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Cal. MVC § 960.5 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 960.5
Section 960.5
Status: in_force

Whenever in any cemetery or place of burial of human remains there is any known grave of a former soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States who was not dishonorably discharged from the service, the board of supervisors of any county as to territory, whether incorporated or not, within it, and the governing body of the city as to territory within it, with the consent of the officers who manage such cemetery or place of burial, if any may keep such grave properly marked and identified, and free from weeds and rubbish, and keep in decent order and repair and free from defacement, injury, and unlawful markings any tomb, monument, gravestone, wall, or other appurtenance to such grave.
Cal. WIC § 18358.38 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 6.2 / Section 18358.38
Section 18358.38
Status: in_force

This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2028, or 24 months after the effective date specified in paragraph (9) of subdivision (h) of Section 11461, whichever is later, and, as of January 1 of the following year, is repealed.
Cal. HSC § 79730 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 45 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 4 / Section 79730
Section 79730
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and subdivision (b), an action under Section 79650 for the recovery of costs incurred by the department or a regional board in carrying out or overseeing a response or corrective action pursuant to this part or Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 20, or as otherwise authorized by law, shall be commenced within three years after completion of all response or corrective actions has been certified by the department or a regional board.

(2) If operation and maintenance is required as part of the response or corrective action, the action for recovery of costs incurred by the department or a regional board shall be commenced within three years after completion of operation and maintenance has been certified by the department or a regional board.

(b) No action described in subdivision (a) may be brought that, as of December 31, 2015, had not been commenced by the department within three years after the certification of the completion of the removal or remedial action.
Cal. HSC § 18862.15 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 2.3 / Chapter 2 / Section 18862.15
Section 18862.15
Status: in_force

“Department” is the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Cal. PUC § 728.3 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 728.3
Section 728.3
Status: in_force

(a) No telephone corporation operating within a service area shall remove any public telephone unless it has posted on the public telephone for not less than 30 days a notice, in a manner and form approved by the commission, indicating that the public telephone is to be removed and containing the appropriate telephone number of the commission which a customer may call for further information.

(b) This section shall not apply when a public telephone is removed for public safety or public nuisance purposes or at the request of the owner or lessee of the property on which the public telephone is located.
Cal. VEH § 4004.7 — California Code / Code veh / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 4004.7
Section 4004.7
Status: in_force

(a) If the apportioned registration issued under Article 4 (commencing with Section 8050) of Chapter 4 for a commercial vehicle or vehicle combination that was last registered by a California resident has expired or has been terminated, the department, upon receipt of a completed application, a fee of thirty dollars ($30), and proof of financial responsibility for the vehicle, may issue an unladen operation permit to authorize the unladen operation of that vehicle or vehicle combination for a period of not more than 15 continuous days.

(b) This section does not apply to any vehicle or vehicle combination for which any vehicle registration fees, other than those for the current year, vehicle license fees, or penalties, or any combination of those are due.

(c) Operation of a laden vehicle or vehicle combination under an unladen operation permit issued pursuant to this section is an infraction.
Cal. BPC § 2017 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 2017
Section 2017
Status: in_force

The board and each committee or panel shall keep an official record of all their proceedings.
Cal. RTC § 6095 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 6095
Section 6095
Status: in_force

If a purchaser gives a certificate with respect to the purchase of fungible goods, or purchases those goods for resale in the regular course of business, and thereafter commingles these goods with other fungible goods not so purchased but of such similarity that the identity of the constituent goods in the commingled mass cannot be determined, sales from the mass of commingled goods shall be deemed to be sales of the goods so purchased until a quantity of commingled goods equal to the quantity of purchased goods so commingled has been sold. Goods removed from the commingled mass for consumption shall be deemed to be a consumption of goods not so purchased until a quantity of commingled goods equal to the quantity of goods not so purchased has been consumed.
Cal. BPC § 5492 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 2.5 / Section 5492
Section 5492
Status: in_force

For purposes of compliance with Section 5491, fair and just compensation is presumed to be paid upon the payment of the fair market value of the on-premises advertising display as of the date written notice is given to the owner of the display requiring conformance or removal thereof.

Fair market value consists of the actual cost of removal for the display, the actual cost to repair any damage caused to the real property or improvements thereon as a result of the removal of the display, and the actual cost to duplicate the advertising display required to be removed as of the date written notice requiring removal for nonconformance is given to the owner by the governmental body requiring conformance or removal.
Cal. ELEC § 6845 — California Code / Code elec / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 6845
Section 6845
Status: in_force

Any person who receives, by write-in vote, a sufficient number of votes in the national convention delegate selection portion of the Peace and Freedom Party presidential primary to be entitled to one or more convention delegates pursuant to Section 6840, shall, within 37 days after the primary election, file a list of as many delegates as the person is entitled to with the Secretary of State. The delegates selected shall meet the residence distribution requirement specified in Section 6763 and shall be voters registered as affiliated with the Peace and Freedom Party in California.
Cal. HSC § 131100 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 112 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 131100
Section 131100
Status: in_force

The department shall perform duties as required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food and drink, and for the punishment of persons guilty of violation of any law providing against their adulteration.
Cal. VEH § 11310 — California Code / Code veh / Division 5 / Chapter 2 / Section 11310
Section 11310
Status: in_force

Any person who holds a vehicle verifier’s permit issued before the operative date of this chapter shall comply with the provisions of this chapter within three months after its operative date.
Cal. SHC § 30771 — California Code / Code shc / Division 17 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 30771
Section 30771
Status: in_force

As used in this article:

(a) “District” means the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.

