducts solid waste handling if the local governing body having ratesetting auth…

(a) The board shall develop performance standards for evaluating certified local enforcement agencies and shall periodically review each certified enforcement agency and its implementation of the permit, inspection, and enforcement program. The board’s review shall include period…

(a) If the board, in conducting the inspection and performance review required pursuant to Section 43214 or this section, finds that the enforcement agency is not fulfilling one or more of its responsibilities, the board shall notify the enforcement agency of the particular reaso…

The board may, upon the written request of an enforcement agency, provide legal counsel for purposes of compliance with this part. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 952, Sec. 11. Effective October 16, 1995.)

If the board withdraws its approval of the designation of an enforcement agency, another enforcement agency shall be designated pursuant to Section 43203 within 90 days and approved by the board. If no designation is made within 90 days, the board shall become the enforcement age…

In addition to the procedures for board withdrawal of its approval of a local enforcement agency’s designation pursuant to Sections 43214, 43215, and 43216, the board may take any actions which are determined by the board to be necessary to ensure that local enforcement agencies …

The board shall provide ongoing training, technical assistance, and guidance to local enforcement agencies to assist in their decisionmaking processes. This assistance shall include, but is not limited to, providing all of the following: (a) Technical studies and reports. (b) Cop…

Each enforcement agency shall inspect each solid waste facility within its jurisdiction at least one time each month and shall file, within 30 days of the inspection, a written report in a format prescribed by the board. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

(a) The board may, at its discretion, conduct inspections and investigations of solid waste facilities in order to evaluate the local enforcement agency and to ensure that state minimum standards are met. (b) Except as otherwise provided by Section 43220, the board, in conjunctio…

The board, in conjunction with an inspection conducted by the local enforcement agency, shall conduct at least one inspection every 18 months of each solid waste landfill and transformation facility in the state. A written inspection report shall be prepared and submitted within …

Any fees or charges imposed pursuant to this part by any enforcement agency shall bear a direct relationship to the reasonable and necessary cost, as determined by the enforcement agency, of providing the efficient operation of the activities or programs for which the fee is asse…

(a) All revenues received by the board shall be deposited in the specified account in the fund. Any revenue received by the board for which no account is specified shall be deposited in the Integrated Waste Management Account created by Section 48001 in the fund. The board may es…

Notwithstanding Section 16475 of the Government Code, all interest earned and other increment derived from the investment of revenues in an account in the Integrated Waste Management Fund shall be deposited in that account. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1293, Sec. 29. Effective Ja…

“District,” as used in this chapter, means a district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

The board of supervisors of any county or the governing body of any city, may receive devises, bequests, donations, and gifts, for the purpose of erecting, within the county, or city, a monument in memory of California pioneers. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

When, in the opinion of the board of supervisors or other governing body, the devises, bequests, donations, and gifts received are sufficient for the purpose, it may erect the monument. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

The board of supervisors or other governing body may submit to the qualified electors of the county, or the city, the question whether taxes for the erection of a monument to the California pioneers shall be levied on the taxable property of the county or city. The question shall…

Twenty days’ notice of the election shall be given by posting in at least three public places in the county, or the city. The notices shall state specifically the amount to be raised and the purpose. If a majority of all the votes cast at the election are in favor of the proposal…

The ballots shall have printed on them the words “Shall the measure (stating the nature thereof) be adopted?” To the right or below the statement of the measure to be voted on, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets. (Repealed and added b…

When the tax has been voted in a county, the board of supervisors, in the next annual levy of taxes, shall levy a tax on the property in the county, sufficient to produce the amount voted for the purpose, which tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other taxes…

When the tax has been voted in a city, its governing body, in the next annual levy of taxes, shall levy a tax on the property in the city, sufficient to produce the amount voted for the purpose, which tax shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other taxes are levie…

When the taxes so raised and collected are available, the board of supervisors, in case of monuments for a county, and the governing body of a city, in case of monuments for a city, shall proceed to carry out the purpose for which the money was voted. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 9…

The boards of supervisors in the several counties may appropriate money from the general fund of the county to erect monuments or to place tablets to commemorate historic spots or places within the limits of the county. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 94.)

As used in this chapter, “department” means the Department of Conservation and “director” means the Director of Conservation. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)

There is in the Resources Agency the Department of Conservation. The department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Conservation. The director shall be appointed by and hold office at the pleasure of the Governor and shall receive…

The department succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Natural Resources or the Director of Natural Resources and exercised by the following divisions of the Department of Natural Resources…