Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

The resolution calling the election shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to the date set for the election in a newspaper of general circulation, which is printed and published in the city. The first publication shall be not less than 30 days prior to the …

If two-thirds of the votes cast upon the measure are in favor of the issuance of the bonds, the bonds may be issued and the indebtedness incurred. If less than two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of the bonds, the governing body of the city shall not within …

All bonds issued under this chapter shall be issued in the name of the city in which the district has been formed, or in the name of the initiating city, as the case may be, shall be in such form as the governing body may determine, and shall be payable at the time and in the man…

The bonds shall be issued in any denominations which the governing body may determine. The bonds shall be signed by the mayor, or by such other officer of the city as shall be designated for that purpose by the governing body by resolution, and shall also be signed by the city tr…

The governing body may issue and sell the bonds at not less than their par value. The proceeds of the sale shall be placed in the city treasury to the credit of the proper improvement district fund and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects specified in the reso…

(a) When the purposes and objects specified in any measure incurring bonded indebtedness submitted at any special election called for that purpose have been accomplished and any proceeds of sale of bonds authorized at the special election remain unexpended, or any bonds authorize…

Before selling the bonds, or any part of the bonds, the governing body shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner and for such time as the governing body may prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest respon…

An action to determine the validity of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860), Title 10, Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

In determining the amount of bonds to be issued, the legislative body may include all of the following: (a) All costs and expenses and estimated costs and expenses incidental to or connected with the acquisition, construction, improving, or financing of the improvement. (b) All e…

The governing body of each city in which an improvement is being made or acquired pursuant to this chapter may make all necessary rules and regulations for carrying out and maintaining the improvement, and may appoint all agents, superintendents, and engineers necessary to look a…

Until the bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the city treasury set aside for the purpose, sufficient to meet all sums coming due for the principal and interest on the bonds, the city governing body shall, at the time of fixing, and in the manner provided for the general c…

The taxes required to be levied and collected by Section 4638 shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for city purposes and in addition to the taxes levied pursuant to Section 4640. The proceeds of such taxes shall be used for no purpose other than the payment of the princ…

Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 5400), Division 6, Title 1 of the Government Code shall apply to bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, except that the proceeds referred to in Section 5404 of the Government Code shall be used only for some purpose which is of special benefit t…

The governing body of a city may, by a two-thirds vote, require the owners of property within a district to pay a reasonable fee for connecting to any sanitary sewer improvement acquired or constructed pursuant to this chapter.

Territory which is either within or without the boundaries of the city and which is not within the boundaries of any other improvement district formed pursuant to this chapter may be annexed to any existing improvement district by the governing body of the city.

Territory which is outside the boundaries of the city, or the initiating city, as the case may be, shall not be annexed unless the governing body of the city within which such outside territory is situated, or, in the case of unincorporated territory, the board of supervisors of …

Whenever the governing body of the city determines and finds that additional territory will be benefited by annexation to the district, it may pass a resolution to that effect.

The resolution shall be passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the governing body of the city.

The resolution shall do all of the following: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed to be annexed. (b) Designate the proposed annexation by an appropriate number. (c) Declare that the area to be annexed to the district will be benefited by such annexation. (d) Nam…

The resolution, together with the names of the members of the governing body voting for and against it, shall be published, posted, and mailed as provided in Sections 4610 and 4610.5, except that in applying such sections the word “district” shall mean the territory proposed to b…

On the day fixed for the hearing, or any day to which the hearing is continued, the governing body shall hear and consider any objections presented to the annexation of the territory to the district or to the inclusion of any territory proposed to be annexed. At the hearing the g…

After making all necessary and proper changes in the boundaries, the governing body may, by a resolution passed by a two-thirds vote of all its members order the annexation to the district of all or such part of the territory originally proposed to be annexed as the governing bod…

Upon the recordation of such resolution the territory annexed is a part of the district and is subject to all the liabilities and entitled to all the benefits of the district.

