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Cal. INS § 856 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 856
Section 856
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner may at any time give or make public any information concerning any insurer, if in the commissioner’s judgment, the giving or publishing of the information will be of public interest.

(b) The commissioner may at any time give or make public any information concerning securities purchased or sold within this state by an insurer, if in the commissioner’s judgment, the giving or publishing of the information is in the public interest or it will tend to prevent the fraudulent purchase or sale of the securities.
Cal. HSC § 128040 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 128040
Section 128040
Status: in_force

(a)  The Department of Health Care Access and Information shall report to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2002, on the feasibility of establishing a California dental loan forgiveness program utilizing the same general guidelines applicable to the federal National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program (42 U.S.C.A. Sec. 254q-1; 42 C.F.R., Part 62, Subpart C (commencing with Section 62.51)), except as follows:

(1)  A dentist shall be eligible to participate in the loan forgiveness program if they provide full-time or half-time dental services in either of the following:

(A)  A dental health professional shortage area (DHPSA), established pursuant to Section 254e(a) of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(B)  An area of the state where unmet priority needs for dentists exist as determined by the department.

(2)  Matching funds to repay a portion of the dentist’s outstanding loan amount shall be required from the practice site areas or from other private nonprofit sources.

(3)  A qualifying practice site shall include a private dental practice.

(b)  (1)  The report required under subdivision (a) shall include all of the following:

(A)  A projection of the dentist-to-population ratio for California in the next decade.

(B)  A determination of the future need for dentists and dental care in underserved communities. The department shall work collaboratively with organizations that represent providers of dental services to underserved communities in making this determination.

(C)  A report on the utilization by dentists of tuition loan repayment programs at the federal and state level and identify the barriers to full utilization of these loan repayment programs.

(D)  A report on the projected cost increase of dental school education at public and private postsecondary educational institutions.

(E)  A report on the implications of administering an additional program, including a cost analysis.

(2)  The report also shall include recommendations on whether a program described in subdivision (a) should be established and, if so, suggested funding sources. In making its recommendations, the department shall consider the impact of the program on access to dental services in areas of the state that currently have a shortage of dentists.
Cal. PRC § 2715 — California Code / Code prc / Division 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 2715
Section 2715
Status: in_force

No provision of this chapter or any ruling, requirement, or policy of the board is a limitation on any of the following:

(a) On the police power of any city or county or on the power of any city or county to declare, prohibit, and abate nuisances.

(b) On the power of the Attorney General, at the request of the board, or upon his own motion, to bring an action in the name of the people of the State of California to enjoin any pollution or nuisance.

(c) On the power of any state agency in the enforcement or administration of any provision of law which it is specifically authorized or required to enforce or administer.

(d) On the right of any person to maintain at any time any appropriate action for relief against any private nuisance as defined in Part 3 (commencing with Section 3479) of Division 4 of the Civil Code or for any other private relief.

(e) On the power of any lead agency to adopt policies, standards, or regulations imposing additional requirements on any person if the requirements do not prevent the person from complying with the provisions of this chapter.

(f) On the power of any city or county to regulate the use of buildings, structures, and land as between industry, business, residences, open space (including agriculture, recreation, the enjoyment of scenic beauty, and the use of natural resources), and other purposes.
Cal. RTC § 995 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 995
Section 995
Status: in_force

Storage media for computer programs shall be valued on the 1972 lien date and thereafter as if there were no computer program on such media except basic operational programs. Otherwise, computer programs shall not be valued for purpose of property taxation.

As used in this section, storage media for computer programs may take the form of, but are not limited to, punched cards, tapes, discs or drums on which computer programs may be embodied or stored.

