Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

Any holder of bonds, notes, or other obligations issued under the provisions of this division, and the trustee or trustees under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by any resolution authorizing the issuance of, or any trust agreeme…

The exercise of the powers granted by this division shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state, for their health and welfare, and protection of the state’s environment. Any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued under the provisions of this division, …

The authority shall not be required to pay any property taxes or assessments upon, or in respect to, a project or any property acquired by or for the authority under the provisions of this division or upon the income therefrom, so long as the authority holds title to such project…

Subject to Section 44562, the existence of the authority may be terminated at any time by the Legislature. Upon dissolution of the authority, the title to all properties owned by it shall vest in and become the property of the State of California and shall not inure to the benefi…

Territory within the Atherton Channel Drainage District may be withdrawn from such district pursuant to Division 1 (commencing with Section 56000) of Title 6 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1301.)

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Small Facility Loan Guarantee for Programs Serving People with Developmental Disabilities. (Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 730, Sec. 2. (AB 1629) Effective October 19, 2010.)

The State of California has a compelling interest in the development of facilities for community-based programs that assist persons with a developmental disability living in an institutional setting to transition to more independent living arrangements. In order to meet this sign…

(a) Loans of under three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for any single facility for six or fewer developmentally disabled shall have priority for obtaining loan insurance. (b) The total amount of loans that may be insured pursuant to this article shall not exceed one hundred…

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the…

The department may insure, pursuant to this article, loans to nonprofit borrowers that are not licensed to operate the facilities for which the loans are insured, provided that the borrower has entered into a long-term residency lease agreement with a service provider selected by…

(a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) This section shall not apply to correctional treatment centers. This subdivision shall not affect any civil or administrative liability against correctional treatment centers or persons empl…

Whenever a board of trustees determines that the amount of revenues available to the district or any of its zones is inadequate to meet the costs of providing facilities, programs, projects, and services, the board of trustees may raise revenues pursuant to this article or any ot…

A district may levy special taxes pursuant to: (a) Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 50075) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code. (b) The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 53311) of Part 1 of Div…

(a) A district may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution to finance vector control projects and programs. (b) Before beginning a vector control project or program proposed to be financed pursuant to this…

A district may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII D of the California Constitution to finance capital improvements, including, but not limited to, special benefit assessments levied pursuant to: (a) The Improvement Act of 1911, Divis…

Pursuant to Section 5 of Article XIII D of the California Constitution and Section 53753.5 of the Government Code, any assessment existing on November 6, 1996, that was imposed exclusively to finance the capital costs or maintenance and operation expenses for vector control shall…

(a) A board of trustees may charge a fee to cover the cost of any service that the district provides or the cost of enforcing any regulation for which the fee is charged. No fee shall exceed the costs reasonably borne by the district in providing the service or enforcing the regu…

For purposes of this article: (a) “Administration expenses” means the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the authority in the administration of this article, including, without limitation, the fees and costs of attorneys, consultants, and other individuals. (b) “Applic…

(a) (1) The authority shall establish the California Investment and Innovation Program for the purpose of providing grants to enhance the capacity of community development financial institutions to provide technical assistance and capital access to economically disadvantaged comm…

(a) When funding is available, the authority shall make the funding available to eligible applicants selected by the authority to participate in the program. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the authority shall use the available funding to do all of the following: (1) Develop …

(a) Prior to receiving any grant funds under this program, an applicant selected by the authority to participate in the program shall enter into a grant agreement with the authority that requires the applicant to do all of the following: (1) Achieve specific goals related to capa…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including subdivision (a) of Section 44520, the authority may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the administration of the program pursuant to this article without complying with the procedural requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commenc…

(a) The authority shall adopt guidelines for annual reporting by grantees that do all of the following: (1) Provide a description of the grantee’s overall activities during the report period, including how the grant specifically contributed to these activities. (2) Require a gran…

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 was created because of the loss of life in the collapse of hospitals during the Sylmar earthquake of 1971. (2) We were reminded of the vulnerabili…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Following a major earthquake, Californians will rely on their community hospitals to provide care to those who are injured, to continue to care for those already within the hospital, and to respond to the emergent n…

