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Cal. SHC § 9412 — California Code / Code shc / Division 11 / Chapter 11 / Section 9412
Section 9412
Status: in_force

Each bond shall be conclusive evidence of the regularity of all proceedings for the issuance of refunding bonds and of the validity of said bonds and of all proceedings of which the bonds refunded were conclusive evidence.
Cal. FAC § 6047.82 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Article 8.7 / Section 6047.82
Section 6047.82
Status: in_force

(a) From and after the filing for record of the order of the board of supervisors declaring the district organized, and the appointment and qualification of its first board of directors, the organization of the district is complete. The district shall operate for a period of five years from the date of its organization, and shall cease to exist after five years unless the district is reauthorized by the board of supervisors.

(b) The board of directors shall hold a public hearing six months prior to termination of its initial organization or last reauthorization to determine whether the conditions of the glassy-winged sharpshooter or Pierce’s disease or other designated pests and diseases warrant the reauthorization of the district for an additional five years.

(c) The notice of hearing shall state the name of the district and that consideration is being given to reauthorizing the district for an additional five years, the boundaries of the district, and the time and place for the hearing. Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in Sections 6047.71 and 6047.72. The board of directors shall submit the record of the hearing and its recommendation to the board of supervisors within 90 days of the hearing. The board of supervisors shall approve or reject the recommendation. If it rejects the recommendation, the board of supervisors shall return the report accompanied by its reasons for the rejection to the board of directors within 30 days of receipt. The board of directors may thereafter address the reasons for rejection by the board of supervisors and submit an amended report and new recommendations for reauthorization for approval or rejection by the board of supervisors, unless the district has ceased to exist pursuant to subdivision (a).

(d) If the board of supervisors approves the continuation of the district, the board of supervisors shall, by an order entered in its minutes, declare the district duly extended.
Cal. PROB § 408 — California Code / Code prob / Division 2 / Part 12 / Chapter 1 / Section 408
Section 408
Status: in_force

The appointment of a probate referee by the Controller before July 1, 1989, is not invalidated by the repeal of the law under which the appointment was made. Appointment of a probate referee before July 1, 1989, may be revoked under this chapter only if revocation would otherwise be proper under this chapter.
Cal. VEH § 657 — California Code / Code veh / Division 1 / Section 657
Section 657
Status: in_force

A “truss” is an assemblage of beams, bars, or rods typically arranged in a triangle or combination of triangles to form a rigid framework and used as a structural support in buildings.
Cal. HSC § 1761.4 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 8.6 / Section 1761.4
Section 1761.4
Status: in_force

A pediatric day health and respite care facility of six beds or less shall be considered a residential use of property for purposes of any zoning ordinance or law related to the residential use of property. This section does not prohibit any city, county, or other local public entity from placing restrictions on building heights, setback, lot dimensions, or placement of signs of a pediatric day health and respite care facility as long as those restrictions are identical to those applied to single-family residences.
Cal. WIC § 14011.3 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 14011.3
Section 14011.3
Status: in_force

(a) To the same extent as required by federal law, a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States whose entry into the United States has been sponsored by an individual who, or organization that, executed an affidavit of support or similar agreement with respect to the person shall be ineligible for the Medi-Cal program for a period of five years after the person’s entry into the United States unless the sponsoring person dies or the sponsoring organization ceases to exist.

(b) Subdivision (a) shall not apply with respect to any person who is not a citizen or national of the United States who is:

(1) Admitted to the United States as a result of the application, prior to April 1, 1980, of Section 1153(a)(7) of Title 8 of the United States Code.

(2) Admitted to the United States as a result of the application, after March 31, 1980, of Section 1157(c) of Title 8 of the United States Code.

(3) Paroled into the United States under Section 1182(d)(5) of Title 8 of the United States Code.

(4) Granted political asylum by the United States Attorney General under Section 1158 of Title 8 of the United States Code.

(5) A Cuban or Haitian entrant, as defined in Section 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-422).

