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.

• § 103560 — A short form of certification of death registration, including only identification information and excluding the medical statement of the cause of death, may be issued by the State Registrar, county r
• § 103565 — The Office of the State Registrar, upon request, may furnish the United States Public Health Service with vital statistics relating to births, deaths, marriages, and marriage dissolutions for utilizat
• § 103570 — A certification limited to a statement as to the date of birth of any child needed for admission to school or for the purpose of securing employment shall be issued without fee by the local registrar
• § 103575 — The state or local registrar or county recorder may, without fee verify a date and place of birth, when the applicant can present sufficient information to identify the birth record.
• § 103577 — (a) The local registrar, county recorder, or the State Registrar, shall, without an issuance fee or any other associated fee, issue a certified record of live birth to a person who can verify his or h
• § 103578 — (a) Each local registrar or county recorder shall, without a fee, issue a certified record of live birth to any person who demonstrates that he or she is a youth who has been placed in foster care, as
• § 103580 — The State Registrar, local registrar or county recorder may use a printed, stamped or photographically reproduced facsimile signature in certifying to a record in his or her office provided the certif
• § 103585 — Certified copies or certification of abstract information required to be filed under authority of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 103200) in the offices of the State Registrar and county clerks sh
• § 103590 — (a) The State Registrar shall, upon request and payment of a fee, as provided in subdivision (c), supply to any applicant a decorative heirloom certificate, as described in subdivision (b), of any bir
• § 103600 — The State Registrar and local registrars shall keep a true and correct account of all fees received by them.
• § 103605 — (a) The moneys collected by the State Registrar shall be deposited with the Treasurer for credit to the Health Statistics Special Fund, except for the Children’s Trust Fund fees collected pursuant to
• § 103610 — The money collected by the local registrar shall be paid by him or her into the county or city treasury.
• § 103615 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no fees other than those provided for in this part shall be charged for the registration of births and deaths or for the issuance of any permits for disposi
• § 103625 — (a) A fee of twelve dollars ($12) shall be paid by the applicant for a certified copy of a fetal death or death record.
• § 103626 — (a) The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations supporting the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic v
• § 103627 — (a) (1) The Alameda County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations supporting the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic vi
• § 103628 — (a) The Solano County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations for the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic violence, may
• § 103630 — If the information supplied by the applicant is not sufficient to enable the State Registrar to supply the certified copy of any record for which application is made and the applicant, after written r
• § 103635 — Overpayment of the required fee received in the office of the State Registrar shall be retained, except any overpayment shall be refunded upon written request of the applicant within one year or when
• § 103650 — The fee for any search of the files and records performed by the custodian of the records for a specific record when no certified copy is made shall be paid in advance by the applicant.
• § 103655 — No fee shall be charged any publisher or editor of, or reporter employed by, a newspaper of general circulation or a news service to inspect, in the course and scope of his or her position or employme
• § 103660 — No fee shall be charged by the State Registrar or local registrar of births and deaths for services rendered to any public entity, except for issuance of a permit for disposition of human remains or f
• § 103675 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 103065, the fee for issuance of a permit for disposition of human remains is two dollars ($2) payable to the local registrar of births and deaths by the applica
• § 103680 — (a) An additional fee of three dollars ($3) for the issuance of a permit for the disposition of human remains pursuant to Section 103675 shall be payable to the local registrar of births and deaths by
• § 103685 — An additional fee of three dollars ($3) shall be paid for the issuance of a permit for disposition, when the permit is required to be issued outside the regularly scheduled office hours of the local r
• § 103690 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the local registrar of births and deaths shall pay to the State Registrar by the 10th of the month following the end of each calendar quarter one-half of th
• § 103692 — (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2003, in addition to the fees prescribed by Section 103065 and by Sections 103675 to 103685, inclusive, an applicant for a permit for the disposition of human remains sha
• § 103695 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant at the time of application for a delayed birth registration under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 102525) or a co
• § 103700 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for an amendment or revision to a birth, death, or marriage record under provisions of Articles 1 (commencing with S
• § 103705 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the preparation of an amended record that shall include a certified copy of the newly amended record under Secti
• § 103710 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant or when applicable, by the county clerk for the establishment of an amended record of birth under Articles 1 (commen
• § 103715 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the establishment of a new record of birth under Article 3 (commencing with Section 102750) of Chapter 5.
