California

Public Resources Code - PRC

8,181 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 40131.5 — “Federal act” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.
• § 40135 — “Fund” means the Integrated Waste Management Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury.
• § 40135.1 — “Account” means the Integrated Waste Management Account created in the fund pursuant to Section 48001.
• § 40140 — “Hazard” includes any condition, practice, or procedure which is or may be dangerous, harmful, or perilous to employees, property, neighbors, or the general public.
• § 40141 — (a) “Hazardous waste” means a waste, defined as a “hazardous waste” in accordance with Section 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, or a combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentra
• § 40145 — “Jurisdiction” means a city, county, or regional agency that is approved by the board pursuant to Section 40975.
• § 40148 — “Large state facility” means those campuses of the California State University and the California Community Colleges, prisons within the Department of Corrections, facilities of the State Department o
• § 40150 — “Local governing body” means the legislative body of the city, county, or special district which has authority to provide solid waste handling services.
• § 40150.1 — “Multicounty regional agency” means a regional agency, as defined in Section 40181, that includes all of the jurisdictions that are located in at least two or more rural counties.
• § 40150.2 — “Minor violation” means the failure of a person to comply with a requirement or condition of an applicable law, regulation, permit, information request, order, variance, or other requirement, whether
• § 40151 — “Nondisposal facility” means any solid waste facility required to obtain a permit pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 44001) of Chapter 3 of Part 4, except a disposal facility or a transfor
• § 40160 — “Operator” means a person who operates a solid waste facility or operates a disposal site.
• § 40162 — “Owner” means a person who holds fee title to, or a leasehold or other possessory interest in, real property that is presently in use as a solid waste facility or is a disposal site.
• § 40170 — “Person” includes an individual, firm, limited liability company, association, partnership, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, or any othe
• § 40171 — “Pollution” means the condition caused by the presence in or on a body of water, soil, or air of any solid waste or substance derived therefrom in such quantity, of such nature and duration, or under
• § 40172 — “Processing” means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion, or recycling of solid waste.
• § 40178 — “Pyrolysis” means the thermal decomposition of material at elevated temperatures in the absence or near absence of oxygen.
• § 40180 — “Recycle” or “recycling” means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstr
• § 40181 — “Regional agency” means an agency formed pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code and Article 3 (commencing with Section 40970) of Chapter 1
• § 40182 — “Regional water board” means a California regional water quality control board.
• § 40183 — (a) “Rural city” or “rural regional agency” means a city or regional agency that is located within a rural county as defined in Section 40184.
• § 40184 — (a) “Rural county” means a county or multicounty regional agency that annually disposes of no more that 200,000 tons of solid waste.
• § 40190 — “Segregated from other waste material” means any of the following: (a) The placement of recyclable materials in separate containers.
• § 40190.5 — “Sharps waste” means waste generated by a household that includes a hypodermic needle, syringe, or lancet.
• § 40191 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “solid waste” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid, semisolid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industri
• § 40192 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), “solid waste disposal,” “disposal,” or “dispose” means the final deposition of solid wastes onto land, into the atmosphere, or into the waters of th
• § 40193 — “Solid waste enterprise” means any individual, partnership, joint venture, unincorporated private organization, or private corporation, which is regularly engaged in the business of providing solid wa
• § 40194 — “Solid waste facility” includes a solid waste transfer or processing station, a composting facility, a gasification facility, a transformation facility, an EMSW conversion facility, and a disposal fac
• § 40195 — “Solid waste handling” or “handling” means the collection, transportation, storage, transfer, or processing of solid wastes.
• § 40195.1 — (a) “Solid waste landfill” means a disposal facility that accepts solid waste for land disposal, but does not include a facility which receives only wastes generated by the facility owner or operator
• § 40196 — “Source reduction” means any action which causes a net reduction in the generation of solid waste.
• § 40196.3 — “State agency” means every state office, department, division, board, commission, or other agency of the state, including the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
• § 40196.5 — “State board” means the State Board of Equalization.
• § 40197 — “State water board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.
• § 40200 — (a) “Transfer or processing station” or “station” includes those facilities utilized to receive solid wastes, temporarily store, separate, convert, or otherwise process the materials in the solid wast
• § 40201 — “Transformation” means incineration, pyrolysis, distillation, or biological conversion other than composting.
