Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

If a person granted a variance with a schedule of increments of progress files an application for modification of the schedule and is unable to notify the hearing board sufficiently in advance to allow the hearing board to schedule a public hearing on the application, the hearing…

(a) No variance shall be granted unless the hearing board makes all of the following findings: (1) That the petitioner for a variance is, or will be, in violation of Section 41701 or of any rule, regulation, or order of the district. (2) That, due to conditions beyond the reasona…

(a) The hearing board, in determining whether or not the petitioner has presented evidence sufficient to make the finding specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 42352 or paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 42368, shall consider, in addition to any other …

Upon making the specific findings set forth in Section 42352, the hearing board shall prescribe requirements other than those imposed by statute or by any rule, regulation, or order of the district board, not more onerous, applicable to plants and equipment operated by specified …

In prescribing other and different requirements, in accordance with Section 42353, the hearing board, insofar as is consonant with the Legislature’s declarations in Sections 39000 and 39001, shall exercise a wide discretion in weighing the equities involved and the advantages to …

(a) The hearing board may require, as a condition of granting a variance, that a bond be posted by the party to whom the variance was granted to assure performance of any construction, alteration, repair, or other work required by the terms and conditions of the variance. The bon…

The hearing board may modify or revoke, by written order, any order permitting a variance. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The hearing board may review and for good cause, such as a change in the availability of materials, equipment, or adequate technology, modify a schedule of increments of progress or a final compliance date in such a schedule. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

(a) The hearing board, in making any order permitting a variance, shall specify the time during which such order shall be effective, in no event, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), to exceed one year, and shall set a final compliance date. (b) A variance may be issu…

Except in the case of an emergency, as determined by the hearing board, the hearing board shall hold a hearing pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 40800) of Part 3 to determine under what conditions, and to what extent, a variance shall be granted. (Added by Stats. 197…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or of Article 2 (commencing with Section 40820) of Chapter 8 of Part 3, the chairman of a district hearing board, or any other member of the hearing board designated thereby, may issue, without notice and hearing, an emergen…

Within 30 days of any order granting, modifying, or otherwise affecting a variance by the hearing board, or a member thereof pursuant to Section 42359. 5, either the air pollution control officer or the hearing board shall submit a copy of the order to the state board. (Amended b…

Any variance granted by the hearing board of a county district or a unified district, or any member of such a hearing board pursuant to Section 42359.5, applicable in an area which subsequently becomes included within a regional district, including the bay district, shall remain …

The state board may revoke or modify any variance granted by any district if, in its judgment, the variance does not require compliance with a required schedule of increments of progress or emission standards as expeditiously as practicable, or the variance does not meet the requ…

Prior to revoking or modifying a variance pursuant to Section 42362, the state board shall conduct a hearing pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 40800) of Part 3 on the matter. The person to whom the variance was granted shall be given immediate notice of any such hear…

(a) The district board may adopt, by regulation, a schedule of fees which will yield a sum not exceeding the estimated cost of the administration of this article and for the filing of applications for variances or to revoke or modify variances. All applicants shall pay the fees r…

The state board shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices for installation on motor vehicles not equipped with such a device when first sold. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, requirements that the…

In adopting criteria for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices, the state board shall take into consideration the cost of the device and its installation, its durability, the ease and facility of determining whether the device, when installed on a moto…

The installation of a certified fuel system evaporative loss control device on used motor vehicles shall not be mandated except by statute. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The state board may adopt, by regulation, standards and test procedures for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices on new motor vehicles in the absence of any such federal regulations. In such case, no new motor vehicle may be sold and registered in thi…

Any portion of the territory of a county, whether incorporated or unincorporated, in which lateral or collecting sanitary sewers have been installed, for the maintenance and repair of which provision is not otherwise made, may be formed into a district, except that no portion of …

The board of supervisors of any county may determine by resolution that any portion of the unincorporated area of the county not already included in a district is in need of sewer maintenance and should be formed into a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The board shall fix a time and place to hear the proposal to form a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The board shall direct the clerk to give notice of the hearing. The notice shall have the heading “Notice of the proposed formation of ____ sewer maintenance district”, stating the name of the proposed district. It shall: (a) State the time and place for the hearing. (b) Set fort…

