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Cal. PUC § 102510 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 102510
Section 102510
Status: in_force

Whenever the board deems that the expenditure of money for the purposes for which the bonds were authorized by the voters is impractical or unwise, it may, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote of the board, so declare and call an election to be held in the district for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters thereof the proposition of incurring indebtedness by the issuance of those bonds for some other purposes or, in the case where bonds have been sold, the proposition to use the proceeds for some other purposes. The procedure, so far as applicable, shall be the same as when a bond proposition is originally submitted.
Cal. WAT § 8944 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 8944
Section 8944
Status: in_force

The Controller shall, upon demand of the board, cancel the warrants and credit the face value thereof, plus the accrued interest thereon to the date of the tender of the warrants in payment of assessments to the fund upon which the warrants were originally drawn and charge the fund with the accrued interest. Thereupon the Controller shall notify the State Treasurer of the cancellation and the State Treasurer shall make the proper entry in his books.
Cal. FAC § 58933 — California Code / Code fac / Division 21 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 10 / Section 58933
Section 58933
Status: in_force

At any time after the funds which are credited to the administrative account, or the advertising or sales promotion account, of the marketing order are sufficient to so warrant, or at the close of the marketing season, the sums deposited by any person shall be adjusted to the amount which is properly chargeable against such person pursuant to the assessment which was authorized.
Cal. ELEC § 15621 — California Code / Code elec / Division 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15621
Section 15621
Status: in_force

(a) Following completion of the official canvass any voter may, within five calendar days beginning on the 31st day after a statewide election, file with the Secretary of State a written request for a recount of the votes cast for candidates for any statewide office or for or against any measure voted on statewide. The request filed pursuant to this section shall specify in which county or counties the recount is sought and shall specify on behalf of which candidate, slate of electors, or position on a measure (affirmative or negative) it is filed.

(b) The Secretary of State shall forthwith send by electronic delivery one copy of the request to the elections official of each county in which a recount of the votes is sought, and the elections official shall confirm receipt of the copy in writing by electronic delivery to the Secretary of State.

(c) All the other provisions of this article apply to recounts conducted under this section.
Cal. HSC § 114970 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 9 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 114970
Section 114970
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of this chapter to effectuate the policies set forth in Section 114965 by providing for programs to:

(a)  Effectively regulate sources of ionizing radiation for the protection of the occupational and public health and safety.

(b)  Promote an orderly regulatory pattern within the State, among the states, and between the federal government and the State, and facilitate intergovernmental co-operation with respect to use and regulation of sources of ionizing radiation to the end that duplication of regulation may be minimized.

(c)  Establish procedures for assumption and performance of certain regulatory responsibilities with respect to byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials.

(d)  Permit maximum utilization of sources of ionizing radiation consistent with the health and safety of the public.
Cal. WAT § 20960 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Section 20960
Section 20960
Status: in_force

If upon the canvass of the formation election it appears that a majority of all the votes cast are “Irrigation District—Yes,” the board of supervisors shall by an order entered on its minutes declare the territory formed as a district under the name designated for it.
Cal. PUC § 2897 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 10 / Article 4 / Section 2897
Section 2897
Status: in_force

Consistent with other provisions of this code, orders, rules, and applicable tariffs of telecommunications service providers, the commission shall apply these policies to all providers of telecommunications services in California. These policies are not exclusive and may be supplemented by the commission.
Cal. BPC § 2831 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 7 / Section 2831
Section 2831
Status: in_force

An applicant for certification pursuant to this article shall submit a written application in the form prescribed by the board, accompanied by the fee prescribed by Section 2830.7 which shall also apply to the issuance of a certificate under the provisions of this article.
Cal. RTC § 3793.1 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 6 / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 3793.1
Section 3793.1
Status: in_force

(a) The sales price of any property sold under this article shall include, at a minimum, the amounts of all of the following:

(1) All defaulted taxes and assessments, and all associated penalties and costs.

(2) Redemption penalties and fees incurred through the month of the sale.

(3) All costs of the sale.

(4) The outstanding balance of any property tax postponement loan.

(b) If the property or property interests have been offered for sale under the provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 3691) at least once and no acceptable bids therefor have been received, the tax collector may, in his or her discretion and with the approval of the board of supervisors, offer that property or those interests at a minimum price that the tax collector deems appropriate.

(c) The board of supervisors may permit a nonprofit organization to purchase property or property interests by way of installment payments.

(d) For purposes of this section, the “outstanding balance of any property tax postponement loan” is the sum of the following:

(1) The tax payments made by the State Controller’s office on behalf of the claimant in the Property Tax Postponement Program.

(2) Accrued interest pursuant to Section 16183 of the Government Code, subject to Sections 20644 and 20644.5.

(3) Other associated fees and penalties as deemed appropriate by law.

(4) Less any payments already made on the property tax postponement loan.
Cal. WAT § 12947 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 6 / Chapter 9 / Article 2 / Section 12947
Section 12947
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the growing water needs of the state require the development of cost effective and efficient water supply technologies. Desalination technology is now feasible to help provide significant new water supplies from seawater, brackish water, and reclaimed water. Desalination technology can also provide an effective means of treating some types of contamination in water supplies. Desalination is consistent with both state water supply and efficiency policy goals, and joint state-federal environmental and water policy and principles promoted by the Cal-Fed Bay Delta Program.

(b) It is the policy of this state that desalination projects developed by or for public water entities be given the same opportunities for state assistance and funding as other water supply and reliability projects, and that desalination be consistent with all applicable environmental protection policies in the state.

(c) It is the intention of the Legislature that the department shall undertake to find economic and efficient methods of desalting saline water so that desalted water may be made available to help meet the growing water requirements of the state.
Cal. FAM § 360 — California Code / Code fam / Division 3 / Part 2 / Section 360
Section 360
Status: in_force

(a) If a marriage license is lost, damaged, or destroyed after the marriage ceremony, but before it is returned to the county recorder, or deemed unacceptable for registration by the county recorder, the person solemnizing the marriage, in order to comply with Section 359, shall obtain a duplicate marriage license by filing an affidavit setting forth the facts with the county clerk of the county in which the license was issued.

(b) The duplicate marriage license shall not be issued later than one year after the date of marriage and shall be returned by the person solemnizing the marriage to the county recorder within one year of the date of marriage.

(c) The county clerk may charge a fee to cover the actual costs of issuing a duplicate marriage license.

(d) If a marriage license is lost, damaged, or destroyed before a marriage ceremony takes place, the applicants shall purchase a new marriage license and the old license shall be voided.
Cal. SHC § 11302.5 — California Code / Code shc / Division 13 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 11302.5
Section 11302.5
Status: in_force

A copy of the resolution of intention shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which lies any portion of any parcel of land abutting upon any portion of the proposed pedestrian mall or upon any portion of any intersecting street. The copy shall be recorded not less than 90 days prior to the hearing.
Cal. HSC § 12006 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 11 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 12006
Section 12006
Status: in_force

The provisions of this part and the regulations adopted by the State Fire Marshal pursuant to this part do not apply when the use, handling, possession, storage and transportation is subject to the requirements of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Industrial Relations, except as the provisions of this part and the regulations adopted by the State Fire Marshal may extend beyond the scope or authority of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Industrial Relations.
Cal. WIC § 7354 — California Code / Code wic / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 7 / Section 7354
Section 7354
Status: in_force

(a) A person with a mental health disorder may be granted care in a licensed institution or other suitable licensed or certified facility. The State Department of State Hospitals may pay for that care at a rate not exceeding the average cost of care of patients in the state hospitals, as determined by the Director of State Hospitals. The payments shall be made from funds available to the State Department of State Hospitals for that purpose.

(b) The State Department of State Hospitals may make payments for services for patients who have mental health disorders in private facilities released or discharged from state hospitals on the basis of reimbursement for reasonable cost, using the same standards and rates consistent with those established by the State Department of Health Care Services for similar types of care. The payments shall be made within the limitation of funds appropriated to the State Department of State Hospitals for that purpose.

