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DIVISION 2. LICENSING PROVISIONS 1200-1796.88›CHAPTER 3.01. Residential Care Facilities for Persons With Chronic Life-Threatening Illness 1568.01-1568.099›ARTICLE 1. General Provisions 1568.01-1568.094

§ 1568.0824

California Health and Safety Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

A person who, without lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent, or resident of a residential care facility for persons with a chronic, life-threatening illness of an impending and unannounced site visit to that facility by personnel of the department, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both a fine and imprisonment.

(Added by renumbering Section 1568.0823 (as added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 888, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 279. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016.)

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