California

Public Resources Code - PRC

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

• § 4153 — The department or its duly authorized agent may summon an able-bodied person to assist in suppressing a forest fire and may authorize an officer of the state, who is charged with the prevention and su
• § 4154 — Any person who fails to obey a summons which is authorized by Section 4153 is guilty of a violation of this article.
• § 4155 — Every person who in obedience to such summons assists in extinguishing any forest fire shall be compensated at the same wage rate, excluding fringe benefits, as state employees performing like service
• § 4156 — (a) The director and employees or classes of employees of the department designated by the director have the powers conferred by law upon peace officers listed in Section 830.
• § 4157 — When the director or any of the employees or voluntary firewardens who are designated as peace officers pursuant to Section 4156 arrests a person for a violation of this article or for a violation of
• § 4165 — Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, at a forest fire, does any of the following: (a) Disobeys the lawful orders of a public officer or firefighter.
• § 4166 — A person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
• § 4170 — Any uncontrolled fire burning on any lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, grass, grain or any other flammable material, without proper precaution being taken to prevent its spread notwith
• § 4170.5 — The department or any other duly established fire protection agency may summarily abate an uncontrolled fire as a public nuisance by controlling and extinguishing the fire.
• § 41700 — Each county shall prepare a countywide siting element that provides a description of the areas to be used for development of adequate transformation, EMSW conversion, or disposal capacity concurrent a
• § 41701 — Each countywide siting element and revision thereto shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following: (a) A statement of goals and policies for the environmentally safe transformation or dis
• § 41702 — An area is consistent with the city or county general plan if all of the following requirements are met: (a) The city or county adopted a general plan which complies with the requirements of Article 5
• § 41703 — If the county determines that existing capacity will be exhausted within 15 years or additional capacity is desired and that there is no area available for the location of a new solid waste transforma
• § 41704 — Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 41710, any area or areas identified for the location of a new solid waste transformation or disposal facility shall be located in, coextensive with, or
• § 4171 — Any condition endangering public safety by creating a fire hazard and which exists upon any property which is included within any state reponsibility area is a public nuisance.
• § 41710 — (a) A county may tentatively reserve an area or areas for the location of a new solid waste transformation or disposal facility or the expansion of an existing transformation or disposal facility even
• § 41711 — An area tentatively reserved for the establishment or expansion of a solid waste transformation or disposal facility shall be removed from the countywide siting element if a city or county fails or ha
• § 41712 — The removal of a tentatively reserved area from the countywide siting element, pursuant to Section 41711, shall be accomplished by either one of the following methods: (a) The county shall remove the
• § 4172 — If the director determines that a public nuisance, as defined in Section 4171, exists, the director shall notify the owner of the property to abate the public nuisance.
• § 41720 — The countywide siting element submitted to the board, shall include a resolution from each affected city or the county stating that any areas identified for the location of a new or expanded solid was
• § 41721 — (a) The countywide siting element shall be approved by the county and by a majority of the cities within the county that contain a majority of the population of the incorporated area of the county exc
• § 41721.5 — (a) Any amendments to the countywide siting element shall be approved by the county and by a majority of the cities within the county which contain a majority of the population of the incorporated are
• § 4173 — The board shall establish standards, based upon its determination of conditions which create an unreasonable hazard to life or property from fire, for what constitutes a hazardous condition in those i
• § 41730 — Except as provided in Section 41750.
• § 41731 — Except as provided in Section 41750.
• § 41732 — (a) City, county, and regional agency nondisposal facility elements prepared pursuant to Section 41730, 41731, or 41750.
• § 41733 — Nondisposal facility elements prepared pursuant to this chapter shall include all solid waste facilities and solid waste facility expansions, except disposal facilities and transformation facilities,
• § 41734 — (a) (1) Prior to adopting a nondisposal facility element, the city, county, or regional agency shall submit the element to the task force created pursuant to Section 40950 for review and comment.
• § 41734.5 — (a) Once a nondisposal facility element has been adopted, the city, county, or regional agency shall update all information required to be included in the nondisposal facility element, including, but
• § 41735 — (a) Notwithstanding Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000), the adoption or update of a nondisposal facility element shall not be subject to environmental review.
