Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) The department shall publish and revise, at least annually, a listing of the hazardous substance release sites selected for, and subject to, a response action under this part. (b) The department shall list the sites based upon the criteria adopted pursuant to Section 78765 an…

(a) The department shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the selection of hazardous substance release sites for a response action under this part. The criteria shall take into account pertinent factors relating to public health, safety, and the environment. The pertinent facto…

The department shall assign each site listed pursuant to Section 78760 to one of the following priority tiers for the purpose of informing the public of the relative hazard of listed sites: (a) “Priority tier one” shall include any site that the department determines, using the c…

Hazardous substance release sites listed by the department pursuant to Section 78760 are subject to this part and all actions carried out in response to hazardous substance releases or threatened releases at listed sites shall comply with the procedures, standards, and other requ…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the department shall expend all funds appropriated to the department for any response action pursuant to this part, and shall take all response action pursuant to this part, in conformance with the assignment of sites to priority tiers p…

This article does not require the department to characterize every site listed pursuant to Section 78760 before the department begins response actions at those sites. (Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 257, Sec. 2. (AB 2293) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, pursuant …

The department, or, if appropriate, the regional board, is the state agency with sole responsibility for ensuring that required action in response to a hazardous substance release or threatened release at a listed site is carried out in compliance with the procedures, standards, …

(a) The adoption of the minimum hazard threshold pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 78765, the department’s development and publication of the list of sites pursuant to Section 78760, and the assignment of sites to a tier pursuant to Section 78770, including the classificatio…

A cemetery authority may take and hold any plot conveyed or devised to it by the plot owner so that it will be inalienable, and interments shall be restricted to the persons designated in the conveyance or devise. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Nuclear medicine technology” means that technology applied under the supervision of a physician and surgeon or a licensed clinical bioanalyst, when performing in vitro procedures, that pertains to the utilization of radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of disease…

(a) Any person not currently licensed as a physician and surgeon pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, or as a clinical laboratory technologist, bioanalyst, or clinical chemist pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing wi…

(a) The department shall provide by regulation a schedule of fees that shall be paid by persons applying to establish their competence to perform nuclear medicine technology. The revenue derived from the fees shall be sufficient to cover all costs incurred in the administration o…

(a) The establishment of a person as competent to perform nuclear medicine technology may be denied, revoked, or suspended by the department, for any of the following reasons: (1) Use of a controlled substance as defined in Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000), a dangerous…

(a) A person or entity that violates, or aids or abets the violation of, this article or a regulation adopted pursuant to this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per day, per offense or by imprison…

The department shall enforce this article. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

For the purposes of this article, an art or craft material shall be presumed to contain an ingredient that is a toxic substance causing chronic illness if the ingredient, whether an intentional ingredient or an impurity, is 1 percent or more by weight of the mixture or product, o…

The Legislature finds and declares that there exists a significant danger to the public health and safety from exposure to art or craft material that contains toxic chemicals. This health risk threatens not only professional artists and craftspersons, but art teachers, students a…

No person shall distribute, sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any art or craft material containing toxic substances causing chronic illness on which the person: (a) Has failed to affix a conspicuous label containing the signal word “WARNING,” to alert users of potential ad…

(a) The manufacturer of any art or craft material sold, distributed, offered for sale, or exposed for sale in this state shall supply to a national poison control network approved by the director the formulation information required by that network for dissemination to poison con…

(a) Potentially hazardous foods that are packed by the food facility in reduced-oxygen packaging or have been partially cooked and sealed in any container or configuration that creates anaerobic conditions shall be plainly date coded. The date coding shall state “Use By,” followe…

(a) A food facility that packages food using a reduced-oxygen packaging method and Clostridium botulinum is identified as a microbiological hazard in the final prepackaged form shall ensure that there are at least two barriers in place to control the growth and toxin formation of…

(a) The Department of Transportation shall include within its criteria for funding, repair, and construction projects, the need for adequate emergency evacuation routes. (b) State and local law enforcement agencies shall ensure all of the following: (1) Traffic flow plans for are…

This chapter shall be enforced directly by the department for all public water systems, including state small water systems, in any county that does not have a local health officer, or contracts with the department for environmental health services pursuant to Section 1157 and el…

For purposes of this article, “solid waste” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 40191 of the Public Resources Code. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 416, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2007.)

