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.

• § 129015 — The department shall administer this chapter and shall make all regulations necessary to implement the provisions and achieve the purposes stated herein.
• § 129020 — The department shall implement the loan insurance program for the construction, improvement, and expansion of public and nonprofit corporation health facilities so that, in conjunction with all other
• § 129022 — Applications submitted to the department shall be signed under penalty of perjury by the applicant.
• § 129030 — The proceeds of all loans insured pursuant to this chapter shall be disbursed only upon order of the department or its designated agent.
• § 129035 — From time to time the department or its designated agent shall inspect each project for which loan insurance was approved, as needed, and if the inspection so warrants, the department or agent shall c
• § 129040 — (a) The department shall establish a premium charge for the insurance of loans under this chapter, and this charge shall be deposited in the fund.
• § 129045 — The department shall annually report to the Legislature the financial status of the program and its insured portfolio, including the status of all borrowers in each stage of default and the department
• § 129048 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The State of California has a compelling interest in ensuring that adequate health facilities that are able to withstand seismic events are
• § 129049 — (a) The department may, at the request of a hospital, commission an independent study of market need and feasibility, as required by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, as p
• § 129050 — A loan shall be eligible for insurance under this chapter if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The loan shall be secured by a first mortgage, first deed of trust, or other first priority li
• § 129051 — (a) The department shall develop and implement a system for assessing the relative financial risk of the applicant.
• § 129052 — A pledge by or to the department of, or the grant to the department of a security interest in, revenues, moneys, accounts, accounts receivable, contract rights, general intangibles, documents, instrum
• § 129055 — In order to comply with subdivision (j) of Section 129050, any borrower that is certified for reimbursement for cost of care under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of
• § 129060 — Subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 129355 shall apply to any residential or nonresidential alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment program or facility, as certified under Section 11831.
• § 129065 — As part of its assurance under subdivision (j) of Section 129050, any borrower that is a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital shall agree to the following actions: (a) To advise e
• § 129070 — In the event the borrower cannot demonstrate that it meets the requirement of Section 129055, it may nonetheless be eligible for a loan under this chapter if it presents a plan that is satisfactory to
• § 129075 — (a) Each borrower shall provide any reports as may be required of it by Part 5 (commencing with Section 128675), from which the department shall determine the borrower’s compliance with subdivision (j
• § 129080 — The department may impose additional appropriate remedies and sanctions against a borrower when any of the following occurs: (a) The department determines that the annual compliance report required in
• § 129085 — (a) If a borrower is unable to comply with subdivision (j) of Section 129050 due to selective provider contracting under the Medi-Cal program, and the department has determined the borrower has negoti
• § 129087 — The department shall develop and maintain a formal system of monitoring borrowers, in order to assist the department in detecting at the earliest possible date those borrowers who are experiencing fin
• § 129090 — Pursuant to this chapter, political subdivisions and nonprofit corporations may apply for state insurance of needed construction, improvement, or expansion loans for construction, remodeling, or acqui
• § 129092 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the application of a borrower for insurance, the department shall perform a feasibility study relating to the proposed project, the cost of which shall
• § 129095 — (a) The department shall not regulate, impose requirements on, or require approval by the department of a professional, or a fee charged by a professional, used by applicants for the initial applicati
• § 1291 — The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of Section 1253 in the superior court in and for the county in which the violation occurred or is about to occur.
• § 129100 — Every applicant for insurance shall be afforded an opportunity for a fair hearing before the committee upon 10 days’ written notice to the applicant.
