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Cal. COM § 7503 — California Code / Code com / Division 7 / Chapter 5 / Section 7503
Section 7503
Status: in_force

(a) A document of title confers no right in goods against a person that before issuance of the document had a legal interest or a perfected security interest in the goods and that did not:

(1) deliver or entrust the goods or any document of title covering the goods to the bailor or the bailor’s nominee with:

(A) actual or apparent authority to ship, store, or sell;

(B) power to obtain delivery under Section 7403; or

(C) power of disposition under Section 2403 or 9320 or subdivision (c) of Section 9321 or subdivision (b) of Section 10304 or subdivision (b) of Section 10305 or other statute or rule of law; or

(2) acquiesce in the procurement by the bailor or its nominee of any document.

(b) Title to goods based upon an unaccepted delivery order is subject to the rights of any person to which a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering the goods has been duly negotiated. That title may be defeated under Section 7504 to the same extent as the rights of the issuer or a transferee from the issuer.

(c) Title to goods based upon a bill of lading issued to a freight forwarder is subject to the rights of any person to which a bill issued by the freight forwarder is duly negotiated. However, delivery by the carrier in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 7401) pursuant to its own bill of lading discharges the carrier’s obligation to deliver.
Cal. HSC § 1569.193 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 3.2 / Article 2 / Section 1569.193
Section 1569.193
Status: in_force

(a)  When a licensee dies, an adult relative, or other nonrelated adult, who has control of the property may be designated as the responsible party to continue operation of the facility if the following conditions are met:

(1)  The licensee has filed a notarized written statement with the department designating the responsible party in the event of death, and the licensee has submitted the following information to the department:

(A)  A notarized statement, signed by the designee acknowledging acceptance of designation as responsible party.

(B)  A declaration signed by the designee under penalty of perjury regarding any prior criminal convictions.

(2)  The designee files an application for licensure pursuant to Section 1569.15 within 20 working days of the date of death, shows evidence satisfactory to the department that he or she has the ability to operate the facility, and provides evidence of the licensee’s death.

(b)  A designee under this section shall notify the department of the licensee’s death by the close of business on the department’s next business day following the licensee’s death.

(c)  (1)  If the designee decides not to apply for licensure, he or she shall notify the department of that decision within five working days of the licensee’s death. If the designee decides not to apply, the department shall assist the designee in the development and implementation of a relocation plan.

(2)  If the designee decides to apply for licensure, the department shall decide within 60 days after the application is submitted whether to issue a provisional license pursuant to Section 1569.21. A provisional license shall be granted only if the department is satisfied that the conditions specified in subdivision (a) have been met and that the health and safety of the residents of the facility will not be jeopardized.

(d)  If the designee complies with this section, he or she shall not be considered to be operating an unlicensed facility while the department decides whether to grant the provisional license.
Cal. FAC § 41202 — California Code / Code fac / Division 16 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 41202
Section 41202
Status: in_force

The Legislature hereby declares that it intends that the wine producers and wine grape growers appointed to the Wine Grape Inspection Advisory Committee pursuant to this article shall represent and further the interests of the grape industry. The Legislature also declares that this representation and furtherance of the grape industry serves the public interest. Accordingly, the Legislature finds that, with respect to persons who are appointed as members of the committee, the grape industry is tantamount to, and constitutes, the public generally within the meaning of Section 87103 of the Government Code.
Cal. ELEC § 7243 — California Code / Code elec / Division 7 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 7243
Section 7243
Status: in_force

If the chairperson of a committee refuses to call a meeting, a meeting may be called upon five days’ notice by a majority of the members of the committee.
Cal. FAC § 5772 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Article 4.5 / Section 5772
Section 5772
Status: in_force

The notice shall be delivered at least 72 hours prior to applying the economic poison. When the application of a pesticide is to be made pursuant to an emergency, the notice shall be delivered at least 24 hours prior to applying the pesticide.
Cal. PRC § 5090.14 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1.25 / Article 1 / Section 5090.14
Section 5090.14
Status: in_force

