California

Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 121010 — Notwithstanding Section 120975 or 120980, the results of an HIV test, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 120775, to detect antibodies to the probable causative agent of AIDS may be disclosed to
• § 121015 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 120980 or any other provision of law, no physician and surgeon who has the results of a confirmed positive test to detect HIV infection of a patient under his or her care s
• § 12102 — This chapter does not apply to any possession or use of 20 pounds or less of smokeless powder, or one pound or less of black sporting powder, provided that: (a) Smokeless powder is intended only for h
• § 12102.1 — Any person who sells, gives, delivers or otherwise disposes of 20 pounds or less of smokeless powder, or one pound or less of black sporting powder, shall first obtain a statement from the person who
• § 121020 — (a) (1) When the subject of an HIV test is not competent to give consent for the test to be performed, written consent for the test may be obtained from the subject’s parents, guardians, conservators,
• § 121022 — (a) To ensure knowledge of current trends in the HIV epidemic and to ensure that California remains competitive for federal HIV and AIDS funding, health care providers and laboratories shall report al
• § 121023 — (a) Subject to subdivision (b), each clinical laboratory, as defined in Section 1206 of the Business and Professions Code, shall report all CD4+ T-Cell test results to the local health officer for the
• § 121025 — (a) Public health records relating to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), containing personally identifying information, that were developed or acquired by
• § 121026 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 120980, Section 121010, subdivision (i) of Section 121022, subdivision (f) of Section 121025, Section 121115, and Section 121280, the State Department of
• § 12103 — Application for a permit, as required under Section 12101, shall be made by filing a statement on forms prescribed by the State Fire Marshal.
• § 121030 — (a) To the extent Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 121075) apply to records or information that would be covered by this chapter, Chapters 7 and 10 sh
• § 121035 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Disclosed” or “disclosure” or “discloses” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 121125.
• § 12105 — If the issuing authority finds, after reviewing the application for a permit, that the applicant possesses sufficient and adequate facilities to conduct the acts specified in the application, and that
• § 12105.1 — Except in a case in which the issuing authority determines that the explosives are necessary because of an emergency involving a danger to persons or property, no permit shall normally be issued until
• § 12105.2 — A copy of each permit issued shall be forwarded to the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation in Sacramento.
• § 121050 — The people of the State of California find and declare that AIDS, AIDS-related conditions, and other communicable diseases pose a major threat to the public health and safety.
• § 121055 — Any defendant charged in any criminal complaint filed with a magistrate or court with any violation of Section 261, 261.
• § 121056 — (a) Any forensic scientist, including, but not limited to, any criminalist, toxicologist, and forensic pathologist, or any other employee required to handle or perform DNA or other forensic evidence a
• § 12106 — When required by and in amounts set forth in local ordinance, the applicant for a permit for explosives shall submit evidence that the applicant has a minimum and specified amount of funds available f
• § 121060 — (a) Any peace officer, firefighter, custodial officer, as that term is defined in subdivision (a) of Section 831 or subdivision (a) of Section 831.
• § 121060.1 — (a) For purposes of Section 121060, “bloodborne pathogen exposure” means a percutaneous injury, including, but not limited to, a needle stick or cut with a sharp object, or the contact of nonintact sk
• § 121065 — (a) The withdrawal of blood shall be performed in a medically approved manner.
• § 12107 — The issuing authority shall, in the exercise of reasonable discretion, deny a permit to any person if it is his opinion that the handling or use of explosives by such person would be hazardous to prop
• § 121070 — (a) Any medical personnel employed by, under contract to, or receiving payment from the State of California, any agency thereof, or any county, city, or city and county to provide service at any state
• § 121075 — Research records, in a personally identifying form, developed or acquired by any person in the course of conducting research or a research study relating to HIV or AIDS shall be confidential, and thes
• § 12108 — The form of the permits shall be prescribed by the State Fire Marshal.