• § 103720 — A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the establishment of an amended record of birth under Article 6 (commencing with Section 103400) of Chapter 11.
• § 103725 — (a) A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for establishment of a new record of birth or marriage license and certificate under Article 7 (commencing with
• § 103730 — A fee of twenty dollars ($20) for each individual being adopted shall be paid to the clerk of the court at the time of filing the petition in an adoption proceeding, except for agency adoptions in whi
• § 103750 — For local registrars serving under authority of Section 102280 the State Registrar shall quarterly certify to the auditors of the several counties the number of births and deaths properly registered,
• § 103755 — All amounts shall be paid by the treasurer of the county in which the registration district is located, upon warrants drawn by the auditor; provided, that no fee shall be paid by the county to any loc
• § 103760 — Each local registrar entitled to compensation shall be paid the sum of fifty cents ($0.
• § 103765 — If no births or no deaths were registered during any week the local registrar is entitled to be paid the sum of fifty cents ($0.
• § 103775 — (a) Every person, except a parent informant for a certificate of live birth and as provided in subdivision (b), who is responsible for supplying information who refuses or fails to furnish correctly a
• § 103780 — (a) Every person, except as provided in subdivision (b), who willfully alters or knowingly possesses more than one altered document, other than as permitted by this part, or falsifies any certificate
• § 103785 — Every person who is required to fill out a certificate of birth, fetal death, or death, or marriage license and register it with the local registrar, or deliver it, upon request, to any person charged
• § 103790 — Every local registrar, deputy registrar, or subregistrar, who fails, neglects, or refuses to perform his or her duty as required by this part and by the instructions and directions of the State Regist
• § 103795 — Any person who uses any information from a certificate of live birth that is stamped with the notation authorized under subdivision (a) of Section 10056.
• § 103800 — Any person who willfully makes or files or causes to be made or filed a false certificate or affidavit under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 102525) is guilty of a felony.
• § 103825 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that birth defects, stillbirths, and miscarriages represent problems of public health importance about which too little is known; that these conditions lead t
• § 103830 — The director shall maintain a system for the collection of information, necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
• § 103835 — The birth defects monitoring program shall operate statewide.
• § 103840 — The director shall use the information collected pursuant to Section 103830 and information available from other reporting systems and health providers to conduct studies to investigate the causes of
• § 103845 — The director shall appoint an advisory committee to advise on the implementation of this chapter.
• § 103850 — (a) All information collected pursuant to this chapter shall be confidential and shall be used solely for the purposes provided in this chapter.
• § 103855 — The department may enter into a contract for the establishment and implementation of the birth defects monitoring program.
• § 103860 — (a) The department shall conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of Parkinson’s disease.
• § 103865 — (a) The director shall establish a statewide system for the collection of information determining the incidence of Parkinson’s disease.
• § 103870 — (a) Beginning January 1, 2018, the department shall collect data on the incidence of Parkinson’s disease in California.
• § 103870.1 — (a) Persons with a valid scientific interest who are engaged in demographic, epidemiological, or other similar studies related to health who meet qualifications as determined by the department, and wh
• § 103871 — (a) The department shall collect data on the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in California.
• § 103871.1 — (a) A person with a valid scientific interest who is engaged in demographic, epidemiological, or other similar studies related to health who meets qualifications as determined by the department, and w
• § 103871.2 — This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed.
• § 103875 — (a) The department shall conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of cancer.
• § 103885 — (a) The director shall establish a statewide system for the collection of information determining the incidence of cancer, using population-based regional cancer registries modeled after the Cancer Su
• § 103900 — (a) Every physician and surgeon shall report immediately to the local health officer in writing, the name, date of birth, and address of every patient at least 14 years of age or older whom the physic
• § 103925 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) The cause and the cure of Reyes Syndrome are unknown, and the number of incidences of this disease is also unknown.
• § 104100 — The Legislature finds and declares that high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a widespread and serious public health problem in California.
• § 104105 — The department shall conduct a program for the control of high blood pressure.
