Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

(a) A licensee of a residential facility serving adults that has internet service shall provide at least one internet access device, such as a computer, smart phone, tablet, or other device, that can support real-time interactive applications, is equipped with videoconferencing t…

(a) Any person may request an inspection of any community care facility, or certified family home or resource family of a foster family agency, in accordance with this chapter by transmitting to the state department notice of an alleged violation of applicable requirements prescr…

The director shall establish an automated license information system on licensees and former licensees of licensed community care facilities. The system shall maintain a record of any information that may be pertinent, as determined by the director, for licensure under this chapt…

A county may develop a cooperative agreement with the department to access disclosable, public record information from an automated system, other than the system described in Section 1538.2, concerning substantiated complaints for all group home or short-term residential therapeu…

(a) (1) Not less than 30 days prior to the anniversary of the effective date of a residential community care facility license, except licensed foster family homes, the department may transmit a copy to the board members of the licensed facility, parents, legal guardians, conserva…

(a) The licensee of an Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN) or a Group Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs (GHCSHN), licensed pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 1567.50), shall report to the department’s Communit…

(a) When the department periodically reviews the record of substantiated complaints against each group home or short-term residential therapeutic program, pursuant to its oversight role as prescribed by Section 1534, to determine whether the nature, number, and severity of incide…

(a) A group home, transitional housing placement provider, community treatment facility, youth homelessness prevention center, temporary shelter care facility, transitional shelter care facility, or short-term residential therapeutic program shall report to the department’s Commu…

(a) (1) In order to review and evaluate the use of psychotropic medications in group homes and short-term residential therapeutic programs, the department shall compile, to the extent feasible and not otherwise prohibited by law and based on information received from the State De…

(a) (1) (A) The department shall consult with the State Department of Health Care Services and stakeholders to establish a methodology for identifying those group homes providing care under the AFDC-FC program pursuant to Sections 11460 and 11462 of the Welfare and Institutions C…

No licensee, or officer or employee of the licensee, shall discriminate or retaliate in any manner, including, but not limited to, eviction or threat of eviction, against any person receiving the services of the licensee’s community care facility, or against any employee of the l…

The director shall chair an Interdepartmental Committee on Emergency Medical Services established pursuant to Section 1797.132. (Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.)

An Interdepartmental Committee on Emergency Medical Services is hereby established. This committee shall advise the authority on the coordination and integration of all state activities concerning emergency medical services. The committee shall include a representative from each …

The director may appoint select resource committees of experts and may contract with special medical consultants for assistance in the implementation of this division. (Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 248, Sec. 129.)

The Interdepartmental Committee on Emergency Medical Services or another committee designated by the director shall consult with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training regarding emergency medical services integration and coordination with peace officer training. (…

Whenever it is desired that expenditures be made by the district for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, or alteration of work for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out of the purpose of this division in any district, the board of directors thereof may submit to th…

An election shall be held to authorize such assessment and may be called by the board of directors of the district in its discretion. Such an election shall be called upon presentation to the board of directors of a petition requesting the levy of the assessment and specifying th…

The resolution of the board of directors calling an election to decide whether a special assessment shall be levied, in addition to all other matters required by this division for a resolution calling an election, shall state the amount of the proposed expenditure for which asses…

If two-thirds of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the special assessment, the board of directors shall cause the assessment to be levied in like manner as a regular assessment to pay the regular annual expenses of the district. Such special assessment shall be in ad…

For the purpose of aiding and co-operating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of redevelopment projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body, upon the terms and with or without consideration as it determines, may: (a) Ded…

The bonds and obligations issued by an agency also may be purchased, invested in, or used for security as authorized in Section 33663. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1812.)

It is the intent of the Legislature, by the enactment of this article, that agricultural burning be reasonably regulated and not be prohibited. The state board and the districts shall take into consideration, in adopting rules and regulations for purposes of this article, various…

Section 41800 shall not apply to burning regulated pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

No person knowingly shall set or permit agricultural burning unless he has a valid permit from the agency designated by the state board to issue such permits in the area where the agricultural burning is to take place. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1063.)

