Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) To the extent permitted by federal and state law, moneys in the fund may be expended to rebate to the federal government all arbitrage profits required by the federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-514) or any amendment of or supplement to that law. To the extent that …

(a) The board shall establish, and may periodically adjust, the interest rate for repayable financing made pursuant to this chapter at a rate not to exceed 50 percent of the average interest rate, computed by the true interest cost method, paid by the state on general obligation …

(a) The Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) The following moneys shall be deposited into the administration fund: (1) Moneys transferred to pay the costs incurred by the state board in connection with the admin…

(a) Moneys repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed pursuant to this chapter, including interest payments and all interest earned on or accruing to any moneys in the fund, shall be deposited in the fund and shall be available in perpetuity, for expenditure for the pu…

To the extent amounts in the fund are not required for current obligation or expenditure, those amounts shall be invested in interest bearing obligations, and the interest earned shall become part of the fund.

(a) The board shall, contingent upon receiving federal capitalization grant funds, develop and implement a program to protect sources of drinking water. In carrying out this program, the board shall coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies that have public health and en…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is an urgent need for low-cost, energy-efficient housing in California. (b) The cost of conventional lumber-framed housing has risen due to a shortage of construction-grade lumber. (c) Straw is an annually renewab…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the guidelines established by this chapter shall apply to the construction of all structures that use baled straw as a loadbearing or nonloadbearing material within any city or county that adopted the guidelines established by Chapt…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as an exemption from Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of, or Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of, Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code relative to preparation of plans, drawings, specifications, or calculations…

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows: (a) “Bales” means rectangular compressed blocks of straw, bound by strings or wire. (b) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (c) “Flakes” means slabs of straw removed …

(a) Bales shall be rectangular in shape. (b) Bales used within a continuous wall shall be of consistent height and width to ensure even distribution of loads within wall systems. (c) Bales shall be bound with ties of either polypropylene string or baling wire. Bales with broken o…

(a) Straw-bale walls, when covered with plaster, drywall, or stucco, shall be deemed to have the equivalent fire resistive rating as wood-frame construction with the same wall-finishing system. (b) Minimum bale wall thickness shall be 13 inches. (c) Buildings with loadbearing bal…

Sections 18944.30, 18944.31, 18944.33, 18944.35, and 18944.40 shall become inoperative when building standards become effective after approval by the California Building Standards Commission pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 18935) that permit the construction of str…

With enactment of this chapter, it is the intent of the Legislature to do both of the following: (a) Provide a means of mitigating the economic and social degradation that is faced by communities the jurisdictions of which include military bases that have been ordered to be close…

The Legislature finds and declares that extraordinary measures must be taken to mitigate the effects of the federal government’s efforts to reduce the number of military bases throughout the country.

(a) For purposes of this chapter, a blighted area within the boundaries of a military base is an area in which the combination of two or more conditions set forth in Section 33492.11 is so prevalent and so substantial that it causes a reduction of, or lack of, proper utilization …

With the enactment of this article, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for precise and specific means to mitigate the very serious economic effects of the closure of the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station on the City of Tustin, surrounding cities and the County of Orange…

Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 33320.1, a redevelopment plan for the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Redevelopment Project may be adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article for a redevelopment project area which may include the following areas: (a) An area co…

For the purposes of this article, a blighted area within the boundaries of the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Redevelopment Project is an area described in subdivision (a) of Section 33492.102 in which the combination of two or more of the following conditions are so prevalent a…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 33334.2, or any other provision of law, the redevelopment agency for the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Redevelopment Project, may, for up to 10 years, defer depositing into the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund up to 50 percent of the amount requ…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the redevelopment agency shall make payments to affected taxing entities required by subdivision (a) of Section 33607.5, except that each of the time periods governing the payments shall be calculated from the date the county auditor ma…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, this section describes conditions that cause blight: (1) Buildings in which it is unsafe or unhealthy for persons to live or work. These conditions can be caused by serious building code violations, dilapidation and deterioration, defective desig…

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (k) of Section 33352, the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) shall not apply to the adoption of a redevelopment plan prepared pursuant to this article if the redevelopment…

The ordinance adopting the redevelopment plan for the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Project Area shall not be required to include the finding required pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 33367. However, the redevelopment agency shall not expend any tax incre…

If the City of Tustin, the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency, or any agency or political subdivision of either, intends to or does acquire title to any real property that lies within the boundaries of the former Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin, then notwithstanding any other …

(a) For purposes of the application of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 470 et seq.) as it applies only to an area comprising the survey area created for redevelopment of the Tustin Marine Corps Air Station pursuant to Section 33310, if the Ci…

With the enactment of this article, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide for precise and specific means to mitigate the very serious economic effects of the closure of the Alameda Naval Air Station and the Fleet Industrial Supply Center on the City of Alameda, surroundi…

(a) A redevelopment plan covering all or part of the lands of the Alameda Naval Air Station and the Fleet Industrial Supply Center Redevelopment Project may be adopted pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 33492), provided that the project area shall not include territor…

Notwithstanding Section 33492.9 or any other provision of law, the redevelopment agency shall make payments to affected taxing entities required by Section 33607.5.

