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Cal. INS § 11521.2 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 11521.2
Section 11521.2
Status: in_force

(a) The reserve required by the table of commensurate values for each annuity contract issued must be invested in investments specified in Sections 1170 through 1182 except that a certificate holder may invest in investment companies registered under the federal Investment Company Act of 1940, and in securities, including interests in those investment companies, listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or regional stock exchanges or the National Market System of the Nasdaq Stock Market or successors to such exchanges or market having the same qualifications, to the extent of the lesser of net worth (assets over liabilities and reserves) of the certificate holder or 50 percent of these general investments. This section does not permit investment in options or commodity exchanges.

(b) The certificate holder may invest in other investments as permitted by and subject to the written consent of the commissioner.
Cal. BPC § 5806 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 3.9 / Section 5806
Section 5806
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit interior design or interior decorator services by any person or retail activity.
Cal. INS § 11061 — California Code / Code ins / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 10 / Article 5 / Section 11061
Section 11061
Status: in_force

All statements purporting to be made by the member shall, in the absence of fraud, be representations and not warranties. Any waiver of this provision shall be void.
Cal. WIC § 630.1 — California Code / Code wic / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 15 / Section 630.1
Section 630.1
Status: in_force

Upon reasonable notification by counsel representing the minor, his parents or guardian, the clerk of the court shall notify such counsel of the hearings in the manner provided for notice to the parent or guardian of the minor under this chapter.
Cal. FAC § 12845 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 2 / Article 4.5 / Section 12845
Section 12845
Status: in_force

(a) The director may adopt regulations that require persons subject to this article to provide information determined by the director to be necessary to enable the director to perform the audit authorized pursuant to Section 12842 and to carry out other powers or duties under this division.

(b) The regulations adopted pursuant to this section may include, but are not limited to, a requirement that a person subject to this article provide the director with information on the quarterly dollar sales of each registered pesticide sold for use in this state and the quarterly volume of each registered pesticide sold for use in this state.
Cal. FAC § 3201 — California Code / Code fac / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 3201
Section 3201
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Department of Food and Agriculture is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Fair and Exposition Fund, administering allocations from the fund to the network of California fairs, as defined in Sections 3101 to 3104, inclusive, and providing oversight of activities carried out by each California fair.

(b) Oversight shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) Monitoring the solvency of the Fair and Exposition Fund.

(2) Distributing available state resources to the network of California fairs based on criteria for state allocations approved by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. The criteria for the distribution of available state resources to the network of California fairs shall not include a consideration of the structure that governs the fair.

(3) Creating a framework for administration of the network of California fairs allowing for maximum autonomy and local decisionmaking authority, and conducting, or causing to be conducted, annual fiscal audits and periodic compliance audits.

(4) Conducting fiscal and performance audits of county fairs and citrus fruit fairs that are requested by the fair that is the subject of the audit, and that the Department of Food and Agriculture deems to be necessary.

(5) Guiding and providing incentives to fairs to seek matching funds and generate new revenue from a variety of sources.

(6) Supporting continuous improvement of fair programming to ensure that California fairs remain highly relevant community institutions.
Cal. RTC § 41103 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 41103
Section 41103
Status: in_force

Failure to file a claim within the time prescribed in this article constitutes a waiver of any demand against the state on account of overpayment.
Cal. RTC § 55086 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 30 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 55086
Section 55086
Status: in_force

All amounts determined to be due by the board under Article 2 (commencing with Section 55061) are due and payable at the time they become final, and if not paid when due and payable, a penalty of 10 percent of the amount determined to be due shall be added to the amount due and payable.
Cal. RTC § 502 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 502
Section 502
Status: in_force

If any person willfully conceals, fails to disclose, removes, transfers or misrepresents tangible personal property to evade taxation which results in an assessment lower than that which would otherwise be required by law, the assessor on discovery shall assess the property in the lawful amount and impose the penalty provided for in Section 504.
Cal. HSC § 1799.207 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 2.5 / Chapter 12 / Section 1799.207
Section 1799.207
Status: in_force

The authority may solicit and accept grant funding from public and private sources to supplement state funds.
Cal. PUC § 30942 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 3 / Chapter 7 / Article 3 / Section 30942
Section 30942
Status: in_force

