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• California Government Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Government Code.
• California Government Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall...
• California Government Code Section 3
  All persons who at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
• California Government Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
• California Government Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Government Code Section 6
  Title, division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Government Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Government Code Section 7.5
  Whenever, by any law, the director of any state department is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee, or of the governing...
• California Government Code Section 7.6
  (a) If by law, any officer whose office is created by the California Constitution is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee,...
• California Government Code Section 7.7
  The provisions of Sections 7.5 and 7.6 do not affect or modify in any manner the provisions of Section 7.
• California Government Code Section 7.8
  Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, the Directors of Finance, General Services, and Education may appoint any deputy or assistant director in their...
• California Government Code Section 7.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction may designate...
• California Government Code Section 7.9a
  At the request of the Controller, two employees of that officer, in addition to those provided for in Section 7.9, shall be classified and compensated...
• California Government Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Government Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which the term...
• California Government Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
• California Government Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Government Code Section 12.5
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms "man" or "men" where appropriate shall be deemed "person" or "persons" and any references to the...
• California Government Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Government Code Section 14
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Government Code Section 15
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Government Code Section 16
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Government Code Section 16.5
  (a) In any written communication with a public entity, as defined in Section 811.2, in which a signature is required or used, any party to...
• California Government Code Section 17
  "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company.
• California Government Code Section 18
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Government Code Section 19
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Government Code Section 20
  "City" includes "city and county" and "incorporated town," but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village."
• California Government Code Section 21
  "Town" includes "unincorporated town" and "village."
• California Government Code Section 22
  "Process" includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
• California Government Code Section 23
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Government Code Section 24
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term "workmen's compensation" shall hereafter also be known as "workers' compensation." In furtherance of this policy it...
• California Government Code Section 25
  (a) For purposes of this code, "assessed value" means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of...
• California Government Code Section 26
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 100
  (a) The sovereignty of the state resides in the people thereof, and all writs and processes shall issue in their name. (b) The style of...
• California Government Code Section 110
  The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this State extends to all places within its boundaries as established by the Constitution. The extent of such jurisdiction over...
• California Government Code Section 111
  The jurisdiction of the State over certain lands designated in the following statutes is subject to the cession of jurisdiction granted the United States by...
• California Government Code Section 112
  The State has accepted the retrocession of jurisdiction over certain lands by the following statutes: (a) Statutes of 1935, Chapter 828, concerning the Presidio in...
• California Government Code Section 113
  The Legislature of California hereby consents to the retrocession of jurisdiction by the United States of land within this state upon and subject to each...
• California Government Code Section 115
  All jurisdiction ceded to the United States by this article is limited by the terms of any retrocession of jurisdiction heretofore or hereafter granted by...
• California Government Code Section 118
  The State consents to the use by the United States of the territorial waters of the State adjacent to any land on the coast of...
• California Government Code Section 119
  Exclusive jurisdiction shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States over and within all of the territory which is now or...
• California Government Code Section 126
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, the Legislature of California hereby cedes concurrent criminal jurisdiction to the United States within land held...
• California Government Code Section 127
  In addition to other records maintained by the State Lands Commission, the commission shall prepare and maintain an adequate index or record of documents with...
• California Government Code Section 160
  The line run and marked by the United States Government under the Act of June 10, 1872, 17 Stat. 358 (1872) from the southern boundary...
• California Government Code Section 170
  To give greater precision to the boundary of the State of California as defined in Article XXI of the Constitution, it is hereby declared that...
• California Government Code Section 171
  All waters between the mainland and the outermost of the islands, reefs and rocks along and adjacent to the coast of the State of California...
• California Government Code Section 172
  The reference in Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitution to "the navigable waters of this State," the reference in Section 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 175
  The interstate compact executed between the States of Arizona and California, as set forth in Section 176 of this chapter, fixing the location of the...
• California Government Code Section 176
  The provisions of the interstate compact between the States of Arizona and California referred to in Section 175 are as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT DEFINING THE...
• California Government Code Section 177
  The Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact as set forth in Section 178 executed between the State of California, through its then Governor, Earl Warren,...
• California Government Code Section 178
  The provisions of the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact between the State of California and other states which are parties to the compact referred...
• California Government Code Section 178.5
  In addition to any other authority conferred upon him, the Governor is authorized and may execute for, on behalf of, and in the name of...
• California Government Code Section 179
  (a) It is the intent of the State of California to continue its long history of sharing emergency response resources with other states during times...
• California Government Code Section 179.5
  The provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact between the State of California and other states that are parties to the compact referred to in...
• California Government Code Section 179.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 6 of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall indemnify and make whole any officer...
• California Government Code Section 179.8
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall not deploy any personnel under the compact...
• California Government Code Section 179.9
  This article shall become inoperative on March 1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative...
• California Government Code Section 180
  As used herein, "property" includes real and personal property.
• California Government Code Section 181
  The original and ultimate right to all property within the limits of the State is in the people thereof.
• California Government Code Section 182
  All property within the limits of the State, which does not belong to any person, belongs to the people. Whenever the title to any property...
• California Government Code Section 183
  The State may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law.
• California Government Code Section 185
  The Governor may execute and deliver to the United States all necessary deeds or other conveyances on behalf of the State, in any case where...
• California Government Code Section 186
  (a) As used in succeeding subdivisions of this section "public domain" refers to such portion of the public domain of the State of California as...
• California Government Code Section 200
  The State has the rights prescribed in this article over persons within its limits, to be exercised in the cases and in the manner provided...
• California Government Code Section 201
  The State may punish for crime.
• California Government Code Section 202
  The state may imprison or confine for the protection of the public peace or health or of individual life or safety.
• California Government Code Section 203
  The State may establish custody and restraint of: (a) Mentally ill persons, insane persons, chronic inebriates, and other persons of unsound mind. (b) Paupers for...
• California Government Code Section 204
  The State may require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town officers; in highway labor;...
• California Government Code Section 240
  The people, as a political body, consist of: (a) Citizens who are electors. (b) Citizens not electors.
• California Government Code Section 241
  The citizens of the State are: (a) All persons born in the State and residing within it, except the children of transient aliens and of...
• California Government Code Section 242
  Persons in the State not its citizens are either: (a) Citizens of other States; or (b) Aliens.
• California Government Code Section 243
  Every person has, in law, a residence.
• California Government Code Section 244
  In determining the place of residence the following rules shall be observed: (a) It is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for...
• California Government Code Section 245
  Absence from this state, on business of the state or of the United States, shall not affect the question of residence of any person.
• California Government Code Section 270
  Every person while within the State is subject to its jurisdiction and entitled to its protection.
• California Government Code Section 271
  Allegiance is the obligation of fidelity and obedience which every citizen owes to the State.
• California Government Code Section 272
  Allegiance may be renounced by a change of residence.
• California Government Code Section 273
  A citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of the State, has the same rights and duties as a citizen of the...
• California Government Code Section 274
  An elector has no rights or duties beyond those of a citizen not an elector, except the right and duty of holding office and voting.
• California Government Code Section 275.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public officer who is a minor shall have the rights and liabilities of an adult, both civil and...
• California Government Code Section 399
  (a) There shall be a seal of this state, which shall be called "the Great Seal of the State of California." (b) The Great Seal...
• California Government Code Section 400
  The design of the Great Seal of the State shall correspond substantially with the following representation thereof: * * * * * * * *...
• California Government Code Section 401
  Any document signed prior to August 27, 1937, by the Governor, the Secretary of State, or both of them and bearing an impression purporting to...
• California Government Code Section 402
  (a) Every person who maliciously or for commercial purposes uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the Great Seal of the...
• California Government Code Section 402.5
  (a) In addition to the acts prohibited by Section 402, a person who uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the...
• California Government Code Section 403
  All grants and commissions shall be kept in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of California, sealed with the...
• California Government Code Section 404
  (a) No person shall represent, either directly or indirectly, that the State of California is sponsoring or endorsing a world's fair or exhibition unless the...
• California Government Code Section 405
  When the Great Seal of the state is prepared in color, the following colors shall be used: The field of the seal shall be Independence...
• California Government Code Section 420
  The Bear Flag is the State Flag of California. As viewed with the hoist end of the flag to the left of the observer there...
• California Government Code Section 420.5
  "Eureka" is the official State Motto.
• California Government Code Section 420.75
  "The Golden State" is the official State Nickname.
• California Government Code Section 421
  The golden poppy (Eschscholtzia) is the official State Flower. April 6 of each year is hereby designated California Poppy Day.
• California Government Code Section 421.5
  (a) West Coast Swing Dance is the official state dance. (b) The Square Dance is the official state folk dance.
• California Government Code Section 421.7
  "I Love You, California," a song published in 1913 with lyrics by F. B. Silverwood and music by A. F. Frankenstein, is an official state
• California Government Code Section 422
  The California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoia gigantea) is the official state tree.
• California Government Code Section 422.5
  The California desert tortoise (gopherus agassizi) is the official state reptile.
• California Government Code Section 423
  The California valley quail (Lophortyx californica) is the official bird and avifaunal emblem of the State.
• California Government Code Section 423.5
  "The Californian" is the official state tall ship.
• California Government Code Section 424
  The official colors of the State are blue and gold. The specifications, references, and designations for the official colors are as follows: Specifications: National Bureau...
• California Government Code Section 424.3
  (a) The tartan defined in subdivision (b) is the official State Tartan, and may be claimed by any resident of the state. (b) The official...
• California Government Code Section 424.5
  The California dog-face butterfly (Zerene eurydice) is the official State Insect.
• California Government Code Section 425
  The state animal is the California Grizzly Bear (Ursus Californicus) as depicted in outline, details, and in colors on the official representation in the custody...
• California Government Code Section 425.1
  Native gold is the official State Mineral and mineralogic emblem.
• California Government Code Section 425.2
  Serpentine is the official State Rock and lithologic emblem.
• California Government Code Section 425.3
  Benitoite is the official state gemstone.
• California Government Code Section 425.5
  The California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is the official State Marine Mammal.
• California Government Code Section 425.6
  The garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) is the official state marine fish.
• California Government Code Section 425.7
  The saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus) is the official State Fossil.
• California Government Code Section 425.8
  The Chipped Stone Bear (bear-shaped eccentric) is the official state prehistoric artifact.
• California Government Code Section 425.9
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that San Joaquin Soil is the official soil of California. It is one of four soils to be originally...
• California Government Code Section 425.10
  Purple needlegrass, or Nassella pulchra, is the official State Grass.
• California Government Code Section 426
  The general design and the details of the Seal of the Governor of the State of California, excluding colors, shall correspond substantially with the following...
• California Government Code Section 427
  When the seal of the Governor is prepared in colors, the Bear Flag shall be shown in colors as set forth in Section 420; the...
• California Government Code Section 428
  The general design and details of the flag of the Governor of the State of California, excluding colors, shall correspond substantially with the following representation...
• California Government Code Section 429
  When the flag of the Governor is prepared in colors, the following colors shall be used: The field of the flag shall be Yale Blue,...
• California Government Code Section 429.5
  The California Historical Society is the official state historical society.
• California Government Code Section 429.6
  The California State Military Museum and Resource Center is the official state military museum.
• California Government Code Section 429.7
  Bodie is the official state gold rush ghost town.
• California Government Code Section 429.8
  Calico is the official state silver rush ghost town.
• California Government Code Section 430
  The Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of California (the Bear Flag) shall be prominently installed, displayed, and maintained in...
• California Government Code Section 431
  The Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State shall be prominently displayed during business hours upon or in front of the...
• California Government Code Section 432
  The Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State shall be prominently displayed during any and all games and performances of every...
• California Government Code Section 433
  The National and State Flags shall be carried at the head of any procession or parade of: (a) The National Guard. (b) The California State...
• California Government Code Section 434
  Where the installation or display of the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State in a place publicly owned, whether by...
• California Government Code Section 434.5
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) "Legal right" means the freedom of use and enjoyment generally exercised...
• California Government Code Section 435
  Where a city or county has adopted an official flag, it is unlawful for any other city or county to adopt an official flag so...
• California Government Code Section 436
  Where the National and State Flags are used, they shall be of the same size. If only one flagpole is used, the National Flag shall...
• California Government Code Section 437
  The superior court having jurisdiction of the offense shall enforce this chapter on the complaint of any citizen of the county.
• California Government Code Section 438
  All United States Flags now in the possession of state, county, city, and district agencies, or hereafter acquired by such agencies under contracts awarded prior...
• California Government Code Section 439
  The Adjutant General shall, by regulation, prescribe rules regarding the times, places, and manner in which the State Flag may be displayed. He shall, periodically,...
• California Government Code Section 440
  The general design and details of the Seal of the Senate of the State of California, excluding colors, shall correspond substantially with the following representation...
• California Government Code Section 441
  When the Seal of the Senate is prepared in color, the following colors shall be used: The outer circle and the words "Seal of the...
• California Government Code Section 442
  The use of the Seal of the Senate shall be as prescribed by the Rules of the Senate. Every person who maliciously or for commercial...
• California Government Code Section 445
  The general design and details of the Seal of the Assembly of the State of California, excluding colors, shall correspond substantially with the following representation...
• California Government Code Section 446
  When the Seal of the Assembly is prepared in color, the following colors shall be used: The outer circle and the words "California State Assembly"...
• California Government Code Section 447
  The use of the Seal of the Assembly shall be as prescribed by the Rules of the Assembly. Every person who maliciously or for commercial...
• California Government Code Section 450
  The permanent seat of government of the state is at the City of Sacramento, but the Governor shall designate by written proclamation an alternative temporary...
• California Government Code Section 460
  The state is divided into counties. The names, boundaries, and territorial subdivisions thereof are declared in Title 3 (commencing with Section 23000).
• California Government Code Section 500
  The legal distances in the State are fixed in this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 501
  When mileage is allowed by law to any person, the distance shall be computed as fixed in this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 502
  From the county seat of Alameda County to Sacramento it is eighty-four (84) miles.
• California Government Code Section 503
  From the county seat of Alpine County to Sacramento it is two hundred and twenty-five (225) miles.
• California Government Code Section 504
  From the county seat of Amador County to Sacramento it is fifty-nine (59) miles.
• California Government Code Section 505
  From the county seat of Butte County to Sacramento it is eighty-six (86) miles.
• California Government Code Section 506
  From the county seat of Calaveras County to Sacramento it is seventy-three (73) miles.
• California Government Code Section 507
  From the county seat of Colusa County to Sacramento it is seventy-seven (77) miles.
• California Government Code Section 508
  From the county seat of Contra Costa County to Sacramento it is sixty-two (62) miles.
• California Government Code Section 509
  From the county seat of Del Norte County to Sacramento it is three hundred and sixty-four (364) miles.
• California Government Code Section 510
  From the county seat of El Dorado County to Sacramento it is sixty (60) miles.
• California Government Code Section 511
  From the county seat of Fresno County to Sacramento it is one hundred and sixty-nine (169) miles.
• California Government Code Section 512
  From the county seat of Glenn County to Sacramento it is eighty-eight (88) miles.
• California Government Code Section 513
  From the county seat of Humboldt County to Sacramento it is three hundred and twelve (312) miles.
• California Government Code Section 514
  From the county seat of Imperial County to Sacramento it is six hundred sixty-one (661) miles.
• California Government Code Section 515
  From the county seat of Inyo County to Sacramento it is four hundred and sixty-six (466) miles.
• California Government Code Section 516
  From the county seat of Kern County to Sacramento it is two hundred and seventy-eight (278) miles.
• California Government Code Section 517
  From the county seat of Kings County to Sacramento it is two hundred and fourteen (214) miles.
• California Government Code Section 518
  From the county seat of Lake County to Sacramento it is one hundred and sixty (160) miles.
• California Government Code Section 519
  From the county seat of Lassen County to Sacramento it is two hundred and sixty (260) miles.
• California Government Code Section 520
  From the county seat of Los Angeles County to Sacramento it is four hundred and forty-seven (447) miles.
• California Government Code Section 521
  From the county seat of Madera County to Sacramento it is one hundred and forty-seven (147) miles.
• California Government Code Section 522
  From the county seat of Marin County to Sacramento it is one hundred and five (105) miles.
• California Government Code Section 523
  From the county seat of Mariposa County to Sacramento it is one hundred and eighty (180) miles.
• California Government Code Section 524
  From the county seat of Mendocino County to Sacramento it is one hundred and fifty (150) miles.
• California Government Code Section 525
  From the county seat of Merced County to Sacramento it is one hundred and fourteen (114) miles.
• California Government Code Section 526
  From the county seat of Modoc County to Sacramento it is three hundred and twenty-four (324) miles.
• California Government Code Section 527
  From the county seat of Mono County to Sacramento it is two hundred and ninety-six (296) miles.
• California Government Code Section 528
  From the county seat of Monterey County to Sacramento it is two hundred and eight (208) miles.
• California Government Code Section 529
  From the county seat of Napa County to Sacramento it is sixty-one (61) miles.
• California Government Code Section 530
  From the county seat of Nevada County to Sacramento it is seventy-seven (77) miles.
• California Government Code Section 531
  From the county seat of Orange County to Sacramento it is four hundred and eighty-one (481) miles.
• California Government Code Section 532
  From the county seat of Placer County to Sacramento it is thirty-seven (37) miles.
• California Government Code Section 533
  From the county seat of Plumas County to Sacramento it is one hundred and thirty-six (136) miles.
• California Government Code Section 534
  From the county seat of Riverside County to Sacramento it is five hundred and twelve (512) miles.
• California Government Code Section 535
  From the county seat of Sacramento to the State Capitol it is one (1) mile.
• California Government Code Section 536
  From the county seat of San Benito County to Sacramento it is one hundred and seventy-three (173) miles.
• California Government Code Section 537
  From the county seat of San Bernardino County to Sacramento it is five hundred and eight (508) miles.
• California Government Code Section 538
  From the county seat of San Diego County to Sacramento it is five hundred and seventy-three (573) miles.
• California Government Code Section 539
  From the City of San Francisco to Sacramento it is ninety (90) miles.
• California Government Code Section 540
  From the county seat of San Joaquin County to Sacramento it is forty-eight (48) miles.
• California Government Code Section 541
  From the county seat of San Luis Obispo County to Sacramento it is three hundred and forty-three (343) miles.
• California Government Code Section 542
  From the county seat of San Mateo County to Sacramento it is one hundred and nineteen (119) miles.
• California Government Code Section 543
  From the county seat of Santa Barbara County to Sacramento it is four hundred and sixty (460) miles.
• California Government Code Section 544
  From the county seat of Santa Clara County to Sacramento it is one hundred and twenty-eight (128) miles.
• California Government Code Section 545
  From the county seat of Santa Cruz County to Sacramento it is one hundred and ninety-eight (198) miles.
• California Government Code Section 546
  From the county seat of Shasta County to Sacramento it is one hundred and seventy-one (171) miles.
• California Government Code Section 547
  From the county seat of Sierra County to Sacramento it is one hundred and nineteen (119) miles.
• California Government Code Section 548
  From the county seat of Siskiyou County to Sacramento it is two hundred and ninety-five (295) miles.
• California Government Code Section 549
  From the county seat of Solano County to Sacramento it is forty (40) miles.
• California Government Code Section 550
  From the county seat of Sonoma County to Sacramento it is ninety (90) miles.
• California Government Code Section 551
  From the county seat of Stanislaus County to Sacramento it is seventy-seven (77) miles.
• California Government Code Section 552
  From the county seat of Sutter County to Sacramento it is fifty-eight (58) miles.
• California Government Code Section 553
  From the county seat of Tehama County to Sacramento it is one hundred and thirty-five (135) miles.
• California Government Code Section 554
  From the county seat of Trinity County to Sacramento it is two hundred and seventeen (217) miles.
• California Government Code Section 555
  From the county seat of Tulare County to Sacramento it is two hundred and six (206) miles.
• California Government Code Section 556
  From the county seat of Tuolumne County to Sacramento it is one hundred and twenty-five (125) miles.
• California Government Code Section 557
  From the county seat of Ventura County to Sacramento it is four hundred and ninety (490) miles.
• California Government Code Section 558
  From the county seat of Yolo County to Sacramento it is twenty-three (23) miles.
• California Government Code Section 559
  From the county seat of Yuba County to Sacramento it is fifty-two (52) miles.
• California Government Code Section 800
  (a) In any civil action to appeal or review the award, finding, or other determination of any administrative proceeding under this code or under any...
• California Government Code Section 810
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this part govern the construction of this division.
• California Government Code Section 810.2
  "Employee" includes an officer, judicial officer as defined in Section 327 of the Elections Code, employee, or servant, whether or not compensated, but does not...
• California Government Code Section 810.4
  "Employment" includes office or employment.
• California Government Code Section 810.6
  "Enactment" means a constitutional provision, statute, charter provision, ordinance or regulation.
• California Government Code Section 810.8
  "Injury" means death, injury to a person, damage to or loss of property, or any other injury that a person may suffer to his person,...
• California Government Code Section 811
  "Law" includes not only enactments but also the decisional law applicable within this State as determined and declared from time to time by the courts...
• California Government Code Section 811.2
  "Public entity" includes the state, the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University and the California State University, a...
• California Government Code Section 811.4
  "Public employee" means an employee of a public entity.
• California Government Code Section 811.6
  "Regulation" means a rule, regulation, order or standard, having the force of law, adopted by an employee or agency of the United States pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 811.8
  "Statute" means an act adopted by the Legislature of this State or by the Congress of the United States, or a statewide initiative act.
• California Government Code Section 811.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judges, subordinate judicial officers, and court executive officers of the superior courts are state officers for purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 814
  Nothing in this part affects liability based on contract or the right to obtain relief other than money or damages against a public entity or...
• California Government Code Section 814.2
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to impliedly repeal any provision of Division 4 (commencing with Section 3201) or Division 4.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 815
  Except as otherwise provided by statute: (a) A public entity is not liable for an injury, whether such injury arises out of an act or...
• California Government Code Section 815.2
  (a) A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by an act or omission of an employee of the public entity within the scope...
• California Government Code Section 815.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, unless the elected official and the public entity are named as codefendants in the same action, a...
• California Government Code Section 815.4
  A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by a tortious act or omission of an independent contractor of the public entity to the...
• California Government Code Section 815.6
  Where a public entity is under a mandatory duty imposed by an enactment that is designed to protect against the risk of a particular kind...
• California Government Code Section 816
  A public entity is not liable for injury arising out of any activity conducted by a member of the California National Guard pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 818
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public entity is not liable for damages awarded under Section 3294 of the Civil Code or other damages...
• California Government Code Section 818.2
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by adopting or failing to adopt an enactment or by failing to enforce any law.
• California Government Code Section 818.4
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by the issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by the failure or refusal to...
• California Government Code Section 818.5
  The Department of Motor Vehicles is liable for any injury to a lienholder or good faith purchaser of a vehicle proximately caused by the department's...
• California Government Code Section 818.6
  A public entity is not liable for injury caused by its failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent...
• California Government Code Section 818.7
  No board, commission, or any public officer or employee of the state or of any district, county, city and county, or city is liable for...
• California Government Code Section 818.8
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by misrepresentation by an employee of the public entity, whether or not such misrepresentation be...
• California Government Code Section 818.9
  A court or county, its employees, independent contractors, and volunteers shall not be liable because of any advice provided to small claims court litigants or...
• California Government Code Section 820
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute (including Section 820.2), a public employee is liable for injury caused by his act or omission to the...
• California Government Code Section 820.2
  Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission where the act or...
• California Government Code Section 820.21
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the civil immunity of juvenile court social workers, child protection workers, and other public employees authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 820.25
  (a) For purposes of Section 820.2, the decision of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1 and 830.2 of the Penal Code, or a...
• California Government Code Section 820.4
  A public employee is not liable for his act or omission, exercising due care, in the execution or enforcement of any law. Nothing in this...
• California Government Code Section 820.6
  If a public employee acts in good faith, without malice, and under the apparent authority of an enactment that is unconstitutional, invalid or inapplicable, he...
• California Government Code Section 820.8
  Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury caused by the act or omission of another person. Nothing...
• California Government Code Section 820.9
  Members of city councils, mayors, members of boards of supervisors, members of school boards, members of governing boards of other local public entities, members of...
• California Government Code Section 821
  A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his adoption of or failure to adopt an enactment or by his failure to...
• California Government Code Section 821.2
  A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by his failure or refusal to...
• California Government Code Section 821.4
  A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent...
• California Government Code Section 821.5
  A public entity or a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is not liable for failing to prohibit or restrict the time...
• California Government Code Section 821.6
  A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding within the scope of his employment,...
• California Government Code Section 821.8
  A public employee is not liable for an injury arising out of his entry upon any property where such entry is expressly or impliedly authorized...
• California Government Code Section 822
  A public employee is not liable for money stolen from his official custody. Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee from liability if the...
• California Government Code Section 822.2
  A public employee acting in the scope of his employment is not liable for an injury caused by his misrepresentation, whether or not such misrepresentation...
• California Government Code Section 823
  Neither the widow, widower, nor the heirs of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.32 of the Penal Code, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 825
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if an employee or former employee of a public entity requests the public entity to defend him...
• California Government Code Section 825.2
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), if an employee or former employee of a public entity pays any claim or judgment against him, or any portion...
• California Government Code Section 825.4
  Except as provided in Section 825.6, if a public entity pays any claim or judgment against itself or against an employee or former employee of...
• California Government Code Section 825.6
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a public entity pays any claim or judgment, or any portion thereof, either against itself or...
• California Government Code Section 827
  A provider of health care, as defined in Section 56.05 of the Civil Code, its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, who are defended by the...
• California Government Code Section 830
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Dangerous condition" means a condition of property that creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial or insignificant)...
• California Government Code Section 830.1
  For purposes of this chapter, seismic safety improvements or fire sprinkler improvements which are owned, built, controlled, operated, and maintained by the private owner of...
• California Government Code Section 830.2
  A condition is not a dangerous condition within the meaning of this chapter if the trial or appellate court, viewing the evidence most favorably to...
• California Government Code Section 830.4
  A condition is not a dangerous condition within the meaning of this chapter merely because of the failure to provide regulatory traffic control signals, stop...
• California Government Code Section 830.5
  (a) Except where the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is applicable, the happening of the accident which results in the injury is not in and...
• California Government Code Section 830.6
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by the plan or design of a construction...
• California Government Code Section 830.8
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by the failure to provide traffic or warning...
• California Government Code Section 830.9
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the operation or nonoperation of official traffic control signals when...
• California Government Code Section 831
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the effect on the use of streets and highways of...
• California Government Code Section 831.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by a natural condition of any unimproved public property, including but...
• California Government Code Section 831.21
  (a) Public beaches shall be deemed to be in a natural condition and unimproved notwithstanding the provision or absence of public safety services such as...
• California Government Code Section 831.25
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for any damage or injury to property, or for emotional distress unless the plaintiff...
• California Government Code Section 831.3
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for any injury occurring on account of the grading or the performance of other maintenance...
• California Government Code Section 831.4
  A public entity, public employee, or a grantor of a public easement to a public entity for any of the following purposes, is not liable...
• California Government Code Section 831.5
  (a) The Legislature declares that innovative public access programs, such as agreements with public land trusts, can provide effective and responsible alternatives to costly public...
• California Government Code Section 831.6
  Neither the State nor an employee of the State is liable under this chapter for any injury caused by a condition of the unimproved and...
• California Government Code Section 831.7
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable to any person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity, including any person who...
• California Government Code Section 831.8
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (d) and (e), neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by...
• California Government Code Section 831.9
  (a) The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works shall maintain a record of all known or reported injuries incurred by the public in...
• California Government Code Section 835
  Except as provided by statute, a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the plaintiff establishes that...
• California Government Code Section 835.2
  (a) A public entity had actual notice of a dangerous condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 835 if it had actual knowledge...
• California Government Code Section 835.4
  (a) A public entity is not liable under subdivision (a) of Section 835 for injury caused by a condition of its property if the public...
• California Government Code Section 840
  Except as provided in this article, a public employee is not liable for injury caused by a condition of public property where such condition exists...
• California Government Code Section 840.2
  An employee of a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of public property if the plaintiff establishes that the property...
• California Government Code Section 840.4
  (a) A public employee had actual notice of a dangerous condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 840.2 if he had actual personal...
• California Government Code Section 840.6
  (a) A public employee is not liable under subdivision (a) of Section 840.2 for injury caused by a dangerous condition of public property if he...
• California Government Code Section 844
  As used in this chapter, "prisoner" includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a...
• California Government Code Section 844.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, except as provided in this section and in Sections 814, 814.2, 845.4, and 845.6, or in Title...
• California Government Code Section 845
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise to provide police protection service or,...
• California Government Code Section 845.2
  Except as provided in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 830), neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to provide a...
• California Government Code Section 845.4
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for interfering with the right of a prisoner...
• California Government Code Section 845.6
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury proximately caused by the failure of the employee to furnish or obtain medical...
• California Government Code Section 845.8
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for: (a) Any injury resulting from determining whether to parole or release a prisoner or...
• California Government Code Section 846
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury caused by the failure to make an arrest or by the failure to...
• California Government Code Section 850
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a fire department or otherwise to provide fire protection service.
• California Government Code Section 850.2
  Neither a public entity that has undertaken to provide fire protection service, nor an employee of such a public entity, is liable for any injury...
• California Government Code Section 850.4
  Neither a public entity, nor a public employee acting in the scope of his employment, is liable for any injury resulting from the condition of...
• California Government Code Section 850.6
  (a) Whenever a public entity provides fire protection or firefighting service outside of the area regularly served and protected by the public entity providing that...
• California Government Code Section 850.8
  Any member of an organized fire department, fire protection district, or other firefighting unit of either the state or any political subdivision, any employee of...
• California Government Code Section 854
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "medical facility" includes a hospital, infirmary, clinic, dispensary, mental institution, or similar facility.
• California Government Code Section 854.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure continuity of care for clients of Agnews Developmental Center and Lanterman Developmental Center. (b) In...
• California Government Code Section 854.2
  As used in this chapter, "mental institution" means any state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or the mentally retarded, the...
• California Government Code Section 854.3
  As used in this chapter, "county psychiatric hospital" means the hospital, ward, or facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions of Section 7100...
• California Government Code Section 854.4
  As used in this chapter, "mental illness or addiction" means any condition for which a person may be detained, cared for, or treated in a...
• California Government Code Section 854.5
  As used in this chapter, "confine" includes admit, commit, place, detain, or hold in custody.
• California Government Code Section 854.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, except as provided in this section and in Sections 814, 814.2, 855, and 855.2, a public entity...
• California Government Code Section 855
  (a) A public entity that operates or maintains any medical facility that is subject to regulation by the State Department of Health Services, Social Services,...
• California Government Code Section 855.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for interfering with the right of an inmate...
• California Government Code Section 855.4
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury resulting from the decision to perform or not to perform any...
• California Government Code Section 855.6
  Except for an examination or diagnosis for the purpose of treatment, neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his...
• California Government Code Section 855.8
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing...
• California Government Code Section 856
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for any injury resulting from determining in...
• California Government Code Section 856.2
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for: (1) An injury caused by an escaping or escaped person who has been...
• California Government Code Section 856.4
  Except as provided in Section 815.6, neither a public entity nor a public employee acting in the scope of his employment is liable for an...
• California Government Code Section 856.6
  (a) A public entity, public employee, or volunteer, participating in the National Influenza Program of 1976, shall not be liable for an injury caused by...
• California Government Code Section 860
  As used in this chapter, "tax" includes a tax, assessment, fee or charge.
• California Government Code Section 860.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by: (a) Instituting any judicial or administrative proceeding or action for...
• California Government Code Section 860.4
  Nothing in this chapter affects any law relating to refund, rebate, exemption, cancellation, amendment or adjustment of taxes.
• California Government Code Section 862
  (a) As used in this section, "pesticide" means: (1) An "economic poison" as defined in Section 12753 of the Agricultural Code; (2) An "injurious material"...
• California Government Code Section 865
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The gradual movement of land, such as in prehistoric slide areas, or as a result of subsidence...
• California Government Code Section 866
  (a) Subject to the provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c), in the event of public necessity and to avoid impending peril to persons or property...
• California Government Code Section 867
  An employee of a local public entity is not liable for damages for injury to persons or property resulting from an impending peril or from...
• California Government Code Section 895
  As used in this chapter "agreement" means a joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of...
• California Government Code Section 895.2
  Whenever any public entities enter into an agreement, they are jointly and severally liable upon any liability which is imposed by any law other than...
• California Government Code Section 895.4
  As part of any agreement, the public entities may provide for contribution or indemnification by any or all of the public entities that are parties...
• California Government Code Section 895.6
  Unless the public entities that are parties to an agreement otherwise provide in the agreement, if a public entity is held liable upon any judgment...
• California Government Code Section 895.8
  Except for Section 895.6, this chapter applies to any agreement between public entities, whether entered into before or after the effective date of this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 900
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 900.2
  "Board" means: (a) In the case of a local public entity, the governing body of the local public entity. (b) In the case of the...
• California Government Code Section 900.3
  A "judicial branch entity" is a public entity and means any superior court, court of appeals, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, or the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 900.4
  "Local public entity" includes a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the State, but does...
• California Government Code Section 900.6
  "State" means the State and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State claims against which are paid by warrants...
• California Government Code Section 901
  For the purpose of computing the time limits prescribed by Sections 911.2, 911.4, 945.6, and 946.6, the date of the accrual of a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 905
  There shall be presented in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910) all claims for money or...
• California Government Code Section 905.1
  No claim is required to be filed to maintain an action against a public entity for taking of, or damage to, private property pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 905.2
  (a) This section shall apply to claims against the state filed with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. (b) There shall be presented...
• California Government Code Section 905.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no claim shall be submitted by a local agency or school district, nor shall a claim...
• California Government Code Section 905.4
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910) of this part shall not be construed to be an exclusive means...
• California Government Code Section 905.5
  A school district, its officers, directors, or employees shall have no civil liability in any civil action for injury, disease, death, or economic loss arising...
• California Government Code Section 905.6
  This part does not apply to claims against the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 905.7
  All claims against a judicial branch entity for money or damages based upon an express contract or for an injury for which the judicial branch...
• California Government Code Section 905.8
  Nothing in this part imposes liability upon a public entity unless such liability otherwise exists.
• California Government Code Section 905.9
  All claims against the California State University for money or damages based upon an express contract or for an injury for which the Trustees of...
• California Government Code Section 906
  (a) As used in this section, "amount allowed on the claim" means the amount allowed by the public entity on a claim allowed in whole...
• California Government Code Section 907
  A local public entity, as defined in Section 900.4, may offset any delinquent amount due it for services rendered to any other local public entity....
• California Government Code Section 910
  A claim shall be presented by the claimant or by a person acting on his or her behalf and shall show all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 910.2
  The claim shall be signed by the claimant or by some person on his behalf. Claims against local public entities for supplies, materials, equipment or...
• California Government Code Section 910.4
  The board shall provide forms specifying the information to be contained in claims against the state or a judicial branch entity. The person presenting a...
• California Government Code Section 910.6
  (a) A claim may be amended at any time before the expiration of the period designated in Section 911.2 or before final action thereon is...
• California Government Code Section 910.8
  If, in the opinion of the board or the person designated by it, a claim as presented fails to comply substantially with the requirements of...
• California Government Code Section 911
  Any defense as to the sufficiency of the claim based upon a defect or omission in the claim as presented is waived by failure to...
• California Government Code Section 911.2
  (a) A claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person or to personal property or growing crops shall be...
• California Government Code Section 911.3
  (a) When a claim that is required by Section 911.2 to be presented not later than six months after accrual of the cause of action...
• California Government Code Section 911.4
  (a) When a claim that is required by Section 911.2 to be presented not later than six months after the accrual of the cause of...
• California Government Code Section 911.6
  (a) The board shall grant or deny the application within 45 days after it is presented to the board. The claimant and the board may...
• California Government Code Section 911.8
  (a) Written notice of the board's action upon the application shall be given in the manner prescribed by Section 915.4. (b) If the application is...
• California Government Code Section 912.2
  If an application for leave to present a claim is granted by the board pursuant to Section 911.6, the claim shall be deemed to have...
• California Government Code Section 912.4
  (a) The board shall act on a claim in the manner provided in Section 912.6, 912.7, or 912.8 within 45 days after the claim has...
• California Government Code Section 912.5
  (a) The Trustees of the California State University shall act on a claim against the California State University in accordance with the procedure that the...
• California Government Code Section 912.6
  (a) In the case of a claim against a local public entity, the board may act on a claim in one of the following ways:...
• California Government Code Section 912.7
  The Judicial Council shall act on a claim against a judicial branch entity or judge of one of those entities in accordance with the procedure...
• California Government Code Section 912.8
  Except as provided in Section 912.7, in the case of claims against the state, the board shall act on claims in accordance with that procedure...
• California Government Code Section 913
  (a) Written notice of the action taken under Section 912.5, 912.6, 912.7, or 912.8 or the inaction that is deemed rejection under Section 912.4 shall...
• California Government Code Section 913.2
  The board may, in its discretion, within the time prescribed by Section 945.6 for commencing an action on the claim, re-examine a previously rejected claim...
• California Government Code Section 915
  (a) A claim, any amendment thereto, or an application to the public entity for leave to present a late claim shall be presented to a...
• California Government Code Section 915.2
  (a) If a claim, amendment to a claim, or application to a public entity for leave to present a late claim is presented or sent...
• California Government Code Section 915.4
  (a) The notices provided for in Sections 910.8, 911.8, and 913 shall be given by either of the following methods: (1) Personally delivering the notice...
• California Government Code Section 920
  As used in this chapter, "omnibus claim appropriation" means an act of appropriation, or an item of appropriation in a budget act, by which the...
• California Government Code Section 920.2
  Promptly following the effective date of an omnibus claim appropriation, the board or its secretary shall submit to the Controller a claim covering the full...
• California Government Code Section 920.4
  If the Controller believes or has reason to believe that the payment of any portion of the omnibus claim appropriation may violate the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 920.6
  Unless the Joint Legislative Budget Committee within 60 days after receipt of such notice advises the board in writing that the Legislature desires to reconsider...
• California Government Code Section 920.8
  If the Joint Legislative Budget Committee advises the board that the Legislature desires to reconsider any part of the omnibus claim appropriation withheld by the...
• California Government Code Section 925
  As used in this chapter, "board" means the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
• California Government Code Section 925.2
  Claims for expenses of either house of the Legislature or members or committees thereof are exempt from Section 13920 and this chapter, except Section 925.6,...
• California Government Code Section 925.4
  Any person having a claim against the State for which appropriations have been made, or for which state funds are available, may present it to...
• California Government Code Section 925.6
  (a) The Controller shall not draw his or her warrant for any claim until it has been audited by him or her in conformity with...
• California Government Code Section 925.8
  If the Controller approves a claim he shall draw his warrant for the amount approved in favor of the claimant.
• California Government Code Section 926
  If he disapproves a claim, the Controller shall file it and a statement of his disapproval and his reasons with the board as prescribed in...
• California Government Code Section 926.2
  The Controller shall not entertain for a second time a claim against the State once rejected by him or by the Legislature unless such facts...
• California Government Code Section 926.4
  Any person who is aggrieved by the disapproval of a claim by the Controller, may appeal to the board. If the board finds that facts...
• California Government Code Section 926.6
  After final rejection of a claim by the Controller following reconsideration, any person interested may appeal to the Legislature by filing with the board a...
• California Government Code Section 926.8
  Whenever a governmental agency of the United States, in the collection of taxes or amounts owing to it, is authorized by federal law to levy...
• California Government Code Section 926.10
  Any public entity as defined by Section 811.2 having a liquidated claim against any other public entity based on contract or statute of the State...
• California Government Code Section 927
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Prompt Payment Act. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that...
• California Government Code Section 927.1
  (a) (1) A state agency that acquires property or services pursuant to a contract with a business, including any approved change order or contract amendment,...
• California Government Code Section 927.2
  The following definitions apply to this chapter: (a) "Claim schedule" means a schedule of payment requests prepared and submitted by a state agency to the...
• California Government Code Section 927.3
  (a) Except where payment is made directly by a state agency pursuant to Section 927.6, an undisputed invoice received by a state agency shall be...
• California Government Code Section 927.4
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, to avoid late payment penalties, the maximum time from state agency receipt of an undisputed invoice to the...
• California Government Code Section 927.5
  This chapter shall not apply to claims for reimbursement for health care services provided under the Medi-Cal program, unless the Medi-Cal health care services provider...
• California Government Code Section 927.6
  (a) State agencies shall pay applicable penalties, without requiring that the claimant submit an additional invoice for these amounts, whenever the state agency fails to...
• California Government Code Section 927.7
  The Controller shall pay claimants within 15 calendar days of receipt of a correct claim schedule from the state agency. If the Controller fails to...
• California Government Code Section 927.8
  State agencies shall avoid seeking any additional appropriation to pay penalties that accrue as a result of the agency' s failure to make timely payments...
• California Government Code Section 927.9
  (a) On an annual basis, within 90 calendar days following the end of each fiscal year, state agencies shall provide the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 927.10
  State agencies shall encourage claimants to promptly pay their subcontractors and suppliers, especially those that are small businesses. In furtherance of this policy, state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 927.11
  (a) Except in the case of a contract with a certified small business, a nonprofit organization, or a nonprofit public benefit corporation, if an invoice...
• California Government Code Section 927.12
  Section 926.10 shall not apply to any contract covered by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 927.13
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for by statute, any state agency that fails to submit a correct claim schedule to the Controller within 30 days of...
• California Government Code Section 930
  (a) Any state agency may include in any written agreement to which the agency is a party, provisions governing the following: (1) The presentation, by...
• California Government Code Section 930.2
  The governing body of a local public entity may include in any written agreement to which the entity, its governing body, or any board or...
• California Government Code Section 930.4
  A claims procedure established by agreement made pursuant to Section 930 or Section 930.2 exclusively governs the claims to which it relates, except that if...
• California Government Code Section 930.6
  A claims procedure established by agreement made pursuant to Section 930 or Section 930.2 may include a requirement that a claim be presented and acted...
• California Government Code Section 935
  (a) Claims against a local public entity for money or damages which are excepted by Section 905 from Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and...
• California Government Code Section 935.2
  A charter provision, or a local public entity by ordinance or resolution, may establish a claims board or commission of not less than three members...
• California Government Code Section 935.4
  A charter provision, or a local public entity by ordinance or resolution, may authorize an employee of the local public entity to perform those functions...
• California Government Code Section 935.6
  (a) The Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board may authorize any state agency to settle and pay claims filed pursuant to Section 905.2 if the...
• California Government Code Section 935.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 935.6, the Department of Transportation may deny or adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of the department without...
• California Government Code Section 935.8
  The Judicial Council may adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of a judicial branch entity or judge thereof. The Judicial Council...
• California Government Code Section 935.9
  The Trustees of the California State University may adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of the California State University. The Trustees...
• California Government Code Section 940
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 940.2
  "Board" means: (a) In the case of a local public entity, the governing body of the local public entity. (b) In the case of the...
• California Government Code Section 940.3
  A "judicial branch entity" is a public entity and means any superior court, court of appeals, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, or the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 940.4
  "Local public entity" includes a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the State, but does...
• California Government Code Section 940.6
  "State" means the State and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State claims against which are paid by warrants...
• California Government Code Section 942
  Nothing in this division shall be construed to deprive a claimant of the right to resort to writ of mandate or other proceeding against the...
• California Government Code Section 943
  This part does not apply to claims or actions against the Regents of the University of California nor to claims or actions against an employee...
• California Government Code Section 944
  Nothing in this part imposes liability upon a public entity unless such liability otherwise exists.
• California Government Code Section 945
  A public entity may sue and be sued.
• California Government Code Section 945.2
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the rules of practice in civil actions apply to actions brought against public entities.
• California Government Code Section 945.3
  No person charged by indictment, information, complaint, or other accusatory pleading charging a criminal offense may bring a civil action for money or damages against...
• California Government Code Section 945.4
  Except as provided in Sections 946.4 and 946.6, no suit for money or damages may be brought against a public entity on a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 945.6
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 946.4 and 946.6 and subject to subdivision (b), any suit brought against a public entity on a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 945.8
  Except where a different statute of limitations is specifically applicable to the public entity, and except as provided in Sections 930.6 and 935, any action...
• California Government Code Section 946
  Where a claim that is required to be presented to a public entity in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2...
• California Government Code Section 946.4
  (a) Where provision is made by or pursuant to law that no suit may be brought against a public agency as defined in Section 53050...
• California Government Code Section 946.6
  (a) If an application for leave to present a claim is denied or deemed to be denied pursuant to Section 911.6, a petition may be...
• California Government Code Section 948
  (a) The head of the state agency concerned, upon recommendation of the Attorney General or other attorney authorized to represent the state, may settle, adjust,...
• California Government Code Section 948.1
  The Judicial Council may settle, adjust, or compromise any pending action arising out of the activities of a judicial branch entity or judge thereof. The...
• California Government Code Section 949
  The governing body of a local public entity may compromise, or may delegate the authority to its attorney or an employee to compromise, any pending
• California Government Code Section 950
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a claim need not be presented as a prerequisite to the maintenance of an action against a public...
• California Government Code Section 950.2
  Except as provided in Section 950.4, a cause of action against a public employee or former public employee for injury resulting from an act or...
• California Government Code Section 950.4
  A cause of action against a public employee or former public employee is not barred by Section 950.2 if the plaintiff pleads and proves that...
• California Government Code Section 950.6
  When a written claim for money or damages for injury has been presented to the employing public entity: (a) A cause of action for such...
• California Government Code Section 950.8
  Any provision of a charter, ordinance or regulation heretofore or hereafter adopted by a local public entity which requires the presentation of a claim as...
• California Government Code Section 951
  Notwithstanding Section 425.10 of the Code of Civil Procedure, any complaint for damages in any civil action brought against a publicly elected or appointed state...
• California Government Code Section 955
  The proper court for trial of actions against the State for the taking or damaging of private property for public use is a court of...
• California Government Code Section 955.1
  (a) The science of earthquake prediction is developing rapidly and, although still largely in a research stage, such predictions are now being initiated and are...
• California Government Code Section 955.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the State is named as a defendant in any action or proceeding for death or injury to person...
• California Government Code Section 955.3
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, when a city, county, or city and county, or local agency is a plaintiff in an action or proceeding against...
• California Government Code Section 955.4
  Except as provided in Sections 811.9, 955.6, 955.8, and 955.9: (a) Service of summons in all actions on claims against the state shall be made...
• California Government Code Section 955.6
  In actions for the taking or damaging of private property for public use within the meaning of Section 19 of Article I of the Constitution...
• California Government Code Section 955.8
  In actions for the taking or damaging of private property for public use within the meaning of Section 14 of Article I of the Constitution...
• California Government Code Section 955.9
  In actions on claims against a judicial branch entity, service of summons shall be made on: (a) The court executive officer, in actions on claims...
• California Government Code Section 956
  Whenever the State has acquired by gift, under the will of a decedent or through a decree of distribution in the estate of a decedent,...
• California Government Code Section 960
  As used in this chapter, "public agency" has the meaning given that term by Section 53050.
• California Government Code Section 960.2
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, service of process in an action or proceeding against a public agency may be made in the...
• California Government Code Section 960.3
  (a) If it is shown by affidavit to the satisfaction of the court or judge that the circumstances required by Section 960.2 exist, the court...
• California Government Code Section 960.4
  Upon receipt of the copies of process pursuant to Section 960.3, the Secretary of State shall give notice of the service of the process to...
• California Government Code Section 960.5
  The Attorney General, until he is relieved of further responsibility in the manner provided in Section 960.4, or until the matter has been reduced to...
• California Government Code Section 960.8
  Service of process in an action or proceeding against a public agency may be made in conformity with the information contained in the statement in...
• California Government Code Section 962
  Upon entry of a verdict against a public entity in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in an action for personal injury or wrongful...
• California Government Code Section 965
  (a) Upon the allowance by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board of all or part of a claim for which the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 965.1
  Pursuant to Section 13909, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board may delegate to the executive officer the authority to allow a claim filed...
• California Government Code Section 965.2
  (a) The Controller shall draw a warrant for the payment of any final judgment or settlement against the state whenever the Director of Finance certifies...
• California Government Code Section 965.3
  (a) The Attorney General shall notify the Controller in writing when all claims for which an appropriation is made to the the Department of Justice...
• California Government Code Section 965.4
  The Governor shall report to the Legislature, at each session, all judgments or settlements against the State not theretofore reported.
• California Government Code Section 965.5
  (a) A judgment for the payment of money against the state or a state agency is enforceable until 10 years after the time the judgment...
• California Government Code Section 965.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the state nor a judicial branch entity, nor any officers or employees thereof, may be required by any...
• California Government Code Section 965.65
  (a) If a request is made for certification of availability of funds, approval of a settlement, or inclusion of a claim in a claims bill...
• California Government Code Section 965.7
  (a) A writ of mandate is an appropriate remedy to compel the state, or an officer or employee of the state, to perform any act...
• California Government Code Section 965.8
  Where any provision of this division requires a certificate of the Director of Finance or the Director of Transportation that a sufficient appropriation exists for...
• California Government Code Section 965.9
  This chapter does not apply to claims, settlements, and judgments against the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 970
  As used in this article: (a) "Fiscal year" means a year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 unless the local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 970.1
  (a) A judgment is enforceable until 10 years after the time the judgment becomes final or, if the judgment is payable in installments, until 10...
• California Government Code Section 970.2
  A local public entity shall pay any judgment in the manner provided in this article. A writ of mandate is an appropriate remedy to compel...
• California Government Code Section 970.4
  Except as provided in Section 970.6, the governing body of a local public entity shall pay, to the extent funds are available in the fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 970.5
  Except as provided in Section 970.6, if a local public entity does not pay a judgment, with interest thereon, during the fiscal year in which...
• California Government Code Section 970.6
  (a) The court which enters the judgment shall order that the governing body pay the judgment, with interest thereon, in not exceeding 10 equal annual...
• California Government Code Section 970.8
  (a) Each local public entity shall in each fiscal year include in its budget a provision to provide funds in an amount sufficient to pay...
• California Government Code Section 971
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Judgment resulting from a discretionary act" means a judgment arising from a liability which the local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 971.2
  (a) All judgments for which a local public entity is liable are legal investments for all trust funds, and for the funds of all insurance...
• California Government Code Section 975
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the governing body of a local taxing entity. (b) "Local taxing entity" means a local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 975.2
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the local taxing entity to incur a bonded indebtedness to fund all or any portion of an outstanding...
• California Government Code Section 975.4
  Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication of a copy of the resolution pursuant to Section 6066 in a newspaper of general circulation...
• California Government Code Section 975.6
  The copy of the resolution published or posted shall be accompanied by a notice subscribed by the clerk or secretary of the local taxing entity...
• California Government Code Section 975.8
  At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the resolution or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the...
• California Government Code Section 976
  After the board has made its determination pursuant to Section 975.8, if it deems it necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness, it shall by resolution...
• California Government Code Section 976.2
  The resolution made pursuant to Section 976 shall constitute the notice of such election and such resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 in...
• California Government Code Section 976.4
  The board shall provide for holding the election in the same manner as provided by law in respect to general elections of the local taxing...
• California Government Code Section 976.6
  Every elector authorized to vote in general elections of the local taxing entity may vote on the proposition to authorize the bonds.
• California Government Code Section 976.8
  If two-thirds or more of the votes cast upon the proposition at the election are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness, the board may...
• California Government Code Section 977
  The board shall prescribe the form of the bonds. The bonds may be issued in denominations not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not...
• California Government Code Section 977.2
  The board may provide for the redemption of bonds issued under this article before maturity at prices determined by it. A bond shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 977.4
  The bonds shall be signed by the presiding officer of the board and countersigned by the clerk or secretary of the local taxing entity, and...
• California Government Code Section 977.6
  The local taxing entity may sell the bonds at the times or in the manner the board deems to be to the public interest. The...
• California Government Code Section 977.8
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Government Code Section 978
  Any bonds issued by any local taxing entity under the provisions of this article have the same force, value and use as bonds issued by...
