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Cal. BPC § 10131.01 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 10131.01
Section 10131.01
Status: in_force

(a) Subdivision (b) of Section 10131 does not apply to (1) the manager of a hotel, motel, auto and trailer park, to the resident manager of an apartment building, apartment complex, or court, or to the employees of that manager, or (2) any person or entity, including a person employed by a real estate broker, who, on behalf of another or others, solicits or arranges, or accepts reservations or money, or both, for transient occupancies described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1940 of the Civil Code, in a dwelling unit in a common interest development, as defined in Section 4100 of the Civil Code, in a dwelling unit in an apartment building or complex, or in a single-family home, or (3) any person other than the resident manager or employees of that manager, performing the following functions, who is the employee of the property management firm retained to manage a residential apartment building or complex or court and who is performing under the supervision and control of a broker of record who is an employee of that property management firm or a salesperson licensed to the broker who meets certain minimum requirements as specified in a regulation issued by the commissioner:

(A) Showing rental units and common areas to prospective tenants.

(B) Providing or accepting preprinted rental applications, or responding to inquiries from a prospective tenant concerning the completion of the application.

(C) Accepting deposits or fees for credit checks or administrative costs and accepting security deposits and rents.

(D) Providing information about rental rates and other terms and provisions of a lease or rental agreement, as set out in a schedule provided by an employer.

(E) Accepting signed leases and rental agreements from prospective tenants.

(b) A broker or salesperson shall exercise reasonable supervision and control over the activities of nonlicensed persons acting under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a).

(c) A broker employing nonlicensed persons to act under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) shall comply with Section 10163 for each apartment building or complex or court where the nonlicensed persons are employed.
Cal. FIN § 1766 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.1 / Chapter 20 / Article 1 / Section 1766
Section 1766
Status: in_force

Whenever a foreign (other nation) bank is licensed to maintain two or more agencies or branch offices, it shall designate one of such offices as its primary office.
Cal. FAC § 5006 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 5006
Section 5006
Status: in_force

“Pest” means any of the following things that is, or is liable to be, dangerous or detrimental to the agricultural industry of the state:

(a) Any infectious, transmissible, or contagious disease of any plant, or any disorder of any plant which manifests symptoms or behavior which the director, after investigation and hearing, finds and determines is characteristic of an infectious, transmissible, or contagious disease.

(b) Any form of animal life.

(c) Any form of vegetable life.
Cal. SHC § 6446 — California Code / Code shc / Division 7 / Part 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 6446
Section 6446
Status: in_force

The assessment shall be a lien upon the property affected thereby, with priority as fixed in Section 5373, until the bond issued to represent the assessment and which it is hereby declared does represent the assessement, and the accrued interest thereon and the penalties, if any, shall be fully paid according to the terms thereof, but which lien shall in no event continue beyond four years after the date of the last principal coupon attached thereto, and for the purposes of Section 330 of the Code of Civil Procedure and Section 2911 of the Civil Code said date shall be deemed the “due date” of the last principal coupon attached to said bonds.
Cal. BPC § 6710.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 6710.1
Section 6710.1
Status: in_force

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection of the public is inconsistent with other interests sought to be promoted, the protection of the public shall be paramount.
Cal. FAC § 57531 — California Code / Code fac / Division 20 / Chapter 12 / Article 4 / Section 57531
Section 57531
Status: in_force

A member of the public may obtain a copy of any notice of claim of lien filed pursuant to this chapter, including notices affecting the notices. The fee for these copies shall be the same as that prescribed in Section 9525 of the Commercial Code.
Cal. PRC § 3100 — California Code / Code prc / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 3100
Section 3100
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the state is divided into districts, the number and boundaries of which shall be fixed by the director. The director and the supervisor shall have the authority to redefine the districts as needed to ensure the efficient administration of this chapter. The director and the supervisor shall solicit public input before revising the districts.
Cal. RTC § 4187 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 7 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 4187
Section 4187
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, “back taxes” means all payments required to be made under any provision of law allowing payment of delinquent taxes in installments, except payments of current taxes due on the property and the penalties and costs on the current taxes.
Cal. FAC § 40901 — California Code / Code fac / Division 16 / Chapter 2 / Article 7 / Section 40901
Section 40901
Status: in_force

