Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

A petition by the responsible party for review of a public agency action in issuing, denying, or amending a repair or maintenance project permit, or any portion of a consolidated permit, shall, to resolve conflicts among the permit conditions, be submitted by the responsible part…

If the consolidated permit applicant petitions for a significant amendment or modification to a consolidated permit application or any of its component repair or maintenance project permit applications, the consolidated permit agency shall reconvene a meeting of the participating…

If the consolidated permit applicant fails to provide information required for the processing of the component repair or maintenance project permit applications for a consolidated permit or for the designation of a consolidated permit agency, the time limits set pursuant to parag…

(a) On or before December 31, 1997, the office shall adopt regulations establishing an expedited appeals process by which a petitioner or responsible party may appeal any failure by a public agency to take timely action on the issuance or denial of a repair or maintenance project…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 161 of the Statutes of 1891, or the provisions of the Sanitary District Act of 1919, as the provisions of these acts existed at the time of their repeal, the board of any sanitary district organized or reorganized under and continuing in …

The board shall declare its election by resolution and shall file a certified copy with the auditor and the assessor of the county on or before the first Monday in February of the year in which the district proposes to use the county assessment roll. Thereafter, until the board b…

Following the board’s election, the county auditor shall on or about the third Monday in August of each year transmit to the board a written statement showing the total value of all property in the district, which value shall be ascertained from the assessment roll used by the co…

Before the first day of September the district board shall fix the rate of taxation for district purposes and for the payment of the principal and interest of that year upon outstanding bonds and the payment of the principal and interest that the board believes will become due du…

The board shall designate the number of cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) to be levied for each fund and the fund into which the proceeds shall be paid, using as a basis the value of property as assessed on the county roll. The district board shall immediately transmit to …

The county auditor shall compute and enter in the county assessment roll the respective sums to be paid as a district tax on the property in the district, using the rate of levy as fixed by the board and the assessed value as found on the assessment roll. The taxes so levied shal…

The taxes are a lien on all the property in the district, and the taxes, whether for the payment of a bonded indebtedness, or for other purposes, shall be of the same force and effect as other liens for taxes, and their collection shall be enforced by the same means as provided f…

(a) Every person who knowingly mutilates or disinters, wantonly disturbs, or willfully removes any human remains in or from any location other than a dedicated cemetery without authority of law is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as provided in Section 5097.99 of the Public Resour…

(a) A person who removes part of any human remains from a place where it has been interred, or from a place where it is deposited while awaiting interment, cremation, reduction, or hydrolysis, with intent to sell it or to dissect it, without authority of law, or written permissio…

A person who removes or possesses dental gold or silver, jewelry, or mementos from human remains without specific written permission of the person or persons having the right to control those remains under Section 7100 is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of …

(a) A person who willfully mutilates, disinters, removes from the place of interment, or commits an act of sexual penetration on, or has sexual contact with, remains known to be human, without authority of law, is guilty of a felony. This section does not apply to a person who, u…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7052, cremated, reduced, or hydrolyzed human remains may be removed from the place of interment for disposition as provided in Section 7054.5 or 7054.6 or for burial at sea as provided in Section 7117. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 399, Se…

Every person who arrests, attaches, detains, or claims to detain any human remains for any debt or demand, or upon any pretended lien or charge, or fails to release any human remains, the personal effects, or any certificate or permit required under Division 102 (commencing with …

(a) (1) Except as authorized pursuant to the sections referred to in subdivision (b), a person who deposits or disposes of human remains in any place, except in a cemetery, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) Every licensee or registrant pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Sectio…

Cremated, reduced, or hydrolyzed human remains shall not be removed from the place of cremation, reduction, or hydrolysis, and there shall not be a charge for the cremation, reduction, or hydrolysis, unless the remains have been processed so that they are suitable for inurnment. …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a recognizable dead human fetus of less than 20 weeks uterogestation not disposed of by interment shall be disposed of by incineration. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 377.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, recognizable anatomical parts, human tissues, anatomical human remains, or infectious waste following conclusion of scientific use shall be disposed of by interment, incineration, or any other method determined by the state department t…

