Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

The board is the governing body of the district and may make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the administration and government of the district and for the cleaning, repair, reconstruction, renewal, replacement, operation, and maintenance of lateral and collect…

The board may acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, or otherwise in the name of the county, and own, control, manage, and dispose of, real and personal property necessary or convenient for the purposes of this chapter, and may perform all of the acts necessary or proper to acc…

The board may appoint the county surveyor to supervise the work of cleaning, repairing, reconstructing, renewing, replacing, operating, and maintaining the sewers and their appurtenances and may enter into contracts for the purchase of water to be used in flushing the sewers and …

The board may by resolution change the name of any district to conform with a change in the street name or other designation which the district bears. The clerk shall file in the office of the county assessor and with the State Board of Equalization a certified copy of every such…

If a district has a boundary which is contiguous to a boundary of a city and the district has a contract with that city under which the city is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities of the district, the governing board of the district may, by a resolutio…

The governing board may order the construction of sewers, drains, septic tanks, and sewerage collection, outfall, treatment works and other sanitary disposal systems, and storm water drains and storm water collection, outfall and disposal systems, and appurtenances and appurtenan…

The Improvement Act of 1911, the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, and the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 are applicable to districts. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 426.)

In the application of those acts to proceedings under this article the terms used in those acts shall have the following meanings: (a) “City council” and “council” mean board. (b) “City” and “municipality” mean district. (c) “Clerk” and “city clerk” mean secretary. (d) “Superinte…

The powers and duties conferred by those acts and supplementary acts upon boards, officers, and agents of cities shall be exercised by the respective boards, officers, and agents of the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The improvements authorized to be constructed or acquired by this article are restricted to those permitted to be constructed or acquired by such districts under Article 1 of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 1072.)

Notice of a declaration of intention to remove the human remains from all or any part of any cemetery shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city, or city and county, in which the cemetery or the portion from which removals are to be …

The notice shall be entitled “Notice of Declaration of Intention to Remove Human Remains from ____ (insert name of cemetery) in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. ____ (insert number) of the ____ (insert name of city, or city and county) adopted ____ (insert date)” a…

Copies of the notice shall within ten days after the first publication be posted in at least three conspicuous places in the cemetery or the portion from which removals are to be made. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

A copy of the notice shall be mailed to every person who owns, holds, or has the right of interment in, any plot in the cemetery or part affected, whose name appears upon the records of the cemetery. The notice shall be addressed to the last known post-office address of the plot …

The notice shall also be mailed to each known living heir at law of any person whose remains are interred in the cemetery, if his address is known. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any owner of nonresidential real property who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that any release of hazardous substance has come to be located on or beneath that real property shall, prior to the sale, lease, or rental of the real property by that owner, give written not…

Any lessee or renter of real property who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that any release of a hazardous substance has come or will come to be located on or beneath that real property shall, within a reasonable period of time, either prior to the release or following th…

(a) Whenever an interment of the remains of a member or of a relative of a member of the family of the record owner or of the remains of the record owner is made in a plot transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner, the plot shall become the family plo…

An affidavit executed by a person who is the owner of the plot by virtue of the laws of intestate succession or by his or her attorney-in-fact, setting forth the fact of the death of the owner, the absence of a disposition of the plot by the owner in his or her will by a specific…

In a family plot one grave, niche or crypt may be used for the owner’s interment; one for the owner’s surviving spouse, if any, who by law has a vested right of interment in it; and in those remaining, if any, the parents and children of the deceased owner in order of death may b…

If no parent or child survives, the right of interment goes in the order of death first, to the spouse of any child of the record owner and second, in the order of death to the next heirs at law of the owner or the spouse of any heir at law. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any surviving spouse, parent, child or heir who has a right of interment in a family plot may waive such right in favor of any other relative, or spouse of a relative of either the deceased owner or of his spouse, and upon such waiver the remains of the person in whose favor the …