The board shall direct the clerk to publish the notice once a week for two successive weeks in the newspaper of general circulation circulated in the territory which it is proposed to organize into a district that the board deems most likely to give notice to the inhabitants of t…

The board shall also direct the clerk to post the notice in three public places in the proposed district at least 10 days prior to the date set for the hearing. The heading of each posted notice shall be in letters of not less than one inch in height. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch.…

At any time prior to the time fixed for the hearing any interested person may file with the clerk written objections to the formation of the proposed district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

At the time and place fixed for the hearing or at any time to which the hearing is continued, the board shall consider and pass on all written objections filed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If the board overrules the objections to the formation it shall hear any person objecting to the inclusion in the proposed district of any particular territory and may, upon the hearing, exclude any territory that would not be benefited by inclusion. At the conclusion of the hear…

At any time after the sewer or other sanitary system is constructed the governing body of any city lying within the limits of the district may elect to keep and maintain the lateral sewer lying within the city in order and repair and may enter into an agreement with the board to …

Whenever any portion of a district has been included within a city by annexation, incorporation, or otherwise, the governing body of such city may elect, upon agreement by the district, to construct new storm water drains and storm water collection, outfall and disposal facilitie…

Where an entire district shall have heretofore become located within the boundaries of a city by reason of the incorporation thereof, and said district shall have continued thereafter to function as a sanitary district, and no court having jurisdiction of the subject matter shall…

The cemetery authority of any cemetery from which human remains are ordered removed by an ordinance adopted in accordance with this chapter, may declare its intention and purpose to disinter and remove the remains in accordance with the ordinance, and to reinter the remains in an…

Any resolution or declaration of intention to disinter and remove human remains pursuant to this chapter adopted or declared by any cemetery authority shall specify and declare that at any time after the expiration of ten months from and after the first publication of the notice …

(a) A person shall not release, or allow or cause a release of, a reportable quantity of a hazardous substance into the environment that is not authorized or permitted pursuant to state law. (b) Any release of a reportable quantity of hazardous substance shall be reported to the …

(a) The owner of property on which a reportable release has occurred and any person who releases, or causes a reportable release and who fails to make the written report required by subdivision (b) of Section 78675, shall be liable for a penalty not to exceed twenty-five thousand…

In a conveyance to two or more persons as joint tenants each joint tenant has a vested right of interment in the plot conveyed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the plot held in joint tenancy immediately vests in the survivors, subject to the vested right of interment of the remains of the deceased joint tenant. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Cemetery property held in joint tenancy is exempt from the provisions of the Probate Code relating to proceedings for establishing the fact of death of a person whose death affects title to real property. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 201, Sec. 2.)

An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the facts setting forth the fact of the death of one joint tenant and establishing the identity of the surviving joint tenants named in the deed to any plot, when filed with the cemetery authority operating the cemetery in which the …

When there are several owners of a plot, or of rights of interment in it, they may designate one or more persons to represent the plot and file written notice of designation with the cemetery authority. In the absence of such notice or of written objection to its so doing, the ce…

(a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Act. (b) Laboratories that perform analyses on any combination of environmental samples, or raw or processed agricultural products for regulatory purposes shall obtain a certificate o…

(a) A laboratory accredited by the state board shall report, in a timely fashion and in accordance with the request for analysis, the full and complete results of all detected contaminants and pollutants to the person or entity that submitted the material for testing. The state b…

The State Water Resources Control Board may do all of the following related to accrediting environmental laboratories in the state: (a) Offer both state accreditation and TNI accreditation, which shall be considered equivalent for regulatory activities covered by this article. (b…

The department may do all of the following: (a) Adopt regulations establishing requirements for both types of accreditation. The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Laboratory personnel. (2) Quality assurance procedures. (3) Laboratory equi…

All regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this article, as they read immediately preceding January 1, 2006, shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the department in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure A…