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Cal. HSC § 112880 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 6 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 112880
Section 112880
Status: in_force

For purposes this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) “Median of defects” means a calculation of the median score from a panel of tasters that characterizes the negative flavor and odor attributes of virgin olive oil, such as, but not limited to, musty, fusty, winey-vinegary, muddy-sediment, and rancid.

(b) “Median of fruitiness” means a calculation of the median score from a panel of tasters that characterizes virgin olive oil produced from olives, such as, but not limited to, olive, apple, green, sweet, grass, nutty, and tomato.

(c) “Panel of tasters” means the method of analyzing organoleptic characteristics of virgin olive oil, as defined in the United States Standards for Grades of Olive Oil and Olive-Pomace Oil published in the Federal Register that are in effect on October 25, 2010.
Cal. WIC § 14125.2 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3.7 / Section 14125.2
Section 14125.2
Status: in_force

(a) (1) To qualify for Medi-Cal coverage a product shall be in general retail distribution, sold to the general public, and comply with any standards for products established by law or regulation. No product that is manufactured, distributed, or otherwise promoted for the exclusive use of beneficiaries of the Medi-Cal program shall be a Medi-Cal benefit.

(2) For purposes of this section, “product” means any product which is in general retail distribution.

(3) For purposes of this subdivision, “general retail distribution” means either of the following:

(A) The product is included in a listing of approved products for purchase either by the federal or state government.

(B) The product is on display and available for purchase by customers for private payment at licensed pharmacies or licensed medical supply dealers within California which are physical locations open to the general public.

(b) In order to qualify as a Medi-Cal provider of incontinence medical supplies, a dealer shall have an established place of business that is readily identifiable as a medical supply business, be open to the general public at regularly established business hours, have incontinence supplies in stock on the premises or in a warehouse under the provider’s direct control, and meet all local laws and ordinances regarding business licensing and operations. The department shall establish additional rules and regulations for participation in the Medi-Cal program as it deems necessary to ensure adequate safeguards to the integrity of the Medi-Cal program.
Cal. WAT § 20569 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 20569
Section 20569
Status: in_force

The value of any land and the holders of title to the land are conclusively determined, for the purpose of any petition provided for in this division, by the district assessment book last equalized at the time of the presentation of the petition.

When no assessment book of the district has been equalized, the county assessment roll of the county in which the land is situated last equalized at the time of the presentation of the petition is conclusive evidence of the value and title.

However, for the purposes of a petition to form a district and so far as land outside a district is concerned for the purposes of a petition to form an improvement district under Chapter 2A of Part 7 the county assessment roll of the county in which the land is situated, last equalized at the time of the first publication of the petition is conclusive evidence of the value and title.
Cal. WAT § 78500 — California Code / Code wat / Division 24 / Chapter 1 / Section 78500
Section 78500
Status: in_force

This division shall be known and may be cited as the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Act.
Cal. WAT § 72027 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20 / Part 8 / Chapter 3 / Section 72027
Section 72027
Status: in_force

Any action or proceeding in which the validity of the formation of the improvement district or of any of the proceedings in relation thereto is contested, questioned, or denied shall be commenced within three months from the effective date of the resolution of formation, or, if an election is held, within three months from the date of such election; otherwise the formation of the improvement district and all proceedings in relation thereto shall be held to be valid and in every respect legal and incontestable.
Cal. WAT § 8521 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 8521
Section 8521
Status: in_force

“Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Any reference to the Reclamation Board in this or any other code means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.
Cal. HSC § 442.7 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 1 / Part 1.8 / Section 442.7
Section 442.7
Status: in_force

If a health care provider does not wish to comply with his or her patient’s request or, when applicable, the request of another person authorized to make health care decisions, as defined in Section 4617 of the Probate Code, for the patient for information on end-of-life options, the health care provider shall do both of the following:

(a) Refer or transfer a patient to another health care provider that shall provide the requested information.

