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Cal. PUC § 2894.10 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 10 / Article 3 / Section 2894.10
Section 2894.10
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that a number of federal and state laws have been enacted to protect residential telephone subscribers’ privacy rights with respect to telephone solicitations. Various governmental agencies publish information that generally describes telephone subscribers’ rights under these laws. Examples of publications include the Federal Trade Commission’s brochure, “Straight Talk About Telemarketing,” and the Federal Communications Commission’s publication, “Consumer News, What You Can Do About Unsolicited Telephone Marketing Calls and Faxes.” The Legislature intends that telephone subscribers be provided with information regarding their privacy rights, under state and federal law, with respect to telephone solicitations.

(b) Every local exchange telephone corporation shall provide its residential customers with information regarding state and federal laws that protect the privacy rights of residential telephone subscribers with respect to telephone solicitations by providing on an annual basis one or more of the following items of information in the billing statement of each residential customer and in conspicuous notices in the consumer information pages of the local telephone directories distributed by that telephone corporation:

(1) A copy of a publication prepared by the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, or any other federal or state governmental agency that generally describes telephone subscribers’ privacy rights, under state and federal laws, with respect to telephone solicitations.

(2) A list of the titles of the publications identified in paragraph (1) and information on how to obtain those publications.

(c) A provider of local exchange service shall not be subject to any penalties if the provider makes a good faith effort to provide or identify the publications described in subdivision (b).
Cal. LAB § 4753.5 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 4753.5
Section 4753.5
Status: in_force

In any hearing, investigation, or proceeding, the state shall be represented by the Attorney General, or the attorneys of the Department of Industrial Relations, as appointed by the director. Expenses incident to representation, including costs for investigation, medical examinations, other expert reports, fees for witnesses, and other necessary and proper expenses, but excluding the salary of any of the Attorney General’s deputies, shall be reimbursed from the Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund. No witness fees or fees for medical services shall exceed those fees prescribed by the appeals board for the same services in those cases where the appeals board, by rule, has prescribed fees. Reimbursement pursuant to this section shall be in addition to, and in augmentation of, any other appropriations made or funds available for the use or support of the legal representation.
Cal. WAT § 52502 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 8 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 52502
Section 52502
Status: in_force

When the board determines that it would be for the best interest of the district or the landowners therein to refund any installment, or portion thereof, of the principal of any outstanding bonds of the district, the board may, by order entered upon its records, order a special election to be held at some place in the district to be designated by the board.
Cal. FAC § 20904 — California Code / Code fac / Division 10 / Chapter 5 / Section 20904
Section 20904
Status: in_force

A cattle record brand may be placed upon either loin in front of the hip and behind the ribs of the animal.
Cal. PUC § 13453 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 13453
Section 13453
Status: in_force

Instead of procedure by resolutions, a petition may be filed with the secretary of a district signed by voters within the proposed special district equal in number to at least 10 percent of the total vote cast. The boundaries of the proposed special district shall be described in the petition and shall include at least two public agencies or portions thereof. A statement of the name of any public agency constitutes a sufficient and legal description of the territory thereof if the entire area of the agency is included.
Cal. FAC § 74738 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 12.6 / Article 3 / Section 74738
Section 74738
Status: in_force

The term of office of all board members and alternate board members of the commission, except ex officio members, is three years from the beginning of the marketing season in the year of their election and until qualified successors are elected.
Cal. HSC § 33821 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 1 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 33821
Section 33821
Status: in_force

When, in the opinion of the governing board of an agency, it is determined that there will be insufficient tax revenues allocated to the agency to pay its incurred indebtedness, the agency shall file with the legislative body a report.
Cal. INS § 789.7 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 6.3 / Section 789.7
Section 789.7
Status: in_force

(a) Sales of disability insurance regulated by this article, as well as Medicare supplement insurance and long-term care insurance sold to persons aged 65 years or older, shall be registered by the insurer with the commissioner. The commissioner shall provide facilities for the computerized recordkeeping of all registered policies and certificates. The commissioner shall adopt regulations to implement and administer registration pursuant to this section. Regulations shall include, but need not be limited to, a system for assessing insurers in accordance with each insurer’s market share in order to finance the cost of registration, an appropriate method and schedule for the filing of data with the commissioner, the content and format required for each filing in accordance with subdivision (d), appropriate sanctions for failure to comply with this section or with regulations promulgated under this section, and criteria for releasing the registered information to parties outside the department.