(c) This section shall become operative on the effective date of federal law that prohibits providing Medi-Cal assistance to a sponsored person, as defined in subdivision (a), and shall remain operative only as long as federal law remains in effect. The director shall determine the operative dates of this section pursuant to this subdivision and shall execute a declaration, that shall be retained by the director, that sets forth the operative date or termination date.
Cal. PUC § 10059 — California Code / Code puc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 10059
Section 10059
Status: in_force

When a bid is accepted by the legislative body of the municipal corporation, the legislative body may by resolution authorize its mayor, or president of its board of trustees, or other chief executive officer, and its clerk to execute, acknowledge, and deliver on behalf of the municipal corporation, in its name and under its corporate seal, a deed conveying the public utility to the successful bidder upon receiving from him in cash the full amount of the bid and the promise of the bidder to continue to operate the public utility. The deed shall operate to convey to the successful bidder all of the municipality’s right, title, interest, and estate in and to the public utility described in the deed.
Cal. WAT § 9494 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 5 / Chapter 6 / Article 7 / Section 9494
Section 9494
Status: in_force

The county treasurer shall enter on the annual collection list in the proper column the following:

(a) All payments, with date of payment.

(b) The word “sold” with date of sale, in case of sales for delinquency.

(c) The words “sold to the district” with the date of sale, in the case of sales to the district.

(d) The word “redeemed,” with date of payment, in case redemption is made.
Cal. PUC § 1210 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 1210
Section 1210
Status: in_force

If any owner or claimant named in the petition or order on the commission’s own motion resides out of the State or has departed from the State or cannot after due diligence be found within the State, or conceals himself to avoid service, or is a corporation having no managing or business agent, cashier or secretary or other officer upon whom summons may be served, who, after due diligence, can be found within the State, and the fact appears by affidavit to the satisfaction of the commission, and it also appears by such affidavit or by the petition or order on the commission’s own motion that a cause of action exists against such owner or claimant on whom service is to be made and that he is a necessary or proper party to the proceeding, the commission may make an order that the service be made on such owner or claimant by publication of the commission’s order to show cause. The order shall direct that the publication be made in a newspaper designated by the commission as likely to give notice to the owner or claimant to be served, and for such time as the commission finds to be reasonable, at least once a week, but publication against an owner or claimant residing out of the State or absent therefrom shall not be less than two months.

If the address of any owner or claimant as stated in the petition or order on the commission’s own motion is out of the State, the secretary of the commission shall, within 15 days after the making and filing of the order to show cause, deposit or cause to be deposited a copy of that order, certified under the seal of the commission, with a copy of the petition or order on the commission’s own motion attached thereto or made part thereof, in the United States mail, enclosed in a sealed envelope, registered, with postage prepaid, addressed to such owner or claimant at the address specified in the petition or order on the commission’s own motion. Personal service of a copy of the order to show cause and of the petition or order on the commission’s own motion out of the State is equivalent to publication and deposit in the United States mail.
Cal. WAT § 35850 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 35850
Section 35850
Status: in_force

A district may for a valuable consideration enter into any contract with any irrigation or drainage district formed under the laws of the State as the board deems proper or advisable in the interests of the district, or to carry out or execute any of the purposes authorized by this division.
Cal. PRC § 22002 — California Code / Code prc / Division 14 / Chapter 1 / Section 22002
Section 22002
Status: in_force

The Legislature further finds and declares that in order to protect and advance the interests of the present and future generations in the zone and region, there is need to create a Ventura-Los Angeles Mountain and Coastal Study Commission to study the entire zone as well as the relationship of the zone to the region, to ascertain what is needed for balanced conservation and development, to determine a set of policies and priorities based on such studies, and to propose further legislative action to provide for implementation of these policies.
Cal. RTC § 45161 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 23 / Chapter 3 / Article 1.1 / Section 45161
Section 45161
Status: in_force

