Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The state board shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices for installation on motor vehicles not equipped with such a device when first sold. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, requirements that the…

In adopting criteria for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices, the state board shall take into consideration the cost of the device and its installation, its durability, the ease and facility of determining whether the device, when installed on a moto…

The installation of a certified fuel system evaporative loss control device on used motor vehicles shall not be mandated except by statute.

The state board may adopt, by regulation, standards and test procedures for the certification of fuel system evaporative loss control devices on new motor vehicles in the absence of any such federal regulations. In such case, no new motor vehicle may be sold and registered in thi…

(a) The state board shall establish, by regulation, maximum standards for the volatility of gasoline at or below nine pounds per square inch Reid vapor pressure as determined by the American Society for Testing and Materials, Test D 323-58, or by an appropriate test determined by…

Notwithstanding any other law, the Governor shall suspend the regulatory control periods under Section 2262.4 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, during which gasoline exceeding the Reid vapor pressure limits in Title 13, Section 2262 of the California Code of Regu…

(a) The state board may not adopt any regulation that establishes a specification for motor vehicle fuel unless that regulation, and a multimedia evaluation conducted by affected agencies and coordinated by the state board, are reviewed by the California Environmental Policy Coun…

The state board shall establish, by regulation, maximum standards for the degree of unsaturation at a bromine number 30 as established by the American Society for Testing and Materials test D 1159-66, or by an appropriate test determined by the state board, for gasoline sold in t…

The state board may request, from any person who advertises, or causes to be advertised, in any manner or claim that a fuel or fuel additive reduces motor vehicle exhaust emissions, a report detailing the data which supports the advertiser’s claims of emission reduction by that f…

(a) The state board shall establish criteria for the evaluation of the effectiveness of, and may conduct tests respecting the composition or the chemical or physical properties of, any motor vehicle fuel additive sold, or proposed to be sold, in this state. The tests shall be des…

(a) The state board shall establish standards or criteria for the certification of auxiliary gasoline fuel tank evaporative loss control devices or systems on vehicles which are required, pursuant to this part or the National Emission Standards Act (42 U.S.C., Secs. 1857f-1 to 18…

(a) The state board shall, by March 1, 1976, adopt specifications for the fill pipes and openings of motor vehicle fuel tanks to ensure that the size, design, and location of the fill pipe and opening permit adequate access to and interfacing with gasoline-dispensing nozzles for …

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that emission of air pollutants from motor vehicles is a major contributor to air pollution within the State of California and, therefore, declares its policy to encourage the testing of various types of vehicle fuels, which would contribute…

(a) The state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall establish and conduct, until January 1, 1988, an experimental program in which fleet vehicles may utilize gasoline into which methanol has been blended. (b) In orde…

Fuels used in vehicles participating in the methanol-gasoline experimental vehicle fleet program shall not be required to comply with the standards established pursuant to Section 43830 or the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 13440 of the Business and Professions Code, …

(a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Employee” means an employee of an employer subject to this section. (2) “Employer” means an employer of 50 persons or more in the state who provides a parking subsidy to employees. (3) (A) “Market …

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The production, marketing, and use of petroleum fuels in California causes significant degradation of public health and environmental quality due to releases of air and water pollutants. (b) Clean alternative fuels have…

Not later than June 30, 2007, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in partnership with the state board, and in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, shal…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Alternative fuel” means a nonpetroleum fuel, including electricity, ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, methanol, or natural gas that, when used in vehicles, has been demonstrated, to the satisfacti…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, when the California Hydrogen Highway Blueprint Plan is implemented, it be done in a clean and environmentally responsible and advantageous manner. (b) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the state board work with other re…

(a) The state board shall, no later than July 1, 2008, develop and, after at least two public workshops, adopt hydrogen fuel regulations to ensure the following: (1) That state funding for the production and use of hydrogen fuel, as described in the California Hydrogen Highway Bl…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), commencing January 1, 2017, at least 3 percent of the aggregate amount of bulk transportation fuel purchased by the state government shall be procured from very low carbon transportation fuel sources, and, commencing January 1, 2018, the…

(a) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the state board and the Public Utilities Commission, shall prepare a statewide assessment of the fuel cell electric vehicle fueling infrastructure and fuel production needed to support th…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the sewer maintenance district act. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“District,” as used in this chapter, means a sewer maintenance district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Board,” as used in this chapter, means the board of supervisors of the county in which a district is formed, or in which it is proposed to form a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

“Clerk,” as used in this chapter, means the clerk of the board of supervisors. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

This chapter does not repeal any law providing for the organization of sanitary districts or county sanitation districts nor authorize the governing body of a sewer maintenance district to manage, control, or otherwise interfere with the maintenance or repair of any sewers under …

“Sewers” as used in this chapter includes lateral and collecting sewers, septic tanks and all other means of handling, gathering and disposing of sewage in the district.

