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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Start with the recorded version
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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This section sets rules for how a county sanitation district’s board of directors may be formed and composed, and requires the district to reimburse county election costs in one specified case.
Section 4730.1.
After the hearing, the district board must either revise the report to address objections or approve and adopt it as filed.
Section 4752.
This section defines what counts as an issue of bonds and lets a district’s board of directors split a bond issue into divisions or series and set different payment dates for each.
Section 4801.
This section exempts certain Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District meetings from paragraph (4) of Government Code Section 54954 when the meetings involve policy decisions about a TMDL for any pollutant.
Section 4859.
When the board receives a dissolution petition or adopts a resolution to start dissolution proceedings, it must set a hearing date between 15 and 30 days later.
Section 4917.
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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.