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CA Health & Safety Code § 17951.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17951.5.

17951.5.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17951, each city, county, or city and county may waive or reduce all building permit fees for improvements to the home of a veteran with a qualifying disability that are made to accommodate that disability.(b) “Qualifying disability” means a disability that is recognized as service connected by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 281, Sec. 1. (SB 330) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17951.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17951.7.

17951.7.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17951, each city, county, or city and county may waive or reduce all building permit fees for improvements to the home of a person at least 60 years of age with a qualifying disability that are made to accommodate that disability.(b) A local entity that chooses to waive or reduce building permit fees pursuant to subdivision (a) shall adopt an ordinance to establish a standard application form that may be used to apply for the waiver or reduction, including the requirements for proof of a qualifying disability. (c) “Qualifying disability” means a physical or mental disability as defined in subdivisions (j) and (m) of Section 12926 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 386, Sec. 1. (AB 2132) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17952 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17952.

17952.  (a)  In the event of nonenforcement of this part, or the building standards published in the California Building Standards Code, or the other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this part, such provisions, building standards or other rules and regulations shall be enforced by the department in any city or county after the department has given written notice to the governing body of that city or county or fire protection district, as the case may be, of a violation of this part, those building standards, or the other rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this part and the city or county has failed to initiate proceedings to secure correction of the violation within 30 days of the date of that notice. The city or county or fire protection district may request a hearing before the department pursuant to Section 17930 within the 30 days to show cause for nonenforcement. Enforcement by the department shall not be initiated until the decision of the department, adverse to the city or county or fire protection district, is rendered. (b)  In the event of enforcement by the department pursuant to subdivision (a), the costs incurred by the department for such enforcement shall be borne by such city, or county, or city and county, or fire protection district. The department may assess fees to defray the costs of enforcement, thereby reducing the cost to be borne by the city, county, city and county, or fire protection district, but the department need not assess such fees and may not require the city, county, city and county, or fire protection district to assess fees to offset department costs. (Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 645, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17953 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17953.

17953.  Each city, county, and city and county shall enact an ordinance which requires a preliminary soil report, prepared by a civil engineer who is registered by the state, based upon adequate test borings or excavations, of every subdivision, where a tentative and final map is required pursuant to Section 66426 of the Government Code.The preliminary soil report may be waived if the building department of the city, county or city and county, or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, shall determine that, due to the knowledge such department has as to the soil qualities of the soil of the subdivision or lot, no preliminary analysis is necessary.(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 24.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17954 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17954.

17954.  If the preliminary soil report indicates the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects, such ordinance shall require a soil investigation of each lot in the subdivision.The soil investigation shall be prepared by a civil engineer who is registered in this state. It shall recommend corrective action which is likely to prevent structural damage to each dwelling proposed to be constructed on the expansive soil.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17955 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17955.

17955.  The building department of each city, county, or city and county, or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, shall approve the soil investigation if it determines that the recommended action is likely to prevent structural damage to each dwelling to be constructed. As a condition to the building permit, the ordinance shall require that the approved recommended action be incorporated in the construction of each dwelling. Appeal from such determination shall be to the local appeals board.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17956 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17956.

17956.  A city, county, or city and county or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, is not liable for any injury which arises out of any act or omission of the city, county or city and county, or other enforcement agency, or a public employee or any other person under Section 17953, 17954, or 17955.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17957 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17957.

17957.  The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact an ordinance prescribing an alternate procedure which is equal to or more restrictive than the procedure specified in Sections 17953, 17954, and 17955.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.

17958.  Except as provided in Sections 17958.8 and 17958.9, any city or county may make changes in the provisions adopted pursuant to Section 17922 and published in the California Building Standards Code or the other regulations thereafter adopted pursuant to Section 17922 to amend, add, or repeal ordinances or regulations which impose the same requirements as are contained in the provisions adopted pursuant to Section 17922 and published in the California Building Standards Code or the other regulations adopted pursuant to Section 17922 or make changes or modifications in those requirements upon express findings pursuant to Sections 17958.5 and 17958.7. If any city or county does not amend, add, or repeal ordinances or regulations to impose those requirements or make changes or modifications in those requirements upon express findings, the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code or the other regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 17922 shall be applicable to it and shall become effective 180 days after publication by the California Building Standards Commission. Amendments, additions, and deletions to the California Building Standards Code adopted by a city or county pursuant to Section 17958.7, together with all applicable portions of the California Building Standards Code, shall become effective 180 days after publication of the California Building Standards Code by the California Building Standards Commission.(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 645, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.1.

