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Cal. LAB § 1152 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 3.5 / Chapter 3 / Section 1152
Section 1152
Status: in_force

Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of continued employment as authorized in subdivision (c) of Section 1153.
Cal. FAC § 10003 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 10003
Section 10003
Status: in_force

When the department establishes a tuberculosis control area, the affected industry shall be notified.
Cal. FAC § 79964 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 30 / Article 5 / Section 79964
Section 79964
Status: in_force

Nonreceipt of a ballot shall not invalidate a referendum.
Cal. WIC § 731.5 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 18 / Section 731.5
Section 731.5
Status: in_force

In addition to the provisions of Section 731, if a minor’s conduct constitutes a violation of Section 490.5 of the Penal Code, the court may require the minor to perform public services designated by the court.
Cal. PUC § 142101 — California Code / Code puc / Division 15 / Chapter 3 / Section 142101
Section 142101
Status: in_force

The authority shall adopt rules for its proceedings consistent with the law of the state.
Cal. ELEC § 16801 — California Code / Code elec / Division 16 / Chapter 9 / Section 16801
Section 16801
Status: in_force

Where two or more contested elections are joined for the purpose of recounting votes, the costs shall be apportioned among the parties in the discretion of the court.
Cal. LAB § 1151 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 3.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 1151
Section 1151
Status: in_force

For the purpose of all hearings and investigations, which, in the opinion of the board, are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers vested in it by Chapters 5 (commencing with Section 1156) and 6 (commencing with Section 1160) of this part:

(a) The board, or its duly authorized agents or agencies, shall at all reasonable times have access to, for the purpose of examination, and the right to copy, any evidence of any person being investigated or proceeded against that relates to any matter under investigation or in question. The members of the board or their designees or their duly authorized agents shall have the right of free access to all places of labor. The board, or any member thereof, shall upon application of any party to such proceedings, forthwith issue to such party subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of any evidence in such proceeding or investigation requested in such application. Within five days after the service of a subpoena on any person requiring the production of any evidence in his possession or under his control, such person may petition the board to revoke, and the board shall revoke, such subpoena if in its opinion the evidence whose production is required does not relate to any matter under investigation, or any matter in question in such proceedings, or if in its opinion such subpoena does not describe with sufficient particularity the evidence whose production is required. Any member of the board, or any agent or agency designated by the board for such purposes, may administer oaths and affirmations, examine witnesses, and receive evidence. Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such evidence may be required from any place in the state at any designated place of hearing.

(b) In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, any superior court in any county within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on, or within the jurisdiction of which such person allegedly guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business, shall, upon application by the board, have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Cal. PRC § 7993 — California Code / Code prc / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 9 / Section 7993
Section 7993
Status: in_force

When State lands, upon which the full purchase price has not been paid, have been sold to the State for delinquent taxes and the deed therefor to the State has been forwarded to and filed with the commission, such lands shall again become subject to entry and sale in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions, as apply to State lands of like character.
Cal. FGC § 8569 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 16 / Section 8569
Section 8569
Status: in_force

The commission may establish conditions for the issuance of a permit if the person’s drift gill net shark and swordfish permit was revoked during a preceding season or if the person possessed a valid permit during the preceding season but did not apply for renewal of his or her permit on or before April 30. The applicant for a permit under this section may appeal to the director for the issuance of the permit under those conditions.
Cal. HSC § 128900 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 5 / Chapter 2 / Section 128900
Section 128900
Status: in_force

The following definitions apply for purposes of this chapter:

(a) “Clinic” means an organized outpatient health facility required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200) of Division 2.

(b) “Primary care clinic” means a clinic specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204, including community clinics and free clinics.

(c) “Intermittent clinic” means a clinic operated by a primary care community or free clinic that is operated on separate premises from the licensed clinic and is only open for limited services, as described in subdivision (h) of Section 1206.

(d) “Specialty clinic” means a clinic specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1204 or in Section 1204.1, including surgical clinics, chronic dialysis clinics, rehabilitation clinics, alternative birth centers, and psychology clinics.

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

(f) “FQHC” means a federally qualified health center.

