Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) A resource family currently approved by a foster family agency pursuant to this section or Section 1517 may be approved by a subsequent foster family agency upon the successful completion of activities, as specified by the department, which shall include, but not be limited t…

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the imposition of rent regulations or controls for licensed community care facilities. (b) Licensed community care facilities shall not be subject to controls on rent imposed by any state or local agency or other local government or ent…

There is in the state government, in the California Health and Human Services Agency, the Emergency Medical Services Authority. (Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 42, Sec. 19. (AB 118) Effective July 10, 2023.)

(a) The Emergency Medical Services Authority shall be headed by the Director of the Emergency Medical Services Authority, who shall be appointed by the Governor upon nomination by the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and sh…

The authority, utilizing regional and local information, shall assess each EMS area or the system’s service area for the purpose of determining the need for additional emergency medical services, coordination of emergency medical services, and the effectiveness of emergency medic…

The authority shall develop planning and implementation guidelines for emergency medical services systems which address the following components: (a) Manpower and training. (b) Communications. (c) Transportation. (d) Assessment of hospitals and critical care centers. (e) System o…

The authority shall provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of emergency medical services systems. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.)

(a) The authority shall receive plans for the implementation of emergency medical services and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. (b) After the applicable guidelines or regulations are established by the authority, a local EMS agency may implement a local plan developed…

(a) Regulations, standards, and guidelines adopted by the authority and by local EMS agencies pursuant to the provisions of this division shall not prohibit hospitals which contract with group practice prepayment health care service plans from providing necessary medical services…

The authority shall adopt, amend, or repeal, after approval by the commission and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, such rules and regulations as may be reasonable and proper…

Subject to the availability of funds appropriated therefor, the authority may contract with local EMS agencies to provide funding assistance to those agencies for planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining regional emergency medical services systems. In addition, the aut…

(a) The director may develop, or prescribe standards for and approve, an emergency medical technician training and testing program for the Department of the California Highway Patrol, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committ…

The Legislature finds that programs funded through the authority are hindered by the length of time required for the state process to execute approved contracts and payment of vendor claims. These programs include, but are not limited to, general fund assistance to rural multicou…

With the approval of the Department of Finance, and for use in the furtherance of the work of the authority, the director may accept all of the following: (a) Grants of interest in real property. (b) Gifts of money from public agencies or from organizations or associations organi…

(a) The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, the funds in which are to be held in trust for the benefit of the authority’s testing and personnel licensure program, for the duties and activities of the Paramedic Disciplinary Review Boa…

The Emergency Medical Services Training Program Approval Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously appropriated to the authority for the authority’s training program review and approval activities. …

The rules and regulations of the authority established pursuant to Section 1797.107 shall include a requirement that a local EMS agency local plan developed pursuant to this division shall require that in providing emergency medical transportation services to any patient, the pat…

(a) To the extent permitted by federal law and upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the Director of Finance may transfer any moneys in the Federal Trust Fund established pursuant to Section 16360 of the Government Code to the Emergency Medical Services …

(a) The authority shall establish additional training standards that include the criteria for the curriculum content recommended by the Curriculum Development Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 8588.10 of the Government Code, involving the responsibilities of firs…

(a) The authority shall establish and maintain a centralized registry system for the monitoring and tracking of each EMT-I and EMT-II certificate status and each EMT-P license status. This centralized registry system shall be used by the certifying entities as part of the certifi…

(a) On and after July 1, 2010, and except as provided in subdivision (b), every EMT-I and EMT-II certificate candidate or holder shall have their fingerprint images and related information submitted to the authority for submission to the Department of Justice pursuant to the regu…

(a) The authority shall distribute to each local EMS agency the curriculum content criteria for peer-to-peer suicide prevention programming developed pursuant to Section 13159.6. (b) Each local EMS agency shall make the curriculum content criteria available to each emergency medi…

(a) The authority shall develop, using input from stakeholders, including, but not limited to, hospitals, local EMS agencies, and public and private EMS providers, and, after approval by the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, adopt a statewide standard methodology for the ca…

(a) (1) By no later than December 31, 2024, the authority shall develop and implement a California Emergency Medical Services Information System requirement for an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving hospital and the Emer…

(a) A licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department shall, by September 1, 2024, develop, in consultation with its emergency department staff, and its exclusive employee representatives, if any, an ambulance patient offload time reduction protocol that address…

(a) On or before December 31, 2024, the authority shall monitor monthly ambulance patient offload time data for each hospital required to report under Section 1797.120.5. (b) If, on or after December 31, 2024, a general acute care hospital with an emergency department has an ambu…

Any district formed pursuant to this division may be financed by assessment on real and personal property within the district, pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 932.)