(c) No payments for care or services of a patient with a mental health disorder shall be made by the State Department of State Hospitals pursuant to this section unless the care or services are requested by the local director of the mental health services of the county of the patient’s residence, unless provision for the care or services is made in the county Short-Doyle plan of the county under which the county shall reimburse the department for 10 percent of the amount expended by the department, exclusive of the portion of the cost that is provided by the federal government.

(d) The provision for the 10-percent county share shall be inapplicable with respect to a county with a population of under 100,000 persons that has not elected to participate financially in providing services under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) in accordance with Section 5709.5.
Cal. HSC § 1635 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 4.1 / Article 1 / Section 1635
Section 1635
Status: in_force

(a) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health.

(b) “Donor” means an individual, living or deceased, from whom tissue is removed.

(c) “Gamete bank” means a tissue bank that collects, processes, stores, or distributes sperm, oocytes, or embryos, including a facility that provides professional reproductive services, other than those facilities exempt from tissue bank licensure.

(d) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, state or local government, or subdivision or agency thereof, or any other legal entity.

(e) (1) “Tissue” means a human cell, group of cells, including the cornea, sclera, or vitreous humor and other segments of, or the whole eye, bones, skin, arteries, sperm, oocytes, embryos, blood, other fluids, and any other portion of a human body, but shall not include an organ when recovered for transplantation or research purposes.

(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), “organ” means a human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, intestine (including the esophagus, stomach, small or large intestine, or any portion of the gastrointestinal tract), or vascularized composite allograft, and associated blood vessels recovered from an organ donor during the recovery of the organ.

(f) “Tissue bank” means a place, establishment, or institution that collects, processes, stores, or distributes tissue for transplantation into human beings.

(g) “Transplantation” means the act or process of transferring tissue, including by ingestion, from a donor to the body of the donor or another human being.
Cal. HSC § 44268 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 5 / Chapter 8.7 / Section 44268
Section 44268
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Battery” means an electrochemical energy storage system powered directly by electrical current.

(b) “Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.

(c) “Electric vehicle” means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell vehicle.

(d) “Electric vehicle charging station” means one or more publicly available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service equipment.

(e) “Electric vehicle service equipment” means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.

(f) “Interoperability billing standards” means the ability for a member of one electric charging station billing network to use another billing network.

(g) “Network roaming” means the act of a member of one electric vehicle charging station billing network using a charging station that is outside of the member’s billing network with the member’s billing network account information.

(h) “Publicly available parking space” means a parking space that has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages. “Publicly available parking space” shall not include a parking space that is part of, or associated with, a private residence, a parking space that is reserved for the exclusive use of an individual driver or vehicle or for a group of drivers or vehicles, such as employees, tenants, visitors, residents of a common interest development, or residents of an adjacent building, or a parking space provided by a producer of electric vehicles as a service. Nothing in this article limits the ability of an owner or lessee of a publicly available parking space whose primary business is other than electric vehicle charging from restricting use of the parking space, such as limiting use to customers and visitors of the business.
Cal. RTC § 4801 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 9 / Chapter 1 / Section 4801
Section 4801
Status: in_force

As used in this part, “taxes” includes assessments collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes.
Cal. FAC § 42944 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 2 / Article 11 / Section 42944
Section 42944
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any person to make any statement, representation, or assertion orally, by public outcry, or proclamation, or in writing, or by any other manner or means whatever, which concerns the quality, size, maturity, condition of, or any other matter which relates to fruits, nuts, or vegetables, which is false, deceptive, or misleading in any particular.
Cal. WIC § 241 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 241
Section 241
Status: in_force

The members of a probation commission appointed and holding office under prior provisions of law on January 1, 1977, shall continue in office and shall be members of the probation commission created hereby for the same term as that for which they were appointed.
Cal. INS § 927 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 10.2 / Section 927
Section 927
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) It is in the state’s interest to encourage competitive business opportunities for all of its people. Insurers are uniquely positioned to build relationships within the communities they serve through the development, inclusion, and utilization of certified minority, women, LGBT, persons with disabilities, veteran, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises whenever possible.

(b) It is in the state’s interest to encourage corporate leadership opportunities for all of its people. Insurers are uniquely positioned to build relationships within the communities they serve through the development of a corporate board that represents the diversity of the state.

