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Cal. EVID § 1124 — California Code / Code evid / Division 9 / Chapter 2 / Section 1124
Section 1124
Status: in_force

An oral agreement made in the course of, or pursuant to, a mediation is not made inadmissible, or protected from disclosure, by the provisions of this chapter if any of the following conditions are satisfied:

(a) The agreement is in accordance with Section 1118.

(b) The agreement is in accordance with subdivisions (a), (b), and (d) of Section 1118, and all parties to the agreement expressly agree, in writing or orally in accordance with Section 1118, to disclosure of the agreement.

(c) The agreement is in accordance with subdivisions (a), (b), and (d) of Section 1118, and the agreement is used to show fraud, duress, or illegality that is relevant to an issue in dispute.
Cal. HSC § 112465 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 6 / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 112465
Section 112465
Status: in_force

No person shall keep any article of food in cold storage for more than twelve calendar months, except with the consent of the board. Thirty days prior to the expiration of the 12-month period, the licensee shall send notice to the board advising them of this fact. Duplicate notice shall be sent to the owner of the food.
Cal. HSC § 130512 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 112 / Chapter 2 / Section 130512
Section 130512
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall generate a monthly report that, at a minimum, provides all of the following:

(1) Drug utilization information.

(2) Amounts paid to pharmacies.

(3) Program discounts compared to the usual customary price.

(4) Aggregate amounts of rebates collected from manufacturers.

(5) A summary of the problems or complaints reported regarding the program.

(b) Information provided in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (a) shall be at the national drug code level.

(c) The department shall generate an annual report that, in addition to the information described in subdivision (a), reports on the number of all of the following:

(1) Individuals enrolled.

(2) Individuals receiving a prescription under the program.

(3) Participating pharmacies.

(4) Participating manufacturers.

(d) All reports shall be made available on the department’s Internet Web site.
Cal. FGC § 850 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 850
Section 850
Status: in_force

The director shall, from time to time, employ or appoint, with or without pay, such deputies, clerks, assistants, and other employees as the department may need to discharge in proper manner the duties imposed upon it by law.
Cal. HSC § 1399.56 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2 / Chapter 2.2 / Article 9.5 / Section 1399.56
Section 1399.56
Status: in_force

Compensation of a person retained by a health care service plan to review claims for health care services shall not be based on either of the following:

(a)  A percentage of the amount by which a claim is reduced for payment.

(b)  The number of claims or the cost of services for which the person has denied authorization or payment.
Cal. WAT § 13327 — California Code / Code wat / Division 7 / Chapter 5 / Article 2.5 / Section 13327
Section 13327
Status: in_force

In determining the amount of civil liability, the regional board, and the state board upon review of any order pursuant to Section 13320, shall take into consideration the nature, circumstance, extent, and gravity of the violation or violations, whether the discharge is susceptible to cleanup or abatement, the degree of toxicity of the discharge, and, with respect to the violator, the ability to pay, the effect on ability to continue in business, any voluntary cleanup efforts undertaken, any prior history of violations, the degree of culpability, economic benefit or savings, if any, resulting from the violation, and other matters as justice may require.
Cal. HSC § 116890 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 12 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 116890
Section 116890
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Community water system” has the same meaning as in Section 116275.

(2) “Public water system” has the same meaning as in Section 116275.

(3) “State board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.

(4) “User service line” has the same meaning as in Section 64551.60 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.

(b) The state board may apply the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 116875 and Section 116885 to, and enforce the requirements of those provisions against, public water systems and community water systems under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270). For purposes of Article 7 (commencing with Section 116525), Article 8 (commencing with Section 116625), and Article 9 (commencing with Section 116650) of Chapter 4, a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 116875 or Section 116885 by a public water system is a violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270).
Cal. VEH § 5354 — California Code / Code veh / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 10 / Section 5354
Section 5354
Status: in_force

The registration of a foreign trailer coach owned by a nonresident shall be subject to and governed by Section 6700.
Cal. CIV § 80 — California Code / Code civ / Division 1 / Part 2.9 / Section 80
Section 80
Status: in_force

This part may be cited as the California Fair Dealership Law.
Cal. WAT § 79562.5 — California Code / Code wat / Division 26.5 / Chapter 8 / Section 79562.5
Section 79562.5
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of carrying out Section 79560, the department shall award grants to eligible projects consistent with an adopted integrated regional water management plan.

