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Cal. HSC § 112165 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 112165
Section 112165
Status: in_force

(a)  The department shall adopt regulations regarding all of the following:

(1)  The classification and minimum requirements for growing and harvesting areas, for relaying and depuration procedures, and for aquaculture facilities that are used for the cultivation and production of shellfish.

(2)  Specifications for plant facilities and for the harvesting, transporting, storing, handling, packing, and repacking of shellfish.

(3)  Fees.

(b)  The department shall adopt regulations by January 1, 1999, to interpret and enforce the provisions of this chapter. The regulations shall be adopted by the department in the manner prescribed by Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(c)  The regulations shall conform, so far as possible, to the standards or procedures established in the guidelines adopted by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program that pertain to the evaluation of shellfish-growing areas and handling facilities, but shall provide for regulating other wastes or contaminants not covered by the guidelines adopted by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program that would render shellfish unsafe or unfit for human consumption. If the department adopts standards or procedures that exceed standards or procedures established in the guidelines adopted by the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, the department shall provide a written finding describing the public health need for those standards and procedures in the rulemaking process.
Cal. PRC § 80030 — California Code / Code prc / Division 46 / Chapter 1 / Section 80030
Section 80030
Status: in_force

For grants awarded for projects that serve a disadvantaged community, the administering entity may provide advanced payments in the amount of 25 percent of the grant award to the recipient to initiate the project in a timely manner. The administering entity shall adopt additional requirements for the recipient of the grant regarding the use of the advanced payments to ensure that the moneys are used properly.
Cal. HSC § 34118 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 1.7 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 34118
Section 34118
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 34140 or any other provision of this part, a commission established prior to January 1, 1978, shall not be vested with the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the commissioners of the housing authority, nor shall the commission operate and govern the housing authority, unless:

(a)  The ordinance adopted by the legislative body declaring a need for the commission to function in the community declares, or is subsequently amended to declare, that the commission shall be vested with the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the commissioners of the housing authority; or

(b)  Prior to the effective date of this section, the commission has assumed and exercised the rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities of the commissioners of the housing authority.
Cal. ELEC § 10101 — California Code / Code elec / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 10101
Section 10101
Status: in_force

This part shall apply to all municipal elections, except where otherwise provided for in the Constitution of the state, or in a charter duly adopted or amended pursuant to the Constitution of this state.
Cal. RTC § 19180 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10.2 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 19180
Section 19180
Status: in_force

(a) In any proceeding involving the issue of whether or not any person is liable for a penalty under Section 19177, 19178, or 19179, the burden of proof with respect to that issue shall be on the Franchise Tax Board.

(b) Sections 19041 to 19049, inclusive, (relating to deficiency procedures) shall not apply with respect to the assessment or collection of the penalties provided by Section 19177, 19178, or 19179.

(c) (1) If, within 30 days after the day on which notice and demand of any penalty under Section 19177 or 19178 is made against any person, that person pays an amount which is not less than 15 percent of the amount of that penalty and files a claim for refund of the amount so paid, no levy or proceeding in court for the collection of the remainder of that penalty shall be made, begun, or prosecuted until the final resolution of a proceeding begun as provided in paragraph (2). Notwithstanding Section 19381, the beginning of that proceeding or levy during the time that prohibition is in force may be enjoined by a proceeding in the superior court. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit any counterclaim for the remainder of that penalty in a proceeding begun as provided in paragraph (2).

(2) If, within 30 days after the day on which the claim for refund of any partial payment of any penalty under Section 19177 or 19178 is denied (or, if earlier, within 30 days after the expiration of six months after the day on which a claim for refund was filed), the person fails to begin a proceeding in the superior court for the determination of the liability for that penalty, paragraph (1) shall cease to apply with respect to that penalty, effective on the day following the close of the applicable 30-day period referred to in this paragraph.

