Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The state board shall develop and conduct an expanded and revised program of monitoring of airborne fine particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM 2.5). The program shall be designed to accomplish all of the following: (a) The monitoring method selected shall be capable …

(a) By June 30, 2002, the state board and the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, the Department of General Services, and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall conduct a comprehensive study and review …

(a) A written communication from the state board alleging that an administrative or civil penalty will be, or could be, imposed either by the state board or another party, including the Attorney General, for a violation of air pollution law, shall contain a clear explanation of a…

On or before July 1, 2010, the state board, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Independent System Operator, shall prepare and submit to the Gove…

Two or more contiguous counties, all or part of which are county districts, may merge those county districts into one unified district pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The board of supervisors of any county may, by a vote of its members, appoint two of its members to meet with an equal number appointed in a like manner from other counties and agree to form a unified district, which agreement, upon ratification by the boards of supervisors, shal…

(a) On and after July 1, 1994, the membership of the governing board of each unified district, including any district formed on or after that date, shall include (1) one or more members who are mayors, city council members, or both, and (2) one or more members who are county supe…

(a) Section 40152 shall not apply to a unified district if each city in the district consents, by the adoption of an ordinance or resolution, to the exclusion of the district from the requirements of Section 40152. (b) Within 60 days from the date of the adoption of an ordinance …

(a) Each member of the unified district board shall, upon the adoption of a resolution by the unified district board at an open regular meeting, receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, plus a compensation of up to two hundred dollars…

The boundaries of a unified district shall be the same as the boundaries of the counties of which it is comprised, or the balance of a county not included in another district, or such portion of a county as may be agreed upon. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The unified district board may designate zones within the unified district. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

All county officers and employees of the counties entirely within the unified district, and all other county employees of the zones within the unified district where the county is not entirely therein, shall be ex officio officers and employees of the unified district only within…

(a) The board of supervisors of each county included, in whole or in part, within the unified district shall appropriate such funds as are necessary to carry out the purposes of the unified district, as determined by the unified district board, in accordance with the funding prov…

(a) All appropriations made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 40158 are legal charges against the county in which the board of supervisors voted the appropriation. (b) The treasurer of the county shall pay the amount so appropriated into the treasury of the unified district.…

By the agreement ratified pursuant to Section 40151 or by resolution, a county treasurer of a member county shall be designated and shall act as the unified district treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

When a unified district ceases to function and exercise its powers because it is included entirely within a regional district created pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 40300), the regional district shall succeed to all the funds, property, and obligations of the unif…

Funding of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, or, if the unified district ceases to exist, of the valley district if created pursuant to Section 5 of Chapter 915 of the Statutes of 1994, may be provided by, but is not limited to, grants, subventions, p…

(a) The operator of each facility subject to this part shall prepare and submit to the district a proposed comprehensive emissions inventory plan in accordance with the criteria and guidelines adopted by the state board pursuant to Section 44342. (b) The proposed plan shall be su…

Within 180 days after approval of a plan by the district, the operator shall implement the plan and prepare and submit a report to the district in accordance with the plan. The district shall transmit all monitoring data contained in the approved report to the state board. (Added…

The state board shall, on or before May 1, 1989, in consultation with the districts, develop criteria and guidelines for site-specific air toxics emissions inventory plans which shall be designed to comply with the conditions specified in Section 44340 and which shall include at …

The district shall review the reports submitted pursuant to Section 44341 and shall, within 90 days, review each report, obtain corrections and clarifications of the data, and notify the State Department of Health Services, the Department of Industrial Relations, and the city or …

Except as provided in Section 44391, emissions inventories developed pursuant to this chapter shall be updated every four years, in accordance with the procedures established by the state board. Those updates shall take into consideration improvements in measurement techniques an…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d) and in Section 44344.7, a facility shall be exempt from further compliance with this part if the facility’s prioritization scores for cancer and noncancer health effects are both equal to or less than one, based on the results of the most…

(a) The operator of any new facility that previously has not been subject to this part shall prepare and submit an emissions inventory plan and report. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a new facility shall not be required to submit an emissions inventory plan and report if al…

A district shall redetermine a facility’s prioritization score, or evaluate the prioritization score as calculated and submitted by the facility, within 90 days from the date of receipt of a quadrennial emissions inventory update pursuant to Section 44344 or subdivision (b) of Se…

(a) A facility exempted from this part pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 44344.4 shall, upon receipt of a notice from the district, again be subject to this part and the operator shall submit an emissions inventory update for those sources and substances for which a physical…

(a) On or before July 1, 1989, the state board shall develop a program to compile and make available to other state and local public agencies and the public all data collected pursuant to this chapter. (b) In addition, the state board, on or before March 1, 1990, shall compile, b…

(a) If an operator believes that any information required in the facility diagram specified pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 44342 involves the release of a trade secret, the operator shall nevertheless make the disclosure to the district, and shall notify the district in w…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of the words used in this division. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

“Local agency” means and includes every local agency, including a county, city, whether general law or chartered, city and county, school district, municipal corporation, district, political subdivision, or any board, commission or agency thereof, or other local public agency. (A…

“Noise” means and includes excessive undesirable sound, including that produced by persons, pets and livestock, industrial equipment, construction, motor vehicles, boats, aircraft, home appliances, electric motors, combustion engines, and any other noise-producing objects. (Added…

“Office” means the Office of Noise Control. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

“Public agency” means and includes every state agency and every local agency. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

“State agency” means and includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, council, commission, or other state agency. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

(a) This chapter sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Housing Development and Finance Committee, and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out stat…

(a) The Secretary of California Housing and Homelessness shall be responsible for allocating financial aid and contributions made available directly to state government or to the agency by any agency of the United States for the purpose of subsidizing housing for persons and fami…

The department shall be the principal state department responsible for coordinating federal-state relationships in housing and community development, except for housing finance, and for evaluating the operations and accomplishments of other state departments as they affect housin…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 18901) of Division 13, on and after January 1, 1980, the department or the agency shall not adopt nor publish a building st…

The department may promulgate regulations establishing habitability standards for dwelling units assisted by the department providing for the density, use, and physical standards of housing units shared pursuant to Section 19904, for the purpose of assuring decent, safe, and sani…

(a) To further the goals of this division and to enable the success of a statewide housing program, it is essential, and the Legislature intends, that the agency, the department, and the Housing Development and Finance Committee shall closely coordinate their activities to assure…

(a) The California Housing Finance Agency, within the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, is a primary agency in the implementation of state housing policy. The agency’s role is to make financing opportunities available for the construction, rehabilitation, and purchase o…

The California Housing Finance Agency shall provide to the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst, in each annual report required by Section 51005, information concerning all units produced, assisted, or insured using agency funds. This information shall include, but shall not b…

In accordance with subdivision (e) of Section 50231, responsibility for administering the following programs shall transfer from the Interagency Council on Homelessness to the Department of Housing and Community Development on or before July 1, 2024: (a) The Homeless Housing, Ass…

The department may, upon receipt of a request of a local public entity, provide advisory assistance or staffing for development of new and rehabilitated housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, the elderly, and persons displaced by governmental action, and in t…

The department may furnish counseling and guidance services to aid any governmental agency or any private or nonprofit organization or persons in securing the financial aid or cooperation of government agencies in the undertaking, construction, maintenance, operation, or financin…

The department shall encourage research and demonstration projects to develop new and better techniques, including techniques of rehabilitation, for increasing the quality and supply of housing for persons and families of low or moderate income and may make grants or loans, with …