• § 129105 — The department may upon application of the borrower insure any loan that is eligible for insurance under this chapter, and upon the terms prescribed by the department, may make commitments for the ins
• § 129110 — Any contract of insurance executed by the department under this chapter shall be conclusive evidence of the eligibility of the loan for insurance and the validity of any contract of insurance so execu
• § 129125 — In any case when the lender under a loan to a nonprofit corporation insured under this chapter shall have foreclosed and taken possession of the property under a mortgage in accordance with regulation
• § 129130 — In any case when a political subdivision defaults on the payment of interest or principal accrued and due on bonds or other evidences of indebtedness insured under this chapter, debentures in an amoun
• § 129135 — Notwithstanding any requirement contained in this chapter relating to acquisition of title and possession of the project property by the lender and its subsequent conveyance and transfer to the depart
• § 129140 — Upon receiving notice of the default of any loan insured under this chapter, the department, in its discretion and for the purpose of avoiding foreclosure under Section 129125 and notwithstanding the
• § 129145 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, after the department determines that the lender and borrower have exhausted all reasonable means of curing any default, the department within its d
• § 129150 — The department may at any time, under the terms and conditions that it may prescribe, consent to the lender’s release of the borrower from its liability under the loan or the security agreement securi
• § 129152 — If a borrower fails to submit a required report, or upon any other default of any regulatory or contractual term or covenant, whether or not a default has been declared, the department first shall inf
• § 129155 — Debentures issued under this chapter shall be in the form and denomination, subject to the terms and conditions, and include provisions for redemption, if any, as may be prescribed by the department w
• § 129160 — (a) (1) All debentures issued under this chapter to any lender or bondholder shall be executed in the name of the fund as obligor, shall be signed by the Treasurer, and shall be negotiable.
• § 129165 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the acquisition, management or disposal of real property by the state, the department shall have power to deal with, operate, complete, lease, re
• § 129170 — No lender or borrower shall have any right or interest in any property conveyed to the department or in any claim assigned to it, nor shall the department owe any duty to any lender or borrower with r
• § 129172 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, prior to foreclosing on any collateral provided by a borrower, the department institutes a judicial proceeding or takes any action against a borrower to
• § 129173 — (a) In fulfilling the purposes of this article, as set forth in Section 129005, and upon making a determination that the financial status of a borrower may jeopardize a borrower’s ability to fulfill i
• § 129174 — (a) In the event a borrower has defaulted in making its payments on the loan insured by the department to the lender or the borrower’s bond trustee, at any time thereafter, the office may do any of th
• § 129174.1 — In the event an obligor on a loan insured by the department is the subject of an order for relief in bankruptcy and that a plan has been proposed for confirmation, upon a certification by the departme
• § 129175 — Should a borrower be more than 10 days delinquent in paying the premium charges or inspection fees for insurance under this chapter, the department shall notify the borrower in writing.
• § 129180 — The obligation to pay any subsequent premium charge for insurance shall cease, and all rights of the lender and the borrower under this chapter shall terminate as of the date of the notice, as herein
• § 129185 — The department is authorized to terminate any insurance contract upon joint request by the borrower and the lender and upon payment of a termination charge that the department determines to be equitab
• § 1292 — Any action brought by the director against a health facility shall not abate by reason of a sale or other transfer of ownership of the health facility which is a party to the action except with expres
• § 129200 — There is hereby established a Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund, that shall be used by the department as a revolving fund for carrying out the provisions and administrative costs of thi
• § 129205 — Moneys in the fund not needed for the current operations of the department under this chapter shall be invested pursuant to law.
• § 129210 — (a) The department’s authorization to insure health facility construction, improvement, and expansion loans under this chapter shall be limited to a total of not more than three billion dollars ($3,00
• § 129215 — The Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund, established pursuant to Section 129200, shall be a trust fund and neither the fund nor the interest or other earnings generated by the fund shall
• § 129220 — The department shall establish an Advisory Loan Insurance Committee which shall be comprised of nine members, eight of whom shall be appointed by the director of the department.
• § 129221 — The duties of the committee shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) The committee shall assist the director of the department in formulating policy concerning financial analysis, mana
• § 129225 — This article shall be known as, and may be cited as, the Community Mental Health Facilities Loan Insurance Law.
• § 129230 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to encourage the development of facilities for community-based programs that assist mental health clients living in any institutional setti
• § 129235 — Loans of under three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for any single facility shall have priority for obtaining loan insurance under the special provisions established pursuant to Section 129230.
• § 129240 — The total amount of loans that may be insured pursuant to this article shall not exceed fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).
• § 129245 — No loan insurance shall be provided pursuant to this article for the purpose of providing psychiatric inpatient services in an acute psychiatric hospital or a general acute care hospital.
• § 129250 — The Legislative Analyst shall review and comment on the utilization and effectiveness of this article in the annual budget analysis and in hearings.
• § 129255 — If, in construing Article 6 (commencing with Section 129225) of this chapter as applied to the other provisions of this chapter, any conflict arises, this article shall prevail over the other provisio
• § 129260 — If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article that can b
• § 129275 — This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Small Facility Loan Guarantee for Programs Serving People with Developmental Disabilities.
• § 129280 — The State of California has a compelling interest in the development of facilities for community-based programs that assist persons with a developmental disability living in an institutional setting t
• § 129285 — (a) Loans of under three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for any single facility for six or fewer developmentally disabled shall have priority for obtaining loan insurance.
• § 129290 — If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article that can b
• § 129295 — The department may insure, pursuant to this article, loans to nonprofit borrowers that are not licensed to operate the facilities for which the loans are insured, provided that the borrower has entere
• § 1293 — The district attorney of every county shall, upon application by the state department or its authorized representative, institute and conduct the prosecution of any action for violation within his cou
• § 1293.2 — It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any of the following: (a) Willfully prevent, interfere with, or attempt to impede in any way the work of any duly authorized representative of the state depart
• § 129325 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to assist rural hospitals that play a vital role in the health delivery system.
• § 129330 — In each even-numbered year, the department shall contract for an actuarial study to determine the reserve sufficiency of funds in the Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund.
• § 129335 — (a) In each odd-numbered year when the reserve balance in the fund is projected to be in excess of that actuarially needed, the department may, subject to authority in the Budget Act, grant excess res
• § 129350 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Community Health Center Facilities Loan Insurance Law.
• § 129355 — (a) “Community health center facilities,” as used in this article, means those licensed, nonprofit primary care clinics as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1204.
• § 129380 — (a) This program shall be known, and may be cited, as the Distressed Hospital Loan Program.
• § 129381 — For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Authority” means the California Health Facilities Financing Authority.
• § 129382 — (a) The department shall administer the program, subject to subdivision (d) of Section 129385, for purposes of this chapter.
• § 129383 — (a) In collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Managed Health Care, and the State Department of Public Health, the department shall develop a methodology to
• § 129384 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 15432 and 15451.
• § 129385 — (a) The Distressed Hospital Loan Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 129386 — (a) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 129387 — This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2032, and as of that date is repealed.
• § 1294 — The state department may suspend or revoke any license or special permit issued under the provisions of this chapter upon any of the following grounds and in the manner provided in this chapter: (a) V
• § 1294.5 — The department may suspend or revoke any license or special permit issued under the provisions of this chapter if the licensee or holder of a special permit willfully fails to comply with the provisio
• § 1295 — Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of licenses or special permits under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171.
• § 1296 — The director may temporarily suspend any license or special permit prior to any hearing, when in his or her opinion the action is necessary to protect the public welfare.
• § 129675 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alfred E.
• § 129680 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that hospital buildings that house patients who have less than the capacity of normally healthy persons to protect themselves, and that must be reasonably capab
• § 1297 — The withdrawal of an application for a license or a special permit after it has been filed with the state department shall not, unless the state department consents in writing to such withdrawal, depr
• § 129700 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 129705 — “Architect” means a person who is certified and holds a valid license under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.
• § 129710 — “Construction or alteration” includes any construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to, any hospital building.
• § 129715 — “Director” means the Director of the Department of Health Care Access and Development.
• § 129720 — “Engineering geologist” means a person who is validly certified under Chapter 12.
• § 129725 — (a) (1) “Hospital building” includes any building not specified in subdivision (b) that is used, or designed to be used, for a health facility of a type required to be licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (
• § 129730 — (a) Space for the following functions shall be considered “outpatient clinical services,” when provided in a freestanding building that is separated from a hospital building where inpatient hospital s
• § 129735 — “Light steel frame construction” means building construction using bearing walls composed of light gauge steel studs for its primary vertical support systems.
• § 129740 — “Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
• § 129745 — “Structural engineer” means a person who is validly certified to use the title structural engineer under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.
• § 129750 — The department shall observe the construction of, or addition to, any hospital building or the reconstruction or alteration of any hospital building, as it deems necessary to comply with this chapter
• § 129760 — The governing board of each hospital or other hospital governing authority, before adopting any plans for the hospital building, shall submit the plans to the department for approval and shall pay the
• § 129761 — The department shall use, to the extent possible, information technology to facilitate the timely performance of its duties and responsibilities under this chapter.
• § 129765 — (a) Except as set forth in subdivision (b), the application for approval of the plans shall be accompanied by the plans, including full, complete, and accurate specifications, and structural design co
• § 129770 — (a) The department shall pass upon and approve or reject all plans for the construction or the alteration of any hospital building, independently reviewing the design to assure compliance with the req
• § 129775 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), plans submitted pursuant to this chapter for work that affects structural elements shall contain an assessment of the nature of the site and potent
• § 129780 — The engineering investigation shall be correlated with the geologic evaluation made pursuant to Section 129775.