• § 104110 — Local community high blood pressure control programs may include any or all of the following program components: (a) Screening.
• § 104113 — (a) Every health studio, as defined in subdivision (h), shall acquire, maintain, and train personnel in the use of, an automatic external defibrillator pursuant to this section.
• § 104115 — The department may enter into contracts with local public and private nonprofit agencies for the purpose of operating community high blood pressure control programs.
• § 104120 — The department shall establish standards for applications for funding, review of proposals, funding awards, technical assistance, monitoring, and evaluation of local programs as it may deem necessary
• § 104125 — No services provided pursuant to this chapter shall substitute for other obligations of a unit of local government, including those required by state law.
• § 104130 — Local community high blood pressure control programs funded pursuant to this chapter shall make maximum use of third party payments and other resources to support their efforts.
• § 104135 — The department may receive and expend funds for high blood pressure control pursuant to this chapter from federal and other available sources and may use such funds, along with available state funds,
• § 104140 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the department shall utilize available federal funds for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
• § 104145 — (a) The Legislature hereby requests the University of California to establish and administer the Breast Cancer Research Program, which is created by this act, as a comprehensive grant and contract pro
• § 104150 — (a) (1) A provider or entity that participates in the grant made to the department by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention breast and cervical cancer early detection program establis
• § 104151 — Notwithstanding Section 10231.
• § 104160 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall develop and maintain the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program to expand and ensure quality breast and cervical cancer treatment for low-i
• § 104161 — For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Covered conditions” means breast or cervical cancer.
• § 104161.1 — (a) If an individual is made eligible for treatment services under this article due to a diagnosis of breast cancer, the treatment services shall be provided for the duration of the period of treatmen
• § 104162 — An individual shall be eligible to receive treatment services pursuant to this article provided that all of the following criteria are met: (a) The individual is a resident of California.
• § 104162.1 — If an individual is underinsured, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 104161, the State Department of Health Care Services shall be the payer of second resort for treatment services.
• § 104162.2 — For the purposes of establishing eligibility for treatment services under this article, breast or cervical cancer screens performed by providers or entities not described in subdivision (c) of Section
• § 104163 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall provide for breast cancer and cervical cancer treatment services pursuant to this article at the level of funding budgeted from state and other resou
• § 104170 — (a) The Human Leukocyte Antigen Testing Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, to be administered by the State Department of Health Services.
• § 104175 — The Legislature finds and declares that decades after the war on cancer was declared, it remains an insidious killer of Californians.
• § 104180 — The Cancer Research Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 104181 — (a) The moneys in the Cancer Research Fund, established pursuant to Section 104180, shall be expended for the purpose of cancer research.
• § 104181.5 — The department, in awarding grants under this program, shall not encumber money allocated in any fiscal year other than the fiscal year in which the appropriation was made beginning with nonobligated
• § 104181.6 — Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2.
• § 104182 — (a) The Cancer Research Council is hereby established, to consist of 15 members appointed by the Director of Health Services representing a range of expertise and experience, and the chief of the Cali
• § 104182.5 — Not less than a majority of the appointed members of the Cancer Research Council shall be present and voting for approval and selection of research priorities under Section 104185 and ultimate recomme
• § 104182.7 — (a) The department shall grant a minimum of 65 percent of any fiscal year appropriation that is awarded for research to cancer research proposals directly researching gender-specific cancers.
• § 104185 — (a) This program shall incorporate the principles and organizational elements set forth in this article, including, but not limited to, a research program office with a director and other essential st
• § 104187 — The State Department of Health Services shall do all of the following: (a) Provide overall coordination of the program.
• § 104187.5 — Peer review panels, in reviewing proposals for cancer research, may recommend the awarding of a grant to a cancer research proposal on the condition that a single adjustment or correction be made befo
• § 104188 — The maximum indirect cost rate that may be charged on any cancer research program grant awarded to any institution under this article shall not be more than 25 percent of the institution’s direct cost
• § 104189 — The responsibilities of the council shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) Development and review of the strategic objectives and research priorities of the program.
