Title BPC, California Bus. & Prof. Code

(a) The Department of Health Services shall develop, and provide to all licensed clinical laboratories, a form in triplicate to be used by employees, agents, and couriers of licensed clinical laboratories to give notice when a specimen storage container has been improperly secure…

The department may employ special examiners, and may make regulations for the conduct of examinations under this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 579.)

The department may approve schools that are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 510, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) The department may approve any of the following seeking to provide clinical laboratory scientist programs for instruction in clinical laboratory technique that, in the judgment of the department, will provide instruction adequate to prepare individuals to meet the requirement…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state to ensure that California’s laboratory standards, including its laboratory personnel standards, be sustained in order to provide accurate, reliable, and necessary test results. The Legislature furthe…

The department may, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, adopt, amend, or repeal any regulations necessary for the administration or enforcement of this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 510, Sec. 17. Effecti…

The department shall conduct a study to determine whether the persons conducting tests in physician office laboratories under paragraph (12) of subdivision (b) of, and paragraph (10) of subdivision (c) of Section 1206.5, produce accurate, reliable, and necessary test results comp…

(a) In order to carry out this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do any of the following: (1) Enter or inspect on an announced or unannounced basis any building, premise, equipment, materials, records, or information at any reasonable time to secur…

Annually the department may compile and may thereafter publish and sell a directory of persons within the state licensed under the provisions of this chapter who hold unsuspended, unforfeited and unrevoked licenses. The directory may also contain a copy of the provisions of this …

Every person or clinical laboratory licensed or registered under this chapter shall report to the department, within 30 days thereof, any change of name or address. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 510, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The department shall appoint a multidisciplinary committee to assist, advise, and make recommendations for the establishment of rules and regulations necessary to insure proper administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and to assist and advise the departmen…

As used in this article: (a) “Containers,” “equipment” and “supplies” means containers, equipment or supplies bearing a brand. (b) “Brand” means any mark, name or device filed as a brand under this article. (c) “Registrant” means a person who files a brand under this article. (Am…

Any corporation or association whose members might register a brand under this article, may itself register a brand under this article. As used in this article, “member of a registrant” means a member who would be entitled to register the same brand under this article. (Added by …

Any person, who is engaged in the manufacture, packing, canning, bottling, or selling of any substance in containers with his or her name, or other mark or device impressed or produced thereon, or whose equipment or supplies, owned by and used in his or her business, bears a name…

There shall be included as a part of each brand the words, “Registered in California,” or the abbreviation, “Reg. Cal.” (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 59.)

It is unlawful for any person except a person named in subdivision (a) to do any of the acts named in subdivision (b). (a) Persons excepted: (1) The owner of the brand which has been filed in accordance with this article. (2) The registrant. (3) Members of any corporation or asso…

The use by any person other than the registrant, or owner of the brand and other than the members of the registrant of any container, supplies or equipment, without the written consent provided for in this article, or the possession by any junk dealer, or dealer in secondhand art…

Any person acquiring containers, supplies or equipment, by purchase or other lawful means, and having the written consent provided for in this article is not required again to file the description, but acquires as a part of his or her purchase all benefit that the vendor has. (Am…

The acceptance by the owner, or any person lawfully entitled to their use, of any money as a deposit to secure the safekeeping and return of containers, equipment or supplies does not constitute a sale of the containers, supplies or equipment, either optional or otherwise, in any…

It is the duty of every person who finds or receives in the regular course of business or in any other manner, any containers, supplies or equipment to make diligent effort to find the owner and return the containers, supplies or equipment to him. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 59.)

(a) Whenever any registrant or any member of the registrant takes an oath before any magistrate that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that any of the containers, supplies or equipment mentioned in this article, are being unlawfully sold, filled or used, or are secreted…

The violation of any of the provisions of this article is a misdemeanor, punishable: (a) For the first offense by imprisonment for not less than 10 days nor more than six months or by a fine of fifty dollars ($50) for each and every container, or article of supply or equipment so…

Every brand registered and published under Chapter 431 of the Statutes of 1921, as amended, prior to the effective date of Chapter 1162 of the Statutes of 1931, and all containers, equipment and supplies bearing such a brand shall be entitled to all the protection and benefits of…

