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Cal. PROB § 12405 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 12 / Section 12405
Section 12405
Status: in_force

Notice of hearing shall be served and published, and proof made, in the same manner as in proceedings for administration of the estate of a decedent, except that notice of hearing on the petition shall also be sent by registered mail to the missing person at his or her last known address.
Cal. FAM § 5216 — California Code / Code fam / Division 9 / Part 5 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 5216
Section 5216
Status: in_force

“Obligor” means a person owing a duty of support.
Cal. RTC § 6487.06 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 6487.06
Section 6487.06
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding Section 6487, the period during which a deficiency determination may be served to a qualifying purchaser is limited to three years after the last day of the calendar month following the quarterly period for which the amount is proposed to be determined.

(b) For purposes of this section, a “qualifying purchaser” is a person that voluntarily files an individual use tax return for tangible personal property that is purchased from a retailer outside of this state for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and that meets all of the following conditions:

(1) The purchaser resides or is located within this state and has not previously done any of the following:

(A) Registered with the department.

(B) Filed an individual use tax return with the department.

(C) Reported an amount on their individual California income tax return.

(2) The purchaser is not engaged in business in this state as a retailer, as defined in Section 6015.

(3) The purchaser has not been contacted by the department regarding failure to report the use tax imposed by Section 6202.

(4) The department has made a determination that the purchaser’s failure to file an individual use tax return or to otherwise report or pay the use tax imposed by Section 6202 was due to reasonable cause and was not caused by reason of negligence, intentional disregard of the law, or by an intent to evade the taxes imposed by this part.

(c) If the department makes a determination that the purchaser’s failure to timely report or remit the taxes imposed by this part is due to reasonable cause or due to circumstances beyond the purchaser’s control, the purchaser may be relieved of any penalties imposed by this part. Any purchaser seeking relief from penalties imposed by this part shall file a statement, signed under penalty of perjury, setting forth the facts that form the basis for the claim for relief.

(d) This section shall not apply to purchases of vehicles, vessels, or aircraft as defined in Article 1 (commencing with Section 6271) of Chapter 3.5.
Cal. WAT § 51485 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 11 / Section 51485
Section 51485
Status: in_force

The district may levy an assessment to pay the expenses of its formation, or to pay any warrants issued therefor in an amount not exceeding 2 percent of the assessed valuation of the land within the district as shown on the last equalized county assessment roll, and such expenses shall be considered incidental expenses of the district.
Cal. BPC § 19665 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 4 / Article 11 / Section 19665
Section 19665
Status: in_force

The board shall establish such rules and regulations for horse sales or horse auction sales of racehorses or breeding stock that is used in the production of racehorses which are held or conducted on the premises of any racing association under the jurisdiction of the board as are reasonably necessary to provide the horses, owners, and general public with adequate protection. Such rules and regulations shall provide for regulation of the medication or drugging of racehorses sold at horse sales or horse auction sales as provided in this section.
Cal. FAC § 79196.5 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 25.5 / Article 7 / Section 79196.5
Section 79196.5
Status: in_force

(a) Upon a finding by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the commission that the operation of this chapter has not tended to achieve its declared purposes, the commission may recommend to the secretary that the operation of this chapter be suspended. However, a suspension shall not become effective until the expiration of the current fishing season.

(b) The secretary, upon receipt of the recommendation, shall or, after a public hearing to review a petition filed with him or her requesting a suspension signed by 20 percent of the fishermen who landed not less than 20 percent of the total quantity of spiny lobster in the immediately preceding fishing season, may hold a referendum among the fishermen to determine if the operations of the commission shall be suspended. However, the secretary shall not hold a referendum as a result of the petition unless the petitioner shows by the weight of evidence that this chapter has not tended to achieve its declared purposes.

(c) The secretary shall establish a referendum period, which shall not be less than 10 days or more than 60 days in duration. The secretary may prescribe additional procedures as may be necessary to conduct the referendum. At the close of the established referendum period, the secretary shall tabulate the ballots filed during the period. If at least 40 percent of the total number of fishermen from the list established by the secretary participate in the referendum, the secretary shall suspend the operation of this chapter if he or she finds either one of the following has occurred:

(1) Sixty-five percent or more of the fishermen who voted in the referendum voted in favor of suspension, and the fishermen so voting sold or handled a majority of the total quantity of spiny lobster in the preceding fishing season by all of the fishermen who voted in the referendum.

