Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) (1) Any owner or operator, or other responsible party who has an underground storage tank case and who believes that the corrective action plan for the site has been satisfactorily implemented, but where closure has not been granted, may petition the board for a review of the…

The local agency may request the following agencies to utilize that agency’s authority to remedy the effects of, and remove, any hazardous substance which has been released from an underground storage tank: (a) The department which may take action pursuant to Part 2 (commencing w…

(a) In addition to the authority granted to the board pursuant to Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code and to the department pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 78000) of Division 45, the board, in cooperation with the department, shall develop and…

(a) (1) For purposes of implementing, pursuant to Section 25297.01, the local oversight program for the abatement of, and oversight of the abatement of, unauthorized releases of hazardous substances from underground storage tanks, the board may enter into in an agreement specifie…

(a) (1) The local agency shall not consider cleanup or site closure proposals from the primary or active responsible party, issue a closure letter, or make a determination that no further action is required with respect to a site upon which there was an unauthorized release of ha…

Any local agency which performs, or causes to be performed, any cleanup, abatement, or other action necessary to remedy the effects of a release of hazardous substances from an underground storage tank is immune from liability for this action to the same extent as the board or re…

(a) The Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cost Recovery Fund is hereby created in the General Fund and the money in the fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes specified in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e). (b) All of the following amounts shall…

(a) No person shall abandon an underground tank system or close or temporarily cease operating an underground tank system, except as provided in this section. (b) An underground tank system that is temporarily taken out of service, but which the owner or operator intends to retur…

The analysis of any material that is required to demonstrate compliance with this chapter or Chapter 6.75 (commencing with Section 25299.10) shall be performed by a laboratory accredited by the department pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part…

(a) An operator of an underground tank system is liable for a civil penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) or more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each underground storage tank, for each day of violation, for any of the following violations: (1) Operating an…

(a) If a person has engaged in, is engaged in, or is about to engage in any acts or practices that violate this chapter, or Chapter 6.75 (commencing with Section 25299.10) or any rule, regulation, permit, standard, requirement, or order issued, adopted, or executed pursuant to th…

Every civil action brought under this chapter shall be brought by the city attorney, the county counsel, the district attorney, or the Attorney General in the name of the people of the State of California, and any actions relating to the same violations may be joined or consolida…

Any civil action brought pursuant to this chapter shall be brought in the county in which the violation occurred, the county in which the principal office of the defendant is located, or the county in which the Attorney General has an office nearest to the county in which the pri…

In any civil action brought pursuant to this chapter in which a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction is sought, it is not necessary to allege or prove at any state of the proceeding that irreparable damage will occur should the temporary re…

Notwithstanding Sections 25299.02 and 25299.03, the board may impose civil liability administratively for a violation described in subdivision (a), (b), (c), (e), or (f) of Section 25299 pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 13323) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of the Wat…

(a) Any city or county which prior to January 1, 1984, adopted an ordinance which, at a minimum, met the requirements set forth in Sections 25284 and 25284.1, as they read on January 1, 1984, prior to being amended and renumbered, providing for double containment, and monitoring …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 25299.4, this chapter does not preclude or deny the right of a local agency to adopt and enforce any regulation, requirement, or standard of performance that is more stringent than a regulation, requirement, or standard of perf…

(a) The board shall adopt regulations implementing this chapter. (b) Every city and county shall undertake its regulatory responsibilities under this chapter. Except as provided in Section 25299.1, every city and county shall implement this chapter not later than July 1, 1985. (c…

(a) (1) Any local agency may apply to the board for authority to implement design and construction standards for the containment of a hazardous substance in underground storage tanks which are in addition to those set forth in this chapter. The application shall include a descrip…

(a) This chapter shall be construed to assure consistency with the requirements for state programs implementing the federal act. (b) This chapter shall not be construed to limit or abridge the powers and duties granted to the department by Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 251…

An owner or operator who is required to prepare an accident or spill prevention plan or response plan pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to an underground storage tank ordinance adopted by a city or county may, if the owner or operator elects to do so, use the format adopted pu…