(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), the department shall establish standards for integrated regional water management plans. At a minimum, these plans shall address the major water related objectives and conflicts of the watersheds in the region covered by the plan, including water supply, groundwater management, ecosystem restoration, and water quality elements, and may include other elements consistent with this chapter.

(c) The department may waive the requirement for consistency with an adopted integrated regional water management plan until January 1, 2007, if the applicant is engaged in the development of an integrated regional water management plan and indicates, within its grant application, how the project fits into achieving the integrated regional water management plan objectives.

(d) The department may waive the matching fund requirement for disadvantaged communities.

(e) For groundwater management and recharge projects and for projects with potential groundwater impacts, the board and the department shall give preference to eligible projects in areas subject to a groundwater management plan that meets the requirements of Section 10753.7, or that includes the development of a groundwater management plan as a project component.

(f) The maximum award for any single grant pursuant to this section may not exceed fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).

(g) The department shall require that eligible projects include a nonstate contribution.

(h) For the purposes of implementing Section 79563, and to the extent funds are expended for the purposes of Section 30947 of the Public Resources Code, those funds shall comply with the requirements of that section.
Cal. HSC § 108210 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 108210
Section 108210
Status: in_force

(a)  An article may be determined to present an electrical hazard if, in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse, its design or manufacture may cause personal injury or illness by electric shock.

(b)  An article may be determined to present a mechanical hazard if, in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse, its design or manufacture presents an unreasonable risk of personal injury or illness from any of the following:

(1)  Fracture, fragmentation, or disassembly of the article.

(2)  Propulsion of the article or any part or accessory thereof.

(3)  Points or other protrusions, surfaces, edges, openings, or closures.

(4)  Moving parts.

(5)  Lack or insufficiency of controls to reduce or stop motion.

(6)  As a result of self-adhering characteristics of the article.

(7)  Because the article, or any part or accessory thereof, may be aspirated or ingested.

(8)  Because of instability.

(9)  Because of any other aspect of the article’s design or manufacture.

(c)  An article may be determined to present a thermal hazard if, in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse, its design or manufacture presents an unreasonable risk of personal injury or illness because of heat as from heated parts, substances, or surfaces.
Cal. WAT § 36493 — California Code / Code wat / Division 13 / Part 6.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 36493
Section 36493
Status: in_force

Assessments levied for the purpose of meeting obligations accruing under a contract with the United States pursuant to the reclamation laws or under a contract with the district, shall be payable in the same manner and at the same time as district assessments, and such distribution district assessments shall be made in the number and amount sufficient to meet the obligations accruing under such contract.
Cal. HSC § 2082 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 2082
Section 2082
Status: in_force

(a)  A district may levy special benefit assessments consistent with the requirements of Article XIII  D of the California Constitution to finance vector control projects and programs.

(b)  Before beginning a vector control project or program proposed to be financed pursuant to this section, the board of trustees shall adopt a resolution that does all of the following:

(1)  Specifies its intent to undertake the project or program.

(2)  Generally describes the project or program.

(3)  Estimates the cost of the project or program.

(4)  Estimates the duration of the proposed special benefit assessment.

(c)  After adopting its resolution pursuant to subdivision (b), the board of trustees shall proceed pursuant to Section 53753 of the Government Code.

(d)  The special benefit assessments levied pursuant to this section shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as county taxes. The county may deduct an amount not to exceed its actual costs incurred for collecting the special benefit assessments before remitting the balance to the district. The special benefit assessments shall be a lien on all the property benefited. Liens for the assessments shall be of the same force and effect as liens for property taxes, and their collection may be enforced by the same means as provided for the enforcement of liens for county taxes.
Cal. MVC § 998.070 — California Code / Code mvc / Division 4 / Chapter 6 / Article 5r / Section 998.070
Section 998.070
Status: in_force

Upon request of the board, supported by a statement of its plans and projects approved by the Governor, the committee shall determine whether to issue any bonds authorized under this article in order to carry out the board’s plans and projects, and, if so, the amount of bonds to be issued and sold. Successive issues of bonds may be authorized and sold to carry out these plans and projects progressively, and it is not necessary that all the bonds be issued or sold at any one time.
Cal. VEH § 35783.5 — California Code / Code veh / Division 15 / Chapter 5 / Article 6 / Section 35783.5
Section 35783.5
Status: in_force

Warning signs required by the terms of a permit shall either be removed from the vehicle or covered from the view of other motorists whenever the vehicle is operating without the load that required the permit.
Cal. HSC § 108280 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 108280
Section 108280
Status: in_force

The giving of a guarantee referred to in Section 108270 that is false, is prohibited, except by a person who relied upon a guarantee to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in the United States from whom he or she received in good faith the hazardous substance.
Cal. PROB § 5501 — California Code / Code prob / Division 5 / Part 3 / Section 5501
Section 5501
Status: in_force

For purposes of this part:

(a) “Beneficiary form” means a registration of a security that indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the owner.