As used in this section, a computer program may be, but is not limited to a set of written instructions, magnetic imprints, required documentation or other process designed to enable the user to communicate with or operate a computer or other machinery.
Cal. PCC § 4110 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 4110
Section 4110
Status: in_force

A prime contractor violating any of the provisions of this chapter violates his or her contract and the awarding authority may exercise the option, in its own discretion, of (1) canceling his or her contract or (2) assessing the prime contractor a penalty in an amount of not more than 10 percent of the amount of the subcontract involved, and this penalty shall be deposited in the fund out of which the prime contract is awarded. In any proceedings under this section the prime contractor shall be entitled to a public hearing and to five days’ notice of the time and place thereof.
Cal. BPC § 18888.2 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 2 / Article 17 / Section 18888.2
Section 18888.2
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall, consistent with the purposes of this article, establish the Mixed Martial Arts Retirement Benefit Fund for martial artists who engage in mixed martial arts contests in this state.

(b) (1) The commission shall, consistent with the purposes of this article, establish the method by which the MMA Fund will be financed, including those who shall contribute to the financing of the MMA Fund.

(2) The method of financing the MMA Fund shall include any of the following:

(A) (i) An assessment in the amount of one dollar ($1) on each ticket sold for a professional mixed martial arts contest held in the state.

(ii) The commission may raise, by regulation, the assessment authorized by this subparagraph to an amount not greater than two dollars ($2) per ticket.

(B) Revenue through the sale of special interest license plates and other commission-branded items, including, but not limited to, sport paraphernalia and souvenirs.

(C) Contributions by martial artists, managers, promoters, or any one or more of these persons, in an amount sufficient to finance the MMA Fund.

(c) The MMA Fund shall be actuarially sound.
Cal. BPC § 26300 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 10 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 26300
Section 26300
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Agreement” means an agreement relating to commercial cannabis authorized under this chapter and entered into between this state and another state or states.

(b) “Contracting state” means a state of the United States, including a district, commonwealth, territory, or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States, with which the Governor has entered into an agreement pursuant to this chapter.

(c) “Foreign license” means a commercial cannabis license issued under the laws of another state that has entered into an agreement pursuant to this chapter.

(d) “State license” means a commercial cannabis license issued by a licensing authority pursuant to this division.
Cal. FIN § 22460 — California Code / Code fin / Division 9 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 22460
Section 22460
Status: in_force

Section 22333 shall not apply to a change in terms of an open-end loan if notice is given to the borrower in accordance with subsection (c) of Section 226.9 of Regulation Z promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 C.F.R. 226).
Cal. FAC § 46013.2 — California Code / Code fac / Division 17 / Chapter 10 / Section 46013.2
Section 46013.2
Status: in_force

(a) To the extent feasible, the secretary, in consultation with the director, shall coordinate the registration and annual fee collection procedures of this section with similar licensing or registration procedures applicable to registrants.

(b) The secretary shall deny a registration submission that is incomplete or not in compliance with this act.

(c) A registrant shall, within 30 days, notify the secretary of any change in the information reported on the registration form and shall pay any additional fee owed if that change results in a higher fee owed than that previously paid.

(d) (1) At the request of any person, the secretary or county agricultural commissioner shall provide the following:

(A) The name and address of the registrant.

(B) The nature of the registrant’s business.

(C) The names of all certification organizations or governmental entities, if any, providing certification pursuant to this act.

(2) The secretary or county agricultural commissioner may charge a reasonable fee for the cost of reproducing this information. Except as provided in this subdivision, a registration form is exempt from Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(e) The secretary, in consultation with the California Organic Products Advisory Committee, may suspend the registration program set forth in this section if the secretary determines that income derived from registration fees is insufficient to support a registration enforcement program.

(f) A registration is considered legal and valid until revoked, suspended, or until the expiration of the registration.

(g) The registration revocation process shall be in conjunction with other provisions of this act. The secretary or county agricultural commissioner’s office may initiate the revocation process for failure to comply with the NOP or this act. A person against whom the action is being taken shall have the opportunity to appeal the action and be afforded the opportunity to be heard in an administrative appeal. This appeal shall be administered by either the state or county agricultural commissioner’s office.

(h) If the registration fee is not paid within 60 days from the expiration date, the account shall be considered closed and the registration voided. A notification shall be sent to the registrant and the certifier, if applicable, notifying them the registrant is no longer able to market products as organic until the account is paid in full.

