ARTICLE 1. Organization
Article 1 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.
§§ 10550–10560 · 20 sections
- § 10550 There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Social Services.
- § 10551 The department consists of the director, the State Social Services Advisory Board, and such divisions or other administrative units as the director may find…
- § 10552 With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at his pleasure, an executive officer who shall be director of the department. The…
- § 10553 The director shall: (a) Be responsible for the management of the department. (b) Administer the laws pertaining to the administration of public social…
- § 10553.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall, upon an Indian tribe’s request, enter into an agreement, in accordance with Section 16000.6, and not…
- § 10553.12 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a federally recognized tribe is authorized, but not required, to license or approve a home for the purpose of foster or…
- § 10553.13 (a) (1) The Tribally Approved Homes Compensation Program is hereby established to provide funding, as described in this section, to eligible Indian tribes to…
- § 10553.14 (a) The Tribal Dependency Representation Program is hereby established to provide funding to assist any federally recognized Indian tribe located in…
- § 10553.15 (a) The CalWORKs Indian Health Clinic Program is established to provide funding to Indian health clinics to provide substance abuse and mental health treatment…
- § 10553.16 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) American Indian and Alaska Native children continue to be overrepresented in the California…
- § 10553.2 Child welfare services allocation methodologies for agreements entered into pursuant to Section 10553.1 shall be developed in consultation with the State…
- § 10553.25 (a) The department shall make an annual allocation of funds appropriated for the purpose of this subdivision to all eligible federally recognized American…
- § 10554 The department shall adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the…
- § 10555 Subject to the State Civil Service Act, the director shall appoint such assistants and other employees as are necessary for the administration of the affairs…
- § 10555.5 (a) The criminal history check required by this section is limited to a State Department of Social Services employee, prospective employee, contractor,…
- § 10556 The chief administrative law judge of the department shall be an attorney, and shall otherwise meet such qualifications as may be prescribed by the State…
- § 10557 No person while holding the office of director shall be a trustee, manager, director, or other officer or employee of any agency performing any function…
- § 10558 Except as otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of Part 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, as the same…
- § 10559 (a) There are in the department a division or office devoted to carrying out the provisions of this division pertaining to the services to the blind and…
- § 10560 The department and each county department shall, to the extent feasible, train recipients of public assistance and potential recipients for private employment…