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Cal. RTC § 55184 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 30 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 55184
Section 55184
Status: in_force

If, after the sale, the money received exceeds the amount of all fees, penalties, and costs due the state from the feepayer, the board shall return the excess to him or her and obtain his or her receipt. If any persons having an interest in or lien upon the property files with the board prior to the sale notice of his or her interest, the board shall withhold any excess pending a determination of the rights of the respective parties to the excess moneys by a court of competent jurisdiction. If the receipt of the feepayer is not available, the board shall deposit the excess moneys with the Controller, as trustee for the owner, subject to the order of the feepayer, his or her heirs, successors, or assigns.
Cal. PROB § 3008 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3008
Section 3008
Status: in_force

“Conservatorship proceeding” means conservatorship of the estate proceeding and includes a guardianship of the estate proceeding of a married minor.
Cal. VEH § 2427 — California Code / Code veh / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 2427
Section 2427
Status: in_force

Whenever the department submits the fingerprints of an applicant for a license or certificate to the Department of Justice, and is required to pay a fee pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code, the department, without the necessity of adopting regulations, shall charge the applicant a fee sufficient to reimburse the department for that fee.
Cal. WAT § 46355 — California Code / Code wat / Division 14 / Part 9 / Chapter 2 / Article 9 / Section 46355
Section 46355
Status: in_force

At any time after the commissioners have assessed the cost of the project upon the benefited land within the district and the costs of the portion of the project used for the generation of electric energy, the board may direct the commissioners to reassess the costs of the project upon the benefited land. At the expiration of five years after the commissioners have originally assessed the cost of the project upon the benefited land within the district and the costs of the portion of the project used for the generation of electric energy, and thereafter at any time not less than five years after the next previous reassessment, the board, upon petition of holders of title to 10 percent of the land, shall direct the commissioners to reassess the costs of the project upon the benefited land.
Cal. FAC § 77815 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 19 / Article 5 / Section 77815
Section 77815
Status: in_force

If the secretary finds that a favorable vote has been given as provided in this article, the secretary shall certify and declare this chapter operative and give notice of the favorable vote to all handlers whose names and addresses are on file with the secretary.
Cal. WAT § 53504 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 10 / Chapter 1 / Section 53504
Section 53504
Status: in_force

The State Lands Commission shall assign to the consolidated district the number of the original district containing the largest area of land, and the consolidated district shall thereafter be known by such number.
Cal. HSC § 102765 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 102 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 102765
Section 102765
Status: in_force

The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the new record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant with additional cost.
Cal. PCC § 3504 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 3504
Section 3504
Status: in_force

In carrying out its duties under this article, an awarding authority shall strive to achieve a continuous reduction of emissions over time.
Cal. HNC § 67.3 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 2.5 / Section 67.3
Section 67.3
Status: in_force

The Los Angeles County (Redondo Beach to Malaga Cove) Beach Erosion Control Project is authorized for state participation pursuant to Section 65.5 substantially in accordance with the plans set forth in House Document 277, 83rd Congress, and authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954, Title I of Public Law 780, 83rd Congress, Second Session, 68 Stat. 1248. Such state participation shall be subject to appropriations applicable thereto or funds available therefor and shall not take precedence over other pending projects of higher priority.
Cal. FAC § 77065 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 16.5 / Article 3 / Section 77065
Section 77065
Status: in_force

A quorum of the commission shall be eight voting members of the commission. Except as provided in Section 77027, a vote in favor of a motion by nine members present at a meeting shall constitute the act of the commission.
Cal. RTC § 18861 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10.2 / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 18861
Section 18861
Status: in_force

(a) Any individual may designate on the tax return that a contribution in excess of the tax liability, if any, be made to the California Cancer Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, pursuant to Section 18862. This designation is to be used as a voluntary contribution on the tax return.

(b) The contributions shall be in full dollar amounts and may be made individually by each signatory on a joint return.

(c) A designation under subdivision (a) shall be made for any taxable year on the original return for that taxable year, and once made shall be irrevocable. In the event that payments and credits reported on the return, together with any other credits associated with the individual’s account, do not exceed the individual’s liability, the return shall be treated as though no designation has been made.

(d) If an individual designates a contribution to more than one account or fund listed on the tax return, and the amount available is insufficient to satisfy the total amount designated, the contribution shall be allocated among the designees on a pro rata basis.

