Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) Unless otherwise provided in this article, the obligations imposed by this article shall remain in effect until January 1, 2030. (b) The Mercury Thermostat Collection Program Fund created by subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 25214.8.11.2 shall be…

(a) A person shall not manufacture, sell, or install a wheel weight in California that contains more than 0.1 percent lead by weight. (b) If the department identifies an alternative to lead contained in wheel weights as a chemical of concern pursuant to Section 25252, the lead al…

(a) Any person who violates or threatens to violate the provisions of this article may be enjoined in any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who violates this article is not subject to criminal penalties and is only subject to the adminis…

(a) Contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Health Services shall do all of the following: (1) Regularly analyze asthma morbidity and mortality data, and shall periodically assess the burden of asthma on the state’s medical and economic res…

(a) The department shall offer public and professional education to disseminate the most current information on asthma. (b) The department shall assist health care organizations, such as managed care organizations, in identifying or developing effective asthma diagnosis and treat…

The department shall do all of the following in connection with the administration of funds provided to implement this chapter: (a) Draft and circulate requests for applications. (b) Determine selection criteria, consult with applicants, and monitor the progress of projects. (c) …

The department shall monitor the clinical and public interventions required by this chapter, and shall report successful and unsuccessful interventions in clinical and public health practice. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 93, Sec. 24. Effective July 7, 2000.)

The department shall establish and maintain a surveillance and intervention program for the prevention of asthma. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 93, Sec. 24. Effective July 7, 2000.)

The department shall implement this chapter contingent on the appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 93, Sec. 24. Effective July 7, 2000.)

The Legislature finds and declares that the laws of this state which prohibit the possession, possession for sale, offer for sale, sale, manufacturing, and transportation of controlled substances are being circumvented by the commission of those acts with respect to analogs of sp…

(a) A controlled substance analog shall, for the purposes of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11350), be treated the same as the controlled substance classified in Section 11054 or 11055 or the synthetic cannabinoid compound defined in Section 11357.5 of which it is an analog. …

(a) Prior to the performance of a hysterectomy, physicians and surgeons shall obtain verbal and written informed consent. The informed consent procedure shall ensure that at least all of the following information is given to the patient verbally and in writing: (1) Advice that th…

The failure of a physician and surgeon to inform a patient by means of written consent, in layman’s language and in a language understood by the patient of alternative efficacious methods of treatment which may be medically viable, when a hysterectomy is to be performed, constitu…

(a) A district board shall not adopt, amend, or repeal any rule or regulation without first holding a public hearing thereon. (b) Notice of the time and place of a public hearing to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule or regulation shall be given not less than 30 days prior thereto …

The public hearing held pursuant to Section 40725 shall provide for the submission of statements, arguments, or contentions, either oral, written, or both. A district board may continue or postpone the hearing from time to time, to a time and place as it shall determine. Followin…

(a) Before adopting, amending, or repealing a rule or regulation, the district board shall make findings of necessity, authority, clarity, consistency, nonduplication, and reference, as defined in this section, based upon information developed pursuant to Section 40727.2, informa…

(a) In complying with Section 40727, the district shall prepare a written analysis as required by this section. In the analysis, the district shall identify all existing federal air pollution control requirements, including, but not limited to, emission control standards constitu…

Every district shall maintain a file of each regulation which shall be deemed to be the record for that rulemaking proceeding. The file shall include all of the following: (a) Copies of any petitions received by the district from interested persons proposing the adoption, amendme…

(a) Whenever a district intends to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule or regulation that will significantly affect air quality or emissions limitations, that agency shall, to the extent data are available, perform an assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of th…

(a) A district may establish programs to assist the public, government agencies, and businesses in complying with district regulations. (b) For the purposes of a program established pursuant to subdivision (a), a district may provide to any person any factual nonconfidential info…

In order to assist in the development of the BACM, RACM, and BARCT measures specified in Sections 40724, 40724.5, and 40724.6, and to reduce or eliminate emissions of regulated air pollutants and their precursors, the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association, in cons…

For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Agency” means the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. (b) “Applicant” has either of the following meanings: (1) For purposes of Article 1 (commencing with Section 50232), “applicant” means a continuum of care, city, county, or a reg…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature for the council to administer the program with the department. (b) In every instance in which the council is called upon to perform a task pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 50216), the obligation to perform that…

