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Cal. WIC § 15850.1 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3.3 / Chapter 3 / Section 15850.1
Section 15850.1
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) “Administrative costs” means those expenses that are described in Section 1397ee(a)(1)(D) of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(b) “Applicant” means a county, county agency, a local initiative, or a county organized health system.

(c) “Department” means the State Department of Health Care Services.

(d) “Child” means a person under 19 years of age.

(e) “Comprehensive health insurance coverage” means the coverage provided in Section 2103 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1397cc) and shall be equivalent to the coverage provided to state employees through the Public Employees’ Retirement System for the most recent plan year preceding the applicable program plan year, except that the plans may provide a mechanism for inpatient hospital care provided under the mental health benefit through which applicants may agree to a treatment plan in which each inpatient day may be substituted for two residential treatment days or three day treatment program days.

(f) “County Children’s Health Initiative Program” or “CCHIP” means the program established pursuant to this chapter.

(g) “County organized health system” means a health system implemented pursuant to Article 2.8 (commencing with Section 14087.5) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of this division and Article 1 (commencing with Section 101675) of Chapter 3 of Part 4 of Division 101 of the Health and Safety Code.

(h) “Fund” means the County Health Initiative Matching Fund.

(i) “Local initiative” means a prepaid health plan that is organized by, or designated by, a county government or county governments, or organized by stakeholders, of a region designated by the department to provide comprehensive health care to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The entities established pursuant to Sections 14018.7, 14087.31, 14087.35, 14087.36, 14087.38, and 14087.96 are local initiatives.

(j) “Optional targeted low-income children group” means the population described in Section 1905(u)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396d(u)(2)(B)) and in Section 14005.26.

(k) “Access program” means the Medi-Cal Access Program under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 15810).

(l) “Health care service plan” includes Medi-Cal managed care plans contracting with the department under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3.
Cal. PRC § 3008 — California Code / Code prc / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 3008
Section 3008
Status: in_force

(a) “Well” means any oil or gas well or well for the discovery of oil or gas; any well on lands producing or reasonably presumed to contain oil or gas; any well drilled for the purpose of injecting fluids or gas for stimulating oil or gas recovery, repressuring or pressure maintenance of oil or gas reservoirs, or disposing of waste fluids from an oil or gas field; any well used to inject or withdraw gas from an underground storage facility; or any well drilled within or adjacent to an oil or gas pool for the purpose of obtaining water to be used in production stimulation or repressuring operations.

(b) “Prospect well” or “exploratory well” means any well drilled to extend a field or explore a new, potentially productive reservoir.

(c) “Active observation well” means a well being used for the sole purpose of gathering reservoir data, such as pressure or temperature in a reservoir being currently produced or injected by the operator. For a well to be an active observation well, the operator shall demonstrate to the division’s satisfaction that the well fulfills a need for gathering reservoir data, and the operator shall provide the division with a summary report of the type of data collected at least annually or as requested by the division.

(d) “Idle well” means any well that for a period of 24 consecutive months has not either produced oil or natural gas, produced water to be used in production stimulation, or been used for enhanced oil recovery, reservoir pressure management, or injection. For the purpose of determining whether a well is an idle well, production or injection is subject to verification by the division. An idle well continues to be an idle well until it has been properly abandoned in accordance with Section 3208 or it has been shown to the division’s satisfaction that, since the well became an idle well, the well has for a continuous six-month period either maintained production of oil or natural gas, maintained production of water used in production stimulation, or been used for enhanced oil recovery, reservoir pressure management, or injection. An idle well does not include an active observation well.

(e) “Long-term idle well” means any well that has been an idle well for eight or more years.

(f) “Low-production well” means an oil or gas well that produces, on average, fewer than 15 barrels of oil a day during the past 12 consecutive months, or a natural gas well whose maximum daily average gas production does not exceed 60,000 cubic feet of gas, per day, during the past 12 consecutive months. A low-production well does not include a natural gas storage well, a dedicated injection well, an active observation well, an idle well as defined in subdivision (d), or a fully plugged and abandoned well.
Cal. PCC § 20898 — California Code / Code pcc / Division 2 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 59 / Section 20898
Section 20898
Status: in_force

Except for any work provided for by contract made pursuant to Section 20897, the legislative body shall provide for the construction or installation of all improvements and for the furnishing of maintenance and service for any improvements in accordance with and subject to all laws applicable to the local agency, including any laws requiring the letting of contracts after competitive bidding.
Cal. PUC § 240319 — California Code / Code puc / Division 25 / Chapter 4 / Section 240319
Section 240319
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may provide for the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds to redeem or retire any bonds issued by the commission upon the terms, at the times and in the manner which it determines.