(a) A redevelopment plan, adopted pursuant to this chapter and containing the provisions set forth in Section 33670, shall contain all of the following limitations: (1) A limitation on the number of dollars of taxes which may be divided and allocated to the redevelopment agency p…

(a) Dwelling units, as defined, in the Alameda Naval Air Station and the Fleet Industrial Supply Center Project Area made available to a member of the Homeless Collaborative pursuant to the Base Closure Community Redevelopment and Homeless Assistance Act of 1994 (Part A of Title …

Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 33607.5, the redevelopment agency of the City of Novato may pay to the County of Marin, the Novato Fire Protection District, and the Marin Community College District any amounts of money that in the agency’s determinatio…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all of the following shall occur: (a) The agency shall make the payments required by Section 33607.5, except that each of the time periods governing the payments shall be calculated from the date the county auditor makes the certificati…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 33334.2 or any other provision of law, an agency established or governed pursuant to this chapter may annually defer the requirement to allocate 20 percent of tax increment revenue to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund for a period of up to five …

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (k) of Section 33352, the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) shall not apply to the adoption of a redevelopment plan prepared pursuant to this article if the redevelopment…

(a) (1) The redevelopment plan for the base need not include either of the following: (A) The information required pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 33324, relative to the contents of the preliminary plan. (B) The finding required pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (d)…

(a) Notwithstanding the time limit in subdivision (b) of Section 33492.18, the City Council of the City of San Diego shall certify an environmental impact report for the Naval Training Center Redevelopment Plan within 30 months after the effective date of the ordinance adopting t…

(a) Notwithstanding the time limit in subdivision (b) of Section 33492.18, the Planning Commission and the Redevelopment Commission of the City and County of San Francisco shall certify an environmental impact report for the Hunter’s Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan within 30 mo…

As used in this chapter, “fiscal year” means a year commencing on July 1 and ending on the next June 30.

An ordinance adopting a redevelopment plan under this chapter shall include a finding that the effect of tax increment financing will not cause a significant financial burden or detriment on any taxing agency deriving revenues from a project area. This finding shall only be requi…

For any project area formed pursuant to this chapter, the project area may include all, or any portion of, property within a military base that the federal Base Closure Commission has voted to close or realign when that action has been sustained by the President and Congress of t…

Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 33300) shall be applicable to any project area formed pursuant to this chapter, except to the extent that Chapter 4 is inconsistent with this chapter.

(a) Notwithstanding Section 33320.1, the requirement that privately owned land within a project area be “predominantly urbanized,” as that term is defined in subdivision (b) of Section 33320.1, shall not apply to privately owned land within a project area, if the privately owned …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 21090 of the Public Resources Code, the Inland Valley Development Agency may determine at a noticed public hearing that the amendment of a redevelopment plan for the Norton Air Force Base Redevelopment Project Area pursuant to this chapter is not subje…

(a) The redevelopment agency referenced in Section 33492.41 may locate, construct, and maintain facilities and infrastructure for sewer and water pipelines or other facilities for sewer transmission and water supply or distribution systems along and across any street or public hi…

(a) Any redevelopment plan, or any amendment to an existing redevelopment plan adopted on or after July 1, 1993, that is subject to Section 33492.40, may utilize as the base year either the year it was adopted or the 1994–95 fiscal year, at the option of the adopting agency, as r…

(a) In any community in which a military base is located, the Base Closure Commission has voted to close that military base, and the action of the Base Closure Commission has been sustained by the President and Congress of the United States, a project area may be adopted pursuant…

(a) Paragraph (11) of subdivision (d) of Section 33367 shall not apply to the territory within the military base for any redevelopment project area adopted pursuant to this chapter. (b) For any project area adopted pursuant to this chapter, Section 33492.11 may be used in lieu of…

(a) (1) This article shall govern the establishment and operation of all redevelopment project areas created within the area previously known as Fort Ord. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the redevelopment of the territory of Fort Ord be conducted jointly, in part by …

(a) This section shall apply to each redevelopment project area created pursuant to this article with a redevelopment plan that contains the provisions required by Section 33670. All amounts calculated pursuant to this section shall be calculated after the amount required to be d…