California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 4 - Application and Scope

• Section 17950.
  The provisions of this part, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code, or the other rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the...
• Section 17951.
  (a) The governing body of any county or city, including a charter city, may prescribe fees for permits, certificates, or other forms or documents required or...
• Section 17951.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17951, each city, county, or city and county may waive or reduce all building permit fees for improvements to the home of a...
• Section 17952.
  (a)  In the event of nonenforcement of this part, or the building standards published in the California Building Standards Code, or the other rules and...
• Section 17953.
  Each city, county, and city and county shall enact an ordinance which requires a preliminary soil report, prepared by a civil engineer who is registered...
• Section 17954.
  If the preliminary soil report indicates the presence of critically expansive soils or other soil problems which, if not corrected, would lead to structural defects,...
• Section 17955.
  The building department of each city, county, or city and county, or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of...
• Section 17956.
  A city, county, or city and county or other enforcement agency charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this part, is not...
• Section 17957.
  The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact an ordinance prescribing an alternate procedure which is equal to or more...
• Section 17958.
  Except as provided in Sections 17958.8 and 17958.9, any city or county may make changes in the provisions adopted pursuant to Section 17922 and published...
• Section 17958.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 17922, 17958, and 17958.5, a city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance, permit efficiency units for occupancy by no more than...
• Section 17958.2.
  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 17958, regulations of the department adopted for limited-density owner-built rural dwellings, which are codified in Article 8 (commencing with Section 74) of...
• Section 17958.3.
  (a) All residential hotels, as defined by paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 50519, shall provide a locking mail receptacle for each residential unit, consistent...
• Section 17958.4.
  (a)  Any city, county, or city and county, may, by ordinance, establish a date by which all residential real property with security window bars on...
• Section 17958.5.
  Except as provided in Section 17922.6, in adopting the ordinances or regulations pursuant to Section 17958, a city or county may make those changes or...
• Section 17958.7.
  (a)  Except as provided in Section 17922.6, the governing body of a city or county, before making any modifications or changes pursuant to Section 17958.5,...
• Section 17958.8.
  Local ordinances or regulations governing alterations and repair of existing buildings shall permit the replacement, retention, and extension of original materials and the use of...
• Section 17958.9.
  Local ordinances or regulations governing the moving of apartment houses and dwellings shall, after July 1, 1978, permit the retention of existing materials and methods...
• Section 17958.11.
  (a)  Any city or county may adopt alternative building regulations for the conversion of commercial or industrial buildings, or portions thereof, to joint living and...
• Section 17959.
  (a)  No later than December 31, 2003, the department shall consider proposed universal design guidelines for home construction or home modifications which may be submitted...
• Section 17959.1.
  (a) A city or county shall administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit. However,...
• Section 17959.3.
  (a)  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the use of passive solar energy design. The Legislature recognizes that building code regulations with...
• Section 17959.4.
  The housing appeals board may, in cases of extreme hardship to owner-occupants or tenants of dwellings, provide for deferral of the effective date of orders...
• Section 17959.5.
  The housing appeals board may, upon appeal or upon application by the owner, grant variances from local use zone requirements in order to permit an...
• Section 17959.6.
  (a)  Ninety days after the Department of Housing and Community Development certifies and makes available a standard form pursuant to subdivision (h), but in no...

Last modified: October 22, 2018