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Cal. FAC § 56381 — California Code / Code fac / Division 20 / Chapter 7 / Article 11 / Section 56381
Section 56381
Status: in_force

(a) If, in the opinion of the department, there appears to be reasonable grounds for investigating a complaint or notification made under the provisions of this chapter, the department shall investigate the complaint or notification. In the course of the investigation, if the department determines that violations of this chapter are indicated other than alleged violations specified in the complaint or notification that served as the basis for the investigation, the department may expand the investigation to include the additional violations.

(b) In the opinion of the department, if an investigation substantiates the existence of violations of this chapter, the department may cause a complaint to be issued.

(c) The investigation may include, but shall not be construed to require, examinations and audits of the books and records of any licensee pertaining to the solvency of the licensee, or to the purchase or handling of and accounting for any farm product purchased or received on consignment from another licensee or the producer, or handled as a brokerage transaction. The department may examine and audit all pertinent books, records, weight certificates, receipts, ledgers, journals, papers, contracts, bank statements, canceled checks, and other documents of the licensee that show or tend to show facts regarding the financial condition and the number and status of accounts of growers and others who are doing business with the licensee.
Cal. FAC § 74075 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Article 3 / Section 74075
Section 74075
Status: in_force

The director or his or her representatives shall be notified and may attend meetings of the commission and any committee meetings of the commission.
Cal. WAT § 26102 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 10 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 26102
Section 26102
Status: in_force

The published list of delinquencies shall contain all of the following information relating to each parcel of land separately assessed on which the assessment is delinquent:

(a) The name of the assessee.

(b) The description of the land.

(c) The total amount due, which shall be the aggregate of the assessments, penalties, and costs due thereon.
Cal. BPC § 7594 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.6 / Article 5 / Section 7594
Section 7594
Status: in_force

A licensee desiring to operate an alarm company operator business under one or more fictitious trade names shall apply and qualify for an initial license for each fictitious trade name.

No licensee shall indicate, or cause to be indicated, in any printed matter, or in any directory or listing, that he or she conducts an alarm company operator business under any name, other than the name for which he or she is licensed.

An application for a license for an additional trade name shall be in the same form and the applicant shall meet the same requirements as for an initial license.
Cal. PROB § 2104 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Section 2104
Section 2104
Status: in_force

(a) A nonprofit charitable corporation may be appointed as a guardian or conservator of the person or estate, or both, if all of the following requirements are met:

(1) The corporation is incorporated in this state.

(2) The articles of incorporation specifically authorize the corporation to accept appointments as guardian or conservator, as the case may be.

(3) The corporation has been providing, at the time of appointment, care, counseling, or financial assistance to the proposed ward or conservatee under the supervision of a registered social worker certified by the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners of this state.

(b) The petition for appointment of a nonprofit charitable corporation described in this section as a guardian or conservator shall include in the caption the name of a responsible corporate officer who shall act for the corporation for the purposes of this division. If, for any reason, the officer so named ceases to act as the responsible corporate officer for the purposes of this division, the corporation shall file with the court a notice containing (1) the name of the successor responsible corporate officer and (2) the date the successor becomes the responsible corporate officer.

(c) If a nonprofit charitable corporation described in this section is appointed as a guardian or conservator:

(1) The corporation’s compensation as guardian or conservator shall be allowed only for services actually rendered.

(2) Any fee allowed for an attorney for the corporation shall be for services actually rendered.
Cal. FIN § 1753 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.1 / Chapter 20 / Article 1 / Section 1753
Section 1753
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, offices of foreign (other nation) banks are divided into classes and ranked in ascending order, as follows:

(a) Representative office.

(b) Nondepositary agency.

(c) Depositary agency.

(d) Limited branch office.

(e) Wholesale branch office.

