Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

Within every restaurant in a publicly owned building serving food or alcoholic beverages in rooms whose occupied capacity is 50 or more persons there shall be designated and posted by signs of sufficient number and posted in locations as to be readily seen by persons within the a…

Any person may apply for a writ of mandate to compel compliance by any public entity that has not complied with the requirements of this article and Article 3 (commencing with Section 118920) for the designating or posting of nonsmoking areas or areas where the smoking of tobacco…

(a) The Legislature declares its intent not to preempt the field of regulation of the smoking of tobacco products. A local governing body may ban completely the smoking of tobacco products, or may regulate smoking of tobacco products in any manner not inconsistent with this artic…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person shall smoke any tobacco product in any retail food production and marketing establishment, as defined in Section 28802, during the hours the establishment is open to the public. (b) The provisions of subdivision (a) shall not a…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood is a problem with significant social, medical, educational, and economic consequences to the teen parent and child, her family, and the State of California. (b) In an attempt to address the pr…

(a) The department may conduct the Adolescent Family Life Program to assure that pregnant adolescents receive comprehensive continuous prenatal care in order to deliver healthy babies; to establish networks within regions to provide to pregnant and parenting teens and their child…

(a) The department, through its program of maternal and child health, shall award contract augmentations to four Adolescent Family Life Programs that meet the requirements of this section and develop plans for a comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, …

A comprehensive coordinated substance abuse prevention, intervention, and counseling program, as used in Section 124185, shall include, but not be limited to, programs that: (a) Have demonstrated a capacity for developing interagency cooperative approaches to reduce the incidence…

The department shall require reports to be prepared by all programs funded pursuant to this article. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 129. Effective January 1, 2005.)

Funding for the purpose of this article shall be provided through funds appropriated to the department through the annual Budget Act. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act. (b) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that physicians engaged in family medicine are in very short supply in California. The current emphasis placed on specializatio…

As used in this article, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Family physician” means a primary care physician and surgeon who is prepared to and renders continued comprehensive and preventative health care services…

There is hereby created a state medical contract program with accredited medical schools, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, teaching health centers, programs that train postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, programs that train primary care physician’s …

When funding primary care and family medicine programs or departments, primary care and family medicine residencies, and programs for the training of postgraduate primary care physician’s assistants, primary care physician assistants, postgraduate primary care nurse practitioners…

Pursuant to this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 128250), the Director of the Department of Health Care Access and Information shall do all of the following: (a) Develop application and contract criteria based on health care workforce needs and priorities. (b) Dete…

The officer, board or commission abating the nuisance shall keep an account of the cost of abatement in front of or on each separate parcel of land and shall render an itemized report in writing to the board of supervisors showing the cost of removing the weeds on or in front of …

Before the report is submitted to the board of supervisors, a copy of it shall be posted for at least three days on or near the chamber door of the board with a notice of the time when the report will be submitted to the board for confirmation. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 60.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1055.)

“Biologics” includes the following products which are offered for sale or distribution for the prevention or treatment of disease, except biologics which are registered pursuant to Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 9201), Part 1, Division 5 of the Food and Agricultural Code: (…

“Blood bank” means any place where human whole blood, and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation, are collected, prepared, tested, processed, or stored, or from which human whole blood or human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation are distributed. (Added…

“Blood collection center” means a stationary auxiliary to a blood bank which is designed, equipped, and staffed to procure human whole blood or blood components which are to be transported to the blood bank for processing, storing, and distribution. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 800…

“Stationary” means a nonmobile room or building maintained at a fixed address. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 800, Sec. 3.)

“Mobile unit” means a transportable auxiliary to a blood bank designed, equipped, and staffed to procure human whole blood and to transport this blood to the bank for processing, storing, and distribution. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 800, Sec. 4.)