(b) Provide the patient or other person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient with information on procedures to transfer to another health care provider that shall provide the requested information.
Cal. PUC § 8286 — California Code / Code puc / Division 4 / Chapter 7 / Article 5 / Section 8286
Section 8286
Status: in_force

(a) In order to facilitate the participation of women, minority, disabled veteran, and LGBT business enterprises and small businesses in contract procurement, any corporation subject to this article may consider the following measures to include those businesses in all phases of their contracting:

(1) Timely or progressive payments to those businesses.

(2) An amendment of the performance bond requirements so that bond requirements of electrical, gas, and telephone corporations do not prohibitively burden those businesses from procuring the corporation’s business.

(3) The provision of assistance to those businesses by securing contract payments to those businesses with letters of credit, negotiable securities, or other financing arrangements or measures.

(b) This section does not restrict a corporation’s ability to require a bond.
Cal. FAC § 52932 — California Code / Code fac / Division 18 / Chapter 4 / Article 8 / Section 52932
Section 52932
Status: in_force

This chapter shall remain operative if either of the following conditions is met:

(a) Not less than 65 percent of the cotton growers certified by the secretary who voted in the referendum, voted in favor of this chapter, and those cotton growers so voting represent at least a majority of the cotton producing acreage of all cotton growers who voted in the referendum.

(b) At least a majority of those cotton growers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of this chapter and those cotton growers so voting represent not less than 65 percent of the cotton producing acreage of all cotton growers who voted in the referendum.
Cal. FAC § 38451 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 14 / Section 38451
Section 38451
Status: in_force

Milk drink mix is a market milk product. It shall contain not less than 12 percent total milk solids, not less than 4 percent butterfat, and not more than one-half of 1 percent of pure and harmless edible stabilizer.
Cal. MVC § 1044 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 1044
Section 1044
Status: in_force

The secretary may adopt rules and regulations governing the admission of applicants and may prescribe the conditions upon which they may enter and remain with a home.
Cal. HSC § 25173.5 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 7 / Section 25173.5
Section 25173.5
Status: in_force

(a)  Except as provided in subdivision (b), the legislative body of a city or county may impose and enforce a tax, for general purposes, or may impose a user fee on the operation of an offsite, multiuser hazardous waste facility located within the jurisdiction of the city or county. The tax or the user fee imposed shall not exceed 10 percent of the facility’s annual gross receipts for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste at the facility.

If a city or county imposes a tax pursuant to this section, the city or county may use the revenues collected from the tax to fund those activities reasonably necessary for the city or county to carry out its duties related to the operation of the hazardous waste facility upon which the tax is imposed and for support of the city’s or county’s fire and emergency response capabilities and emergency medical services, to the extent the city or county determines that this funding should be given priority.

(b)  A city or county shall not impose a tax or a user fee adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) upon any of the following:

(1)  An existing hazardous waste facility for which a tax is authorized pursuant to Section 25149.5.

(2)  That portion of the gross receipts of the hazardous waste facility that derives from the recycling of hazardous wastes or the treatment of medical wastes or wastes which meets the definition of medical wastes.

(c)  A state agency shall not include the expenditure of revenues received by a city or county pursuant to this section in calculating the level of financial support that a city or county is required to maintain under any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 77204 of the Government Code and Section 16990 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. However, this subdivision does not apply to subdivision (c) of Section 2105 of the Streets and Highways Code.
Cal. INS § 7050 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Article 10 / Section 7050
Section 7050
Status: in_force

Any such insurer may be proceeded against and dissolved in the same manner and upon the same conditions as in the case of other domestic incorporated insurers.
Cal. BPC § 4064 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 4064
Section 4064
Status: in_force

(a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber’s authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the refill and if, in the pharmacist’s professional judgment, failure to refill the prescription might interrupt the patient’s ongoing care and have a significant adverse effect on the patient’s well-being.

(b) The pharmacist shall inform the patient that the prescription was refilled pursuant to this section.

(c) The pharmacist shall inform the prescriber within a reasonable period of time of any refills dispensed pursuant to this section.

(d) The prescriber shall not incur any liability as the result of a refilling of a prescription pursuant to this section.

