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Cal. HSC § 4620 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 4620
Section 4620
Status: in_force

If two-thirds of the votes cast upon the measure are in favor of the issuance of the bonds, the bonds may be issued and the indebtedness incurred.

If less than two-thirds of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of the bonds, the governing body of the city shall not within six months after the election pass any resolution which calls another election for incurring any indebtedness for sewer work or improvement within that district or in any district which has within its boundaries any of the territory of that district.
Cal. INS § 13601 — California Code / Code ins / Division 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 13601
Section 13601
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall preclude an insured or other aggrieved party from pursuing any available alternative remedy in lieu of conciliation or from pursuing that alternative remedy without first proceeding under this chapter, but the department shall have no jurisdiction to proceed under this chapter or resolve any dispute under this chapter during the pendency of any judicial action thereon initiated by an insured.
Cal. SHC § 2701.10 — California Code / Code shc / Division 3 / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 2701.10
Section 2701.10
Status: in_force

Bonds in the total amount of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide a fund to be used for carrying out the purposes expressed in this chapter and to be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 16724.5 of the Government Code. The bonds, when sold, shall be and constitute a valid and binding obligation of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual payment of both principal of, and interest on, the bonds as the principal and interest become due and payable.
Cal. PUC § 132353.1 — California Code / Code puc / Division 12.7 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 132353.1
Section 132353.1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in this chapter, the San Diego Association of Governments shall be consolidated into a public agency known as the consolidated agency. In addition, upon adoption of the 2030 Regional Transportation Plan by the consolidated agency, and not later than July 1, 2003, all public transit and other transportation planning and programming responsibilities, including, but not limited to, short and near-term operational and financial planning and program development of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board (MTDB) and the North San Diego County Transit Development Board (NCTD), except as set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 132353.2 shall be consolidated into the consolidated agency. This consolidation shall be referred to as the initial transfer. A transition plan for the initial transfer of transit functions and responsibilities shall be developed by February 28, 2003, by the consolidated agency in consultation with the transit boards to ensure the efficient and timely transfer of the transit boards’ functions and responsibilities. All local, state, federal, and other funding available to carry out these responsibilities and those set forth in Section 132353.2, upon any consolidation, shall be deemed to be funding of the consolidated agency.
Cal. LAB § 138.3 — California Code / Code lab / Division 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 138.3
Section 138.3
Status: in_force

The administrative director shall, with respect to all injuries, prescribe, pursuant to Section 5402, reasonable rules and regulations requiring the employer to serve notice on the injured employee that he may be entitled to benefits under this division.
Cal. WAT § 36557 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 36557
Section 36557
Status: in_force

Immediately upon the formation of the district the board may levy and collect the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) per acre for each acre of land. The money collected shall be used by the board to pay the preliminary expenses incurred in forming the district.
Cal. INS § 10950 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 9.7 / Section 10950
Section 10950
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Child” means any individual under 19 years of age.

(b) “Individual grandfathered plan coverage” means health care coverage in which an individual was enrolled on March 23, 2010, consistent with Section 1251 of PPACA and any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to that law.

(c) “Initial open enrollment period” means the open enrollment period beginning on January 1, 2011, and ending 60 days thereafter.

(d) “Late enrollee” means a child without coverage who did not enroll in a health benefit plan during an open enrollment period because of any of the following:

(1) The child lost dependent coverage due to termination or change in employment status of the child or the person through whom the child was covered; cessation of an employer’s contribution toward an employee or dependent’s coverage; death of the person through whom the child was covered as a dependent; legal separation; divorce; loss of coverage under the Healthy Families Program, the Access for Infants and Mothers Program, or the Medi-Cal program; or adoption of the child.

(2) The child became a resident of California during a month that was not the child’s birth month.

(3) The child is born as a resident of California and did not enroll in the month of birth.

(4) The child is mandated to be covered pursuant to a valid state or federal court order.

(e) “Open enrollment period” means the annual open enrollment period subsequent to the initial open enrollment period, applicable to each individual child that is the month of the child’s birth date.

(f) “PPACA” means the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152), and any subsequent rules or regulations issued pursuant to that law.

