Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Any employer who willfully refuses to rehire, promote, or otherwise restore an employee or former employee who has been determined to be eligible for the rehiring or promotion by a grievance procedure, arbitration, or hearing authorized by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

The department may deny an application for or suspend or revoke any license, registration, or special permit issued under this act upon any of the following grounds and in the manner provided in this act: (a) Violation by the licensee, registrant, or holder of a special permit of…

The director may temporarily suspend any license, registration, or special permit prior to any hearing when, in the opinion of the director, the action is necessary to protect any child of a child day care facility from physical or mental abuse, abandonment, or any other substant…

(a) When a local child protective agency, as defined in Section 11165 of the Penal Code, has a reasonable suspicion, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11166 of the Penal Code, that the death or serious injury of a child occurred at a child day care facility because of abus…

The State Department of Social Services shall reopen an investigation into a licensed child day care facility when any person provides the department with a certified copy of a court record in which a judicial officer has determined that an injury to a child may have been inflict…

(a) The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the effective date of a temporary suspension of a license, in order to ensure that the facility is nonoperational, unless the department has previously verified that the facility is nonoperat…

(a) Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of a license, registration, or special permit under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and the department…

(a) The administrative law judge conducting a hearing under this article may permit the testimony of a child witness, or a similarly vulnerable witness, including a witness who is developmentally disabled, to be taken outside the presence of the respondent or respondents if all o…

(a) (1) An out-of-court statement made by a minor under 12 years of age who is the subject or victim of an allegation at issue is admissible evidence at an administrative hearing conducted pursuant to this article. The out-of-court statement may be used to support a finding of fa…

In addition to the witness fees and mileage provided by Section 11450.40 of the Government Code, the department may pay actual, necessary, and reasonable expenses in an amount not to exceed the per diem allowance payable to a nonrepresented state employee on travel status. The de…

Any license, registration, or special permit suspended pursuant to this chapter, and any special permit revoked pursuant to this chapter, may be reinstated pursuant to Section 11522 of the Government Code.

In all proceedings conducted in accordance with Section 1596.887, the preponderance of the evidence standard shall apply.

(a) Whenever the director temporarily suspends the license, registration, or special permit of a child day care facility pursuant to Section 1596.886, the director or the local licensing agency shall send written notification to the parent or legal guardian of each child receivin…

(a) The department may prohibit any person from being a member of the board of directors, an executive director, or an officer of a licensee or a licensee from employing, or continuing the employment of, or allowing in a licensed facility, or allowing contact with clients of a li…

(a) (1) If the department determines that a person was issued a license under this chapter, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200), Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500), Chapter 3.01 (commencing with Section 1568.01), Chapter 3.2 (c…

The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the department serves an order of immediate exclusion from the facility upon the licensee or a person subject to immediate removal or exclusion from the facility pursuant to paragraph (2) of subd…

The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of Section 1596.80 or 1596.805 in the superior court in and for the county in which the violation occurred or is about to occur. Any proceeding under this section shall conform to the requirements of…

(a) Any person who willfully or repeatedly violates any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation promulgated under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction thereof, such a person shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) o…

(a) A person who violates Section 1596.80 may be liable for an immediate assessment of civil penalties in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200) per day. (b) The penalty specified in subdivision (a) shall be imposed if the operator of an unlicensed facility refuses to seek lice…

Any person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, or agent of a child day care facility of an impending and unannounced site visit to that facility by personnel of the departmen…

The civil, criminal, and administrative remedies available to the department pursuant to this article are not exclusive, and may be sought and employed in any combination deemed advisable by the department to enforce the provisions of this chapter.

(a) When the licensing agency has reason to believe that an unlicensed day care facility is operating or that a day care facility is in violation of the California Child Day Care Facilities Act or of the rules and regulations promulgated under the California Child Day Care Facili…

(a) When the licensing agency has reason to believe that an unlicensed day care facility is operating or that a day care facility is in violation of the California Child Day Care Facilities Act or of the rules and regulations promulgated under the California Child Day Care Facili…

(a) The department shall consider, in determining whether to issue a citation or impose a civil penalty under any provision of this chapter to a child daycare facility that contracts with the department or the State Department of Education, whether the child daycare facility is i…

Any action brought by the department against an unlicensed child day care facility shall not abate by reason of sale or other transfer of ownership of the child day care facility which is a party to the action except with the written consent of the licensing agency.

(a) The department shall notify resource and referral agencies funded pursuant to Section 10217 of the Welfare and Institutions Code of any priority one violation or any allegation of a priority one violation affecting the health and safety of children that is within the geograph…