“Adaptive management” means to use the results of information gathered through a monitoring program or scientific research to adjust management strategies and practices to conserve cultural resources and provide for the conservation and improvement of natural resources.
Cal. FAC § 78289 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 21 / Article 6 / Section 78289
Section 78289
Status: in_force

Any assessment which is levied pursuant to this chapter is a personal debt of every producer so assessed.
Cal. VEH § 21957 — California Code / Code veh / Division 11 / Chapter 5 / Section 21957
Section 21957
Status: in_force

No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any vehicle.
Cal. BPC § 18878 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 2 / Article 15 / Section 18878
Section 18878
Status: in_force

Any person who otherwise violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. FIN § 31155 — California Code / Code fin / Division 15 / Chapter 3 / Section 31155
Section 31155
Status: in_force

No license shall be transferable or assignable.
Cal. HSC § 110070 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 110070
Section 110070
Status: in_force

Whenever public health or other considerations in this state require, the department may adopt, upon its own motion, or upon the petition of any interested party, regulations that prescribe tolerances, included but not limited to zero tolerances, for poisonous or deleterious substances, food additives, pesticide chemicals, or color additives. The department may also prescribe the conditions under which a food additive or a color additive may be safely used and may grant exemptions for a food additive or color additive when it is to be used solely for investigational or experimental purposes.

A petitioner shall establish, by data submitted to the department, that a necessity exists for such regulations and that its effect will not be detrimental to the public health. If the data furnished by the petitioner is not sufficient to allow the department to determine whether such regulations should be adopted, the department may require additional data to be submitted. Failure to comply with this requirement shall be sufficient grounds to deny the request.
Cal. RTC § 8526 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 8526
Section 8526
Status: in_force

Any bonds issued under this chapter are legal investment for all trust funds; for the funds of insurance companies, commercial and savings banks, and trust companies; and for state school funds; and whenever any money or funds may, by any law now or hereafter enacted, be invested in bonds of cities, counties, school districts, or other districts within the state, that money or those funds may be invested in the bonds issued under this chapter, and whenever bonds of cities, counties, school districts, or other districts within the state may, by any law now or hereafter enacted, be used as security for the performance of any act or the deposit of any public money, the bonds issued under this chapter may be so used. The provisions of this chapter are in addition to all other laws relating to legal investments and shall be controlling as the latest expression of the Legislature with respect thereto.
Cal. HSC § 1374.142 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.2 / Article 5 / Section 1374.142
Section 1374.142
Status: in_force

(a) A health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services, including a specialized health care service plan contract covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an enrollee through a third-party corporate telehealth provider shall report to the department, in a manner specified by the department, all of the following for each product type:

(1) The total number of services delivered via telehealth by a third-party corporate telehealth provider.

(2) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the percentage of the third-party telehealth provider’s contracted providers available to the plan’s enrollees that are also network providers.

(3) For each third-party corporate telehealth provider with which it contracts, the types of telehealth services utilized by enrollees, including information on the gender and age of the enrollee, and any other information as determined by the department.

(b) A health care service plan that issues, sells, renews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services, including a specialized health care service plan contract covering dental services that offers a service via telehealth to an enrollee through a third-party corporate telehealth provider, shall disclose to the enrollee the impact of third-party telehealth visits on the enrollee’s benefit limitations, including frequency limitations and the enrollee’s annual maximum.

(c) Section 1374.141 shall not apply to specialized health care service plans covering dental services.

(d) For the purposes of this section, “third-party corporate telehealth provider” means a corporation that provides dental services exclusively through a telehealth technology platform and has no physical location at which a patient can receive services, and is directly contracted with a health care service plan, including a specialized health care service plan, that issues, sells, renews, or offers a plan contract covering dental services.
Cal. HSC § 111690 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 111690
Section 111690
Status: in_force

Any cosmetic is adulterated if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the contents injurious to health.
Cal. INS § 14045 — California Code / Code ins / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 14045
Section 14045
Status: in_force

A licensee shall not advertise or conduct business from any location other than that shown on the records of the commissioner as his or her principal place of business unless he or she has received a branch office certificate for such location after compliance with the provisions of this chapter and such additional requirements necessary for the protection of the public as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe. A licensee shall notify the commissioner in writing within 10 days after closing or changing the location of a branch office.
Cal. BPC § 23428.8 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 9 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 23428.8
Section 23428.8
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, “club” also means any parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West which has as the owner, lessee or occupant thereof operated an establishment for fraternal purposes.
Cal. PRC § 25997.3 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 19 / Section 25997.3
Section 25997.3
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall provide financial incentives pursuant to Section 25997.1 for any of the following:

(1) To advance research and development in fusion energy and support the establishment or expansion of testing facilities addressing gaps in fusion science and technology.

