Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

If any cemetery is located partly in one registration district and partly in another, only one permit shall be required for interment and a permit authorizing interment in the cemetery shall entitle interment to be made within or without the district to which the permit is direct…

Permits for the disinterment or removal of interred remains shall be required, as specified in Part 2 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 7. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) in accordance with this chapter. The purpose of the EHSS shall be to establish ongoing surveillance of the environmental exposures and diseases affecting Californians, with a f…

(a) On or before July 1, 2002, the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall create a working group of technical experts, including expert…

(a) On or before July 1, 2004, the State Department of Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of California shall jointly develop and sign a memorandum of understanding to assess the feasibility of both of the following: (1) Integratin…

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the adoption and implementation, by specified dates, of one of the approaches recommended by the working group pursuant to Section 104324.2. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 538, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 20…

This chapter shall only apply to the University of California to the extent that the Regents of the University of California make it applicable by appropriate resolution. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 538, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)

Cautionary statements that are required by law, or regulations adopted pursuant to law, to be printed upon the labels of containers in which dangerous drugs, poisons, and other harmful substances are packaged shall be printed in the English language in a conspicuous place in type…

Unless a specific color is prescribed, the cautionary statements may be printed in any color, but preferably red, upon a plain and distinctly contrasting background. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The words “safe,” “safely,” “safety,” or words having the same meaning that would detract from the value of the cautionary statement shall not be used upon the labels of containers of dangerous drugs, poisons, and other highly toxic substances. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec…

Nothing in this chapter shall apply to products produced by a laboratory licensed under Section 351 of Title III of the Public Health Service Act (Public Law 410, Chapter 373, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session). (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1…

Any violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

This chapter shall become operative January 1, 1960. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

In order to ensure the proper utilization of the laws permitting the seizure and forfeiture of property under this chapter, the Legislature hereby establishes the following guidelines: (a) Law enforcement is the principal objective of forfeiture. Potential revenue must not be all…

The following are subject to forfeiture: (a) All controlled substances which have been manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or acquired in violation of this division. (b) All raw materials, products, and equipment of any kind which are used, or intended for use, in manufacturing…

(a) The expenses of seizing, eradicating, destroying, or taking remedial action with respect to, any controlled substance or its precursors shall be recoverable from: (1) Any person who manufactures or cultivates a controlled substance or its precursors in violation of this divis…

(a) In lieu of a civil action for the recovery of expenses as provided in Section 11470.1, the prosecuting attorney in a criminal proceeding may, upon conviction of the underlying offense, seek the recovery of all expenses recoverable under Section 11470.1 from: (1) Any person wh…

(a) Section 11470 shall be applicable to property owned by, or in the possession of, minors. (b) The procedures for the forfeiture of property that comes within Section 11470 shall be applicable to minors. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, if a petition has been…

The provisions of this chapter apply to any minor who has been found to be a person described in Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code because of a violation of Section 11351, 11351.5, 11352, 11355, 11366, 11366.5, 11366.6, 11378.5, 11379, 11379.5, 11379.6, or 11382. (…

Property subject to forfeiture under this division may be seized by any peace officer upon process issued by any court having jurisdiction over the property. Seizure without process may be made if any of the following situations exist: (a) The seizure is incident to an arrest or …

(a) State or local law enforcement authorities shall not refer or otherwise transfer property seized under state law authorizing the seizure of property to a federal agency seeking the adoption of the seized property by the federal agency for proceeding with federal forfeiture un…

A peace officer making a seizure pursuant to Section 11471 shall notify the Franchise Tax Board where there is reasonable cause to believe that the value of the seized property exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000). (Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 924, Sec. 1.5. Effective September 2…

Controlled substances and any device, contrivance, instrument, or paraphernalia used for unlawfully using or administering a controlled substance, which are possessed in violation of this division, may be seized by any peace officer and in the aid of such seizure a search warrant…

(a) All seizures under provisions of this chapter, except seizures of vehicles, boats, or airplanes, as specified in subdivision (e) of Section 11470, or seizures of moneys, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value as specified in subdivision (f) of Section 11…

(a) All seizures of controlled substances, instruments, or paraphernalia used for unlawfully using or administering a controlled substance which are in possession of any city, county, or state official as found property, or as the result of a case in which no trial was had or whi…

