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Cal. PUC § 766 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 766
Section 766
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission, after a hearing finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone corporations or two or more telegraph corporations whose lines can be made to form a continuous line of communication, by the construction and maintenance of suitable connections for the transfer of messages or conversations, and that public convenience and necessity will be served thereby, or finds that two or more telegraph or telephone corporations have failed to establish joint rates, tolls, or charges for service by or over their lines, and that joint rates, tolls, or charges ought to be established, the commission may, by its order, require that such connection be made on the payment of such compensation, if any, as it finds to be just and reasonable, except where the purpose of the connection is primarily to secure the transmission of local messages or conversations between points within the same city, or city and county. The commission may, by order, require that conversations be transmitted and messages transferred over such connection under such rules as it may establish, and may prescribe through lines and joint rates, tolls, and charges. If such telephone or telegraph corporations do not agree upon the division between them of the cost of such physical connection or connections or the division of such joint rates, tolls, or charges established by the commission over such through lines, the commission may after further hearing, establish such division by supplemental order.
Cal. HSC § 25299.61 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 6.75 / Article 6 / Section 25299.61
Section 25299.61
Status: in_force

The board shall not pay any claims against or presented to the fund pursuant to this article if the claims are in connection with an unauthorized release of petroleum into the environment from an underground storage tank resulting from the gross negligence or the intentional or reckless acts of the claimant.
Cal. HNC § 6940 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 6940
Section 6940
Status: in_force

On or before June first of each year, the port director shall submit to the board a detailed statement of the money required for the ensuing fiscal year for the purpose of conducting the business of the district. There shall be submitted with the estimate such data and schedules as the board may require.
Cal. FGC § 11020 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 8 / Chapter 1 / Section 11020
Section 11020
Status: in_force

The following constitutes Fish and Game District 12:

The waters and tidelands of San Francisco Bay to high-water mark not included in Districts 11 and 13, the waters and tidelands to high-water mark of San Leandro Bay, Oakland Creek or estuary, San Antonio Creek in Alameda County, Raccoon Strait, San Pablo Bay, the Carquinez Strait to the Carquinez Bridge, and all lands and waters included within the exterior boundaries of these districts and excluding all tributary sloughs, creeks, bays, rivers, and overflowed areas not specifically described herein.
Cal. PUC § 102571 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 14 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 102571
Section 102571
Status: in_force

Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99000) of Part 11 applies to the district.
Cal. WAT § 12881.2 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 12881.2
Section 12881.2
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Project” means any dam, reservoir, or other construction or improvement by a public agency for the diversion, storage, or distribution of water primarily for domestic, municipal, agricultural, industrial, recreation, fish and wildlife enhancement, flood control, or power production purposes.

(b) “Public agency” means any city, county, district or other political subdivision of the state.

(c) “Feasibility report” means such report on the feasibility of a public agency’s proposed project as the department may require the public agency to file with the department in support of an application by the public agency under this chapter for a loan for the construction of the proposed project.
Cal. WIC § 18360 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 6.3 / Section 18360
Section 18360
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Client support staff” means professional and paraprofessional staff or contractors who meet the experience and education requirements of paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 18360.10, and are operating within the scope of practice of their license or certification, to provide support and services to the eligible child and other individuals, as approved by the placing agency and informed by the child and family team, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 16501, or the individualized health care plan team, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 17710.

(b) “Eligible child” means a child or nonminor dependent in foster care who has intensive needs, including, but not limited to, medical, therapeutic, or behavioral needs.

(c) “Intensive services foster care” means a licensed foster family agency model or public delivery model of home-based family care for eligible children whose needs for safety, permanency, and well-being require specially trained resource parents and intensive professional and paraprofessional services and support in order to remain in a home-based setting, or to avoid or exit congregate care in a short-term residential therapeutic program, group home, or out-of-state residential center.

