SECTIONS 116070-116090 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 116070-116090

116070. As used in this article, water-contact sport means any
sport in which the body of a person comes into physical contact with
water, including but not limited to swimming, surfboarding,
paddleboarding, skin diving, and water-skiing. It does not include
boating or fishing.

116075. The department has supervision of sanitation,
healthfulness, and safety of the public beaches and public
water-contact sport areas of the ocean waters and bays of the state
and, except as provided in Section 18930, the department may make and
enforce regulations pertaining thereto as it deems proper.

116080. Regulations made pursuant to this article shall include
suitable standards of safe bacteria count for water-contact sports
areas specified by the State Water Pollution Control Board or
regional water pollution control boards, which standards shall be
applied to all public water-contact sport areas of the ocean waters
and bays of the state.

116085. Every person who violates any rule or regulation adopted
pursuant to this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

116090. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to
give the department the authority to fix the areas wherein
water-contact sports may be engaged in or to affect the authority of
the State Water Pollution Control Board or regional water pollution
control boards to fix appropriate areas for various uses.