Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) The State Architect shall adopt standards governing earthquake sensitive gas shutoff devices for installation in buildings. These standards shall reasonably provide for convenient installation and maintenance of gas shutoff devices, as well as maintaining the safety of person…

Manufacturers of earthquake sensitive gas shutoff devices or other devices required by an ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 19182 shall first obtain certification, pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 19200), that the device meets the standards established pursuant …

The Legislature finds and declares that existing law does not require that any new seismic gas shutoff valve sold by any person in this state shall, prior to sale, be certified by the State Architect.

As used in this article: (a) “Seismic gas shutoff device” means a seismic gas shutoff device installed on customer-owned gas piping certified by the State Architect pursuant to Section 19202. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, “seismic gas shutoff device” does not includ…

The State Architect shall establish a certification procedure for earthquake sensitive gas shutoff devices and shall establish a fee for the certification. Fees imposed pursuant to this section shall be equal to the costs associated with making the certification and are continuou…

The State Architect shall certify seismic gas shutoff devices which, as determined by the State Architect, comply with Chapter 12-23 (commencing with Section 12-23-101) of Part 12 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, and which meet all of the following requirements:…

Any new seismic gas shutoff device sold by any person in this state shall, prior to sale, be certified by the State Architect.

This article is limited to the service connections of individual structures to main gas lines and to connections of appliances to gas lines and does not apply to devices within gas lines.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that there exists a serious threat of fire, explosion, or electrocution to the people of California from water heaters that overturn or experience damage to the plumbing or electrical wiring during an earthquake, and that a large number of s…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 19100, all new and replacement water heaters, and all existing residential water heaters, shall be braced, anchored, or strapped to resist falling or horizontal displacement due to earthquake motion. At a minimum, any water heater shall be secured in a…

All water heaters manufactured for sale in California on or after July 1, 1991, shall include a statement in the installation instructions that water heater units must be braced, anchored, or strapped to resist falling or horizontal displacement due to earthquake motion. The inst…

Manufacturers shall add language to their instruction label on the front of the water heater that discloses the danger of falling or horizontal displacement due to an earthquake. The label shall contain the following language: WARNING: THIS WATER HEATER MUST BE BRACED, ANCHORED, …

Any person who violates Section 19212 or 19213 shall be deemed to have violated a provision of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 17000) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.

The Division of the State Architect shall prepare generic installation instructions with standard details illustrating the strapping, bracing, and anchoring of water heaters for typical installations in single-family homes that comply with the requirements of the model codes. The…

At the point of sale, the retailer may provide the consumer with generic installation instructions with standard details approved by the Division of the State Architect. If provided, these generic instructions are intended to be provided to the consumer as a guide, and are not in…

The Public Utilities Commission shall direct the investor owned gas and electrical utilities, not later than January 1, 1991, to develop an educational program for bracing, anchoring, and strapping water heaters to resist falling or horizontal displacement due to earthquakes.

The elective officers of a local hospital district shall be a board of hospital directors consisting of five members, each of whom shall be a registered voter residing in the district and whose term shall be four years, with the exception of the first board. The first board of di…

The board of hospital directors shall meet on the first Monday subsequent to 30 days after the completion of organization of the district and shall organize by the election of one of their members as chairperson or president and one as secretary.

A petition to increase the number of members of the board of directors of any district providing at least 225 hospital beds from five to seven members may be signed and filed with the board of directors at least three months prior to any general hospital district election by regi…

The election of directors to fill the additional vacancies on the board created by expansion shall be an election at large. A director elected at the election but receiving the lesser number of votes in the election shall hold office until a successor takes office pursuant to Sec…

If the majority of votes cast in the election specified in Section 32100.01 are in favor of expansion of the board of directors, the board of directors of the district, which has been divided into zones pursuant to Section 32100.1, shall by resolution divide the district into sev…

A district which has added additional directors pursuant to Section 32100.01, but has not been divided into zones, may, in the manner provided by Section 32100.1, divide the district into zones, except that the resolution of the board of directors shall divide the district into s…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 32100 and 32100.01, the local agency formation commission, in approving either a consolidation of districts or the reorganization of two or more districts into a single hospital district may, pursuant to subdivisions (k) and (n) of Section 56886 of th…