(2) To accelerate the deployment of new research and technology capabilities that support the commercialization of fusion energy.

(3) To achieve the initiative’s goal of delivering the world’s first fusion energy pilot project in the state by the 2040s.

(b) In administering the initiative, the commission may do all of the following:

(1) Solicit applicants and award financial incentives using a competitive award process. The commission may noncompetitively award follow-on financial incentives to awardees of a prior competitive award process.

(2) Use the competitive award process of another organization to award funds or provide follow-on funding for an entity previously selected through a competitive award process for the purposes of attracting significant federal or private funding for the projects or of accelerating the delivery of program benefits.

(3) Notwithstanding any other law, noncompetitively award financial incentives to an entity that will use the moneys as matching funds for federally awarded moneys.

(4) Noncompetitively award financial incentives to national laboratories and any public entities.

(5) Noncompetitively award financial incentives to any entity when the cost to the state is reasonable and the commission makes any of the following determinations:

(A) The expertise, service, or product is unique.

(B) A competitive solicitation would frustrate obtaining necessary information, goods, or services in a timely manner.

(C) When it is determined by the commission to be in the best interests of the state.

(c) The commission shall not noncompetitively award funds pursuant to this chapter unless both of the following conditions are met:

(1) The commission, at least 60 days before taking an action pursuant to this chapter, notifies the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the relevant policy committees in both houses of the Legislature, in writing, of its intent to take the proposed actions.

(2) The Joint Legislative Budget Committee either approves or does not disapprove the proposed action within 60 days from the date of notification required by paragraph (1).
Cal. FAC § 46024 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 10 / Section 46024
Section 46024
Status: in_force

(a) It is unlawful for any person to advertise, label, or otherwise represent that any fertilizer or pesticide chemical may be used in connection with the production, processing, or distribution of products sold as organic if that fertilizer or pesticide chemical contains a prohibited material.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to refuse to submit for inspection.

(c) It is unlawful for any person to mislabel any organic product.

(d) It is unlawful for any person to alter any organic registration form.

(e) It is unlawful for any person to alter any certification document.

(f) It is unlawful for any person to falsify any document.

(g) It is unlawful for any person to remove a hold off sale or disposal order from any lot of product.

(h) It is unlawful to use the term “transitional organic” in this state.
Cal. SHC § 115 — California Code / Code shc / Division 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 115
Section 115
Status: in_force

All work performed pursuant to any provisions of sections 111, 113 and 114 shall be performed to the satisfaction of and subject to the approval of the department.
Cal. PRC § 75022 — California Code / Code prc / Division 43 / Chapter 2 / Section 75022
Section 75022
Status: in_force

The sum of one hundred eighty million dollars ($180,000,000) shall be available to the Department of Health Services for grants for small community drinking water system infrastructure improvements and related actions to meet safe drinking water standards. Priority shall be given to projects that address chemical and nitrate contaminants, other health hazards and by whether the community is disadvantaged or severely disadvantaged. Special consideration shall be given to small communities with limited financial resources. Eligible recipients include public agencies and incorporated mutual water companies that serve disadvantaged communities. The Department of Health Services may make grants for the purpose of financing feasibility studies and to meet the eligibility requirements for a construction grant. Construction grants shall be limited to $5,000,000 per project and not more than twenty five percent of a grant may be awarded in advance of actual expenditures. The Department of Health Services may expend up to $5,000,000 of the funds allocated in this section for technical assistance to eligible communities.
Cal. HSC § 123485 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 106 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 123485
Section 123485
Status: in_force

The following definitions shall govern the construction of this article:

(a) “Community-based comprehensive perinatal care” means a range of prenatal, delivery, postpartum, infant, and pediatric care services delivered in an urban community or neighborhood, rural area, city or county clinic, city or county health department, freestanding birth center, or other health care provider facility by health care practitioners trained in methods of preventing complications and problems during and after pregnancy, and in methods of educating pregnant women of these preventive measures, and who provide a continuous range of services. The health care practitioners shall, through a system of established linkages to other levels of care in the community, consult with, and, when appropriate, refer to, specialists.

