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Cal. FAM § 5610 — California Code / Code fam / Division 9 / Part 5 / Chapter 9 / Section 5610
Section 5610
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, “private child support collector” means any individual, corporation, attorney, nonprofit organization, or other nongovernmental entity who is engaged by an obligee to collect child support ordered by a court or other tribunal for a fee or other consideration. The term does not include any attorney who addresses issues of ongoing child support or child support arrearages in the course of an action to establish parentage or a child support obligation, a proceeding under Division 10 (commencing with Section 6200), a proceeding for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or nullity of marriage, or in postjudgment or modification proceedings related to any of those actions. A “private child support collector” includes any private, nongovernmental attorney whose business is substantially comprised of the collection or enforcement of child support. As used in this section, substantially means that at least 50 percent of the attorney’s business, either in terms of remuneration or time spent, is comprised of the activity of seeking to collect or enforce child support obligations for other individuals.
Cal. PUC § 28817 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 28817
Section 28817
Status: in_force

The chief financial officer shall be the custodian of the funds of the district and shall make payments only upon warrants duly and regularly signed by the general manager. The chief financial officer shall keep an account of all receipts and disbursements.
Cal. GOV § 24 — California Code / Code gov / Section 24
Section 24
Status: in_force

The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term “workmen’s compensation” shall hereafter also be known as “workers’ compensation.” In furtherance of this policy it is the desire of the Legislature that references to the term “workmen’s compensation” in this code be changed to “workers’ compensation” when such code sections are being amended for any purpose. This act is declaratory and not amendatory of existing law.
Cal. PRC § 42290.5 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 5.4 / Section 42290.5
Section 42290.5
Status: in_force

To encourage waste diversion of polyethylene from California landfills as well as to encourage California’s postconsumer market development, it is the intent of the Legislature that any certification of postconsumer materials used for compliance with this chapter not be the same materials that are certified or used for compliance with any other state requirement or with any federal requirement that requires the use or reporting of postconsumer materials for plastic products.
Cal. INS § 10220 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 2.5 / Section 10220
Section 10220
Status: in_force

Any life insurer may issue policies of blanket life insurance for a term not exceeding one year with premium rates less than the usual rates for such insurance. Such policies may thereafter be renewed.
Cal. FGC § 3500 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 3500
Section 3500
Status: in_force

(a) Resident game birds are as follows:

(1) Doves of the genus Streptopelia, including, but not limited to, spotted doves, ringed turtledoves, and Eurasian collared-doves.

(2) California quail and varieties thereof.

(3) Gambel’s or desert quail.

(4) Mountain quail and varieties thereof.

(5) Sooty or blue grouse and varieties thereof.

(6) Ruffed grouse.

(7) Sage hens or sage grouse.

(8) Hungarian partridges.

(9) Red-legged partridges including the chukar and other varieties.

(10) Ring-necked pheasants and varieties thereof.

(11) Wild turkeys of the order Galliformes.

(12) White-tailed ptarmigan.

(b) Migratory game birds are as follows:

(1) Ducks and geese.

(2) Coots and gallinules.

(3) Jacksnipe.

(4) Western mourning doves.

(5) White-winged doves.

(6) Band-tailed pigeons.

(c) References in this code to “game birds” means both resident game birds and migratory game birds.
Cal. COM § 9320 — California Code / Code com / Division 9 / Chapter 3 / Section 9320
Section 9320
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (e), a buyer in ordinary course of business takes free of a security interest created by the buyer’s seller, even if the security interest is perfected and the buyer knows of its existence.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (e), a buyer of goods from a person who used or bought the goods for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes takes free of a security interest, even if perfected, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:

(1) The buyer buys without knowledge of the security interest.

(2) The buyer buys for value.

(3) The buyer buys primarily for the buyer’s personal, family, or household purposes.

(4) The buyer buys before the filing of a financing statement covering the goods.

(c) To the extent that it affects the priority of a security interest over a buyer of goods under subdivision (b), the period of effectiveness of a filing made in the jurisdiction in which the seller is located is governed by subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 9316.

(d) A buyer in ordinary course of business buying oil, gas, or other minerals at the wellhead or minehead or after extraction takes free of an interest arising out of an encumbrance.

