Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The State Department of Social Services, in processing fingerprint clearances, shall give expeditious treatment to employees of, and applicants for employment with, community care facilities, as defined in Section 1502, which provide services to children, and child day care facil…

(a) This section shall not apply to individuals who are subject to paragraph (2) of subdivision (g) of Section 1522. (b) The criteria described in this section shall apply to a person subject to the criminal record clearance provisions of Section 1522, Section 1568.09, Section 15…

(a) (1) An application fee adjusted by facility and capacity shall be charged by the department for the issuance of a license. After initial licensure, a fee shall be charged by the department annually on each anniversary of the effective date of the license. The fees are for the…

(a) Beginning with the 1996–97 fiscal year, there is hereby created in the State Treasury the Technical Assistance Fund, from which money, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act, shall be expended by the department to fund administrative and other activities in s…

Transitional shelter care facilities, as defined in Section 1502.3, shall be exempt from the fees imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1523.1. (Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 22. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)

A license shall be forfeited by operation of law if one of the following occurs: (a) The licensee sells or otherwise transfers the facility or facility property, except if change of ownership applies to transferring of stock if the facility is owned by a corporation, and if the t…

A resource family approval shall be forfeited by operation of law when one of the following occurs: (a) The resource family surrenders the approval to the licensed foster family agency. (b) The sole resource family parent dies. (c) The resource family abandons the approved home. …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1524, in the event of a sale of a licensed community care facility, except foster family homes and small family homes, where the sale will result in a new license being issued, the sale and transfer of property and business shall be subject to both of …

(a) This section shall apply to any community care facility that serves children, as specified in this chapter. (b) A licensee of a facility described in subdivision (a) may request inactive license status if the facility is nonoperational due to its destruction, significant dama…

(a) This section shall apply to any community care facility that serves adults, as specified in this chapter. (b) A licensee of a facility described in subdivision (a) may request inactive license status for either of the following: (1) If the facility is nonoperational due to it…

(a) In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, any community care facility providing residential care for six or fewer persons, except family homes certified by foster family agencies, foster family homes, and small family homes, shall provide a procedure approved by …

(a) In addition to any other requirement of this chapter, any group home or short-term residential therapeutic program, as defined by regulations of the department, providing care for any number of persons, that is not already subject to the requirements of Section 1524.5, shall …

The State Department of Social Services shall provide to residential care facilities a form, which the residential care facility shall attach to each resident admission agreement, notifying the resident that he or she is entitled to obtain services and equipment from the telephon…

Upon the filing of the application for issuance of a license or for a special permit and substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations of the department, the director shall issue to the applicant the license or special permit. If the dir…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for proper case management and orderly transition in placement when family home licensing or family home certification changes occur. Placing, licensing, and foster family agencies shall be advised in a timely manner that a licen…

Prior to the issuance of any new license or special permit pursuant to this chapter, the applicant shall attend an orientation given by the department. The orientation given by the department shall outline all of the following: (a) The rules and regulations of the department appl…

(a) The department may issue provisional licenses to operate community care facilities for facilities that it determines are in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, provided that no life safety risks are involved…

Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license or for a special permit, the state department shall notify the applicant in writing. Within 15 days after the state department mails the notice, the applicant may present his written petition for a hearing to the state …

(a) Within 90 days after a facility accepts its first client for placement following the issuance of a license or special permit pursuant to Section 1525, the department shall inspect the facility. The licensee shall, within five business days after accepting its first client for…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain quality resources for children needing placement away from their families. If, during a periodic inspection or an inspection pursuant to Section 1526.5, a facility is found out of compliance with one or more of the licensing sta…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department develop modified staffing levels and requirements for crisis nurseries, provided that the health, safety, and well-being of the children in care are protected and maintained. (1) All caregivers shall be certified in pedi…

The authority shall report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the systems provided for in this division on or before January 1, 1984, and annually thereafter, including within this report, systems impact evaluations on death and disability. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a health facility as defined in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 1250 may release patient-identifiable medical information under the following circumstances: (1) To an EMS provider, information regarding a patient who was treated, or transporte…

(a) Upon receipt of data reported by a local EMS agency to the authority pursuant to Section 1797.228, the authority shall calculate ambulance patient offload time by local EMS agency jurisdiction and by each facility in a local EMS agency jurisdiction. (b) The authority shall re…

(a) On or before March 1, 2024, and on or before each January 1 thereafter, the authority shall annually develop and publish on its internet website a report showing the allowable maximum rates for ground ambulance transportation services in each county, including trending the ra…

The board of directors may establish a fund for capital outlays; provided, that no part of said fund shall be used for acquisition of additional patient bed capacity by lease or purchase of any hospital buildings or facilities or for new construction of additional patient bed cap…

At any time after the creation of a capital outlay fund, the board of directors may transfer to such fund any unencumbered surplus funds remaining on hand in the district at the end of any fiscal year. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 932.)

