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Cal. HNC § 7082 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 7 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 7082
Section 7082
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Elections Code relating to the qualifications of electors, the manner of voting, the duties of election officers, the canvassing of returns, and all other particulars in respect to the management of general elections so far as they may be applicable shall govern all district elections, except:

(a) To the extent that the provisions of the Elections Code pertaining to the conduct of local elections are inconsistent with the provisions of that code pertaining to general elections the provisions of the Elections Code pertaining to local elections shall control.

(b) Inconsistent provisions of this part shall control over any provisions of the Elections Code.
Cal. FAC § 20282 — California Code / Code fac / Division 10 / Chapter 2 / Article 6 / Section 20282
Section 20282
Status: in_force

Any money in the Department of Agriculture Fund derived under any of the provisions of this division may be expended for the administration and enforcement of any of the provisions of this code stated in Section 16461, notwithstanding any other provision of law which limits the expenditure of any such money to some specific section, article, or chapter of this division.
Cal. BPC § 12517 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 5 / Chapter 5 / Section 12517
Section 12517
Status: in_force

Every owner of a coin-operated person weigher shall place on such weigher, in a prominent position, in letters at least three-sixteenths inches in height and in bold type, the following statement: “This scale may not have been checked for accuracy.”
Cal. BPC § 160.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 160.5
Section 160.5
Status: in_force

(a) All civil service employees currently employed by the Board of Dental Examiners of the Department of Consumer Affairs, whose functions are transferred as a result of the act adding this section shall retain their positions, status, and rights pursuant to Section 19050.9 of the Government Code and the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The transfer of employees as a result of the act adding this section shall occur no later than July 1, 1999.

(b) (1) All civil service employees currently employed by the Medical Board of California of the Department of Consumer Affairs, whose functions are transferred as a result of the act adding this subdivision shall retain their positions, status, and rights pursuant to Section 19050.9 of the Government Code and the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The transfer of employees as a result of the act adding this subdivision shall occur no later than July 1, 2014.

(2) The transfer of employees pursuant to this subdivision shall include all peace officer and medical consultant positions and all staff support positions for those peace officer and medical consultant positions.
Cal. BPC § 16700 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 7 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 16700
Section 16700
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter are cumulative of each other and of any other provision of law relating to the same subject in effect May 22, 1907.
Cal. BPC § 14488 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 6 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 14488
Section 14488
Status: in_force

It is the duty of every person who finds or receives in the regular course of business or in any other manner, any supplies to make diligent effort to find the owner and restore or return the supplies.
Cal. CORP § 7 — California Code / Code corp / Section 7
Section 7
Status: in_force

Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to, or a duty imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a deputy of the officer or by a person authorized, pursuant to law, by the officer, unless this code expressly provides otherwise.
Cal. INS § 11537.2 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 14 / Article 1 / Section 11537.2
Section 11537.2
Status: in_force

A plan of conversion adopted by a mutual life insurer for the establishment of a mutual holding company shall provide that the mutual life insurer will become a stock life insurer, that the members of the mutual life insurer will become members of a mutual holding company, that the mutual holding company will acquire at least 51 percent of the voting stock of the stock holding company, and that the stock holding company will acquire all of the voting stock of the converted insurer.
Cal. VEH § 22851 — California Code / Code veh / Division 11 / Chapter 10 / Article 2 / Section 22851
Section 22851
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Whenever a vehicle has been removed to a garage under this chapter and the keeper of the garage has received the notice or notices as provided herein, the keeper shall have a lien dependent upon possession for his or her compensation for towage and for caring for and keeping safe the vehicle for a period not exceeding 60 days or, if an application for an authorization to conduct a lien sale has been filed pursuant to Section 3068.1 of the Civil Code within 30 days after the removal of the vehicle to the garage, 120 days and, if the vehicle is not recovered by the owner within that period or the owner is unknown, the keeper of the garage may satisfy his or her lien in the manner prescribed in this article. The lien shall not be assigned. Possession of the vehicle is deemed to arise when a vehicle is removed and is in transit, or when vehicle recovery operations or load salvage operations that have been requested by a law enforcement agency have begun at the scene.

