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Health & Saf. Code, § 78020 · Article 2. Effect of Recodification

Health & Saf. Code, § 78020

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) A judicial decision interpreting a previously existing provision is relevant in interpreting any provision of this part that restates and continues that previously existing provision.

(b) However, in enacting the Hazardous Substance Account Recodification Act, the Legislature has not evaluated the correctness of any judicial decision interpreting a provision affected by the act.

(c) The Hazardous Substance Account Recodification Act is not intended to, and does not, reflect any assessment of any judicial decision interpreting any provision affected by the act.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 257, Sec. 2. (AB 2293) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, pursuant to Sec. 4 of Stats. 2022, Ch. 257.

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&sectionNum=78020.
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