Such rules and regulations are reviewed, approved, and made available to the public by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), and are also filed with the Secretary of State.
In Veeck v. SBCCI, the 5th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals ruled: "As law, the model codes enter the public domain and are not subject to the copyright holder's exclusive prerogatives.
The CCR's predecessor, the California Administrative Code (CAC), resulted from efforts that began in 1941 to codify the growing body of state regulations.
In 1988, the Legislature renamed the CAC to the CCR to reduce confusion with the enacted statutory codes.
[3] In February 2013 California State Assemblyman Brian Nestande (R-42) introduced AB 292 that would mandate the CCR be published under a Creative Commons license.