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Cal. WAT § 20594 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 20594
Section 20594
Status: in_force

No public land which was unentered at the time any assessment was levied against it by any district shall be sold for the delinquency of the assessment, but the assessment shall be and continue a lien upon the land, and no patent shall be issued therefor until the applicant presents a certificate from the collector stating that no unpaid assessments or charges are delinquent upon it.
Cal. HSC § 79685 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 45 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 79685
Section 79685
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 78850, the Governor, or the authorized representative of the state, shall act on behalf of the public as trustee of the natural resources to recover costs expended pursuant to Section 79450.
Cal. WIC § 14132.46 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 14132.46
Section 14132.46
Status: in_force

Pursuant to Sections 14024 and 14124.90, the Director of Health Services may recover for the cost of targeted case management services rendered under Section 14132.44 to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries, from any person, corporation, or partnership who, at the time services are rendered, has a contractual or legal obligation to pay for the services.
Cal. ELEC § 9315 — California Code / Code elec / Division 9 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 9315
Section 9315
Status: in_force

The persons filing an initiative petition pursuant to this article may file a written argument in favor of the ordinance. The district board may submit an argument against the ordinance. Neither argument shall exceed 300 words in length, and both arguments shall be printed and mailed to each voter with the voter information guide for the election.

The following statement shall be printed on the front cover, or if none, on the heading of the first page, of the printed arguments:

“Arguments in support of or in opposition to the proposed laws are the opinions of the authors.”

Printed arguments submitted to voters in accordance with this section shall be titled either “Argument In Favor Of Measure ____” or “Argument Against Measure ____,” accordingly, the blank spaces being filled in only with the letter or number, if any, designating the measure. At the discretion of the district elections official, the word “Proposition” may be substituted for the word “Measure” in the titles. Words used in the title shall not be counted when determining the length of any argument.
Cal. SHC § 30881 — California Code / Code shc / Division 17 / Chapter 3 / Article 3.5 / Section 30881
Section 30881
Status: in_force

“Authority” means the Bay Area Toll Authority.
Cal. WIC § 10284.6 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 1.8 / Chapter 11 / Section 10284.6
Section 10284.6
Status: in_force

The department and the State Controller shall establish the necessary plans to advance child care funds to contracting agencies.
Cal. LAB § 1103 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Section 1103
Section 1103
Status: in_force

An employer or any other person or entity that violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable, in the case of an individual, by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year or a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or both that fine and imprisonment, or, in the case of a corporation, by a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Cal. CIV § 1714.45 — California Code / Code civ / Division 3 / Part 3 / Section 1714.45
Section 1714.45
Status: in_force

(a) In a product liability action, a manufacturer or seller shall not be liable if both of the following apply:

(1) The product is inherently unsafe and the product is known to be unsafe by the ordinary consumer who consumes the product with the ordinary knowledge common to the community.

(2) The product is a common consumer product intended for personal consumption, such as sugar, castor oil, alcohol, and butter, as identified in comment i to Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts.

(b) This section does not exempt the manufacture or sale of tobacco products by tobacco manufacturers and their successors in interest from product liability actions, but does exempt the sale or distribution of tobacco products by any other person, including, but not limited to, retailers or distributors.

(c) For purposes of this section, the term “product liability action” means any action for injury or death caused by a product, except that the term does not include an action based on a manufacturing defect or breach of an express warranty.

(d) This section is intended to be declarative of and does not alter or amend existing California law, including Cronin v. J.B.E. Olson Corp. (1972), 8 Cal. 3d 121, and shall apply to all product liability actions pending on, or commenced after, January 1, 1988.

(e) This section does not apply to, and never applied to, an action brought by a public entity to recover the value of benefits provided to individuals injured by a tobacco-related illness caused by the tortious conduct of a tobacco company or its successor in interest, including, but not limited to, an action brought pursuant to Section 14124.71 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. In the action brought by a public entity, the fact that the injured individual’s claim against the defendant may be barred by a prior version of this section shall not be a defense. This subdivision does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, existing law relating to tobacco products.

