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Cal. PUC § 861 — California Code / Code puc / Division 1 / Part 1 / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 861
Section 861
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this section, “special law water district” means the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Yuba-Bear River Basin Authority and, if created by an uncodified special law, any of the following: a county flood control district, a county flood control and water district, a county flood control and water conservation district, a county water conservation and flood control district, or a county water agency.

(b) Whenever by court order or judgment in an eminent domain proceeding or by agreement a special law water district is required to relocate any improvements of a public utility, if the special law water district and the public utility fail to agree as to the character or location of the new improvements to be relocated by the special law water district, the character and location of such new improvements and any other controversy relating thereto shall be submitted to and determined by the Public Utilities Commission in the manner prescribed in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1201).
Cal. RTC § 17078 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 10 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 17078
Section 17078
Status: in_force

(a) Section 988 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to treatment of certain foreign currency transactions, shall apply, except as otherwise provided.

(b) Section 988(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to source, shall not apply.
Cal. PUC § 7611 — California Code / Code puc / Division 4 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 7611
Section 7611
Status: in_force

Any person or any employee of any railroad company, or the receiver or receivers thereof, who removes, carries away from its proper place, or uses any emergency first-aid kit, except for the purpose of administering first aid in the event of injury to any passenger, employee, or other person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50).
Cal. INS § 16016 — California Code / Code ins / Division 5 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 16016
Section 16016
Status: in_force

The insurance disaster assessment team shall compile its findings into a report and submit the report to the commissioner as soon as practical, but not more than five days after completion of the assessment unless authorized by the commissioner. The report shall be developed, in accordance with procedures established by the commissioner. The information shall be disseminated publicly, and shall be made available to local and state disaster organizations, and to the commissioner for distribution to insurers. These findings and information shall not be binding on any insured as to coverage.
Cal. RTC § 16733 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 9.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 16733
Section 16733
Status: in_force

The Controller shall give notice of the deficiency determined, together with any penalty for failure to file a return or to show any transfer in the return filed, by personal service or by mail to the person filing the return at the address stated in the return, or, if no return is filed, to the person liable for the tax. Copies of the notice of deficiency may in like manner be given to such other persons as the Controller deems advisable.
Cal. LAB § 3350 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 3350
Section 3350
Status: in_force

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms and phrases used in this division.
Cal. RTC § 2508 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 1 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Section 2508
Section 2508
Status: in_force

If any negotiable paper is returned unpaid to the bank with which it was deposited pursuant to any requirement of this division, the bank shall return it to the officer who deposited it and, if its amount has been included in any cashier’s check given by the bank, the bank is entitled to a refund in the amount of the unpaid negotiable paper. Any negotiable paper redeemed by or charged back to the county treasurer by reason of nonpayment shall be returned to the officer who deposited it in exchange for currency or other negotiable paper or for the warrant of the county auditor drawn on the fund into which the original deposit was made.
Cal. HSC § 115275 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 104 / Part 9 / Chapter 9 / Section 115275
Section 115275
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature that in the event of a nuclear accident timely and effective communications between the operators of nuclear powerplants in California and those state and local officials charged with nuclear emergency response activities be assured.
Cal. LAB § 4459 — California Code / Code lab / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 4459
Section 4459
Status: in_force

The fact that an employee has suffered a previous disability, or received compensation therefor, does not preclude him from compensation for a later injury, or his dependents from compensation for death resulting therefrom, but in determining compensation for the later injury, or death resulting therefrom, his average weekly earnings shall be fixed at the sum which reasonably represents his earning capacity at the time of the later injury.
Cal. FGC § 328 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 328
Section 328
Status: in_force

Such employees of the department as may be necessary or are requested by any interested group of persons, shall be present at the hearing. After the hearing the commission may abandon the proposal or make a final regulation, with any modifications it deems appropriate, or without modification.
Cal. PRC § 71125 — California Code / Code prc / Division 34 / Part 3.5 / Section 71125
Section 71125
Status: in_force

The secretary may use a reimbursement from a board, department, or office within the agency for a consolidated service that the agency provides to those entities.
Cal. FGC § 2203 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 2203
Section 2203
Status: in_force

(a) The director, with the advice of the committee established pursuant to Section 2150.3, shall adopt regulations to establish and administer a grant program, including eligibility criteria, by which persons or governmental agencies who operate facilities to care and shelter mammals may apply for grants for maintenance, operations, and capital improvements. The program shall include provisions for emergency grants with an expedited review process.