(2) A majority of the fishermen who voted in the referendum voted in favor of suspension, and the fishermen so voting landed or handled 65 percent or more of the total quantity of spiny lobster in the preceding fishing season by all of the fishermen who voted in the referendum.
Cal. HSC § 16013 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 12.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 16013
Section 16013
Status: in_force

The enforcement agency shall approve or reject all drawings and specifications for the construction or the alteration of all essential services buildings, and in doing so, shall review the design calculations, drawings, and specifications to ensure compliance with the requirements of this chapter. A record shall be kept by the enforcement agency indicating that design calculations, drawings, and specifications have been reviewed and conform with:

(1)  When the enforcement agency is a local agency, the locally adopted editions of the model codes, as defined in Section 18916, the administrative regulations contained in Part 1 (commencing with Section 1-101) of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, and the regulations contained in Part 2 (commencing with Section 101), except for Chapters 23 to 30, inclusive, and Chapter 47 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.

(2)  When the enforcement agency is the Office of the State Architect, all parts of the State Building Standards Code, as contained in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations and adopted by that agency.
Cal. BPC § 2914.3 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6.6 / Article 1 / Section 2914.3
Section 2914.3
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall encourage institutions that offer a doctorate degree program in psychology to include in their biobehavioral curriculum, education and training in psychopharmacology and related topics including pharmacology and clinical pharmacology.

(b) The board shall develop guidelines for the basic education and training of psychologists whose practices include patients with medical conditions and patients with mental and emotional disorders, who may require psychopharmacological treatment and whose management may require collaboration with physicians and other licensed prescribers. In developing these guidelines for training, the board shall consider, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) The American Psychological Association’s guidelines for training in the biological bases of mental and emotional disorders.

(2) The necessary educational foundation for understanding the biochemical and physiological bases for mental disorders.

(3) Evaluation of the response to psychotropic compounds, including the effects and side effects.

(4) Competent basic practical and theoretical knowledge of neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and neurophysiology relevant to research and clinical practice.

(5) Knowledge of the biological bases of psychopharmacology.

(6) The locus of action of psychoactive substances and mechanisms by which these substances affect brain function and other systems of the body.

(7) Knowledge of the psychopharmacology of classes of drugs commonly used to treat mental disorders.

(8) Drugs that are commonly abused that may or may not have therapeutic uses.

(9) Education of patients and significant support persons in the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives to medication.

(10) Appropriate collaboration or consultation with physicians or other prescribers to include the assessment of the need for additional treatment that may include medication or other medical evaluation and treatment and the patient’s mental capacity to consent to additional treatment to enhance both the physical and the mental status of the persons being treated.

(11) Knowledge of signs that warrant consideration for referral to a physician.

(c) This section is intended to provide for training of clinical psychologists to improve the ability of clinical psychologists to collaborate with physicians. It is not intended to provide for training psychologists to prescribe medication. Nothing in this section is intended to expand the scope of licensure of psychologists.
Cal. HSC § 51402 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 3 / Chapter 8 / Section 51402
Section 51402
Status: in_force

(a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the agency may establish a mortgage loan program. Under the mortgage loan program, the agency may acquire or make first or second mortgage loans for the construction, purchase, improvement, or rehabilitation of residences or multifamily rental housing.

(b)  The agency may invest in, make, purchase, take assignments of, or otherwise acquire or make commitments to invest in, make, purchase, take assignments, or otherwise acquire any mortgage loan or partial interest or participation therein. The agency may sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of, or enter into commitments to sell, assign, or otherwise dispose of, any obligation, mortgage loan, or partial interest or participation therein, or create pools of obligations, mortgage loans, or partial interest or participations held by the agency, and issue and sell securities backed by pools. The agency may require the seller of obligations, residential mortgage loans, or partial interest or participations purchased by the agency, to use the proceeds of the sale for the purpose of financing mortgage loans, except when the proceeds arise from the sale of new loans, initiated for the purpose of sale to the agency or others. The agency may pledge mortgage loans, acquired pursuant to the mortgage loan program, to pay the principal, interest, and redemption premium, if any, on taxable securities issued by the agency for the mortgage loan program.