• § 41736 — It is not the intent of the Legislature to require cities and counties to revise their source reduction and recycling elements to comply with the requirements of this chapter.
• § 4174 — The notice shall be in writing and shall do all of the following: (a) Describe the public nuisance.
• § 4175 — If a property owner requests a hearing, the director shall fix a time and a place for the hearing and notify the property owner.
• § 41750 — Each county and city and county shall prepare and submit to the board in accordance with the schedule set forth in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 41780), a countywide integrated waste management p
• § 41750.1 — Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 41750 for the preparation and submittal of countywide integrated waste management plans, the following requirements shall apply to the submittal of integrat
• § 41751 — The countywide integrated waste management plan shall include a summary of significant waste management problems facing the county or city and county.
• § 4176 — If the director determines, at the conclusion of the hearing, that a public nuisance actually exists upon property owned by the property owner, the director shall order the property owner to abate the
• § 41760 — The countywide integrated waste management plan and any amendments thereto, with the exception of any source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, or nondisposal facility
• § 4177 — If the public nuisance is not abated within the time specified in the notice to the property owner pursuant to Section 4172 or, if a hearing is not requested by the property owner, within the time spe
• § 41770 — (a) Each countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan, and the elements thereof, shall be reviewed, revised, if necessary, and submitted to the board every five years in accordance w
• § 4178 — Any costs which are incurred by the department in abating any public nuisance pursuant to this article are a lien upon the property upon which the public nuisance existed when notice of the lien is fi
• § 41780 — (a) Each jurisdiction’s source reduction and recycling element shall include an implementation schedule that shows both of the following: (1) For the initial element, the jurisdiction shall divert 25
• § 41780.01 — (a) The Legislature hereby declares that it is the policy goal of the state that not less than 75 percent of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by the year 2020, and annua
• § 41780.05 — (a) After January 1, 2009, pursuant to the review authorized by Section 41825, the department shall determine each jurisdiction’s compliance with Section 41780 for the years commencing with January 1,
• § 41780.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other requirement of this part, for the purposes of determining the amount of solid waste that a regional agency is required to divert from disposal or transformation through s
• § 41780.2 — (a) Each city, county, or member agency of a regional agency shall determine the amount of reduction in solid waste disposal and the amount of additional diversion required from the base-year amounts
• § 41781 — (a) Except as provided in Sections 41781.
• § 41781.1 — (a) Prior to determining that the diversion of sludge may be counted toward the diversion requirements established under Section 41780, but within 180 days of receiving such a request, the board shall
• § 41781.2 — (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section not to require cities, counties, and regional agencies to revise source reduction and recycling elements prior to their submittal t
• § 41781.3 — (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the use of solid waste for beneficial reuse in the construction and operation of a solid waste landfill, including use of alternative daily cover, which re
• § 41781.4 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the export of a mixture of plastic wastes shall not constitute diversion through recycling and shall be considered disposal for purposes of this division.
• § 41782 — (a) The board may make adjustments to the amounts reported pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 41821.
• § 41783.1 — For any city, county, or regional agency source reduction and recycling element submitted to the department after January 1, 1995, the 50 percent diversion requirement specified in paragraph (2) of su
• § 41787 — (a) (1) The board may reduce the diversion requirements of Section 41780 for a rural city if the rural city demonstrates, and the board concurs, based on substantial evidence in the record, that achie
• § 41787.1 — (a) Rural cities and rural counties may join to form rural regional agencies pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 40970) of Chapter 1.
