When interviewed about it, he stated, “ I certainly believe that people who are in pain should be helped and assisted in every way possible, that the drugs should be used to mitigate their pain but I believe the law of the United States of America which requires that drugs not be used except for legitimate health purposes .” " Attorney General Ashcroft Asks Supreme Court To Ban Assisted Suicide – California Healthline.

In 1939, California weighed in on this controversy by enacting the Coogan Law which requires a portion of the earnings of a child actor to be preserved in a special savings account called a blocked trust.

While Desert Hot Springs is a California charter city, the city council requires all city funded projects to pay prevailing wage.

However, such notarization is not always necessary for such a document to be considered legal — in California and in South Carolina a power of attorney is considered legally valid by the state if it is signed by the principal, by the agent, and then either by two witnesses OR by a single notary public ; in Arizona and Illinois, a power of attorney requires notarization and the signature of at least one witness.

For example, California requires wording such as " Comprehensive Emergency Medical Service " and " Physician On Duty ", to prevent persons in need of critical care from presenting to facilities that are not fully equipped and staffed.

All states but California have adopted what is known as the " 150 hour rule ", which requires an additional year past a regular 4 year college or a master's degree.

* The definition formulated at the University of California at San Diego requires both affective ( emotional ) and somatic ( physical ) symptoms during the five days before menses in each of three consecutive cycles, and must not be present during the pre-ovulatory part of the cycle ( days 4 through 13 ).

In San Francisco, for example, it is known as the Board of Supervisors ; San Francisco is a consolidated city-county and the California constitution requires each county to have a Board of Supervisors.

For instance, California requires that candidates pass a national exam, written by the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors ( NCEES ), as well as a state-specific exam which includes a seismic portion and a surveying portion.

On June 1, 2007, the California Supreme Court rejected the Court of Appeal's decision, ruling that the correct standard of implied malice was not simply an awareness of the risk of serious bodily harm, but requires proof that a defendant acted with conscious disregard of the danger to human life.

For example, the U. S. state of California requires the moving party to actually present evidence rather than merely refer to evidence.

Notably in California and also in other areas, filing a DBA statement also requires that a notice of the fictitious name be published in local newspapers for some set period of time to inform the public of the owner's intent to operate under an assumed name.

* California: Per section 5100 of the California Election Code, ballot access requires one of the two conditions below to be met.

Some state motor vehicle departments take a dim view of turning off-road bikes into street legal bikes, such as California which requires a on-road emissions designation from the manufacturer.

SJSU currently requires a minimum eligibility index of 2900-3200 using the SAT or 694-760 using the ACT depending on the selected major ( 3502 and 842 respectively for non-residents of California ), which is slightly above the CSU minimum of 2900 and 694 respectively.

The two measures were designed to circumvent the rule in the California State Constitution that requires a two-thirds supermajority to pass any special purpose sales tax, but only a majority vote to pass a general sales tax.

The law requires the California State Geologist to establish regulatory zones ( known as Earthquake Fault Zones ) around the surface traces of active faults and to issue appropriate maps.

* The Curious Case of the English Sweating Sickness, contains a map of the disease dispersion created and mapped by Kirstyn Pittman from California State University, Chico ( requires Adobe Flash )

The California state constitution requires all state workers who are US citizens to sign a loyalty oath as a term of employment.

California Attorney General Edmund Gerald " Jerry " Brown, Jr. announced on March 1, 2010, that his office has secured an agreement with Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., the manufacturer of American Spirit tobacco products, that requires the company to clearly disclose that its organic tobacco is " no safer or healthier " than other tobacco products.

In California, coram nobis essentially requires a fact, not going to the facts of the case ( e. g. guilt or innocence ) that would have prevented the rendition of the judgment.

Though California state law requires all minors to be housed in residence with a legal guardian and compulsory education to the age of 18, no mention is made of who Julie's legal guardian may be, nor what school she attends, or how she avoids Los Angeles ' strictly-enforced curfews to curb underage gang activity.

California requires two-thirds of both legislative houses and the governor's signature to pass a budget.

Also in California, lead-free materials must be used for " each component that comes into contact with the wetted surface of pipes and pipe fittings, plumbing fittings and fixtures.

About three to five pets attacked by coyotes are brought into the Animal Urgent Care hospital of south Orange County ( California ) each week, the majority of which are dogs, since cats typically do not survive the attacks.

Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern-day flying disc in 1938 when he and future wife Lucile were offered US25 cents for a cake pan that they were tossing back and forth to each other on the beach in Santa Monica, California.

* The California Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley now annually awards the outstanding achievement of a young alumnus or alumna with the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement at its Charter Gala each spring.

Base 10 appears to come from counting one's fingers, base 20 from the fingers and toes, base 8 from counting the spaces between the fingers ( attested in California ), and base 12 from counting the knuckles ( 3 each for the four fingers ).

Otto, Leila, a secret government agent, and rival Mexican repo men, the Rodriguez Brothers ( Del Zamora and Eddie Velez ), all compete with each other to find and deliver the Malibu, which is being driven around Los Angeles by a scientist ( Fox Harris ), who originally stole the aliens from Los Alamos National Laboratory and drove to California, slowly losing his sanity on the way due to the radiation emitted by the aliens.

A University of California, San Diego psychiatry study of more than one million adults found that people who live the longest self-report sleeping for six to seven hours each night.

For each test a Minuteman missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a single mock re-entry vehicle targeted for Kwajalein lagoon more than away.

* American public television station KTEH ( San Jose, California ), re-ran the series in the mid 1980s accompanied by commentary from critic Scott Apel before and after each episode.

There are currently 4 chapters in the metropolitan New York City area, one in upper New York state, three in Massachusetts, three in California, and one each in Durham, North Carolina, Fort Collins, Colorado, Norman, Oklahoma, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Olympia, Washington, and Alpena, MI.

Besides on-campus libraries, the UC system also maintains two regional library facilities ( one each for Northern and Southern California ), which each accept older items from all UC campus libraries in their respective region.

* Slightly more than half of the Athabaskan languages, such as Navajo, have simple register-tone systems ( languages in California, Oregon and a few in Alaska excluded ), but the languages that have tone fall into two groups that are mirror images of each other.

For example, it has been estimated that this cost shifting amounted to $ 455 per individual or $ 1, 186 per family in California each year.

Once California was established as a prosperous state many thousands more emigrated each year for the opportunities there.

In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.

With names like Rough and Ready and Hangtown ( Placerville, California ), each camp often had its own saloon and gambling house.

Some of the foggiest land areas in the world include Argentia, Newfoundland and Point Reyes, California, each with over 200 foggy days per year.

The annual San Francisco Jug Band Festival is held in San Francisco, California each August and there is a JugFest gathering of jug bands each September in Sutter Creek, California.