(g) “RHC” means a rural health clinic.
Cal. HSC § 50710 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 2 / Chapter 8.5 / Section 50710
Section 50710
Status: in_force

The Director of Housing and Community Development may contract with school districts, housing authorities, health agencies, and other appropriate local public and private nonprofit agencies, for the procurement, or construction of housing or shelter and to obtain services for migratory agricultural workers in the fields of education and sanitation, to obtain day care services for the children of those workers, and the director may adopt regulations as the director deems necessary in order to provide that housing service. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, contracts made pursuant to this chapter are deemed to be for local assistance. Notwithstanding any other law, the director may provide for advance payments of up to 20 percent of annual operating costs of the migrant farm labor center to contractors, provided that the contractors do not have outstanding advance balances from the prior contract periods.
Cal. HSC § 1373.12 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.2 / Article 5 / Section 1373.12
Section 1373.12
Status: in_force

A health care service plan which offers or provides one or more chiropractic services, as defined in Section 7 of the Chiropractic Initiative Act, as a specific chiropractic plan benefit, when those services are not provided pursuant to a contract as described in subdivision (a) of Section 1373.9, shall not refuse to give reasonable consideration to affiliation with chiropractors for provision of services solely on the basis that they are chiropractors. Section 1390 shall not apply to this section.
Cal. BPC § 4988 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 13 / Article 6 / Section 4988
Section 4988
Status: in_force

The income of a marriage and family therapy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person (as defined in the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act) shall not in any manner accrue to the benefit of that shareholder or his or her shares in the marriage and family therapy corporation.
Cal. COM § 3303 — California Code / Code com / Division 3 / Chapter 3 / Section 3303
Section 3303
Status: in_force

(a) An instrument is issued or transferred for value if any of the following apply:

(1) The instrument is issued or transferred for a promise of performance, to the extent the promise has been performed.

(2) The transferee acquires a security interest or other lien in the instrument other than a lien obtained by judicial proceeding.

(3) The instrument is issued or transferred as payment of, or as security for, an antecedent claim against any person, whether or not the claim is due.

(4) The instrument is issued or transferred in exchange for a negotiable instrument.

(5) The instrument is issued or transferred in exchange for the incurring of an irrevocable obligation to a third party by the person taking the instrument.

(b) “Consideration” means any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract. The drawer or maker of an instrument has a defense if the instrument is issued without consideration. If an instrument is issued for a promise of performance, the issuer has a defense to the extent performance of the promise is due and the promise has not been performed. If an instrument is issued for value as stated in subdivision (a), the instrument is also issued for consideration.
Cal. BPC § 22386 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 17 / Article 4.5 / Section 22386
Section 22386
Status: in_force

Any person who has been injured by a violation of this chapter by an invention developer, or by any false or fraudulent statement, representation, or omission of material fact by an invention developer, or by failure of an invention developer to make all the disclosures required by Section 22379, may bring a civil action against the invention developer for the greater of the following amounts:

(1) Three thousand dollars ($3,000).

(2) Three times the amount of the actual damages, if any, sustained by the plaintiff.
In addition to the greater of the preceding amounts, the court may award reasonable attorney’s fees to the plaintiff.
Cal. PUC § 13826 — California Code / Code puc / Division 6 / Chapter 9 / Article 2 / Section 13826
Section 13826
Status: in_force

If no protests are filed or if the protests filed are overruled and denied the board shall thereupon by resolution finally approve the agreement and authorize its execution, which shall become effective when executed by the public agency, duly authorized in the manner provided in this chapter.
Cal. FGC § 2155 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 2155
Section 2155
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter and regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall apply to the progeny of any wild animal imported or possessed under such laws and regulations, except that no permit shall be required for the possession of progeny if a permit has already been obtained by the owner for the parent, and the progeny are kept at the same site.
Cal. PUC § 612 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 612
Section 612
Status: in_force

An electrical corporation may condemn any property necessary for the construction and maintenance of its electric plant.
Cal. FGC § 11018 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 8 / Chapter 1 / Section 11018
Section 11018
Status: in_force