(b) Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to pay all, or any part of, the principal of the outstanding bonds, the premiums, if any, due upon call and redemption thereof prior to maturity, all expenses of the refunding, and either of the following:

(1) The interest upon the refunding bonds from the date of sale thereof to the date of payment of the bonds to be refunded out of the proceeds of the sale of the refunding bonds or to the date upon which the bonds to be refunded will be paid pursuant to call or agreement with the holders of the bonds.

(2) The interest upon the bonds to be refunded from the date of sale of the refunding bonds to the date of payment of the bonds to be refunded or to the date upon which the bonds to be refunded will be paid pursuant to call or agreement with the holder of the bonds.

(c) The provisions of this chapter for the issuance and sale of bonds apply to the issuance and sale of refunding bonds.
Cal. ELEC § 10530 — California Code / Code elec / Division 10 / Part 4 / Section 10530
Section 10530
Status: in_force

Vote by mail voting shall be allowed and conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with Division 3 (commencing with Section 3000) pertaining to general elections, except in those districts in which voting by proxy is allowed unless a particular district shall, by resolution pursuant to Section 4108, provide for an all-mail ballot election.
Cal. INS § 1815 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 1815
Section 1815
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner shall publish and maintain a list of the names of holders of bail agents’ and bail permittees’ licenses and their solicitors and bail fugitive recovery agents’ licenses on the department’s public internet website, together with their license numbers and any other information with respect to the persons as the commissioner considers advisable. The commissioner shall promptly upon termination, for any cause, of any license, update the department’s public internet website.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.
Cal. INS § 1855.3 — California Code / Code ins / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 4 / Section 1855.3
Section 1855.3
Status: in_force

Two or more insurers may cooperate with and act in concert with others as members of an advisory organization with respect to any matters pertaining to the preparation or making of insurance policy or bond forms, or manuals, or carrying on of research relative to the preparation and development of policy or bond forms, or manuals.
Cal. LAB § 9101 — California Code / Code lab / Division 5 / Part 11 / Chapter 1 / Section 9101
Section 9101
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, “working warehouse” means a wholesale or retail establishment in which both of the following occur:

(a) Heavy machinery, including, but not limited to, forklifts, is used in any area where the public shops while customers are on the premises.

(b) Merchandise is stored on shelves higher than 12 feet above the sales floor.
Cal. LAB § 4903.5 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Section 4903.5
Section 4903.5
Status: in_force

(a) A lien claim for expenses as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 4903 shall not be filed after three years from the date the services were provided, nor more than 18 months after the date the services were provided, if the services were provided on or after July 1, 2013.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any health care service plan licensed pursuant to Section 1349 of the Health and Safety Code, group disability insurer under a policy issued in this state pursuant to the provisions of Section 10270.5 of the Insurance Code, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan issued in this state as defined in Section 10121 of the Insurance Code, Taft-Hartley health and welfare fund, or publicly funded program providing medical benefits on a nonindustrial basis, may file a lien claim for expenses as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 4903 within 12 months after the entity first knew or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known that an industrial injury is being claimed, but in no event later than five years from the date the services were provided to the employee.

(c) The injured worker shall not be liable for any underlying obligation if a lien claim has not been filed and served within the allowable period. Except when the lien claimant is the applicant as provided in Section 5501 or as otherwise permitted by rules of practice and procedure adopted by the appeals board, a lien claimant shall not file a declaration of readiness to proceed in any case until the case-in-chief has been resolved.

