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California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 50710.8

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) All communications to migratory farmworkers from the department and the entity operating a migrant farm labor center shall be delivered in culturally and linguistically appropriate means. Whenever feasible, entities operating a migrant farm labor center shall collaborate with promotoras or trusted messengers to disseminate relevant information to migratory farmworkers.

(b)(1) The entity operating a migrant farm labor center shall ensure that each housing unit complies with all applicable local health and safety laws and is habitable with regard to cooling, clean water, sewer pond, garbage, and other systems necessary for the health and safety of the occupants.

(2) The department shall conduct an annual inspection of each migrant farm labor center to determine whether health, safety, and infrastructure standards are properly met.

(c) The entity operating a migrant farm labor center shall not condition residency on the willingness of a potential tenant to occupy a unit year round or preference year-round residents over residents wishing to rent a unit for any length of stay less than one year.

(d) A migratory farmworker, including the immediate family and dependents residing in the same housing unit, with at least one schoolage child, may be exempted from the requirement to have resided outside a 50-mile radius of the migrant farm labor center for the purposes of eligibility to reside in an Office of Migrant Services housing unit. The migratory farmworker shall, upon enrollment, provide to the migrant farm labor center proof of enrollment of their child or children in the local school district for grades K-12.

(e)(1) A migratory farmworker who has entered into a prior residential tenancy agreement for housing at a migrant farm labor center shall be eligible for an interview pass for an available unit upon returning to that center for housing following a break in occupancy.

(2) Wherever feasible, a migrant farm labor center shall offer to a migratory farmworker the option to return to the same unit in which they previously resided, provided that the farmworker's household continues to meet the occupancy standards for the unit.

(f) Except for families and dependents of migratory farmworkers residing in the same unit, the entity operating a migrant farm labor center shall not rent a housing unit to a person who is not a migratory farmworker.

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