(b) Each member of the committee who is eligible to receive per diem and mileage shall be allowed per diem and mileage in accordance with the rules of the Department of Human Resources for attending any meeting of the committee involving this article.
Cal. HSC § 19180 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 13 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 6 / Section 19180
Section 19180
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that:

(a)  It is generally accepted that various areas of the state will experience moderate and severe earthquakes in the foreseeable future.

(b)  A serious threat to life and property resulting from these earthquakes is the threat of fire resulting from earthquake damage.

(c)  In order to mitigate, as much as possible, the effects of a major earthquake, including fire resulting from an earthquake, local governments should be authorized to adopt ordinances requiring installation of earthquake sensitive gas shutoff devices in buildings.
Cal. FAC § 77666 — California Code / Code fac / Division 22 / Part 2 / Chapter 18 / Article 8 / Section 77666
Section 77666
Status: in_force

Upon suspension of the operation of this chapter, the commission shall mail a copy of the notice of suspension to all persons affected by the suspension whose names and addresses are on file.
Cal. PUC § 99563.8 — California Code / Code puc / Division 10 / Part 11 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 99563.8
Section 99563.8
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to:

(a) Cause or attempt to cause the transit district employer to violate Section 99563.7.

(b) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate against employees, or otherwise to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees because of their exercise of rights guaranteed by this chapter.

(c) Refuse or fail to meet and confer with the transit district employer.

(d) Refuse to participate in good faith in the impasse procedure set forth in Article 9 (commencing with Section 99568).
Cal. PRC § 6218 — California Code / Code prc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 6218
Section 6218
Status: in_force

The commission may charge and collect reasonable fees for services performed by it, not exceeding the actual cost to the state of such services. In any case where the commission, either pursuant to law or rule of the commission, requires the publication of advertisements for bids or the publication of any notice in connection with the sale or leasing of state lands, the commission may, by rule, require that the cost of such publication be advanced by any applicant or bidder and be paid by the successful applicant or bidder.
Cal. LAB § 1722 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 7 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 1722
Section 1722
Status: in_force

“Awarding body” or “body awarding the contract” means department, board, authority, officer or agent awarding a contract for public work.
Cal. LAB § 2750 — California Code / Code lab / Division 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 2750
Section 2750
Status: in_force

The contract of employment is a contract by which one, who is called the employer, engages another, who is called the employee, to do something for the benefit of the employer or a third person.
Cal. HSC § 25299.205 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 20 / Chapter 6.77 / Section 25299.205
Section 25299.205
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing Account is hereby created in the State Treasury.

(2) The funds deposited into the account may be expended by the board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for making grants pursuant to this chapter and administering this chapter.

(b) (1) This section shall not become operative if Assembly Bill 1068 of the 2003–04 Regular Session of the Legislature is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2005, that bill creates the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing Account in the State Treasury, and the bill adding this section takes effect on or after the effective date of Assembly Bill 1068.

(2) If the act adding this section is enacted and takes effect before the effective date of Assembly Bill 1068, this section shall become operative on the effective date of that act, and shall become inoperative on the effective date of Assembly Bill 1068. On the date this section becomes inoperative, the Controller shall transfer all moneys in the account to the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing Account established pursuant to Section 25299.109.
Cal. ELEC § 1415 — California Code / Code elec / Division 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 1415
Section 1415
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a city or city and county charter proposal proposed by the governing body of a city or city and county on its own motion that qualifies pursuant to Section 9255 shall be submitted to the voters at the next established statewide general election pursuant to Section 1200 occurring not less than 88 days after the date of the order of election.

(2) The governing body of a city or city and county may direct that either of the following be submitted to the voters at the next regularly scheduled general municipal election pursuant to Section 1301, or at any established statewide general or statewide primary election pursuant to Section 1200 or 1201, occurring not less than 88 days after the date of the order of election:

(A) A charter proposal that proposes to amend a charter in a manner that does not alter any procedural or substantive protection, right, benefit, or employment status of any local government employee or retiree or of any local government employee organization.

(B) A charter proposal that proposes to amend a charter solely to comply with a court injunction or consent decree or with federal or state voting rights laws.