(b) Access to the registered information, including the identity of policyholders, shall be strictly limited to the department, with the exception that the Attorney General, a district attorney, or city attorney may be granted access upon request for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting suspected unlawful practices or for purposes of this article. The commissioner may, at his or her discretion, allow access to the registered information to the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program in the Department of Aging.

(c) Access to registered information in a purely statistical format, which neither identifies nor enables identification of a particular policyholder, may be released at the discretion of the commissioner to any party who demonstrates that the information will be used only for other than commercial purposes.

(d) The content of the filing shall contain no more than the following information:

(1) Policyholder’s Medicare identification number or social security number. The policyholder’s name shall be specifically excluded from the filing.

(2) A description of the policy as being Medicare supplemental insurance; long-term care insurance; or disability insurance.

(3) Date of sale.

(4) Date of lapse.

(5) Whether the policy is in force as of the date of the filing.

(6) The policy form number, if applicable.

(7) The name of any insurer, broker, agent, or other person engaged in the transaction of insurance who was responsible for the sale of the policy.
Cal. RTC § 10705 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 10705
Section 10705
Status: in_force

“Registration year” is the period of time beginning with the date the vehicle is first required to be registered in this state under the provisions of the Vehicle Code and ending on the date designated by the Director of Motor Vehicles for expiration of the registration or the period of time designated for subsequent renewal thereof.
Cal. HNC § 773.8 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 773.8
Section 773.8
Status: in_force

(a) A charterer or operator who organizes charter boat trips shall inform each adult passenger as soon as practicable after the passenger contracts or pays for passage or boards the charter boat, whichever occurs first, that life jackets will be provided at the adult passenger’s request. Adult and minor passengers shall be informed that life jackets are required to be worn at the direction of the operator or the operator’s employee or agent.

(b) When leaving or returning to port, the operator shall use reasonable care in securing or causing to be secured objects which may cause injury to passengers.
Cal. RTC § 97.1 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 0.5 / Chapter 6 / Article 3 / Section 97.1
Section 97.1
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the computations and allocations made by each county pursuant to Section 96.1 or its predecessor section, as modified by Section 97.2 or its predecessor section for the 1992–93 fiscal year, shall be modified for the 1993–94 fiscal year as follows:

(1) The amount of property tax revenue deemed allocated to the county or city and county in the prior fiscal year shall be reduced by an amount equal to seventy-eight cents ($0.78) per each resident of the county or city and county. In addition, the amount of property tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to each city or city and county shall be reduced by an amount equal to ninety-nine cents ($0.99) per each resident of that city or city and county.

(2) The amount of property tax revenues not allocated to the county, city and county, and any city as a result of the reductions calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be deposited in the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund established pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 97.2.

(b) For the purpose of this section, the population of a city, county, or city and county shall be the population determined pursuant to Section 11005.
Cal. WIC § 9715 — California Code / Code wic / Division 8.5 / Chapter 11 / Article 2 / Section 9715
Section 9715
Status: in_force

(a) No representative of the office shall be held liable for good faith performance of responsibilities under this chapter.

(b) No discriminatory, disciplinary, or retaliatory action shall be taken against any employee of a facility or agency, any patient, resident, or client of a long-term care facility, or any volunteer, for any communication made, or information given or disclosed, to aid the office in carrying out its duties and responsibilities, unless the same was done maliciously or without good faith. This subdivision is not intended to infringe on the rights of the employer to supervise, discipline, or terminate an employee for other reasons.

(c) All communications by a representative of the office, if reasonably related to the requirements of that individual’s responsibilities under this chapter and done in good faith, shall be privileged, and that privilege shall serve as a defense to any action in libel or slander.

