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Cal. BPC § 26039.6 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 10 / Chapter 3 / Section 26039.6
Section 26039.6
Status: in_force

(a) Cannabis or a cannabis product is adulterated if it is any of the following:

(1) It has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions in which it may have become contaminated with filth or in which it may have been rendered injurious.

(2) It consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.

(3) It bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to users under the conditions of use suggested in the labeling or under conditions that are customary or usual.

(4) It bears or contains a substance that is restricted or limited under this division or regulations promulgated pursuant to this division and the level of substance in the product exceeds the limits specified pursuant to this division or in regulation.

(5) Its concentrations differ from, or its purity or quality is below, that which it is represented to possess.

(6) The methods, facilities, or controls used for its cultivation, manufacture, packing, or holding do not conform to, or are not operated or administered in conformity with, practices established by regulations adopted under this division to ensure that the cannabis or cannabis product meets the requirements of this division as to safety and has the concentrations it purports to have and meets the quality and purity characteristics that it purports or is represented to possess.

(7) Its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the contents injurious to health.

(8) It is a cannabis product and a substance has been mixed or packed with it after testing by a testing laboratory so as to reduce its quality or concentration or if a substance has been substituted, wholly or in part, for the cannabis product.

(b) It is unlawful to cultivate, manufacture, distribute, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale cannabis or a cannabis product that is adulterated.

(c) It is unlawful to adulterate cannabis or a cannabis product.

(d) It is unlawful to receive in commerce cannabis or a cannabis product that is adulterated or to distribute, deliver, or proffer for delivery any such cannabis or cannabis product.
Cal. INS § 1875.12 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Article 5.5 / Section 1875.12
Section 1875.12
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner may license an organization as an insurance claims analysis bureau if it meets the following qualifications:

(1) Is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of fraud prevention or is a corporation that has made the filings required by Section 1855.2.

(2) Has at least two years of experience, or has a managing officer with at least two years of experience, determined by the commissioner to be relevant to operation of an insurance claims analysis bureau, or has at least two years’ experience collecting and compiling insurance statistical information.

(3) Has a member or subscriber base of sufficient size that is, in the opinion of the commissioner, adequate to assure uniformity in data collection and cost efficiency to the insurer.

(4) Maintains its records in a computerized format.

(b) An applicant seeking a license as an insurance claims analysis bureau shall file with the commissioner the following documents:

(1) A copy of its articles of incorporation, its bylaws, and any rules and regulations governing the conduct of its business.

(2) A list of members or subscribers.

(3) A description of its technical capacity to collect and serve the volume of data necessary to act as an insurance claims analysis bureau.

(4) A statement establishing that the applicant meets the conditions set forth in subdivision (a).

(5) A certificate signed by an officer of the applicant that it will permit any licensed insurer to become a member or subscriber to the insurance claims analysis bureau.

(6) A statement of all of the following:

(A) That it will provide admitted insurers subject to Article 6 (commencing with Section 1876) the ability to submit required information to the claims analysis bureau at no cost to the insurer, and also provide nonmember or nonsubscriber insurers, at no cost to the insurer, any software that is specifically designed for the purpose of submitting information electronically that the bureau requires its insurers to use.

(B) That information from its data base will be made available to state law enforcement agencies pursuant to existing law, and that it will be made available at no cost to those agencies.

(c) This section shall not be interpreted to provide any nonmember or nonsubscriber any rights of membership or subscription in an organization licensed as an insurance claims analysis bureau.
Cal. RTC § 13531 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 8 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 13531
Section 13531
Status: in_force

The tax imposed by this part is due and payable at the date of the decedent’s death.
Cal. WIC § 14199.110 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7.5 / Article 4 / Section 14199.110
Section 14199.110
Status: in_force

Specialty Care Account

(a) Moneys in the Specialty Care Account shall be used for the purpose of increasing Medi-Cal patient access to specialty care services as set forth in this section.

(b) The department shall, subject to the stakeholder input requirements of Section 14199.121, establish and implement one or more payment methodologies that meet federal requirements and that require each Medi-Cal managed care plan or its subcontracted entities to expand beneficiary access to Medi-Cal covered specialty care services. The payment methodology or methodologies developed by the department shall address the following objectives:

(1) Increase the number of Medi-Cal managed care plan-contracting specialists.