If the board finds that a person’s failure to make payment by an appropriate electronic funds transfer in accordance with board procedures is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the person’s control, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and in the absence of willful neglect, that person shall be relieved of the penalty provided in subdivision (e) of Section 45160. Any person seeking to be relieved of the penalty shall file with the board a statement under penalty of perjury setting forth the facts upon which he or she bases his or her claim for relief.
Cal. PUC § 746 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 746
Section 746
Status: in_force

The commission shall determine the appropriate ratemaking treatment for incentive compensation paid to officers or employees of an electrical corporation or gas corporation for incentive compensation that is linked to the stock price or financial performance of the electrical corporation or gas corporation.
Cal. PUC § 307 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 307
Section 307
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the commission.

(b) The attorney shall represent and appear for the people of the State of California and the commission in all actions and proceedings involving any question under this part or under any order or act of the commission. If directed to do so by the president, except as otherwise directed by vote of the commission, the attorney shall intervene, if possible, in any action or proceeding in which any such question is involved.

(c) The attorney shall commence, prosecute, and expedite the final determination of all actions and proceedings directed or authorized by the president, except as otherwise directed or authorized by vote of the commission, advise the commission and each commissioner, when so requested, in regard to all matters in connection with the powers and duties of the commission and the members thereof, and generally perform all duties and services as attorney to the commission that the president, or vote of the commission, may require of him.
Cal. BPC § 2928 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6.6 / Article 2 / Section 2928
Section 2928
Status: in_force

The board shall administer and enforce this chapter.
Cal. PRC § 32310 — California Code / Code prc / Division 22.3 / Chapter 2 / Section 32310
Section 32310
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Board” means the governing board of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.

(b) “Conservancy” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.

(c) “Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as defined in Section 12220 of the Water Code.

(d) “Fund” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Fund created pursuant to Section 32360.

(e) “Local public agency” means a city, county, special district, or joint powers authority.

(f) “Nonprofit organization” means a private, nonprofit organization that qualifies for exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code and that has among its principal charitable purposes preservation of land for scientific, recreational, scenic, or open-space opportunities, protection of the natural environment, preservation or enhancement of wildlife, preservation of cultural and historical resources, or efforts to provide for the enjoyment of public lands.

(g) “Suisun Marsh” means the area defined in Section 29101 and protected by Division 19 (commencing with Section 29000).
Cal. LAB § 5433 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 4 / Chapter 2.3 / Section 5433
Section 5433
Status: in_force

(a) Any advertisement or other device designed to produce leads based on a response from a person to file a workers’ compensation claim or to engage or consult counsel or a medical care provider or clinic shall disclose that an agent may contact the individual if that is the fact. In addition, an individual who makes contact with a person as a result of acquiring that individual’s name from a lead generating device shall disclose that fact in the initial contact with that person.

(b) No person shall solicit persons to file a workers’ compensation claim or to engage or consult counsel or a medical care provider or clinic to consider a workers’ compensation claim through the use of a true or fictitious name which is deceptive or misleading with regard to the status, character, or proprietary or representative capacity of the entity or person, or to the true purpose of the advertisement.

(c) For purposes of this section, an advertisement includes a solicitation in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter, or open publication, published, distributed, or circulated in this state, or on any billboard, card, label, transit advertisement, or other written advertising medium, and includes envelopes, stationery, business cards, or other material designed to encourage the filing of a workers’ compensation claim.

(d) Advertisements shall not employ words, initials, letters, symbols, or other devices which are so similar to those used by governmental agencies, a nonprofit or charitable institution, or other entity that they could have the capacity or tendency to mislead the public. Examples of misleading materials include, but are not limited to, those that imply any of the following:

(1) The advertisement is in some way provided by or is endorsed by a governmental agency or charitable institution.

(2) The advertiser is the same as, is connected with, or is endorsed by a governmental agency or charitable institution.

(e) Advertisements may not use the name of a state or political subdivision thereof in an advertising solicitation.

(f) Advertisements may not use any name, service mark, slogan, symbol, or any device in any manner which implies that the advertiser, or any person or entity associated with the advertiser, or that any agency who may call upon the person in response to the advertisement, is connected with a governmental agency.