The following constitutes Fish and Game District 10:

The ocean waters and the tidelands of the state to high-water mark lying between the southern boundary of Mendocino County and a line extending west from the Pigeon Point lighthouse in San Mateo County, including the waters of Tomales Bay to a line drawn from the mouth of the unnamed creek approximately 1500 feet north of Tomasini Point southwesterly 218° magnetic to the mouth of the unnamed creek at Shell Beach, and excluding Bodega Lagoon and all that portion of Bolinas Bay lying inside of Bolinas bar, that portion of San Francisco Bay lying east of a line drawn from Point Bonita to Point Lobos and all rivers, streams, and lagoons.
Cal. WIC § 329 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 8 / Section 329
Section 329
Status: in_force

(a) When a person applies to the social worker to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an affidavit alleging that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a child within the provisions of Section 300, and setting forth facts in support thereof. The social worker shall immediately investigate as necessary to determine whether proceedings in the juvenile court should be commenced. If the social worker does not take action under Section 301 and does not file a petition in the juvenile court within three weeks after the application, the social worker shall endorse upon the affidavit of the applicant the decision not to proceed further, including any recommendation made to the applicant, if one is made, to consider commencing a probate guardianship proceeding for the child, and the reasons therefor and shall immediately notify the applicant of the action taken or the decision rendered under this section. The social worker shall retain the affidavit and the endorsement thereon for a period of 30 days after notifying the applicant.

(b) (1) If a social worker receives a referral from the probate court pursuant to Section 1513 of the Probate Code, the social worker shall immediately investigate as necessary to determine whether proceedings in the juvenile court should be commenced.

(2) The social worker shall, within three weeks of the referral, report the findings and conclusions of the investigation, along with any decision made as a result and the reasons for the decision, to the probate court as required by subdivision (b) of Section 1513 of the Probate Code.
Cal. SHC § 1489 — California Code / Code shc / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 1489
Section 1489
Status: in_force

Unless a bridge is constructed in accordance with Section 1490, all persons excavating irrigation, mining or drainage ditches across county highways shall construct bridges across such ditches wherever such ditches cross such highways. If such persons fail to construct such bridges, the road commissioner shall construct them and shall recover from such persons, in an action at law brought in the name of the county, the expense of such construction.
Cal. HSC § 43013.3 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 43013.3
Section 43013.3
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 43013.1, the Secretary for Environmental Protection may prohibit the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in motor vehicle fuel prior to December 31, 2002, on a subregional basis in the Bay Area Air Basin, or in any other air basin in the state, if the secretary finds and determines all of the following:

(a)  That the removal of MTBE in motor vehicle fuel on a subregional basis will not cause or contribute to the basin being designated as a state or federal nonattainment area for one or more ambient air quality standards, including, but not limited to, state or federal ambient air standards for ambient ozone and carbon monoxide.

(b)  That the removal of MTBE in motor vehicle fuel will not increase potency-weighted air toxic compounds, or violate one or more control measures adopted by the state board or a district pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 39650) of Part 2.

(c)  That the subregion is a vulnerable groundwater area as defined in Section 25292.4.

(d)  That the removal of MTBE will not significantly affect the price or supply of gasoline in the subregion.
Cal. PRC § 10263 — California Code / Code prc / Division 10.2 / Chapter 4 / Section 10263
Section 10263
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall act on an application for a grant within 180 days after the department determines that it is complete.

(b) The department shall notify the applicant of the department’s decision in writing. For any decision to disapprove an application, the written notice shall state the reason for the disapproval.
Cal. PCC § 20274 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 13 / Section 20274
Section 20274
Status: in_force

All bids for construction work shall be presented under sealed cover and shall be accompanied by one of the following forms of bidder’s security:

(a) Cash.

(b) A cashier’s check made payable to the district.

(c) A certified check made payable to the district.

(d) A bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety insurer, made payable to the district.