17958.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 17922, 17958, and 17958.5, a city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance, permit efficiency units for occupancy by no more than two persons which have a minimum floor area of 150 square feet and which may also have partial kitchen or bathroom facilities, as specified by the ordinance. In all other respects, these efficiency units shall conform to minimum standards for those occupancies otherwise made applicable pursuant to this part.(b) “Efficiency unit,” as used in this section, has the same meaning specified in the International Building Code of the International Code Council, as incorporated by reference in Part 2 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.(c) A city, county, or city and county shall not do any of the following: (1) Limit the number of efficiency units in an area zoned for residential use and located within one-half mile of public transit or where there is a car share vehicle located within one block of the efficiency unit. (2) Limit the number of efficiency units in an area zoned for residential use and located within one mile of a University of California or California State University campus.(3) For purposes of this subdivision, any requirements related to density, setbacks, lot coverage, or height restrictions established by local ordinance are not considered a limit on the number of efficiency units.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 400, Sec. 1. (AB 352) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.2.

17958.2.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 17958, regulations of the department adopted for limited-density owner-built rural dwellings, which are codified in Article 8 (commencing with Section 74) of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations, shall not become operative within any city or county unless and until the governing body of the city or county makes an express finding that the application of those regulations within the city or county is reasonably necessary because of local conditions and the city or county files a copy of that finding with the department. (b)  In adopting ordinances or regulations for limited-density owner-built rural dwellings, a city or county may make any changes or modifications in the requirements contained in Article 8 (commencing with Section 74) of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations that it determines are reasonably necessary because of local conditions, if the city or county files a copy of the changes or modifications and the express findings for the changes or modifications with the department. No change or modification of that type shall become effective or operative for any purpose until the finding and the change or modification has been filed with the department. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 471, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.3.

17958.3.  (a) All residential hotels, as defined by paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 50519, shall provide a locking mail receptacle for each residential unit, consistent with the applicable standards for apartment housing mail receptacles in the United States Postal Service Domestic Mail Manual. Installation and maintenance of each mail receptacle shall meet all of the specifications and requirements of the United States Postal Service.(b) Notwithstanding the date of construction of the residential hotel, each mail receptacle shall comply with the requirements of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 3601).(c) Notwithstanding Sections 17922, 17958, and 17958.5, a city, county, or city and county may enact and enforce ordinances which provide greater protections, additional standards, and increased remedies with respect to the provision of a locking mail receptacle for each residential unit in a residential hotel.(d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2008.(Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 599, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008. Section operative July 1, 2008, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.4.

17958.4.  (a)  Any city, county, or city and county, may, by ordinance, establish a date by which all residential real property with security window bars on bedroom windows shall meet current state and local requirements for safety release mechanisms on security window bars consistent with the applicable standards in the 1995 edition of the California Building Standards Code, or, for safety release mechanisms on security window bars installed on or after January 1, 2008, the current edition of the California Building Standards Code, and any changes thereto made by the city, county, or city and county pursuant to Section 17958.(b)  Disclosures of the existence of any safety release mechanism on any security window bar shall be made in writing, and may be included in existing transactional documents, including, but not limited to, a real estate sales contract or receipt for deposit, or a transfer disclosure statement pursuant to Section 1102.6 or 1106.6a of the Civil Code.(c)  Enforcement of an ordinance adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not apply as a condition of occupancy or at the time of any transfer that is subject to the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, Part 6.7 (commencing with Section 11901) of the Revenue and Taxation Code.(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 596, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2008.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.5.

17958.5.  Except as provided in Section 17922.6, in adopting the ordinances or regulations pursuant to Section 17958, a city or county may make those changes or modifications in the requirements contained in the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code and the other regulations adopted pursuant to Section 17922, including, but not limited to, green building standards, as it determines, pursuant to the provisions of Section 17958.7, are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions.For purposes of this section, a city and county may make reasonably necessary modifications to the requirements, adopted pursuant to Section 17922, including, but not limited to, green building standards, contained in the provisions of the code and regulations on the basis of local conditions.(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 89, Sec. 1. (AB 210) Effective January 1, 2010.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.7.