(3) The running of the period of limitations provided in Section 19371 on the collection by levy or by a proceeding in court in respect of any penalty described in paragraph (1) shall be suspended for the period during which the Franchise Tax Board is prohibited from collecting by levy or a proceeding in court.
Cal. BPC § 7825 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 12.5 / Article 2 / Section 7825
Section 7825
Status: in_force

The board shall establish relations with bodies which regulate the practice of geology and geophysics, or closely related geologic and geophysical disciplines, or which register geologists and geophysicists in the other states, and may establish relations with such bodies in other countries, for the purposes of working toward (1) uniformly high professional standards and (2) mutual recognition of registration.
Cal. WAT § 12899.6 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 6 / Chapter 6.5 / Section 12899.6
Section 12899.6
Status: in_force

(a) Unless a person is otherwise authorized, by permit or agreement, to do so, it is unlawful for any person to do any of the following acts:

(1) Drain water, or permit water to be drained, from the person’s lands onto the State Water Resources Development System right-of-way by any means, which results in damage to the system or the department’s right-of-way, except where the water naturally drains onto the department’s right-of-way.

(2) Obstruct any natural watercourse in a manner that does any of the following:

(A) Prevents, impedes, or restricts the natural flow of waters from any portion of the department’s right-of-way into and through the watercourse or State Water Resources Development System cross drainage structures, unless other adequate and proper drainage is provided.

(B) Causes waters to be impounded within the department’s right-of-way that damages the State Water Resources Development System or the department’s right-of-way, except where the water naturally drains onto the department’s right-of-way.

(C) Causes interference with, or damages or makes hazardous the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of, the State Water Resources Development System.

(3) Stores or distributes water for any purpose so as to permit the water to overflow onto, causing damage to, or to obstruct or damage any portion of, the State Water Resources Development System or the department’s right-of-way.

(b) When notice is given by the department, in the manner provided in Section 12899.5, to any person permitting a condition to exist, as described in subdivision (a), the person shall immediately cease and discontinue the diversion of waters or shall discontinue and prevent the drainage, seepage, or overflow and shall repair, or pay for the repair of, any damage to the State Water Resources Development System or the department’s right-of-way. The person to whom the notice is provided may challenge, administratively in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to Section 12899.9, or in a court of competent jurisdiction, the propriety of the determination by the department.

(c) If any person is notified pursuant to subdivision (b) and fails, neglects, or refuses to cease and discontinue the diversion, drainage, seepage, or overflow of the waters or to make or pay for the repairs, the department may make repairs and perform work as it determines necessary to prevent the further drainage, diversion, overflow, or seepage of the waters.

(d) The department may recover in an action at law, in any court of competent jurisdiction, the amount expended for those repairs and work, and in addition, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day the drainage, diversion, overflow, or seepage of the waters is permitted to continue, after the service of the notice in the manner specified in this chapter, together with the costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees, incurred in the action.
Cal. ELEC § 6764 — California Code / Code elec / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 6764
Section 6764
Status: in_force

The number of alternates to be selected shall be no greater than one for each delegate, and the alternates shall be selected in the manner prescribed by Section 6763.
Cal. PUC § 13660 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 8 / Article 8 / Section 13660
Section 13660
Status: in_force

No annexation to a special district shall operate to dissolve or terminate the legal existence of any public agency within or partly within the territory annexed.
Cal. PUC § 150201 — California Code / Code puc / Division 15.5 / Chapter 5 / Section 150201
Section 150201
Status: in_force

A retail transactions and use tax ordinance shall be imposed by the authority in accordance with Section 150206 and Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, if a majority of the electors voting on the measure vote to approve its imposition at special elections called for that purpose by the county and city, respectively. Those elections shall be consolidated. The ordinances shall take effect at the close of the polls on the day of election at which the measures are adopted, to impose the tax at the same rate.

The initial collection of the retail transactions and use tax shall take place in accordance with Section 150204.