• § 41787.2 — (a) A rural city or a rural county, which has received, or is eligible for, a reduction in diversion requirements pursuant to Section 41787, may become a member of a rural regional agency for the purp
• § 41787.3 — The board, in consultation with rural cities and rural counties, shall develop model programs and materials to assist rural cities and rural counties in complying with the requirements of Chapter 2 (c
• § 41787.4 — Notwithstanding Section 41820, the board may grant a two-year time extension from the diversion requirements of Section 41780 to a rural city, rural county, or rural regional agency if all of the foll
• § 41787.5 — Unless in conflict with the express provisions of this article, all other provisions of this division, as appropriate, shall apply to rural cities, rural counties, and rural regional agencies to the s
• § 4179 — Notice of the lien, particularly identifying the property on which the nuisance was abated and the amount of such lien, and naming the owner of record of such property, shall be recorded by the depart
• § 4179.5 — The Attorney General may at any time release all or any portion of the property subject to a lien imposed pursuant to Sections 4178 and 4179 from the lien or subordinate the lien to other liens and en
• § 41790 — In order to coordinate solid waste management activities throughout the state and to ensure that Article 2 (commencing with Section 40050) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 is implemented, the board shall review
• § 41791 — (a) If any city or county has less than eight years of remaining disposal site capacity, the countywide integrated waste management plan shall be submitted to the board within 12 months after the Offi
• § 41791.1 — In reviewing, commenting upon, and approving or disapproving integrated waste management plans and the elements thereof, the board shall take into account both of the following: (a) The shared respons
• § 41791.2 — In reviewing, commenting upon, and approving or disapproving integrated waste management plans and the elements thereof, the board shall assist local agencies, to the extent that local agencies reques
• § 41791.5 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 41791, and except as provided in subdivision (b), each city, county, and regional agency shall submit its source reduction and recycling element and its nondisposal fac
• § 41792 — It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this part, that cities and counties shall commence efforts to implement source reduction, recycling, or composting activities immediately upon enactmen
• § 41793 — Each county or city shall hold at least one public hearing before approving its source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, and the countywide integrated waste managemen
• § 41794 — Any city may submit its city source reduction and recycling element or nondisposal facility element to the board for review before the dates in the schedule in Section 41791.
• § 4180 — An action to foreclose the lien shall be commenced by the Attorney General in the name of the people of the State of California within six months after the lien is filed and recorded.
• § 41800 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), within 120 days from the date of receipt of a countywide or regional integrated waste management plan that the department has determined to be complete, or a
• § 41801 — Before approving or conditionally approving a countywide or regional integrated waste management plan, or any element of the plan, pursuant to Section 41800, the board shall adopt written findings, ba
• § 41801.5 — (a) If an element submitted to the board for final review includes the diversion of any solid wastes specified in subdivision (c) of Section 41781.
• § 41802 — (a) Within 120 days from the date of receipt of a household hazardous waste element, the board shall approve or disapprove the element.
• § 4181 — When the property is sold, enough of the proceeds to satisfy the lien and the costs of the foreclosure shall be paid to the state.
• § 41810 — (a) If the board conditionally approves a countywide or regional integrated waste management plan, or any element of the plan, the board shall issue a notice of conditional approval to the city, count
• § 41810.1 — (a) Any city, county, or regional agency which receives a notice of conditional approval for a countywide or regional integrated waste management plan, or any element of the plan, pursuant to subdivis
• § 41811 — Within 120 days of receipt of the notice of deficiency issued pursuant to Section 41810, the city or county shall correct the deficiencies, readopt, and resubmit the city source reduction and recyclin
• § 41811.5 — (a) If the board disapproves an element for which a city, county, or regional agency has received a notification of excluded wastes pursuant to Section 41801.
• § 41812 — If the board determines that the revised city, county, or regional agency source reduction and recycling element or the countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan submitted pursuan
• § 41813 — (a) After conducting a public hearing pursuant to Section 41812, the board may impose administrative civil penalties of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per day on any city or county, or,
• § 41820.5 — (a) In addition to its authority under Section 41820, the board may, after a public hearing, grant a time extension from the diversion requirements of Section 41780 to a city if both of the following
• § 41820.6 — (a) In addition to its authority under Section 41820, the board may, after a public hearing, grant a time extension from the requirements of Section 41780 to a city if both of the following conditions
• § 41821 — (a) (1) Each year following the department’s approval of a jurisdiction’s source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, and nondisposal facility element, the jurisdiction
• § 41821.1 — (a) Each year following the board’s approval of a county or regional agency’s siting element and summary plan, the county or regional agency shall submit a report to the board summarizing the adequacy
• § 41821.2 — (a) For the purposes of this section, “district” means a community services district, public utility district, or sanitary district that provides solid waste handling services or implements source red
• § 41821.3 — (a) For the purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Inert waste” means only rock, concrete, brick, sand, soil, ceramics, and cured asphalt.
