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Cal. PUC § 314 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 314
Section 314
Status: in_force

(a) The commission, each commissioner, and each officer and person employed by the commission may, at any time, inspect the accounts, books, papers, and documents of any public utility. The commission, each commissioner, and any officer of the commission or any employee authorized to administer oaths may examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of a public utility in relation to its business and affairs. Any person, other than a commissioner or an officer of the commission, demanding to make any inspection shall produce, under the hand and seal of the commission, authorization to make the inspection. A written record of the testimony or statement so given under oath shall be made and filed with the commission.

(b) Subdivision (a) also applies to inspections of the accounts, books, papers, and documents of any business that is a subsidiary or affiliate of, or a corporation that holds a controlling interest in, an electrical, gas, or telephone corporation, or a water corporation that has 2,000 or more service connections, with respect to any transaction between the water, electrical, gas, or telephone corporation and the subsidiary, affiliate, or holding corporation on any matter that might adversely affect the interests of the ratepayers of the water, electrical, gas, or telephone corporation.
Cal. PRC § 25436 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 5.3 / Article 3 / Section 25436
Section 25436
Status: in_force

(a) Within 45 days of the effective date of this chapter, the commission shall implement a Small Business Energy Efficient Refrigeration Loan Program for qualifying small businesses to purchase and install energy efficient refrigeration equipment.

(b) The program shall offer loans at 3 percent interest on terms that will ensure the small business owner will repay the loan over time in accordance with terms established by the Energy Commission, but in no event may the term exceed the useful life of the purchase.

(c) The commission may enter into agreements with lending institutions and qualifying vendors to facilitate making and administering loans. Any loan made by the commission for the purchase of equipment shall be secured against the equipment purchased.
Cal. WIC § 14139.6 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 4.3 / Section 14139.6
Section 14139.6
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that local entities that are potential participants in this pilot program shall be assured of sufficient time to plan their pilot projects, and that the selected pilot project sites shall be assured of sufficient time to phase in the implementation of their programs. To that end, it is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in consultation with potential pilot project sites and the pilot program working group, shall develop a realistic timeline with guidelines for the planning and implementation of pilot projects.

(b) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the department, in consultation with the pilot program working group, from establishing a two-stage selection process in which local pilot project sites may be selected on a preliminary basis. Final selection of local pilot project sites shall be based on the completion of an administrative action plan that the department determines satisfactorily meets the selection criteria.
Cal. UIC § 3010 — California Code / Code uic / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 3010
Section 3010
Status: in_force

Any amounts determined by the director or his authorized representatives to be payable to employing units or workers as refunds of amounts deposited in the various accounts of the Disability Fund which are unclaimed at the end of three years from such determination, shall be included in the revenue to the account in the Disability Fund in which they were deposited. The employing unit or person entitled to such payment shall not thereafter maintain any claim, action or proceeding with respect to such amounts.
Cal. HSC § 12633 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 11 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 12633
Section 12633
Status: in_force

The original and annual renewal application for registration of each model of emergency signaling devices shall be made to the State Fire Marshal. A registration fee established and collected by the State Fire Marshal for each model of signaling device shall accompany each application.
Cal. COM § 10509 — California Code / Code com / Division 10 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 10509
Section 10509
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 10510 on default in installment lease contracts, if the goods or the tender or delivery fail in any respect to conform to the lease contract, the lessee may reject or accept the goods or accept any commercial unit or units and reject the rest of the goods.

(b) Rejection of goods is ineffective unless it is within a reasonable time after tender or delivery of the goods and the lessee seasonably notifies the lessor.
Cal. HSC § 40803 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 26 / Part 3 / Chapter 8 / Article 1 / Section 40803
Section 40803
Status: in_force

No officer or employee of the district, or of the county in the case of a county district, shall be a member of the district hearing board.
Cal. FGC § 6602 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 5.5 / Article 1 / Section 6602
Section 6602
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Applicant” means the owner or operator of an offshore oil structure in state or federal waters or another party responsible for decommissioning an offshore oil structure in state or federal waters who applies pursuant to this chapter to carry out partial removal of the structure.