• § 121080 — Confidential research records may be disclosed in accordance with the prior written consent of the research subject with respect to whom the research record is maintained, but only to the extent, unde
• § 121085 — (a) Confidential research records shall be protected in the course of conducting financial audits or program evaluations, and audit personnel shall not directly or indirectly identify any individual r
• § 12109 — Except as provided in Section 12111, permits shall be valid for the period of time specified thereon.
• § 121090 — Notwithstanding Section 121080, whether or not the research subject, with respect to whom any confidential research record is maintained, gives prior written consent, the content of the confidential r
• § 121095 — The content of any confidential research record shall be disclosed to the research subject, the legal representative of the research subject if the research subject is a minor, or the personal represe
• § 12110 — No permit issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be transferable.
• § 121100 — (a) No confidential research record may be compelled to be produced in any state, county, city or other proceeding in order to initiate or substantiate any criminal charge or charges against a researc
• § 121105 — Prior to participation of an individual in a research study relating to HIV or AIDS, both of the following requirements shall be met: (a) The informed consent of each research subject shall be obtaine
• § 12111 — A permit may be suspended or revoked, after reasonable notice and hearing, by any chief or issuing authority in the area in which explosives are sold, used, stored, handled, or possessed, if the perso
• § 121110 — (a) Any person who negligently discloses the content of any confidential research record, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 121125, to any third party, except pursuant to this chapter, shall be
• § 121115 — In the event that the participation of an individual in a research study is disclosed, the information shall not be used to determine the employability or insurability of the research subject.
• § 12112 — Any decision or action by any chief or issuing authority made pursuant to this part may be appealed to the governing body of the area in which such decision or action is made.
• § 121120 — Nothing in this chapter shall preclude disclosure of information in order to further research efforts, including, but not limited to, the publication, dissemination, or sharing of raw data, statistics
• § 121125 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “AIDS” means acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
• § 121150 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the department, working with the California AIDS Leadership Committee, has developed a draft state AIDS plan for comprehensive, coordinated government ac
• § 121155 — (a) There is hereby created in the state department an AIDS Advisory Committee.
• § 121160 — The members of the AIDS Advisory Committee shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing powers.
• § 121165 — The committee may establish rules or criteria for grants under this chapter as it deems necessary.
• § 121170 — The director may award grants from any funds that may be made available for the purposes of this chapter to individuals, organizations, or facilities for activities that may include, but need not be l
• § 121175 — The department may do all of the following: (a) Accept any federal funds provided for any of the purposes of this chapter.
• § 121180 — Not more than 10 percent of any money appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall be utilized for the administration of this chapter.
• § 1212 — (a) Any person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation desiring a license for a clinic or a special permit for special services under the provisions of this chapter, shall file with the depart
• § 12120 — No person shall knowingly sell, give away, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any explosive to any person who does not possess a valid permit as required pursuant to Section 12101.
• § 121200 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Over the past five years AIDS has reached an epidemic stage and is estimated to affect 30,000 Californians by 1990.
• § 12121 — Every person who possesses, stores, uses, sells, gives away, delivers, or otherwise disposes of explosives shall keep an accurate journal, record book, or a record of sale in which he shall note each
• § 12122 — Each notation in the journal, record book, or each record of sale, as required by Section 12121, shall legibly show: (a) The date of each purchase or receipt, storage, use, sale, delivery, gift, or ot
• § 121225 — If a California manufacturer that is a grant recipient sells, delivers, or distributes an AIDS vaccine that has received FDA approval for use by the general population and that was developed in whole
• § 12123 — The journal, record book or record of sale shall be kept by the person required to keep it in his principal office or place of business.
• § 12124 — The keeping of a journal, record book, or record of sale required by Sections 12121, 12122, and 12123 does not apply to those persons who are rendering a delivery service under a permit issued by the
• § 121250 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The rapidly spreading AIDS epidemic poses an unprecedented major public health crisis in California, and threatens, in one way or another,
• § 121255 — The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the virus human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type III (HTLV-3) that initially
• § 121260 — The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) The average cost per patient in the treatment of AIDS until death is now one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000).
