Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The city selection committee for each county shall meet within 90 days after the adoption of the resolution by the board of supervisors to create a regional district. The committee shall thereafter meet on the second Monday in May of each even-numbered year for the purpose of mak…

The clerk of the board of supervisors shall notify, in writing, the board of supervisors and the clerk of the regional district board of the appointment made by the city selection committee within 10 days after such appointment has been made.

Members of a city selection committee may be allowed their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties pursuant to this article.

A regional district board is the governing body of the regional district and shall exercise all the powers of the regional district.

A group consisting of one member of the board of supervisors and one member of the city selection committee, appointed by their respective bodies, from each county included, in whole or in part, within the regional district shall enter into an agreement on the composition of the …

The agreement entered into, pursuant to Section 40321, shall provide one of the following alternatives: (a) The number of supervisors, and the number of members of the city selection committee, appointed by their respective bodies, from each county included, in whole or in part, …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, on and after July 1, 1994, the membership of the governing board of each regional district, including any district formed on or after that date, shall include (1) one or more members who are mayors, city council members, or…

Members of a newly created regional district board shall serve terms which shall expire on the first day of June of the third year following the year in which they are appointed. Thereafter, each member appointed by the board of supervisors shall hold office for four years and un…

Any vacancy on a regional district board shall be filled by appointment in the same manner as the vacating member was appointed. Any member of a regional district board may be removed at any time in the same manner as he was appointed. If four-fifths of the members of the board o…

If any member of a regional district board is recalled from his or her office as a supervisor, mayor, or city council member, pursuant to Division 11 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Elections Code, his or her office as member of the regional district board shall be vacant.

No supervisor, mayor, or city council member shall hold office on a regional district board for a period of more than three months after ceasing to hold the office of supervisor, mayor, or city council member, respectively, and his or her membership on the regional district board…

A majority of the members, or the members with a majority of the voting weight, of a regional district board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business and may act for the regional district board.

Each member of a regional district board shall receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties, plus a compensation of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day attending the meetings of the regional district board, but such compensation sh…

A regional district board may appoint an executive secretary to perform such duties as may be assigned to the executive secretary by the regional district board.

A regional district board may, by ordinance, adopt a civil service system for any or all employees of the regional district, except that the executive secretary and the air pollution control officer shall be exempt from such system and shall serve at the pleasure of the regional …

As used in this article, “council” means an air pollution control advisory council appointed pursuant to Section 40361.

A regional district board may appoint an air pollution control advisory council to advise and consult with the regional district board and regional district air pollution control officer in effectuating the purposes of this division.

The council shall consist of the chairman of the regional district board, who shall serve as an ex officio member, and members who preferably are skilled and experienced in the field of air pollution and a representative from each of the following groups within the regional distr…

Council members shall serve without compensation, but may be allowed actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

The council shall select a chairman and vice chairman and such other officers as it deems necessary.

The council shall meet as frequently as the regional district board or the council deem necessary.

A regional district may borrow money and incur indebtedness in anticipation of the revenue for the current year in which the indebtedness is incurred or for the ensuing year. Such indebtedness shall not exceed the total amount of the estimate of the tax income for either the curr…

Before the 15th day of June of each year, the regional district board shall estimate and determine the amount of money required by the regional district for its purposes during the ensuing fiscal year and shall apportion this amount to the counties included within the regional di…

On or before the 15th day of June of each year, the regional district board shall inform the board of supervisors of each county of the amount apportioned to the county. Each board of supervisors shall levy an ad valorem tax on the taxable property, but not including intangible p…

Taxes levied by a board of supervisors for the benefit of a regional district shall be a lien upon all property within such county, or that portion thereof, lying within the regional district and shall have the same force and effect as other liens for taxes. Their collection may …

(a) (1) At any time prior to the first receipt by a regional district of revenues from taxation, the counties within the regional district may loan any available money to the regional district for purposes of organization and operation, and such expenditures shall constitute a pr…

The treasurers of the counties included, in whole or in part, within a regional district shall pay into the regional district treasury all funds held by them to the credit of the regional district.

A regional district treasury shall be in the custody of the county treasurer of a county in the regional district designated by the regional district board, and such treasurer shall be the regional district treasurer.