• § 4021 — Except as otherwise provided, the willful or negligent commission of any of the acts prohibited or the omission of any of the acts required by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4251) to Chapter 6 (co
• § 4022 — (a) The titles of ranger, park ranger, and forest ranger, and derivations thereof, may only be used by persons who are peace officers under Chapter 4.
• § 4031 — (a) The department may, with the approval of the Department of General Services, enter into agreements, easements, licenses, or permits to acquire real property rights for the purposes of establishing
• § 4032 — (a) The department may lease, for any use, all or any portion of any parcel of real property acquired for forestry and fire protection purposes if the director finds that the use would be compatible w
• § 4033 — (a) The department may provide permits for temporary means of ingress to, egress from, and movement across all property under the jurisdiction of the department in order to provide ready access for th
• § 4034 — The department, with the consent of the Department of General Services, may lease any real or personal property that the department deems necessary for temporary use of fire station facilities, modula
• § 40400 — There is in the California Environmental Protection Agency the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
• § 40401 — (a) (1) Except as otherwise specified by statute, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery succeeds to and is vested with all of the authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, an
• § 40402 — The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration of the statutes t
• § 40403 — (a) The Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Relations is hereby established within the department.
• § 40430 — The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery shall be appointed by, and hold office at the pleasure of, the Governor.
• § 40431 — The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery may appoint those deputies, officers, and other employees that he or she finds necessary for the performance of the functions of the Department of Reso
• § 40432 — The Attorney General shall represent the board and the state in litigation concerning affairs of the board, unless the Attorney General represents another state agency that is a party to the action.
• § 4050 — As used in this article, “fund” shall mean the CAL-FIRE Infrastructure Projects Revolving Fund.
• § 40501 — The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may hold any hearings and conduct any investigations in any part of the state necessary to carry out its powers and duties.
• § 40502 — (a) The board shall adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out this division in conformity with Chapter 3.
• § 40503 — The board shall maintain its headquarters in the County of Sacramento, and may establish regional offices in any part of the state that the board deems necessary.
• § 40505 — In order to carry out its powers and duties under this chapter, the board may enter into any contracts that the board determines to be necessary.
• § 40506 — The board may accept grants, gifts and donations for the purposes specified in this division.
• § 40506.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may sell any of its loans made pursuant to this division on the secondary market and may pool its loans.
• § 40506.5 — (a) The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery, with approval of the Director of Finance, may accept, on behalf of the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and its various divisions, f
• § 40506.7 — For the purposes of disseminating information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may issue publications, construct and maintai
• § 40507 — (a) (1) On or before March 1 of each year, the department shall file an annual report with the Legislature highlighting significant programs or actions undertaken by the department to implement progra
• § 40507.1 — (a) As part of the annual report required to be submitted by the board to the Legislature pursuant to Section 40507 on or before March 1, 2003, the board shall include a report on new and emerging con
• § 40508 — The board is designated as the state solid waste management agency for all purposes stated in the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.
• § 40509 — The board may render technical assistance and make recommendations concerning potential solid waste disposal sites upon the request of the board of supervisors of any county.
• § 4051 — (a) The CAL-FIRE Infrastructure Projects Revolving Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 40510 — The board shall use a rollcall vote for all official board decisions, including, but not limited to, approval, denial, or amendment of integrated waste management plans, exemptions, time extensions, a
• § 40511 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.
• § 40512 — (a) The department shall establish a pilot project located in the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura in partnership with garment manufacturers in order to study and report on the feasibility of recyc
• § 4052 — The department shall keep a record of all expenditures against the moneys transferred to the fund for each project and any advances made pending federal reimbursement pursuant to subdivision (b) of Se
• § 40520 — (a) As used in this section: (1) “Contract” means a contract between the department and a contractor to perform wildfire debris cleanup and removal.
• § 4053 — Annually, on or before October 15, the department shall submit to the Department of Finance a report that reconciles, by project and character of appropriation, all of the following: (a) Amounts trans
• § 40900 — (a) The Legislature finds that integrated waste management plans prepared and adopted by local agencies shall conform, to the maximum extent possible to the policies and goals established under Articl
• § 40900.1 — The Legislature hereby further finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is important to encourage state agencies to plan and implement programs that will reduce the amount of solid waste going
• § 40901 — (a) The following shall apply with regard to the preparation, revision, and implementation of source reduction and recycling elements pursuant to this part: (1) To determine solid waste amounts in the
• § 40910 — The board shall establish, on or before January 1, 1994, an office of local government assistance.
