Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

No person shall operate any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance which is the subject of a variance if that article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, as may be the case, is not in compliance with a required schedule of increments of progress, unless such ope…

If a district board adopts a rule or regulation of emission standards to take effect as of a future date, the rule or regulation shall also require any person who owns or operates a source of air contaminants whose emissions exceed such standards to submit to the hearing board, f…

Section 41701 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Fires set pursuant to Section 41801. (b) Agricultural burning for which a permit has been granted pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 41850). (c) Fires set or permitted by any public officer in the performance o…

(a) Section 41700 shall not apply to odors emanating from agricultural operations necessary for the growing of crops or the raising of fowl or animals. (b) This section shall become operative on April 1, 2003, unless the California Integrated Waste Management Board adopts and sub…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that recent evidence indicates that lead compounds emitted into the air by nonvehicular sources accumulate in and upon vegetation in the vicinity of such sources, pose a grave threat to the health of animals which consume such vegetat…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter restricting burning, the state board, after consultation with the district in which the burning is to take place, may issue permits for experimental burning designed to develop new or improved techniques of burning to reduce emission…

Any district may adopt a rule or regulation for the control of volatile organic compound emissions from cutback asphalt paving material based on local considerations, including, but not limited to, the degree of air pollution resulting from such paving material, the economic impa…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) “Consumer product” means a chemically formulated product used by household and institutional consumers, including, but not limited to, detergents; cleaning compounds; polishes; floor finishes; c…

The state board shall adopt and implement emission standards for used motor vehicles for the control of emissions therefrom, which standards the state board has found to be necessary and technologically feasible to carry out the purposes of this division; however, the installatio…

The state board shall certify exhaust devices for 1955 through 1965 model year motor vehicles. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

An exhaust device certified by the state board pursuant to Section 43601 shall not allow emissions exceeding any of the following: (a) 350 parts per million hydrocarbons. (b) 2 percent carbon monoxide. (c) 800 parts per million nitrogen oxide. However, if no exhaust device meets …

The state board shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the certification of exhaust devices pursuant to Section 43601. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, requirements that: (a) The device meets the cost and performance requirement specified in Section 43604. (b…

An exhaust device certified pursuant to Section 43601: (a) Shall not cost, including the cost of installation, more than eighty-five dollars ($85). (b) Shall not require maintenance more than once each 12,000 miles of operation, and such maintenance shall not cost, including the …

The state board shall set standards for, and certify, exhaust devices to significantly reduce the emission of oxides of nitrogen from 1966 through 1970 model year motor vehicles, as determined by the state board from a representative sampling of such motor vehicles, which the sta…

The state board shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the certification of exhaust devices pursuant to Section 43610. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, requirements that: (a) The device meets the cost and performance requirements specified in Section 43612. (…

An exhaust device certified pursuant to Section 43610: (a) Shall not cost, including the cost of installation, more than thirty-five dollars ($35). (b) Shall not require maintenance more than once each 12,000 miles of operation, and such maintenance shall not cost, including the …

The manufacturer of an exhaust device certified pursuant to Section 43610 shall include, with the sale of such device, instructions setting forth what steps the purchaser should take to maintain such device in proper working condition. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

After one or more devices are initially certified pursuant to Section 43610, no device shall be certified under that section which is less effective than the one or ones initially certified. Any subsequent certification of a more effective device shall not affect the certificatio…

(a) In addition to certifying devices which meet the standards set forth in, or established pursuant to, Sections 43602 and 43610, the state board shall adopt standards for certifying exhaust devices which achieve a reduction of the emission of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and …

As a condition to the certification of any motor vehicle pollution control device required under this chapter, except Section 43630, the manufacturer of such a device, in order to protect the public interest, shall agree to either of the following: (a) That, until two or more suc…

(a) In establishing the fair and reasonable retail price for a motor vehicle pollution control device for purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 43635, the state board shall take into consideration the cost of manufacturing the device and the manufacturer’s suggested retail price…