The state board may, after holding a public hearing, authorize an exemption from the permit requirement of Section 41852 for a district, or a portion of a district, where agricultural burning does not significantly affect air quality. (Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 700.)

The state board shall designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to issue permits under subdivision (a) of Section 41852, and shall adopt rules and regulations to provide a procedure for the issuance of the permits. Each agency so designated by the sta…

(a) No permit shall be issued pursuant to Section 41853 to a person for the burning of solid waste which is produced from the ginning of cotton, unless the person pays to the issuing agency a fee of fifteen cents ($0.15) for each bale of cotton ginned that will produce the solid …

(a) No permit issued pursuant to Section 41853 shall be valid for any day during which agricultural burning is prohibited by the state board pursuant to Section 41855 or by a district board pursuant to Section 41508. (b) Each permit shall bear a statement of warning containing th…

The state board shall determine and designate from meteorological data the days when agricultural burning shall be prohibited within each air basin. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no permit may be issued to a person to burn any of the following categories of agricultural waste within the jurisdiction of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, commencing on the following dates: (1) Comme…

The district may postpone the commencement dates set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 41855.5 for any category of agricultural waste or crop described if all of the following applies: (a) The district determines that there is no economically feasible alternative means of elimi…

(a) Upon appropriation of moneys pursuant to Provision 1 of Item 3900-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2021, the state board may administer a program to support incentives for alternatives to agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley. (b) The Administrative Proc…

The state board shall promulgate guidelines for the regulation and control of agricultural burning for each of the air basins established by the state board. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The guidelines promulgated by the state board shall be based on meteorological data, the nature and volume of materials to be burned, and the probable effect of such burning on the ambient air quality within the air basins affected. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

In adopting such guidelines, the state board shall consider their economic and technical feasibility, including their probable effect on agricultural production in the air basin affected. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)

The state board shall continuously review the guidelines promulgated under this article, and may modify, repeal, or alter such guidelines if scientific and technological data indicates that such changes are warranted. Before adopting any such changes, the state board shall hold a…

The state board shall adopt and publish a list of orchard and citrus grove heaters which it finds produce no more than one gram per minute of unconsumed solid carbonaceous material. No new orchard or citrus grove heater produced or manufactured shall be sold for use against frost…

No burning shall be conducted for the improvement of land for wildlife or game habitat until the person desiring to conduct such burning obtains from the Department of Fish and Game a written statement certifying that the burning is desirable and proper for the improvement of lan…

A district may issue a permit to authorize agricultural burning on days designated by the state board pursuant to Section 41855 as nonburning days when denial of such a permit would threaten imminent and substantial economic loss. The state board shall require the districts to tr…

Each basinwide coordinating council and district shall, as part of the implementation plans and programs prepared pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 41600), include a component for the regulation and control of agricultural burning pursuant to guidelines adopted by th…

The provisions of this article shall not supersede any rule or regulation of any district, which rule or regulation was in effect for five or more years prior to September 19, 1970. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1063.)

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw Burning Reduction Act of 1991. (b) As used in this section: (1) “Sacramento Valley Air Basin” means the area designated by the state board pursuant to Section 39606. (2) “Air pollution c…

Notwithstanding Section 7550.5 of the Government Code, on or before January 1, 2001, the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, and in cooperation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Cali…

The Sacramento Valley Basinwide Air Pollution Control Council may impose, and may require that districts within the Sacramento Valley Air Basin collect, a fee not to exceed five dollars ($5) per permit, per year on each permit issued by a district within the Sacramento Valley Air…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Significant reductions in diesel emissions from existing vehicles can be achieved by the adoption of stricter diesel fuel specifications on sulfur, aromatics, and other fuel properties. (b) The state board, in consultat…

(a) The state board shall convene a panel of interested parties to develop a test protocol for the evaluation of California Air Resources Board (CARB) diesel fuel, and to recommend to the executive officer of the state board a subsequent test program that measures the emissions b…