(g) Advertisements may not imply that the reader, listener, or viewer may lose a right or privilege or benefits under federal, state, or local law if he or she fails to respond to the advertisement.
Cal. WIC § 107 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 107
Section 107
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon presentation of the order of his or her appointment by the CASA, and upon specific court order and consistent with the rules of evidence, any agency, hospital, school, organization, division or department of the state, physician and surgeon, nurse, other health care provider, psychologist, psychiatrist, police department, or mental health clinic shall permit the CASA to inspect and copy any records relating to the child involved in the case of appointment without the consent of the child or parents.

(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to the records of or pertaining to a nonminor dependent. The CASA may have access to those records only with the explicit written and informed consent of the nonminor dependent.
Cal. PRC § 80140 — California Code / Code prc / Division 46 / Chapter 11 / Section 80140
Section 80140
Status: in_force

(a) The sum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes described in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 79720) of Division 26.7 of the Water Code.

(b) Of the funds authorized by subdivision (a), thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be available for grants to regional water supply projects within the San Joaquin River hydrologic unit that diversify local water supplies by providing local surface water to communities that are dependent on contaminated groundwater, reduce municipal groundwater pumping, and benefit agricultural and municipal water supplies.
Cal. BPC § 8613 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 14 / Article 6 / Section 8613
Section 8613
Status: in_force

A registered company which changes the location of its principal office or any branch office or which changes its qualifying manager, branch supervisor, officers, sole proprietors, partners, or its bond or insurance shall notify the registrar on a form prescribed by the board of that change within 10 days thereafter. A fee for filing those changes shall be charged in accordance with Section 8674.
Cal. FGC § 2781 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 3 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 2781
Section 2781
Status: in_force

The people of California find and declare that wildlife and fisheries conservation is in the public interest and that it is necessary to keep certain lands in open space and natural condition to protect significant environmental values of wildlife and native plant habitat, riparian and wetland areas, native oak woodlands, and other open-space lands, and to provide opportunities for the people of California to appreciate and visit natural environments and enjoy California’s unique and varied fish and wildlife resources.

It is the intent of the people, in enacting this chapter, that additional funds are needed to protect fish, wildlife, and native plant resources and that the Legislature should provide those funds through bond acts and other appropriate sources.
Cal. HSC § 24176 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 1.3 / Section 24176
Section 24176
Status: in_force

(a)  Any person who is primarily responsible for conduct of a medical experiment and who negligently allows the experiment to be conducted without a subject’s informed consent, as provided in this chapter, shall be liable to the subject in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), as determined by the court. The minimum amount of damages awarded shall be five hundred dollars ($500).

(b)  Any person who is primarily responsible for the conduct of a medical experiment and who willfully fails to obtain the subject’s informed consent, as provided in this chapter, shall be liable to the subject in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) as determined by the court. The minimum amount of damages awarded shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(c)  Any person who is primarily responsible for the conduct of a medical experiment and who willfully fails to obtain the subject’s informed consent, as provided in this chapter, and thereby exposes a subject to a known substantial risk of serious injury, either bodily harm or psychological harm, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year or a fine of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or both.

(d)  Any representative or employee of a pharmaceutical company, who is directly responsible for contracting with another person for the conduct of a medical experiment, and who has knowledge of risks or hazards with respect to the experiment, and who willfully withholds information of the risks and hazards from the person contracting for the conduct of the medical experiment, and thereby exposes a subject to substantial risk of serious injury, either bodily harm or psychological harm, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year or a fine of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or both.

(e)  Each and every medical experiment performed in violation of any provision of this chapter is a separate and actionable offense.

(f)  Any attempted or purported waiver of the rights guaranteed, or requirements prescribed by this chapter, whether by a subject or by a subject’s conservator or guardian, or other representative, as specified in Section 24175, is void.

(g)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand the right of an injured subject to recover damages under any other applicable law.