• § 121265 — “State,” as used in this chapter, has the same meaning as set forth in Section 900.
• § 121270 — (a) There is hereby created the AIDS Vaccine Victims Compensation Fund.
• § 121275 — (a) Because the development of a vaccine now costs somewhere between twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) and forty million dollars ($40,000,000), and because the last vaccine produced and marketed di
• § 121280 — (a) In enacting this section the Legislature finds and declares: (1) It is in the interest of the people of California to develop a vaccine that will prevent the infection of HIV, the agent that cause
• § 121281 — In order to assist pharmacists and pharmacy personnel in the education of consumers who are at risk of bloodborne infections regarding methods and opportunities for improving and protecting their heal
• § 121287 — (a) There are hereby established public health demonstration projects to allow for innovative, evidence-based approaches to provide outreach, HIV and hepatitis C screenings, and linkage to, and retent
• § 121288 — Upon an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the department shall award funding, on a competitive basis, to a community-based organization or local health jurisdiction to operate a
• § 121289 — Each demonstration project shall prepare and disseminate information regarding best practices for, and the lessons learned regarding, providing outreach and education to the most vulnerable and unders
• § 121290 — (a) There is hereby established the Statewide African-American Initiative to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on the health of African-Americans by coordinating prevention and service n
• § 121290.1 — The initiative shall sponsor and conduct an annual Summit on African-Americans and HIV.
• § 121290.2 — The initiative shall have all of the following responsibilities: (a) To design and conduct a series of complementary projects to implement policy and planning to address the disproportionate impact of
• § 121290.4 — The initiative shall employ all of the following strategies to achieve its objectives: (a) Serve as a community resource for technical assistance and training in the communication and dissemination of
• § 121290.5 — (a) The initiative shall establish a central coordinating body to provide administrative, technical, educational, and health information dissemination services to the initiative’s network of community
• § 121290.7 — The Office of AIDS shall appoint an internal advisory committee composed of the office’s African-American HIV specialist, a section head from the office, and a designee to supervise the day-to-day act
• § 121290.8 — There is hereby established the Statewide African-American HIV/AIDS Steering Committee.
• § 121290.9 — The requirements of this chapter shall be implemented only after the Department of Finance makes a determination that nonstate funds in an amount sufficient to fully support the activities of the init
• § 121295 — (a) The State Department of Public Health, in consultation with the California Department of Aging, shall establish a program for demonstration projects to allow for innovative, evidence-informed appr
• § 1213 — A person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity desiring a license for a clinic shall be exempt from the requirements of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16000) of Divis
• § 121300 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Nearly 90 percent of the cases of pediatric AIDS in the United States occur as a result of maternal infant transmission.
• § 121305 — For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “AIDS” means acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
• § 121310 — A manufacturer, research institution, or researcher shall, prior to the administration of an AIDS vaccine to a research subject, obtain that woman’s informed consent, that shall comply with all applic
• § 121315 — (a) A manufacturer, research institution, or researcher shall not be strictly liable for personal injury or wrongful death resulting from the administration of any AIDS vaccine to a research subject p
• § 121320 — No person shall be denied the opportunity to be a research subject because of the inability to pay for medical treatment.
• § 121325 — There is hereby created the AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trial Grant Award for the Prevention of Maternal Transmission of HIV Infection.
• § 121330 — If a manufacturer that is a grant recipient sells, delivers, or distributes an AIDS vaccine that has received FDA approval for use by the general population and that was developed in whole or in part
• § 121335 — It is the intent of the Legislature for the department to make every effort possible to insure a comprehensive and diverse expert representation on the committee.
• § 121340 — (a) The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Health Officers, the California Medical Association, HIV treatment providers, and public health and
• § 121345 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that therapeutic monitoring is necessary to make appropriate life-prolonging and cost-effective treatment decisions in the management of HIV disease.