• § 104190 — As used in this article the following definitions apply: (a) “Disease” means Lyme disease recognized by the presence of the spirochete (borrelia burgdorferi), a spiral-shaped bacterium, in the human b
• § 104191 — (a) There is hereby created in the state department the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee composed of , but not limited to, the following members: (1) One from the Lyme Disease Resource Center.
• § 104192 — The Lyme Disease Advisory Committee shall advise and make recommendations to the department regarding subjects including, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) The content and geographic distr
• § 104193 — The department shall do all of the following: (a) Establish a Lyme disease information program that provides educational materials and information services on Lyme disease to the general public and th
• § 104200 — (a) Subject to subdivision (e), the department shall conduct the Cervical Cancer Community Awareness Campaign to do all of the following: (1) To provide awareness, assistance, and information regardin
• § 104210 — For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Eligible educational institutions” means University of California campuses that meet the eligibility criteria developed pursuant
• § 104210.1 — (a) The California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program is hereby established.
• § 104210.2 — Implementation of this article shall be subject to a resolution adopted by the Regents of the University of California agreeing to undertake the duties outlined in this article.
• § 104250 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is reported that one in seven adult Californians has diabetes, and the numbers are rising rapidly.
• § 104251 — (a) The State Department of Public Health shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2019, that includes a summary and compilation of recommendations on diabetes prevention and m
• § 104300 — The department shall maintain a program for the prevention of blindness, including, but not limited to: (a) Studies to determine the number, distribution, and nature of conditions leading to blindness
• § 104305 — The department may enter into agreements with any public or private organization, agency, or individual to carry out its duties and responsibilities with respect to the prevention of blindness.
• § 104310 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Prostate Cancer Act of 1998.
• § 104312 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California has the highest incidence of and death from prostate cancer, and due to the increased public awareness of the disease, the timin
• § 104314 — (a) The Prostate Cancer Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 104315 — (a) The Prostate Cancer Screening Program shall be established in the State Department of Health Care Services.
• § 104316 — (a) Contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Health Services shall do all of the following: (1) Regularly analyze asthma morbidity and mortality data, and shall
• § 104317 — (a) The department shall offer public and professional education to disseminate the most current information on asthma.
• § 104318 — The department shall do all of the following in connection with the administration of funds provided to implement this chapter: (a) Draft and circulate requests for applications.
• § 104319 — The department shall monitor the clinical and public interventions required by this chapter, and shall report successful and unsuccessful interventions in clinical and public health practice.
• § 104320 — The department shall establish and maintain a surveillance and intervention program for the prevention of asthma.
• § 104321 — The department shall implement this chapter contingent on the appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act.
• § 104322 — (a) (1) The State Department of Health Care Services shall develop and implement a program to provide quality prostate cancer treatment for low-income and uninsured men.
• § 104323 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a degenerative disease of the motor nerves that causes
• § 104324 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an Environmental Health Surveillance System (EHSS) in accordance with this chapter.
• § 104324.2 — (a) On or before July 1, 2002, the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control in the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
• § 104324.25 — (a) On or before July 1, 2004, the State Department of Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of California shall jointly develop and sign a memorandum of
• § 104324.3 — It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the adoption and implementation, by specified dates, of one of the approaches recommended by the working group pursuant to S
• § 104324.5 — This chapter shall only apply to the University of California to the extent that the Regents of the University of California make it applicable by appropriate resolution.
• § 104325 — The department may maintain a program of accidental injury study and control, including but not limited to, all of the following: (a) The conduct of studies to determine the health and human component
• § 104330 — The department may enter into agreements with any public or private organization, agency, or individual to carry out its duties and responsibilities with respect to accidental injury study and control
• § 104335 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999.
• § 104336 — The University of California may establish a spinal cord injury research fund, independent of the State Treasury, to accept public and private funds for the purpose of implementing this chapter.
• § 104337 — Moneys in the fund established pursuant to Section 104336 may be expended by the University of California solely for spinal cord injury research programs and grants, and may be expended for, but not l
• § 104338 — (a) There is hereby created within the University of California the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program.
• § 104339 — This chapter shall not apply to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make these provisions applicable.
• § 104340 — (a) Statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy, regret, a general sense of benevolence, or suggesting, reflecting, or accepting fault relating to the pain, suffering, or death of
• § 104350 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Smoking is the single most important source of preventable disease and premature death in California.
• § 104355 — The following definitions shall apply to this article: (a) “Grantee” means any public or private nonprofit entity approved by the department or the State Department of Education to receive funds pursu
• § 104360 — The following target populations, at a minimum, shall be the focus of the campaign implemented pursuant to this article: (a) School-age youth and their families in the schools and in the community.
• § 104365 — (a) There is hereby created the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee in state government that shall advise the department and the State Department of Education with respect to policy dev
• § 104370 — The committee shall be advisory to the department, the University of California, and State Department of Education for the following purposes: (a) Evaluation of research, school- and community-based p
• § 104375 — (a) To prevent tobacco-related diseases and diminish tobacco use, the department shall establish within the department a program on tobacco use and health to reduce tobacco use in California by conduc
• § 104380 — (a) Funds appropriated to the department for local lead agencies for purposes of this article shall be allocated prospectively, on a quarterly basis in accordance with this section.
• § 104385 — (a) The department shall award and administer grants for projects directed at the prevention of tobacco-related diseases.
• § 104390 — (a) The department may provide program support services to local tobacco use prevention programs, that shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Data collection.
• § 104395 — The department shall expand the Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Program contained in Article 6 (commencing with Section 124025) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 106 as follows: (a) Any
• § 104400 — (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), each county health department or city health department as provided in Section 16800 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be the lead local agency fo
• § 104405 — Local lead agencies shall obtain the involvement and participation of local community organizations with special experience and expertise in community health education against tobacco usage, including
• § 104410 — The following goals and priorities shall govern funding services provided under this article pursuant to local plans: (a) The provisions of preventive health education against tobacco use aimed at tar
• § 104415 — (a) Local lead agencies shall attempt to ensure that preventive education against tobacco use for targeted populations is provided in a way that reaches all geographic areas of the county.
• § 104420 — The State Department of Education shall provide the leadership for the successful implementation of this article in programs administered by local public and private schools, school districts, and cou
• § 104430 — (a) The State Department of Education shall make available funds appropriated to it from the Health Education Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund for the implementation of Sectio
• § 104435 — County offices of education that receive funds pursuant to subdivision (l) of Section 104420 shall do all of the following: (a) Provide technical assistance and training to school districts and consor
• § 104440 — Local lead agencies shall be ineligible for awards under the competitive grants program, unless the local lead agency is participant within a consortium of community-based organizations or nonprofit o
• § 104445 — In awarding grants under the competitive grants program, the department shall give preference to all of the following: (a) Nonprofit or community-based organizations.
• § 104450 — (a) The State Department of Education shall develop a common reporting format for districts receiving tobacco-use-prevention funds under this article.
• § 104455 — The State Department of Education shall monitor and ensure implementation of district and county offices of education tobacco-free policies and tobacco-use prevention education programs in districts r
• § 104460 — (a) Each school district receiving funds from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund shall make all of the following services available to every pregnant minor and minor parent enrolled in the
• § 104465 — (a) The department may annually set aside three million dollars ($3,000,000) appropriated for the purposes of the competitive grants program established pursuant to this article in order to support ef
• § 104466 — Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2.
• § 104470 — The State Department of Education shall make periodic reports to the committee regarding the status and funding of tobacco education programs funded under this article as required by the committee.
• § 104475 — There is hereby created under the authority of the Controller the Tobacco Education Fund.
• § 104480 — All guidelines, criteria, standards, and requirements specified in this article are exempt from the requirements of Chapter 3.
• § 104495 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall govern: (1) “Playground” means any park or recreational area specifically designed to be used by children that has play equipment
• § 104500 — (a) (1) The Legislature finds that the efforts to reduce smoking in California have led to a drop in the consumption of tobacco.
• § 104505 — The Legislature hereby requests the University of California to continue to administer a comprehensive grant program to support research efforts related to the prevention, causes, and treatment of tob
• § 104510 — For the purposes of this article: (a) “Grantee” means any qualifying public, private, or nonprofit agency or individual including, but not limited to, colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories,
• § 104515 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the university establish a scientific advisory committee to provide advice to the president of the university as to the direction, scope, and progress of the r
• § 104520 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the university utilize peer review panels modeled upon the National Institutes of Health peer review process to review all research grants.