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.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The failure to properly repair and maintain commercial and industrial facilities or structures can pose a threat to public health or safety or to the environment that can be prevented through expeditious and coor…

For purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Consolidated permit” means a permit incorporating permits for a repair or maintenance project and issued in a single permit document by the consolidated permit agency. (b) “Consolidated permit age…

No remains of any deceased person shall be removed from any cemetery, except upon written order of the health department having jurisdiction, or of the superior court of the county in which such cemetery is situated. A duplicate copy of the order shall be maintained as a part of …

A cemetery authority shall not remove or permit the removal of any interred remains, unless a permit for the removal has been issued by the local registrar of the district in which the premises are located, and delivered to the cemetery authority. Any person entitled by law to re…

In the disinterment, transportation and removal of human remains under Chapter 4 of this part a cemetery authority need not obtain a separate permit for the disinterment, transportation or removal of the remains of each person, but disinterment, transportation and removal of huma…

The remains of a deceased person may be removed from a plot in a cemetery with the consent of the cemetery authority and the written consent of one of the following in the order named: (a) The surviving spouse. (b) The surviving children. (c) The surviving parents. (d) The surviv…

If the required consent can not be obtained, permission by the superior court of the county where the cemetery is situated is sufficient. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Notice of application to the court for such permission shall be given, at least ten days prior thereto, personally, or at least fifteen days prior thereto if by mail, to the cemetery authority and to the persons not consenting, and to every other person or association on whom ser…

This article does not apply to or prohibit the removal of any remains from one plot to another in the same cemetery or the removal of remains by a cemetery authority from a plot for which the purchase price is past due and unpaid, to some other suitable place; nor does it apply t…

(a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act. (b) This part recodifies the provisions of former Chapter 6.8 (commencing with Section 25300) of Division 20. Sections 1 and 2 of the act that added this part, and the e…

It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following: (a) Establish a program to provide for response authority for releases of hazardous substances, including spills and hazardous waste disposal sites that pose a threat to the public health or the environment. (b) Comp…

Nothing in the Hazardous Substance Account Recodification Act is intended to substantively change the law contained in former Chapter 6.8 (commencing with 25300) of Division 20. The act is intended to be entirely nonsubstantive in effect. Every provision of this part and every ot…

(a) A provision of this part, insofar as it is substantially the same as a previously existing provision relating to the same subject matter, shall be considered as a restatement and continuation of the previously existing provision and not as a new enactment. (b) A reference in …

(a) A judicial decision interpreting a previously existing provision is relevant in interpreting any provision of this part that restates and continues that previously existing provision. (b) However, in enacting the Hazardous Substance Account Recodification Act, the Legislature…

(a) A judicial decision on the constitutionality of a previously existing provision is relevant in determining the constitutionality of any provision of this part that restates and continues that previously existing provision. (b) However, in enacting the Hazardous Substance Acco…

(a) The department or another state agency may make a conforming rule change without complying with the rulemaking procedure specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346) of Chapter 3.5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, if the rule change meets a…

The definitions set forth in this article govern the interpretation of this part. Unless the context requires otherwise and except as provided in this article, the definitions contained in Section 101 of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601) apply to the terms used in this part.

“Agency” means the California Environmental Protection Agency.

“Contract competitor” means any person competing for a state contract pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 78655.

“Department” means the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

“Director” means the Director of Toxic Substances Control.

“Feasibility study” means the identification and evaluation of technically feasible and effective remedial action alternatives to protect public health and the environment, at a hazardous substance release site, or other activities deemed necessary by the department for the devel…

“Federal act” means the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq.).

“Federally permitted release” has the same meaning as defined in Section 101(10) of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601(10)).

(a) “Hazardous substance” means: (1) Any substance designated pursuant to Section 1321(b)(2)(A) of Title 33 of the United States Code. (2) Any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated pursuant to Section 102 of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9602). (3) Any h…

“Operation and maintenance” means those activities initiated or continued at a hazardous substance release site following completion of a response action that are deemed necessary by the department or regional board in order to protect public health or safety or the environment, …