(f) Retail branch office.
Cal. HSC § 108700 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 3 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 108700
Section 108700
Status: in_force

Any federal regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter shall take effect in this state 30 days after it becomes effective as a federal regulation. Any person who would be adversely affected by adoption of the federal regulation in this state may, within the 30 days prior to its becoming effective in this state, file with the state department, in writing, objections and a request for a hearing. The timely filing of substantial objections to a regulation that has become effective under the federal act, shall stay the adoption of the regulation in this state as a state regulation.
Cal. HSC § 32151 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 23 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 32151
Section 32151
Status: in_force

The secretary of the board of directors or the hospital administrator shall mail notice of the action or decision to the affected applicant or medical staff member within the time specified in the applicable bylaw or rule.
Cal. PROB § 9351 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 4 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 9351
Section 9351
Status: in_force

An action may not be commenced against a decedent’s personal representative on a cause of action against the decedent unless a claim is first filed as provided in this part and the claim is rejected in whole or in part.
Cal. HSC § 1600.3 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 1600.3
Section 1600.3
Status: in_force

“Blood bank depository” means any place other than a blood bank where human whole blood and human whole blood derivatives specified by regulation are stored and held for transfusion. Such blood bank depositories shall be clinical laboratories, licensed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1200), Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, or such other places where services essentially equivalent are maintained, as determined by the department.
Cal. PCC § 22002 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 22002
Section 22002
Status: in_force

(a) “Public agency,” for purposes of this chapter, means a city, county, city and county, including chartered cities and chartered counties, any special district, and any other agency of the state for the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries. “Public agency” also includes a nonprofit transit corporation wholly owned by a public agency and formed to carry out the purposes of the public agency.

(b) “Representatives of the construction industry” for purposes of this chapter, means a general contractor, subcontractor, or labor representative with experience in the field of public works construction.

(c) “Public project” means any of the following:

(1) Construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration, renovation, improvement, demolition, installation, and repair work involving any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility.

(2) Painting or repainting of any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility.

(3) In the case of a publicly owned electric utility system, “public project” shall include only the construction, erection, improvement, or repair of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, and electrical transmission lines of 230,000 volts and higher.

(d) “Public project” does not include maintenance work. For purposes of this section, “maintenance work” includes all of the following:

(1) Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility for its intended purposes.

(2) Minor repainting.

(3) Resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one inch.

(4) Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems.

(5) Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned water, power, or waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, powerplants, and electrical transmission lines of 230,000 volts and higher.

(e) For purposes of this chapter, “facility” means any plant, building, structure, ground facility, utility system, subject to the limitation found in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c), real property, streets and highways, or other public work improvement.
Cal. LAB § 148.2 — California Code / Code lab / Division 1 / Chapter 6.5 / Section 148.2
Section 148.2
Status: in_force

The appeals board may employ necessary assistants, officers, experts, hearing officers, and such other employees as it deems necessary. All such personnel of the appeals board shall be under the supervision of the chairman of the appeals board or an executive officer to whom the chairman delegates such responsibility. All such personnel shall be appointed pursuant to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code), except for the one exempt deputy or employee allowed by subdivision (e) of Section 4 of Article XXIV of the California Constitution. The salaries of the hearing officers shall be fixed by the State Personnel Board at a rate comparable to that of other referees or hearing officers in state service whose duties and responsibilities are comparable, without regard to whether such other positions have membership in the State Bar of California as a prerequisite to appointment.
Cal. RTC § 17204.2 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10 / Chapter 3 / Article 6 / Section 17204.2
Section 17204.2
Status: in_force

The amendments made by Section 11050 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-97) to Section 165(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to wagering losses, shall not apply.
Cal. HSC § 120510 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 105 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Section 120510
Section 120510
Status: in_force

The department shall cooperate in the prevention, control, and cure of venereal diseases with physicians and surgeons; medical schools; public and private hospitals, dispensaries, and clinics; public and private school, college and university authorities; penal and charitable institutions; reform and industrial schools; detention homes; federal, state, local and district health officers, and boards of health, and all other health authorities; institutions caring for the mentally ill; and with any other persons, institutions, or agencies.
Cal. MVC § 998.204 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 6 / Article 5v / Section 998.204
Section 998.204
Status: in_force

(a) All bonds authorized by this article, when duly sold and delivered as provided herein, constitute valid and legally binding general obligations of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual payment of both principal and interest thereof.

(b) There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected a sum of money, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, sufficient to pay the principal of, and interest on, these bonds as provided herein, and all officers required by law to perform any duty in regard to the collection of state revenues shall collect this additional sum.