• § 121348 — (a) The department, through its Office of AIDS, shall appoint and convene a task force to develop recommendations for the use of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in the general population, for the prev
• § 121348.2 — (a) The task force shall consist of no more than 10 members, including, but not be limited to, representatives with PEP experience from all of the following: (1) Research scientists.
• § 121348.4 — Upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Public Health shall establish the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Navigator Services Program, under which the department shall p
• § 121349 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that scientific data from needle exchange programs in the United States and in Europe have shown that the exchange of used hypodermic needles and syringes for cl
• § 121349.1 — The State Department of Public Health or a city, county, or a city and county with or without a health department, that acts to authorize a clean needle and syringe exchange project pursuant to this c
• § 121349.2 — Local government, local health officials, and law enforcement shall be given the opportunity to comment on clean needle and syringe exchange programs on a biennial basis.
• § 121349.3 — The health officer of the participating jurisdiction shall present biennially at an open meeting of the board of supervisors or city council a report detailing the status of clean needle and syringe e
• § 121350 — The department shall maintain a program for the control of tuberculosis.
• § 121355 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter a county that has elected to come under Section 14150.
• § 121357 — The state department shall be the lead agency for all tuberculosis control and prevention activities at the state level.
• § 121358 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, individuals housed or detained through the tuberculosis control, housing, and detention program shall not reside in correctional facilities, and the fun
• § 121360 — Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, and all proper expenditures that may be made by any county, pursuant to this chapter, are necessary fo
• § 121360.5 — (a) Any city or county health department that elects to participate in this program shall provide for one-year certification of tuberculin skin test technicians by local health officers.
• § 121361 — (a) (1) A health facility, local detention facility, or state correctional institution shall not discharge or release any of the following persons unless subdivision (e) is complied with: (A) A person
• § 121362 — Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease, each person in charge of a health facility, or each person in charge of a clinic providing outpatient treatment for activ
• § 121363 — Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease shall examine, or cause to be examined, all household contacts or shall refer them to the local health officer for examina
• § 121364 — (a) Within the territory under his or her jurisdiction, each local health officer may order examinations for tuberculosis infection for the purposes of directing preventive measures for persons in the
• § 121365 — Each local health officer is hereby directed to use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and immediately investigate all reported or suspected cases of active tuberculosis disease in t
• § 121366 — The local health officer may detain in a hospital or other appropriate place for examination or treatment, a person who is the subject of an order of detention issued pursuant to subdivision (a), (d),
• § 121367 — (a) An order of a local health officer pursuant to Section 121365 shall set forth all of the following: (1) The legal authority under which the order is issued, including the particular sections of st
• § 121368 — Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of Section 121365, 121366 or 121367, all of the following shall apply: (a) A person who is detained solely pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 121365 shal
• § 121369 — For purposes of Sections 121365, 121366, and 121367, all of the following shall apply: (a) If necessary, language interpreters and persons skilled in communicating with vision-impaired and deaf or har
• § 121370 — No examination or inspection shall be required of any person who depends exclusively on prayer for healing in accordance with the teachings of any well recognized religious sect, denomination or organ
• § 121375 — The department may inspect and have access to all records of all institutions and clinics, both public and private, where tuberculosis patients are treated.
• § 121380 — The department may advise officers of state educational, correctional, and medical institutions regarding the control of tuberculosis and the care of tuberculosis patients.
• § 121390 — The department shall lease any facilities it deems necessary to care for persons afflicted with active contagious tuberculosis who violate the quarantine or isolation orders of the health officer as p
• § 121395 — Whenever any person confined in any state institution, as provided in Section 120280, subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections, dies, and any personal funds or personal property of t
• § 1214 — Each application under this chapter for an initial license, renewal license, license upon change of ownership, or special permit shall be accompanied by a Licensing and Certification Program fee, as f
• § 1214.1 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1214, each application for a surgical clinic or a chronic dialysis clinic under this chapter for an initial license, renewal license, license upon change of o
• § 1214.5 — Each application under this chapter for an initial license, renewal license, license upon change of ownership, or special permit for a psychology clinic shall be accompanied by a Licensing and Certifi
• § 121400 — If the place of confinement of a person confined under the provisions of Section 120280 is in a county other than the county where he or she was convicted, upon release he or she shall be released in
• § 121450 — The department may distribute for the purpose of tuberculosis control an annual subvention, paid quarterly, to any local health department that maintains a tuberculosis control program consistent with
• § 121451 — A local entity that receives funding from the state for the purposes of this part, including, but not limited to, funding from the state for tuberculosis control pursuant to Item 4265-111-0001 of Sect
• § 121452 — A local health department or local health officer that receives funding from the state for tuberculosis control pursuant to Item 4265-111-0001 of Section 2.
• § 121455 — The department may establish standards and procedures for the operation of local tuberculosis control programs.
• § 121460 — Of the annual appropriation made to the department for tuberculosis control, the department may expend a sum not to exceed 7.
• § 121475 — In enacting this chapter, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide: (a) A means for the eventual elimination of tuberculosis.
• § 121480 — As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Governing authority” means the governing board of each school district or the authority of each other private or pu
• § 121485 — (a) If the local health officer determines that persons seeking first admission to any private or public elementary or secondary school or institution are reasonably suspected of having tuberculosis a
• § 121490 — The examination shall consist of either an approved intradermal tuberculin skin test or any other test for tuberculosis infection that has been recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control a
• § 121495 — (a) A person subject to an order made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 121485 who does not have on file the certificate required by this chapter may be admitted by the governing authority on con
• § 1215 — Each new license issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire 12 months from the date of its issuance, and each special permit shall expire on the expiration date of the underlying license.
• § 12150 — Except for explosives kept only at an explosive manufacturing plant, no person shall possess, keep, or store any explosive which is not completely encased in a tight metal, wooden, or fiber container,
• § 12150.5 — Every person having any blasting caps (electric or nonelectric) in his possession or control shall keep the same securely deposited in a locked approved magazine, except when taken therefrom for actua
• § 121500 — The examinations required by this chapter may be administered by any private or public source desired.
• § 121505 — The certificate shall not be required for a person who is subject to an order made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 121485, if the parent, guardian, or other adult who has assumed responsibility
• § 12151 — Except while in the custody of a common carrier or in course of transportation pending delivery to a consignee, all explosives shall be kept or stored as specified in the rules or regulations adopted
• § 121510 — Any person or organization administering tuberculosis examinations shall furnish each person examined, or his or her parent or guardian, as appropriate, with a certificate of the examination results g
• § 121515 — The governing authority shall cooperate with the local health officer in carrying out any programs ordered by the local health officer for the tuberculosis examinations of persons applying for first a
• § 121520 — The department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall adopt and enforce all rules and regulations necessary to carry out this chapter.
• § 121525 — (a) Except as provided in Section 121555, a person shall not be initially employed, or employed under contract, by a private or parochial elementary or secondary school, or any nursery school, unless
• § 121530 — The examination shall consist of either an approved intradermal tuberculin test or any other test for tuberculosis infection that has been recommended by the CDC and licensed by the FDA, that, if posi
• § 121535 — The X-ray may be taken by a competent and qualified X-ray technician if the X-ray is subsequently interpreted by a licensed physician and surgeon.
• § 121540 — The school shall maintain a file containing an up-to-date certificate for each person covered by this chapter.
• § 121545 — (a) A volunteer in a school subject to this chapter shall also be required to have on file with the school a certificate showing that, upon initial volunteer assignment, the person submitted to a tube
• § 121550 — Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the school from requiring more extensive or more frequent examinations.
• § 121555 — (a) A person who transfers his or her employment from one of the schools specified in subdivision (a) of Section 121525 to another shall be deemed to meet the requirements of subdivision (a) of Sectio
• § 121560 — (a) A patient who is 18 years of age or older and who receives health care services in a facility, clinic, center, office, or other setting, where primary care services are provided, shall be offered
• § 121575 — “Rabies,” as used in this chapter, includes rabies, and any other animal disease dangerous to human beings that may be declared by the department as coming under this chapter.
