Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 11466.33

(a) If any amount is due and payable to the department as a result of sustained overpayment to a group home provider for care and services in the AFDC-FC program, the department may file, in the office of any county clerk of any county in which the group home provider has real or personal property, a certificate if any of the following conditions are met: (1) No informal hearing is requested and if a provider has not submitted a voluntary repayment agreement with the first payment, and 60 days have elapsed from the notice of audit results. (2) No formal appeal is requested and if a provider has not submitted a voluntary repayment agreement along with the first payment, and 60 days have elapsed from the notice of the informal hearing decision. (3) A provider has not submitted a voluntary repayment agreement along with the first payment, and 30 days have elapsed after an adverse appeal decision by a hearing officer that sustains an overpayment.

(b) The certificate provided for pursuant to subdivision (a) shall contain: (1) The amount due, owing, and unpaid, plus simple interest on the amount owing and unpaid beginning on the date the certificate is filed. (2) A statement that the department has complied with this section prior to the filing of the certificate. (3) A request that a lien be recorded against the group home provider in the amount set forth in the certificate.

(c) The county clerk immediately upon the filing of the certificate shall record the lien for the State of California against the group home provider in the amount set forth in the certificate. The lien may be filed in the chain of title of the property.

(d) The department shall pay the cost of the first lien, and group home providers shall be responsible for any subsequent liens on a sustained overpayment.