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• § 24175 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall be subjected to any medical experiment unless the informed consent of such person is obtained.
• § 24176 — (a) Any person who is primarily responsible for conduct of a medical experiment and who negligently allows the experiment to be conducted without a subject’s informed consent, as provided in this chap
• § 24177 — This chapter shall not supersede, but shall be in addition to, Article 4 (commencing with Section 111515) of Chapter 6 of Part 5 of Division 104 of this code and Title 2.
• § 24177.5 — (a) This chapter does not apply to a medical experimental treatment that benefits a patient subject to a life-threatening emergency if all of the following conditions are met: (1) Care is provided in
• § 24178 — (a) Except for this section and the requirements set forth in Sections 24172 and 24176, this chapter shall not apply to any person who is conducting a medical experiment as an investigator within an i
• § 24179 — This chapter shall not apply to a pharmacist dispensing drugs upon a prescription.
• § 24179.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, this chapter does not apply to an adult in a terminal condition who executes a directive directing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining
• § 24185 — (a) No person shall clone a human being or engage in human reproductive cloning.
• § 24186 — (a) (1) The department shall establish an advisory committee for purposes of advising the Legislature and the Governor on human cloning and other issues relating to human biotechnology.
• § 24187 — For violations of Section 24185, the State Director of Health Services may, after appropriate notice and opportunity for hearing, by order, levy administrative penalties as follows: (a) If the violato
• § 24210 — (a) There is hereby established the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program, to be administered by the California Victim Compensation Board.
• § 24211 — (a) The board shall do all of the following to implement the program: (1) In consultation with community-based organizations, conduct outreach to locate qualified recipients and notify the qualified r
• § 24212 — (a) This chapter shall become operative only upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or any other act approved by the Legislature for the express purpose of implementing this chapter.
• § 24213 — (a) (1) An individual seeking victim compensation pursuant to the program shall submit an application to the board beginning six months after the start date of the program and no later than two years
• § 24214 — (a) A qualified recipient may assign victim compensation to a trust established for the qualified recipient’s benefit.
• § 24215 — The State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in consultation with stakeholders, including at least one
• § 24216 — The board shall keep confidential and not disclose to the public any record pertaining to either an individual’s application for victim compensation or the board’s verification of the application, inc
• § 24217 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the payment made to a qualified recipient pursuant to this program shall not be considered any of the following: (1) Taxable income for state tax purposes.
• § 24218 — This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2026, and, as of January 1, 2027, is repealed.
• § 24250 — (a) A health care provider entity shall, to the extent possible, establish or amend procedures for monitoring, documenting, and receiving visitors to health care provider entities consistent with this
• § 24251 — (a) To enhance privacy available to facility users and promote a safe environment conducive to the facility’s mission and patient care, a health care provider entity shall designate areas where patien
• § 24252 — For purposes of this chapter, “health care provider entity” includes all of the following: (a) (1) Public hospitals, which means a hospital that is licensed to a county, a city, a city and county, the
• § 24253 — For purposes of this chapter, “immigration enforcement” means any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal civil immigration law, and also
• § 24254 — This section does not prohibit a person who is in lawful custody from being accompanied to access health care services and for their transportation and arrangement to health care provider entities, an
• § 24255 — This chapter shall apply to all health care provider entities that receive public funding.
• § 24256 — Health care provider entities shall have 45 days from the effective date of this chapter to comply with the requirements contained herein.
• § 24257 — The provisions of this chapter are severable.
• § 24275 — (a) If the State Department of Health Services believes that the air monitoring standard for asbestos in public school buildings as specified in Section 49410.
• § 24400 — For the purposes of this chapter, “excited delirium” means a term used to describe a person’s state of agitation, excitability, paranoia, extreme aggression, physical violence, and apparent immunity t
• § 24401 — (a) Excited delirium shall not be recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in this state.
• § 24402 — A peace officer shall not use the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report completed by a peace officer.
• § 24403 — Pursuant to Section 1156.
• § 24500 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Infant Crib Safety Act.
• § 24501 — As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Infant” means any person less than 35 inches tall and less than three years of age.