A court order for the destruction of controlled substances, instruments, or paraphernalia pursuant to the provisions of Section 11473 or 11473.5 may be carried out by a police or sheriff’s department, the Department of Justice, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the…

Controlled substances listed in Schedule I that are possessed, transferred, sold, or offered for sale in violation of this division are contraband and shall be seized and summarily forfeited to the state. Controlled substances listed in Schedule I, which are seized or come into t…

Species of plants from which controlled substances in Schedules I and II may be derived which have been planted or cultivated in violation of this division, or of which the owners or cultivators are unknown, or which are wild growths, may be seized and summarily forfeited to the …

The failure, upon demand by a peace officer of the person in occupancy or in control of land or premises upon which the species of plants are growing or being stored, to produce an appropriate registration, or proof that he is the holder thereof, constitutes authority for the sei…

Cannabis may be provided by the Attorney General to the heads of research projects which have been registered by the Attorney General, and which have been approved by the research advisory panel pursuant to Section 11480. The head of the approved research project shall personally…

Notwithstanding Sections 11473 and 11473.5, at any time after seizure by a law enforcement agency of a suspected controlled substance, except in the case of growing or harvested cannabis, that amount in excess of 10 pounds in gross weight may be destroyed without a court order by…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 11473, 11473.5, and 11479, at any time after seizure by a law enforcement agency and identification by a forensic chemist or criminalist of phencyclidine, or an analog thereof, that amount in excess of one gram of a crystalline subst…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 11473, 11473.5, 11474, 11479, and 11479.1, at any time after seizure by a law enforcement agency of a suspected controlled substance, except cannabis, any amount, as determined by the court, in excess of 57 grams may, by court order, be …

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 11473 and 11473.5, at any time after seizure by a law enforcement agency of a suspected hazardous chemical, the chemical’s container, or any item contaminated with a hazardous substance believed to have been used or intended to have been used in the u…

(a) The Legislature finds that there is a need to encourage further research into the nature and effects of cannabis and hallucinogenic drugs and to coordinate research efforts on such subjects. (b) There is a Research Advisory Panel that consists of a representative of the State…

(a) The panel shall review and may approve research projects to be conducted in this state that would require the administration of Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substances. (b) The panel shall inform the Attorney General of the head of the approved research projects that …

(a) The panel may withdraw approval from a research project for reasonable cause. (b) Prior to withdrawing approval, the panel shall communicate its concerns in a written notice of pending withdrawal of approval to the head of the research project. The notice shall prescribe a co…

(a) The Research Advisory Panel shall be considered a multimember advisory body solely for the purposes of Section 11123.5 of the Government Code. (b) The panel shall provide a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, that provides an update on the backlog of appli…

(a) The panel shall, annually and in the manner determined by the panel, report to the Legislature and the Governor those research projects approved by the panel, the nature of each research project, whether it was approved under the expedited process set forth in subdivision (c)…

No provision of this division shall be construed to prohibit the establishment and effective operation of a narcotic treatment program licensed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 11885) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 10.5. (Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 455, Sec. 12…

Any peace officer of this state who, incident to a search under a search warrant issued for a violation of Section 11358 with respect to which no prosecution of a defendant results, seizes personal property suspected of being used in the planting, cultivation, harvesting, drying,…

(a) Any peace officer of this state, subsequent to making or attempting to make an arrest for a violation of Section 11351, 11351.5, 11352, 11355, 11359, 11360, 11378, 11378.5, 11379, 11379.5, 11379.6, or 11382 of this code, or Section 182 of the Penal Code insofar as the offense…

Property seized pursuant to Section 11488 may, where appropriate, be held for evidence. The Attorney General or the district attorney for the jurisdiction involved shall institute and maintain the proceedings. (Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 314, Sec. 10. Effective August 19, 1994.)…

Within 15 days after the seizure, if the peace officer does not hold the property seized pursuant to Section 11488 for evidence or if the law enforcement agency for which the peace officer is employed does not refer the matter in writing for the institution of forfeiture proceedi…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (j), if the Department of Justice or the local governmental entity determines that the factual circumstances do warrant that the moneys, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value seized or subject to forfeiture come wit…

(a) (1) Any person claiming an interest in the property seized pursuant to Section 11488 may, unless for good cause shown the court extends the time for filing, at any time within 30 days from the date of the last publication of the notice of seizure, if that person was not perso…