California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 1500.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Community Care Facilities Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1203.)
• Section 1501.
  (a)  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive statewide service system of quality community...
• Section 1501.1.
  (a) It is the policy of the state to facilitate the proper placement of every child in residential care facilities where the placement is in the...
• Section 1502.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Community care facility” means any facility, place, or building that is maintained and operated to provide nonmedical residential care, day treatment,...
• Section 1502.2.
  (a) Commencing January 1, 2018, the department shall license private alternative boarding schools, as defined in paragraph (19) of subdivision (a) of Section 1502, as a...
• Section 1502.21.
  (a) Commencing January 1, 2019, the department shall license private alternative outdoor programs, as defined in paragraph (20) of subdivision (a) of Section 1502, as a...
• Section 1502.3.
  For purposes of this chapter, a “community care facility,” pursuant to Section 1502, includes a transitional shelter care facility. A “transitional shelter care facility” means...
• Section 1502.35.
  (a) The department shall license a runaway and homeless youth shelter as a group home pursuant to this chapter. A runaway and homeless youth shelter shall...
• Section 1502.4.
  (a) A licensed short-term residential therapeutic program, as defined in paragraph (18) of subdivision (a) of Section 1502, may only accept for placement a child who...
• Section 1502.45.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 1502.4, a community care facility licensed as a group home for children pursuant to this chapter may only accept for placement, and provide...
• Section 1502.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 1502, residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined in Section 1569.2, shall not be considered community care facilities and shall be subject...
• Section 1502.6.
  The department shall deny a private adoption agency a license, or revoke an existing private adoption agency license, unless the applicant or licensee demonstrates that...
• Section 1502.7.
  (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the department, in consultation with representatives of the Legislature, the County Welfare Directors Association, the Chief Probation Officers of...
• Section 1502.8.
  The department shall adopt regulations consistent with paragraph (24) of subdivision (a) of Section 16001.9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch....
• Section 1503.
  As used in this chapter, “license” means a basic permit to operate a community care facility.A license shall not be transferable.(Repealed and added by Stats....
• Section 1503.2.
  Every facility licensed or certified pursuant to this chapter shall have one or more carbon monoxide detectors in the facility that meet the standards established...
• Section 1503.5.
  (a) A facility shall be deemed to be an “unlicensed community care facility” and “maintained and operated to provide nonmedical care” if it is unlicensed and...
• Section 1504.
  As used in this chapter, “special permit” means a permit issued by the state department authorizing a community care facility to offer specialized services as...
• Section 1504.5.
  (a)  (1)  This chapter does not apply to any independent living arrangement or supportive housing, described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), for individuals with...
• Section 1505.
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following:(a) Any health facility, as defined by Section 1250.(b) Any clinic, as defined by Section 1202.(c) Any juvenile placement...
• Section 1505.2.
  A licensing agency may authorize a foster family home to provide 24-hour care for up to eight foster children, for the purpose of placing siblings...
• Section 1505.5.
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations authorizing residential facilities, as defined in Section 1502, to fill unused capacity on a short-term, time-limited basis to provide temporary...
• Section 1506.
  (a) (1) A foster family agency may use only a certified family home or a resource family that has been certified or approved by that agency or,...
• Section 1506.1.
  (a) A foster family agency shall prepare and maintain a current, written plan of operation as required by the department.(b) (1) A foster family agency shall have national...
• Section 1506.3.
  A foster family agency shall employ one full-time social work supervisor for every eight social workers or fraction thereof in the agency.(Amended by Stats. 2016,...
• Section 1506.5.
  (a) Foster family agencies shall not use foster family homes licensed by a county or resource families approved by a county without the approval of the...
• Section 1506.6.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that public and private efforts to recruit foster parents not be competitive and that the total number of...
• Section 1506.7.
  (a) A foster family agency shall require the owner or operator of a family home applying for certification to sign an application that shall contain, but...
• Section 1506.8.
  (a) Before certifying a family home, a foster family agency shall contact any foster family agencies by whom an applicant has been previously certified and any...
• Section 1506.9.
  (a) No person shall incur civil liability as a result of providing the department with any of the following:(1) The foster family agency providing to the department...
• Section 1507.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, incidental medical services may be provided in a community care facility. If the medical services constitute a substantial component...
• Section 1507.1.
  (a)  An adult community care facility may permit incidental medical services to be provided through a home health agency licensed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing...
• Section 1507.15.
  Every community care facility that provides adult residential care or offers an adult day program shall, for the purpose of addressing issues that arise when...
• Section 1507.2.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a child with special health care needs, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 17710 of the Welfare...
• Section 1507.25.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a person described in paragraph (2), who is not a licensed health care professional, but who is trained to administer injections...
• Section 1507.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1566.45 or any other provision of law, a residential facility that provides care to adults may obtain a waiver from the department for...
• Section 1507.5.
  (a)  In-home medical care and home and community-based services, as described in subdivisions (t) and (u) of Section 14132 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,...
• Section 1507.6.
  (a) Mental health services, as deemed necessary by the placing agency, may be provided to children in a group home. Except for the physical safety and...
• Section 1508.
  No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation within the state and no state or local public agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a...
• Section 1509.
  The state department shall inspect and license community care facilities, except as otherwise provided in Section 1508. The state department shall inspect and issue a...
• Section 1509.5.
  (a)  The department and the licensing agencies with which it contracts for licensing shall review and make a final determination within 60 days of an...
• Section 1510.
  The state department may provide consulting services upon request to any community care facility to assist in the identification or correction of deficiencies and in...
• Section 1511.
  The state department may contract for state, county, or other public agencies to assume specified licensing, approval, or consultation responsibilities. In exercising the authority so...
• Section 1512.
  Each residential community care facility shall state, on its client information form or admission agreement, and on its patient’s rights form, the facility’s policy concerning...
• Section 1512.5.
  (a)  No residential facility may prohibit the formation of a family council, and, when requested by a member of the resident’s family or the resident’s...
• Section 1513.
  No license or special permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have any property value for sale or exchange purposes and no...
• Section 1514.
  (a)  Each residential care facility licensed under this chapter shall reveal its license number in all advertisements, publications, or announcements made with the intent to...
• Section 1515.
  (a) The department shall authorize county welfare departments to undertake comprehensive recruitment programs, including but not limited to media advertising, public awareness campaigns and public speaking...
• Section 1516.
  (a) A crisis nursery, as defined in paragraph (17) of subdivision (a) of Section 1502, shall be licensed by the department to operate a crisis residential...
• Section 1517.
  (a) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 16519.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the State Department of Social Services shall implement a unified, family friendly,...
• Section 1517.1.
  (a) (1) Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 16519.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the State Department of Social Services shall implement a unified, family friendly,...
• Section 1517.2.
  (a) The application form signed by a resource family applicant of a foster family agency shall be signed with a declaration by the applicant that the...
• Section 1517.3.
  (a) A person shall not incur civil liability as a result of providing the department with either of the following:(1) A foster family agency’s log of resource...
• Section 1517.4.
  (a) (1) A foster family agency shall place a resource family on inactive status upon notification by the resource family in accordance with this section and the...
• Section 1517.5.
  (a) A resource family currently approved by a foster family agency pursuant to this section or Section 1517 of the Welfare and Institutions Code may be...
• Section 1518.
  (a)  Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the imposition of rent regulations or controls for licensed community care facilities. (b)  Licensed community care facilities shall...

Last modified: October 22, 2018