• § 121580 — “Quarantine,” as used in this chapter, means the strict confinement, upon the private premises of the owner, under restraint by leash, closed cage, or paddock, of all animals specified in the order of
• § 121585 — “Rabies area” shall mean any area not less than a county as determined by the director within a region where the existence of rabies constitutes a public health hazard, as found and declared by the di
• § 121595 — Whenever any case of rabies is reported as existing in any county or city, the department shall make, or cause to be made, a preliminary investigation as to whether the disease exists, and as to the p
• § 1216 — (a) Every clinic holding a license shall, on or before the 15th day of March each year, file with the Department of Health Care Access and Information, upon forms to be furnished by the department, a
• § 1216.1 — (a) Commencing January 1, 2027, every clinic holding a license and, notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 1206, every intermittent clinic operated by a licensed clinic and exempt from licensure s
• § 121600 — If upon the investigation the department finds that rabies exists, a quarantine shall be declared against all animals as are designated in the quarantine order, and living within the area specified in
• § 121605 — Following the order of quarantine the department shall make or cause to be made a thorough investigation as to the extent of the disease, the probable number of persons and animals exposed, and the ar
• § 121610 — The department may substitute for the quarantine order regulations as may be deemed adequate for the control of the disease in each area.
• § 121615 — All peace officers and boards of health shall carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 121620 — During the period for which any quarantine order is in force any officer may kill or in his or her discretion capture and hold for further action by the department any animal in a quarantine area, fou
• § 121625 — Any proper official within the meaning of this chapter may examine and enter upon all private premises for the enforcement of this chapter.
• § 121630 — Except as provided in Sections 121705 and 121710, every person who possesses or holds any animal in violation of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of an infraction, punishable by a fine not exc
• § 121635 — For the purpose of providing funds to pay expenses incurred in connection with the eradication of rabies, the rabies treatment and eradication fund is continued in existence in each county or city in
• § 121640 — All money collected for dog license taxes shall be deposited to the credit of this fund with the treasurer of the county or city; but funds now collected from any dog tax may continue to be collected
• § 121645 — Upon the determination by the department that rabies exists in any county or city, a special dog license tax shall immediately become effective, unless a dog tax is already in force the funds from whi
• § 121650 — This tax shall be levied as follows: An annual tax of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.
• § 121655 — After this dog license tax has been established in a county or city, it shall be continued in force until an order has been issued by the department declaring that county, or the portion of that count
• § 121660 — One half of all fines collected by any court or judge for violations of this chapter shall be placed to the credit of the rabies treatment and eradication fund of the county or city where the violatio
• § 121665 — Whenever it becomes necessary in the judgment of the department, to enforce this chapter in any county or city, the department may institute special measures of control to supplement the efforts of th
• § 121670 — All expenditures incurred in enforcing the special measures shall be proper charges against the special fund referred to in this chapter, and shall be paid as they accrue by the proper authorities of
• § 121675 — All expenditures in excess of the balance of money in this fund shall likewise be paid as they accrue from the general fund.
• § 121680 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter a guide dog serving a blind master shall not be quarantined, in the absence of evidence that he or she has been exposed to rabies, unless his or her
• § 121685 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a dog used by any state, county, city, or city and county law enforcement agency shall not be quarantined after biting any person if the bite occur
• § 121690 — In rabies areas, all of the following shall apply: (a) Every owner of a dog, after the dog attains the age of four months, shall no less than once every two years secure a license for the dog as provi
• § 121695 — Nothing in this chapter and Section 120435 is intended or shall be construed to limit the power of any city, city and county, or county in its authority in the exercise of its police power or in the e
• § 1217 — (a) An applicant for a license to operate a primary care clinic, as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204 that meets all requirements for licensure under this chapter, except that it proposes t
• § 121700 — Rabies vaccines for animal use shall not be supplied to other than a veterinary biologic supply firm, a person licensed to practice veterinary medicine under Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 4800)
• § 121705 — Any person who willfully conceals information about the location or ownership of an animal subject to rabies, that has bitten or otherwise exposed a person to rabies, with the intent to prevent the qu
• § 121710 — Any person who, after notice, violates any order of a local health officer concerning the isolation or quarantine of an animal of a species subject to rabies, that has bitten or otherwise exposed a pe
• § 121745 — (a) Whenever the director finds that psittacosis, or any other diseases transmissible to man from pet birds, have become a public health hazard to the extent that control measures are necessary or des
• § 121760 — The violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor.