(f) It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting the amendments to subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section adopted at the 1997–98 Regular Session to declare that there exists no statutory bar to tobacco-related personal injury, wrongful death, or other tort claims against tobacco manufacturers and their successors in interest by California smokers or others who have suffered or incurred injuries, damages, or costs arising from the promotion, marketing, sale, or consumption of tobacco products. It is also the intention of the Legislature to clarify that those claims that were or are brought shall be determined on their merits, without the imposition of any claim of statutory bar or categorical defense.

(g) This section shall not be construed to grant immunity to a tobacco industry research organization.
Cal. WAT § 12250 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 4.7 / Chapter 1 / Section 12250
Section 12250
Status: in_force

The department is authorized to construct a recreation project in the vicinity of the City of Oroville along the Feather River. Recreation projects which may be considered, in accordance with the project environmental impact report, include, but are not limited to: a swimming area or facility near Bedrock Park, including sanitary and convenience facilities and channel modification, renovation of salmon-spawning riffles in conjunction with a swimming facility, and development of a parkway project and wildlife area.
Cal. SHC § 36710 — California Code / Code shc / Division 18 / Part 8 / Chapter 2 / Section 36710
Section 36710
Status: in_force

(a) A multifamily improvement district may be established pursuant to this chapter.

(b) A city may not form a multifamily improvement district on or after January 1, 2022, unless a later statute which is enacted on or before January 1, 2022, deletes or extends that date.
Cal. WAT § 10795 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 2.78 / Section 10795
Section 10795
Status: in_force

This part shall be known and may be cited as the Local Groundwater Management Assistance Act of 2000.
Cal. WIC § 1759 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 1759
Section 1759
Status: in_force

No person placed in such an institution or under such an agency may be released by the institution or agency until after approval of the release by the authority, unless the institution or agency would have power under the law to release at its own discretion persons committed to it by order of a court. In the latter case, it may not release a person placed by the authority until a reasonable time after it has notified the authority of its intention to release him.
Cal. LAB § 2866 — California Code / Code lab / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 2866
Section 2866
Status: in_force

Where service is to be rendered by two or more persons jointly, and one of them dies, the survivor shall act alone, if the service to be rendered is such as he can rightly perform without the aid of the deceased person, but not otherwise.
Cal. HSC § 117985 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 14 / Chapter 5 / Section 117985
Section 117985
Status: in_force

Medical waste shall be treated using treatment technologies approved in accordance with Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 118215).
Cal. HSC § 33214.5 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 33214.5
Section 33214.5
Status: in_force

As used in Sections 33215 and 33216:

(a)  “Creating agency” means the community redevelopment agency that created the project area that is to be transferred pursuant to Section 33215 or 33216.

(b)  “Receiving agency” means the community redevelopment agency that will acquire jurisdiction over a project area pursuant to Section 33215 or 33216.
Cal. FAC § 14206 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 4 / Article 1.5 / Section 14206
Section 14206
Status: in_force

“Livestock drug” means any drug, combination of drugs, proprietary medicine, or combination of drugs and other ingredients which is prepared for administration to livestock orally, hypodermically, topically, or otherwise.
Cal. PRC § 35181 — California Code / Code prc / Division 26 / Chapter 6 / Section 35181
Section 35181
Status: in_force

The authority may establish and administer the Coyote Valley Conservation Program to address the resource and recreational goals of the Coyote Valley, as provided in this chapter.
Cal. FGC § 1402 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 2 / Chapter 4.3 / Article 1 / Section 1402
Section 1402
Status: in_force

“Board” means the Wildlife Conservation Board created by Section 1320.
Cal. HSC § 50076.6 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 50076.6
Section 50076.6
Status: in_force

“Loan,” for purposes of provisions relating to the agency, means an obligation to repay funds advanced by the agency for the purpose of financing housing that is evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument in writing and that may or may not be secured by real or personal property.
Cal. FAC § 13127.9 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 14 / Section 13127.9
Section 13127.9
Status: in_force

For each mandatory health effects study that is required for each active ingredient identified pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13127, the registrant shall submit to the department a progress report in December of each year until the study is completed.
Cal. CORP § 20 — California Code / Code corp / Appendix GENERAL PROVISIONS / Section 20
Section 20
Status: in_force

20.