(g) “Preexisting condition exclusion” means, with respect to coverage, a limitation or exclusion of benefits relating to a condition based on the fact that the condition was present before the date of enrollment of the coverage, whether or not any medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received before that date.

(h) “Responsible party for a child” means an adult having custody of the child or with responsibility for the financial needs of the child, including the responsibility to provide health care coverage.

(i) “Standard risk rate” means the lowest rate that can be offered for a child with the same benefit plan, effective date, age, geographic region, and family status.
Cal. PRC § 5096.611 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1.696 / Article 2 / Section 5096.611
Section 5096.611
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law, two million five hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($2,557,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 5096.610, and eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purposes of subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 5096.652 from the amount allocated pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 5096.610 are reallocated to finance the purposes of, and shall be authorized, issued, and appropriated in accordance with, Division 45 (commencing with Section 80000).
Cal. WAT § 60274 — California Code / Code wat / Division 18 / Part 5 / Chapter 4 / Section 60274
Section 60274
Status: in_force

In case such election is consolidated with a state or county election, the precincts, polling places, and election officers shall be the same as provided for such state or county election, and it shall be sufficient if the resolution and notice so state.
Cal. BPC § 17563 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 7 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 17563
Section 17563
Status: in_force

This article shall apply to operators and owners of motels, motor courts, and like establishments, and to such establishments.
Cal. HSC § 114307 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 7 / Chapter 10 / Section 114307
Section 114307
Status: in_force

Mobile food facilities that operate at community events and that remain fixed during food preparation and its hours of operation may:

(a) Include a staffed counter that serves hot and cold beverages and ice that are not potentially hazardous food and that are dispensed from approved bulk dispensing units.

(b) Store supplies and food that are not potentially hazardous in unopened containers adjacent to the mobile food facility or in a nearby temporary storage unit. “Unopened container” means a factory sealed container that has not been previously opened and that is suitably constructed to be resistant to contamination from moisture, dust, insects, and rodents.

(c) Operate an open-air barbecue adjacent to the mobile food facility if approved by the enforcement agency.
Cal. PCC § 12104 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 12104
Section 12104
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The State Contracting Manual shall set forth all procedures and methods that shall be used by the state when seeking to obtain bids for the acquisition of information technology.

(2) Revisions to the manual must be publicly announced, including, but not limited to, postings on the Internet Web site homepage of the Department of General Services. The Department of Technology shall provide a link to the State Contracting Manual on its Internet Web site homepage.

(b) The Department of General Services and the Department of Technology in accordance with this chapter shall develop, implement, and maintain standardized methods for the development of all information technology requests for proposals.

(c) All information technology requests for proposals shall be reviewed by the Department of Technology prior to release to the public.
Cal. HNC § 6962 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 6962
Section 6962
Status: in_force

Wages and salaries shall be paid at such intervals as the board may direct, but at least once each month.
Cal. FGC § 4008 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 4008
Section 4008
Status: in_force

No trapping license shall be issued to any applicant within one year following the expiration of any trapping license previously issued to such applicant unless the applicant has submitted to the department a sworn statement showing the number of each kind of fur-bearing mammals and nongame mammals taken under the previous license.
Cal. SHC § 233 — California Code / Code shc / Division 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 233
Section 233
Status: in_force

All title acquired by the public or by any governmental agency to any real property, or interests therein, used for rights of way of any highway heretofore or hereafter constituted a State highway is vested in the name of the people of the State of California.
Cal. HSC § 128385 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 128385
Section 128385
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created the Registered Nurse Education Program within the department. Persons participating in this program shall be persons who agree in writing prior to graduation to serve in an eligible county health facility, an eligible state-operated health facility, a health workforce shortage area, or a California nursing school, as designated by the director of the department. Persons agreeing to serve in eligible county health facilities, eligible state-operated health facilities, or health workforce shortage areas, and master’s or doctoral students agreeing to serve in a California nursing school may apply for scholarship or loan repayment. The Registered Nurse Education Program shall be administered in accordance with Article 1 (commencing with Section 128330), except that all funds in the Registered Nurse Education Fund shall be used only for the purpose of promoting the education of registered nurses and related administrative costs. The department shall adopt both of the following:

(1) A standard contractual agreement to be signed by the director and any student who has received an award to work in an eligible county health facility, an eligible state-operated health facility, or in a health workforce shortage area that would require a period of obligated professional service in the areas of California designated by the department as deficient in primary care services. The obligated professional service shall be in direct patient care. The agreement shall include a clause entitling the state to recover the funds awarded plus the maximum allowable interest for failure to begin or complete the service obligation.

