California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Regulations

• Section 1530.
  The state department shall adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
• Section 1530.1.
  (a)  The department shall adopt regulations, in consultation with providers, consumers, and other interested parties, to combine adult day care and adult day support centers...
• Section 1530.3.
  The director shall report to the Legislature during the 2007–08 budget hearings on the progress of the department’s children’s residential regulation review workgroup. The report...
• Section 1530.5.
  (a) The department, in establishing regulations, including provisions for periodic inspections, under this chapter for foster family homes and certified family homes of foster family agencies,...
• Section 1530.6.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, persons licensed or approved pursuant to this chapter to provide residential foster care to a child either placed with them pursuant...
• Section 1530.7.
  (a) A licensed children’s residential facility shall maintain a smoke-free environment in the facility.(b) A person who is licensed, certified, or approved pursuant to this chapter to...
• Section 1530.8.
  (a) (1) The department shall adopt regulations for community care facilities licensed as group homes, and for temporary shelter care facilities as defined in subdivision (c), that...
• Section 1530.9.
  (a) The department shall, with the advice and assistance of the State Department of Health Care Services, counties, parent and children’s advocacy groups, and group home...
• Section 1530.91.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) any care provider that provides foster care for children pursuant to this chapter shall provide each schoolage child...
• Section 1531.
  The regulations for a license shall prescribe standards of safety and sanitation for the physical plant and standards for basic personal care, supervision, and services...
• Section 1531.1.
  (a) A residential facility licensed as an adult residential facility, group home, short-term residential therapeutic program, small family home, foster family home, or a family home...
• Section 1531.15.
  (a) A licensee of an adult residential facility, short-term residential therapeutic program, or group home for no more than six residents, except for the larger facilities...
• Section 1531.18.
  A prospective applicant for licensure shall be notified at the time of the initial request for information regarding application for licensure that, prior to obtaining...
• Section 1531.2.
  (a)  Upon the filing by the department of emergency regulations with the Secretary of State, an adult day program, as defined in Division 6 of...
• Section 1531.3.
  The State Fire Marshal shall establish separate fire and panic safety standards and criteria for the evaluation of each category of license described in subdivision...
• Section 1531.4.
  On and after January 1, 1999, no security window bars may be installed or maintained on any community care facility unless the security window bars...
• Section 1531.5.
  (a)  The State Department of Social Services shall not deny a license for a foster family home solely on the basis that the applicant is...
• Section 1532.
  The Committee on Community Care Facilities of the State Social Services Advisory Board shall advise the director regarding regulations, policy, and administrative practices pertaining to...
• Section 1533.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the State Department of Social Services may, upon presentation of...
• Section 1534.
  (a) (1) (A) Except for foster family homes, every licensed community care facility shall be subject to unannounced inspections by the department.(B) Foster family homes shall be subject to...
• Section 1534.1.
  (a) The department shall ensure that the licensee’s plan of correction is verifiable and measurable. The plan of correction shall specify what evidence is acceptable to...
• Section 1534.5.
  The state department shall provide the office, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 9701 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, with copies of inspection...
• Section 1535.
  (a)  On or before January 1, 1986, the state department shall publish a comprehensive consumer guideline brochure to assist persons in the evaluation and selection...
• Section 1536.
  (a) (1) At least annually, the department shall publish and make available to interested persons a list or lists covering all licensed community care facilities and the...
• Section 1536.1.
  (a) “Placement agency” means a county probation department, county welfare department, county social service department, county mental health department, county public guardian, general acute care hospital...
• Section 1536.2.
  (a) When a placement agency has placed a child with a foster family agency for subsequent placement in a certified family home or with a resource...
• Section 1536.3.
  A public agency social worker shall, in determining whether to refer an individual to an adult residential care facility, take into account the compatibility of...
• Section 1537.
  The director shall have the authority to contract for personal services as required in order to perform inspections of, or consultation with, community care facilities.(Added...
• Section 1538.
  (a) Any person may request an inspection of any community care facility, or certified family home or resource family of a foster family agency, in accordance...
• Section 1538.2.
  The director shall establish an automated license information system on licensees and former licensees of licensed community care facilities. The system shall maintain a record...
• Section 1538.3.
  A county may develop a cooperative agreement with the department to access disclosable, public record information from an automated system, other than the system described...
• Section 1538.5.
  (a) (1) Not less than 30 days prior to the anniversary of the effective date of a residential community care facility license, except licensed foster family homes,...
• Section 1538.55.
  (a) The licensee of an Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN), licensed pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 1567.50), shall...
• Section 1538.6.
  (a) When the department periodically reviews the record of substantiated complaints against each group home or short-term residential therapeutic program, pursuant to its oversight role as...
• Section 1538.7.
  (a) A group home, transitional housing placement provider, community treatment facility, runaway and homeless youth shelter, temporary shelter care facility, transitional shelter care facility, or short-term...
• Section 1538.8.
  (a) (1) In order to review and evaluate the use of psychotropic medications in group homes and short-term residential therapeutic programs, the department shall compile, to the...
• Section 1538.9.
  (a) (1) (A) The department shall consult with the State Department of Health Care Services and stakeholders to establish a methodology for identifying those group homes providing care...
• Section 1539.
  No licensee, or officer or employee of the licensee, shall discriminate or retaliate in any manner, including, but not limited to, eviction or threat of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018