(c) According to the California Insurance Diversity Survey, in 2021, among at least 1,600 board seats reported by 386 insurance companies, nearly 64 percent of those seats were occupied by Caucasians, and 62 percent of board members identified as men. Meanwhile, less than 1 percent of board members publicly identified as LGBT, 4.1 percent publicly identified as veterans, and less than 1 percent publicly identified as disabled veterans. Moreover, diverse board members from historically underrepresented communities continue to remain disproportionately low. Blacks and African Americans, Asians-Pacific Islanders, Hispanics-Latinos, and Native Americans comprised only 7.8 percent, 4.4 percent, 3.4 percent, and 0 percent, of board seats, respectively.

(d) An analysis by KPMG of 2020 proxy statement data from Equilar, Inc. revealed that nearly 23 percent of the directors serving on the boards of publicly held insurance companies in the Russell 3000 Index are women. At more than 35 percent of insurance companies, women comprise less than 10 percent of the board.

(e) By requiring each major insurer to report to the Insurance Commissioner, explaining the insurer’s supplier diversity statement, expressing its goals regarding certified minority, women, LGBT, persons with disabilities, veteran, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises, and detailing the insurer’s efforts and goals regarding board diversity, and by having the commissioner place that information on the department’s internet website, will help facilitate these relationships.
Cal. MVC § 896 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 896
Section 896
Status: in_force

The department shall consider applications in the order in which they are received. If the funds available are insufficient to meet the obligations which would arise from the guardianship of all worthy applicants, the department shall assume wardship over the applicants who are most urgently in need of further education, taking into consideration both scholastic achievement and financial need.
Cal. PRC § 3740 — California Code / Code prc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Section 3740
Section 3740
Status: in_force

The owner or operator of any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain geothermal resources shall properly case it with watertight and adequate casing, in accordance with methods approved by the supervisor or the district deputy. The owner or operator shall also use every reasonable effort and endeavor to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources, to shut out detrimental substances from strata containing water suitable for irrigation or domestic purposes and from surface water suitable for such purposes, and to prevent the infiltration of detrimental substances into such strata and into such surface water.
Cal. FAC § 46014.4 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 10 / Section 46014.4
Section 46014.4
Status: in_force

A registered certification agency shall submit to the secretary every January and June a list of all persons whose production or processing of product in California is certified. The list shall be publicly available within 30 days after the end of each filing period. A certifier that keeps a current list on an Internet Web site available to the public may be deemed to meet this requirement.
Cal. WAT § 11567 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 11567
Section 11567
Status: in_force

The department shall ascertain and determine when the project or any unit thereof is completed and thereupon the project or unit shall be deemed completed for all purposes of this part.
Cal. PUC § 957 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4.5 / Article 2 / Section 957
Section 957
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Unless the commission determines that it is prohibited from doing so by subdivision (c) of Section 60104 of Title 49 of the United States Code, the commission shall require the installation of automatic shutoff or remote controlled sectionalized block valves on both of the following facilities, if it determines those valves are necessary for the protection of the public:

(A) Intrastate transmission lines that are located in a high consequence area.

(B) Intrastate transmission lines that traverse an active seismic earthquake fault.

(2) Each owner or operator of a commission-regulated gas pipeline facility that is an intrastate transmission line shall provide the commission with a valve location plan, along with any recommendations for valve locations. The commission may make modifications to the valve location plan or provide for variations from any location requirements adopted by the commission pursuant to this section that it deems necessary or appropriate and consistent with protection of the public.

(3) The commission shall additionally establish action timelines, adopt standards for how to prioritize installation of automatic shutoff or remote controlled sectionalized block valves pursuant to paragraph (1), ensure that remote and automatic shutoff valves are installed as quickly as is reasonably possible, and establish ongoing procedures for monitoring progress in achieving the requirements of this section.

(b) The commission shall authorize recovery in rates for all reasonably incurred costs incurred for implementation of the requirements of this section.

(c) The commission, in consultation with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, shall adopt and enforce compatible safety standards for commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities that the commission determines should be adopted to implement the requirements of this section.