A person who places, deposits, or dumps, or who causes to be placed, deposited, or dumped, or who causes or allows to overflow, sewage, sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, accumulation of human excreta, or solid waste, in or upon a street, alley, public highway, or road in …

A state fish and game warden, police officer of a city, sheriff, deputy of a sheriff, person described in subdivision (i) of Section 830.7 of the Penal Code, and any other peace officer of the State of California, within their respective jurisdiction, shall enforce this article. …

(a) The department shall administer this chapter. (b) In order to carry out this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do any of the following: (1) Enter or inspect on an announced or unannounced basis any building, premise, equipment, materials, recor…

(a) Licenses shall be suspended or revoked by the department for the violation of any provision of this chapter, or of any rule or regulation made by the department under authority conferred by this chapter. The proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171. (b…

Nothing in this chapter shall be considered to be in conflict with Part 5 (commencing with Section 109875) of Division 104 of this code and all provisions of that division shall apply to biologics within the meaning of this chapter, except that this chapter shall not apply to pro…

The violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or by both. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 148. Eff…

An agency shall permit owner participation in the redevelopment of property in the project area in conformity with the redevelopment plan adopted by the legislative body for the area. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1812.)

If the redevelopment plan adopted provides for participation in the redevelopment of property in the area by the owners of such property, and the owners fail or refuse to enter into a binding agreement for participation in accordance with the rules adopted by the agency pursuant …

Any portion of a district that will not be benefited by remaining in the district may be excluded as provided in this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

A petition to exclude territory shall be signed by 50 or more freeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded from the district, or by a majority of the freeholders, if there are less than one hundred freeholders in the portion proposed to be excluded. The petition shall reque…

As an alternative to the procedure outlined in Section 4906, the board may by resolution entered in its minutes fix a time for a hearing on the question of the exclusion of any portion of a district which will not be benefited by remaining in the district. The time fixed for the …

Upon receiving a petition to exclude territory the board shall fix a time for hearing it and for hearing protests to the continuance of the remaining territory as a district. The time of hearing shall not be less than fifteen nor more than thirty days after the receipt of the pet…

At least ten days prior to the time fixed, the board shall publish a notice of the hearing by one insertion in the newspaper circulated in the district that the board deems most likely to give notice to the district’s inhabitants of the proposed exclusion. (Enacted by Stats. 1939…

Any person interested may appear at the hearing and object to the exclusion of the territory from the district, or may object to the continuance of the remaining territory as a district, and the board shall consider all objections and shall pass upon them. (Enacted by Stats. 1939…

If the board finds that the territory proposed to be excluded will not be benefited by remaining in the district, and that the territory not proposed to be excluded will be benefited by continuing as a district, it shall by resolution declare the district re-established excluding…

Upon the exclusion of any territory from the district all property acquired for the district shall remain vested in the county and be used for the purposes of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

After the completion of notice, and after the expiration of the period of ten months specified in the notice, any cemetery authority may cause the removal of all human remains interred in the cemetery or portion from which the remains have been ordered removed, and may reinter su…

Whenever any remains are removed from any cemetery or portion of a cemetery pursuant to this chapter by a cemetery authority, they shall be transported to and reinterred in a cemetery in an adjoining county where interments by the cemetery authority are permitted. (Enacted by Sta…

The remains of each person reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred under rules and regulations adopted by the cemetery authority making the removal. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

(a) Except for nuts in the shell and whole raw fruits and vegetables that are intended for hulling, peeling, or washing by the consumer before consumption, food on display shall be protected from contamination by the use of packaging, counter, service line, or sneeze guards that …

(a) Raw, nonprepackaged food of animal origin, such as beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and eviscerated fish, shall not be offered for consumer self-service. This subdivision does not apply to the following: (1) Consumer self-service of ready-to-eat foods at buffets or salad bars that …

Notwithstanding Section 114266, this section shall not be construed to require the enclosure, during operating hours, of consumer self-service nonpotentially hazardous bulk beverage dispensing operations that meet the following requirements: (a) The dispensing operation is instal…