“Electronic transmission by the corporation” means a communication (a) delivered by (1) facsimile telecommunication or electronic mail when directed to the facsimile number or electronic mail address, respectively, for that recipient on record with the corporation, (2) posting on an electronic message board or network which the corporation has designated for those communications, together with a separate notice to the recipient of the posting, which transmission shall be validly delivered upon the later of the posting or delivery of the separate notice thereof, or (3) other means of electronic communication, (b) to a recipient who has provided an unrevoked consent to the use of those means of transmission for communications under or pursuant to this code, and (c) that creates a record that is capable of retention,
				  retrieval, and review, and that may thereafter be rendered into clearly legible tangible form. However, an electronic transmission under this code by a corporation to an individual shareholder or member of the corporation who is a natural person, and if an officer or director of the corporation, only if communicated to the recipient in that person’s capacity as a shareholder or member, is not authorized unless, in addition to satisfying the requirements of this section, the consent to the transmission has been preceded by or includes a clear written statement to the recipient as to (a) any right of the recipient to have the record provided or made available on paper or in nonelectronic form, (b) whether the consent applies only to that transmission, to specified categories of communications, or to all communications from the corporation, and (c) the procedures the recipient must use to withdraw consent.
Cal. FGC § 10652 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 10652
Section 10652
Status: in_force

In the Mt. Tamalpais Game Refuge, no threatened, endangered, or fully-protected birds or mammals may be taken under any permit issued by the department.

Except for wild pigs, it is unlawful to take any bird or mammal under a permit issued by the department unless the person possessing the permit is accompanied by a member of the commission, a deputy of the department, or a sheriff or deputy sheriff of Marin County.
Cal. PUC § 50076 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 5 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 50076
Section 50076
Status: in_force

The board may adopt a personnel system for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining an effective working force with good morale. The board shall by resolution determine and create such number and character of positions as are necessary properly to carry on the functions of the district and shall establish an appropriate salary, salary range, or wage for each position so created. The board may by resolution abolish any such position. Except as otherwise provided, appointments to such positions shall be made by the general manager.
Cal. HSC § 111615 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 111615
Section 111615
Status: in_force

No person shall manufacture any drug or device in this state unless he or she has a valid license from the department. The license is valid for two calendar years from the date of issue, unless it is revoked. The license is not transferable.

The department may require any manufacturer, wholesaler, or importer of any prescription ophthalmic device in this state to obtain a license.
Cal. INS § 1622 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 1622
Section 1622
Status: in_force

(a) A life and accident and health or sickness licensee is a person authorized to act on behalf of a life insurer or a disability insurer to transact any of the following:

(1) Life insurance.

(2) Accident and health insurance.

(3) Life and accident and health or sickness insurance.

(b) Licenses to act as a life and accident and health or sickness agent under this chapter shall be of the types set forth in Section 1626.
Cal. MVC § 468 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Section 468
Section 468
Status: in_force

Any person who is guilty of disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior in a military court, or who uses insulting, contemptuous, or indecorous language or expression to or before a military court, or any member of such court in open court, tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority, or who commits any breach of the peace or makes any noise or other disturbance directly tending to interrupt its proceedings, may be committed by warrant under the hand of the president of the court, or summary court officer, to the jail of the city or county in which such court sits, there to be confined for a period not to exceed three days.
Cal. WIC § 712 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 17 / Section 712
Section 712
Status: in_force

(a) The evaluation ordered by the court under Section 711 shall be made, in accordance with the provisions of Section 741 and Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500), by either of the following, as applicable:

(1) For minors suspected to be developmentally disabled, by the director of a regional center or his or her designee, pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 709.

(2) For all other minors, by an appropriate and licensed mental health professional who meets one or more of the following criteria:

(A) The person is licensed to practice medicine in the State of California and is trained and actively engaged in the practice of psychiatry.

(B) The person is licensed as a psychologist under Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 2900) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.

(b) The evaluator selected by the court shall personally examine the minor, conduct appropriate psychological or mental health screening, assessment, or testing, according to a uniform protocol developed by the county mental health department, and prepare and submit to the court a written report indicating his or her findings and recommendations to guide the court in determining whether the minor has a serious mental disorder or is seriously emotionally disturbed, as described in Section 5600.3. If the minor is detained, the examination shall occur within three court days of the court’s order of referral for evaluation, and the evaluator’s report shall be submitted to the court not later than five court days after the evaluator has personally examined the minor, unless the submission date is extended by the court for good cause shown.

