California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2 - Administration

Section 1520.
Any person desiring issuance of a license for a community care facility or a special permit for specialized services under this chapter shall file with...
Section 1520.1.
In addition to Section 1520, applicants for a group home or short-term residential therapeutic program license shall meet the following requirements:(a) (1) During the first 12 months...
Section 1520.11.
(a) A corporation that applies for licensure with the department shall list the facilities that any member of the board of directors, an executive director,...
Section 1520.2.
(a) Every licensed community care facility, at the request of a majority of its residents, shall assist its residents in establishing and maintaining a resident-oriented...
Section 1520.3.
(a) (1) If an application for a license or special permit indicates, or the department determines during the application review process, that the applicant previously was issued...
Section 1520.5.
(a) The Legislature hereby declares it to be the policy of the state to prevent overconcentrations of residential facilities that impair the integrity of residential neighborhoods....
Section 1520.7.
(a) Every community care facility that is licensed or has a special permit for specialized services pursuant to Section 1525 shall provide a copy of the...
Section 1521.
Any person desiring a license for a community care facility under the provisions of this chapter which is required by other code provisions or rules...
Section 1521.5.
(a) The county welfare director shall, prior to the issuance of any foster family home license, ensure that the county licensing staff, or the placement...
Section 1521.6.
(a) The Legislature recognizes the importance of ensuring that prospective foster family homes meet specified health and safety requirements. Moreover, the Legislature acknowledges that there...
Section 1522.
The Legislature recognizes the need to generate timely and accurate positive fingerprint identification of applicants as a condition of issuing licenses, permits, or certificates of...
Section 1522.01.
(a) Any person required to be registered as a sex offender under Section 290 of the Penal Code shall disclose this fact to the licensee of...
Section 1522.02.
(a) The department may adopt regulations to create substitute employee registries for persons working at more than one facility licensed pursuant to this chapter, Chapter...
Section 1522.03.
The Department of Justice may charge a fee sufficient to cover its cost in providing services in accordance with Section 1522 to comply with the...
Section 1522.04.
(a) The Legislature recognizes the need to generate timely and accurate positive fingerprint identification of applicants as a condition of issuing licenses, permits, or certificates...
Section 1522.06.
(a) Individuals who are volunteer candidates for mentoring children in foster care settings, as defined by the department, in private alternative boarding schools, or in private...
Section 1522.07.
(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 1522, foster family agencies shall submit fingerprints of their certified foster parent applicants to the Department of Justice using...
Section 1522.08.
(a) In order to protect the health and safety of persons receiving care or services from individuals or facilities licensed by the state or from individuals...
Section 1522.09.
(a) The department shall, no later than July 1, 2017, develop a notice that does all of the following:(1) Contains the telephone number to make a complaint...
Section 1522.1.
(a) Prior to granting a license to, or otherwise approving, any individual to care for or reside with children, the department shall check the Child Abuse...
Section 1522.2.
If a local law enforcement agency, a probation officer, or a local department or agency that provides social services becomes aware that an employee of...
Section 1522.4.
(a) In addition to any other requirements of this chapter and except for foster family homes, small family homes, and certified family homes and resource families...
Section 1522.41.
(a) (1) The department, in consultation and collaboration with county placement officials, group home provider organizations, the Director of Health Care Services, and the Director of Developmental...
Section 1522.42.
(a) The department, in consultation and collaboration with county placement officials, provider organizations, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Developmental...
Section 1522.43.
(a) (1) For the duties the department imposes on a group home administrator or short-term residential therapeutic program administrator in this chapter and in regulations adopted by...
Section 1522.44.
(a) It is the policy of the state that caregivers of children in foster care possess knowledge and skills relating to the reasonable and prudent parent...
Section 1522.5.
The State Department of Social Services, in processing fingerprint clearances, shall give expeditious treatment to employees of, and applicants for employment with, community care facilities,...
Section 1523.1.
(a) (1) An application fee adjusted by facility and capacity shall be charged by the department for the issuance of a license. After initial licensure, a fee...
Section 1523.2.
(a) Beginning with the 1996–97 fiscal year, there is hereby created in the State Treasury the Technical Assistance Fund, from which money, upon appropriation by the...
Section 1523.5.
Transitional shelter care facilities, as defined in Section 1502.3, shall be exempt from the fees imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1523.1.(Amended by Stats....
Section 1524.
A license shall be forfeited by operation of law when one of the following occurs:(a) The licensee sells or otherwise transfers the facility or facility property,...
Section 1524.1.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 1524, in the event of a sale of a licensed community care facility, except foster family homes and small family homes, where...
Section 1524.5.
(a) In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, any community care facility providing residential care for six or fewer persons, except family homes...
Section 1524.6.
(a) In addition to any other requirement of this chapter, any group home or short-term residential therapeutic program, as defined by regulations of the department, providing...
Section 1524.7.
The State Department of Social Services shall provide to residential care facilities a form, which the residential care facility shall attach to each resident admission...
Section 1525.
Upon the filing of the application for issuance of a license or for a special permit and substantial compliance with the provisions of this chapter...
Section 1525.25.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for proper case management and orderly transition in placement when family home licensing or family...
Section 1525.3.
Prior to the issuance of any new license or special permit pursuant to this chapter, the applicant shall attend an orientation given by the department....
Section 1525.5.
(a) The department may issue provisional licenses to operate community care facilities for facilities that it determines are in substantial compliance with this chapter and...
Section 1526.
Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license or for a special permit, the state department shall notify the applicant in writing. Within...
Section 1526.5.
(a) Within 90 days after a facility accepts its first client for placement following the issuance of a license or special permit pursuant to Section 1525,...
Section 1526.75.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain quality resources for children needing placement away from their families. If, during a periodic inspection...
Section 1526.8.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department develop modified staffing levels and requirements for crisis nurseries, provided that the health, safety, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018