(2) Retain existing Medi-Cal managed care plan-contracting specialists within the plan’s network of contracting providers.

(3) Increase the number of Medi-Cal patients an existing Medi-Cal managed care plan-contracting specialist serves.

(4) Provide expanded specialist appointment availability for Medi-Cal patients.

(5) Support specialists in coordinating and overseeing the care of patients as part of a multidisciplinary care team.

(c) A Medi-Cal managed care plan or a subcontracted entity shall provide payments to specialists consistent with the payment methodologies developed by the department pursuant to this section.
Cal. WAT § 35479 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 35479
Section 35479
Status: in_force

The district may elect, if it is using the alternative provisions for levy, collection and enforcement of district assessments by the county as provided in Part 7.5 hereof, to have the county levy and collect standby charges. If the district so elects, it shall certify to the county auditor of each county in which the district is located and the county assessor in each county in which the district is located on or before the fourth Monday in August of each year in which a standby charge is to be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing on that July 1, the following information for purposes of such levy, assessment and collection:

(a) The amount of the acreage standby charge levied by the district, both by acre and total amount estimated to be collected for the entire district;

(b) The assessee parcels and assessee names for each parcel of land in the district against whom a standby charge is being levied and the acreage assessed to such person according to the district records, and the total amount of the charge to be paid by each assessee parcel.
Cal. RTC § 463 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 463
Section 463
Status: in_force

(a) If any person who is required by law or is requested by the assessor to make an annual property statement fails to file an annual property statement within the time limit specified by Section 441 or make and subscribe the affidavit respecting his or her name and place of residence, a penalty of 10 percent of the assessed value of the unreported taxable tangible property of that person placed on the current roll shall be added to the assessment made on the current roll.

(b) Notice of any penalty added to the secured roll pursuant to this section shall be mailed by the assessor to the assessee at his or her address as contained in the official records of the county assessor.

(c) If the assessee establishes to the satisfaction of the county board of equalization or the assessment appeals board that the failure to file the property statement within the time required by Section 441 was due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the assessee’s control, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care in the absence of willful neglect, it may order the penalty abated, provided the assessee has filed with the county board written application for abatement of the penalty within the time prescribed by law for the filing of applications for assessment reductions.

(d) If the penalty is abated it shall be canceled or refunded in the same manner as an amount of tax erroneously charged or collected.
Cal. BPC § 8725 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 15 / Article 3 / Section 8725
Section 8725
Status: in_force

Any person practicing, or offering to practice, land surveying in this state shall submit evidence that he or she is qualified to practice and shall be licensed under this chapter.

It is unlawful for any person to practice, offer to practice, or represent himself or herself, as a land surveyor in this state, or to set, reset, replace, or remove any survey monument on land in which he or she has no legal interest, unless he or she has been licensed or specifically exempted from licensing under this chapter.
Cal. WAT § 35520.10 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 5 / Chapter 2.2 / Section 35520.10
Section 35520.10
Status: in_force

The board shall file a copy of the roll and report in its records and forthwith give notice of the filing of the report and assessment roll by publication at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each affected county, and by mailing copies of the notice to each affected landowner, as shown on the last equalized assessment book of the district or as is otherwise known to the district, stating therein the time and place of a special meeting which shall be not less than 15 days after the completion of publication and mailing at which meeting all interested persons, including all persons owning land in the district or in the affected drainage service area, may appear and be heard concerning any matter set forth in the roll and report.
Cal. FAC § 67059.5 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 67059.5
Section 67059.5
Status: in_force

The secretary or the secretary’s representatives shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission.
Cal. FGC § 10001 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6.5 / Section 10001
Section 10001
Status: in_force

A sturgeon egg processing license shall be issued and delivered upon application and the payment of a base fee of one hundred dollars ($100), as adjusted under Section 713, to the department. The license shall be valid for a period of 12 months from the date of issuance.
Cal. HSC § 13060 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 12 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 13060
Section 13060
Status: in_force

Any public entity may place blue reflective pavement markers in any highway, street, or road for marking fire hydrant locations and water supply locations. These blue reflective pavement markers shall not be used for any other purpose. This section shall not apply to freeways or freeway ramps.

