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Cal. ELEC § 9611 — California Code / Code elec / Division 9 / Chapter 7 / Section 9611
Section 9611
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies to district elections conducted in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9300) or school district elections conducted in accordance with Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 9500), if the boundaries of the district or school district contain more than one county. The provisions of this section prevail over any provision in those chapters to the extent they conflict.

(b) For the purposes of this section, “lead county” has the following meanings:

(1) For district elections, “lead county” means the county with the most voters within the district bounds.

(2) For school district elections, “lead county” means the county whose superintendent of schools covers the district.

(c) The elections official for the lead county shall work with the other counties within the district bounds to establish the deadlines for the submittal of arguments for and against a district or school district measure and rebuttal arguments.

(d) Authors shall submit arguments only to the lead county, who shall select which arguments will be printed in the voter information guide in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9300) or Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 9500), as applicable. The elections official for the lead county shall electronically transmit a scanned copy of the selected arguments, along with any accompanying forms, to the elections official of each other county in the district or school district. An elections official who receives arguments selected by the lead county shall include the arguments in the printed and electronic versions of their county voter information guide.
Cal. RTC § 168 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 168
Section 168
Status: in_force

Any document required in this division to be executed by the tax collector may be executed with a facsimile signature in lieu of a manual signature if the manual signature is filed with the Secretary of State and is certified under oath by the tax collector.

Upon compliance with this section, the facsimile signature shall have the same legal effect as the manual signature of the tax collector.
Cal. FAC § 71003 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 9.5 / Article 1 / Section 71003
Section 71003
Status: in_force

The establishment of the commission is necessary for the efficient development and management of a national and international advertising and promotion program that will enhance the reputation of the California rice industry, create a more receptive environment for the industry and its products, and increase competitiveness of the California rice industry within the national and international marketplace. In addition, the commission is necessary to carry out the California rice industry’s commitment to responsible stewardship and increasingly efficient cultural practices.
Cal. WAT § 10795.19 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.78 / Section 10795.19
Section 10795.19
Status: in_force

A local public agency receiving a grant under this part shall submit to the department copies of all data collected pursuant to the grant.
Cal. FIN § 22050.5 — California Code / Code fin / Division 9 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 22050.5
Section 22050.5
Status: in_force

This division does not apply to any person who makes no more than one loan in a 12-month period if that loan is a commercial loan as defined in Section 22502.
Cal. WAT § 12679 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 6 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 12679
Section 12679
Status: in_force

The plan of improvement for flood control in the Santa Ana River Basin is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 135, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, and authorized by act of Congress approved May 17, 1950, Public Law 516, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, at an estimated cost to the State of such sum as may be appropriated for state cooperation by the Legislature upon approval of the general plan of improvement by, and the recommendation of, the department, when funds for carrying out the project are appropriated by Congress.
Cal. PRC § 3736 — California Code / Code prc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Section 3736
Section 3736
Status: in_force

The owner or operator of any well, or his local agent, shall file with the supervisor a copy of the log, history, and core record, or any portion thereof, at any time after the commencement of the work of drilling any well upon written request of the supervisor, or the district deputy. The request shall be signed by the supervisor, or the district deputy, and served either personally, or by mailing a copy of the request, by registered mail, to the last known post office address of the owner or operator, or his agent.
Cal. BPC § 1645.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 2.6 / Section 1645.1
Section 1645.1
Status: in_force

(a) A person who applies for licensure as a registered dental assistant shall provide evidence of having successfully completed board-approved courses in infection control, the Dental Practice Act, basic life support, radiation safety and coronal polishing. The length and content of the courses shall be governed by applicable board regulations. Failure to comply with this section shall result in automatic suspension of the license, which shall be reinstated upon the receipt of evidence that the licensee has successfully completed the required courses. Completion of the courses may be counted toward fulfillment of the continuing education requirements governed by Section 1645.

