SECTIONS 58004.5 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 58004.5

58004.5. (a) The department succeeds to, and is vested with, all of
the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of
the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment with regard to
the Environmental Quality Assessment Act of 1986 (Chapter 6.98
(commencing with Section 25570)).
(b) The Director of Toxic Substances Control may expend the
unexpended balance of any funds available for expenditure by the
Director of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in connection with
the performance of the functions of the Director of Environmental
Health Hazard Assessment in carrying out the Environmental Quality
Assessment Act of 1986.
(c) All officers and employees of the Office of Environmental
Health Hazard Assessment who are serving in the state civil service,
other than as temporary employees, and engaged in the performance of
a function in carrying out the Environmental Quality Assessment Act
of 1986 shall be transferred to the department. The status,
positions, and rights of those persons shall not be affected by the
transfer and shall be retained by them as officers and employees of
the Department of Toxic Substances Control, pursuant to the State
Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division
5 of Title 2 of the Government Code), except as to positions
exempted from civil service.
(d) The department shall have possession and control of all
records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, money, funds,
appropriations, licenses, permits, agreements, contracts, claims,
judgments, and land or other property, real or personal, held for the
benefit or use of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment for purposes of the functions transferred to the
department to subdivision (a).
(e) Any regulation adopted before January 1, 2003, by the Office
of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment or its predecessors,
relating to carrying out the Environmental Quality Assessment Act of
1986, as specified in subdivision (a), that are in effect on January
1, 2003, shall remain in effect on and after January 1, 2003, and are
enforceable by the department until readopted, amended, or repealed
by the department.