Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as the general tax levy for county purposes, and the revenue derived from the tax shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the operating fund of the district, unless the board has designa…

Claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code, except as provided therein. Claims not governed thereby or by other statutes or by ord…

The cost of preparing the engineer’s report, including the compensation paid engineers and other employees of the district, is a charge against the district and shall be paid from the first available funds of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The cost of the engineer’s report, employees’ salaries, costs of engineering surveys, bond counsel fees, and other initial costs and expenses, not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), incurred after formation of a district and prior to receipt of its first available funds, m…

The board of directors of a county sanitation district engaging in refuse disposal operations may, by resolution, establish a cash difference fund in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100), in the same manner and by the same procedures as prescribed by Sections 29370 …

(a) The director shall notify, within 20 working days, each of the appropriate county health officers as to all the potential abandoned sites of which the department has knowledge or that the department is investigating for releases of hazardous substances that may have occurred …

(a) Whenever ownership of any cemetery authority is proposed to be transferred, the cemetery authority shall notify the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in the Department of Consumer Affairs. A change in ownership, for purposes of this section, shall be deemed to occur whenever more t…

It is the Legislature’s intent in enacting this article to promote efficiency in the administration of multiple contracts between nonprofit organizations and the divisions of the department by requiring uniform provisions concerning fringe benefits. Nothing contained in this arti…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall review the following categorical programs and develop a procedure by which a contracting nonprofit organization is notified at the execution of a contract of the terms and conditions relating to the allowable costs …

Nothing contained in this article shall conflict with any mandate imposed by laws or regulations of the state or federal government. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The department shall take the steps necessary to achieve uniformity among contracts. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, the department shall develop and implement a program to fund and support vital public health activities and services provided by the 61 local health jurisdictions in California. (b) As a condition of funding, each local …

(a) On or before February 1 of every other year, beginning in calendar year 2024, the State Public Health Officer shall submit a written report to the Governor and the Legislature on the state of public health in California. The State Public Health Officer shall present an update…

(a) As a condition of the funding authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 101320, a local health jurisdiction administered by a city shall annually present updates on the public health status to its city council on the state of the city’s public health. The presentation…

On or before July 1, 2033, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature regarding its compliance and enforcement activities performed pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) A summary of the covered products manufactured by th…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that childhood lead exposure represents the most significant childhood environmental health problem in the state today; that too little is known about the prevalence, long-term health care costs, severity, and location of these proble…

(a) A laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood drawn in California shall report the information specified in this section to the department for each analysis on every person tested. (b) (1) The analyzing laboratory shall report all of the follow…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the activities conducted by the department pursuant to Section 124130 have confirmed and supported the findings specified in Section 124125 and, in addition, have resulted in the following findings: (a) Very few children are currentl…

The department shall use an electronic database consistent with the goals outlined in Section 124125 to support electronic laboratory reporting of blood lead tests reported pursuant to Section 124130, management of lead-exposed children, and assessment of sources of lead exposure…

(a) The department shall design and implement a screening program for lead exposure of children not older than seven years old in migrant labor camps where lead-based paint has been identified pursuant to Section 50710.5. (b) The department may implement the screening program thr…

The department shall continue to direct the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to implement a program to identify and conduct medical followup of high-risk children, and to establish procedures for environmental abatement and followup designed to reduce the incidence of …

After January 1, 1993, the department, through the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, shall continue to take steps that it determines are necessary to reduce the incidence of excessive childhood lead exposure in California. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effect…

The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of this state that each county and city shall permit and encourage the development of sufficient numbers and types of residential care facilities as are commensurate with local need. The provisions of this article shall apply …

Any person licensed under the provisions of this chapter who operates, or proposes to operate a residential facility, the department or other public agency authorized to license such a facility, or any public or private agency which uses or may use the services of the facility to…