(b) The holder of an inactive registered dental assistant license is only required to comply with subdivision (a) as a condition of returning the holder’s license to active status.
Cal. ELEC § 7469 — California Code / Code elec / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 5 / Section 7469
Section 7469
Status: in_force

A district committee shall remove any member of that committee who is required to be removed under Section 7413.
Cal. PRC § 10224 — California Code / Code prc / Division 10.2 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 10224
Section 10224
Status: in_force

“Resource conservation district” means a resource conservation district established pursuant to Division 9 (commencing with Section 9001).
Cal. ELEC § 14051 — California Code / Code elec / Division 14 / Chapter 1.7 / Section 14051
Section 14051
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Political subdivision” means a geographic area of representation created for the provision of government services, including, but not limited to, a city, a school district, a community college district, or other district organized pursuant to state law.

(b) “Significant decrease in voter turnout” means the voter turnout for a regularly scheduled election in a political subdivision is at least 25 percent less than the average voter turnout within that political subdivision for the previous four statewide general elections.

(c) “Voter turnout” means the percentage of voters who are eligible to cast ballots within a given political subdivision who voted.
Cal. SHC § 31773 — California Code / Code shc / Division 18 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 31773
Section 31773
Status: in_force

In the case of a city, members of the commission shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to confirmation by the legislative body. In the case of a county they shall be appointed by the legislative body.
Cal. WAT § 50754 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 50754
Section 50754
Status: in_force

The board of directors of irrigation districts holding title to lands obtained through collectors’ deeds may cast the votes belonging to such lands.
Cal. FGC § 24 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 0.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 24
Section 24
Status: in_force

“Buy” includes an offer to buy, purchase, barter, exchange, or trade.
Cal. PCC § 20397 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 25 / Section 20397
Section 20397
Status: in_force

In counties containing a population of two million or over and employing a registered engineer as road commissioner, the board of supervisors may authorize the moving, relocation, or reestablishment of detention camps by force account or day labor where such camps are used in connection with county highway construction or maintenance work, if the board determines that such work of moving, relocation, or reestablishment can be done more economically and satisfactorily by force account or day labor than by contract, and that the total estimated cost of new or additional building structural materials necessary to be purchased in order to perform such work does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Cal. PRC § 43212 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 43212
Section 43212
Status: in_force

(a) If the board is the enforcement agency, the board may impose fees to recover its costs of operation on the local governing body, a solid waste facility operator, or a solid waste enterprise that operates within the jurisdiction of the enforcement agency, and shall collect those fees in a manner determined by the board and developed in consultation with the local governing body. Any fees imposed pursuant to this section shall bear a direct relationship to the reasonable and necessary costs, as determined by the board, of providing for the efficient operation of the activities or programs for which the fee is imposed.

(b) If the board is the enforcement agency for a county and all of the cities within that county, the local governing body shall be the county board of supervisors for purposes of this section.
Cal. FIN § 18605 — California Code / Code fin / Division 7 / Chapter 8 / Article 3 / Section 18605
Section 18605
Status: in_force

A premium finance agreement shall be in writing and the printed portion thereof shall be in at least eight-point type. The agreement shall set forth:

1. The names and addresses of the insured and the company, and the date of the agreement.

2. A description of the insurance contracts for which the premiums are advanced including the total amount of the premiums and fees and a specific breakdown thereof by policies and a general description of coverages.

3. The amount of the downpayment.

4. The cost, if any, for credit life insurance.

5. The principal balance.

6. The finance charges.

7. The unpaid balance.

8. The due date of the first installment.

9. The number, amount and frequency of payment of the installments.

10. A statement that the insured may prepay the full amount due and receive a refund credit of the unearned finance charge, in the manner provided by Section 18629.
Cal. PUC § 102506 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 102506
Section 102506
Status: in_force

The bonds may be sold as the board determines by resolution, but for not less than par. Before selling the bonds, or any part thereof, the board shall give notice inviting sealed bids in such manner as it may prescribe. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale shall be awarded to the highest responsible bidder. If no bids are received, or if the board determines that the bids received are not satisfactory as to price or responsibility of the bidders, the board may reject all bids received, if any, and either readvertise or sell the bonds at private sale.
Cal. PUC § 29503 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 29503
Section 29503
Status: in_force

