Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Every health officer shall enforce the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relating to swimming pools and the other regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this article in his or her jurisdiction.

For the purposes of this article, any health officer, or any inspector of the department, may at all reasonable times enter all parts of the premises of a public swimming pool to make examination and investigation to determine the sanitary condition and whether this article, buil…

The department may publish the reports of inspections.

Any public swimming pool constructed, operated, or maintained contrary to the provisions of this article is a public nuisance, dangerous to health.

Any nuisance maintained in violation of this article may be abated or enjoined in an action brought by a local health officer, or the department, or it may be summarily abated in the manner provided by law for the summary abatement of other public nuisances dangerous to health.

(a) As used in this section the following words have the following meanings: (1) (A) “Public wading pool” means a pool that meets all of the following criteria: (i) It has a maximum water depth not exceeding 18 inches. (ii) It is a pool other than a pool that is located on the pr…

(a) As used in this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) “ANSI/APSP performance standard” means a standard that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and published by the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP). (2) “A…

Every person who violates any provision of this article, building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relating to swimming pools, or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine…

Each day that a violation of this article continues is a separate offense.

As used in this article, water-contact sport means any sport in which the body of a person comes into physical contact with water, including but not limited to swimming, surfboarding, paddleboarding, skin diving, and water-skiing. It does not include boating or fishing.

The department has supervision of sanitation, healthfulness, and safety of the public beaches and public water-contact sport areas of the ocean waters and bays of the state and, except as provided in Section 18930, the department may make and enforce regulations pertaining theret…

Regulations made pursuant to this article shall include suitable standards of safe bacteria count for water-contact sports areas specified by the State Water Pollution Control Board or regional water pollution control boards, which standards shall be applied to all public water-c…

Every person who violates any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to give the department the authority to fix the areas wherein water-contact sports may be engaged in or to affect the authority of the State Water Pollution Control Board or regional water pollution control boards to fix approp…

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Local health officer” means the legally appointed health officer or director of environmental health of the city, county, or city and county, having jurisdiction over the area in which a publicly …

(a) Upon issuance by the office of a site-specific fish or shellfish health advisory pursuant to Section 59011 of this code or Section 13177.5 of the Water Code, a local health officer shall conspicuously post health warnings at public access points to locations where contaminate…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the utilization of the waters of the state by residential consumers for general domestic purposes, including drinking, cleaning, washing, and personal grooming and sanitation of the people is a right that should be interfered with on…

(a) Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions in this section govern the construction of this article. (b) “Clock control” means the system controlling the periodic automatic regeneration of a residential water softening or conditioning appliance that is based upon a …

Except as provided in Section 116786, a residential water softening or conditioning appliance may be installed only if either of the following apply: (a) The regeneration of the appliance is performed at a nonresidential facility separate from the location of the residence where …

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 116785, a local agency may, by ordinance, limit the availability, or prohibit the installation, of residential water softening or conditioning appliances that discharge to the community sewer system if the local agency makes all of t…

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 116786, the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, or any successor district, may, by ordinance adopted subsequent to an ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 116786, require the removal of all installed residential self-regenerat…

Any water softening appliance in place at a residential dwelling prior to January 1, 1980, in those areas being served by sewage treatment facilities that have been limited with regard to salt loading pursuant to Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code and fo…

The certification required by this article shall be provided by the new user of the appliance and shall be completed by a contractor having a valid Class C-55 water conditioning contractor’s license or Class C-36 plumbing contractor’s license and filed with the local agency respo…

Local health officers may maintain programs for the control of cross-connections by water users, within the users’ premises, where public exposure to drinking water contaminated by backflow may occur. The programs may include inspections within water users premises for the purpos…

(a) Local health officers may maintain programs, in cooperation with water suppliers, to protect against backflow through service connections into the public water supply, and, with the consent of the water supplier, may collect fees from the water supplier to offset the costs of…

To ensure that testing and maintenance of backflow prevention devices are performed by persons qualified to do testing and maintenance, local health officers may maintain programs for certification of backflow prevention device testers. The local health officer may suspend, revok…

(a) All pipes installed above or below the ground, on and after June 1, 1993, that are designed to carry recycled water, shall be colored purple or distinctively wrapped with purple tape. (b) Subdivision (a) shall apply only in areas served by a water supplier delivering water fo…

Any person who violates any provision of this article, violates any order of the local health officer pursuant to this article, or knowingly files a false statement or report required by the local health officer pursuant to this article is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a …

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern construction of this article: (a) “Water treatment device” means any point of use or point of entry instrument or contrivance sold or offered for rental or lease for residential use, and designed to be …

All regulations adopted pursuant to this article prior to January 1, 2014, are repealed.

