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Cal. PRC § 42882 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 17 / Article 4 / Section 42882
Section 42882
Status: in_force

In carrying out this chapter, the department may solicit and use expertise available in other state agencies and, if an existing state agency performs functions of a similar nature to the department’s functions, the department may contract with, or cooperate with, that agency in carrying out this chapter.
Cal. SHC § 446 — California Code / Code shc / Division 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 446
Section 446
Status: in_force

(a) Route 146 is from:

(1) Route 101 near Soledad to Pinnacles National Monument.

(2) Pinnacles National Monument to Route 25 in Bear Valley.

(b) The relinquished former portion of Route 146 within the City of Soledad is not a state highway and is not eligible for adoption under Section 81. For the relinquished former portion of Route 146, the City of Soledad shall maintain within its jurisdiction signs directing motorists to the continuation of Route 146 until the entire route has been relinquished and shall ensure the continuity of traffic flow on the relinquished portion of Route 146, including any traffic signal progression.

(1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the commission may relinquish to the County of Monterey the portion of Route 146 within the limits of that county, upon terms and conditions the commission finds to be in the best interests of the state.

(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the commission may relinquish to the County of San Benito the portion of Route 146 within the limits of that county, upon terms and conditions the commission finds to be in the best interests of the state.

(3) A relinquishment under this subdivision shall become effective immediately after the county recorder records the relinquishment resolution that contains the commission’s approval of the terms and conditions of the relinquishment.

(4) On and after the effective date of the relinquishment, that portion of Route 146 relinquished shall cease to be a state highway and may not be considered for future adoption under Section 81.

(5) For portions of Route 146 relinquished under this subdivision, the Counties of Monterey and San Benito shall maintain within their jurisdiction signs directing motorists to the continuation of Route 146 until the entire route has been relinquished.
Cal. LAB § 435 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 435
Section 435
Status: in_force

(a) No employer may cause an audio or video recording to be made of an employee in a restroom, locker room, or room designated by an employer for changing clothes, unless authorized by court order.

(b) No recording made in violation of this section may be used by an employer for any purpose. This section applies to a private or public employer, except the federal government.

(c) A violation of this section constitutes an infraction.
Cal. PUC § 939 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 14.5 / Section 939
Section 939
Status: in_force

The commission may modify or adjust the requirements of this article for any electrical corporation with fewer than 100,000 service connections, as individual circumstances merit.
Cal. INS § 1242 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 6 / Section 1242
Section 1242
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Except as otherwise specified in Section 1241, a domestic insurer shall not acquire directly or indirectly through an investment subsidiary, an investment under Section 1241 if, as a result of and after giving effect to the investment, the insurer would hold more than 3 percent of its admitted assets in investments of all kinds issued, assumed, accepted, insured, or guaranteed by a single person, or 5 percent of its admitted assets in investments in the voting securities of a depository institution or any company that controls the institution.

(2) The 3 percent limitation in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the aggregate amounts insured by a single financial guaranty insurer with the highest generic rating issued by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

(b) A domestic insurer shall not acquire, directly or indirectly through an investment subsidiary, an investment under Section 1241 if, as a result of and after giving effect to the investment, the insurer’s aggregate medium and lower grade investments do not comply with the limitations of Section 1196.1.
Cal. PUC § 100156 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 12 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 100156
Section 100156
Status: in_force

(a) The provisions of this article are severable. If any provision of this article or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.

(b) Contracts awarded pursuant to this article shall be valid until the project is completed.
Cal. HSC § 105444 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 103 / Part 5 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 105444
Section 105444
Status: in_force

(a) The program shall develop guidelines and model protocols that address the science and practice of biomonitoring to implement this chapter, including, but not limited to, study design, subject recruitment, and data collection and management, and that accomplish all of the following:

(1) Ensure confidentiality and informed consent.

(2) Communicate findings to participants, communities, and the general public.

(3) Emphasize all aspects of the program in a culturally sensitive manner.

(4) Serve as a guide for other biomonitoring programs supported by state funds.

(b) The program shall incorporate, as appropriate, the methods utilized by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the studies known collectively as the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.