(d) “Intensive services foster care resource family” means a resource family, as defined in Section 16519.5 of this code or Section 1517 of the Health and Safety Code and, until December 31, 2020, a licensed foster family home or a certified family home of a licensed foster family agency, or, before January 1, 2020, the approved home of a relative or nonrelative extended family member, that has met the training requirements in this chapter or is in the process of completing training pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 18360.10.

(e) “Intensive services foster care resource parent” means a foster parent of an intensive services foster care resource family.

(f) “Licensed foster family agency model” means an intensive services foster care program operated by a private nonprofit agency or a county that is licensed as a foster family agency.

(g) “Public delivery model” means an intensive services foster care program directly operated by a county as a governmental program.

(h) “Urgent placement needs” means immediate and extenuating circumstances requiring immediate placement with an intensive services foster care resource parent, as determined by the county placing agency based on the level of care rate protocol.
Cal. PRC § 4464 — California Code / Code prc / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 4464
Section 4464
Status: in_force

Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter:

(a) “Hazardous fuel reduction” means the application of practices to wild lands, the primary impact of which to the vegetation is generally limited to the reduction of surface and ladder wild land fuels. These practices include, but are not limited to, prescribed fire, piling by machine or by hand in preparation for burning, thinning, pruning, or grazing. Treatments that reduce crown densities shall be prescribed only for the purpose of impacting fire behavior, and if it can be reasonably concluded, based on the proposed treatment, that the likelihood for the formation of crown fires is reduced.

(b) “Nonprofit organization” means any California corporation organized under Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

(c) “Person” means any natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any public agency other than an agency of the federal government.

(d) “Prescribed burn crew” means personnel and firefighting equipment of the department that are prepared to contain fire set in a prescribed burning operation and to suppress any fire that escapes during a prescribed burning operation.

(e) “Prescribed burning” or “prescribed burning operation” means the planned application and confinement of fire to wild land fuels on lands selected in advance of that application to achieve any of the following objectives:

(1) Prevention of high-intensity wild land fires through reduction of the volume and continuity of wild land fuels.

(2) Watershed management.

(3) Range improvement.

(4) Vegetation management.

(5) Forest improvement.

(6) Wildlife habitat improvement.

(7) Air quality maintenance.

(f) “Wild land” means any land that is classified as a state responsibility area pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 4125) of Chapter 1 and includes any land having a flammable plant cover. “Wild land” also means any land not classified as a state responsibility area where the geographic location of these lands and accumulation of wild land fuel is such that a wild land fire occurring on these lands would pose a threat to a state responsibility area.

(g) “Wild land fire” means any uncontrolled fire burning on wild land.

(h) “Wild land fuel” means any timber, brush, grass, or other flammable vegetation, living or dead, standing or down.
Cal. HSC § 114417 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 7 / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 114417
Section 114417
Status: in_force

The department may issue a variance for only the provisions set forth in Section 113936, if in the opinion of the department, the alternative practice or procedure is equivalent to the respective requirements of this part and the alternative practice or procedure does not result in a health hazard.
Cal. BPC § 7512.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.3 / Article 1 / Section 7512.5
Section 7512.5
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, “chief” means the Chief of the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
Cal. SHC § 18095 — California Code / Code shc / Division 14 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 18095
Section 18095
Status: in_force

The validity of any assessment levied under this part shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless such action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the time the assessment is levied, and any appeal from a final judgment in such an action or proceeding shall be perfected within 30 days after the entry of such judgment.
Cal. BPC § 4989.32 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 13.5 / Article 3 / Section 4989.32
Section 4989.32
Status: in_force

To renew an unexpired license, the licensee shall, on or before the expiration date of the license, take all of the following actions:

(a) Apply for renewal on a form prescribed by the board.

(b) Pay a two-year renewal fee prescribed by the board.

(c) Inform the board of whether the licensee has been convicted, as defined in Section 490, of any misdemeanor or felony and whether any disciplinary action has been taken by a regulatory or licensing board in this or any other state after the prior issuance or renewal of a license.