The state board may revoke, suspend, or restrict a certification of a previously certified device, or an exemption previously granted, upon a determination by the state board that the device no longer operates within the applicable criteria and standards adopted by the state boar…

Proceedings to review the denial of an application for certification or exemption, or proceedings to revoke, suspend, or restrict a certification previously granted by the state board, shall, upon the timely request of the applicant or affected manufacturer, be conducted by the s…

Certification for a motor vehicle pollution control device may be revoked by the state board, if the actual cost of the device installed exceeds the cost permitted by law or established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 43635. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

Any motor vehicle equipped with a certified device shall not be deemed in violation of the provisions of this part, or Section 27156 of the Vehicle Code, because the certification of the device is subsequently revoked, suspended, or restricted. Replacement parts for the device ma…

(a) No person shall install, sell, offer for sale, or advertise, or, except in an application to the state board for certification of a device, represent, any device as a motor vehicle pollution control device for use on any used motor vehicle unless that device has been certifie…

Whenever the state board certifies a motor vehicle pollution control device for the control of emissions of pollutants from a particular source of emissions from motor vehicles for which standards have been set by this part or by the state board, it shall so notify the Department…

(a) The bureau, in consultation with the state board, may develop, not later than 180 days from the operative date of this section, a list of engine maintenance practices that are designed to improve a motor vehicle’s engine operating efficiency. The bureau shall conduct any eval…

This chapter shall be known and cited as the “county sanitation district act.” (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“District,” as used in this chapter, means any county sanitation district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“District board,” as used in this chapter, means the board of directors of a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Districts may be formed, maintained, and governed in any county as provided in this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Board” or “board of directors” means the governing authority of a public agency. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1125.)

“Public agency” means a city, a county, a special district, or any other political subdivision of the state which is otherwise authorized to acquire, construct, maintain, or operate sanitary sewers or sewage systems. “Public agency” does not mean an improvement district organized…

“On-site wastewater disposal system” means any of several works, facilities, devices, or other mechanisms used to collect, treat, recycle, or dispose of wastewater without the use of communitywide sanitary sewers or sewage systems. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 28, Sec. 8. Effecti…

“Owner of real property” means any public agency owning land and any person shown as the owner of land on the last equalized assessment roll; provided that where such person is no longer the owner, the term means any person entitled to be shown as owner on the next assessment rol…

“Zone” means an on-site wastewater disposal zone formed pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1125.)

“Real property” means both land and improvements to land which benefit, directly or indirectly from, or on behalf of, the activities of the zone. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1125.)

The department shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this part, including, but not limited to, regulations governing the expenditure of, and accounting procedures for, moneys allocated to state, regional, and local agencies pursuant t…

Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation or devise, property consisting of lands, mausoleums, crematories, and columbariums, or other property within which the interment of the dead may be authorized by law. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any cemetery authority which is described in Section 23701c of the Revenue and Taxation Code or is a corporation sole may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary to enlarge and add to an existing cemetery for the burial of the dead and the grounds thereof. (Added by Stat…

It is unlawful for any person to construct, or cause or permit to be constructed upon any property belonging to or controlled by him, any mausoleum or columbarium, or to make any alterations or changes or do any reconstruction work upon, in or to any building or structure for use…

The Public Health Federal Fund in the State Treasury is hereby created. All grants of money received by the state from the United States, the expenditure of which is administered through or under the direction of the department, shall, on order of the Controller, be deposited in …

All money in the Public Health Federal Fund is hereby appropriated to the department, without regard to fiscal years, for expenditure for the purposes for which the money deposited therein is made available by the United States. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective J…

The department and the Controller shall keep a record of the classes and sources of income deposited in, or transferred to, the Public Health Federal Fund, and of the disbursements and transfers therefrom. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The Director of Finance and the Controller may approve any general plan that meets the following requirements: (a) Any expenditures that are a proper charge against the money made available by the United States and deposited in the Public Health Federal Fund may be paid in the fi…