Whenever a capital outlay fund is established, it shall be used only for such purposes, except the board of directors may, by a four-fifths vote of all members, if it finds that the fund is no longer necessary or that there remain in the fund moneys which are no longer required f…

Two or more agencies within two or more communities may jointly exercise the powers granted under this part. In such case the agencies, the planning commissions, and the legislative bodies may hold joint hearings and meetings, or the legislative bodies of the communities acting s…

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Joint Redevelopment Plan” means the Redevelopment Plan for the Alameda County-City of San Leandro Redevelopment Project, adopted pursuant to this part by the City of San Leandro by ordinance dated …

If one agency is designated, it shall obtain the report and recommendation of the planning commission of each community on the redevelopment plan and its conformity to the general plan of each community before presenting the redevelopment plan to the respective legislative bodies…

The designated agency and each planning commission shall co-operate in formulating redevelopment plans. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1812.)

By ordinance the legislative body of a community may authorize the redevelopment of an area within its territorial limits by another community if such area is contiguous to such other community. The ordinance shall designate the community to undertake such redevelopment. The comm…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 33120, the territorial jurisdiction of an agency in the county shall include all of the unincorporated territory that was included in a project area selected pursuant to Section 33322 or 34004 even if that territory is subsequently annexed to a city or…

As used in Sections 33215 and 33216: (a) “Creating agency” means the community redevelopment agency that created the project area that is to be transferred pursuant to Section 33215 or 33216. (b) “Receiving agency” means the community redevelopment agency that will acquire jurisd…

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the territorial jurisdiction of the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside shall include all of the following: (1) Former agency territory within the geographic boundaries of the City of Menifee or the City of Wildomar with re…

(a) If all of the territory included within a project area, including any noncontiguous territory within the project area, selected pursuant to Section 33322 or 34004 is subsequently annexed to a city or included within the boundaries of a new city, the territorial jurisdiction o…

(a) If all, or a substantial portion, of the territory included within a project area selected pursuant to Section 33322 or 34004 is subsequently annexed to a city or included within the boundaries of a new city, the territorial jurisdiction of the creating agency over all, or a …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Orange County Board of Supervisors established the Neighborhood Development and Preservation Project on June 28, 1988. (2) The Orange County Neighborhood Development and Preservation Project consists of 13 indep…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The City of Shasta Lake, which is located in the County of Shasta, was incorporated on July 2, 1993. (2) The Shasta Dam Area Redevelopment Project, which was established in July 1991, is located within the City of S…

If a portion of a city containing a portion of a redevelopment project area is incorporated as a new city, and the new city establishes an agency to be the receiving agency for that portion of the project area, the creating agency and the receiving agency shall have six months fr…

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall use open outdoor fires for the purpose of disposal or burning of petroleum wastes, demolition debris, tires, tar, trees, wood waste, or other combustible or flammable solid or liquid waste; or for metal salvage or burn…

Nothing in this article shall be construed as limiting the authority granted under other provisions of law to any public officer to set or permit a fire when such fire is, in his or her opinion, necessary for any of the following purposes: (a) The prevention of a fire hazard whic…

Notwithstanding Section 41800, with respect to wood waste from trees, vines, or bushes on property being developed for commercial or residential purposes, or with respect to the disposal of brush cuttings on the property where the brush was grown when the cuttings resulted from b…

No authorization, however, under Section 41802 or 41804.5 shall be granted after such date as the state board may determine, based upon a finding that an alternative method of disposal has been developed which is technologically and economically feasible. (Amended by Stats. 1979,…

Burning may be authorized under Section 41802 only if: (a) The district board finds that it is more desirable to dispose of such waste by burning than to dispose of it by other available means, such as, but not limited to, by removing it to sanitary fills. (b) The district has de…