CHAPTER 2. General Powers of the Department
Chapter 2 added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 241, Sec. 34.
§§ 131050–131250 · 36 sections
ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 131050–131135 · 27 sections
- § 131050 (a) As set forth in this article, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions,…
- § 131051 The duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities transferred to the State Department of Public Health shall, pursuant to the act that added…
- § 131052 In implementing the transfer of jurisdiction pursuant to this article, the State Department of Public Health succeeds to and is vested with all the statutory…
- § 131052.5 Commencing July 1, 2022, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, an office within the Governor’s Office of Service and Community…
- § 131053 In the event of any conflict between Sections 131050, 131051, and 131052, Section 131052 shall prevail over Section 131051, and Section 131050 shall prevail…
- § 131055 (a) All regulations and orders adopted by the former State Department of Health Services and any of its predecessors in effect immediately preceding the…
- § 131055.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 131050, commencing on July 1, 2012, the State Department of Health Care Services shall succeed to and be vested with all the…
- § 131055.2 (a) Commencing July 1, 2013, the State Department of Public Health shall succeed to and be vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, functions,…
- § 131056 The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings for any or all of the following purposes: (a) To enforce its…
- § 131057 With the approval of the Department of Finance, and for use in the furtherance of the work of the department, the director may accept (a) grants of interest in…
- § 131057.5 (a) The State Department of Public Health shall investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities regarding promoting healthy eating and preventing…
- § 131058 The State Department of Public Health may investigate, apply for, and enter into agreements to secure federal or nongovernmental funding opportunities for the…
- § 131071 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the department is authorized or required by statute, regulation, the due process provisions of the 14th…
- § 131075 The department may enjoin and abate public nuisances.
- § 131080 The department may advise all local health authorities, and, when in its judgment the public health is menaced, it shall control and regulate their action.
- § 131082 Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the laws of this state relating to the preservation of the public health, who willfully neglects or…
- § 131085 (a) The department may perform any of the following activities relating to the protection, preservation, and advancement of public health: (1) Studies. (2)…
- § 131088 (a) The department, in the licensing and certification of health professions in accordance with this chapter, shall not prohibit earn and learn programs for…
- § 131090 The department may provide for consultant and advisory services and for the training of technical and professional personnel in educational institutions and…
- § 131095 The department shall cause special investigation of the preparation and sale of drugs and food and their adulteration.
- § 131100 The department shall perform duties as required by law for the detection and prevention of the adulteration of articles used for food and drink, and for the…
- § 131105 The department shall examine and may prevent the pollution of sources of public domestic water and ice supply.
- § 131110 (a) The department shall maintain a program of Environmental Management. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.
- § 131115 The department may maintain a mental health service that shall advise and assist local departments of health and education in the establishment of mental…
- § 131125 The department shall enforce Section 383b of the Penal Code.
- § 131130 (a) Any person who willfully sells, keeps for sale, or offers for sale any food, drug, device, or cosmetic knowing, after a written notice from either (1) a…
- § 131135 Whenever any person violates any provision of Section 131130, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the defendant to pay, in lieu of any fine, any…
ARTICLE 2. Regulatory Authorization and Review §§ 131200–131225 · 6 sections
- § 131200 The department may adopt and enforce regulations for the execution of its duties.
- § 131205 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall submit all of its regulations on matters related to statutory responsibilities delegated to or…
- § 131210 The department, after consultation with and approval by the Conference of Local Health Officers, shall by regulation establish standards of education and…
- § 131215 (a) When a dispute arises as to the interpretation or enforcement of regulations of the department that are being enforced by a city, county, city and county,…
- § 131220 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but to the extent consistent with applicable federal law or regulation, the director may, after a request by a…
- § 131225 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department by regulation may provide for the issuance and renewal on a two-year basis of licenses,…
ARTICLE 3. Electronic Violent Death Reporting System §§ 131230–131231 · 2 sections
- § 131230 (a) To the extent that funding is appropriated by the Legislature or available through private funds in each fiscal year, the department shall establish and…
- § 131231 For purposes of this article, “violent death” means a death resulting from the use of physical force or power against oneself, another person, or a group or…
ARTICLE 4. Latino and Indigenous Disparities Reduction Act. § 131250 · 1 section
- § 131250 (a) On or after January 1, 2028, the State Department of Public Health, whenever collecting demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of California…