(e) The Franchise Tax Board shall revise the forms of the return to include a space labeled the “California Cancer Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund” to allow for the designation permitted under subdivision (a). The forms shall also include in the instructions information that the contribution may be in the amount of one dollar ($1) or more and that the contribution shall be used to conduct research relating to the causes, detection, and prevention of cancer, to expand community-based education on cancer, and to provide prevention and awareness activities for communities that are disproportionately at risk or afflicted by cancer.

(f) A deduction shall be allowed under Article 6 (commencing with Section 17201) of Chapter 3 of Part 10 for any contribution made pursuant to subdivision (a).
Cal. SHC § 558 — California Code / Code shc / Division 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 558
Section 558
Status: in_force

Route 258 is from Route 405 near Torrance to Route 101 near Hollywood.
Cal. PROB § 142 — California Code / Code prob / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Section 142
Section 142
Status: in_force

(a) A waiver under this chapter shall be in writing and shall be signed by the surviving spouse.

(b) Subject to subdivision (c), a waiver under this chapter is enforceable only if it satisfies the requirements of subdivision (a) and is enforceable under either Section 143 or Section 144.

(c) Enforcement of the waiver against the surviving spouse is subject to the same defenses as enforcement of a contract, except that:

(1) Lack of consideration is not a defense to enforcement of the waiver.

(2) A minor intending to marry may make a waiver under this chapter as if married, but the waiver becomes effective only upon the marriage.
Cal. WAT § 10544 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.2 / Chapter 5 / Section 10544
Section 10544
Status: in_force

When selecting projects and programs pursuant to Division 24 (commencing with Section 78500), Division 26 (commencing with Section 79000), Division 26.5 (commencing with Section 79500), or pursuant to any grant funding authorized on or after January 1, 2009, for water management activities, the department, the board, the State Department of Public Health, and the California Bay-Delta Authority or its successor, as appropriate, shall include in any set of criteria used to select projects and programs for funding, a criterion that provides a preference for regional projects or programs.
Cal. WAT § 73503 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20.5 / Section 73503
Section 73503
Status: in_force

(a) The city, in consultation with the association and the offices of emergency services in Alameda County, Santa Clara County, and San Mateo County, shall prepare an emergency response plan describing how water service will be restored to the area served by the bay area regional water system after an interruption caused by earthquake or other natural or manmade catastrophe, and thereafter shall be implemented.

(b) During any interruption in supply caused by earthquake, or other natural or manmade catastrophe, a regional wholesale water supplier shall distribute water to customers on an equitable basis, to the extent feasible given physical damage to the regional water system, without preference or discrimination based on a customer’s geographic location within or outside the boundary of the regional wholesale water supplier.
Cal. SHC § 2853 — California Code / Code shc / Division 4 / Part 3 / Section 2853
Section 2853
Status: in_force

The notice of the hearing must be mailed at least 30 days prior to the date of the hearing.
Cal. HSC § 120780.5 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 105 / Part 4 / Chapter 1.5 / Section 120780.5
Section 120780.5
Status: in_force

(a) Upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Public Health shall award funding, on a competitive basis, to community-based organizations or local health jurisdictions to provide comprehensive HIV prevention and control activities for the most vulnerable and underserved individuals living with, or at high risk for, HIV infection. Applicants may include individual community-based organizations and local health jurisdictions, as well as collaborations between community-based organizations and local health jurisdictions.

(b) Entities located in any county are eligible to receive grant funding.

(c) Comprehensive HIV prevention and control activities may include, but are not limited to, any of the following:

(1) HIV testing, including the purchase of HIV test kits.

(2) Linkage to and retention in care for people living with HIV.

(3) Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)-related and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)-related activities.

(4) Syringe services programs.

(d) The department shall determine the funding levels of each award based on scope and geographic area. Priority for grants shall be given to community-based organizations or local health jurisdictions that, through their applications, demonstrate expertise, history, and credibility at working successfully in engaging the most vulnerable and underserved individuals living with, or at high risk for, HIV infection.

(e) Funds shall be allocated in a manner that balances the need to spread funding to as many local health jurisdictions and community-based organizations as possible and the need to provide meaningful activities to each recipient. Not less than 50 percent of the funds allocated shall be provided to community-based organizations, for purposes consistent with this section.

