California Code
DIVISION 101 - ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
PART 3 - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS

CHAPTER 1 - Organization and Appointment of Health Officers

Section 101000. - 101000. Each board of supervisors shall appoint a health officer...

Section 101005. - 101005. The county health officer shall be a graduate of...

Section 101010. - 101010. Immediately after the appointment of the health officer, the...

CHAPTER 2 - Powers and Duties of Local Health Officers and Local Health Departments

ARTICLE 1 - County Health Officers

Section 101025. - 101025. The board of supervisors of each county shall take...

Section 101029. - 101029. The sheriff of each county, or city and county,...

Section 101030. - 101030. The county health officer shall enforce and observe in...

Section 101035. - 101035. The county health officer shall advise on medical matters...

Section 101040. - 101040. (a) The local health officer may take any preventive...

Section 101042. - 101042. (a) If the local health officer or their designee...

Section 101045. - 101045. The county health officer shall investigate health and sanitary...

Section 101050. - 101050. (a) The county health officer shall prepare a list...

Section 101055. - 101055. (a) The county health officer shall furnish all hospitals...

Section 101060. - 101060. The county health officer may designate a nonprofit food...

Section 101070. - 101070. (a) (1) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that...

ARTICLE 2 - Local Health Emergencies

Section 101075. - 101075. As used in this article: (a) “Hazardous waste” means...

Section 101080. - 101080. Whenever a release, spill, escape, or entry of waste...

Section 101080.2. - 101080.2. (a) The local health officer may issue, and first...

Section 101085. - 101085. (a) After the declaration of a health emergency or...

Section 101087. - 101087. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms “handler,”...

Section 101090. - 101090. When requested by the person furnishing the information furnished...

Section 101095. - 101095. Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical, toxicological,...

ARTICLE 3 - Public Health Nurses

Section 101100. - 101100. The governing body of a city may employ one...

Section 101105. - 101105. The public health nurse shall attend to matters pertaining...

Section 101110. - 101110. The board of supervisors in each county may employ...

Section 101115. - 101115. The public health nurse shall attend to matters pertaining...

ARTICLE 4 - Dental Professionals

Section 101125. - 101125. The governing body of a city may employ one...

Section 101130. - 101130. The dentist or dental hygienist shall attend to dental...

Section 101135. - 101135. The board of supervisors in each county may employ...

Section 101140. - 101140. The dentist or dental hygienist shall attend to dental...

ARTICLE 5 - Municipal and County Laboratories

Section 101150. - 101150. For the purpose of protecting the community and the...

Section 101155. - 101155. The cost of establishment and maintenance of the public...

Section 101160. - 101160. (a) Any city or county public health laboratory established...

Section 101165. - 101165. Nothing in this article, or any other provision of...

CHAPTER 3 - State Aid for Local Health Administration

ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and General Policy

Section 101175. - 101175. The rapid increase in the population of the state...

Section 101180. - 101180. “Population,” for the purpose of this chapter, shall be...

Section 101185. - 101185. For the purposes of this chapter a “local health...

ARTICLE 2 - Qualification for Financial Assistance

Section 101200. - 101200. Local health departments qualifying for assistance as provided in...

ARTICLE 3 - State Aid

Section 101225. - 101225. Provisional approval may be given by the department to...

Section 101230. - 101230. From the appropriation made for the purposes of this...

Section 101235. - 101235. The department succeeds to and is vested with the...

Section 101240. - 101240. The department shall have possession and control of all...

Section 101245. - 101245. All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit...

Section 101250. - 101250. After determining the total amounts available to each area,...

Section 101255. - 101255. No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article...

Section 101260. - 101260. No funds appropriated for the purposes of this article...

Section 101265. - 101265. The basic and per capita allotments shall be paid...

ARTICLE 4 - Transfer of Environmental Health and Sanitation Services

Section 101275. - 101275. Notwithstanding Section 101260, a county board of supervisors may,...

Section 101280. - 101280. If a transfer authorized by Section 101275 is made:...

Section 101285. - 101285. (a) Notwithstanding Section 101260, the county board of supervisors...

ARTICLE 5 - Local Public Health Service Contract Options

Section 101300. - 101300. (a) (1) The board of supervisors of a county...

Section 101305. - 101305. Any counties that were eligible for organization and operation...

Section 101307. - 101307. (a) Counties contracting with the department pursuant to Section...

Section 101310. - 101310. In the event a health emergency is declared by...

ARTICLE 6 - Federal Funding for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Section 101315. - 101315. (a) Federal funding received by the State Department of...

Section 101315.2. - 101315.2. Of the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act...

Section 101317. - 101317. (a) For purposes of this article, allocations shall be...

Section 101317.2. - 101317.2. Notwithstanding any other law, moneys made available in the...

Section 101318. - 101318. (a) Federal funding received pursuant to the 2009 Supplemental...

Section 101319. - 101319. Due to the need to rapidly implement, and to...

ARTICLE 7 - Support for Vital Public Health Activities

Section 101320. - 101320. (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose,...

Section 101320.3. - 101320.3. (a) On or before February 1 of every other...

Section 101320.5. - 101320.5. (a) As a condition of the funding authorized pursuant...

CHAPTER 4 - Additional Administrative Provisions

ARTICLE 1 - Enforcement, Fees, Reimbursements, and Taxes

Section 101325. - 101325. Whenever the governing body of any city or county...

Section 101330. - 101330. On or before August of each year, the officer...

Section 101335. - 101335. The tax collector shall include the amounts of the...

Section 101340. - 101340. All laws applicable to the levy, collection, and enforcement...

Section 101345. - 101345. In those instances where direct assessment is not authorized...

Section 101350. - 101350. Any board of supervisors may levy a special tax...

ARTICLE 2 - County Health Administration for Cities

Section 101375. - 101375. When the governing body of a city in the...

Section 101380. - 101380. The resolution or ordinance shall be adopted and a...

ARTICLE 3 - Contracts for Local Health Administration

Section 101400. - 101400. The board of supervisors may contract with a city...

Section 101405. - 101405. Whenever a contract has been duly entered into, the...

Section 101410. - 101410. In the contract the city may provide, as specified...

Section 101415. - 101415. The board of supervisors may contract with the governing...

Section 101420. - 101420. Payment for the services specified in Section 101415 in...

Section 101425. - 101425. The board of supervisors or the governing body of...

ARTICLE 4 - City Health Ordinances, Boards, and Officers

Section 101450. - 101450. The governing body of a city shall take measures...

Section 101455. - 101455. This article does not prevent the appointment by the...

Section 101460. - 101460. Every governing body of a city shall appoint a...

Section 101465. - 101465. Immediately after the appointment of the city health officer...

Section 101470. - 101470. Each city health officer shall enforce and observe all...

Section 101475. - 101475. The city health officer may take any preventive measure...

ARTICLE 5 - Released Waste

Section 101480. - 101480. (a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions...

Section 101480. - 101480. (a) For purposes of this article, the following definitions...

Section 101483. - 101483. This article shall not apply to any of the...

Section 101483. - 101483. This article shall not apply to any of the...

Section 101485. - 101485. This article does not prohibit the department from assuming...

Section 101485. - 101485. This article does not prohibit the department from assuming...

Section 101487. - 101487. (a) A local officer shall provide written notification to...

Section 101490. - 101490. A local officer may charge the responsible party a...