California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §25249.12: (a) The Governor shall designate a lead agency and other agencies that may be required to implement this chapter, including this section.

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This statute establishes administrative procedures for implementing drinking water and toxic enforcement laws, creates a dedicated fund for enforcement, and allocates collected penalties between agencies and enforcers.

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(a) The Governor shall designate a lead agency and other agencies that may be required to implement this chapter, including this section. Each agency so designated may adopt and modify regulations, standards, and permits as necessary to conform with and implement this chapter and to further its purposes. (b) The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The director of the lead agency designated by the Governor to implement this chapter may expend the funds in the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and administer this chapter. (c) In addition to any other money that may be deposited in the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Fund, all of the following amounts shall be deposited in the fund: (1) Seventy-five percent of all civil and criminal penalties collected pursuant to this chapter. (2) Any interest earned upon the money deposited into the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Fund. (d) Twenty-five percent of all civil and criminal penalties collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid to the office of the city attorney, city prosecutor, district attorney, or Attorney General, whichever office brought the action, or in the case of an action brought by a person under subdivision (d) of Section 25249.7, to that person.

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