Cal. HSC § 2855
This is the official text of Cal. HSC § 2855, part of California’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health, hospitals, controlled substances, and environmental health standards.
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Official statutory text
The district board may do all of the following:
(a) Purchase supplies and other personal property.
(b) Employ necessary labor.
(c) Acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, in the name of the district, any lands, rights-of-way, easements, or other real property necessary for the district.
(d) Sell or lease any lands, rights-of-way, easements, material, or other property, real or personal, acquired by the district.
(e) Make contracts to indemnify or compensate any owner of land or other property for any injury or damage caused by the exercise of the powers conferred by this chapter or of powers incident to those powers.
(f) Sue and be sued.
(g) Enter upon, without hindrance or notice, any property, either within the district or so reasonably adjacent that pests may disperse into the district, for any of the following purposes:
(1) To inspect to ascertain the presence of pests or their breeding places.
(2) To abate public nuisances in accordance with this article through direct control or through notice to the property owner to abate the public nuisance.
(3) To ascertain if a notice to abate a public nuisance has been complied with.
(4) To treat the property with any physical, chemical, or biological control measures deemed appropriate by the district board.
(h) Assess civil penalties, as determined in the discretion of the district board, but not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per day for each day that a notice or hearing order to abate a nuisance has not been complied with.
(i) Exercise the powers authorized by Section 2270 if the pests the district is empowered to control fall within the meaning of “vector,” as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 2200.
(j) Do everything necessary to carry out the powers conferred by this chapter and carry out the objects of the formation of the district.
(a) Purchase supplies and other personal property.
(b) Employ necessary labor.
(c) Acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, in the name of the district, any lands, rights-of-way, easements, or other real property necessary for the district.
(d) Sell or lease any lands, rights-of-way, easements, material, or other property, real or personal, acquired by the district.
(e) Make contracts to indemnify or compensate any owner of land or other property for any injury or damage caused by the exercise of the powers conferred by this chapter or of powers incident to those powers.
(f) Sue and be sued.
(g) Enter upon, without hindrance or notice, any property, either within the district or so reasonably adjacent that pests may disperse into the district, for any of the following purposes:
(1) To inspect to ascertain the presence of pests or their breeding places.
(2) To abate public nuisances in accordance with this article through direct control or through notice to the property owner to abate the public nuisance.
(3) To ascertain if a notice to abate a public nuisance has been complied with.
(4) To treat the property with any physical, chemical, or biological control measures deemed appropriate by the district board.
(h) Assess civil penalties, as determined in the discretion of the district board, but not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per day for each day that a notice or hearing order to abate a nuisance has not been complied with.
(i) Exercise the powers authorized by Section 2270 if the pests the district is empowered to control fall within the meaning of “vector,” as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 2200.
(j) Do everything necessary to carry out the powers conferred by this chapter and carry out the objects of the formation of the district.
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