(2) Maximum allowable amounts for scholarships, educational loans, and loan repayment programs in order to assure the most effective use of these funds.

(b) Applicants may be persons licensed as registered nurses, graduates of associate degree nursing programs prior to entering a program granting a baccalaureate of science degree in nursing, or students entering an entry-level master’s degree program in registered nursing or other registered nurse master’s or doctoral degree program approved by the Board of Registered Nursing. Priority shall be given to applicants who hold associate degrees in nursing.

(c) Registered nurses and students shall commit to teaching nursing in a California nursing school for five years in order to receive a scholarship or loan repayment for a doctoral degree program.

(d) As used in this section, “eligible county health facility” means a county health facility that has been determined by the department to have a nursing vacancy rate greater than noncounty health facilities located in the same health facility planning area.

(e) As used in this section, “eligible state-operated health facility” means a state-operated health facility that has been determined by the department to have a nursing vacancy rate greater than noncounty health facilities located in the same health facility planning area.
Cal. INS § 10168.5 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 3b / Section 10168.5
Section 10168.5
Status: in_force

For contracts which do not provide cash surrender benefits, the present value of any paid-up annuity benefit available as a nonforfeiture option at any time prior to maturity shall not be less than the present value of that portion of the maturity value of the paid-up annuity benefit provided under the contract arising from considerations paid prior to the time the contract is surrendered in exchange for, or changed to, a deferred paid-up annuity, such present value being calculated for the period prior to the maturity date on the basis of the interest rate specified in the contract for accumulating the net considerations to determine such maturity value, and increased by any existing additional amounts credited by the company to the contract. For contracts which do not provide any death benefits prior to the commencement of any annuity payments, such present values shall be calculated on the basis of such interest rate and the mortality table specified in the contract for determining the maturity value of the paid-up annuity benefit. However, in no event shall the present value of a paid-up annuity benefit be less than the minimum nonforfeiture amount at that time.
Cal. LAB § 6409.2 — California Code / Code lab / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 6409.2
Section 6409.2
Status: in_force

Whenever a state, county, or local fire or police agency is called to an accident involving an employee covered by this part in which a serious injury or illness, or death occurs, the responding agency shall immediately notify the nearest office of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health by telephone. Thereafter, the division shall immediately notify the appropriate prosecuting authority of the accident.
Cal. EVID § 410 — California Code / Code evid / Division 3 / Chapter 5 / Section 410
Section 410
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, “direct evidence” means evidence that directly proves a fact, without an inference or presumption, and which in itself, if true, conclusively establishes that fact.
Cal. EVID § 1205 — California Code / Code evid / Division 10 / Chapter 1 / Section 1205
Section 1205
Status: in_force

Nothing in this division shall be construed to repeal by implication any other statute relating to hearsay evidence.
Cal. PRC § 25000.1 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 1 / Section 25000.1
Section 25000.1
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature further finds and declares that, in addition to their other ratepayer protection objectives, a principal goal of electric and natural gas utilities’ resource planning and investment shall be to minimize the cost to society of the reliable energy services that are provided by natural gas and electricity, and to improve the environment and to encourage the diversity of energy sources through improvements in energy efficiency and development of renewable energy resources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

(b) The Legislature further finds and declares that, in addition to any appropriate investments in energy production, electrical and natural gas utilities should seek to exploit all practicable and cost-effective conservation and improvements in the efficiency of energy use and distribution that offer equivalent or better system reliability, and which are not being exploited by any other entity.