(c)  Any multifamily rental housing financed by the agency pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to the same occupancy standards specified in Section 51335.
Cal. FAC § 33265 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 8 / Section 33265
Section 33265
Status: in_force

A county shall not, through an approved milk inspection service or otherwise, levy or collect any fee or tax for the purpose of inspecting any milk or dairy product on any truck or other vehicle or during transportation of that milk or dairy product.
Cal. INS § 1105 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 17 / Section 1105
Section 1105
Status: in_force

This article shall not prevent:

(a) The purchase by any person of any asset which the commissioner requires to be sold, at a price approved by the commissioner.

(b) The borrowing in accordance with its terms by any person upon a policy of life insurance upon his own life.

(c) The payment of a fee to any attorney for legal services rendered to any such insurer.

(d) The receipt of advances under agency contracts by agents of life insurers.

(e) Any admitted insurer’s officers, directors, trustees or other persons who have authority in the management of the funds of such insurer from entering into any transaction with such insurer if:

(1) Such transaction is pursuant to a permit issued by the Insurance Commissioner under authority granted to him by other provisions of this code or is such as requires his approval prior to its consummation under other provisions of this code;

(2) The application for any such permit or the request for any such approval sets forth under oath the complete details concerning all such transactions with any such officers, directors, trustees or other persons; and

(3) Where the commissioner in his permit or approval specifically finds that the consummation of such transaction will not be unfair, unjust or inequitable to such insurer or to any of its stockholders or policyholders.

(f) Any transaction between an insurer and a person having authority in the management of the insurer’s funds (except officers, directors, and trustees), if such insurer is subject to registration and reporting under the Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act (Article 4.7 (commencing with Section 1215) of Chapter 2 of this part), or subject to substantially similar registration and reporting requirements under the laws of its domicile.

(g) An admitted insurer making a loan for the purchase of a principal residence by, and acquiring, at a price not to exceed the fair market value thereof, the principal residence from, an officer or person having authority in management of the insurer’s funds, nor shall such officer or person be prohibited from accepting such loan or acquisition, in connection with the relocation of the place of employment at the request of the insurer, either during the course of employment or upon initial employment of such officer or person having authority in management of the insurer’s funds.

Any loan permitted under this subdivision shall be secured by a first trust deed or first mortgage, shall not exceed 90 percent of the fair market value of the property, shall carry an interest rate no more favorable than that rate given to other employees of such insurer not subject to the limitations of this article and shall be subject to the approval of the insurer’s board of directors or delegated committee thereof.

This subdivision shall not apply to directors and trustees of insurers.
Cal. HSC § 20108 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 20108
Section 20108
Status: in_force

The district board shall make an annual estimate of the amount of money required during the ensuing fiscal year for the maintenance of any police department established in the district, and for the cost of any other thing necessary for carrying out this part; and shall submit it to the board not later than the first day of July of each year.
Cal. CIV § 55.57 — California Code / Code civ / Division 1 / Part 2.53 / Section 55.57
Section 55.57
Status: in_force

(a) This part shall apply only to claims filed on or after January 1, 2009. Nothing in this part is intended to affect litigation filed before that date, and no inference shall be drawn from provisions contained in this part concerning the state of the law as it existed prior to January 1, 2009.

(b) Nothing in this part is intended to affect existing law regarding class action requirements.
Cal. WIC § 18204 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 18204
Section 18204
Status: in_force

To enable it to conduct and administer experimental projects to test methods and procedures of administering assistance and services to recipients of public social services, the department may waive the enforcement of specific statutory requirements, regulations, and standards in one or more counties or on a statewide basis by formal order of the director. The order establishing the waiver shall provide alternative methods and procedures of administration, shall not be in conflict with the basic purposes, coverage, or benefits provided by law, shall not be general in scope but shall apply only for the duration of such a project and not to exceed three years, and shall not take effect unless and until the following conditions have been met:

a. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States has agreed, for the same project, to waive the public assistance plan requirements relative to statewide uniformity.

b. A comprehensive plan, including an analysis of the expected costs, has been published in a newspaper of general circulation and filed with the Rules Committee of each house of the Legislature.
Cal. CORP § 19 — California Code / Code corp / Section 19
Section 19
Status: in_force

If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Cal. SHC § 35468 — California Code / Code shc / Division 18 / Part 4 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 2 / Section 35468
Section 35468
Status: in_force

If no money is available for the payment of an assessment of public property, the board or officer whose duty it is to levy taxes for the owner of the public property shall include in the next tax levy an amount, in addition to money for all other purposes, sufficient to pay the assessment and the interest thereon from the date the assessment is recorded, at the rate established for the bonds. When the money received from the tax levy is available, the assessment and interest shall be paid by the officer or board having charge of the disbursement of the funds of the owner.