Upon an award to the lowest bidder, the security of an unsuccessful bidder shall be returned in a reasonable period of time, but in no event shall that security be held by the district beyond 60 days from the time the award is made.
Cal. INS § 1185 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3.5 / Section 1185
Section 1185
Status: in_force

(a) Every domestic incorporated insurer shall file a report with the commissioner disclosing material acquisitions and dispositions of assets or material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements unless the acquisitions and dispositions of assets or material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements have been submitted to the commissioner for review, approval, or information purposes pursuant to other provisions of this code, laws, regulations, or other requirements.

(b) The report shall be filed within 15 days after the end of the calendar month in which any of the foregoing transactions occur.

(c) One complete copy of the report, including any exhibits or other attachments filed as part thereof, shall be filed with the department and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

(d) All reports obtained by, or disclosed to the commissioner pursuant to this article, shall be given confidential treatment and shall not be subject to subpoena and shall not be made public by the commissioner, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or any other person, except to insurance departments of other states, without the prior written consent of the insurer to which it pertains unless the commissioner, after giving the insurer who would be affected thereby, notice and an opportunity to be heard, determines that the interest of policyholders, shareholders, or the public will be served by the publication thereof, in which event the commissioner may publish all or any part thereof in such manner as he or she may deem appropriate.
Cal. RTC § 19719 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10.2 / Chapter 9 / Section 19719
Section 19719
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who attempts or purports to exercise the powers, rights, and privileges of a corporation that has been suspended pursuant to Section 23301 or who transacts or attempts to transact intrastate business in this state on behalf of a foreign corporation, the rights and privileges of which have been forfeited pursuant to the section, is punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) and not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both fine and imprisonment.

(b) This section shall not apply to any insurer, or to counsel retained by an insurer on behalf of the suspended corporation, who provides a defense for a suspended corporation in a civil action based upon a claim for personal injury, property damage, or economic losses against the suspended corporation, and, in conjunction with this defense, prosecutes subrogation, contribution, or indemnity rights against persons or entities in the name of the suspended corporation.

(c) Nothing in this section shall create or limit any obligation upon an insurer to defend a suspended corporation.
Cal. FAC § 13188 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 17 / Section 13188
Section 13188
Status: in_force

The Director of Pesticide Regulation may adopt regulations to implement this article.
Cal. HSC § 113729 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 7 / Chapter 2 / Section 113729
Section 113729
Status: in_force

“Food additive” has the meaning stated in Section 109940. “Color additive” has the meaning stated in Section 109895.
Cal. BPC § 2538.33 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 5.3 / Article 8 / Section 2538.33
Section 2538.33
Status: in_force

(a) Before engaging in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, each licensee shall notify the board in writing of the address or addresses where they are to engage, or intend to engage, in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, and of any changes in their place of business within 30 days of engaging in that practice.

(b) If a street address is not the address at which the licensee receives mail, the licensee shall also notify the board in writing of the mailing address for each location where the licensee is to engage, or intends to engage, in the practice of fitting or selling hearing aids, and of any change in the mailing address of their place or places of business.
Cal. WAT § 11953 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 11953
Section 11953
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter or impair any provision of law providing protections for areas of origin, including, but not limited to, Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 1215) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 2, Section 10505, Article 3 (commencing with Section 11460) of Chapter 3, or Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 12200).
Cal. PRC § 31100.5 — California Code / Code prc / Division 21 / Chapter 3 / Section 31100.5
Section 31100.5
Status: in_force

Three Members of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and three Members of the Assembly, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, shall meet with the conservancy and participate in its activities to the extent that such participation is not incompatible with their respective positions as Members of the Legislature.
Cal. WAT § 475 — California Code / Code wat / Division 1 / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 475
Section 475
Status: in_force

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that voluntary water transfers between water users can result in a more efficient use of water, benefiting both the buyer and the seller.

The Legislature further finds and declares that transfers of surplus water on an intermittent basis can help alleviate water shortages, save capital outlay development costs, and conserve water and energy.

The Legislature further finds and declares that it is in the public interest to conserve all available water resources, and that this interest requires the coordinated assistance of state agencies for voluntary water transfers to allow more intensive use of developed water resources in a manner that fully protects the interests of other entities which have rights to, or rely on, the water covered by a proposed transfer.