• § 24502 — (a) No commercial user shall remanufacture, retrofit, sell, contract to sell or resell, lease, sublet, or otherwise place in the stream of commerce, on or after January 1, 1995, a full-size or non-ful
• § 24503 — On or after January 1, 1996, any commercial user who willfully and knowingly violates Section 24502 is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• § 24504 — Any person may maintain an action against any commercial user who violates Section 24502 to enjoin the remanufacture, retrofit, sale, contract to sell, contract to resell, lease, or subletting of a fu
• § 24505 — Remedies available under this article shall be in addition to any other remedies or procedures under any other provision of law that may be available to an aggrieved party.
• § 24506 — If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of thi
• § 24520 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Shaken baby syndrome is a medically serious, sometimes fatal, matter affecting newborns and very young children.
• § 24521 — The purpose of this article is to prevent the occurrence of injuries and deaths to infants and children as a result of shaken baby syndrome by creating a statewide public awareness education campaign.
• § 24522 — (a) Information and instructional materials as described in Section 24521 shall be provided free of charge by each health facility to parents or guardians of each newborn, upon discharge from the heal
• § 24530 — This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the Bunk Bed Safety Act of 1999.
• § 24531 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) No state or federal law exists mandating the safety of bunk beds intended for use by children.
• § 24532 — (a) As used in this chapter, “sale” or “sell” means remanufacturing, retrofitting, selling, contracting to sell or resell, leasing, subletting, or otherwise placing in the stream of commerce.
• § 24533 — (a) No commercial user shall sell, on or after June 19, 2000, a bunk bed that is unsafe for any child using the bunk bed.
• § 24534 — Any commercial user who willfully and knowingly violates Section 24533 is guilty of an infraction and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• § 24535 — Any person may maintain an action against any commercial user who violates Section 24533 to enjoin the sale of a bunk bed that is unsafe for any child using the bunk bed, and for reasonable attorney’s
• § 24536 — Remedies available under this article shall be in addition to any other remedies or procedures under any other provision of law that may be available to an aggrieved party.
• § 24537 — This chapter does not apply to any bunk bed that was manufactured prior to June 19, 2000, if the sale of the bunk bed is accompanied by a disclosure statement attached in a conspicuous place on the bu
• § 24538 — Nothing in this chapter shall supersede any provision of federal law or any regulation adopted pursuant to federal law.
• § 24600 — (a) It is unlawful for a person to sell or otherwise furnish any device intended to deliver a nonnicotine product in a vapor state, to be directly inhaled by the user, to a person under 18 years of ag
• § 25 — Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations which are building stan
• § 25100 — The Legislature finds that: (a) Increasing quantities of hazardous wastes are being generated in the state, for which the generators of the hazardous waste must provide safe disposal.
• § 25101 — The Legislature therefore declares that: (a) In order to protect the public health and the environment and to conserve natural resources, it is in the public interest to establish regulations and ince
• § 25103 — The Legislature has found that access by the people of this state to public records is a fundamental and necessary right.
• § 25105 — No provision of this chapter shall limit the authority of any state or local agency in the enforcement or administration of any provision of law which it is specifically permitted or required to enfor
• § 25106 — Except as expressly provided by statute, this chapter does not supersede or modify Chapter 3.
• § 25110 — Unless expressly incorporated by reference by another statute, the definitions in this article govern only the construction of this chapter.
• § 25110.02 — “Acutely hazardous waste” means any hazardous waste classified as an acutely hazardous waste in regulations adopted by the department.
• § 25110.1 — “Applicant” means any person seeking an original hazardous waste facilities permit, or an original hazardous waste hauler’s registration from the department to generate, transport, treat, store, recyc
• § 25110.10 — (a) “Consolidation site” means a site to which hazardous waste initially collected at a remote site, as defined in Section 25121.
• § 25110.10.1 — For purposes of this chapter, “consolidated transporter” means a hazardous waste transporter registered pursuant to Section 25165 and the regulations adopted by the department who has notified the dep
• § 25110.11 — (a) “Contained gaseous material,” for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 25124 or any other provision of this chapter, means any gas that is contained in an enclosed cylinder or other enclosed con
• § 25110.2 — “Authorized local health officer” means a local health officer authorized by the department pursuant to Section 25187.
• § 25110.3 — “Board” means the Board of Environmental Safety established pursuant to Section 25125.
• § 25110.4 — “Buffer zone” means an area of land that surrounds a hazardous waste facility and on which certain land uses and activities are restricted to protect the public health and safety and the environment f
• § 25110.5 — “Business” means the conduct of activity and is not limited to a commercial or proprietary activity.
• § 25110.8 — “Business concern” means any sole proprietorship, corporation, association, firm, partnership, trust, or other form of commercial organization.
