Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

“Construction loan” means a short-term loan secured by real property, made for costs incurred in construction or rehabilitation of a housing project. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1309, Sec. 2.)

“Tenant” means a person lawfully residing in rental housing provided by or through an authority, including persons residing in leased housing. A person residing in leased housing is not a tenant of any authority other than the authority contracting with the owner, or the owner if…

“Mortgage loan” means a long-term loan which is secured by a mortgage and is made for permanent financing, including refinancing of existing mortgage obligations as authorized by a resolution of the authority of a housing project. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1309, Sec. 4.)

“Bonds” means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other obligations issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 710.)

“Real property” includes all land, including improvements and fixtures on it, and property of any nature appurtenant to it, or used in connection with it, and every estate, interest, and right in it, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise, …

“Obligee” includes any bondholder, trustee for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the authority property used in connection with a housing project, or any assignee of all or part of such lessor’s interest, and the Federal Government when it is a party to any contract with the…

A housing authority created pursuant to this part may, without the need to provide written documentation that consent has been obtained from a client, provide information to a county welfare department in order to aid that department in the administration of public social service…

Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9550) of Title 3 of Part 6 of Division 4 of the Civil Code applies to any housing project constructed under this chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a housing authority may require a 20 percent cash escrow or a 25 percent ir…

“Leased housing” includes, but is not limited to, low-rent housing in private accommodations for which the federal government or a state public body extends assistance by (1) leasing from the owner at a higher rent than is charged to the tenant or (2) contracting with the owner t…

The Legislature finds that developing an urban problem-solving capability requires that: (a) Federal assistance be offered in a flexible manner which allows state and local governments to define their needs, set their priorities, and design programs which respond directly to loca…

The Legislature further finds that the Comprehensive City Demonstration Programs, authorized under the provisions of Title I of Public Law 89-754 (42 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.) and commonly known as the “Model Cities” program, provide demonstration efforts in 150 cities throughout the …

The Legislature further finds that, because of the state’s extensive involvement in the programs which directly affect Model Cities areas, the Model Cities program will not succeed in California without significant state interest and cooperation. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1462.)…

The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy of the State of California to cooperate with and assist the Model Cities program in California, to coordinate state services in Model Cities areas, and to use the Model Cities program as an opportunity for developing innovativ…

This division may be cited as the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority Act. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 710, Sec. 7. (AB 786) Effective January 1, 2026.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is necessary and essential that the state, in cooperation with the federal government, use all practical means and measures to control, remediate, and eliminate pollution hazards to the environment, provide clean wat…

It is the purpose of this division to carry out and make effective the findings of the Legislature and to that end to do all of the following, to the mutual benefit of the people of the state and to protect their health and welfare: (a) To provide industry within the state, irres…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

“Authority” means the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority established pursuant to Section 44515 and any board, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon the authority by this division shall be given by…

“Brownfield site” means a real estate parcel or improvements located on the parcel, or both that parcel and the improvements, which is abandoned, idled, or underused, due to real or perceived environmental contamination, including, but not limited to, soil or groundwater contamin…

“Cost” as applied to a project or portion thereof financed under the provisions of this division embraced all or any part of the cost of construction and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and interests a…

“Participating party” means any person, company, corporation, public agency, partnership, firm, or other entity or group of entities engaged in operations within this state that requires financing pursuant to the terms of this division to aid and assist in the control, remediatio…

“Pollution” means an alteration of the quality of the environment of the state and shall be determined by the various standards prescribed from time to time by this state, the federal government, or any agency, department, or political subdivision of this state or the federal gov…

“Project” and “pollution control facility,” respectively, mean any land, building, structure, improvement thereto, work, real or personal property, vehicle, or equipment providing or designed to provide for the control, reduction, abatement, elimination, remediation, or preventio…

“Public agency” means any state agency, board, or commission, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, public district, or other political subdivision. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

“Revenues” means all rents, receipts, purchase payments and all other income or receipts derived by the authority from the sale, lease, or other disposition of pollution control facilities, loan repayments under any loans made in connection with financing pollution control facili…

“Renewable energy resource device” means any device, or any combination of devices, which produces heat, process heat, space heating, water heating, steam, space cooling, refrigeration, mechanical energy, electricity, or energy in any form convertible to such uses, which do not e…

“Energy conservation program” means any program which utilizes techniques or devices including, but not limited to, cogeneration, waste heat recovery systems, efficient lighting systems, and energy efficiency improvements to industrial processes, which are primarily intended to r…

This chapter shall be known as the Community Facilities Law of 1911. (Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 420.)

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 756.)

“City” means the city in which the district is located. If a district is not entirely within the boundaries of a single city, “city” means the initiating city. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 756.)

“District” means any district which is formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Added by renumbering Section 4600 by Stats. 1963, Ch. 756.)

“Governing body” means the city council or other legislative body of the city. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 756.)

“Initiating city” means the city whose governing body initiated the proceeding for the formation of a district which is not entirely within the boundaries of a single city. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 756.)

Improvement means any or all of the following: (a) The acquisition or construction of sanitary sewers of all types, including, but not limited to, outfall, trunk, intercepting, connecting, lateral, and house connection sewers. (b) The acquisition or construction of sewage treatme…

In cities within a county of the 20th class, as defined in Section 28041 of the Government Code, improvement shall also mean the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of any public buildings which would serve as a community center facility, including, but not limi…

This chapter does not affect any other law under which improvements may be made within or by any city but it provides an alternate system of proceedings for sewer work or improvement. Improvements may be made either pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to any other law. If, howe…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The failure to properly repair and maintain commercial and industrial facilities or structures can pose a threat to public health or safety or to the environment that can be prevented through expeditious and coor…

No remains of any deceased person shall be removed from any cemetery, except upon written order of the health department having jurisdiction, or of the superior court of the county in which such cemetery is situated. A duplicate copy of the order shall be maintained as a part of …

A cemetery authority shall not remove or permit the removal of any interred remains, unless a permit for the removal has been issued by the local registrar of the district in which the premises are located, and delivered to the cemetery authority. Any person entitled by law to re…

In the disinterment, transportation and removal of human remains under Chapter 4 of this part a cemetery authority need not obtain a separate permit for the disinterment, transportation or removal of the remains of each person, but disinterment, transportation and removal of huma…

(a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act. (b) This part recodifies the provisions of former Chapter 6.8 (commencing with Section 25300) of Division 20. Sections 1 and 2 of the act that added this part, and the e…

It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following: (a) Establish a program to provide for response authority for releases of hazardous substances, including spills and hazardous waste disposal sites that pose a threat to the public health or the environment. (b) Comp…

(a) (1) The Legislature finds that the efforts to reduce smoking in California have led to a drop in the consumption of tobacco. Although not on target to meet the goal of achieving a 75-percent reduction in tobacco consumption in California by the year 1999, the results are enco…

The Legislature hereby requests the University of California to continue to administer a comprehensive grant program to support research efforts related to the prevention, causes, and treatment of tobacco-related diseases. It is the intent of the Legislature that the program inco…

For the purposes of this article: (a) “Grantee” means any qualifying public, private, or nonprofit agency or individual including, but not limited to, colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, research institutions, local health departments, voluntary health agencies, heal…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the university establish a scientific advisory committee to provide advice to the president of the university as to the direction, scope, and progress of the research program. (a) Responsibilities of the committee may include, but are not …