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Cal. RTC § 46627 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 24 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 46627
Section 46627
Status: in_force

(a) If any officer or employee of the board recklessly disregards board-published procedures, a feepayer aggrieved by that action or omission may bring an action for damages against the State of California in superior court.

(b) In any action brought under subdivision (a), upon finding of liability on the part of the State of California, the state shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal to the sum of all of the following:

(1) Actual and direct monetary damages sustained by the plaintiff as a result of the actions or omissions.

(2) Reasonable litigation costs including any of the following:

(A) Reasonable court costs.

(B) Based on prevailing market rates for the kind or quality of services furnished in connection with any of the following:

(i) The reasonable expenses of expert witnesses in connection with the civil proceeding, except that no expert witness shall be compensated at a rate in excess of the highest rate of compensation for expert witnesses paid by the State of California.

(ii) The reasonable cost of any study, analysis, engineering report, test, or project that is found by the court to be necessary for the preparation of the party’s case.

(iii) Reasonable fees paid or incurred for the services of attorneys in connection with the civil proceeding, except that those fees shall not be in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour unless the court determines that an increase in the cost of living or a special factor, such as the limited availability of qualified attorneys for the proceeding, justifies a higher rate.

(c) In the awarding of damages under subdivision (b), the court shall take into consideration the negligence or omissions, if any, on the part of the plaintiff which contributed to the damages.

(d) Whenever it appears to the court that the feepayer’s position in the proceeding brought under subdivision (a) is frivolous, the court may impose a penalty against the plaintiff in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000). A penalty so imposed shall be paid upon notice and demand from the board and shall be collected as a fee imposed under this part.
Cal. BPC § 6034.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 6034.1
Section 6034.1
Status: in_force

(a) Any entity of the State Bar of California exploring a regulatory sandbox shall do all of the following:

(1) Prioritize protecting individuals, especially those in need of legal assistance, from unscrupulous actors, including those actors seeking to do business in the legal field, above all else.

(2) Prioritize increasing access to justice for persons who qualify for legal assistance from qualified legal services organizations or from State Department of Social Services-funded immigration legal services.

(3) Exclude corporate ownership of law firms and splitting legal fees with nonlawyers, which has historically been banned by common law and statute due to grave concerns that it could undermine consumer protection by creating conflicts of interests that are difficult to overcome and fundamentally infringe on the basic and paramount obligations of attorneys to their clients.

(4) Adhere to, and not propose any abrogation of, the restrictions on the unauthorized practice of law, including, but not limited to, Sections 13405 and 16951 of the Corporations Code.

(b) This section does not limit the State Bar’s ability to provide limited practice licenses to law students and law graduates under certain conditions, and with the supervision of an active State Bar-licensed attorney.

(c) This section does not limit the examination of the use of technology to increase access to justice for persons who qualify for legal assistance from qualified legal services organizations or from State Department of Social Services-funded immigration legal services, low-income individuals, and small businesses, so long as proposals adhere to, and do not propose any abrogation of, the restrictions on the unauthorized practice of law, including, but not limited to, Sections 13405 and 16951 of the Corporations Code.

(d) This section does not preclude the State Bar from seeking feedback from legal services organizations, including organizations that provide legal services in family law and immigration law, community-based organizations, and consumers about options for increasing access to legal services.

(e) The State Bar shall not expend any funds, regardless of the source, on activities that do not meet the requirements of this section.

(f) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2025.
Cal. FGC § 8556 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 15 / Section 8556
Section 8556
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission shall determine, by regulation, if drift or set gill nets may be used to take herring for commercial purposes. The commission may also determine, by regulation, the size of the meshes of the material used to make such gill nets.
Cal. VEH § 15308 — California Code / Code veh / Division 6 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 15308
Section 15308
Status: in_force

(a) A driver shall not operate a commercial motor vehicle for a period of 120 days if the person is convicted of a serious traffic violation involving a commercial or noncommercial motor vehicle and the offense occurred within three years of two or more separate offenses of serious traffic violations that resulted in convictions.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 13366.5, the time period under subdivision (a) shall not commence until all existing suspensions or revocations of the commercial driving privilege have ended.
Cal. PRC § 5122 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 5122
Section 5122
Status: in_force