(a) Reduced human remains may be disposed of by integration into the topsoil by the person having the right to control the disposition of the remains pursuant to Section 7100. (b) A reduction facility may integrate reduced human remains into the topsoil of a conservation area if …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains may be removed in a durable container from the place of cremation, hydrolysis, or interment and kept in or on the real property owned or occupied by a person described in Section 7100 or any o…

(a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, no person shall: (1) Cremate the remains of more than one person at the same time in the same cremation chamber, or introduce the remains of a second person into a cre…

(a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, no person shall do any of the following: (1) Hydrolyze the remains of more than one person at the same time in the same hydrolysis chamber, or introduce the remains of…

(a) Except with the express written permission of the person entitled to control the disposition of the reduced human remains, a person shall not do any of the following: (1) Reduce the remains of more than one person at the same time and in the same reduction chamber, or introdu…

(a) A person, who for themselves or for another person, inters, cremates, or hydrolyzes a body or permits the same to be done, or removes any remains, other than cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains, from the primary registration district in which the death, cremation, or…

Any person violating any provision of this chapter is liable, in a civil action by and in the name of the cemetery authority, to pay all damages occasioned by his unlawful acts. The sum recovered shall be applied in payment for the repair and restoration of the property injured o…

The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the removal or unavoidable breakage or injury, by a cemetery authority, of any thing placed in or upon any portion of its cemetery in violation of any of the rules or regulations of the cemetery authority, nor to the removal of anyth…

A new district may be formed pursuant to this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 57, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) A proposal to form a new district may be made by petition. The petition shall do all of the things required by Section 56700 of the Government Code. In addition, the petition shall: (1) Set forth the methods by which the district will be financed, including but not limited to…

(a) Before circulating any petition, the proponents shall publish a notice of intention which shall include a written statement not to exceed 500 words in length, setting forth the reasons for forming the district and the methods by which the district will be financed. The notice…

(a) A proposal to form a new district may also be made by the adoption of a resolution of application by the legislative body of any county or city that contains the territory proposed to be included in the district. Except for the provisions regarding the signers, signatures, an…

(a) Once the proponents have filed a sufficient petition or a legislative body has filed a resolution of application, the local agency formation commission shall proceed pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 56650) of Division 3 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (b) Notwit…

The building department of every city or city and county shall enforce the provisions of this part within such city or city and county. “Building department” or “department” means the department, bureau, or officer charged with the enforcement of laws or ordinances regulating the…

The department, officer or officers of a county who are charged with the enforcement of laws or ordinances regulating the erection, construction or alteration of buildings, shall enforce the provisions of this part within such county but outside the territorial limits of any city…

Any city or county may, by ordinance, designate any department or officer to enforce any portion of this part. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1349.)

In any city where there is no department or officer charged with or designated for the enforcement of this part, the appropriate department, officer or officers of the county in which such city is located shall enforce this part. In any county where there is no department or offi…

The Legislature finds that many programs of the department are hindered by the length of time required for the state to execute contracts and pay vendor claims. These programs include, but are not limited to, community hypertension, rural health services development, family plann…

The rapid increase in the population of the state and the increasing industrialization in both the urban and rural areas necessitate the provision of effective public health services to all the people of the state. In many areas within the state local health departments lack the …

“Population,” for the purpose of this chapter, shall be determined by the most recent United States decennial census; provided, however, whenever it appears to the department that the population of any city or county, changed sufficiently to warrant adjustment, the department for…

For the purposes of this chapter a “local health department” shall be interpreted to mean any one of the following public health administrative organizations: (a) A local health department serving one or more counties that shall provide services to all cities whose population is …

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority Act. (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 266, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.)

(a) The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara may, by ordinance or resolution, order the formation of the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority under this chapter that shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the incorporated and unincorporated areas of t…

Unless the context otherwise requires, this article governs the construction of this chapter. As used in this chapter: (a) “Authority” means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority. (b) “Board” means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority …

Upon the adoption of an ordinance or resolution by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo authorizing the provision of medical services by the authority pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 101680, the governing body of the authority shall be vested in a boar…