(c) The program shall be implemented in collaboration with the California Environmental Health Tracking Program and the environmental indicators system maintained by the office pursuant to Section 71081 of the Public Resources Code.

(d) The department, office, and DTSC shall collaborate on the development of fact sheets and other informational and outreach materials for the biomonitoring program.

(e) The department, in collaboration with the office and DTSC, shall conduct statistical and epidemiological analyses of the biomonitoring results.

(f) Personal information as defined in Section 1798.3 of the Civil Code, shall not be shared without the written and informed consent of the individual to whom it pertains.

(g) No governmental agency or private person or entity shall discriminate against a person or community based upon the biomonitoring results.
Cal. SHC § 30106 — California Code / Code shc / Division 17 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 30106
Section 30106
Status: in_force

The grant of any such permit or the execution of any such contract by the California Transportation Commission shall not relieve any transportation company or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission from the duty of obtaining any certificate of public convenience and necessity for the conduct of a transportation service over any toll bridge or other highway crossing as required by law, or from the duty of complying with every lawful order, rule, or regulation of the Public Utilities Commission respecting such transportation service.
Cal. VEH § 1808.25 — California Code / Code veh / Division 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 1808.25
Section 1808.25
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall implement a program to provide residence address information to an accredited degree-granting nonprofit independent institution of higher education incorporated in the state, that has concluded a memorandum of understanding pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 830.7 of the Penal Code if, under penalty of perjury, the institution requests and uses the information solely for the purpose of enforcing parking restrictions.

(b) The memorandum of understanding executed by the sheriff or chief of police within whose jurisdiction the independent institution is located shall expressly permit the institution to enforce parking restrictions pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 830.7 of the Penal Code. For the purposes of this subdivision, a participating institution shall enter into a contractual agreement with the department that, at a minimum, requires the institution to do all of the following:

(1) Establish and maintain procedures, to the satisfaction of the department, for persons to contest parking violation notices issued by the institution.

(2) Remit a fee, as determined by the department, to cover the department’s costs of providing each address to the institution.

(3) Agree that access to confidential residence address information from the department’s vehicle registration database will be provided only through an approved commercial requester account.

(4) Establish and maintain a system that ensures that confidential address information obtained from the department is used solely for the purpose specified in subdivision (a).

(c) The director may terminate a contract authorized by subdivision (b) at any time the department determines that the independent institution of higher education fails to maintain adequate safeguards to ensure that the operation of the program does not adversely affect those individuals whose records are maintained in the department’s files, or that the information is used for any purpose other than that specified in subdivision (a).

(d) Sections 1808.45, 1808.46, and 1808.47 are applicable to persons who obtain department records pursuant to this section and the department may pursue any appropriate civil or criminal action against any individual at an independent institution who violates the provisions of this section.

(e) For purposes of this article only, any confidential information obtained from the department for administration or enforcement of this article shall be held confidential, except to the extent necessary for the enforcement of parking restrictions, and may not be used for any purpose other than the administration or enforcement of parking restrictions.
Cal. PRC § 5033 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 5033
Section 5033
Status: in_force

The department shall adopt all rules and regulations relating to standards for qualifying as a historical property. In adopting such rules and regulations, the department shall consider all recommendations of the State Historical Resources Commission.
Cal. PUC § 6298 — California Code / Code puc / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 6298
Section 6298
Status: in_force

The grantee shall file with the legislative body of the municipality within thirty (30) days after any sale, transfer, assignment, or lease of the franchise or any part thereof, or any of the rights or privileges granted thereby, written evidence of the transaction certified to by the grantee or its duly authorized officers.
Cal. FGC § 51 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 0.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 51
Section 51
Status: in_force

“Kelp” means kelp or other marine aquatic plants and the seeds thereof.
Cal. EVID § 767 — California Code / Code evid / Division 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 767
Section 767
Status: in_force

(a) Except under special circumstances where the interests of justice otherwise require:

(1) A leading question may not be asked of a witness on direct or redirect examination.

(2) A leading question may be asked of a witness on cross-examination or recross-examination.