The board may acquire and maintain a library in furtherance of the objects of the museum.
Cal. BPC § 26225.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 10 / Chapter 22 / Article 5 / Section 26225.5
Section 26225.5
Status: in_force

The bylaws may prescribe penalties for violations of the bylaws.
Cal. PUC § 12362 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 12362
Section 12362
Status: in_force

All members of the retirement board shall serve without pay.
Cal. MVC § 987.89 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 6 / Article 3.1 / Section 987.89
Section 987.89
Status: in_force

The action of a veteran purchaser for damages against any third party does not affect his right of action for all damages against any party other than the department. If the department indemnifies, or becomes obligated to indemnify, the veteran purchaser, it may likewise bring an action against any such third party responsible for damage to the contract property. In the latter event, the department may recover in the same suit all payments made on behalf of the veteran purchaser.

If either the veteran purchaser or the department brings an action against such third party, the veteran purchaser or the department, as the case may be, shall forthwith give to the other written notice of the action and of the name of the court in which the action is brought, by personal service or registered mail. Proof of such service shall be filed in such action. If the action is brought by either the veteran purchaser or the department, the other may, at any time before trial on the facts, join as party plaintiff, or shall consolidate the action if brought independently.

The court shall first apply, out of the entire amount of any judgment for any damage recovered by the veteran purchaser, a sufficient amount to reimburse the department for the amount of its expenditures for indemnification. If the department has not joined in the action or has not brought action, or if the action has not been consolidated, the court, on the department’s application, shall allow as a first lien against the entire amount of any judgment for any damages recovered by the veteran purchaser, the amount of the department’s expenditures for indemnification.
Cal. BPC § 18731 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 2 / Article 7 / Section 18731
Section 18731
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to the other requirements of this chapter and regulations adopted thereunder, no referee or physician and surgeon shall be assigned to a boxing contest if he or she has not completed a clinic offered by a provider approved by the commission.

(b) A referee or physician and surgeon shall complete a clinic within the preceding six months of a boxing contest.

(c) The commission shall approve a clinic provider if the clinic includes, at a minimum, but is not limited to, the following topics related to a boxing contest: the subjects of the rules of the commission, the recognition and diagnosis of serious or life-threatening, boxing-related and neurological injuries and disorders, and refereeing a bout.

(d) The clinic provider may charge a referee or physician and surgeon participating in a clinic a fee in an amount not to exceed the reasonable cost of the clinic.

(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the commission from offering a clinic subject to the requirements of this section.
Cal. FAC § 11502 — California Code / Code fac / Division 6 / Chapter 2 / Section 11502
Section 11502
Status: in_force

The director shall adopt regulations which govern the conduct of the business of pest control.
Cal. SHC § 86 — California Code / Code shc / Division 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 86
Section 86
Status: in_force

The commission may delegate to the department any ministerial or administrative power, duty, responsibility, or function of the commission. The delegations authorized herein shall be upon such conditions and terms as the commission deems appropriate.
Cal. WIC § 14725 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 8.9 / Section 14725
Section 14725
Status: in_force

(a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall develop a quality assurance program to govern the delivery of Medi-Cal specialty mental health services, in order to ensure quality patient care based on community standards of practice.

(b) The department shall issue standards and guidelines for local quality assurance activities. These standards and guidelines shall be reviewed and revised in consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, as well as other stakeholders from the mental health community, including, but not limited to, individuals who receive services, family members, providers, mental health advocacy groups, and other interested parties. The standards and guidelines shall be based on federal Medicaid requirements.

(c) The standards and guidelines developed by the department shall reflect the special problems that small rural counties have in undertaking comprehensive quality assurance systems.
Cal. INS § 11653 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 11653
Section 11653
Status: in_force

Every such contract or policy shall contain a clause to the effect that jurisdiction of the employer will, for the purpose of the law imposing liability for compensation, be jurisdiction of the insurer.
Cal. SHC § 5370 — California Code / Code shc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 16 / Section 5370
Section 5370
Status: in_force