• § 40911 — In adopting or amending regulations pursuant to this part, the board shall take into account all of the following: (a) The shared responsibility that exists between the board and local agencies for ac
• § 40912 — (a) The board shall develop a model countywide or regional siting element and a model countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan that will establish prototypes of the content and f
• § 40913 — (a) On or before January 1, 1994, the board shall develop and implement a program to assist local agencies in the identification of markets for materials that are diverted from disposal facilities thr
• § 40950 — (a) On or before March 1, 1990, and every five years thereafter, each county, which is not a city and county, shall convene a task force to assist in coordinating the development of city source reduct
• § 40970 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to authorize cities and counties to form regional agencies to implement this part in order to reduce the cost of reporting and tracking of
• § 40971 — A city or county may form a regional agency with another city or county for the purpose of complying with this part.
• § 40972 — This part is binding upon, and enforceable against, the individual cities and counties which are member agencies of the regional agency.
• § 40973 — (a) The regional agency, and not the cities or counties that are member agencies of the regional agency, may be responsible for compliance with Article 1 (commencing with Section 41780) of Chapter 6 i
• § 40974 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 40972, each city or county that is a member agency of a regional agency is liable for any civil penalties that may be imposed by the board pursuant to Section 41813 or 4185
• § 40975 — (a) Any agreement forming a regional agency shall be submitted to the board for review and approval at the time the regional agency integrated waste management plan is submitted to the board for revie
• § 40976 — A city, county, or regional agency may enter into a memorandum of understanding with another city, county, regional agency, agency formed under a joint exercise of powers agreement, or district establ
• § 40977 — A regional agency may authorize one district, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 41821.
• § 41000 — (a) On or before July 1, 1992, each city shall prepare, adopt, and, excepting a city and county, submit to the county in which the city is located a source reduction and recycling element which includ
• § 41001 — The city source reduction and recycling element shall include a program for management of solid waste generated within the city, consistent with the waste management hierarchy provided in Section 4005
• § 41002 — The city source reduction and recycling element shall place primary emphasis on implementation of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting programs while identifying the amount of land
• § 41003 — Each city source reduction and recycling element shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following components for solid waste generated in the jurisdiction of the plan: (a) A waste characteri
• § 4101 — “Person” includes any agency of the state, county, city, district, or other local public agency, and any individual, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability comp
• § 4102 — “State responsibility areas” means areas of the state in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires has been determined by the board pursuant to Section 4125, to be primari
• § 4103 — “Forest fire” means a fire burning uncontrolled on lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, grass, grain, or other flammable vegetation.
• § 4103.4 — “Open fire” means any fire, controlled or uncontrolled, including a campfire, burning outside of any structure, mobilehome, or living accommodation mounted on a motor vehicle.
• § 4103.5 — “Campfire” means a fire which is used for cooking, personal warmth, lighting, ceremonial, or aesthetic purposes, including fires contained within outdoor fireplaces and enclosed stoves with flues or c
• § 41030 — (a) For the initial source reduction and recycling element of a countywide integrated waste management plan which is required to be submitted to the board pursuant to Section 41791, the city waste cha
• § 41031 — Any waste characterization component prepared by a city pursuant to Section 41030, and any other information submitted by a city to the board on the quantities of solid waste generated, diverted, and
• § 41032 — For the first revision, and any subsequent revision, of a source reduction and recycling element of a countywide integrated waste management plan which is required to be submitted to the board pursuan
• § 41033 — Any waste characterization component prepared by a city pursuant to Section 40132, and any other information submitted by a city to the board on the quantities of solid waste disposed of by the city,
• § 4104 — The term “uncontrolled fire,” as used in this division, means any fire which threatens to destroy life, property, or resources and either: (1) is unattended by any person; (2) is attended by persons u
• § 41050 — The city source reduction component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the city will, in combination with the recycling and composting components, red
• § 41051 — The city source reduction component shall describe the types of materials which will be reduced under the programs in Section 41050.
• § 41052 — The city source reduction component shall describe the methods the city will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through source reductio
• § 41053 — The city source reduction component shall describe new facilities, and of expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the source reduction component.