(b) A city or city and county charter proposal that proposes to amend or repeal a charter and is proposed by a petition signed by 15 percent of the registered voters of a city or 10 percent of the registered voters of a city and county, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 9255, shall be submitted to the voters at the next regularly scheduled general municipal election pursuant to Section 1301, or at any established statewide general or statewide primary election pursuant to Section 1200 or 1201, occurring not less than 88 days after the date of the order of election.
Cal. PRC § 43601.5 — California Code / Code prc / Division 30 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 43601.5
Section 43601.5
Status: in_force

(a) On or before March 1, 1994, the board shall review and revise regulations affecting solid waste landfill closure and postclosure financial assurances adopted in accordance with this article to make the regulations consistent with the requirements established pursuant to Subpart G (commencing with Section 258.1) of Part 258 of Subchapter I of Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended on October 9, 1991.

(b) In reviewing and revising regulations pursuant to subdivision (a), the board shall, consistent with this division, and with federal law and regulations, endeavor to minimize the costs of compliance with those regulations by the owners and operators of public solid waste landfills and to provide flexible mechanisms for those owners and operators to comply with closure and postclosure financial assurance requirements, in order to ensure that adequate funding will be available for programs and projects that are necessary to comply with the diversion requirements of Section 41780.
Cal. RTC § 24991 — California Code / Code rtc / Division 2 / Part 11 / Chapter 15 / Article 4.5 / Section 24991
Section 24991
Status: in_force

Section 1275(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to the definition of tax-exempt obligation, does not apply but instead the term “tax-exempt obligation” means an obligation the interest on which is exempt from tax under this part.
Cal. WIC § 5370.1 — California Code / Code wic / Division 5 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Section 5370.1
Section 5370.1
Status: in_force

The court in which a petition to establish a conservatorship is filed may appoint the county counsel or a private attorney to represent a private conservator in all proceedings connected with the conservatorship, if it appears that the conservator has insufficient funds to obtain the services of a private attorney. Such appointments of the county counsel, however, may be made only if the board of supervisors have, by ordinance or resolution, authorized the county counsel to accept them.
Cal. BPC § 1058 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 1058
Section 1058
Status: in_force

Moneys received by the board pursuant to this article shall be used to carry out the purposes of this article.
Cal. LAB § 1293.1 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Section 1293.1
Section 1293.1
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 1394, no minor under the age of 12 years may be employed or permitted to work, or accompany or be permitted to accompany an employed parent or guardian, in an agricultural zone of danger. As used in this section, “agricultural zone of danger” means any or all of the following:

(1) On or about moving equipment.

(2) In or about unprotected chemicals.

(3) In or about any unprotected water hazard.

The Department of Industrial Relations may, after hearing, determine other hazards that constitute an agricultural zone of danger.

(b) Except for employment described in subdivision (a) of Section 1394, no minor under the age of 12 years may be employed or permitted to work, or accompany an employed parent or guardian, in any of the occupations declared hazardous for employment of minors below 16 years of age in Section 570.71 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as that regulation may be amended from time to time.
Cal. VEH § 3006 — California Code / Code veh / Division 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 3006
Section 3006
Status: in_force

The board shall organize and elect a president from among its members for a term of one year at the first meeting of each year. The newly elected president shall assume his or her duties at the conclusion of the meeting at which he or she was elected. Reelection to office during membership is unrestricted.
Cal. BPC § 7804.1 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 3 / Chapter 12.5 / Article 1 / Section 7804.1
Section 7804.1
Status: in_force

Only a person registered as a geophysicist under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title “professional geophysicist.” Only a person registered as a geophysicist and certified under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title of a registered certified specialty geophysicist.
Cal. HSC § 122175 — California Code / Code hsc / Division 105 / Part 6 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 122175
Section 122175
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 122160, no refund, replacement, or reimbursement of veterinary fees shall be made if any of the following conditions exist:

(a)  The illness or death resulted from maltreatment or neglect or from an injury sustained or an illness contracted subsequent to the delivery of the dog to the purchaser.

(b)  The purchaser fails to carry out the recommended treatment prescribed by the examining veterinarian who made the initial diagnosis. However, this subdivision shall not apply if the cost for the treatment together with the veterinarian’s fee for the diagnosis would exceed the purchase price of the dog, including sales tax.