Any portion of the territory of a county, whether incorporated or unincorporated, in which lateral or collecting sanitary sewers have been installed, for the maintenance and repair of which provision is not otherwise made, may be formed into a district, except that no portion of …

The board of supervisors of any county may determine by resolution that any portion of the unincorporated area of the county not already included in a district is in need of sewer maintenance and should be formed into a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The board shall fix a time and place to hear the proposal to form a district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

The board shall direct the clerk to give notice of the hearing. The notice shall have the heading “Notice of the proposed formation of ____ sewer maintenance district”, stating the name of the proposed district. It shall: (a) State the time and place for the hearing. (b) Set fort…

The board shall direct the clerk to publish the notice once a week for two successive weeks in the newspaper of general circulation circulated in the territory which it is proposed to organize into a district that the board deems most likely to give notice to the inhabitants of t…

The board shall also direct the clerk to post the notice in three public places in the proposed district at least 10 days prior to the date set for the hearing. The heading of each posted notice shall be in letters of not less than one inch in height. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch.…

At any time prior to the time fixed for the hearing any interested person may file with the clerk written objections to the formation of the proposed district. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

At the time and place fixed for the hearing or at any time to which the hearing is continued, the board shall consider and pass on all written objections filed. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

If the board overrules the objections to the formation it shall hear any person objecting to the inclusion in the proposed district of any particular territory and may, upon the hearing, exclude any territory that would not be benefited by inclusion. At the conclusion of the hear…

Any district organized under the provisions of this act may become a part of a county sanitation district after the board of supervisors of the county within which the district is located, has, after a hearing, pursuant to the County Sanitation District Act, found and determined …

A district which becomes a part of the county sanitation district as hereinabove provided for is not thereby dissolved, but may continue to function, except as otherwise provided in Part 1 of Division 6 of this code, in the same manner as heretofore.

The board is the governing body of the district and may make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the administration and government of the district and for the cleaning, repair, reconstruction, renewal, replacement, operation, and maintenance of lateral and collect…

The board may acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, or otherwise in the name of the county, and own, control, manage, and dispose of, real and personal property necessary or convenient for the purposes of this chapter, and may perform all of the acts necessary or proper to acc…

The board may appoint the county surveyor to supervise the work of cleaning, repairing, reconstructing, renewing, replacing, operating, and maintaining the sewers and their appurtenances and may enter into contracts for the purchase of water to be used in flushing the sewers and …

The board may by resolution change the name of any district to conform with a change in the street name or other designation which the district bears. The clerk shall file in the office of the county assessor and with the State Board of Equalization a certified copy of every such…

If a district has a boundary which is contiguous to a boundary of a city and the district has a contract with that city under which the city is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all facilities of the district, the governing board of the district may, by a resolutio…

The clerk shall file in the office of the county assessor a certified copy of each resolution of the board that affects a district in any of the following ways: (a) Establishes it. (b) Annexes territory to it. (c) Withdraws territory from it. (d) Dissolves it. The county assessor…

The board may levy a tax each year upon the real property in the district sufficient to defray the cost of maintaining, operating, and repairing the sewers in the district, of maintaining the district, and of meeting such other expenditures as are authorized by this chapter. The …

The annual tax levy may include a reserve for contingencies not to exceed 10 percent of the total levy. The contingency reserve shall be available for expenditure during the fiscal year for which the levy was made for necessary expenses of the district for which no specific appro…

The tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as general county taxes levied for county purposes and when collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the maintenance fund of the district and shall be used only in furtherance o…

On or before the first day of July the governing body of any city, the area of which, in whole or in part, is included within one or more sewer maintenance districts, may elect to pay out of municipal funds, in lieu of providing sewer maintenance service to such territory, the wh…