A public entity shall not place blue reflective pavement markers on a state highway unless it first obtains an encroachment permit from the Department of Transportation.
Cal. WAT § 10925 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.11 / Chapter 2 / Section 10925
Section 10925
Status: in_force

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section govern the construction of this part.

(a) “Basin” or “subbasin” means a groundwater basin or subbasin identified and defined in the department’s Bulletin No. 118.

(b) “Bulletin No. 118” means the department’s report entitled “California’s Groundwater: Bulletin 118” updated in 2003, or as it may be subsequently updated or revised in accordance with Section 12924.

(c) “Monitoring entity” means a party conducting or coordinating the monitoring of groundwater elevations pursuant to this part.

(d) “Monitoring functions” and “groundwater monitoring functions” means the monitoring of groundwater elevations, the reporting of those elevations to the department, and other related actions required by this part.

(e) “Monitoring groundwater elevations” means monitoring groundwater elevations, coordinating the monitoring of groundwater elevations, or both.

(f) “Voluntary cooperative groundwater monitoring association” means an association formed for the purposes of monitoring groundwater elevations pursuant to Section 10935.
Cal. SHC § 2882 — California Code / Code shc / Division 4 / Part 4 / Section 2882
Section 2882
Status: in_force

If the legislative body determines that the public interest, convenience and necessity require the acquisition or improvement substantially as set forth in the report and that the project is feasible, it may proceed under the law stated in the report as the statute under which the proceeding is to be conducted, except as otherwise provided in this division.
Cal. BPC § 3718 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 8.3 / Article 2 / Section 3718
Section 3718
Status: in_force

The board shall issue, deny, suspend, and revoke licenses to practice respiratory care as provided in this chapter.
Cal. PUC § 8371 — California Code / Code puc / Division 4.1 / Chapter 4.5 / Section 8371
Section 8371
Status: in_force

The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the Independent System Operator, shall take all of the following actions by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for distribution customers of large electrical corporations:

(a) Develop microgrid service standards necessary to meet state and local permitting requirements.

(b) Without shifting costs between ratepayers, develop methods to reduce barriers for microgrid deployment.

(c) Develop guidelines that determine what impact studies are required for microgrids to connect to the electrical corporation grid.

(d) Without shifting costs between ratepayers, develop separate large electrical corporation rates and tariffs, as necessary, to support microgrids, while ensuring that system, public, and worker safety are given the highest priority. The separate rates and tariffs shall not compensate a customer for the use of diesel backup or natural gas generation, except as either of those sources is used pursuant to Section 41514.1 of the Health and Safety Code, or except for natural gas generation that is a distributed energy resource.

(e) Form a working group to codify standards and protocols needed to meet California electrical corporation and Independent System Operator microgrid requirements.

(f) Develop a standard for direct current metering in the commission’s Electric Rule 21 to streamline the interconnection process and lower interconnection costs for direct current microgrid applications.
Cal. HSC § 6424 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 6424
Section 6424
Status: in_force

The petition shall be published for at least two weeks preceding the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which the district is located.
Cal. WAT § 79155 — California Code / Code wat / Division 26 / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 79155
Section 79155
Status: in_force

(a) Any grant agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter may include provisions determined to be necessary by the department.

(b) Any grant agreement pursuant to this chapter shall include both of the following:

(1) A determination by the department that the project is economically justified, and that the project is feasible.

(2) An estimate of the reasonable cost and benefit of the project, including a feasibility report that sets forth the engineering and financial feasibility of the project, and shall include a description of the proposed facilities and their relation to other water-related facilities in the system service area.
Cal. HSC § 123740 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 106 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 123740
Section 123740
Status: in_force

(a)  For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply:

(1)  “Appropriately trained public health professional” means a public health nurse or a social worker who is knowledgeable about the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome and the care and support of persons who have experienced a death of this nature, and who has basic grief counseling skills.

(2)  “Contact” is a face-to-face visit, a group visit, or a telephone call that provides one or more of the following services:

(A)  An assessment of the family, child care provider, or both.

(B)  Crisis intervention and counseling.

(C)  A referral to a community service.

(D)  A followup assessment of the family’s, the child care provider’s, or both family’s and child care provider’s progress.