(f) The department shall determine the application process, selection criteria, and any reporting requirements for the grant, consistent with this section.

(g) The department shall develop measures for each local health jurisdiction and community-based organization funded pursuant to this section to demonstrate accountability.

(h) This section shall be operative only if funds are explicitly appropriated in the annual Budget Act specifically for purposes of this section.
Cal. BPC § 4853.6 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 4853.6
Section 4853.6
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall deny, suspend, or revoke registration of a veterinary premises if any of the following occur:

(1) The licensee manager set forth in the application in accordance with Section 4853 ceases to become responsible for management of the registered premises and no substitution of the responsible licensee manager has been made by application as provided for in Section 4853.

(2) The premises registration holder or the licensee manager has, under proceedings conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the license to practice veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry revoked or suspended.

(3) Unless licensed pursuant to Section 4825, the premises registration holder has practiced, influenced, or exerted control over the provision of veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, veterinary surgery, and the various branches thereof.

(b) The board shall not renew the premises registration if there is no licensee manager associated with the premises.

(c) The board may deny, suspend, or revoke registration of the veterinary premises for unlicensed practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary dentistry, veterinary surgery, and the various branches thereof by the premises registration holder.
Cal. WAT § 8578 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 8578
Section 8578
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this section, “ex parte communication” means any oral or written communication outside of a noticed board meeting concerning matters, other than purely procedural matters, regarding any of the following:

(1) An application that has been submitted to the board and has been determined to be complete by the executive officer.

(2) An enforcement action.

(3) Any other quasi-judicial matter requiring board action, after the matter has been placed on the board’s agenda and notice of the meeting has been provided pursuant to Section 11125 of the Government Code.

(b) (1) A board member appointed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8551 shall not participate in an ex parte communication with any person or organization with an interest in board decisions, nor any person representing a person or organization with an interest in board decisions, excluding a staff member of the board acting in his or her official capacity, who intends to influence the decision of a board member on a matter before the board.

(2) If an ex parte communication occurs, the board member shall notify the interested party that a full disclosure of the ex parte communication shall be entered in the board’s record.

(3) Communications cease to be ex parte communications when the board member or the person who engaged in the communication with the board member fully discloses the communication and requests in writing that it be placed in the board’s official record of the proceeding.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, the ex parte communications provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Article 7 (commencing with Section 11430.10) of Chapter 4.5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) do not apply to proceedings of the board to which this section applies.
Cal. RTC § 30439 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 13 / Chapter 7.5 / Section 30439
Section 30439
Status: in_force

If the board determines that the property was seized erroneously or illegally, it shall order the release of the property. If the board denies the petition for the release or recovery of the property, notice of the denial shall be mailed within five days to the petitioner.
Cal. FAC § 64502 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 64502
Section 64502
Status: in_force

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
Cal. FIN § 1461 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.1 / Chapter 14 / Article 1 / Section 1461
Section 1461
Status: in_force

Assets hypothecated by a commercial bank as security for moneys borrowed shall not exceed in value the amount borrowed by more than 50 percent except with the prior written consent of the commissioner.
Cal. WAT § 20562 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 20562
Section 20562
Status: in_force

Whenever by this division a notice is required to be published for a designated number of weeks or once a week for a designated number of weeks, the notice need be published on only one day of each week and for only the same number of times as the number of weeks designated.
Cal. WIC § 18934 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 10.1 / Section 18934
Section 18934
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds in the Budget Act for the purpose of providing services under this chapter.
Cal. FAC § 79625 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 28 / Article 2 / Section 79625
Section 79625
Status: in_force

“Pest” means American foulbrood or any other disease, parasite, virus or fungus, predator, or hereditary disorder that is detrimental to honeybees.
Cal. PUC § 5391.2 — California Code / Code puc / Division 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 4 / Section 5391.2
Section 5391.2
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 5391, in granting certificates to the holders of class C certificates, the commission shall require that those carriers procure and continue in effect adequate protection against liability imposed by law upon the carrier for the payment of damages for personal bodily injuries, including death resulting therefrom; protection against a total liability of the carrier of passengers on account of bodily injuries to, or death of, more than one person as a result of any one accident; and protection against damage or destruction of property. The requirement of that assurance of protection against liability shall be seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) per accident.
Cal. BPC § 7157 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 9 / Article 10 / Section 7157
Section 7157
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), as a part of or in connection with the inducement to enter into any home improvement contract or other contract, which may be performed by a contractor, no person may promise or offer to pay, credit, or allow to any owner, compensation or reward for the procurement or placing of home improvement business with others.

