Section 41700.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 41705, a person shall not discharge from any source whatsoever quantities of air contaminants or other material that cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public, or that endanger the comfort, repose, health, or safety of any of those persons or the public, or that cause, or have a natural tendency to cause, injury or damage to business or property.

(b) (1) A district may adopt a rule or regulation, consistent with protecting the public's comfort, repose, health, and safety, and not causing injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance, that ensures district staff and resources are not used to investigate complaints determined to be repeated and unsubstantiated, alleging a nuisance odor violation of subdivision (a).

(2) If a district adopts a rule or regulation pursuant to paragraph (1), the district shall submit the rule or regulation to the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality and the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources within 30 days of adopting the rule or regulation.

(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends that date.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 411, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2011. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 2 of Ch. 411.)