• § 25110.8.5 — “Class I violation” means any of the following: (a) A deviation from the requirements of this chapter, or any regulation, standard, requirement, or permit or interim status document condition adopted
• § 25110.9 — (a) “Conditionally exempt small quantity treatment” means the operations of a generator conditionally exempted pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25201.
• § 25110.9.1 — (a) “Conditional authorization” means a provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 25200.
• § 25110.9.3 — For purposes of this chapter, “consolidated manifest” means a hazardous waste manifest used by a milk run transporter to combine hazardous waste shipments from multiple generators on one consolidated
• § 25111 — “Department” means the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
• § 25111.1 — “Designated local public officer” means a local public officer designated by the director pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25180.
• § 25112 — “Director” means the Director of Toxic Substances Control.
• § 25112.5 — (a) “Disclosure statement” means a statement submitted to the department by an applicant, signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury, which includes all of the following information: (1) The ful
• § 25113 — (a) “Disposal” means either of the following: (1) The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any waste so that the waste or any constituent of the waste is or may be
• § 25114 — “Disposal site” means the location where any final deposition of hazardous waste occurs.
• § 25114.5 — “Environmental assessor” means an environmental professional as defined in Section 312.
• § 25115 — “Extremely hazardous waste” means any hazardous waste or mixture of hazardous wastes which, if human exposure should occur, may likely result in death, disabling personal injury or serious illness cau
• § 25115.1 — “Federal act” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.
• § 25116 — “Handling” means the transporting or transferring from one place to another, or pumping, processing, storing, or packaging of hazardous waste, but does not include the handling of any substance before
• § 25116.5 — (a) “Intermediate manufacturing process stream” means a material, or combination of materials, that meets all of the following conditions: (1) It is produced as part of the manufacturing process.
• § 25117 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), “hazardous waste” means a waste that meets any of the criteria for the identification of a hazardous waste adopted by the department pursuant to Section 2514
• § 25117.1 — “Hazardous waste facility” means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the treatment, transfer, storage, resource recovery, disposal, or recycl
• § 25117.10 — “License” includes, but is not limited to any, permit, registration, or certification issued by any local, state, or federal agency for the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, recycling, d
• § 25117.11 — “Offsite facility” means a hazardous waste facility that is not an onsite facility.
• § 25117.12 — “Onsite facility” means a hazardous waste facility at which a hazardous waste is produced and which is owned by, leased to, or under the control of, the producer of the waste.
• § 25117.13 — “Land use restriction” means any limitation regarding the uses of property which may be provided by, but is not limited to, a written instrument which imposes an easement, covenant, restriction, or se
• § 25117.14 — “Permit-by-rule” means a provision of the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter stating that a facility or activity is deemed to have a hazardous waste facilities permit if it meets the require
• § 25117.2 — “Hazardous waste management” or “management” means the transportation, transfer, recycling, recovery, disposal, handling, processing, storage, and treatment of hazardous waste.
• § 25117.4.1 — (a) “Local health officer” means county health officers, city health officers, and district health officers, as defined in this code.
• § 25117.5 — (a) Waste that is hazardous only because it is medical waste, as defined in the Medical Waste Management Act (Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of Division 104) shall not be governed by, subjec
• § 25117.6 — (a) “Minor violation” means a deviation from the requirements of this chapter, or any regulation, standard, requirement, or permit or interim status document condition adopted pursuant to this chapter
• § 25117.8 — “Natural resources” includes, but is not limited to, disposal site capacity and substances which are hazardous waste, or which are in hazardous waste, the reuse of which is technologically and economi
• § 25117.9 — “Non-RCRA hazardous waste” means all hazardous waste regulated in the state, other than RCRA hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25120.
• § 25117.9.1 — “Notice to comply” means a written method of alleging a minor violation which is in compliance with all of the following requirements: (a) The notice to comply is written in the course of conducting a
• § 25118 — “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, business concern, partnership, limited liability company, association, and corporation, including, but not limited to, a government corp
• § 25119 — “Processing” means treatment, as defined in Section 25123.
• § 25120 — “Producer” means any person who generates a waste material.
• § 25120.2 — “RCRA hazardous waste” means all waste identified as a hazardous waste in Part 261 (commencing with Section 261.
• § 25120.5 — “Recyclable material” means a hazardous waste that is capable of being recycled, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (a) A residue.
