Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

(a) On or before January 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, the department, in collaboration with the commission, shall submit to the Legislature’s fiscal and appropriate policy committees a report that includes an initial list of projects identified and planned for the 2009–10 fi…

(a) Any repayment of loans made pursuant to this chapter from the Energy Efficient State Property Revolving Fund, including interest payments, and all interest earnings on or accruing to, any money resulting from the implementation of this chapter in the Energy Efficient State Pr…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 39718 of the Health and Safety Code, any repayment of loans made pursuant to this chapter from the Energy Efficiency Retrofit State Revolving Fund, including interest payments, and all interest earnings on or accruing to, any money resulting from the i…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Littered plastic products have caused and continue to cause significant environmental harm and have burdened local governments with significant environmental cleanup costs. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to ens…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state that environmental marketing claims, whether explicit or implied, should be substantiated by competent and reliable evidence to prevent deceiving or misleading consumers about the environmental impac…

(a) A person shall not offer for sale, sell, distribute, or import into the state any product or packaging for which a deceptive or misleading claim about the recyclability of the product or packaging is made. (b) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a product or packaging that displays…

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “ASTM” means the ASTM International. (b) (1) “ASTM standard specification” means either of the following: (A) The ASTM Standard Specification for Labeling of Plastics Designed to be Aerobically Composted in Munici…

(a) If an ASTM standard specification specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42356 is subsequently revised, the department shall review the new ASTM standard specification as follows: (1) If the department determines that the new standard, when compared to the A…

The department may adopt an existing standard different from an ASTM standard specification, as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42356, if all the following conditions are met: (a) The existing standard is adopted or developed by a standard-setting organiz…

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), a person shall not sell or offer for sale a product in this state that is labeled with the term “compostable” or “home compostable” unless, at the time of sale or offering for sale, the product meets the applicable ASTM standard specif…

(a) A manufacturer of a compostable plastic bag meeting an ASTM standard specification specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 42356 or Section 42356.1 shall ensure that the compostable plastic bag is readily and easily identifiable from other plastic bags in a m…

(a) For purposes of this section, “plastic food container product” means a product made of plastic that includes a tray, clamshell container, or other receptacle and that is used, or intended to be used, to hold food. (b) A manufacturer or supplier making an environmental marketi…

(a) A city, a county, or the state may impose civil liability in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500) for the first violation of this chapter, one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the second violation, and two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the third and any subsequent violation…

This chapter shall become operative on January 1, 2013. (Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 594, Sec. 1. (SB 567) Effective January 1, 2012. Note: This section prescribes a delayed operative date (January 1, 2013) for Chapter 5.7, commencing with Section 42355, as added by Stats. 2011, Ch…