(b) A contractor or his or her agent or salesperson may give tangible items to prospective customers for advertising or sales promotion purposes where the gift is not conditioned upon obtaining a contract for home improvement work if the gift does not exceed a value of five dollars ($5) and only one such gift is given in connection with any one transaction.

(c) No salesperson or contractor’s agent may accept any compensation of any kind, for or on account of a home improvement transaction, or any other transaction involving a work of improvement, from any person other than the contractor whom he or she represents with respect to the transaction, nor shall the salesperson or agent make any payment to any person other than his or her employer on account of the sales transaction.

(d) No contractor shall pay, credit, or allow any consideration or compensation of any kind to any other contractor or salesperson other than a licensee for or on account of the performance of any work of improvement or services, including, but not limited to, home improvement work or services, except: (1) where the person to or from whom the consideration is to be paid is not subject to or is exempted from the licensing requirements of this chapter, or (2) where the transaction is not subject to the requirements of this chapter.

As used in this section “owners” shall also mean “tenant.”

Commission of any act prohibited by this section is a misdemeanor and constitutes a cause for disciplinary action.
Cal. LAB § 7321.5 — California Code / Code lab / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Section 7321.5
Section 7321.5
Status: in_force

The division shall enforce Sections 7320 and 7321 by issuance of a citation and notice of civil penalty in a manner consistent with Sections 6317 and 6319. Any person owning or having custody, management, or control of the operation of a conveyance who receives a citation and notice of civil penalty may appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board in a manner consistent with Section 6319.
Cal. PROB § 282 — California Code / Code prob / Division 2 / Part 8 / Chapter 2 / Section 282
Section 282
Status: in_force

(a) Unless the creator of the interest provides for a specific disposition of the interest in the event of a disclaimer, the interest disclaimed shall descend, go, be distributed, or continue to be held (1) as to a present interest, as if the disclaimant had predeceased the creator of the interest or (2) as to a future interest, as if the disclaimant had died before the event determining that the taker of the interest had become finally ascertained and the taker’s interest indefeasibly vested. A disclaimer relates back for all purposes to the date of the death of the creator of the disclaimed interest or the determinative event, as the case may be.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), where the disclaimer is filed on or after January 1, 1985:

(1) The beneficiary is not treated as having predeceased the decedent for the purpose of determining the generation at which the division of the estate is to be made under Part 6 (commencing with Section 240) or other provision of a will, trust, or other instrument.

(2) The beneficiary of a disclaimed interest is not treated as having predeceased the decedent for the purpose of applying subdivision (d) of Section 6409 or subdivision (b) of Section 6410.
Cal. HNC § 449.3 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 449.3
Section 449.3
Status: in_force

The marine exchange shall cooperate fully with the administrator appointed pursuant to Section 8670.4 of the Government Code in the development and implementation of the vessel traffic service system required by Section 8670.21 of the Government Code. Upon certification by the administrator that, pursuant to Section 8670.21, the Coast Guard has commenced operation of a fully federally funded vessel traffic service system for the Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor, the authorization contained in Section 445 for the marine exchange to operate a vessel traffic service is revoked.
Cal. PRC § 31002 — California Code / Code prc / Division 21 / Chapter 1 / Section 31002
Section 31002
Status: in_force

“Conservancy” means the State Coastal Conservancy.
Cal. FAC § 6761 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 6761
Section 6761
Status: in_force

The secretary, after investigation and hearing, may refuse to issue or renew a license, or may suspend or revoke a license, if the secretary determines that the licensee or the applicant has done any of the following:

(a) Has willfully refused to comply with the laws and regulations relative to nursery stock, or to any pest that might be carried by nursery stock.

(b) Was intentionally guilty of fraud or deception in the procurement of the license.

(c) Has been guilty of fraud or misrepresentation in the handling or sale of nursery stock.

(d) Has failed to maintain nursery stock produced or sold by the secretary in accordance with the standards of cleanliness that are prescribed by the secretary.

(e) Has failed to comply with a lawful order that is issued by the secretary or commissioner.

(f) Has failed to pay any assessment levied pursuant to this code on nursery stock or products comprising nursery stock.