(d) This section shall not apply to civil actions brought under the Cartwright Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16700) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code), the Unfair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 17000) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code), or the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (Chapter 96 (commencing with Section 1961) of Title 18 of the United States Code) based on concerted action with other insurers that are not parties to the case in which the lien or claim is filed.
Cal. SHC § 2956 — California Code / Code shc / Division 4 / Part 7 / Section 2956
Section 2956
Status: in_force

If the owners of 15 per cent or more of the area of the proposed district so demand the making of such investigation, all provisions of this division shall apply to the proposed proceeding, if any further steps are taken therein by the legislative body.
Cal. FAC § 38222 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 3.5 / Section 38222
Section 38222
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this article, high nutrient lowfat milk shall meet all standards and requirements which are specified in this division for market milk.
Cal. PUC § 40062 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 4 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 40062
Section 40062
Status: in_force

The board shall determine the number of, and appoint the officers of the district. Any officer of the Orange County Transportation Authority may also serve as an officer of the district.
Cal. INS § 12742 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 7 / Chapter 1 / Section 12742
Section 12742
Status: in_force

Home protection contracts and home protection companies, and all matters incident to or concerned with such contracts and companies, shall be exclusively subject to and regulated by the provisions of this part and, except as provided in Section 12743, shall not be governed by any other provision of this code.
Cal. HSC § 4797 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 4797
Section 4797
Status: in_force

In determining the amount of bonds to be issued, the legislative body may include:

(a)  All costs and estimated costs incidental to or connected with the acquisition, construction, improving or financing of the project.

(b)  All engineering, inspection, legal and fiscal agent’s fees, costs of the bond election and of the issuance of said bonds, bond reserve funds and working capital and bond interest estimated to accrue during the construction period and for a period of not to exceed 12 months after completion of construction.
Cal. HSC § 25200.12 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 9 / Section 25200.12
Section 25200.12
Status: in_force

A modification to an offsite facility operating under interim status pursuant to Section 25200.5 that requires a revised Part A application pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 66270.40) of Chapter 20 of Division 4.5 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, as that article read on January 1, 1992, is a discretionary project for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 21080 of the Public Resources Code and is subject to the requirements of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code, unless the modification is otherwise excluded from that division pursuant to paragraphs (2) to (15), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 21080 of the Public Resources Code.
Cal. FAC § 77124 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 16.5 / Article 5 / Section 77124
Section 77124
Status: in_force

The secretary shall establish a period in which to conduct the referendum that shall not be less than 10 days or more than 60 days in duration and may prescribe additional procedures necessary to conduct the referendum. If the initial period established is less than 60 days, the secretary may extend the period; however, the total referendum period may not exceed 60 days.
Cal. FAC § 36634 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 36634
Section 36634
Status: in_force

The processing of a petition for a temporary standard shall conform to the following schedule:

(a) Notice of the requested hearing or denial thereof shall be announced by the director within 15 days after receipt of a temporary standard petition.

(b) A hearing called pursuant to this section shall be held not later than 65 days following receipt of a temporary standard petition.

(c) The hearing shall be conducted in procedural compliance with applicable provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(d) The petitioner for a temporary standard shall be notified of the director’s decision on the request not later than 30 days following the closing of the hearing. A temporary standard approved by the director shall be effective immediately upon issuance of the director’s decision, subject to Section 36637.
Cal. FAC § 33773 — California Code / Code fac / Division 15 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Article 3 / Section 33773
Section 33773
Status: in_force

A cesspool, privy vault, hog yard, slaughterhouse, manure, or any decaying vegetable or animal matter shall not be so located as to become a nuisance or to permit foul odors to reach such milk products plant.
Cal. BPC § 6060.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 6060.5
Section 6060.5
Status: in_force

Neither the board, nor any committee authorized by it, shall require that applicants for admission to practice law in California pass different final bar examinations depending upon the manner or school in which they acquire their legal education.

This section shall not prohibit the board, or any committee authorized by it, from establishing a different bar examination for applicants who are admitted to practice before the highest court of another state or of any jurisdiction where the common law of England constitutes the basis of jurisprudence.
Cal. WAT § 22087 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 1.5 / Section 22087
Section 22087
Status: in_force

Any person who is injured by the action of any watermaster may apply to the superior court of the county in which the injury takes place for an injunction.
Cal. BPC § 2253 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 12 / Section 2253
Section 2253
Status: in_force

(a) Failure to comply with the Reproductive Privacy Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123460) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code) constitutes unprofessional conduct.