(c)  A veterinarian’s statement was provided to the purchaser pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 122140 that disclosed the disease, illness, or condition for which the purchaser seeks to return the dog. However, this paragraph shall not apply if, within one year after the purchaser took physical possession of the dog, a veterinarian licensed in this state states in writing that the disease, illness, or condition requires, or is likely in the future to require, hospitalization or nonelective surgical procedures or that the disease, illness, or condition resulted in the death of the dog.

(d)  The purchaser refuses to return to the pet dealer all documents previously provided to the purchaser for the purpose of registering the dog. This subdivision shall not apply if the purchaser signs a written statement certifying that the documents have been inadvertently lost or destroyed.
Cal. ELEC § 10525 — California Code / Code elec / Division 10 / Part 4 / Section 10525
Section 10525
Status: in_force

(a) At least 35 days prior to the date fixed for the landowner district election, the secretary of a landowner district for which an election has not been canceled pursuant to Section 10515, shall deliver to the county elections official of each affected county a list of voters qualified under the principal act of that district to vote in that county at the next landowner district election. For this purpose, the secretary of a landowner voting district shall be entitled to obtain from any office of an affected county all information necessary to prepare the list.

(b) The list delivered pursuant to subdivision (a) shall contain the name of each voter qualified under the principal act of the landowner voting district to vote at the next landowner district election, the residence of each voter, the division, if any, of the district in which each voter is entitled to vote, and the manner in which the votes are to be distributed.

(c) The secretary of the landowner district shall sign his or her name and affix the seal of the district at the bottom of the last page of the list. One copy of this list shall be conspicuously posted in the office of the district in a place to which the public generally has access. If the office is located in a private home, the list shall be posted in some public building.

(d) The governing board may, by resolution, determine that the duties of the secretary set forth in this section would best be performed by the county elections official, in which case the county elections official shall thereafter assume these duties.
Cal. LAB § 227 — California Code / Code lab / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 227
Section 227
Status: in_force

If an employer has made withholdings from an employee’s wages pursuant to state, local, or federal law, or has agreed with any employee to make payments to a health or welfare fund, pension fund, or vacation plan, or other similar plan for the benefit of the employees, or a negotiated industrial promotion fund, or has entered into a collective bargaining agreement providing for these payments, it shall be unlawful for that employer willfully or with intent to defraud to fail to remit the withholdings to the proper agency or to fail to make the payments required by the terms of that agreement. A violation of any provision of this section when the amount the employer failed to pay into the fund or funds exceeds five hundred dollars ($500) shall be punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine. All other violations shall be punishable as a misdemeanor. In a criminal proceeding under this section, any withholdings that are recovered from an employer shall be forwarded to the appropriate fund or plan and, if restitution is imposed, the court shall direct to which agency, entity, or person it shall be paid.
Cal. FGC § 5901 — California Code / Code fgc / Division 6 / Part 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 5901
Section 5901
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this code, it is unlawful to construct or maintain in any stream in Districts 1, 1 3/8, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/4, 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/8, 4 1/2, 4 3/4, 11, 12, 13, 23, and 25, any device or contrivance that prevents, impedes, or tends to prevent or impede, the passing of fish up and down stream.
Cal. FAC § 14531 — California Code / Code fac / Division 7 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 14531
Section 14531
Status: in_force

“Experimental use” means any application of a fertilizing material which is not offered for sale, has no commercial value, and is for the sole purpose of obtaining scientific data.
Cal. HNC § 1157.4 — California Code / Code hnc / Division 5 / Chapter 2 / Section 1157.4
Section 1157.4
Status: in_force

Upon a request to the board by a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency, the executive director shall make available to the requesting agency any information contained in the board’s records.
Cal. BPC § 12303 — California Code / Code bpc / Division 5 / Chapter 3 / Section 12303
Section 12303
Status: in_force

The state standards of weights and measures by which all state and county standards of weights and measures shall be tried, proved, and sealed include the following standards, provided the standards have been certified relative to national standards under the direction of the National Institute of Standards and Technology:

(a) Metrological standards provided by the United States.

(b) Metrological standards procured by the state.

(c) Metrological standards in the possession of county sealers.

(d) Metrological standards in the possession of laboratories certified to perform measurement services pursuant to Section 12314.