• California Government Code Section 978.2
  Bonds issued under this article constitute general obligations of the local taxing entity for the payment of both principal and interest of which all property...
• California Government Code Section 978.4
  The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this article shall not be used for any purpose other than the purpose stated in...
• California Government Code Section 978.6
  The board may by resolution adopted by two-thirds vote of all its members declare that no part of a described bond issue authorized under this...
• California Government Code Section 978.8
  The authority provided in this article is in addition and supplementary to any other law authorizing public entities to issue bonds to fund an outstanding
• California Government Code Section 984
  (a) As used in this section, "not insured" includes a public entity that has no liability insurance or is self-insured by itself, or through an...
• California Government Code Section 985
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Collateral source payment" includes either of the following: (A) The direct provision of services prior to the commencement...
• California Government Code Section 985
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Collateral source payment" includes either of the following: (A) The direct provision of services prior to the commencement...
• California Government Code Section 989
  As used in this part, "local public entity" means any public entity except a state agency covered by Section 11007.4 of the Government Code.
• California Government Code Section 990
  Except for a liability which may be insured against pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) of the Labor Code, a local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 990.2
  A county may insure any officer or attache of its superior and municipal courts against all or any part of the officer or attache's liability...
• California Government Code Section 990.4
  The insurance authorized by this part may be provided by: (a) Self-insurance, which may be, but is not required to be, funded by appropriations to...
• California Government Code Section 990.6
  The cost of the insurance authorized by this part is a proper charge against the local public entity.
• California Government Code Section 990.8
  (a) Two or more local public entities, by a joint powers agreement made pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of...
• California Government Code Section 990.9
  Any city, county, city and county, or any other local public entity with authority to provide health care services may provide insurance or provide indemnity...
• California Government Code Section 991
  Where an enactment, other than this part, authorizes or requires a local public entity to insure against its liability or the liability of its employees:...
• California Government Code Section 991.2
  Neither the authority provided by this part to insure, nor the exercise of such authority, shall: (a) Impose any liability upon the local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 995
  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 995.2 and 995.4, upon request of an employee or former employee, a public entity shall provide for the defense...
• California Government Code Section 995.2
  (a) A public entity may refuse to provide for the defense of a civil action or proceeding brought against an employee or former employee if...
• California Government Code Section 995.3
  (a) If a state employee provides his or her own defense against an action brought for an alleged violation of Section 8547.3, and if it...
• California Government Code Section 995.4
  A public entity may, but is not required to, provide for the defense of: (a) An action or proceeding brought by the public entity to...
• California Government Code Section 995.6
  A public entity is not required to provide for the defense of an administrative proceeding brought against an employee or former employee, but a public...
• California Government Code Section 995.8
  A public entity is not required to provide for the defense of a criminal action or proceeding (including a proceeding to remove an officer under...
• California Government Code Section 995.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon a request made in writing to a public entity, the public entity may defend or indemnify or defend...
• California Government Code Section 996
  A public entity may provide for a defense pursuant to this part by its own attorney or by employing other counsel for this purpose or...
• California Government Code Section 996.4
  If after request a public entity fails or refuses to provide an employee or former employee with a defense against a civil action or proceeding...
• California Government Code Section 996.6
  The rights of an employee or former employee under this part are in addition to and not in lieu of any rights he may have...
• California Government Code Section 997
  The Legislature finds and declares that, in order to aid the victims of the collapse of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the I-880 Cypress...
• California Government Code Section 997.1
  (a) Any person may file an application with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for compensation based on personal property loss, personal injury,...
• California Government Code Section 997.2
  The application of any individual who was injured as a result of the collapse of the Bay Bridge or I-880 Cypress structure caused by the...
• California Government Code Section 997.3
  (a) If the board determines that an applicant pursuant to this part is eligible for compensation, and upon receipt of all information it deems necessary...
• California Government Code Section 997.4
  For the purpose of computing the time limits applicable to the date of the accrual of a cause of action against any party, other than...
• California Government Code Section 997.5
  There is hereby created within the State Treasury the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and I-880 Cypress Structure Disaster Fund for the purpose of paying, pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 997.6
  The board may adopt regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 to implement this...
• California Government Code Section 998
  The Legislature finds and declares that in order to alleviate the economic and social disruptions arising out of the Lake Davis Northern Pike Eradication Project,...
• California Government Code Section 998.1
  (a) The sum of two million eight hundred sixty-seven thousand six hundred sixty-seven dollars ($2,867,667) is hereby transferred from the Lake Davis Northern Pike Eradication...
• California Government Code Section 998.2
  (a) Any person or business may file an application with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board for compensation based on personal injury, property...
• California Government Code Section 998.3
  (a) If the office of the Attorney General or its designee determines that an applicant pursuant to this part is eligible for compensation, upon receipt...
• California Government Code Section 1000
  Executive officers are either: (a) Civil. (b) Military.
• California Government Code Section 1001
  The civil executive officers are: a Governor; a private secretary and an executive secretary for the Governor; a Lieutenant Governor; a Secretary of State; a...
• California Government Code Section 1020
  A person is incapable of holding a civil office if at the time of his election or appointment he is not 18 years of age...
• California Government Code Section 1020.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 1020 or any other provision of law, no person shall be incapable of holding any office in a youth services bureau solely...
• California Government Code Section 1021
  A person is disqualified from holding any office upon conviction of designated crimes as specified in the Constitution and laws of the State.
• California Government Code Section 1022
  Other provisions respecting disqualification for particular offices are contained in the Constitution and in the laws concerning the various offices.
• California Government Code Section 1023
  A person is ineligible to hold office or employment of any kind under the State, any county, city, district or other political or governmental unit...
• California Government Code Section 1024
  Any person who holds any office or employment under the state or any county, city, district or other political or governmental unit of the state...
• California Government Code Section 1026
  Every person who exercises the duties of any office in violation of the provisions of this article relative to oaths, and every person who knowingly...
• California Government Code Section 1027
  Every person who exercises the duties of any employment in violation of the provisions of this article relative to oaths, and every person who knowingly...
• California Government Code Section 1027.5
  The Legislature of the State of California finds that: (a) There exists a world-wide revolutionary movement to establish a totalitarian dictatorship based upon force and...
• California Government Code Section 1028
  It shall be sufficient cause for the dismissal of any public employee when such public employee advocates or is knowingly a member of the Communist...
• California Government Code Section 1028.1
  It shall be the duty of any public employee who may be subpenaed or ordered by the governing body of the state or local agency...
• California Government Code Section 1028.2
  Sections 1027.5, 1028.1, and 1028, added by Chapter 1418 of the Statutes of 1947, are not applicable to school district employees. It is the intent...
• California Government Code Section 1029
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), or (d), each of the following persons is disqualified from holding office as a peace officer or...
• California Government Code Section 1029.1
  The Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority shall complete a background investigation, using as guidelines standards defined by the Commission on...
• California Government Code Section 1030
  A classifiable set of the fingerprints of every person who is now employed, or who hereafter becomes employed, as a peace officer of the state,...
• California Government Code Section 1031
  Each class of public officers or employees declared by law to be peace officers shall meet all of the following minimum standards: (a) Be a...
• California Government Code Section 1031.1
  (a) For purposes of performing a thorough background investigation for applicants not currently employed as a peace officer, as required by subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 1031.2
  Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336) and paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 12940, the collection of nonmedical...
• California Government Code Section 1031.5
  (a) Any person employed by a governmental agency on September 13, 1982, as a peace officer or a peace officer trainee, or who, prior to...
• California Government Code Section 1040
  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles may require fingerprint images and associated information from an employee or prospective employee whose duties include or would include...
• California Government Code Section 1041
  (a) (1) The Department of Managed Health Care may require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee whose duties would include access to...
• California Government Code Section 1042
  (a) (1) The California Gambling Control Commission may require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee if the employee's duties include, or would...
• California Government Code Section 1060
  The following officers shall keep their offices in the City of Sacramento: (a) The Governor. (b) Secretary of State. (c) Controller. (d) Treasurer. (e) Attorney...
• California Government Code Section 1061
  The director of each department who is a member of the Governor's council shall reside at Sacramento.
• California Government Code Section 1062
  No state or municipal officer shall absent himself from the state for more than 60 days, unless either: (a) Upon business of the state, or...
• California Government Code Section 1063
  No officer of a county or judicial district shall absent himself from the state for more than 30 days unless either: (a) Upon business for...
• California Government Code Section 1064
  No member of the governing board of a school district or a community college district shall be absent from the state for more than 60...
• California Government Code Section 1090
  Members of the Legislature, state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees shall not be financially interested in any contract made by them...
• California Government Code Section 1090.1
  No officer or employee of the State nor any Member of the Legislature shall accept any commission for the placement of insurance on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 1091
  (a) An officer shall not be deemed to be interested in a contract entered into by a body or board of which the officer is...
• California Government Code Section 1091.1
  The prohibition against an interest in contracts provided by this article or any other provision of law shall not be deemed to prohibit any public...
• California Government Code Section 1091.2
  Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by local workforce investment boards created pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment Act of...
• California Government Code Section 1091.3
  Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by a county children and families commission created pursuant to the California Children and...
• California Government Code Section 1091.4
  (a) As used in Section 1091, "remote interest" also includes a person who has a financial interest in a contract, if all of the following...
• California Government Code Section 1091.5
  (a) An officer or employee shall not be deemed to be interested in a contract if his or her interest is any of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 1091.6
  An officer who is also a member of the governing body of an organization that has an interest in, or to which the public agency...
• California Government Code Section 1092
  (a) Every contract made in violation of any of the provisions of Section 1090 may be avoided at the instance of any party except the...
• California Government Code Section 1092.5
  Notwithstanding Section 1092, no lease or purchase of, or encumbrance on, real property may be avoided, under the terms of Section 1092, in derogation of...
• California Government Code Section 1093
  The State Treasurer and Controller, county and city officers, and their deputies and clerks shall not purchase or sell, or in any manner receive for...
• California Government Code Section 1094
  Every officer whose duty it is to audit and allow the accounts of other state, county, or city officers shall, before allowing such accounts, require...
• California Government Code Section 1095
  Officers charged with the disbursement of public moneys shall not pay any warrant or other evidence of indebtedness against the State, county, or city when...
• California Government Code Section 1096
  Upon the officer charged with the disbursement of public moneys being informed by affidavit that any officer, whose account is about to be settled, audited,...
• California Government Code Section 1097
  Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser...
• California Government Code Section 1098
  (a) Any current public officer or employee who willfully and knowingly discloses for pecuniary gain, to any other person, confidential information acquired by him or...
• California Government Code Section 1099
  (a) A public officer, including, but not limited to, an appointed or elected member of a governmental board, commission, committee, or other body, shall not...
• California Government Code Section 1100
  As used in this article, "public securities" means any issue of bonds, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any,...
• California Government Code Section 1101
  As used in this article, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, school district, or any other public district...
• California Government Code Section 1102
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a member of the legislative body of any public body or any officer or employee thereof shall...
• California Government Code Section 1125
  "Local agency," as used in this article, means a county, city, city and county, political subdivision, district, or municipal corporation.
• California Government Code Section 1126
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 1128 and 1129, a local agency officer or employee shall not engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise for...
• California Government Code Section 1127
  It is not the intent of this article to prevent the employment by private business of a public employee, such as a peace officer, fireman,...
• California Government Code Section 1128
  Service on an appointed or elected governmental board, commission, committee, or other body by an attorney employed by a local agency in a nonelective position...
• California Government Code Section 1129
  Service on the Board of Directors of the Local Agency Self-Insurance Authority by an officer or employee of a local agency, as defined by subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 1130
  When the title of the incumbent of any office in this State is contested by proceedings instituted in any court for that purpose, no warrant...
• California Government Code Section 1131
  As soon as the proceedings are instituted, the clerk of the court in which they are pending shall certify the facts to the officers whose...
• California Government Code Section 1132
  This article does not apply to any party to a contest or proceeding who holds the certificate of election or commission of office and discharges...
• California Government Code Section 1150
  As used in this article: (a) "State employee" means all persons who receive wages for services through the uniform payroll system established and administered by...
• California Government Code Section 1151
  State employees may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for payment of one or more of the following: (a) Insurance premiums...
• California Government Code Section 1151.5
  (a) In addition to deductions authorized pursuant to Section 1151, a state employee may authorize deductions to be made from salaries or wages for payment...
• California Government Code Section 1152
  Deductions may be requested by employee organizations and bona fide associations from the salaries and wages of their members, as follows: (a) Employee organizations may...
• California Government Code Section 1153
  The Controller shall provide for the administration of payroll deductions as set forth in Sections 1151, 1151.5, and 1152, salary reductions pursuant to Section 12420.2,...
• California Government Code Section 1156
  (a) Any eligible employee who is participating in a flexible benefits program may elect to receive one or more benefits that qualify to be excluded...
• California Government Code Section 1156.1
  (a) Any eligible employee may elect to participate in the State Employees' Pretax Parking Payroll Deduction Program. The program shall be administered by the Department...
• California Government Code Section 1157
  (a) Officers and employees of a public agency, other than those under the uniform payroll system provided for in Article 5 (commencing with Section 12470)...
• California Government Code Section 1157.1
  Employees of a public agency, on approval of and in accordance with the provisions made by the governing body of the public agency, may authorize...
• California Government Code Section 1157.2
  With the approval of the governing body of a public agency and under such regulations as it may prescribe, employees of the public agency may...
• California Government Code Section 1157.3
  Employees, including retired employees, of a public agency in addition to any other purposes authorized in this article, on approval of the governing body of...
• California Government Code Section 1157.4
  (a) Employees of a county employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries...
• California Government Code Section 1157.5
  Employees, including retired employees, of a county, other than a city and county, employing more than 20,000 persons in addition to any other purposes authorized...
• California Government Code Section 1157.6
  Retired employees of a public agency, other than a school district, or eligible surviving spouses of such retired employees, on approval of the governing body...
• California Government Code Section 1157.7
  Employees of a public agency employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize dues deductions for membership in an ethnic...
• California Government Code Section 1157.8
  Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for the purchase of United States savings bonds...
• California Government Code Section 1157.9
  Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize wage and salary deductions for deposit into an account with a state or federal bank or savings...
• California Government Code Section 1157.10
  Payroll deductions for state employees of public agencies, other than those under the uniform payroll system, shall be administered by the appropriate officer of the...
• California Government Code Section 1157.11
  (a) Officers and employees of a county with a population of over 8,000,000, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for...
• California Government Code Section 1158
  No provision of law prohibiting, restricting or limiting the assignment or order for wages or salaries in any way prohibits, restricts or limits the powers...
• California Government Code Section 1170
  As used in this article, "law" means any federal law relating to internal revenue.
• California Government Code Section 1170.5
  In the case of the State, "law" also means the law of any state providing for the withholding of personal income tax from wages or...
• California Government Code Section 1171
  The State, its agencies and political subdivisions, cities, and all other public agencies may withhold from any wages or salaries paid by them that portion...
• California Government Code Section 1172
  They may pay the withheld sums at the times and in the manner provided by the law and make the records, reports, and returns required...
• California Government Code Section 1173
  The Department of Finance shall direct the manner and form in which each state department, board, commission, or other agency maintains the records incidental to...
• California Government Code Section 1174
  All funds withheld pursuant to this article by any state unit whose funds are deposited in the State Treasury shall, immediately upon such withholding, be...
• California Government Code Section 1175
  All funds withheld by any county pursuant to this article shall, immediately upon such withholding, be deposited in such depositary or depositaries as may be...
• California Government Code Section 1176
  All funds withheld pursuant to this article by any public agency not within the provisions of Sections 1174 or 1175 of this code shall, immediately...
• California Government Code Section 1190
  All assistants, deputies, and other subordinate officers, whose appointments are not otherwise provided for, shall be appointed by the officer or body to whom they...
• California Government Code Section 1191
  When not otherwise provided for, the appointment of deputies and other subordinate officers shall be made in writing and filed in the office of the...
• California Government Code Section 1192
  When not otherwise provided for, within 10 days after receiving notice of their appointment, deputies and other subordinate officers shall take and file an oath...
• California Government Code Section 1193
  When the number of deputies or other subordinate officers is not fixed by law, it is limited only by the discretion of the appointing power.
• California Government Code Section 1194
  When not otherwise provided for, each deputy possesses the powers and may perform the duties attached by law to the office of his principal.
• California Government Code Section 1195
  Every officer of the state, or of any county, city, or judicial district who accepts, keeps, retains or diverts for his own use or the...
• California Government Code Section 1220
  When an officer discharges ex officio the duties of another office than that to which he is elected or appointed, his official signature and attestation...
• California Government Code Section 1221
  Where not otherwise provided, the seals of office of the various executive officers are those in use by such officers on January 1, 1873.
• California Government Code Section 1222
  Every wilful omission to perform any duty enjoined by law upon any public officer, or person holding any public trust or employment, where no special...
• California Government Code Section 1223
  When traveling expenses are allowed by law to any state, county, judicial district, or city officer, he may contract with the appropriate authorities for an...
• California Government Code Section 1224
  Any money paid by a state, county, judicial district, or city officer for United States postage for use in conducting the official business of his...
• California Government Code Section 1225
  Every executive and judicial officer and every Member of the Legislature may administer and certify oaths. A former judge of a court of record in...
• California Government Code Section 1226
  When the records in the office of any public board or officer authorized to issue certificates show the issuance of a certificate other than a...
• California Government Code Section 1228
  An inmate of any state institution shall not be employed in the manufacture or production of any article intended for the private and personal use...
• California Government Code Section 1228.5
  The governing board of any local agency may grant to any employee of such local governmental agency, upon request, a leave of absence without pay...
• California Government Code Section 1229
  Any public officer who is charged with the custody of public records may take any action, including the transfer of such records to another place...
• California Government Code Section 1230
  The governing body of a city, county, city and county, or political subdivision of the State may grant leaves of absence to employees to appear...
• California Government Code Section 1230.1
  Whenever any person who is an employee subject to the provisions of Section 1230, or an employee of the state, is served with a subpoena...
• California Government Code Section 1231
  No state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose,...
• California Government Code Section 1231.1
  Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay to officers and employees whatever salary that...
• California Government Code Section 1231.2
  Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay any obligation incurred between the commencement of...
• California Government Code Section 1233
  Acting in accordance with Executive Order 11246 (30FR 12319), as amended, applicants for employment by, and incumbent employees of, public agencies may be solicited to...
• California Government Code Section 1234
  No public officer while serving in any elective office in this state shall receive a retirement allowance which is based in whole or part upon...
• California Government Code Section 1235
  The salary of any elected public office shall not be reduced during an election year after any candidate for that particular office has filed the...
• California Government Code Section 1235
  (a) Any person who is receiving an allowance from a public retirement system, who is charged by indictment or complaint, either in a court of...
• California Government Code Section 1236
  (a) All city, county, city and county, and district employees that conduct audits or that conduct audit activities of those respective agencies shall conduct their...
• California Government Code Section 1237
  All state and local agencies with an aggregate spending of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or more annually shall consider establishing an ongoing audit function.
• California Government Code Section 1238
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1236, if a city, county, city and county, or district determines that the implementation of any specific standard enumerated in...
• California Government Code Section 1239
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1236, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, may, by majority vote, grant a waiver to any agency that petitions the committee...
• California Government Code Section 1241
  Whenever a section of the California Constitution uses both the terms "salary" and "compensation", with respect to a public officer or employee, the terms shall...
• California Government Code Section 1243
  (a) This section shall apply to any elected public officer who takes public office, or is reelected to public office, on or after January 1,...
• California Government Code Section 1300
  Every officer, the mode of whose appointment is not prescribed by law, shall be appointed by the Governor.
• California Government Code Section 1301
  Every office, the term of which is not fixed by law, is held at the pleasure of the appointing power.
• California Government Code Section 1302
  Every officer whose term has expired shall continue to discharge the duties of his office until his successor has qualified.
• California Government Code Section 1303
  Every person who exercises any function of a public office without taking the oath of office, or without giving the required bond, is guilty of...
• California Government Code Section 1320
  Nominations made by the Governor to the Senate shall be in writing, designating the residence of the nominee and the office for which he is
• California Government Code Section 1321
  Whenever the Senate concurs in a nomination, its secretary shall immediately deliver a copy of the resolution of concurrence, certified by the president and secretary,...
• California Government Code Section 1322
  In addition to any other statutory provisions requiring confirmation by the Senate of officers appointed by the Governor, the appointments by the Governor of the...
• California Government Code Section 1323
  In addition to any other statutory provisions requiring confirmation by the Senate of officers appointed by the Governor, including Section 1322, the appointment by the...
• California Government Code Section 1340
  The Governor shall commission: (a) All officers elected by the people whose commissions are not otherwise provided for except those officers to whom a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 1341
  The commissions of all officers commissioned by the Governor shall be issued in the name of the people of the State. They shall be signed...
• California Government Code Section 1342
  The commissions of all other officers, where no special provision is made by law, shall be signed by the presiding officer of the body or...
• California Government Code Section 1360
  Unless otherwise provided, before any officer enters on the duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation set forth in...
• California Government Code Section 1362
  Unless otherwise provided, the oath may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths.
• California Government Code Section 1363
  (a) Unless otherwise provided, every oath of office certified by the officer before whom it was taken shall be filed within the time required as...
• California Government Code Section 1364
  It is unlawful to remove a person from an office or position of public trust because such person has not complied with any law, charter,...
• California Government Code Section 1365
  It is unlawful for any person having the power of removal from office of any officer to remove or threaten to remove the officer from...
• California Government Code Section 1366
  Any officer or person who is removed or threatened with removal from any office or position of public trust may bring an action to restrain...
• California Government Code Section 1367
  No compensation nor reimbursement for expenses incurred shall be paid to any officer by any public agency unless he has taken and subscribed to the...
• California Government Code Section 1368
  Every person who, while taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, states as true any material matter which he or...
• California Government Code Section 1369
  Every person having taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, who while holding office, advocates or becomes a member of...
• California Government Code Section 1450
  Unless otherwise provided, every official bond shall be filed in the proper office within the time prescribed for filing the oath.
• California Government Code Section 1451
  The approval of every official bond shall be indorsed thereon and signed by the officer approving the bond.
• California Government Code Section 1452
  No officer with whom any official bond is required to be filed shall file such bond until approved.
• California Government Code Section 1453
  Official bonds shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose entitled "Record of Official Bonds."
• California Government Code Section 1454
  Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of state officers prescribed by law shall be approved by either the Governor or the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 1455
  Unless otherwise provided, all official bonds of state officers and employees not expressly prescribed by law shall be forwarded to the Department of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 1456
  The official bond of the Secretary of State shall be filed in the office of the Treasurer after it is recorded.
• California Government Code Section 1457
  Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of officers of a county and judicial district shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court,...
• California Government Code Section 1458
  The bonds of supervisors, treasurers, county clerks, auditors, sheriffs, tax collectors, district attorneys, recorders, assessors, surveyors, superintendents of schools, public administrators, and coroners shall be...
• California Government Code Section 1459
  After being recorded, the official bond of the county clerk shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer.
• California Government Code Section 1460
  Every officer with whom official bonds are filed shall carefully keep and preserve the bonds. He shall give certified copies thereof to any person demanding...
• California Government Code Section 1460.1
  The county recorder shall record the bond and return it to the county officer with whom it is required to be filed. Such officer shall...
• California Government Code Section 1461
  Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall give a bond, corresponding in substance and form with the bond required of the officer originally elected...
• California Government Code Section 1462
  No fee shall be charged by any officer to file or record any official bond of any official of this state or any political subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 1463
  For the purposes of this chapter, a government crime insurance policy or employee dishonesty insurance policy, including faithful performance, may be provided as an alternative...
• California Government Code Section 1480
  Every officer, agent or employee not required by statute to give an official bond may be required to give an individual official bond, or other...
• California Government Code Section 1481
  (a) When deemed expedient by the appointing power, a master official bond or other form of master bond may be used which shall provide coverage...
• California Government Code Section 1481.1
  For the purposes of Section 1481 the board of supervisors of a county is deemed to be the appointing power of the adult probation officer,...
• California Government Code Section 1482
  Each such bond may contain a provision authorizing the appointing power to cancel it, if it is an individual bond, or the contract of coverage...
• California Government Code Section 1500
  All official bonds shall be made payable to the State of California in such penalty and with such conditions as required by this article, or...
• California Government Code Section 1501
  The condition of an official bond shall be that the principal will well, truly, and faithfully perform all official duties then required of him by...
• California Government Code Section 1504
  Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein for: (a) Any and...
• California Government Code Section 1505
  Whenever, except in criminal prosecutions, any special penalty, forfeiture, or liability is imposed on any officer of a county or judicial district for nonperformance or...
• California Government Code Section 1530
  The officer whose duty it is to approve official bonds required of officers of a county or judicial district not named in Section 1458 shall...
• California Government Code Section 1531
  The sureties on the bonds of all officers of a county or judicial district named in Section 1458 shall first be approved by the presiding...
• California Government Code Section 1532
  A member of the board of supervisors shall not be accepted as surety upon the official bond of any officer of a county or judicial...
• California Government Code Section 1650
  This article does not apply to notaries public.
• California Government Code Section 1651
  The premium or charge for bonds given by surety companies for the officers, herein named, and for their deputies, clerks, assistants or subordinate officers shall...
• California Government Code Section 1652
  No premium or charge paid by the state, a county, city, or district shall exceed one-half of 1 percent per annum on the amount of...
• California Government Code Section 1653
  The payment of premiums for all bonds of deputies, clerks, assistants or subordinate officers of county officers shall not be a county charge unless the...
• California Government Code Section 1750
  Resignations shall be in writing, and made as follows: (a) By the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to the Legislature, if it is in session; and...
• California Government Code Section 1750.5
  The Speaker of the Assembly and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee shall immediately inform the Governor in writing whenever a resignation has been...
• California Government Code Section 1751
  In all cases not otherwise provided for in this article or elsewhere, a resignation is made by filing the resignation in the office of the...
• California Government Code Section 1752
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person elected or appointed to the governing body of any city, county, or district having an elected...
• California Government Code Section 1770
  An office becomes vacant on the happening of any of the following events before the expiration of the term: (a) The death of the incumbent....
• California Government Code Section 1770.1
  The disqualification from holding office upon conviction, as provided in Section 1021, or the forfeiture of office upon conviction, as provided in subdivision (h) of...
• California Government Code Section 1770.2
  Upon the entry of a plea of guilty, the entry of a plea of nolo contendere, or the rendering of a verdict of a guilty...
• California Government Code Section 1771
  (a) When an officer is removed, declared insane, or convicted of a felony or offense involving a violation of his or her official duty, or...
• California Government Code Section 1772
  When any office becomes vacant and no mode is provided by law for filling the vacancy, the Governor shall fill the vacancy by granting a...
• California Government Code Section 1773
  When a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative to Congress, or in either house of the Legislature, the Governor shall within 14 calendar days...
• California Government Code Section 1773.5
  In addition to any other applicable provision of law, a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative in Congress in the event of his or...
• California Government Code Section 1774
  (a) When an office, the appointment to which is vested in the Governor and Senate, either becomes vacant or the term of the incumbent thereof...
• California Government Code Section 1774.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the appointment by the Governor of a person to a public office is subject to confirmation by the...
• California Government Code Section 1774.2
  (a) For any person whose term of office expires prior to Senate confirmation and who is reappointed to that office, the time served prior to,...
• California Government Code Section 1774.3
  With respect to any body or entity having more than one member, including, but not limited to, a board, commission, or committee, "office" includes every...
• California Government Code Section 1774.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no person holding an office which is deemed to be vacant pursuant to Section 1774 may, after the time...
• California Government Code Section 1774.7
  (a) Sections 1774, 1774.2, 1774.3, and 1774.5 shall apply to any person appointed, or reappointed, prior to, or on or after, January 1, 1981, except...
• California Government Code Section 1775
  Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, or Attorney General,...
• California Government Code Section 1776
  Except as otherwise provided in the Constitution, when a person is appointed by the Governor, or by the Governor by and with the advice and...
• California Government Code Section 1777
  After filing his official oath and bond, any person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy possesses all the rights and powers and is subject...
• California Government Code Section 1778
  A vacancy in any appointive office on the governing board of a special district shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors of...
• California Government Code Section 1779
  A vacancy on any appointed governing board of a special district shall be filled by the appointing authority within 90 days immediately subsequent to its...
• California Government Code Section 1780
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a vacancy in any elective office on the governing board of a special district, other than those specified...
• California Government Code Section 1781
  The provisions of Section 1780 shall not apply to a school district, a district organized pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 11501) of the...
• California Government Code Section 1782
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, whenever a vacancy occurs on a state board or commission, or a seat on a board or commission...
• California Government Code Section 1850
  Every officer is entitled to the possession of all books and papers pertaining to his office, or in the custody of a former incumbent by...
• California Government Code Section 1851
  If any person, including a former incumbent, refuses or neglects to deliver to the actual incumbent any such books or papers, the actual incumbent may...
• California Government Code Section 1852
  After notice to the adverse party, the court or judge shall proceed in a summary way to hear the allegations and proof of the parties,...
• California Government Code Section 1853
  The execution of the order and the delivery of the books and papers may be enforced by: (a) Attachment as for a witness. (b) At...
• California Government Code Section 1854
  Every person who wilfully and knowingly intrudes himself into any public office to which he has not been elected or appointed, and every person who,...
• California Government Code Section 1855
  Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or...
• California Government Code Section 3000
  An officer forfeits his office upon conviction of designated crimes as specified in the Constitution and laws of the State.
• California Government Code Section 3001
  Any State, county, or city officer who is intoxicated while in discharge of the duties of his office, or by reason of intoxication is disqualified...
• California Government Code Section 3002
  Whenever the Governor is authorized to appoint a person to an office with the advice and consent of, or subject to confirmation by, the Senate,...
• California Government Code Section 3003
  An elected officer of the state or a city, county, city and county, or district in this state forfeits his or her office upon the...
• California Government Code Section 3020
  State officers elected on a statewide basis, members of the State Board of Equalization, and judges of state courts are subject to impeachment for misconduct...
• California Government Code Section 3020.5
  The Senate when sitting as the court of impeachment is a court of record. The officers of the Senate are the officers of the court.
• California Government Code Section 3021
  All impeachments shall be by resolution adopted, originated in, and conducted by managers elected by the Assembly.
• California Government Code Section 3022
  The managers shall prepare articles of impeachment, present them at the bar of the Senate, and prosecute them. The trial shall be before the Senate,...
• California Government Code Section 3023
  When an officer is impeached by the Assembly for a misdemeanor in office, the articles of impeachment shall be delivered to the President of the
• California Government Code Section 3024
  The Senate shall assign a day for the hearing of the impeachment and inform the Assembly thereof.
• California Government Code Section 3025
  Not less than 10 days before the day fixed for the hearing, the President of the Senate shall have served on the defendant a copy...
• California Government Code Section 3026
  The service shall be made upon the defendant personally. If upon diligent inquiry he can not be found within the State, upon proof of that...
• California Government Code Section 3027
  If the defendant does not appear, upon proof of service or publication the Senate may, of its own motion or for cause shown, assign another...
• California Government Code Section 3028
  When the defendant appears, he may object in writing to the sufficiency of the articles of impeachment, or he may answer the articles by an...
• California Government Code Section 3029
  If the objection to the sufficiency of the articles of impeachment is not sustained by a majority of the members of the Senate who heard...
• California Government Code Section 3030
  If the defendant pleads not guilty, the Senate shall try the impeachment at the time it appoints. The plea shall be entered upon the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 3031
  At the time and place appointed, and before the Senate acts on the impeachment, the secretary shall administer to the President of the Senate, and...
• California Government Code Section 3032
  The defendant can not be convicted on impeachment without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected, voting by ayes and noes. If two-thirds of...
• California Government Code Section 3033
  After conviction and at the time appointed by the Senate, it shall pronounce judgment, in the form of a resolution entered upon the Senate Journal.
• California Government Code Section 3034
  On the adoption of the resolution by a majority of the members present who voted on the question of acquittal or conviction, it becomes the...
• California Government Code Section 3035
  The judgment may be that the defendant be suspended, or that he be removed from office and disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust,...
• California Government Code Section 3036
  If judgment of suspension is given, during the continuance of the judgment the defendant is disqualified from receiving the salary, fees, or emoluments of the
• California Government Code Section 3037
  Whenever articles of impeachment against any officer subject to impeachment are presented to the Senate, the officer is temporarily suspended from his office and can...
• California Government Code Section 3038
  Upon temporary suspension of any officer other than the Governor, his office shall at once be temporarily filled by an appointment made by the Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 3039
  If the Lieutenant Governor is impeached, notice of the impeachment shall be immediately given to the Senate by the Assembly in order that another president...
• California Government Code Section 3040
  If the offense for which the defendant is convicted on impeachment is also the subject of an indictment or information, the indictment or information is...
• California Government Code Section 3060
  An accusation in writing against any officer of a district, county, or city, including any member of the governing board or personnel commission of a...
• California Government Code Section 3061
  The accusation shall state the offense charged in ordinary and concise language, and without repetition.
• California Government Code Section 3062
  The accusation shall be delivered by the foreman of the grand jury to the district attorney of the county, unless he is the officer accused.
• California Government Code Section 3063
  The district attorney shall have a copy of the accusation served upon the defendant, and by notice in writing shall require the accused to appear...
• California Government Code Section 3064
  The defendant shall appear at the time stated in the notice and answer the accusation, unless for some sufficient cause the court assigns another day...
• California Government Code Section 3065
  The defendant may answer the accusation either by objecting to its sufficiency or any article therein, or by denying the truth of the accusation.
• California Government Code Section 3066
  If he objects to the legal sufficiency of the accusation, the objection shall be in writing. The objection need not be in any specific form....
• California Government Code Section 3067
  If he denies the truth of the accusation, the denial may be oral and without oath. The denial shall be entered upon the minutes.
• California Government Code Section 3068
  If an objection to the sufficiency of the accusation is not sustained, the defendant shall answer thereto forthwith.
• California Government Code Section 3069
  If the defendant pleads guilty, or refuses to answer the accusation, the court shall render judgment of conviction against him. If he denies the matters...
• California Government Code Section 3070
  The trial shall be by a jury, and conducted in all respects in the same manner as the trial of an indictment.
• California Government Code Section 3071
  The district attorney and the defendant are each entitled to such process as is necessary to enforce the attendance of witnesses as upon a trial...
• California Government Code Section 3072
  Upon a conviction and at the time appointed by the court it shall pronounce judgment that the defendant be removed from office. To warrant a...
• California Government Code Section 3073
  The same proceedings may be had on like grounds for the removal of a district attorney, except that the accusation shall be delivered by the...
• California Government Code Section 3074
  Any officer subject to removal pursuant to this article may be removed from office for willful or corrupt misconduct in office occurring at any time...
• California Government Code Section 3075
  In a proceeding under this article, appeal is to the court of appeal.
• California Government Code Section 3100
  It is hereby declared that the protection of the health and safety and preservation of the lives and property of the people of the state...
• California Government Code Section 3101
  For the purpose of this chapter the term "disaster service worker" includes all public employees and all volunteers in any disaster council or emergency organization...
• California Government Code Section 3102
  (a) All disaster service workers shall, before they enter upon the duties of their employment, take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation required by...
• California Government Code Section 3103
  The oath or affirmation required by this chapter is the oath or affirmation set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of
• California Government Code Section 3104
  The oath or affirmation may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths. The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker may be...
• California Government Code Section 3105
  (a) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker of the state shall be filed as prescribed by State Personnel Board rule within 30...
• California Government Code Section 3106
  Compliance with this chapter shall, as to state employees, be deemed full compliance with Chapter 4, Part 1, Division 5, Title 2 of this code,...
• California Government Code Section 3107
  No compensation nor reimbursement for expenses incurred shall be paid to any disaster service worker by any public agency unless such disaster service worker has...
• California Government Code Section 3108
  Every person who, while taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, states as true any material matter which he or...
• California Government Code Section 3109
  Every person having taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, who, while in the employ of, or service with, the...
• California Government Code Section 3110
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California State Government Volunteers Act.
• California Government Code Section 3111
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Volunteer" means any person who, of his own free will, provides goods or services, without any financial gain, to...
• California Government Code Section 3112
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Since the spirit of volunteerism has long animated generations of Americans to give of their time and abilities...
• California Government Code Section 3118
  All volunteers shall comply with applicable department and other state policy and regulations. It shall be the responsibility of the state department in which a...
• California Government Code Section 3119
  Each state department or division is hereby authorized to utilize the services of volunteers. Each state department or division utilizing the services of volunteers shall:...
• California Government Code Section 3119.1
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the Department of Aging's use of volunteers, pursuant to the provisions of Titles III (42 U.S.C....
• California Government Code Section 3119.5
  Notwithstanding Section 3118, any state or local agency that chooses to utilize volunteers shall implement a policy whereby no person aged 60 years or older...
• California Government Code Section 3120
  As used herein "local agency" means a county, city and county, city, school district, office of county superintendent of schools, or other special district.
• California Government Code Section 3121
  Any local agency may, subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the legislative body thereof, insure its officers, directors, deputies, assistants, employees and agents for...
• California Government Code Section 3122
  The travel insurance authorized by this chapter shall be in addition to any compensation secured under Division 4 (commencing with Section 3201) of the Labor...
• California Government Code Section 3123
  The office of county superintendent of schools may carry a master policy for travel insurance on behalf of the school districts of the county.
• California Government Code Section 3201
  The Legislature finds that political activities of public employees are of significant statewide concern. The provisions of this chapter shall supersede all provisions on this...
• California Government Code Section 3202
  This chapter applies to all officers and employees of a state or local agency. (a) "Local agency" means a county, city, city and county, political...
• California Government Code Section 3203
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or as necessary to meet requirements of federal law as it pertains to a particular employee or employees,...
• California Government Code Section 3204
  No one who holds, or who is seeking election or appointment to, any office or employment in a state or local agency shall, directly or...
• California Government Code Section 3205
  (a) An officer or employee of a local agency shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit a political contribution from an officer or employee of that...
• California Government Code Section 3205.5
  No one who holds, or who is seeking election or appointment to, any office shall, directly or indirectly, offer or arrange for any increase in...
• California Government Code Section 3206
  No officer or employee of a local agency shall participate in political activities of any kind while in uniform.
• California Government Code Section 3207
  Any city, county, or city and county charter or, in the absence of a charter provision, the governing body of any local agency and any...
• California Government Code Section 3208
  Except as provided in Section 19990, the limitations set forth in this chapter shall be the only restrictions on the political activities of state employees.
• California Government Code Section 3209
  Nothing in this chapter prevents an officer or employee of a state or local agency from soliciting or receiving political funds or contributions to promote...
• California Government Code Section 3250
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
• California Government Code Section 3251
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Firefighter" means any firefighter employed by a public agency, including, but not limited to, any...
• California Government Code Section 3252
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 3201), or whenever on duty or in uniform, no firefighter shall be prohibited from...
• California Government Code Section 3253
  When any firefighter is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member designated by the employing department...
• California Government Code Section 3254
  (a) A firefighter shall not be subjected to punitive action, or denied promotion, or be threatened with that treatment, because of the lawful exercise of...
• California Government Code Section 3254.5
  (a) An administrative appeal instituted by a firefighter under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the employing department...
• California Government Code Section 3255
  A firefighter shall not have any comment adverse to his or her interest entered in his or her personnel file, or any other file used...
• California Government Code Section 3256
  A firefighter shall have 30 days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his or her personnel file. The...
• California Government Code Section 3256.5
  (a) Every employer shall, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, upon the request of a firefighter, during usual business hours, with no loss of...
• California Government Code Section 3257
  (a) A firefighter shall not be compelled to submit to a lie detector test against his or her will. (1) Disciplinary action or other recrimination...
• California Government Code Section 3258
  A firefighter shall not be required or requested for purposes of job assignment or other personnel action to disclose any item of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3259
  A firefighter shall not have his or her locker or other space for storage that may be assigned to him or her searched except in...
• California Government Code Section 3260
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any employing department or licensing or certifying agency to deny or refuse to any firefighter the rights and protections...
• California Government Code Section 3261
  Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to limit the ability of any employing department, licensing or certifying agency, or any firefighter...
• California Government Code Section 3262
  The rights and protections described in this chapter shall only apply to a firefighter during events and circumstances involving the performance of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3300
  This chapter is known and may be cited as the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
• California Government Code Section 3301
  For purposes of this chapter, the term public safety officer means all peace officers specified in Sections 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, except subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3302
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, or whenever on duty or in uniform, no public safety officer shall be prohibited from engaging, or be...
• California Government Code Section 3303
  When any public safety officer is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member of the employing...
• California Government Code Section 3304
  (a) No public safety officer shall be subjected to punitive action, or denied promotion, or be threatened with any such treatment, because of the lawful...
• California Government Code Section 3304.5
  An administrative appeal instituted by a public safety officer under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the local...
• California Government Code Section 3305
  No public safety officer shall have any comment adverse to his interest entered in his personnel file, or any other file used for any personnel...
• California Government Code Section 3306
  A public safety officer shall have 30 days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his personnel file. Such...
• California Government Code Section 3306.5
  (a) Every employer shall, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, upon the request of a public safety officer, during usual business hours, with no...
• California Government Code Section 3307
  (a) No public safety officer shall be compelled to submit to a lie detector test against his or her will. No disciplinary action or other...
• California Government Code Section 3307.5
  (a) No public safety officer shall be required as a condition of employment by his or her employing public safety department or other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 3308
  No public safety officer shall be required or requested for purposes of job assignment or other personnel action to disclose any item of his property,...
• California Government Code Section 3309
  No public safety officer shall have his locker, or other space for storage that may be assigned to him searched except in his presence, or...
• California Government Code Section 3309.5
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any public safety department to deny or refuse to any public safety officer the rights and protections guaranteed to...
• California Government Code Section 3310
  Any public agency which has adopted, through action of its governing body or its official designee, any procedure which at a minimum provides to peace...
• California Government Code Section 3311
  Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to limit the use of any public safety agency or any public safety officer in...
• California Government Code Section 3312
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the employer of a public safety officer may not take any punitive action against an officer for wearing a...
• California Government Code Section 3313
  In the 2005-06 fiscal year, the Commission on State Mandates shall review its statement of decision regarding the Peace Officer Procedural Bill of Rights test...
• California Government Code Section 3400
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act.
• California Government Code Section 3401
  The Governor annually may award and present, in the name of the State of California, a Public Safety Medal of Valor of appropriate design, with...
• California Government Code Section 3402
  (a) There exists in state government the Public Safety Medal of Valor Review Board, whose purpose is to solicit and review applications for, and make...
• California Government Code Section 3403
  (a) The Attorney General shall review the candidates recommended to him or her by the Public Safety Medal of Valor Review Board and advise the...
• California Government Code Section 3410
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Golden Shield Act.
• California Government Code Section 3411
  The Governor annually shall award, and present in the name of the State of California, a Golden Shield Award of appropriate design, with ribbons and...
• California Government Code Section 3412
  For the purposes of this chapter, "public safety officer" means a person serving a public agency, with or without compensation, as a firefighter, law enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 3500
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between public employers and their employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving...
• California Government Code Section 3500.5
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Meyers-Milias-Brown Act."
• California Government Code Section 3501
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee organization" means either of the following: (1) Any organization that includes employees of a public agency and that...
• California Government Code Section 3501.5
  As used in this chapter, "public agency" does not mean a superior court.
• California Government Code Section 3502
  Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, public employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of...
• California Government Code Section 3502.1
  No public employee shall be subject to punitive action or denied promotion, or threatened with any such treatment, for the exercise of lawful action as...
• California Government Code Section 3502.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3502, any other provision of this chapter, or any other law, rule, or regulation, an agency shop agreement may be negotiated between...
• California Government Code Section 3503
  Recognized employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public agencies. Employee organizations may establish reasonable restrictions regarding...
• California Government Code Section 3504
  The scope of representation shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3504.5
  (a) Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law...
• California Government Code Section 3505
  The governing body of a public agency, or such boards, commissions, administrative officers or other representatives as may be properly designated by law or by...
• California Government Code Section 3505.1
  If agreement is reached by the representatives of the public agency and a recognized employee organization or recognized employee organizations, they shall jointly prepare a...
• California Government Code Section 3505.2
  If after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the public agency and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the public agency and...
• California Government Code Section 3505.3
  Public agencies shall allow a reasonable number of public agency employee representatives of recognized employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation or other...
• California Government Code Section 3505.4
  (a) If the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 30 days after his or her appointment, the employee organization may request...
• California Government Code Section 3505.5
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the factfinding panel, or, upon agreement by both parties within a...
• California Government Code Section 3505.7
  After any applicable mediation and factfinding procedures have been exhausted, but no earlier than 10 days after the factfinders' written findings of fact and recommended...
• California Government Code Section 3506
  Public agencies and employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or discriminate against public employees because of their exercise of their rights under...
• California Government Code Section 3506.5
  A public agency shall not do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate...
• California Government Code Section 3507
  (a) A public agency may adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good faith with representatives of a recognized employee organization or organizations for...
• California Government Code Section 3507.1
  (a) Unit determinations and representation elections shall be determined and processed in accordance with rules adopted by a public agency in accordance with this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 3507.3
  Professional employees shall not be denied the right to be represented separately from nonprofessional employees by a professional employee organization consisting of such professional employees....
• California Government Code Section 3507.5
  In addition to those rules and regulations a public agency may adopt pursuant to and in the same manner as in Section 3507, any such...
• California Government Code Section 3508
  (a) The governing body of a public agency may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily...
• California Government Code Section 3508.1
  For the purposes of this section, the term "police employee" includes the civilian employees of the police department of any city. Police employee does not...
• California Government Code Section 3508.5
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of a public employee to authorize a dues or service fees deduction from his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3509
  (a) The powers and duties of the board described in Section 3541.3 shall also apply, as appropriate, to this chapter and shall include the authority...
• California Government Code Section 3509.3
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed, the decision...
• California Government Code Section 3509.5
  (a) Any charging party, respondent, or intervenor aggrieved by a final decision or order of the board in an unfair practice case, except a decision...
• California Government Code Section 3510
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted and applied by the board in a manner consistent with and in accordance with judicial interpretations...
• California Government Code Section 3511
  The changes made to Sections 3501, 3507.1, and 3509 of the Government Code by legislation enacted during the 1999-2000 Regular Session of the Legislature shall...
• California Government Code Section 3511.1
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Compensation" means annual salary, stipend, or bonus, paid by a local agency employer to a...
• California Government Code Section 3511.2
  On or after January 1, 2012, any contract executed or renewed between a local agency and a local agency executive shall not provide for the...
• California Government Code Section 3512
  It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between the state and its employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving disputes...
• California Government Code Section 3513
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee organization" means any organization that includes employees of the state and that has as one of its primary...
• California Government Code Section 3514
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3514.5
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3515
  Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, state employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of...
• California Government Code Section 3515.5
  Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with the state, except that once an employee organization is recognized...
• California Government Code Section 3515.6
  All employee organizations shall have the right to have membership dues, initiation fees, membership benefit programs, and general assessments deducted pursuant to subdivision (a) of...
• California Government Code Section 3515.7
  (a) Once an employee organization is recognized as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit it may enter into an agreement with the state employer...
• California Government Code Section 3515.8
  Any state employee who pays a fair share fee shall have the right to demand and receive from the recognized employee organization, under procedures established...
• California Government Code Section 3516
  The scope of representation shall be limited to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, except, however, that the scope of representation shall...
• California Government Code Section 3516.5
  Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the employer shall give reasonable written notice to each recognized employee organization affected by any...
• California Government Code Section 3517
  The Governor, or his representative as may be properly designated by law, shall meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3517.5
  If agreement is reached between the Governor and the recognized employee organization, they shall jointly prepare a written memorandum of such understanding which shall be...
• California Government Code Section 3517.6
  (a) (1) In any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, or subdivision (i) of Section 3513, or Section 14876, 18714,...
• California Government Code Section 3517.61
  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6, for state employees in State Bargaining Unit 6, in any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3517.63
  (a) Any side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of two hundred fifty thousand dollars...
• California Government Code Section 3517.7
  If the Legislature does not approve or fully fund any provision of the memorandum of understanding which requires the expenditure of funds, either party may...
• California Government Code Section 3517.8
  (a) If a memorandum of understanding has expired, and the Governor and the recognized employee organization have not agreed to a new memorandum of understanding...
• California Government Code Section 3518
  If after a reasonable period of time, the Governor and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the Governor and the recognized employee organization...
• California Government Code Section 3518.5
  A reasonable number of employee representatives of recognized employee organizations shall be granted reasonable time off without loss of compensation or other benefits when formally...
• California Government Code Section 3518.7
  Managerial employees and confidential employees shall be prohibited from holding elective office in an employee organization which also represents "state employees," as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3519
  It shall be unlawful for the state to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or...
• California Government Code Section 3519.5
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the state to violate Section 3519. (b) Impose or threaten...
• California Government Code Section 3520
  (a) Judicial review of a unit determination shall only be allowed: (1) when the board, in response to a petition from the state or an...
• California Government Code Section 3520.5
  (a) The state shall grant exclusive recognition to employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules established by the board for employees of the state...
• California Government Code Section 3520.7
  The state employer shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations for all of the following: (a) Registering employee organizations, as defined by subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 3520.8
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed, the decision...
• California Government Code Section 3521
  (a) In determining an appropriate unit, the board shall be governed by the criteria in subdivision (b). However, the board shall not direct an election...
• California Government Code Section 3521.5
  The term "professional employee" means (a) any employee engaged in work (1) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical,...
• California Government Code Section 3521.7
  The board may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily of the enforcement of state laws....
• California Government Code Section 3522
  (a) Physicians in any state bargaining unit may negotiate under this chapter for preauthorized travel outside the state for continuing medical education. (b) The execution...
• California Government Code Section 3523
  (a) All initial meet and confer proposals of recognized employee organizations shall be presented to the employer at a public meeting, and such proposals thereafter...
• California Government Code Section 3523.5
  The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to state employees.
• California Government Code Section 3524
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Ralph C. Dills Act.
• California Government Code Section 3525
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees.
• California Government Code Section 3526
  The purpose of this chapter is to inform state supervisory, managerial, confidential, and employees otherwise excepted from coverage under the Ralph C. Dills Act by...
• California Government Code Section 3527
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee" means a civil service employee of the State of California. The "State of California" as used in this...
• California Government Code Section 3528
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the rights and protections provided to excluded employees under this chapter constitute a matter of important concern. The...
• California Government Code Section 3529
  (a) Except for supervisory employees as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 3513, excluded employees shall not hold any office in an employee organization which...
• California Government Code Section 3530
  Excluded employee organizations shall have the right to represent their excluded members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the State of California. Excluded employee...
• California Government Code Section 3531
  Supervisory employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of supervisory employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 3532
  The scope of representation for supervisory employees shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and supervisory employer-employee relations including wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3533
  Upon request, the state shall meet and confer with verified supervisory organizations representing supervisory employees on matters within the scope of representation. Prior to arriving...
• California Government Code Section 3534
  The state employer shall allow a reasonable number of supervisory public employee representatives of verified supervisory employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation...
• California Government Code Section 3535
  The Department of Personnel Administration may adopt rules and regulations for the administration of excluded employer-employee relations, including supervisory employer-employee relations, under these provisions. Such...
• California Government Code Section 3536
  The state may adopt reasonable rules and regulations providing for designation of the management and confidential employees of the state and restricting these employees from...
• California Government Code Section 3537
  Every excluded employee organization shall submit an annual registration statement on or before July 1 of each calendar year to the Department of Personnel Administration....
• California Government Code Section 3538
  The state employer and excluded employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce, or discriminate against supervisory employees because of their exercise of their...
• California Government Code Section 3539
  The enactment of this chapter shall not make Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to state employees.
• California Government Code Section 3539.5
  (a) The Department of Personnel Administration may adopt or amend regulations to implement employee benefits for those state officers and employees excluded from, or not...
• California Government Code Section 3540
  It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the improvement of personnel management and employer-employee relations within the public school systems in the State...
