California Health and Safety Code

§ 44470

HSC § 44470Div. 26 · Part 9

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares the following:

(1)For the first time in human history, the use and disposal of certain manmade products are actively destroying a layer of the earth’s atmosphere without which human life cannot continue to exist.

(2)These products, known as chlorofluorocarbons and halons, have already begun to deplete the ozone layer which protects human and other life forms from cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation. Above California, the ozone shield has been depleted about 3 percent over the last 20 years.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 874, Sec. 1.