The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgment of deeds and such agreements, leases, and equipment trust certificates shall be authorized by resolution of the district and shall contain such covenants, conditions and provisions which may be deemed necessary or appropriate to insure the payment of the equipment trust certificates from such revenue, income, grants or loans.
Cal. PRC § 13039 — California Code / Code prc / Division 11 / Chapter 3 / Section 13039
Section 13039
Status: in_force

All sessions of the district board shall be public.
Cal. HSC § 128337 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 107 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 1 / Section 128337
Section 128337
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law, on or before October 1, 2021, the nonprofit public benefit corporation known as the Health Professions Education Foundation shall be dissolved. All assets, including records, and any liabilities shall be transferred to the department.
Cal. WAT § 50704 — California Code / Code wat / Division 15 / Part 4 / Chapter 1 / Section 50704
Section 50704
Status: in_force

Each voter in the district may vote at any election in person or by proxy, and may cast his or her votes as follows:

(a) If the district has, within the calendar year preceding that in which the election occurs, levied an operation and maintenance assessment pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51320) of Chapter 2 of Part 7 of this division, then each voter shall be entitled to cast one vote for each dollar’s worth of assessment valuation as shown on that assessment roll for all parcels owned by the voter or his principal.

(b) If the district has not levied an operation and maintenance assessment pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51320) of Chapter 2 of Part 7 of this division during the calendar year preceding that in which the election occurs, but has during that year ordered payment of an installment on an original or additional assessment pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 51510) of Chapter 3 of Part 7 of this division, or levied fees and charges pursuant to Section 50902, then each voter shall be entitled to cast one vote for each dollar’s worth of installment or fee and charge levied in the preceding year upon all parcels owned by the voter or his principal.

(c) If neither an operation and maintenance assessment nor an installment upon an original or additional assessment nor fee or charge was levied or ordered paid by the district during the calendar year preceding that in which the election occurs, then each voter shall be entitled to cast one vote for each acre owned by the voter or his principal within the district, provided that if the voter or his principal owns less than one acre then the voter shall be entitled to one vote and any fraction shall be rounded to the nearest full acre.

(d) When a district elects to have the board of supervisors levy a special tax on behalf of the district on all taxable land and improvements pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 51360) of Chapter 2 of Part 7 of this division, then each voter may vote at any district election in person or by proxy, and may cast one vote for each dollar’s worth of taxable land and improvements owned by him or his principal in the district, as determined from the last equalized tax roll of each county in which the lands of the district are situated.

(e) The ownership and number of acres owned for the purpose of this section shall be determined from the last equalized tax roll of each county in which the lands of the district are situated.
Cal. FIN § 14652.5 — California Code / Code fin / Division 5 / Chapter 4 / Article 6 / Section 14652.5
Section 14652.5
Status: in_force

(a) A credit union may organize, sponsor, operate, control, or render investment advice to, an investment company, or underwrite, distribute, or sell securities of any investment company which has qualified to sell its securities in this state pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 25100) of Division 1 of Title 4 of the Corporations Code, if the officers and employees of the credit union who sell these securities meet such standards with respect to training, experience, and sales practices as established by the commissioner or the commissioner’s designee. For the purpose of this section, “investment company” means an investment company as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C., Sec. 80a-1 et seq.).

(b) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this subdivision shall become operative on July 1, 2026.
Cal. BPC § 12212 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 5 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 12212
Section 12212
Status: in_force

(a) The secretary shall adopt necessary regulations governing the inspection frequency of all commercially used weights, measures, and weighing and measuring apparatus in the state.

(b) The sealer of each county shall perform such inspections as may be required by the secretary. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the sealer from inspecting a device more frequently than required if he or she deems those tests to be necessary.

(c) Any regulation shall be adopted by the secretary in conformity with the provisions of Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(d) In counties where the secretary finds that the sealer, because of lack of equipment, is unable or fails to perform the tests as required herein, the secretary may enter into a contract with the board of supervisors of each of those counties to perform the tests. Those contracts shall provide that the county shall pay the cost of those services based upon a uniform schedule of fees developed by the secretary. The fee schedule shall be based on the approximate cost of performing those services. The contracts shall also provide that the secretary shall periodically render a bill to each county so served for the cost of services rendered, and the auditor of the county so billed shall pay the charge in the same manner in which other claims against the county are paid.