The failure of a processor willfully and without due cause to furnish raw product containers to a producer as agreed upon, or any willful discrimination against any producer in this regard, shall subject such processor to an action for all damages which are sustained by the producer as a direct result of the failure or discrimination, and judgment against any processor may be entered in the discretion of the court either for the amount of the damages sustained or for three times the amount. Treble damages may, however, only be awarded if the producer has furnished the processor written notice of the claimed failure or discrimination within 48 hours after the claimed failure or discrimination.
Cal. PRC § 5932 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5.8 / Chapter 4 / Section 5932
Section 5932
Status: in_force

(a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this division, the California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Program of 1988 Finance Committee is hereby created. For purposes of this division, the California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Program of 1988 Finance Committee is “the committee” as that term is used in the State General Obligation Bond Law. The committee shall consist of the Controller, the Director of Finance, and the Treasurer, or their designated representatives. The Treasurer shall serve as chairperson of the committee. A majority of the committee may act for the committee.

(b) For purposes of this division and Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 2700) of Division 3 of the Fish and Game Code and the State General Obligation Bond Law, the Wildlife Conservation Board, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Forestry, the Department of Fish and Game, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, or the State Coastal Conservancy, depending on which agency has jurisdiction, is hereby designated as “the board.”
Cal. PUC § 29210 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 4 / Section 29210
Section 29210
Status: in_force

The district may provide for the funding or refunding of outstanding general obligation indebtedness pursuant to this article, if any of the following conditions exist:

(a) The district has indebtedness evidenced by bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, which according to their terms are subject to call or payment before maturity.

(b) The district has filed a petition under any bankruptcy law of the United States and refunding of its indebtedness is authorized in the bankruptcy proceedings.

(c) The holder or holders of outstanding indebtedness has consented to exchange such outstanding bonds for refunding bonds bearing a lower rate of interest than such outstanding bonds.
Cal. WAT § 10563 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.3 / Section 10563
Section 10563
Status: in_force

(a) This part does not interfere with or prevent the exercise of authority by a public agency to carry out its programs, projects, or responsibilities.

(b) This part does not affect requirements imposed under any other law.

(c) (1) The development of a stormwater resource plan and compliance with this part in accordance with Section 10565 shall be required to receive grants for stormwater and dry weather runoff capture projects from a bond act approved by the voters after January 1, 2014.

(2) This subdivision does not apply to either of the following:

(A) Funds provided for the purpose of developing a stormwater resource plan.

(B) A grant for a disadvantaged community, as defined in Section 79505.5, with a population of 20,000 or less, and that is not a copermittee for a municipal separate stormwater system national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit issued to a municipality with a population greater than 20,000.
Cal. VEH § 280 — California Code / Code veh / Division 1 / Section 280
Section 280
Status: in_force

“Darkness” is any time from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise and any other time when visibility is not sufficient to render clearly discernible any person or vehicle on the highway at a distance of 1,000 feet.
Cal. RTC § 30149 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 13 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 30149
Section 30149
Status: in_force

Any person required to obtain a license as a distributor under this chapter who engages in business as a distributor without a license or after a license has been canceled, suspended, or revoked, and each officer of any corporation which so engages in business, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. FAC § 79187.5 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 25.5 / Article 6 / Section 79187.5
Section 79187.5
Status: in_force

Any person who fails to pay an assessment, including submitting any records required by the commission, within the time required by the commission shall pay to the commission a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of the assessment determined to be due, and, in addition, shall pay 1 1/2 percent interest per month on the unpaid balance.
Cal. WAT § 31586 — California Code / Code wat / Division 12 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 31586
Section 31586
Status: in_force

Division 4 (commencing at Section 2800) of the Streets and Highways Code shall not be applicable to the formation of any improvement district pursuant to this chapter.
Cal. PUC § 101298 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 13 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 101298
Section 101298
Status: in_force

If the proposition submitted at a special bond election fails to receive the requisite number of votes, the board shall not, within six months after the election, hold another special election for the submission of a proposition of incurring a bonded indebtedness substantially the same as the proposition voted upon at the prior election, unless a petition, signed by voters within the district equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total vote cast within the district at the last general statewide election is filed with the board, requesting that the proposition, or a proposition substantially the same, be submitted at an election to be called for that purpose.