• § 121765 — This chapter shall apply to all shell parakeets or budgerigars.
• § 121775 — As used in this chapter, “wild animal” refers to any animal of the class Aves (birds) or class Mammalia (mammals) that either is not normally domesticated in this state or not native to this state.
• § 121780 — As used in this chapter, “enforcement officer” means any officer, employee, or agent of the department, local health officer, or of any state or local agency with which an agreement has been made to e
• § 121785 — The department may enter into agreement with any state or local agency for the enforcement of Article 3 (commencing with Section 121850) of this chapter.
• § 121790 — The department shall publish from time to time a list of animals that may not be imported into this state except by permit from the department.
• § 121795 — The department may adopt regulations governing the entry, quarantine, or release from quarantine, of any and all wild animals imported into this state pursuant to this chapter.
• § 1218 — Upon the filing of an application for a license or for a special permit, or for renewal of a license or special permit, the state department shall investigate the facts set forth in the application an
• § 1218.1 — (a) A clinic corporation on behalf of a primary care clinic that has held a valid, unrevoked, and unsuspended license for at least the immediately preceding five years, with no demonstrated history of
• § 1218.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, two or more primary care clinics that are operated by a single nonprofit corporation shall be entitled to consolidate their administrative functions within
• § 1218.3 — (a) In order to reduce paperwork, eliminate errors, and streamline communications between the department and licensed primary care clinics, a clinic corporation that operates one or more affiliate cli
• § 1218.4 — (a) A licensed primary care community or free clinic shall report to the department, when renewing its license, whether it is currently operating an intermittent clinic, the location of any intermitte
• § 121800 — The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor.
• § 121825 — The department may issue a written permit to import into this state any wild animal specified by the department pursuant to Section 121790, upon determination that the public health and safety will no
• § 121830 — A permit shall be issued only upon written application from the person desiring to import the species, enumerating all of the following: (a) The number and true scientific name of each species of wild
• § 121835 — Each permit issued shall set forth the following: (a) The number and true scientific name of the species of wild animal for which the permit is granted.
• § 121840 — Whenever any permit is issued under provisions of this article, one copy shall be sent by the department to the local health officer of the county where the species will be held in quarantine, two cop
• § 121845 — The department shall charge a fee for the issuance of the import permit provided for under Section 121825.
• § 121850 — Any person who imports, transports into the state, or receives, any live wild animal enumerated in or designated pursuant to Section 121790, shall hold the animal in confinement for inspection and imm
• § 121855 — If, during inspection upon arrival any wild animal is found to be diseased, or there is reason to suspect the presence of disease that will or may endanger the public health and safety, the diseased a
• § 121860 — Whenever any wild animal brought into this state under permit is quarantined as provided in this chapter, the species shall not be released from quarantine except by release in writing from the depart
• § 121865 — Any live wild animal brought into this state in violation of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations thereunder may, upon notice from the enforcing officer inspecting them or discovering the
• § 121870 — This chapter, or any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, shall not authorize the importation, transportation, or possession of any live wild animals enumerated in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
• § 121875 — This chapter may be cited as “The Dog Act of 1969.
• § 121880 — For the purposes of this chapter, “sentry dog” means a dog trained to work without supervision in a fenced facility and to deter or detain unauthorized persons found within the facility.