(e) All fees collected under the provisions of this section shall be credited to the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
Cal. WAT § 79162 — California Code / Code wat / Division 26 / Chapter 8 / Article 5 / Section 79162
Section 79162
Status: in_force

(a) The sum of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the department, shall be used by the department for grants awarded by the department to local agencies for the purposes of funding infrastructure rehabilitation projects.

(b) (1) For the purposes of making grants pursuant to subdivision (a), the factors to be considered by the department in determining whether to enter into an agreement shall include, but not be limited to, the need to implement projects that provide measurable conservation through the reduction of system water losses by rehabilitating water delivery systems.

(2) Grants awarded pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be available for public water systems owned and operated by local agencies in economically disadvantaged areas with service connections that exceed 200 but are not greater than 16,000 in number. The department shall give highest priority in awarding grants to those agencies with the highest retail water rates and service charges as of January 1, 1999.

(c) No single construction grant under this article shall exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).
Cal. HSC § 50720 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 31 / Part 2 / Chapter 8.6 / Section 50720
Section 50720
Status: in_force

The Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program is hereby created for the purpose of preserving affordable housing and promoting resident ownership or nonprofit organization ownership of residential real property. The program shall be administered by the department and shall provide loans and grants as described in this chapter.
Cal. PRC § 6509 — California Code / Code prc / Division 6 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 6509
Section 6509
Status: in_force

If a lease is terminated by reason of the sale of the land, or by the designation of land as a base for indemnity selections, the lessee shall surrender the lease to the commission and receive in exchange therefor from the commission a certificate showing the proportionate amount of the annual payment to be refunded to the lessee, for the tract of land that has been disposed of by the State. If the lease has been amended because of the sale of a portion of the lands described therein, the commission shall, at the option of the lessee, credit the lessee with the amount of the prepaid rental applicable to rental due for the remaining term of the lease or issue a certificate to the lessee showing the proportionate amount of the rental to be refunded to the lessee. The State Controller, upon the surrender to him of the certificate, shall issue to the lessee a warrant for the amount payable out of the State School Fund or, if the rentals received under the lease were deposited in the General Fund, then the warrant shall be payable out of any appropriation available for such purpose, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same.
Cal. FIN § 6525 — California Code / Code fin / Division 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 6525
Section 6525
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 1051, 1052, and 1054 of the Labor Code and Section 2947 of the Penal Code, an association, a subsidiary or affiliate of an association, or any officer or employee thereof may deliver fingerprints taken of a director, an officer, an employee, or an applicant for employment to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies for the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and nature of a criminal record, if any, of the person fingerprinted relating to convictions, and to any arrest for which that person is released on bail or on his or her own recognizance pending trial, for the commission or attempted commission of a crime involving robbery, burglary, theft, embezzlement, fraud, forgery, bookmaking, receiving stolen property, counterfeiting, or involving checks or credit cards or using computers.

(b) The Department of Justice shall, pursuant to Section 11105 of the Penal Code, and a local agency may pursuant to Section 13300 of the Penal Code, furnish to the officer of the association or subsidiary or affiliate thereof responsible for the final decision regarding employment of the person fingerprinted, or to his or her designees having responsibilities for personnel or security decisions in the usual scope and course of their employment with the association, subsidiary, or affiliate summary criminal history information when requested pursuant to this section. If, upon evaluation of the criminal history information received pursuant to this section, the association, subsidiary, or affiliate determines that employment of the person fingerprinted would constitute an unreasonable risk to the association, subsidiary, or affiliate or its customers, the person fingerprinted may be denied employment.

(c) A request for records pursuant to this section made of the Department of Justice shall be on a form approved by the department. The department may charge a fee to be paid by the requesting association, subsidiary, or affiliate pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code. No request shall be submitted without the written consent of the person fingerprinted.

(d) Any criminal history information obtained pursuant to this section is confidential and no recipient shall disclose its contents other than for the purpose for which it was acquired.

(e) “Affiliate,” as used in this section, means any corporation controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, a savings association, whether directly, indirectly, or through one or more intermediaries.
Cal. VEH § 516 — California Code / Code veh / Division 1 / Section 516
Section 516
Status: in_force

“Resident” means any person who manifests an intent to live or be located in this state on more than a temporary or transient basis. Presence in the state for six months or more in any 12-month period gives rise to a rebuttable presumption of residency.

