Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

Every person in charge of a vessel that is to dump or deposit radioactive waste materials upon any of the waters of the ocean where permitted by this article shall notify the department in writing at least five days in advance of the dumping or depositing, specifying the intended…

This article shall not be construed to affect the discharge of any sewer system. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) The board of supervisors shall designate a health-related county agency or department that shall administer the county alcohol and other drug program. The board of supervisors or the head of the designated health-related agency or department shall appoint an alcohol and drug …

The alcohol and drug program administrator, acting through administrative channels designated pursuant to Section 11795, shall do all of the following: (a) Coordinate and be responsible for the preparation of the county contract. (b) Ensure compliance with applicable laws relatin…

(a) Money deposited in the county alcohol abuse education and prevention fund pursuant to Section 1463.25 of the Penal Code shall be jointly administered by the administrator of the county’s alcohol and other drug program and the county office of education subject to the approval…

If the county has an alcohol and other drug advisory board, the alcohol and drug program administrator, acting through administrative channels designated pursuant to Section 11795, may do either or both of the following: (a) Provide reports and information periodically to the adv…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the United States Surgeon General’s 1986 Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking conclude all of the following: (1) Involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy nonsmokers. (2) The…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person to smoke a tobacco product in any vehicle of a passenger stage corporation, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) except to the extent permitted by federal law, in any aircraft except to the extent permitted by federal law, on …

A notice prohibiting smoking, displayed as a symbol and in English, shall be posted in each vehicle or aircraft subject to this article. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) Every person and public agency providing transportation services for compensation, including, but not limited to, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to the extent permitted by federal law, passenger stage corporations, and local agencies that own or operate …

This article does not preempt any local ordinance on the same subject where a local ordinance is more restrictive to the benefit of the nonsmoker. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Any violation of this article is an infraction punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for a first violation, by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) for a second violation within one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) fo…

(a) The Legislature finds that recent responsibilities for assessing and treating the mental disorders of children and adolescents have been required of county mental health programs creating an unmet need for personnel in the field of mental health who have expertise in preventi…

It is the purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to encourage the Regents of the University of California to augment the academic child and adolescent programs at the medical schools of the University of California. The programs shall include, but not be limited to…

(a) The terms used in this article have the same meaning as in Section 128205. (b) There is hereby created a California Health Workforce Education and Training Council that shall be responsible for helping coordinate California’s health workforce education and training to develop…

The members of the council, other than state employees, shall receive compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day’s attendance at a council meeting, in addition to actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in the course of attendance at a council meeting. (Added by…

(a) The council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Develop graduate medical education and workforce training and development priorities for the state. (2) Discuss…

At the time fixed for receiving and considering the report, the board shall hear it and any objections of any of the property owners liable to be assessed for the work of abatement. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Thereupon the board may make such modifications in the report as it deems necessary, after which, by order or resolution, the report shall be confirmed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The amount of the costs for abating the nuisance in front of or upon the various parcels of the land mentioned in the report as confirmed and the amount of the costs incurred by the responsible agency in enforcing abatement upon the parcels, including investigation, boundary dete…

(a) No person shall engage in the production of human whole blood or human whole blood derivatives unless the person is licensed under this chapter and the human whole blood or human whole blood derivative is collected, prepared, labeled, and stored in accordance with both of the…

(a) No person shall import any human whole blood or human whole blood derivative produced outside the state unless that blood or blood product meets the standards set forth in the latest edition of the “Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services,” as published by the Amer…

(a) Except as provided in this subdivision, no blood or blood components shall be used in vivo for humans in this state, unless the blood or blood components have been tested and found nonreactive for HIV or the blood or blood components are used for research or vaccination progr…

(a) Each blood bank or plasma center shall require as identification either a photographic driver’s license or other photographic identification that is issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 12500) of the Vehicle Code, from al…

(a) Before donation of blood or blood components, a donor shall be notified in writing of, and shall have signed a written statement confirming the notification of, all of the following: (1) That the blood or blood components shall be tested for evidence of antibodies to HIV. (2)…

(a) Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) of Part 4 of Division 105, or any other provision of law, no public entity or any private blood bank or plasma center shall be liable for an inadvertent, accidental, or otherwise unintentional disclosure of the result…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every person engaged in the production of blood shall, if the product is intended for transfusion, label each container of blood which the person produces with a label, upon which the following designations shall be printed in lette…

The distribution or release for distribution by blood banks of human whole blood, or those human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation, shall be made only to blood bank depositories or to other licensed blood banks. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1055.)

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to provide umbilical cord blood banking storage services, a blood bank shall be licensed pursuant to this chapter. Any additional standards for blood banks to store umbilical cord blood may be implemented by the department …

Establishments which receive human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation and are not subject to license in accordance with this chapter shall be considered as blood bank depositories. Laboratory tests and other procedures with respect to the prepar…

The procurement, processing, distribution, or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products, and blood derivatives for the purpose of injecting or transfusing the same, or any of them, into the human body shall be construed to be, and is declared to be, for all purposes whatsoever, …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, licensed clinical laboratory bioanalysts, licensed clinical laboratory technologists, registered clinical laboratory technologist trainees, licensed vocational nurses, registered nurses, and blood donor phlebotomists, as defined by the American …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who has attained the age of 17 may consent to the donation of his or her blood and to the penetration of tissue which is necessary to accomplish such donation, and a blood bank may accept such donation. (b) Notwithstanding …

This chapter does not repeal or in any manner affect any provision of the Business and Professions Code relating to the practice of medicine. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1055.)

In each designated EMS area, the local EMS agency may develop and submit a plan to the authority for an emergency medical services system according to the guidelines prescribed pursuant to Section 1797.103. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.)

The local EMS agency shall, consistent with such plan, coordinate and otherwise facilitate arrangements necessary to develop the emergency medical services system. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.)

Local EMS agencies shall annually submit an emergency medical services plan for the EMS area to the authority, according to EMS Systems, Standards, and Guidelines established by the authority. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 197, Sec. 2. Effective July 22, 1996.)

A local EMS agency may review applications for grants and contracts for federal, state, or private funds concerning emergency medical services or related activities in its EMS area. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.)

A local EMS agency which elects to implement a trauma care system on or after the effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to Section 1798.161 shall develop and submit a plan for that trauma care system to the authority according to the requirements of the regulations p…

After the submission of an initial trauma care system plan, a local EMS agency which has implemented a trauma care system shall annually submit to the authority an updated plan which identifies all changes, if any, to be made in the trauma care system. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. …

A local EMS agency that elects to implement a community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program pursuant to Section 1840 shall develop and, prior to implementation, submit a plan for that program to the authority according to the requirements of Chapter 13 (commen…

Survey areas may be designated by resolution of the legislative body, or the legislative body may by resolution authorize the designation of survey areas by resolution of the planning commission or by resolution of the members of the agency. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1665.)

Any person, group, association or corporation may in writing, request the legislative body (or the planning commission or the agency if they are authorized by the legislative body to designate survey areas) to designate a survey area or areas for project study purposes, and may s…

The resolution designating a survey area or areas shall contain the following: (a) A finding that the area requires study to determine if a redevelopment project or projects within said area are feasible; (b) A description of the boundaries of the area designated. (Amended by Sta…

The city selection committee organized in each county within the bay district pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 50270), Chapter 1, Part 1, Division 1, Title 5 of the Government Code shall make the appointments to, and submit recommendations for appointments to, the …

Where the bay district may transact business and exercise its powers only in a portion of a county, the membership of the city selection committee of such county, for purposes of this chapter, shall consist only of the representatives from those cities within that portion of the …