Health & Saf. Code, § 1651 · Article 1. General Provisions
Health & Saf. Code, § 1651
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The State Department of Health Services shall administer the provisions of this chapter.
Every provision of this chapter shall be liberally construed to protect the interests of all persons and animals affected.
As used in this chapter, “person” includes: laboratory, firm, association, corporation, copartnership, and educational institution.
As used in this chapter, “board” or “department” means the State Department of Health Services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=1651.
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- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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