Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This section says the act is to be known as the Health and Safety Code.”
The Legislature states findings supporting a unified, single-payer-style health care financing system for all Californians. The State Department of Health Services is renamed the State Department of Health Care Services, and its retained functions continue with the renamed department. The Director of Health Care Services is appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation, the director receives a salary set by law, and the Governor may appoint up to two chief deputies on the director’s recommendation. The director has the powers of a department head under the cited Government Code chapter. The Department of Health Services has a Division of Rural Health, and that division must administer specified chapters and sections.
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How the instrument operates
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Enacted 1939. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.
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A manufacturer covered by this section must keep justification for protecting confidential business information and provide it to the Attorney General on request for audit.
Section 111822.5.
If an officer, agent, inspector, or investigator removes the pharmacist’s copy of a controlled substance prescription for investigation or as evidence, they must give the pharmacist a receipt.
Section 11195.
The Legislature declares that people must be protected from adulterated shellfish and that this chapter sets uniform sanitation standards for shellfish activities.
Section 112150.
If the department decides a licensed place is unsanitary, it must notify the licensee in writing and specify what is unsanitary.
Section 112415.
A person who violates this chapter commits a misdemeanor and may be fined, jailed, or both.
Section 112635.
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Source and current-law status
Source record view
Source record from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · Enacted 1939
The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.