(2) Whenever a vehicle owner returns to a vehicle that is in possession of a towing company prior to the removal of the vehicle, the owner may regain possession of the vehicle from the towing company if the owner pays the towing company the towing charges.

(b) No lien shall attach to any personal property in or on the vehicle. The personal property in or on the vehicle shall be given to the current registered owner or the owner’s authorized agent upon demand and without charge during normal business hours. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, normal business hours are Monday to Friday, inclusive, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., inclusive, except state holidays. A gate fee may be charged for returning property after normal business hours, weekends, and state holidays. The maximum hourly charge for nonbusiness hours releases shall be one-half the hourly tow rate charged for initially towing the vehicle, or less. The lienholder is not responsible for property after any vehicle has been disposed of pursuant to this chapter.
Cal. HSC § 41090 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 8 / Section 41090
Section 41090
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The Sacramento district shall prepare a wildfire smoke air pollution emergency plan as an informational source for local agencies and the public during a wildfire smoke air pollution emergency.

(2) The Sacramento district shall develop the wildfire smoke air pollution emergency plan in coordination with its county health officer and in consultation with all of the following:

(A) Local offices of emergency management or emergency services.

(B) School districts.

(C) Regional planning agencies.

(D) The state board.

(b) The plan prepared pursuant to this section shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) Recommendations and guidelines that will be health protective during wildfire smoke air pollution emergencies that include all of the following:

(A) Specific recommendations based on different tiers of air quality during a wildfire smoke event.

(B) Strategies, protocols, and guidelines for the monitoring at schools of air quality using low-cost sensors and other air quality monitoring information.

(C) A short-term air quality metric that is advisory and provides details of the health effects of the wildfire smoke that occur on a time scale of less than 24 hours, subject to the approval of the state board.

(2) An identification of the local agency statutorily responsible to take action at different thresholds.

(3) Recommendations and best practices for private businesses and public agencies to reduce or modify certain activities that contribute to the worsening of air pollution during a wildfire smoke air pollution emergency.

(4) Specific strategies to address vulnerable populations, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(A) Schoolage children.

(B) The elderly.

(C) People experiencing homelessness.

(D) People who work outdoors.

(E) People with health issues that are exacerbated by a wildfire smoke air pollution emergency.
Cal. HSC § 11848.5 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 10.5 / Part 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 11848.5
Section 11848.5
Status: in_force

(a) Once the negotiated rate with service providers has been approved by the county, all participating governmental funding sources, except the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code), shall be bound to that rate as the cost of providing all or part of the total county alcohol and other drug program as described in the county contract for each fiscal year to the extent that the governmental funding sources participate in funding the county alcohol and other drug program. Where the State Department of Health Services adopts regulations for determining reimbursement of alcohol and other drug program services formerly allowable under the Short-Doyle program and reimbursed under the Medi-Cal Act, those regulations shall be controlling only as to the rates for reimbursement of alcohol and other drug program services allowable under the Medi-Cal program and rendered to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. Providers under this section shall report to the department and the county any information required by the department in accordance with the procedures established by the director of the department.

(b) The Legislature recognizes that alcohol and other drug services differ from mental health services provided through the State Department of Health Care Services and therefore should not necessarily be bound by rate determination methodology used for reimbursement of those services formerly provided under the Short-Doyle program and reimbursed under the Medi-Cal Act.
Cal. WAT § 46177 — California Code / Code wat / Division 14 / Part 9 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 46177
Section 46177
Status: in_force

If the project includes plans for the generation of electric power, the commissioners shall ascertain the total cost of all the properties which are necessary to be used in connection with the generation of electric power as set forth in the plan, and shall also ascertain what portion of the assessment of benefits to accrue to each tract consists of costs of the properties which are necessary to be so used.
Cal. SHC § 2806 — California Code / Code shc / Division 4 / Part 1 / Section 2806
Section 2806
Status: in_force