(d) Any representative of the office shall be exempt from being required to testify in court as to any confidential matters, except as the court may deem necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Cal. PRC § 21169 — California Code / Code prc / Division 13 / Chapter 6 / Section 21169
Section 21169
Status: in_force

Any project defined in subdivision (c) of Section 21065 undertaken, carried out or approved on or before the effective date of this section and the issuance by any public agency of any lease, permit, license, certificate or other entitlement for use executed or issued on or before the effective date of this section notwithstanding a failure to comply with this division, if otherwise legal and valid, is hereby confirmed, validated and declared legally effective. Any project undertaken by a person which was supported in whole or part through contracts with one or more public agencies on or before the effective date of this section, notwithstanding a failure to comply with this division, if otherwise legal and valid, is hereby confirmed, validated and declared legally effective.
Cal. RTC § 11492 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 6 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 11492
Section 11492
Status: in_force

The lien upon personal property created by this part attaches as of 12:01 a.m. on the first day of January of each year with respect to taxes, together with the interest and penalties thereon, to be levied during the year.
Cal. VEH § 11215.5 — California Code / Code veh / Division 5 / Chapter 1.5 / Section 11215.5
Section 11215.5
Status: in_force

The department, after notice and hearing, may also suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter when any of the following circumstances exist:

(a) If the main business office of the traffic violator school is located in any county with a population of 400,000 or more in which the traffic violator school conducts its instructional program, and the main business office does not maintain office hours during the time that the day courts in that county are open for business. This subdivision shall not apply to public schools.

(b) If the licensee is found by the department to be selling, or knowingly permitting the sale of, completion certificates.

(c) If the licensee is found by the department to be intentionally cutting instructional time short.

(d) If the licensee is found by the department to be intentionally diverting any student to a traffic school other than the school initially contacted by that student, without disclosure to that student, through the use of the department’s list of licensed traffic violator schools.
Cal. WAT § 35520.36 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 5 / Chapter 2.2 / Section 35520.36
Section 35520.36
Status: in_force

The board may sell the bonds, from time to time, in such quantities as may be necessary and most advantageous to raise money to carry out the objects and purposes of this chapter.

Before making any sale, the board shall at a regular meeting, by resolution, declare its intention to sell a specified amount of the bonds and the day and hour and place of the sale and shall cause notice of the sale to be given by publication of the resolution at least once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in each county in which any portion of the district is located and, at its discretion, in other newspapers. The publications shall be complete not less than 10 days prior to the date of sale. The notice shall state that sealed proposals will be received for the purchase of the bonds until the day and hour named in the resolution.

The board shall award the purchase of the bonds to the highest responsible bidder. However, the board may reject all bids. The board shall, in no event, sell any of the bonds for less than 90 percent of the par value thereof.
Cal. FGC § 2088 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 3 / Chapter 1.5 / Article 3.5 / Section 2088
Section 2088
Status: in_force

This article does not authorize the take of fish species and does not apply to timber harvesting governed by the State Board of Forestry. “Fish species” as used in this section means a member of the class Osteichthyes.
Cal. PROB § 1953 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 6 / Section 1953
Section 1953
Status: in_force

At least 90 days before the hearing on the petition under this chapter, notice of the time and place of the hearing and a copy of the petition shall be served on the person named in the petition and, if the petitioner is not the conservator of the person, on the conservator, if any. Service shall be made in the manner provided in Section 415.10 or Section 415.30 of the Code of Civil Procedure or in such manner as may be authorized by the court.
Cal. WIC § 14124.84 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3.5 / Section 14124.84
Section 14124.84
Status: in_force

The department shall provide the contractor with such information as is reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its obligations under the contract, including accounting data and other information the contractor may request.
Cal. FAM § 5700.312 — California Code / Code fam / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 3 / Section 5700.312
Section 5700.312
Status: in_force

If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.
Cal. FGC § 1053.5 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 1053.5
Section 1053.5
Status: in_force

Applicants for hunting licenses shall first satisfactorily complete a hunter education equivalency examination and obtain a certificate of equivalency as provided by regulations adopted by the commission, or show proof of completion of a hunter education training course, or show a previous year’s hunting license.
Cal. FGC § 15512 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 12 / Chapter 6 / Section 15512
Section 15512
Status: in_force

(a) If aquatic plants or animals are destroyed pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 15505, and a claim is submitted pursuant to Section 15513, the owner shall be promptly paid from the General Fund an amount equal to 75 percent of the replacement value of the plants or animals, less the value determined by the department of any replacement stock provided by the department under subdivision (b). If the replacement value is not settled between the owner and the department, the replacement value shall be determined by an appraiser appointed by the director and an appraiser appointed by the owner. Appraiser’s fees shall be paid by the appointing party. Disputes between these two appraisers shall be submitted to arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association.