(3)  “Immediately” means within three working days of receiving notice from the coroner or other reporting agent of a death presumedly caused by sudden infant death syndrome.

(4)  “Local health officer” means a health officer for a city, county, or city and county.

(b)  Upon being informed by the coroner pursuant to Section 102865 of any case in which sudden infant death syndrome is the presumed cause of death, the local health officer or his or her designated agent, who is an appropriately trained public health professional, after consultation with the infant’s physician of record, when possible, shall immediately contact the person or persons who had custody and control of the infant, including foster parents, when applicable, for the purposes of providing to that person information, support, referral, and followup services relating to sudden infant death syndrome. If the infant was in child care, the local health officer or his or her designated agent who is an appropriately trained public health professional also shall immediately contact the child care provider.

(c)  The local health officer shall perform the duties required by this section throughout the jurisdiction of that local health officer.
Cal. INS § 763 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 5.2 / Section 763
Section 763
Status: in_force

(a) A depository institution shall, to the extent practicable, keep the area where the depository institution conducts transactions involving insurance products or annuities physically segregated from areas where retail deposits are routinely accepted from the general public, identify the areas where insurance products or annuity sales activities occur, and clearly delineate and distinguish, with appropriate signage, those areas from the areas where the depository institution’s retail deposit-taking activities occur.

(b) Any person who accepts deposits from the public in an area where those transactions are routinely conducted in the depository institution may refer a customer who seeks to purchase an insurance product or an annuity to a qualified person who sells that product only if the person making the referral receives no more than a one-time nominal fee of a fixed dollar amount for each referral that does not depend on whether the referral results in a transaction.
Cal. BPC § 7541.2 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.3 / Article 4 / Section 7541.2
Section 7541.2
Status: in_force

The bureau shall consider requiring, and may require, an applicant for licensure to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics. If the bureau requires an applicant to submit proof of satisfactory completion of a course in professional ethics, the bureau shall specify which courses and course providers satisfy the requirement and shall make that information regarding the course and course providers available on its internet website.
Cal. FIN § 1493 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.1 / Chapter 14 / Article 3 / Section 1493
Section 1493
Status: in_force

A commercial bank holding a first lien on real property may take, or purchase and hold, or loan upon another and immediately junior lien but all such loans shall not exceed in the aggregate 90 percent of the sound market value of the property as determined by proper appraisal. A commercial bank may loan not to exceed the face value of a deed of trust or mortgage which constitutes a first lien upon real property, but in no event shall any such loan exceed 90 percent of the sound market value of the property covered by said mortgage or deed of trust as determined by proper appraisal.
Cal. RTC § 55325 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 30 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 55325
Section 55325
Status: in_force

The board shall prepare and publish brief but comprehensive statements in simple and nontechnical language that explain procedure, remedies, and the rights and obligations of the board and taxpayers. As appropriate, statements shall be provided to taxpayers with the initial notice of audit, the notice of proposed additional taxes, any subsequent notice of tax due, or other substantive notices. Additionally, the board shall include this language for statements in the annual tax information bulletins that are mailed to taxpayers.
Cal. FAC § 12996 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 12 / Section 12996
Section 12996
Status: in_force

(a) Every person who violates any provision of this division relating to pesticides, or any regulation issued pursuant to a provision of this division relating to pesticides, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. Upon a second or subsequent conviction of the same provision of this division relating to pesticides, a person shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. Each violation constitutes a separate offense.

(b) Notwithstanding the penalties prescribed in subdivision (a), if the offense involves an intentional or negligent violation that created or reasonably could have created a hazard to human health or the environment, the convicted person shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year or in the state prison or by a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) nor more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.

(c) This section does not apply to violations of Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 15300) or Section 13186.5.
Cal. FAC § 22048 — California Code / Code fac / Division 10 / Chapter 10 / Article 2 / Section 22048
Section 22048
Status: in_force

If a licensed slaughterer desires to change to another location, the person shall notify the bureau of the relocation.
Cal. RTC § 17131.15 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 17131.15
Section 17131.15
Status: in_force

(a) Gross income does not include any payments received by an individual pursuant to Section 8161 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(b)  This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2027, and as of that date is repealed.