As an alternative method of annexation, a petition may be presented to the board of supervisors of a county proposed to be annexed, signed by qualified electors of the county, in number to at least ten (10) percent of the total vote cast at the last general election within the county. The petition shall contain statements and declarations setting forth the reason for annexation. Such petition may be on separate papers, but each paper shall contain the affidavit of the party who circulated it, certifying that each name signed thereto is the true signature of the person whose name it purports to be. The clerk of the board of supervisors of such county shall compare the signatures with the affidavits of registration and certify to the board of supervisors the sufficiency or insufficiency of such petition. If found and certified by the clerk as being sufficient, such petition shall have all the force and effect of a resolution adopted by the board of supervisors of such county.
Cal. WIC § 4743 — California Code / Code wic / Division 4.5 / Chapter 7.5 / Section 4743
Section 4743
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature that to the greatest extent possible, the staff of the regional center or its designee are assigned so as to minimize the number of persons responsible for programs provided in a given facility.

The regional center or its designee shall designate the staff person responsible for assuring that each individual consumer’s program plan is carried out. One person shall be assigned by the regional center as the principal liaison to a facility and to monitor the provision of care and the services provided by that facility in accordance with the individual program plans. If, due to the number of regional center consumers in the facility, additional staff of a regional center or its designee serve consumers in the facility, one person shall be assigned as having primary responsibility for, and assure consistency and continuity of, directions to the administrator and for the monitoring of care and services.
Cal. VEH § 21655.6 — California Code / Code veh / Division 11 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 21655.6
Section 21655.6
Status: in_force

(a)  Whenever the Department of Transportation authorizes or permits exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles on any highway located within the territory of a transportation planning agency, as defined in Section 99214 of the Public Utilities Code, or a county transportation commission, the department shall obtain the approval of the transportation planning agency or county transportation commission prior to establishing the exclusive or preferential use of the highway lanes.

(b) If the department authorizes or permits additional exclusive or preferential use of highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles on that portion of State Highway Route 101 located within the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles, the department shall obtain the approval of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by at least a two-thirds majority vote of the entire membership eligible to vote prior to establishing the additional exclusion or preferential use of the highway lanes.

(c) If the department restricts or requires the restriction of the use of any lane on any federal-aid highway in the unincorporated areas of Alameda County to high-occupancy vehicles, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall review the use patterns of those lanes and shall determine if congestion relief is being efficiently achieved by the creation of the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The commission shall report its findings and recommendations in its HOV Master Plan Update for the San Francisco Bay area no later than two years after those high-occupancy vehicle lanes become operational.
Cal. CIV § 6658 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 5.3 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 6658
Section 6658
Status: in_force

(a) In a common interest development, no labor performed or services or materials furnished with the consent of, or at the request of, an owner in the common interest development or the owners’ agent or contractor shall be the basis for the filing of a lien against any other property of any other owner in the common interest development unless that other owner has expressly consented to or requested the performance of the labor or furnishing of the materials or services. However, express consent shall be deemed to have been given by the owner of any separate interest in the case of emergency repairs thereto.

(b) Labor performed or services or materials furnished for the common area, if duly authorized by the association, shall be deemed to be performed or furnished with the express consent of each separate interest owner.

(c) The owner of any separate interest may remove that owner’s separate interest from a lien against two or more separate interests or any part thereof by doing either of the following:

(1) Pay to the holder of the lien the fraction of the total sum secured by the lien that is attributable to the owner’s separate interest.

(2) Record a lien release bond, pursuant to Section 8424, in an amount equal to 125 percent of the sum secured by the lien that is attributable to the owner’s separate interest.
Cal. WAT § 1313 — California Code / Code wat / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 1313
Section 1313
Status: in_force

In case there is no newspaper published within the appropriate county publication shall be made in a newspaper having a general circulation within the county.
Cal. WAT § 51542 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 7 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 51542
Section 51542
Status: in_force

When the operation and maintenance assessment levy is to be paid in more than one installment the secretary shall give notice for 60 days immediately preceding the due date of each installment in substantially the form prescribed in this article.
Cal. RTC § 45857 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 23 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 45857
Section 45857
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall establish the position of the Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate. The advocate or his or her designee shall be responsible for facilitating resolution of fee payer complaints and problems, including any fee payer complaints regarding unsatisfactory treatment of fee payers by board employees, and staying actions where fee payers have suffered or will suffer irreparable loss as the result of those actions. Applicable statutes of limitation shall be tolled during the pendency of a stay. Any penalties and interest that would otherwise accrue shall not be affected by the granting of a stay.