(b) The court may, in the interests of justice permit a leading question to be asked of a child under 10 years of age or a dependent person with a substantial cognitive impairment in a case involving a prosecution under Section 273a, 273d, 288.5, 368, or any of the acts described in Section 11165.1 or 11165.2 of the Penal Code.
Cal. FGC § 1057 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 1057
Section 1057
Status: in_force

All license, tag, permit, reservation, and other entitlement money shall be accounted for separately from other funds of a license agent, and shall at all times belong to the state.
Cal. PRC § 26201 — California Code / Code prc / Division 16.3 / Chapter 1 / Section 26201
Section 26201
Status: in_force

This division has the following objectives:

(a) Create good-paying energy efficiency and clean energy jobs in California.

(b) Put Californians to work repairing and updating schools and public buildings to improve their energy efficiency and make other clean energy improvements that create jobs and save energy and money.

(c) Promote the creation of new private sector jobs improving the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings.

(d) Achieve the maximum amount of job creation and energy benefits with available funds.

(e) Supplement, complement, and leverage existing energy efficiency and clean energy programs to create increased economic and energy benefits for California in coordination with the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission.

(f) Provide a full public accounting of all money spent and jobs and benefits achieved so the programs and projects funded pursuant to this division can be reviewed and evaluated.
Cal. CIV § 1714.10 — California Code / Code civ / Division 3 / Part 3 / Section 1714.10
Section 1714.10
Status: in_force

(a) No cause of action against an attorney for a civil conspiracy with his or her client arising from any attempt to contest or compromise a claim or dispute, and which is based upon the attorney’s representation of the client, shall be included in a complaint or other pleading unless the court enters an order allowing the pleading that includes the claim for civil conspiracy to be filed after the court determines that the party seeking to file the pleading has established that there is a reasonable probability that the party will prevail in the action. The court may allow the filing of a pleading claiming liability based upon such a civil conspiracy following the filing of a verified petition therefor accompanied by the proposed pleading and supporting affidavits stating the facts upon which the liability is based. The court shall order service of the petition upon the party against whom the action is proposed to be filed and permit that party to submit opposing affidavits prior to making its determination. The filing of the petition, proposed pleading, and accompanying affidavits shall toll the running of any applicable statute of limitations until the final determination of the matter, which ruling, if favorable to the petitioning party, shall permit the proposed pleading to be filed.

(b) Failure to obtain a court order where required by subdivision (a) shall be a defense to any action for civil conspiracy filed in violation thereof. The defense shall be raised by the attorney charged with civil conspiracy upon that attorney’s first appearance by demurrer, motion to strike, or such other motion or application as may be appropriate. Failure to timely raise the defense shall constitute a waiver thereof.

(c) This section shall not apply to a cause of action against an attorney for a civil conspiracy with his or her client, where (1) the attorney has an independent legal duty to the plaintiff, or (2) the attorney’s acts go beyond the performance of a professional duty to serve the client and involve a conspiracy to violate a legal duty in furtherance of the attorney’s financial gain.

(d) This section establishes a special proceeding of a civil nature. Any order made under subdivision (a), (b), or (c) which determines the rights of a petitioner or an attorney against whom a pleading has been or is proposed to be filed, shall be appealable as a final judgment in a civil action.

(e) Subdivision (d) does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, the existing law.
Cal. WAT § 13884 — California Code / Code wat / Division 7 / Chapter 10.6 / Section 13884
Section 13884
Status: in_force

The department shall prepare a report on each application pursuant to this chapter for a grant in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). The report shall be filed with the Legislature, if it is in session, or if it is not in session, with the Rules Committee of the Assembly and Senate. The department shall be authorized to make a grant in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) only upon the specific approval of the grant by the Legislature, by an act enacted after the receipt of such report from the department.
Cal. HSC § 106695 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 106695
Section 106695
Status: in_force

A registered environmental health specialist may maintain registration under a retired biennial registration provided the following requirements are met:

(a)  Has been a working registered environmental health specialist in California for at least 10 years in an area covered in subdivision (e) of Section 106615, unless receiving an on-the-job disability before the 10 years of service as a registered environmental health specialist has elapsed.

(b)  Is at least 50 years old or collecting retirement benefits, or both.

