As used in this chapter, “department” means the State Department of Health Services, and “director” means the State Director of Health Services.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 10720
Organization
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Guzman v. Shewry (2009)
Most recently applied in 287 F. Supp. 3d 896 - Alameda Health Sys. v. Ctrs. for Medicare & Medicaid Servs. (December 2017)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.
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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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.