17958.7.  (a)  Except as provided in Section 17922.6, the governing body of a city or county, before making any modifications or changes pursuant to Section 17958.5, shall make an express finding that such modifications or changes are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological or topographical conditions. Such a finding shall be available as a public record. A copy of those findings, together with the modification or change expressly marked and identified to which each finding refers, shall be filed with the California Building Standards Commission. No modification or change shall become effective or operative for any purpose until the finding and the modification or change have been filed with the California Building Standards Commission. (b)  The California Building Standards Commission may reject a modification or change filed by the governing body of a city or county if no finding was submitted. (Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 645, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.8.

17958.8.  Local ordinances or regulations governing alterations and repair of existing buildings shall permit the replacement, retention, and extension of original materials and the use of original methods of construction for any building or accessory structure subject to this part, including a hotel, lodginghouse, motel, apartment house, or dwelling, or portions thereof, as long as the portion of the building and structure subject to the replacement, retention, or extension of original materials and the use of original methods of construction complies with the building code provisions governing that portion of the building or accessory structure at the time of construction, and the other rules and regulations of the department or alternative local standards governing that portion at the time of its construction and adopted pursuant to Section 13143.2 and the building or accessory structure does not become or continue to be a substandard building.(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 474, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.9 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.9.

17958.9.  Local ordinances or regulations governing the moving of apartment houses and dwellings shall, after July 1, 1978, permit the retention of existing materials and methods of construction so long as the apartment house or dwelling complies with the building standards for foundation applicable to new construction, and does not become or continue to be a substandard building.(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 288, Sec. 2. Effective August 2, 1993.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17958.12 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17958.12.

17958.12.  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:(1) Building officials, pursuant to this code and the California Building Standards Code, have broad authority as part of their enforcement authority to render interpretations of the code and to adopt policies and procedures to clarify the application of its provisions.(2) A building official has the discretion to apply the building standards that were in effect at the time a residential unit was constructed. This is permissible under the authority to grant modifications on a case-by-case basis and the authority of a building department to approve a material, appliance, installation, device, arrangement, or method if it finds that the design is satisfactory and equivalent to the building standards code. Several jurisdictions were not aware of this existing authority.(3) It is the intent of the Legislature to clarify that when a building permit for a residential unit does not exist, the appropriate enforcement official may make a determination of when a residential unit was constructed and then apply the California Building Standards Code and other specified rules and regulations in effect when the residential unit was determined to be constructed for purposes of issuing a building permit for the residential unit.(b) The department shall propose the adoption of a building standard to the California Building Standards Commission pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 18935) of Part 2.5 of Division 13 to authorize, when a record of the issuance of a building permit for the construction of an existing residential unit does not exist, a local enforcement official to determine the date of construction of that residential unit, apply this part, the building standards in the California Building Standards Code, and other specified rules and regulations in effect on that date of construction to that residential unit, and issue a retroactive building permit for that construction. This authorization shall be consistent with the findings and declarations of subdivision (a).(c) This section is declaratory of existing law.(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 1010, Sec. 1. (SB 1226) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17959.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17959.3.

17959.3.  (a)  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the use of passive solar energy design. The Legislature recognizes that building code regulations with regard to natural light and ventilation standards have to be modified to permit existing buildings to be retrofitted with passive solar energy. (b)  Notwithstanding Section 17922, any city or county may by ordinance or regulation permit windows required for light and ventilation of habitable rooms in dwellings to open into areas provided with natural light and ventilation which are designed and built to act as passive solar energy collectors. (c)  On or before September 1, 1999, the department shall, after consulting with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, prepare, adopt, and submit building standards to implement the provisions of this section for approval as part of the California Building Standards Code pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 18935) of Part 2.5. (Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 643, Sec. 10.5. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 17959.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 13 - HOUSING|PART 1.5 - REGULATION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION|CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope|Section 17959.4.

17959.4.  The housing appeals board may, in cases of extreme hardship to owner-occupants or tenants of dwellings, provide for deferral of the effective date of orders of abatement. Any deferral of the effective date of an order of abatement under this section shall terminate upon any sale or transfer of the dwelling by the owner-occupant but shall not terminate upon the sale or transfer of the dwelling if the dwelling is occupied by a tenant other than the owner-occupant.(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1279, Sec. 4.)