(a) Commencing January 1, 2014, each manufacturer that offers for sale in California a water treatment device for which it makes a health or safety claim shall, for each water treatment device for which the manufacturer does not have a valid, unexpired certificate issued by the d…

(a) A water treatment device for which a health or safety claim is made shall not be sold or otherwise distributed unless the device is included on the list of water treatment devices published on the state board’s Internet Web site pursuant to Section 116845. (b) After July 1, 2…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a certificate issued by the department shall not be valid unless the application for certification was filed on or before November 1, 2013. (b) A currently valid certificate issued by the department on or before December 31, 2013, pursuant to th…

(a) The department, or any local health officer with the concurrence of the department, shall enforce this article. (b) The department may remove a water treatment device from, or determine not to include a water treatment device on, the list of water treatment devices on the dep…

The department shall publish semiannually on its Internet Web site the following: (a) (1) A list of water treatment devices for which a valid certification was issued by the department on or before December 31, 2013, except for those water treatment devices that the department ha…

(a) The department shall charge and collect the applicable annual fee, as established pursuant to subdivision (b), from each manufacturer that submits information as required by Section 116832 and from each manufacturer that has a currently valid certificate issued by the departm…

This article shall not apply to residential self-regenerating water softeners, as defined in Section 13148 of the Water Code.

There is in the State Treasury the Water Device Certification Special Account. Fees collected pursuant to Section 116850 shall be deposited in the account created by this section. The money in the account is available for expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the L…

The Director of Finance may authorize the department to borrow up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the purpose of implementing this article from any fund or account deemed appropriate by the Director of Finance. The department shall repay the loan with interest to b…

(a) No person shall use any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux that is not lead free in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a facility providing water for human consumption, except when necessary for the repair of leade…

(a) Commencing January 1, 2023, a person shall not manufacture, and offer for sale in the state, an endpoint device intended to convey or dispense water for human consumption that leaches more than one microgram of lead for test statistic Q or R, when normalized for a first draw …

The department shall adopt building standards to implement Section 116875. The standards shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code and shall be published in the State Building Standard…

(a) By July 1, 2018, a community water system shall compile an inventory of known lead user service lines in use in its distribution system and identify areas that may have lead user service lines in use in its distribution system. (b) (1) By July 1, 2020, a community water syste…

(a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (1) “Community water system” has the same meaning as in Section 116275. (2) “Public water system” has the same meaning as in Section 116275. (3) “State board” means the State Water Resources Control Board. (4) “Us…

The Legislature recognizes the potential positive impact that federal, state, and local agencies can have on the alleviation of alcohol and other drug problems through better coordinated planning and utilization of limited health resources. The Legislature encourages persons conc…

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Polanco-Lockyer Pet Breeder Warranty Act. (b) Every breeder of dogs shall comply with this article. As used in this article, “dog breeder,” or “breeder” means a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other association th…

(a) Every breeder of dogs shall deliver to each purchaser of a dog a written disclosure containing all of the following: (1) The breeder’s name and address. If the breeder is a dealer licensed by the United States Department of Agriculture, the federal dealer identification numbe…

A breeder shall maintain a written record on the health, status, and disposition of each dog for a period of not less than one year after disposition of the dog. The record shall also include all of the information that the breeder is required to disclose pursuant to Section 1220…

Except as provided for in paragraph (6) of subdivision (a) of Section 122050, no breeder shall knowingly sell a dog that is diseased, ill or has a condition, any one of which that requires hospitalization or nonelective surgical procedures. In lieu of the civil penalties imposed …

It shall be unlawful for a breeder to fail to do any of the following: (a) Maintain facilities where the dogs are kept in a sanitary condition. (b) Provide dogs with adequate nutrition and potable water. (c) Provide adequate space appropriate to the age, size, weight, and breed o…