“Blood bank depository” means any place other than a blood bank where human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation are stored and held for transfusion. Such blood bank depositories shall be clinical laboratories, licensed in accordance with the prov…

“Blood component” or “blood derivative” means any product produced from whole blood. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 800, Sec. 5.)

“Distribution” includes sale and exchange. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1055.)

“Production” includes collection, preparation, testing, processing, storage, and distribution of biologics under a license issued by the department. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1055.)

“Department” means the State Department of Health Services. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

“Carrier donor” means any donor of human whole blood whose blood donation has been found, either by laboratory tests or by the tracing of a transfusion-associated hepatitis case where there was a single donor, to contain viral hepatitis, or any donor of human whole blood who has …

“Possible carrier donor” means any donor of human whole blood whose blood donation was administered where multiple transfusions from multiple donors were administered to a recipient and such transfusions result in a case diagnosed by a physician as transfusion-associated hepatiti…

“Carrier of viral hepatitis” means a person under treatment by a physician who has contracted viral hepatitis which has been confirmed by voluntary laboratory tests or who exhibits symptoms which lead a physician to render a diagnostic opinion that the person has contracted viral…

Each county may develop an emergency medical services program. Each county developing such a program shall designate a local EMS agency which shall be the county health department, an agency established and operated by the county, an entity with which the county contracts for the…

Upon the request of a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical services, a county shall enter into a written agreement with the city or fire district regarding the provision of prehospital emergency medical services …

(a) Every local EMS agency shall have a full- or part-time licensed physician and surgeon as medical director, who has substantial experience in the practice of emergency medicine, as designated by the county or by the joint powers agreement, to provide medical control and to ass…

The local EMS agency shall plan, implement, and evaluate an emergency medical services system, in accordance with the provisions of this part, consisting of an organized pattern of readiness and response services based on public and private agreements and operational procedures. …

The local EMS agency shall be responsible for implementation of advanced life support systems and limited advanced life support systems and for the monitoring of training programs. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1246, Sec. 27.)

The local EMS agency shall be responsible for determining that the operation of training programs at the EMT-I, EMT-II, and EMT-P levels are in compliance with this division, and shall approve the training programs if they are found to be in compliance with this division. The tra…

(a) The medical director of the local EMS agency shall issue a certificate, except an EMT-P certificate, to an individual upon proof of satisfactory completion of an approved training program, passage of the certifying examination designated by the authority, completion of any ot…

Each local EMS agency shall submit certificate status updates to the authority within three working days after a final determination is made regarding a certification disciplinary action taken by the medical director that results in a change to an EMT-I or EMT-II certificate stat…

The local EMS agency may establish a schedule of fees for certification in an amount sufficient to cover the reasonable cost of administering the certification provisions of this division. However, a local EMS agency shall not collect fees for the certification or recertification…

(a) Any local EMS agency conducting a program pursuant to this article may provide courses of instruction and training leading to certification as an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-P, or authorized registered nurse. When such instruction and training are provided, a fee may be charged suffic…

A local EMS agency may require additional training or qualifications, for the use of drugs, devices, or skills in either the standard scope of practice or a local EMS agency optional scope of practice, which are greater than those provided in this chapter as a condition precedent…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, EMT-I's, EMT-II's, and EMT-P’s shall be required to renew their cardiopulmonary resuscitation certificate no more than once every two years. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 774, Sec. 1.)

Public safety agencies that are certifying entities may certify and recertify public safety personnel as EMT-I. The state fire marshal, subject to policy guidance and advice from the State Board of Fire Services, may certify and recertify fire safety personnel as EMT-I. All perso…

(a) Every certifying entity shall submit to the authority certification data required by Section 1797.117. (b) The authority shall collect fees from each certifying entity for the certification and certification renewal of each EMT-I and EMT-II in an amount sufficient to support …

Any local EMS agency may authorize an advanced life support or limited advanced life support program which provides services utilizing EMT-II or EMT-P, or both, for the delivery of emergency medical care to the sick and injured at the scene of an emergency, during transport to a …