Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

When not immediately required to provide financing under this chapter, revenues and the proceeds of revenue bonds may be invested in any securities or obligations authorized by the resolution providing for issuance of the bonds or authorized by its trust indenture. Such investmen…

Neither the members of the agency nor any person executing the revenue bonds shall be liable personally on the revenue bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof.

The agency shall have the power out of any funds available therefor to purchase its revenue bonds. The agency may hold, pledge, cancel, or resell such revenue bonds, subject to and in accordance with agreements with the bondholders.

In the discretion of the agency, any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the agency and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or …

Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee or trustees appointed pursuant to any resolution authorizing the issuance of such revenue bonds, except to the extent the rights thereof may be rest…

Any agency may provide for the issuance of the revenue bonds of the agency for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds of the agency then outstanding, or for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds of another political subdivision of the state then outstanding pursuant to S…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, revenue bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be legal investments for all trust funds, insurance companies, savings and loan associations, investment companies and banks, both savings and commercial, and shall be legal investment…

The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and for their health and welfare. Any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom, shall at all times be …

An agency may not finance mortgage or construction loans which have not been authorized by prior written agreement between the agency and the participating party. All agreements for such loans shall provide that the architectural and engineering design of the residential construc…

An agency may enter into loan agreements with any participating party relating to residential construction of any kind or character. The terms and conditions of such loan agreements may be as mutually agreed upon, but such terms and conditions shall not be inconsistent with the p…

All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether revenues or proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds or proceeds of mortgage insurance or guarantee claims, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely for the purposes of this chapter. Any…

This chapter being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.

If the jurisdiction of the agency to order a proposed act is not affected, an omission of any officer or the agency in proceedings under this chapter or any other defect in the proceedings shall not invalidate the proceedings or revenue bonds issued pursuant to this chapter.

This chapter is full authority for the issuance of bonds by an agency for the purpose of financing residential construction.

This chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of revenue bonds and refunding revenue bonds un…

An action may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validity of any issuance or proposed issuance of revenue bonds under this chapter and the legality and validity of all proceedings pr…

There is continued in existence and shall be, in each district, one or more hearing boards consisting of five members each, as specified in Section 40801, appointed by the district board. The district board may also appoint one alternate for each member. The alternate shall have …

Any district board may designate the hearing board appointed by it as the “district hearing panel.” Every provision of every statute and every regulation that relates to hearing boards appointed pursuant to this chapter shall be fully applicable to any district hearing panel that…

A hearing board shall consist of: (a) One member admitted to the practice of law in this state. (b) One member who is a professional engineer registered as such pursuant to the Professional Engineers Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and …

If the district board, in the case of a district with a population of less than 750,000, is unable to appoint a person with the qualifications specified in Section 40801 who is willing and able to serve, and for that reason a vacancy exists on the hearing board, the county distri…

No officer or employee of the district, or of the county in the case of a county district, shall be a member of the district hearing board.

The terms of the members of a hearing board shall be three years. In the case of the initial members of a hearing board appointed subsequent to January 1, 1974, two shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years.

Within 30 days after a regional district begins to function and exercise its powers, the regional district board shall appoint a hearing board.

A hearing board shall select a chairman from its members.

A hearing board may adopt rules for the conduct of its hearings. The rules shall be consistent with this division and, so far as practicable, shall conform to the rules for administrative adjudication by state agencies in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500), Part 1, Divisio…

Except as provided for in Section 42359, no abatement order, permit, or variance may be issued, modified, or revoked by a hearing board, unless a public hearing thereon has been held by the hearing board pursuant to this chapter.

(a) The office of the county counsel may represent both the district and the hearing board on a matter relating to a hearing before the hearing board as long as the same individual attorney does not represent both the district and the hearing board. (b) This section does not appl…

Except as provided in Section 40501.1, subdivision (c) of Section 40824, subdivision (c) of Section 40825, Section 42351.5, and Section 42359.5, three members of the hearing board shall constitute a quorum, and no action shall be taken by the hearing board except in the presence …

A hearing board, with not fewer than four members present, may, in its discretion, within 30 days of the effective date of the decision, rehear any matter.

Any hearing conducted by a hearing board shall be held in a location readily accessible to the public.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 40824, 40825, and 40826, a hearing board shall serve a notice of the time and place of a hearing upon the district air pollution control officer, and upon the applicant or permittee affected, not less than 10 days prior to such hearing…

In case of a hearing to consider an application for an interim variance, as authorized under Section 42351: (a) The hearing board shall serve reasonable notice of the time and place of the hearing upon the district air pollution control officer and upon the applicant. (b) Subdivi…

In case of a hearing to consider an application for a variance, or a series of variances, to be in effect for a period of not more than 90 days, or an application for modification of a schedule of increments of progress: (a) The hearing board shall serve a notice of the time and …

In case of a hearing to consider an application for a variance, other than an interim variance or a 90-day variance, or an application for a modification of a final compliance date in a variance previously granted, the notice requirements for the hearing shall be as follows: (a) …

A hearing board shall serve a notice of the time and place of a hearing either by personal service or by first-class mail, postage prepaid. If either the identity or address of any person entitled to notice is unknown, the hearing board shall serve such person by publication of n…

(a) A hearing board shall allow interested members of the public a reasonable opportunity to testify with regard to the matter under consideration, and shall consider that testimony in making its decision. (b) The hearing board shall prepare a record of the witnesses and the test…

Any member of a hearing board may administer oaths in any hearing in which he participates as a member of the hearing board.

At any hearing, a hearing board shall require any witness to be sworn before testifying.

Whenever the members of a hearing board conducting any hearing deem it necessary to examine any person as a witness at the hearing, the chairman of the hearing board shall issue a subpoena, in proper form, commanding such person to appear before it at a time and place specified t…

A subpoena to appear before a hearing board shall be served in the same manner as a subpoena in a civil action.

Whenever any person duly subpoenaed to appear and give evidence, or to produce any books and papers, before a hearing board neglects or refuses to appear, or to produce any books and papers, as required by the subpoena, or refuses to testify or to answer any question which the he…

Upon receipt of a report submitted pursuant to Section 40842, the superior court shall proceed as specified in Section 11455.20 of the Government Code.

On the return of the attachment and the production of the body of the defendant, the superior court has jurisdiction of the matter. The person charged may purge himself of the contempt in the same way, and the same proceeding shall be had, and the same penalties may be imposed, a…

A hearing board shall announce its decision in writing. Copies of the decision shall immediately be filed with its clerk and mailed to all of the parties or their attorneys.

A hearing board may rehear a decision if a party petitions for a rehearing within 10 days after a copy of the decision has been mailed to him.

The decision of a hearing board shall include the reasons for the decision.

The decision shall become effective upon filing, unless the hearing board orders otherwise.

(a) Judicial review may be had of a decision of a hearing board by filing a petition for a writ of mandate in accordance with Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any such petition shall be filed within 30 days after the dec…

In any proceeding pursuant to Section 40864, the court shall receive in evidence any order, rule, or regulation of the district board, any transcript of the proceedings before the hearing board, and such further evidence as the court, in its discretion, deems proper.

(a) A cost incurred by the department or regional board in carrying out or overseeing a response or a corrective action under this part or Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 20 shall be recoverable pursuant to state or federal law by the Attorney General, upo…