(b) “Register,” including its derivatives, means to issue a certificate showing the ownership of a certificated security or, in the case of an uncertificated security, to initiate or transfer an account showing ownership of securities.

(c) “Registering entity” means a person who originates or transfers a security title by registration, and includes a broker maintaining security accounts for customers and a transfer agent or other person acting for or as an issuer of securities.

(d) “Security” means a share, participation, or other interest in property, in a business, or in an obligation of an enterprise or other issuer, and includes a certificated security, an uncertificated security, and a security account.

(e) (1) “Security account” means any of the following:

(A) A reinvestment account associated with a security, a securities account with a broker, a cash balance in a brokerage account, cash, cash equivalents, interest, earnings, or dividends earned or declared on a security in an account, a reinvestment account, or a brokerage account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner’s death.

(B) An investment management or custody account with a trust company or a trust department of a bank with trust powers, including the securities in the account, the cash balance in the account, and cash equivalents, and interest, earnings, or dividends earned or declared on a security in the account, whether or not credited to the account before the owner’s death.

(C) A cash balance or other property held for or due to the owner of a security as a replacement for or product of an account security, whether or not credited to the account before the owner’s death.

(2) For the purposes of this subdivision, “cash equivalent” means an investment that is easily converted into cash, including, treasury bills, treasury notes, money market funds, savings bonds, short-term instruments, and short-term obligations.

(f) This section may not be construed to govern cash equivalents in multiple-party accounts that are governed by the California Multiple-Party Accounts Law, Part 2 (commencing with Section 5100).
Cal. ELEC § 8404 — California Code / Code elec / Division 8 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 8404
Section 8404
Status: in_force

Each signer of a nomination paper shall sign but one paper for the same office, except that in case two or more persons are to be elected to the same office at the same election, an elector may sign the nomination papers of as many persons as there are persons to be elected to the office, and that act on the part of an elector shall not be deemed in conflict with the signer’s statement prescribed in this chapter.

The signer shall state his or her place of residence, giving his or her street and number, if any.
Cal. PRC § 25620.15 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 7.1 / Section 25620.15
Section 25620.15
Status: in_force

(a) In order to ensure that prudent investments in research, development, and demonstration of energy efficient technologies continue to produce substantial economic, environmental, public health, and reliability benefits, it is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature that funds made available, upon appropriation, for energy related public interest research, development, and demonstration programs shall be used to advance science or technology that is not adequately provided by competitive and regulated markets.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money collected for public interest research, development, and demonstration pursuant to Section 399.8 of the Public Utilities Code shall be transferred to the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund. Money collected between January 1, 2007, and January 1, 2012, shall be used for the purposes specified in this chapter.

(c) In lieu of the Public Utilities Commission retaining funds authorized pursuant to Section 381 of the Public Utilities Code for investments made by electrical corporations in public interest research, development, and demonstration projects for transmission and distribution functions, up to 10 percent of the funds transferred to the commission pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be awarded to electrical corporations for public interest research, development, and demonstration projects for transmission and distribution functions consistent with the policies and subject to the requirements of this chapter.
Cal. FAC § 24652 — California Code / Code fac / Division 12 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 24652
Section 24652
Status: in_force

“Fowl” includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domesticated birds.
Cal. FAC § 10901 — California Code / Code fac / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 10901
Section 10901
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, “garbage” means any waste which consists in whole or in part of any animal waste that results from the handling, preparing, cooking, and consuming of food, including the offal from any animal carcass or from any part of an animal carcass. It does not, however, include such waste from ordinary household operations which is fed directly to swine on the premises.
Cal. WIC § 14132.70 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 14132.70
Section 14132.70
Status: in_force

(a) A Medi-Cal beneficiary shall remain eligible to receive Medi-Cal coverage for antirejection medication for up to two years following an organ transplant, unless during that period the beneficiary becomes eligible for Medicare or private health insurance that would cover the medication.