The board of supervisors shall thereupon levy upon the taxable property of the district within its own county a tax sufficient in amount to maintain the district but not to exceed the twenty-cent ($0.20) limit provided in Section 32203 and, in addition, a tax sufficient to pay th…

The tax, exclusive of the levy for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds and any special assessment voted hereunder, and exclusive of the levy for the payment of rentals and all other sums due or payable under any agreement for the construction and leasing or purchas…

The tax shall be computed, entered upon the tax rolls and collected in the same manner as county taxes are computed, entered and collected. Such taxes shall be a lien on the taxable property of the district and shall be paid with, and not separately from, county taxes. All moneys…

An election on the formation of a hospital district in and around the City of Dos Palos in the County of Merced, may be combined with an election for the adoption of a special tax pursuant to Article XIII A of the California Constitution and Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 5…

(a) As an alternative to the appointment of five members of the agency, the legislative body may, at the time of the adoption of an ordinance pursuant to Section 33101 or 33140 of this part, or at any time thereafter by adoption of an ordinance, declare itself to be the agency; i…

(a) A legislative body which has declared itself to be the agency pursuant to Section 33200 may by ordinance create a community redevelopment commission. The ordinance shall establish the number of members of the commission, but not less than seven, their terms of office, and the…

If a community redevelopment commission is created as provided in Section 33201, its functions shall be to prepare a redevelopment plan for each project area, hold and conduct hearings thereon, adopt and submit such plan, together with a report, to the legislative body, pursuant …

A legislative body which has declared itself to be the agency pursuant to Section 33200 may at any time by resolution determine that it shall no longer function as an agency, in which event, the mayor or chairman of the board of supervisors with the approval of the legislative bo…

A chartered city may enact its own procedural ordinance and exercise the powers granted by this part. (Added by renumbering Section 33201 by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1497.)

An agency is authorized to delegate to a community any of the powers or functions of the agency with respect to the planning or undertaking of a redevelopment project in the area in which such community is authorized to act, and such community is hereby authorized to carry out or…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a legislative body, at the time of the adoption of an ordinance pursuant to Section 33101 or 33140, and pursuant to a resolution authorizing such an action, may contract with the Department of Housing and Community Development, or any o…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 41705, a person shall not discharge from any source whatsoever quantities of air contaminants or other material that cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public, or that endange…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 41704, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 41800) of this chapter other than Section 41812, or Article 2 (commencing with Section 42350) of Chapter 4, no person shall discharge into the atmosphere from any source whatsoever any air contam…

(a) Neither the state board nor any district shall impose a discharge requirement on emissions of visible smoke from diesel pile-driving hammers which is more stringent than the requirements of this section, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) A district shall iss…

Neither the state board nor any district shall impose a discharge requirement on emissions of visible smoke from any diesel auxiliary engine or generator used exclusively to operate a drinking water system which is more stringent than the Ringelmann 2 limit, as published by the U…

No person shall operate any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance which is the subject of a variance if that article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance, as may be the case, is not in compliance with a required schedule of increments of progress, unless such ope…

If a district board adopts a rule or regulation of emission standards to take effect as of a future date, the rule or regulation shall also require any person who owns or operates a source of air contaminants whose emissions exceed such standards to submit to the hearing board, f…

Section 41701 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Fires set pursuant to Section 41801. (b) Agricultural burning for which a permit has been granted pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 41850). (c) Fires set or permitted by any public officer in the performance o…

(a) Section 41700 shall not apply to odors emanating from agricultural operations necessary for the growing of crops or the raising of fowl or animals. (b) This section shall become operative on April 1, 2003, unless the California Integrated Waste Management Board adopts and sub…