Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

(a) (1) A program operator shall include as a collection site under its stewardship program any entity that offers in writing to participate in the stewardship program, complies with all applicable state, federal, and municipal laws and regulations, complies with any program oper…

(a) No later than 180 days after the effective date of this chapter, individual producers shall provide to the department, in a form and manner established by the department, a list of covered batteries and brands of covered batteries that the producer sells, distributes for sale…

(a) Producers may establish one or more stewardship organizations composed of producers to develop and implement a covered battery recycling program. (b) (1) A producer shall comply with this chapter, and any effective regulations adopted pursuant to Section 42420.2, either indiv…

Within 12 months of the effective date of the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section 42420.2, a program operator shall develop and submit to the department a complete stewardship plan, in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, for the collection, tra…

A stewardship plan for covered batteries shall include all of the following: (a) The names of producers, as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 42420.1, and brands of covered batteries covered under the stewardship plan. (b) A description of the process by which the program ope…

(a) A program operator shall review its stewardship plan at least every five years after the stewardship plan approval, and determine whether revisions to the plan are necessary. (b) If a program operator determines that revisions to the plan are necessary, the program operator s…

(a) In preparing a stewardship plan pursuant to Section 42422.1, and any updates to the plan pursuant to Section 42422.3, a program operator shall engage in a consultative process with the advisory body created by the department pursuant to subdivision (b). The program operator s…

(a) (1) At least 150 days before submitting a stewardship plan to the department, a program operator shall submit its entire proposed stewardship plan to the Department of Toxic Substances Control for review. (2) The Department of Toxic Substances Control shall review the plan on…

(a) Within 12 months of the approval of the stewardship plan, the department pursuant to Section 42422.5, a program operator shall fully implement its stewardship program. (b) A program operator may petition the department to investigate a noncompliant producer, and the departmen…

(a) No later than 90 days before a budget is submitted to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the department and the Department of Toxic Substances Control shall notify each program operator of each agency’s respective anticipated actual and reasonable regulatory costs di…

Each producer shall, either individually or through a stewardship organization, pay all administrative and operational costs associated with establishing and implementing the stewardship program in which it participates, including the cost of collection, transportation, recycling…

(a) A program operator shall keep board minutes, books, and records that clearly reflect the activities and transactions of the program operator. (b) A program operator shall retain, at the program operator’s expense, an independent public accountant, certified in the United Stat…

A program operator shall annually submit to the department, in the form and manner, and by the date, determined by the department, an annual report, which the department shall make publicly available that includes all of the following information for the preceding calendar year: …

(a) No later than 120 days after the date the department receives the annual report submitted by a program operator pursuant to Section 42424.1, the department shall notify the program operator if the annual report is compliant or noncompliant. If the department fails to act with…

(a) Within 24 months of the effective date of regulations pursuant to Section 42420.2, and on or before July 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall post on its internet website a list of producers that are in compliance with this chapter. The department shall list, as ap…

(a) The department may impose an administrative civil penalty on a producer, program operator, stewardship organization, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site that is in violation of this chapter. The amount of the administrative civil penalt…

(a) Upon a written finding that a producer, program operator, stewardship organization, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site has not met a material requirement of this chapter, in addition to any other penalties authorized under this chapter…

(a) A producer, program operator, stewardship organization, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, importer, recycler, or collection site shall do both of the following: (1) Upon request, provide the department with reasonable and timely access, as determined by the department, to …

After the time for judicial review under Section 11523 of the Government Code has expired, the department may apply to the small claims court or superior court, depending on the jurisdictional amount and any other remedy sought, in the county where the penalties, restitution, or …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an action specified in subdivision (b) that is taken by a program operator that relates to any of the following is not a violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16700) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business a…

(a) This chapter preempts all rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, and other laws adopted by a city, county, city and county, municipality, or local agency on or after January 1, 2023, regarding stewardship programs for covered batteries. (b) The Legislature finds and declares …

If another state implements a covered battery recycling program, a program operator may, consistent with the requirements of this chapter, collaborate with that state to conserve resources necessary to efficiently manage and implement the program operator’s stewardship program in…

It is the intent of the Legislature that handling fees paid to supermarket site recycling centers pursuant to Section 14585 shall only be used to offset the unique costs of providing convenient recycling opportunities to consumers at supermarket sites, and that those fees may not…