The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) A pilot program was established by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to test the feasibility of performing high quality, safe diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures in a freestanding cardiac catheterization…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a freestanding cardiac catheterization laboratory that as of December 31, 1993, was in active status in the Health Care Pilot Project established pursuant to former Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 444) of Division 1, and that mee…

The governing body of a city shall take measures necessary to preserve and protect the public health, including the regulation of sanitary matters in the city, and including if indicated, the adoption of ordinances, regulations and orders not in conflict with general laws. (Added…

This article does not prevent the appointment by the governing body of a board of health that shall be advisory to the health officer. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Every governing body of a city shall appoint a health officer, except when the city has made other arrangements, as specified in this code, for the county to exercise the same powers and duties within the city, as are conferred upon city health officers by law. (Amended by Stats.…

Immediately after the appointment of the city health officer the governing body shall notify the director of the appointment and the name and address of the appointee. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Each city health officer shall enforce and observe all of the following: (a) Orders and ordinances of the governing body of the city pertaining to the public health. (b) Orders, quarantine and other regulations, concerning the public health, prescribed by the department. (c) Stat…

The city health officer may take any preventive measure that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any public health hazard during any “state of war emergency,” “state of emergency,” or “local emergency,” as defined by Section 8558 of the Government Code…

(a) Upon receipt by the State Registrar of an application for delayed registration of birth and payment of the required fee, he or she shall review the application together with the affidavits and documentary evidence accompanying it and shall accept the application if the applic…

The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the delayed certificate of birth to the applicant without additional cost. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The State Registrar shall send certified copies of the delayed certificate of birth to the local registrar and the county recorder within which area the birth occurred and in whose offices copies of records of the year of occurrence of the event are on file. (Added by Stats. 1995…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (i), every government agency employee who handles, applies, or supervises the use of any pesticide for public health purposes, shall be certified by the department as a vector control technician in at least one of the followi…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Manufacturer” includes an importer for resale. (b) A dealer who sells at wholesale an article or substance shall, with respect to that sale, be considered the distributor of that article or su…

In the case of any article or substance sold on or after the effective date of this section by its manufacturer, distributor, or dealer that is a banned hazardous substance, whether or not it was at the time of its sale, the article or substance shall, in accordance with regulati…

(a) Whenever a warning label is included on any product defined as a dietary supplement pursuant to Section 321(ff) of Title 21 of the United States Code, that is manufactured or distributed in this state, the label shall be clear and conspicuous. (b) Nothing in this section shal…

Violation of this article by any person, as defined in Section 109995, shall constitute an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed the following: (a) One thousand dollars ($1,000) for the first violation. (b) Two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the second violation. (c) Five…

(a) (1) The sale or distribution of any dietary supplement product containing ephedrine group alkaloids is prohibited unless the product label clearly and conspicuously contains the following statement: “THIS PRODUCT HAS (INSERT THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCT) MILLIGRAMS OF CONCENTRATED E…

(a) It is a misdemeanor for any manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or other person, to sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish any of the following to a person under 18 years of age: (1) A dietary supplement containing an ephedrine group alkaloid. (2) A dietary supplement containin…

(a) This article shall not apply to a licensed health care practitioner practicing within his or her scope of practice who prescribes, dispenses, or both, herbs in the course of treatment of patients under the care of the licensed practitioner. (b) This article shall not apply to…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a retail establishment that sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a dietary supplement product in violation of Section 110423.2 shall not be guilty of a misdemeanor pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 110423.2 if all of the followi…

Nothing in this article limits or restricts any rights, remedies, or duties otherwise applicable by law. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1005, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)

(a) No person shall dispense or refill a controlled substance prescription more than six months after the date thereof. (b) No prescription for a Schedule III or IV substance may be refilled more than five times and in an amount, for all refills of that prescription taken togethe…

A prescription for a controlled substance, except those appearing in schedule II, may be refilled without the prescriber’s authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the refill and if, in the pharmacist’s professional judgment, failure to refill the prescription …

Any person, whether as principal or agent, employer or employee, who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more t…