Any such petition may be presented in the same manner and shall be executed and attested and certified as provided in this article for a petition asking that a bonded indebtedness be incurred.
Cal. RTC § 18632 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10.2 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 18632
Section 18632
Status: in_force

Division 6 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Unemployment Insurance Code sets forth provisions administered by the Employment Development Department relating to the reporting, collection, refunding to the employer, and enforcement of taxes required to be withheld from wages paid by employers.
Cal. WIC § 10553 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 10553
Section 10553
Status: in_force

The director shall:

(a) Be responsible for the management of the department.

(b) Administer the laws pertaining to the administration of public social services, except health care services and medical assistance.

(c) Observe and report to the Governor on the conditions of public social services, except health care services and medical assistance, throughout the state.

(d) Perform the disability determination function pursuant to Titles II and XVI of the federal Social Security Act.

(e) Formulate, adopt, amend or repeal regulations and general policies affecting the purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the department and which are consistent with law and necessary for the administration of public social services, except health care services and medical assistance, and the disability determination function pursuant to Titles II and XVI of the federal Social Security Act.

All regulations relating to public social services, except health care services and medical assistance, or relating to the disability determination function pursuant to Titles II and XVI of the federal Social Security Act, the licensing of community care facilities, or any other function vested in the department, heretofore adopted by the State Department of Health, the State Department of Benefit Payments, or any predecessor department, and in effect immediately preceding the operative date of amendments to this section enacted by the Legislature during the 1977–78 Regular Session, shall remain in effect and shall be fully enforceable unless and until readopted, amended or repealed by the director.

(f) Perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, and such other administrative and executive duties as have by other provisions of law been previously imposed.
Cal. ELEC § 17200 — California Code / Code elec / Division 17 / Chapter 3 / Section 17200
Section 17200
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), elections officials required by law to receive or file in their offices any initiative or referendum petition shall preserve the petition until eight months after the certification of the results of the election for which the petition qualified or, if the measure, for any reason, is not submitted to the voters, eight months after the final examination of the petition by the elections official.

(b) Thereafter, the petition shall be destroyed as soon as practicable unless any of the following conditions is satisfied:

(1) The petition is in evidence in some action or proceeding then pending.

(2) The elections official has received a written request from the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Fair Political Practices Commission, a district attorney, a grand jury, or the governing body of a county, city and county, or district, including a school district, that the petition be preserved for use in a pending or ongoing investigation into election irregularities, the subject of which relates to the petition’s qualification or disqualification for placement on the ballot, or in a pending or ongoing investigation into a violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 (Title 9 (commencing with Section 81000) of the Government Code).

(3) The proponents of the petition have commenced an examination pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 7924.100) of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of Division 10 of Title 1 of the Government Code, in which case the petition shall be preserved until one year from the date that the proponents last examined the petition.

(c) If a petition subject to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) is circulated in multiple counties, a county that performs an examination pursuant to this section shall inform the other counties in which the petition is circulated of the examination to facilitate compliance with that paragraph. If the petition is circulated statewide, the Secretary of State shall ensure compliance.

(d) Public access to the petition shall be restricted in accordance with Article 2 (commencing with Section 7924.100) of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of Division 10 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(e) This section applies to the following petitions:

(1) Statewide initiative and referendum petitions.

(2) County initiative and referendum petitions.

(3) Municipal initiative and referendum petitions.

(4) Municipal city charter amendment petitions.