(a) As used in this chapter, “unfair and predatory pricing” means the payment to consumers by a supermarket site, that receives handling fees for the redemption of beverage containers, in an amount that exceeds the sum of both of the following: (1) The California refund value for…

(a) To ensure that handling fees paid to a supermarket site are not used for the purpose of engaging in unfair and predatory pricing, and to otherwise further the intent of this chapter, the department shall follow all of the requirements of this section upon the complaint of eit…

(a) All funds from loan repayments and interest that become due and payable for loans made by the commission pursuant to an agriculture energy assistance program shall be deposited in the Energy Technologies Research, Development, and Demonstration Account, and shall be available…

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act. (Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 197, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)

(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by cities and counties in implementation of the general plan that is in effect in any city or county. The Legislature declares that this chapter…

(a) As used in this chapter, “project” means either of the following: (1) Any subdivision of land that is subject to the Subdivision Map Act (Division 2 (commencing with Section 66410) of Title 7 of the Government Code), and that contemplates the eventual construction of structur…

This chapter, except Section 2621.9, shall not apply to any of the following: (a) The conversion of an existing apartment complex into a condominium. (b) An alteration to any structure for human occupancy if the value of the alteration does not exceed 50 percent of the appraised …

Notwithstanding Section 818.2 of the Government Code, a city or county which knowingly issues a permit that grants an exemption pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 2621.7 that does not adhere to the requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 2621.7, may be lia…

(a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within a delineated earthquake fault zone, or the transferor, if he or she is acting without an agent, shall disclose to any prospective transferee the fact that the property is located withi…

(a) In order to assist cities and counties in their planning, zoning, and building-regulation functions, the State Geologist shall delineate appropriately wide earthquake fault zones to encompass all potentially and recently active traces of the San Andreas, Calaveras, Hayward, a…

(a) The approval of a project by a city or county shall be in accordance with policies and criteria established by the State Mining and Geology Board and the findings of the State Geologist. In the development of those policies and criteria, the State Mining and Geology Board sha…

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, cities and counties may do any of the following: (1) Establish policies and criteria which are stricter than those established by this chapter. (2) Impose and collect fees in addition to those required under this chapter. (3) Determi…

(a) Each applicant for approval of a project may be charged a reasonable fee by the city or county having jurisdiction over the project. (b) Such fees shall be set in an amount sufficient to meet, but not to exceed, the costs to the city or county of administering and complying w…

In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the State Geologist and the board shall be advised by the Seismic Safety Commission. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1243.)

Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions govern this chapter: (a) “Acquisition” means obtaining fee title or a lesser interest in real property, including an easement, development right, or water right. (b) “Development” includes, but is not limited to, im…

(a) This chapter establishes the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Conservation Grant Program in the Resources Agency. (b) The secretary shall administer the program. (c) The program applies only in the Sierra Nevada-Cascade Mountain Region. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 15. Effective…

(a) The secretary shall administer the program consistent with authorized funding, and collaborate and cooperate with local governments and interested parties. (b) The purposes of the program include all of the following: (1) Providing increased opportunities for tourism and recr…

(a) The secretary may undertake projects and activities to further the purposes identified in Section 5819.2. Those projects and activities may include providing grants and loans to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for acquisition, restoration, development, and other a…

To implement Section 79544 of the Water Code, the secretary may provide grants to local public agencies, local water districts, and nonprofit organizations, for acquisition in the region pursuant to this chapter and consistent with Section 79544 of the Water Code, only for the fo…

The secretary shall require an applicant for a grant for land or water resource acquisition to include in the grant application a proposal for the long-term management of the resource that the applicant proposes to acquire. The applicant shall identify the entity that will hold t…

An acquisition made pursuant to this chapter shall be from a willing seller. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 15. Effective August 16, 2004.)

All regulations, criteria, and procedural guides that the secretary adopts to implement this chapter are exempt from Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 15. Effective August 16…

It is the intent of the Legislature to provide in any legislation that establishes a Sierra Nevada Conservancy an appropriate transition from the program established by this chapter within the Resources Agency to the new conservancy. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 230, Sec. 15. Effec…