If, at any time, the voters do not approve an ordinance imposing the retail transactions and use tax, the same or a different measure imposing that tax may, at any time thereafter, be submitted to the voters.
Cal. WAT § 1397 — California Code / Code wat / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 1397
Section 1397
Status: in_force

The work shall be completed and the water applied to beneficial use in accordance with this division, the rules and regulations of the board, and the terms of the permit and within the period specified in the permit.
Cal. HSC § 44040 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 5 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 44040
Section 44040
Status: in_force

The department may require certificates of compliance, certificates of noncompliance, and repair cost waivers to contain a unique number encoded in bar code. These certificates may be sold to licensed smog check stations by the department, printed by test analyzer systems, or transmitted by electronic means. The department, with the cooperation of the Department of Motor Vehicles, shall periodically check certificates to determine their validity.
Cal. RTC § 30170 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 13 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 2 / Section 30170
Section 30170
Status: in_force

The board may suspend without prior notice a distributor’s privilege to purchase stamps or meter register settings on the deferred-payment basis or may reduce the amount of permissible deferred-payment purchases fixed for the distributor, if the distributor fails to promptly pay for stamps or meter register settings when payment is due, if the bond or bonds of the distrbutor are canceled, become void, impaired, or unenforceable for any reason, or if in the opinion of the board, collection of any amounts unpaid or due from the distributor under this part are jeopardized.
Cal. ELEC § 6841 — California Code / Code elec / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 6841
Section 6841
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall send, not more than three business days after the presidential primary, to the chairperson of each committee qualifying a group of candidates for national convention delegates for the Peace and Freedom Party presidential primary ballot a copy of the semiofficial canvass of the vote for each of the group of delegates showing the vote for each group in each county, the total statewide vote for each group, and the tentative number of delegates which each group will be entitled to have declared elected.
Cal. HSC § 18099 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 4 / Section 18099
Section 18099
Status: in_force

Any registered owner of a commercial coach required to be registered under this part who moves, permits to be moved, or causes to be moved, the commercial coach from the situs location indicated on the registration card shall notify the department within 10 days thereafter of both the old and new address of situs. The registered owner shall mark out the situs address shown on the card and indelibly write or type the new situs address on the registration card and shall initial this change.
Cal. WAT § 78621 — California Code / Code wat / Division 24 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 78621
Section 78621
Status: in_force

(a) (1) There is hereby created in the account the Water Recycling Subaccount. The sum of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the subaccount for the purpose of implementing this article.

(2) All money repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed under the Clean Water and Water Reclamation Bond Law of 1988 (Chapter 17 (commencing with Section 14050) of Division 7) shall be deposited in the Water Recycling Subaccount in the Clean Water and Water Recycling Account in the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Fund created by Section 79136, for the purposes set forth in Article 4 (commencing with Section 79135) of Chapter 7 of Division 26.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the subaccount is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board for loans to public agencies to construct, operate, and maintain eligible recycling projects, for loans to aid in the design and construction of eligible recycling projects, for grants in accordance with Section 78628, and for the purposes described in Section 78629 and subdivision (a) of Section 78630.
Cal. SHC § 30805 — California Code / Code shc / Division 17 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 30805
Section 30805
Status: in_force

Every person operating any toll road, toll bridge, or toll ferry within the State under any franchise granted pursuant to this article shall keep an accurate account showing the following:

(a) The cost of construction thereof and the amount expended in keeping such toll road, toll bridge, or toll ferry in repair.

(b) The cost for operation and maintenance thereof.

(c) A record of the true financial condition of such person. On or before March 15th of each year, he shall file with the department a statement for the preceding calendar year setting forth such information, verified by himself, or if a firm, association, or corporation by some member or officer thereof having knowledge of the facts.
Cal. BPC § 10144 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 10144
Section 10144
Status: in_force

The commissioner may prescribe by regulation the information which shall be contained in contracts or other agreements by a real estate licensee to assist another or others in filing an application for the purchase or lease of, or in locating or entering upon, lands owned by the state or federal government, including, but not limited to, information with regard to the services agreed to be performed and information with regard to the hazards which may prevent the person to be assisted in filing an application with the state or federal government ever receiving any state or federal land under the application.
Cal. BPC § 2497.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 22 / Section 2497.5
Section 2497.5
Status: in_force

(a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, to direct any licensee found guilty of unprofessional conduct to pay to the board a sum not to exceed the actual and reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution of the case.