(b) “Rapid transit tube” means a subaqueous tube across San Francisco Bay between the City and County of San Francisco and the County of Alameda, its approaches and fixed transit facilities, including, but not limited to, ventilation towers and equipment, tracks, and electrical distribution, control, lighting, and communication systems for the accommodation of rail rapid transit. The San Francisco terminus of the underwater portion of the rapid transit tube shall be located westward of the shoreline of San Francisco Bay as close thereto as may be reasonably practicable between Howard and Jackson Streets in the City and County of San Francisco. The Alameda County terminus shall be the Southern Pacific mole or as close thereto as may be reasonably practicable.

(c) “Approaches” means all facilities between the terminus in Alameda County and the first station thereafter in the county for the discharge of passengers, and all facilities between the terminus in the City and County of San Francisco and the easterly end of the passenger platform of the Montgomery Street Station defined as “approaches” in the agreement between the department and the district, dated March 3, 1966.
Cal. HSC § 1605 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 1605
Section 1605
Status: in_force

Establishments which receive human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation and are not subject to license in accordance with this chapter shall be considered as blood bank depositories. Laboratory tests and other procedures with respect to the preparation of blood for transfusion shall be the sole responsibility of the blood bank depository.
Cal. PCC § 12106 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 12106
Section 12106
Status: in_force

The Department of General Services and the Department of Technology may, in addition to fulfilling the mandatory requirements enumerated in Sections 12102, 12102.1, and 12102.2, adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
Cal. FAC § 75156 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 75156
Section 75156
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be liberally construed. If any section, clause, or part of this chapter is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid as applied to any person or as applied under certain circumstances, that decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this chapter or the application of this chapter to any other persons or under any other circumstance.
Cal. EVID § 1162 — California Code / Code evid / Division 9 / Chapter 3 / Section 1162
Section 1162
Status: in_force

Evidence that a victim of, or a witness to, a serious felony as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1192.7 of, an assault in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 245 of, domestic violence in violation of Section 273.5 of, extortion in violation of Section 518 of, human trafficking in violation of Section 236.1 of, sexual battery in violation of subdivision (a) of Section 243.4 of, or stalking in violation of Section 646.9 of, the Penal Code, has engaged in an act of prostitution at or around the time they were the victim of or witness to the crime is inadmissible in a separate prosecution of that victim or witness to prove criminal liability for the act of prostitution.
Cal. PCC § 2502 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2.8 / Section 2502
Section 2502
Status: in_force

If a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance of a charter city prohibits the governing board’s consideration of a project labor agreement that includes all the taxpayer protection provisions of Section 2500 for a project to be awarded by the city, or prohibits the governing board from considering whether to allocate funds to a city-funded project covered by such an agreement, then state funding or financial assistance shall not be used to support that project. This section shall not be applicable until January 1, 2015, for charter cities in which a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance in effect prior to November 1, 2011, would disqualify a project from receiving state funding or financial assistance.
Cal. UIC § 128 — California Code / Code uic / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 128
Section 128
Status: in_force

“Benefits” means the money payments payable to an individual, pursuant to this division, with respect to his unemployment and includes unemployment compensation benefits, federal-state extended benefits, or extended duration benefits, or disability benefits, or all of them.
Cal. CIV § 6150 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 5 / Chapter 11 / Section 6150
Section 6150
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than 30 days before filing of any civil action by the association against the declarant or other developer of a common interest development for alleged damage to the common areas, alleged damage to the separate interests that the association is obligated to maintain or repair, or alleged damage to the separate interests that arises out of, or is integrally related to, damage to the common areas or separate interests that the association is obligated to maintain or repair, the board shall provide a written notice to each member of the association who appears on the records of the association when the notice is provided. This notice shall specify all of the following:

(1) That a meeting will take place to discuss problems that may lead to the filing of a civil action, in addition to the potential impacts thereof to the association and its members, including any financial impacts.

(2) The options, including civil actions, that are available to address the problems.