• § 41821.4 — (a) Commencing August 1, 2017, a county or regional agency shall include, in the annual report required pursuant to Section 41821, the following information: (1) An estimate of the amount of organic w
• § 41821.5 — (a) Disposal facility operators shall submit information on the disposal tonnages by jurisdiction or region of origin that are disposed of at each disposal facility to the department, and to counties
• § 41821.6 — In order to ensure that records required pursuant to this article are properly maintained, in addition to inspecting all relevant records, the department may conduct audits, perform site inspections,
• § 41821.7 — (a) The department may issue an administrative complaint to any person on whom civil liability may be imposed pursuant to this article.
• § 41821.8 — (a) Orders setting civil liability issued under this article shall become effective and final upon issuance thereof, and payment shall be made within 30 days of issuance.
• § 41821.9 — To assist market development efforts by the department, local agencies, and the private sector, the department shall use existing data resources.
• § 41822 — Each city, county, or regional agency shall review its source reduction and recycling element or the countywide integrated waste management plan at least once every five years to correct any deficienc
• § 41825 — (a) At least once every four years, the department shall review each jurisdiction’s source reduction and recycling element and household hazardous waste element for compliance with Section 41780.
• § 4185 — The State of California hereby accepts the provisions of the Clarke-McNary Act (Ch.
• § 41850 — (a) Except as specifically provided in Section 41813, if, after holding the public hearing and issuing an order of compliance pursuant to Section 41825, the board finds that the jurisdiction has faile
• § 41850.5 — Any administrative civil penalty imposed by the board pursuant to Section 41813 or 48150 shall be deposited in the Local Government Assistance Account, which is hereby created in the Integrated Waste
• § 41851 — Nothing in this chapter shall infringe on the existing authority of counties and cities to control land use or to make land use decisions, and nothing in this chapter provides or transfers new authori
• § 4186 — All moneys that are received by the state pursuant to the federal Clarke-McNary Act and that are regularly allotted by the federal government according to an annual formula shall be paid into the Gene
• § 4187 — A county which enacts an ordinance, as provided in Section 4129, is entitled to any allocation of moneys received by the state pursuant to the Clarke-McNary Act.
• § 41900 — Each city and county shall demonstrate a funding source, or sources, available to pay for preparing, adopting, and implementing the element or plan, as required by this part.
• § 41901 — A city, county, or city and county may impose fees in amounts sufficient to pay the costs of preparing, adopting, and implementing a countywide integrated waste management plan prepared pursuant to th
• § 41902 — A local agency may directly collect the fees authorized by this chapter or may, by agreement, arrange for the fees to be collected by a solid waste hauler providing solid waste collection for the city
• § 41903 — A city or county may assess special fees of a reasonable amount on the importation of waste from outside of the county to publicly owned or privately owned facilities.
• § 41904 — (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) “Nonprofit charitable reuser” means a charitable organization, as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the federal
• § 41950 — (a) No person, other than the authorized recycling agent of the city or county, shall remove paper, glass, cardboard, plastic, used motor oil, ferrous metal, aluminum, or other recyclable materials wh
• § 41951 — (a) For the purposes of this section, “commercial entity” includes a multifamily residential complex.
• § 41952 — Nothing in this chapter limits the right of any person to donate, sell, or otherwise dispose of his or her recyclable materials.
• § 41953 — (a) In any civil action by a recycling agent against a person alleged to have violated Section 41950 or 41951, the court may either allow treble damages, as measured by the market value of the recycla
• § 41954 — Nothing in this article limits the authority of a local agency to adopt or enforce regulations or ordinances on the same matters of this article.
• § 41955 — If the value of the stolen material is more than fifty dollars ($50), but less than nine hundred fifty dollars ($950), a violation of this part may be charged as either a misdemeanor or an infraction.