• § 25120.55 — (a) Used or spent etchants, stripping solutions, and plating solutions are spent, contaminated, or used material for purposes of this chapter.
• § 25121 — (a) “Recycled material” means a recyclable material which has been used or reused, or reclaimed.
• § 25121.1 — (a) “Recycling” means using, reusing, or reclaiming a recyclable material.
• § 25121.2 — “Release” has the same definition as in Section 78105.
• § 25121.3 — (a) “Remote site” means a site operated by the generator where hazardous waste is initially collected, at which generator staff, other than security staff, is not routinely located, and that is not co
• § 25121.5 — (a) “Retrograde material” means any hazardous material which is not to be used, sold, or distributed for use in an originally intended or prescribed manner or for an originally intended or prescribed
• § 25122.7 — “Restricted hazardous waste” includes both of the following: (a) Any hazardous waste subject to land disposal restrictions pursuant to Section 25179.
• § 25122.8 — “State operational costs” means the costs to the state of overseeing removal and remedial action, as defined in Sections 78125 and 78135, to releases of hazardous substances, as defined in subdivision
• § 25122.9 — “Secretary” means the Secretary for Environmental Protection.
• § 25123 — “Storage” means the holding of hazardous wastes, for a temporary period.
• § 25123.3 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Liquid hazardous waste” means a hazardous waste that meets the definition of free liquids, as specified in Secti
• § 25123.4 — “Transportable hazardous waste treatment unit” or “transportable treatment unit” means mobile equipment which performs treatment, is transported onto a facility to perform treatment, and is not perman
• § 25123.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), “treatment” means any method, technique, or process which is not otherwise excluded from the definition of treatment by this chapter and which is de
• § 25123.6 — “Volatile organic compound” means a compound which is a volatile organic compound according to Method No.
• § 25123.7 — (a) “Unified Program Facility” means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land which are subject to the requirements of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of
• § 25123.8 — “Universal waste” means a hazardous waste identified as a universal waste in Section 66273.
• § 25124 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), “waste” means any solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous discarded material that is not excluded by this chapter or by regulations adopted pursuant t
• § 25125 — (a) The Board of Environmental Safety is hereby established in the department consisting of five voting members as follows: (1) Three members shall be appointed by the Governor subject to confirmation
• § 25125.2 — (a) Beginning January 1, 2022, the board shall conduct no fewer than six public meetings per year, at least three of which shall be held outside the greater Sacramento area.
• § 25125.3 — The board may form advisory subcommittees of its membership to work on any topic within the board’s jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, environmental justice and fee structure.
• § 25125.4 — (a) The board shall have the authority to adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 25125.6 — The director, or a designee, shall present and respond to the board, if requested by the board, on any issue or item brought forward by a member of the public, the ombudsperson, or a board member.
• § 25125.7 — The board shall annually prepare and transmit to the Secretary for Environmental Protection an annual review of the department’s performance as compared to its objectives, including, but not limited t
• § 25125.8 — (a) There is established within the board an office of the ombudsperson.
• § 25125.9 — The director and the chairperson of the board shall, when requested, but no less than annually, appear before the appropriate policy committees in the Assembly and Senate to provide an update on the d
• § 25130 — The department shall establish the Hazardous Waste Resource and Research Coordination Program, which consists of the following two components: (a) A data base containing information on known hazardous
• § 25131 — (a) The department shall assemble a bibliographic cross-referenced data base containing all of the following information on known hazardous waste research programs which are ongoing within the state:
• § 25132 — (a) The department shall establish and maintain a pool of research consultants expert in the field of hazardous waste management.
• § 25135 — (a) The department shall, by March 1, 2025, and every three years thereafter, prepare a state hazardous waste management plan and present it to the board for approval.
• § 25140 — The department shall prepare, adopt and may revise when appropriate, a listing of the wastes which are determined to be hazardous, and a listing of the wastes which are determined to be extremely haza
• § 25141 — (a) The department shall develop and adopt by regulation criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes.
• § 25141.1 — (a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act of 2022 that implements a proposal to review the department’s hazardous waste criteria, and as part of the department’s comprehensi
• § 25141.2 — (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the department shall not publish a notice of a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations pursuant to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative
• § 25141.5 — (a) When classifying a waste as hazardous pursuant to the criteria in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 66261.
• § 25141.5.1 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Cannabis waste” has the same meaning as defined in Section 15000 of Title 4 of the California Code of Regulations.