(b) “Commission” means the State Lands Commission.

(c) “Conservancy” means the State Coastal Conservancy.

(d) “Cost savings” means the difference between the estimated cost to the applicant of complete removal of an oil platform as required by state and federal leases and the estimated costs to the applicant of partial removal of the oil platform pursuant to this chapter.

(e) “Council” means the Ocean Protection Council.

(f) “Endowment” means the California Endowment for Marine Preservation established in Division 37 (commencing with Section 71500) of the Public Resources Code.

(g) “Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)” means the zone as measured from the mean high tide line seaward to 200 nautical miles, as set forth in Presidential Proclamation 5030 of March 10, 1983, in which the United States proclaimed jurisdiction over the resources of the ocean within 200 miles of the coastline.

(h) “National Fishing Enhancement Act of 1984” means Title II of Public Law 98-623.

(i) “Offshore oil structure” means platforms, piers, and artificial islands located seaward of mean lower low water, used for oil and gas exploration, development, production, processing, or storage.

(j) “Oil” means any kind of petroleum, liquid hydrocarbons, natural gas, or petroleum products or any fraction or residues therefrom.

(k) “Open coastal marine resources” means those marine resources that use open coastal waters as their habitat.

(l) “Open coastal waters” means the area composed of the submerged lands of the state that are below the mean lower low water, extending seaward to the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone.

(m) “Partial removal” means an alternative to full removal of an offshore oil structure, in compliance with all requirements of this chapter.

(n) “State waters” means waters within the seaward boundary of the state as identified in Section 2 of Article III of the California Constitution.
Cal. VEH § 23512 — California Code / Code veh / Division 11.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 23512
Section 23512
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this article, “program” means the Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program prescribed in this article.
Cal. HSC § 50953 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Section 50953
Section 50953
Status: in_force

No provision of this division shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which the agency or any local public entity might otherwise have under any laws of this state, and this part is cumulative with respect to these powers. This division shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of bonds and refunding bonds under this part need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds, and in the construction or acquisition of a housing development or a residential structure pursuant to this division, the agency need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to construction or acquisition of public works, except as specifically provided in this division. The agency shall adopt regulations for review of construction contracts for the construction or rehabilitation of housing developments and residential structures financed under this division and shall require that on construction of this housing which is financed by a construction loan from the agency, other than mutual self-help housing developments, all workers employed in the construction, exclusive of maintenance work, shall be paid not less than the general prevailing rate or per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which the construction is performed, and not less than the prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work. The agency shall determine or require determination of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in accordance with the standards set forth in Section 1773 of the Labor Code. Apprentices shall be employed in the construction of housing developments in accordance with the regulations of the agency, which shall impose the same requirements as contained in Section 1777.5 of the Labor Code, except as to differences necessitated by the methods of awarding construction contracts for housing developments financed under this division.
Cal. PROB § 4742 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4.7 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Section 4742
Section 4742
Status: in_force

(a) A health care provider or health care institution that intentionally violates this part is subject to liability to the aggrieved individual for damages of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney’s fees.

(b) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates an individual’s advance health care directive or a revocation of an advance health care directive without the individual’s consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke, or not to give an advance health care directive, is subject to liability to that individual for damages of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney’s fees.

(c) The damages provided in this section are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.
Cal. PROB § 1023 — California Code / Code prob / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 1023
Section 1023
Status: in_force

If a petitioner, objector, or respondent is absent from the county or for some other cause is unable to sign or verify a petition, objection, or response filed pursuant to this code, the person’s attorney may sign or verify the petition, objection, or response unless the person is a fiduciary appointed in the proceeding.
Cal. PRC § 5099.10 — California Code / Code prc / Division 5 / Chapter 1.9 / Article 3 / Section 5099.10
Section 5099.10
Status: in_force

