California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - General Requirements and Administration

• Section 129750.
  The office shall observe the construction of, or addition to, any hospital building or the reconstruction or alteration of any hospital building, as it deems...
• Section 129760.
  The governing board of each hospital or other hospital governing authority, before adopting any plans for the hospital building, shall submit the plans to the...
• Section 129761.
  The office shall use, to the extent possible, information technology to facilitate the timely performance of its duties and responsibilities under this chapter.(Added by Stats....
• Section 129765.
  (a) Except as set forth in subdivision (b), the application for approval of the plans shall be accompanied by the plans, including full, complete, and accurate...
• Section 129770.
  (a)  The office shall pass upon and approve or reject all plans for the construction or the alteration of any hospital building, independently reviewing the...
• Section 129775.
  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), plans submitted pursuant to this chapter for work that affects structural elements shall contain an assessment of...
• Section 129780.
  The engineering investigation shall be correlated with the geologic evaluation made pursuant to Section 129775.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 9. Effective January 1,
• Section 129785.
  (a)  (1)  The office shall determine an application filing fee that will cover the costs of administering this chapter. For a hospital facility, as defined...
• Section 129787.
  (a) The payment of the filing fee described in Section 129785 may be postponed by the office if all of the following conditions are met:(1) The proposed...
• Section 129790.
  The office shall propose specific space, architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical standards for correctional treatment centers in cooperation with the Board of Corrections, the...
• Section 129795.
  All fees shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Hospital Building Fund, that is hereby created and continuously appropriated without regard...
• Section 129800.
  The director shall request the Department of Finance or the Auditor General to perform an audit of the uses of fees collected pursuant to Section...
• Section 129805.
  (a) All plans and specifications shall be prepared under the responsible charge of an architect or a structural engineer, or both. A structural engineer shall prepare...
• Section 129810.
  Before commencing any construction or alteration of any hospital building, the written approval of the necessary plans as to safety of design and construction, by...
• Section 129812.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the office may utilize an over-the-counter plan review process.(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 506, Sec. 4. Effective January 1,
• Section 129815.
  Any permit or authorization issued or provided pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 15374) of Part 6.7 of...
• Section 129820.
  No contract for the construction or alteration of any hospital building, made or executed on or after January 1, 1983, by the governing board or...
• Section 129825.
  (a)  The hospital governing board or authority shall provide for and require competent and adequate inspection during construction or alteration by an inspector satisfactory to...
• Section 129830.
  From time to time, as the work of construction or alteration progresses and whenever the office requires, the architect or structural engineer, or both, in...
• Section 129835.
  Upon written request to the office by the governing board or authority of any hospital, the office shall make, or cause to be made, an...
• Section 129840.
  Subsequent to the occurrence of any earthquake, the office may make, or cause to be made, studies of health facilities within the area involved.(Added by...
• Section 129850.
  Except as provided in Sections 18929 and 18930, the office shall from time to time make any regulations that it deems necessary, proper, or suitable...
• Section 129851.
  Written rules and regulations by the office to clarify the application of the California Building Standards Code pursuant to this chapter shall be made available...
• Section 129853.
  (a) The person or entity requesting a copy of construction documents maintained by the office shall bear the actual cost of producing the copy of those...
• Section 129855.
  The office may enter into any agreements and contracts with any qualified person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity, as determined by the office, when...
• Section 129856.
  (a) Contingent on an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the office shall establish a program for training fire and life safety officers. The goal of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018