(b) The costs to be assessed shall be fixed by the administrative law judge and shall not be increased by the board unless the board does not adopt a proposed decision and in making its own decision finds grounds for increasing the costs to be assessed, not to exceed the actual and reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution of the case.

(c) When the payment directed in the board’s order for payment of costs is not made by the licensee, the board may enforce the order for payment by bringing an action in any appropriate court. This right of enforcement shall be in addition to any other rights the board may have as to any licensee directed to pay costs.

(d) In any judicial action for the recovery of costs, proof of the board’s decision shall be conclusive proof of the validity of the order of payment and the terms for payment.

(e) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the board shall not renew or reinstate the license of any licensee who has failed to pay all of the costs ordered under this section.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the board may, in its discretion, conditionally renew or reinstate for a maximum of one year the license of any licensee who demonstrates financial hardship and who enters into a formal agreement with the board to reimburse the board within that one-year period for those unpaid costs.

(f) All costs recovered under this section shall be deposited in the Board of Podiatric Medicine Fund as a reimbursement in either the fiscal year in which the costs are actually recovered or the previous fiscal year, as the board may direct.
Cal. FAC § 5771 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Article 4.5 / Section 5771
Section 5771
Status: in_force

When the secretary proclaims an eradication project in an urban area pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 5761), where the eradication plan includes potential aerial application of a pesticide, the secretary or the commissioner, pursuant to this article, shall do all of the following before aerially applying a pesticide to effect the eradication:

(a) Conduct at least one public hearing, to include a presentation by the department and the opportunity for public comment, in the area to consider all alternatives to aerial application of a pesticide.

(b) Seek an evaluation of human health risks and environmental risks jointly prepared by the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, including findings and recommendations regarding environmental and human risks of the proposed use of a pesticide by aerial application.

(c) Notify residents and physicians practicing in the area, and the local broadcast and print media.
Cal. FAC § 56412 — California Code / Code fac / Division 20 / Chapter 7 / Article 12 / Section 56412
Section 56412
Status: in_force

The director may administer oaths of verification on the complaints.
Cal. ELEC § 2260 — California Code / Code elec / Division 2 / Chapter 4.5 / Section 2260
Section 2260
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California New Motor Voter Program.
Cal. RTC § 55337 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 30 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 55337
Section 55337
Status: in_force

(a) If any officer or employee of the board recklessly disregards board-published procedures, a taxpayer aggrieved by that action or omission may bring an action for damages against the State of California in superior court.

(b) In any action brought under subdivision (a), upon finding of liability on the part of the State of California, the state shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal to the sum of all of the following:

(1) Actual and direct monetary damages sustained by the plaintiff as a result of the actions or omissions.

(2) Reasonable litigation costs, including any of the following:

(A) Reasonable court costs.

(B) Prevailing market rates for the kind or quality of services furnished in connection with any of the following:

(i) The reasonable expenses of expert witnesses in connection with the civil proceedings, except that no expert witness shall be compensated at a rate in excess of the highest rate of compensation for expert witnesses paid by the State of California.

(ii) The reasonable cost of any study, analysis, engineering report, test, or project that is found by the court to be necessary for the preparation of the party’s case.

(iii) Reasonable fees paid or incurred for the services of attorneys in connection with the civil proceeding, except that those fees shall not be in excess of seventy-five dollars ($75) per hour unless the court determines that an increase in the cost of living or a special factor, such as the limited availability of qualified attorneys for the proceeding, justifies a higher rate.

(c) In the awarding of damages under subdivision (b), the court shall take into consideration the negligence or omissions, if any, on the part of the plaintiff which contributed to the damages.

(d) Whenever it appears to the court that the taxpayer’s position in the proceeding brought under subdivision (a) is frivolous, the court may impose a penalty against the plaintiff in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000). A penalty so imposed shall be paid upon notice and demand from the board and shall be collected as a tax imposed under this part.