• § 25141.6 — In any case where the department proposes to make a determination that a waste meets one or more of the criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes adopted pursuant to Section 2
• § 25142 — Any waste which conforms to a criterion adopted pursuant to Section 25141 shall be managed in accordance with permits, orders, and regulations issued or adopted by the department pursuant to this chap
• § 25142.5 — The department shall develop and implement a comprehensive training, education, and enforcement program for generators, transporters, and facility operators, for personnel conducting inspections for t
• § 25143 — (a) The department may grant a variance from one or more of the requirements of this chapter, or the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, for the management of a hazardous waste if all of the
• § 25143.1 — (a) Geothermal waste resulting from drilling for geothermal resources is exempt from the requirements of this chapter because the disposal of these geothermal wastes is regulated by the California reg
• § 25143.1.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, “wood waste” includes poles, crossarms, pilings, fence posts, lumber, support timbers, flume lumber, and cooling tower lumber.
• § 25143.10 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (h), any person who generates more than 100 kilograms of a material in any month under a claim that the material qualifies for exclusion or exemption pursuant to
• § 25143.11 — (a) The department shall, on or before January 1, 1997, to the extent that it is consistent with the federal act and the protection of the public health, safety, and the environment, adopt regulations
• § 25143.12 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, debris that is contaminated only with crude oil or any of its fractions is exempt from regulation under this chapter if all of the following conditions are
• § 25143.13 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subdivision (c), wastes containing silver or silver compounds that are RCRA hazardous wastes solely due to the presence of silver
• § 25143.14 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), residues that are removed from equipment for the purpose of cleaning the equipment for continued use are subject to regulation under this
• § 25143.2 — (a) Recyclable materials are subject to this chapter and the regulations adopted by the department to implement this chapter that apply to hazardous wastes, unless the department issues a variance pur
• § 25143.2.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Cathode ray tube” or “CRT” means a vacuum tube or picture tube used to convert an electrical signal into a visual image.
• § 25143.3 — The Environmental Protection Agency regulations regarding spent sulfuric acid as set forth in Section 261.
• § 25143.4 — (a) The department shall adopt regulations pursuant to this section, which authorize the reuse of pulping liquors that are reclaimed in a pulping liquor recovery furnace, and which are equivalent to t
• § 25143.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (d), (e) and (f), the department shall classify as nonhazardous waste any fly ash, bottom ash, and flue gas emission control residues, generated from a biomass c
• § 25143.6 — (a) Spent brine solutions that are byproducts from the treatment of groundwater to meet California drinking water standards are exempt from the requirements of this chapter if all of the following con
• § 25143.7 — Waste containing asbestos may be disposed of at any landfill which has waste discharge requirements issued by the regional water quality control board which allow the disposal of such waste, provided
• § 25143.8 — (a) For purposes of this section, “cementitious material” means cement, cement kiln dust, clinker, and clinker dust.
• § 25143.9 — A recyclable material shall not be excluded from classification as a waste pursuant to subdivision (b) or (d) of Section 25143.
• § 25144 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) “Oil” means crude oil, or any fraction thereof, that is liquid at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.
• § 25144.6 — (a) As used in this section, “reusable soiled textile materials” means textile items, including, but not limited to, shop towels, uniforms, gloves, and linens and towels which may become soiled with h
• § 25144.7 — Notwithstanding this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 25123.
• § 25145 — (a) This chapter shall not be construed to limit or abridge the powers or duties granted to the State Water Resources Control Board and each regional water quality control board by Division 7 (commenc
• § 25145.4 — No provision of this chapter, or any ruling of the department or director, shall be construed to limit or abridge the power of the Attorney General, at the request of the department or director, or up
• § 25146 — The Legislature finds and declares that the number of hazardous waste disposal facilities is decreasing in the face of increasing demand, and that under present circumstances and law, imbalance betwee
• § 25146.5 — The Legislature further finds and declares that: (a) It is a matter of urgent public necessity and statewide concern that the number of existing hazardous waste facilities be retained to the extent fe
• § 25147 — Except as expressly provided in Section 25149, it is not the intent of this article to preempt local land use regulation of existing hazardous waste facilities.
• § 25147.5 — The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of only this article.
• § 25148 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), “existing hazardous waste facility” means a Class I disposal site, as defined in Section 2510 of Title 23 of the California Administrative Code on
• § 25148.5 — “Solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wast
• § 25149 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in Section 25149.