• California Government Code Section 3540.1
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Board" means the Public Employment Relations Board created pursuant to Section 3541. (b) "Certified organization" or "certified employee organization"...
• California Government Code Section 3540.2
  (a) A school district that has a qualified or negative certification pursuant to Section 42131 of the Education Code shall allow the county office of...
• California Government Code Section 3541
  (a) There is in state government the Public Employment Relations Board which shall be independent of any state agency and shall consist of five members....
• California Government Code Section 3541.3
  The board shall have all of the following powers and duties: (a) To determine in disputed cases, or otherwise approve, appropriate units. (b) To determine...
• California Government Code Section 3541.35
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3541.4
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3541.5
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3542
  (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to...
• California Government Code Section 3543
  (a) Public school employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the...
• California Government Code Section 3543.1
  (a) Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, except that once an employee organization...
• California Government Code Section 3543.2
  (a) The scope of representation shall be limited to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment. "Terms and...
• California Government Code Section 3543.3
  A public school employer or such representatives as it may designate who may, but need not be, subject to either certification requirements or requirements for...
• California Government Code Section 3543.4
  A person serving in a management position, senior management position, or a confidential position may not be represented by an exclusive representative. Any person serving...
• California Government Code Section 3543.5
  It is unlawful for a public school employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate...
• California Government Code Section 3543.6
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause a public school employer to violate Section 3543. 5. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 3543.7
  The duty to meet and negotiate in good faith requires the parties to begin negotiations prior to the adoption of the final budget for the...
• California Government Code Section 3543.8
  Any employee organization shall have standing to sue in any action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter instituted by it as representative and on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 3544
  (a) An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and negotiating by filing a...
• California Government Code Section 3544.1
  The public school employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 3544, unless any of the following apply: (a) The public school...
• California Government Code Section 3544.3
  If, by January 1 of any school year, no employee organization has made a claim of majority support in an appropriate unit pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 3544.5
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3544.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3544.3 or 3544.5, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold any hearings it...
• California Government Code Section 3544.9
  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative for the purpose of meeting and negotiating shall fairly represent each and every employee in...
• California Government Code Section 3545
  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of the unit is an issue, the board shall decide the question on the basis of the community...
• California Government Code Section 3546
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receiving notice from the exclusive representative of a public school employee who is in a unit for...
• California Government Code Section 3546.3
  Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3540.1, Section 3546, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body...
• California Government Code Section 3546.5
  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and...
• California Government Code Section 3547
  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers, which relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at...
• California Government Code Section 3547.5
  (a) Before a public school employer enters into a written agreement with an exclusive representative covering matters within the scope of representation, the major provisions...
• California Government Code Section 3548
  Either a public school employer or the exclusive representative may declare that an impasse has been reached between the parties in negotiations over matters within...
• California Government Code Section 3548.1
  (a) If the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 15 days after his appointment and the mediator declares that factfinding is...
• California Government Code Section 3548.2
  (a) The panel shall, within 10 days after its appointment, meet with the parties or their representatives, either jointly or separately, and may make inquiries...
• California Government Code Section 3548.3
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the panel, or, upon agreement by both parties, within a longer...
• California Government Code Section 3548.4
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the mediator appointed pursuant to Section 3548 from continuing mediation efforts on the basis of the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.5
  A public school employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written agreement covering matters within the scope of representation may include in the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.6
  If the written agreement does not include procedures authorized by Section 3548.5, both parties to the agreement may agree to submit any disputes involving the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.7
  Where a party to a written agreement is aggrieved by the failure, neglect, or refusal of the other party to proceed to arbitration pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 3548.8
  An arbitration award made pursuant to Section 3548.5, 3548.6, or 3548. 7 shall be final and binding upon the parties and may be enforced by...
• California Government Code Section 3549
  The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to public school employees...
• California Government Code Section 3549.1
  All the proceedings set forth in subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, are exempt from the provisions of Sections 35144 and 35145 of the Education Code,...
• California Government Code Section 3549.3
  If any provisions of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
• California Government Code Section 3560
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The people of the State of California have a fundamental interest in the development of harmonious and...
• California Government Code Section 3561
  (a) It is the further purpose of this chapter to provide orderly and clearly defined procedures for meeting and conferring and the resolution of impasses,...
• California Government Code Section 3562
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Arbitration" means a method of resolving a rights dispute under which the parties to a controversy must accept the...
• California Government Code Section 3562.1
  The California State University may meet and confer with the employee organization selected as the exclusive representative of appropriate units at the university on the...
• California Government Code Section 3562.2
  Notwithstanding subdivision (r) of Section 3562, for purposes of the California State University only, "scope of representation" also means any retirement benefits available to a...
• California Government Code Section 3563
  This chapter shall be administered by the Public Employment Relations Board. In administering this chapter the board shall have all of the following rights, powers,...
• California Government Code Section 3563.1
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3563.2
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3563.3
  The board shall have the power to issue a decision and order directing an offending party to cease and desist from the unfair practice and...
• California Government Code Section 3563.5
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3564
  (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to...
• California Government Code Section 3565
  Higher education employees shall have the right to form, join and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 3566
  The Trustees of the California State University shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations for all of the following: (a) Registering employee organizations, as defined in...
• California Government Code Section 3567
  Any employee or group of employees may at any time, either individually or through a representative of their own choosing, present grievances to the employer...
• California Government Code Section 3568
  Subject to reasonable regulations, employee organizations shall have the right of access at reasonable times to areas in which employees work, the right to use...
• California Government Code Section 3569
  A reasonable number of representatives of an exclusive representative shall have the right to receive reasonable periods of released or reassigned time without loss of...
• California Government Code Section 3569.5
  (a) The state shall allow up to three employee representatives from each employee organization which represents employees of the California State University reasonable time off...
• California Government Code Section 3570
  Higher education employers, or such representatives as they may designate, shall engage in meeting and conferring with the employee organization selected as exclusive representative of...
• California Government Code Section 3571
  It shall be unlawful for the higher education employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to...
• California Government Code Section 3571.1
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the higher education employer to violate Section 3571. (b) Impose...
• California Government Code Section 3571.3
  The expression of any views, arguments, or opinions, or the dissemination thereof, whether in written, printed, graphic, or visual form, shall not constitute, or be...
• California Government Code Section 3572
  This section shall apply only to the California State University. (a) The duty to meet and confer in good faith requires the parties to begin...
• California Government Code Section 3572.1
  This section shall apply only to the California Maritime Academy. (a) The duty to engage in meeting and conferring requires the parties to begin meeting...
• California Government Code Section 3572.3
  This section shall apply only to the University of California. (a) The duty to engage in meeting and conferring requires the parties to begin meeting...
• California Government Code Section 3572.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in the case where the following provisions of law are in conflict with a memorandum of understanding, the...
• California Government Code Section 3573
  An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and conferring by filing a request...
• California Government Code Section 3574
  The higher education employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 3573 unless any of the following occurs: (a) The employer reasonably...
• California Government Code Section 3575
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3576
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3577
  (a) (1) (A) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3575, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations, or hold hearings, as it...
• California Government Code Section 3578
  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach of this duty...
• California Government Code Section 3579
  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all...
• California Government Code Section 3580
  Except as provided by this article, supervisory employees shall not have the rights, or be covered by, any provision or definition established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 3580.3
  "Supervisory employee" means any individual, regardless of the job description or title, having authority, in the interest of the employer to hire, transfer, suspend, lay...
• California Government Code Section 3580.5
  (a) Supervisory employees shall not participate in the handling of grievances on behalf of nonsupervisory employees. Nonsupervisory employees shall not participate in the handling of...
• California Government Code Section 3581.1
  Supervisory employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 3581.2
  Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their supervisory employee members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the employer. Employee organizations may establish...
• California Government Code Section 3581.3
  The scope of representation for supervisory employees shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and supervisory employee-employer relations including wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3581.4
  The higher education employer shall meet and confer with representatives of employee organizations upon request. Meet and confer means that they shall consider as fully...
• California Government Code Section 3581.5
  The higher education employer shall allow a reasonable number of supervisory public employee representatives of verified employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation...
• California Government Code Section 3581.6
  The higher education employer and employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce, or discriminate against supervisory employees because of their exercise of their...
• California Government Code Section 3581.7
  Subject to review by the board, the higher education employer may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the administration of supervisory employee-employer relations under this...
• California Government Code Section 3582
  Subject to the limitations set forth in this section, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.
• California Government Code Section 3583
  Permissible forms of organizational security shall be limited to either of the following: (a) An arrangement pursuant to which an employee may decide whether or...
• California Government Code Section 3583.5
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee of the California State University or the University of California, other than a faculty member...
• California Government Code Section 3584
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3583.5, an employee of the California State University or the University of California, other than faculty of the University of California who...
• California Government Code Section 3585
  In the absence of an arrangement pursuant to Section 3583 or 3583.5, an employer shall, upon written authorization by the employee involved, deduct and remit...
• California Government Code Section 3586
  The Trustees of the California State University shall continue all payroll assignments authorized by an employee prior to and until recognition or certification of an...
• California Government Code Section 3587
  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and...
• California Government Code Section 3589
  (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration of...
• California Government Code Section 3590
  Either an employer or the exclusive representative may declare that an impasse has been reached between the parties in negotiations over matters within the scope...
• California Government Code Section 3591
  If the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 15 days after his appointment and the mediator declares that factfinding is appropriate...
• California Government Code Section 3592
  The panel shall, within 10 days after its appointment, meet with the parties or their representatives and consider their respective positions. The panel may make...
• California Government Code Section 3593
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the panel, or, upon agreement by both parties, within a longer...
• California Government Code Section 3594
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the mediator appointed pursuant to Section 3590, with the permission of the parties, from continuing mediation...
• California Government Code Section 3595
  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of higher education employers, which relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at...
• California Government Code Section 3596
  All the proceedings set forth in this section shall be exempt from the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 3597
  (a) Subject to provisions of subdivision (d), in all meeting and conferring between higher education employers and employee organizations representing student service or academic personnel,...
• California Government Code Section 3598
  No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting discrimination in employment.
• California Government Code Section 3599
  If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
• California Government Code Section 4000
  This chapter does not apply to maintenance work, work occasioned by emergency, and work costing less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
• California Government Code Section 4001
  As used in this chapter, "engineer" means the Director of Transportation, the Director of Water Resources, the Director of General Services, or a deputy or...
• California Government Code Section 4002
  As used in this chapter, "public work" means the construction of any bridge, road, street, highway, ditch, canal, dam, tunnel, excavation, building or structure within...
• California Government Code Section 4003
  The engineer directing, supervising or superintending the construction, or in charge of the engineering work for or in connection with public work shall keep an...
• California Government Code Section 4004
  Prior to the commencement of the public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in his office either full, complete and accurate plans and specifications...
• California Government Code Section 4005
  Within 60 days from the completion of any public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in the office of the clerk of the board...
• California Government Code Section 4006
  Plans, specifications, work authorizations describing work to be performed, and all other information referred to in this chapter are open to inspection and examination as...
• California Government Code Section 4007
  Every engineer who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Government Code Section 4200
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Competent spoil" means soils that can be treated to bring their moisture content into the optimum range, and that...
• California Government Code Section 4201
  Any local agency that undertakes or contracts for an excavation for the installation, removal, maintenance, or repair of underground facilities may backfill that excavation in...
• California Government Code Section 4215
  In any contract to which a public agency as defined in Section 4401 is a party, the public agency shall assume the responsibility, between the...
• California Government Code Section 4216
  As used in this article the following definitions apply: (a) "Approximate location of subsurface installations" means a strip of land not more than 24 inches...
• California Government Code Section 4216.1
  Every operator of a subsurface installation, except the Department of Transportation, shall become a member of, participate in, and share in the costs of, a...
• California Government Code Section 4216.2
  (a) (1) Except in an emergency, any person planning to conduct any excavation shall contact the appropriate regional notification center, at least two working days,...
• California Government Code Section 4216.3
  (a) (1) Any operator of a subsurface installation who receives timely notification of any proposed excavation work in accordance with Section 4216.2 shall, within two...
• California Government Code Section 4216.4
  (a) When the excavation is within the approximate location of subsurface installation, the excavator shall determine the exact location of subsurface installations in conflict with...
• California Government Code Section 4216.5
  The requirements of this article apply to state agencies and to local agencies which own or operate subsurface installations, except as otherwise provided in Section...
• California Government Code Section 4216.6
  (a) (1) Any operator or excavator who negligently violates this article is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed ten thousand...
• California Government Code Section 4216.7
  (a) If a subsurface installation is damaged by an excavator as a result of failing to comply with Section 4216.2 or 4216.4, or as a...
• California Government Code Section 4216.8
  This article does not apply to any of the following persons: (a) An owner of real property who contracts for an excavation project on the...
• California Government Code Section 4216.9
  (a) No permit to excavate issued by any local agency, as defined in Section 4216, or any state agency, shall be valid unless the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 4217.10
  To help implement the policy set forth in Section 25008 of the Public Resources Code, and to extend that policy to facilities of local governments,...
• California Government Code Section 4217.11
  The following terms, whenever used in this chapter, have the meanings given in this section, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) "Alternate energy...
• California Government Code Section 4217.12
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public agency may enter into an energy service contract and any necessarily related facility ground lease on...
• California Government Code Section 4217.13
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public agency may enter into a facility financing contract and a facility ground lease on terms that its...
• California Government Code Section 4217.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the public agency may enter into contracts for the sale of electricity, electrical generating capacity, or thermal energy produced...
• California Government Code Section 4217.15
  The public agency may, but is not required to, base the findings required under Sections 4217.12 and 4217.13 on projections for electrical and thermal energy...
• California Government Code Section 4217.16
  Prior to awarding or entering into an agreement or lease, the public agency may request proposals from qualified persons. After evaluating the proposals, the public...
• California Government Code Section 4217.17
  This chapter does not limit the authority of any public agency to construct energy conservation projects or to enter into other leases or contracts relating...
• California Government Code Section 4217.18
  The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to provide the greatest possible flexibility to public agencies in structuring agreements entered into hereunder so that...
• California Government Code Section 4218
  Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525) of Division 5 of this code, or Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) of Division 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 4300
  As used in this article: (a) "United States" means the United States of America, and includes any Territory or insular possession of the United States....
• California Government Code Section 4301
  This article does not apply to materials which are of a class or kind which are not, or which are manufactured from materials which are...
• California Government Code Section 4302
  This article does not apply to medical and surgical instruments, scientific equipment, microscopes, lenses, or instruments used for scientific or medical purposes, including research.
• California Government Code Section 4302.5
  The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase of sewing machines, regardless of the place of their manufacture or the source of...
• California Government Code Section 4302.6
  The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase of printing presses of rotary gripper system or single revolution design, which are purchased...
• California Government Code Section 4303
  The governing body of any political subdivision, municipal corporation, or district, and any public officer or person charged with the letting of contracts for (1)...
• California Government Code Section 4303.5
  Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any such body or person may let a contract for the purchase of office machines or...
• California Government Code Section 4304
  Every contract for the construction, alteration or repair of public works or for the purchase of materials for public use shall contain a provision that...
• California Government Code Section 4305
  The name of the person failing to comply, together with a report of the facts constituting the violation, shall be posted by the governing board...
• California Government Code Section 4330
  As used in this article, "supplies" includes goods, wares, merchandise, manufactures, and produce.
• California Government Code Section 4331
  Price, fitness and quality being equal, any body, officer, or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or authorized to purchase supplies for the...
• California Government Code Section 4332
  All State, county, or city officers, all bodies, and other persons charged with advertising for supplies shall state in their advertisement that such preferences for...
• California Government Code Section 4333
  In any advertisement for supplies no bid shall be asked for any article of a specific brand or mark nor any patent apparatus or appliances,...
• California Government Code Section 4334
  Public officers and bodies charged with the letting of contracts for public work, with the construction of public bridges, buildings and other structures, or with...
• California Government Code Section 4360
  As used in this article (a) "Agricultural aircraft operator" means any person who applies, from an aircraft, chemicals, seeds, or fertilizers. (b) "Services" means the...
• California Government Code Section 4361
  Public officers and bodies charged with the purchase or the letting of contracts for services or supplies for any public use may give such contracts...
• California Government Code Section 4400
  This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Emergency Termination of Public Contracts Act."
• California Government Code Section 4401
  "Public agency," as used in this chapter, includes the State, its various commissions, boards and departments and any county, city, district or state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 4410
  In the event a national emergency occurs, and public work, being performed by contract, is stopped, directly or indirectly, because of the freezing or diversion...
• California Government Code Section 4411
  Such an agreement shall include the terms and conditions of the termination of the contract and provision for the payment of compensation or money, if...
• California Government Code Section 4412
  It shall be competent for any public agency to provide in the specifications for any public works contract detailed provisions as to the conditions under...
• California Government Code Section 4420
  (a) No state or local governmental agency and no person acting on behalf of any state or local governmental agency, except a governmental agency created...
• California Government Code Section 4420.5
  (a) Subdivision (b) of Section 4420 shall not apply to any construction or renovation project undertaken by a school district. (b) The district may use...
• California Government Code Section 4420.5
  (a) Section 4420 does not apply to any construction or renovation project undertaken by a school district or community college district. (b) The district may...
• California Government Code Section 4420.8
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 4420, commencing January 1, 1999, a state agency may utilize owner-controlled or wrap-up insurance programs if all of the...
• California Government Code Section 4421
  This chapter shall not prevent the exercise by such officer or employee on behalf of the state or such public agency or public authority of...
• California Government Code Section 4422
  All provisions in any invitation for bids, or in any of the contract documents, in conflict with this chapter are hereby declared to be contrary...
• California Government Code Section 4450
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to ensure that all buildings, structures, sidewalks, curbs, and related facilities, constructed in this state by the...
• California Government Code Section 4450.5
  The State Architect's regulations adopted pursuant to Section 4450 shall require that all parking spaces reserved for the handicapped be identified as prescribed by Sections...
• California Government Code Section 4451
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, this chapter shall be limited in its application to all buildings and facilities stated in Section 4450...
• California Government Code Section 4452
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relating to access by the physically handicapped...
• California Government Code Section 4453
  The responsibility for enforcement of this chapter shall be as follows: (a) By the Director of the Department of General Services where state funds are...
• California Government Code Section 4453.5
  (a) In addition to any other inspection requirements pertaining to building standards of state and school district buildings used by the public, the construction of...
• California Government Code Section 4454
  (a) Where state funds are utilized for any building or facility subject to this chapter, or where funds of counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions...
• California Government Code Section 4455
  The Department of Rehabilitation shall be responsible for educating the public and working with officials of cities, counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, private architects,...
• California Government Code Section 4455.5
  All new elevators in public buildings or facilities after the operative date of the act that amended this section during the first year of the...
• California Government Code Section 4456
  After the effective date of this section, any building or facility which would have been subject to this chapter but for the fact it was...
• California Government Code Section 4457
  On or after January 1, 1986, all portable buildings purchased, leased, or constructed by a school district shall meet the requirements of this chapter, except...
• California Government Code Section 4458
  The district attorney, the city attorney, the county counsel if the district attorney does not bring an action, or the Attorney General may bring an...
• California Government Code Section 4459
  (a) The State Architect shall develop amendments for building regulations and submit them to the California Building Standards Commission for adoption to ensure that no...
• California Government Code Section 4459.5
  (a) The State Architect shall establish and publicize a program for voluntary certification by the state of any person who meets specified criteria as a...
• California Government Code Section 4459.6
  The State Architect shall appoint an ad hoc advisory committee to assist in developing the requirements for certification as access specialists pursuant to Section 4459.5....
• California Government Code Section 4459.7
  (a) No later than October 31 of each year, the State Architect shall publish and make available to the public a list of certified access...
• California Government Code Section 4459.8
  (a) The certification authorized by Section 4459.5 is effective for three years from the date of initial certification and expires if not renewed. The State...
• California Government Code Section 4460
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is essential that detectable warning and directional surfaces comply with the California Building Standards Code in order...
• California Government Code Section 4461
  If a violation of Section 4450, 4450.5, 4451, 4452, 4453.5, 4454, 4455, 4455.5, 4456, 4457, 4459, or 4460 is alleged or the application or construction...
• California Government Code Section 4475
  "State agency," as used in this chapter, means any state agency defined in Section 11000, which is authorized to enter into contracts and shall include,...
• California Government Code Section 4476
  "Person," as used in this chapter means any individual, corporation, association, or any other entity organized for the purpose of conducting business.
• California Government Code Section 4477
  No state agency shall enter into any contract for the purchase of supplies, equipment, or services from any person who is in violation of any...
• California Government Code Section 4478
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to contracts with a dollar value below the required level for competitive bidding established in Section 10301...
• California Government Code Section 4479
  Each state agency shall exercise due diligence in determining whether or not one or more persons have divided a contract to avoid the limitation of...
• California Government Code Section 4480
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply when a person otherwise prohibited from contracting with the state under this chapter is the sole source...
• California Government Code Section 4481
  Each local agency or board set forth in Section 4477 shall notify within seven days after determination thereof, the Water Resources Control Board or Air...
• California Government Code Section 4482
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to contracts executed prior to the effective date of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 4500
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any statute, rule, regulation, decision, or pronouncement to the contrary, other than subdivision (b), every state agency, board, and department,...
• California Government Code Section 4525
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Firm" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity...
• California Government Code Section 4526
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, selection by a state or local agency head for professional services of private architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land...
• California Government Code Section 4526.5
  A state agency head entering into a contract pursuant to this chapter shall, in addition to any other applicable statute or regulation, also follow Section...
• California Government Code Section 4527
  In the procurement of architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, and construction project management services, the state agency head shall encourage firms engaged in...
• California Government Code Section 4528
  (a) When the selection is by a state agency head the following procedures shall apply: (1) The state agency head shall negotiate a contract with...
• California Government Code Section 4529
  This chapter shall not apply where the state or local agency head determines that the services needed are more of a technical nature and involve...
• California Government Code Section 4529.5
  Any individual or firm proposing to provide construction project management services pursuant to this chapter shall provide evidence that the individual or firm and its...
• California Government Code Section 4529.10
  For purposes of Article XXII of the California Constitution and this act, the term "architectural and engineering services" shall include all architectural, landscape architectural, environmental,...
• California Government Code Section 4529.11
  All projects included in the State Transportation Improvement Program programmed and funded as interregional improvements or as regional improvements shall be subject to Article XXII...
• California Government Code Section 4529.12
  All architectural and engineering services shall be procured pursuant to a fair, competitive selection process which prohibits governmental agency employees from participating in the selection...
• California Government Code Section 4529.13
  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to change project design standards, seismic safety standards or project construction standards established by state, regional or...
• California Government Code Section 4529.14
  Architectural and engineering services contracts procured by public agencies shall be subject to standard accounting practices and may require financial and performance audits as necessary...
• California Government Code Section 4529.15
  This act only applies to architectural and engineering services defined in Government Code Section 4529.10. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to expand...
• California Government Code Section 4529.16
  This act shall not be applied in a manner that will result in the loss of federal funding to any governmental entity.
• California Government Code Section 4529.17
  The provisions of this act are severable. If any provision of this act or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Government Code Section 4529.18
  If any act of the Legislature conflicts with the provisions of this act, this act shall prevail.
• California Government Code Section 4529.19
  This act shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 4529.20
  This act seeks to comprehensively regulate the matters which are contained within its provisions. These are matters of statewide concern and when enacted are intended...
• California Government Code Section 4530
  This chapter shall be known as the "Target Area Contract Preference Act."
• California Government Code Section 4531
  The Legislature hereby declares that it serves a public purpose, and is of benefit to the state, to encourage and facilitate job maintenance and job...
• California Government Code Section 4532
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Block group" means the smallest area for which the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census provides...
• California Government Code Section 4533
  Whenever the state prepares a solicitation for a contract for goods in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which the...
• California Government Code Section 4533.1
  Where a bidder complies with the provisions of Section 4533, or the worksite or worksites where at least 50 percent of the labor required to...
• California Government Code Section 4534
  In evaluating proposals for contracts for services in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which the worksite is fixed by...
• California Government Code Section 4534.1
  Where a bidder complies with the provisions of Section 4534, the state shall award the additional preferences as set forth in Section 4533.1 as appropriate.
• California Government Code Section 4535
  All state contracts issued to bidders who are awarded preferences under this chapter shall contain conditions to ensure that the contractor performs the contract at...
• California Government Code Section 4535.1
  A business that requests and is given the preference provided for in Section 4533, 4533.1, 4534, or 4534.1 by reason of having furnished a false...
• California Government Code Section 4535.2
  (a) The maximum preference and incentive a bidder may be awarded pursuant to this chapter and any other provision of law shall be 15 percent....
• California Government Code Section 4535.3
  The Department of General Services, with the cooperation of the Employment Development Department, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Office of Planning and Research,...
• California Government Code Section 4550
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public purchase" means a purchase by means of competitive bids of goods, services, or materials by the state or...
• California Government Code Section 4552
  In submitting a bid to a public purchasing body, the bidder offers and agrees that if the bid is accepted, it will assign to the...
• California Government Code Section 4553
  If an awarding body or public purchasing body receives, either through judgment or settlement, a monetary recovery for a cause of action assigned under this...
• California Government Code Section 4554
  Upon demand in writing by the assignor, the assignee shall, within one year from such demand, reassign the cause of action assigned under this part...
• California Government Code Section 4560
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a substantial need to provide adequate child care facilities for state employees. (b) When the state...
• California Government Code Section 4561
  Child care facilities for the employees of the California State University and Colleges and the University of California shall be incorporated into the campus master...
• California Government Code Section 4562
  This chapter shall not apply to the design of new state office buildings, additions, alterations, or repairs of existing state-owned office buildings, where the Public...
• California Government Code Section 4563
  (a) Sections 4560, 4561, and 4562 are not applicable to any state-owned transportation facility. (b) Space at a state-owned transportation facility may be leased by...
• California Government Code Section 5000
  The owner of any coupon bond, or of any bond payable to bearer, issued by the State, or any county, municipal corporation, or other public...
• California Government Code Section 5001
  The treasurer, or officer performing the duties of treasurer, shall cut off and cancel the coupons of a coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp,...
• California Government Code Section 5002
  The statement may be in substantially the following form: (Date, giving month, year, and day.) This bond is registered pursuant to the statute in such...
• California Government Code Section 5003
  After any bond is registered, the principal and interest of the bond are payable to the registered owner.
• California Government Code Section 5004
  The treasurer, or other officer performing the duties of treasurer, shall keep in his office a book which shall at all times show what bonds...
• California Government Code Section 5005
  After a bond is registered it may be transferred from time to time by the registered owner, in person or by attorney, on presentation of...
• California Government Code Section 5006
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any law or municipal charter authorizing the issuance of bonds, whenever under any statute of the State or...
• California Government Code Section 5007
  Any legislative or governing body which authorizes the issuance of bonds of any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, public district, public authority or...
• California Government Code Section 5008
  The treasurer, or officer performing the duties of treasurer, of any county, district, municipal corporation, or other public corporation in the State shall be entitled...
• California Government Code Section 5009
  All moneys received by the State Treasurer under this chapter shall be paid monthly into the State Treasury for credit to the General Fund.
• California Government Code Section 5050
  This chapter may be cited as the Registered Public Obligations Act of California.
• California Government Code Section 5051
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Authorized officer" means any individual required or...
• California Government Code Section 5052
  (a) The code provides that interest with respect to certain obligations may not be exempt from federal income taxation unless they are in registered form....
• California Government Code Section 5053
  (a) Each issuer is authorized to establish and maintain a system of registration with respect to each obligation which it issues. The system may either...
• California Government Code Section 5054
  (a) A certificated registered public obligation shall be executed by the issuer by the manual or facsimile signature or signatures of authorized officers. Any signature...
• California Government Code Section 5055
  (a) Any certificated registered public obligation signed by the authorized officers at the time of the signing thereof shall remain valid and binding, notwithstanding that...
• California Government Code Section 5056
  When a seal is required or permitted in the execution of any certificated registered public obligation, an authorized officer may cause the seal to be...
• California Government Code Section 5057
  (a) An issuer may appoint for such term as may be agreed, including for so long as a registered public obligation may be outstanding, corporate...
• California Government Code Section 5058
  (a) An issuer, prior to or at original issuance of registered public obligations, may provide as a part of a system of registration that the...
• California Government Code Section 5059
  Obligations issued by public entities under the laws of this state, which are in registered form, whether or not represented by an instrument, and which,...
• California Government Code Section 5060
  (a) Records, with regard to the ownership of or security interests in registered public obligations, are not subject to inspection or copying under any law...
• California Government Code Section 5061
  (a) Unless at any time prior to or at original issuance of a registered public obligation the official or official body of the issuer determines...
• California Government Code Section 5062
  This chapter shall be construed in conjunction with the Uniform Commercial Code and the principles of contract law relative to the registration and transfer of
• California Government Code Section 5100
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that the purpose hereof may be made effective.
• California Government Code Section 5101
  As used in this chapter, "bonds" means State, county, municipal, or other public corporation or district bonds.
• California Government Code Section 5102
  As used in this chapter, "guarantor" means the person or persons guaranteeing the payment of bonds, the repurchase thereof, or the payment or repurchase of...
• California Government Code Section 5103
  As used in this chapter, "issuing body" means the State, any subdivision thereof, municipality, public corporation, or district.
• California Government Code Section 5104
  As used in this chapter, "order" means declaration, proclamation, or order of any officer or court having jurisdiction to make the declaration, proclamation, or order.
• California Government Code Section 5105
  Whenever by operation of law or by order the bonded indebtedness of any issuing body is reduced in amount, the interest thereon reduced, the time...
• California Government Code Section 5106
  Whenever by operation of law or by order any issuing body defaults in the payment of its bonded indebtedness, the obligations of guarantors shall be...
• California Government Code Section 5107
  The relief of guarantors is limited to the extent of defaults in principal, interest, or both principal and interest of the bonds guaranteed.
• California Government Code Section 5108
  If the guarantors function in the capacity of trustee or if the custody of the bonds is in the possession of a trustee, and administered...
• California Government Code Section 5300
  As used in this chapter, "bond" means any bond and the interest coupons attached thereto issued by any public body.
• California Government Code Section 5301
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city, district, or any other political subdivision of the State.
• California Government Code Section 5302
  (a) Wherever any statute requires that any bond issued by a public body be signed, manually by two or more officers or other individuals, all...
• California Government Code Section 5303
  Whenever under any law of this State, or under the provisions of any ordinance, resolution or order, bonds of any public body are required or...
• California Government Code Section 5304
  If any officer or deputy whose signature, countersignature or attestation appears on bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer or deputy before delivery of...
• California Government Code Section 5400
  "Public body" as used in this chapter means any county, city and county, city, public district, public authority or other public corporation which is authorized...
• California Government Code Section 5401
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness the principal and interest of which are payable or may be...
• California Government Code Section 5402
  "Governing body" as used in this chapter means the board of supervisors, city council, board of directors or other legislative or governing body which has...
• California Government Code Section 5403
  When bonds to be issued by or on behalf of a public body have been authorized by an election or other method provided by law,...
• California Government Code Section 5404
  If at any time following the levy of the tax or assessment authorized by Section 5403, the board, council or other body having the power...
• California Government Code Section 5450
  (a) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, commercial paper, or other evidences of indebtedness, or lease, installment purchase, or other agreements, or certificates...
• California Government Code Section 5451
  (a) A pledge of collateral by any public body to secure, directly or indirectly, the payment of the principal or redemption price of, or interest...
• California Government Code Section 5451.5
  (a) All obligations of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District in connection with any and all certificates of participation executed and delivered by or on...
• California Government Code Section 5452
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize new or increased authority to issue bonds.
• California Government Code Section 5500
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by...
• California Government Code Section 5501
  Any authorized officer may, after filing with the Secretary of State his manual signature certified by him under oath, execute or cause to be executed...
• California Government Code Section 5502
  When the seal of this State or any of its departments, agencies, or other instrumentalities, or of any county, city, or public district, is required...
• California Government Code Section 5503
  Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a public security or an instrument of payment; (a) A facsimile signature, or any reproduction of...
• California Government Code Section 5504
  This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of states which enact it.
• California Government Code Section 5505
  This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act.
• California Government Code Section 5506
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 5600
  "Public body" as used in this chapter means any county, city and county, city, public district, public authority or other public corporation, or any agency...
• California Government Code Section 5601
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means bonds, warrants, notes and other evidences of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of any public body.
• California Government Code Section 5602
  "Governing body" means a board of supervisors, city council, board of directors or other legislative or governing body which has the power to provide for...
• California Government Code Section 5603
  Any provision of law specifying the maximum or minimum denomination of bonds to the contrary notwithstanding, a governing body in its ordinance, resolution or order...
• California Government Code Section 5604
  A governing body, in its ordinance, resolution or order providing for the issuance of any bonds, may provide a method whereby, at any time after...
• California Government Code Section 5650
  As used in this chapter, "public securities" means any issue of bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any,...
• California Government Code Section 5651
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public district, public corporation or public authority,...
• California Government Code Section 5652
  No public body shall enter into any contract which provides that such public body shall be furnished any report relating to the financial feasibility of...
• California Government Code Section 5700
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means (a) any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued after the effective date of this chapter by the...
• California Government Code Section 5701
  The provisions of this chapter apply to every bond regardless of any other provision of law or any provision of the bond's authorization.
• California Government Code Section 5702
  The State Treasurer shall be the sole agent for offering and selling bonds. In selling bonds on behalf of any department of state government or...
• California Government Code Section 5703
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), the Treasurer, in exercising the duties of agent for offering and selling bonds, whose duties...
• California Government Code Section 5750
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a growing need for the state to finance capital projects to renew and...
• California Government Code Section 5751
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, or any derivative evidence of...
• California Government Code Section 5752
  The Treasurer may sell California savings bonds in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. Notwithstanding any provision of law, when the Treasurer determines that...
• California Government Code Section 5753
  In arranging the sale of bonds, the Treasurer may impose the following requirements on any financial institution that sells the bonds to the public: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 5754
  (a) A person who redeems California savings bonds and who has owned the bonds for at least five years, or a person designated by the...
• California Government Code Section 5755
  The general authority of the Treasurer to sell bonds, as provided in this chapter, is intended to be in addition to, and not limited by,...
• California Government Code Section 5800
  As used in this chapter, "nonprofit corporation" means any nonprofit corporation formed under the Corporations Code, or otherwise, which proposes to aid any public body...
• California Government Code Section 5801
  As used in this chapter, "joint powers authority" means any entity defined in Section 6542.
• California Government Code Section 5802
  As used in this chapter, "parking authority" means any entity created pursuant to Division 18 (commencing with Section 31500) of the Streets and Highways Code.
• California Government Code Section 5803
  As used in this chapter, "issuer" means a nonprofit corporation, a joint powers authority or a parking authority.
• California Government Code Section 5804
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public district, public corporation or public authority,...
• California Government Code Section 5805
  As used in this chapter, "securities" means any bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any, attached thereto, issued...
• California Government Code Section 5806
  As used in this chapter, "public project" means any land, structure, facility or equipment or other personal property, the acquisition, construction or completion of which...
• California Government Code Section 5807
  As used in this chapter, "public leaseback" means any lease by a public body of all or any part of a public project where the...
• California Government Code Section 5808
  (a) Before selling any securities, any issuer shall advertise such securities for sale at public sale and shall invite sealed bids therefor by publication of...
• California Government Code Section 5809
  All securities as defined in Section 5805, and all bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness of an issuer in an aggregate principal amount...
• California Government Code Section 5850
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness or other evidences of indebtedness issued after January 1, 1989, by...
• California Government Code Section 5851
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law specifying that interest on bonds is payable semiannually, interest on bonds is payable at the times established in the...
• California Government Code Section 5852
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law specifying that bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution of a governing body of a public body, a...
• California Government Code Section 5853
  The general authority provided in this chapter is intended to be in addition to, and not limited by, specific provisions authorizing the issuance of bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 5854
  Section 3 of Article XIII C of the California Constitution, as adopted at the November 5, 1996, general election, shall not be construed to mean...
• California Government Code Section 5870
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Conduit financing" means the issuance of conduit revenue bonds. (b) "Conduit financing provider" means any...
• California Government Code Section 5871
  A conduit financing provider shall make the following information available on its Internet Web site, to the extent that it maintains an Internet Web site:...
• California Government Code Section 5872
  (a) When an audit of a conduit financing provider's accounts and records is required by law, in addition to any other requirements, the audit shall...
• California Government Code Section 5853
  The general authority provided in this chapter is intended to be in addition to, and not limited by, specific provisions authorizing the issuance of bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 5854
  Section 3 of Article XIII C of the California Constitution, as adopted at the November 5, 1996, general election, shall not be construed to mean...
• California Government Code Section 5900
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The ability of the state and local governments to issue bonds is essential to their...
• California Government Code Section 5901
  It is the intent of the Legislature that state and local governments be provided with the powers and flexibility necessary and appropriate for them to...
• California Government Code Section 5902
  As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires another or different...
• California Government Code Section 5903
  If, prior to issuing any bonds, the legislative body determines that the interest payable on the bonds to be issued by the state or local...
• California Government Code Section 5903.5
  Section 5903 shall apply to any bonds the interest on which will not be subject to federal income taxation under the law in existence on...
• California Government Code Section 5904
  The state or a local government may take any actions, and enter into any agreements, necessary or appropriate to register or qualify the bonds described...
• California Government Code Section 5905
  One or more state or local governments may cause to be formed, and may acquire all, but not less than all, of the voting stock...
• California Government Code Section 5906
  Any bonds issued by a state or local government pursuant to this chapter, or otherwise, and the purchasers or holders thereof, shall be exempt from...
• California Government Code Section 5907
  This chapter shall not affect bonds approved by the voters of the state or local government issuer prior to the effective date of this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 5908
  The authority conferred by this chapter includes the authority to enter into any and all contracts incident to the exercise of the authority conferred by...
• California Government Code Section 5909
  To the extent that the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with any other provision of general law or special act or any part thereof,...
• California Government Code Section 5920
  The Legislature finds and declares that the incurring or carrying of obligations and making and managing of investments by state and local governments involves a...
• California Government Code Section 5921
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent: (a) "Bonds" mean...
• California Government Code Section 5921.5
  For purposes of this chapter, in addition to any other authorization provided by law, the Treasurer may enter into and manage on behalf of the...
• California Government Code Section 5922
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all of the following apply: (a) (1) In connection with, or incidental to, the issuance or carrying of bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 5923
  (a) To the extent that this chapter is inconsistent with any other general statute or special act or parts thereof, now or hereafter enacted, this...
• California Government Code Section 5924
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the...
• California Government Code Section 5924
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the...
• California Government Code Section 5924
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the...
• California Government Code Section 5925
  The purchase or other acquisition of bonds by or on behalf of the state or local government that issued the bonds does not cancel, extinguish,...
• California Government Code Section 5950
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Accredited investor" has the meaning specified in Rule 501 of the Securities Act of 1933. (b) "In this state"...
• California Government Code Section 5951
  It is unlawful for any person to offer or sell in an issuer transaction in this state, or otherwise knowingly to offer or sell in...
• California Government Code Section 5952
  Any consent granted by a local agency under Section 5951 shall be conclusively evidenced by a resolution of the governing body of the local agency,...
• California Government Code Section 5953
  No local agency that consents to an offer or sale of a security that constitutes a fractional interest in a lease, installment sale, or other...
• California Government Code Section 5954
  Any person who violates this chapter shall upon conviction be fined not more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or imprisoned pursuant to subdivision (h) of...
• California Government Code Section 5955
  The obtaining of local agency consent to an offer or sale of a security under Section 5951 shall not obviate the necessity of qualification of...
• California Government Code Section 5956
  Local governmental agencies have experienced a significant decrease in available tax revenues to fund necessary infrastructure improvements. If local governmental agencies are going to maintain...
• California Government Code Section 5956.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that local governmental agencies have the authority and flexibility to utilize private investment capital to study, plan, design,...
• California Government Code Section 5956.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter be construed as creating a new and independent authority for local governmental agencies to utilize...
• California Government Code Section 5956.3
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "governmental agency" includes a city, county, city and county, including a chartered city or county, school district, community college...
• California Government Code Section 5956.4
  A governmental agency may solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction by, and may lease to, private...
• California Government Code Section 5956.5
  Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525) of Division 5, or Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) or Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) of...
• California Government Code Section 5956.6
  (a) For purposes of facilitating projects, the agreements specified in Section 5956.4 may include provisions for the lease of rights-of-way in, and airspace over, property...
• California Government Code Section 5956.7
  (a) The governmental agency may exercise any power possessed by it with respect to the development and construction of infrastructure projects pursuant to this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 5956.8
  The plans and specifications for each project constructed pursuant to this chapter shall comply with all applicable governmental design standards for that particular infrastructure project....
• California Government Code Section 5956.9
  In order to use the authority conferred by this chapter to the maximum extent, a governmental agency may use private infrastructure financing pursuant to this...
• California Government Code Section 5956.10
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, neither the state or any state agency may directly or indirectly use the authority in this chapter, nor may...
• California Government Code Section 5970
  As used in this chapter, the following phrases have the following meanings: (a) "Person" means any broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, investment advisor, or investment...
• California Government Code Section 5971
  In selecting any person to provide underwriting services, including financial, advisory or other financial services, involving the issuance of securities, the state or the legislative...
• California Government Code Section 6000
  A "newspaper of general circulation" is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has...
• California Government Code Section 6001
  A newspaper devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race, or denomination, or for...
• California Government Code Section 6002
  For a newspaper to be "established," it shall have been in existence under a specified name during the whole of the one-year period; provided, however,...
• California Government Code Section 6003
  For a newspaper to be "printed," the mechanical work of producing it, that is the work of typesetting and impressing type on paper, shall have...
• California Government Code Section 6004
  For a newspaper to be "published," it shall have been issued from the place where it is printed and sold to or circulated among the...
• California Government Code Section 6004.5
  In order to qualify as a newspaper of general circulation the newspaper, if either printed or published in a town or city, shall be both...
• California Government Code Section 6005
  "Printed" and "published" are not synonymous. Each relates to separate acts or functions necessary to constitute a newspaper of general circulation.
• California Government Code Section 6006
  Nothing in this chapter alters the standing of any newspaper which, prior to the passage of Chapter 258 of the Statutes of 1923, was an...
• California Government Code Section 6007
  The status of a newspaper of general circulation remains unchanged in the event that the publication of the newspaper is discontinued by reason of economic...
• California Government Code Section 6008
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a newspaper is a "newspaper of general circulation" if it meets the following criteria: (a) It is...
• California Government Code Section 6020
  Whenever a newspaper desires to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation ascertained and established, it may, by its publisher, manager, editor or...
• California Government Code Section 6021
  The petition or the substance thereof, together with a notice that the petitioner intends on a named day to apply for an order declaring it...
• California Government Code Section 6022
  Upon proof of the publication of the petition and notice, the court shall set the petition for hearing. Any person may appear and contest the...
• California Government Code Section 6023
  The court shall hear the proofs of the petitioner and contestant, if there be any. Within 10 days thereafter it shall render its decision and...
• California Government Code Section 6024
  (1) The decision and judgment may be vacated, modified or set aside by the court on its own motion, or on the motion of any...
• California Government Code Section 6025
  All publications made in a newspaper during the period it was adjudged to be a newspaper of general circulation are valid and sufficient.
• California Government Code Section 6026
  An appeal may be taken to the supreme court from any final decision or judgment, or from any final order vacating, modifying or setting aside...
• California Government Code Section 6027
  On and after July 1, 1952, a newspaper shall not be in fact or in law a newspaper of general circulation unless it obtains or...
• California Government Code Section 6040
  Whenever any official advertising, notice, resolution, order, or other matter of any nature whatsoever is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such...
• California Government Code Section 6040.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6040, notice shall be given of ordinances enacted to authorize issuance of revenue bonds by joint powers entities and the fact that...
• California Government Code Section 6040.5
  As used in any law of this State providing for any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising, "daily newspaper" means a newspaper of...
• California Government Code Section 6041
  Whenever any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising is required by any law of the State to be given or made by any...
• California Government Code Section 6041.1
  Any officer who gives or makes any publication, notice by publication, or official advertising pursuant to Section 6041 may also give or make such publication,...
• California Government Code Section 6042
  Where no newspaper of general circulation is published within the jurisdiction of the officer, then the publication, notice by publication, or official advertising shall be...
• California Government Code Section 6043
  All such publications, notices by publication, or official advertisements shall be set in type not smaller than nonpareil, and shall be preceded with words printed...
• California Government Code Section 6044
  State, county or city officers, officers of political subdivisions, and officers of courts who violate or disregard the provisions of this article, or of Article...
• California Government Code Section 6060
  Whenever any law provides that publication of notice shall be made pursuant to a designated section of this article, such notice shall be published in...
• California Government Code Section 6061
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for one time.
• California Government Code Section 6061.3
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for three successive times.
• California Government Code Section 6062
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for 10 days. The period of notice commences upon the first day of publication and terminates...
• California Government Code Section 6062a
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for 10 days in a newspaper regularly published once a week or oftener. Two publications, with...
• California Government Code Section 6063
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for three successive weeks. Three publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6063a
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for at least 10 days. Three publications in a newspaper published once a week or oftener,...
• California Government Code Section 6064
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for four successive weeks. Four publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6065
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for eight successive weeks. Eight publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6066
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for two successive weeks. Two publications in a newspaper published once a week...
• California Government Code Section 6075
  As used in this article, "newspaper" includes weekly newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication.
• California Government Code Section 6076
  The publisher or owner of any newspaper published in the foreign language of any enemy nation shall file with the district attorney of the county...
• California Government Code Section 6077
  Upon request the publisher shall furnish to the Attorney General or to the district attorney of the county where the newspaper is published a translation...
• California Government Code Section 6078
  Any person violating this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Government Code Section 6090
  It is the public policy in this state that public administrative agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and that the...
• California Government Code Section 6091
  Radio and television stations shall be permitted to broadcast and telecast, either directly or by means of transcriptions and film, the proceedings of all meetings...
• California Government Code Section 6100
  Officers of the state, or of a county or judicial district, shall not perform any official services unless upon the payment of the fees prescribed...
• California Government Code Section 6101
  No fee shall be charged in proceedings upon habeas corpus.
• California Government Code Section 6103
  Neither the state nor any county, city, district, or other political subdivision, nor any public officer or body, acting in his or her official capacity...
• California Government Code Section 6103.1
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Parts 2 (commencing with Section 1200) 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 6103.2
  (a) Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge or expense for official services rendered by a sheriff or marshal in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 6103.3
  (a) For any order or injunction for which the sheriff or marshal provides service of process and is prohibited under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6103.4
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Section 100860 of the Health and Safety Code, or Part...
• California Government Code Section 6103.5
  (a) Whenever a judgment is recovered by a public agency named in Section 6103, either as plaintiff or petitioner or as defendant or respondent, in...
• California Government Code Section 6103.6
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services established by a city or county ordinance as a reasonable and nondiscriminatory...
• California Government Code Section 6103.7
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services established by a city, county, city and county, or district as a...
• California Government Code Section 6103.8
  (a) Sections 6103 and 27383 do not apply to any fee or charge for recording full releases executed or recorded pursuant to Section 7174 of...
• California Government Code Section 6103.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in this section, the local child support agency and the district attorney shall be exempt...
• California Government Code Section 6103.10
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charges required to be paid to the State Director of Health Services or to the State...
• California Government Code Section 6103.11
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Title 7.3 (commencing with Section 66700).
• California Government Code Section 6103.12
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee charged by a county clerk or county recorder, or clerk of the court, pursuant to Section 17980.1...
• California Government Code Section 6104
  Whenever an oath or affidavit is necessary in order that the State or any political subdivision thereof may recover funds or property due the State...
• California Government Code Section 6105
  Whenever an oath or affidavit is necessary in order that a person may obtain charity or relief from any agency or department of the United...
• California Government Code Section 6106
  Neither the State, nor any county or city, nor any public officer or body acting in his official capacity on behalf of the State, any...
• California Government Code Section 6107
  (a) No public entity, including the state, a county, city, or other political subdivision, nor any officer or employee thereof, including notaries public, shall demand...
• California Government Code Section 6108
  No officer of a county or judicial district shall charge or receive any fee or compensation for administering or certifying the oath of office or...
• California Government Code Section 6109
  Every officer of a county or judicial district, upon receiving any fees for official duty or service, may be required by the person paying the...
• California Government Code Section 6110
  Upon payment of the fees required by law, the officer shall perform the services required. For every failure or refusal to do so, the officer...
• California Government Code Section 6150
  Any officer of a county who is not specifically authorized by statute so to do may be authorized by the board of supervisors of the...
• California Government Code Section 6151
  As used in this chapter, "negotiable paper" means bank checks and drafts and express and post-office money orders.
• California Government Code Section 6151.5
  Any local officer, office, agency or unit which collects or receives taxes, fees, charges or any funds for public services may, when payment is acceptable...
• California Government Code Section 6152
  The acceptance of negotiable paper pursuant to this chapter constitutes payment of any amount owing to a county as of the date of acceptance when,...
• California Government Code Section 6153
  (a) If, pursuant to another provision of law, a bank account has been authorized for the use of the officer, he shall deposit in that...
• California Government Code Section 6154
  Any negotiable paper redeemed by or charged back to the county treasurer by reason of nonpayment shall be returned to the officer who deposited it...
• California Government Code Section 6155
  If any negotiable paper is not paid on due presentment for any reason, any record of payment made by the officer receiving such paper shall...
• California Government Code Section 6156
  When a cancellation is made, the officer making it shall enter it in the accounting records of his office. He shall immediately send a notice...
• California Government Code Section 6157
  (a) The state, and each city, whether general law or chartered, county, and district, each subdivision, department, board, commission, body, or agency of the foregoing,...
• California Government Code Section 6159
  (a) The following definitions apply for purposes of this section: (1) "Credit card" means any card, plate, coupon book, or other credit device existing for...
• California Government Code Section 6160
  The Legislature finds and declares that there are costs associated with all forms of payment, including cash and checks. The Legislature further finds and declares...
• California Government Code Section 6161
  For the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Cardholder" means a person making a payment to a state agency by credit card or payment device. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6162
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6159, the Director of General Services, or his or her designee, may negotiate and enter into any contracts necessary...
• California Government Code Section 6163
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), all state agencies shall accept payment made by means of a credit card or other...
• California Government Code Section 6164
  No officer or employee of a state agency, or other individual, who in the course of his or her employment or duty has or had...
• California Government Code Section 6165
  The Department of General Services and state agencies shall enter into interagency agreements to reimburse the Department of General Services for its costs in entering...
• California Government Code Section 6166
  Any state agency accepting payment by a means of credit card, whether pursuant to this chapter or Section 19005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,...
• California Government Code Section 6200
  Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court, filed or deposited in any...
• California Government Code Section 6201
  Every person not an officer referred to in Section 6200, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section, is punishable by...
• California Government Code Section 6203
  (a) Every officer authorized by law to make or give any certificate or other writing is guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she makes...
• California Government Code Section 6204
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Archivist" means the Keeper of the Archives, as specified in Section 12227. (2)...
• California Government Code Section 6204.1
  (a) If a person, organization, or institution that receives a written notice and demand from the secretary pursuant to Section 6204 does not deliver the...
• California Government Code Section 6204.2
  (a) If a local agency has reasonable grounds to believe that a record belonging to that local agency is in the possession of a person,...
• California Government Code Section 6204.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an organization or institution having physical custody of a record shall be exempt from Sections 6204 to...
• California Government Code Section 6204.4
  In an action brought pursuant to this chapter, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party.
• California Government Code Section 6205
  The Legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking frequently establish new names or addresses in...
• California Government Code Section 6205.5
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (a) "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or...
• California Government Code Section 6206
  (a) An adult person, a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor, or a guardian acting on behalf of an incapacitated person may...
• California Government Code Section 6206.4
  The Secretary of State shall keep confidential name changes of program participants obtained pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1277 of the Code of Civil...
• California Government Code Section 6206.5
  (a) The Secretary of State may cancel a program participant' s certification if there is a change in the residential address from the one listed...
