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Cal. FAC § 6063 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 10 / Section 6063
Section 6063
Status: in_force

The general control and management of each district shall be vested in a board of directors of five members. Directors shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by them in and about the performance of any duties required by the board of directors to be performed by them for the district. All claims presented by any director shall be subject to the approval of three other members of the board of directors.
Cal. INS § 11780.5 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 11780.5
Section 11780.5
Status: in_force

(a) The fund may also insure a California employer against his or her liability for workers’ compensation benefits, under the law of any other state, for California employees temporarily working outside of California on a specific assignment if the fund insures the employer’s other employees who work within California.

(b) (1) The fund is only authorized under this subdivision to insure an employer whose principal place of business is in California, provided the majority of the employer’s operations and employees are located within California, against his or her liability for workers’ compensation benefits, under the law of any other state, if the fund insures the employer’s employees who work within California.

(2) The fund is only authorized pursuant to this subdivision to contract as a reinsurer with a ceding insurer that has responded to a request for proposal from the fund and is admitted to transact workers’ compensation insurance in California and in the out-of-state jurisdiction where the non-California employees are located. The fund may only contract for purposes of this subdivision if the ceding insurer meets all of the following criteria:

(A) The insurer has an A minus (A-) rating or better from A.M. Best Company.

(B) The insurer has substantial prior experience in transacting workers’ compensation business on another insurer’s behalf.

(C) The insurer has a minimum surplus of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).

(c) The fund shall not initiate paid advertising or solicit sponsorship of advertising campaigns to market or promote to prospective insureds the ability to insure qualified employers under the law of any other state.
Cal. FAC § 20009 — California Code / Code fac / Division 10 / Chapter 1 / Section 20009
Section 20009
Status: in_force

“Hide” means the hide of an animal.
Cal. VEH § 11200 — California Code / Code veh / Division 5 / Chapter 1.5 / Section 11200
Section 11200
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall license schools for traffic violators for purposes of Section 41501 or 42005 and to provide traffic safety instruction to other persons who elect to attend. A person may not own or operate a traffic violator school or, except as provided in Section 11206, give instruction for compensation in a traffic violator school without a currently valid license issued by the department.

(b) (1) Any person who elects to attend a traffic violator school shall receive from the traffic violator school and shall sign a copy of the following consumer disclosure statement prior to the payment of the school fee and attending the school:

“Course content is limited to traffic violator curricula approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Students in the classroom include traffic offenders, repeat traffic offenders, adults, and teenagers, and those who have and those who have not been referred by a court. Instructor training, business regulatory standards, and Vehicle Code requirements of traffic violator schools are not equal to the training, standards, and Vehicle Code requirements of licensed driving schools (California Vehicle Code Section 11200(b)(1)).”

(2) In the case of a minor who elects to attend a traffic violator school, the minor’s parent or guardian shall sign the consumer disclosure statement.

(3) A copy of each signed disclosure statement shall be retained by the traffic violator school for a minimum of 36 months.

(c) New and modified departmental regulations necessitated by this section shall be adopted and effective no later than September 1, 2011.

(d) A licensed traffic violator school shall notify the court by posting on the department’s Web-based database established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 11205 information regarding successful course completions.

(e) A licensed traffic violator school shall give every person who attends the school for purposes of Sections 41501 or 42005, upon successful completion of the lesson plan and passage of the postlesson knowledge test, a receipt indicating successful completion. The receipt shall include contact information, including the name of the traffic violator school, address of the school’s business location, name of the course instructor if classroom-based, telephone number, e-mail address if appropriate, hours of operation, and any other information that may be used to confirm course completion.

(f) This section shall become operative on September 1, 2011.
Cal. PRC § 776 — California Code / Code prc / Division 1 / Chapter 2.5 / Article 3 / Section 776
Section 776
Status: in_force

Any accusation against a registrant or a certificant shall be filed within five years after the act or omission alleged as the ground for disciplinary action. The proceedings under this article shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code and the board has all the powers granted in that chapter.
Cal. PUC § 741 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 741
Section 741
Status: in_force

(a) Every owner or operator of telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, that accept any form of payment which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation having tariff schedules on file with the commission providing for the furnishing of operator-assisted services, shall cause to be posted on or near the telephone equipment so as to be easily seen by telephone customers all of the following information:

(1) The name of the provider of operator-assisted services and a toll-free telephone number for contacting that provider.