The Legislature finds and declares that the rehabilitation of existing housing is necessary to the continued viability of neighborhoods, the elimination of health and safety hazards, the prevention of the overcrowding and the continued availability of a dwindling stock of low-cos…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage local governments to assist residents to repair and rebuild housing in a cost-efficient and expeditious manner following a disaster. To this end, the Legislature recognizes that local governments may enact ordinances following …

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund. All interest or other increments resulting from the investment of moneys in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund shall be deposited in the fund, notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Governme…

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Disaster Housing Repair Fund, into which shall be paid all moneys appropriated by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (b) or transferred pursuant to subdivision (c) for housing repair loans pursuant to Sections …

The Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development may transfer moneys appropriated or otherwise made available for the purposes of the programs established under Sections 50662.7 and 50671.5 between those programs when there is insufficient funding to meet the l…

The department shall adopt regulations establishing terms upon which deferred-payment rehabilitation loans may be made. The amount of a deferred-payment rehabilitation loan shall in no case exceed the costs of meeting rehabilitation standards. The amount, when combined with other…

Deferred-payment loans may be made to finance actual costs incurred to meet rehabilitation standards for rehabilitation of mobilehome parks, as defined in Section 18214, for occupancy by lower income households. (Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1174, Sec. 3.)

For the purpose of providing disaster relief to those owners of owner-occupied single-family dwellings that were damaged or destroyed as a result of the Los Angeles-Whittier Narrows Earthquake on October 1, 1987, or subsequent aftershocks, resulting in a state of emergency procla…

For the purpose of providing disaster relief to those owners of owner-occupied dwellings that were damaged or destroyed as a result of a natural disaster defined by Section 8680.3 of the Government Code, resulting in a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor pursuant to Sec…

(a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 50662.7, the department may allow the assumption of any loan made pursuant to subdivision (b) of that section for owner-occupied dwellings subject to all of the following conditions: (1) The original borrower dies. (…

The department may contract with a local public entity or nonprofit corporation to provide any portion of uncommitted funds in the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund for making deferred-payment rehabilitation loans through such local public entity or nonprofit corporation in aid of…

Deferred-payment loans may be made to local agencies for repair of substandard dwellings through a master agreement and fund commitment. Such agreements shall limit the amount of deferred-payment rehabilitation loans to actual rehabilitation costs to the local agency, shall requi…

In residential rehabilitation areas designated pursuant to Section 37921, or in conjunction with financing of residential rehabilitation outside such areas as provided in Section 37922.1 or 37924.5, a person or family of low or moderate income that is the owner of an owner-occupi…

In concentrated rehabilitation areas designated pursuant to Section 51302, a person or family of low or moderate income who is the owner of an owner-occupied residential structure of one to four units may receive a deferred-payment rehabilitation loan for the excess of the cost o…

In those counties and cities in which the California Housing Finance Agency has allocated funds for mortgage loans for rehabilitation of housing developments pursuant to Section 51311, a person or family of low or moderate income who is the owner of an owner-occupied housing deve…

In areas in which a local public entity or nonprofit corporation is undertaking a rehabilitation or code enforcement program for which federal funds are being used or will be used in conjunction with the program established pursuant to this chapter, a person or family of low inco…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or in Section 50664, deferred-payment loans may be made only through agreements between the local public entity which has received a fund commitment and the owner of the dwelling unit or rental housing development or through agreements ap…

For the purpose of providing financial assistance pursuant to this chapter utilizing bond proceeds transferred to the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 53130, paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 53130, and Sections 88…

As used in Section 50670: (a) “Deferred-payment loan” means a loan for acquisition and rehabilitation of a rental housing development that (1) has a term of not more than 30 years, but that shall not in any event exceed the useful life of the rental housing development for which …

(a) The department shall establish a Special User Housing Rehabilitation Program under which it may make deferred-payment loans to sponsors for the rehabilitation or the acquisition and rehabilitation of rental housing developments to be occupied by eligible households of very lo…

For the purpose of providing disaster relief to owners of rental housing and the tenants residing in rental housing that was damaged or destroyed as a result of the Los Angeles-Whittier Narrows Earthquake on October 1, 1987, or subsequent aftershocks, resulting in a state of emer…

For the purpose of providing disaster relief to owners of rental housing and the tenants residing in rental housing that was damaged or destroyed as a result of a natural disaster as defined by Section 8680.3 of the Government Code, resulting in a state of emergency proclaimed by…

For the purpose of preserving or expanding the supply of rental housing affordable to low- and very low-income tenants in cities or counties affected by a natural disaster as defined by Section 8680.3 of the Government Code, resulting in a state of emergency proclaimed by the Gov…