• California Government Code Section 6206.7
  (a) A program participant may withdraw from program participation by submitting to the address confidentiality program manager written notification of withdrawal and his or her...
• California Government Code Section 6207
  (a) A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as his or her address....
• California Government Code Section 6207.5
  A program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may seek to register and vote in a confidential manner pursuant to Section 2166.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6208
  The Secretary of State may not make a program participant's address, other than the address designated by the Secretary of State, or a program participant's...
• California Government Code Section 6208.1
  (a) (1) No person, business, or association shall knowingly and intentionally publicly post or publicly display on the Internet the home address, home telephone number,...
• California Government Code Section 6208.2
  (a) (1) No person shall post, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat...
• California Government Code Section 6208.5
  The Secretary of State shall designate state and local agencies and nonprofit agencies that provide counseling and shelter services to victims of domestic violence or...
• California Government Code Section 6209
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules to facilitate the administration of this chapter by state and local agencies.
• California Government Code Section 6209.7
  (a) Nothing in this chapter, nor participation in this program, affects custody or visitation orders in effect prior to or during program participation. A program...
• California Government Code Section 6210
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Legislature, no later than January 10 of each year, a report that includes...
• California Government Code Section 6215
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Persons working in the reproductive health care field, specifically the provision of terminating a pregnancy, are often...
• California Government Code Section 6215.1
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (a) "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or...
• California Government Code Section 6215.2
  (a) An adult person, a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor, or a guardian acting on behalf of an incapacitated person may...
• California Government Code Section 6215.3
  (a) The Secretary of State may cancel a program participant' s certification if there is a change in the residential address from the one listed...
• California Government Code Section 6215.4
  (a) A program participant may withdraw from program participation by submitting to the address confidentiality program manager written notification of withdrawal and his or her...
• California Government Code Section 6215.5
  (a) A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as his or her address....
• California Government Code Section 6215.6
  A program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may seek to register and vote in a confidential manner pursuant to Section 2166.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6215.7
  The Secretary of State may not make a program participant's address, other than the address designated by the Secretary of State, available for inspection or...
• California Government Code Section 6215.8
  The Secretary of State shall designate state and local agencies and nonprofit agencies that may assist persons applying to be program participants. Any assistance and...
• California Government Code Section 6215.9
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules to facilitate the administration of this chapter by state and local agencies. The Secretary of State shall administer...
• California Government Code Section 6216
  (a) The Secretary of State shall submit to the Legislature, no later than January 10 of each year, a report that includes the total number...
• California Government Code Section 6218
  (a) (1) No person, business, or association shall knowingly publicly post or publicly display on the Internet the home address, home telephone number, or image...
• California Government Code Section 6218.01
  (a) (1) No person shall post, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat...
• California Government Code Section 6218.05
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Reproductive health care services" means health care services relating to the termination...
• California Government Code Section 6219
  (a) Each department, commission, office, or other administrative agency of state government shall write each document that it produces in plain, straightforward language, avoiding technical...
• California Government Code Section 6223
  (a) No person shall file or record a lawsuit, lien, or other encumbrance, including, but not limited to, a notice of lis pendens, against a...
• California Government Code Section 6250
  In enacting this chapter, the Legislature, mindful of the right of individuals to privacy, finds and declares that access to information concerning the conduct of...
• California Government Code Section 6251
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Public Records Act.
• California Government Code Section 6252
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" includes a county; city, whether general law or chartered; city and county; school district; municipal corporation; district;...
• California Government Code Section 6252.5
  Notwithstanding the definition of "member of the public" in Section 6252, an elected member or officer of any state or local agency is entitled to...
• California Government Code Section 6252.6
  Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 827 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, after the death of a foster child who is a...
• California Government Code Section 6252.7
  Notwithstanding Section 6252.5 or any other provision of law, when the members of a legislative body of a local agency are authorized to access a...
• California Government Code Section 6253
  (a) Public records are open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency and every person has a...
• California Government Code Section 6253.1
  (a) When a member of the public requests to inspect a public record or obtain a copy of a public record, the public agency, in...
• California Government Code Section 6253.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, information regarding persons paid by the state to provide in-home supportive services pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6253.3
  A state or local agency may not allow another party to control the disclosure of information that is otherwise subject to disclosure pursuant to this
• California Government Code Section 6253.31
  Notwithstanding any contract term to the contrary, a contract entered into by a state or local agency subject to this chapter, including the University of...
• California Government Code Section 6253.4
  (a) Every agency may adopt regulations stating the procedures to be followed when making its records available in accordance with this section. The following state...
• California Government Code Section 6253.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 6252 and 6253, statewide, county, city, and district initiative, referendum, and recall petitions, petitions circulated pursuant to Section 5091 of the Education Code,...
• California Government Code Section 6253.6
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 6252 and 6253, information compiled by public officers or public employees revealing the identity of persons who have requested...
• California Government Code Section 6253.8
  (a) Every final enforcement order issued by an agency listed in subdivision (b) under any provision of law that is administered by an entity listed...
• California Government Code Section 6253.9
  (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, any agency that has information that constitutes an identifiable public record not exempt from disclosure pursuant to this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6254
  Except as provided in Sections 6254.7 and 6254.13, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records that are any of the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.1
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6254.7, nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that are the residence address of any person contained in...
• California Government Code Section 6254.2
  (a) Nothing in this chapter exempts from public disclosure the same categories of pesticide safety and efficacy information that are disclosable under paragraph (1) of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.3
  (a) The home addresses and home telephone numbers of state employees and employees of a school district or county office of education shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6254.4
  (a) The home address, telephone number, e-mail address, precinct number, or other number specified by the Secretary of State for voter registration purposes, and prior...
• California Government Code Section 6254.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, whenever a state or local agency discloses a public record which is otherwise exempt from this chapter, to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.6
  Whenever a city and county or a joint powers agency, pursuant to a mandatory statute or charter provision to collect private industry wage data for...
• California Government Code Section 6254.7
  (a) All information, analyses, plans, or specifications that disclose the nature, extent, quantity, or degree of air contaminants or other pollution which any article, machine,...
• California Government Code Section 6254.8
  Every employment contract between a state or local agency and any public official or public employee is a public record which is not subject to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.9
  (a) Computer software developed by a state or local agency is not itself a public record under this chapter. The agency may sell, lease, or...
• California Government Code Section 6254.10
  Nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that relate to archaeological site information and reports maintained by, or in the possession of, the Department...
• California Government Code Section 6254.11
  Nothing in this chapter requires the disclosure of records that relate to volatile organic compounds or chemical substances information received or compiled by an air...
• California Government Code Section 6254.12
  Any information reported to the North American Securities Administrators Association/National Association of Securities Dealers' Central Registration Depository and compiled as disciplinary records which are made...
• California Government Code Section 6254.13
  Notwithstanding Section 6254, upon the request of any Member of the Legislature or upon request of the Governor or his or her designee, test questions...
• California Government Code Section 6254.14
  (a) (1) Except as provided in Sections 6254 and 6254.7, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the Department...
• California Government Code Section 6254.15
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that are any of the following: corporate financial records, corporate proprietary information...
• California Government Code Section 6254.16
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of the name, credit history, utility usage data, home address, or telephone number of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.17
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board that relate to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.18
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of any personal information received, collected, or compiled by a public agency regarding the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.19
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of an information security record of a public agency, if, on the facts of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.20
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that relate to electronically collected personal information, as defined by Section 11015.5,...
• California Government Code Section 6254.21
  (a) No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first...
• California Government Code Section 6254.22
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of records of a health plan that is licensed pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.23
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a risk assessment or railroad infrastructure protection program filed with...
• California Government Code Section 6254.24
  As used in this chapter, "public safety official" means the following parties, whether active or retired: (a) A peace officer as defined in Sections 830...
• California Government Code Section 6254.25
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a memorandum submitted to a state body or to the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.26
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or other law, the following records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6254.27
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a county recorder of any "official record" if a "public record" version of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.28
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a filing office of any "official record" if a "public record" version of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.29
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, in order to protect against the risk of identity theft, local agencies shall redact social security...
• California Government Code Section 6255
  (a) The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that...
• California Government Code Section 6257.5
  This chapter does not allow limitations on access to a public record based upon the purpose for which the record is being requested, if the...
• California Government Code Section 6258
  Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief or writ of mandate in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her...
• California Government Code Section 6259
  (a) Whenever it is made to appear by verified petition to the superior court of the county where the records or some part thereof are...
• California Government Code Section 6260
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed in any manner to affect the status of judicial records as it existed immediately prior to...
• California Government Code Section 6261
  Notwithstanding Section 6252, an itemized statement of the total expenditures and disbursement of any agency provided for in Article VI of the California Constitution shall...
• California Government Code Section 6262
  The exemption of records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, any state or local agency for licensing purposes under subdivision (f) of Section 6254...
• California Government Code Section 6263
  A state or local agency shall allow an inspection or copying of any public record or class of public records not exempted by this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6264
  The district attorney may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to require a state or local agency to allow him to inspect or receive a...
• California Government Code Section 6265
  Disclosure of records to a district attorney under the provisions of this chapter shall effect no change in the status of the records under any...
• California Government Code Section 6267
  All patron use records of any library which is in whole or in part supported by public funds shall remain confidential and shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6268
  Public records, as defined in Section 6252, in the custody or control of the Governor when he or she leaves office, either voluntarily or involuntarily,...
• California Government Code Section 6270
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state or local agency shall sell, exchange, furnish, or otherwise provide a public record subject to disclosure...
• California Government Code Section 6275
  It is the intent of the Legislature to assist members of the public and state and local agencies in identifying exemptions to the California Public...
• California Government Code Section 6276
  Records or information not required to be disclosed pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 6254 may include, but shall not be limited to, records or...
• California Government Code Section 6276.02
  Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, blood test results, written authorization not necessary for disclosure, Section 121010, Health and Safety Code. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, blood test...
• California Government Code Section 6276.04
  Aeronautics Act, reports of investigations and hearings, Section 21693, Public Utilities Code. Agricultural producers marketing, access to records, Section 59616, Food and Agricultural Code. Aiding...
• California Government Code Section 6276.06
  Bank and Corporation Tax, disclosure of information, Article 2 (commencing with Section 19542), Chapter 7, Part 10.2, Division 2, Revenue and Taxation Code. Bank employees,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.08
  Cable television subscriber information, confidentiality of, Section 637.5, Penal Code. CalFresh, disclosure of information, Section 18909, Welfare and Institutions Code. California AIDS Program, personal data,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.10
  Cancer registries, confidentiality of information, Section 103885, Health and Safety Code. Candidate for local nonpartisan elective office, confidentiality of ballot statement, Section 13311, Elections Code....
• California Government Code Section 6276.12
  Conservatee, confidentiality of the conservatee's report, Section 1826, Probate Code. Conservatee, estate plan of, confidentiality of, Section 2586, Probate Code. Conservatee with disability, confidentiality of...
• California Government Code Section 6276.14
  Dairy Council of California, confidentiality of ballots, Section 64155, Food and Agricultural Code. Death, report that physician's or podiatrist's negligence or incompetence may be cause,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.16
  Educational psychologist-patient, privileged communication, Section 1010.5, Evidence Code. Electronic and appliance repair dealer, service contractor, financial data in applications, subdivision (x), Section 6254. Electronic Recording...
• California Government Code Section 6276.18
  Family Court, records, Section 1818, Family Law Code. Farm product processor license, confidentiality of financial statements, Section 55523.6, Food and Agricultural Code. Farm product processor...
• California Government Code Section 6276.18
  Family Court, records, Section 1818, Family Code. Farm product processor license, confidentiality of financial statements, Section 55523.6, Food and Agricultural Code. Farm product processor licensee,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.22
  Gambling Control Act, exemption from disclosure for records of the California Gambling Control Commission and the Department of Justice, Sections 19819 and 19821, Business and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.24
  Hazardous substance tax information, prohibition against disclosure, Section 43651, Revenue and Taxation Code. Hazardous waste control, business plans, public inspection, Section 25506, Health and Safety...
• California Government Code Section 6276.26
  Improper governmental activities reporting, confidentiality of identity of person providing information, Section 8547.5. Improper governmental activities reporting, disclosure of information, Section 8547.6. Industrial loan companies,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.28
  Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, confidentiality of reports and records, Section 8953. Judicial candidates, confidentiality of communications concerning, Section 12011.5. Judicial proceedings, confidentiality of employer records...
• California Government Code Section 6276.30
  Managed care health plans, confidentiality of proprietary information, Section 14091.3, Welfare and Institutions Code. Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, negotiations with entities contracting or seeking...
• California Government Code Section 6276.32
  Narcotic addict outpatient revocation proceeding, confidentiality of reports, Section 3152.5, Welfare and Institutions Code. Narcotic and drug abuse patients, confidentiality of records, Section 11845.5, Health...
• California Government Code Section 6276.34
  Parole revocation proceedings, confidentiality of information in reports, Section 3063.5, Penal Code. Passenger fishing boat licenses, records, Section 7923, Fish and Game Code. Paternity, acknowledgement,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.36
  Pregnancy tests by local public health agencies, confidentiality of, Section 123380, Health and Safety Code. Pregnant women, confidentiality of blood tests, Section 125105, Health and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.38
  Radioactive materials, dissemination of information about transportation of, Section 33002, Vehicle Code. Railroad infrastructure protection program, disclosure not required for risk assessments filed with the...
• California Government Code Section 6276.40
  Sales and use tax, disclosure of information, Section 7056, Revenue and Taxation Code. Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority, exemption from disclosure for records maintained by...
• California Government Code Section 6276.42
  State agency activities relating to unrepresented employees, subdivision (p) of Section 6254. State agency activities relating to providers of health care, subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 6276.44
  Taxpayer information, confidentiality, local taxes, subdivision (i), Section 6254. Tax preparer, disclosure of information obtained in business of preparing tax returns, Section 17530.5, Business and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.46
  Unclaimed property, Controller records of, disclosure, Section 1582, Code of Civil Procedure. Unemployment compensation, disclosure of confidential information, Section 2111, Unemployment Insurance Code. Unemployment compensation,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.48
  Wards, petition for sealing records, Section 781, Welfare and Institutions Code. Winegrowers of California Commission, confidentiality of producers' or vintners' proprietary information, Sections 74655 and...
• California Government Code Section 6300
  As used in this chapter, "public corporation" means the State, any political subdivision thereof, any incorporated municipality therein, any public agency of the State, of...
• California Government Code Section 6301
  As used in this chapter, "act of Congress" means the act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment,...
• California Government Code Section 6302
  Any public corporation may make application for the privilege of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with the act of Congress.
• California Government Code Section 6303
  Any private corporation organized under the laws of the State subsequent to September 15, 1935, for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade...
• California Government Code Section 6304
  Any public or private corporation authorized by this chapter to make such application and whose application is granted pursuant to the terms of the act...
• California Government Code Section 6305
  If authorized to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone, a public corporation may, in addition to its other powers: (a) Provide for such...
• California Government Code Section 6310
  (a) There is in state government the International Genocide Memorial Commission composed of nine members, as follows: (1) Two members appointed by the Speaker of...
• California Government Code Section 6311
  (a) The construction of a memorial to California's genocide survivors in the Capitol Historic Region is hereby authorized. The actual construction of the memorial may...
• California Government Code Section 6312
  With respect to the design and construction of the memorial, the commission may do all of the following: (a) Establish a schedule for design, construction,...
• California Government Code Section 6313
  (a) No state moneys shall be expended for any of the purposes specified in this chapter. Funds for the construction of the memorial shall be...
• California Government Code Section 6500
  As used in this article, "public agency" includes, but is not limited to, the federal government or any federal department or agency, this state, another...
• California Government Code Section 6500.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Joint Exercise of Powers Act.
• California Government Code Section 6501
  This article does not authorize any state officer, board, commission, department, or other state agency or institution to make any agreement without the approval of...
• California Government Code Section 6502
  If authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, two or more public agencies by agreement may jointly exercise any power common to the contracting...
• California Government Code Section 6502.5
  In addition to any power common to its member districts, the Resource Conservation Energy Joint Powers Agency has the authority to finance, construct, install, and...
• California Government Code Section 6502.7
  (a) If authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, two or more public agencies which have the authority to identify, plan for, monitor, control,...
• California Government Code Section 6503
  The agreements shall state the purpose of the agreement or the power to be exercised. They shall provide for the method by which the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6503.1
  (a) When property tax revenues of a county of the second class are allocated by that county to an agency formed for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 6503.5
  Whenever a joint powers agreement provides for the creation of an agency or entity that is separate from the parties to the agreement and is...
• California Government Code Section 6503.6
  Whenever an agency or entity files a notice of agreement or amendment with the office of the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 6503.5, the...
• California Government Code Section 6503.7
  Within 90 days after the effective date of this section, any separate agency or entity constituted pursuant to a joint powers agreement entered into prior...
• California Government Code Section 6504
  The parties to the agreement may provide that (a) contributions from the treasuries may be made for the purpose set forth in the agreement, (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6505
  (a) The agreement shall provide for strict accountability of all funds and report of all receipts and disbursements. (b) In addition, and provided a separate...
• California Government Code Section 6505.1
  The contracting parties to an agreement made pursuant to this chapter shall designate the public office or officers or person or persons who have charge...
• California Government Code Section 6505.5
  If a separate agency or entity is created by the agreement, the agreement shall designate the treasurer of one of the contracting parties, or in...
• California Government Code Section 6505.6
  In lieu of the designation of a treasurer and auditor as set forth in Section 6505.5, the agency or entity may appoint one of its...
• California Government Code Section 6506
  The agency or entity provided by the agreement to administer or execute the agreement may be one or more of the parties to the agreement...
• California Government Code Section 6507
  For the purposes of this article, the agency is a public entity separate from the parties to the agreement.
• California Government Code Section 6508
  The agency shall possess the common power specified in the agreement and may exercise it in the manner or according to the method provided in...
• California Government Code Section 6508.1
  If the agency is not one or more of the parties to the agreement but is a public entity, commission, or board constituted pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6509
  Such power is subject to the restrictions upon the manner of exercising the power of one of the contracting parties, which party shall be designated...
• California Government Code Section 6509.5
  Any separate agency or entity created pursuant to this chapter shall have the power to invest any money in the treasury pursuant to Section 6505.5...
• California Government Code Section 6509.6
  Notwithstanding any other law, a joint powers authority created pursuant to this chapter may purchase or acquire, by sale, assignment, pledge, or other transfer from...
• California Government Code Section 6509.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, two or more public agencies that have the authority to invest funds in their treasuries may, by agreement,...
• California Government Code Section 6510
  The agreement may be continued for a definite term or until rescinded or terminated. The agreement may provide for the method by which it may...
• California Government Code Section 6511
  The agreement shall provide for the disposition, division, or distribution of any property acquired as the result of the joint exercise of powers.
• California Government Code Section 6512
  The agreement shall provide that after the completion of its purpose, any surplus money on hand shall be returned in proportion to the contributions made.
• California Government Code Section 6512.1
  If the purpose set forth in the agreement is the acquisition, construction or operation of a revenue-producing facility, the agreement may provide (a) for the...
• California Government Code Section 6512.2
  If the purpose set forth in the agreement is to pool the self-insurance claims of two or more local public entities, the agreement may provide...
• California Government Code Section 6513
  All of the privileges and immunities from liability, exemptions from laws, ordinances and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workmen's compensation, and other benefits which apply...
• California Government Code Section 6514
  Any state department or agency concerned with the provisions of services or facilities to mentally retarded persons and their families may enter into agreements under...
• California Government Code Section 6514.5
  Any public agency may enter into agreements with other state agencies pursuant to the provisions of Section 11256.
• California Government Code Section 6515
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission or board provided for by a joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 6516
  Public agencies conducting agricultural, livestock, industrial, cultural, or other types of fairs or exhibitions may enter into a joint powers agreement to form an insurance...
• California Government Code Section 6516.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency established in Orange County pursuant to a joint powers agreement in accordance with this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6516.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 6516.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency established pursuant to a joint powers agreement in accordance with this chapter may issue...
• California Government Code Section 6516.7
  One or more public agencies and one or more private entities that provide child care or operate child day care facilities, as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 6516.8
  Any two or more harbor agencies may establish a joint powers authority pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 1690) of Division 6 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6516.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency or entity provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to this article, the members...
• California Government Code Section 6517
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Department of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with any other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 6517.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles may advance funds, not to exceed four...
• California Government Code Section 6517.6
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the Department of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with any other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 6518
  (a) A joint powers agency, without being subject to any limitations of any party to the joint powers agreement pursuant to Section 6509, may also...
• California Government Code Section 6519
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State of California does hereby pledge to, and agree with, the holders of bonds issued by any agency...
• California Government Code Section 6520
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County and the City Council of the City of San Diego...
• California Government Code Section 6520.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the Board of Supervisors of Siskiyou County and the city councils of the cities within Siskiyou County may...
• California Government Code Section 6522
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any state department or agency entering into a joint powers agreement with a federal, county, or city government...
• California Government Code Section 6523
  (a) The West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, a joint powers entity that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into, in accordance with this...
• California Government Code Section 6523.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Selma Community Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in Fresno County, may enter into a joint powers...
• California Government Code Section 6523.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Contra Costa may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Tulare may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Kings may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a nonprofit hospital in the County of Tuolumne may enter into a joint powers agreement with a...
• California Government Code Section 6523.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a nonprofit hospital in the County of San Diego may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6524
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit children's hospital in a county of the third class may enter into a joint powers...
• California Government Code Section 6525
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a mutual water company may enter into a joint powers agreement with any public agency for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6526
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public agency that is a member of the South East Regional Reclamation Authority, the Aliso Water Management Agency,...
• California Government Code Section 6527
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where two or more health care districts have joined together to pool their self-insurance claims or losses, a...
• California Government Code Section 6528
  A charter school, including a charter school organized pursuant to Section 47604 of the Education Code, may be considered a public agency, as defined in...
• California Government Code Section 6529
  (a) (1) The Elk Valley Rancheria Tribal Council, as the governing body of the Elk Valley Rancheria, California, a federally recognized Indian tribe, may enter...
• California Government Code Section 6529.5
  (a) Any joint powers authority that includes a federally recognized Indian tribe shall not have the authority to authorize or issue bonds pursuant to the...
• California Government Code Section 6531
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is in the best interests of communities located within the City of San...
• California Government Code Section 6532
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the communities located in and around the City of Santa Clara...
• California Government Code Section 6533
  (a) The board of directors of the Eastern Water Alliance Joint Powers Agency may grant available funds to a member public agency for the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 6534
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Prison Inmate Health Service Reform Act. (b) The Department of Corrections may...
• California Government Code Section 6535
  Any entity that is established pursuant to a joint powers agreement authorized under this article that is also licensed under Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 6536
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit corporation that conducts fairs and other events and exhibitions on land leased from the County...
• California Government Code Section 6540
  As used in this article "bonds" means revenue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness.
• California Government Code Section 6541
  "Bondholder" or "holder of bonds" or any similar term, as used in this article, shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any...
• California Government Code Section 6542
  "Entity" as used in this article means any agency, board or commission provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 of this...
• California Government Code Section 6542.1
  "Fair and exhibition authority," as used in this article, means an entity created by a joint powers agreement for the purpose of financing or otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 6542.5
  "Local agency" as used in this article means any public agency designated in Section 6500 other than the federal government or any federal department or...
• California Government Code Section 6543
  "Governing body" as used in this article means the board or commission provided for by a joint powers agreement, pursuant to Article 1 of this
• California Government Code Section 6544
  "Indenture" as used in this article means the instrument providing the terms and conditions for the issuance of the revenue bonds, and may be a...
• California Government Code Section 6545
  "Project" as used in this article includes buildings, structures, improvements and all facilities appurtenant thereto or provided therefor together with land and offstreet parking facilities...
• California Government Code Section 6546
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 6546.1
  In the County of Los Angeles, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint powers agreement entered into by cities pursuant to Article 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.2
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission or board provided for by joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 6546.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any local agency entering into one or more leases or rental contracts or agreements with a joint powers entity...
• California Government Code Section 6546.4
  The governing body of any local agency adopting an ordinance pursuant to Section 6546.3 shall call an election for purposes of submitting to the qualified...
• California Government Code Section 6546.5
  In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast in an election called pursuant to Section 6546.4 are against adoption of the ordinance, no ordinance...
• California Government Code Section 6546.5
  For purposes of an agency, commission, or board that is authorized pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 6546 to issue revenue bonds for facilities for...
• California Government Code Section 6546.6
  In addition to any other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint powers agreement entered into by cities pursuant to Article 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.7
  Public agencies may enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of creating a fair and exhibition authority with the power to issue revenue...
• California Government Code Section 6546.11
  In addition to other powers, any joint powers entity created to exercise the powers granted by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 33750) of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.12
  In any county with a population determined by the last official census of 4,000,000 or more, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint...
• California Government Code Section 6546.13
  (a) The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, or its successor organization, may issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article or bonds pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 6547
  The power of the entity to issue revenue bonds is additional to the powers common to the parties to the joint powers agreement, but shall...
• California Government Code Section 6547.1
  Any entity which shall have been authorized to exercise the power to issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article shall have the further additional power...
• California Government Code Section 6547.2
  Notice of the enactment of an ordinance subject to referendum under Section 6547 shall be published after adoption as required by Section 6040.1 within 15...
• California Government Code Section 6547.3
  In the event that an ordinance enacted pursuant to Section 6547 authorizing the entity to issue revenue bonds is subjected to a successful referendum election...
• California Government Code Section 6547.4
  Except for the requirement of an ordinance and the right to referendum thereon, the amendments to Section 6547 adopted at the 1971 Regular Session of...
• California Government Code Section 6547.5
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article upon authorization by ordinance of only those individual...
• California Government Code Section 6547.6
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may incur other forms of indebtedness pursuant to Section 6547.1 for one or more projects specified...
• California Government Code Section 6547.7
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may issue mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 52000) of Division 31...
• California Government Code Section 6547.8
  No member of the governing body of the authority shall be personally liable on the bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability...
• California Government Code Section 6547.9
  The Treasurer is designated as an elected representative for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created pursuant to this chapter. In the discretion...
• California Government Code Section 6548
  The revenue bonds may be issued to provide all or any part of the funds required for the acquisition, construction and financing of said project,...
• California Government Code Section 6548.5
  The level of fees or charges imposed by, or on behalf of, an agency or entity for the issuance of bonds pursuant to this article...
• California Government Code Section 6549
  An indenture providing the terms and conditions for the issuance of the bonds and the covenants relating thereto shall be adopted in or approved by...
• California Government Code Section 6550
  The principal and interest of the bonds shall be payable: (a) First, out of the revenue derived from the operation of the project or projects...
• California Government Code Section 6551
  Revenue bonds issued under this article and contracts or obligations entered into to carry out the purposes for which bonds are issued, payable in whole...
• California Government Code Section 6552
  All bonds issued by the entity shall contain a recital on their face that neither the payment of the principal or any part thereof nor...
• California Government Code Section 6553
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds shall recite the objects and purposes for which the bonds are to be issued, which may include...
• California Government Code Section 6554
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall provide the denomination or denominations of the bonds, the medium of payment of principal thereof and...
• California Government Code Section 6555
  In the indenture authorizing the issuance of said bonds the governing body may also fix additional terms and conditions and may in any article, section...
• California Government Code Section 6556
  Said indenture may provide the terms and conditions under which said bonds may be paid, redeemed before maturity (including the premiums, if any, to be...
• California Government Code Section 6557
  Said indenture may include covenants or other provisions relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the entity to fix, prescribe and collect rates, tolls, fees,...
• California Government Code Section 6558
  The indenture may include covenants or other provisions, other than or in lieu of the provisions required by Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 6559
  The indenture may include a covenant or other provision relating to the insurance upon such project, or any part thereof, against any or all risks,...
• California Government Code Section 6560
  The indenture may include a covenant or other provision containing prohibitions against or limitations upon the sale, lease or other disposition of such project or...
• California Government Code Section 6561
  The indenture may contain covenants or other provisions providing for prohibitions against or limitations upon the issuance of any additional bonds or the incurring of...
• California Government Code Section 6562
  The indenture may contain covenants or other provisions whereby the consent or agreement of a stated percentage or number of the holders of the bonds...
• California Government Code Section 6563
  The indenture may provide for the issuance of a duplicate in the manner and upon such terms and conditions as the governing body of the...
• California Government Code Section 6564
  The indenture may include a covenant or provision against the entering into of any agreement which impairs the operation of the project or any part...
• California Government Code Section 6565
  The indenture may provide for events of default and the terms upon which the bonds may be declared due before maturity and the terms upon...
• California Government Code Section 6566
  The indenture may provide for the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the entity's breach of any covenants, conditions or obligations of the indenture.
• California Government Code Section 6567
  The indenture may provide for a fiscal agent and the deposit of funds therewith.
• California Government Code Section 6568
  The indenture may contain any other provision or covenant valid under the Constitutions of the State of California and the United States of America which...
• California Government Code Section 6569
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of said bonds and all resolutions or orders in the proceeding for the issuance of said bonds shall constitute a...
• California Government Code Section 6570
  Any bonds issued under this act shall be payable within not more than forty (40) years from the date of issue thereof. No bond may...
• California Government Code Section 6571
  The bonds shall be issued and sold as the governing body may determine and for not less than par and accrued interest to date of...
• California Government Code Section 6571.2
  Any joint powers agency which, prior to January 1, 1972, has issued revenue bonds pursuant to Section 6571.1 of this article for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 6572
  The bonds shall be secured by a pledge of and lien upon the revenues of the project described in the indenture authorizing the issuance of...
• California Government Code Section 6573
  So long as any bonds or interest coupons thereof are outstanding and unpaid, the revenues and interest thereon shall not be used for any purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6574
  The entity shall operate, maintain and preserve the project in good repair and working order, and shall operate the project in an efficient and economical...
• California Government Code Section 6575
  All bonds and the interest thereon or income therefrom are exempt from all taxation in this State other than gift, inheritance and estate taxes.
• California Government Code Section 6576
  The entity may provide for the issuance, sale or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any revenue bonds issued by...
• California Government Code Section 6577
  Funding or refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of all of the following: (a) All...
• California Government Code Section 6578
  This article shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 6579
  In addition to the revenue bonds authorized by this article, an agency or entity established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may also issue...
• California Government Code Section 6579.5
  In addition to the revenue bonds authorized by this article and in addition to other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by a...
• California Government Code Section 6580
  As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) "Joint county park board" means a board, commission, or other public...
• California Government Code Section 6581
  A joint county park board may designate the sheriff of any one of the counties as the park sheriff. The park sheriff shall be designated...
• California Government Code Section 6582
  Upon the designation of a park sheriff in the manner provided in Section 6581, and until such time as the designation is revoked by the...
• California Government Code Section 6583
  The provisions of this article applicable to a park sheriff, if one has been designated, shall apply to all deputies and subordinates of the park...
• California Government Code Section 6584
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985.
• California Government Code Section 6584.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That there is a critical need within the state to expand, upgrade, and otherwise improve...
• California Government Code Section 6585
  The definitions in this section shall govern the construction and interpretation of this article. (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), "authority"...
• California Government Code Section 6586
  It is the Legislature's intent that this article be used to assist local agencies in financing public capital improvements, working capital, liability and other insurance...
• California Government Code Section 6586.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6587, an authority, or any entity acting on behalf of or for the benefit of an authority, may not authorize bonds to...
• California Government Code Section 6586.7
  (a) A copy of the resolution adopted by an authority authorizing bonds or any issuance of bonds, or accepting the benefit of any bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 6586.7
  (a) A copy of the resolution adopted by an authority authorizing bonds or any issuance of bonds, or accepting the benefit of any bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 6587
  This article does not limit any other law authorizing, or providing for, the financing of public capital improvements. Likewise, this article does not limit any...
• California Government Code Section 6588
  In addition to other powers specified in an agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) and Article 2 (commencing with Section 6540), the...
• California Government Code Section 6588.5
  (a) An authority that was in existence at the time of the enactment of this section may purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 6588.6
  (a) An authority that was in existence on July 28, 2009, may purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or its revenue, Proposition 1A receivables...
• California Government Code Section 6589
  An authority may enter into a bond purchase agreement with a local agency or agencies. The bond purchase agreement shall specify the maximum rate of...
• California Government Code Section 6590
  The authority may, from time to time, issue its bonds in the principal amount as the authority determines necessary to provide sufficient funds for its...
• California Government Code Section 6590.1
  (a) In the case of bonds issued by an authority to acquire local obligations, the offering documents for the bonds shall clearly delineate investment criteria...
• California Government Code Section 6590.2
  (a) An authority shall solicit at least three bids, and select the highest bid, for any guaranteed investment contract purchased with the proceeds of bonds...
• California Government Code Section 6591
  (a) The authority is authorized from time to time to issue bonds to provide funds to achieve its purposes. (b) Bonds may be authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 6591.1
  (a) No broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, or other firm that underwrites a bond issue of an authority shall serve as financial advisor or investment...
• California Government Code Section 6592
  Any resolution authorizing any bonds or any issue of bonds may contain the following provisions, which shall be a part of the contract with the...
• California Government Code Section 6592.1
  A resolution authorizing bonds or any issuance of bonds or accepting the benefit of any bonds or the proceeds of bonds shall be adopted by...
• California Government Code Section 6592.5
  (a) No bonds issued by any local agency shall be purchased pursuant to this article by an authority at a price to yield in excess...
• California Government Code Section 6593
  No member of the governing body of the authority shall be personally liable on the bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability...
• California Government Code Section 6594
  The authority may, out of any funds available therefor, purchase its bonds. The authority may hold, pledge, cancel, or resell the bonds, subject to, and...
• California Government Code Section 6595
  Any bonds issued under this article may be secured by a trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may include...
• California Government Code Section 6595.3
  (a) The authority may issue bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds, notes, or other securities of the authority then outstanding, including the payment...
• California Government Code Section 6595.5
  Bonds issued by the authority are legal investments for all trust funds, the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, trust companies,...
• California Government Code Section 6595.7
  (a) The authority is not required to pay any property taxes or assessments upon, or with respect to, any public capital improvement or any property...
• California Government Code Section 6596
  The State of California does hereby pledge to, and agrees with, the holders of any bonds issued under this article, and with those parties who...
• California Government Code Section 6597
  All public capital improvements financed by the authority shall pay interest within a reasonable time after the authority receives revenues or proceeds from bonds as...
• California Government Code Section 6597.5
  All public capital improvements financed by the authority shall be constructed or completed subject to the rules and regulations of the authority. When the principal...
• California Government Code Section 6598
  Interest earned on any bonds issued by the authority shall at all times be free from state personal income tax and corporate income tax.
• California Government Code Section 6598.5
  Local agencies may request advice from the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission pursuant to Section 8859 regarding the formation of local bond pooling authorities...
• California Government Code Section 6599
  (a) In an action filed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure...
• California Government Code Section 6599.1
  (a) The legislative body shall, no later than 30 days prior to the sale of any bonds pursuant to this article, give written notice of...
• California Government Code Section 6599.2
  Notwithstanding Sections 863 and 869 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Attorney General or the Treasurer may jointly or separately file an action pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 6599.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an action may be brought under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of...
• California Government Code Section 6599.01
  Pursuant to Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, local agencies may enter into a joint pooling agreement to form a single statewide...
• California Government Code Section 6599.02
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" means any city, county, city and county, school district, special district, authority, other political subdivision of or...
• California Government Code Section 6599.03
  In addition to the powers specified in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500), the authority may issue revenue bonds or certificates of participation, or both,...
• California Government Code Section 6599.04
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) applies to the authority.
• California Government Code Section 6599.05
  The authority is not a state agency and has no power at any time or in any manner to pledge the credit of the state.
• California Government Code Section 6599.06
  The authority shall be organized and administered by a board of directors. The original board shall be constituted and selected as follows: (a) Two directors...
• California Government Code Section 6599.07
  There shall not be any liability in an individual or private capacity on the part of the board of directors or any member of the...
• California Government Code Section 6599.08
  The authority shall be operated on an actuarially sound basis and become neither more nor less than self-supporting. For that purpose, loss experience and expense...
• California Government Code Section 6599.09
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Develop, promulgate, and effectuate loss prevention programs, risk management programs, and safety programs. (b) Subject to...
• California Government Code Section 6599.10
  All those local agencies that request membership in the authority and meet the standards established by the authority pursuant to Section 6599.09, for entry into...
• California Government Code Section 6599.21
  The authority may only cover risks to the extent that liability on any one occurrence exceeds one million dollars ($1,000,000), and may not provide coverage...
• California Government Code Section 6599.22
  The authority may establish limits on coverage for a member or category of members, but those limits may neither be less than the minimum nor...
• California Government Code Section 6599.23
  A local agency requesting membership from the authority may request coverage in any sum, so long as the coverage requested is neither less than the...
• California Government Code Section 6599.31
  The books and records of the authority shall be audited annually and a summary of the audit shall be provided to the authority's members and...
• California Government Code Section 6599.41
  If the original board is not selected on or before January 1, 1990, this chapter shall cease to be operative.
• California Government Code Section 6600
  This chapter applies only to property and funds, and the disposition thereof, of inmates of any state home, reformatory, hospital, state prison, or other institution...
• California Government Code Section 6601
  When any person confined in any state home, reformatory, hospital, state prison, or other institution dies, escapes, or is discharged or paroled from the home,...
• California Government Code Section 6602
  If the charge is not paid, a lien to secure the payment of the charge accrues to the State. The lien may be foreclosed pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 6603
  If the charge is not paid within three years, the lien may be foreclosed, and the superintendent or warden may sell the property, or such...
• California Government Code Section 6604
  At least 10 days before the sale notice of sale shall be posted in a public place at the state home, reformatory, hospital, institution, or...
• California Government Code Section 6605
  The proceeds of the sale shall be turned over immediately to the State Treasurer to be credited to the General Fund, except that the proceeds...
• California Government Code Section 6606
  The superintendent or warden may deposit any funds of inmates in his possession in any bank in the state. With the consent of the owners...
• California Government Code Section 6607
  The superintendent or warden is the trustee of the benefit fund.
• California Government Code Section 6608
  He may expend the money in the benefit fund or post fund for the education or entertainment of the inmates of the institution or prison...
• California Government Code Section 6650
  (a) Any marching band organized by or maintained by any educational institution supported in whole or in part by public funds or granted any tax...
• California Government Code Section 6700
  The holidays in this state are: (a) Every Sunday. (b) January 1st. (c) The third Monday in January, known as "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
• California Government Code Section 6701
  If January 1st, February 12th, March 31st, July 4th, September 9th, November 11th, or December 25th falls upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a...
• California Government Code Section 6702
  Every Saturday from noon to midnight is a holiday as regards the transaction of business in the public offices of the state and political divisions...
• California Government Code Section 6703
  (a) Public offices of the state, state institutions, and the University of California shall be closed on Admission Day. (b) Public offices of the state...
• California Government Code Section 6704
  The legislative body of any city or district may, by ordinance or resolution, provide that every Saturday is a holiday as respects the transaction of...
• California Government Code Section 6705
  A special or limited holiday is a holiday applying only to a special class or classes of business, or a special class or classes of...
• California Government Code Section 6706
  Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon...
• California Government Code Section 6707
  When the last day for filing any instrument or other document with a state agency falls upon a Saturday or holiday, such act may be...
• California Government Code Section 6708
  The Governor shall proclaim September 28th to be known hereafter as "Cabrillo Day."
• California Government Code Section 6709
  The Governor shall proclaim January 15 to be known hereafter as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
• California Government Code Section 6710
  The Governor shall proclaim March 7, to be known hereafter as "Arbor Day."
• California Government Code Section 6711
  The Governor shall proclaim February 19 to be known hereafter as "A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation," to reflect upon that day of February...
• California Government Code Section 6712
  The Governor shall proclaim annually the fourth Friday in September to be "Native American Day."
• California Government Code Section 6713
  The Governor shall annually proclaim the first Sunday in October to be known as "Stepparents Day."
• California Government Code Section 6714
  The Governor annually shall proclaim April 21st to be "John Muir Day."
• California Government Code Section 6715
  The Governor shall annually proclaim March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
• California Government Code Section 6716
  The Governor shall annually proclaim December 7 as "Pearl Harbor Day."
• California Government Code Section 6717
  The Governor shall annually proclaim March 31 as "Cesar Chavez Day."
• California Government Code Section 6718
  The Governor shall proclaim the month of February as Black History Month each year.
• California Government Code Section 6719
  The Governor shall proclaim the third Saturday in June of each year to be known as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day: A day of observance," to...
• California Government Code Section 6721
  The Governor shall annually proclaim May 22 as Harvey Milk Day.
• California Government Code Section 6722
  The Governor annually shall proclaim January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
• California Government Code Section 6723
  The Governor shall annually proclaim February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
• California Government Code Section 6724
  The Governor shall annually proclaim January 23 as Ed Roberts Day.
• California Government Code Section 6800
  The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless...
• California Government Code Section 6801
  Time is computed according to the Gregorian or new style; and January 1st, in every year, after 1752 is reckoned as the first day of...
• California Government Code Section 6802
  The years 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other future hundredth year, of which the year 2000 is the first, except only every fourth hundredth...
• California Government Code Section 6803
  "Year" means a period of 365 days; "half year," 182 days; "quarter of a year," 91 days. The added day of a leap year, and...
• California Government Code Section 6804
  "Month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.
• California Government Code Section 6805
  A week consists of seven consecutive days.
• California Government Code Section 6806
  A day is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
• California Government Code Section 6807
  "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
• California Government Code Section 6850
  The money of account of this State is the dollar, cent, and mill. Public accounts and all proceedings in courts shall be kept and had...
• California Government Code Section 6851
  This chapter does not vitiate or affect any account, charge, or entry originally made, or any note, bond, or other instrument expressed in any other...
• California Government Code Section 6852
  All legal tender notes issued by the United States shall be received at par in payment for all taxes due this State, or to any...
• California Government Code Section 6860
  Notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in any laws, farm loan bonds, consolidated farm loan bonds, collateral trust debentures, consolidated debentures, or other obligations issued...
• California Government Code Section 6900
  Whenever any governmental body is a shareholder of any corporation, and a resolution is before the shareholders which will permit or authorize cumulative voting for...
• California Government Code Section 6901
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, every state agency owning common stock shall, when returning proxies to a corporation, vote each proxy that is...
• California Government Code Section 6930
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Governmental investor" means the Treasurer, the Teachers' Retirement Board, and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement...
• California Government Code Section 6931
  Each securities transaction or brokerage agreement carried out for a governmental investor pursuant to a soft dollar and directed brokerage arrangement, as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 6932
  Any written contract entered into between a governmental investor and an investment manager on or after January 1, 1991, for the management of assets of...
• California Government Code Section 6933
  Soft dollar and directed brokerage arrangements are not subject to any statutory competitive bidding requirements. This section does not constitute a change in, but is...
• California Government Code Section 6934
  This chapter shall apply to contracts entered into, renewed, or extended on and after January 1, 1991.
• California Government Code Section 6950
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide a means whereby any county or city may acquire, by purchase, gift,...
• California Government Code Section 6951
  The Legislature finds that the rapid growth and spread of urban development is encroaching upon, or eliminating, many open areas and spaces of varied size...
• California Government Code Section 6952
  The Legislature hereby declares that it is necessary for sound and proper urban and metropolitan development, and in the public interest of the people of...
• California Government Code Section 6953
  The Legislature further declares that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces and areas constitutes a public...
• California Government Code Section 6954
  For the purposes of this chapter an "open space" or "open area" is any space or area characterized by (1) great natural scenic beauty or...
• California Government Code Section 7000
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide a means whereby the Departments of Water Resources, Parks and Recreation, Fish...
• California Government Code Section 7001
  The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation and conservation of the scenic lands and areas...
• California Government Code Section 7002
  The state agencies specified in Section 7000 may exercise the powers specified in that section for the acquisition of rights or interests in real property...
• California Government Code Section 7050
  With the consent of the city, county, or city and county, as the case may be, an irrevocable offer of dedication of real property for...
• California Government Code Section 7060
  (a) No public entity, as defined in Section 811.2, shall, by statute, ordinance, or regulation, or by administrative action implementing any statute, ordinance or regulation,...
• California Government Code Section 7060.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7060, nothing in this chapter does any of the following: (a) Prevents a public entity from enforcing any contract or agreement by which...
• California Government Code Section 7060.2
  If a public entity, by valid exercise of its police power, has in effect any control or system of control on the price at which...
• California Government Code Section 7060.3
  If a public entity determines to apply constraints pursuant to Section 7060.2 to a successor in interest of an owner who has withdrawn accommodations from...
• California Government Code Section 7060.4
  (a) Any public entity which, by a valid exercise of its police power, has in effect any control or system of control on the price...
• California Government Code Section 7060.5
  The actions authorized by Sections 7060.2 and 7060.4 may be taken by regulation adopted after public notice and hearing by a public body of a...
• California Government Code Section 7060.6
  If an owner seeks to displace a tenant or lessee from accommodations withdrawn from rent or lease pursuant to this chapter by an unlawful detainer...
• California Government Code Section 7060.7
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to supersede any holding or portion of any holding in Nash v. City of...
• California Government Code Section 7070
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Enterprise Zone Act.
• California Government Code Section 7071
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) The health, safety, and welfare of the people of California depend upon the development, stability, and expansion...
• California Government Code Section 7072
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (b) "Date of original designation"...
• California Government Code Section 7072.3
  The department shall deposit funds collected pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 7076, subdivision (a) of Section 7097.1, and subdivision (a) of Section 7114.2 into...
• California Government Code Section 7072.5
  By April 1, 1998, a governing body that has already designated a target employment area may request, by a resolution of all cities or counties...
• California Government Code Section 7073
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any city, county, or city and county with an eligible area within its jurisdiction may complete a preliminary...
• California Government Code Section 7073.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any city, county, or city and county with an eligible area within its jurisdiction may complete a preliminary...
• California Government Code Section 7073.8
  (a) The department shall designate up to two Manufacturing Enhancement Areas requested by the governing boards of cities each of which shall meet at least...
• California Government Code Section 7073.9
  Upon approval by the department of an application by a city, county, or city and county, a manufacturing enhancement area in Imperial County is expanded...
• California Government Code Section 7074
  (a) In the case of any enterprise zone, including an enterprise zone formerly designated as an enterprise zone pursuant to Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 7074.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or a city and county may designate a joint powers authority to administer an enterprise...
• California Government Code Section 7074.5
  In the case of the Counties of Fresno and Kern, an enterprise zone that is located in a city or in the unincorporated area of...
• California Government Code Section 7075
  (a) For preliminary applications filed before October 1, 2007, the following shall apply: (1) Upon filing a preliminary application, the applicant city, county, or city...
• California Government Code Section 7076
  (a) (1) The department shall provide technical assistance to the enterprise zones designated pursuant to this chapter with respect to all of the following activities:...
• California Government Code Section 7076.1
  (a) The department may audit the program of any jurisdiction in any designated G-TEDA at any time during the duration of the designation, as appropriate....
• California Government Code Section 7076.2
  (a) The department shall dedesignate a zone on the first day of the month immediately following the date upon which the department has received from...
• California Government Code Section 7077
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state and local agencies may lease land to businesses in a designated enterprise zone at a price below fair...
• California Government Code Section 7078
  The limitations in Section 91503 on the allowable uses of proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to Title 10 (commencing with Section 91500) shall not apply...
• California Government Code Section 7079
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office of Small Business shall establish regulations for loans and loan guarantees administered by the office that give...
• California Government Code Section 7080
  Notwithstanding Sections 32646 and 32647 of the Financial Code, a high priority in ranking loan applications by the State Assistance Fund for Energy, California Business...
• California Government Code Section 7081
  Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the Employment Development Department and the State Department of Education...
• California Government Code Section 7082
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning shall give high priority to designated enterprise zones in the allocation of its...
• California Government Code Section 7082.2
  In the case of a G-TEDA being dedesignated pursuant to Section 7085.1, any business located within any jurisdiction that comprises a G-TEDA that has been...
• California Government Code Section 7083
  Any designation of an enterprise zone in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed appropriate state designation of an enterprise zone for...
• California Government Code Section 7084
  (a) Whenever the state prepares a solicitation for a contract for goods in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which...
• California Government Code Section 7085
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature every five years beginning January 1, 1998, that evaluates the effect of...
• California Government Code Section 7085.1
  (a) The governing board of the G-TEDA shall report to the department by October 1, 2008, and by that date every other year thereafter, on...
• California Government Code Section 7085.5
  The Franchise Tax Board shall annually make available to the department and the Legislature information, by enterprise zone and by city or county, on the...
• California Government Code Section 7086
  (a) The department shall design, develop, and make available the applications and the criteria for selection of enterprise zones pursuant to Section 7073 and shall...
• California Government Code Section 7089
  For purposes of the Revenue and Taxation Code, each of the following shall apply: (a) Enterprise zones designated pursuant to former Chapter 12.8 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 7097
  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development shall rank applicant communities and shall designate the first ranking community whose governing body is applying as...
• California Government Code Section 7097.1
  (a) The department shall assess each targeted tax area a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for each application for issuance of a certificate pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 7099
  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development may approve a proposed expansion of a targeted tax area subject to the following conditions: (1) The...
• California Government Code Section 7105
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Local Agency Military Base Recovery Area Act.
• California Government Code Section 7106
  The Legislature finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California depend upon the development, stability, and expansion of private...
• California Government Code Section 7107
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (b) "Base" means a federal military installation or subinstallation as...
• California Government Code Section 7110
  (a) The governing body may, either by ordinance or resolution, propose an eligible area within its respective jurisdiction as the geographic area for a local...
• California Government Code Section 7110.5
  A designation of a local agency military base recovery area pursuant to Section 7110 shall be for an eight-year period, that shall expire eight years...
• California Government Code Section 7111
  (a) An eligible area is a military base or former military base which, based upon the determination of the department, fulfills the following: (1) The...
• California Government Code Section 7112
  All property which is owned by or leased to the state or governing body within the boundaries of the closed military base or the military...
• California Government Code Section 7113
  (a) Upon filing a preliminary application, the applicant, as lead agency, shall submit an initial study and a notice of preparation to the department, the...
• California Government Code Section 7113.5
  When selecting successful applicants for a local agency military base recovery area, the department shall limit the number of local agency military base recovery areas...
• California Government Code Section 7114
  (a) The department shall design, develop, and make available the applications and the criteria for selection of a local agency military base recovery area, and...
• California Government Code Section 7114.2
  (a) The department shall assess each LAMBRA a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for each application for issuance of a certificate pursuant to subdivision (c)...
• California Government Code Section 7114.5
  (a) The department shall provide, as a high priority, to a designated local agency military base recovery area: (1) Technical assistance for state and federal...
• California Government Code Section 7115
  The department shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 1996, and every year thereafter, which: (a) Evaluates the effect of...
• California Government Code Section 7116
  (a) A local agency military base recovery area governing body shall provide information at the request of the department as necessary for the department to...
• California Government Code Section 7117
  A business located within a local agency military base recovery area shall be eligible for the tax benefits set forth within Sections 17053.45, 17053.46, 17268,...
• California Government Code Section 7117
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office of Small Business shall establish regulations for loans and loan guarantees administered by the office that give...
• California Government Code Section 7118
  (a) Whenever the state prepares a solicitation for a contract for goods in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which...
• California Government Code Section 7120
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all persons licensed in this state to engage in the practice of dentistry shall be accorded...
• California Government Code Section 7150
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the words and phrases defined in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 7150.5
  "Agency" means: (a) The Department of Fish and Game with respect to a state tax lien created under Section 8048 of the Fish and Game...
• California Government Code Section 7151
  "Bona fide purchaser" has the same meaning as "protected purchaser" as defined in Section 8303 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7152
  "Buyer in ordinary course of business" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (9) of subdivision (b) of Section 1201 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7153
  "Chattel paper" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 9102 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7154
  "Deposit account" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (29) of subdivision (a) of Section 9102 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7155
  "Duly negotiated" has the same meaning as defined in Section 7501 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7156
  "Holder in due course" has the same meaning as defined in Section 3302 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7157
  "Instrument" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (47) of subdivision (a) of Section 9102 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7158
  "Personal property" includes both tangible and intangible personal property.
