Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) A certificate of compliance shall not be issued to any new motor vehicle or motor vehicle with a new motor vehicle engine which is not certified by the state board, and which is the subject of a transaction prohibited by Section 43152 or 43153. (b) With respect to a new motor…

The department shall, with the cooperation of the state board and after consultation with the motor vehicle manufacturers and representatives of the service industry, research, establish, and update as necessary, specifications and procedures for motor vehicle maintenance and tun…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section or Section 44017.1, a motor vehicle owner shall qualify for a repair cost waiver only after expending at least four hundred fifty dollars ($450) for repairs, including parts and labor. (b) The department shall periodically revise t…

(a) For purposes of this section, “low-income motor vehicle owner” means a person whose income does not exceed 185 percent of the federal poverty level. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 44017, for low-income motor vehicle owners qualified under Section 44062.1, the …

(a) The department shall provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing customers about options when their vehicle fails a biennial smog check inspection, including, but not limited to, the option for qualified consumers to retire vehicles, receive repair assistance,…

(a) Upon registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles, a passenger vehicle or pickup truck that is a specially constructed vehicle, as defined in Section 580 of the Vehicle Code, shall be inspected by stations authorized to perform referee functions. This inspection shall b…

At the earliest possible date, as determined by the bureau, the bureau shall implement at the referee stations, where appropriate, an alternative workday schedule which substitutes Saturday working hours in lieu of another day during the Monday through Friday workweek, in order t…

(a) The motor vehicle inspection program may include advisory safety equipment maintenance checks, fuel efficiency checks, or both, on the motor vehicle if the department finds that cost-effective methods for conducting those checks exist and that the cost of the inspection to th…

(a) Every public agency, including, but not limited to, a publicly owned public utility, owning or operating any motor vehicle that is exempt from annual renewal of registration, and is otherwise subject to this chapter, shall obtain for the vehicle a certificate of compliance wi…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may license any registered owner of a fleet of 10 or more motor vehicles subject to this chapter, who so elects, to implement and conduct the tests and to perform necessary service and adjustment on the fleet’s v…

(a) The department, in cooperation with the state board, shall investigate new technologies, including the role of onboard diagnostic systems in vehicles, as a means both for detecting excess emissions and defective emission control equipment, and for assisting in determining wha…

(a) The department shall compile and maintain statistical and emissions profiles and data from motor vehicles that are subject to the motor vehicle inspection program. The department may use data from any source, including remote sensing data, in use data, and other motor vehicle…

The department shall act as a clearinghouse to provide access to the vendors who possess service information generated by the vehicle manufacturers. (Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 27, Sec. 26. Effective March 30, 1994.)

Before a district acquires or constructs any works under this chapter, its governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring its intention to do so. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The resolution of intention shall contain all of the following: (a) A brief and general description of the works. If they are to be constructed, a reference to the plans and specifications that have been prepared and filed by the engineer chosen by the governing body. (b) The est…

The owner of property that may be benefited by the acquisition, construction, extension, or operation of the works referred to in this chapter may file with the district a request that a particular work be undertaken. The request may, but need not, include the descriptions and es…

The agency may invest in, purchase, or make commitments to purchase, and take assignments from qualified mortgage lenders of, construction loans, mortgage loans, property improvement loans, obligations secured by construction loans, mortgage loans, property improvement loans and …

The agency may invest in, purchase, or make commitments to purchase any residential mortgage or any obligation secured by a residential mortgage or participation therein, and sell such obligations, residential mortgages, or participations or create pools of such obligations, resi…

The agency may insure or guarantee any obligation held by the agency and secured by a mortage on a housing development or residential structure for the purpose of increasing its acceptability or value for sale or as security for other obligations. The agency may also insure or gu…

Sales of mortgage obligations and securities pursuant to this article may be made at public or private sale, with or without public bidding, whether directly or through a contract with a private marketing intermediary. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)

Except as provided in Sections 6580.1 and 6580.2, all elections of officers after the formation of the district, which elections shall be known as “general district elections,” shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. (Amend…

The election of officers may be consolidated with the direct primary election if the board of directors passes a resolution to that effect on or before the first day of August of the preceding odd-numbered year, and states in the resolution those offices of director to be filled …

An officer elected or appointed pursuant to Section 6580.1 shall hold office until the election or appointment and qualification of his or her successor. A district that has determined to consolidate its general district elections with the direct primary election may thereafter d…

The nominating petition may be upon one or more sheets of paper. Each petition shall contain the name of only one candidate who shall be a resident elector of the district. (Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 154.)

