California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Business and Area Plans

• Section 25500.
  (a) The Legislature declares that, in order to protect the public health and safety and the environment, it is necessary to establish business and area plans...
• Section 25501.
  Unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this article:(a) “Agricultural handler” means a business operating a farm that is subject to...
• Section 25502.
  (a) This article and Article 3 (commencing with Section 25545), as it pertains to the handling of hazardous material, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531),...
• Section 25503.
  (a) The office shall adopt, after public hearing and consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal and other appropriate public entities, regulations for minimum...
• Section 25504.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that persons attempting to do business in this state are increasingly experiencing excessive and duplicative regulatory requirements at different...
• Section 25505.
  (a) A business plan shall contain all of the following information:(1) The inventory of information required by this article and additional information the governing body of the...
• Section 25505.1.
  A business that is required to establish and implement a business plan pursuant to Section 25507 and is located on leased or rented real property...
• Section 25506.
  (a) The secretary, in coordination with the office, shall specify the hazardous materials inventory that shall be submitted by handlers and the data to be collected...
• Section 25507.
  (a) Except as provided in this article, a business shall establish and implement a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of...
• Section 25507.1.
  (a) A unified program agency shall exempt a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural...
• Section 25507.2.
  Except as specified in this section, unless required by a local ordinance, the unified program agency shall exempt a business from application of Sections 25506,...
• Section 25508.
  (a) (1) (A) A handler shall electronically submit its business plan annually to the statewide information management system in accordance with the requirements of this article and certify...
• Section 25508.1.
  Within 30 days of any one of the following events, a business subject to this article shall electronically update the information submitted to the statewide...
• Section 25508.2.
  On or before the annual due date established pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 25508, the business owner, business...
• Section 25509.
  (a) The unified program agency shall maintain its administrative procedures with regard to maintaining records and responding to requests for information in accordance with Subdivision 4...
• Section 25510.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the handler or an employee, authorized representative, agent, or designee of a handler, shall, upon discovery, immediately report any...
• Section 25510.1.
  (a) A business required to submit a followup emergency notice pursuant to Section 11004(c) of Title 42 of the United States Code shall submit the notice...
• Section 25510.2.
  In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, a unified program agency may train for, and respond to, the release, or threatened release,...
• Section 25510.3.
  The emergency response personnel, responding to the reported release or threatened release of a hazardous material, or of a regulated substance, as defined in Section...
• Section 25511.
  (a) In order to carry out the purposes of this article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531), an employee or authorized representative of a unified...
• Section 25512.
  (a) As used in this section, “trade secret” means a trade secret as defined in either subdivision (d) of Section 6254.7 of the Government Code or...
• Section 25512.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 25512, information certified by appropriate officials of the United States as necessary to be kept secret for national defense purposes shall be accorded...
• Section 25513.
  (a) Each administering county or city may, upon a majority vote of the governing body, adopt a schedule of fees to be collected from each business...
• Section 25514.
  Notwithstanding any other law, a public entity shall not be held liable for any injury or damages resulting from an inadequate or negligent review of...
• Section 25514.1.
  (a) The submission of any information required under this article does not affect any other liability or responsibility of a business with regard to safeguarding the...
• Section 25515.
  (a) A business that violates Sections 25504 to 25508.2, inclusive, or Section 25511, shall be civilly liable to the unified program agency in an amount of...
• Section 25515.1.
  A person that knowingly violates Sections 25504 to 25508.2, inclusive, or Section 25510.1, after reasonable notice of the violation, is, upon conviction, guilty of a...
• Section 25515.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 25515, a business that violates this article is liable to a unified program agency for an administrative penalty not greater than two thousand...
• Section 25515.3.
  (a) A person or business that violates Section 25510 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for...
• Section 25515.4.
  A person who willfully prevents, interferes with, or attempts to impede the enforcement of this article by any authorized representative of a unified program agency...
• Section 25515.5.
  (a) All criminal penalties collected pursuant to this article shall be apportioned in the following manner:(1) Fifty percent shall be paid to the office of the city...
• Section 25515.6.
  (a) If the unified program agency determines that a business has engaged in, is engaged in, or is about to engage in acts or practices that...
• Section 25515.7.
  Every civil action brought under this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531) shall be brought by the city attorney, district attorney, or Attorney...
• Section 25515.8.
  (a) In a civil action brought pursuant to this article or Article 2 (commencing with Section 25531) in which a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or...
• Section 25516.
  (a) A person who provides information that materially contributes to the imposition of a civil penalty, whether by settlement or court order, under Section 25515 or...
• Section 25517.
  The office may develop materials, including guidelines and informational pamphlets, to assist businesses to fulfill their obligations under this article.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2013,...
• Section 25518.
  This article shall be construed liberally so as to accomplish the intent of the Legislature in protecting the public health, safety, and the environment.(Repealed and...
• Section 25519.
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions...

Last modified: October 22, 2018