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Cal. ELEC § 18524 — California Code / Code elec / Division 18 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 18524
Section 18524
Status: in_force

A person shall not directly or through any other person advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, with the intent that it, or any part thereof, will be used for boarding, lodging, or maintaining a person at any place or domicile in any election precinct, ward, or district, with intent to secure the vote of that person or to induce that person to vote for any particular person or measure.

Any person violating this section is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years.
Cal. WAT § 6025.5 — California Code / Code wat / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 6025.5
Section 6025.5
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision, subject to subdivision (b), the requirements for state regulation and supervision of safety of dams, as contained in this division, shall not be applicable to waste water treatment and storage ponds constructed as a part of a waste water control facility.

(b) This section applies to those ponds specified in subdivision (a) only after the governing body of the city, county, district, or other agency which operates the waste water control facility adopts a resolution which (1) finds that the ponds have been constructed and operated to standards adequate to protect life and property, and (2) provides that the city, county, district, or other agency shall supervise and regulate the design, construction, operation enlargement, replacement, and removal of the ponds after the effective date of the resolution.

(c) This section applies only to ponds specified in subdivision (a) which (1) have a maximum height of 15 feet or less and a maximum storage capacity of 1,500 acre-feet or less, (2) have been designed by, and constructed under the supervision of, a registered civil engineer, and (3) are not across a stream channel or watercourse.
Cal. HSC § 25207.13 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 9.4 / Section 25207.13
Section 25207.13
Status: in_force

For purposes of complying with the manifest requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 25160, a county which collects banned, unregistered, or outdated agricultural wastes pursuant to this article shall be deemed to be the person who produced the hazardous waste, if the banned, unregistered, or outdated agricultural wastes collected by the county is labeled and no remedial or removal action is required.
Cal. HSC § 1793.17 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 10 / Article 7 / Section 1793.17
Section 1793.17
Status: in_force

(a)  When necessary to secure the interests of depositors or residents, the department may require that the applicant or provider reestablish an escrow account, return previously released moneys to escrow, and escrow all future entrance fee payments.

(b)  The department may release funds from escrow as it deems appropriate or terminate the escrow requirement when it determines that the escrow is no longer necessary to secure the performance of all obligations of the applicant or provider to depositors or residents.
Cal. BPC § 10474.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 6.5 / Section 10474.5
Section 10474.5
Status: in_force

If the amount of liability of the Consumer Recovery Account as provided for in Section 10474 is insufficient to pay in full the valid claims of all aggrieved persons by whom claims have been filed against any one licensee, the amount shall be distributed among them in the ratio that their respective claims bear to the aggregate of the valid claims, or in any other manner as the court deems equitable. Distribution of any moneys shall be among the persons entitled to share therein, without regard to the order of priority in which their respective judgments may have been obtained or their claims have been filed. Upon petition of the commissioner, the court may require all claimants and prospective claimants against one licensee to be joined in one action, to the end that the respective rights of all claimants to the Consumer Recovery Account may be equitably adjudicated and settled.
Cal. ELEC § 15627 — California Code / Code elec / Division 15 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15627
Section 15627
Status: in_force

(a) If the votes subject to recount were cast or tabulated by a voting system, the voter requesting the recount shall, for each set of ballots cast or tabulated by a type of voting system, select whether the recount shall be conducted manually, or by means of the voting system used originally. Only one method of recount may be used for all ballots cast or tabulated by the same type of voting system.

(b) (1) If the recount is to be conducted manually and the voting system has the capability to display ballot images, the voter requesting the recount shall select whether the recount shall be conducted by use of paper ballots or the official ballot images.

(2) If more than one voter requests that a recount be conducted manually for the same office or measure, and at least one request is for the recount to be conducted by use of paper ballots, the county elections official of a county subject to multiple requests as described in this subdivision shall conduct only a manual recount of the paper ballots, the result of which shall be controlling.
Cal. FIN § 177 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 177
Section 177
Status: in_force

(a) The definition of “state of the United States” in Section 207 does not apply to this section. In this section, “state of the United States” means any state of the United States or the District of Columbia.

