GENERAL PROVISIONS
General Provisions enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.
§§ 1–28 · 28 sections
- § 1 This act shall be known as the Health and Safety Code.
- § 2 The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall be…
- § 3 All persons who, at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code,…
- § 4 Any action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and any right accrued, is not affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken…
- § 5 Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these definitions, rules of construction, and general provisions shall govern the construction of this…
- § 6 Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
- § 7 Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer…
- § 8 Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required…
- § 9 Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions now or…
- § 10 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. Subdivision means a subdivision of the section in which that term…
- § 11 The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
- § 12 The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
- § 12.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
- § 13 The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
- § 14 “County” includes city and county.
- § 15 Unless expressly otherwise provided, any notice required to be given to any person by any provision of this code may be given by mailing notice, postage…
- § 16 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
- § 17 “Oath” includes affirmation.
- § 18 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a…
- § 19 “Person” means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.
- § 20 “State department” or “department” means State Department of Health Services. Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference to the former State Department of Health…
- § 21 “Director” means “State Director of Health Services.” Commencing July 1, 2007, any reference to the former State Director of Health Services regarding a…
- § 22 “Board” or “State Board of Public Health” means “State Department of Health Services,” with respect to regulatory functions heretofore performed by the State…
- § 23 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of Columbia and…
- § 24 If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such…
- § 25 Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such…
- § 27 For purposes of this code: (a) “Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act” means Sections 104730, 104830 to 104860, inclusive, 113150, 113155, Part 1…
- § 28 For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or “reclaimed water” has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section 13050 of…