• § 129785 — (a) (1) The department shall determine an application filing fee that will cover the costs of administering this chapter.
• § 129787 — (a) The payment of the filing fee described in Section 129785 may be postponed by the department if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The proposed construction or alteration has been propos
• § 129790 — The department shall propose specific space, architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical standards for correctional treatment centers in cooperation with the Board of Corrections,
• § 129795 — All fees shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Hospital Building Fund, that is hereby created and continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years for the use of the depart
• § 1298 — (a) (1) No person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency within the state shall continue to operate, conduct, or maintain an exi
• § 129800 — The director shall request the Department of Finance or the Auditor General to perform an audit of the uses of fees collected pursuant to Section 129785.
• § 129805 — (a) All plans and specifications shall be prepared under the responsible charge of an architect or a structural engineer, or both.
• § 129810 — Before commencing any construction or alteration of any hospital building, the written approval of the necessary plans as to safety of design and construction, by the department, shall be obtained.
• § 129812 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may utilize an over-the-counter plan review process.
• § 129815 — Any permit or authorization issued or provided pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 15374) of Part 6.
• § 129820 — No contract for the construction or alteration of any hospital building, made or executed on or after January 1, 1983, by the governing board or authority of any hospital or other similar public board
• § 129825 — (a) The hospital governing board or authority shall provide for and require competent and adequate inspection during construction or alteration by an inspector satisfactory to the architect or structu
• § 129830 — From time to time, as the work of construction or alteration progresses and whenever the department requires, the architect or structural engineer, or both, in charge of construction or registered eng
• § 129835 — Upon written request to the department by the governing board or authority of any hospital, the department shall make, or cause to be made, an examination and report on the condition of any hospital b
• § 129840 — Subsequent to the occurrence of any earthquake, the department may make, or cause to be made, studies of health facilities within the area involved.
• § 129850 — Except as provided in Sections 18929 and 18930, the department shall from time to time make any regulations that it deems necessary, proper, or suitable to effectually carry out this chapter.
• § 129851 — Written rules and regulations by the department to clarify the application of the California Building Standards Code pursuant to this chapter shall be made available to the public upon request.
• § 129853 — (a) The person or entity requesting a copy of construction documents maintained by the department shall bear the actual cost of producing the copy of those documents, including staff time spent retrie
• § 129855 — The department may enter into any agreements and contracts with any qualified person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity, as determined by the department, when necessary in order to faci
• § 129856 — (a) Contingent on an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the department shall establish a program for training fire and life safety officers.
• § 129875 — Construction or alterations of buildings specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 129725 shall conform to the latest edition of the California Building Standards Code.
• § 129875.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 129875, projects for the construction or alterations of buildings specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 129725 that are single-story, wood-frame or light
• § 129880 — (a) The department may exempt from its plan review process construction or alteration projects for hospital buildings and buildings described in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 12
• § 129885 — (a) A city or county, as applicable, shall have plan review and building inspection responsibilities for the construction or alteration of buildings described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Se
• § 129890 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall, on or before January 1, 1991, set forth and implement criteria for the alteration or construction of buildings specified in subdiv
• § 129895 — (a) The department shall adopt by regulations seismic safety standards for hospital equipment anchorages, as defined by the department, to include, but not be limited to, architectural, mechanical, an
• § 129900 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, plans for the construction or alteration of any hospital building, or any building specified in Section 129875, that are prepared by or under the supervisio
• § 129905 — Subject to the complete exemption contained in paragraphs (6) and (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 129725, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, plans for the construction or alteration of
• § 129925 — There is in the department a Hospital Building Safety Board that shall be appointed by the director.
• § 129930 — The board shall consist of 16 members appointed by the director of the department.
• § 129932 — (a) Each member shall be appointed by the director for a term of four years and shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor or until one year has elapsed since th
• § 129935 — Appointive members, except for the public members, shall be qualified by close connection with hospital design and construction and highly knowledgeable in their respective fields with particular refe
• § 129940 — (a) There shall be six ex officio members of the board, who shall be the director of the department, the State Fire Marshal, the State Geologist, the Executive Director of the California Building Stan
• § 129942 — (a) Only appointed members shall vote at board meetings.