(b) “Foreign (other nation)”:

(1) When used with respect to a bank, means any bank (including, without limitation, any commercial bank, merchant bank, or other institution that engages in banking activities that are usual in connection with the business of banking in the nation in which the institution is organized or operating) other than (A) a bank that is organized under the laws of a state of the United States or (B) a national bank that maintains its main office in a state of the United States.

(2) When used with respect to an office of a bank, means an office that is located in a place other than a state of the United States.

(3) When used with respect to any corporation other than a bank, means a corporation that is organized under the laws of a foreign nation.
Cal. PUC § 105204 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 16 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 105204
Section 105204
Status: in_force

The bonds shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding 7 percent per annum, payable semiannually, except that the first interest payable on the bonds or any series thereof may be for any period not exceeding one year as determined by the board. In the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of the bonds, the board may also provide for call and redemption of the bonds prior to maturity at the times and prices and upon any other terms it may specify, but no bond shall be subject to call or redemption prior to maturity unless it contains a recital to that effect or unless a statement to that effect is printed thereon. The denomination or denominations of the bonds shall be stated in the resolution providing for their issuance, but shall not be less than one thousand dollars ($1,000). The principal of and interest on the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of the district or at any other place or places that may be designated, or at either place or places at the option of the holders of the bonds. The bonds, or series thereof, shall be dated and numbered consecutively and shall be signed by the chairperson of the board and the treasurer, countersigned by the secretary and the official seal of the district attached. The interest coupons of the bonds shall be signed by the treasurer. All signatures, countersignatures, and seal may be printed, lithographed, or mechanically reproduced, except that one of the signatures or countersignatures on the bonds shall be manually affixed. If any officer whose signature or countersignature appears on bonds or coupons ceases to be an officer before the delivery of the bonds, his or her signature is as effective as if he or she had remained in office.
Cal. WIC § 1835 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1835
Section 1835
Status: in_force

In the event the ward violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may order termination of work furloughs for such minor.
Cal. BPC § 2882 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 4 / Section 2882
Section 2882
Status: in_force

The course of instruction of an approved school of vocational nursing shall consist of not less than the required number of hours of instruction in such subjects as the board may from time to time by regulation determine, together with the required number of hours in the care of medical, surgical, obstetrical patients, sick children, and such other clinical experience as from time to time may be determined by the board.

The board shall, by regulation, provide for the approval of courses of instruction expressed in hours of instruction, or academic units, or which require satisfactory demonstration of skills and behavioral competencies.
Cal. HSC § 1641 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 4.1 / Article 2 / Section 1641
Section 1641
Status: in_force

Any person who violates this chapter or who willfully and repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both fine and imprisonment.
Cal. WAT § 22970 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 5 / Chapter 5 / Article 7 / Section 22970
Section 22970
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10 of the Elections Code, in the event that in an irrigation district containing 500,000 acres or more there are three or more candidates for an elective office and at the general district election no one candidate for the elective office secures a majority of the votes cast, a runoff election shall be held.
Cal. BPC § 7030.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 9 / Article 2 / Section 7030.5
Section 7030.5
Status: in_force

Every person licensed pursuant to this chapter shall include his license number in: (a) all construction contracts; (b) subcontracts and calls for bid; and (c) all forms of advertising, as prescribed by the registrar of contractors, used by such a person.
Cal. WAT § 79062.5 — California Code / Code wat / Division 26 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 79062.5
Section 79062.5
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulations set forth in Chapter 2.4 (commencing with Section 451.1) of Division 2 of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations that are in effect on March 8, 2000, may be used to carry out this article.
Cal. MVC § 1035.5 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 1035.5
Section 1035.5
Status: in_force

(a) The administrator shall provide to the heirs or devisees of every deceased member who became a member of a home on or after January 1, 1984, a statement or accounting of all charges made against the member’s money or personal property under Sections 1035 to 1035.4, inclusive.

(b) Every veteran applying for membership in a home on or after January 1, 1984, shall be furnished a written explanation of the limitations and restrictions on the right to dispose of money and personal property contained in Sections 1035 to 1035.4, inclusive.
Cal. PRC § 25795 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 8.9 / Article 6 / Section 25795
Section 25795
Status: in_force

(a) Beginning on January 31, 2023, and on May 1, August 1, and December 1 annually thereafter, the commission shall issue a written report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee detailing the actions undertaken by the commission in the period since the previous report pursuant to this chapter through that date, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Amount of funds expended.