Any duty imposed by this section and Section 35467 may be enforced by action, mandamus, or other proceeding.
Cal. BPC § 5033.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 5033.1
Section 5033.1
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, “license” shall also include “certificate.”
Cal. BPC § 4920.6 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 11 / Article 7 / Section 4920.6
Section 4920.6
Status: in_force

A community blood bank operating under this article shall submit a quarterly report to the Department of Food and Agriculture every three months that includes all of the following information:

(a) The number of donations from community-sourced animals and separate total amounts of whole blood, packed red blood cells, and fresh frozen plasma sold in California during that quarter, by species of animal in estimated milliliters based on weight in grams.

(b) The number and species of animal donors experiencing adverse events, the total number of adverse events, and the nature of adverse events experienced by animals that donate blood.

(c) The number and species of animal donors that have donated blood.

(d) The number and species of animal donors whose blood tested positive for known pathogens, in accordance with the best clinical practices in the veterinary field, which may include the most recent Consensus Statement for blood donor infectious disease screening by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Cal. PUC § 11850 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 3 / Article 2.5 / Section 11850
Section 11850
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any district formed prior to January 1, 1974, and containing a population of 1,000,000 or more on that date, the number of directors on the district board shall be increased from five to seven as provided in this article.

(b) In any district to which subdivision (a) is applicable and in any district which has owned and operated an electric distribution system for at least eight years and which has a population of 250,000, or more, candidates for the office of director shall be elected by the voters of the ward each represents and shall not be voted upon at large. Nomination papers may be circulated only within the ward from which the candidate is to be elected, and shall be signed either by 1 percent of the voters within the ward or by 10 voters, whichever is the lesser number, but in no event by more than 20 voters within the ward. District circulators shall be residents of the ward in which they seek signatures and may obtain signatures only from registered voters residing within that ward.
Cal. RTC § 11531 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 6 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 11531
Section 11531
Status: in_force

The remedies of the state provided for in this chapter are cumulative, and no action taken by the board or Attorney General constitutes an election by the state to pursue any remedy to the exclusion of any other remedy for which provision is made in this part.
Cal. WAT § 42360 — California Code / Code wat / Division 14 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 42360
Section 42360
Status: in_force

After the filing of the copy of the order the district is dissolved.
Cal. FAC § 49014 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 13 / Section 49014
Section 49014
Status: in_force

The Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program shall be administered in accordance with all of the following:

(a) Subject to the regulations adopted by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the United States Department of Agriculture in accordance with the federal Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-79), or any subsequent federal agricultural act, moneys in the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account shall be awarded in the form of grants to qualified entities for consumer incentive programs.

(b) (1) The Office of Farm to Fork shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants in consultation with the United States Department of Agriculture and other interested stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health, State Department of Social Services, organizations with expertise in nutrition benefit programs or consumer incentive programs, small business owners that may qualify as a qualified entity, and certified farmers’ market operators.

(2) The department shall not use more than one-third of the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program funds for consumer incentive programs with qualified entities described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 49012 that are not otherwise qualified pursuant to paragraph (1) of that subdivision.

(c) The department shall give priority in awarding grants to qualified entities based on, but not limited to, the following:

(1) The service of an area of population currently not being served by a consumer incentive program.

(2) The degree of the existence of the following demographic conditions and the character of the communities in which sales of California grown fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables are made to the public by authorized vendors operating in conjunction with a qualified entity:

(A) The number of people who are eligible for, or receiving, nutrition benefit program services.

(B) The prevalence of diabetes, obesity, and other diet-related illnesses.

(C) The availability of access to fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables.

(3) Demonstrated efficiency in the administration of a consumer incentive program.