Title 19 Development
The Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) Code Development and Analysis Program staff regularly reviews Title 19 – California Code of Regulations for relevancy, necessity, conflict, duplication, and overlap. They also implement legislative mandates to develop regulations relating to fire and life safety involving the various occupancy classifications under the authority of the California State Fire Marshal. This encompasses the actual administrative processing of regulations from concept to promulgation in the California Code of Regulations.
Regulations are processed in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). This Act promotes public participation in the development of regulations. The Code Development and Analysis Program staff work in conjunction with the State Office of Administrative Law (OAL). They also coordinate regulatory development activities with fire service organizations, State Fire Marshal advisory committees, and numerous professional and advocacy organizations.
Current Rulemaking Activities
- Notice of Proposed Action
- Addendum to the Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
- Modified Express Terms of Regulations (TEXT)
- Notice of Public Hearing and Additional Public Comment Period
- Second Addendum to the Initial Statement of Reasons
- Second Modified Express Terms of Regulations TEXT
- Second Notice of Additional Public Comment Period
- Notice of Correction - Second Notice of Additional Public Comment Period
- Notice of Proposed Action (NOPA)
- Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
- Express Terms of Regulations (TEXT)
- Notice of Extension of Written Comment Period
- Notice of Public Hearing
- Notice of Additional Written Comment Period
- Addendum to the Initial Statement of Reasons
- Modified Express Terms of Regulations (TEXT)
- FHSZ SRA NOPA
- ISOR FHSZ SRA
- Addendum to ISOR FHSZ SRA
- TEXT FHSZ SRA
- Modified TEXT FHSZ SRA
- Notice of Public Hearing in Calaveras County
- Notice of Public Hearing in San Luis Obispo County
- Notice of Alameda County FHSZ Meeting Location Change
- FHSZ Additional Written Comment Period February 3, 2023, to April 4, 2023
- Second FHSZ Additional Written Comment Period June 26_2023 - August 9_2023
Prior Rulemaking Activities
- 45 Day Public Notice and Comment Period - May 21, 2020-July 5, 2021 (NOPA)
- Text of Regulations Express Terms (ET)
- Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
Documents Relied Upon for this rulemaking file:
1. DigAlert bylaws, revised July 2018, Exhibit https://www.digalert.org/pdfs/2018-07_bylaws.pdf
2. Initial Statement of Reasons for Z-2018-0612-05, Dig Safe Board, May 2018. (PDF)
3. Enacted State Budget, Details, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/Enacted/GovernorsBudget/3000/3540.pdf
4. Fee calculation spreadsheet, using members, locate request transmissions, and fees assessed for the 2020 billing year, as provided by USA North 811 and DigAlert. (Excel)
5. Fee change tables, 2019 to 2020. (PDF)
6. Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019: 43-3031 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes433031.htm
7. Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2019: 15-1245 Database Administrators and Architects. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151245.htm
8. Staff Report: “Update on Fee Implementation and Collection,” June 8-9, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2386/item-4-fee-implementation-accessible.pdf
9.Staff Report: “Discussion of Dig Safe Board Regulatory Fee Implementation,” July 13-14, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2431/item-6-discussion-of-fee-implementation.pdf
10. Staff Report: “Dig Safe Board Regulatory Fee – Draft Regulation Language,” August 10, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2471/august-10-2020-item-5-dig-safe-board-regulatory-fee.pdf
11. Staff Report: “Dig Safe Board Fee Regulation,” September 14, 2020. https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2497/sept-14-2020-item-16-fee-regulation.pdf
12. USA North 811 bylaws, amended July 29, 2015, p. 9 https://usanorth811.org/images/pdfs/Articles_Bylaws_20150729.pdf
13. USA North 811 meeting packet, October 28, 2020, pp. 10-11 (PDF)
- 5 Day Public Notice of Proposed Emergency Action – June 12, 2020 (NOPA)
- Text of Regulations/Express Terms (ET)
Documents Relied Upon:
- Budget Change Proposal 3540-051-BCP-2020-GB, https://esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/2021/FY2021_ORG3540_BCP3349.pdf, accessed May 26, 2020.
- CalHR, “Civil Service Pay Scale – Alpha by Class Title,” https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Pay%20Scales%20Library/PS_Sec_15.pdf, accessed May 26, 2020.
- California Public Utilities Commission, “Water Division,” https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/water/, accessed on May 26, 2020.
- California Public Utilities Commission, “California High Cost Fund-A Program and Reports,” https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=991, accessed on May 26, 2020.
- Glassdoor, “Engineering Manager Salaries in California.” glassdoor.com. Accessed May 26, 2020. (PDF)
- U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, “Small Business Profile: California,” https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/25101636/California-2017.pdf, accessed on May 26, 2020.
- 15 Day Public Notice & Comment Period of Proposed Rulemaking June 23, 2020 – July 7, 2020
- Final Text of Regulations
- First Amended Initial Statement of Reasons
Documents Relied Upon:
- 45 Day Public Notice & Comment Period of Proposed Rulemaking – November 8, 2019 – December 23, 2019 (NOPA)
- Text of Regulations/Express Terms (ET)
- Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
- Addendum to ISOR
Documents Relied Upon:
- Letter from Alan K. Mayberry to Attorney General Kamala Harris, December 22, 2015
- Online surveys created by the Board, which 1) operators and 2) all other stakeholders were invited to take (03/14/2019 to 04/30/2019) and the results of those two surveys.