The director shall propose rules and regulations which establish standards governing the disbursement of funds received by him pursuant to this chapter. The director shall hold a public hearing on such proposed rules and regulations, before March 1, 1968, in the following locations: (1) Redding or Red Bluff; (2) Sacramento; (3) Los Angeles; and (4) San Diego. After March 1, 1968, the director may hold hearings as he deems necessary on revisions of the rules and regulations as originally adopted pursuant to this section, and he shall hold hearings on such proposed revisions upon request. Rules and regulations which have been adopted or revised pursuant to this section shall be published in the California Administrative Code.
Cal. BPC § 7584.4 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.5 / Article 4.5 / Section 7584.4
Section 7584.4
Status: in_force

If the bureau denies a baton permit, the bureau shall issue that denial of the permit in writing and shall describe the basis for the denial. The denial shall inform the applicant that if they desire a review by a disciplinary review committee to contest the denial, the applicant is required to request review from the director within 30 days following notice of the issuance of the denial. A review or hearing shall be held pursuant to Section 7581.3.
Cal. FIN § 17608 — California Code / Code fin / Division 6 / Chapter 4 / Section 17608
Section 17608
Status: in_force

The commissioner may, after notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard, suspend or revoke any license if he finds that:

(a) The licensee has failed to maintain in effect a bond required under the provisions of this division.

(b) The licensee has violated any provision of this division or any rule made by the commissioner under and within the authority of this division.

(c) Any fact or condition exists which, if it had existed at the time of the original application for such license, reasonably would have warranted the commissioner in refusing originally to issue such license.
Cal. PROB § 8402 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 8402
Section 8402
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person is not competent to act as personal representative in any of the following circumstances:

(1) The person is under the age of majority.

(2) The person is subject to a conservatorship of the estate or is otherwise incapable of executing, or is otherwise unfit to execute, the duties of the office.

(3) There are grounds for removal of the person from office under Section 8502.

(4) The person is not a resident of the United States.

(5) The person is a surviving business partner of the decedent and an interested person objects to the appointment.

(b) Paragraphs (4) and (5) of subdivision (a) do not apply to a person named as executor or successor executor in the decedent’s will.
Cal. LAB § 6503.5 — California Code / Code lab / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Section 6503.5
Section 6503.5
Status: in_force

A safety conference shall be held for all asbestos handling jobs prior to the start of actual work. It shall include representatives of the owner or contracting agency, the contractor, the employer, employees, and employee representatives. It shall include a discussion of the employer’s safety program and such means, methods, devices, processes, practices, conditions, or operations as the employer intends to use in providing a safe place of employment.
Cal. PRC § 42495 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 8.7 / Article 3 / Section 42495
Section 42495
Status: in_force

On and after July 1, 2006, it is unlawful to sell a cell phone to a consumer in this state unless the retailer of that cell phone complies with this chapter.
Cal. SHC § 5010 — California Code / Code shc / Division 7 / Part 1 / Section 5010
Section 5010
Status: in_force

“Council chambers” refers to the place where the regular meetings of the legislative body of the county or city are held.
Cal. HSC § 18897.6 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 2.4 / Section 18897.6
Section 18897.6
Status: in_force

Organized camps shall not be subject to regulation by any state agency other than the State Department of Public Health, California regional water quality control boards, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the State Fire Marshal; provided, that this section shall not affect the authority of the Department of Industrial Relations to regulate the wages or hours of employees of organized camps and this section shall not be construed to limit the application of building standards published in the State Building Standards Code to structures in organized camps.
Cal. HSC § 18201 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 2.1 / Chapter 1 / Section 18201
Section 18201
Status: in_force

“Approved” when used in connection with any material, appliance, or construction, means meeting the requirements for obtaining the approval of the department.
Cal. HSC § 6550.21 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 6550.21
Section 6550.21
Status: in_force

The district board shall have the power to change the boundaries of territory proposed to be annexed to an improvement district, but shall not include any territory which, in its judgment, will not be benefited by inclusion within the improvement district, nor shall it exclude any territory which it finds would be benefited by inclusion within the improvement district.
Cal. PRC § 4733 — California Code / Code prc / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 10 / Article 7 / Section 4733
Section 4733
Status: in_force

