§ 1500 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California …
§ 1501 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an …
§ 1501.1 (a) It is the policy of the state to facilitate the proper …
§ 1502 As used in this chapter:(a) “Community care facility” means any …
§ 1502.2 (a) Commencing January 1, 2018, the department shall license …
§ 1502.21 (a) Commencing January 1, 2019, the department shall license …
§ 1502.3 For purposes of this chapter, a “community care facility,” pursuant …
§ 1502.35 (a) The department shall license a youth homelessness prevention …
§ 1502.4 (a) A licensed short-term residential therapeutic program, as …
§ 1502.45 (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 1502.4, a community care …
§ 1502.5 Notwithstanding Section 1502, residential care facilities for the …
§ 1502.6 The department shall deny a private adoption agency a license, or …
§ 1502.7 (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the department, in consultation …
§ 1502.8 The department shall adopt regulations consistent with paragraph (24) …
§ 1503 As used in this chapter, “license” means a basic permit to operate a …
§ 1503.1 (a) An adoption agency is subject to licensure and regulation by …
§ 1503.2 Every facility licensed or certified pursuant to this chapter shall …
§ 1503.5 (a) A facility shall be deemed to be an “unlicensed community …
§ 1504 As used in this chapter, “special permit” means a permit issued by …
§ 1504.5 (a) (1) This chapter does not apply to any independent …
§ 1505 This chapter does not apply to any of the following:(a) A health …
§ 1505.5 (a) The director shall adopt regulations authorizing residential …
§ 1506 (a) (1) A foster family agency may use only a certified …
§ 1506.1 (a) A foster family agency shall prepare and maintain a current, …
§ 1506.3 (a) A foster family agency shall employ one full-time social …
§ 1506.5 (a) Foster family agencies shall not use foster family homes …
§ 1506.6 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that public and private …
§ 1506.7 (a) A foster family agency shall require the owner or operator …
§ 1506.8 (a) Before certifying a family home, a foster family agency …
§ 1506.9 (a) No person shall incur civil liability as a result of …
§ 1507 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, incidental …
§ 1507.1 (a) An adult community care facility may permit incidental …
§ 1507.15 Every community care facility that provides adult residential care or …
§ 1507.2 Notwithstanding this chapter, a child with special health care needs, …
§ 1507.25 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a person described …
§ 1507.3 (a) Notwithstanding Section 1566.45 or any other provision of …
§ 1507.35 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a group home for children …
§ 1507.4 (a) Beginning May 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the …
§ 1507.5 (a) In-home medical care and home and community-based services, …
§ 1507.6 (a) Mental health services, as deemed necessary by the placing …
§ 1508 No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation within the …
§ 1509 The state department shall inspect and license community care …
§ 1509.5 (a) The department and the licensing agencies with which it …
§ 1509.56 An applicant or licensee of an adult community care facility shall …
§ 1509.6 An applicant or licensee of an adult community care facility shall …
§ 1510 The state department may provide consulting services upon request to …
§ 1511 The state department may contract for state, county, or other public …
§ 1512 Each residential community care facility shall state, on its client …
§ 1512.5 (a) No residential facility may prohibit the formation of a …
§ 1513 No license or special permit issued pursuant to the provisions of …
§ 1514 (a) Each residential care facility licensed under this chapter …
§ 1515 (a) The department shall authorize county welfare departments to …
§ 1516 (a) A crisis nursery, as defined in paragraph (17) of …
§ 1517 (a) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 16519.5 of …
§ 1517.1 (a) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 16519.5 of …
§ 1517.2 (a) The application form signed by a resource family applicant …
§ 1517.3 (a) A person shall not incur civil liability as a result of …
§ 1517.4 (a) (1) A foster family agency shall place a resource …
§ 1517.5 (a) A resource family currently approved by a foster family …
§ 1518 (a) Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the imposition of …

Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 2 > Chapter 3 > Article 1 - General Provisions

  • Adult day program: means any community-based facility or program that provides care to persons 18 years of age or older in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of these individuals on less than a 24-hour basis. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • certified family home: means an individual or family certified by a licensed foster family agency and issued a certificate of approval by that agency as meeting licensing standards, and used exclusively by that foster family agency for placements. See California Health and Safety Code 1506
  • Changes: as used in this chapter shall include corrections, alterations, modifications, additions, omissions, increases or decreases. See California Public Contract Code 20446
  • Community care facility: means any facility, place, or building that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment, adult daycare, or foster family agency services for children, adults, or children and adults, including, but not limited to, the physically handicapped, mentally impaired, incompetent persons, and abused or neglected children, and includes the following:

    California Health and Safety Code 1502

  • Community crisis home: means a facility certified by the State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 4698) of Chapter 6 of Division 4. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
  • Crisis nursery: means a facility licensed by the department to operate a program pursuant to Section 1516 to provide short-term care and supervision for children under six years of age who are voluntarily placed for temporary care by a parent or legal guardian due to a family crisis or stressful situation. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Director: means the Director of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Enhanced behavioral supports home: means a facility certified by the State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Article 3. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Foster family agency: means any public agency or private organization, organized and operated on a nonprofit basis, engaged in any of the following:

    California Health and Safety Code 1502

  • Foster family home: means any residential facility providing 24-hour care for six or fewer foster children that is owned, leased, or rented and is the residence of the foster parent or parents, including their family, in whose care the foster children have been placed. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Full-service adoption agency: means any licensed entity engaged in the business of providing adoption services, that does all of the following:

    California Health and Safety Code 1502

  • Group home: means a residential facility that provides 24-hour care and supervision to children, delivered at least in part by staff employed by the licensee in a structured environment. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Group home for children with special health care needs: means a group home certified by the State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Article 3. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • license: means a basic permit to operate a community care facility. See California Health and Safety Code 1503
  • local public agency: means a city, county, special district, school district, community college district, chartered city, or chartered city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 1508
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Noncustodial adoption agency: means any licensed entity engaged in the business of providing adoption services, that does all of the following:

    California Health and Safety Code 1502

  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
  • Plans and specifications: means the unit price catalog and the job order contract technical specifications. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
  • Private alternative boarding school: means a group home licensed by the department to operate a program pursuant to Section 1502. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Private alternative outdoor program: means a group home licensed by the department to operate a program pursuant to Section 1502. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Proposal: means the job order contractor prepared document quoting those construction tasks listed in the unit price catalog that the job order contractor requires to complete the project scope of work, together with the appropriate quantities of each task. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Residential facility: means any family home, group care facility, or similar facility determined by the department, for 24-hour nonmedical care of persons in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Short-term residential therapeutic program: means a residential facility operated by a public agency or private organization and licensed by the department pursuant to Section 1562. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Small family home: means any residential facility, in the licensee's family residence, that provides 24-hour care for six or fewer foster children who have mental disorders or developmental or physical disabilities and who require special care and supervision as a result of their disabilities. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • social work personnel: means supervising social workers and nonsupervisory social workers. See California Health and Safety Code 1506
  • special permit: means a permit issued by the state department authorizing a community care facility to offer specialized services as designated by the director in regulations. See California Health and Safety Code 1504
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
  • state department: means the State Department of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Transitional housing placement provider: means an organization licensed by the department pursuant to Section 1559. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Transitional shelter care facility: means any group care facility that provides for 24-hour nonmedical care of persons in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual. See California Health and Safety Code 1502
  • Youth homelessness prevention center: means a group home licensed by the department to operate a program pursuant to Section 1502. See California Health and Safety Code 1502