This division shall not apply to any maintenance district proceedings or to any assessment levied for the maintenance of any improvements, but it shall apply to all other special assessment districts and proceedings within the scope of Section 2820, regardless of the particular law under which any such proceeding may be undertaken and regardless of whether the special assessment made will be specific or a special assessment tax upon lands wholly or partially according to the assessed value of such lands.
Cal. MVC § 997.001 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 6 / Article 5l / Section 997.001
Section 997.001
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the Veterans Bond Act of 1974.
Cal. BPC § 22675 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 22.8 / Section 22675
Section 22675
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Actioned” means a social media company, due to a suspected or confirmed violation of the terms of service, has taken some form of action, including, but not limited to, removal, demonetization, deprioritization, or banning, against the relevant user or relevant item of content.

(b) “Artificial intelligence” has the same definition as in Section 11546.45.5 of the Government Code.

(c) (1) “Content” means statements or comments made by users and media that are created, posted, shared, or otherwise interacted with by users on an internet-based service or application.

(2) “Content” does not include media put on a service or application exclusively for the purpose of cloud storage, transmitting files, or file collaboration.

(d) “Public or semipublic internet-based service or application” excludes a service or application used to facilitate communication within a business or enterprise among employees or affiliates of the business or enterprise, provided that access to the service or application is restricted to employees or affiliates of the business or enterprise using the service or application.

(e) “Social media company” means a person or entity that owns or operates one or more social media platforms.

(f) “Social media platform” means a public or semipublic internet-based service or application that has users in California and that meets both of the following criteria:

(1) (A) A substantial function of the service or application is to connect users in order to allow users to interact socially with each other within the service or application.

(B) A service or application that provides email or direct messaging services shall not be considered to meet this criterion on the basis of that function alone.

(2) The service or application allows users to do all of the following:

(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile for purposes of signing into and using the service or application.

(B) Populate a list of other users with whom an individual shares a social connection within the system.

(C) Create or post content viewable by other users, including, but not limited to, on message boards, in chat rooms, or through a landing page or main feed that presents the user with content generated by other users.

(g) “Terms of service” means a policy or set of policies adopted by a social media company that specifies, at least, the user behavior and activities that are permitted on the internet-based service owned or operated by the social media company, and the user behavior and activities that may subject the user or an item of content to being actioned.
Cal. BPC § 6302 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 6302
Section 6302
Status: in_force

Appointments of trustees which are to be made by the board of supervisors of the county shall be made at the first meeting of the board of supervisors after the establishment of a law library in the county, the appointees to serve until the first meeting of the board of supervisors in the succeeding January. The board shall, at any such meeting in each succeeding January, appoint such trustees to serve for the term of one year.
Cal. SHC § 5825 — California Code / Code shc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 26 / Section 5825
Section 5825
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors, in addition to hearing protests against the proposed work and the extent of the district to be assessed therefor, shall hear and pass upon all protests against the formation of the maintenance district and against the extent thereof, and shall hear and pass upon all protests against the annexation of the territory within which the improvements are to be constructed to an existing maintenance district, and its decision shall be final and conclusive.
Cal. WAT § 10564 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.3 / Section 10564
Section 10564
Status: in_force

For purposes of this part, “low-impact development” means new development or redevelopment projects that employ natural and constructed features that reduce the rate of stormwater runoff, filter out pollutants, facilitate stormwater storage onsite, infiltrate stormwater into the ground to replenish groundwater supplies, or improve the quality of receiving groundwater and surface water.
Cal. MVC § 443.5 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Article 3 / Section 443.5
Section 443.5
Status: in_force

No moneys received by or administered by the state under the federal HOME program which is part of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (P.L. 101-625) shall be used for purposes of this article.
Cal. WAT § 6433 — California Code / Code wat / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Section 6433
Section 6433
Status: in_force

(a) The Attorney General, upon request of the department, shall bring an action in superior court seeking injunctive relief, penalties, fees, costs, or any other remedies available to the department under this division.

(b) Any action or proceeding under this division shall be commenced in the superior court in the county that the cause or some part thereof arose, the owner or person complained of has its principal place of business, or the owner or person complained of resides.

