California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 4 - Earthquake Hazardous Building Reconstruction
- Section 19160.
The Legislature finds and declares that:(a) Because of the generally acknowledged fact that California will experience moderate to severe earthquakes in the foreseeable future, increased efforts...
- Section 19161.
(a) Each city, city and county, or county, may assess the earthquake hazard in its jurisdiction and identify buildings subject to its jurisdiction as being potentially...
- Section 19162.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19100 or 19150 or any other provision of law, the governing body of any city, city and county, or county...
- Section 19163.
Any local ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 19162 shall require the following:(a) Any seismic retrofit of any building identified pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a)...
- Section 19163.5.
Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 129675) of Part 7 of Division 107, an ordinance adopted by a city, city and...
- Section 19164.
Any city, city and county, or county may assign allowable working stresses to existing materials based on substantiating research data or engineering judgment. Such allowable...
- Section 19165.
Any city, city and county, or county adopting an ordinance establishing building seismic retrofit standards for seismically hazardous buildings shall file for informational purposes with...
- Section 19166.
Any building identified as being a seismic hazard to life and retrofitted in compliance with building seismic retrofit standards adopted pursuant to this article and...
- Section 19167.
No city, city and county, or county, nor any employee of any such entity, shall be liable for damages for injury to persons or property,...
- Section 19168.
Nothing in this article shall apply to those buildings and structures governed by the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 15000) of Division 12.5...
Last modified: October 22, 2018