• California Government Code Section 7159
  "Purchase money security interest" has the same meaning as defined in Section 9103 of the Commercial Code.
• California Government Code Section 7160
  "Real property" includes any rights in real property.
• California Government Code Section 7161
  "Security" has the same meaning as defined in Section 8102 of the Commerical Code.
• California Government Code Section 7162
  "State tax lien" means a lien created pursuant to Section 8048 of the Fish and Game Code, Section 3423 or 3772 of the Public Resources...
• California Government Code Section 7163
  "Tax" means a liability for which a state tax lien has been created.
• California Government Code Section 7164
  "Taxpayer" means the person liable for the tax.
• California Government Code Section 7170
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a state tax lien attaches to all property and rights to property whether real or personal,...
• California Government Code Section 7170.5
  Notwithstanding Section 7170, as between competing state tax liens or as between a state tax lien and a federal lien described in Section 2100 of...
• California Government Code Section 7171
  (a) With respect to real property, at any time after creation of a state tax lien, the agency may record in the office of the...
• California Government Code Section 7172
  (a) A state tax lien continues in effect for 10 years from the date of its creation unless it is sooner released or otherwise discharged,...
• California Government Code Section 7173
  (a) If the taxpayer is a party to an action or special proceeding in which the taxpayer may become entitled to property or a money...
• California Government Code Section 7174
  (a) If the agency determines that the amount of tax, interest, and any penalty are sufficiently secured by a lien on other property or that...
• California Government Code Section 7190
  (a) As used in this section, "preexisting state tax lien" means a lien: (1) Created, recorded in any county, or filed with the Secretary of...
• California Government Code Section 7191
  This chapter is a restatement and continuation of provisions formerly found in Sections 8048 and 8052 of the Fish and Game Code, Sections 3423, 3423.8,...
• California Government Code Section 7220
  When authorized by Section 7171 or when specifically authorized by the provisions of particular tax laws, a notice of state tax lien may be filed...
• California Government Code Section 7221
  The notice of state tax lien shall set forth the matters required by subdivision (c) of Section 7171.
• California Government Code Section 7222
  The Secretary of State shall cause the notice to be marked, held and indexed in accordance with the provisions of Section 9519 of the Commercial...
• California Government Code Section 7223
  If a certificate or notice of state tax lien has been filed and is still effective, a certificate of release, partial release, or subordination, may...
• California Government Code Section 7224
  (a) A filed certificate or notice of state tax lien is effective for a period of 10 years from the date of filing. The effectiveness...
• California Government Code Section 7225
  Unless the Secretary of State has notice of an action pending relative thereto, he may remove from the files and destroy the certificate or notice...
• California Government Code Section 7226
  (a) Upon request of any person, the Secretary of State shall issue his or her certificate showing whether there is on file, on the date...
• California Government Code Section 7227
  There is no fee for filing a notice of state tax lien, certificate of partial release, certificate of subordination or certificate of continuation. The fee...
• California Government Code Section 7228
  As used in this chapter, "state tax" includes a local tax which is administered or collected by a state agency.
• California Government Code Section 7229
  The Secretary of State may adopt regulations relating to this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 7250
  The provisions of this chapter apply to all buildings or other facilities owned, leased, operated or managed by the state, county, city and county, district,...
• California Government Code Section 7251
  When a building contains special toilet facilities usable by a person in a wheelchair or otherwise handicapped, a sign indicating the location of such facilities...
• California Government Code Section 7252
  When a building contains an entrance other than the main entrance which is ramped or level for use by handicapped persons, a sign showing its...
• California Government Code Section 7260
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public entity" includes the state, the Regents of the University of California, a county, city, city and county, district,...
• California Government Code Section 7260.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Displacement as a direct result of programs or projects undertaken by a public entity is caused...
• California Government Code Section 7260.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in furtherance of the goal set forth in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 7260.5, nonprofit facilities subsidized...
• California Government Code Section 7261
  (a) Programs or projects undertaken by a public entity shall be planned in a manner that (1) recognizes, at an early stage in the planning...
• California Government Code Section 7261.5
  In order to prevent unnecessary expenses and duplications of functions, and to promote uniform and effective administration of relocation assistance programs for displaced persons under...
• California Government Code Section 7262
  (a) Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by a public entity will result in the displacement of any person, the displaced person is...
• California Government Code Section 7262.5
  Notwithstanding Section 7265.3 or any other provision of law, tenants residing in any rental project who are displaced from the project for a period of...
• California Government Code Section 7263
  (a) In addition to the payments required by Section 7262, the public entity, as a part of the cost of acquisition, shall make a payment...
• California Government Code Section 7263.5
  For purposes of Section 7263, the leasing of a condominium for a 99-year period, or for a term which exceeds the life expectancy of the...
• California Government Code Section 7264
  (a) In addition to the payments required by Section 7262, as a part of the cost of acquisition, the public entity shall make a payment...
• California Government Code Section 7264.5
  (a) If a program or project undertaken by the public entity cannot proceed on a timely basis because comparable replacement housing is not available and...
• California Government Code Section 7265
  (a) In addition to the payments required by Section 7262, as a cost of acquisition, the public entity shall make a payment to any affected...
• California Government Code Section 7265.3
  (a) A public entity may make payments in the amounts it deems appropriate, and may provide advisory assistance under this chapter, to a person who...
• California Government Code Section 7265.4
  In addition to the payments required by Section 7262, as a cost of acquisition, the public entity, as soon as practicable after the date of...
• California Government Code Section 7266
  (a) If a relocation appeals board has been established pursuant to Section 33417.5 of the Health and Safety Code, a city by ordinance may designate...
• California Government Code Section 7267
  In order to encourage and expedite the acquisition of real property by agreements with owners, to avoid litigation and relieve congestion in the courts, to...
• California Government Code Section 7267.1
  (a) The public entity shall make every reasonable effort to acquire expeditiously real property by negotiation. (b) Real property shall be appraised before the initiation...
• California Government Code Section 7267.2
  (a) (1) Prior to adopting a resolution of necessity pursuant to Section 1245.230 of the Code of Civil Procedure and initiating negotiations for the acquisition...
• California Government Code Section 7267.3
  The construction or development of a public improvement shall be so scheduled that, to the greatest extent practicable, no person lawfully occupying real property shall...
• California Government Code Section 7267.4
  If the public entity permits an owner or tenant to occupy the real property acquired on a rental basis for a short term, or for...
• California Government Code Section 7267.5
  In no event shall the public entity either advance the time of condemnation, or defer negotiations or condemnation and the deposit of funds in court...
• California Government Code Section 7267.6
  If any interest in real property is to be acquired by exercise of the power of eminent domain, the public entity shall institute formal condemnation...
• California Government Code Section 7267.7
  (a) If the acquisition of only a portion of a property would leave the remaining portion in such a shape or condition as to constitute...
• California Government Code Section 7267.8
  (a) All public entities shall adopt rules and regulations to implement payments and to administer relocation assistance under this chapter. These rules and regulations shall...
• California Government Code Section 7267.9
  (a) Prior to the initiation of negotiations for acquisition by a public entity or public utility of nonprofit, special use property, as defined by Section...
• California Government Code Section 7269
  (a) No payment received by any person under this chapter or as tenant relocation assistance required by any state statute or local ordinance shall be...
• California Government Code Section 7269.1
  Where a recipient of relocation benefits payments under federal or state law is also a general assistance recipient under Part 5 (commencing with Section 17000)...
• California Government Code Section 7270
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain any element of damages...
• California Government Code Section 7271
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 7272
  If under any other provision of law of this state the owner or occupant of real property acquired by a public entity for public use...
• California Government Code Section 7272.3
  It is the intent of the Legislature, by this chapter, to establish minimum requirements for relocation assistance payments by public entities. This chapter shall not...
• California Government Code Section 7272.5
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceeding brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of damages...
• California Government Code Section 7273
  Funds received pursuant to Sections 2106 and 2107 of the Streets and Highways Code may be expended by any city to provide relocation advisory assistance,...
• California Government Code Section 7274
  Sections 7267 to 7267.7, inclusive, create no rights or liabilities and shall not affect the validity of any property acquisitions by purchase or condemnation.
• California Government Code Section 7275
  Whenever any public entity acquires real property by eminent domain, purchase, or exchange, the purchase price and other consideration paid by such entity is public...
• California Government Code Section 7276
  (a) If a resolution is adopted under Section 1245.330 of the Code of Civil Procedure consenting to the acquisition of property by eminent domain and...
• California Government Code Section 7277
  (a) The requirement to provide relocation assistance and benefits imposed by this chapter shall not apply to a purchase of property which is offered for...
• California Government Code Section 7280
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Burton-Stull Vietnam Veterans Employment Act."
• California Government Code Section 7280.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the employment of veterans of the Vietnam conflict after their separation from the armed forces is of prime...
• California Government Code Section 7280.2
  For the purposes of this chapter "veteran" means any person (1) who served in the active military, naval, or air service of the United States...
• California Government Code Section 7280.3
  Each employer in private employment who hires an unemployed veteran of the Vietnam conflict at not less than the then-current federal minimum wage, or not...
• California Government Code Section 7280.4
  Such payments for reimbursement pursuant to Section 7280.3 shall be made to an employer who hires such a veteran as soon as possible after the...
• California Government Code Section 7280.6
  The provisions of this chapter shall be administered by, and payments shall be disbursed through, the Department of Employment Development, in addition to any other...
• California Government Code Section 7280.8
  The Director of the Department of Employment Development, or his designee, shall certify to employers such veterans as certified trainees under this chapter as he...
• California Government Code Section 7280.9
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "certified trainee" means a person who both (1) meets the criteria of Section 7280.2 and (2) has entered...
• California Government Code Section 7281
  No veteran shall be certified under Section 7280.8 if any of the following occur: (a) The director or his designee finds that the employer does...
• California Government Code Section 7281.2
  No employer may receive any reimbursement for costs specified in this chapter if the veteran whom he hires as a trainee is a person whom...
• California Government Code Section 7281.4
  Such portion of the funds appropriated each year by the Legislature for the purposes of this chapter as the Director of the Department of Employment...
• California Government Code Section 7285
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) All protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except any reinstatement remedy prohibited by federal law,...
• California Government Code Section 7290
  This chapter may be known and cited as the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act.
• California Government Code Section 7291
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the effective maintenance and development of a free and democratic society depends on the right and ability of...
• California Government Code Section 7292
  (a) Every state agency, as defined in Section 11000, except the State Compensation Insurance Fund, directly involved in the furnishing of information or the rendering...
• California Government Code Section 7293
  Every local public agency, as defined in Section 54951, serving a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, shall employ a sufficient number of qualified bilingual persons...
• California Government Code Section 7294
  An employee of a state or local agency, as defined by Sections 11000 and 54951, may not be dismissed to carry out the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 7295
  Any materials explaining services available to the public shall be translated into any non-English language spoken by a substantial number of the public served by...
• California Government Code Section 7295.2
  Every state agency which serves a substantial number of non-English-speaking people and which provides materials in English explaining services shall also provide the same type...
• California Government Code Section 7295.4
  Whenever a state agency finds that the factors listed in both subdivisions (a) and (c) or (b) and (c) exist, it shall distribute the applicable...
• California Government Code Section 7296
  (a) As used in this chapter, a "qualified bilingual person," "qualified bilingual employee," or "qualified interpreter" is a person who is proficient in both the...
• California Government Code Section 7296.2
  As used in Sections 7292 and 7295.2, a "substantial number of non-English-speaking people" are members of a group who either do not speak English, or...
• California Government Code Section 7296.4
  As used in Section 7292, "a sufficient number of qualified bilingual persons in public contact positions" is the number required to provide the same level...
• California Government Code Section 7297
  As used in this chapter, a "public contact position" is a position determined by the agency to be one which emphasizes the ability to meet,...
• California Government Code Section 7298
  The provisions of this chapter are not applicable to school districts, county boards of education, or the office of a county superintendent of schools.
• California Government Code Section 7299
  The provisions of this act shall be implemented to the extent that local, state or federal funds are available, and to the extent permissible under...
• California Government Code Section 7299.1
  State agencies may, utilizing existing funds, contract for telephone-based interpretation services in addition to employing qualified bilingual persons in public contact positions.
• California Government Code Section 7299.2
  The State Personnel Board shall be responsible for informing state agencies of their responsibilities under this chapter and providing state agencies with technical assistance, upon...
• California Government Code Section 7299.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, each state agency shall conduct an assessment and develop and update an implementation plan that complies with...
• California Government Code Section 7299.5
  The State Personnel Board may exempt state agencies from the requirements of Section 7299.4, where the State Personnel Board determines that any of the following...
• California Government Code Section 7299.6
  The State Personnel Board shall review the results of the surveys and implementation plans required to be made by Section 7299.4, compile this data, and...
• California Government Code Section 7299.8
  It is not the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to prohibit the establishment of bilingual positions, or printing of materials, or use...
• California Government Code Section 7301
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Land" means any right or interest, including development rights, in real property which is essentially unimproved and devoted to...
• California Government Code Section 7302
  Any person may offer land included within a transfer described in Section 7301 to the state for preservation as open-space land.
• California Government Code Section 7303
  The inheritance tax referee shall certify the appraised value of the land and the amount of taxes due and payable by the transferee. Such certification...
• California Government Code Section 7304
  The secretary shall establish criteria to evaluate the significance of the land offered and the feasibility of the state accepting any right or interest in...
• California Government Code Section 7305
  Upon receipt of the offer, the secretary shall notify the county in which the land being offered is located of the state's consideration. The secretary...
• California Government Code Section 7306
  Upon acceptance of an offer of land pursuant to this chapter, the secretary shall forward appropriate certification of such acceptance to the Controller.
• California Government Code Section 7307
  Land accepted by the state pursuant to this chapter shall be maintained and preserved in perpetuity as open-space land, except as provided in Section 7308.
• California Government Code Section 7308
  Unless otherwise provided in the terms of acceptance or prohibited by encumbrances on the land, real property conveyed to the state under this chapter may...
• California Government Code Section 7309
  Notwithstanding Section 14103 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, inheritance tax imposed on land offered to the state pursuant to this chapter shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 7450
  Every local agency in this state owning common stock and whose stock is by contract managed by a fiduciary shall request such fiduciary to forward...
• California Government Code Section 7451
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, every local agency in this state owning common stock shall, when returning proxies to a corporation, vote each...
• California Government Code Section 7460
  This chapter shall be known as the "California Right to Financial Privacy Act."
• California Government Code Section 7461
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Procedures and policies governing the relationship between financial institutions and government agencies have in some cases developed...
• California Government Code Section 7465
  For the purposes of this chapter: (a) The term "financial institution" includes state and national banks, state and federal savings associations, trust companies, industrial loan...
• California Government Code Section 7470
  (a) Except as provided in Section 7480, no officer, employee, or agent of a state or local agency or department thereof, in connection with a...
• California Government Code Section 7471
  (a) Except in accordance with requirements of Title 11 (commencing with Section 14160) of Part 4 of the Penal Code or Section 7473, 7474, 7475,...
• California Government Code Section 7473
  (a) A customer may authorize disclosure under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 7470 if those seeking disclosure furnish to the financial institution a...
• California Government Code Section 7474
  (a) An officer, employee, or agent of a state or local agency or department thereof, may obtain financial records under paragraph (2) of subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 7475
  An officer, employee, or agent of a state or local agency or department thereof, may obtain financial records under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Government Code Section 7476
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), an officer, employee, or agent of a state or local agency or department thereof, may obtain...
• California Government Code Section 7480
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any of the following: (a) The dissemination of any financial information that is not identified with, or identifiable as...
• California Government Code Section 7480
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any of the following: (a) The dissemination of any financial information that is not identified with, or identifiable as...
• California Government Code Section 7485
  (a) Any person who, with the intent to violate, knowingly participates in a violation of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction...
• California Government Code Section 7486
  In any successful action to enforce liability for a violation of the provisions of this chapter, the customer may recover the cost of the action...
• California Government Code Section 7487
  In addition to any other remedy contained in this chapter or otherwise available, injunctive relief shall be available to any customer aggrieved by a violation,...
• California Government Code Section 7488
  An action to enforce any provision of this chapter must be commenced within three years after the date on which the violation occurred.
• California Government Code Section 7489
  Evidence obtained in violation of this chapter is inadmissible in any proceeding except a proceeding to enforce the provisions of this article.
• California Government Code Section 7490
  Except as provided in Sections 6069, 10145, 10146, and 17766.5 of the Business and Professions Code, Sections 25134, 25241, 29535, and 31111 of the Corporations...
• California Government Code Section 7491
  Should any other law grant or appear to grant power or authority to any person to violate the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 7492
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid for any reason, such invalidity shall not...
• California Government Code Section 7493
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude a state or local agency from obtaining a credit report or consumer credit report from anyone...
• California Government Code Section 7500
  Any city with a population of 1,000,000 or more, and any agency thereof, which has established any pension and retirement plan which requires officers and...
• California Government Code Section 7501
  It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to safeguard the solvency of all public retirement systems and funds. The...
• California Government Code Section 7502
  The State Controller shall review the annual financial report of each state and local public retirement system submitted pursuant to Section 7504 giving particular consideration...
• California Government Code Section 7503
  All state and local public retirement systems shall prepare an annual report in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• California Government Code Section 7504
  (a) All state and local public retirement systems shall, not less than triennially, secure the services of an enrolled actuary. An enrolled actuary, for the...
• California Government Code Section 7505
  Every state and local public retirement system shall permit any person entitled to the receipt of benefits to designate that payment of such benefits shall...
• California Government Code Section 7506
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person entitled to the receipt of benefits from any state retirement system may authorize the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 7506.5
  The Controller shall make an agreement with one or more financial institutions participating in the Automated Clearing House pursuant to the local rules, and shall...
• California Government Code Section 7507
  (a) For the purpose of this section: (1) "Actuary" means an actuary who is an associate or fellow of the Society of Actuaries. (2) "Future...
• California Government Code Section 7507.2
  (a) There is hereby enacted the California Actuarial Advisory Panel. The panel shall provide impartial and independent information on pensions, other postemployment benefits, and best...
• California Government Code Section 7507.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Regents of the University of California provide written notice to the Legislature of any proposed changes...
• California Government Code Section 7508
  A retired member of a state retirement system, other than the University of California Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II,...
• California Government Code Section 7508.5
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 20098 or 31528 of this code, or Section 22212.5 of the Education Code, an individual who was a member...
• California Government Code Section 7509
  (a) The restrictions upon rates of interest contained in Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution shall not apply to any loans made...
• California Government Code Section 7510
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a public retirement system, which has invested assets in real property and improvements thereon for business or...
• California Government Code Section 7511
  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary: (a) A public retirement system may purchase insurance for its fiduciaries or for itself to cover liability or...
• California Government Code Section 7512
  Each state and local public pension or retirement system shall, on and after the 90th day following the completion of the annual audit of the...
• California Government Code Section 7513
  (a) In the case of a state or local retirement system or plan that is subject to Section 401(a)(31) of the Internal Revenue Code, if,...
• California Government Code Section 7513.5
  (a) On or before the first day of March of each year, the Teachers' Retirement Board and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees'...
• California Government Code Section 7513.6
  (a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Active business operations" means a company engaged in business operations that provide revenue...
• California Government Code Section 7513.7
  (a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System or...
• California Government Code Section 7513.8
  As used in this section and Sections 7513.85, 7513.86, 7513.87, 7513.9, and 7513.95: (a) "Board" means the retirement board of a public pension or retirement...
• California Government Code Section 7513.85
  (a) The board shall develop and implement, on or before June 30, 2010, a policy requiring the disclosure of payments to placement agents in connection...
• California Government Code Section 7513.86
  Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 82047.3, a person shall not act as a placement agent in connection with any potential...
• California Government Code Section 7513.87
  (a) A person acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential system investment made by a local public retirement system shall file any...
• California Government Code Section 7513.9
  (a) Any placement agent, prior to acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential system investment, shall disclose to the board all campaign...
• California Government Code Section 7513.95
  A member or employee of the board shall not, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself, or as an agent, partner, or employee of a...
• California Government Code Section 7513.97
  As used in Section 11 of Article VII of the Constitution, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Actuarial equivalent" means a benefit of...
• California Government Code Section 7514
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 16649.80) of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2, any state...
• California Government Code Section 7514.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 16649.80) of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2, any state or...
• California Government Code Section 7514.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state pension systems may, subject to and consistent with their fiduciary duties and the standard for prudent investment set...
• California Government Code Section 7514.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the rights of a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the State Teachers' Retirement System, or a...
• California Government Code Section 7515
  It is the intent of this chapter to authorize and encourage the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System to regularly cooperate...
• California Government Code Section 7516
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, confidential information or documents relating to investments in the possession of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the State...
• California Government Code Section 7520
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public pension fund or retirement system of this state or local agency of this state may contract...
• California Government Code Section 7525
  The letterhead or other prominent location on official stationery of each state agency, and county, city, including, but not limited to, a chartered city, and...
• California Government Code Section 7526
  In addition to the requirements of Section 7525, the letterhead or other prominent location on official stationery of each state agency, and county, city, including,...
• California Government Code Section 7527
  Every letter to any person from a state agency shall be signed by, or contain the name of, the writer, authorized representative, or contact person...
• California Government Code Section 7530
  All public agencies, public entities, districts, cities, counties, and cities and counties shall, when being identified by such entity for any purpose, be identified as...
• California Government Code Section 7550
  (a) Any document or written report prepared for or under the direction of a state or local agency, that is prepared in whole or in...
• California Government Code Section 7550.1
  In an effort to reduce the cost of preparing state reports, a state agency shall, when preparing a report, consider cost reduction options, including, but...
• California Government Code Section 7550.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, until June 30, 1995, no local educational agency shall be required to prepare or to submit any written report...
• California Government Code Section 7551
  The Department of General Services shall cause to be designed a series of commemorative gold medallions in not less than 1 troy ounce, 0.5 troy...
• California Government Code Section 7552
  Each medallion shall bear: (a) On one side, the Great Seal of the State of California. (b) On the reverse side; (1) across the top,...
• California Government Code Section 7553
  Upon the showing of sufficient interest by gold producers, the department shall contract with a registered, certified mint for the minting of gold medallions in...
• California Government Code Section 7554
  The Department of General Services shall, for the use of the Great Seal of the State of California, charge the following royalties: (a) For each...
• California Government Code Section 7555
  After minting, the medallions shall be returned to the producers who, notwithstanding Section 402, shall have sole responsibility for distribution, marketing, and sales.
• California Government Code Section 7556
  Only registered, certified mints which have contracted with the department may produce the medallions, as ordered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Any other...
• California Government Code Section 7560
  It is the intent of the Legislature to assure receipt of federal funding by the State of California. It is also the intent of the...
• California Government Code Section 7561
  It is further the intent of the Legislature that there shall be a single line of responsibility with regard to the education of all handicapped...
• California Government Code Section 7562
  If any state agency applies for federal funds to meet a mandatory responsibility under federal or state law and such application is not approved, the...
• California Government Code Section 7563
  The Joint Legislative Budget Committee shall submit to each member of the appropriate legislative policy committees and to each member of the legislative fiscal committees,...
• California Government Code Section 7564
  Any state agency which has not received federal agency approval of an application for funds as described in Section 7542 shall submit to the Department...
• California Government Code Section 7570
  Ensuring maximum utilization of all state and federal resources available to provide a child with a disability, as defined in Section 1401(3) of Title 20...
• California Government Code Section 7571
  The Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency may designate a department of state government to assume the responsibilities described in Section 7570. The...
• California Government Code Section 7572
  (a) A child shall be assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability by those qualified to make a determination of the child's need...
• California Government Code Section 7573
  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ensure that local education agencies provide special education and those related services and designated instruction and services contained in...
• California Government Code Section 7575
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Health Services, or any designated local agency administering the California Children's Services, shall...
• California Government Code Section 7577
  (a) The State Department of Rehabilitation and the State Department of Education shall jointly develop assessment procedures for determining client eligibility for State Department of...
• California Government Code Section 7578
  The provision of special education programs and related services for disabled children and youth residing in state hospitals shall be ensured by the State Department...
• California Government Code Section 7579
  (a) Prior to placing a disabled child or a child suspected of being disabled in a residential facility, outside the child's home, a court, regional...
• California Government Code Section 7579.1
  (a) Prior to the discharge of any disabled child or youth who has an active individualized education program from a public hospital, proprietary hospital, or...
• California Government Code Section 7579.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any disabled individual who has an active individualized education program and is being discharged from a state...
• California Government Code Section 7579.5
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(B) of Title 20 of the United States Code, a local educational agency shall make reasonable efforts to ensure the...
• California Government Code Section 7579.6
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(A) of Title 20 of the United States Code, in the case of a child who is a ward of...
• California Government Code Section 7580
  Prior to licensing a community care facility, as defined in Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code, in which a disabled child or youth...
• California Government Code Section 7581
  The residential and noneducational costs of a child placed in a medical or residential facility by a public agency, other than a local education agency,...
• California Government Code Section 7582
  Assessments and therapy treatment services provided under programs of the State Department of Health Care Services, or its designated local agencies, rendered to a child...
• California Government Code Section 7584
  As used in this chapter, "disabled youth," "child," or "pupil" means individuals with exceptional needs as defined in Section 56026 of the Education Code.
• California Government Code Section 7585
  (a) Whenever a department or local agency designated by that department fails to provide a related service or designated instruction and service required pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 7586
  (a) All state departments, and their designated local agencies, shall be governed by the procedural safeguards required in Section 1415 of Title 20 of the...
• California Government Code Section 7587
  By January 1, 1986, each state department named in this chapter shall develop regulations, as necessary, for the department or designated local agency to implement...
• California Government Code Section 7591
  (a) The amount of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) is appropriated, subject to subdivision (b), from the General Fund to the Trade and Commerce Agency for...
• California Government Code Section 7591.5
  The Secretary of Trade and Commerce shall remove any lien placed in connection with a loan authorized pursuant to Section 7591 by January 1, 1999....
• California Government Code Section 7592
  There is in the General Fund the California Olympic Training Account. The account shall consist of those revenues derived from the additional vehicle registration fees...
• California Government Code Section 7593
  The Legislature finds and declares that the federal Selective Service System registration program is considered to be in the national interest because it helps to...
• California Government Code Section 7593.1
  All state agencies shall cooperate with the United States Selective Service System in efforts to publicize the necessity of, and requirements for, compliance with the...
• California Government Code Section 7594
  The last week of August commencing in 1991, is hereby designated as California's Salute to Youth Achievement Week. The purpose of California's Salute to Youth...
• California Government Code Section 7594.5
  The first week in January, commencing in 1995, is hereby designated as Braille Literacy Week. The purpose of California's Braille Literacy Week shall be to...
• California Government Code Section 7595
  All state agencies which provide over-the-counter information and services directly to the public shall provide those services during the customary lunch hours of 11:30 a.m....
• California Government Code Section 7596
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public building" means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied,...
• California Government Code Section 7597
  (a) No public employee or member of the public shall smoke any tobacco product inside a public building, or in an outdoor area within 20...
• California Government Code Section 7597.1
  (a) The governing bodies of the California State University, the University of California, and each community college district have the authority to: (1) Set enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 7598
  Except as provided in Section 7597, a public employee or other person may smoke in any outdoor area of a public building unless otherwise prohibited...
• California Government Code Section 7600
  It is the intent of the Legislature that: (a) Specified state agencies be authorized to invest marketable securities by entering into security loan agreements; (b)...
• California Government Code Section 7601
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Security loan agreement" means a written contract whereby a legal owner (the lender) agrees to lend specific marketable corporate...
• California Government Code Section 7602
  A state agency which is authorized pursuant to Section 22312 of the Education Code and Sections 16481 and 20208.5 of the Government Code may enter...
• California Government Code Section 7603
  All loans of securities shall be made pursuant to one of the standardized security loan agreement forms, as developed by the administrators of the State...
• California Government Code Section 7604
  In the event of a loss in the reacquisition of loaned securities, the responsible state agency shall make a written report of the loss to...
• California Government Code Section 7605
  Each state agency which enters into security loan agreements shall (a) maintain detailed records of all security loans, (b) develop controls and reports to monitor...
• California Government Code Section 7900
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this division is to provide for the effective and efficient implementation of Article XIII B...
• California Government Code Section 7901
  For the purposes of Article XIII B of the California Constitution and this division: (a) "Change in California per capita personal income" means the number...
• California Government Code Section 7902
  (a) For the 1980-81 fiscal year, the appropriations limit of the state and of each local jurisdiction shall be determined as follows: (1) Multiply the...
• California Government Code Section 7902.1
  (a) If, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, the proceeds of taxes of a school district, community college district, or...
• California Government Code Section 7902.5
  The governing body of any city incorporated after July 1, 1978, but prior to January 1, 1980, may, by resolution, adopt an appropriations limit for...
• California Government Code Section 7902.6
  The governing body of any city incorporated at the General Election held on November 4, 1980, for which no appropriations limit has been established by...
• California Government Code Section 7902.7
  (a) The appropriations limit of a city incorporated on or after January 1, 1990, shall be determined pursuant to Section 56812. (b) The appropriations limit...
• California Government Code Section 7902.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to any special district formed during the 1978-79 fiscal year which initially was totally funded by other...
• California Government Code Section 7903
  "State subventions" shall include only money received by a local agency from the state, the use of which is unrestricted by the statute providing the
• California Government Code Section 7904
  In no event shall the appropriation of the same proceeds of taxes be subject to the appropriations limit of more than one local jurisdiction or...
• California Government Code Section 7905
  Revenues to a local jurisdiction from regulatory licenses, user charges, or user fees may be aggregated if they are reasonably related.
• California Government Code Section 7906
  For school districts: (a) "ADA" means a school district's second principal apportionment units of average daily attendance as determined pursuant to Section 42238.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 7907
  For county superintendents of schools: (a) "Proceeds of taxes" shall be deemed to include subventions received from the state only if those subventions are received...
• California Government Code Section 7908
  For community college districts: (a) As used in this section, "ADA" means the annual average daily attendance reported for students attending the community college district...
• California Government Code Section 7909
  No later than May 1 of each year, the Department of Finance shall notify each local agency of the change in the cost of living...
• California Government Code Section 7910
  (a) Each year the governing body of each local jurisdiction shall, by resolution, establish its appropriations limit and make other necessary determinations for the following...
• California Government Code Section 7911
  For the purposes of Section 2 of Article XIII B, a local jurisdiction may return excess revenues by granting a tax credit or refund, by...
• California Government Code Section 7912
  Each year, the Governor shall include in the budget as submitted to the Legislature an estimate of the state's appropriations limit for the budget year....
• California Government Code Section 7913
  For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the financial responsibility of providing services is transferred in...
• California Government Code Section 7914
  An appropriation for a "qualified capital outlay project," as used in subdivision (d) of Section 9 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, means...
• California Government Code Section 8000
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the following advisory bodies are hereby abolished: (1) Ethics and Advertising Committee in Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair. (2)...
• California Government Code Section 8001
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following advisory bodies are hereby abolished: (1) Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System. (2) Law Enforcement Regional...
• California Government Code Section 8100
  The Governor shall execute for, in behalf of, and in the name of the State of California, a compact or agreement with the State of...
• California Government Code Section 8101
  No compact or agreement is binding on the State of California until it has been approved by the Legislature of this State.
• California Government Code Section 8130
  There is in the state government a California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8131
  As used in this chapter "commission" means California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8132
  The commission shall consist of seven members, the Director of Water Resources and six members appointed by the Governor, from California electors residing, owning property...
• California Government Code Section 8133
  Each member of the commission shall be entitled to receive his actual necessary expenses while on official business of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8134
  The chairman of the commission shall be selected by the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8135
  The commission shall appoint a secretary who may be one of its members and may employ such employees as it deems necessary to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8136
  It is the function of the commission to cooperate with a similar commission representing the State of Nevada in formulating and submitting to the legislatures...
• California Government Code Section 8137
  No compact or agreement is binding on the State of California until it has been approved by the Legislature of this state and the Congress...
• California Government Code Section 8138
  The Director of Water Resources shall cooperate with the commission and furnish it with such engineering and other data as the commission may require in...
• California Government Code Section 8139
  Members and employees of the commission may travel outside of the state and may hold hearings and conduct investigations within and outside the state, whenever...
• California Government Code Section 8140
  The commission shall be abolished upon the earlier occurrence of either the effective date of the compact, or January 1, 1977.
• California Government Code Section 8150
  Any instrumentality jointly created by this State and other state or states is hereby authorized, to the extent that this State may confer authority, upon...
• California Government Code Section 8160
  The plan for location of state buildings and other improvements in the central city of the City of Sacramento, approved by the director on March...
• California Government Code Section 8160.1
  The following terms, used in this article, shall be given the following meanings: (a) "Metropolitan area" means the greater metropolitan Sacramento area, including the City...
• California Government Code Section 8161
  The department may request the assistance and advice of any state agency in the development of the master plan. Any state agency receiving such a...
• California Government Code Section 8162
  The department shall inform the City of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento of the master plan, and subsequent revisions thereof, and shall make every...
• California Government Code Section 8162.5
  (a) This section and Sections 8162.6, 8162.7, 8162.8, and 8162.9 shall be known as the Capitol View Protection Act. (b) "Capitol Park" means the area...
• California Government Code Section 8162.6
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Sacramento's State Capitol and Capitol Park provide the City of Sacramento with a unique...
• California Government Code Section 8162.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in Section 8162.9, the following height limits shall apply as follows: (a) The applicable height limit...
• California Government Code Section 8162.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following setback requirements shall apply: (a) Buildings in the first half block north of L Street between a...
• California Government Code Section 8162.9
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8162.7, a 96-foot height limit shall apply to construction, exclusively for the purposes of residential development, for Lot 4,...
• California Government Code Section 8163
  The Capitol Area Plan was established for the orderly development of the state's facilities in the metropolitan area and the department shall be continuously responsible...
• California Government Code Section 8164
  Commencing January 1, 1979, the department shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and each Member of the Legislature annually. The report shall summarize...
• California Government Code Section 8164.1
  There is in state government a Capitol Area Committee consisting of nine members who shall be appointed in the following manner: (a) Four members of...
• California Government Code Section 8164.2
  (a) The committee shall elect a chairperson. The committee shall meet at least quarterly or upon the call of the chairperson or the written request...
• California Government Code Section 8164.3
  (a) It is the purpose of the committee to independently review the reports of the department to the Legislature and counsel and advise the department...
• California Government Code Section 8165
  The Legislature finds and declares: (a) There is clear justification and need for the creation of a beautiful and impressive western approach to the capital...
• California Government Code Section 8166
  The department shall have the overall responsibility and authority for the formulation and implementation of a long-range master plan for the improvement of the Capitol...
• California Government Code Section 8167
  That portion of Route 275 that extends from the end of the Sacramento River Bridge in the City of Sacramento to the junction of Capitol...
• California Government Code Section 8168
  The department, in addition to the other powers granted by this article, shall have the express power to do all acts necessary to accomplish the...
• California Government Code Section 8169
  (a) The director may lease the real property owned by the state within the core area, and not under the jurisdiction of any other state...
• California Government Code Section 8169.1
  The director may maintain, repair, alter, sell, remove, or demolish buildings or other structures within the Capitol area when the director deems it desirable to...
• California Government Code Section 8169.2
  The director shall promulgate regulations for relocation payments and assistance consistent with the requirements of Sections 51063 and 51310 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Government Code Section 8169.3
  Construction of parking structures in the core area on state-owned property for the use of the state pursuant to Section 14671.5 is hereby authorized by...
• California Government Code Section 8169.4
  The department and the City of Sacramento are authorized to enter into an agreement pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 8169.5
  (a) In furtherance of the Capitol Area Plan, the objectives of Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991, and the legislative findings and declarations...
• California Government Code Section 8169.6
  (a) (1) In furtherance of the Capitol Area Plan, the objectives of Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991, and the legislative findings and...
• California Government Code Section 8170
  The site of the Governor's Mansion is hereby designated as all that certain real property situate, lying and being in the County of Sacramento, State...
• California Government Code Section 8171
  The Director of General Services shall appoint an architect to be a professional adviser to the department for purposes of this chapter. The professional adviser,...
• California Government Code Section 8172
  The Director of General Services is authorized and directed to immediately proceed with the acquisition and development, including landscaping, of the site designated in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8173
  Should any Governor choose not to reside in the Governor's Mansion, the Director of General Services may permit the property to be used by government...
• California Government Code Section 8174
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all of that real property designated as the site of the Governor's Mansion, and particularly described in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8180
  The following terms, used in this article, shall have the following meanings: (a) "Project area" includes both of the following: (1) The area within the...
• California Government Code Section 8181
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) The project area is blighted and in need of redevelopment in the interest of the health and safety...
• California Government Code Section 8182
  The authority shall have those powers of a redevelopment agency created by Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and...
• California Government Code Section 8182.5
  The authority shall, in cooperation with the City of Sacramento, prepare an appropriate plan for the development and redevelopment of that portion of the project...
• California Government Code Section 8183
  (a) The authority may, by resolution, adopt documents necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers and may designate that any document shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8184
  For the purpose of allocating taxes pursuant to Section 8183, state subvention payments made with respect to property within the project area are deemed to...
• California Government Code Section 8185
  For the purpose of exercising powers of a redevelopment agency, the jurisdiction of the authority shall be the "metropolitan area" as defined in subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8186
  The City of Sacramento shall not adopt a plan containing the provisions of Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code with respect to any...
• California Government Code Section 8187
  No action attacking or otherwise questioning the validity of any redevelopment plan or any adoption or incorporation of any document into the redevelopment plan as...
• California Government Code Section 8188
  The judgment shall determine the validity or invalidity respectively of the matters specified in Section 8187. The judgment shall be subject to being reopened under...
• California Government Code Section 8189
  The judgment, if no appeal is taken, or if taken and the judgment is affirmed, shall be forever binding and conclusive, as to all matters...
• California Government Code Section 8190
  Whenever property in the project area has been redeveloped and thereafter is leased for a term not less than 10 years, notwithstanding mutual rights of...
• California Government Code Section 8191
  (a) Except with respect to taxes allocated to the authority pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8183 which are used by the authority to make...
• California Government Code Section 8192
  The lessee of any property leased from the authority for residential purposes for a term of five years or less shall receive a credit against...
• California Government Code Section 8193
  (a) During the period commencing on July 1, 1982, and ending when 600 newly constructed dwelling units have been completed and initially occupied, the authority...
• California Government Code Section 8193.1
  (a) Whenever dwelling units located within that portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180 (the R Street...
• California Government Code Section 8193.2
  The requirements of Section 8193.1 shall apply solely to the portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180...
• California Government Code Section 8194
  The authority shall establish the following time limits for that portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180...
• California Government Code Section 8200
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission notaries public in such number as the Secretary of State deems necessary for the public convenience. Notaries...
• California Government Code Section 8201
  (a) Every person appointed as notary public shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Be at the time of appointment a legal resident of...
• California Government Code Section 8201.1
  (a) Prior to granting an appointment as a notary public, the Secretary of State shall determine that the applicant possesses the required honesty, credibility, truthfulness,...
• California Government Code Section 8201.2
  (a) The Secretary of State shall review the course of study proposed by any vendor to be offered pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8201.5
  The Secretary of State shall require an applicant for appointment and commission as a notary public to complete an application form and submit a photograph...
• California Government Code Section 8202
  (a) When executing a jurat, a notary shall administer an oath or affirmation to the affiant and shall determine, from satisfactory evidence as described in...
• California Government Code Section 8202.5
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission the number of state, city, county, and public school district employees as notaries public to act for...
• California Government Code Section 8202.7
  A private employer, pursuant to an agreement with an employee who is a notary public, may pay the premiums on any bond and the cost...
• California Government Code Section 8202.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a private employer of a notary public who has entered into an agreement with his or her employee pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 8203.1
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission notaries public for the military and naval reservations of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and...
• California Government Code Section 8203.2
  Such notaries public shall be appointed only upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of the reservation in which they are to act, and they...
• California Government Code Section 8203.3
  In addition to the qualifications established in Section 8203.1, appointment will be made only from among those persons who are federal civil service employees at...
• California Government Code Section 8203.4
  The term of office shall be as set forth in Section 8204, except that the appointment shall terminate if the person shall cease to be...
• California Government Code Section 8203.5
  In addition to the name of the State, the jurat shall also contain the name of the reservation in which the instrument is executed.
• California Government Code Section 8203.6
  No fees shall be collected by such notaries public for service rendered within the reservation in the capacity of a notary public.
• California Government Code Section 8204
  The term of office of a notary public is for four years commencing with the date specified in the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8204.1
  The Secretary of State may cancel the commission of a notary public if a check or other remittance accepted as payment for the examination, application,...
• California Government Code Section 8205
  (a) It is the duty of a notary public, when requested: (1) To demand acceptance and payment of foreign and inland bills of exchange, or...
• California Government Code Section 8206
  (a) (1) A notary public shall keep one active sequential journal at a time, of all official acts performed as a notary public. The journal...
• California Government Code Section 8206.5
  Upon receiving a request for a copy of a transaction pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 8206, the notary shall respond to the request within...
• California Government Code Section 8207
  A notary public shall provide and keep an official seal, which shall clearly show, when embossed, stamped, impressed or affixed to a document, the name...
• California Government Code Section 8207.1
  The Secretary of State shall assign a sequential identification number to each notary which shall appear on the notary commission. This section shall become operative...
• California Government Code Section 8207.2
  (a) No notary seal or press stamp shall be manufactured, duplicated, sold, or offered for sale unless authorized by the Secretary of State. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 8207.3
  (a) The Secretary of State shall issue certificates of authorization with which a notary public can obtain an official notary seal. (b) A vendor or...
• California Government Code Section 8207.4
  (a) Any person who willfully violates any part of Section 8207.1, 8207.2, 8207.3, or 8207.4 shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed...
• California Government Code Section 8208
  The protest of a notary public acting in the course and scope of employment by a financial institution, under his or her hand and official...
• California Government Code Section 8209
  (a) If any notary public resigns, is disqualified, removed from office, or allows his or her appointment to expire without obtaining reappointment within 30 days,...
• California Government Code Section 8211
  Fees charged by a notary public for the following services shall not exceed the fees prescribed by this section. (a) For taking an acknowledgment or...
• California Government Code Section 8212
  Every person appointed a notary public shall execute an official bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). The bond shall be in the...
• California Government Code Section 8213
  (a) No later than 30 days after the beginning of the term prescribed in the commission, every person appointed a notary public shall file an...
• California Government Code Section 8213.5
  A notary public shall notify the Secretary of State by certified mail within 30 days as to any change in the location or address of...
• California Government Code Section 8213.6
  If a notary public changes his or her name, the notary public shall complete an application for name change form and file that application with...
• California Government Code Section 8214
  For the official misconduct or neglect of a notary public, the notary public and the sureties on the notary public's official bond are liable in...
• California Government Code Section 8214.1
  The Secretary of State may refuse to appoint any person as notary public or may revoke or suspend the commission of any notary public upon...
• California Government Code Section 8214.15
  (a) In addition to any commissioning or disciplinary sanction, a violation of subdivision (f), (i), (l), (m), or (p) of Section 8214.1 is punishable by...
• California Government Code Section 8214.2
  (a) A notary public who knowingly and willfully with intent to defraud performs any notarial act in relation to a deed of trust on real...
• California Government Code Section 8214.21
  A notary public who willfully fails to provide access to the sequential journal of notarial acts when requested by a peace officer shall be subject...
• California Government Code Section 8214.23
  (a) A notary public who fails to obtain a thumbprint, as required by Section 8206, from a party signing a document shall be subject to...
• California Government Code Section 8214.3
  Prior to a revocation or suspension pursuant to this chapter or after a denial of a commission, or prior to the imposition of a civil...
• California Government Code Section 8214.4
  Notwithstanding this chapter or Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3, if the Secretary of State determines, after proceedings conducted...
• California Government Code Section 8214.5
  Whenever the Secretary of State revokes the commission of any notary public, the Secretary of State shall file with the county clerk of the county...
• California Government Code Section 8214.8
  Upon conviction of any offense in this chapter, or of Section 6203, or of any felony, of a person commissioned as a notary public, in...
• California Government Code Section 8216
  When a surety of a notary desires to be released from responsibility on account of future acts, the release shall be pursuant to Article 11...
• California Government Code Section 8219.5
  (a) Every notary public who is not an attorney who advertises the services of a notary public in a language other than English by signs...
• California Government Code Section 8220
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The regulations shall be adopted in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 8221
  (a) If any person shall knowingly destroy, deface, or conceal any records or papers belonging to the office of a notary public, such person shall...
• California Government Code Section 8222
  (a) Whenever it appears to the Secretary of State that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which...
• California Government Code Section 8223
  (a) No notary public who holds himself or herself out as being an immigration specialist, immigration consultant or any other title or description reflecting an...
• California Government Code Section 8224
  A notary public who has a direct financial or beneficial interest in a transaction shall not perform any notarial act in connection with such transaction....
• California Government Code Section 8224.1
  A notary public shall not take the acknowledgment or proof of instruments of writing executed by the notary public nor shall depositions or affidavits of...
• California Government Code Section 8225
  (a) Any person who solicits, coerces, or in any manner influences a notary public to perform an improper notarial act knowing that act to be...
• California Government Code Section 8227.1
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any person who is not a duly commissioned, qualified, and acting notary public for the State of California to...
• California Government Code Section 8227.3
  Any person who is not a duly commissioned, qualified, and acting notary public who does any of the acts prohibited by Section 8227.1 in relation...
• California Government Code Section 8228
  The Secretary of State or a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code, possessing reasonable suspicion and acting...
• California Government Code Section 8228.1
  (a) Any notary public who willfully fails to perform any duty required of a notary public under Section 8206, or who willfully fails to keep...
• California Government Code Section 8230
  If a notary public executes a jurat and the statement sworn or subscribed to is contained in a document purporting to identify the affiant, and...
• California Government Code Section 8240
  The Legislature finds and declares that despite the fact that women apparently have greater equality in California than in many states, they still are not...
• California Government Code Section 8241
  There is in the state government the Commission on the Status of Women. The commission shall consist of 17 members: three Members of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 8242
  (a) Public members of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per diem while on official business of the commission, not to exceed 12...
• California Government Code Section 8243
  All meetings of the commission shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meetings of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8244
  The commission shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 8245
  (a) The commission shall study the following: (1) Women's educational and employment problems, needs, and opportunities. (2) State laws in regard to the civil and...
• California Government Code Section 8246
  (a) The commission is expressly authorized to inform the Legislature of its position on any legislative proposal pending before the Legislature and to urge the...
• California Government Code Section 8247
  It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state to attempt to achieve an equitable relationship between the comparability of the value...
• California Government Code Section 8248
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Evaluate the compensation and classification plans for state civil service and related employees and the employees...
• California Government Code Section 8249
  With respect to its duties under Section 8248, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on...
• California Government Code Section 8250
  (a) The commission shall hire staff or contract for those experts or technical and professional services as may be required for the completion of the...
• California Government Code Section 8251
  Citizens Redistricting Commission General Provisions. (a) This chapter implements Article XXI of the California Constitution by establishing the process for the selection and governance of...
• California Government Code Section 8252
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Selection Process. (a) (1) By January 1 in 2010, and in each year ending in the number zero thereafter, the State Auditor...
• California Government Code Section 8252.5
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Vacancy, Removal, Resignation, Absence. (a) In the event of substantial neglect of duty, gross misconduct in office, or inability to discharge the...
• California Government Code Section 8253
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Miscellaneous Provisions. (a) The activities of the Citizens Redistricting Commission are subject to all of the following: (1) The commission shall comply...
• California Government Code Section 8253.5
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Compensation. Members of the commission shall be compensated at the rate of three hundred dollars ($300) for each day the member is...
• California Government Code Section 8253.6
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Budget, Fiscal Oversight. (a) In 2009, and in each year ending in nine thereafter, the Governor shall include in the Governor's Budget...
• California Government Code Section 8255
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) community is the fastest growing community in the...
• California Government Code Section 8255.5
  The following definitions govern this chapter: (a) "Commission" means the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. (b) "APIA" means Asian and Pacific Islander
• California Government Code Section 8256
  (a) There is established in state government the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, which shall be comprised of 13 members appointed in...
• California Government Code Section 8256.5
  (a) A majority of the appointed members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to conduct business, but the commission may establish a lesser quorum...
• California Government Code Section 8257
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Advise the Governor, the Legislature, and state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to the...
• California Government Code Section 8258
  By December 1 of each year, the commission shall submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature detailing activities undertaken by the commission...
• California Government Code Section 8259
  With respect to its duties under Section 8257, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on...
• California Government Code Section 8259.5
  (a) The commission may apply for and accept grants and receive gifts, donations, and other financial support from public or private sources for purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 8260
  There is in the state government, the Commission on Uniform State Laws.
• California Government Code Section 8261
  The commission consists of one Member of the Senate, appointed by the Committee on Rules, one Member of the Assembly, appointed by the Speaker, six...
• California Government Code Section 8262
  Each appointed commissioner shall be any of the following: (a) A member in good standing of the bar of this state. (b) A person admitted...
• California Government Code Section 8263
  Each appointed commissioner shall hold office for a term of four years and until the appointment and qualification of his successor.
• California Government Code Section 8264
  Upon the death, resignation or refusal to serve of any appointed commissioner, the Governor shall make an appointment to fill the vacancy so caused. The...
• California Government Code Section 8265
  A commissioner is eligible for reappointment.
• California Government Code Section 8266
  No member of the commission shall receive any compensation for his or her services as a commissioner, but shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for...
• California Government Code Section 8267
  The commission may expend in accordance with law for expenses and actual disbursements in effectuating the objects of this article, including travel expenses, all money...
• California Government Code Section 8268
  The commission shall meet at some place in the state at least once in every two years. It shall elect one of its members as...
• California Government Code Section 8269
  The commissioners shall attend the meetings of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The attendance of a commissioner at this meeting shall...
• California Government Code Section 8270
  The commissioners shall do all in their power to promote uniformity in state laws upon all subjects where uniformity is deemed desirable and practicable.
• California Government Code Section 8271
  The commission shall bring about, as far as practicable, the passage of the various uniform acts recommended by the national conference, and shall devise and...
• California Government Code Section 8272
  The commission shall report to the Legislature from time to time as the commission deems desirable and practicable, giving an account of its transactions and...
• California Government Code Section 8273
  Upon request of the commission, the Legislative Counsel may assist the commission in performing its duties and, for that purpose, may authorize the expenditure of...
• California Government Code Section 8280
  There is created in the State Government the California Law Revision Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8281
  The commission consists of one Member of the Senate appointed by the Committee on Rules, one Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker, and...
• California Government Code Section 8282
  (a) The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, except that each member appointed by the Governor shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for each...
• California Government Code Section 8283
  The commission shall select one of its members chairperson.
• California Government Code Section 8284
  The commission may appoint an executive secretary and fix his or her compensation, in accordance with law.
• California Government Code Section 8285
  The commission may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional, clerical and other assistants as may be necessary.
• California Government Code Section 8286
  The material of the State Library shall be made available to the commission. All state agencies, and other official state organizations, and all persons connected...
• California Government Code Section 8287
  The Board of Governors of the State Bar shall assist the commission in any manner the commission may request within the scope of its powers...
• California Government Code Section 8288
  No employee of the commission and no member appointed by the Governor shall, with respect to any proposed legislation concerning matters assigned to the commission...
• California Government Code Section 8289
  The commission shall, within the limitations imposed by Section 8293: (a) Examine the common law and statutes of the state and judicial decisions for the...
• California Government Code Section 8290
  The commission shall recommend the express repeal of all statutes repealed by implication, or held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the state or the...
• California Government Code Section 8291
  The commission shall submit its reports, and its recommendations as to revision of the laws, to the Governor and the Legislature, and shall distribute them...
• California Government Code Section 8292
  The commission may, within the limitations imposed by Section 8293, include in its report the legislative measures proposed by it to effect the adoption or...
• California Government Code Section 8293
  The commission shall file a report at each regular session of the Legislature that shall contain a calendar of topics selected by it for study,...