(c) In any civil action brought pursuant to this division that the department determines there is a threat to human health, safety, or the environment, and seeks a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction, it shall not be necessary to allege or prove at any stage of the proceeding that irreparable damage will occur should the temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction not be issued, or that the remedy at law is inadequate, and the temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction shall issue without those allegations and proof.
Cal. PUC § 3126 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 3126
Section 3126
Status: in_force

An association may buy, hold, and exercise all privileges of ownership of real or personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the conduct and operation of, or incidental to, any business of the association. Without limiting the foregoing, an association may acquire a real property easement from a public utility for the purpose of accommodating the association’s gas plant, and the easement shall be deemed to be held for a public purpose by the association, provided that the commission finds that the use by the association is in the public interest.
Cal. RTC § 1614 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 1614
Section 1614
Status: in_force

(a) The clerk of the county board shall keep an accurate record of all changes to the roll and all orders made by the county board. No later than the second Monday of each month the clerk shall deliver the statement of all changes to the roll made by the county board during the preceding calendar month to the auditor.

(b) This section does not prohibit the clerk from transmitting to the auditor changes to the roll more frequently than once per month.

(c) This section shall not be construed to require the clerk to deliver the statement described in subdivision (a) for a month in which the county board has made no changes to the roll.
Cal. MVC § 360 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 360
Section 360
Status: in_force

The system of discipline and exercise of the National Guard, unorganized militia when called into the service of the State, and the Naval Militia shall conform generally to that of the Army of the United States, the United States Navy and the United States Air Force, and to the provisions of the laws of the United States, except as otherwise provided in this code.
Cal. RTC § 38106 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 18.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 38106
Section 38106
Status: in_force

“Person” includes any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, this state, any county, city and county, municipality, district, or other political subdivision of the state, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
Cal. FGC § 5930 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 5930
Section 5930
Status: in_force

The department shall, from time to time, examine all dams in all rivers and streams in this State naturally frequented by fish.
Cal. FAC § 76263 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 15 / Article 3 / Section 76263
Section 76263
Status: in_force

No member of the commission or member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission shall receive a salary. Each member of the commission, except ex officio government members, and each member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission, may receive a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per day, as established by the commission. This per diem shall be paid to members for each day spent in actual attendance at, or in traveling to and from, meetings of the commission or committees of the commission, or on special assignment for the commission, as approved by the commission. Members shall also receive the necessary traveling expenses and meal allowances, as approved by the commission.
Cal. PRC § 6306.2 — California Code / Code prc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 6306.2
Section 6306.2
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to mitigate the effects of the project which is the subject of the Department of the Army Permit No. 14003E48B, issued July 23, 1986, the City of Oakland, acting by and through its Board of Port Commissioners, may use revenue accruing from, or out of, the use of granted tidelands, for the acquisition of land, or an interest in land, located outside the geographical boundaries of the trust grant, or for the enhancement, restoration, or management of land located outside the trust grant, if the commission makes all of the following determinations:

(1) That adequate areas for appropriate mitigation do not presently exist within the geographical boundaries of the port district trust grants, and that if some of the mitigation can occur within the geographical boundaries of the port district trust grants, that mitigation will be included in the mitigation program.

(2) That the proposed offsite mitigation best promotes appropriate public trust purposes for which sovereign tidelands and submerged lands are held by the state, its location is appropriate in consideration of public trust needs, and it addresses the specific impacts of the project.

(3) That, unless the proposed offsite mitigation is to be located within another tidelands trust grant, title to any land or interest in land acquired, as well as any land which is to be enhanced, restored, or managed, will be transferred to the state, acting by and through the State Lands Commission, to be held in trust for the public as land having the legal character of sovereign lands.

(4) That the mitigation is in the best interest of the state.

(b) The State Lands Commission may lease any land or interest in land transferred to it pursuant to this section, as provided by Part 2 (commencing with Section 6501).
Cal. MVC § 1655 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 1655
Section 1655
Status: in_force

If after hearing the highway commissioners determine that the public safety and the safety of the property of the petitioner require that public use and travel upon any abutting highway be closed or restricted within 150 feet or less of the property, they shall issue such an order.