(b) If the department provides replacement stock to an aquaculturist whose plants or animals are destroyed pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 15505, the amount to be paid to the aquaculturist pursuant to this section shall be reduced by the value of the replacement stock, as determined by the department.

(c) The result of the arbitration or the amount settled between the owner and the department, reduced by the value determined by the department of any replacement stock provided under subdivision (b), may be submitted as a claim by the owner to the Department of General Services pursuant to Section 15513.
Cal. MVC § 121 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 121
Section 121
Status: in_force

The unorganized militia consists of all persons liable to service in the militia, but not members of the National Guard, the State Guard, or the Naval Militia.
Cal. HSC § 128700 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 128700
Section 128700
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following terms mean:

(a) “Ambulatory surgery procedures” mean those procedures performed on an outpatient basis in the general operating rooms, ambulatory surgery rooms, endoscopy units, or cardiac catheterization laboratories of a hospital or a freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic.

(b) “Emergency department” means, in a hospital licensed to provide emergency medical services, the location in which those services are provided.

(c) “Encounter” means a face-to-face contact between a patient and the provider who has primary responsibility for assessing and treating the condition of the patient at a given contact and exercises independent judgment in the care of the patient.

(d) “Freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic” means a surgical clinic that is licensed by the state under paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204.

(e) “Health facility” or “health facilities” means all health facilities required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2.

(f) “Hospital” means all health facilities except skilled nursing, intermediate care, congregate living, and hospice health facilities.

(g) “Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.

(h) “Risk-adjusted outcomes” means the clinical outcomes of patients grouped by diagnoses or procedures that have been adjusted for demographic and clinical factors.
Cal. FAC § 61832 — California Code / Code fac / Division 21 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 61832
Section 61832
Status: in_force

“Milk plant” means any place, structure, or building where a handler receives market milk.
Cal. PRC § 12244 — California Code / Code prc / Division 10.5 / Chapter 2 / Section 12244
Section 12244
Status: in_force

Easements acquired under this program may be held by federal, state, or local government entities or by nonprofit land trust organizations. The director shall find that any recipient of a conservation easement is qualified to monitor and enforce the terms of the easement.
Cal. SHC § 1163 — California Code / Code shc / Division 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 1163
Section 1163
Status: in_force

Such petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit stating that affiant has compared the valuations given in the petition with those on the last equalized assessment roll and that such valuations are complete and correct. The affiant shall be a person over the age of eighteen who is not a signatory to the petition and who owns no taxable property in the division.
Cal. WIC § 1258 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 10 / Section 1258
Section 1258
Status: in_force

The Director of the Youth Authority, in connection with industrial training at the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, Chino, California, may provide suitable materials and facilities for use by persons confined in the school in the construction of houses which can be moved which, upon their completion, shall be sold to the public upon competitive bids. Proceeds derived from the sale of any such house shall be deposited in the General Fund. Construction shall be limited to not more than one each calendar year and the size shall not exceed one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) square feet.
Cal. INS § 12158 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 12158
Section 12158
Status: in_force

A service contract is a written agreement whereby any person promises for a consideration to render, furnish or procure motor club service for any other person.
Cal. FAC § 7441 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 4 / Chapter 1.5 / Article 7 / Section 7441
Section 7441
Status: in_force

Upon the inoperative date of this chapter, any remaining funds received pursuant to this chapter shall be refunded on a pro rata basis to all persons from whom assessments were collected during the 12-month period before the inoperative date, unless the secretary finds the amounts returnable are minimal and therefore impractical to refund, or the person who paid the assessment cannot be located, in which case the funds may be used for broomrape control or related research activities.
Cal. HSC § 112560 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 6 / Chapter 7 / Section 112560
Section 112560
Status: in_force

Thermometers in good order shall be provided in all rooms held under low temperature at locations therein that will reflect true storage temperatures of foods in the rooms.