(c) Based on the written report by the evaluator or the regional center, the court shall determine whether the minor has a serious mental disorder or is seriously emotionally disturbed, as described in Section 5600.3, or has a developmental disability, as defined in Section 4512. If the court determines that the minor has a serious mental disorder, is seriously emotionally disturbed, or has a developmental disability, the case shall proceed as described in Section 713. If the court determines that the minor does not have a serious mental disorder, is not seriously emotionally disturbed, or does not have a developmental disability, the matter shall proceed without the application of Section 713 and in accordance with all other applicable provisions of law.

(d) This section shall not be construed to interfere with the legal authority of the juvenile court or of any other public or private agency or individual to refer a minor for mental health evaluation or treatment as provided in Section 370, 635.1, 704, 741, 5150, 5694.7, 5699.2, 5867.5, or 6551 of this code, or in Section 4011.6 of the Penal Code.
Cal. BPC § 17530.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 17530.1
Section 17530.1
Status: in_force

(a) It shall be unlawful for a person to recommend to a prospective trustor any person to serve as trustee with knowledge or having reason to believe that the proposed trustee is insolvent or is about to become insolvent.

For purposes of this section, “insolvent” means a person who has ceased to pay that person’s debts as they become due or whose liabilities exceed that person’s assets.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any trustee named in any deed of trust or mortgage which secures a note or evidence of indebtedness on real property when such trustee acts solely in that capacity.
Cal. SHC § 8230 — California Code / Code shc / Division 9 / Part 2 / Chapter 9.5 / Section 8230
Section 8230
Status: in_force

All claims for money or damages against the district are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code except as provided therein, or by other statutes or regulations expressly applicable thereto.
Cal. WAT § 8039 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 8039
Section 8039
Status: in_force

The proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be deposited in the city treasury to the credit of a designated fund and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects for which the electors have voted to incur indebtedness or liability until the purposes and objects are accomplished, after which the surplus, if any, may be transferred to the general fund of the city.
Cal. HSC § 41302 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 3 / Chapter 14 / Article 1 / Section 41302
Section 41302
Status: in_force

The Antelope Valley district shall commence operations on January 1, 2002, and on that date shall assume the authority and duties of the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District which shall cease to exist on that date.
Cal. ELEC § 10261 — California Code / Code elec / Division 10 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 10261
Section 10261
Status: in_force

The city elections official, or a canvassing board appointed by him or her, shall count the votes cast by vote by mail voters. The city elections official or board shall commence this count as soon as the polls close on the day of election, and the count shall continue, for not less than six hours each day providing ballots remain to be counted, until all vote by mail voter ballots have been received within the time provided by law. The result of the vote by mail vote count shall be included with the canvass of returns from the precincts.

The canvassing board, if any, shall be appointed, and the vote by mail vote count shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000) of Division 15, insofar as that chapter is not inconsistent with this section.
Cal. PUC § 1032.5 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 1032.5
Section 1032.5
Status: in_force

The commission shall issue a certificate pursuant to this article to every passenger stage corporation which conducts intrastate passenger transportation service pursuant to federal operating authority, to the extent that regulation of these operations is not preempted by the federal Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-261), as amended. The commission may attach any conditions or limitations to the issuance of the certificate which it may specify, consistent with federal law and regulation.
Cal. FIN § 4882 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.6 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 4882
Section 4882
Status: in_force

In obtaining any approval of outstanding shares required for a merger, the surviving depository corporation and, in case the surviving depository corporation is to issue securities in consideration of the merger, the disappearing depository corporation shall each provide to its shareholders such information as the commissioner may require. In determining the information to be required, the commissioner shall give due consideration to regulations relating to proxy statements issued under Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 78n) by (a) the Securities and Exchange Commission, (b) in the case of a depository corporation that is a bank, the federal bank regulatory agencies, and (c) in the case of a depository corporation that is a savings association, the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Cal. INS § 1310.1 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 1310.1
Section 1310.1
Status: in_force

The board of a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange operating pursuant to Section 1284 shall be composed of members of the governing board of the hospital, the participating members of its attending medical staff, and health care consumers.