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the bodies of persons who have died from any cause shall not be received for transportation by a common carrier unless the body has been embalmed and prepared by a licensed embalmer and placed in a sound casket and enclosed in a transpor…

Whenever the director determines that there may be an imminent or substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or to the environment, because of a release or a threatened release of a hazardous substance, the director may do any or all of the following: (a) Order any …

(a) The department shall expend moneys available in the reserve account, established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 78240, only for the purpose of taking immediate corrective action necessary to remedy or prevent an emergency resulting from a fire or an explosion of, or h…

Any removal or remedial action taken or contracted by the department pursuant to Section 78870 or 78875 shall be exempt from all of the following provisions: (a) State Contract Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100) of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code). (b…

(a) The department may prequalify bidders for remedial or removal actions taken pursuant to Section 78870 or 78875. The department may reject the bid of any prospective bidder that has not been prequalified. (b) To prequalify bidders, the department shall adopt and apply a unifor…

Terms used in this chapter have the same meaning as defined in the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. Sec. 3001 et seq.), and as interpreted by federal regulations, except that the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Agency” mea…

(a) On or before January 1, 2021, the commission shall develop a list of all California Indian tribes and their respective state aboriginal territories. The commission shall notify in writing all agencies, museums, and California Indian tribes that the commission maintains that l…

(a) A lineal descendent claiming a relationship with, and requesting return of, Native American human remains or cultural items listed in the inventory or summary of an agency or museum, or that requests the return of human remains or cultural items that are not listed in the inv…

(a) Upon receiving a written request for repatriation of an item on the inventory, the commission shall forward a copy of the request to the agency or museum in possession of the item, if the criteria specified in subdivision (a) of Section 8016 have been met. At this time, the c…

(a) An agency or museum receiving a repatriation request pursuant to Section 8014 shall repatriate human remains and cultural items if all of the following conditions are true: (1) The requested human remains or cultural items meet the definitions of human remains or cultural ite…

If there is a committee or group of California Indian tribes authorized by their respective tribal governments to accept repatriation of human remains and cultural items originating from their state aboriginal territory or culturally affiliated with those tribal governments, the …

An agency or museum that repatriates human remains and cultural items in good faith pursuant to this chapter is not liable for claims by an aggrieved party or for claims of breach of a fiduciary duty or the public trust or of violation of state law that are inconsistent with this…

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the governing body of a California Indian tribe or group authorized by Section 8017 from expressly relinquishing control over any human remains or control or title to any cultural item. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 818, Sec. 1.…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and upon the request of any party or an intervenor, the commission or designated mediator may close part of a mediation session to the public if the commission or designated mediator finds that information required at the mediation sess…

The filing of an appeal by either party automatically stays an order of the commission or a designated mediator on repatriation of human remains and cultural items. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 818, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.)

A cemetery authority that maintains a cemetery may place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain, and operate an endowment care fund. Endowment care and special care funds consisting of trust funds created by irrevocable trust agreements may be commingled for in…

(a) The principal of all funds for endowment care shall be invested and the income only may be used for the care, maintenance, and embellishment of the cemetery in accordance with the provisions of law and the resolutions, bylaws, rules, and regulations or other actions or instru…

(a) If a cemetery authority establishes an endowment care fund, the fund shall be subject to a net income distribution method that requires all of the following: (1) The trustee of the endowment care fund shall create a reserve from which principal losses may be replaced by setti…

(a) On or after January 1, 2021, a cemetery authority, its board of trustees, or its corporate trustee may apply to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to convert its endowment care fund from a net income distribution method to a unitrust distribution method. (b) The bureau shall app…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the principal of the trust fund of a cemetery and all income from it shall be exempt from seizure, under any writ, mandate, or process, including bankruptcy, by any private entity, including, but not limited to, creditors of the beneficiaries, t…

The cemetery authority may from time to time adopt plans for the general care, maintenance, and embellishment of its cemetery, and charge and collect from all subsequent purchasers of plots such reasonable sum as, in the judgment of the cemetery authority, will aggregate a fund, …

Upon payment of the purchase price and the amount fixed as a proportionate contribution for endowment care, there may be included in the deed of conveyance or by separate instrument an agreement to use the income from such endowment care fund for the care, maintenance, and embell…