Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

An on-site wastewater disposal zone may be formed to achieve water quality objectives set by regional water quality control boards, to protect existing and future beneficial water uses, protect public health, and to prevent and abate nuisances. Whenever an on-site wastewater disp…

An on-site waste water disposal zone shall have the following powers: (a) To collect, treat, reclaim, or dispose of waste water without the use of communitywide sanitary sewers or sewage systems and without degrading water quality within or outside the zone. (b) To acquire, desig…

The public agency shall do all such acts as are reasonably necessary to secure compliance with any federal, state, regional, or local law, order, regulation, or rule relating to water pollution or the discharge of pollutants, waste, or any other material within the zone. For such…

(a) Violation of any of the provisions of a rule or regulation adopted pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 6976 may be abated as a public nuisance by the board. The board may by regulation establish a procedure for the abatement of such a nuisance and to assess the cost of suc…

(a) The owner of any real property upon which is located an on-site wastewater disposal system, which system is subject to abatement as a public nuisance by the public agency, may request the public agency to replace or repair, as necessary, such system. If replacement or repair …

A board may exercise all of the public agency’s existing financial powers on behalf of a zone, excepting that any assessment or tax levied upon the real property of a zone shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 6978 and 6981.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public agency may levy an assessment reasonably proportional to the benefits derived from the zone, as determined by the board, and subject to the approval of the voters pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 6952, the West Bay Sanitary District may use the procedures in this chapter to provide alternative or innovative wastewater technologies in the district’s jurisdiction. (b) The determination of a public health officer pursuant to Section 6955.1 shall i…

The department shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this part, including, but not limited to, regulations governing the expenditure of, and accounting procedures for, moneys allocated to state, regional, and local agencies pursuant t…

The state shall actively seek to obtain all federal funds to which it is entitled under the federal act and shall take all actions necessary to enter into contractual or cooperative agreements under Sections 104(c)(3) and 104(d)(1) of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9604(c)(3) an…

(a) The department and the state board shall establish two community service offices, one to serve northern California and the other to serve southern California. (b) Notwithstanding Section 80025, the department and, if appropriate, the state board shall expend a total of four h…

The department, a representative of the department, or any person designated by the director may take the actions specified in this article only if there is a reasonable basis to believe that there has been or may be a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance, and o…

(a) Any officer or employee of the department, a representative of the director, or a person designated by the director may require any person who has or may have information relevant to any of the following matters to furnish the information, upon reasonable notice: (1) The iden…

(a) The department may disclose information submitted pursuant to this article to authorized representatives, contractors, or other governmental agencies only in connection with the department’s responsibilities pursuant to this part. The department shall establish procedures to …

(a) Any officer or employee of the department, representative of the director, or person designated by the director may, in accordance with Section 78455, enter, at reasonable times, any of the following properties: (1) Any nonresidential establishment or other place or property …

If the owner or the owner’s authorized representative does not voluntarily grant access to a place, establishment, or property pursuant to this article, the officer, employee, representative, or designee shall first obtain a warrant pursuant to Title 13 (commencing with Section 1…

The department, and any person authorized by the department to enter upon any lands for the purpose of taking a response action pursuant to this part, shall not be held liable, in either a civil or criminal proceeding, for trespass or for any other acts that are necessary to carr…

If a person intentionally or negligently fails to furnish and transmit to any officer or employee of the department, a representative of the director, or a person designated by the director any information required to be disclosed pursuant to this article, the department may issu…

Any person who commits any of the following acts shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each separate violation, or for continuing violations, for each day during which that violation continues: (a) Intentionally or negligentl…

“Trade secrets,” as used in this article, may include, but are not limited to, any formula, plan, pattern, process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data, or compilation of information that is not patented, that is known only to certain individuals within a commer…

Any person providing information pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 78440 shall, at the time of its submission, identify all information that the person believes is a trade secret. Any information or record not identified as a trade secret is available to the public, unless e…

The department shall establish procedures to ensure that trade secret information is utilized by the department only in connection with the responsibilities of the department pursuant to this part and is not otherwise disseminated without the consent of the person who provided th…

Any person who knowingly and willfully disseminates information protected by this article or procedures established by the department pursuant to Section 78490 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), imprisonment in the count…

(a) The director shall notify, within 20 working days, each of the appropriate county health officers as to all the potential abandoned sites of which the department has knowledge or that the department is investigating for releases of hazardous substances that may have occurred …

The analysis of any material that is required to demonstrate compliance with this part shall be performed by a laboratory accredited by the state board pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 101.