• § 104525 — Research projects funded under this article may include, but are not limited to: (a) Individual investigator-generated grants.
• § 104530 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the university, as lead agency, do all of the following: (a) Provide overall direction and coordination of the program.
• § 104535 — It is the intent of the Legislature that projects funded under this article be reimbursed for actual costs, including direct costs and indirect costs incurred by a research institution consistent with
• § 104540 — It is the intent of the Legislature that no more than 5 percent of the Research Account be used for the purposes of the administration of this article.
• § 104545 — No provision of this article shall apply to the University of California unless the regents of the university, by resolution, make that provision so applicable.
• § 104550 — (a) Each manufacturer or importer of cigars shall place, or cause to be placed, labels bearing one of the following warnings on each retail package of cigars packaged for sale after September 1, 2000,
• § 104551 — For purposes of this article, “manufacturer” means any person, including any repacker or relabeler, who manufactures, fabricates, assembles, processes, or labels a finished cigar.
• § 104552 — To the extent this article conflicts with any federal provision enacted subsequent to the effective date of this article that requires cigar manufacturers and importers to provide warning labels on ci
• § 104555 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Cigarette smoking presents serious public health concerns to the state and to the citizens of the state.
• § 104556 — The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this article.
• § 104557 — (a) Any tobacco product manufacturer selling cigarettes to consumers within the state, whether directly or through a distributor, retailer or similar intermediary or intermediaries, after the date of
• § 104557.1 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 104557, a tobacco product manufacturer that elects to place funds into escrow pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 104557 may make an
• § 104558 — (a) In order to secure and protect the moneys to be received as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 104556, in civil litigation under any legal theory
• § 104559 — (a) The use of tobacco and nicotine products is prohibited at any time in a county office of education, charter school or school district-owned or leased buildings, on school or district property, and
• § 104559.1 — (a) The Attorney General shall establish and maintain on the Attorney General’s internet website a list of tobacco product brand styles that lack a characterizing flavor.
• § 104559.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Characterizing flavor” means a taste or odor, distinguishable by an ordinary consumer either prior to or during the consumption
• § 104560 — There is established in the state department a comprehensive perinatal outreach program.
• § 104561 — A county or city and county may contract with the state department to provide perinatal program coordination, patient advocacy, and expanded access services for low-income pregnant and postpartum wome
• § 104562 — A county that contracts with the state department for the provision of public health services may contract with the state department for the services described in Section 104561.
• § 104563 — A county contracting with the state department pursuant to this program shall supply, at a minimum, the following information: (a) The county’s perinatal statistics.
• § 104564 — A county participating in this program shall maintain the following services, supported by this program or from other sources, to the extent funds are available: (a) A coordinated and integrated syste
• § 104565 — (a) Health education services shall be an integral part of each county’s program pursuant to Section 104564 to provide coordinated services to pregnant and postpartum women.
• § 104566 — Funds from the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund may be used in combination with funds from other sources if the services provided to each person are documented and there is an auditable conn
• § 104567 — The program shall develop protocols, procedures, instructional materials, inservice training, data collection formats and requirements, and reimbursement schedules where applicable for the provision o
• § 104568 — For purposes of this chapter, “outreach” includes, but is not limited to, coordinated local systems of care-providing pregnancy testing, screening for risk factors, care coordination, referral to appr
• § 104569 — Funds appropriated for purposes of this program for a fiscal year shall be available for expenditure without regard to fiscal year.
• § 104575 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the “California Nutrition Monitoring Development Act of 1986.
• § 104580 — The Legislature declares that the purposes of this article are to determine the availability and types of nutrition monitoring information that are currently available in specified federal, state and
• § 104585 — (a) The department shall assess the availability and adequacy of existing state and local food and nutrition data systems.
• § 104590 — (a) The department shall conduct a survey of state agencies and of counterpart local and private sector programs which now collect or use nutrition data or both.
• § 104600 — The department, using applicable state procedures, may contract for any of the services required by this article, in which case the contractor or contractors shall have demonstrated expertise in the f