(2) Purpose of funds expended.

(3) Status of actions funded.

(4) For new and expanded resources, the amount by megawatt, resource type, operational date, and expected lifetime of that capacity.

(5) The frequency at which resources funded by the Department of Water Resources or the commission have been used and the extent to which they complied with the requirements of this chapter.

(6) In consultation with the state board, an estimate or the best available information on the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants emitted by the resources funded by the Department of Water Resources or the commission over the period since the previous report.

(7) Summary of contracts, grants, and loans issued pursuant to this chapter.

(b) Each report submitted pursuant to this section shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at the same time and in the same manner as reports submitted pursuant to Section 80730 of the Water Code.
Cal. EVID § 800 — California Code / Code evid / Division 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 800
Section 800
Status: in_force

If a witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of an opinion is limited to such an opinion as is permitted by law, including but not limited to an opinion that is:

(a) Rationally based on the perception of the witness; and

(b) Helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony.
Cal. VEH § 9802 — California Code / Code veh / Division 3 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 9802
Section 9802
Status: in_force

(a) The Registrar of Vehicles or authorized representative shall conduct the sale in the same manner as provided by law for the seizure and sale of personal property by the assessor for the collection of taxes due on personal property.

(b) The department may bid for the vehicle an amount equal to the lien held by the department for registration, transfer, and license fees, use taxes, parking penalties, and any interest, penalties, and costs added thereto. In all cases where the vehicle becomes the property of the department, it shall be reduced to junk and sold.

(c) The proceeds of any sale shall be allocated by the department for the following purposes and in the following order:

(1) Costs incurred by the department.

(2) Registration and transfer fees and any penalty added thereto.

(3) License fees and any penalty added thereto.

(4) Use taxes and any interest or penalty added thereto.

(5) Perfected mechanics’ liens.

(6) Perfected security interests.

(7) Penalties for offenses relating to the standing or parking of a vehicle and any administrative service fee added thereto. Any other court-induced liability, and any administrative service fee added thereto, which is subject to collection by the department.

(8) All other fees due the department.

(9) Any remainder to the person whose claim of interest in the vehicle is approved by the department.

(d) Notwithstanding Section 42270, the proceeds of a sale allocated pursuant to paragraphs (4) to (9), inclusive, of subdivision (c) shall not be transmitted to the Treasurer for deposit in the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund.

(e) The department shall transmit to the State Board of Equalization all use taxes, interest, and penalties collected under this article within 60 days after receipt thereof in the form which may be prescribed and approved jointly by the department and the board.
Cal. SHC § 8251 — California Code / Code shc / Division 9 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 8251
Section 8251
Status: in_force

Upon dissolution of a district containing a single city, any property which may have been acquired by the district shall vest in the city, except projects theretofore transferred and conveyed to the county under the provisions of Chapter 11 of this part.

Upon dissolution of a district containing two or more cities, undisposed of property shall be distributed by the commission to the cities by a formula based on the assessed valuation of property contained in the cities as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county.
Cal. WIC § 18905 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 10 / Section 18905
Section 18905
Status: in_force

In the event that the United States Department of Agriculture makes a final determination to reduce federal funding of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, administered in California as CalFresh, due to issuance errors or improper or inadequate county administration of the program, the county or counties responsible for such reduction shall be liable for the amount thereof in accordance with standards adopted by the Director of Social Services.
Cal. PUC § 2854.6 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 2854.6
Section 2854.6
Status: in_force

(a) On or before July 1, 2019, the commission shall develop standardized inputs and assumptions to be used in the calculation and presentation of electric utility bill savings to a consumer that can be expected by using a solar energy system by vendors, installers, or financing entities, and the commission and each electrical corporation shall post these standardized inputs and assumptions on their Internet Web sites.