• § 41054 — The city source reduction component shall evaluate and identify rate structures and fees to reduce the amount of wastes that generators produce, and other source reduction strategies, including, but n
• § 41070 — The city recycling component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the city will, in combination with the source reduction and composting components, red
• § 41071 — The city recycling component shall describe the types of materials which will be recycled under the programs in Section 41070.
• § 41072 — The city recycling component shall describe the methods the city will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through recycling.
• § 41073 — The city recycling component shall describe new facilities, and of expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the recycling component.
• § 41074 — The city recycling component shall describe methods which will be used to increase the markets for recycled materials, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of the feasibility of procurement pr
• § 41075 — The city recycling component shall evaluate industrial, commercial, residential, governmental, and other curbside, mobile, dropoff, and buy-back recycling programs, manual and automated material recov
• § 4111 — The board shall make and enforce such regulations as are necessary and proper for the organization, maintenance, government, and direction of the fire protective system for the prevention and suppress
• § 4112 — The department shall divide the state into a suitable and convenient number of administrative districts and shall appoint a supervising forest officer for each district.
• § 4113 — The supervising forest officers shall, under the direction of the director, have charge of the firefighting system and men in such districts, and are charged with the duty of preventing and extinguish
• § 4114 — (a) The department, in accordance with a plan approved by the board, shall do all of the following: (1) Provide fire prevention and firefighting implements and apparatus.
• § 4114.1 — (a) Subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose, the department shall begin to employ sufficient permanent firefighting personnel to increase the base period staffing levels.
• § 4114.3 — (a) (1) The department shall actively engage University of California Cooperative Extension, relevant California State Universities, fire safe councils, California Native American tribes, tribal organ
• § 4114.4 — (a) (1) On or before January 1, 2026, the department, in coordination with the United States Forest Service and other relevant state, federal, tribal, local, and private cooperators, shall identify an
• § 4114.5 — (a) A contract with a nonpublic entity entered into by the department that includes a provision for the services of pilots to fly firefighting aircraft owned by, or on loan to, the department for the
• § 4115 — In providing communications, telecommunications, and necessary powerlines in connection with the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, the department, with the approval of the Department of G
• § 4116 — Any claim for damages arising against the state under Section 4114 or 4115 shall be presented to the Department of General Services in accordance with Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (
• § 4117 — Any county, city, or district may adopt ordinances, rules, or regulations to provide fire prevention restrictions or regulations that are necessary to meet local conditions of weather, vegetation, or
• § 4118 — The burning of growing, dead, or downed vegetation is for a public purpose if the department has determined that the burning of such vegetation is necessary for the prevention or suppression of forest
• § 4119 — The department, or its duly authorized agent, shall enforce the state forest and fire laws.
• § 4120 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or of law and except as provided in the State Building Standards Law, Part 2.
• § 41200 — The city composting component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the city will, in combination with the source reduction and recycling components, red
• § 41201 — The city composting component shall describe the types of materials which will be composted under the programs in Section 41200.
• § 41202 — The city composting component shall describe the methods the city will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through composting.
• § 41203 — The city composting component shall describe any new facilities, and expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the composting component.
• § 41204 — The city composting component shall describe the methods which will be used to increase the markets for composted materials, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of the feasibility of procurem
• § 41220 — The city education and public information component shall describe to the board how the city will increase public awareness of, and participation in, recycling, source reduction, and composting progra
• § 4123 — When selecting a fuel reduction project, the department shall collaborate with the State Water Resources Control Board, the California Geological Survey, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife to ens
• § 4123.5 — (a) The department shall create the Wildfire Resilience Program.
• § 4123.7 — (a) On or before July 1, 2021, the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation with the State Fire Marshal and the Forest Management Task Force, shall review the regional capacity of each county that co
• § 4123.8 — (a) On or before January 1, 2026, the department, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, shall report to the relevant fiscal and policy c
• § 41230 — The city funding component shall identify and specifically describe projected costs, revenues, and revenue sources the city will use to implement all components of the city source reduction and recycl
• § 4124 — For the purposes of this article, “fire prevention activities” means those lawful activities that reduce the risk of wildfire in California, including, but not limited to, mechanical vegetation manage
• § 4124.5 — (a) The department shall establish a local assistance grant program for fire prevention and home hardening education activities in California.