By June 30, 1996: (a) The Department of Health Care Access and Information, hereinafter called the department, shall develop definitions of earthquake performance categories for earthquake ground motions for both new and existing hospitals that are: (1) Reasonably capable of prov…

(a) A hospital building that is classified as SPC-2 shall be identified as “These buildings do not significantly jeopardize life, but may not be repairable or functional following an earthquake” on the department’s internet website and in all documents and submissions to the depa…

The department is responsible for reviewing and approving seismic evaluation reports, compliance schedules and construction documents that are developed by hospital owners, and field review of construction for work done pursuant to this article. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 143, …

(a) By December 31, 1996, the California Building Standards Commission shall review, revise as necessary and adopt earthquake performance categories, seismic evaluation procedures, and standards and timeframes for upgrading the most critical nonstructural systems as developed by …

(a) In the event of a seismic event, or other natural or manmade calamity that the department believes is of a magnitude so that it may have compromised the structural integrity of a hospital building, or any major system of a hospital building, the department shall send one or m…

(a) Whenever a board of trustees determines that it is in the public interest to provide different services, to provide different levels of service, or to raise additional revenue within specific areas of the district, it may form one or more zones pursuant to this article. (b) T…

(a) At the hearing, the board of trustees shall hear and consider any protests to the formation of a zone pursuant to this article. The board of trustees shall terminate the proceedings, if, at the conclusion of the hearing, it determines either of the following: (1) More than 50…

(a) A board of trustees may change the boundaries of a zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Sections 2090 and 2091. (b) Except as provided in Section 56886 of the Government Code, a local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to review and appr…

(a) As determined by the board of trustees, a zone may provide any service at any level or levels within its boundaries that the district may provide. (b) As determined by the board of trustees and pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, a zone may exercise any fiscal power…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that small businesses are responsible for a significant amount of environmental emissions in the state, but are less able than larger businesses to afford the investment in new equipment or process modifications needed to comply with environ…

As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise, all of the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Authority” means the Capital Programs and Climate Financing Authority. (b) “California Capital Access Fund” means a fund created within the authority to be…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the state, through the authority, may make maximum, efficient use of capital access programs enacted by all federal and state agencies, as well as funding available from any governmental program whose goals may be advanced by…

(a) Consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 44559.11, the authority may establish loss reserve accounts for the purposes of financing terminal rental adjustment clause leasing, if funds are available for contribution into the loss reserve account from any source other than the…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in this act to create and fund the California Americans with Disabilities Act Small Business Capital Access Loan Program to assist small businesses in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is not the intent of the Legislatu…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting the act adding this section to create and fund a program to assist residential property owners and small business owners in seismically retrofitting residences and small businesses with a priority on soft-story buildings and…

(a) The authority may contract with any financial institution for the purpose of allowing the financial institution to participate in the Capital Access Loan Program established by this article. (b) For purposes of this section, the authority may contract with participating finan…

(a) The authority shall establish a loss reserve account for each financial institution with which the authority makes a contract. (b) The loss reserve account for a financial institution shall consist of moneys paid as fees by borrowers and the financial institution, moneys tran…

(a) If a financial institution that is participating in the Capital Access Loan Program established pursuant to this article decides to enroll a qualified loan under the program in order to obtain the protection against loss provided by its loss reserve account, it shall notify t…

(a) The authority shall establish procedures under which financial institutions participating in the program established pursuant to this article may submit claims for reimbursement for losses incurred as a result of qualified loan defaults. A participating financial institution …

The authority shall annually prepare a report to the Governor and the Legislature that describes the financial condition and programmatic results of the capital access loan program for small businesses authorized under this article. Programmatic results shall include, but not be …

The authority may enter into agreements with commercial banks or other financial institutions, or with other agencies of the state, to provide necessary assistance in carrying out the program authorized by this article, including origination and servicing of loans. (Added by Stat…