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Cal. HSC § 109925 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 109925
Section 109925
Status: in_force

(a) “Drug” means any of the following:

(1) An article recognized in an official compendium.

(2) An article used or intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in human beings or any other animal.

(3) An article other than food, that is used or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of human beings or any other animal.

(4) An article used or intended for use as a component of an article designated in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive.

(b) The term “drug” does not include any device.

(c) Any food for which a claim (as described in Sections 403(r)(1)(B) (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343(r)(1)(B)) and 403(r)(3) (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343(r)(3)) or Sections 403(r)(1)(B) (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343(r)(1)(B)) and 403(r)(5)(D) (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343(r)(5)(D)) of the federal act), is made in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 403(r) (21 U.S.C. Sec. 343(r)) of the federal act, is not a drug under subdivision (b) solely because the label or labeling contains such a claim.

(d) Cannabis product, including any cannabis product intended for external use, is not a drug.
Cal. PUC § 13564 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 8 / Article 5 / Section 13564
Section 13564
Status: in_force

Without limiting in any way the foregoing provisions of this division, the respective public agencies within the district and the district may contract regarding the collection, treatment, or disposition of sewage.
Cal. FAC § 39901 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 3 / Chapter 10 / Section 39901
Section 39901
Status: in_force

(a) Dairy beverages are milk and dairy food beverages resembling milk or milk products. However, dairy beverages do not conform to the compositional standards for milk or milk products as established in this code or Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations because they contain safe and suitable ingredients or combinations of ingredients not specified in those standards. Dairy beverages are products intended for consumption as a beverage. Milk or the components of milk shall comprise at least 15 percent of the product on a dry matter basis or at least 2 percent on a total weight basis.

(b) For purposes of establishing compliance with the minimum dairy ingredient criteria, dairy ingredients shall include all products, components, and derivatives of milk, including, but not limited to, whey and whey products and caseinates specified in subdivision (c) of Section 135.110 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, but excluding added lactose.
Cal. PUC § 30504 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 30504
Section 30504
Status: in_force

The district is authorized to maintain a suitable security force comprised of transit police officers and security guards. Persons designated as transit police officers are peace officers pursuant to Section 830.33 of the Penal Code. The district shall adhere to the standards for recruitment and training of peace officers established by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training pursuant to Title 4 (commencing with Section 13500) of Part 4 of the Penal Code in the recruitment and training of its transit police officers. Every transit police officer employed by the district shall conform to the standards for peace officers of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and the commanding officer of the unit shall, not later than July 1, 1979, (1) have at least 10 years of active law enforcement experience in a capacity of employment requiring peace officer status and (2) have met the requirements for the advanced certificate of the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, (3) have attended a POST-approved law enforcement management course, and (4) have an associate of arts degree or higher. Any such officer who fails to conform to such standards by July 1, 1979, shall not continue to have the powers of a peace officer.
Cal. FAM § 5700.709 — California Code / Code fam / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 7 / Section 5700.709
Section 5700.709
Status: in_force

If a tribunal of this state does not recognize and enforce a Convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a Convention support order.
Cal. WIC § 14045.18 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 1.4 / Section 14045.18
Section 14045.18
Status: in_force

A participating county, or an agency representing a participating county, is authorized to establish a certification fee schedule for the purpose of supporting the activities associated with the ongoing administration of the peer support specialist certification program. Before the fee schedule may be implemented, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove the fee schedule of the participating county or an agency representing the participating county.
Cal. FAC § 64154 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 64154
Section 64154
Status: in_force

(a) If the activities and budgeted amounts that are recommended by the council and described in the statements provided for in Section 64153 are warranted by the facts contained in the statements and are authorized by this chapter, the secretary shall approve the activities for the council programs, in writing, within 20 days after each of the statements has been submitted to the secretary. The secretary shall also approve, in writing, the budget provided for in subdivision (c) of Section 64153 within 20 days after the budget has been submitted. If the secretary refuses or fails to give any approvals pursuant to this section within the required periods, the secretary shall notify the council promptly of the secretary’s refusal or failure to approve the activities or budget and give the secretary’s reasons, specifically, for the refusal or failure.