• § 4124.6 — (a) On or before January 31, 2022, the director shall hold a public workshop to do all of the following: (1) Review activities funded by the local assistance grant program established in Section 4124.
• § 4124.7 — (a) The department shall, except for activities described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 4124.
• § 4124.8 — On or before June 1, 2022, all of the duties and responsibilities for the local assistance grant program established pursuant to this article shall be transferred to the Office of the State Fire Marsh
• § 4125 — (a) The board shall classify all lands within the state, without regard to any classification of lands made by or for any federal agency or purpose, for the purpose of determining areas in which the f
• § 41250 — The city special waste component shall describe existing waste handling and disposal practices for special wastes, including, but not limited to, asbestos and sewage sludge which is not hazardous wast
• § 4126 — The board shall include within state responsibility areas all of the following lands: (a) Lands covered wholly or in part by forests or by trees producing or capable of producing forest products.
• § 41260 — The city solid waste facility capacity component shall include, but is not limited to, a projection of the amount of disposal capacity which will be needed to accommodate the solid waste generated wit
• § 4127 — The board shall not include within state responsibility areas any of the following lands: (a) Lands owned or controlled by the federal government or any agency of the federal government.
• § 4128 — In establishing boundaries of state responsibility areas, the board may, for purposes of administrative convenience, designate roads, pipelines, streams, or other recognizable landmarks as arbitrary b
• § 4129 — The board of supervisors of any county may provide by ordinance that the county elects to assume responsibility for the prevention and suppression of all fires on all land in the county, including lan
• § 4129.1 — When the incorporation of a city removes land from a state responsibility area and the county continues to provide residential fire service for the newly incorporated city and remains under contract t
• § 4130 — The board shall classify all lands within state responsibility areas into types of land based on cover, beneficial use of water from watersheds, probable damage from erosion, and fire risks and hazard
• § 41300 — (a) On or before July 1, 1992, each county shall prepare and adopt for the unincorporated area a county source reduction and recycling element which includes all of the components specified in this ch
• § 41301 — The county source reduction and recycling element shall set forth a program for management of solid waste generated with the unincorporated area of the county, consistent with the waste management hie
• § 41302 — The county source reduction and recycling element shall place primary emphasis on implementation of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting programs while identifying the amount of la
• § 41303 — Each county source reduction and recycling element shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following components for solid waste generated in the jurisdiction of the plan: (a) A waste characte
• § 4131 — In the preparation of budgets for fire protection, the total funds available or estimated to be available shall be allocated to the areas to be protected in conformance to such fire protection plan.
• § 4132 — In those counties assuming responsibility pursuant to Section 4129 for fire protection and suppression in the lands thus classified within the respective counties, there shall be budgeted sums to be a
• § 4133 — The department shall, with the approval of the Department of General Services, for periods not to exceed three years, enter into a contract with any county which enacts an ordinance as provided in Sec
• § 41330 — (a) For the initial source reduction and recycling element of a countywide integrated waste management plan which is required to be submitted to the board pursuant to Section 41791, the county waste c
• § 41331 — Any waste characterization component prepared by a county pursuant to Section 41330, and any other information submitted by a county to the board on the quantities of solid waste generated, diverted,
• § 41332 — For the first revision, and any subsequent revision, of a source reduction and recycling element of a countywide integrated waste management plan which is required to be submitted to the board pursuan
• § 41333 — Any waste characterization component prepared by a county pursuant to Section 41332, and any other information submitted by a county to the board on the quantities of solid waste disposed of, shall in
• § 4134 — Any such contract shall provide for payment to such county, as compensation for the assumption of the duty, power, authority and responsibility for fire protection and suppression as provided in Secti
• § 4135 — Sections 4129 to 4135, inclusive, do not deprive the department of the power and duty to require that the money paid by the department under the contract to a county shall be expended by the county fo
• § 41350 — The county source reduction component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the county will, in combination with the recycling and composting components,
• § 41351 — The county source reduction component shall describe the types of materials which will be reduced under the programs in Section 41350.
• § 41352 — The county source reduction component shall describe the methods that the county will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through source
• § 41353 — The county source reduction component shall describe new facilities, and of expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the source reduction component.
• § 41354 — The county source reduction component shall evaluate and identify rate structures and fees to reduce the amount of wastes that generators produce, and other source reduction strategies, including, but
• § 4136 — (a) A transferor of real property that is located within a state responsibility area determined by the board, pursuant to Section 4125, shall disclose to a prospective transferee the fact that the pro
• § 4137 — (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms apply: (1) “Activities” means the specific actions performed to support a treatment, including, but not limited to, mechanical fuel reduction, han
• § 41370 — The county recycling component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the county will, in combination with the source reduction and composting components,
• § 41371 — The county recycling component shall describe the types of materials which will be recycled under the programs in Section 41370.
• § 41372 — The county recycling component shall describe the methods that the county will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through recycling.
• § 41373 — The county recycling component shall describe new facilities, and expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the recycling component.
• § 41374 — The county recycling component shall describe methods which will be used to increase markets for recycled materials, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of the feasibility of procurement pref
• § 41375 — The county recycling component shall evaluate industrial, commercial, residential, governmental, and other curbside, mobile, dropoff, and buy-back recycling programs, manual and automated material rec
• § 41400 — The county composting component shall include a program and implementation schedule which shows the methods by which the county will, in combination with the source reduction and recycling components,
• § 41401 — The county composting component shall describe the types of materials which will be composted under the programs in Section 41400.
• § 41402 — The county composting component shall describe the methods that the county will use to determine the categories of solid wastes to be diverted from disposal at a disposal facility through composting.
• § 41403 — The county composting component shall describe new facilities, and expansion of existing facilities, which will be needed to implement the composting component.
• § 41404 — The county composting component shall describe methods which will be used to increase the markets for composted materials, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of the feasibility of procuremen
• § 4141 — (a) The department may, for the prevention and suppression of forest fires, enter into cooperative agreements with any person, firm, association, or corporation that owns or controls any forest, brush
• § 4142 — (a) The department, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may enter into a cooperative agreement upon the terms and under the conditions as it deems wise, for the purpose of prevent
• § 4142.1 — When a county, city, or district considers entering into a cooperative agreement pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 4142 under which the state would assume personnel from the county, city, or dist
• § 41420 — The county education and public information component shall describe to the board how the county will educate and inform its citizens about the source reduction, recycling, and composting programs.
• § 4143 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the maintenance of the economic well-being of the state and the public health and safety require that the state, through the department, obtain full util
• § 41430 — The county funding component shall identify and specifically describe projected costs, revenues, and revenue sources the county will use to implement all components of the county source reduction and
• § 4144 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 4142, the director may, with the approval of the Department of General Services, enter into a cooperative agreement, for the purpose of preventing and suppressing fires, wi
• § 4145 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that cooperative agreements that are entered into between the department and a local government shall provide for the equitable sharing of costs associated with
• § 41450 — The county special waste component shall describe existing waste handling and disposal practices for special wastes, including, but not limited to, asbestos and sewage sludge which is not hazardous wa
• § 41460 — The county solid waste facility capacity component shall include, but is not limitied to, a projection of the amount of disposal capacity which will be needed to accommodate the solid waste generated
• § 4147 — This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Rapid Disaster Response Act of 2005.
• § 4148 — The director shall draw upon eligible federal funds to augment any state funds appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of replacing the department’s aging helicopter fleet.
• § 41500 — (a) On or before July 1, 1992, each city shall prepare, adopt, and submit to the county in which the city is located a household hazardous waste element which identifies a program for the safe collect
• § 41502 — A city household hazardous waste element may include a program for the safe collection, treatment, and disposal of sharps waste generated by households.
• § 4151 — (a) The director shall appoint, in a number and localities as the director deems wise, public-spirited citizens to act as voluntary firewardens, who may receive payment for their services from the cou
• § 41510 — (a) On or before July 1, 1992, each county shall prepare a household hazardous waste element which identifies a program for the safe collection, recycling, treatment, and disposal of hazardous wastes,
• § 41512 — A county household hazardous waste element may include a program for the safe collection, treatment, and disposal of sharps waste generated by households.
• § 41515 — If a city, county, or regional agency conducts an aerosol can recycling program, a requirement to educate the public on the safe collection and recycling or disposal of aerosol cans shall be incorpora
• § 41516 — (a) For purposes of this article, “covered electronic waste” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 42463.
• § 4152 — If a fire patrol for the prevention and suppression of forest fires is maintained by owners of land or by any organization, the director may designate each patrol person as a voluntary firewarden and,