No shareholder of any corporation formed pursuant to this article shall receive or accept from the corporation in repayment of his investment in its shares any sum in excess of the par value of the shares together with current dividends of not to exceed 7 percent per annum of the par value and any cumulative dividends to which the shareholder may be entitled.
Cal. PRC § 30101.3 — California Code / Code prc / Division 20 / Chapter 2 / Section 30101.3
Section 30101.3
Status: in_force

“Coastal-related development” means any use that is dependent on a coastal-dependent development or use.
Cal. FAM § 3040 — California Code / Code fam / Division 8 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Section 3040
Section 3040
Status: in_force

(a) Custody should be granted in the following order of preference according to the best interest of the child as provided in Sections 3011 and 3020:

(1) To both parents jointly pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 3080) or to either parent. In making an order granting custody to either parent, the court shall consider, among other factors, which parent is more likely to allow the child frequent and continuing contact with the noncustodial parent, consistent with Sections 3011 and 3020. The court, in its discretion, may require the parents to submit to the court a plan for the implementation of the custody order.

(2) If to neither parent, to the person or persons in whose home the child has been living in a wholesome and stable environment.

(3) To any other person or persons deemed by the court to be suitable and able to provide adequate and proper care and guidance for the child.

(b) The immigration status of a parent, legal guardian, or relative shall not disqualify the parent, legal guardian, or relative from receiving custody under subdivision (a).

(c) The court shall not consider the sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation of a parent, legal guardian, or relative in determining the best interest of the child under subdivision (a).

(d) (1) Commencing January 1, 2024, if a court finds that the effects of a parent’s, legal guardian’s, or relative’s history of or current mental illness are a factor in determining the best interest of the child under subdivision (a), the court shall do both of the following:

(A) Provide the parent, legal guardian, or relative with a list of local resources for mental health treatment.

(B) State its reasons for the finding in writing or on the record.

(2) This subdivision does not relieve a court from ensuring that the health, safety, and welfare of the child is the court’s primary concern in determining the best interests of children when making any order regarding the physical or legal custody, or visitation, of the child.

(e) This section establishes neither a preference nor a presumption for or against joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or sole custody, but allows the court and the family the widest discretion to choose a parenting plan that is in the best interest of the child, consistent with this section.

(f) In cases where a child has more than two parents, the court shall allocate custody and visitation among the parents based on the best interest of the child, including, but not limited to, addressing the child’s need for continuity and stability by preserving established patterns of care and emotional bonds. The court may order that not all parents share legal or physical custody of the child if the court finds that it would not be in the best interest of the child as provided in Sections 3011 and 3020.
Cal. SHC § 35404 — California Code / Code shc / Division 18 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Section 35404
Section 35404
Status: in_force

The bonds shall all mature within 35 years after the date thereof and shall be payable at the times and at the place to be fixed by the legislative body and designated in the bonds.
Cal. FAC § 76604 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 16 / Article 2 / Section 76604
Section 76604
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.
Cal. PRC § 14570 — California Code / Code prc / Division 12.1 / Chapter 6 / Section 14570
Section 14570
Status: in_force

(a) Every dealer shall post a clear and conspicuous sign of at least 10 inches by 15 inches at each public entrance to the dealer’s place of business that specifies one of the following:

(1) The name and address, as provided by the department, of at least the certified recycling center, location, or locations, nearest to the dealer, that redeems all types of empty beverage containers consistent with Section 14571.

(2) One of the following procedures for redeeming beverage containers is available, pursuant to Section 14578:

(A) Beverage containers may be redeemed at all open cash registers within this place of business.

(B) Beverage containers may be redeemed at one specific location on the dealer’s premises that is identified on the sign.

(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2025.
Cal. WAT § 37203.1 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 7.5 / Section 37203.1
Section 37203.1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 54902 and 54903 of the Government Code and Section 37203, the Yolo-Zamora Water District may effectively proceed under this part for assessment and taxation purposes if a certified copy of the resolution of the board adopted pursuant to Section 37203 electing to proceed under this part, shall be filed with the Auditor, Assessor, Tax Collector and Treasurer of Yolo County and the State Board of Equalization on or before April 15, 1969, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the district shall be filed with the Yolo County Assessor and the State Board of Equalization on or before April 15, 1969.