(2) The applicable charges for each available operator-assisted service.

(3) That the provider of operator-assisted services will respond to inquiries concerning the terms and conditions of any available service.

(4) That surcharges may apply to operator-assisted and calling card calls.

(5) That card-activated calls, calls activated by any other payment device, or calls that may be charged to a card by giving a card number to an operator may cost more than coin-activated calls.

(6) The local rates for nonoperator-assisted calls.

(b) Every owner or operator of telephones available for public use, other than a telephone corporation, that accept any form of payment which, as part of the service furnished, provides operator-assisted services by other than a telephone corporation having tariff schedules on file with the commission providing for the furnishing of operator-assisted services, shall:

(1) Identify itself, audibly and distinctly, to the consumer at the beginning of each telephone call and before the consumer incurs any charge for the call.

(2) Permit the consumer to terminate the telephone call before the call is connected.

(3) At no charge, disclose to the consumer, immediately after the number to be called is entered or given to an operator, a quotation of its complete rates and charges for the call.

(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2015.
Cal. FIN § 2176 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.2 / Chapter 9 / Section 2176
Section 2176
Status: in_force

At any time, if the commissioner deems it necessary for the general welfare of the public, he or she may exercise any power set forth in this division with respect to a money transmission business, regardless of whether an application for a license has been filed with the commissioner, a license has been issued, or, if issued, the license has been surrendered, suspended, or revoked.
Cal. WAT § 71019 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 71019
Section 71019
Status: in_force

“Secretary” means the secretary of a district.
Cal. FAM § 8731 — California Code / Code fam / Division 13 / Part 2 / Chapter 2.5 / Section 8731
Section 8731
Status: in_force

If the prospective adoptive parent of a child is a foster parent, the assessment or home study described in Section 8730 shall not be initiated until the child to be adopted has resided in the home of the foster parent for at least six months.
Cal. MVC § 999.11 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 999.11
Section 999.11
Status: in_force

The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall appoint the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate. The California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate shall report directly to the secretary and shall do all of the following:

(a) Promote implementation of the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program.

(b) Support and facilitate the activities of administering agencies and existing and potential disabled veteran business enterprises to achieve the goals specified in Sections 999.1 and 999.2, including, but not limited to, both of the following:

(1) Assisting awarding departments in identifying certified disabled veteran business enterprises that can offer their services for contracts that contract procurement staff have difficulty identifying.

(2) Assisting disabled veteran business enterprises in effectively utilizing certification documents and the state electronic procurement system in identifying which products and services businesses have on offer.

(c) Coordinate with the agency Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Advocate appointed in all awarding departments pursuant to Section 999.12.

(d) Establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in Sections 999.1 and 999.2.

(e) Establish and promote a system to track the effectiveness of promotional activities undertaken by state agencies.
Cal. RTC § 60545 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 31 / Chapter 8 / Article 3 / Section 60545
Section 60545
Status: in_force

Failure to bring suit or action within the time specified in this article constitutes a waiver of all demands against the state on account of any alleged overpayment.
Cal. PUC § 3382 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1.5 / Chapter 5 / Section 3382
Section 3382
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to obtain loans from the Pooled Money Investment Account pursuant to Sections 16312 and 16313 of the Government Code. These loans shall be subject to the terms negotiated with the Pooled Money Investment Board, including, but not limited to, a pledge of authority bond proceeds or revenues.
Cal. HSC § 44274.15 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 5 / Chapter 8.9 / Article 4 / Section 44274.15
Section 44274.15
Status: in_force

The state board shall create, in coordination with other state agencies that administer programs similar to the program established in Section 44274.11, a “one-stop shop” that provides information on the state board’s internet website to operators of medium- and heavy-duty fleets about all of the potential financing and grant options and other technical assistance available to help obtain financing for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
Cal. PUC § 10057 — California Code / Code puc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 10057
Section 10057
Status: in_force