• California Government Code Section 8294
  The reports, exhibits, and proposed legislative measures shall be printed by the State Printing Office under the supervision of the commission. The exhibits shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8295
  The commission shall confer and cooperate with any legislative committee on revision of the law and may contract with any committee for the rendition of...
• California Government Code Section 8296
  The commission may cooperate with any bar association or other learned, professional, or scientific association, institution or foundation in any manner suitable for the fulfillment...
• California Government Code Section 8297
  The commission may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into, amend and terminate contracts with colleges, universities, schools of law or...
• California Government Code Section 8298
  The commission may study and recommend revisions to correct technical or minor substantive defects in the statutes of the state without a prior concurrent resolution...
• California Government Code Section 8299
  The Legislature finds and declares that, despite the fact that state law has provided persons with disabilities the right to full and equal access to...
• California Government Code Section 8299.01
  (a) There shall be established in the state government, on or before May 1, 2009, the California Commission on Disability Access. The commission shall consist...
• California Government Code Section 8299.02
  (a) Public members of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per diem while on official business of the commission, not to exceed 12...
• California Government Code Section 8299.03
  Meetings of the commission shall be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 8299.04
  The commission shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 8299.05
  (a) The commission shall study and make reports to the Legislature on the following: (1) Issues regarding compliance with state laws and regulations that are...
• California Government Code Section 8299.06
  The commission, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than July 1, 2010, shall develop, in consultation with the staff of the California...
• California Government Code Section 8299.07
  The commission shall study the operation of Section 55.54 of the Civil Code to assess whether it is operating to achieve its desired goal of...
• California Government Code Section 8299.08
  (a) The commission, within its purview, is expressly authorized to inform the Legislature of its position on any legislative proposal pending before the Legislature and...
• California Government Code Section 8299.09
  With respect to its duties, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on the part of...
• California Government Code Section 8299.10
  The commission shall hire staff or contract for those experts or technical and professional services that may be required for the completion of any task...
• California Government Code Section 8299.11
  This chapter shall not be implemented, and shall not remain operative, unless funds are appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature in the annual Budget...
• California Government Code Section 8292
  The commission may, within the limitations imposed by Section 8293, include in its report the legislative measures proposed by it to effect the adoption or...
• California Government Code Section 8293
  The commission shall file a report at each regular session of the Legislature that shall contain a calendar of topics selected by it for study,...
• California Government Code Section 8294
  The reports, exhibits, and proposed legislative measures shall be printed by the State Printing Office under the supervision of the commission. The exhibits shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8295
  The commission shall confer and cooperate with any legislative committee on revision of the law and may contract with any committee for the rendition of...
• California Government Code Section 8296
  The commission may cooperate with any bar association or other learned, professional, or scientific association, institution or foundation in any manner suitable for the fulfillment...
• California Government Code Section 8297
  The commission may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into, amend and terminate contracts with colleges, universities, schools of law or...
• California Government Code Section 8298
  The commission may study and recommend revisions to correct technical or minor substantive defects in the statutes of the state without a prior concurrent resolution...
• California Government Code Section 8300
  The joint powers agreement entered into by the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and the Sixth District Agricultural Association known and...
• California Government Code Section 8310
  The inclusion of any question relative to an applicant's race, sex, marital status, or religion in any application blank or form required to be filled...
• California Government Code Section 8310.5
  (a) A state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians shall...
• California Government Code Section 8310.7
  (a) This section shall only apply to the following state agencies: (1) The Department of Industrial Relations. (2) The Department of Fair Employment and Housing....
• California Government Code Section 8311
  Wherever any notice or other communication is required by any law to be mailed by registered mail to or by the state, or any officer...
• California Government Code Section 8312
  No officer or employee of the state or any county, city and county, city, or district who is concerned with the organization or supervision of...
• California Government Code Section 8313
  No officer or employee of the state or any county, city and county, city, or district who is concerned with the administration of any program...
• California Government Code Section 8314
  (a) It is unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including any state or local appointee, employee, or consultant, to use or permit others...
• California Government Code Section 8314.5
  (a) In furtherance of Section 8314 and except as provided in subdivision (b), it shall be unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including...
• California Government Code Section 8315
  (a) "Racial discrimination" or "discrimination on the basis of race" for the purposes of Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution shall have...
• California Government Code Section 8317
  (a) Each state agency, as defined in subdivision (b), shall establish and maintain an index of the names or titles of all fees, license fees,...
• California Government Code Section 8330
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Citizen Complaint Act of 1997. All state agencies that have Internet websites shall implement...
• California Government Code Section 8331
  (a) State agencies shall make available on the Internet, on or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 8332
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter shall not apply to the Reporting of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Article 3 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8333
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Grant Information Act of 1999. All state agencies that have Internet websites shall implement...
• California Government Code Section 8334
  (a) State agencies may make available on the Internet a listing of all grants administered by that agency, which shall provide instructions on filing grant...
• California Government Code Section 8455
  (a) The Department of General Services shall apply for federal funds made available through the federal Community Access to Emergency Devices Act (Public Law 107-188)...
• California Government Code Section 8334
  (a) State agencies may make available on the Internet a listing of all grants administered by that agency, which shall provide instructions on filing grant...
• California Government Code Section 8350
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1990.
• California Government Code Section 8351
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Drug-free workplace" means a site for the performance of work done in connection with a specific grant or contract...
• California Government Code Section 8355
  (a) Every person or organization awarded a contract or a grant for the procurement of any property or services from any state agency shall certify...
• California Government Code Section 8356
  (a) Each contract or grant awarded by a state agency may be subject to suspension of payments under the contract or grant or termination of...
• California Government Code Section 8357
  This chapter shall not be construed to require any contractor or grantee to ensure that other businesses with which it subcontracts also provide drug-free workplaces.
• California Government Code Section 8501
  There is in the state government the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, hereafter in this chapter referred to...
• California Government Code Section 8502
  For the purposes of expenditures for the support of the commission, including the expenses of the members of the commission, the commission shall be deemed...
• California Government Code Section 8503
  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties.
• California Government Code Section 8504
  For the purposes of this chapter the Members of the Legislature serving as members of the commission shall be considered a joint committee of the...
• California Government Code Section 8506
  All vacancies in the commission membership shall be filled in the same manner in which original appointments were made.
• California Government Code Section 8507
  The commission shall select from among its members a chairman and vice chairman, who shall not be registered as members of the same political party.
• California Government Code Section 8508
  Six members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
• California Government Code Section 8521
  It is the purpose of the Legislature in creating the commission, to secure assistance for the Governor and itself in promoting economy, efficiency, and improved...
• California Government Code Section 8521.5
  The Legislature finds that our system of government is a complex structure of interlocking relationships among all levels of government for managing public funds and...
• California Government Code Section 8522
  The commission, on its own motion, may, for the purpose of making reports and recommendations to assist the Legislature in respect to the matters listed...
• California Government Code Section 8522.5
  The commission shall review final reports and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor concerning the results of state audits and the revenues and...
• California Government Code Section 8523
  (a) The Governor shall submit to the commission for study and recommendation any reorganization plan which he intends to submit to the Legislature pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8524
  The commission may devise a basic test to determine what, if any, governmental activities should be granted continuing or permanent appropriations.
• California Government Code Section 8525
  The commission may submit to the Legislature and the Governor, at such time, or times, as the commission deems necessary, interim reports of its activities.
• California Government Code Section 8541
  In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the commission shall have all of the following powers: (a) To meet at any time and place as...
• California Government Code Section 8542
  With respect to the Bureau of State Audits, the commission shall do all of the following: (a) Review reports completed by the bureau and make...
• California Government Code Section 8543
  There is hereby created in state government the Bureau of State Audits under the direction of the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State...
• California Government Code Section 8543.1
  The duties of the Bureau of State Audits are to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch of the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.2
  (a) The head of the bureau is the State Auditor, who shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of three qualified individuals nominated...
• California Government Code Section 8543.3
  The State Auditor shall be chosen without reference to party affiliation and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of the office....
• California Government Code Section 8543.4
  In administering the fiscal policies of the Bureau of State Audits, for each fiscal year, the bureau shall provide the Department of Finance with the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.5
  The Chief Deputy State Auditor shall be appointed by the State Auditor. The Chief Deputy State Auditor shall carry out those duties prescribed by the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.6
  The State Auditor may be removed for cause at any time by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. A State Auditor removed pursuant to this section...
• California Government Code Section 8543.7
  (a) The annual salary for the State Auditor shall be equal to that of agency secretaries of the executive branch of government pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 8544
  (a) Consistent with subdivision (i) of Section 8546, the State Auditor may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with Article VII of the California...
• California Government Code Section 8544.2
  Persons employed by the bureau pursuant to Section 8544.1 shall be allowed to enroll in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act contained in...
• California Government Code Section 8544.3
  All persons employed by the bureau pursuant to Section 8544.1 who were members of the Public Employees' Retirement System as of November 3, 1992, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8544.4
  The permanent office of the State Auditor shall be in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and sufficient offices. When in...
• California Government Code Section 8544.5
  (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the State Audit Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the State Audit Fund is continuously appropriated for the...
• California Government Code Section 8544.6
  All unreimbursed expenditures of the bureau are defined as "administrative costs" defined in Section 11270.
• California Government Code Section 8545
  The State Auditor shall not destroy any papers or memoranda used to support a completed audit sooner than three years after the audit report is...
• California Government Code Section 8545.1
  (a) The State Auditor, and any employee or former employee of the bureau, shall not divulge or make known to any person not employed by...
• California Government Code Section 8545.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Auditor during regular business hours shall have access to and authority to examine and reproduce, any...
• California Government Code Section 8545.3
  It is a misdemeanor for the State Auditor or any employee of the State Auditor to release any information received pursuant to Section 10850 of...
• California Government Code Section 8545.4
  (a) In connection with any audit or investigation conducted by the State Auditor, the State Auditor or his or her designee, may do any of...
• California Government Code Section 8545.5
  (a) The superior court in the county in which any interview is held under the direction of the State Auditor or his or her designee...
• California Government Code Section 8546
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Bureau of State Audits have the independence necessary to conduct all of its audits in conformity...
• California Government Code Section 8546.1
  (a) The State Auditor shall conduct financial and performance audits as directed by statute. The State Auditor may conduct these audits of any state agency...
• California Government Code Section 8546.2
  (a) The State Auditor shall request that any state agency, as defined in Section 11000, whether created by the California Constitution or otherwise, any local...
• California Government Code Section 8546.3
  The State Auditor shall examine and report annually upon the financial statements otherwise prepared by the executive branch of the state so that the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 8546.4
  (a) The State Auditor shall annually issue an auditor's report based upon the general purpose financial statements included in the Controller's annual report that is...
• California Government Code Section 8546.5
  (a) The State Auditor may establish a high-risk government agency audit program for the purpose of identifying, auditing, and issuing reports on any agency of...
• California Government Code Section 8546.6
  The State Auditor, in connection with any audit or investigation conducted pursuant to this chapter, shall be deemed to be a department head for the...
• California Government Code Section 8546.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every contract involving the expenditure of public funds in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) entered into by any...
• California Government Code Section 8546.8
  Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, any reference to the Auditor General or the Office of the Auditor General in...
• California Government Code Section 8546.10
  (a) The State Auditor may establish a high-risk local government agency audit program for the purpose of identifying, auditing, and issuing reports on any local...
• California Government Code Section 8547
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "California Whistleblower Protection Act."
• California Government Code Section 8547.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that state employees should be free to report waste, fraud, abuse of authority, violation of law, or threat to public...
• California Government Code Section 8547.2
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means an individual appointed by the Governor, or employed or...
• California Government Code Section 8547.3
  (a) An employee may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority or influence of the employee for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 8547.4
  The State Auditor shall administer this article and shall investigate and report on improper governmental activities. If, after investigating, the State Auditor finds that an...
• California Government Code Section 8547.5
  (a) The State Auditor shall create the means for the submission of allegations of improper governmental activity both by transmission via mail or other carrier...
• California Government Code Section 8547.6
  (a) The State Auditor may request the assistance of any state department, agency, or employee in evaluating an allegation or conducting any investigation of an...
• California Government Code Section 8547.7
  (a) If, after investigating an allegation, the State Auditor finds that a state agency or employee may have engaged or participated in an improper governmental...
• California Government Code Section 8547.8
  (a) A state employee or applicant for state employment who files a written complaint with his or her supervisor, manager, or the appointing power alleging...
• California Government Code Section 8547.9
  Notwithstanding Section 19572, if the State Personnel Board determines that there is a reasonable basis for an alleged violation, or finds an actual violation of...
• California Government Code Section 8547.10
  (a) A University of California employee, including an officer or faculty member, or applicant for employment may file a written complaint with his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8547.11
  (a) A University of California employee, including an officer or faculty member, may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority...
• California Government Code Section 8547.12
  (a) A California State University employee, including an officer or faculty member, or applicant for employment may file a written complaint with his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8547.13
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, the superior courts, or the Administrative Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 8548
  For purposes of this article, "state agency" means every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission, including the California State University, the University...
• California Government Code Section 8548.1
  No later than April 1, 2002, the State Auditor shall prepare for state employees a written explanation of the California Whistleblower Protection Act contained in...
• California Government Code Section 8548.2
  The State Auditor shall prepare for distribution to each state agency in an electronic format a notice containing the information in the written explanation prepared...
• California Government Code Section 8548.3
  On July 1, 2002, and annually thereafter, every state agency shall send the information contained in the notice by electronic mail to its employees who...
• California Government Code Section 8548.4
  The State Auditor shall post the information described in Section 8548.1 on the Web site of the Bureau of State Audits.
• California Government Code Section 8548.5
  The intentional failure of a state agency to comply with any provision of this article shall constitute an improper governmental activity for purposes of Article...
• California Government Code Section 8548.7
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Omnibus Audit Accountability Act of 2006.
• California Government Code Section 8548.9
  (a) The State Auditor shall, by January 15th of each year, report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and the...
• California Government Code Section 8550
  The state has long recognized its responsibility to mitigate the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies which result in conditions of disaster or in...
• California Government Code Section 8551
  This chapter may be cited as the "California Emergency Services Act."
• California Government Code Section 8555
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8556
  "Governor" means the Governor or the person upon whom the powers and duties of the office of Governor have devolved pursuant to Section 10 of...
• California Government Code Section 8557
  (a) "State agency" means any department, division, independent establishment, or agency of the executive branch of the state government. (b) "Political subdivision" includes any city,...
• California Government Code Section 8558
  Three conditions or degrees of emergency are established by this chapter: (a) "State of war emergency" means the condition which exists immediately, with or without...
• California Government Code Section 8559
  (a) A "mutual aid region" is a subdivision of the state emergency services organization, established to facilitate the coordination of mutual aid and other emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8560
  (a) "Emergency plans" means those official and approved documents which describe the principles and methods to be applied in carrying out emergency operations or rendering...
• California Government Code Section 8561
  "Master Mutual Aid Agreement" means the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement, made and entered into by and between the State of...
• California Government Code Section 8565
  The Governor shall have the powers granted by this article, which powers shall be in addition to any other powers granted to him by this
• California Government Code Section 8565.1
  Nothing in this chapter shall operate to prevent the Governor from establishing a committee or board composed of heads of state agencies, should the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8566
  The Governor is empowered to expend any appropriation for support of the California Emergency Services Act to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8567
  (a) The Governor may make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The orders and regulations shall...
• California Government Code Section 8568
  The State Emergency Plan shall be in effect in each political subdivision of the state, and the governing body of each political subdivision shall take...
• California Government Code Section 8569
  The Governor shall coordinate the State Emergency Plan and those programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state; and...
• California Government Code Section 8570
  The Governor may, in accordance with the State Emergency Plan and programs for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8570.5
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop a guidance document to the state emergency plan to specify the response of the state and its political...
• California Government Code Section 8571
  During a state of war emergency or a state of emergency the Governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct...
• California Government Code Section 8571.5
  Nothing in this article shall authorize the seizure or confiscation of any firearm or ammunition from any individual who is lawfully carrying or possessing the...
• California Government Code Section 8572
  In the exercise of the emergency powers hereby vested in him during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the Governor is authorized...
• California Government Code Section 8573
  The Governor may cooperate with the President and the heads of the armed forces and other agencies of the United States, and with officers and...
• California Government Code Section 8574
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall limit, modify, or abridge the powers vested in the Governor under the Constitution or statutes of the...
• California Government Code Section 8574.1
  In addition to any other authority conferred upon the Governor by this chapter, the Governor shall establish a California oil spill contingency plan pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8574.2
  Any plan established pursuant to this article shall provide for an integrated and effective state procedure to combat the results of major oil spills within...
• California Government Code Section 8574.3
  State agencies granted authority to implement a plan adopted under this article may use volunteer workers. The volunteers shall be deemed employees of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8574.4
  State agencies designated to implement the contingency plan shall account for all state expenditures made under the plan with respect to each oil spill. Expenditures...
• California Government Code Section 8574.7
  The Governor shall require the administrator, not in conflict with the National Contingency Plan, to amend the California oil spill contingency plan by adding a...
• California Government Code Section 8574.8
  (a) The administrator shall submit to the Governor and the Legislature an amended California oil spill contingency plan required, pursuant to Section 8574.7, by January...
• California Government Code Section 8574.16
  The Governor shall establish a state toxic disaster contingency plan pursuant to this article.
• California Government Code Section 8574.17
  (a) (1) A state toxic disaster contingency plan established pursuant to this article shall provide for an integrated and effective state procedure to respond to...
• California Government Code Section 8574.18
  (a) For purposes of this article, a "toxic disaster" means an occurrence where toxic substances are dispersed in the environment in such a manner as...
• California Government Code Section 8574.19
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, in order to protect the public health and safety and the environment, and to reduce personal injury...
• California Government Code Section 8574.20
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall manage the California Hazardous Substances Incident Response Training and Education Program to provide approved classes in hazardous substance response,...
• California Government Code Section 8574.21
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop the curriculum to be used in classes that meet the program requirements and shall adopt standards and...
• California Government Code Section 8574.22
  The California Emergency Management Agency may hire professional and clerical staff pursuant to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of...
• California Government Code Section 8575
  For the purposes of the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement, the California Emergency Management Agency will serve as the State Disaster
• California Government Code Section 8584
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Urban Heavy Rescue Act of 1988.
• California Government Code Section 8584.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the state have an urban heavy rescue capability in the event of a major earthquake. It...
• California Government Code Section 8585
  (a) (1) There is in state government, the California Emergency Management Agency. The California Emergency Management Agency shall be under the supervision of the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8585.05
  Unless the context otherwise requires, for purpose of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Secretary" means...
• California Government Code Section 8585.1
  (a) The secretary shall be appointed by, and hold office at the pleasure of, the Governor. The appointment of the secretary is subject to confirmation...
• California Government Code Section 8585.2
  (a) All employees serving in state civil service, other than temporary employees, who are engaged in the performance of functions transferred to the agency or...
• California Government Code Section 8585.5
  The agency shall establish by rule and regulation various classes of disaster service workers and the scope of the duties of each class. The agency...
• California Government Code Section 8585.7
  The agency may certify the accredited status of local disaster councils, subject to the requirements of Section 8612.
• California Government Code Section 8586
  The Governor shall assign all or part of his or her powers and duties under this chapter to the California Emergency Management Agency.
• California Government Code Section 8587
  (a) During a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, the secretary shall coordinate the emergency activities of all state...
• California Government Code Section 8587.5
  (a) The Department of Transportation shall, in cooperation with interested cities with Traffic Signal Override Systems, apply to the United States Secretary of Transportation for...
• California Government Code Section 8587.7
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, the Department of General Services, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8588
  Whenever conditions exist within any region or regions of the state which warrant the proclamation by the Governor of a state of emergency and the...
• California Government Code Section 8588.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that this state can only truly be prepared for the next disaster if the public and private sector collaborate....
• California Government Code Section 8588.2
  (a) The agency may establish a statewide registry of private businesses and nonprofit organizations that are interested in donating services, goods, labor, equipment, resources, or...
• California Government Code Section 8588.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the responsibility of the State of California to protect and preserve the right of its citizens...
• California Government Code Section 8588.5
  To promote an increase in the number of trained disaster search dog teams, the agency shall do all of the following: (a) Provide instruction to...
• California Government Code Section 8588.7
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall procure mobile communication translators to enable mutual-aid emergency response agencies to communicate effectively while operating on incompatible frequencies....
• California Government Code Section 8588.10
  (a) The secretary shall establish a Curriculum Development Advisory Committee to advise the agency on the development of course curricula, as specified by the secretary....
• California Government Code Section 8588.11
  (a) The agency shall contract with the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop a fire service specific course of instruction on the responsibilities...
• California Government Code Section 8588.12
  (a) The Curriculum Development Advisory Committee, described in Section 8588.10, shall recommend criteria for terrorism awareness curriculum content to meet the training needs of state...
• California Government Code Section 8588.15
  (a) The secretary shall appoint representatives of the disabled community to serve on the evacuation, sheltering, communication, recovery, and other pertinent Standardized Emergency Management System...
• California Government Code Section 8589
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall be permitted such use of all state and local fair properties as conditions require.
• California Government Code Section 8589.1
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall plan to establish the State Computer Emergency Data Exchange Program (SCEDEP) which shall be responsible for collection and...
• California Government Code Section 8589.2
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in consultation with the California Highway Patrol and other state and local agencies, shall establish a statewide plan for...
• California Government Code Section 8589.3
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within a special flood hazard area (any...
• California Government Code Section 8589.4
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within an area of potential flooding shown...
• California Government Code Section 8589.5
  (a) Inundation maps showing the areas of potential flooding in the event of sudden or total failure of any dam, the partial or total failure...
• California Government Code Section 8589.6
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop model guidelines for local government agencies and community-based organizations planning to develop a disaster registry program. Adoption...
• California Government Code Section 8589.7
  (a) In carrying out its responsibilities pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8574.17, the California Emergency Management Agency shall serve as the central point in...
• California Government Code Section 8589.8
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act.
• California Government Code Section 8589.9
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a growing need to find new ways to acquire firefighting apparatus and equipment for use by...
• California Government Code Section 8589.10
  As used in this article: (a) "Acquire" means acquisition by purchase, grant, gift, or any other lawful means. (b) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management...
• California Government Code Section 8589.11
  The agency may acquire new or used firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to local agencies. If the apparatus or equipment is in a used...
• California Government Code Section 8589.12
  If a state agency, including the agency, proposes to make firefighting apparatus or equipment which is currently owned and operated by the state available to...
• California Government Code Section 8589.13
  (a) The agency shall give first priority for the sale of new or used firefighting apparatus and equipment to a local agency that serves a...
• California Government Code Section 8589.14
  The agency shall operate an information system which is capable of identifying firefighting apparatus and equipment which is available for acquisition, and local agencies which...
• California Government Code Section 8589.15
  The agency may contract with the Prison Industry Authority to perform any of the responsibilities or services required or authorized by this article.
• California Government Code Section 8589.16
  There is hereby created in the General Fund the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, which, notwithstanding Section 13340, is continuously appropriated to the agency...
• California Government Code Section 8589.17
  Every contract with a local agency for the resale of firefighting apparatus and equipment shall specify that the local agency shall make the apparatus or...
• California Government Code Section 8589.18
  If a local agency defaults on a contract for the resale of firefighting apparatus and equipment, the agency may either renegotiate the contract or take...
• California Government Code Section 8589.19
  (a) After consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency Fire Advisory Committee, the secretary shall adopt rules and regulations governing the operation of the programs...
• California Government Code Section 8589.20
  All state agencies, boards, and commissions shall cooperate with the agency in implementing the programs created by this article.
• California Government Code Section 8589.21
  The secretary shall be responsible for the programs created by this article which, except as provided by Sections 8589.12 and 8589.15, shall not be subject...
• California Government Code Section 8590
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Firefighting Thermal Imaging Equipment Act of 2001.
• California Government Code Section 8590.1
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Local agency" means any...
• California Government Code Section 8590.2
  There is established in the agency a thermal imaging equipment purchasing program under which the agency shall acquire firefighting thermal imaging equipment on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 8590.3
  In administering the purchasing program, the secretary shall do all of the following: (a) No later than 45 days after the effective date of this...
• California Government Code Section 8590.4
  (a) The secretary shall seek funding for the program from the private sector, grant programs, and other appropriate sources. (b) The secretary, after consultation with...
• California Government Code Section 8591
  Nothing in this chapter shall operate to prevent the Governor or Emergency Management from formally recognizing committees or boards established by or with segments of...
• California Government Code Section 8592
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002.
• California Government Code Section 8592.1
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Backward compatibility" means that the equipment is able to function with older,...
• California Government Code Section 8592.2
  (a) The committee shall have primary responsibility in state government for both of the following: (1) Developing and implementing a statewide integrated public safety communication...
• California Government Code Section 8592.3
  (a) The committee shall consult with the following organizations and entities: (1) California State Peace Officers Association. (2) California Police Chiefs Association. (3) California State...
• California Government Code Section 8592.4
  (a) The committee shall determine which state public safety departments listed in subdivision (b) of Section 8592.1 need new or upgraded communication equipment and shall...
• California Government Code Section 8592.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a state department that purchases public safety radio communication equipment shall ensure that the equipment purchased complies with...
• California Government Code Section 8592.7
  (a) A budget proposal submitted by a state agency for support of a new or modified radio system shall be accompanied by a technical project...
• California Government Code Section 8593
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall work with advocacy groups representing the deaf and hearing impaired, including, but not limited to, the California Association of...
• California Government Code Section 8593.1
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall investigate the feasibility of, and the funding requirements for, establishing a "Digital Emergency Broadcast System" network, to be used...
• California Government Code Section 8593.2
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall investigate the feasibility of establishing a toll-free 800 telephone hotline, including TDD (telecommunications device for the deaf) accessibility, which...
• California Government Code Section 8593.6
  (a) No later than six months after securing funding for the purposes of this section, the Secretary of Emergency Management shall convene a working group...
• California Government Code Section 8594
  (a) If an abduction has been reported to a law enforcement agency and the agency determines that a child 17 years of age or younger,...
• California Government Code Section 8594.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, "blue alert" means a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following an attack upon a law...
• California Government Code Section 8592.7
  (a) A budget proposal submitted by a state agency for support of a new or modified radio system shall be accompanied by a technical project...
• California Government Code Section 8595
  The Governor may assign to a state agency any activity concerned with the mitigation of the effects of an emergency of a nature related to...
• California Government Code Section 8596
  (a) Each department, division, bureau, board, commission, officer, and employee of this state shall render all possible assistance to the Governor and to the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8597
  Whenever a state of emergency is proclaimed to exist within any region or area, or whenever a state of war emergency exists, the following classes...
• California Government Code Section 8598
  Whenever a local emergency exists within a region or area of the state and the Department of the California Highway Patrol or the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 8599
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop a plan for state and local governmental agencies to utilize volunteer resources during a state of emergency proclaimed...
• California Government Code Section 8599.2
  The plan required by Section 8599 shall address, at a minimum, all of the following issues: (a) A formal system for the utilization of volunteer...
• California Government Code Section 8600
  The Governor with the advice of the California Emergency Management Agency is hereby authorized and empowered to divide the state into mutual aid regions for...
• California Government Code Section 8605
  Each county is designated as an operational area. In a state of war emergency each operational area shall serve as a link in the system...
• California Government Code Section 8607
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local...
• California Government Code Section 8607.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a statewide system for fire hydrants be adopted so that all firefighters can respond to emergencies...
• California Government Code Section 8607.2
  (a) All public water systems, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code, with 10,000 or more service connections...
• California Government Code Section 8608
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the...
• California Government Code Section 8609
  State agencies granted authority by the Governor, the Business Continuity Task Force, the Emergency Preparedness Task Force, or the Executive Committee established by Executive Order...
• California Government Code Section 8609.1
  Any disaster preparedness or response official may be specifically identified by name and title in any disaster, contingency, or business continuity plan developed pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8610
  Counties, cities and counties, and cities may create disaster councils by ordinance. A disaster council shall develop plans for meeting any condition constituting a local...
• California Government Code Section 8610.3
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in consultation with the State Department of Health Services and affected...
• California Government Code Section 8610.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (2) "Previous fiscal year" means the...
• California Government Code Section 8611
  Counties, cities and counties, and cities may provide for the calling of test exercises, either singularly or jointly, whenever, in the opinion of such political...
• California Government Code Section 8612
  Any disaster council that both agrees to follow the rules and regulations established by the California Emergency Management Agency pursuant to Section 8585.5 and substantially...
• California Government Code Section 8613
  Should an accredited disaster council fail to comply with the rules and regulations of the California Emergency Management Agency in any material degree, the agency...
• California Government Code Section 8614
  (a) Each department, division, bureau, board, commission, officer, and employee of each political subdivision of the state shall render all possible assistance to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8615
  It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to facilitate the rendering of aid to areas stricken by an emergency and to...
• California Government Code Section 8616
  During any state of war emergency or state of emergency when the need arises for outside aid in any county, city and county, or city,...
• California Government Code Section 8617
  In periods other than a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, state agencies and political subdivisions have authority to...
• California Government Code Section 8618
  Unless otherwise expressly provided by the parties, the responsible local official in whose jurisdiction an incident requiring mutual aid has occurred shall remain in charge...
• California Government Code Section 8619
  The Governor may on behalf of this state enter into reciprocal aid agreements or compacts, mutual aid plans, or other interstate arrangements for the protection...
• California Government Code Section 8620
  During a state of war emergency the Governor shall have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and the right to exercise within...
• California Government Code Section 8621
  During a state of war emergency every department, commission, agency, board, officer, and employee of the state government and of every political subdivision, county, city...
• California Government Code Section 8622
  During a state of war emergency, the Governor, any state agency, or any agency acting under the authority of this chapter may exercise outside the...
• California Government Code Section 8623
  During a state of war emergency, any person holding a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any state evidencing the meeting of the qualifications...
• California Government Code Section 8624
  All of the powers granted the Governor by this chapter with respect to a state of war emergency shall terminate when: (a) The state of...
• California Government Code Section 8625
  The Governor is hereby empowered to proclaim a state of emergency in an area affected or likely to be affected thereby when: (a) He finds...
• California Government Code Section 8626
  Such proclamation shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon its issuance. As soon thereafter as possible such proclamation shall be filed in...
• California Government Code Section 8627
  During a state of emergency the Governor shall, to the extent he deems necessary, have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and...
• California Government Code Section 8627.5
  (a) The Governor may make, amend, or rescind orders and regulations during a state of emergency that temporarily suspend any state, county, city, or special...
• California Government Code Section 8628
  During a state of emergency the Governor may direct all agencies of the state government to utilize and employ state personnel, equipment, and facilities for...
• California Government Code Section 8629
  The Governor shall proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. All of the powers granted the...
• California Government Code Section 8630
  (a) A local emergency may be proclaimed only by the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, or by an official designated...
• California Government Code Section 8631
  In periods of local emergency, political subdivisions have full power to provide mutual aid to any affected area in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8632
  State agencies may provide mutual aid, including personnel, equipment, and other available resources, to assist political subdivisions during a local emergency or in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 8633
  In the absence of a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the cost of extraordinary services incurred by political subdivisions in executing mutual...
• California Government Code Section 8634
  During a local emergency the governing body of a political subdivision, or officials designated thereby, may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the...
• California Government Code Section 8635
  The Legislature recognizes that if this state or nation were attacked by an enemy of the United States, many areas in California might be subjected...
• California Government Code Section 8636
  As used in this article, "unavailable" means that an officer is either killed, missing, or so seriously injured as to be unable to attend meetings...
• California Government Code Section 8637
  Each political subdivision may provide for the succession of officers who head departments having duties in the maintenance of law and order or in the...
• California Government Code Section 8638
  To provide for the continuance of the legislative and executive departments of the political subdivision during a state of war emergency or a state of...
• California Government Code Section 8639
  The qualifications of each standby officer should be carefully investigated, and the governing body may request the Secretary of Emergency Management to aid in the...
• California Government Code Section 8640
  Each standby officer shall take the oath of office required for the officer occupying the office for which he stands by. Persons appointed as standby...
• California Government Code Section 8641
  Each standby officer shall have the following duties: (a) To inform himself or herself of the duties of the office for which the officer stands...
• California Government Code Section 8642
  Whenever a state of war emergency a state of emergency or a local emergency exists the governing body of the political subdivision shall meet as...
• California Government Code Section 8643
  During a state of war emergency a state of emergency or a local emergency the governing body shall: (a) Ascertain the damage to the political...
• California Government Code Section 8644
  Should all members of the governing body, including all standby members, be unavailable, temporary officers shall be appointed to serve until a regular member or...
• California Government Code Section 8645
  In addition to any appropriation made to support activities contemplated by this chapter, the Governor is empowered to make expenditures from any fund legally available...
• California Government Code Section 8646
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Governor may: (a) Procure and maintain offices in such parts of the state as may be...
• California Government Code Section 8647
  (a) Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof shall offer to the state, or through the state to any political subdivision thereof,...
• California Government Code Section 8648
  The Governor may reimburse any state agency for funds expended in the performance of any and all activities as set forth in Section 8628 in...
• California Government Code Section 8649
  Subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, any state agency may use its personnel, property, equipment, and appropriations for carrying out the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 8650
  Any funds received by state agencies as reimbursement for services or supplies furnished under the authority of this chapter shall be deposited to the credit...
• California Government Code Section 8651
  The Secretary of Emergency Management may procure from the federal government or any of its agencies such surplus equipment, apparatus, supplies, and storage facilities therefor...
• California Government Code Section 8652
  Before payment may be made by the state to any person in reimbursement for taking or damaging private property necessarily utilized by the Governor in...
• California Government Code Section 8653
  In the event that the Governor, during a state of war emergency or a state of emergency and in the exercise of the emergency powers...
• California Government Code Section 8654
  (a) Whenever the Governor has proclaimed a state of emergency and the President has declared an emergency or a major disaster to exist in this...
• California Government Code Section 8654.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that financial assistance is essential to meet disaster-related necessary expenses of the state and local governments and the serious...
• California Government Code Section 8655
  The state or its political subdivisions shall not be liable for any claim based upon the exercise or performance, or the failure to exercise or...
• California Government Code Section 8655.5
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Community warning program" means any broadcast or notification program conducted by...
• California Government Code Section 8656
  All of the privileges and immunities from liability; exemptions from laws, ordinances, and rules; all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits which apply...
• California Government Code Section 8657
  (a) Volunteers duly enrolled or registered with the California Emergency Management Agency or any disaster council of any political subdivision, or unregistered persons duly impressed...
• California Government Code Section 8657.5
  (a) (1) A private business included on the statewide registry pursuant to Section 8588.2 that voluntarily and without expectation and receipt of compensation donates services,...
• California Government Code Section 8658
  In any case in which an emergency endangering the lives of inmates of a state, county, or city penal or correctional institution has occurred or...
• California Government Code Section 8659
  (a) Any physician or surgeon (whether licensed in this state or any other state), hospital, pharmacist, respiratory care practitioner, nurse, or dentist who renders services...
• California Government Code Section 8660
  No other state or its officers or employees rendering aid in this state pursuant to any interstate arrangement, agreement, or compact shall be liable on...
• California Government Code Section 8661
  No organization established under the authority of this chapter shall participate in any form of political activity nor shall it be employed directly or indirectly...
• California Government Code Section 8665
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who refuses or willfully neglects to obey any lawful order or regulation promulgated...
• California Government Code Section 8666
  If any section, subdivision, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase in this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is for any reason...
• California Government Code Section 8668
  (a) Any disaster council previously accredited, the State Civil Defense and Disaster Plan, the State Emergency Resources Management Plan, the State Fire Disaster Plan, the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.1
  This chapter, Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 8574.1) of Chapter 7 of the Government Code, and Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public...
• California Government Code Section 8670.2
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Each year, billions of gallons of crude oil and petroleum products are transported by vessel or pipeline...
• California Government Code Section 8670.3
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Administrator" means the administrator for oil spill response appointed...
• California Government Code Section 8670.4
  There shall be an administrator for oil spill response. The administrator shall be a chief deputy director of the Department of Fish and Game. The...
• California Government Code Section 8670.5
  The Governor shall ensure that the state fully and adequately responds to all oil spills in marine waters. The administrator, acting at the direction of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.6
  (a) The administrator shall ensure that he or she has available for support, either under direct employment, elsewhere in state government, or through contract for...
• California Government Code Section 8670.7
  (a) The administrator, subject to the Governor, has the primary authority to direct prevention, removal, abatement, response, containment, and cleanup efforts with regard to all...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8
  (a) The administrator shall carry out programs to provide training for individuals in response, containment, and cleanup operations and equipment, equipment deployment, and the planning...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8.3
  The administrator shall offer grants to a local government with jurisdiction over or directly adjacent to marine waters to provide oil spill response equipment to...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8.5
  The administrator may use volunteer workers in response, containment, restoration, wildlife rehabilitation, and cleanup efforts for oil spills in marine waters. The volunteers shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.9
  (a) The administrator shall enter into discussions on behalf of the state with the States of Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.10
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in coordination with all appropriate federal, state, and local government entities, the administrator shall periodically carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8670.12
  (a) The administrator shall conduct studies and evaluations necessary for improving oil spill response, containment, and cleanup and oil spill wildlife rehabilitation in marine waters...
• California Government Code Section 8670.13
  The administrator shall periodically evaluate the feasibility of requiring new technologies to aid prevention, response, containment, cleanup and wildlife rehabilitation.
• California Government Code Section 8670.13.1
  (a) The administrator shall license all oil spill cleanup agents, and shall adopt regulations governing the expedited testing, licensing, and use of oil spill cleanup...
• California Government Code Section 8670.13.2
  The administrator shall prepare and periodically revise regulations regarding licensing of oil spill cleanup agents. The authority of the administrator shall be substituted for the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.14
  The administrator shall coordinate the oil spill prevention and response programs and marine facility, tank vessel, and nontank vessel safety standards of the state with...
• California Government Code Section 8670.16
  The administrator shall take any action necessary and appropriate to promote the adoption of statutes or regulations by the federal government that establish all of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.17
  (a) The administrator shall adopt regulations regarding the equipment, personnel, and operation of vessels to and from marine terminals that are used to transfer oil....
• California Government Code Section 8670.17.1
  The administrator may, for purposes of efficiency, safety, or implementation consistency, provide for services to vessels, ports, and port users which are necessary to achieve...
• California Government Code Section 8670.17.2
  (a) The administrator shall adopt regulations governing tugboat escorts for tank ships and tank barges entering, leaving, or navigating in the harbors of the state....
• California Government Code Section 8670.18
  (a) The administrator may inspect or cause to be inspected on a regular basis all vessels. (b) The administrator shall evaluate and periodically review the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.19
  (a) The administrator shall periodically conduct a comprehensive review of all oil spill contingency plans. The administrator shall do both of the following: (1) Segment...
• California Government Code Section 8670.20
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "vessel" means a vessel, as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, of 300 gross...
• California Government Code Section 8670.21
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Vessels" means vessels as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors...
• California Government Code Section 8670.22
  Any vessel that is not in compliance with the time schedules and requirements relating to double hulls set forth in the federal Oil Pollution Prevention,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23
  (a) The administrator shall establish Harbor Safety Committees for harbors and adjacent regions of San Diego; Los Angeles/Long Beach; Port Hueneme; San Francisco; and Humboldt...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23.1
  (a) Each harbor safety committee established pursuant to Section 8670.23 shall be responsible for planning for the safe navigation and operation of tank ships, tank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23.2
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that because the administrator must rely on the expertise provided by volunteer members of the harbor safety committees...
• California Government Code Section 8670.24
  (a) The administrator shall evaluate all pilotage areas in the state. This evaluation shall include all of the following: (1) The effectiveness of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8670.25
  (a) A person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any oil to be discharged in or on the marine waters or...
• California Government Code Section 8670.25.5
  (a) (1) Without regard to intent or negligence, any party responsible for the discharge or threatened discharge of oil in marine waters shall report the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.26
  Any local or state agency responding to a spill of oil shall notify the California Emergency Management Agency, if notification as required under Section 8670.25.5,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.27
  (a) (1) All potentially responsible parties for discharged oil and all of their agents and employees and all state and local agencies shall carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8670.28
  (a) The administrator, taking into consideration the marine facility or vessel contingency plan requirements of the national and California contingency plans, the State Lands Commission,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.28.5
  An operator shall maintain a level of readiness that will allow effective implementation of the applicable contingency plans.
• California Government Code Section 8670.29
  (a) In accordance with the rules, regulations, and policies established by the administrator pursuant to Section 8670.28, an owner or operator of a marine facility,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.30
  (a) An oil spill response organization may apply to the administrator for a rating of that OSRO's response capabilities. The administrator shall establish rating levels...
• California Government Code Section 8670.30.5
  (a) The administrator may review each oil spill contingency plan that has been approved pursuant to Section 8670.29 to determine whether it complies with Sections...
• California Government Code Section 8670.31
  (a) Each oil spill contingency plan required under this article shall be submitted to the administrator before a tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying...
• California Government Code Section 8670.32
  (a) To reduce the risk of an oil spill as a result of fuel, cargo, and lube oil transfers, the administrator shall develop and implement...
• California Government Code Section 8670.33
  (a) If the operator of a tank ship or tank barge for which a contingency plan has not been approved desires to have the tank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.34
  This article shall not apply to any tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo that enters marine waters of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.35
  (a) The administrator, taking into consideration the California oil spill contingency plan, shall promulgate regulations regarding the adequacy of oil spill contingency plan elements of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.36
  (a) The administrator shall, within five working days after receipt of a contingency plan prepared pursuant to Section 8670.28 or 8670.35, send a notice that...
• California Government Code Section 8670.36.1
  (a) To reduce the damages and costs from spills, the administrator shall develop an outreach program to provide assistance to the operators of small craft...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37
  (a) The administrator, with the assistance of the State Lands Commission, the California Coastal Commission, and the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.5
  (a) The administrator shall establish a network of rescue and rehabilitation stations for sea birds, sea otters, and other marine mammals. In addition to rehabilitative...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.51
  (a) No tank vessel or vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo may be used to transport oil across marine waters of the state unless...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.52
  The certificate of financial responsibility shall be conclusive evidence that the person or entity holding the certificate is the party responsible for the specified vessel,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.53
  (a) To receive a certificate of financial responsibility for a tank vessel or for all of the oil contained within such a vessel, the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.54
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, financial responsibility may be demonstrated by evidence of insurance, surety bond, letter of credit, qualifications as a self-insurer,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.55
  (a) An owner or operator of more than one tank vessel, vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo, nontank vessel, or marine facility shall only...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.56
  If the administrator determines that, because of a spill outside of the state or some other action or potential liability, the holder of a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.57
  No certificate of financial responsibility shall have a term greater than two years. The administrator may issue certificates for shorter periods where appropriate.
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.58
  (a) A nontank vessel required to have a contingency plan pursuant to this chapter shall not enter marine waters of the state unless the nontank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.38
  (a) The Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The money in the fund is available for appropriation by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.39
  (a) The administrator shall administer the fund in accordance with this article. (b) The administrator may develop and adopt any rules, regulations, and guidelines determined...
• California Government Code Section 8670.40
  (a) The State Board of Equalization shall collect a fee in an amount determined by the administrator to be sufficient to carry out the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 8670.41
  (a) The administrator shall charge a nontank vessel owner or operator a reasonable fee, to be collected with each application to obtain a certificate of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.42
  (a) The Department of Fish and Game and the State Lands Commission, independently, shall contract with the Department of Finance for the preparation of a...
• California Government Code Section 8670.46
  (a) The Oil Spill Response Trust Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the money in the fund is continuously appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 8670.47
  (a) The administrator shall administer the fund in accordance with this article. (b) The administrator may develop and adopt any rules, regulations, and guidelines determined...
• California Government Code Section 8670.47.5
  The following shall be deposited into the fund: (a) The fee required pursuant to Section 8670.48. (b) Any federal funds received to pay for response,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48
  (a) (1) A uniform oil spill response fee in an amount not exceeding twenty-five cents ($0.25) for each barrel of petroleum products, as set by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48.3
  (a) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 8670.48, a loan or other transfer of money from the fund to the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48.5
  (a) The administrator may raise the fees specified in Section 8670.48 to a maximum of one dollar ($1) per barrel, provided that the fee may...
• California Government Code Section 8670.49
  (a) (1) The administrator may only expend money from the fund to pay for any of the following, subject to the lien established in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8670.50
  (a) Money from the fund may only be expended to cover the costs incurred by the state and local governments and agencies for any of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.51
  (a) When a person has obtained a final judgment for damages resulting from an oil spill in marine waters, but is unable, within one year...
• California Government Code Section 8670.51.1
  (a) (1) Upon learning of an oil spill, the administrator shall immediately designate the responsible party, who, if that designation is not challenged, shall immediately,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53
  The Attorney General, in consultation with the administrator, shall undertake actions to recover all costs to the funds from any responsible party for an oil...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.1
  (a) Following an oil spill, the administrator, in consultation with the Treasurer, shall notify the Governor if the administrator determines that it is likely that...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.2
  Money borrowed pursuant to this chapter, including draws on the financial security obtained pursuant to subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, shall be expended and repaid...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.3
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Bond" means any bond, note, commercial paper, bond anticipation note, or other evidence...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.4
  (a) With the exception of borrowing from the Pooled Money Investment Account, which shall be on the terms determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.5
  Any financial arrangements made or issued pursuant to this article or subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, including the issuance of bonds or other obligations, and...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.7
  (a) All financial arrangements made or issued pursuant to this article or subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, including bonds or other obligations, are a legal...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.8
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the fund, without regard to fiscal years, any and all moneys necessary to pay principal, interest, premium,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.9
  Whenever the Treasurer determines that it will increase the marketability or reduce the cost of obtaining any standby arrangement, other arrangement, or of issuing any...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.95
  Section 10295 and Sections 10336 to 10381, inclusive, of the Public Contract Code shall not apply to agreements entered into by the Treasurer in connection...
• California Government Code Section 8670.54
  (a) The Oil Spill Technical Advisory Committee, hereafter in this article the committee, is hereby established to provide public input and independent judgment of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.55
  (a) The committee shall provide recommendations to the administrator, the State Lands Commission, the California Coastal Commission, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56
  The administrator may expend from the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund any amounts necessary for the purposes of carrying out this article.
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.1
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that because the administrator must rely on expertise provided by members of the committee and be guided by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.5
  (a) A responsible party, as defined in Section 8670.3, shall be absolutely liable without regard to fault for any damages incurred by any injured party...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.6
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (d), and subject to subdivision (c), no person, including, but not limited to, an oil spill...
• California Government Code Section 8670.57
  (a) When the administrator determines that any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or threatens to engage in, any acts or practices which constitute...
• California Government Code Section 8670.58
  Every civil action commenced pursuant to this chapter or Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code at the request of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.59
  (a) Any civil action brought pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.61
  The civil and criminal penalties provided in this chapter and Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code shall be separate and...
• California Government Code Section 8670.61.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "wildlife rehabilitation" means those actions that are necessary to fully mitigate for the damage caused to wildlife, fisheries, wildlife...
• California Government Code Section 8670.62
  (a) Any person who discharges oil into marine waters, upon order of the administrator, shall do all of the following: (1) Clean up the oil....
• California Government Code Section 8670.63
  (a) No provision of this chapter, or of Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code, or any ruling of the administrator,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.64
  (a) A person who commits any of the following acts, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than...
• California Government Code Section 8670.65
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 8670.64, any person who knowingly violates any provision of this chapter, or Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.66
  (a) Any person who intentionally or negligently does any of the following acts shall be subject to a civil penalty for a spill of not...
• California Government Code Section 8670.67
  (a) Any person who intentionally or negligently does any of the following acts shall be subject to an administrative civil penalty for a spill not...
• California Government Code Section 8670.67.5
  (a) Any person who without regard to intent or negligence causes or permits a spill or inland spill shall be strictly liable civilly in accordance...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68
  (a) The administrator may issue a complaint to any person on whom civil liability may be imposed pursuant to Section 8670.67 or 8670.67.5. The complaint...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.1
  After the time for review has expired for a violation under this chapter or Division 36 (commencing with Section 71200) of the Public Resources Code,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.4
  Any operator of a small craft refueling dock who fails to register in compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 8670.36.1 shall be subject to a...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.5
  Twenty-five percent of any penalty collected under this article shall be paid to the agency or office prosecuting the action.
• California Government Code Section 8670.69
  Actions on behalf of the state or any other public entity to enforce Section 8670.61.5 through injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and all costs of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.4
  (a) When the administrator determines that any person has undertaken, or is threatening to undertake, any activity or procedure that (1) requires a permit, certificate,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.6
  Within 30 days after service of a copy of a cease and desist order issued by the administrator under Section 8670.69.4, any aggrieved party may...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.7
  All penalties collected under this article for inland spills shall be deposited into the Fish and Wildlife Pollution Account in the Fish and Game Preservation...
• California Government Code Section 8670.70
  The Environmental Enhancement Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All penalties collected under Article 9 (commencing with Section 8670.57) shall be deposited into...
• California Government Code Section 8670.71
  (a) The administrator shall fund only those projects approved by the Environmental Enhancement Committee. (b) For the purposes of this article, an enhancement project is...
• California Government Code Section 8670.72
  (a) The Environmental Enhancement Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the following members: (1) The administrator. (2) A public member, to be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.73
  (a) The Environmental Enhancement Grant Program is hereby established. Project proposals shall be solicited when adequate funds have accumulated in the Environmental Enhancement Fund to...
• California Government Code Section 8680
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Disaster Assistance Act.
• California Government Code Section 8680.1
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8680.2
  "Local agency" means any city, city and county, county, county office of education, community college district, school district, or special district.
• California Government Code Section 8680.3
  "Disaster" means a fire, flood, storm, tidal wave, earthquake, terrorism, epidemic, or other similar public calamity that the Governor determines presents a threat to public
• California Government Code Section 8680.4
  "Project" means the repair or restoration, or both, other than normal maintenance, or the replacement of, real property of a local agency used for essential...
• California Government Code Section 8680.5
  "Project application" means the written application made by a local agency to the director for state financial assistance, which shall include all damage to public...
• California Government Code Section 8680.7
  "Secretary" means the Secretary of Emergency Management.
• California Government Code Section 8680.8
  "State agency" means the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Health, the Department of Finance,...
• California Government Code Section 8680.9
  "Local emergency" means a condition of extreme peril to persons or property proclaimed as such by the governing body of the local agency affected, in...
• California Government Code Section 8682
  The secretary shall administer this chapter. The secretary may delegate any power or duty vested in him or her under this chapter to a state...
• California Government Code Section 8682.2
  To the extent that funds are allocated therefor, a state agency, when requested by the secretary, shall render services and perform duties within its area...
• California Government Code Section 8682.6
  The project proposal executed between a local agency and the secretary pursuant to Section 8685.6 shall contain a provision under which the local agency agrees...
• California Government Code Section 8682.8
  When certified by the secretary, claims of local agencies for payment shall be presented to the Controller for payment out of funds made available therefor....
• California Government Code Section 8682.9
  The secretary shall adopt regulations, as necessary, to govern the administration of the disaster assistance program authorized by this chapter in accordance with the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 8683
  Whenever funds are available for purposes of this chapter, the director shall make allocations therefrom in the amounts that he or she determines to be...
• California Government Code Section 8684.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature: (1) To provide the Governor with appropriate emergency powers in order to enable utilization of available emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8685
  From any moneys appropriated for that purpose, and subject to the conditions specified in this article, the secretary shall allocate funds to meet the cost...
• California Government Code Section 8685.2
  An allocation may be made to a local agency for a project when, within 10 days after the actual occurrence of a disaster, the local...
• California Government Code Section 8685.4
  A local agency shall make application to the secretary for state financial assistance within 60 days after the date of the proclamation of a local...
• California Government Code Section 8685.6
  No money shall be allocated for a project until the local agency has indicated in writing its acceptance of the project proposal and the cost-sharing...
• California Government Code Section 8685.7
  Any work performed by a state agency at the request of a local agency shall be agreed upon in writing and be subject to the...
