FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Cal. PUC § 101214 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 13 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 101214
Section 101214
Status: in_force

When the county treasury has been designated as the depositary, the county treasurer shall have the custody of the district’s moneys and funds, and he shall pay out the same, or any portion thereof, only upon the warrant of the county auditor. The county auditor shall draw his warrants to pay demands against the district.
Cal. SHC § 30953 — California Code / Code shc / Division 17 / Chapter 4.3 / Section 30953
Section 30953
Status: in_force

Toll revenues and all other income derived from bridges pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 30910) shall be deposited in the Bay Area Toll Account, which is hereby created.
Cal. PUC § 30203 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 3 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 30203
Section 30203
Status: in_force

At its first regular meeting after the effective date of this part, the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, subject to confirmation by the City Council of the City of Los Angeles, shall appoint as members of the first board of directors of the district the number to be appointed by it under Section 30201.
Cal. WIC § 5004.5 — California Code / Code wic / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Section 5004.5
Section 5004.5
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a legal guardian, conservator, or other person who reasonably believes a person with a mental health disorder or developmental disability is the victim of a crime may file a report with an appropriate law enforcement agency. The report shall specify the nature of the alleged offense and any pertinent evidence. Notwithstanding any other law, the information in that report shall not be deemed confidential in any manner. No person shall incur any civil or criminal liability as a result of making a report authorized by this section unless it can be shown that a false report was made and the person knew or should have known that the report was false.

(b) Where the district attorney of the county in which the alleged offense occurred finds, based upon the evidence contained in the report and any other evidence obtained through regular investigatory procedures, that a reasonable probability exists that a crime or public offense has been committed and that the person with the mental health disorder or developmental disability is the victim, the district attorney may file a complaint verified on information and belief.

(c) The filing of a report by a legal guardian, conservator, or any other person pursuant to this section shall not constitute evidence that a crime or public offense has been committed and shall not be considered in any manner by the trier of fact.
Cal. BPC § 7598.3 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11.6 / Article 8 / Section 7598.3
Section 7598.3
Status: in_force

(a) No employee of a licensee performing the function of an alarm agent who responds to alarm systems shall be issued a firearms qualification card until proper certification by the instructor that the course of training in the exercise of the power to arrest and the appropriate use of force has been taught, and the employee’s certification that the instruction was received, has been delivered to the department.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2023.
Cal. BPC § 7502.5 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 7502.5
Section 7502.5
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the local authorities in any city, county, or city and county, by ordinance and within the exercise of the police power of the city, county, or city and county from requiring repossession agency licensees or registrants to register their names and a file copy of their state identification cards with the city, county, or city and county. No fee may be charged nor may any application be required by the city, county, or city and county for the registration.
Cal. BPC § 6094 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 5.5 / Section 6094
Section 6094
Status: in_force

(a) Communications to the State Bar relating to lawyer misconduct or disability or competence, or any communication related to an investigation or proceeding and testimony given in the proceeding are privileged, and no lawsuit predicated thereon may be instituted against any person. The State Bar and officers and employees are subject to the rules governing liability of public entities, officers, and employees specified in Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code.

Nothing in this subdivision limits or alters the privileges accorded communications to the State Bar or testimony given in investigations or proceedings conducted by it or the immunities accorded complainants, informants, witnesses, the State Bar, its officers, and employees as existed prior to the enactment of this section. This subdivision does not constitute a change in, but is cumulative with the existing law.

(b) Upon application by the State Bar and notice to the appropriate prosecuting authority, the superior court may grant immunity from criminal prosecution to a witness in any State Bar proceeding.
Cal. PUC § 25893 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Article 8 / Section 25893
Section 25893
Status: in_force

The board shall, at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in the manner provided for the general tax levy, levy and collect annually until the district’s bonds are paid, or until there is a sum in the treasury of the district set apart for that purpose to meet all sums coming due for principal and interest on the bonds as they become due a tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on the bonds and such part of the principal thereof as becomes due before the proceeds of a tax levied at the next general tax levy will be available. If the maturity of the indebtedness created by the issue of bonds begins more than one year after the date of the issuance thereof, the tax shall be levied and collected annually at the time and in the manner aforesaid, sufficient to pay the interest on the indebtedness as it falls due and to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal on or before maturity.
Cal. INS § 10144.6 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 2.5 / Section 10144.6
Section 10144.6
Status: in_force