(e) Subdivisions (a) and (b) do not affect a security interest in goods in the possession of the secured party under Section 9313.
Cal. HSC § 51177 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 51177
Section 51177
Status: in_force

The agency may make and undertake commitments to make construction loans and mortgage loans to finance residential structures without the participation of a qualified mortgage lender where the income of the owner-occupant is no greater than 65 percent of the median income for the area in which the residential structure is located as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development or by the agency’s reference to current data of the U.S. Census Bureau. The income at 65 percent of median shall be based on a family of four with adjustments above and below such maximum to compensate for family size.
Cal. PRC § 5019.74 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 1.7 / Section 5019.74
Section 5019.74
Status: in_force

Cultural preserves consist of distinct nonmarine areas of outstanding cultural interest established within the boundaries of other state park system units for the purpose of protecting such features as sites, buildings, or zones which represent significant places or events in the flow of human experience in California. Areas set aside as cultural preserves shall be large enough to provide for the effective protection of the prime cultural resources from potentially damaging influences, and to permit the effective management and interpretation of the resources. Within cultural preserves, complete integrity of the cultural resources shall be sought, and no structures or improvements that conflict with that integrity shall be permitted.
Cal. BPC § 2954.2 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6.6 / Article 3.5 / Section 2954.2
Section 2954.2
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in this section, the board shall renew the registration of a research psychoanalyst only if the research psychoanalyst has completed 36 hours of approved continuing professional development in the preceding two years.

(b) A registered research psychoanalyst who renews or applies to reinstate their registration pursuant to this chapter shall certify under penalty of perjury that they are in compliance with this section and shall retain proof of this compliance for submission to the board upon request. False statements submitted pursuant to this section shall be a violation of Section 2970.

(c) Continuing professional development means certain learning activities approved in three different categories:

(1) Professional activities.

(2) Academic activities.

(3) Sponsored continuing education coursework.

(d) The board may develop regulations further defining acceptable continuing professional development activities.

(e) Continuing education courses approved to meet the requirements of this section shall be approved for credit by organizations approved by the board. An organization previously approved by the board to provide or approve continuing education is deemed approved under this section.

(f) The board may accept continuing education courses approved by an entity that has demonstrated to the board in writing that it has, at a minimum, a 10-year history of providing educational programming for research psychoanalysts and has documented procedures for maintaining a continuing education approval program. The board shall adopt regulations necessary for implementing this section.

(g) The administration of this section may be funded through professional registration fees and continuing education provider and course approval fees, or both. The fees related to the administration of this section shall not exceed the costs of administering the corresponding provisions of this section.
Cal. RTC § 41133.4 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 41133.4
Section 41133.4
Status: in_force

Upon completion of the managed audit and verification by the department, interest on any unpaid liability shall be computed at one-half the rate that would otherwise be imposed for liabilities covered by the audit period. Payment of the liabilities and interest shall be made within the time period specified by the department. If the requirements for the managed audit are not satisfied, the department may proceed to examine the records of the service supplier or seller in a manner to be determined by the department under law.
Cal. HSC § 4764 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 4764
Section 4764
Status: in_force

It may borrow money and incur indebtedness and guarantee the performance of its legal or contractual obligations whether heretofore or hereafter incurred; and also refund or retire any public indebtedness or lien that may exist against the district or any property therein which shall have arisen out of the transaction of the affairs of the district. It shall not, however, incur any bonded indebtedness unless it submits the proposition for incurring the bonded indebtedness to the voters of the district, or if the bonded indebtedness is for an improvement district, to the voters of the improvement district, at a regular election or a special election called for that purpose and at least two-thirds of the votes cast at the election are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness as proposed.
Cal. FAC § 9241 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 1.5 / Article 5 / Section 9241
Section 9241
Status: in_force

No person shall offer for sale or use any of the following:

(a) Any biologic unless it is manufactured pursuant to the terms of a valid license or permit issued by the United States Department of Agriculture.

(b) Any blood or blood component product unless it is produced in an establishment licensed by the secretary or in accordance with Article 7 (commencing with Section 4920) of Chapter 11 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, or imported into the state pursuant to Section 9252 and registered with the department in accordance with Section 9244.
Cal. BPC § 7065.06 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 7065.06
Section 7065.06
Status: in_force

(a) Before the board revises the examination for a landscaping contractor (C-27), the board shall confer with the Department of Water Resources and the California Landscape Contractors Association to determine whether any updates or revisions to the examination are needed to reflect new and emerging landscape irrigation efficiency practices.