• California Government Code Section 8685.8
  Under procedures to be prescribed by the secretary, a local agency may receive an advance of funds to initiate a project. Such advances shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8685.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Section 8686, for any eligible project, the state share shall not exceed 75 percent of total state eligible...
• California Government Code Section 8686
  (a) For any eligible project, the state share shall amount to no more than 75 percent of total state eligible costs. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),...
• California Government Code Section 8686.1
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8686, the state share shall be up to 100 percent of total state eligible costs connected with the Middle...
• California Government Code Section 8686.2
  When the United States or any agency thereof is to provide disaster relief funds for any portion of the cost of a project, the amount...
• California Government Code Section 8686.3
  Local agencies shall undertake to recover maximum federal participation in funding projects. No funds allocated under this chapter shall be used to supplant federal funds...
• California Government Code Section 8686.4
  (a) Whenever the local agency and the secretary determine for projects that the general public and state interest will be better served by replacing a...
• California Government Code Section 8686.8
  If the secretary determines that a local agency is financially unable to meet the matching requirements set forth in Section 8686, or unable to provide...
• California Government Code Section 8687
  Deferred payments made by a local agency pursuant to Section 8686.8 shall be made by the agency: (a) Out of the current revenues of the...
• California Government Code Section 8687.2
  Notwithstanding Section 8686, whenever the secretary determines that a local agency to which funds are proposed to be allocated for a public facilities project is...
• California Government Code Section 8687.4
  Whenever the secretary determines that a local agency which would otherwise be eligible for funds under the formula of Section 8686 is unable to finance...
• California Government Code Section 8687.6
  If the local agency, under Section 8687.4, is a county, the amount contributed by the county shall not be reduced to less than an amount...
• California Government Code Section 8687.7
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (2) "Community" means a...
• California Government Code Section 8687.8
  If the local agency, under Section 8687.4, is a county, the director, in determining whether the county's financial resources are exhausted, shall ascertain whether the...
• California Government Code Section 8690.25
  The Disaster Assistance Fund, referred to as "fund" in this article, is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. This fund and...
• California Government Code Section 8690.45
  The Controller shall establish the following special account in the Disaster Assistance Fund. The Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, into which shall be paid all moneys...
• California Government Code Section 8690.5
  Income from investment of moneys in the fund and all payments by local agencies in reimbursement of moneys disbursed from the fund, including deferred payments...
• California Government Code Section 8690.6
  (a) The Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account is hereby established in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties. Notwithstanding Section 13340, moneys in the account are continuously...
• California Government Code Section 8690.7
  Any county which distributed funds to other local agencies pursuant to Chapter 16 of the Statutes of 1986 shall not be held financially liable for...
• California Government Code Section 8692
  (a) If a state of emergency is proclaimed, an eligible private nonprofit organization may receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or...
• California Government Code Section 8695
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Farr Economic Disaster Act of 1984.
• California Government Code Section 8695.5
  The Legislature finds and declares that the disaster response of state agencies does not adequately focus on the economic impact of a natural disaster on...
• California Government Code Section 8696
  It is the purpose of this chapter to institutionalize the planning and response of state agencies to disasters in order to reduce economic hardship stemming...
• California Government Code Section 8696.5
  As used in this chapter, the term "disaster" means those conditions specified in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8558 if the estimated damage exceeds...
• California Government Code Section 8697
  (a) Upon the completion of the emergency phase and the immediate recovery phase of a disaster, appropriate state agencies shall take actions to provide continuity...
• California Government Code Section 8697.5
  The Secretary of Emergency Management, in executing the purposes of this chapter, shall establish appropriate task forces or emergency teams to include concerned elements of...
• California Government Code Section 8698
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Political subdivision" includes the state, any city, city and county, county, special district, or...
• California Government Code Section 8698.1
  Upon a declaration of a shelter crisis, the following provisions shall apply during the period of the emergency. (a) The political subdivision shall be immune...
• California Government Code Section 8698.2
  (a) (1) The governing body may declare a shelter crisis, and may take such action as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this...
• California Government Code Section 8700
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The United States and Mexican economies have become increasingly integrated, particularly since the 1994 adoption of the...
• California Government Code Section 8701
  The following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Office" means the Office of California-Mexico Affairs. (b) "Conference" means the Southwest Border Regional
• California Government Code Section 8702
  (a) There is in state government an Office of California-Mexico Affairs. Within this office the operations of the California Office of the Southwest Border Regional...
• California Government Code Section 8703
  The members of the Southwest Border Regional Conference shall be the Governors of the four American border states. The California member of the conference is...
• California Government Code Section 8705
  The office shall further and develop favorable relations with the State of Baja California, the State of Baja California Sur, other Mexican states bordering on...
• California Government Code Section 8706
  The Governor shall appoint a director of the office. The director may appoint and employ any personnel which he or she deems necessary to carry...
• California Government Code Section 8708
  Members and employees of the office may travel outside of California and may hold hearings and conduct investigations within and outside of the state whenever...
• California Government Code Section 8709
  The office shall be responsible for the establishment of committees in those topic areas deemed necessary by the director. Recommendations of the committees shall not...
• California Government Code Section 8710
  The following definitions shall apply to this chapter: (a) "Border" means the line of demarcation between California and Mexico. (b) "Council" means the California-Mexico Border...
• California Government Code Section 8711
  (a) The California-Mexico Border Relations Council is hereby established in state government. The council shall consist of the Secretary of the Resources Agency, the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8712
  The council shall do all of the following: (a) Coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that...
• California Government Code Section 8713
  Beginning January 1, 2008, the council shall submit a report to the Legislature on the council's activities annually.
• California Government Code Section 8720
  This chapter may be cited as the "Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program."
• California Government Code Section 8721
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Beginning in 1929, government authorities and certain private sector entities in California and throughout the...
• California Government Code Section 8722
  The State of California apologizes to those individuals described in Section 8721 for the fundamental violations of their basic civil liberties and constitutional rights committed...
• California Government Code Section 8723
  A plaque commemorating the individuals described in Section 8721 shall be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation at an appropriate public...
• California Government Code Section 8740
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) That Latino Americans have made major contributions to the social, cultural, and economic greatness of California. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 8741
  The Board of Trustees for the California Museum of Latino History, Art, and Culture shall, on or before January 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, report...
• California Government Code Section 8742
  State moneys, from whichever fund appropriated, may be used only for developing preliminary plans and working drawings, construction, and initial equipment, including equipment for exhibits....
• California Government Code Section 8743
  The state shall have no liability arising from the project and its operation, and shall have no operational or maintenance responsibility for the project. The...
• California Government Code Section 8750
  The Legislature perceives that life in California is enriched by art. The source of art is in the natural flow of the human mind. Realizing...
• California Government Code Section 8751
  (a) There is in the state government an Arts Council which shall be composed of 11 members. On or before January 10, 1979, the Speaker...
• California Government Code Section 8751.5
  If any member of the council is an employee, member, director, or officer of any arts organization that has applied to the council for a...
• California Government Code Section 8752
  The council shall meet at the call of the chairperson no more than eight times each calendar year. Unless there are extraordinary circumstances, all meetings...
• California Government Code Section 8753
  The council shall: (a) Encourage artistic awareness, participation and expression. (b) Help independent local groups develop their own art programs. (c) Promote the employment of...
• California Government Code Section 8753.5
  The council shall not make any grants or fund any program which has not been established pursuant to the powers granted by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8754
  The council shall select a director for the Arts Council. The council may delegate to the director the responsibilities for carrying out council policy. The...
• California Government Code Section 8755
  Upon nomination by the council, the Governor may grant special recognition to any citizen with exceptional talent who has made a unique contribution to the...
• California Government Code Section 8755.5
  The executive or principal office of the Arts Council shall be located in the County of Sacramento. The council may establish one or more secondary...
• California Government Code Section 8756
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Dixon-Zenovich-Maddy California Arts Act of 1975.
• California Government Code Section 8760
  (a) The position of California Poet Laureate is hereby established. (b) The California Poet Laureate shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the...
• California Government Code Section 8761
  The Arts Council may establish an appropriate stipend for the California Poet Laureate and shall provide for the payment of the poet laureate's expenses incurred...
• California Government Code Section 8762
  The California Poet Laureate shall, as a condition of the appointment, assume the following minimum responsibilities: (a) Provide a minimum of six public readings during...
• California Government Code Section 8763
  The Arts Council shall, commencing in 2010 and every 10 years thereafter, and with the agreement of the past California Poets Laureate and their representatives,...
• California Government Code Section 8765
  The council may solicit and receive gifts, donations, bequests, grants of funds, or any other revenues, from public or private sources, and expend those moneys...
• California Government Code Section 8790
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is to the advantage of the people of the State of California that...
• California Government Code Section 8790.1
  (a) There is created in the state government the California Collider Commission. (b) The commission shall consist of the following six members: the Governor, the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.2
  The California Collider Commission is created for the following purposes: (a) To act as an agent of the State of California in presenting a site...
• California Government Code Section 8790.3
  The California Collider Commission is authorized to do all of the following: (a) Hold public meetings. (b) Contract through the University of California for research...
• California Government Code Section 8790.4
  Subject to approval by the Regents of the University of California, the University of California, from the funds appropriated to it specifically for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 8790.5
  The Executive Steering Committee on the Superconducting Super Collider, established pursuant to ACR 89, shall serve as an advisory body to the California Collider Commission...
• California Government Code Section 8790.6
  The Treasurer may sell revenue bonds issued on behalf of the state for the purpose of financing the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in
• California Government Code Section 8790.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3, any action taken by the commission prior to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.9
  (a) The siting of the Superconducting Super Collider shall not alter the existing land use zoning which protects prime agricultural land and preserves the agricultural...
• California Government Code Section 8790.10
  The Employment Development Department, the Employment Training Panel, and the local Job Training Partnership Act service delivery area, and the local community colleges shall, to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.11
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that preference shall be provided in the distribution of emergency school facilities, as necessary, to school districts...
• California Government Code Section 8790.20
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the State Public Works Board. (b) "Bonds" means revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes issued as...
• California Government Code Section 8790.21
  (a) Without obtaining further authorization under Section 15808, the board shall select, and accept the transfer of title to, any state facility at any site...
• California Government Code Section 8790.22
  (a) The board may issue bonds, including refunding bonds, pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) of Part 10b of Division 3 in an...
• California Government Code Section 8790.23
  Bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this article shall be sold pursuant to Section 15832.
• California Government Code Section 8790.24
  Notwithstanding Section 15816, the public buildings financed by the board pursuant to this article shall, subject to the terms of the lease, be and remain...
• California Government Code Section 8790.25
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that lease payments required pursuant to this article be made from moneys received by the State Lands...
• California Government Code Section 8790.26
  The revenues, rentals, and receipts from the facility authorized to be financed under this article may be pledged for the payment of principal of, premium,...
• California Government Code Section 8790.27
  The board, as additional security for the lease, may agree to pledge and assign all or any portion of any moneys as may be legally...
• California Government Code Section 8790.28
  In addition to any other powers granted by law, the board may, for the purposes of this chapter, do any or all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8790.29
  A lease may be for any term not to exceed 40 years and may contain other terms, covenants, and conditions as the board and the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.30
  The board shall transfer any proceeds received from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this article to the Department of General Services. The Department...
• California Government Code Section 8790.31
  (a) There is under the jurisdiction of the Department of General Services the SSC Development Fund, which is hereby created. Moneys derived from the sale...
• California Government Code Section 8790.32
  An amount not to exceed the amount of unsold bonds which the board has by resolution authorized to be sold for the purposes of carrying...
• California Government Code Section 8790.33
  (a) Any bonds issued under this chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be free from taxation of every kind by...
• California Government Code Section 8790.34
  (a) This chapter provides a complete, additional, and alternative method for accomplishing the acts authorized in this chapter, and is supplemental and additional to the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.36
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes and the declared policy of the state as set forth in this
• California Government Code Section 8790.40
  (a) The State Public Works Board shall select and acquire, in the name of and on behalf of the state, pursuant to Part 11 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 8790.41
  (a) Any land acquired by the State Public Works Board pursuant to Section 8790.40 shall be transferred to the Department of General Services. (b) Notwithstanding...
• California Government Code Section 8790.42
  Section 10295, Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of Division 2, and Section 10382 of, the Public Contract Code, do not apply...
• California Government Code Section 8790.43
  If, for any reason, the Superconducting Super Collider project is canceled, withdrawn, terminated, or the land is otherwise not needed, the Department of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 8790.44
  In determining the price to be paid for agricultural land, the department shall consider the price which the owner originally paid for the land, any...
• California Government Code Section 8790.45
  This article applies only to land acquired for purposes of the Superconducting Super Collider project.
• California Government Code Section 8790.70
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity pursuant to this chapter for...
• California Government Code Section 8790.71
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, governmental entity, or other officer or entity empowered...
• California Government Code Section 8790.72
  In awarding contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, the awarding department shall consider the responsiveness of a bidder to minority business enterprise and women business...
• California Government Code Section 8790.73
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in this article. (b) The awarding department shall adopt rules...
• California Government Code Section 8790.74
  In implementing this article, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business, the Minority Business Development Agency,...
• California Government Code Section 8790.75
  Beginning July 1, 1988, and on January 1, 1989, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8790.76
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the failure of an awarding department to meet the goals established under this article shall not affect the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.77
  If another statute, which is chaptered and takes effect after this article, establishes minority and women business enterprise participation goals which are generally applicable to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.80
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each awarding department shall offer participation to minority and women business enterprises in all contracts for bonds issued...
• California Government Code Section 8790.81
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, constitutional officer, governmental entity, or other officer or...
• California Government Code Section 8790.82
  Notwithstanding Section 8790.80, if a contract for professional bond services of an underwriter is to be obtained by competitive bid, the awarding department shall, at...
• California Government Code Section 8790.83
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in Section 8790.80, including requiring a followup report from all...
• California Government Code Section 8790.84
  In implementing this article, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business.
• California Government Code Section 8790.85
  Beginning July 1, 1988, and on January 1, 1989, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8790.86
  Notwithstanding anything in this article to the contrary, the validity or enforceability of any bonds to which this article applies shall not be affected in...
• California Government Code Section 8790.87
  If another statute, which is chaptered and takes effect after this article, establishes minority and women business enterprise participation goals which are generally applicable to...
• California Government Code Section 8800
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Broadcasting Act of 1975.
• California Government Code Section 8801
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) It is the policy of this state to support and encourage the provision of a high-quality educational,...
• California Government Code Section 8802
  The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Government Code Section 8803
  "Commission" means the California Public Broadcasting Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8804
  "Corporation for Public Broadcasting" means the corporation established pursuant to Section 396 of Title 47 of the United States Code.
• California Government Code Section 8804.5
  "Instructional programming" means public broadcast programming which is curriculum related, whether for credit or not.
• California Government Code Section 8805
  "Interconnection" means the use of apparatus or equipment for the electronic transmission and distribution of public broadcast programming to public broadcasting stations.
• California Government Code Section 8806
  "Public broadcast programming" means programming intended for presentation on public broadcast stations, including, but not limited to, public affairs, cultural, and instructional programming.
• California Government Code Section 8807
  "Public broadcasting station" means a noncommercial educational broadcasting station licensed as such by the Federal Communications Commission and eligible for financial grants from the Corporation...
• California Government Code Section 8807.5
  "Instructional committee" means the instructional broadcast advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8808
  "Radio committee" means the radio advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8809
  "T.V. committee" means the television advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8809.5
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 8810
  The California Public Broadcasting Commission is hereby created in state government as an independent commission in order to encourage the growth and development of public...
• California Government Code Section 8811
  The commission shall consist of 11 members, as follows: (a) Five members appointed by the Governor for terms of five years, except that the terms...
• California Government Code Section 8812
  Appointees to the commission shall be persons who are eminent in such fields as education, cultural affairs, public service, or the arts, including public broadcasting....
• California Government Code Section 8813
  The appointive members of the commission shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day of official commission meetings they...
• California Government Code Section 8814
  The commission shall select annually from among its membership a chairman and vice chairman.
• California Government Code Section 8815
  The commission shall appoint an executive secretary and employ such staff as it may deem necessary in performing the duties prescribed by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8816
  The commission shall, in carrying out its responsibility and exercising its authority, make maximum use, for the purposes of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness, of existing...
• California Government Code Section 8817
  (a) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable standards governing the acceptance of any salary or other compensation by its employees from sources other than...
• California Government Code Section 8818
  The meetings of the commission shall be open and public in accordance with Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 8820
  The commission shall develop and support a statewide policy to encourage the orderly growth and development of public broadcasting service responsive to the informational, cultural,...
• California Government Code Section 8821
  The commission may make grants to public broadcasting stations in order to aid in the improvement of their broadcast operations, programming, and capital facilities and
• California Government Code Section 8822
  The commission may cause to be established, managed, and operated systems of interconnection and other methods of statewide distribution of public television and radio programs....
• California Government Code Section 8823
  The commission may, taking into account the advice of the radio committee or the T.V. committee, as appropriate, make grants for the development, production, and...
• California Government Code Section 8824
  The commission may apply for, receive, and distribute federal funds, state funds, and other public or private funds from any source for all or any...
• California Government Code Section 8825
  The commission may conduct, through grants or contracts, research and demonstration activities in matters relating to public broadcasting.
• California Government Code Section 8826
  The commission may enter into contracts, leases, and other arrangements, and shall do all things necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this...
• California Government Code Section 8827
  The commission shall perform its duties under this chapter in a manner that will assure the maximum freedom of the public broadcasting stations and systems...
• California Government Code Section 8828
  The commission shall submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31 of each year, covering the commission's activities,...
• California Government Code Section 8830
  At its first meeting, the commission shall establish the radio committee, the T.V. committee, and the instructional committee. Each committee shall elect a chairman who...
• California Government Code Section 8831
  Each public radio station may appoint a representative to the radio committee, and each public television station may appoint a representative to the T.V. committee....
• California Government Code Section 8832
  The commission shall also establish the instructional committee composed of one member and one alternate member appointed for one-year terms by each of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8833
  The instructional committee shall advise the commission on instructional programming. In fulfilling this responsibility, the committee may do all of, but shall not be limited...
• California Government Code Section 8835.5
  There is hereby appropriated to the California Public Broadcasting Commission the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) from the General Fund to the...
• California Government Code Section 8836
  The commission shall annually distribute the total amount, less the commission's necessary administrative expenses, available for allocation to public broadcasting stations. The commission shall reserve...
• California Government Code Section 8836.5
  The commission shall, after consultation with the radio, television, and instructional broadcast committees, establish, and review annually, criteria and conditions regarding the distribution of amounts...
• California Government Code Section 8837
  (a) The commission shall prepare an annual financial statement showing all income and expenditures for the preceding year. The commission shall, by regulation, require each...
• California Government Code Section 8838
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede the responsibilities of a state agency or regional or local agency except as expressly provided. Nothing...
• California Government Code Section 8840
  For purposes of this article, "eligible radio station" means a radio station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, meets...
• California Government Code Section 8841
  For purposes of this article, "eligible television station" means a television station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, unless...
• California Government Code Section 8842
  For the purposes of this article, "nonfederal financial support" means the total sum of revenues from nonfederal sources derived by a licensee in a fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 8843
  For purposes of this article, "station" or "public broadcasting station" means any eligible radio or television station.
• California Government Code Section 8844
  (a) Recognizing the necessity of converting California stations to the technologies of digital broadcasting, the Legislature intends that funds may be appropriated to the California...
• California Government Code Section 8846
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any funds provided to stations under this article shall supplement, rather than supplant, funds provided from other...
• California Government Code Section 8855
  (a) There is created the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, consisting of nine members, selected as follows: (1) The Treasurer, or his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8856
  (a) In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the commission may charge fees to the lead underwriter or the purchaser in an amount equal...
• California Government Code Section 8857
  The chairperson of the commission, on its behalf, may employ an executive director and other persons necessary to perform the duties imposed upon it by...
• California Government Code Section 8859
  The commission may, upon request, advise local agencies regarding the formation of local bond pooling authorities pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 6584) of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.80
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-514) establishes a unified volume ceiling...
• California Government Code Section 8869.81
  This chapter is enacted to implement the state unified volume limit established in Section 1301 of the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law...
• California Government Code Section 8869.82
  (a) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this section shall have the following meanings: (1) "Committee" means...
• California Government Code Section 8869.83
  (a) There is in state government the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, consisting of six members as follows: (1) The Treasurer, or his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8869.84
  (a) The committee shall, as soon as is practicable after the start of each calendar year, determine and announce the state ceiling for the calendar...
• California Government Code Section 8869.85
  (a) Each state agency shall apply to the committee for allocation of a portion of the state ceiling, supplying any information which the committee may...
• California Government Code Section 8869.86
  (a) Subject to any limitations on transferred private activity bond limit as may be provided in subdivision (d) of Section 8869.85, any state agency or...
• California Government Code Section 8869.87
  The committee may request local agencies and state agencies to provide the committee with information pertaining to the amount and purpose of anticipated future private...
• California Government Code Section 8869.88
  The committee may transfer any private activity bond limit directly to any joint powers authority created pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.89
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the committee may, upon any terms and conditions as it determines, authorize the use of a portion of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.90
  (a) The committee may charge fees to the lead underwriter, the bond purchaser, or the bond issuer to cover the committee's costs in carrying out...
• California Government Code Section 8869.91
  This chapter is intended to provide a full, fair, flexible, and workable means of utilizing the state ceiling available under the Internal Revenue Code, and...
• California Government Code Section 8869.92
  To the extent that any provision of this chapter is held to be inconsistent with or repugnant to the federal law, the provision shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8869.93
  The Treasurer, or his or her designee, is designated as the state official to certify that an issue of private activity bonds meets the requirements...
• California Government Code Section 8869.94
  The committee may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the...
• California Government Code Section 8870
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: First, many different agencies at various levels of government have substantial responsibilities in the fields of earthquake preparedness...
• California Government Code Section 8870.1
  (a) (1) There is created in the state government the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission as an independent unit within the State and Consumer...
• California Government Code Section 8870.2
  (a) The Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall consist of 15 members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, one member representing...
• California Government Code Section 8870.3
  (a) The membership of the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate from lists of...
• California Government Code Section 8870.35
  The term of office for each member of the Seismic Safety Commission shall be four years and each shall hold office until the appointment and...
• California Government Code Section 8870.4
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the members of the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall serve without compensation but shall be paid...
• California Government Code Section 8870.5
  The commission, in the discharge of its responsibilities, may do any of the following: (a) Accept grants, contributions, and appropriations from public agencies, private foundations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.55
  The commission shall initiate, with the assistance and participation of other state, federal, and local government agencies, a comprehensive program to prepare the state for...
• California Government Code Section 8870.6
  The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall be responsible for managing the affairs of the commission, subject to the direction and policies of...
• California Government Code Section 8870.7
  The commission is responsible for all of the following in connection with earthquake hazard mitigation: (a) Setting goals and priorities in the public and private...
• California Government Code Section 8870.71
  To implement the foregoing responsibilities, the commission may do any of the following: (a) Review state budgets and review grant proposals, other than those grant...
• California Government Code Section 8870.9
  Prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature shall hold public hearings to receive testimony from the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, any interested organizations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.95
  The Hospital Building Safety Board established in Section 129925 of the Health and Safety Code shall report annually to the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety
• California Government Code Section 8871
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) California is situated on the rim of the Circum-Pacific seismic belt and it is inevitable that earthquakes...
• California Government Code Section 8871.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as The California Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1986.
• California Government Code Section 8871.2
  (a) There is hereby established a coordinated program pursuant to which the state shall implement new and expanded activities to significantly reduce the earthquake threat...
• California Government Code Section 8871.3
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall establish an interim state operations center in southern California to coordinate response to a major earthquake. The agency...
• California Government Code Section 8871.4
  The commission shall prepare the California Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, in consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency, the Division of Mines and Geology in...
• California Government Code Section 8871.5
  The disastrous effects and after effects of the Mexico City earthquake of September 19, 1985, have increased the urgency for development of local plans to...
• California Government Code Section 8870.5
  The commission, in the discharge of its responsibilities, may do any of the following: (a) Accept grants, contributions, and appropriations from public agencies, private foundations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.55
  The commission shall initiate, with the assistance and participation of other state, federal, and local government agencies, a comprehensive program to prepare the state for...
• California Government Code Section 8870.6
  The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall be responsible for managing the affairs of the commission, subject to the direction and policies of...
• California Government Code Section 8870.7
  The commission is responsible for all of the following in connection with earthquake hazard mitigation: (a) Setting goals and priorities in the public and private...
• California Government Code Section 8870.71
  To implement the foregoing responsibilities, the commission may do any of the following: (a) Review state budgets and review grant proposals, other than those grant...
• California Government Code Section 8870.9
  Prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature shall hold public hearings to receive testimony from the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, any interested organizations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.95
  The Hospital Building Safety Board established in Section 129925 of the Health and Safety Code shall report annually to the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety
• California Government Code Section 8875
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Potentially hazardous building" means any building constructed prior to...
• California Government Code Section 8875.1
  A program is hereby established within all cities, both general law and chartered, and all counties and portions thereof located within seismic zone 4, as...
• California Government Code Section 8875.2
  Local building departments shall do all of the following: (a) Identify all potentially hazardous buildings within their respective jurisdictions on or before January 1, 1990....
• California Government Code Section 8875.3
  Local jurisdictions undertaking inventories and providing structural evaluations of potentially hazardous buildings pursuant to this chapter shall have the same immunity from liability for action...
• California Government Code Section 8875.4
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall report annually to the Legislature on the filing of mitigation programs from local jurisdictions. The annual report required by this...
• California Government Code Section 8875.5
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall coordinate the earthquake-related responsibilities of government agencies imposed by this chapter to ensure compliance with the purposes of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8875.6
  On and after January 1, 1993, the transferor, or his or her agent, of any unreinforced masonry building with wood frame floors or roofs, built...
• California Government Code Section 8875.7
  If the transferee has received notice pursuant to Section 8875.8, and has not brought the building or structure into compliance within five years of that...
• California Government Code Section 8875.8
  (a) An owner who has received actual or constructive notice that a building located in seismic zone 4 is constructed of unreinforced masonry shall post...
• California Government Code Section 8875.9
  Section 8875.8 shall not apply to either one of the following: (a) Unreinforced masonry construction if the walls are nonload bearing with steel or concrete...
• California Government Code Section 8875.95
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8876.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) This state is located along a major tectonic plate boundary that is part of the Circum-Pacific...
• California Government Code Section 8876.2
  The Legislature hereby requests that on or after July 1, 1996, the University of California establish the California Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in this...
• California Government Code Section 8876.3
  The center shall disseminate its findings among the academic community, design professionals, government officials, building regulatory personnel, and the public. In carrying out this objective,...
• California Government Code Section 8876.4
  The center shall cooperate and coordinate with other leading organizations in the earthquake engineering field to achieve the following collaborative objectives: (a) Timely communication to...
• California Government Code Section 8876.5
  (a) The Legislature finds that the National Science Foundation will require the center to provide an annual report of its activities. The center shall make...
• California Government Code Section 8876.6
  The governance, administration, and operation of the center shall be established by agreement between the University of California and the National Science Foundation.
• California Government Code Section 8876.7
  In carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter, the Seismic Safety Commission, in close consultation with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the California Emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8876.8
  Funding for the Seismic Safety Commission under this chapter shall be made available by interagency agreement with the University of California the first year that...
• California Government Code Section 8876.9
  (a) The Earthquake Risk Reduction Fund of 1996 is hereby created in the State Treasury for support of the center. All moneys for support of...
• California Government Code Section 8876.10
  No provision of this chapter shall apply to the Regents of the University of California, unless the regents adopt a resolution making that provision applicable.
• California Government Code Section 8875.95
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8877.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Disaster Recovery Reconstruction Act of 1986.
• California Government Code Section 8877.2
  The Legislature finds and declares that the impact of the Mexico City earthquake disaster of September 19, 1985, has rendered more cogent and compelling the...
• California Government Code Section 8877.3
  It is the purpose of this chapter to authorize, guide, and otherwise enable cities, counties, and other entities to prepare in advance of a disaster,...
• California Government Code Section 8877.4
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Disaster" means a devastating earthquake or other conditions specified in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8558. (b) "Recovery"...
• California Government Code Section 8877.5
  Each city, county, or other local subdivision of the state, in conjunction with planning activities authorized under Article 5 (commencing with Section 65300) of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8877.6
  Each city, county, or other local subdivision of the state may take such actions as are necessary to assure the orderly transition from emergencies declared...
• California Government Code Section 8876.7
  In carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter, the Seismic Safety Commission, in close consultation with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the California Emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8876.8
  Funding for the Seismic Safety Commission under this chapter shall be made available by interagency agreement with the University of California the first year that...
• California Government Code Section 8876.9
  (a) The Earthquake Risk Reduction Fund of 1996 is hereby created in the State Treasury for support of the center. All moneys for support of...
• California Government Code Section 8876.10
  No provision of this chapter shall apply to the Regents of the University of California, unless the regents adopt a resolution making that provision applicable.
• California Government Code Section 8875.95
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8878.15
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Earthquake Safety and Housing Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1988.
• California Government Code Section 8878.16
  As used in this chapter, and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words have...
• California Government Code Section 8878.20
  (a) Of the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) shall be deposited in a special account in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.21
  Of the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, seventy million dollars ($70,000,000) shall be deposited in a special account in the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.22
  Notwithstanding the allocation of bond proceeds specified in Sections 8878.20 and 8878.21, the director of the department every two years, commencing June 30, 1990, may...
• California Government Code Section 8878.25
  Bonds in the total amount of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 8878.34, or so much thereof...
• California Government Code Section 8878.26
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8878.27
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8878.28
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8878.29
  There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.30
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 8878.31
  For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• California Government Code Section 8878.315
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
• California Government Code Section 8878.32
  All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
• California Government Code Section 8878.33
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8878.34
  Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8878.35
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
• California Government Code Section 8878.50
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1990.
• California Government Code Section 8878.51
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California is likely to experience moderate to severe earthquakes in the foreseeable future, and increased...
• California Government Code Section 8878.52
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Committee" means the Earthquake...
• California Government Code Section 8878.55
  The Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 is hereby created. The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter for...
• California Government Code Section 8878.60
  (a) State building or facility projects eligible for retrofitting, reconstruction, repair, replacement, relocation, or other seismic hazard abatement shall be based upon criteria established by...
• California Government Code Section 8878.61
  The Director of General Services shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairpersons of the fiscal committees in each house of the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.90
  (a) The State Architect, with the consultation of the Seismic Safety Commission and the agency, shall establish criteria for projects potentially eligible for an appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 8878.95
  Applications for funds for local government buildings under this article shall be made to the State Architect in the form and with the supporting material...
• California Government Code Section 8878.96
  Any appropriation of bond funds pursuant to this article may include provisions as agreed by the parties thereto, and the contract shall include, but not...
• California Government Code Section 8878.98
  Allocations are limited to only the seismic rehabilitation portion of the improvement project, as determined by the State Architect. To the extent that other elements...
• California Government Code Section 8878.99
  (a) Allocations made by the State Architect to local governments shall only be used to improve existing essential services buildings, as defined in Section 16007...
• California Government Code Section 8878.100
  Funds shall be distributed by the State Architect in the following manner: (a) Upon receipt of an application by a local government for a grant...
• California Government Code Section 8878.101
  (a) An application for an allocation pursuant to this article shall not be recommended for approval by the State Architect unless the project meets the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.102
  For a local government to be eligible for funding, the local government must have complied with Chapter 12.2 (commencing with Section 8875) and also have...
• California Government Code Section 8878.103
  First priority for allocations of funds shall be given to projects located in seismic hazard zone 4, as defined and illustrated in Chapter 23 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 8878.104
  Operation and maintenance costs shall be the responsibility of the grantee and may not be considered as part of the project cost. Costs for planning...
• California Government Code Section 8878.105
  Funds allocated pursuant to this article shall be available for expenditure by the local government within three years of the awarding of the allocation.
• California Government Code Section 8878.106
  (a) The office and the State Architect, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the Seismic Safety Commission, shall establish guidelines necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8878.107
  The office shall notify local governments that may be eligible for grants pursuant to this article of the following: (a) The purposes of this article....
• California Government Code Section 8878.109
  Bonds in the total amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 8878.118, or so much thereof as...
• California Government Code Section 8878.110
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8878.111
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8878.112
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8878.113
  There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.114
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8878.115
  For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• California Government Code Section 8878.116
  All moneys derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as...
• California Government Code Section 8878.117
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this article are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8878.118
  Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this article may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8878.119
  The "board" may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8878.120
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or the State General Obligation Bond Law set forth in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
• California Government Code Section 8878.121
  Notwithstanding anything in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 20 years from...
• California Government Code Section 8878.122
  All moneys deposited in the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state...
• California Government Code Section 8878.123
  The administrative provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 8878.60) and Article 4 (commencing with Section 8878.95) may be amended by statute without submission to...
• California Government Code Section 8878.124
  Charges incurred by the Attorney General in protecting the state's interest in the grant funds under this chapter shall be payable from proceeds of bond...
• California Government Code Section 8878.125
  (a) The proceeds from the sale of the bonds pursuant to this chapter shall not replace or supplant funds available from the Federal Emergency Management...
• California Government Code Section 8878.126
  (a) No local government building or facility that is listed or is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places or listed on...
• California Government Code Section 8879
  (a) This chapter shall be known as the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996. (b) This chapter shall only become operative upon adoption by the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the completion of seismic safety retrofit work is essential to the welfare and economy of the state. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 8879.2
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means any department receiving an allocation from the Department of Finance....
• California Government Code Section 8879.3
  The Seismic Retrofit Bond Fund of 1996 is hereby created in the State Treasury. The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.5
  Bonds in the total amount of two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary, are hereby authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.6
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.7
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8879.8
  Upon request of the board stating that funds are needed for earthquake relief purposes, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or...
• California Government Code Section 8879.9
  There shall be collected annually, in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8879.10
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8879.11
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8879.12
  For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of any...
• California Government Code Section 8879.13
  The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the electors...
• California Government Code Section 8879.14
  Notwithstanding anything in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 30 years from...
• California Government Code Section 8879.15
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8879.16
  Notwithstanding any provision of the State General Obligation Bond Law with regard to the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter that...
• California Government Code Section 8879.20
  (a) This chapter shall be known as the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006. (b) This chapter shall...
• California Government Code Section 8879.22
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means any department receiving an allocation of bond proceeds pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.23
  The Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Legislature intends that the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.25
  Bonds in the total amount of nineteen billion nine hundred twenty-five million dollars ($19,925,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.26
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.27
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8879.28
  Upon request of the board stating that funds are needed for purposes of this chapter, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8879.29
  There shall be collected annually, in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8879.30
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8879.31
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8879.32
  For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of any...
• California Government Code Section 8879.33
  The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the electors...
• California Government Code Section 8879.34
  Notwithstanding any provisions in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 30 years...
• California Government Code Section 8879.35
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8879.36
  Notwithstanding any provision of the State General Obligation Bond Law with regard to the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter that...
• California Government Code Section 8879.37
  All money derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this chapter shall be transferred to the General Fund as a credit...
• California Government Code Section 8879.50
  (a) As used in this chapter and in Chapter 12.49 (commencing with Section 8879.20), the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Commission" means the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.501
  (a) A regional or local agency that is a lead applicant agency for a project that may be funded pursuant to Chapter 12.49 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8879.51
  (a) Funds for the program contained in subdivision (b) of Section 8879.23 shall be deposited in the State Route 99 Account, which is hereby created...
• California Government Code Section 8879.52
  (a) The commission shall evaluate, consistent with the commission's Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF) Guidelines, adopted November 27, 2007, as part of the 2010 TCIF...
• California Government Code Section 8879.53
  (a) Funds for the program contained in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23 shall be deposited in the Port and Maritime Security Account,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.54
  For the program funded by funds deposited in the Transportation Facilities Account established in subdivision (e) of Section 8879.23, the commission shall include in its...
• California Government Code Section 8879.55
  For funds appropriated for fiscal year 2009-10 or any subsequent fiscal year in the annual Budget Act from the Public Transportation Modernization, Improvement, and Service...
• California Government Code Section 8879.57
  Funds made available, upon appropriation of the Legislature, from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account, created in subdivision (h) of Section 8879.23,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.58
  (a) (1) No later than September 1 of the first fiscal year in which the Legislature appropriates funds from the Transit System Safety, Security, and...
• California Government Code Section 8879.59
  (a) For funds appropriated from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account for allocation to transit agencies eligible to receive funds pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.60
  (a) For funds appropriated from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account for allocation to intercity and commuter rail operators eligible to receive...
• California Government Code Section 8879.61
  (a) (1) Entities described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 8879.57 receiving an allocation of funds pursuant to this article shall expend those...
• California Government Code Section 8879.62
  (a) Funds deposited in the Local Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account established pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 8879.23 shall be appropriated to the department to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.63
  (a) Prior to allocating funds appropriated from the Highway-Railroad Crossing Safety Account established pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 8879.23, the commission, in cooperation with...
• California Government Code Section 8879.64
  (a) Funds appropriated from the Highway Safety, Rehabilitation, and Preservation Account established in paragraph (1) of subdivision (k) of Section 8879.23 shall be available to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.65
  (a) Funds appropriated from the Local Street and Road Improvement, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006, established by subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.66
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 8879.23, to establish criteria and conditions for use of the funds...
• California Government Code Section 8879.67
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Program" means the State-Local Partnership Program established in this article and funded pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.68
  An eligible applicant under the program shall be a local or regional transportation agency that has responsibility for funding, procuring, or constructing transportation improvements within...
• California Government Code Section 8879.69
  Eligible local matching funds required to obtain funding under the program shall be obtained from revenues from any voter-approved local or regional tax or fee...
• California Government Code Section 8879.70
  (a) Eligible projects shall include all of the following: (1) Improvements to the state highway system, including, but not limited to, all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8879.71
  (a) For purposes of distributing funds annually appropriated by the Legislature to the State-Local Partnership Program Account, the commission shall segregate the funds into two...
• California Government Code Section 8879.72
  (a) To establish the funding shares for each eligible applicant described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 8879.71, the commission shall do the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.73
  (a) To distribute funds from the Uniform Developer Fees Subaccount to eligible applicants, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8879.71, the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.74
  (a) The commission shall adopt a program of projects to receive allocations under this article for each funding cycle, with allocations to projects to be...
• California Government Code Section 8879.75
  Pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 8879.23, an eligible project funded pursuant to this article shall require a match of one dollar ($1) of eligible...
• California Government Code Section 8879.76
  The commission shall include in its annual report to the Legislature, required pursuant to Section 14535, a summary of its activities related to the administration...
• California Government Code Section 8879.77
  (a) The department, with the approval of the Director of Finance, may make a loan or loans from the State Highway Account of federal funds...
• California Government Code Section 8879.78
  If a metropolitan planning organization, county transportation commission, regional transportation planning agency, or other local agency uses funds made available to it pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 8879.79
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department, with the approval of the Director of Finance and the California Transportation Commission, may make a...
• California Government Code Section 8880
  Citation of Chapter This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California State Lottery Act of 1984.
• California Government Code Section 8880.1
  Purpose and Intent The People of the State of California declare that the purpose of this Act is support for preservation of the rights, liberties...
• California Government Code Section 8880.2
  Activities Not Affected Except for the state-operated lottery established by this Chapter, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to repeal or modify existing State...
• California Government Code Section 8880.3
  Prohibition on Use of State Funds No appropriations, loans, or other transfer of State funds shall be made to the California State Lottery Commission except...
• California Government Code Section 8880.4
  Revenues of the state lottery shall be allocated so as to maximize the amount of funding allocated to public education, including from the first full...
• California Government Code Section 8880.4
  Revenues of the state lottery shall be allocated as follows: (a) Not less than 84 percent of the total annual revenues from the sale of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.4.5
  (a) Following the end of each full fiscal year, the commission shall calculate and report to the Controller and to the Legislature the amount of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.5
  Allocations for education: The California State Lottery Education Fund is created within the State Treasury, and is continuously appropriated for carrying out the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.6
  Other Statutory Provisions Sections 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, and 328 of the Penal Code do not apply to the California State Lottery...
• California Government Code Section 8880.7
  Governing Definitions The definitions contained in this Chapter shall govern the construction of this Chapter unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Government Code Section 8880.8
  "Lottery" or "California State Lottery" "Lottery" or "California State Lottery" means the California State Lottery created and operated pursuant to this Chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8880.9
  "Commissioner" "Commissioner" means one of the members of the Lottery Commission appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter to oversee the California State Lottery.
• California Government Code Section 8880.10
  "Director" "Director" means the Director of the California State Lottery appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter as the chief administrator of the California...
• California Government Code Section 8880.11
  "Lottery Commission" or "Commission" "Lottery Commission" or "Commission" means the five members appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter to oversee the Lottery and...
• California Government Code Section 8880.12
  "Lottery Game" "Lottery Game" means any procedure authorized by the commission whereby prizes are distributed among persons who have paid, or who have unconditionally agreed...
• California Government Code Section 8880.13
  "Lottery Game Retailer" "Lottery Game Retailer" means a person or organization with whom the Lottery Commission may contract for the purpose of selling tickets or...
• California Government Code Section 8880.14
  "Lottery Contractor" "Lottery Contractor" means a person or organization with whom the Lottery has contracted for the purpose of providing goods and services required by...
• California Government Code Section 8880.15
  Creation of Commission The California State Lottery Commission is hereby created in state government.
• California Government Code Section 8880.16
  Membership; Appointment; Vacancies; Political Affiliation; Removal (a) The Commission shall consist of five members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.17
  Qualifications of Commissioners At least one of the Commissioners shall have a minimum of five years experience in law enforcement, and at least one of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.18
  Compensation and Expenses Commissioners shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day they are engaged in Commission business. Commission...
• California Government Code Section 8880.19
  Annual Selection of Chairperson The Commission shall select annually from its membership a chairperson. The chairperson shall have the power to convene special meetings of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.20
  Meetings Meetings of the Commission shall be open and public in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.21
  Quorum; Voting A quorum shall consist of three members of the Commission. All decisions of the Commission shall be made by a majority vote of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.22
  The Commission shall make quarterly reports of the operation of the Lottery to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Controller, the Treasurer, and the Legislature....
• California Government Code Section 8880.23
  Appointment of Director; Removal The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a Director within thirty days of the effective day...
• California Government Code Section 8880.24
  Powers and Duties of the Commission (a) The California State Lottery Commission shall exercise all powers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In...
• California Government Code Section 8880.25
  Operation of the Lottery The Lottery shall be initiated and operated so as to produce the maximum amount of net revenues to supplement the total...
• California Government Code Section 8880.25.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Lottery Commission may do all of the following: (1) Purchase and sell assets in its own name....
• California Government Code Section 8880.26
  (a) The provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 are not applicable to any rule or regulation promulgated...
• California Government Code Section 8880.27
  Meetings with the Director The Commission shall meet with the Director not less than once each quarter to make recommendations and set policy, to approve...
• California Government Code Section 8880.28
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the types of lottery games to be conducted by the lottery, provided: (1) No lottery game may use...
• California Government Code Section 8880.29
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations that specify the number and value of prizes for winning tickets or shares in each lottery game including, without...
• California Government Code Section 8880.30
  The commission shall promulgate regulations that specify the method for determining winners in each lottery game, provided: (a) A lottery game may be based on...
• California Government Code Section 8880.31
  Sale Price of Tickets and Shares The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the retail sales price for each ticket or share for each...
• California Government Code Section 8880.321
  The commission shall promulgate regulations to establish a system of verifying the validity of prizes and to effect payment of the prizes, provided that: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8880.325
  The right of any person to a prize shall not be assignable, except that the payment of any prize may be assigned, in whole or...
• California Government Code Section 8880.326
  Upon the death of the prizewinner, the prize may be paid by any of the following methods: (a) To the trustee of a trust established...
• California Government Code Section 8880.327
  For any assignments, transfers, or security interests provided for in Sections 8880.325 and 8880.326, the following shall apply: (a) The commission may establish a reasonable...
• California Government Code Section 8880.33
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the manner of distribution, dissemination, or sale of lottery tickets or shares to lottery game retailers or directly...
• California Government Code Section 8880.335
  The commission may promulgate regulations to authorize the use of an electronic or electromechanical device to dispense lottery tickets to be used in the play...
• California Government Code Section 8880.34
  Salary The Director shall receive the salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2....
• California Government Code Section 8880.35
  The director shall, subject to the approval of the commission, perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry...
• California Government Code Section 8880.36
  Power to Hire The Director shall hire, pursuant to the approval of the Commission, such professional, clerical, technical and administrative personnel as may be necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8880.37
  Deputy Directors Upon recommendation of the Director, the Governor shall appoint up to four deputy directors. The Director shall supervise each deputy director's activities. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.38
  (a) One of the deputy directors shall be the Deputy Director for Security, and be responsible for a security division to assure integrity, honesty, and...
• California Government Code Section 8880.39
  The director shall confer as frequently as necessary or desirable, but not less than once every quarter, with the commission, on the operation and administration...
• California Government Code Section 8880.40
  Study of Lottery Systems; Recommendations for Improvement The Director shall make an on-going study of the operation and the administration of the lotteries which may...
• California Government Code Section 8880.41
  The director shall make and keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect each day's transactions, including, but not limited to, the distribution of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.42
  The director shall provide a monthly cumulative sales report to the commission and the Controller within 15 days after the end of each month. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.44
  Demographic Study of Lottery Players After the first six months of sales to the public, the Director shall engage an independent firm experienced in demographic...
• California Government Code Section 8880.45
  Study of the Effectiveness of Lottery Communications After the first full year of sales to the public, the Director shall engage an independent firm experienced...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46
  After the first nine months of sales to the public, the Commission shall engage an independent firm experienced in security procedures, including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46.5
  The director shall engage an independent firm of certified public accountants to conduct an annual audit of all accounts and transactions of the lottery. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46.6
  The Controller shall conduct quarterly and annual postaudits of all accounts and transactions of the commission and other special postaudits as the Controller deems necessary....
• California Government Code Section 8880.47
  The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the terms and conditions for contracting with lottery game retailers so as to provide adequate and convenient availability of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.48
  (a) The director shall, pursuant to this chapter and the regulations of the commission, select as lottery game retailers those persons and organizations as the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.49
  A contract with a lottery game retailer shall not be assignable or transferable.
• California Government Code Section 8880.50
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations that prescribe the procedure by which a contract with a lottery game retailer may be terminated and the reasons...
• California Government Code Section 8880.51
  Compensation for Lottery Game Retailers Unless the Commission shall otherwise determine, the compensation paid to Lottery Game Retailers shall be a minimum of 5% of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.52
  Sales to Minors (a) No tickets or shares in Lottery Games shall be sold to persons under the age of 18 years. Any person who...
• California Government Code Section 8880.53
  No lottery tickets or shares shall be sold by a lottery game retailer unless the retailer has a certificate of authority, issued by the lottery,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.54
  Bonding The Director may require a bond from any Lottery Game Retailer in an amount specified by regulation or may purchase blanket bonds covering the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.55
  (a) No payment by lottery game retailers to the lottery for tickets or shares shall be in cash. All payments for tickets or shares shall...
• California Government Code Section 8880.56
  (a) Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the director may purchase or lease goods and services as are necessary for effectuating the purposes of this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 8880.57
  In order to allow an evaluation of the competence, integrity, and character of potential Lottery Contractors for the California State Lottery, any person, corporation, trust,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.58
  Compliance with Applicable Laws Each Lottery Contractor shall perform its contract consistent with the laws of this State, Federal law, and laws of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8880.59
  Performance Bond Any Lottery Contractor may be required by the Lottery to post, with the Commission an acceptable performance bond, letter of credit, or other...
• California Government Code Section 8880.60
  No member of the commission shall, for a two-year period after the end of the member's term, accept any consideration from, whether directly or indirectly,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.61
  State Lottery Fund (a) A special fund to be known as the "State Lottery Fund" is created within the State Treasury that is continuously appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 8880.62
  Funds shall be disbursed from the State Lottery Fund by the Controller for any of the purposes authorized by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8880.63
  (a) As nearly as practical, at least 50 percent of the total projected revenue, computed on a fiscal-year basis, accruing from the sales of all...
• California Government Code Section 8880.63
  (a) As nearly as practical, 50 percent of the total projected revenue, computed on a fiscal-year basis, accruing from the sales of all lottery tickets...
• California Government Code Section 8880.64
  (a) Expenses of the lottery shall include all costs incurred in the operation and administration of the lottery and all costs resulting from any contracts...
• California Government Code Section 8880.64
  (a) Expenses of the lottery shall include all costs incurred in the operation and administration of the lottery and all costs resulting from any contracts...
• California Government Code Section 8880.65
  Transfer of Net Revenues The funds remaining in the State Lottery Fund after accrual of all revenues to the State Lottery Fund, and after accrual...
• California Government Code Section 8880.66
  Intergovernmental Reimbursements for Services The Commission shall reimburse all other governmental entities for any and all services necessary to effectuate the purpose of this Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8880.68
  Except as provided in subdivision (d), no state or local taxes shall be imposed upon the following: (a) The sale of lottery tickets or shares...
• California Government Code Section 8880.69
  Preemption of Local Laws It is the intent of this Chapter that all matters related to the operation of the Lottery as established hereby be...
• California Government Code Section 8880.70
  Lawful Activity Any other state or local law providing any penalty, disability, restriction, or prohibition for the possession, manufacture, transportation, distribution, advertising, or sale of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.71
  Restrictions No person shall be selected, appointed or hired to be a Commissioner, Director, deputy director, or Commission employee who has been convicted of a...
• California Government Code Section 8880.72
  All civil process in any action brought against the Director, the Commission, or the Lottery and any subpoena for the production of Lottery records shall...
• California Government Code Section 8885
  The California Broadband Council is established in state government for the purpose of promoting broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas of the state, as...
• California Government Code Section 8886
  (a) The membership of the California Broadband Council shall include all of the following: (1) The State Chief Information Officer, or his or her designee....
• California Government Code Section 8887
  Duties of the California Broadband Council shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) Ensuring communication among state agencies regarding California's...
• California Government Code Section 8888
  (a) The President of the Public Utilities Commission shall call the first meeting of the California Broadband Council, to be held not later than March...
• California Government Code Section 8889
  (a) The council shall be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 8893
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that buildings constructed of precast concrete wall construction (commonly referred to as tilt-up buildings) or reinforced masonry buildings with...
• California Government Code Section 8893.1
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "adequate wall anchorage" means a connection between the wall and the floor, or between the wall and the roof...
• California Government Code Section 8893.2
  On and after January 1, 1993, the transferor, or his or her agent, of any precast concrete or reinforced masonry building with wood frame floors...
• California Government Code Section 8893.3
  This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Transfers which are required to be preceded by the furnishing to a prospective transferee...
• California Government Code Section 8893.4
  If the transferee has received notice pursuant to this chapter and has not brought the building or structure into compliance within three years of that...
• California Government Code Section 8893.5
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8894
  (a) The State Architect, in consultation with the State Building Standards Commission, the California Council of the American Institute of Architects, the California Building Officials,...
• California Government Code Section 8894.1
  This chapter shall not apply to potentially hazardous (unreinforced masonry) buildings covered under Chapter 12.2 (commencing with Section 8875), any building covered under Chapter 13.4...
• California Government Code Section 8894.2
  "Seismic retrofit" means retrofitting or reconstruction of an existing building or structure, to significantly reduce structural collapse and falling hazards from structural or nonstructural components...
• California Government Code Section 8894.3
  For purposes of this chapter, the term "in consultation with" means the meaningful and open solicitation of suggestions, ideas, and comments, and the response to...
• California Government Code Section 8897
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) There exists a serious threat to homes in the State of California from damage...
• California Government Code Section 8897.1
  (a) After January 1, 1993, the transferor of any real property containing any residential dwelling built prior to January 1, 1960, with one to four...
• California Government Code Section 8897.2
  (a) The transferor shall disclose any of the following deficiencies which are within the transferor's actual knowledge and material to the transaction, and which may...
• California Government Code Section 8897.3
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, if it is determined that retrofit work is appropriate to address potential deficiencies listed in paragraph (1) or...