No disability insurer may utilize any information regarding whether a beneficiary’s psychiatric inpatient admission was made on a voluntary or involuntary basis for the purpose of determining eligibility for claim reimbursement.
Cal. WIC § 18966 — California Code / Code wic / Division 9 / Part 6 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 18966
Section 18966
Status: in_force

(a) When a county board of supervisors designates a commission pursuant to Section 18965, the board of supervisors shall establish a county children’s trust fund. The children’s trust fund shall consist of the fees for birth certificates, collected pursuant to Section 103625 of the Health and Safety Code, grants, gifts, or bequests from private sources to be used for child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs, any funds appropriated by local governmental entities to the trust fund, and any funds appropriated to the county for the trust fund by the Legislature. The local registrar or county recorder may, however, retain a percentage, not to exceed 10 percent, of the surcharge collectible pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625 of the Health and Safety Code, in order to defray the costs of collection.

(b) (1) The county treasurer shall transmit moneys collected from birth certificate fees for the county children’s trust fund, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625 of the Health and Safety Code, collected with respect to the birth certificate of a child whose mother was a resident of another county at the time of the birth to the treasurer of the county of the mother’s residence at the time of the birth if the county to receive the funds has established a program pursuant to this article.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies only to the collection and payment of the four-dollar ($4) fee to the county children’s trust fund, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625 of the Health and Safety Code, and does not apply to the collection and payment of the two-dollar ($2) fee to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund or any other assessment authorized by statute and levied by a local jurisdiction.
Cal. RTC § 23058 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 11 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 23058
Section 23058
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise specifically provided therein, the provisions of any act:

(a) That affect the imposition or computation of tax, penalties, or the allowance of credits against the tax, shall be applied to taxable years beginning on or after January 1 of the year in which the act takes effect.

(b) That otherwise affect the provisions of this part shall be applied on and after the date the act takes effect.
Cal. SHC § 8681 — California Code / Code shc / Division 10 / Part 8 / Section 8681
Section 8681
Status: in_force

Interest on all unpaid assessments shall begin to run from the date of filing of the contractor’s statement, or as otherwise provided in the law pursuant to which the assessment was levied, or from the date of the bonds if the assessment was levied under the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 or other law, and shall be computed at the rate specified in the bonds secured by the assessments. For each year interest shall be computed and collected up to the next second day of September succeeding, no deduction being made by reason of any installment of the assessment being due or paid prior thereto in such year.
Cal. PUC § 99276 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 11 / Chapter 4 / Article 4.5 / Section 99276
Section 99276
Status: in_force

Each claimant receiving funds allocated for purposes of this article shall submit an annual certified fiscal audit pursuant to Section 99245.
Cal. FAC § 74992 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 12.7 / Article 8 / Section 74992
Section 74992
Status: in_force

Following an initial favorable referendum , a referendum shall be conducted by the commission every fifth year thereafter unless a referendum is conducted as a result of a petition pursuant to this article. In that case, the referendum shall be every fifth year following the industry petitioned referendum following procedures provided in this article.
Cal. BPC § 22670 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 8 / Chapter 22.7 / Section 22670
Section 22670
Status: in_force

(a) (1) “Covered material” means material that meets all of the following criteria:

(A) The material is an image or video created or altered through digitization that would appear to a reasonable person to be an image or video of any of the following:

(i) An intimate body part of an identifiable person.

(ii) An identifiable person engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or sexual penetration.

(iii) An identifiable person engaged in masturbation.

(B) The reporting person is the person depicted in the material, and the reporting person did not consent to the use of the reporting person’s likeness in the material.

(C) The material is displayed, stored, or hosted on the social media platform.

(2) “Covered material” does not include an image or video that contains only minor alterations that do not lead to significant changes to the perceived content or meaning of the content, including changes to brightness or contrast of images and other minor changes that do not impact the content of the image or video.

(b) “Reporting user” means a natural person who reports material to a social media platform using the mechanism provided by the social media platform pursuant to Section 22671.

(c) “Sexually explicit digital identity theft” means the posting of covered material on a social media platform.

(d) (1) “Social media platform” has, except as provided in paragraph (2), the same meaning as defined in Section 22675.

