California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §1540.2: Any person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent, or resident of a community care facility

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person commits a misdemeanor by unauthorized disclosure of an impending unannounced department site visit to a community care facility. Punishment includes up to $1,000 fine and/or up to 180 days county jail.

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Any person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent, or resident of a community care facility, of an impending and unannounced site visit to that facility by personnel of the department is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both a fine and imprisonment.

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