(e) Notwithstanding Section 4060 or any other law, a person may possess a dangerous drug or dangerous device furnished without prescription pursuant to this section.
Cal. VEH § 6050 — California Code / Code veh / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 6050
Section 6050
Status: in_force

(a) The department upon receipt of a properly endorsed certificate of ownership and the required fee shall reregister the vehicle under its registration number in the name of the new owner and new legal owner, if any, and shall issue a new registration card and certificate of ownership as provided upon an original registration.

(b) The department shall not issue a new registration card and certificate of ownership pursuant to subdivision (a) on a vehicle that has been issued a nonrepairable vehicle certificate pursuant to Section 11515.2.
Cal. PRC § 44208 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 44208
Section 44208
Status: in_force

A cooperative agreement executed pursuant to this article shall be executed for the express benefit of the citizens of this state.
Cal. BPC § 8506.2 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 14 / Article 1 / Section 8506.2
Section 8506.2
Status: in_force

A “qualifying manager” is the licensed operator or operators designated by a registered company to supervise the daily business of the company and to be physically present at the principal office or branch office location for a minimum of nine days every three consecutive calendar months to supervise and assist the company’s employees. These days shall be documented and provided to the board upon request.
Cal. BPC § 2558 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 5.5 / Article 1 / Section 2558
Section 2558
Status: in_force

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than 10 days nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by both such fine and imprisonment.

The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, any regulations as are reasonably necessary to carry out this chapter.
Cal. HSC § 116419 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 12 / Chapter 4 / Article 3.6 / Section 116419
Section 116419
Status: in_force

(a) The panel shall serve at the direction of the deputy director. At the deputy director’s request, the panel’s duties may include, but are not limited to, any of the following activities in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and, as needed, the Department of Toxic Substances Control:

(1) Review existing data, including, but not limited to, occurrence and toxicity data, for CECs collected by the state board and nationwide by the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule program and recommend to the deputy director further actions based on state-specific conditions and the state’s CEC initiatives.

(2) Identify CEC candidates based on potential public health effects.

(3) Incorporate recommendations from other ongoing efforts evaluating CECs both within California and throughout the United States, as applicable.

(4) Review the existing CEC risk-based framework in aquatic and recycled water systems to see if the framework is applicable to drinking water.

(5) Recommend a framework for a risk-based screening program for CECs and appropriate indicators and surrogates that consider their occurrence in drinking water, contribution and fate in the environment, and potential for human exposure.

(6) Review the results of any screening program, which may include screening programs within California and throughout the United States, and provide recommendations to assist the deputy director in prioritizing, monitoring, evaluating health impacts, and informing regulatory determinations for CECs.

(7) Address the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Contaminant Candidate List and not create any impediments to complying with federal law or duplicative monitoring.

(b) Nothing in this section or Section 116418 shall duplicate, change, or interfere with the state board’s or the deputy director’s ongoing efforts on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and CECs.
Cal. HSC § 19900 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 4 / Section 19900
Section 19900
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other statutory provision, no city, city and county, county, or other political subdivision of this State, including, but not limited to a chartered city, city and county, or county, shall require more than one building permit for a low-rent housing development for the elderly financed in whole or in part with federal or state funds or by means of a loan insured in whole or in part by the federal or state government. The fee for the permit shall not exceed the amount obtained by multiplying twenty-five dollars ($25) by the number of one-story buildings contained in the development, provided that such buildings do not contain more than 10 dwelling units.
Cal. INS § 10290 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 10290
Section 10290
Status: in_force

A disability policy shall not be issued or delivered to any person in this state until both of the following conditions are met:

(a) A copy of the form thereof and, if more than one class of risks is written, of the classification of risks, and the premium rates pertaining thereto are filed with the commissioner.

(b) Either of the following occurs:

(1) One hundred twenty calendar days expire without notice from the commissioner after the copy is filed.