(b) Expenditures for political contributions or for lobbying are not authorized.
Cal. RTC § 8171 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 8171
Section 8171
Status: in_force

(a) The Controller may recover any refund or part thereof that is erroneously made, and any credit or part thereof that is erroneously allowed, in an action brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in the County of Sacramento in the name of the people of the State of California.

(b) As an alternative to subdivision (a), the board may recover any refund or part thereof that is erroneously made, and any credit or part thereof that is erroneously allowed. In recovering any erroneous refund or credit, the board may, in its discretion, issue a deficiency determination in accordance with Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 7670) or Article 3 (commencing with Section 7698) of Chapter 5. Except in the case of fraud, the deficiency determination shall be made by the board within three years from the date of the Controller’s warrant or date of credit.
Cal. FAC § 6047.20 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Article 8.5 / Section 6047.20
Section 6047.20
Status: in_force

This article shall become inoperative as of March 1, 2026, unless the secretary finds, in a referendum conducted by the secretary, or a person designated by the secretary, subsequent to the operative date of the amendments to this section adopted in 2024, that a favorable vote has been given pursuant to this article.
Cal. RTC § 9152 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 9152
Section 9152
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no refund shall be approved by the board after three years from the last day of the month following the reporting period for which the overpayment was made, or, with respect to determinations made under Article 2 (commencing with Section 8776), Article 3 (commencing with Section 8801), or Article 4 (commencing with Section 8826) of Chapter 4, after six months from the date the determinations became final, or after six months from the date of overpayment, whichever period expires later, unless a claim therefor is filed with the board within that period. No credit shall be approved by the board after the expiration of that period unless a claim for credit is filed with the board within that period or unless the claim relates to a period for which a waiver has been given pursuant to Section 8783.

(b) A refund may be approved by the board for any period for which a waiver is given under Section 8783 if a claim therefor is filed with the board before the expiration of the period agreed upon.
Cal. BPC § 11 — California Code / Code bpc / Section 11
Section 11
Status: in_force

Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required by this code, it shall be made in writing in the English language unless it is otherwise expressly provided.
Cal. HSC § 114240 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 7 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 114240
Section 114240
Status: in_force

(a) Wastewater tanks shall be of a capacity commensurate with the level of food handling activity.

(b) Wastewater tanks shall have a minimum capacity that is 50 percent greater than the potable water tanks. In no case shall the wastewater capacity be less than 7.5 gallons. Where potable water for the preparation of a food or beverage is supplied, an additional wastewater tank capacity equal to at least 15 percent of the water supply shall be provided.

(c) Additional wastewater tank capacity may be required where wastewater production is likely to exceed tank capacity.

(d) Where ice is utilized in the storage, display, or service of food or beverages, an additional minimum wastewater holding tank shall be provided with a capacity equal to one-third of the volume of the ice cabinet to accommodate the drainage of ice melt.

(e) Wastewater tanks on nonpermanent food facilities shall be equipped with a shut-off valve.
Cal. COM § 2608 — California Code / Code com / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 2608
Section 2608
Status: in_force

(1) The buyer may revoke his acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose nonconformity substantially impairs its value to him if he has accepted it

(a) On the reasonable assumption that its nonconformity would be cured and it has not been seasonably cured; or

(b) Without discovery of such nonconformity if his acceptance was reasonably induced either by the difficulty of discovery before acceptance or by the seller’s assurances.

(2) Revocation of acceptance must occur within a reasonable time after the buyer discovers or should have discovered the ground for it and before any substantial change in condition of the goods which is not caused by their own defects. It is not effective until the buyer notifies the seller of it.