• § 41956 — The board may award special enforcement grants to cities or counties to support pilot programs designed to develop and evaluate enforcement techniques to reduce the theft of recyclable materials from
• § 42000 — The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) This division requires cities and counties to divert 25 percent of all solid waste from landfills and transformation facilities by 1
• § 42001 — The Legislature further finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California depend upon the development, stability, and expansion of domestic markets for the postconsum
• § 42002 — The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Applicant” means a person, as defined in Section 40170, who applies for designation as a Recycling Market Development Zone.
• § 42005 — (a) The board shall develop a comprehensive market development plan using existing resources, that will stimulate market demand in the state for postconsumer waste material and secondary waste materia
• § 42005.5 — (a) The department shall, by July 1, 2020, convene a Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling consisting of representatives of public agencies, private solid waste enterprises,
• § 42006 — (a) The plan required by Section 42005 shall describe and prioritize actions that should be undertaken to meet the goals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 42005.
• § 42007 — Upon adoption of the plan required by Section 42005, the board shall conduct a detailed analysis of staff resources and consider how to most effectively implement the plan in consideration of existing
• § 42009 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to infringe upon regulations relating to civil rights, equal employment rights, equal opportunity rights, or fair housing rights of any person or any environ
• § 4201 — The purpose of this article is to provide for the classification of lands within state responsibility areas in accordance with the severity of fire hazard present for the purpose of identifying measur
• § 42010 — (a) The local governing body may, either by ordinance or resolution, upon the recommendation of the appropriate land use planning agency, propose eligible parcels of property within its jurisdiction a
• § 42012 — The local governing body, or any person through the local governing body, may apply to the department for designation as a recycling market development zone.
• § 42013 — The department shall adopt regulations and guidelines concerning the necessary contents of each application for designation and, in the countywide integrated waste management plans, shall determine th
• § 42014 — The department may designate or redesignate recycling market development zones for persons applying for that designation.
• § 42019 — In evaluating an application for the designation of a recycling market development zone, the department shall consider the amount of landfill capacity remaining in the jurisdiction where the zone woul
• § 4202 — The State Fire Marshal shall classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones.
• § 42020 — In evaluating an application for the designation of a recycling market development zone, the department shall not deny the application solely because of technical deficiencies.
• § 42023 — Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to limit the authority of local governments to make land use decisions within their jurisdiction.
• § 42023.1 — (a) The Recycling Market Development Revolving Loan Subaccount is hereby created in the account for the purpose of providing loans for purposes of the Recycling Market Development Revolving Loan Progr
• § 42023.2 — (a) Upon authorization by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, the Controller shall transfer a sum, as available, from the account to the subaccount as necessary to meet anticipated loan demand u
• § 42023.3 — (a) All money remaining in the subaccount on July 1, 2031, and all money received as repayment and interest on loans shall, as of July 1, 2031, be transferred to the account and any money due and outs
• § 42023.4 — (a) A loan made pursuant to Section 42023.
• § 42023.5 — (a) The department shall, as part of the annual report to the Legislature, pursuant to Section 40507, include a report on the performance of the Recycling Market Development Revolving Loan Program, in
• § 42023.6 — (a) The department shall encourage applicants to seek participation from private financial institutions or other public agencies.
• § 42024 — The department, the Treasurer, and other appropriate state agencies shall, to the extent feasible and as appropriate, coordinate activities that will leverage financing for market development projects
• § 42025 — The department shall update its regulations relating to the implementation of this article.
• § 4203 — (a) The State Fire Marshal shall, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in t
• § 42030 — For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Authorized collection site” means a location where an authorized collector operates a secure collection receptacle f
• § 42031 — (a) (1) No later than 90 days after the effective date of this section, a covered entity shall provide a list of covered products, and a list and description of any drugs or sharps that are not covere
• § 42031.2 — (a) The department shall adopt regulations for the implementation of this chapter with an effective date of no later than January 1, 2021.
• § 42031.4 — (a) Except as specified in subdivision (d) of Section 42035, a covered entity is not in compliance with this chapter and is subject to penalties pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 42035) i
• § 42031.6 — (a) A program operator shall conduct a comprehensive education and outreach program intended to promote participation in the stewardship program.
• § 42032 — (a) (1) Within six months of the adoption date of regulations by the department pursuant to Section 42031.
• § 42032.2 — (a) (1) To be complete, a stewardship plan for covered drugs shall do all of the following: (A) Identify and provide contact information for the stewardship organization, if applicable, and each parti
• § 42033 — With the submission of a stewardship plan, a program operator shall submit to the department an initial stewardship program budget for the first five calendar years of operation of its stewardship pro
• § 42033.2 — (a) On or before March 31, 2022, and each year thereafter, a program operator shall prepare and submit to the department both of the following: (1) A written report describing the stewardship program
• § 42033.4 — (a) A program operator shall keep minutes, books, and records that clearly reflect the activities and transactions of the program operator’s stewardship program.
• § 42033.5 — For a local jurisdiction that requests removal of home-generated sharps waste or cost recovery or reimbursement for removal pursuant to Section 42032.
• § 42033.6 — As part of the administration of this chapter, within 12 months of a program operator’s submission of three consecutive complete annual reports submitted pursuant to Section 42033.
• § 42034 — In order to further the objective that covered entities establish and implement stewardship programs that comply with the requirements of this chapter, each covered entity, either individually or thro
• § 42034.2 — (a) (1) On or before the end of the 2022–23 fiscal year, and on March 1 and September 1 of each year thereafter, a program operator shall pay to the department an administrative fee.
• § 42034.4 — (a) (1) A stewardship organization may conduct an audit of covered entities that are required to remit a charge or administrative fee to the stewardship organization pursuant to Sections 42034 and 420
• § 42035 — (a) (1) On or before June 30, 2022, and at least annually thereafter, the department shall post on its Internet Web site a list of stewardship organizations, including entities with an approved stewar
• § 42035.2 — (a) (1) The department may impose an administrative penalty on any covered entity, program operator, stewardship organization, or authorized collector that sells, offers for sale, or provides a covere
• § 42035.4 — Upon a written finding that a covered entity, program operator, stewardship organization, or authorized collector has not met a material requirement of this chapter, in addition to any other penalties
• § 42035.6 — (a) A covered entity, stewardship organization, program operator, retail pharmacy, or retail pharmacy chain shall do both of the following: (1) Upon request, provide the department with reasonable and
• § 42035.8 — All handling, transport, and disposal undertaken as part of a stewardship program under this chapter shall comply with applicable state and federal laws, including, but not limited to, regulations ado
• § 42036 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an action specified in subdivision (b) that is taken by a stewardship organization or a covered entity pursuant to this chapter is not a violation of the Car
• § 42036.2 — (a) This chapter does not apply to a drug or sharp within a jurisdiction that is subject to a local stewardship program pursuant to an ordinance that took effect before April 18, 2018.
• § 42036.4 — Proprietary information submitted to the department under this chapter shall be protected by all parties as confidential and shall be exempt from public disclosure under the California Public Records
• § 4204 — The State Fire Marshal shall periodically review zones designated and rated pursuant to this article and, as necessary, shall revise zones or their ratings or repeal the designation of zones.
• § 42040 — (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.
• § 42041 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Advisory board” means the producer responsibility advisory board established pursuant to Section 42070.
• § 4205 — (a) (1) There is hereby created within the Office of Planning and Research the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery, to examine issues related to catastrophic wildfires associated wit
• § 42050 — Consistent with the policy goal established in Section 41780.
• § 42051 — (a) By January 1, 2024, producers of covered material shall form and join a PRO for the purposes of complying with this chapter.
• § 42051.1 — (a) As a condition of producer responsibility plan approval, the PRO plan shall comply with the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section 42060.
• § 42051.2 — (a) Before submitting the plan to the department for approval, the PRO shall submit a proposed plan to the advisory board for review and comment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 42070.
• § 42051.3 — (a) (1) A PRO shall annually submit to the department and make publicly available on its internet website an annual report and budget that describes how the PRO is implementing the approved plan and h
• § 42052 — (a) A PRO shall register in the department’s Recycling and Disposal Reporting System, or an alternative reporting system established by the department, and annually submit to the system all of the fol
• § 42053 — (a) (1) As part of its producer responsibility plan pursuant to Section 42051.