(3) The time and place of the meeting.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the association has reason to believe that the applicable statute of limitations will expire before the association files the civil action, the association may give the notice, as described above, within 30 days after the filing of the action.
Cal. BPC § 8700 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 15 / Article 1 / Section 8700
Section 8700
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act. Whenever reference is made to the Land Surveyors’ Act by any statute, it shall be construed as referring to the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act.
Cal. WAT § 6265 — California Code / Code wat / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 6265
Section 6265
Status: in_force

Actual construction shall be commenced within one year after date of approval, otherwise the approval becomes void.
Cal. CIV § 3533 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 4 / Section 3533
Section 3533
Status: in_force

The law disregards trifles.
Cal. BPC § 24045.9 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 9 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 24045.9
Section 24045.9
Status: in_force

(a) The department may issue a special temporary on-sale beer and wine license to: (1) a television station, supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, which is a nonprofit, charitable corporation exempt from payment of income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 of the United States, or (2) a nonprofit, charitable corporation exempt from payment of income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 of the United States which receives and administers donations for a noncommercial, educational television station or public broadcasting station supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription. An applicant for this license shall accompany the application with a fee of one hundred dollars ($100).

(b) This license shall only entitle the licensee to sell and serve beer and wine donated to it. Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a licensee may donate beer or wine to a corporation licensed under this section, provided that the donations are not made in connection with a sale of an alcoholic beverage.

(c) This license shall be for a period not exceeding 30 days. Only one license shall be issued to any corporation in a calendar year.

(d) For purposes of this section, any licensee may also serve that beer or wine donated by him or her at any event for which the license has been issued.

(e) The department shall adopt rules as it determines necessary to implement and administer this section.
Cal. HSC § 123462 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 106 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 2.5 / Section 123462
Section 123462
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care. Accordingly, it is the public policy of the State of California that:

(a)  Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse birth control.

(b)  Every pregnant individual or individual who may become pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose to have and to obtain an abortion, except as specifically limited by this article.

(c)  The state shall not deny or interfere with the fundamental right of a pregnant individual or an individual who may become pregnant to choose to bear a child or to choose to have and to obtain an abortion, except as specifically permitted by this article.
Cal. PUC § 99270.1 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 11 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 99270.1
Section 99270.1
Status: in_force

If an operator serves urbanized and nonurbanized areas in the area of jurisdiction of a transportation planning agency, the transportation planning agency shall adopt rules and regulations to determine what portion of the public transportation services of the operator serves urbanized areas and what portion serves nonurbanized areas to determine its required ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, or its required ratio of the sum of fare revenues and local support to operating cost, or both.

The transportation planning agency shall submit the rules and regulations to the department for approval.
Cal. VEH § 42032 — California Code / Code veh / Division 18 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 42032
Section 42032
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to any other fines and penalties, any local public agency which owns or operates vehicles used for the collection of garbage, refuse, or rubbish and which has, within any 90-day period, been convicted an excessive number of times for operating those vehicles in violation of any of the weight limitations set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 35550) of Division 15, taking into consideration the total number of trip routes for those vehicles which are normally scheduled in the same 90-day period, may be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each violation. Nothing in this section affects the legal standards, proof requirements, or penalty provisions of any other provision of the law.

(b) The penalties imposed by this section shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought by the Attorney General or by any district attorney or city attorney. Prior to undertaking a civil action, a reasonable effort for informal resolution of the problem of excessive violations shall be made by the applicable attorney. Penalties recovered shall be paid to the Treasurer for deposit in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund and used, upon appropriation, for purposes of highway maintenance.
Cal. FAC § 9907 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 9907
Section 9907
Status: in_force

“State TB status” means an area so declared by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Cal. VEH § 38095 — California Code / Code veh / Division 16.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 38095
Section 38095
Status: in_force

If any certificate of ownership is stolen, lost, mutilated or illegible, the legal owner or, if none, the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued as shown by the records of the department shall immediately make application for and may, upon furnishing information satisfactory to the department, obtain a duplicate.
Cal. RTC § 60208.5 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 31 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 60208.5
Section 60208.5
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to subdivision (c), if the Governor issues a state of emergency proclamation, the department may extend the time, for a period not to exceed three months, for making any report or return or paying any tax required under this part for any person in an area identified in the state of emergency proclamation.

(b) If the department makes an extension pursuant to subdivision (a), any person in an area identified in a state of emergency proclamation shall not be required to file a request for the extension.

(c) The department may make the extension in subdivision (a) only during the first 12 months following the issuance of the state of emergency proclamation or the duration of the state of emergency, whichever is less.
Cal. VEH § 463 — California Code / Code veh / Division 1 / Section 463
Section 463
Status: in_force

“Park or parking” shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
Cal. PRC § 25545.16 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 6.2 / Section 25545.16
Section 25545.16
Status: in_force

(a) For any application submitted after January 1, 2026, the commission shall not certify an energy storage system, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 25545, pursuant to this chapter,

unless, within 90 days of the project applicant providing notice of completion of installation to the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression, but before commencing operations or use of the batteries, the energy storage system is inspected by the authority that has jurisdiction over fire suppression where the system is located. The applicant shall bear the cost of the inspection. The inspector shall be provided a copy of the documentation of the consultation required pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25545.19 submitted with the application.

(b) If the inspection required pursuant to subdivision (a) has not occurred within 90 days after the notice of completion, the commission may certify or approve for operation the energy storage system.

(c) The commission shall include findings regarding compliance with the requirements of this section in a decision to certify an energy storage system pursuant to Section 25545.1.