ARTICLE 1. Business and Area Plans

Article 1 repealed and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 419, Sec. 3.

§§ 25500–25519 · 40 sections

§ 25500 (a) The Legislature declares that, in order to protect the public health and safety and the environment, it is necessary to establish business and area plans…
§ 25501 Unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) “Agricultural handler” means a business…
§ 25502 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, this article and Article 3 (commencing with Section 25545), as it pertains to the handling of hazardous material, and…
§ 25503 (a) The secretary shall adopt, after public hearing and consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal and other appropriate public entities,…
§ 25504 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that persons attempting to do business in this state are increasingly experiencing excessive and duplicative…
§ 25505 (a) A business plan shall contain all of the following information: (1) The inventory of information required by this article and additional information the…
§ 25505.1 A business that is required to establish and implement a business plan pursuant to Section 25507 and is located on leased or rented real property shall notify,…
§ 25506 (a) The secretary, in coordination with the Office of Emergency Services, shall specify the hazardous materials inventory that shall be submitted by handlers…
§ 25507 (a) Except as provided in this article, a business shall establish and implement a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of a…
§ 25507.1 (a) A unified program agency shall exempt a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting any agricultural or…
§ 25507.2 Except as specified in this section, unless required by a local ordinance, the unified program agency shall exempt a business from application of Sections…
§ 25507.5 (a) A supplier of hazardous materials that are listed by the United States Department of Transportation and that are classified in two or more federal hazard…
§ 25508 (a) (1) A handler shall electronically submit its business plan to the statewide information management system in accordance with the requirements of this…
§ 25508.1 Within 30 days of any one of the following events, a business subject to this article shall electronically update the information submitted to the statewide…
§ 25508.2 On or before the due date established pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 25508, the business owner, business operator, or officially…
§ 25508.3 Except for a household hazardous waste collection facility, as defined in Section 25218.1, a handler subject to the requirements of this chapter, if directed…
§ 25509 (a) The unified program agency shall maintain its administrative procedures with regard to maintaining records and responding to requests for information in…
§ 25510 (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a hazardous material, hazardous waste, or hazardous substance release or threatened release shall be reported by…
§ 25510.1 (a) A business required to submit a followup emergency notice pursuant to Section 11004(c) of Title 42 of the United States Code shall submit the notice on a…
§ 25510.2 In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, a unified program agency may train for, and respond to, the release, or threatened release, of a hazardous…
§ 25510.3 The emergency response personnel, responding to the reported release or threatened release of a hazardous material, or of a regulated substance, as defined in…
§ 25511 (a) In order to carry out the purposes of this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531), an employee or authorized representative of a unified…
§ 25512 (a) As used in this section, “trade secret” means a trade secret as defined in either subdivision (f) of Section 7924.510 of the Government Code or Section…
§ 25512.1 Notwithstanding Section 25512, information certified by appropriate officials of the United States as necessary to be kept secret for national defense purposes…
§ 25513 (a) Each administering county or city may, upon a majority vote of the governing body, adopt a schedule of fees to be collected from each business required to…
§ 25514 Notwithstanding any other law, a public entity shall not be held liable for any injury or damages resulting from an inadequate or negligent review of a…
§ 25514.1 (a) The submission of any information required under this article does not affect any other liability or responsibility of a business with regard to…
§ 25515 (a) A business that violates Sections 25504 to 25508.2, inclusive, or Section 25511, shall be civilly liable to the unified program agency in an amount of not…
§ 25515.1 A person that knowingly violates Sections 25504 to 25508.2, inclusive, or Section 25510.1, after reasonable notice of the violation, is, upon conviction,…
§ 25515.2 (a) Notwithstanding Section 25515, a business that violates this article is liable to a unified program agency for an administrative penalty not greater than…
§ 25515.3 (a) A person or business that violates Section 25510 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for…
§ 25515.4 A person who willfully prevents, interferes with, or attempts to impede the enforcement of this article by any authorized representative of a unified program…
§ 25515.5 (a) All criminal penalties collected pursuant to this article shall be apportioned in the following manner: (1) Fifty percent shall be paid to the office of…
§ 25515.6 (a) (1) If the unified program agency determines that a business has engaged in, is engaged in, or is about to engage in acts or practices that constitute or…
§ 25515.7 Every civil action brought under this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531) shall be brought by the city attorney, county counsel, district…
§ 25515.8 (a) In a civil action brought pursuant to this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531) in which a temporary restraining order, preliminary…
§ 25516 (a) A person who provides information that materially contributes to the imposition of a civil penalty, whether by settlement or court order, under Section…
§ 25517 The secretary may develop materials, including guidelines and informational pamphlets, to assist businesses to fulfill their obligations under this article.
§ 25518 This article shall be construed liberally so as to accomplish the intent of the Legislature in protecting the public health, safety, and the environment.
§ 25519 If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions…