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Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 106 - PERSONAL HEALTH CARE (INCLUDING MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT)
PART 10 - MALE CIRCUMCISION
Section 125850.
Universal Citation: CA Health & Safety Code § 125850 (2019)
125850.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(1) Male circumcision has a wide array of health and affiliative benefits.
(2) This section clarifies existing law.
(b) No city, county, or city and county ordinance, regulation, or administrative action shall prohibit or restrict the practice of male circumcision, or the exercise of a parent’s authority to have a child circumcised.
(c) The Legislature finds and declares that the laws affecting male circumcision must have uniform application throughout the state. Therefore, this part shall apply to general law and charter cities, general law and charter counties, and charter city and counties.
(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 398, Sec. 1. (AB 768) Effective October 2, 2011.)
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