California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Operations

• Section 116350.
  (a)  The department shall administer the provisions of this chapter and all other provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health....
• Section 116355.
  (a)  Once every five years the department shall submit to the Legislature a comprehensive Safe Drinking Water Plan for California. (b)  The Safe Drinking Water...
• Section 116360.
  (a) The department shall take all reasonable measures it determines necessary to reduce the risk to public health from waterborne illnesses in drinking water caused by...
• Section 116361.
  (a)  The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall place a priority on the development of a public health goal for arsenic in drinking water,...
• Section 116365.
  (a) The state board shall adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water that are based upon the criteria set forth in subdivision (b)...
• Section 116365.01.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, including Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2, and...
• Section 116365.02.
  (a) The department may adopt, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 11346.2 of the Government Code, any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the federal Safe...
• Section 116365.03.
  The state board may adopt as an emergency regulation, a regulation, except a regulation that establishes maximum contaminant levels for primary and secondary drinking water...
• Section 116365.2.
  (a) In conducting the periodic review and revision of public health goals pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 116365, the Office of Environmental...
• Section 116365.5.
  (a)  The Department of Health Services shall commence the process for adopting a primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium that complies with the criteria...
• Section 116366.
  (a)  No public water system, or its customers, shall be responsible for remediation or treatment costs associated with MTBE, or a product that contains MTBE,...
• Section 116367.5.
  The department shall establish a Research Advisory Committee, which shall consist of 11 members. The department shall provide for the support staff and meeting facility...
• Section 116370.
  On or before January 1, 1998, the department shall propose, hold a public hearing, and adopt a finding of the best available technology for each...
• Section 116375.
  The department shall adopt regulations it determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The regulations shall include, but not be...
• Section 116377.
  The department may adopt emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of...
• Section 116380.
  (a) The State Water Resources Control Board shall adopt regulations governing the use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized...
• Section 116385.
  Any person operating a public water system shall obtain and provide at that person’s expense an analysis of the water to the department, in the...
• Section 116390.
  (a)  No laboratory, other than a laboratory operated by the department, shall perform tests required pursuant to this chapter for any public water system without...
• Section 116395.
  (a)  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1)  The large water system testing program has discovered chemical contamination of the state’s drinking...
• Section 116400.
  If the department determines that a public water system is subject to potential contamination, the department may, by order, require the public water system to...
• Section 116405.
  (a)  In counties with a population not exceeding 500,000 persons as shown by the 1970 federal decennial census, any public water system supplying both domestic...
• Section 116407.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the state board shall adopt standards for backflow protection and cross-connection control.(b) The state board may implement subdivision (a) through...

Last modified: October 22, 2018