(c) On the dates on which funds are to be remitted pursuant to Section 16676 of the Government Code for the payment of debt service on the bonds in each fiscal year, there shall be transferred to the General Fund to pay the debt service all of the money in the fund, not in excess of the amount of debt service then due and payable. If the money so transferred on the remittance dates is less than the debt service then due and payable, the balance remaining unpaid shall be transferred to the General Fund out of the fund as soon as it shall become available, together with interest thereon from the remittance date until paid, at the same rate of interest as borne by the bonds, compounded semiannually. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, this subdivision shall apply to all veterans farm and home purchase bond acts pursuant to this chapter. This subdivision does not grant any lien on the fund or the moneys therein to the holders of any bonds issued under this article. For the purposes of the subdivision, “debt service” means the principal (whether due at maturity, by redemption, or acceleration), premium, if any, or interest payable on any date with respect to any series of bonds. This subdivision shall not apply, however, in the case of any debt service that is payable from the proceeds of any refunding bonds.
Cal. FAM § 2628 — California Code / Code fam / Division 7 / Part 6 / Section 2628
Section 2628
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Sections 2550 to 2552, inclusive, and Sections 2620 to 2624, inclusive, joint California income tax liabilities may be revised by a court in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage, provided the requirements of Section 19006 of the Revenue and Taxation Code are satisfied.
Cal. FIN § 18055 — California Code / Code fin / Division 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 18055
Section 18055
Status: in_force

No person shall advertise, print, display, publish, distribute, or broadcast, or cause or permit to be advertised, printed, displayed, published, distributed, or broadcast, in any manner in connection with the business of an industrial loan company any statement or representation with regard to the rates, terms, or conditions for making or negotiating loans, or with regard to investment certificates, which is false, misleading, or deceptive.
Cal. ELEC § 9125 — California Code / Code elec / Division 9 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 9125
Section 9125
Status: in_force

No ordinance proposed by initiative petition and adopted either by the board of supervisors without submission to the voters or adopted by the voters shall be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people, unless provision is otherwise made in the original ordinance. In all other respects, an ordinance proposed by initiative petition and adopted shall have the same force and effect as any ordinance adopted by the board of supervisors.
Cal. RTC § 65 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 0.5 / Chapter 2 / Section 65
Section 65
Status: in_force

(a) The creation, transfer, or termination of any joint tenancy is a change in ownership except as provided in this section, Section 62, and Section 63. Upon a change in ownership of a joint tenancy interest only the interest or portion which is thereby transferred from one owner to another owner shall be reappraised.

(b) There shall be no change in ownership upon the creation or transfer of a joint tenancy interest if the transferor or transferors, after such creation or transfer, are among the joint tenants. Upon the creation of a joint tenancy interest described in this subdivision, the transferor or transferors shall be the “original transferor or transferors” for purposes of determining the property to be reappraised on subsequent transfers. The spouses of original transferors shall also be considered original transferors within the meaning of this section.

(c) Upon the termination of an interest in any joint tenancy described in subdivision (b), the entire portion of the property held by the original transferor or transferors prior to the creation of the joint tenancy shall be reappraised unless it vests, in whole or in part, in any remaining original transferor, in which case there shall be no reappraisal. Upon the termination of the interest of the last surviving original transferor, there shall be a reappraisal of the interest then transferred and all other interests in the properties held by all original transferors which were previously excluded from reappraisal pursuant to this section.

(d) Upon the termination of an interest held by other than the original transferor in any joint tenancy described in subdivision (b), there shall be no reappraisal if the entire interest is transferred either to an original transferor or to all remaining joint tenants, provided that one of the remaining joint tenants is an original transferor.

(e) For purposes of this section, for joint tenancies created on or before March 1, 1975, it shall be rebuttably presumed that each joint tenant holding an interest in property as of March 1, 1975, shall be an “original transferor.” This presumption is not applicable to joint tenancies created after March 1, 1975.
Cal. RTC § 2307 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Article 8 / Section 2307
Section 2307
Status: in_force

The local agency which transfers a program or service shall reduce its maximum property tax rate as provided in this section. Such reduction shall be effective beginning with the fiscal year after the transfer has occurred.