(b) The board shall ensure that the examination includes questions that are specific to water use efficiency and sustainable practices to help ensure that the state’s water efficiency needs identified in the California Water Plan, described in Section 10004 of the Water Code, are sufficiently supported.

(c) The board shall ensure that the reference study material for the examination continues to include the most current version of the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (23 Cal. Code Regs. 490, et seq.) and shall add other collateral material specific to water use efficiency and sustainability.
Cal. WAT § 10538 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.2 / Chapter 3 / Section 10538
Section 10538
Status: in_force

“Regional reports or studies” means reports or studies relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 10537, that are identified in an integrated regional water management plan.
Cal. FAC § 46016.5 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 10 / Section 46016.5
Section 46016.5
Status: in_force

As provided for in regulations adopted by the NOP, the action proposed by an NOP accredited certification agency against a client may be appealed to the secretary for mediation.
Cal. BPC § 18809 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 2 / Article 12 / Section 18809
Section 18809
Status: in_force

The application and renewal fee for a professional boxer, kickboxer, or martial arts fighter license shall be sixty dollars ($60).
Cal. BPC § 4653 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 10.7 / Section 4653
Section 4653
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Music therapy” means the clinical and evidence-based use of music therapy interventions in developmental, rehabilitative, habilitative, medical, mental health, preventive, wellness care, or educational settings to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals within a therapeutic relationship. Music therapy includes the following:

(1) The development of music therapy treatment plans specific to the needs and strengths of the client who may be seen individually or in groups.

(2) Music therapy plans shall establish goals, objectives, and potential strategies of the music therapy services appropriate for the client and setting.

(b) “Music therapy interventions” include, but are not limited to, music improvisation, receptive music listening, song writing, lyric discussion, music and imagery, singing, music performance, learning through music, music combined with other arts, music-assisted relaxation, music-based patient education, electronic music technology, adapted music intervention, and movement to music.
Cal. FAC § 62705 — California Code / Code fac / Division 21 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 62705
Section 62705
Status: in_force

After the director, with the advice and assistance of the formulation committee, has formulated the proposed plan, he shall hold one or more public hearings in each proposed pooling area to be affected by the proposed plan for the purposes of considering modification of the proposed boundaries and formulating the pooling plan which will best accomplish the purposes of this chapter. Notice of the public hearings shall be given to each producer, including each member of cooperative marketing associations, who ships fluid milk to a distributor and to each distributor who receives fluid milk from producers. The procedures for the giving of notice and the conducting of the hearings shall be the same as those provided in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) for public hearings on stabilization and marketing plans.
Cal. RTC § 43441 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 22 / Chapter 4 / Article 5 / Section 43441
Section 43441
Status: in_force

If any taxpayer is delinquent in the payment of any obligations imposed by this part, or in the event a determination has been made against such a taxpayer which remains unpaid, the board may, not later than three years after the payment becomes delinquent, or within 10 years after the last recording of an abstract or copy of judgment under Section 43412 or the last recording or filing of a notice of state tax lien under Section 7171 of the Government Code, give notice thereof, personally or by first-class mail to all persons, including any officer or department of the state or any political subdivision or agency of the state, having in their possession or under their control any credits or other personal property belonging to the taxpayer, or owing any debts to the taxpayer. In the case of any state officer, department, or agency, the notice shall be given to such officer, department, or agency prior to the time it presents the claim of the delinquent taxpayer to the Controller.
Cal. ELEC § 13211.7 — California Code / Code elec / Division 13 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 13211.7
Section 13211.7
Status: in_force

(a) (1) In jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot materials pursuant to Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 10503), as that section may be amended from time to time, any ballot that provides a translation of a candidate’s name shall contain a phonetic transliteration of the candidate’s name, except as provided in subdivision (b).

(2) This section applies only to character-based languages, including, but not limited to, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean.

(3) If a candidate’s name is to appear on the ballot in more than one jurisdiction in an election, all of those jurisdictions required to provide translated ballot materials pursuant to Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. Sec. 10503) shall use the same phonetic transliteration or character-based translation of the name.

