BILL NUMBER: AB 2285	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 17920 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2285, as introduced, Jones. Housing.
   Existing law requires every city, county, or city and county to
enforce the State Housing Law within its jurisdiction, and defines
terms for purposes of that law.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17920 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   17920.  As used in this part:
   (a) "Approved" means acceptable to the department.
   (b) "Building" means a structure subject to this part.
   (c) "Building standard" means building standard as defined in
Section 18909.
   (d) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community
Development.
   (e) "Enforcement" means diligent effort to secure compliance,
including review of plans and permit applications, response to
complaints, citation of violations, and other legal process. Except
as otherwise provided in this part, "enforcement" may, but need not,
include inspections of existing buildings on which no complaint or
permit application has been filed, and effort to secure compliance as
to these existing buildings.
   (f) "Fire protection district" means any special district, or any
other municipal or public corporation or district,  which
  that  is authorized by law to provide fire
protection and prevention services.
   (g) "Labeled" means equipment or materials to which  there
 has been attached a label, symbol, or other identifying mark of
an organization, approved by the department, that maintains a
periodic inspection program of production of labeled products,
installations, equipment, or materials and by whose labeling the
manufacturer indicates compliance with appropriate standards or
performance in a specified manner.
   (h) "Listed" means all products that appear in a list published by
an approved testing or listing agency.
   (i) "Listing agency" means an agency approved by the department
that is in the business of listing and labeling products, materials,
equipment, and installations tested by an approved testing agency,
and that maintains a periodic inspection program on current
production of listed products, equipment, and installations, and
that, at least annually, makes available a published report of these
listings.
   (j) "Noise insulation" means the protection of persons within
buildings from excessive noise, however generated, originating within
or without such buildings.
   (k) "Nuisance" means any nuisance defined pursuant to Part 3
(commencing with Section 3479) of Division 4 of the Civil Code, or
any other form of nuisance recognized at common law or in equity.
   (  l  )  "Public entity" has the same meaning as defined
in Section 811.2 of the Government Code.
   (m) "Testing agency" means an agency approved by the department as
qualified and equipped for testing of products, materials,
equipment, and installations in accordance with nationally recognized
standards.