(b) The advocate shall report directly to the executive officer of the board.
Cal. RTC § 195.176 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 195.176
Section 195.176
Status: in_force

(a) By October 30, 2011, the auditor of the County of San Mateo, which was the subject of the Governor’s proclamation of a state of emergency for the explosion and fire that occurred on September 9, 2010, shall certify to the Director of Finance an estimate of the total amount of the reduction in property tax revenues on both the regular secured roll and the supplemental roll for the 2010–11 fiscal year resulting from the reassessment by the county assessor pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 170 of those properties that are eligible properties as a result of the explosion and fire, except that the amount certified shall not include any estimated property tax revenue reductions to school districts, other than basic state aid school districts, and county offices of education.

(b) For purposes of this section, “basic state aid school district” means any school district that does not receive a state apportionment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 42238 of the Education Code, but receives from the state only a basic apportionment pursuant to Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution.
Cal. WAT § 52601 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 8 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 52601
Section 52601
Status: in_force

If, upon the expiration of one year after an issue of refunding bonds, heretofore or hereafter issued was deposited with the county treasurer, all or part of the refunding bonds are unsold or unexchanged, the board, by an order entered in its minutes, may cancel all proceedings taken in connection with the unsold or unexchanged refunding bonds as provided in Article 5, Chapter 2 of this part.
Cal. LAB § 2871 — California Code / Code lab / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 3.5 / Section 2871
Section 2871
Status: in_force

No employer shall require a provision made void and unenforceable by Section 2870 as a condition of employment or continued employment. Nothing in this article shall be construed to forbid or restrict the right of an employer to provide in contracts of employment for disclosure, provided that any such disclosures be received in confidence, of all of the employee’s inventions made solely or jointly with others during the term of his or her employment, a review process by the employer to determine such issues as may arise, and for full title to certain patents and inventions to be in the United States, as required by contracts between the employer and the United States or any of its agencies.
Cal. CIV § 43.101 — California Code / Code civ / Division 1 / Part 2 / Section 43.101
Section 43.101
Status: in_force

(a) An emergency responder shall not be liable for any damage to an unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system, if that damage was caused while the emergency responder was providing, and the unmanned aircraft or unmanned aircraft system was interfering with, the operation, support, or enabling of the emergency services listed in Section 853 of the Government Code.

(b) (1) For purposes of this section, “emergency responder” means either of the following, if acting within the scope of authority implicitly or expressly provided by a local public entity or a public employee of a local public entity to provide emergency services:

(A) A paid or an unpaid volunteer.

(B) A private entity.

(2) All of the following terms shall have the same meaning as the terms as used in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 853) of Part 2 of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code:

(A) Local public entity.

(B) Public employee of a local public entity.

(C) Unmanned aircraft.

(D) Unmanned aircraft system.
Cal. FGC § 4188 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 4188
Section 4188
Status: in_force

(a) If a landowner or tenant applies for a permit under Section 4181 to take wild pigs or wild turkeys, or under Section 4181.5 to take deer, the department shall notify the applicant about available options for allowing access by licensed hunters, including, but not limited to, access authorized pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 1570) of Chapter 5 of Division 2 to control wild pigs, wild turkeys, and deer.

(b) The commission, in lieu of a permit described in subdivision (a), and with the consent of, or upon the request of, the landowner or tenant, may pursuant to appropriate regulation authorize the issuance of permits to persons holding valid hunting licenses to take wild pigs, wild turkeys, or deer in sufficient numbers to stop the damage or threatened damage. Before issuing permits to licensed hunters, the department shall investigate and determine the number of permits necessary, the territory involved, the dates of the proposed hunt, the manner of issuing the permits, and the fee for the permit.