(3) A buyer who so revokes has the same rights and duties with regard to the goods involved as if he had rejected them.
Cal. RTC § 23740 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 11 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 23740
Section 23740
Status: in_force

Section 4911 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to tax on excess expenditures to influence legislation, shall apply, except as otherwise provided.

(a) Section 4911(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code shall not apply.

(b) Section 4911(f)(4)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code shall include efforts to influence legislation with respect to acts, bills, resolutions, or similar items by the State Legislature.
Cal. ELEC § 18577 — California Code / Code elec / Division 18 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 18577
Section 18577
Status: in_force

Any person having charge of a completed vote by mail ballot who willfully interferes or causes interference with its return to the local elections official having jurisdiction over the election is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.
Cal. PUC § 102503 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 102503
Section 102503
Status: in_force

If any proposition is defeated by the electors, the board shall not call another election on a substantially similar proposition to be held within six months after the prior election. If a petition requesting submission of such a proposition, signed by 15 percent of the district electors, as shown by the votes cast for all candidates for governor within the district at the last gubernatorial election, is filed with the board, it may call an election before the expiration of six months.
Cal. LAB § 4554 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 4554
Section 4554
Status: in_force

In case of the willful failure by an employer to secure the payment of compensation, the amount of compensation otherwise recoverable for injury or death as provided in this division shall be increased 10 percent. Failure of the employer to secure the payment of compensation as provided in Article 1 (commencing at Section 3700) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of this division is prima facie evidence of willfulness on his part.
Cal. PCC § 20621 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 38 / Section 20621
Section 20621
Status: in_force

Upon completion of the precise plans and specifications, the work or any portion of it may be done in any of the following ways as ordered by the district board:

(a) By purchasing the material and doing the work by day labor.

(b) By purchasing the material and letting a contract for the doing of the work.

(c) By purchasing only a portion or none of the material and letting a contract for furnishing the balance or all of the material and the doing of the work.
Cal. WAT § 12980 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 9 / Section 12980
Section 12980
Status: in_force

As used in this part:

(a) “Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.

(b) “Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section 12220.

(c) “Local agency” means any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the state which is authorized to maintain levees.

(d) “Net long-term habitat improvement” means enhancement of riparian, fisheries, and wildlife habitat.

(e) “Nonproject levee” means a local flood control levee in the delta that is not a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, as shown on page 38 of the Department of Water Resources “Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,” dated 1993.

(f) “Project levee” means a federal flood control levee, as shown on page 40 of the Department of Water Resources “Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,” dated 1993, that is a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) of Part 6), if not less than a majority of the acreage within the jurisdiction of the local agency that maintains the levee is within the primary zone of the delta, as defined in Section 29728 of the Public Resources Code.
Cal. WAT § 23200 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 6 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 23200
Section 23200
Status: in_force

All water, the right to the use of which is acquired by a district under any contract with the United States shall be distributed and apportioned by the district in accordance with the applicable acts of Congress, the rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior thereunder, and the provisions of the contract, and provision may be made in the contract for the refusal of water service to any or all land which may become delinquent in the payment of any assessment levied for the purpose of carrying out the contract.
Cal. WIC § 15848 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3.3 / Chapter 2 / Section 15848
Section 15848
Status: in_force

(a) The Perinatal Insurance Fund is continued in existence in the State Treasury under the administration of the department.

(b) Amounts deposited in the fund shall only be used for the purposes specified by this chapter.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the fund is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the department, for the purposes specified in this chapter.

(d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.
Cal. INS § 10755.04 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 8.02 / Article 2 / Section 10755.04
Section 10755.04
Status: in_force

(a) The department may adopt emergency regulations implementing this chapter no later than August 31, 2013. The department may readopt any emergency regulation authorized by this section that is the same as or substantially equivalent to an emergency regulation previously adopted under this section.

