California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Definitions and General Provisions

• Section 129375.
  This chapter may be cited as the “California Hospital Survey and Construction Act.”(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1996.)
• Section 129380.
  As used in this chapter, the terms defined in this article have the meanings set forth in this article.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec....
• Section 129385.
  “The federal act” includes Public Law 725 of the 79th Congress, approved August 13, 1946, entitled the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, as amended by...
• Section 129390.
  “The Surgeon General” means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States, or the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education...
• Section 129395.
  “Hospital” includes hospitals for the chronically ill and impaired, public health centers, community mental health centers, facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, and general, tuberculosis,...
• Section 129400.
  “Public health center” means a publicly owned facility for the provision of public health services, including related facilities such as laboratories, clinics, provisions for bed...
• Section 129405.
  “Nonprofit hospital,” “nonprofit diagnostic or treatment center,” “nonprofit rehabilitation facility,” and “nonprofit nursing home” mean any hospital, diagnostic or treatment center, rehabilitation facility, and nursing...
• Section 129410.
  “Construction” includes construction of new buildings, expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings, and initial equipment of any buildings; including architects’ fees, but excluding the...
• Section 129415.
  This chapter shall not apply to any sanatorium or institution conducted by or for the adherents of any well recognized church or religious denomination for...
• Section 129420.
  “Diagnostic or treatment center” means a facility for the diagnosis or diagnosis and treatment of ambulatory patients (1) that is operated in connection with a...
• Section 129425.
  “Hospital for the chronically ill and impaired” shall not include any hospital primarily for the care and treatment of mentally ill or tuberculous patients.(Added by...
• Section 129430.
  “Rehabilitation facility” means a facility that is operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of disabled persons through an integrated program of...
• Section 129435.
  “Nursing home” means a facility for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospital care,...

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