Re: California earthquake prediction council????

On Feb 27, 11:02 pm, Skywise <i...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Petra <petras...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:2eb6dc53-1898-4c8f-b465-
f78d0bd5a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION COUNSEL
WE ARE NOT INCLUDING ANY FORECASTS FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

Perhaps you mean "California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation
Council"? as there does not appear to be a "California Earthquake
Prediction Council".

Since the question regards legality of issuing predictions in
California, I've been scouring the California legal code. I have
found only a few mentions of the evaluation council.

8657(c) of the Government Code discusses responsibility and
immunities of members and those being evaluated. In part, it
says,

   The California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation
   Council, an advisory committee established pursuant
   to Section 8590 of this chapter....

Interestingly, 8590 no longer exists. Well, it does, but it is
now the "Firefighting Thermal Imaging Equipment Act of 2001".

2800-2804 of the Public Resources Code mentions it several
times, but this code appears to deal with the "Parkfield
Experiment".

Finally, the evaluation council is mentioned in 11126 of the
Government Code, but it only concerns not permitting them to
have closed sessions when doing evaluations of predictions.

Since those are the ONLY mentions of the council in the legal
code, I have serious doubts that there is anything which
prevents anyone from making predictions in California.

Since IANAL, I'd be glad to be proved wrong.

Brian
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Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Brian,

Thank you kindly for your time in research, but research is not the
same as "their word" and when they tell me what they will or won't
allow, I know my marching orders and I follow them to the letter of
the law. I'm sure you would do the same.

Also, I'm sure you're more than aware that in matters of the law,
legal precedents are made frequently and opinions of those in the
position of power can be made outside of the written word at any
time. It's rather routine.

So, I'll do as I'm told and then we'll all be happy.

Petra
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