• § 129945 — The chair of the board shall be an appointive member and shall be elected by a majority of the appointive members.
• § 129950 — The board shall be served by an executive director who shall be a member of the department staff.
• § 129955 — The Building Safety Board shall convene upon request of the chairperson thereof.
• § 129960 — Members of the board shall be reimbursed from the Hospital Building Account in the Architecture Public Building Fund for their reasonable actual expenses in attending meetings conducted to carry out t
• § 129975 — The director of the department may conduct studies relating to the implementation of this chapter to ensure that the implementation of its provisions results in the least amount of increases in costs,
• § 129980 — Whenever any construction or alteration of any hospital building is being performed contrary to the provisions of this chapter, the department may order the construction or alteration stopped by writt
• § 129985 — (a) Whenever it is necessary to make an inspection to enforce any of the provisions of this chapter or whenever the department or its authorized representatives has reasonable cause to believe that th
• § 129990 — The department may order the vacating of any building or structure found to have been in violation of the adopted regulations of the department and may order the use of the building or structure disco
• § 129998 — (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 13 — The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• § 1300 — (a) Any licensee or holder of a special permit may, with the approval of the state department, surrender his or her license or special permit for suspension or cancellation by the state department.
• § 13000 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who allows a fire kindled or attended by him to escape from his control or to spread to the lands of any person other than the builder of the fire without using
• § 130000 — (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) The Alfred E.
• § 130002 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Following a major earthquake, Californians will rely on their community hospitals to provide care to those who are injured, to continue
• § 130005 — By June 30, 1996: (a) The Department of Health Care Access and Information, hereinafter called the department, shall develop definitions of earthquake performance categories for earthquake ground moti
• § 130006 — (a) A hospital building that is classified as SPC-2 shall be identified as “These buildings do not significantly jeopardize life, but may not be repairable or functional following an earthquake” on th
• § 13001 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, through careless or negligent action, throws or places any lighted cigarette, cigar, ashes, or other flaming or glowing substance, or any substance or thin
• § 130010 — The department is responsible for reviewing and approving seismic evaluation reports, compliance schedules and construction documents that are developed by hospital owners, and field review of constru
• § 13002 — (a) Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who throws or discharges any lighted or nonlighted cigarette, cigar, match, or any flaming or glowing substance, or any substance or thing which may cause a
• § 130020 — (a) By December 31, 1996, the California Building Standards Commission shall review, revise as necessary and adopt earthquake performance categories, seismic evaluation procedures, and standards and t
• § 130025 — (a) In the event of a seismic event, or other natural or manmade calamity that the department believes is of a magnitude so that it may have compromised the structural integrity of a hospital building
• § 13003 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who uses any steam-powered logging locomotive, donkey, or threshing engine, or any other steam engine or steam boiler, in or near any forest, brush, grass, grai
• § 13004 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who harvests grain or causes it to be harvested by means of a combined harvester, header, or stationary threshing machine, or who bales hay by means of a hay pr
• § 13005 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Sells, offers for sale, leases, or rents to any person any tractor, engine, machine, or truck equipped with an internal combustion engine that uses hyd
• § 130050 — (a) Within three years after the adoption of the standards described in Section 130020, owners of all general acute care hospitals shall: (1) Conduct seismic evaluations in accordance with procedures
• § 130055 — On and after July 1, 2023, general acute hospital building owners shall do both of the following annually until each of the hospital buildings owned by that hospital building owner is compliant with S
• § 13006.5 — Every owner, operator, lessee, or other person in charge of any apartment house, roominghouse, motel or hotel heretofore or hereafter constructed, or any occupant thereof, who becomes aware of any fir
• § 130060 — (a) (1) After January 1, 2008, a general acute care hospital building that is determined to be a potential risk of collapse or pose significant loss of life shall only be used for nonacute care hospit
• § 130061 — (a) An owner of a general acute care hospital building that is classified as a nonconforming Structural Performance Category-1 (SPC-1) building, who has not requested an extension of the deadline desc
• § 130061.5 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) By enacting this section, the Legislature reinforces its commitment to ensuring the seismic safety of hospitals in California.