(c) In calculating the cost effectiveness of energy resources, including conservation and load management options, the commission shall include a value for any costs and benefits to the environment, including air quality. The commission shall ensure that any values it develops pursuant to this section are consistent with values developed by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to Section 701.1 of the Public Utilities Code. However, if the commission determines that a value developed pursuant to this subdivision is not consistent with a value developed by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 701.1 of the Public Utilities Code, the commission may nonetheless use this value if, in the appropriate record of its proceedings, it states its reasons for using the value it has selected.
Cal. PCC § 20443 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 27 / Section 20443
Section 20443
Status: in_force

The legislative body may, by ordinance, prescribe general rules directing the superintendent of streets or the engineer, as the case may be, and the contractor as to the materials to be used, and the mode of executing the work, under all contracts thereafter made. The assessment and apportionment of the expenses of all such work shall be made by the superintendent of streets or the engineer, as the case may be, in the mode provided by this division.
Cal. BPC § 7599.75 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.6 / Article 14 / Section 7599.75
Section 7599.75
Status: in_force

There shall be a separate budget and expenditure statement and a separate revenue statement outlining all moneys derived from and expended for the licensing and regulation of alarm company operators and alarm agents in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

All moneys derived from the licensing of alarm company operators and alarm agents shall be expended exclusively on the regulation of alarm company operators and alarm agents.

If at the end of any fiscal year, the moneys derived from the licensing of alarm company operators and alarm agents is in surplus in an amount which equals or is more than the moneys necessary for the regulation of alarm company operators and alarm agents for the next two fiscal years, license or other fees shall be reduced, during the following fiscal year in an amount which will reduce any surplus moneys derived from the licensing of alarm company operators and alarm agents to an amount less than the moneys expended for the regulation of alarm company operators and alarm agents for the next two fiscal years.

This section shall become operative on and after July 1, 1983.
Cal. FAC § 61415.2 — California Code / Code fac / Division 21 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 61415.2
Section 61415.2
Status: in_force

(a) If a handler does not pay for manufacturing milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the contract, the handler shall pay the producer interest on the unpaid amount from the time the payment was due until paid at the rate of 12 percent per annum. The interest is in addition to any other penalties provided in this chapter.

(b) If there is no contract for the delivery of milk to the handler or the delivery was made as a single transaction between the producer or handler, the handler shall pay the department interest on the unpaid amount from the time the payment was due until paid at the interest rate specified in subdivision (a). The interest is in addition to any other penalties provided in this chapter.
Cal. PRC § 5096.513 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1.695 / Article 2 / Section 5096.513
Section 5096.513
Status: in_force

Not less than 30 calendar days prior to holding a public hearing for the purpose of authorizing a major acquisition of conservation lands, an acquisition agency shall make available for public review information, except information that is exempt from being disclosed pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code), that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(a) A copy of the independent appraisal review prepared pursuant to Section 5096.512.

(b) A summary of the basis for the recommendation of approval for the major acquisition of the land made by the acquisition agency.

(c) Any relevant environmental studies, documents, or other information.
Cal. RTC § 722 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 722
Section 722
Status: in_force

State-assessed property shall be assessed at its fair market value or full value as of 12:01 a.m. on the first day of January. The board shall annually prepare an assessment roll of the assessments made by it for transmittal to county auditors and city auditors as hereinafter provided in this chapter.
Cal. PUC § 98168 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 10 / Chapter 4 / Section 98168
Section 98168
Status: in_force

(a) The district shall not require any employee, who is a member of a bona fide religion, body, or sect which has historically held conscientious objections to joining or financially supporting labor organizations, to join or financially support any public employee labor organization as a condition of employment. However, that employee may be required, in lieu of paying periodic dues, fees, or assessments to a labor organization, to pay sums equal to those dues, fees, or assessments to a nonreligious, nonlabor charitable fund exempt from taxation under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c) (3)), chosen by the employee from a list of at least three qualifying funds, designated in a memorandum of understanding between the district and the labor organization or, if the memorandum of understanding fails to designate the funds, then to any qualifying fund chosen by the employee. Proof of payments made pursuant to this section shall be made on a monthly basis to the district as a condition of continued exemption from the requirement of financial support to a labor organization.

(b) An exclusive representative may represent their bargaining unit members in employer-employee relations with the district, and employees shall have the right to be represented by their exclusive representative.