Any registrant whose containers, equipment or supplies are involved in any violation of the provisions of this article may sue the person or persons who violated said provisions and, upon proof of such violation, shall recover threefold the replacement cost new of the containers,…

The remedy provided by this chapter for the collection of any fee, tax and charge is cumulative. No action taken under this chapter constitutes an election to pursue the remedy provided by it to the exclusion of any other remedy provided by law. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)

Every officer by or for whom any fee, tax or charge imposed by the statutes of this State is collected may bring a suit in the name of the people of this State against any taxpayer who fails, neglects or refuses to pay any sums due, owing and unpaid by the taxpayer upon the fee, …

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to the service of summons, pleadings, proofs, trials and appeals are applicable to actions under this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)

Upon application and without bond or affidavit, every officer suing under this chapter is entitled to all or any of provisional remedies provided in the Code of Civil Procedure. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)

All sums collected in suits under this chapter shall be reported to the Controller and deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the fund in which would be deposited the fee, tax or charge for which the suit was brought. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 61.)

Any reference in California law to the Bureau of Home Furnishings or to the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation shall be deemed to refer to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services. (Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 578, Sec. 29. (SB 1483) Effective January 1, 2019.)

The duty of enforcing and administering this chapter, Chapter 3.1 (commencing with Section 19225), and Chapter 20 (commencing with Section 9800) of Division 3 is vested in the chief who is responsible to the director therefor. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 188, Sec. 17. (SB 826) E…

The director, in accordance with the State Civil Service Act and Section 159.5, may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical, inspection, investigation, and auditing personnel as well as a deputy chief, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. All…

Except as qualified by this chapter the chief has all the powers and duties of a head of a department under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 787.)

With the approval of the director, the chief may adopt rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this chapter and declaring the policy of the bureau, and shall determine when any article, not otherwise clearly defined, is “upholstered furniture” or “bedding” or “i…

All rules and regulations shall become effective not earlier than 30 days after approval by the director, and upon compliance with the procedure provided in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (Amended by Stats. 2…

(a) An applicant for a new permanent license, which shall not include duplicate licenses, except as provided in paragraph (4), shall accompany the application with the application fee as specified in this division: (1) The license application fee for a new permanent license shall…

(a) (1) For the purpose of providing economic relief to licensees most severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the department may waive license renewal fees for licenses with expiration dates between March 1, 2021, and February 28, 2023, inclusive, as provided in this section…

(a) (1) In addition to the annual fees provided for in subdivision (b) of Section 23320, the department shall collect a surcharge of ten dollars ($10). (2) This section shall not apply to the following licenses: out-of-state beer manufacturer certificate (Type 26), out-of-state d…

(a) The Wine Safety Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury, in trust, to the State Department of Health Services for the purpose of providing funds to better enable its Food and Drug Branch to carry out and supervise a statistically valid testing program t…

The license for trains shall be issued to a railroad company or other person selling distilled spirits on board trains operating in this State, and a duplicate thereof shall be obtained for each train on which distilled spirits are sold. The license for cars of sleeping car compa…

The license for vessels of more than 1,000 tons burden engaged in interstate and foreign commerce shall be issued to a common carrier by water selling distilled spirits on board vessels operating in this State, and a duplicate thereof shall be obtained for each vessel on which di…

(a) The on-sale general bona fide public eating place intermittent dockside license for vessels of more than 7,000 tons displacement may be issued for any vessel of more than 7,000 tons displacement with cabin berth capacity for at least 75 passengers. Each license issuable under…

When the fee for any license is graduated according to the amount of alcoholic beverages produced under the license, the license fee shall be determined solely upon the gallonage produced, even though the license is applied for after the beginning of the license year. (Added by S…

(a) Persons holding wine growers’ licenses shall report annually at the end of each fiscal year, at the time and in the manner as the department may prescribe, the amount of wine produced by them during the fiscal year. (b) If the total amount of wine produced during the year exc…

If a licensee neglects or refuses to make a report as required by Section 23327, the department shall make an estimate based upon any information in its possession, or that may come into its possession, of the amount of wine produced by the delinquent licensee for the periods wit…

If the department is not satisfied with a report required to be filed by Section 23327, it may make an additional assessment of license fees due based upon the facts contained in the report or upon any information within its possession, or that comes into its possession. An addit…