(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person is subject to Section 2052 if the person performs an abortion, and at the time of so doing, does not have a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license to practice as a physician and surgeon.

(2) A person shall not be subject to Section 2052 if the person performs an abortion by medication or aspiration techniques in the first trimester of pregnancy, and at the time of so doing, has a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license or certificate obtained in accordance with the Medical Practice Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000)), the Osteopathic Act (Article 21 (commencing with Section 2450) of Chapter 5), the Nursing Practice Act (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700)) or the Physician Assistant Practice Act (Chapter 7.7 (commencing with Section 3500)), that authorizes the person to perform the functions necessary for an abortion by medication or aspiration techniques.

(c) In order to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), a person shall comply with Section 2725.4 or 3502.4.

(d) The Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not suspend or revoke the certificate of a physician and surgeon solely for performing an abortion if they performed the abortion in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the Reproductive Privacy Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123460) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code).

(e) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Sections 141, 480, 490, 2221, 2305, 2234, and 2236, the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable, shall not deny an application for licensure as a physician and surgeon, or suspend, revoke, or otherwise impose discipline upon a physician and surgeon licensed in this state under either of the following circumstances:

(1) The physician and surgeon is licensed to practice medicine in another state and was disciplined in that state solely for performing an abortion in that state.

(2) The physician and surgeon is licensed to practice medicine in another state and was convicted in that state for an offense related solely to the performance of an abortion in that state.
Cal. FIN § 350 — California Code / Code fin / Division 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 350
Section 350
Status: in_force

The chief deputy shall be appointed by the Governor and hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. The annual salary of the chief deputy shall be fixed by the Governor.
Cal. SHC § 8703 — California Code / Code shc / Division 10 / Part 9 / Section 8703
Section 8703
Status: in_force

The lien of a reassessment and a refunding assessment shall have the same priority as the original assessment to which it relates. A supplemental assessment is a new assessment.
Cal. WAT § 51025 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 6 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 51025
Section 51025
Status: in_force

At the hearing the Reclamation Board shall hear any evidence offered with respect to the plan, and thereafter shall approve, modify, amend or reject the plan.
Cal. HSC § 111520 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 5 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 111520
Section 111520
Status: in_force

No person shall prescribe or knowingly administer an experimental drug to another person in violation of this article.
Cal. ELEC § 10544 — California Code / Code elec / Division 10 / Part 4 / Section 10544
Section 10544
Status: in_force

A governing body of a district may, by resolution, limit campaign contributions in elections to district offices.
Cal. LAB § 107 — California Code / Code lab / Division 1 / Chapter 4 / Section 107
Section 107
Status: in_force

(a) The enforcement of Section 14110.65 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is vested with the State Department of Health Services.

(b) Any claim made under Section 14110.65 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall not constitute a wage claim as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 96, and shall not be subject to this chapter.
Cal. ELEC § 11322 — California Code / Code elec / Division 11 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 11322
Section 11322
Status: in_force

In addition to the material contained in Section 11320, the following shall appear on ballots at all recall elections for state officers:

(a) The names of the candidates nominated to succeed the officer sought to be recalled shall appear under each recall question.

(b) Following each list of candidates, the ballot shall provide one blank line with a voting target next to it.
Cal. WAT § 25242 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 9 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 25242
Section 25242
Status: in_force

If any or all of the principal of any bonds is made payable only from revenue, the board shall cause a brief statement of the limitations upon the payment of principal or portion thereof to be set forth in the bonds.
Cal. FAC § 7573 — California Code / Code fac / Division 4 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 7573
Section 7573
Status: in_force

If, upon inspection by the commissioner, any seed screenings or cleanings from crop seed are found to contain the seed of any pest, the commissioner shall give notice in writing of such fact to the person in possession of the screenings or cleanings. The notice shall order that the screenings or cleanings be processed or destroyed, as provided in this article, within 60 days.
Cal. WAT § 26325 — California Code / Code wat / Division 11 / Part 10 / Chapter 6 / Article 5 / Section 26325
Section 26325
Status: in_force

A certificate of the secretary on a collector’s deed stating that it has been accepted by the board entitles the deed to be recorded.