Notwithstanding Section 79055, the department shall carry out a program of full-scale demonstrations to evaluate treatment technologies that can be safely utilized for removal and remedial actions to hazardous substance releases.

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Treatment technologies” means methods, techniques, or processes, including proprietary or patented methods, that permanently alter the composition of hazardous substances at hazardous substance release sites …

The department shall select technology demonstration projects to be evaluated pursuant to this article using criteria that include, at a minimum, all of the following requirements: (a) The project proposal includes complete and adequate documentation of technical feasibility. (b)…

The department shall identify hazardous substance release sites, listed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 78760) of Chapter 4, that are particularly well-suited for technology demonstration projects. In identifying hazardous substance release sites, the department sh…

(a) The department shall annually, on or before July 1, publish a solicitation for proposals to conduct treatment demonstration projects that utilize technologies that are at a stage of development suitable for full-scale demonstrations at hazardous substance release sites. The s…

(a) On or before January 1, after reviewing all proposals submitted pursuant to Section 78545, the department shall annually select at least two treatment demonstration projects, to be commenced during that calendar year, using, at a minimum, the criteria specified in Section 785…

Notwithstanding Section 79650, if the department determines that using an alternative treatment technology to conduct a removal or remedial action at a hazardous substance release site listed pursuant to Section 78760 would be more costly than another available and feasible remov…

(a) The department shall conduct a technology transfer program that shall include the development, collection, evaluation, coordination, and dissemination of information relating to the utilization of alternative or innovative hazardous substance treatment technologies demonstrat…

Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 79205, when preparing or approving a remedial action plan for a site listed pursuant to Section 78760, that has been selected for a treatment demonstration project pursuant to this article, the department shall consider the cost-effectiv…

(a) The department shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the progress of the cleanup of the San Gabriel Valley groundwater sites in the County of Los Angeles, and on the progress of enforcement actions relating to those sites, in the biennial report specified in Sec…

The department shall include in the biennial report specified in Section 25178 an accounting of the moneys expended pursuant to Section 78875.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Firm” means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity permitted by law to practice the profession of engineering, architecture, environmental, landscape architecture…

Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525) of Division 5 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the department may advertise and award a contract, in accordance with this article, for a professional service pursuant to this part or Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section …

The department may establish prequalified lists of professional service firms in accordance with the following process: (a) For each type of professional service work for which the department elects to use this article for advertising and awarding contracts, the department may re…

(a) During the term of the prequalified list, as specific projects are identified by the department as being eligible for contracting under the procedures adopted pursuant to Section 78610, the department shall contact the highest ranked firm on the appropriate prequalified list …

The department may adopt guidelines or regulations as necessary and consistent with this article, to define the manner of advertising, generic project categories, type, quantity and cost of services, qualification standards and evaluation criteria, content and submittal requireme…

Any removal or remedial action taken or contracted by the department pursuant to Section 78870 or 78875 is exempt from this article.

This article does not exempt any contract from compliance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

Cemetery authorities may take by purchase, donation or devise, property consisting of lands, mausoleums, crematories, and columbariums, or other property within which the interment of the dead may be authorized by law. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Any cemetery authority which is described in Section 23701c of the Revenue and Taxation Code or is a corporation sole may acquire by eminent domain any property necessary to enlarge and add to an existing cemetery for the burial of the dead and the grounds thereof.

A cemetery authority may execute a declaration acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded, describing the property and declaring its intention to use all or part of the property for cemetery purposes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The declaration may be filed for record in the office of the recorder of the county in which the property is situated, and from the date of filing the declaration is constructive notice of the use for which the property is intended. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Every cemetery authority, from time to time as its property may be required for interment purposes, shall: (a) In case of land, survey and subdivide it into sections, blocks, plots, avenues, walks or other subdivisions; make a good and substantial map or plat showing the sections…

The cemetery authority shall file the map or plat in the office of the recorder of the county in which all or a portion of the property is situated. The cemetery authority shall also file for record in the county recorder’s office a written declaration of dedication of the proper…

The declaration shall be in such form as the cemetery authority may prescribe, and shall be subscribed by the president or vice president, and the secretary, or other persons whom the cemetery authority may authorize, and shall be acknowledged so as to entitle it to be recorded. …