A residential facility, which serves six or fewer persons shall not be subject to any business taxes, local registration fees, use permit fees, or other fees to which other family dwellings of the same type in the same zone are not likewise subject. Nothing in this section shall …

If a county of residence agrees to pay a placement county the costs of providing services to a minor pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 740 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, all of the following shall apply: (a) The county of residence shall agree to pay the placement cou…

(a) Whether or not unrelated persons are living together, a residential facility that serves six or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of this article. In addition, the residents and operators of such a facility shall be considered a …

No fire inspection clearance or other permit, license, clearance, or similar authorization shall be denied to a residential facility because of a failure to comply with local ordinances from which such facilities are exempt under Section 1566.3, provided that the applicant otherw…

(a) (1) For purposes of this section, “bedridden” means requiring assistance in turning and repositioning in bed or being unable to independently transfer to and from bed, except in a facility with appropriate and sufficient care staff, mechanical devices, if necessary, and safet…

For the purposes of any contract, deed, or covenant for the transfer of real property executed on or after January 1, 1979, a residential facility which serves six or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of property and a use of property by a single family, notwith…

The department shall annually prepare, with a quarterly update commencing July 1, 1979, specifying newly licensed facilities, a list or lists of all licensed community care facilities in the state, other than foster family homes, which shall include the information required by Se…

The department shall notify affected placement agencies and the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 9701 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, whenever the department substantiates that a violation has occurred, which poses a ser…

(a) By January 1, 2006, the department’s Community Care Licensing Division shall enter into memoranda of understanding with up to 10 local mental health departments that volunteer to participate. Each memorandum of understanding shall outline a formal protocol to address shared r…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if according to the rules and regulations of a mobilehome park, the park is designated as a family park or a section of a mixed mobilehome park is designated as a family section, no rule, regulation, rental agreement, or any other provi…

The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Incineration has not been used extensively in California as a means of disposal of toxic waste materials, primarily because of the extensive area available for landfill, the low cost of landfill as a method of disposal, and problems wi…

For purposes of this article, “toxic waste” means hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25117. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1474, Sec. 1.)

The state board shall, after completing the study referred to in Section 41981, in consultation with the affected districts, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and after public hearings, establish guidelines for t…

(a) This article shall not be construed as preventing any district from establishing permit criteria more stringent than the guidelines specified in Section 41982. (b) This article shall not be construed as limiting the authority of the Department of Toxic Substances Control conc…

Territory, whether situated within the same or another county and whether incorporated or unincorporated, which is not included in any other county sanitation district or other district formed for similar purposes, may be annexed to a county sanitation district if the directors f…

If a refuse transfer or disposal system of the district, or both, is in existence, any territory proposed to be annexed to the district shall be and become a part of said system unless an express finding is made by the district board that said territory proposed to be annexed wil…

Property contiguous to a sanitation district but which is situated in a county other than the county in which the sanitation district has been organized may be annexed to said sanitation district and to any improvement district therein. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 2043.)

Whenever any territory in another county is annexed to a district it thereupon becomes a part of the district. The board of supervisors of the county in which is situated the annexing territory shall appoint one of its members to sit as a member of the board of directors of said …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4832.5, whenever territory of less than 50 acres in another county is annexed to the Selma-Kingsburg-Fowler County Sanitation District, and if the board of supervisors of the county in which the territory to be annexed is situated consent…

Taxes for a district which is situated in more than one county as provided in this article shall be levied in accordance with the following procedure: (a) The board of directors shall annually, before the time of fixing the general tax levy for county purposes, estimate the amoun…

Territory already a part of a county sanitation district may be annexed to an improvement district of that county sanitation district under the procedure set forth in Sections 4835 to 4839, inclusive. Whenever territory is so annexed to an improvement district of a county sanitat…

The district board shall adopt a resolution initiating proceedings for annexation pursuant to Section 4834, which resolution shall contain all the following: (a) Set forth the exterior boundaries of the territory proposed for annexation. (b) State that the territory will be benef…