(4) (A) In a jurisdiction in which separate ballots containing translations of the candidates’ names are printed in different languages, both the alphabet-based names and the translations of the candidates’ names, for candidates that have translated names, shall appear on the translated ballot.

(B) If a jurisdiction is unable to comply with subparagraph (A) due to limitations of its existing voting system, any new voting system purchased by the jurisdiction after July 1, 2020, shall be able to accommodate the requirements of subparagraph (A).

(b) If a candidate has a character-based name by birth, that can be verified by birth certificate or other valid identification, the candidate may use that name on the ballot instead of a phonetic transliteration. A candidate who does not have a character-based name by birth, but who identifies by a particular character-based name and can demonstrate to the local elections official that the candidate has been known and identified within the public sphere by that name over the past two years, may use that name instead of a phonetic transliteration.
Cal. PRC § 5025.11 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 5025.11
Section 5025.11
Status: in_force

The department shall, with the advice of the Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee, or, as to certifications on or after January 1, 1975, with the advice of the commission, certify the route followed by Colonel John Charles Fremont and party from the Nevada state line through Mono, Inyo, Alpine, Amador, and El Dorado Counties to Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento County in the winter of 1843, and the Donner Party Trail, from the Nevada state line to the junction of Verdi Canyon to Alder Creek Camp of the Donner Party, thence to the Donner Monument at Donner Memorial State Park. The department may certify and mark, with the advice of the commission, other historic routes of travel within the state.
Cal. PRC § 40135 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 40135
Section 40135
Status: in_force

“Fund” means the Integrated Waste Management Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Any reference in this division or any other provision of law to the Solid Waste Management Fund shall mean the Integrated Waste Management Fund.
Cal. PUC § 29672 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 10.5 / Article 2 / Section 29672
Section 29672
Status: in_force

The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days from the date of the publication of the notice.
Cal. PRC § 71201 — California Code / Code prc / Division 36 / Chapter 1 / Section 71201
Section 71201
Status: in_force

(a) This division applies to all vessels, United States and foreign, carrying, or capable of carrying, ballast water into the coastal waters of the state after operating outside of the coastal waters of the state, except those vessels described in Section 71202.

(b) This division applies to all ballast water and associated sediments taken on a vessel, and to all biofouling.

(c) This division may be known, and may be cited, as the “Marine Invasive Species Act.”

(d) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) The purpose of this division is to move the state expeditiously toward elimination of the discharge of nonindigenous species into the waters of the state or into waters that may impact the waters of the state, based on the best available technology economically achievable. This division shall be implemented in accordance with this intent, except as expressly provided by this division.

(2) The federal Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, which was enacted on December 4, 2018, preserves the rights of states to petition the federal government to review any standard of performance, regulation, or policy if new information exists that could result in a change to that standard, regulation, or policy.

(3) Nothing restricts the authority of California to respond to an aquatic invasive species emergency in its waters using California’s police powers.

(4) The Legislature strongly and unequivocally objects to any loss of state authority to regulate vessel discharges in California waters.
Cal. WIC § 12306 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 12306
Section 12306
Status: in_force

(a) When enacted, 1991 Realignment Legislation implemented changes to the state and county cost-sharing ratios for services provided under this article. These provisions established the counties’ share of costs for the nonfederal portion of these services at 35 percent, with the state responsible for the remaining 65 percent of these costs. This cost-sharing ratio was the basis for determining the counties’ and the state’s share of costs for these services in the 2017–18 fiscal year.

(b) Beginning in the 2017–18 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the state and counties shall share the annual cost of providing services under this article as specified in this section.

(c) The county share of cost of providing these services shall be the County IHSS Maintenance of Effort pursuant to Section 12306.16.

(d) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the state shall pay to each county, from the General Fund and any federal funds received under Title XX of the federal Social Security Act available for that purpose, the difference between the actual total cost of providing services under this article that exceeds the county share as specified in subdivision (c).

(2) For services eligible for federal funding pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act under the Medi-Cal program, the state shall pay to each county, from the General Fund and any funds available for that purpose the difference between the actual nonfederal cost of providing services under this article that exceeds the county share as specified in subdivision (c).