(b) “Low income” means all persons of childbearing age eligible for Medi-Cal benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and all persons eligible for public social services for which federal reimbursement is available, including potential recipients. “Potential recipients” shall include the pregnant woman and her infant in a family where current social, economic and health conditions of the family indicate that the family would likely become a recipient of financial assistance within the next five years.

(c) “Prenatal care” means care received from conception until the completion of labor and delivery.

(d) “Perinatal care” means care received from the time of conception through the first year after birth.

(e) “Qualified organization” means any nonprofit, not-for-profit, or for-profit corporation with demonstrated expertise in implementing the Nurse-Family Partnership program or similar programs in different local settings.

(f) “Qualified trainer” means anyone who has been certified by the Nurse-Family Partnership to provide training.

(g) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health, unless otherwise designated.
Cal. WAT § 72072.12 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20 / Part 8 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 72072.12
Section 72072.12
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 72072.11, a service supplier may claim a refund or take as credit against taxes collected and remitted the amount overpaid, paid more than once, or erroneously or illegally collected or received when it is established in a manner prescribed by the board that the service user from whom the tax has been collected did not owe the tax; provided, however, that neither a refund nor a credit shall be allowed unless the amount of the tax so collected has either been refunded to the service user or credited to charges subsequently payable by the service user to the person required to collect and remit.
Cal. HSC § 1434 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.4 / Section 1434
Section 1434
Status: in_force

Commencing in 1974, the state department shall, on or before February 1 of each year, notify all public agencies which refer patients to long-term health care facilities of all of the long-term health care facilities in the area found upon inspection within the previous 12-month period to be without class “A” or “B” violations. Public agencies shall give priority to such long-term health care facilities in referring publicly assisted patients. No public agency shall refer patients to long-term health care facilities with any uncorrected class “A” violations or five or more uncorrected class “B” violations, except those long-term health care facilities which the director may exempt because of a lack of facilities of the same type in the area sufficient to satisfy the demand for services provided by such type of facilities.
Cal. INS § 12401.6 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 5.5 / Section 12401.6
Section 12401.6
Status: in_force

Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit concert of action between entities under the same general management and control.
Cal. PROB § 2806 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4 / Part 4 / Chapter 12 / Section 2806
Section 2806
Status: in_force

The court may grant the petition and order the guardian or conservator to transfer some or all of the personal property of the estate to the foreign guardian or conservator if the court determines all of the following:

(a) The transfer will promote the best interests of the ward or conservatee and the estate.

(b) The substantial rights of creditors or claimants in this state will not be materially impaired by the transfer.

(c) The foreign guardian or conservator is qualified, willing, and able to administer the property to be transferred.
Cal. RTC § 13555 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 8 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 13555
Section 13555
Status: in_force

If any personal representative fails to pay any tax imposed by this part for which he or she is liable prior to the delinquent date of the tax, he or she shall, on motion of the Controller, in his or her discretion, be required by the superior court having jurisdiction to execute a bond to the people of the State of California in a penalty of twice the amount of the tax with those sureties as the court may approve, conditioned for the payment of the tax, plus interest on the tax at the rate of 12 percent per annum commencing on the date that tax became delinquent, within a certain time to be fixed by the court and specified in the bond.
Cal. PUC § 16807 — California Code / Code puc / Division 7 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 16807
Section 16807
Status: in_force

The board may apply to the Public Utilities Commission to ascertain the value of existing utility works for the purpose of submitting to the electors estimates of the cost of acquiring them.
Cal. PUC § 311.2 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 311.2
Section 311.2
Status: in_force

The commission shall adopt procedures authorizing the submittal of electronic signatures and documents by all parties on contracts involving the commission.