(2) “Social media platform” does not include either of the following:

(A) A stand-alone direct messaging service that provides end-to-end encrypted communication or the portion of a multiservice platform that uses end-to-end encrypted communication.

(B) An internet-based service or application owned or operated by a nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Cal. FAC § 20002 — California Code / Code fac / Division 10 / Chapter 1 / Section 20002
Section 20002
Status: in_force

“Animal,” “calf,” and “cattle” mean only bovine animals.
Cal. PUC § 3031 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 3031
Section 3031
Status: in_force

It is an unfair trade practice, and unlawful, for any gas corporation to do any of the following:

(a) Interfere with, restrain, coerce, or boycott any person engaged in the production of gas within the state in the exercise of any right described in this chapter.

(b) Discriminate against any person engaged in the production of gas within the state with respect to price, delivery, or other terms of purchase of gas by reason of membership in or contract with any association formed pursuant to this chapter.

(c) Pay or loan money or give any thing of value as an inducement or reward for refusing or ceasing to belong to, or for breaching one’s membership agreement in, an association.

(d) Maliciously or knowingly give false reports about the finances, management, or activities of any person subject to this chapter.

(e) Refuse to negotiate or bargain at reasonable times and for reasonable periods of time with a genuine desire to reach agreement and a serious attempt to resolve differences with an association for price, terms of sale, terms of transportation, compensation for gas produced under contract, or any other contract provision relative to gas production represented by an association, except that nothing in this subdivision requires a gas corporation to reach agreement on price, delivery terms, transportation terms, compensation, or any other contract term.
Cal. FAC § 76312 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 15 / Article 5 / Section 76312
Section 76312
Status: in_force

This chapter, except as necessary to conduct an implementation referendum vote, shall not become operative until the director finds in a referendum vote conducted by the director that at least 40 percent of the total number of producers from the list established by the director pursuant to this article, participate, and that either of the following occurred:

(a) Sixty-five percent or more of the producers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of the provisions of this chapter, and the producers so voting marketed a majority of the total quantity of wool in the preceding season by all of the producers who voted in the referendum.

(b) A majority of the producers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of this chapter, and the producers so voting marketed 65 percent or more of the total quantity of wool in the preceding season by all of the producers who voted in the referendum.
Cal. HSC § 50863 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 2 / Chapter 14.5 / Section 50863
Section 50863
Status: in_force

Grants shall only be made to a qualifying city, county, or city and county that has demonstrated that it has provided incentives or reduced or removed regulatory barriers to affordable housing for an identified or specified project. The department shall establish the types of local governmental actions that it determines are appropriate and objectively measurable incentives and regulatory barrier reductions or removals. These actions may include, but are not limited to, any or all of the following measures: standards relating to housing density, project design, parking requirements, permit processing, and fee reductions.
Cal. HSC § 103545 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 102 / Part 1 / Chapter 14 / Section 103545
Section 103545
Status: in_force

Certified copies of birth, fetal death, death, and marriage records may be made only by the State Registrar, by duly appointed and acting local registrars during their term of office, and by county recorders.
Cal. FAC § 64691.5 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 8 / Section 64691.5
Section 64691.5
Status: in_force

A fee greater than one dollar ($1) per head on cattle and calves prescribed by Section 64691 shall not be charged pursuant to that section under a mandatory fee payment program, unless and until the greater fee is approved by the producers in this state, by a referendum to be submitted to the producers by the secretary. The secretary shall find that the producers have approved any greater fee, if he or she finds that 60 percent of the producers voting in the referendum voted in favor of charging the greater fee. Ballots shall be provided to producers from a list provided by the council and approved by the secretary, and to other producers who request a ballot that provide proof of eligibility.
Cal. INS § 10273.5 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 10273.5
Section 10273.5
Status: in_force

No person shall cause or permit to be issued, circulated or used any representation that a policy defined in Section 10273.3 is “non-can,” noncancelable (not cancelable) or noncancelable and guaranteed renewable.

No person shall cause or permit to be issued, circulated or used any representation concerning the right to continue a policy such as is defined in Section 10273.3 unless such representation contains a declaration of the terms under which the insurer has reserved the right to change the premium in a manner which shall not minimize or obscure the same.

Any person knowingly violating any provision of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided for misrepresentation by this code.
Cal. FAM § 6655 — California Code / Code fam / Division 11 / Part 2.5 / Section 6655
Section 6655
Status: in_force

(a) This part does not affect a right or remedy available under any other law of the state.