(5) District initiative and referendum petitions.
Cal. WIC § 10808 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Section 10808
Section 10808
Status: in_force

Any report published by the county in written or graphic form of expenditures for public social services shall show clearly the amount and proportion of costs borne by local taxes and the amount and proportion of costs borne by the state and federal governments.
Cal. FAC § 52971 — California Code / Code fac / Division 18 / Chapter 4 / Article 11 / Section 52971
Section 52971
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any person to violate the provisions of this chapter.
Cal. CIV § 48.8 — California Code / Code civ / Division 1 / Part 2 / Section 48.8
Section 48.8
Status: in_force

(a) A communication by any person to a school principal, or a communication by a student attending the school to the student’s teacher or to a school counselor or school nurse and any report of that communication to the school principal, stating that a specific student or other specified person has made a threat to commit violence or potential violence on the school grounds involving the use of a firearm or other deadly or dangerous weapon, is a communication on a matter of public concern and is subject to liability in defamation only upon a showing by clear and convincing evidence that the communication or report was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the communication. Where punitive damages are alleged, the provisions of Section 3294 shall also apply.

(b) As used in this section, “school” means a public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
Cal. PUC § 99268.1 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 11 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 99268.1
Section 99268.1
Status: in_force

Commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, an operator that was in compliance with Section 99268 during the 1978–79 fiscal year in order to be eligible for funds under this article shall be eligible for such funds in any fiscal year, if it remains in compliance with that section during the fiscal year. The determination of compliance for any fiscal year shall be made in the same manner as the determination was made for the 1978–79 fiscal year, except for the exemption provided under Section 99267.5. An allowance for depreciation shall be made in the same manner as provided in the 1978–79 fiscal year.

For purposes of this section, an operator granted a waiver from the requirements of Section 99268 pursuant to Section 99268.8, as it read on January 1, 1979, shall not be deemed in compliance with that section.
Cal. LAB § 24 — California Code / Code lab / Section 24
Section 24
Status: in_force

If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid the remainder of the code, and the application of its provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Cal. FIN § 5750 — California Code / Code fin / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 7 / Section 5750
Section 5750
Status: in_force

(a) Pursuant to a plan or agreement (referred to as “agreement” in this article) adopted by the board of directors and approved by the commissioner as fair, just and equitable, and as adequately protecting the interests of the association, its members, or stockholders, its savings account holders and the public, an association shall have the power to reorganize or to merge or consolidate with or transfer all or substantially all its assets to another association or federal association, or any other corporation, provided that the principal terms of the plan of the reorganization, merger, consolidation, or transfer shall, in the case of a stock association, be approved at an annual meeting or at any special meeting, or by the written consent of the stockholders voting on the action, by not less than a majority of the total number of votes eligible to be cast. In the case of a mutual association, if required by the commissioner, the principal terms of such a plan shall be approved by members representing not less than a majority of the voting power.

(b) In all cases the survivor association shall succeed to all the rights, obligations, and relations of the constituent associations.

(c) As a step in a plan of the reorganization, merger, consolidation, or transfer under this section, an interim corporation may be formed. As used in this section, “interim corporation” means a corporation formed to facilitate the acquisition of 100 percent of the voting stock of an existing association or other insured stock institution by or for a newly formed company or an existing savings and loan holding company or to facilitate any other transaction the commissioner may approve.
Cal. HSC § 1367.656 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.2 / Article 5 / Section 1367.656
Section 1367.656
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an individual or group health care service plan contract issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2015, that provides coverage for prescribed, orally administered anticancer medications used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells shall comply with all of the following:

(1) Notwithstanding any deductible, the total amount of copayments and coinsurance an enrollee is required to pay shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for an individual prescription of up to a 30-day supply of a prescribed orally administered anticancer medication covered by the contract.

(2) For a health care service plan contract that meets the definition of a “high deductible health plan” set forth in Section 223(c)(2) of Title 26 of the United States Code, paragraph (1) shall only apply once an enrollee’s deductible has been satisfied for the year.

(3) An orally administered anticancer medication shall be provided consistent with the appropriate standard of care for that medication.

(b) This section shall not apply to a specialized health care service plan contract that covers only dental or vision benefits or any coverage under a health care service plan contract for the Medicare Program pursuant to Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1395 et seq.).
Cal. PRC § 3721 — California Code / Code prc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Section 3721
Section 3721
Status: in_force

Every owner or operator of any well shall designate an agent, giving his or her address, who resides in this state, to receive and accept all orders, notices, and processes of the supervisor or any court of law. Every person so appointing an agent shall, within five days after the termination of the agency, notify the supervisor, in writing, of such termination, and unless operations are discontinued, shall appoint a new agent.