• § 42053.5 — (a) (1) On or before the end of the 2026–27 fiscal year, and once every three months thereafter, a PRO shall pay to the department the California circular economy administrative fee.
• § 42054 — (a) A PRO shall keep minutes, books, and records that clearly reflect the activities and transactions of the PRO.
• § 42055 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an action specified in subdivision (b) that is taken by a PRO or its participants is not a violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Sectio
• § 42056 — (a) A PRO, as part of its producer responsibility plan, shall set up a trust fund or an escrow account in California, into which it shall deposit all unexpended funds for use in accordance with this s
• § 42057 — (a) (1) By January 1, 2032, a PRO acting on behalf of participants of the PRO’s approved plan shall develop and implement a plan to achieve the 25-percent reduction by weight and 25 percent by plastic
• § 42060 — (a) By January 1, 2025, the department shall adopt regulations necessary to implement and enforce this chapter and to ensure that the requirements of this chapter and in particular the requirements es
• § 42060.5 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), and (e), all local jurisdictions or recycling service providers shall include in their collection and recycling programs all covered material cont
• § 42061 — The department shall do all of the following: (a) (1) By July 1, 2024, the department shall establish and post on its internet website a list of covered material categories.
• § 42061.5 — (a) The department shall approve a PRO that meets the requirements of this chapter and both of the following: (1) The PRO has a governing board consisting of producers that represent the diversity of
• § 42062 — (a) Commencing in the 2026 calendar year, and every two years thereafter, the department shall review, in consultation with the advisory board, relevant data to assess whether the recycling rate estab
• § 42063 — (a) In accordance with Sections 42051.
• § 42064 — (a) (1) The environmental mitigation surcharge imposed by this section shall be collected annually by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration in accordance with the Fee Collection Proc
• § 42064.01 — (a) A person from whom the environmental mitigation surcharge imposed pursuant to Section 42064 is determined to be due by that section may petition for a redetermination of whether this chapter appli
• § 42065 — (a) The department shall report to the Legislature every two years its progress in implementing this chapter, including, but not limited to, a description of efforts to adopt regulations under subdivi
• § 42067 — (a) The department shall prepare one or more initial statewide needs assessments designed to determine the necessary steps and investment needed for covered material, by covered material category, to
• § 42070 — (a) In implementing this chapter, the department shall establish a producer responsibility advisory board for the purpose of identifying barriers and solutions to creating a circular economy consisten
• § 4208 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Department” means the Department of Conservation.
• § 4208.1 — (a) There is hereby established in the department the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program to support regional leadership to build local and regional capacity and develop, prioritize, and impleme
• § 42080 — (a) Failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter, including, but not limited to, failure by a PRO to implement and satisfy the requirements of its plan, shall subject a PRO, producer, whole
• § 42081 — (a) (1) The department may issue a notice of violation to, and impose an administrative civil penalty not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per day per violation on, any entity not in complia
• § 42082 — (a) The department shall post on its internet website a list of covered material categories, including by material form if applicable, by producer, that are not in compliance with this chapter.
• § 42083 — A producer may offer for sale, sell, distribute, or import covered material in a covered material category that does not meet the recycling rates established pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 420
• § 42084 — (a) If the department determines that a producer responsibility organization or producer has not achieved the targets established pursuant to Section 42050 or 42057, the department shall, through a pu
• § 4209 — There is within the Office of the State Fire Marshal a Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation who shall be responsible for fire preparedness and mitigation missions of the D
• § 4209.1 — The Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation shall be responsible for all of the following programs and activities: (a) The Fire Prevention Grants Program (Article 2.
• § 4209.2 — The Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation and any subordinate employee shall be primarily assigned to the responsibilities established by this article and shall be the lowe
• § 4209.3 — (a) The State Fire Marshal shall, on or before January 1, 2023, provide the Legislature with a report identifying known personnel and resource shortfalls in implementing programs and activities overse