California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 7 - Offenses and Penalties

• Section 1793.5.
  (a)  An entity that accepts deposits and proposes to promise to provide care without having a current and valid permit to accept deposits is guilty...
• Section 1793.6.
  (a)  The department may issue citations pursuant to this section containing orders of abatement and assessing civil penalties against any entity that violates Section 1771.2...
• Section 1793.7.
  A permit to accept deposits, a provisional certificate of authority, or a certificate of authority shall be forfeited by operation of law when any one...
• Section 1793.8.
  A Certificate of Authority shall be automatically inactivated when a provider voluntarily ceases to enter into continuing care contracts with new residents. The provider shall...
• Section 1793.9.
  (a)  In the event of receivership or liquidation, all claims made against a provider based on the provider’s continuing care contracts shall be preferred claims...
• Section 1793.11.
  (a)  Any transfer of money or property, pursuant to a continuing care contract found by the department to be executed in violation of this chapter,...
• Section 1793.13.
  (a) The department may require a provider to submit a financial plan, if either of the following applies:(1) A provider fails to file a complete annual report...
• Section 1793.15.
  (a)  When necessary to secure an applicant’s or a provider’s performance of its obligations to depositors or residents, the department may record a notice or...
• Section 1793.17.
  (a)  When necessary to secure the interests of depositors or residents, the department may require that the applicant or provider reestablish an escrow account, return...
• Section 1793.19.
  The civil, criminal, and administrative remedies available to the department pursuant to this article are not exclusive and may be sought and employed by the...
• Section 1793.21.
  The department, in its discretion, may condition, suspend, or revoke any permit to accept deposits, provisional certificate of authority, or certificate of authority issued under...
• Section 1793.23.
  (a) If the department conditions, suspends, or revokes any permit to accept deposits, provisional certificate of authority, or certificate of authority issued pursuant to this chapter,...
• Section 1793.25.
  (a)  During the period that the revocation or suspension action is pending against the permit to accept deposits, provisional certificate of authority, or certificate of...
• Section 1793.27.
  (a)  If the department finds that any entity has violated Section 1793.5 or one or more grounds exist for conditioning, revoking, or suspending a permit...
• Section 1793.29.
  In the case of any violation or threatened violation of this chapter, the department may institute a proceeding or may request the Attorney General to...
• Section 1793.31.
  (a)  The district attorney of every county may, upon application by the department or its authorized representative, institute and conduct the prosecution of any action...

Last modified: October 22, 2018