California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Administration

• Section 1440.
  As used in this chapter the term “board” means the board of supervisors of a county.(Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1993.)
• Section 1441.
  The board of supervisors in each county may establish and maintain a county hospital, prescribe rules for the government and management thereof, appoint a county...
• Section 1441.5.
  (a)  A member of a county hospital’s medical or allied health professional staff who is an officer of the board of supervisors, or of a...
• Section 1442.5.
  (a)  Prior to (1) closing , (2) eliminating or reducing the level of medical services provided by, or (3) the leasing, selling, or transfer of...
• Section 1443.
  The board may provide for transporting the needy sick to and from hospitals to which they may be sent by authority of the board, and...
• Section 1444.
  The board of supervisors in each county or city and county, having a population of one million or more, may purchase ambulances, establish and maintain...
• Section 1444.6.
  If a county hospital requests an ambulance to transfer a mental health patient who is unstable and has a history of being assaultive to another...
• Section 1445.
  Under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, and in addition to jurisdiction and powers otherwise conferred, the boards of supervisors in each...
• Section 1446.
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person, in order to be eligible for care, shall be a resident of the state and county...
• Section 1447.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the county which is responsible for the payment of public assistance to any person or...
• Section 1451.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the board shall not let the care, maintenance, or attendance of the indigent sick or dependent poor by...
• Section 1451.5.
  The board may authorize payment for care provided, on or after January 1, 1962, to an indigent resident of the county in a hospital or...
• Section 1452.
  The board of supervisors of counties of the 20th class and 40th to 58th class, inclusive, in connection with the administration of a county hospital...
• Section 1453.
  The board of supervisors of any county in connection with the administration of any county hospital may establish in the county treasury a special fund...
• Section 1454.
  In any county where a county hospital has been established, any expectant mother who is unable to pay for her necessary care shall be admitted...
• Section 1455.
  The board shall appoint a suitable graduate, or graduates, in medicine to attend such indigent sick or dependent poor in the county hospitals and almshouses.(Added...
• Section 1456.
  (a)  In the interest of public health and safety the board of supervisors of any county which maintains a county hospital may by ordinance establish...
• Section 1457.
  (a)  The State Department of Health Services, with the advice of the State Department of Social Services, shall prescribe the records to be kept by...
• Section 1458.
  The board may provide a farm in connection with the county hospital or almshouse and may make regulations for working the same.(Added by Stats. 1965,...
• Section 1459.
  No county hospital which permits sterilization operations for contraceptive purposes to be performed therein, nor the medical staff of such hospital, shall require the individual...
• Section 1460.
  (a)  Upon a determination and establishment of the need to recruit and retain registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, X-ray technicians, laboratory technologists, and other health...
• Section 1461.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the board of directors of any hospital subject to this chapter may order that any hearings on the reports...
• Section 1462.
  (a)  Except as provided in this section or Section 1461, all of the sessions of the board of directors of any hospital subject to this...

Last modified: October 22, 2018