(a) The board is designated as the lead agency in the state for all purposes stated in the federal act and may exercise any powers which a state may exercise pursuant to the federal act. (b) The board may prepare, as part of any program application submitted to the Environmental …

The repeal and addition of Section 25292.3 and the amendment of Section 25284 by the act adding this section during the 2002 portion of the 2001–02 Regular Session, to eliminate the requirement to acquire and display an upgrade compliance certificate, do not constitute a bar to a…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Large numbers of California’s renters face excessive housing costs and live in overcrowded or substandard units. Many of these renters also have special housing needs arising from their employment status, age, or disabi…

(a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Multifamily Housing Program. (b) Assistance provided to a project pursuant to this chapter, excluding assistance provided pursuant to Section 50675.1.1 or 50675.1.3, shall be provided in the form of a deferred payment loan t…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including subdivision (b) of Section 50675.1, funds appropriated in the 2020 Budget Act or an act related to the 2020 Budget Act, including, but not limited to, moneys received from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the federal Coronavi…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including subdivision (b) of Section 50675.1, funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness, as defined by this section, and who are inherently impacted by…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, projects to provide housing pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 5965.04 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, shall be a use by right and shall be subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process, pursuant to…

(a) The department may designate an amount not to exceed 1.5 percent of funds appropriated for use pursuant to this chapter for the purposes of curing or averting a default on the terms of any loan or other obligation by the recipient of financial assistance, or bidding at any fo…

If an appropriation is made by the Legislature for the purposes of this chapter in an amount of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) or less, the department may administer the funds with guidelines that shall not be subject to the requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Sect…

(a) The department shall include in the annual report required by Section 50408 information that describes all of the following: (1) The number of projects assisted through the program. (2) The types of units assisted through the program. (3) The location and geographical distrib…

(a) With respect to funds made available under this chapter, the department shall award reasonable priority points for projects to prioritize any of the following: (1) Infill development. (2) Adaptive reuse in existing developed areas served with public infrastructure. (3) Projec…

(a) This section applies only to projects funded with funds appropriated for supportive housing projects. (b) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “May restrict occupancy to persons with veteran status” means that the sponsor may limi…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Eligible individual” means an individual who meets both of the following criteria: (A) The individual is experiencing homelessness, as defined in this chapter. (B) The individual or head of household is…

(a) (1) In the City and County of Los Angeles, where the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted an authority, as defined in Section 34203, a waiver effective August 17, 2024, to allow household income verifications to occur after a lease contract is signe…

The definitions of this section shall apply to all activities conducted pursuant to this chapter. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 50050) of Part 1 shall also ap…

Any moneys appropriated and made available by the Legislature for the purposes of this chapter and all moneys received by the department in repayment of loans made pursuant to this chapter, including interest and payments in advance in lieu of future interest, shall be deposited …

(a) To be eligible to receive a loan, a proposed project shall involve one or more of the following activities: (1) The development and construction of a new transitional or rental housing development. (2) The rehabilitation, or acquisition and rehabilitation, of a transitional o…

(a) Eligible costs shall include the cost of developing dwelling units, transitional housing, and childcare, and after school care and social service facilities integrally linked to the assisted dwelling units. (b) Eligible cost categories shall include all of the following: (1) …

(a) A sponsor may apply for loans for one or more rental or transitional housing developments. A housing development may utilize any combination of federal, state, local, and private financial resources necessary to make the development affordable, for the term of the state’s reg…

Loans shall be provided using a project selection process established by the department that meets all of the following requirements: (a) To the extent feasible, this process shall be coordinated with the processes of other major housing funding sources, including that of the Cal…

(a) Prior to disbursement of any funds for loans to rental housing developments made pursuant to this chapter, the department shall enter into a regulatory agreement with the sponsor that provides for all of the following: (1) Sets standards for tenant selection to ensure occupan…

Where the requirements of federal funding for a project, or the requirements of the low-income housing tax credits used in a project, would cause a violation of the requirements of this chapter, the requirements of this chapter may be modified as necessary to ensure program compa…