California Health and Safety Code 1568.097 – A licensee that permits residents to possess firearms on the facility …
A licensee that permits residents to possess firearms on the facility premises shall do all of the following:
(a) Accept and centrally store a resident’s firearm, ammunition, or both.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1568.097
- Ammunition: means one or more loaded cartridges consisting of a primed case, propellant, and with one or more projectiles. See California Health and Safety Code 1568.096
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Facility: means a residential care facility for persons with chronic life-threatening illness licensed by the State Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division. See California Health and Safety Code 1568.096
- Firearm: means a device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel, a projectile by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion, including the frame or receiver of the device. See California Health and Safety Code 1568.096
(b) Retain and centrally store a licensee’s firearm, ammunition, or both.
(c) Resident’s and licensees’ firearms, ammunition, or both shall be centrally stored in the facility and in the following manner:
(1) Firearms shall be centrally stored unloaded, in a locked gun safe, that meets the regulatory standards established by the Department of Justice in Section 4100 of Title 11 of the California Code of Regulations.
(2) Ammunition shall be centrally stored separately in a locked location different from firearms.
(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 840, Sec. 3. (SB 172) Effective January 1, 2020.)