Whenever the resolution of intention declares that a contribution of labor or of labor and any portion of materials, supplies or equipment for the proposed work will be made by any local, State or National agency or authority, an assessment shall be made to cover the sum due for furnishing the materials, supplies or equipment as specified in the contract including all incidental expenses. In all other particulars the assessment shall be made in conformity with this part relating to district assessments. However, if all of the work described in the resolution of intention is not completed because the agency or authority ceases to furnish the labor provided for in the resolution of intention, for a period of 90 days, the street superintendent shall notify the legislative body of such cessation in writing. The legislative body may by resolution declare the contract terminated and order the superintendent of streets to make the assessment to cover the portions of work completed and incidental expenses incurred, in accordance with the benefits to be received by each of the several lots or parcels of land in the district, pursuant to the provisions of this part relating to district assessments.
Cal. INS § 10494 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 10494
Section 10494
Status: in_force

Such a benefit and relief association shall not provide for payment of a death benefit of more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or for disability benefits of more than five hundred dollars ($500) to any one person in any one period of 12 consecutive months and shall not issue to its members a policy or benefit certificate or any other evidence of benefits except that found in the articles of the association or the bylaws thereof. However, a benefit and relief association described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 10493 may provide for a death benefit up to two thousand dollars ($2,000), disability benefits up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) or insurance protection for medical and hospital expenses up to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), or any combination or all thereof.
Cal. RTC § 24314 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 11 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 24314
Section 24314
Status: in_force

The following phrase (or its substantial equivalent) in other codes or statutes does not exempt the gain or loss from the sale or transfer of bonds from the provisions of this part:

“The issuance, transfer and interest income earned on any bonds issued by an agency (state or local) under this article (chapter, section, etc.) is exempt from taxation of every kind by any state or local entity.”
Cal. PUC § 60004 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Section 60004
Section 60004
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the Yolo County Transportation District. The jurisdiction of the district extends throughout the county, including all of the incorporated and unincorporated territory.
Cal. WIC § 396 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 13.5 / Section 396
Section 396
Status: in_force

It is the policy of the Legislature that foster care should be a temporary method of care for the children of this state, that children have a right to a normal home life free from abuse, that reunification with the natural parent or parents or another alternate permanent living situation such as adoption or guardianship is more suitable to a child’s well-being than is foster care, that this state has a responsibility to attempt to ensure that children are given the chance to have happy and healthy lives, and that, to the extent possible, the current practice of moving children receiving foster care services from one foster home to another until they reach the age of majority should be discontinued.
Cal. PUC § 1701.7 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 1701.7
Section 1701.7
Status: in_force

(a) The Attorney General may bring an enforcement action in superior court against a decisionmaker or employee of the commission who knowingly and willfully violates, fails to comply with, or procures, aids or abets any violation of, the ex parte communication requirements in this article or those adopted by the commission pursuant to this article.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 1759, in an enforcement action brought pursuant to this section, the court may grant appropriate relief, including disqualification of the decisionmaker from one or more proceedings and civil penalties as provided in Section 2111.

(c) In determining the appropriate relief, the court may consider the following factors:

(1) The severity of the violation.

(2) The conduct of the decisionmaker or employee.

(3) The financial resources of the decisionmaker or employee.

(4) The totality of the circumstances in furtherance of the public interest.

(d) The Attorney General may compromise the enforcement action subject to approval by the court.

(e) Civil penalties collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited into the Litigation Deposits Fund established pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 16425) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
Cal. PRC § 42414 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 42414
Section 42414
Status: in_force

The number of retreaded tires purchased annually by the Department of General Services during each fiscal year shall be tabulated and forwarded to the board by August 31 every year.
Cal. VEH § 40000.14 — California Code / Code veh / Division 17 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 40000.14
Section 40000.14
Status: in_force

A violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 21367 is an infraction, except as follows:

(a) A willful violation is a misdemeanor.