A petition for election of directors by zones may be signed and filed with the board of directors by registered voters residing within a local hospital district, equal in number to at least 15 percent of the number of votes cast in that district for the office of Governor at the …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term of any member of the board of directors shall expire if he or she is absent from three consecutive regular meetings, or from three of any five consecutive meetings of the board and the board by resolution declares that a vacanc…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 32100, the members of the first board of directors of a health care district formed, after the effective date of the act that added this section, in the County of Trinity shall be elected at large. (b) At their first meeting, the members of the directo…

A hospital district general election shall be held in each local hospital district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year, at which a successor shall be chosen to each officer whose term shall expire when the successor takes office purs…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the voters of the Eden Township Hospital District may file a petition with its board of directors pursuant to the provisions of Section 32100.1, to elect its directors either by zones or from zones; provided, however, that the petition …

Notwithstanding Section 32100.01, the Board of Directors of Valley Health System, a local hospital district, may adopt a resolution to increase the number of members of its board of directors from five to seven without the necessity of a petition or approval thereof by voters res…

(a) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this section: (1) “Board of supervisors” means the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa. (2) “County” means the County of Contra Costa. (3) “District” means the West Contra Costa Healthcare District. (4) “Dis…

All registered voters residing within the territory comprising a district organized under this division are qualified electors.

(a) The board of directors shall serve without compensation except that the board of directors, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members of the board, may authorize the payment of not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per meeting not to exceed six meetings a c…

The board of directors shall provide for the time and place of holding its regular meetings and the manner of calling the same, and shall establish rules for its proceedings and may adopt such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law as may be necessary for the exercise of…

(a) Except as provided in this section, Section 32155, or the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code) all of the sessions of the board of directors, whether regular or special, shall be open to the p…

A district may destroy a record pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 60200) of Division 1 of Title 6 of the Government Code.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), no person who is a director, policymaking management employee, or medical staff officer of a hospital owned or operated by a district shall do either of the following: (1) Possess any ownership interest in any other hospital serving the …

(a) A member of a health care district’s medical or allied health professional staff who is an officer of the district shall not be deemed to be “financially interested,” for purposes of Section 1090 of the Government Code, in any of the contracts set forth in subdivision (b) mad…

Each local district shall have and may exercise the following powers: (a) To have and use a corporate seal and alter it at its pleasure. (b) To sue and be sued in all courts and places and in all actions and proceedings whatever. (c) To purchase, receive, have, take, hold, lease,…

By resolution, the board of directors of a local hospital district may delegate to its administrator the power to employ (subject to the pleasure of the board of directors), and discharge, such subordinate officers and employees as are necessary for the purpose of carrying on the…

Except as provided in this section, by resolution, the board of directors of a local hospital district may authorize the disposition of any surplus property of the district at fair market value by any method determined appropriate by the board. The board of directors of a local h…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district, or any affiliated nonprofit corporation upon a finding by the board of directors of the district that it will be in the best interests of the public health of the communities served by the district and in order …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hospital district or any affiliated nonprofit corporation, upon a finding by the board of directors of the district that it will be in the best interests of the district to provide additional diversification of facilities, may lease a…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a health care district may enter into a contract of employment with a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as chief executive officer, the duration of which shall not exceed four yea…

If a health care district enters into a written employment agreement with a hospital administrator, including a hospital administrator who is designated as a chief executive officer, the written employment agreement shall include all material terms and conditions agreed to betwee…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the transfer of assets by El Camino Hospital, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation (“El Camino Hospital-Corporation”) that owns and operates El Camino Hospital, located in the City of Mountain View, pursuant to a transfer a…

The El Camino Hospital-Corporation may provide for the operation and maintenance through tenants of the whole or any part of the El Camino Hospital, and for that purpose may enter into any lease agreement that it believes will best serve the interest of the El Camino Hospital Dis…

A district that leases or transfers its assets to a corporation pursuant to this division, including, but not limited to, subdivision (p) of Section 32121 or Section 32126, shall act as an advocate for the community to the operating corporation. The district shall annually report…

The board of directors may purchase all necessary surgical instruments and hospital equipment and equipment for nurses’ homes and all other property necessary for equipping a hospital and nurses’ home.

The board of directors may purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip such buildings or building, room or rooms as may be necessary for the hospital.

The board of directors may establish a nurses’ training school in connection with the hospital, prescribe a course of study for such training and after the completion of the course, provide for the issuance of diplomas to graduate nurses.