(b) For purposes of this section, “solar energy system” means a solar energy device to be installed on a residential building that has the primary purpose of providing for the collection and distribution of solar energy for the generation of electricity, that produces at least one kW, and not more than five MW, alternating current rated peak electricity, and that meets or exceeds the eligibility criteria established pursuant to Section 25782 of the Public Resources Code.
Cal. WAT § 75441 — California Code / Code wat / Division 21 / Part 8 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 75441
Section 75441
Status: in_force

Notice of the election shall be posted and published and the election shall be conducted, insofar as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 74790) of Part 6 of this division.
Cal. FAC § 79878 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 29 / Article 6 / Section 79878
Section 79878
Status: in_force

(a) A person who fails to file a return or pay an assessment 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 past due and, in addition, interest on the unpaid balance at the rate of 1.5 percent per month.

(b) In addition to any other penalty imposed, the commission may require a person who fails to pay an assessment or related charge pursuant to this article to furnish and maintain a surety bond in a form and amount and for a period of time specified by the commission board of directors as assurance that all payments to the commission will be made when due.
Cal. SHC § 5325 — California Code / Code shc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 14 / Section 5325
Section 5325
Status: in_force

If the State of California or such department thereof does not pay the amount of money assessed within 30 days after the effective date of the legislation making the appropriation to pay the assessment, the amount of money assessed shall bear interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum until paid, commencing with the 31st day after the effective date of such appropriation.
Cal. WAT § 31503 — California Code / Code wat / Division 12 / Part 6 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 31503
Section 31503
Status: in_force

The Improvement Bond Act of 1915 is also so applicable for use in conjunction with the Improvement Act of 1911 or with other improvement acts.
Cal. RTC § 7334 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 7334
Section 7334
Status: in_force

“Refiner” includes any person that owns, operates, or otherwise controls a refinery.
Cal. WIC § 15750 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 13 / Section 15750
Section 15750
Status: in_force

(a)  The definitions contained in Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 15600) shall govern the construction of this chapter.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), and for the purposes of investigating or providing services under an adult protective services program pursuant to this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(1) (A) “Dependent adult” means any person residing in this state between 18 and 59 years of age, inclusive, who resides in this state, and who has a combination of a disability and the inability to protect their own interest, or who has an inability to carry out normal activities to protect their rights, including, but not limited to, persons who have physical or developmental disabilities, or whose physical or mental abilities have diminished because of age.

(B) “Dependent adult” includes any person between 18 and 59 years of age, inclusive, who is admitted as an inpatient to a 24-hour facility, as defined in Sections 1250, 1250.2, and 1250.3 of the Health and Safety Code.

(2) “Elder” means any person residing in this state 60 years of age or older.

(c) Subdivision (b) shall be operative on January 1, 2022.

(d) To the extent that this section has an overall effect of increasing the costs already borne by a local agency for programs or levels of service mandated by the 2011 Realignment Legislation within the meaning of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution, it shall apply to local agencies only to the extent that the state provides annual funding for the cost increase. Any program costs that may be incurred by a local agency pursuant to this section that is above the level of funding which has been appropriated in the annual Budget Act shall not require a subvention of funds by the state or otherwise be subject to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
Cal. HSC § 127630 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 127630
Section 127630
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter:

(a) “Abortion” has the same meaning as defined in Section 123464.

(b) “Contraception” means the services and contraceptive methods described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1367.25.

(c) “Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.

(d) “Fund” means the California Reproductive Health Equity Fund established pursuant to Section 127631.

(e) “Gender-affirming health care” and “gender-affirming mental health care” have the same meanings as defined in Section 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(f) “Program” means the California Reproductive and TGI Health Equity Program established pursuant to Section 127632.

(g) “Religious employer” has the same meaning as described in Section 1367.25.
Cal. HSC § 124110.5 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 106 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 6 / Section 124110.5
Section 124110.5
Status: in_force

This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2024, or on the date certified by the department pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 124024, whichever date is later, and shall be repealed on January 1 of the year following the inoperative date.
Cal. FGC § 5934 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 5934
Section 5934
Status: in_force

The commission or any party may, in any hearing, cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for depositions in civil actions in the superior courts of this state under Title 4 (commencing with Section 2016.010) of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure.