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Cal. WAT § 9603 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Section 9603
Section 9603
Status: in_force

(a) The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan shall be a descriptive document, and neither the plan nor anything in this part shall be construed to expand the liability of the state for the operation or maintenance of any flood management facility beyond the scope of the State Plan of Flood Control, except as specifically determined by the board pursuant to Section 9611. Neither the development nor the adoption of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan shall be construed to constitute any commitment by the state to provide, to continue to provide, or to maintain at, or to increase flood protection to, any particular level.

(b) The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan reflects a systemwide approach to protecting the lands currently protected from flooding by existing facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control. Any flood protection benefits accruing to lands or communities outside the State Plan of Flood Control are incidental and shall not constitute any commitment by the state to provide, to continue to provide, or to maintain at, or to increase flood protection to, any particular level.
Cal. HSC § 40375 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 40375
Section 40375
Status: in_force

The treasurers of the counties included, in whole or in part, within a regional district shall pay into the regional district treasury all funds held by them to the credit of the regional district.
Cal. PRC § 4628 — California Code / Code prc / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 9 / Section 4628
Section 4628
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this article or of Section 4581, no public agency shall be required to submit a timber harvesting plan or file an application for conversion with the board where the purpose of its timber operations is to construct or maintain a right-of-way on its own or on any other public property.

(b) Removal of trees for subdivision development, except on lands zoned as a timberland production zone pursuant to Section 51112 or 51113 of, and as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 51104, of the Government Code, where the subdivision has had a tentative subdivision map approved and a subdivision use permit granted by the city or county having jurisdiction, may be exempted by regulation from the provisions of this article, if the exemption is consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
Cal. SHC § 10100.1 — California Code / Code shc / Division 12 / Chapter 2 / Section 10100.1
Section 10100.1
Status: in_force

If the written consent of the owner of the property is first obtained, work may be done on private property to eliminate any disparity in level or size between the improvement and private property, provided that the legislative body determines in the resolution of intention to order the improvement that it is in the public interest and more economical to do such work on private property than to adjust the work on public property to eliminate such disparity. The actual cost of such work may be added to the assessment of the lot on which the work is done. Nothing in this section limits or restricts the authority of the legislative body to make agreements authorized by Section 1263.610 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Cal. PROB § 10363 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 5 / Chapter 18 / Article 8 / Section 10363
Section 10363
Status: in_force

(a) At a sale of real or personal property subject to a lien, the lienholder may become the purchaser of the property, even though no claim for the amount secured by the lien on the property sold has been, or could have been, filed, allowed, or approved.

(b) Unless the property is sold subject to the lien:

(1) If the lienholder becomes the purchaser of the property and the amount secured by the lien on the property is a valid claim against the estate and has been allowed or approved, the receipt of the lienholder for the amount due the lienholder from the proceeds of the sale is a payment pro tanto.

(2) If the lienholder becomes the purchaser of the property and no claim for the amount secured by the lien on the property has been filed, allowed, or approved, the court may at the hearing on the petition for confirmation of the sale examine into the validity and enforceability of the lien and the amount secured by the lien, and the court may authorize the personal representative to accept the receipt of the lienholder for the amount secured by the lien as payment pro tanto.

(3) If the lienholder becomes the purchaser of the property and the amount for which the property is purchased is insufficient to pay the expenses of the sale and to discharge the lienholder’s lien, whether or not a claim has been filed, allowed, or approved, the lienholder shall pay to the clerk of the court an amount sufficient to cover the expenses of the sale.

(c) Nothing permitted under this section shall be deemed to be an allowance or approval of a claim based upon the lien or the amount secured by the lien.
Cal. PUC § 102107 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 14 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 102107
Section 102107
Status: in_force

(a) No ordinance shall be passed by the board on the day of its introduction, nor within three days thereafter, nor at any time other than at a regular or adjourned regular meeting. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be as follows:

“The board of directors of the Sacramento Regional Transit District do ordain as follows:”

(b) All ordinances shall be signed by the chairman of the board or the chairman pro tempore and attested by the secretary. Before the expiration of 15 days after the passage of an ordinance, it shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the district or on the district’s Internet Web site. An order entered in the minutes of the board that the ordinance has been duly published is prima facie proof of such publication.
Cal. HSC § 33631 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 33631
Section 33631
Status: in_force

If the redevelopment plan contains the provision authorized by Section 33670, the agency and the legislative body of the community may, either before or after the authorization of general obligation bonds for the purposes permitted by Section 33630, enter into an agreement that the principal amount of any such general obligation bonds sold for such purposes, together with all interest which the community may pay thereon, shall constitute a loan by the community to the agency for the purpose of refinancing the redevelopment project, and that, subject to any prior pledge of or claim upon the moneys in the special fund provided for in said section 33670, the moneys accruing to such special fund are irrevocably pledged to the repayment of such loan until there has been repaid to the community from time to time from such special fund the principal amount of such general obligation bonds plus all interest which the community may pay thereon, less such part, if any, of the proceeds of such general obligation bonds which were not used for such purposes, and less any premiums and accrued interest received by the community upon the sale of such general obligation bonds.
Cal. HSC § 116140 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 11 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 116140
Section 116140
Status: in_force

Whenever a person possessing a place that is infested with rodents, fails, neglects, or refuses to proceed and to continue to endeavor to exterminate and destroy the rodents and abate the conditions listed in Section 17920.3 that are causing the infestation, as required in this article and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 116250), the department and its inspectors, the county board of supervisors and its inspectors, and the local health officer, shall at once cause the rodents to be exterminated and destroyed and the conditions listed in Section 17920.3 that are causing the infestation to be abated.
Cal. HSC § 13146.4 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 12 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 13146.4
Section 13146.4
Status: in_force

(a) Every city or county fire department, city and county fire department, or district required to perform an annual inspection pursuant to Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3 shall report annually to its administering authority on its compliance with Sections 13146.2 and 13146.3.

(b) The report made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall occur when the administering authority discusses its annual budget, or at another time determined by the administering authority.

(c) The administering authority shall acknowledge receipt of the report made pursuant to subdivision (a) in a resolution or a similar formal document.

(d) For purposes of this section, “administering authority” means a city council, county board of supervisors, or district board, as the case may be.
Cal. HSC § 16600 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 12.5 / Chapter 4 / Section 16600
Section 16600
Status: in_force

(a)  The State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission, in consultation with, and with the concurrence of, the University of California, the California State University, the Structural Engineers Association of California, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall develop and adopt building seismic retrofit guidelines for state buildings, including those owned by the University of California and by the California State University, by January 1, 1993.

(b)  Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall include provisions for the abatement of falling hazards that are structural or nonstructural components of buildings and that pose serious threats to life, including, but not limited to, parapets, appendages, cornices, hanging objects, and building cladding.

(c)  Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall include provisions for the strengthening of structures of buildings, or the means necessary to reduce the response of a building to ground shaking during an earthquake, so as to significantly reduce the hazards to life, while concomitantly providing for safe egress of occupants during and immediately after an earthquake.

(d)  Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall be consistent with the state Historical Building Code (Part 2.7 (commencing with Section 18950), Division 13) and shall include provisions for the preservation of historical buildings.

(e)  Building seismic retrofit guidelines shall incorporate building seismic retrofit standards developed pursuant to Sections 8875.5 and 8879.5 of the Government Code.

(f)  The State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission, in cooperation with the University of California, the California State University, the Structural Engineers Association of California, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall develop and adopt seismic retrofit building standards for state buildings, including those owned by the University of California and by the California State University by July 1, 1996. The standards for state buildings owned by the University of California and the California State University shall not be more stringent than the standards for other state buildings.

(g)  The State Architect and the State Building Standards Commission, in cooperation with the Structural Engineers Association of California, shall submit the regulations, findings, and data developed according to this chapter to model code writing agencies and organizations for review and development into code format for consideration and adoption into future model codes, as defined in Section 18916, by August 1, 1997.
Cal. PUC § 392.1 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2.3 / Article 11 / Section 392.1
Section 392.1
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall compile and regularly update the names and contact numbers of registered providers.

(b) (1) The commission shall also compile and regularly update information to assist consumers in making service choices and the number of customer complaints against specific providers in relation to the number of customers served by those providers and the disposition of those complaints. To facilitate this function, registered entities shall file with the commission information describing the terms and conditions of any standard service plan made available to residential and small commercial customers. The commission shall adopt a standard format for this filing. The commission shall maintain and make generally available a list of entities offering electrical services operating in California. This list shall include all registered providers and those providers not required to be registered who request the commission to be included in the list. The commission shall, upon request, make this information available at no charge. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, public agencies that are registered entities shall be required to disclose their terms and conditions of service contracts only to the same extent that other registered entities would be required to disclose the same or similar service contracts.

(2) The commission shall issue public alerts about companies attempting to provide electric service in the state in an unauthorized or fraudulent manner as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 394.25.

(3) (A) This subdivision is inoperative except for time periods in which providers are authorized to offer service to residential customers and the combined enrollments in competitive retail electric service in the service territories of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas and Electric Company increase at a rate of more than 5 percent per month.

(B) The commission shall notify, in writing, the Secretary of State at the beginning and end of any time period described in subparagraph (A).
Cal. BPC § 9884.19 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 20.3 / Article 3 / Section 9884.19
Section 9884.19
Status: in_force

The bureau may adopt, amend or repeal in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code such regulations as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter in the protection of the public from fraudulent or misleading advertising by an automotive repair dealer, including formulation of definitions, to the extent feasible, of the terms “fraud,” “guarantee,” and words of like import, and of “negligence,” and guidelines for the suspension and revocation of licenses. The bureau shall distribute to each registered repair dealer copies of this chapter and of the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter.
Cal. HSC § 109540 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 4 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 109540
Section 109540
Status: in_force

“Distribute” means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer, delivery, or dispensing to another of an imitation controlled substance.
Cal. PROB § 10307 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 5 / Chapter 18 / Article 6 / Section 10307
Section 10307
Status: in_force

Whether a sale of real property is private or at public auction, bids shall substantially comply with any terms specified in the notice of sale.
Cal. LAB § 6501.9 — California Code / Code lab / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6501.9
Section 6501.9
Status: in_force

The owner of a commercial or industrial building or structure, employer, or contractor who engages in, or contracts for, asbestos-related work shall make a good faith effort to determine if asbestos is present before the work is begun. The contractor or employer shall first inquire of the owner if asbestos is present in any building or structure built prior to 1978.
Cal. BPC § 17539 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 17539
Section 17539
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds that there is a compelling need for more complete disclosure of rules and operation of contests in which money or other valuable consideration may be solicited; that current methods of disclosure are inadequate and create misunderstandings as to the true requirements for participation and winning of prizes offered; that certain problems which have arisen are peculiar to contests; that the provisions of Sections 17539.1 through 17539.3 are necessary to the public welfare and that the terms hereof shall be interpreted so as to provide maximum disclosure to and fair treatment of persons who may or do enter such contests.
Cal. RTC § 17153.5 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 17153.5
Section 17153.5
Status: in_force

Gross income does not include any amount received for empty beverage containers by a consumer from a recycling center or recycling location as the recycling value, as defined in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 14502) of Division 12.1 of the Public Resources Code.
Cal. RTC § 45704 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 23 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 45704
Section 45704
Status: in_force

If the board fails to mail notice of action on a claim within six months after the claim is filed, the claimant may, prior to the mailing of notice by the board, consider the claim disallowed and bring an action against the board on the grounds set forth in the claim for the recovery of the whole or any part of the amount claimed as an overpayment.
Cal. FAC § 9699 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 8 / Section 9699
Section 9699
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any person to violate the conditions of any permit which authorizes the permittee to travel upon any road or highway within a quarantined district, area, or premises.
Cal. FAM § 8817 — California Code / Code fam / Division 13 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 8817
Section 8817
Status: in_force

(a) A written report on the child’s medical background, and if available, the medical background of the child’s biological parents so far as ascertainable, shall be made by the department or delegated county adoption agency as part of the study required by Section 8806.

(b) The report on the child’s background shall contain all known diagnostic information, including current medical reports on the child, psychological evaluations, and scholastic information, as well as all known information regarding the child’s developmental history and family life.

(c) The report shall be submitted to the prospective adoptive parents who shall acknowledge its receipt in writing.

(d) (1) The biological parents may provide a blood sample at a clinic or hospital approved by the State Department of Health Services. The biological parents’ failure to provide a blood sample shall not affect the adoption of the child.

(2) The blood sample shall be stored at a laboratory under contract with the State Department of Health Services for a period of 30 years following the adoption of the child.

(3) The purpose of the stored sample of blood is to provide a blood sample from which DNA testing can be done at a later date after entry of the order of adoption at the request of the adoptive parents or the adopted child. The cost of drawing and storing the blood samples shall be paid for by a separate fee in addition to the fee required under Section 8810. The amount of this additional fee shall be based on the cost of drawing and storing the blood samples but at no time shall the additional fee be more than one hundred dollars ($100).

(e) (1) The blood sample shall be stored and released in such a manner as to not identify any party to the adoption.

(2) Any results of the DNA testing shall be stored and released in such a manner as to not identify any party to the adoption.
Cal. FIN § 4805.13 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.6 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 4805.13
Section 4805.13
Status: in_force

“Merger,” when used with respect to a merger in a case where the surviving corporation is a federal depository corporation and federal law authorizes a consolidation, includes a consolidation in which the resulting corporation is a federal depository corporation. The provisions of this division that apply to mergers apply with appropriate changes in points of detail to consolidations of that type.
Cal. WIC § 4648.35 — California Code / Code wic / Division 4.5 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 4648.35
Section 4648.35
Status: in_force

At the time of development, review, or modification of a consumer’s individual program plan (IPP) or individualized family service plan (IFSP), all of the following shall apply to a regional center:

(a) A regional center shall not fund private specialized transportation services for an adult consumer who can safely access and utilize public transportation, when that transportation is available.

(b) A regional center shall fund the least expensive transportation modality that meets the consumer’s needs, as set forth in the consumer’s IPP or IFSP.

(c) A regional center shall fund transportation, when required, from the consumer’s residence to the lowest-cost vendor that provides the service that meets the consumer’s needs, as set forth in the consumer’s IPP or IFSP. For purposes of this subdivision, the cost of a vendor shall be determined by combining the vendor’s program costs and the costs to transport a consumer from the consumer’s residence to the vendor.

(d) A regional center shall fund transportation services for a minor child living in the family residence, only if the family of the child provides sufficient written documentation to the regional center to demonstrate that it is unable to provide transportation for the child.
Cal. PUC § 40616 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 4 / Chapter 10 / Section 40616
Section 40616
Status: in_force

The validity of any consolidating proceedings shall not be contested in any action unless the action is brought within three (3) months after the completion of the proceedings.
Cal. FIN § 1876 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.1 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 1876
Section 1876
Status: in_force

Every corporation shall hold a meeting of its stockholders annually upon a date fixed in its bylaws at its main office, or if its main office is to be located outside of this state, at its branch or other office in this state.