(d) Complete the continuing education requirements described in Section 4989.34.
Cal. BPC § 6126 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 6126
Section 6126
Status: in_force

(a) Any person advertising or holding himself or herself out as practicing or entitled to practice law or otherwise practicing law who is not an active licensee of the State Bar, or otherwise authorized pursuant to statute or court rule to practice law in this state at the time of doing so, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in a county jail or by a fine of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment. Upon a second or subsequent conviction, the person shall be confined in a county jail for not less than 90 days, except in an unusual case where the interests of justice would be served by imposition of a lesser sentence or a fine. If the court imposes only a fine or a sentence of less than 90 days for a second or subsequent conviction under this subdivision, the court shall state the reasons for its sentencing choice on the record.

(b) Any person who has been involuntarily enrolled as an inactive licensee of the State Bar, or whose license has been suspended, or has been disbarred, or has resigned from the State Bar with charges pending, and thereafter practices or attempts to practice law, advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing or otherwise entitled to practice law, is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code or in a county jail for a period not to exceed six months. However, any person who has been involuntarily enrolled as an inactive licensee of the State Bar pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 6007 and who knowingly thereafter practices or attempts to practice law, or advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing or otherwise entitled to practice law, is guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code or in a county jail for a period not to exceed six months.

(c) The willful failure of a licensee of the State Bar, or one who has resigned or been disbarred, to comply with an order of the Supreme Court to comply with Rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court, constitutes a crime punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code or in a county jail for a period not to exceed six months.

(d) The penalties provided in this section are cumulative to each other and to any other remedies or penalties provided by law.
Cal. WIC § 14087.301 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 2.7 / Section 14087.301
Section 14087.301
Status: in_force

When entering into contracts with health care service plans that provide comprehensive dental benefits to Medi-Cal beneficiaries on an at-risk basis, the department may require that the health care service plans pay for the costs of the administrative and regulatory oversight required to monitor the contract compliance terms of the agreement with the department.
Cal. WIC § 4652 — California Code / Code wic / Division 4.5 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 4652
Section 4652
Status: in_force

A regional center shall investigate every appropriate and economically feasible alternative for care of a developmentally disabled person available within the region. If suitable care cannot be found within the region, services may be obtained outside of the region.
Cal. WAT § 13606 — California Code / Code wat / Division 7 / Chapter 8 / Section 13606
Section 13606
Status: in_force

If an application states that the applicant is not able to finance the local agency share of the project, the state board shall consider whether the applicant should be required to levy a sewerage service charge. If the state board determines a sewerage service charge is necessary to pay such costs, the state board shall not approve the grant application unless, as a condition to such approval, the applicant agrees to levy a reasonable and equitable sewerage service charge in connection with the proposed project.

Any such applicant, not otherwise authorized, is authorized by this section to levy a sewerage service charge pursuant to such an agreement, and shall levy such charge in the manner provided in the agreement.
Cal. ELEC § 6382 — California Code / Code elec / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 6382
Section 6382
Status: in_force

Circulators may obtain signatures to the nomination paper of a candidate at any time not more than 120 nor less than 81 days prior to the presidential primary.
Cal. PUC § 130451 — California Code / Code puc / Division 12 / Chapter 4 / Article 10 / Section 130451
Section 130451
Status: in_force

(a) The commissions shall jointly develop an implementation program for regional transit services. In developing the program, the commissions shall consult with the Southern California Association of Governments, the California Transportation Commission, the Los Angeles-San Diego Rail Corridor Agency, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

(b) The program shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:

(1) A system plan and map of all regional transit services.

(2) An implementation plan and schedule to establish each regional transit service not already in existence, including, if appropriate, a schedule of necessary construction and procurement.

(3) A policy and implementation plan for the coordination of technologies, fares, and schedules to maximize the ability and convenience of passengers to transfer among regional transit services and to and from other publicly owned or privately owned mass transit services in each county connecting to the regional transit services.

(4) A program for the operation of regional transit services to provide as efficient and convenient a service as is appropriate.

(c) The program shall consider the specialized transportation needs of elderly and handicapped persons.