(a) The local agency shall determine the actual cost of providing the transferred program or service during the last full fiscal year in which such function or service was provided.

(b) The local agency shall determine the amount of the costs determined pursuant to subdivision (a) which are attributable to expenses for general administration and capital outlay and which cannot be transferred to the agency assuming the responsibility for providing the program or service; provided that such amount shall not exceed 10 percent of the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) The local agency shall subtract the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (b) from the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (a).

(d) The local agency shall determine the property tax rate which would have been required to produce the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (c) during the last full fiscal year in which the transferred program or service was provided and shall reduce its maximum property tax rate thereby.
Cal. HNC § 134 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 1.5 / Chapter 3 / Section 134
Section 134
Status: in_force

Every person who throws, deposits, or permits another in his employ to throw or deposit, any sawdust, slabs, or refuse lumber, in any place where it may be carried or fall into the waters of Humboldt Bay, without first having constructed piers, bulkheads, dams, or other contrivances, approved by the board of supervisors of Humboldt County, to prevent their escape into the channels of the bay, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. HNC § 1277 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 5 / Chapter 6 / Article 5 / Section 1277
Section 1277
Status: in_force

If no request for the tentative order and tariff to be agendized is received by the executive director within 10 calendar days of the notice provided pursuant to Section 1276, the tentative order and tariff are final as a matter of law. The executive director shall cause to be published a final order and tariff inclusive of findings on the publication date specified by the tentative order and tariff on the board’s internet website. The executive director shall further submit the final tariff to the Office of Administrative Law for publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register. If the effective date is not included in the tentative order and tariff or is defective for any reason, the final tariff shall be deemed to be effective upon publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register.
Cal. HSC § 111548.3 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 6 / Article 4.5 / Section 111548.3
Section 111548.3
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a state regulatory board shall not revoke, fail to renew, or take any other disciplinary action against a physician’s license based on the physician’s recommendation to an eligible patient regarding, or prescription for or treatment with, an investigational drug, biological product, or device if the recommendation or prescription is consistent with protocol approved by the physician’s institutional review board or an accredited independent institutional review board.

(b) The physician’s institutional review board or an accredited institutional review board shall biannually report the following information to the State Department of Public Health, the Medical Board of California, and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California:

(1) The number of requests made for an investigational drug, biological product, or device.

(2) The status of the requests made.

(3) The duration of the treatment.

(4) The costs of the treatment paid by eligible patients.

(5) The success or failure of the investigational drug, biological product, or device in treating the immediately life-threatening disease or condition from which the patient suffers.

(6) Any adverse event for each investigational drug, biological product, or device.

(c) A state agency shall not alter any recommendation made to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding a health care provider’s certification to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid program based solely on the recommendation from an individual health care provider that a patient have access to an investigational drug, biological product, or device.

(d) A violation of this section shall not be subject to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 111825).
Cal. HSC § 33401 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 8 / Section 33401
Section 33401
Status: in_force

The agency may in any year during which it owns property in a redevelopment project that is tax exempt pay directly to any city, county, city and county, district, including, but not limited to, a school district, or other public corporation for whose benefit a tax would have been levied upon the property had it not been exempt, an amount of money in lieu of taxes that may not exceed the amount of money the public entity would have received if the property had not been tax exempt.
Cal. WIC § 4422 — California Code / Code wic / Division 4.1 / Part 1 / Section 4422
Section 4422
Status: in_force

The department may examine all public and private hospitals, boarding homes or other establishments whether or not licensed by the department, receiving or caring for developmentally disabled persons and may inquire into their methods of government, and the treatment of all patients thereof.

It may examine the condition of all buildings, grounds, or other property connected with such institutions, and may inquire into all matters relating to their management. For the purposes specified in this paragraph the department shall have free access to the grounds, buildings, and books and papers of any such institution, and every person connected therewith shall give such information and afford such facilities for examination or inquiry as the department requires.

Any evidence found of suspected licensing violations shall be reported immediately to the State Department of Health Services or the State Department of Social Services, whichever has jurisdiction.