Welf. & Inst. Code, § 4627 · Article 1. Regional Center Contracts
Welf. & Inst. Code, § 4627
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) The director of the department shall adopt and enforce conflict-of-interest regulations to ensure that members of the governing board, program policy committee, and employees of the regional center make decisions with respect to the regional centers that are in the best interests of the center’s consumers and families.
(b) The department shall monitor and ensure the regional centers’ compliance with this section and Sections 4626 and 4626.5. Failure to disclose information pursuant to these sections and related regulations may be considered grounds for removal from the board or for termination of employment.
(c) The department shall adopt regulations to develop standard conflict-of-interest reporting requirements.
(d) The department shall adopt emergency regulations to implement this section and Sections 4626 and 4626.5 by May 1, 2011. The adoption, amendment, repeal, or readoption of a regulation authorized by this section is deemed to be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, or general welfare, for purposes of Sections 11346.1 and 11349.9 of the Government Code, and the department is hereby exempted from that requirement. For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 11346.1 of the Government Code, the 120-day period, as applicable to the effective period of an emergency regulatory action and submission of specified materials to the Office of Administrative Law, is hereby extended to 180 days.
(e) The department shall adopt regulations to implement the terms of subdivision (d) through the regular rulemaking process pursuant to Sections 11346 and 11349.1 of the Government Code within 18 months of the adoption of emergency regulations pursuant to subdivision (d).
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History
Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 9, Sec. 6. (SB 74) Effective March 24, 2011.
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Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 11346Printed as Sections 11346 and 11349.1 of the Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 11346.1Printed as Section 11346.1 of the Government Code | Sections 11346.1 and 11349.9 of the Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 11349.1Printed as Sections 11346 and 11349.1 of the Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 11349.9Printed as Sections 11346.1 and 11349.9 of the Government Code
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