A regional district board shall, in carrying out the provisions of this article, comply as nearly as possible with the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 29000), Division 3, Title 3 of the Government Code.

The board of supervisors of a county within a regional district may withdraw the county, or portion thereof, from the regional district to form a county district or to join the county, or portion thereof, with a unified district, the bay district, or another regional district upo…

The withdrawal of a county, or portion thereof, shall not affect the functioning of other counties within the regional district, and such withdrawal shall not constitute a dissolution of the regional district. The regional district shall continue to function in a manner not incon…

A board of supervisors shall give at least two months’ notice to the regional district board of its intention to withdraw the county, or portion thereof, from the regional district. A county, or portion thereof, shall not be withdrawn from a regional district during any fiscal ye…

By the enactment of the 1994 amendments to this chapter made pursuant to the act that added this section, the Legislature hereby declares its intent to meet or exceed the air quality standards established by the amendments enacted to the federal Clean Air Act in 1990 (42 U.S.C. S…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the amendments made to this part by the act that added this section during the 1999–2000 Regular Session not negatively affect the ability of the state to achieve its emission reduction goals.

(a) The Legislature further finds and declares that the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program implemented under this chapter has, since 1984, provided beneficial emission reductions without undue inconvenience to California vehicle owners, and vehicle owners will benef…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that California has been required, by the amendments enacted to the Clean Air Act in 1990, and by regulations adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency, to enhance California’s existing motor vehicle inspection and maintenance pr…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that additional reductions of motor vehicle emissions could be achieved by effective repairs to motor vehicle emission control components. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department work with the California Community College…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) Under the state’s previous smog check program, a motor vehicle owner could obtain unlimited repair cost waivers and, therefore, avoid repair of a polluting vehicle. (b) As a result, many vehicles were reregistered year aft…

(a) A duty of enforcing and administering this chapter is vested in the chief of the bureau who is responsible to the director. (b) The department shall take those actions consistent with its statutory authority to ensure that the reduction in vehicle emissions of hydrocarbons, c…

The department shall have the sole and exclusive authority within the state for developing and implementing the motor vehicle inspection program in accordance with this chapter. For the purposes of administration and enforcement of this chapter, the department, and the director a…

(a) (1) An enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program is established in each urbanized area of the state, any part of which is classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a serious, severe, or extreme nonattainment area for ozone or a moderate or serious n…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an enhanced motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program, including the provisions of Section 44010.5, is established in the San Francisco Bay Area Basin, consistent with the requirements described in subdivision (b). (b) The department shal…

(a) The motor vehicle inspection program provided by this chapter, when implemented in a district, shall supersede and replace any other program for motor vehicle emission inspection in the district. This chapter shall not apply to any vehicle permanently located on an island in …

(a) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall cooperate with the department in implementing any changes to enhance the program to achieve greater efficiency, cost effectiveness, and convenience, or to reduce excess emissions in accordance with this chapter. (b) The program shall pro…

The motor vehicle inspection program shall provide for privately operated stations which shall be referred to as smog check stations and are authorized pursuant to Section 44015 to issue certificates of compliance or noncompliance to vehicles which meet the requirements of this c…

(a) The department shall implement a program with the capacity to inspect that portion of the total state vehicle fleet subject to inspection each year in the biennial program and registered in the enhanced program area, as established pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a)…

(a) All motor vehicles powered by internal combustion engines that are registered within an area designated for program coverage shall be required biennially to obtain a certificate of compliance or noncompliance, except for the following: (1) All motorcycles until the department…

For purposes of Section 44011, the term “registered within an area designated for program coverage” includes any vehicle registered pursuant to the Vehicle Code in this state when the registered owner’s mailing or residence address is not located within this state, or when the ad…

Every motor vehicle that is subject to testing pursuant to this chapter may be pretested. As used in this section, a pretest is a smog inspection in which the motor vehicle is submitted to some or all of the required elements of the emissions inspection as specified in Section 44…

Documentation that a motor vehicle is exempt from the requirements of Section 44011 may not be based solely on the owner’s statement that the vehicle is in an exempt category. Physical inspection of the vehicle by the department is required unless alternative documentation satisf…