(b) A willful violation committed in a manner exhibiting a wanton disregard for the safety of persons is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year.
Cal. WIC § 1768.1 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 1768.1
Section 1768.1
Status: in_force

No contract shall be executed with an employer that will initiate employment by persons committed to the authority in the same job classification as other employees of the same employer who, at the time of execution of the contract, are on strike, as defined in Section 1132.6 of the Labor Code, or who are then subject to lockout, as defined in Section 1132.8 of the Labor Code. The total daily hours worked by persons committed to the authority and employed in the same job classification as other employees of the same employer who, subsequent to the employer’s hiring of persons committed to the authority, go on strike, as defined in Section 1132.6 of the Labor Code, or are subjected to a lockout, as defined in Section 1132.8 of the Labor Code, shall not exceed, for the duration of the strike or lockout, the average daily hours worked for the preceding six months, or, if the authority’s contract with the employer has been in operation for less than six months, the average for the period of operation.
Cal. BPC § 7561.4 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.3 / Article 6 / Section 7561.4
Section 7561.4
Status: in_force

The director may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if he or she determines that the licensee or his or her qualified manager, if an individual, or if the licensee is a person other than an individual, that any of its officers, directors, partners, members, managers, or qualified manager, has committed any act in the course of the licensee’s business constituting dishonesty or fraud.

“Dishonesty or fraud” as used in this section, includes, in addition to other acts not specifically enumerated herein:

(a) Knowingly making a false statement relating to evidence or information obtained in the course of employment, or knowingly publishing a slander or a libel in the course of business.

(b) Using illegal means in the collection or attempted collection of a debt or obligation.

(c) Manufacture of evidence.

(d) Acceptance of employment adverse to a client or former client relating to a matter with respect to which the licensee has obtained confidential information by reason of or in the course of his or her employment by the client or former client.
Cal. HSC § 1358.145 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.2 / Article 3.5 / Section 1358.145
Section 1358.145
Status: in_force

(a)  The calculation of actual or expected loss ratios shall be pursuant to the formula in subdivision (a) of Section 1358.14, and pursuant to definitions, procedures, and other provisions as may be deemed by the director, with due consideration of the circumstances of the particular issuer, to be fair, reasonable, and consistent with the objectives of this chapter.

(b)  Each issuer shall submit to the department a copy of the calculations for the actual or expected loss ratio as required by Section 1358.14. The calculations shall include the following data: the actual loss ratio for the entire period in which the contract has been in force, as well as for the immediate past three years and for each year in which the contract has been in force, the scale of prepaid or periodic charges for the loss ratio calculation period, a description of all assumptions, the formula used to calculate gross prepaid or periodic charges, the expected level of earned prepaid or periodic charges in the loss ratio calculation period, and the expected level of incurred claims for reimbursement, including paid claims and incurred but not paid claims, in the loss ratio calculation period. The calculations shall be accompanied by an actuarial certification, consisting of a signed declaration of an actuary who is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Actuaries in which the actuary states that the assumptions used in calculating the expected loss ratio are appropriate and reasonable, taking into account that the calculations are in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (a) and the provisions referred to therein. In addition, the director may require the issuer to submit actuarial certification, as described above, by one or more unaffiliated actuaries acceptable to the director.

(c)  Notwithstanding the calculations required by subdivision (b), contracts shall be deemed to comply with the loss ratio standards if, and shall be deemed not to comply with the loss standards unless: (1) for the most recent year, the ratio of the incurred losses to earned prepaid charges for contracts that have been in force for three years or more is greater than or equal to the applicable percentages contained in this section; and (2) the expected losses in relation to charges over the entire period for which the contract is rated comply with the requirements of this section. An expected third-year loss ratio that is greater than or equal to the applicable percentage shall be demonstrated for contracts in force less than three years.
Cal. FAC § 64563 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 64563
Section 64563
Status: in_force

Upon the issuance of any regulations that affect this chapter, a copy of the regulations shall be posted on the department’s Internet Web site. A copy of the regulations shall also be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in Sacramento, California, and in any other newspaper that the secretary may prescribe. No regulation shall become effective until five days after the date of the posting and publication. The secretary shall mail a copy of the notice of the issuance of the regulations to every person that is directly affected by the regulations whose name and address may be on file in the office of the secretary and to every person who files in the office of the secretary a written request for the notice.
Cal. WAT § 22233 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 22233
Section 22233
Status: in_force

Any district and any county may enter into a contract agreeing to pay and apportion between them the costs of locating, removing, repairing, or relocating any facilities owned or to be owned by either party on the roads or other property of the other in such proportion and upon such terms as the governing boards of the parties shall determine to be equitable.
Cal. HSC § 20001 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 20001
Section 20001
Status: in_force

“Board,” as used in this chapter, means the board of supervisors of the county in which it is proposed to form a district, or in which a district has been formed.