(b) Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department may implement, interpret, or make specific this section by means of all-county letters, provider bulletins, or similar instructions, without taking any further regulatory action.
Cal. ELEC § 2221 — California Code / Code elec / Division 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 2221
Section 2221
Status: in_force

(a) Based on the postal notices on the returned residency confirmation postcards received pursuant to Section 2220, the county elections official shall take the following actions:

(1) The voter registration status of a voter whose residency confirmation postcard is returned by the post office as undeliverable and who has no forwarding address shall be updated by the county elections official to inactive pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 2226, and the voter shall be mailed a confirmation notice, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 2225.

(2) The voter registration record of a voter for whom a forwarding address within the county or outside the county is received shall be immediately updated by the county elections official to reflect the new address provided by the post office, the former address shall be maintained with the voter registration record, and the voter shall be mailed a confirmation notice, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 2225.

(b) All updates to a voter’s registration record made pursuant to this section shall be reflected on the voter list as required by Section 2191.
Cal. ELEC § 8150 — California Code / Code elec / Division 8 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 8150
Section 8150
Status: in_force

The certificate of the Secretary of State showing candidates nominated or selected at a primary election, and justices of the Supreme Court and courts of appeal to appear on the general elections ballot, shall be in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State.
Cal. PROB § 4459 — California Code / Code prob / Division 4.5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Section 4459
Section 4459
Status: in_force

In a statutory form power of attorney, the language with respect to claims and litigation empowers the agent to do all of the following:

(a) Assert and prosecute before a court or administrative agency a claim, claim for relief, cause of action, counterclaim, cross-complaint, or offset, and defend against an individual, a legal entity, or government, including suits to recover property or other thing of value, to recover damages sustained by the principal, to eliminate or modify tax liability, or to seek an injunction, specific performance, or other relief.

(b) Bring an action to determine adverse claims, intervene in litigation, and act as amicus curiae.

(c) In connection with litigation:

(1) Procure an attachment, garnishment, libel, order of arrest, or other preliminary, provisional, or intermediate relief and use any available procedure to effect, enforce, or satisfy a judgment, order, or decree.

(2) Perform any lawful act, including acceptance of tender, offer of judgment, admission of facts, submission of a controversy on an agreed statement of facts, consent to examination before trial, and binding the principal in litigation.

(d) Submit to arbitration, settle, and propose or accept a compromise with respect to a claim or litigation.

(e) Waive the issuance and service of process upon the principal, accept service of process, appear for the principal, designate persons upon whom process directed to the principal may be served, execute and file or deliver stipulations on the principal’s behalf, verify pleadings, seek appellate review, procure and give surety and indemnity bonds, contract and pay for the preparation and printing of records and briefs, receive and execute and file or deliver a consent, waiver, release, satisfaction of judgment, notice, agreement, or other instrument in connection with the prosecution, settlement, or defense of a claim or litigation.

(f) Act for the principal with respect to bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, whether voluntary or involuntary, concerning the principal or some other person, or with respect to a reorganization proceeding, or with respect to an assignment for the benefit of creditors, receivership, or application for the appointment of a receiver or trustee which affects an interest of the principal in property or other thing of value.

(g) Pay a judgment against the principal or a settlement made in connection with litigation and receive and conserve money or other thing of value paid in settlement of or as proceeds of a claim or litigation.
Cal. ELEC § 15270.2 — California Code / Code elec / Division 15 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 15270.2
Section 15270.2
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations regarding manual vote counts.
Cal. HNC § 5900.4 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 8 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 5900.4
Section 5900.4
Status: in_force

The board may exercise the right of eminent domain to take any property necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers conferred by this part.
Cal. FIN § 15306 — California Code / Code fin / Division 5 / Chapter 9 / Article 3 / Section 15306
Section 15306
Status: in_force

The converted federal credit union shall have, hold, and enjoy the property mentioned in Section 15305 in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the property was possessed, held, and enjoyed by it as a state credit union and the federal credit union shall continue responsible for all of the obligations of the state credit union to the same extent as though the conversion had not taken place. The federal credit union shall be merely a continuation of the state credit union under a new name and new jurisdiction and such revision of its corporate structure as is considered necessary for its proper operation under the new jurisdiction.