• § 130062 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Rebuild plan” means a plan to meet seismic standards primarily by constructing a new conforming SPC-5 buildi
• § 130063 — (a) With regard to a general acute care hospital building located in Seismic Zone 3 as indicated in the 1995 edition of the California Building Standards Code, any hospital may request an exemption fr
• § 130063.1 — Notwithstanding Section 130063, a county-owned general acute care hospital building is allowed an extension of the Non-structural Performance Category-2 requirements of Title 24 of the California Code
• § 130063.2 — Notwithstanding Section 130063, an existing county-owned general acute care hospital building may receive a one-year extension of the January 1, 2002, deadline for the Non-structural Performance Categ
• § 130064 — (a) In lieu of the extension described in subdivision (f) of Section 130060, the department may grant an extension to a general acute care hospital pursuant to either subdivision (c) or (f) if the hos
• § 130065 — (a) In accordance with the compliance schedule approved by the department, but in any case no later than January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals shall either: (1) Demolish, repla
• § 130065.1 — (a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Critical access hospital” means a hospital designated by the State Department of Public Health as a critical access hospit
• § 130065.15 — The department shall annually post a list of hospitals that have been granted a delay of the January 1, 2030, deadline described in Section 130065 pursuant to Section 130065.
• § 130066 — Before January 1, 2020, the owner of an acute care inpatient hospital whose building does not substantially comply with the seismic safety regulations or standards described in Section 130065 shall su
• § 130066.5 — (a) Before January 1, 2024, the owner of an acute care inpatient hospital that includes a building that does not substantially comply with the seismic safety regulations or standards described in Sect
• § 130067 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to Sections 130060 and 130061, the office may waive the requirements for the Seton Medical Center in Daly City to comply with this chapter
• § 130068 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Sections 130060 and 130061, the department may waive the requirements of this chapter, in whole or in part, for O’Connor Hospital and
• § 130069 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Sections 130060 and 130061, the department may waive the requirements of this chapter, in whole or in part, for Pacifica Hospital of t
• § 130069.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, referenced in subdivision (c) of Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, may seek an extension to the January 1, 203
• § 13007 — Any person who personally or through another wilfully, negligently, or in violation of law, sets fire to, allows fire to be set to, or allows a fire kindled or attended by him to escape to, the proper
• § 130070 — The department shall notify the State Department of Public Health of the hospital owners that have received a written notice of violation for failure to comply with either Section 130060 or 130065.
• § 130075 — The Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program is hereby established under the administration of the Department of Health Care Access and Information for the purpose of funding seismic safety compliance
• § 130076 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
• § 130077 — (a) The Small and Rural Hospital Relief Fund is hereby established in the Treasury.
• § 130078 — (a) The department shall provide a grant to a qualified applicant that meets both of the following criteria: (1) Seismic safety compliance imposes a financial burden on the applicant that may result i
• § 130078.5 — (a) The department shall expand eligibility for grants for single- and two-story general acute care hospitals located in rural areas with fewer than 80 general acute care beds and general acute care h
• § 130078.6 — (a) If state funds are appropriated to the Small and Rural Hospital Relief Fund in the future for the purpose of complying with Section 130065, before being awarded state funds, a hospital that qualif
• § 130079 — The department may adopt regulations necessary to implement this chapter.
• § 13008 — Any person who allows any fire burning upon his property to escape to the property of another, whether privately or publicly owned, without exercising due diligence to control such fire, is liable to
• § 13009 — (a) Any person (1) who negligently, or in violation of the law, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire kindled or attended by the person to escape onto any public or private property,
• § 13009.1 — (a) Any person (1) who negligently, or in violation of the law, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire kindled or attended by the person to escape onto any public or private property,
• § 13009.2 — (a) In a civil action by a public agency seeking damages caused by a fire, pecuniary damages must be quantifiable and not unreasonable in relation to the prefire fair market value of the property, tak
• § 13009.5 — Where the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection utilizes inmate labor for fighting fires, the charge for their use, for the purpose of Section 13009, shall be set by the Director of Forestry and
• § 13009.6 — (a) (1) Those expenses of an emergency response necessary to protect the public from a real and imminent threat to health and safety by a public agency to confine, prevent, or mitigate the release, es
• § 13010 — Sections 13007, 13008, and 13009 of this code do not apply to nor affect any rights, duties, or causes of action in existence and accruing prior to August 14, 1931.
• § 130100 — There is hereby created a program in the state for the purposes of promoting, supporting, and improving the early development of children from the prenatal stage to five years of age.
• § 130105 — The California Children and Families Trust Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.