(i) A producer, handler, processor, or certification agency subject to this chapter that does not pay the fee within 10 days of the date on which the fee is due and payable shall pay a penalty of 10 percent of the total amount determined to be due plus interest at the rate of 1.5 percent per month on the unpaid balance.
Cal. HSC § 34511 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 24 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Section 34511
Section 34511
Status: in_force

A state public body may cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects.
Cal. HSC § 1179.3 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 1 / Part 5 / Section 1179.3
Section 1179.3
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall develop and administer a competitive grants program for projects located in rural areas of California.

(2) The office shall define “rural area” for the purposes of this section after receiving public input and upon recommendation of the Interdepartmental Rural Health Coordinating Committee and the Rural Health Programs Liaison.

(3) The purpose of the grants program shall be to fund innovative, collaborative, cost-effective, and efficient projects that pertain to the delivery of health and medical services in rural areas of the state.

(4) The office shall develop and establish uses for the funds to fund special projects that alleviate problems of access to quality health care in rural areas and to compensate public and private health care providers associated with direct delivery of patient care. The funds shall be used for medical and hospital care and treatment of patients who cannot afford to pay for services and for whom payment will not be made through private or public programs.

(5) The office shall administer the funds appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of this section. Entities eligible for these funds shall include rural health providers served by the programs operated by the office, the Emergency Medical Services Authority, the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. The grant funds shall be used to expand existing services or establish new services and shall not be used to supplant existing levels of service. Funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose may be expended in the fiscal year of the appropriation or the subsequent fiscal year.

(b) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall establish the criteria and standards for eligibility to be used in requests for proposals or requests for application, the application review process, determining the maximum amount and number of grants to be awarded, preference and priority of projects, compliance monitoring, and the measurement of outcomes achieved after receiving comment from the public at a meeting held pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).

(c) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall make information regarding the status of the funded projects available at the public meetings described in subdivision (b).
Cal. WAT § 12641 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 6 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 12641
Section 12641
Status: in_force

Any county, city, state agency or public district is authorized to make agreements with the United States or any of its departments or agencies obligating them to do or perform those things which are required of them by Chapters 1 and 2 of this part and by the act of Congress approved December 22, 1944 (Public, Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session), and the act of Congress approved August 18, 1941 (Public, Numbered 228, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session).
Cal. COM § 9311 — California Code / Code com / Division 9 / Chapter 3 / Section 9311
Section 9311
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), the filing of a financing statement is not necessary or effective to perfect a security interest in property subject to any of the following:

(1) A statute, regulation, or treaty of the United States whose requirements for a security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property preempt subdivision (a) of Section 9310.

(2) (A) The provisions of the Vehicle Code which require registration of a vehicle or boat.

(B) The provisions of the Health and Safety Code which require registration of a mobilehome or commercial coach, except that during any period in which collateral is inventory, the filing provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) apply to a security interest in that collateral.

(C) The provisions of the Health and Safety Code which require registration of all interests in approved air contaminant emission reductions (Sections 40709 to 40713, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code).

(3) A statute of another jurisdiction which provides for a security interest to be indicated on a certificate of title as a condition or result of the security interest’s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with respect to the property.

(b) Compliance with the requirements of a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subdivision (a) for obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor is equivalent to the filing of a financing statement under this division. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d), in Section 9313, and in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 9316 for goods covered by a certificate of title, a security interest in property subject to a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subdivision (a) may be perfected only by compliance with those requirements, and a security interest so perfected remains perfected notwithstanding a change in the use or transfer of possession of the collateral.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d) and in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 9316, duration and renewal of perfection of a security interest perfected by compliance with the requirements prescribed by a statute, regulation, or treaty described in subdivision (a) are governed by the statute, regulation, or treaty. In other respects, the security interest is subject to this division.

(d) During any period in which collateral subject to a statute specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is inventory held for sale or lease by a person or leased by that person as lessor and that person is in the business of selling goods of that kind, this section does not apply to a security interest in that collateral created by that person.
Cal. BPC § 21303 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 8.5 / Section 21303
Section 21303
Status: in_force

An independent repair provider that is not an authorized repair provider shall provide a written notice to any customer before providing repairs that contains the following information:

(a) The independent repair provider is not an authorized repair provider for the product.

