Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The health care services provided through the program to eligible employees shall, to the extent practicable, be substantially similar to the benefits offered to adults under the Healthy Families Program pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 12693.60) of Part 6.2 of the …

The owner or operator of any of the following buildings shall provide to persons entering those buildings specific emergency procedures to be followed in the event of fire, including procedures for handicapped and nonambulatory persons: (a) In the case of privately owned highrise…

The State Fire Marshal shall adopt regulations for the furnishing of emergency procedure information according to this chapter. Those regulations may include the general contents of brochures, pamphlets, signs, or video recordings used in furnishing emergency procedure informatio…

Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both. (Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 557.…

Every district shall be governed by a legislative body known as a board of directors. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1013, Sec. 11.)

Except in the case where a county board of supervisors has appointed itself as the district board, each member of a district board and each member of a fire commission appointed pursuant to Section 13844 shall be a resident of the district. In addition, if the district board is e…

Except in the case where a county board of supervisors or a city council has appointed itself as the district board, a district board may have three, five, seven, nine, or eleven members. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1013, Sec. 11.)

(a) The term of office of each member of a district board is four years or until his or her successor qualifies and takes office, except as provided in subdivision (b). (b) In the case of a district formed on or after January 1, 1988, the directors shall serve terms as provided i…

If a county board of supervisors or a city council has appointed itself as the district board, the board of supervisors or city council may delegate any or all of its powers to a fire commission composed of five or seven commissioners. In the case of a district governed by a boar…

(a) Except in the case where a county board of supervisors or a city council has appointed itself as the district board, the number of members of a district board may be increased or decreased if a majority of the voters voting on the question are in favor of the question at a ge…

(a) In the case of an elected district board, the directors may be elected by divisions if a majority of the voters voting upon the question are in favor of the question at a general district or special election. Conversely, in the case of a district that has an elected district …

In the case of a district board elected by election divisions, the district board shall adjust the boundaries of the election divisions before November 1 of the year following the year in which each decennial federal census is taken. If at any time between each decennial federal …

(a) If a majority of the voters voting upon the question at a general district or special election are in favor, a district that has an appointed district board shall have an elected district board or a district that has an elected district board shall have an appointed district …

(a) Before circulating any petition pursuant to Section 13845, 13846, or 13848 the chief petitioners shall publish a notice of intention which shall include a written statement not to exceed 500 words in length, setting forth the reasons for the proposal. The notice shall be publ…

(a) Sections 100 and 104 of the Elections Code shall govern the signing of the petition and the format of the petition. (b) A petition may consist of a single instrument or separate counterparts. The chief petitioner or petitioners shall file the petition, together with all count…

(a) Within 30 days after the date of filing a petition, the secretary of the district board shall cause the petition to be examined and shall prepare a certificate of sufficiency indicating whether the petition is signed by the requisite number of signers. (b) The secretary shall…

(a) Any vacancy in the office of a member appointed to the district board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1779 of the Government Code. (b) Any vacancy in the office of a member elected to the district board shall be filled pursuant to Section 1780 of the Government Code. (Rep…

(a) Within 60 days after their initial election or appointment and after each general district election or unopposed election, the district board shall meet and elect its officers. The officers of a district board are a president, a vice president, and a secretary or clerk. (b) T…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the county treasurer of the principal county shall act as the district treasurer and shall receive no compensation for the receipt and disbursement of money of the district. (b) The district board may adopt a resolution appointing a dist…

A district board shall meet at least once every three months. Meetings of the board are subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown Act, (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code). (Repealed and added by Stats. 1987, …

(a) A majority of the district board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (b) The district board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion. Except as specifically provided to the contrary in this part, a recorded vote by a majority of the total memb…

(a) Subject to subdivision (b), each member of the district board may receive compensation in an amount set by the district board not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for attending each meeting of the district board. The number of meetings for which a member of the board of d…

(a) The State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission, in consultation with, and with the concurrence of, the University of California, the California State University, the Structural Engineers Association of California, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall deve…

(a) The State Building Standards Commission shall review and approve the guidelines adopted by the State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission pursuant to Section 16600 by January 1, 1994, and take administrative actions to make the guidelines applicable to all st…

No provision of this chapter shall apply to the University of California except to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make that provision applicable. (Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1511, Sec. 1.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that funds to carry out the provisions of this chapter in the amount of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) be provided as follows: (a) The sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) from the June 1990 Higher Education Capital Outlay Bond Fund pur…

(a) Except as provided in Section 18930, the department shall adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the public health, safety, and general welfare of employees and the public, governing the erection, construction, enlargement, conversion, alteration,…

(a) Except as provided in Section 17011, the rules and regulations adopted, amended, or repealed from time to time pursuant to this part shall be consistent with accepted standards and practices reasonably applicable to permanent and temporary employee housing and the utilization…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law, and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 18900), on and after January 1, 1980, the department shall not adopt or publish a building standard as defined in Section 1890…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the condition rendering any of the accommodations in employee housing substandard is the overcrowding of the accommodations, the enforcement agency shall provide notice to the affected residents of the condition and shall give th…

(a) The department may review, adopt, amend, or repeal standards, forms, or definitions in order to implement Sections 17030.10 and 17037. Any standards, forms, or definitions adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to Section 17030.10 or 17037 are hereby exempt from the rulemakin…

The provisions of this part, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, or the other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this part which relate to apartment houses, hotels, motels, and dwellings, and buildings and structures…

(a) (1) The governing body of any county or city, including a charter city, may prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or authorized by this part or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this part. (2) If a governing body of any county …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 17951, each city, county, or city and county may waive or reduce all building permit fees for improvements to the home of a veteran with a qualifying disability that are made to accommodate that disability. (b) “Qualifying disability” means a disabilit…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 17951, each city, county, or city and county may waive or reduce all building permit fees for improvements to the home of a person at least 60 years of age with a qualifying disability that are made to accommodate that disability. (b) A local entity th…

(a) In the event of nonenforcement of this part, or the building standards published in the California Building Standards Code, or the other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this part, such provisions, building standards or other rules and regulatio…

Each city, county, and city and county shall enact an ordinance which requires a preliminary soil report, prepared by a civil engineer who is registered by the state, based upon adequate test borings or excavations, of every subdivision, where a tentative and final map is require…

If the preliminary soil report indicates the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, such ordinance shall require a soil investigation of each lot in the subdivision. The soil investigation shall be …

The building department of each city, county, or city and county, or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, shall approve the soil investigation if it determines that the recommended action is likely to prevent str…

A city, county, or city and county or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, is not liable for any injury which arises out of any act or omission of the city, county or city and county, or other enforcement agency,…

The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact an ordinance prescribing an alternate procedure which is equal to or more restrictive than the procedure specified in Sections 17953, 17954, and 17955. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1001.)

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), and in Sections 17958.8 and 17958.9, any city or county may make changes in the provisions adopted pursuant to Section 17922 and published in the California Building Standards Code or the other regulations thereafter adopted pursuant to …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 17922, 17958, and 17958.5, a city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance, permit efficiency units for occupancy by no more than two persons which have a minimum floor area of 150 square feet and which may also have partial kitchen or bathroom f…

(a) Any city or county may adopt alternative building regulations for the conversion of commercial or industrial buildings, or portions thereof, to joint living and work quarters. As used in this section, “joint living and work quarters” means residential occupancy by a family ma…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Building officials, pursuant to this code and the California Building Standards Code, have broad authority as part of their enforcement authority to render interpretations of the code and to adopt policies and proce…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 17958, regulations of the department adopted for limited-density owner-built rural dwellings, which are codified in Article 8 (commencing with Section 74) of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations, shall not become …