If the vote cast at the election is in favor of the sale of the public utility mentioned in the ordinance calling for the election, the legislative body of the municipal corporation shall immediately proceed to sell the public utility, and shall fix a date on which bids for the sale of the public utility will be received and the manner of filing bids. The legislative body shall cause notice of the sale to be published for at least two weeks next before the day fixed for receiving bids in the manner provided in Section 10054 for publication of the ordinance calling for the election. If no newspaper is published in the municipality, the notice shall be posted in three public places therein for two succeeding weeks next before the date fixed for receiving bids.
Cal. FAM § 511 — California Code / Code fam / Division 3 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Section 511
Section 511
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the county clerk shall maintain confidential marriage certificates filed pursuant to Section 506 as permanent records which shall not be open to public inspection except upon order of the court issued upon a showing of good cause. The confidential marriage license is a confidential record and not open to public inspection without an order from the court.

(b) The county clerk shall keep all original certificates of confidential marriages for one year from the date of filing. After one year, the clerk may reproduce the certificates pursuant to Section 26205 of the Government Code, and dispose of the original certificates. The county clerk shall promptly seal and store at least one original negative of each microphotographic film made in a manner and place as reasonable to ensure its preservation indefinitely against loss, theft, defacement, or destruction. The microphotograph shall be made in a manner that complies with the minimum standards or guidelines, or both, recommended by the American National Standards Institute or the Association for Information and Image Management. Every reproduction shall be deemed and considered an original. A certified copy of any reproduction shall be deemed and considered a certified copy of the original.

(c) The county clerk may conduct a search for a confidential marriage certificate for the purpose of confirming the existence of a marriage, but the date of the marriage and any other information contained in the certificate shall not be disclosed except upon order of the court.

(d) The county clerk shall, not less than quarterly, transmit copies of all original confidential marriage certificates retained, or originals of reproduced confidential marriage certificates filed after January 1, 1982, to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. The registrar may destroy the copies so transmitted after they have been indexed. The registrar may respond to an inquiry as to the existence of a marriage performed pursuant to this chapter, but shall not disclose the date of the marriage.
Cal. RTC § 214.13 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 214.13
Section 214.13
Status: in_force

Where property under development pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Pt. 1 (commencing with Sec. 33000), Div. 24, H.&S.C.) is dedicated to religious, charitable, scientific, or hospital purposes in the redevelopment plan and is required by the plan to be conveyed to the state, a county, a city, or a nonprofit entity entitled to a welfare exemption, that property shall be deemed to be within the exemption provided for in Section 5 of Article XIII of the Constitution of the State of California and this section, and shall be exempt from property tax during construction, provided the title to the property is to be conveyed to the state, a county, a city, or nonprofit agency within three years of the completion of the construction. If that title is not passed to the state, a county, a city, or nonprofit organization entitled to a welfare exemption within three years of the completion of construction, the owner of the property shall be liable for the taxes that would have been imposed, plus a penalty of 25 percent of the amount due.
Cal. BPC § 4804.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 4804.5
Section 4804.5
Status: in_force

(a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties delegated by the board and vested in them by this chapter.

(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.
Cal. HNC § 4068 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 4068
Section 4068
Status: in_force

It is sufficient to set forth the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued and sold, to state that they are for the improvement, development or protection of ____ harbor, naming the harbor by the name by which it is commonly called. Any defect or irregularity in the proceedings prior to the calling of the election does not affect the validity of the bonds.
Cal. HNC § 872 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 4 / Chapter 3 / Section 872
Section 872
Status: in_force

When a mate or seaman is prevented from rendering service by illness or injury, incurred without his fault in the discharge of his duty on the voyage, or by being wrongfully discharged, or by a capture of the vessel, he is entitled to wages notwithstanding. In case of a capture, a ratable deduction for salvage shall be made.
Cal. BPC § 9882.3 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 20.3 / Article 2 / Section 9882.3
Section 9882.3
Status: in_force

Every power granted to or duty imposed upon the director under this chapter may be exercised or performed in the name of the director by a deputy or assistant director or by the chief, subject to such conditions and limitations as the director may prescribe.
Cal. FAC § 9331 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 9331
Section 9331
Status: in_force

All expenses and costs of dipping or treating cattle or sheep and all expenses and costs of gathering sheep or cattle which are incurred by the department pursuant to this chapter are a lien on the cattle or sheep until the lien is paid or foreclosed by law.
Cal. FIN § 5615 — California Code / Code fin / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 5615
Section 5615
Status: in_force

An application for a permit to sell securities shall be in writing, verified as provided in the Code of Civil Procedure for the verification of pleadings, and shall be filed in the office of the commissioner by the association or the selling stockholders. The application shall include the following:

(a) Regarding the association.