(2) The commissioner gives his or her written approval prior to that time.
Cal. HNC § 5943 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Section 5943
Section 5943
Status: in_force

The hearing, investigation, determination and findings of the board of supervisors shall be conducted and made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 5835 to 5841, inclusive, of the Harbors and Navigations Code which sections are incorporated herein to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
Cal. VEH § 21450 — California Code / Code veh / Division 11 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 21450
Section 21450
Status: in_force

Whenever traffic is controlled by official traffic control signals showing different colored lights, color-lighted arrows, or color-lighted bicycle symbols, successively, one at a time, or in combination, only the colors green, yellow, and red shall be used, except for pedestrian control signals, and those lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles, operators of bicycles, and pedestrians as provided in this chapter.
Cal. ELEC § 2600 — California Code / Code elec / Division 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2600
Section 2600
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall establish a Language Accessibility Advisory Committee which shall meet no less than four times each calendar year. The committee shall consist of no less than 15 members and be comprised of the Secretary of State and his or her designee or designees and additional members appointed by the Secretary of State. The appointees shall have demonstrated language accessibility experience, have knowledge of presenting election materials to voters using plain language methods or another method that is easy for voters to access and understand, or be a county elections official or his or her designee. At least three county elections officials shall be appointed to the committee. The Secretary of State shall consult with and consider the recommendations of the committee. The committee shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Secretary of State.
Cal. BPC § 2740 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 2740
Section 2740
Status: in_force

Examinations shall be written, but in the discretion of the board may be supplemented by an oral or practical examination in such subjects as the board determines. All examinations shall be conducted by such persons and in such manner and under such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe.

The board shall finally pass or reject all applicants. Its actions shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review by any court or other authority.
Cal. WAT § 8591 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 8591
Section 8591
Status: in_force

The board has no power, authority, or jurisdiction, either directly or indirectly, except as provided in this division, to incur any indebtedness or expend any money or adopt or carry into effect any plan or project or to acquire any lands, rights of way, or easements, or to do any work, or cause any work to be performed, for which any land lying within the drainage district is to be assessed, except to maintain, repair, and operate its existing works of reclamation and flood control and to complete, maintain and operate any project adopted by the board prior to April 1, 1923, with the existing powers to levy assessments therefor.
Cal. FIN § 14406 — California Code / Code fin / Division 5 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 14406
Section 14406
Status: in_force

The savings capital, as defined in Section 14400, undivided profits, and reserve funds of a credit union shall be deposited only in the following:

(a) Commercial banks or trust companies, incorporated under the laws of this state.

(b) National banks doing business in this state.

(c) Shares or periodic certificates for funds received by or any form of evidence of interest or indebtedness issued by any credit union organized under this division or by any other credit union if its member accounts are insured as provided for by Subchapter II of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1781 et seq.), or, alternatively, are insured by other means determined acceptable by the commissioner.

(d) Accounts with, investment certificates or withdrawable shares of, any savings and loan association doing business in this state that is an insured institution pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. Sec. 1811 et seq.).
Cal. FIN § 2038 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1.2 / Chapter 3 / Section 2038
Section 2038
Status: in_force

Fees shall be paid to, and collected by, the commissioner, as follows:

(a) The fee for filing an application for a license is five thousand dollars ($5,000), as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 2032.

(b) The fee for filing an application for approval to acquire control of a licensee is three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).

(c) A licensee shall pay annually on or before July 1, a licensee fee of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500).

(d) A licensee shall pay annually on or before July 1, one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) for each licensee branch office in this state.

(e) A licensee shall pay annually on or before July 1, twenty-five dollars ($25) for each agent branch office in this state.

(f) Whenever the commissioner examines a licensee or any agent of a licensee, the licensee shall pay, within 10 days after receipt of a statement from the commissioner, a fee for the examination, as determined by the commissioner. In determining the fee, the commissioner may use the estimated average hourly cost, including, but not limited to, overhead, for all persons performing the examination, plus, if it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.

(g) Whenever the commissioner examines an applicant, the applicant shall pay, within 10 days after receipt of a statement from the commissioner, a fee for the examination, as determined by the commissioner. In determining the fee, the commissioner may use the estimated average hourly cost, including, but not limited to, overhead, for all persons performing the examination, plus, if it is necessary for any examiner engaged in the examination to travel outside this state, the travel expenses of the examiner.

(h) Each fee for filing an application shall be paid at the time the application is filed with the commissioner. No fee for filing an application shall be refundable, regardless of whether the application is approved, denied, or withdrawn.