(b) The consumer may wish to review the terms and conditions of any warranty for the equipment, as repairs not performed by a designated authorized repair provider could potentially affect the warranty.

(c) Warranties for consumer products are governed by the federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (Chapter 50 (commencing with Section 2301) of Title 15 of the United States Code), which gives consumers rights and protections that apply over any conflicting provisions in the warranty.

(d) Under Magnuson-Moss, a warranty cannot generally require that maintenance repairs be performed only by an authorized repair provider, unless the Federal Trade Commission waives this prohibition, or the repair is provided free of charge, pursuant to that warranty.

(e) Under Magnuson-Moss, if damage to equipment is shown to be caused by faulty nonbrand equipment or by faulty repair by a nonauthorized repair provider, that damage may not be covered by the warranty, but the warranty may otherwise remain in effect.

(f) Under Section 14019.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, an independent repair provider that is a Medi-Cal enrolled provider is prohibited from seeking reimbursement or attempting to obtain payment for the cost of covered services from a Medi-Cal applicant or recipient, unless the beneficiary owes a share of the cost, as described in subdivision (g) of that section.
Cal. PRC § 5064 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 5064
Section 5064
Status: in_force

The department for a consideration may assign such options to other governmental agencies or departments. The department may accept gifts of money or lands from individuals and from other governmental agencies for the purpose of acquiring, by purchase or exchange, the lands under option.
Cal. PROB § 5668 — California Code / Code prob / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 5668
Section 5668
Status: in_force

A revocable transfer on death deed of community property with right of survivorship is subject to Section 5666, relating to a revocable transfer on death deed of community property.
Cal. HSC § 50675.2 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 2 / Chapter 6.7 / Section 50675.2
Section 50675.2
Status: in_force

The definitions of this section shall apply to all activities conducted pursuant to this chapter. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 50050) of Part 1 shall also apply to this chapter.

(a)  “Affordable rent” shall be established by the department to be consistent with the rent limitations imposed by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, as administered by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.

(b)  “Assisted unit” means a unit that is affordable to a lower income household as a result of a loan provided pursuant to this chapter. In order to ensure consistency with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, occupancy of assisted units shall be limited to households whose income does not exceed the limits specified by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee.

(c)  “Maintain affordable rent levels” means rents may be increased by the sponsor on an annual basis in the amount that would be allowed if the project was subject to the requirements of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program established pursuant to Section 42 of the federal Internal Revenue Code.

(d)  “Rental housing development” means a structure or set of structures with common financing, ownership, and management, and which collectively contain five or more dwelling units, including efficiency units. No more than one of the dwelling units may be occupied as a primary residence by a person or household who is the owner of the structure or structures.

(e)  “Rehabilitation,” in addition to the meaning set forth in Section 50096, includes improvements and repairs made to a residential structure acquired for the purpose of preserving its affordability.

(f)  “Rent-up costs” means costs incurred while a unit is on the housing market but not rented to its first tenant.

(g)  “Sponsor” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 50669, and also includes a limited partnership in which the sponsor or an affiliate of the sponsor is a general partner.

(h)  “Supportive housing” means housing with no limit on length of stay, that is occupied by the target population, and that is linked to onsite or offsite services that assist the supportive housing resident in retaining the housing, improving their health status, and maximizing their ability to live and, when possible, work in the community.

(i)  “Transitional housing” and “transitional housing development” means buildings configured as rental housing developments, but operated under program requirements that call for the termination of assistance and recirculation of the assisted unit to another eligible program recipient at some predetermined future point in time, which shall be no less than six months.
Cal. HSC § 11970 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 10.5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 11970
Section 11970
Status: in_force

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Comprehensive Drug Court Implementation Act of 1999.

(b) The State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs shall provide oversight of this article.

(c) The department and the Judicial Council shall design and implement this article through the Drug Court Partnership Executive Steering Committee established under the former Drug Court Partnership Act of 1998 pursuant to former Section 11970, for the purpose of funding cost-effective local drug court systems for adults, juveniles, and parents of children who are detained by, or are dependents of, the juvenile court.

(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013.