The following are evidence of residency for purposes of vehicle registration:

(a) Address where registered to vote.

(b) Location of employment or place of business.

(c) Payment of resident tuition at a public institution of higher education.

(d) Attendance of dependents at a primary or secondary school.

(e) Filing a homeowner’s property tax exemption.

(f) Renting or leasing a home for use as a residence.

(g) Declaration of residency to obtain a license or any other privilege or benefit not ordinarily extended to a nonresident.

(h) Possession of a California driver’s license.

(i) Other acts, occurrences, or events that indicate presence in the state is more than temporary or transient.
Cal. WAT § 8776 — California Code / Code wat / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 8776
Section 8776
Status: in_force

The assessors shall be disinterested persons, and shall have no interest in any real estate within the drainage district.
Cal. PRC § 42461.5 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 3 / Chapter 8.5 / Article 1 / Section 42461.5
Section 42461.5
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the changes made by this act of the 2011–12 Regular Session of the Legislature to subdivision (h) of Section 42461, subdivision (g) of Section 42476, and subdivision (a) of Section 42479, clarify and strengthen the enforcement provisions of the act, so as to implement the Legislature’s intent when this chapter was first enacted on January 1, 2003.

(b) The changes specified in subdivision (a) shall not be interpreted as affecting an administrative or legal enforcement action that was filed before, or is pending on, January 1, 2013, and shall not prevent the taking of a legal or administrative enforcement action that may be brought on or after January 1, 2013, with regard to any actions taken, or claims filed, before that date.
Cal. VEH § 27315.3 — California Code / Code veh / Division 12 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 27315.3
Section 27315.3
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, “passenger motor vehicle” means a passenger vehicle as defined in Section 465 and a motortruck as defined in Section 410 of less than 6,001 pounds unladen weight, but does not include a motorcycle as defined in Section 400.

(b) Every sheriff’s department and city police department and the Department of the California Highway Patrol shall maintain safety belts in good working order for the use of occupants of a vehicle that it operates on a highway for the purpose of patrol. The safety belts shall conform to motor vehicle safety standards established by the United States Department of Transportation. This subdivision does not, however, require installation or maintenance of safety belts where not required by the laws of the United States applicable to the vehicle at the time of its initial sale.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 42001, a violation of subdivision (b) is an infraction punishable by a fine, including all penalty assessments and court costs imposed on the convicted department, of not more than twenty dollars ($20) for a first offense, and a fine, including all penalty assessments and court costs imposed on the convicted department, of not more than fifty dollars ($50) for each subsequent offense.

(d) (1) For a violation of subdivision (b), in addition to the fines provided for pursuant to subdivision (c) and the penalty assessments provided for pursuant to Section 1464 of the Penal Code, an additional penalty assessment of two dollars ($2) shall be levied for a first offense, and an additional penalty assessment of five dollars ($5) shall be levied for any subsequent offense.

(2) All money collected pursuant to this subdivision shall be utilized in accordance with Section 1464 of the Penal Code.

(e) In a civil action, a violation of subdivision (b) or information of a violation of subdivision (c) shall not establish negligence as a matter of law or negligence per se for comparative fault purposes, but negligence may be proven as a fact without regard to the violation.

(f) Subdivisions (b) and (c) shall become inoperative immediately upon the date that the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or his or her delegate, determines to rescind the portion of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208 (49 C.F.R. 571.208) that requires the installation of automatic restraints in new passenger motor vehicles, except that those subdivisions shall not become inoperative if the secretary’s decision to rescind Standard No. 208 is not based, in any respect, on the enactment or continued operation of those subdivisions or subdivisions (d) to (h), inclusive, of Section 27315.
Cal. PRC § 32150 — California Code / Code prc / Division 22 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 32150
Section 32150
Status: in_force

The authority is not required to pay any property taxes or assessments upon, or with respect to, an urban waterfront restoration project or any property acquired by or for the authority under this division or upon the income therefrom, so long as the authority holds title to the project or to the property or facilities comprised in the project.

The exemption of the authority from taxation of any project ceases when title to the property is transferred from the authority to any normally taxable participating party. This section does not exempt any normally taxable participating party from taxation, including, but not limited to, taxation upon a possessory interest, with respect to any project, or the property or facilities comprised in any project, which may otherwise be applicable to the participating party.