(b) The initial adoption of emergency regulations implementing this section and the one readoption of emergency regulations authorized by this section shall be deemed an emergency and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or general welfare. The initial emergency regulations and the one readoption of emergency regulations authorized by this section shall be submitted to the Office of Administrative Law for filing with the Secretary of State and each shall remain in effect for no more than 180 days, by which time final regulations may be adopted.

(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2013.
Cal. BPC § 4988.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 13 / Article 6 / Section 4988.1
Section 4988.1
Status: in_force

A marriage and family therapy corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute, rule or regulation now or hereafter in effect. In the conduct of its practice, it shall observe and be bound by statutes, rules and regulations to the same extent as a person holding a license as a marriage and family therapist.
Cal. FAC § 24123 — California Code / Code fac / Division 11 / Chapter 9 / Section 24123
Section 24123
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any inspector to issue a certificate of inspection unless he or she personally makes the inspection between sunrise and sunset.
Cal. VEH § 16056.1 — California Code / Code veh / Division 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 16056.1
Section 16056.1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the coverage limits specified in Section 16056, an automobile insurance policy described in Section 11629.71 of the Insurance Code shall be effective under Section 16054 when issued by an insurance company admitted to do business in this state by the Insurance Commissioner and the policy is subject, if the accident has resulted in bodily injury or death, to a limit, exclusive of interest and costs, of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to that limit for one person, to a limit of not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, and if the accident has resulted in injury to, or destruction of property, to a limit of not less than three thousand dollars ($3,000) because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident.
Cal. PUC § 2100 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 11 / Section 2100
Section 2100
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission, after a hearing, finds that any common carrier, other than a railroad corporation, has charged, collected, or received a lesser compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the applicable rates, fares, and charges specified in its tariff schedules filed and in effect at the time, or that the carrier has refunded or remitted in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, or charges so specified without an order of the commission so authorizing, or charged, collected, or received a lesser compensation than that established by the commission under subdivision (b) of Section 493, the commission shall require the carrier to collect the undercharges involved and may impose upon the carrier a fine equal to the amount of the undercharges. These fines shall be deposited in the General Fund.

The remedy and penalty provided by this section shall be cumulative and shall not be a bar to or affect any other remedy or penalty provided for in this part, or to the exercise by the commission of its power to punish for contempt.
Cal. INS § 5093 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 5093
Section 5093
Status: in_force

The insurer may cancel any policy by giving the insured 20 days’ written notice of cancellation with or without tender of the excess of paid premium above the pro rata premium for the expired time, which excess, if not tendered, shall be refunded on demand. Notice of cancellation shall state that the excess premium (if not tendered) will be refunded on demand. The notice may be served in person or by mail, addressed either to the member’s last post office address or, if this is not known, to the address given upon the application which is part of the policy.
Cal. FGC § 29 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 0.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 29
Section 29
Status: in_force

“Closed season” means that period of time during which the taking of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, or reptiles is prohibited.
Cal. PUC § 101123 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 13 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 101123
Section 101123
Status: in_force

A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The adoption of any minute order, resolution, or ordinance shall require the affirmative votes of at least three members of the board.
Cal. WAT § 79192 — California Code / Code wat / Division 26 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 79192
Section 79192
Status: in_force

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a) CALFED is in the process of preparing a programmatic EIS/EIR for a long-term comprehensive plan that will resolve problems related to ecosystem restoration, including the recovery of endangered species such as chinook salmon, water quality, water supply, water management, and system integrity for the protection of beneficial uses of the bay-delta ecosystem.

(b) The CALFED Bay-Delta Program is of statewide and national importance. The state should participate in the funding of eligible projects as a part of its ongoing program to improve conditions in the bay-delta ecosystem.

(c) The programmatic EIS/EIR will include a schedule for funding and implementing all elements of the long-term comprehensive plan.

(d) The elements of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program will achieve balanced solutions in all identified problem areas, including the ecosystem, water quality, water supply, and system integrity.