This division shall be known and may be cited as “The Local Health Care District Law.” Any reference in any statute to the Local Hospital District Law shall be deemed a reference to the Local Health Care District Law, and any reference in any statute to a hospital district shall be deemed to be a reference to a health care district.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 32000
Formation of District
Known as the The Local Health Care District Law
The act spans §§ 32000–32499 (143 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 103 Cal. App. 4th 861 - Marin Healthcare District v. Sutter Health (2002)
Most recently applied in Gateway Community Charters v. Spiess (March 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 696, Sec. 1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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