• § 25149.1 — (a) No city, county, or city and county, whether general law or chartered, which has issued a conditional use permit for a hazardous waste facility shall thereafter adopt an ordinance, rule, or regula
• § 25149.5 — (a) A general law city or county may impose and enforce, for revenue purposes, a license tax on the operation of an existing hazardous waste facility; provided that, the license tax imposed shall not
• § 25149.6 — A city, county, or city and county in which an existing hazardous waste facility is located may at any time recommend to the director any new or additional permit or interim status conditions as the l
• § 25149.7 — No provision of this article, or any ruling by the department or director, shall be construed as a limitation on the right of any person to maintain a civil action to enjoin or abate a nuisance pursua
• § 25150 — (a) The department shall adopt, and revise when appropriate, standards and regulations for the management of hazardous wastes to protect against hazards to the public health, to domestic livestock, to
• § 25150.1 — The requirements in Sections 25290.
• § 25150.2 — (a) The department shall adopt regulations, consistent with federal law, concerning the transportation of hazardous waste from this state across international boundaries.
• § 25150.3 — The department shall adopt emergency regulations pursuant to Section 11346.
• § 25150.4 — Not later than July 1, 1994, the administrator for oil spill response in the Department of Fish and Game and the Director of Toxic Substances Control shall jointly develop a preincident process for th
• § 25150.5 — On or before July 1, 1995, the department shall revise any standard or regulation it has adopted that requires the preparation of a contingency plan, as that term is defined in Section 66260.
• § 25150.65 — Any regulation that was adopted prior to January 1, 2008, pursuant to former Section 25150.
• § 25150.82 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that this section is intended to address the unique circumstances associated with the operation of metal shredding facilities, and the generation and management
• § 25150.84 — (a) The department shall collect an annual fee from all metal shredding facilities that are subject to the requirements of this chapter or to the alternative management standards adopted pursuant to S
• § 25150.86 — Treated metal shredder waste that is managed in accordance with the alternative management standards adopted by the department pursuant to Section 25180.
• § 25150.87 — (a) (1) The department shall require metal shredding facilities to do both of the following: (A) Monitor hazardous waste constituents requested by the department.
• § 25151 — The department may adopt varying regulations pursuant to Section 25150, other than building standards for different areas of the state depending on population density, climate, geology, types and volu
• § 25152 — Before adopting building standards or adopting or revising other standards and regulations for the handling, processing, storing, use, recycling, and disposal of hazardous and extremely hazardous wast
• § 25152.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Unusual circumstances” means only the following: (A) The need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilit
• § 25153 — The offsite storage, treatment, transportation, and disposal of extremely hazardous waste is subject to the same requirements specified in this chapter that are applicable to hazardous waste and the d
• § 25153.6 — (a) Any person generating or managing a RCRA hazardous waste shall comply with subsection (a) of Section 3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.
• § 25154 — It shall be unlawful for any person to manage any hazardous waste except as provided for in this chapter or regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter.
• § 25155 — No extremely hazardous waste may be disposed of without prior processing to remove its harmful properties or as specified by the regulations of the department for the handling and disposal of the part
• § 25155.10 — (a) The owner or operator of every commercial offsite multiuser hazardous waste disposal facility shall develop a proposed monitoring plan, in writing, for the monitoring of the ambient air downwind a
• § 25155.8 — (a) The operator of a landfill, land farm, or surface impoundment, which is used for disposing or treating hazardous waste which contains volatile organic compounds in concentrations of more than 1 pe
• § 25156 — The department shall develop and adopt regulations and standards to implement Article 11 (commencing with Section 25220), including, but not limited to, regulations which specify appropriate procedura
• § 25157 — Regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter may require the treatment of extremely hazardous waste at the site of production prior to any transportation, if the director determines that treatment is
• § 25158 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), any person generating hazardous waste, or owning or operating a facility for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste, shall file with the dire
• § 25158.1 — (a) When making the quantity determinations for purposes of Section 66262.
• § 25159 — The department shall adopt and revise when necessary regulations that will allow the state to receive and maintain authorization to administer a state hazardous waste program in lieu of the federal pr
• § 25159.1 — (a) The Office of Administrative Law shall deem any regulation proposed for adoption by the department to maintain authorization pursuant to Section 25159 to be a nonsubstantive change without regulat