Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(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…

For the purpose of aiding and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of redevelopment projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body, upon the terms and with or without consideration as it determines, may: (a) Ded…

The bonds and obligations issued by an agency also may be purchased, invested in, or used for security as authorized in Section 33663.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 41705, a person shall not discharge from any source whatsoever quantities of air contaminants or other material that cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public, or that endange…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 41704, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 41800) of this chapter other than Section 41812, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 42350) of Chapter 4, no person shall discharge into the atmosphere from any source whatsoever any air contam…

(a) Neither the state board nor any district shall impose a discharge requirement on emissions of visible smoke from diesel pile-driving hammers which is more stringent than the requirements of this section, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) A district shall iss…

Neither the state board nor any district shall impose a discharge requirement on emissions of visible smoke from any diesel auxiliary engine or generator used exclusively to operate a drinking water system which is more stringent than the Ringelmann 2 limit, as published by the U…

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 Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Existing law authorizes each district to impose separate and sometimes inconsistent emission control requirements for, and to require separate permits to operate, portable equipment that are used at various sites…

(a) (1) As used in this article, “portable equipment” includes any portable internal combustion engine and equipment that is associated with, and driven by, any portable internal combustion engine. (2) (A) As used in this article, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a “por…

(a) At the earliest feasible date, but not later than July 1, 1997, the state board shall do all of the following: (1) Evaluate the emissions from the operation of portable equipment and identify emission reduction technologies that may be applied to portable equipment. (2) After…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the registration of, and the regulation of emissions from, portable equipment that is operated in more than one district and that is subject to the registration program be done on a uniform, statewide basis by the state board and t…

(a) The regulations adopted by the state board, on or before July 1, 1997, shall include, but need not be limited to, provisions that ensure all of the following: (1) That emissions from portable equipment subject to the statewide registration program will not, in the aggregate, …

(a) Districts shall enforce the statewide registration program, emission limitations, and emission control requirements established by the state board pursuant to this article in the same manner as a district rule or regulation. (b) (1) Source testing of engines for compliance pu…

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.

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…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 41800, a district board may authorize, subject to the limitations in Section 41803 and this section, the use of open outdoor fires by a city or county to dispose of nonindustrial wood waste from trees, vines, and brush at disposal sites located above 1…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, because sanitary landfill sites are very difficult to obtain, these valuable sites should be reserved for high-priority waste such as garbage and low-volume rubbish, and that the disposal, by open outdoor fires of high-volume wo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the operator of a solid waste disposal site shall submit to the district on or before July 1, 1987, a solid waste air quality assessment test report that contains all of the following: (1) Test results to determine if there is a…

Notwithstanding Section 41805.5, a small city which operates a Class III solid waste disposal site is not required to submit a screening questionnaire or a solid waste air quality assessment test report pursuant to Section 41805. 5 if the city has a population of less than 20,000…

Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting any of the following: (a) Burning for the disposal of the combustible or flammable solid waste of a single- or two-family dwelling on its premises. (b) Open outdoor fires used only for cooking food for human beings or for …

Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit burning for right-of-way clearing by a public entity or utility or for levee, reservoir, and ditch maintenance. No such material may be burned pursuant to this section unless (a) agricultural burning is not prohibited on the …

The state board shall permit a city or county to use open outdoor fires, for a limited time only, in its operation of a solid waste dump, upon the finding that, because of sparse population in the geographical area and economic and technical difficulties, the solid waste dump sho…

Notwithstanding Sections 41508 and 41800, open outdoor fires may be used to dispose of Russian thistle (Salsola kali) when authorized by a chief of a fire department or fire protection agency of a city, county, or fire protection district, the Director of Forestry and Fire Protec…

For islands located 15 or more miles from the mainland coast: (a) The provisions of Section 41701 shall not apply to smoke from fires set thereon. (b) No district shall adopt any rule or regulation stricter than those provided by law with respect to open outdoor fires.

The provisions of this article shall not supersede any rule or regulation of any district, which rule or regulation was in effect for five or more years prior to September 19, 1970.

(a) The air pollution control officer of any district, upon authorization of the district board, may authorize, by permit, open outdoor fires for the purpose of disposing of agricultural wastes, or wood waste from trees, vines, bushes, or other wood debris free of nonwood materia…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, in the San Bernardino County Air Pollution Control District, Group 2 solid waste, as defined in Section 2521 of Title 23 of the California Administrative Code, for a period not to exceed six months from the effective date of t…

Notwithstanding any local ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 37100 of the Government Code or by charter provision to prohibit the burning of waste materials, the burning of the gaseous byproducts of the recycling of water by a waste water treatment facility as part of an energ…

It is the intent of the Legislature, by the enactment of this article, that agricultural burning be reasonably regulated and not be prohibited. The state board and the districts shall take into consideration, in adopting rules and regulations for purposes of this article, various…

Section 41800 shall not apply to burning regulated pursuant to this article.

No person knowingly shall set or permit agricultural burning unless he has a valid permit from the agency designated by the state board to issue such permits in the area where the agricultural burning is to take place.

The state board may, after holding a public hearing, authorize an exemption from the permit requirement of Section 41852 for a district, or a portion of a district, where agricultural burning does not significantly affect air quality.

The state board shall designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to issue permits under subdivision (a) of Section 41852, and shall adopt rules and regulations to provide a procedure for the issuance of the permits. Each agency so designated by the sta…

(a) No permit shall be issued pursuant to Section 41853 to a person for the burning of solid waste which is produced from the ginning of cotton, unless the person pays to the issuing agency a fee of fifteen cents ($0.15) for each bale of cotton ginned that will produce the solid …

(a) No permit issued pursuant to Section 41853 shall be valid for any day during which agricultural burning is prohibited by the state board pursuant to Section 41855 or by a district board pursuant to Section 41508. (b) Each permit shall bear a statement of warning containing th…

The state board shall determine and designate from meteorological data the days when agricultural burning shall be prohibited within each air basin.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no permit may be issued to a person to burn any of the following categories of agricultural waste within the jurisdiction of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, commencing on the following dates: (1) Comme…