(c)  Not working in a job requiring registration as an environmental health specialist. A person who pays a retired biennial fee shall be registered only as an inactive retired registered environmental health specialist.
Cal. WAT § 73505 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20.5 / Section 73505
Section 73505
Status: in_force

The State Department of Health Services shall conduct an audit, or arrange for an audit to be performed by contract, of the city’s program of maintenance of the bay area regional water system prior to July 1, 2004. The audit shall include both of the following:

(a) A review of the adequacy of the city’s procedures and resources for all of the following:

(1) Identifying needed maintenance.

(2) Planning, budgeting, scheduling, and completing maintenance.

(3) Recordkeeping of maintenance activities.

(b) A field investigation of the major facilities of the bay area regional water system to determine the general condition of those facilities and the adequacy of existing maintenance efforts.

(c) The State Department of Health Services shall submit a report to the city, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and the Seismic Safety Commission on its findings and recommendations based on the audit on or before January 1, 2005.
Cal. WIC § 15884.5 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3.3 / Chapter 4 / Article 5 / Section 15884.5
Section 15884.5
Status: in_force

(a) It shall constitute unfair competition for purposes of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code for an insurer, an insurance agent or broker, or an administrator, as defined in Section 1759 of the Insurance Code, to refer an individual employee, or his or her dependents, to the program, or arrange for an individual employee, or his or her dependents, to apply to the program, for the purpose of separating that employee, or his or her dependents, from group health coverage provided in connection with the employees employment.

(b) It shall constitute an unfair labor practice contrary to public policy and enforceable under Section 95 of the Labor Code for any employer to refer an individual employee, or his or her dependents, to the program, or to arrange for an individual employee, or his or her dependents, to apply to the program, for the purpose of separating that employee, or his or her dependents, from group health coverage provided in connection with the employee’s employment.

(c) As used in this section, “group health coverage” includes any nonprofit hospital service plan, health care service plan, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or disability insurance providing medical or hospital benefits.
Cal. FIN § 7266 — California Code / Code fin / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 2.5 / Section 7266
Section 7266
Status: in_force

Bonds, consolidated bonds, collateral trust debentures, consolidated debentures, or other obligations issued by federal land banks or federal intermediate credit banks established under the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, the Farm Credit Act of 1971, in debentures and consolidated debentures issued by the Central Bank for Cooperatives and banks for cooperatives established under the Farm Credit Act of 1933, as amended, and the Farm Credit Act of 1971, and in stocks, bonds, debentures, participations, and other obligations of, or issued by, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Student Loan Marketing Association, the Government National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
Cal. BPC § 19072.7 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 19072.7
Section 19072.7
Status: in_force

Aiding, abetting, or knowingly combining or conspiring with an unlicensed person engaged in a business regulated by this chapter, to evade the provisions of this chapter, or allowing one’s license or registry number to be used by an unlicensed person to evade the provisions of this chapter is grounds for disciplinary action.
Cal. HSC § 1527.4 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2.5 / Section 1527.4
Section 1527.4
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the fund shall not be liable for damages in excess of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for any single foster family home, small family home, on and after January 1, 2019, resource family, or, on or after January 1, 2020, tribally approved homes, for all claims arising due to one or more occurrences during any consecutive 12-month period. The fund shall be liable only once for damages arising from one occurrence.
Cal. HNC § 6054.3 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 6054.3
Section 6054.3
Status: in_force

Where the office of a commissioner becomes vacant during his term the vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by appointment by the majority of remaining commissioners, and if not so filled within 30 days after the vacancy, it shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 1778 of the Government Code.
Cal. ELEC § 13306 — California Code / Code elec / Division 13 / Chapter 4 / Section 13306
Section 13306
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Sections 13300, 13303, and 13307, county voter information guides and candidates’ statements need not be mailed to voters who registered after the 54th day before an election, but all of these voters shall receive polling place notices and state voter information guides. A state voter information guide is not required to be mailed to a voter who registered after the 29th day before an election. Each of these voters shall receive a notice in bold print that states: “Because you are a late registrant, you are not receiving a county voter information guide or candidates’ statements.”