- AB 1914 Bill Analysis, Assembly Floor, August 30, 2018
- “Staff report: AB 1914 – Initial Discussion on Scope of Implementation,” Agenda Item 7, November 8, 2018, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2045/item-7-initial-discussion-on-ab-1914-regulations.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
- “Staff report: Discussion on Implementation of AB 1914,” Agenda Item 4, April 15, 2019, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2050/item-4-implementation-of-ab-1914.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
- “Staff report: Discussion on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement (Government Code section 4216.10(e)),” Agenda Item 6, April 16, 2019, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2046/item-6-area-of-continual-excavation-renewal-ticket-requirement.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
- “Staff report: Draft Regulations on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement and AB 1914 Implementation,” Agenda Item 5 & 6, May 13 – 14, 2019, https://digsafe.fire.ca.gov/media/2103/item-5-6-staff-report-on-draft-regulations-on-ace-renewal-and-ab-1914.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
- Local Maintaining Agencies List, Department of Water Resources https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/floodmgmt/hafoo/fpiib/fpinss/annual_reports/lma-short-names.pdf, accessed on August 29, 2019.
- Construction Industry Salary Information from indeed.com
- Contractors State Licensing Board Master License Data, https://www.cslb.ca.gov/onlineservices/dataportal/ContractorList, accessed on July 29, 2019.
- Dig Safe Board Policy L-02
- USA North 811 2018 Annual Newsletter
- Email from James Wingate of USA North 811 to Staff, August 5, 2019
- Email from Ann Diamond of DigAlert to Staff, on July 26, 2019 and August 4, 2019
- Hearing before the California State Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, July 2, 2018, 17:30 to 20:30 and 24:00 to 26:00
- U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 2018 Small Business Profile
- Staff Analysis of Contractor Small Business Statistics
- Second 15 Day Public Notice & Comment Period of Proposed Rulemaking June 23, 2020 – July 7, 2020
- Second 15 Day Text of Regulations
- Second Updated Initial Statement of Reasons
- 15 Day Public Notice & Comment Period of Proposed Rulemaking January 23, 2020-February 06, 2020 (NOPR)
- 15 Day Text of Regulations/Express Terms (ET)
- Update of Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)
- 45 Day Public Notice & Comment Period of Proposed Rulemaking May 17, 2019 – July 1, 2019 (NOPR) (PDF)
- Text of Regulations/Express Terms (ET) (PDF)
- Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR) (PDF)
Documents Incorporated by Reference for this rulemaking file:
- Area of Continual Excavation Agreement – Agricultural Operations (Form No. ACE Agreement 01 (07-01-2020)) (ACE01)(PDF)
- Area of Continual Excavation Agreement – Flood Control Facilities (Form No. ACE Agreement 02 (07-01-2020)) (ACE02)(PDF)
Documents Relied Upon:
- 01_2018 State Damage Prevention Program Grants, California. Agreement 693JK31840006PSDP, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 02_Andrew J. Wistrich, Using an Overall Page Limit to Improve Motion Practice (Vol. 37, Issue 2, Summer 2000) Court Review, The Journal of the American Judges Association, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 03_California Regional Common Ground Alliance, 2015 CARCGA Facility Event Report, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 04_California Regional Common Ground Alliance, 2016 CARCGA Incident Event Report (PDF)
- 05_California Regional Common Ground Alliance, 2017 CARCGA Incident Event Report, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 06_Common Ground Alliance Best Practices 15.0 (March 2018), accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 07_Common Ground Alliance, DIRT Report for 2016: Analysis and Recommendations, (Vol. 13, August 2017), accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 08_"Excavation Damage Prevention Group Report," Integrity Management for Gas Distribution: Report of Phase 1 Investigations, December 2005, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 09_Letter from Alan K. Mayberry to Attorney General Kamala Harris, December 22, 2015 (PDF)
- 10_Letter from Alan K. Mayberry to Attorney General Kamala Harris, December 28, 2016, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 11_Letter from Alan K. Mayberry to Executive Officer Tony Marino, May 18, 2018, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 12_Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Authority, Seventh Report to the Governor and General Assembly of Maryland, January 2018, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 13_Online surveys created by the Board, to which (1) operators and (2) California Farm Bureau Federation members were invited to take (09/26/2018 to 10/31/2018) and results of those two surveys. (13a1),(13a2),(13b1),(13b2)
- 14_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20050079-9682 (PDF)
- 15_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20050082-1805 (PDF)
- 16_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20060003-1711 (PDF)
- 17_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20090042-9683 (PDF)
- 18_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20090083-6100 (PDF)
- 19_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20090116-6765 (PDF)
- 20_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20100054-15080 (PDF)
- 21_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20100083-15106 (PDF)
- 22_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20100109-16247 (PDF)
- 23_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20110273-16823 (PDF)
- 24_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20110374.15349 (PDF)
- 25_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20120122-15957 (PDF)
- 26_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20120129-16275 (PDF)
- 27_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20130047-16341 (PDF)
- 28_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20130107-16258 (PDF)
- 29_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20130118-16218 (PDF)
- 30_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20140126-16552 (PDF)
- 31_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20140142-16583 (PDF)
- 32_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20150066-16758 (PDF)
- 33_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20150139-16930 (PDF)
- 34_PHMSA Incident Report No. 20160065-17164 (PDF)
- 35_PHMSA Base Grant Payment Information, 2008-2016, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 36_Ray and Bishop, “FAQs about California Licensing Matters: How much does it cost to hire an attorney,” accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 37_Salary Information from indeed.com, glassdoor.com, and USA North 811 (PDF)
- 38_"Staff report: Discussion on Area of Continual Excavation Ticket Renewal Requirement (Government Code section 4216.10(e))," Agenda Item 10, February 12, 2019, accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 39_U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Order 8000.373 (06/26/15), accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)
- 40_U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Order 8000.373A (10/31/18), accessed on May 7, 2019 (PDF)