(1) The names and addresses of its officers.

(2) The location of its office.

(3) A balance sheet or statement of its financial condition as of a date within 90 days of the filing date.

(4) A copy of all minutes of any proceedings of its directors, shareholders, or stockholders relating to or affecting the issue of such securities.

(b) Regarding the offering.

(1) A brief description of the method by which the securities are to be offered for sale, including the offering price and the underwriting commissions and expense, if any.

(2) A copy of a prospectus or advertisement or other description of the securities prepared for distribution or publication in accordance with requirements prescribed by the commissioner.

(3) A copy of any contract concerning the sale of the securities.

(4) With respect to any permit issued pursuant to Section 5614, the names and addresses of the selling stockholders and of the officers of any selling corporation and the partners of any selling partnership.

(c) Such additional information as the commissioner may require.

(d) An application fee as prescribed by the commissioner pursuant to Section 9001.
Cal. HSC § 125130 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 106 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 125130
Section 125130
Status: in_force

(a) The Director of Health Care Services shall establish and administer a program for the medical care of persons with genetically handicapping conditions, including cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, sickle cell disease, Huntington’s disease, Friedreich’s Ataxia, Joseph’s disease, Von Hippel-Landau syndrome, and the following hereditary metabolic disorders: phenylketonuria, homocystinuria, branched chain amino acidurias, disorders of propionate and methylmalonate metabolism, urea cycle disorders, hereditary orotic aciduria, Wilson’s Disease, galactosemia, disorders of lactate and pyruvate metabolism, tyrosinemia, hyperornithinemia, and other genetic organic acidemias that require specialized treatment or service available from only a limited number of program-approved sources.

(b) The program shall also provide access to social support services, that may help ameliorate the physical, psychological, and economic problems attendant to genetically handicapping conditions, in order that the genetically handicapped person may function at an optimal level commensurate with the degree of impairment.

(c) The medical and social support services may be obtained through physicians and surgeons Genetically Handicapped Persons Program specialized centers, and other providers that qualify pursuant to the regulations of the department to provide the services. “Medical care,” as used in this section, is limited to noncustodial medical and support services.

(d) The director shall adopt regulations that are necessary for the implementation of this article.
Cal. FAC § 9303 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 9303
Section 9303
Status: in_force

If, at the expiration of 10 days from the date on which notice was given, the owner or person in control of the cattle or sheep has failed to dip the cattle or sheep in accordance with the directions of the director, the director shall immediately take possession of the cattle or sheep and dip the sheep as many times as may be necessary, or dip or otherwise treat the cattle.
Cal. PUC § 398.2 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2.3 / Article 14 / Section 398.2
Section 398.2
Status: in_force

The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this article.

(a) “Greenhouse gas emissions intensity” means the sum of all annual emissions of greenhouse gases associated with a generation source divided by the annual production of electricity from the generation source.

(b) “Retail supplier” means an entity that offers an electricity product for sale to retail consumers in California, including an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, electric service provider, and community choice aggregator.

(c) “System operator” means the Independent System Operator with responsibility for the efficient use and reliable operation of the transmission grid, as provided by Section 345, or a local publicly owned electric utility that does not utilize the Independent System Operator.

(d) “Purchases of electricity from specified sources” or “purchases from specified sources” means electricity transactions that are traceable to specific generation sources by any auditable contract trail or equivalent, such as a tradable commodity system, that provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed has been sold once and only once to a retail consumer. Retail suppliers may rely on annual data to determine whether a transaction meets this definition, rather than hour-by-hour matching of loads and resources.

(e) “Electricity from unspecified sources” means electricity that is not traceable to specific generation sources by any auditable contract trail or equivalent, including a tradable commodity system, that provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed has been sold once, and only once, to a retail consumer.