(d) The program shall be consistent with and implement the adopted regional transportation plan for the region.
Cal. PRC § 42762 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 15 / Article 2 / Section 42762
Section 42762
Status: in_force

This division does not apply to any newsprint purchased prior to January 1, 1990.
Cal. HSC § 1566.25 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 1566.25
Section 1566.25
Status: in_force

If a county of residence agrees to pay a placement county the costs of providing services to a minor pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 740 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, all of the following shall apply:

(a)  The county of residence shall agree to pay the placement county the actual costs of providing services to a child placed in a community care facility outside his or her county of residence by a placement agency, as defined in Section 1536.1, that are incurred by the probation department, social services department, health department, or mental health department of the placement county for which the placement county is not otherwise reimbursed.

(b)  Claims made by the county of placement to the county of residency pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include documentation and shall be paid within 30 days of submission of these claims.

(c)  For the purposes of this section, the county from where the child was placed in the community care facility shall be considered the county of residency.
Cal. MVC § 491.2 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 10 / Article 8 / Section 491.2
Section 491.2
Status: in_force

For the purposes of meeting the necessary expenses of initial organization and operation until such date as the department derives revenues or proceeds from bonds or notes as provided under this chapter, the department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance, borrow money as needed from the General Fund in the State Treasury. Such borrowed moneys shall be repaid with interest from the first proceeds from the sale of bonds or notes as provided under this chapter.
Cal. WAT § 20896 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 20896
Section 20896
Status: in_force

(a) The officials in charge of conducting the election shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the district formation proposition to be voted on to be printed and mailed to each voter entitled to vote on the district formation question.

(b) The ballot pamphlet printed and mailed pursuant to this section shall contain all of the following in the order prescribed:

(1) The complete text of the proposition.

(2) The impartial analysis of the proposition prepared by the local agency formation commission.

(3) The argument for the proposed district formation.

(4) The argument against the proposed district formation.

(c) The election officials shall mail a ballot pamphlet to each voter entitled to vote in the district formation election at least 10 days prior to the date of the election. The ballot pamphlet is “official matter” within the meaning of Section 13303 of the Elections Code.
Cal. WIC § 17001 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 17001
Section 17001
Status: in_force

The board of supervisors of each county, or the agency authorized by county charter, shall adopt standards of aid and care for the indigent and dependent poor of the county or city and county.
Cal. WAT § 72072.5 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20 / Part 8 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 72072.5
Section 72072.5
Status: in_force

The taxes imposed by this article shall be collected, insofar as practicable, at the same time as, and along with, the charges made in accordance with the regular billing practice of the service supplier. If the amount paid by a service user to a service supplier is less than the full amount of the charge and the tax which has accrued for the billing period, a proportionate share of both the charge and the tax shall be deemed to have been paid.
Cal. FAC § 71059 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 9.5 / Article 3 / Section 71059
Section 71059
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public member and his or her alternate member on the commission shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges of any other member or alternate, respectively, on the commission. The public member and his or her alternate member shall not have a vote on issues regarding the assessments established pursuant to Section 71120.
Cal. FAC § 37410 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 37410
Section 37410
Status: in_force

Pasteurized process cheese is a food that complies with Section 133.169 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Cal. HSC § 114171 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 7 / Chapter 6 / Article 3 / Section 114171
Section 114171
Status: in_force

Liquid waste drain lines shall not pass through an ice machine or ice storage bin.
Cal. BPC § 7513 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.3 / Article 1 / Section 7513
Section 7513
Status: in_force

Every power and duty granted to or imposed upon the director may be exercised by any other officer or employee of the Department of Consumer Affairs authorized by the director, but the director shall have the supervision of and the responsibility for all powers and duties exercised by these officers and employees.
Cal. HSC § 103230 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 102 / Part 1 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 103230
Section 103230
Status: in_force

Section 103225 shall be applicable to certificates of birth only in the absence of conflicting information relative to the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship, as this term is defined in subdivision (b) of Section 7601 of the Family Code, on the originally registered certificate of birth.