(b) This part does not have any effect on a minor who produces their own content.
Cal. PROB § 10402 — California Code / Code prob / Division 7 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Section 10402
Section 10402
Status: in_force

As used in this part, “full authority” means authority to administer the estate under this part that includes all the powers granted under this part.
Cal. FAC § 69085 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 7 / Article 6 / Section 69085
Section 69085
Status: in_force

Assessments shall be upon the producer. The first handler of pistachios being assessed shall deduct the assessment from amounts paid by him or her to the producer, or shall collect the assessment from the producer, and shall be a trustee of the funds until they are paid to the commission at the time and in the manner prescribed by the commission.
Cal. WAT § 11553 — California Code / Code wat / Division 6 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 11553
Section 11553
Status: in_force

The cost of all works authorized to be constructed under this chapter shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds issued and sold under the provisions of this part, or from contributions, appropriations, or loans as provided in this part.
Cal. FAC § 18949 — California Code / Code fac / Division 9 / Part 3 / Chapter 4.1 / Article 1 / Section 18949
Section 18949
Status: in_force

“Establishment” means any business, firm, or facility that is required to be licensed by the director under this chapter.
Cal. CIV § 6656 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 5.3 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 6656
Section 6656
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in this section, the common area in a condominium project shall remain undivided, and there shall be no judicial partition thereof. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit partition of a cotenancy in a condominium.

(b) The owner of a separate interest in a condominium project may maintain a partition action as to the entire project as if the owners of all of the separate interests in the project were tenants in common in the entire project in the same proportion as their interests in the common area. The court shall order partition under this subdivision only by sale of the entire condominium project and only upon a showing of one of the following:

(1) More than three years before the filing of the action, the condominium project was damaged or destroyed, so that a material part was rendered unfit for its prior use, and the condominium project has not been rebuilt or repaired substantially to its state prior to the damage or destruction.

(2) Three-fourths or more of the project is destroyed or substantially damaged and owners of separate interests holding in the aggregate more than a 50-percent interest in the common area oppose repair or restoration of the project.

(3) The project has been in existence more than 50 years, is obsolete and uneconomic, and owners of separate interests holding in the aggregate more than a 50-percent interest in the common area oppose repair or restoration of the project.

(4) Any conditions in the declaration for sale under the circumstances described in this subdivision have been met.
Cal. HNC § 871 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 4 / Chapter 3 / Section 871
Section 871
Status: in_force

A certificate from the master or chief surviving officer of a vessel, to the effect that a seaman exerted himself to the utmost to save the vessel, cargo, and stores, is presumptive evidence of the fact.
Cal. ELEC § 2140 — California Code / Code elec / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 2140
Section 2140
Status: in_force

The county elections official shall report to the district attorney of the county, under oath, the name of any individuals or organizations that have submitted plans for distribution who have not complied with this article.
Cal. PRC § 25534.2 — California Code / Code prc / Division 15 / Chapter 6 / Section 25534.2
Section 25534.2
Status: in_force

(a) Within 30 days after service of an order issued under Section 25534.1, any aggrieved party may file with the superior court a petition for writ of mandate for review thereof pursuant to Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. If no aggrieved party petition for a writ of mandate is filed within the time provided by this section, an order of the commission is not subject to review by any court or agency, except that the commission may grant review on its own motion of an order issued under Section 25534.1 after the expiration of the time limits set by this section.

(b) Upon request of the commission, the Attorney General shall institute an action in the appropriate superior court to collect and recover any administrative civil penalties imposed pursuant to Section 25534.1. The court shall accord priority on its calendar to any action under this subdivision.

(c) Any moneys recovered by the commission pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the General Fund.
Cal. WAT § 71016 — California Code / Code wat / Division 20 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Section 71016
Section 71016
Status: in_force

“Affected county” means any county in which the land of a district, or proposed district, is situated.
Cal. RTC § 196.98 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 196.98
Section 196.98
Status: in_force

After the county auditor of an eligible county, as described in Section 196.97, has made the applicable certification to the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 196.97, the director shall, within 30 days after verification of the county auditor’s estimate, certify this amount to the Controller for allocation to the county. Upon receipt of certification from the Director of Finance, the Controller shall make the appropriate allocation to the county within 10 working days thereafter.