• California Government Code Section 8897.4
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8897.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, the duty of the real estate licensee shall be limited to providing to the seller a copy of the...
• California Government Code Section 8899.10
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) (1) As demonstrated by the California earthquake of October 17, 1989, the citizens of California...
• California Government Code Section 8899.11
  There shall be an Earthquake Research Evaluation Conference (EREC) for the purposes set forth in this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8899.12
  (a) Participants in the EREC shall be selected by the Seismic Safety Commission in collaboration with the California Council on Science and Technology and the...
• California Government Code Section 8899.13
  (a) The purpose of the EREC shall be to develop and present to the Seismic Safety Commission a strategy for earthquake research in California which...
• California Government Code Section 8899.14
  The Seismic Safety Commission, in collaboration with the California Council on Science and Technology, the California Geological Survey, and the Office of Competitive Technology, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8899.15
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall develop a final five-year statewide earthquake research plan as part of its five-year hazard reduction plan. The findings made by...
• California Government Code Section 8899.18
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Alfred E. Alquist Earthquake Act.
• California Government Code Section 8899.19
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 1835, which was enacted into law as Chapter 782...
• California Government Code Section 8899.20
  The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "EREC" means the Earthquake Research Evaluation...
• California Government Code Section 8899.24
  (a) The Controller shall transfer an amount not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) from the Pooled Money Investment Account as a loan...
• California Government Code Section 8902
  During those times that a Member of the Legislature is required to be in Sacramento to attend a session of the Legislature and during those...
• California Government Code Section 8903
  When traveling to and from a session of the Legislature, or when traveling to and from a meeting of a committee of which he or...
• California Government Code Section 8920
  (a) No Member of the Legislature, state elective or appointive officer, or judge or justice shall, while serving as such, have any interest, financial or...
• California Government Code Section 8921
  A person subject to this article has an interest which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest...
• California Government Code Section 8922
  A person subject to the provisions of this article shall not be deemed to be engaged in any activity which is in substantial conflict with...
• California Government Code Section 8924
  (a) No employee of either house of the Legislature shall, during the time he is so employed, commit any act or engage in any activity...
• California Government Code Section 8924.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology was organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of...
• California Government Code Section 8925
  No person shall induce or seek to induce any Member of the Legislature to violate any provision of this article.
• California Government Code Section 8926
  Every person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who conspires to violate any provision...
• California Government Code Section 8940
  The Joint Legislative Ethics Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of three Members of the Senate and three Members of the Assembly who...
• California Government Code Section 8941
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings. The provisions of Rule 36 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly...
• California Government Code Section 8942
  Funds for the support of the committee shall be provided from the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and the Senate in the same manner that...
• California Government Code Section 8943
  (a) The committee shall have power, pursuant to the provisions of this article, to investigate and make findings and recommendations concerning alleged violations by Members...
• California Government Code Section 8944
  (a) Any person may file a statement alleging a violation of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) with the committee. (b) To constitute a valid...
• California Government Code Section 8945
  (a) If the committee determines that the complaint does not allege facts, directly or upon information and belief, sufficient to constitute a violation of any...
• California Government Code Section 8946
  After the complaint has been filed the respondent shall be entitled to examine and make copies of all evidence in the possession of the committee...
• California Government Code Section 8947
  If a hearing is to be held pursuant to Section 8945 the committee, before the hearing has commenced, shall issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum...
• California Government Code Section 8948
  At any hearing held by the committee: (a) Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. (b) Each party shall have these rights:...
• California Government Code Section 8949
  Any official or other person whose name is mentioned at any investigation or hearing of the committee and who believes that testimony has been given...
• California Government Code Section 8950
  (a) After the hearing the committee shall state its findings of fact. If the committee finds that the respondent has not violated any provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 8951
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude any person from instituting a prosecution for violation of any provision of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) unless...
• California Government Code Section 8952
  The filing of a complaint with the committee pursuant to this article suspends the running of the statute of limitations applicable to any violation of...
• California Government Code Section 8953
  The committee shall maintain a record of its investigations, inquiries, and proceedings. All records, complaints, documents, reports filed with or submitted to or made by...
• California Government Code Section 8954
  All actions of the committee shall require the concurrence of two members of the committee from each house.
• California Government Code Section 8955
  The committee may render advisory opinions to Members of the Legislature with respect to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) and their...
• California Government Code Section 8956
  (a) The appropriate legislative ethics committees shall conduct at least semiannually an orientation course of the relevant statutes and regulations governing official conduct. The curriculum...
• California Government Code Section 9000
  The Legislature consists of: (a) Forty Senators. (b) Eighty members of the Assembly.
• California Government Code Section 9001
  The term of office of a Senator is four years. The term of office of a Member of the Assembly is two years.
• California Government Code Section 9002
  At the general election in every fourth year after 1908 a Senator shall be elected in each odd-numbered senatorial district. At the general election in...
• California Government Code Section 9003
  At the general election in every even-numbered year a Member of the Assembly shall be elected in each of the Assembly districts.
• California Government Code Section 9004
  When the Legislature convenes or is convened in regular or extraordinary session during or following a war or enemy-caused disaster and vacancies exist to the...
• California Government Code Section 9020
  The Legislature shall convene in regular session at the City of Sacramento at noon on the first Monday in December of each even-numbered year, and...
• California Government Code Section 9021
  The certificate of election is prima facie evidence of the right to membership.
• California Government Code Section 9022
  At the day and hour appointed for the assembling of any regular session of the Legislature, the President of the Senate, or in case of...
• California Government Code Section 9023
  At the day and hour appointed for the assembling of any regular session of the Legislature, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, or in case...
• California Government Code Section 9024
  Members of the Legislature who did not take the oath of office at the assembling of the Legislature may take the oath at any time...
• California Government Code Section 9025
  An entry of the oath taken by members of the Legislature shall be made on the journals of the proper house.
• California Government Code Section 9026
  All standing committees of either the Senate or Assembly shall be appointed by the presiding officer of their respective house if the house by resolution...
• California Government Code Section 9026.5
  (a) No television signal generated by the Assembly shall be used for any political or commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, any campaign for...
• California Government Code Section 9027
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, all meetings of a house of the Legislature or a committee thereof shall be open and public, and...
• California Government Code Section 9028
  Any meeting that is required to be open and public pursuant to this article, including any closed session held pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 9029
  (a) A house of the Legislature or a committee thereof may hold a closed session solely for any of the following purposes: (1) To consider...
• California Government Code Section 9029.5
  (a) A closed session may be held pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 9029 under any of the following circumstances: (1) An...
• California Government Code Section 9030
  Each Member of the Legislature who attends a meeting of the Assembly, the Senate, or any committee or subcommittee thereof, where action is taken in...
• California Government Code Section 9031
  Any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of stopping or preventing violations or threatened violations of...
• California Government Code Section 9035
  As used in this article, "disaster" means a war or enemy-caused calamity within this State, such as an attack by nuclear weapons.
• California Government Code Section 9036
  If a disaster occurs, the Legislature shall convene itself in special session immediately after such disaster first occurs, which session shall convene at the permanent...
• California Government Code Section 9037
  If the Legislature is convened in special session pursuant to this article on the date specified by the State Constitution for the convening of a...
• California Government Code Section 9050
  Every person who wilfully, and by force or fraud, prevents the Legislature, either of the houses composing it, or any of the members thereof from...
• California Government Code Section 9051
  Every person who wilfully disturbs the Legislature, or either of the houses composing it, while in session, or who commits any disorderly conduct in the...
• California Government Code Section 9051.5
  As used in this article, "bill or resolution" includes a constitutional amendment.
• California Government Code Section 9052
  Every person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or resolution which has been presented to either of the houses composing the Legislature for...
• California Government Code Section 9053
  Every person who fraudulently alters the enrolled copy of any bill or resolution which has been passed or adopted by the Legislature, with intent to...
• California Government Code Section 9053.5
  (a) Every person who intentionally, maliciously, with knowledge of the falsity, and with intent to defame a particular legislator, publishes or causes to be published...
• California Government Code Section 9054
  Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain, money or other thing of value from another person upon a pretense, claim, or representation that he...
• California Government Code Section 9055
  Every member of the Legislature convicted of any crime defined in this article, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever...
• California Government Code Section 9056
  Any person who shall secure through his influence, knowingly exerted for that purpose, the introduction of any bill, resolution or amendment into the State Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9070
  The Legislature finds and declares that access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business by the Legislature is a fundamental and necessary right...
• California Government Code Section 9071
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Legislative Open Records Act.
• California Government Code Section 9072
  As used in this article: (a) "Person" includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. (b) "Legislature" includes any Member of...
• California Government Code Section 9073
  Legislative records are open to inspection at all times during the normal office hours of the Legislature and any person has a right to inspect...
• California Government Code Section 9074
  All requests to inspect any legislative record shall be made to the appropriate Rules Committee of each house of the Legislature or the Joint Rules...
• California Government Code Section 9075
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to invalidate or affect the operation of Sections 10207, 10208, 10525, and 10526 of this code, or Temporary...
• California Government Code Section 9076
  Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his right to inspect any legislative record...
• California Government Code Section 9077
  Whenever it is made to appear by verified petition to the superior court of the county where the records or some part thereof are situated...
• California Government Code Section 9078
  The court shall award court costs and reasonable attorney fees to the plaintiff should the plaintiff prevail in litigation filed pursuant to Section 9077.
• California Government Code Section 9079
  If the court finds that the plaintiff's case is clearly frivolous, it shall award court costs and reasonable attorney fees to the public agency.
• California Government Code Section 9080
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that legislative records relating to bills, resolutions, or proposed constitutional amendments before the Legislature provide evidence of legislative intent...
• California Government Code Section 9100
  Legislative offices for the use of the Members of the Legislature in the performance of their legislative duties, shall be maintained at all times, and...
• California Government Code Section 9101
  The legislative offices provided for in this article shall be under the management and control of the Senate Committee on Rules.
• California Government Code Section 9103
  The Department of General Services shall provide suitable office space in the State Building in Los Angeles and in the State Building in San Francisco...
• California Government Code Section 9104
  Appropriations for the support of the offices provided for in this article shall be included in the Budget Bill.
• California Government Code Section 9105
  The State Capitol Building Annex is the annex to the historic State Capitol, constructed to the east of the original building, situated in the area...
• California Government Code Section 9106
  The State Capitol Building Annex is intended primarily for the use of the legislative department and, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9107
  There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall have the membership specified in the Joint Rules of the Senate and the Assembly. The...
• California Government Code Section 9107.5
  Any reference in any code or statute to the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization shall be deemed a reference to the Joint Rules Committee.
• California Government Code Section 9108
  The first floor of the State Capitol Building Annex is excepted from the provisions of this article. Such excepted space shall continue under the control...
• California Government Code Section 9109
  The determination of the Joint Rules Committee as to the needs of the Legislature shall be subject to change only by action of the committee...
• California Government Code Section 9110
  (a) The maintenance and operation of all of the State Capitol Building Annex is under the control of the Department of General Services, subject to...
• California Government Code Section 9111
  The Joint Rules Committee may participate in the work of the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders. The following Members of the Legislature are authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9115
  (a) In order to adequately provide for the proper housing and administrative requirements of the Legislature, it is necessary for the Legislature to acquire and...
• California Government Code Section 9117
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and any other evidence of...
• California Government Code Section 9118
  (a) The lessee may lease the project from the lessor, and the lessor may lease the project to the lessee. The lessor may acquire all...
• California Government Code Section 9119
  (a) The State Public Works Board may issue bonds pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) of Part 10b of Division 3 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 9120
  The terms of the lease financing are those specified in the lease, trust agreement, indenture, and any related documents executed and delivered between the lessor,...
• California Government Code Section 9121
  (a) This article shall be deemed and construed to be separate and complete authority for all of the actions authorized by this article, including, but...
• California Government Code Section 9122
  The State of California does pledge to, and agree with, the holders of any bonds issued under this article, and with those parties who may...
• California Government Code Section 9123
  (a) Title to the buildings and property bounded by 10th, 11th, N, and O Streets in the City of Sacramento shall vest in the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9124
  (a) The determination of the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules as to the needs of the Legislature shall be subject...
• California Government Code Section 9126
  Unless specifically exempted from this section, all appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate and legislative committees thereof, including appropriations previously made which have not...
• California Government Code Section 9127
  Unless specifically exempted from this section, all appropriations for contingent expenses of the Assembly and legislative committees thereof, including appropriations previously made which have not...
• California Government Code Section 9128
  Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate or Assembly as provided in the rules,...
• California Government Code Section 9129
  Appropriations deposited in and credited to the Senate Contingent Fund or the Assembly Contingent Fund shall be continuously available without regard to fiscal years, except...
• California Government Code Section 9130.5
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, on any claim against the Senate Contingent Fund or the Assembly Contingent Fund there may be a certification under...
• California Government Code Section 9131
  For the period ending on November 30 of each year, the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee...
• California Government Code Section 9131.5
  When expenditures are made from the appropriate contingent fund at the direction of the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, or the...
• California Government Code Section 9132
  The Assembly Committee on Rules and Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee, shall annually provide to the Director of Finance an itemized...
• California Government Code Section 9133
  (a) The Joint Rules Committee shall annually contract for an independent audit or audits of all funds and entities of the Legislature, including, but not...
• California Government Code Section 9133.5
  No funds from the Assembly Operating Fund, the Senate Operating Fund, the Operating Funds of the Assembly and Senate, or appropriations made for legislative printing,...
• California Government Code Section 9134
  Any reference in any code or statute to the Senate Contingent Fund, the Assembly Contingent Fund or the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9140
  The Joint Legislative Budget Committee is hereby created. The committee shall ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and to the houses thereof concerning...
• California Government Code Section 9141
  The committee shall consist of eight Members of the Senate and eight Members of the Assembly who shall be selected in the manner provided for...
• California Government Code Section 9142
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 9143
  The committee shall have authority to appoint a legislative analyst and such other clerical and technical employees as may appear necessary, pursuant to the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 9144
  The Legislative Analyst shall prepare a judicial impact analysis, with the assistance of the Department of Finance and the Judicial Council when and as requested...
• California Government Code Section 9146
  Any state agency which is required or permitted by federal law or regulation to establish or alter a federal aid allocation formula to a local...
• California Government Code Section 9147
  If a state agency finds that there is imminent danger of irreparable harm to the public peace, health, safety, or welfare of the state if...
• California Government Code Section 9147.7
  (a) For the purpose of this section, "eligible agency" means any agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, conservancy, council, department, division, or office of state government,...
• California Government Code Section 9148
  Any state board or category of licensed professional proposed for creation by the Legislature shall be subject to this article.
• California Government Code Section 9148.2
  For purposes of this article, "state board" means any administrative or regulatory board, commission, committee, council, association, or authority consisting of more than one person,...
• California Government Code Section 9148.4
  Prior to consideration by the Legislature of legislation creating a new state board or legislation creating a new category of licensed professional, a plan for...
• California Government Code Section 9148.6
  Prior to consideration by the Legislature of legislation creating a new state board that is advisory only, except for a proposed new state board whose...
• California Government Code Section 9148.8
  (a) The appropriate policy committee of the Legislature may evaluate a plan prepared pursuant to Section 9148.4 or 9148.6. The chairperson of a policy committee...
• California Government Code Section 9148.50
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California's multilevel, complex governmental structure today contains more than 400 categories of administrative or regulatory...
• California Government Code Section 9148.51
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed eligible agencies, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 9147.7, be subject...
• California Government Code Section 9148.52
  (a) The Joint Sunset Review Committee established pursuant to Section 9147.7 shall review all eligible agencies. (b) The committee shall evaluate and make determinations pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 9149
  The Legislature finds and declares that the historic State Capitol is a state historic and architectural legacy which must be preserved and maintained in a...
• California Government Code Section 9149.1
  As used in this article: (a) "Commission" means the Historic State Capitol Commission created by Section 9149.2. (b) "Historic State Capitol" is the building housing...
• California Government Code Section 9149.2
  (a) There is in state government, the Historic State Capitol Commission, which shall consist of seven members, initially appointed as follows: (1) Two members appointed...
• California Government Code Section 9149.3
  The appointees of both the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate shall include one person who represents the arts...
• California Government Code Section 9149.4
  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall receive reimbursement for travel and living expenses in connection with their official duties, at...
• California Government Code Section 9149.5
  The Joint Rules Committee shall appoint a Subcommittee on the Capitol Restoration Project, comprised of three members from the Senate and three from the Assembly,...
• California Government Code Section 9149.6
  (a) Four members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to do business, and no action of the commission may be taken except upon an...
• California Government Code Section 9149.7
  The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To prepare, complete, and, from time to time, to amend, a comprehensive master plan, based...
• California Government Code Section 9149.8
  In carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this article, the commission shall follow accepted standards for restoration, preservation, and maintenance of historic structures, including...
• California Government Code Section 9149.9
  The commission shall maintain and may utilize all historic data, research, and project files developed and gathered by the state, and in the possession of...
• California Government Code Section 9149.10
  The commission may request and shall receive assistance and data, relevant to the commission's duties and responsibilities, from every agency of state government.
• California Government Code Section 9149.11
  The commission shall maintain complete records of its proceedings and may publish reports and other publications in connection with its duties and responsibilities.
• California Government Code Section 9149.12
  The commission shall use any funds appropriated to its use, or allocated to its use by the Joint Rules Committee, donated to it, or acquired...
• California Government Code Section 9149.13
  The commission shall review and advise on any interagency agreement for management of concessions within the historic State Capitol.
• California Government Code Section 9149.14
  The commission shall employ an executive officer, who shall have at least three years of administrative-curatorial experience in the cultural or historic preservation fields, and...
• California Government Code Section 9149.15
  The commission may contract with any agency, public or private, for services, in connection with the commission's duties and responsibilities, as the commission determines to...
• California Government Code Section 9149.16
  The commission annually shall report to the Legislature on its activities. The commission shall propose to the Legislature such recommendations for legislation in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 9149.17
  The commission shall be supported by allocations by the Joint Rules Committee from the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate. The commission annually shall...
• California Government Code Section 9149.20
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Whistleblower Protection Act.
• California Government Code Section 9149.21
  It is the intent of the Legislature that state employees and other persons should disclose, to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, improper governmental
• California Government Code Section 9149.22
  For the purposes of this article, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Committee" means any investigating committee of the Legislature. (b) "Employee" means...
• California Government Code Section 9149.23
  (a) An employee may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority or influence of the employee for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 9150
  The Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the minute clerks and Sergeant-at-Arms of each house for any session shall perform...
• California Government Code Section 9151
  The Secretary of the Senate may appoint such temporary employees as are in his opinion necessary for the proper organization of the Senate. The Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9170
  The officers and employees of the Senate are: (a) A President. (b) A President pro tempore, one secretary, one Sergeant-at-Arms, one minute clerk and one...
• California Government Code Section 9171
  The officers and employees of the Assembly are: (a) A Speaker, a Speaker pro Tempore, a Majority Floor Leader, a Minority Floor Leader, one Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9172
  All permanent officers and employees of the Senate or Assembly, except the President of the Senate and the Majority and Minority Floor Leaders and Minute...
• California Government Code Section 9173
  Any officer or employee appointed or elected by the Senate or Assembly may at any time be removed in the same manner as is provided...
• California Government Code Section 9190
  The President or President pro tempore of the Senate may administer the oath of office to any Senator and to the officers of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9191
  The Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall: (a) Administer the constitutional oath of office to the employees of their respective...
• California Government Code Section 9191.5
  The Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly may administer and certify oaths and may provide the proof or acknowledgment of an...
• California Government Code Section 9192
  The assistant secretaries of the Senate and the assistant clerks of the Assembly shall take charge of all bills, petitions, and other papers presented to...
• California Government Code Section 9193
  The Minute Clerk of the Senate and the Minute Clerk of the Assembly shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of their respective houses.
• California Government Code Section 9194
  The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and of the Assembly shall: (a) Under the direction of their presiding officers, have general supervision of the Senate and...
• California Government Code Section 9194.5
  The Sergeant at Arms and Assistant Sergeants at Arms of each house shall have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed...
• California Government Code Section 9195
  The Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of each house shall perform the duties of doorkeeper and keep order in the halls and lobbies. They shall prohibit all persons,...
• California Government Code Section 9196
  The secretary and assistant secretaries, the chief clerk and assistant clerks, and the engrossing and enrolling clerks and the minute clerks of the Senate and...
• California Government Code Section 9200
  Each employee of the Legislature may elect to receive one or more employee benefits, as prescribed by concurrent resolution heretofore or hereafter adopted, in lieu...
• California Government Code Section 9220
  The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly from the final adjournment of any session of...
• California Government Code Section 9221
  Every member, officer, and employee of the Assembly shall, upon request, assist the Speaker in carrying out the duties imposed upon him under this article.
• California Government Code Section 9222
  Neither the Speaker nor any Member of the Assembly who assists him shall receive any additional salary for services rendered pursuant to this article, but...
• California Government Code Section 9223
  Whenever the Speaker incurs expenses in connection with the work of an Assembly committee of which he is a member, whether an ex officio or...
• California Government Code Section 9225
  (a) The Joint Rules Committee shall include, in planning the Legislature's new building to be located at the corner of 10th Street and "N" Street...
• California Government Code Section 9320
  The compensation of each officer and employee of the Senate or Assembly shall be fixed, insofar as such compensation is fixed, by the Senate or...
• California Government Code Section 9321
  The Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the minute clerks and Sergeant-at-Arms of each house, and no others, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9322
  (a) Notwithstanding Part 6 (commencing with Section 22950) of Division 5, or any other law, the Legislature shall provide dental care plan coverage, pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 9350
  This chapter may be cited as the Legislators' Retirement Law.
• California Government Code Section 9350.1
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.2
  "Retirement system" or "this system" means the Legislators' Retirement System established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.3
  "Board of Administration" or "board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
• California Government Code Section 9350.4
  "Retirement Fund" or "fund" means the Legislators' Retirement Fund established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.5
  "Member" means any person who is a member of this system.
• California Government Code Section 9350.55
  "Legislative statutory officer" means any of the following officers who has 10 or more years' full-time state service: (a) the Secretary of the Senate, (b)...
• California Government Code Section 9350.56
  "State service," within the meaning of Sections 9350.55, 9356.15, and 9356.16 means employment with the Legislature or either house thereof as an officer or employee.
• California Government Code Section 9350.6
  (a) "Compensation" and "salary" mean the remuneration paid in cash out of funds controlled by the state, excluding mileage, reimbursement for expenses incurred in the...
• California Government Code Section 9350.7
  "Regular interest" means interest at the annual rate fixed by the board, compounded annually, plus such additional interest as the board may credit from year...
• California Government Code Section 9350.8
  "Contributions" means contributions made by a member at the rate of contribution prescribed in this chapter and not contributions made by the state unless the...
• California Government Code Section 9350.9
  "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all contributions standing to the credit of a member's account, and interest thereon.
• California Government Code Section 9350.10
  "Net earnings" means the earnings of the retirement fund less the administrative costs specified in Section 9354 and transfers to the reserve against deficiencies.
• California Government Code Section 9351
  "Service" means the period of time, computed in years and fractions thereof, a member has held office as a Member of the Senate or of...
• California Government Code Section 9351.1
  "Retirement" means withdrawal from membership in this system with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9351.2
  "Benefit" means the retirement or survivor allowance granted under this chapter or payment of accumulated contributions or lump-sum payments with respect to the death of...
• California Government Code Section 9351.3
  "Legislator" means a Member of the Assembly or a Member of the Senate, an elective officer of the state whose office is provided by the...
• California Government Code Section 9353
  This system shall be administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. The board shall administer this system in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 9353.1
  The board may make such rules as it deems necessary and proper for the administration of this system.
• California Government Code Section 9353.2
  The board shall determine who are members of this system and is the sole judge of the conditions under which persons may be admitted to...
• California Government Code Section 9353.3
  From time to time the board shall determine the rate of interest being earned on the Legislators' Retirement Fund, and shall credit all contributions of...
• California Government Code Section 9353.4
  At the end of each fiscal year the board may credit to all contributions held in the fund at June 30th of the then current...
• California Government Code Section 9353.5
  Each member of this system shall file with the board any information affecting his or her status as a member as the board may require.
• California Government Code Section 9353.6
  The Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall give the board immediate written notice of the change in status of any legislative statutory officer elected by...
• California Government Code Section 9353.7
  If it is impracticable for the board to determine from the records the length of service, compensation, or age of any member of this system,...
• California Government Code Section 9353.8
  If more or less than the correct amount of contribution required of members or the State is paid, proper adjustment shall be made in connection...
• California Government Code Section 9354
  The Legislators' Retirement Fund in the State Treasury is hereby established. All moneys received by this system pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in...
• California Government Code Section 9354.1
  The board has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the fund, with the same powers and duties, and subject to the same...
• California Government Code Section 9354.2
  In addition to other records and accounts, the board shall keep such records and accounts as may be necessary to show at any time: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 9354.3
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the board shall file with the Governor a report of its work for such...
• California Government Code Section 9354.5
  The board shall keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the actuarial valuation of this system. As of June 30, 1973, and...
• California Government Code Section 9354.6
  When there is insufficient data upon which to establish mortality rates or other actuarial assumptions required to evaluate the obligations of the system, the board...
• California Government Code Section 9354.7
  (a) Whenever a person entitled to payment of a member's accumulated contributions or any other benefit fails to claim the payment or cannot be located...
• California Government Code Section 9355
  Any Member of the Senate or Assembly may file with the board at any time during incumbency in that office, a written election to become...
• California Government Code Section 9355.1
  A person ceases to be a member of this system: (a) Upon retirement pursuant to this chapter. (b) Upon death. (c) Except as provided in...
• California Government Code Section 9355.16
  Any member of this system who is charged, by indictment, with the commission of any felony involving the accepting or giving, or offering to accept...
• California Government Code Section 9355.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the service of a member is discontinued by any means other than death or retirement pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 9355.3
  Any member may resign from this system at any time prior to retirement, by written resignation filed with the Board of Administration.
• California Government Code Section 9355.4
  Every elective officer of the state whose office is provided for by the California Constitution, except judges, may become a member of this system. Except...
• California Government Code Section 9355.41
  The Insurance Commissioner may become a member of this system as provided in this section. An Insurance Commissioner who is elected after January 1, 1994,...
• California Government Code Section 9355.45
  Every legislative statutory officer may become a member of this system. Every such officer in office at the time this section becomes effective may, within...
• California Government Code Section 9355.5
  Membership in this system is exclusive of membership in any other retirement system for state officers and employees. Upon becoming a member of this system,...
• California Government Code Section 9355.6
  A member is absent on military service while serving with the armed forces of the United States, either during a war as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 9355.7
  Any member who, while serving a term of office as a Member of the Senate or Assembly, is elected or appointed to another public office...
• California Government Code Section 9355.8
  For purposes of Section 9355.7, "public office" includes, but is not limited to, positions within the federal government that require appointment by the President of...
• California Government Code Section 9356
  Each member of this system shall receive credit for service for time during which he or she holds office as a legislator after becoming a...
• California Government Code Section 9356.1
  Each member who rendered service prior to the date this chapter becomes operative shall receive credit therefor if he or she makes contributions therefor to...
• California Government Code Section 9356.15
  Any person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45 may also receive credit for state service prior to the date he...
• California Government Code Section 9356.16
  Any person who is a member of the system may also receive credit for state service prior to the date he or she became a...
• California Government Code Section 9356.2
  Each member shall receive credit for service while absent on military service, provided he or she is a member at the time the absence commences...
• California Government Code Section 9356.21
  Each member or former member who has 10 years of credited service in this system shall receive credit for active service of not less than...
• California Government Code Section 9356.3
  This section applies to any member heretofore or hereafter elected to fill an unexpired term of office as Member of the Legislature, and who is...
• California Government Code Section 9356.5
  Any member whose service is discontinued but whose membership is continued under Section 9355.2 and who becomes a member of the Judges' Retirement System or...
• California Government Code Section 9357
  For each year of service rendered after the date this chapter becomes operative, each legislator who is a member of this system shall contribute 4...
• California Government Code Section 9357.01
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9357 or 9357.05, the rate of contribution for a member of the system first elected after the date this section...
• California Government Code Section 9357.05
  Each person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45 shall contribute 6 1/2 percent of his or her compensation for each...
• California Government Code Section 9357.1
  Immediately upon receipt of the written election of a legislator to become a member of this system, the board of administration shall certify to the...
• California Government Code Section 9357.15
  With respect to each person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45, the Controller shall deduct 6 1/2 percent from each...
• California Government Code Section 9357.2
  Any member who rendered service prior to the date he or she became a member may elect, at any time prior to retirement, to contribute...
• California Government Code Section 9357.3
  If the membership of a member is terminated, except by death or retirement pursuant to this chapter, he or she shall be paid forthwith all...
• California Government Code Section 9357.4
  A member may redeposit in the Legislators' Retirement Fund, in one sum or in not to exceed 12 monthly or 24 semimonthly payments, an amount...
• California Government Code Section 9357.45
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a person who was a member and entitled to be credited with 10 or more years of service...
• California Government Code Section 9357.46
  Any person who was a member and who withdrew his or her accumulated contributions after discontinuance of service may, at any time while he or...
• California Government Code Section 9357.5
  Upon reentering this system after a termination of his or her membership, if a member does not elect to make, or having so elected, does...
• California Government Code Section 9358
  (a) On and after January 1, 2000, the state's contribution on account of liability for benefits under this chapter shall be established in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 9358.01
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state may pick up, for the sole purpose of deferring income taxes thereon, as authorized by Section 414(h)(2)...
• California Government Code Section 9358.1
  The board shall report annually to the Joint Rules Committee the rate of contributions which, if paid by the state pursuant to Section 9358, would...
• California Government Code Section 9359
  Upon his or her written application to the Board of Administration, (a) a member of this system who was a member on the effective date...
• California Government Code Section 9359.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the benefits payable to any person who becomes a member for the first time on or after...
• California Government Code Section 9359.02
  (a) The amount of compensation used to compute benefits payable to any person who becomes a member of this system on or after July 1,...
• California Government Code Section 9359.03
  If a person qualifies to retire as a legislative statutory officer, and has held more than one of the offices enumerated in Section 9350.55, his...
• California Government Code Section 9359.05
  The amount of compensation that is taken into account in computing benefits payable to any person who first becomes a member of this system on...
• California Government Code Section 9359.1
  (a) The retirement allowance for a member all of whose credited service was rendered as a Member of the Senate or Assembly, except as provided...
• California Government Code Section 9359.10
  The retirement allowance for a legislative statutory officer is an annual amount equal to 3 percent of the compensation payable to the officer at the...
• California Government Code Section 9359.11
  Any contrary provisions of Section 9359.1 notwithstanding, in computing the retirement allowance of a legislator member of the Legislators' Retirement System whose service as a...
• California Government Code Section 9359.12
  (a) Any contrary provisions of Section 9359.1 or Section 9360.9 notwithstanding, and subject to the further limitations in subdivision (b), the retirement allowance of any...
• California Government Code Section 9359.13
  Notwithstanding any contrary provision of Section 9359.1 the retirement allowance of a member who is an elective officer of the state whose office is provided...
• California Government Code Section 9359.15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no retirement allowance or optional settlement in lieu thereof under this chapter shall be paid to or in...
• California Government Code Section 9359.16
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9359, a member of this system, other than a legislative statutory officer, who is under age 60 and who is...
• California Government Code Section 9359.17
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9359, a legislative statutory officer who has attained the age of 55 shall be retired upon his or her written...
• California Government Code Section 9359.2
  A retirement allowance granted by this chapter is payable in equal monthly installments but a smaller pro rata amount may be paid for part of...
• California Government Code Section 9359.3
  The right of a person to any benefit or other right under this chapter and the money in the Legislators' Retirement Fund are not subject...
• California Government Code Section 9359.4
  A member may at any time designate a beneficiary to receive those benefits as may be payable to his or her beneficiary or estate under...
• California Government Code Section 9359.5
  The designation of a beneficiary under this system, other than designations under Optional Settlements 2, 3 and 4, may be revoked at the pleasure of...
• California Government Code Section 9359.6
  The designation of a beneficiary by a member is not affected by termination of nor a break in his membership.
• California Government Code Section 9359.7
  If any person entitled to a benefit of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) from this system is a minor who has no guardian...
• California Government Code Section 9359.8
  Upon the death of any member before retirement, the member' s accumulated contributions shall be paid to the member's beneficiary, if he or she has...
• California Government Code Section 9359.83
  Retired members of the system, and beneficiaries, who are entitled to receive allowances under the provisions of this chapter, may authorize deductions to be made...
• California Government Code Section 9359.85
  Upon the death of any person, after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance from this system, there shall be paid to his or her...
• California Government Code Section 9359.9
  If a beneficiary is not designated, or if the estate is the beneficiary and the estate would not be probated if no amount were due...
• California Government Code Section 9359.95
  In addition to any other benefits provided for in this chapter, upon the death, on or after January 1, 1959, and before retirement, of any...
• California Government Code Section 9360
  No payment shall be made to persons included in any group if at the date of payment there are living persons in any of the...
• California Government Code Section 9360.1
  If the estate of the deceased member is his beneficiary, or if no beneficiary has been designated by him, or if the designated beneficiary cannot...
• California Government Code Section 9360.2
  As used in this chapter, "disability" and "incapacity for performance of duty" as a basis of retirement, mean disability of permanent or extended and uncertain...
• California Government Code Section 9360.3
  Application to the board for retirement of a member for disability may be made by the member or any person in his or her behalf....
• California Government Code Section 9360.4
  The board may require any recipient of a disability allowance under the minimum age for voluntary retirement to undergo medical examination. The examination shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9360.5
  If any recipient of a disability retirement allowance under the minimum age for voluntary retirement refuses to submit to medical examination, the retirement allowance shall...
• California Government Code Section 9360.6
  The disability allowance for other than legislative statutory officers is the same as the retirement allowance that would be payable to the member had he...
• California Government Code Section 9360.7
  (a) Any Member of the Senate or Assembly who, after the effective date of this section, retires for service or disability shall receive the retirement...
• California Government Code Section 9360.9
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the provisions of this section shall be applicable to all allowances granted by this chapter commencing with each...
• California Government Code Section 9360.10
  On or before January 15, 1968, and on or before January 15 of each year thereafter, the amount of any allowances provided by this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 9360.11
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any member who would have been eligible to retire under Section 9359.01 had it not been repealed because...
• California Government Code Section 9361
  In lieu of the retirement allowance for his life alone, a member or retired member may elect, or revoke or change a previous election, to...
• California Government Code Section 9361.1
  (a) The election, revocation, or change of election set forth in Section 9361 may be made at any time before the effective date of retirement...
• California Government Code Section 9361.12
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a retired member who was a Member of the Senate or Assembly may revoke an optional settlement and may...
• California Government Code Section 9361.15
  A member may designate one or more persons as beneficiaries. If more than one person is designated under an optional settlement involving life contingency of...
• California Government Code Section 9361.2
  Optional Settlement 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death and if he or...
• California Government Code Section 9361.3
  Optional Settlement 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death and thereafter to his...
• California Government Code Section 9361.4
  Optional Settlement 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death, and thereafter to have...
• California Government Code Section 9361.5
  Optional Settlement 4 consists of such other benefits as are the actuarial equivalent of his retirement allowance, that he may select subject to the approval...
• California Government Code Section 9371
  (a) This article applies to members who elect to be subject to its provisions and does not apply to any member while his or her...
• California Government Code Section 9372
  "Survivor allowance" means the allowance provided for in Section 9374.
• California Government Code Section 9373
  "Disability," "disabled" or "incapacitated" means, with respect to qualification for a survivor allowance, inability to engage in any substantial gainful occupation by reason of any...
• California Government Code Section 9374
  Upon the death of a member before retirement (a) the surviving wife or surviving husband of the member, who has the care of unmarried children,...
• California Government Code Section 9375
  For the purposes of Section 9374, a person shall be considered to be under the age of 18 if he or she is under the...
• California Government Code Section 9376
  When the survivor is entitled to receive a monthly allowance as a death benefit provided by any other provision of this chapter and at the...
• California Government Code Section 9377
  The rate of contribution of a member subject to this article shall include in addition to his normal rate, two dollars ($2) per month. Such...
• California Government Code Section 9378
  A person who in any month is an eligible survivor of more than one member, shall receive only one allowance under this article, which shall...
• California Government Code Section 9400
  As used in this chapter, "committee" means a committee of either the Senate or Assembly, a joint committee of both houses, or, when any of...
• California Government Code Section 9401
  A subpoena requiring the attendance of any witness before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee may be issued by the President of the Senate, Speaker...
• California Government Code Section 9402
  A subpena is sufficient if it: (a) States whether the proceeding is before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee. (b) Is addressed to the witness....
• California Government Code Section 9403
  The service of a subpena may be made by any person over 18 years of age.
• California Government Code Section 9404
  (a) The members of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses in any matter under examination. (b) Anyone authorized to administer oaths who is designated...
• California Government Code Section 9405
  If any witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpena, or appearing, neglects or refuses to testify, or to produce upon reasonable notice any material...
• California Government Code Section 9406
  If the contempt is committed before the Senate or Assembly, the Senate or Assembly may commit him for contempt by resolution entered on the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9407
  If the contempt is committed before a committee during the session of the Legislature, the committee shall report the contempt to the Senate or Assembly,...
• California Government Code Section 9408
  If the contempt is committed before a committee when the Legislature is not in session, the superior court in and for the county in which...
• California Government Code Section 9409
  Any witness neglecting or refusing to attend in obedience to subpena may be arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms and brought before the Senate, Assembly or committee,...
• California Government Code Section 9409.5
  No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he or she shall be examined by...
• California Government Code Section 9410
  (a) If, in response to a question posed, or a command to produce documents or other materials issued, by the Senate, the Assembly, or a...
• California Government Code Section 9411
  Every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall discharge any person who commits a contempt before...
• California Government Code Section 9412
  Every person who, being summoned to attend as witness before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 9414
  (a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Coerces or attempts to coerce any person not to appear...
• California Government Code Section 9500
  As used in this chapter, "clerk" means the engrossing and enrolling clerk or the employee who performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling clerk when...
• California Government Code Section 9501
  As used in this chapter, "committee" means the engrossing and enrolling committee of the house ordering the engrossing or enrolling of a bill or other...
• California Government Code Section 9501.5
  The enacting clause of every law shall be "The people of the State of California do enact as follows:".
• California Government Code Section 9502
  All bills and other documents ordered engrossed or enrolled by the Senate or Assembly shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate or Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9503
  The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.
• California Government Code Section 9504
  The State Printer shall receipt for the bills or documents, and without delay engross or enroll (print) them in the order of their receipt by...
• California Government Code Section 9505
  The State Printer shall deliver the engrossed or enrolled copy of the bill or document, with the original thereof, to the clerk from whom he...
• California Government Code Section 9506
  All bills and documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed if no amendments have been made after being printed. The original bill or...
• California Government Code Section 9507
  If the enrolled copy of a bill or other document is found to be correct, the committee shall present it to the proper officers for...
• California Government Code Section 9508
  Enrolled bills shall be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. Until otherwise provided by the joint rules of the Legislature, enrolled constitutional amendments and...
• California Government Code Section 9509
  As soon as an enrolled bill is delivered to the Governor, it shall be endorsed as follows: "This bill was received by the Governor this...
• California Government Code Section 9510
  When the Governor approves a bill, he shall affix his name thereto, with the date of signing, and deposit it in the Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 9510.5
  There shall be two series of bill chapter numbers for each two-year regular session of the Legislature. Bills deposited with the Secretary of State from...
• California Government Code Section 9511
  If a bill presented to the Governor contains an item or several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving...
• California Government Code Section 9512
  When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if...
• California Government Code Section 9513
  The certificate shall be indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections. It...
• California Government Code Section 9514
  The bill or statement so authenticated shall then be delivered to the Governor, and by him deposited with the laws in the Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 9515
  If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated...
• California Government Code Section 9516
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every bill which has passed both houses of the Legislature, and has not been returned by the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 9517
  The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.
• California Government Code Section 9600
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a statute enacted at a regular session shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day...
• California Government Code Section 9602
  Every concurrent and joint resolution takes effect upon the filing of it with the Secretary of State.
• California Government Code Section 9603
  The general rules for the construction of statutes are contained in the preliminary provisions of the different codes.
• California Government Code Section 9604
  When the provisions of one statute are carried into another statute under circumstances in which they are required to be construed as restatements and continuations...
• California Government Code Section 9605
  Where a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended...
• California Government Code Section 9606
  Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when vested rights would be impaired. Persons acting under any statute act in contemplation of this...
• California Government Code Section 9607
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no statute or part of a statute, repealed by another statute, is revived by the repeal of the...
• California Government Code Section 9608
  The termination or suspension (by whatsoever means effected) of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information...
• California Government Code Section 9609
  A statute amending a section of a repealed statute is void.
• California Government Code Section 9610
  The fixing or authorizing the fixing of the salary of a State officer or employee by statute is not intended to and does not constitute...
• California Government Code Section 9611
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever a provision of law is temporarily suspended, or is expressly or impliedly modified or repealed by a...
• California Government Code Section 9612
  Unless the context otherwise requires whenever the terms United States Army, Army of the United States, United States Navy, or military service appear in a...
• California Government Code Section 9700
  All printing ordered by the Legislature or the Senate or Assembly, and all printing to be charged to legislative printing shall be governed by the...
• California Government Code Section 9701
  The receipt of the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly is a sufficient voucher for printing for any work done for...
• California Government Code Section 9702
  The Secretary of the Senate, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, in the case...
• California Government Code Section 9703
  The State Printing Office shall print the laws, including initiative measures adopted by the people, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, the...
• California Government Code Section 9704
  Proceeds from sales of all documents, the cost of publication of which is or has been paid from any appropriation for legislative printing, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9705
  The general officers of the Assembly whose names and titles shall appear on the frontpiece of all publications sponsored in whole or in part by...
• California Government Code Section 9706
  The Legislative Printing Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. The Controller, on the effective date of this section, shall transfer the balance in that...
• California Government Code Section 9708
  Whenever the Senate or the Assembly undertakes to publish in a separate volume the Constitution of the State of California and related documents, the text...
• California Government Code Section 9720
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall determine what is a sufficient number of copies to supply the members...
• California Government Code Section 9721
  A sufficient number of copies, with proper repaging, as determined by the Secretary and Chief Clerk, shall also be bound at the end of the...
• California Government Code Section 9722
  Each daily Journal and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be printed by the State Printing Office. Each daily Journal shall be printed...
• California Government Code Section 9723
  One copy of the daily Journal of each house, upon its approval by the house, shall be authenticated as so approved by the chief clerk...
• California Government Code Section 9724
  Upon final adjournment of the Legislature, the authenticated copy of the daily Journal of each house for the entire session shall be properly bound in...
• California Government Code Section 9740
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile...
• California Government Code Section 9741
  The legislative manual shall be uniform in size and style with similar publications of previous sessions. It shall include: (a) A list of State officers....
• California Government Code Section 9742
  The manual shall be distributed as follows: (a) To each Senator and Assemblyman as determined by the Rules Committee of the respective houses. (b) Each...
• California Government Code Section 9743
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall each retain the number of manuals needed for use in the respective...
• California Government Code Section 9744
  The remainder shall be sold at a price to be fixed by the Joint Rules Committee. The price shall be sufficient to cover the cost...
• California Government Code Section 9760
  Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.
• California Government Code Section 9761
  Upon the receipt of the notice, the State Printing Office shall print for the use of the Legislature such number of copies of the law,...
• California Government Code Section 9762
  When a new or a revised code is established, it shall be prepared by the Legislative Counsel with all amendments and superseding sections enacted during...
• California Government Code Section 9763
  The Department of General Services shall direct the preparation of the statutes of each session of the Legislature after each regular session. The statutes for...
• California Government Code Section 9764
  The statutes of each session shall be prepared for printing and publication by the Legislative Counsel, the State Librarian, or such other state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9765
  Preparation of the statutes shall include the making of an index and statutory record, and the delivery thereof to the State Printing Office as soon...
• California Government Code Section 9766
  At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed: (a) The Constitution of the state. (b) The name and place of...
• California Government Code Section 9767
  The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 9768
  The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.
• California Government Code Section 9790
  The Department of General Services shall maintain a bill-filing room for the Senate and Assembly, and file all bills, resolutions, journals and other documents ordered...
• California Government Code Section 9791
  The laws, resolutions and journals of the Legislature shall be distributed by the Department of General Services as follows: (a) To the Library of Congress,...
• California Government Code Section 9792
  All other copies of the laws, resolutions and journals shall be sold by the Department of General Services at such price as it may fix.
• California Government Code Section 9795
  (a) (1) Any report required or requested by law to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of...
• California Government Code Section 9900
  Short title This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Legislative Reform Act of 1983."
• California Government Code Section 9901
  Findings and declaration. The people find and declare: (a) All citizens of the State are entitled to full and effective representation by their elected representatives....
• California Government Code Section 9902
  Purposes of chapter The people enact this chapter to accomplish the following purposes: (a) Appropriations for the support of the Legislature should be reduced by...
• California Government Code Section 9903
  Construction of chapter This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 9904
  Amendment or repeal of chapter; procedures This chapter may be amended only by the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection...
• California Government Code Section 9905
  Imposition of additional requirements; law governing Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Legislature from imposing additional requirements on itself if the requirements do not...
• California Government Code Section 9906
  Severability If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder...
• California Government Code Section 9907
  Effective date This chapter shall go into effect immediately. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all changes in the structure or operation of the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9910
  Speaker of the Assembly The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly. The Speaker shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9911
  Assembly Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Assembly a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the Speaker, who shall be the...
• California Government Code Section 9912
  Powers of the Assembly Committee on Rules (a) The Assembly Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Assembly committees....
• California Government Code Section 9913
  Appointments by the speaker; confirmation by Assembly Committee on Rules Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all statutory appointments delegated to the Speaker of the...
• California Government Code Section 9914
  President pro tempore of the senate The President pro Tempore is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Senate....
• California Government Code Section 9915
  Senate Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Senate a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the President pro Tempore of the...
• California Government Code Section 9916
  Powers of the Senate Committee on Rules (a) The Senate Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Senate committees....
• California Government Code Section 9917
  Joint rules committee (a) There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall be comprised of the combined membership of the Assembly Committee on...
• California Government Code Section 9920
  Rules Each house of the Legislature shall adopt rules for its proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded...
• California Government Code Section 9921
  Joint Rules The Senate and Assembly shall adopt rules for their joint proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative...
• California Government Code Section 9922
  Standing committees All standing committees of both the Senate and the Assembly, except the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules, shall...
• California Government Code Section 9923
  Special and select committees; subcommittees No special or select committees nor any subcommittee shall be established in either the Senate or the Assembly except by...
• California Government Code Section 9924
  Joint committees No joint committee shall be established except by passage of concurrent resolution, two thirds of the membership of each house concurring. The membership...
• California Government Code Section 9925
  Member voting Each house of the Legislature shall provide in its rules for appropriate voting procedures on the floor and in committees or subcommittees; provided,...
• California Government Code Section 9930
  Legislative contingent funds All appropriations for contingent expenses of the Legislature and committees thereof shall be deposited in and credited to the following funds, which...
• California Government Code Section 9931
  Disbursements from Senate Contingent Fund and Assembly Contingent Fund Except as provided by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the rules...
• California Government Code Section 9932
  Disbursements from Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly No disbursements shall be made from the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly except as...
• California Government Code Section 9933
  Disbursement of money appropriated for legislative printing Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9934
  Limits upon public expenditure Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 30 days following the enactment of this chapter, the total amount of monies appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 9935
  Continuous availability of funds; special accounts Except as described in Section 9934 and this Section, appropriations deposited in and credited to the Senate Contingent Fund,...
• California Government Code Section 9936
  Reports to public on expenditures made from contingent funds; contents (a) For the periods beginning December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 9937
  Independent audit of contingent funds The Joint Rules Committee shall annually contract for an independent audit of the revenues and expenditures, for each fiscal year,...
• California Government Code Section 10200
  There is in the State Government the Legislative Counsel Bureau. The bureau is in charge of a chief, who is a civil executive officer and...
• California Government Code Section 10201
  The Legislative Counsel shall be selected by concurrent resolution at the beginning of each regular session and shall serve until his or her successor is...
• California Government Code Section 10202
  If a vacancy occurs while the Legislature is not in session, a committee consisting of the Speaker of the Assembly, the Speaker pro Tempore of...
• California Government Code Section 10203
  The Legislative Counsel shall be chosen without reference to party affiliations and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of his or...
• California Government Code Section 10204
  The annual salary of the Legislative Counsel is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or such greater amount as may be prescribed by the Joint Rules Committee....
• California Government Code Section 10205
  (a) The Legislative Counsel may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as he...
• California Government Code Section 10205.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 18523, 18900, 18901, 18930, 18930.5, 18931, 18933, 18936, 18937, 18938.5, 18939, 18950, 19050, 19052, 19054, 19054.1, 19057, 19057.1, 19057.2, 19057.4, 19081, and...
• California Government Code Section 10206
  The permanent office of the Legislative Counsel shall be in the State Capitol in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and...
• California Government Code Section 10207
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall maintain the attorney-client relationship with each Member of the Legislature with respect to communications between the member and the Legislative...
• California Government Code Section 10208
  Neither the Legislative Counsel nor any other employee of the bureau shall reveal to any person outside thereof the contents or nature of any matter...
• California Government Code Section 10209
  The material, including books and other publications, of the State Library shall be made available to the bureau. The University of California, all State agencies...
• California Government Code Section 10210
  Neither the Legislative Counsel nor any employee of the bureau shall oppose or urge legislation.
• California Government Code Section 10211
  The Legislative Counsel, or any deputy legislative counsel, may administer and certify oaths.
• California Government Code Section 10230
  The Legislative Counsel shall be in attendance upon all regular and special sessions of the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 10231
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare and assist in the preparation, amendment and consideration of legislative measures when requested or upon suggestion as herein provided.
• California Government Code Section 10231.5
  (a) A bill that, as introduced or amended in either house of the Legislature, would require a state agency to submit a report on any...
• California Government Code Section 10232
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise any State agency as to the preparation of measures to be submitted to the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 10232.5
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel may provide legal services to the State Auditor.
• California Government Code Section 10233
  Insofar as in his power, upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall aid and assist any member of the Legislature as to bills, resolutions and measures,...
• California Government Code Section 10234
  The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any measure before the Legislature as circumstances will permit, and which is in any...
• California Government Code Section 10235
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any bill in the Governor's hands for rejection, approval, or other action, as...
• California Government Code Section 10236
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise as to its work with any legislative committee appointed to carry on investigations.
• California Government Code Section 10237
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare or assist in the preparation or amendment of legislative measures at the written suggestion of any judge of the Supreme...
• California Government Code Section 10238
  Every suggestion of a judge shall set forth the substance of the provisions desired or which may be needed with the reasons therefor.
• California Government Code Section 10239
  A suggestion by a judge of the Supreme Court shall be filed with the clerk of that court. A suggestion by a judge of a...
• California Government Code Section 10240
  When a suggestion is so filed with the clerk, he shall make and send to the permanent office of the Legislative Counsel a certified copy...
• California Government Code Section 10241
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare a measure in accordance with the suggestion of a judge, and shall transmit it to the chairman of the judiciary...
• California Government Code Section 10242
  The Legislative Counsel shall advise the Legislature from time to time as to legislation necessary to maintain the codes and legislation necessary to codify such...
• California Government Code Section 10242.5
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall annually prepare, publish, and maintain an electronic list of all reports that state and local agencies are required or requested...
• California Government Code Section 10243
  The Legislative Counsel shall cooperate with the proponents of an initiative measure in its preparation when: (a) Requested in writing so to do by 25...
• California Government Code Section 10244
  The Legislative Counsel may contract, at not less than cost and subject to regulations approved by the Director of General Services, with any county or...
• California Government Code Section 10245
  The Legislative Counsel may cooperate with any educational institution of the State in any manner approved by the Legislative Counsel and such institution.
• California Government Code Section 10246
  The Legislative Counsel shall not appear in any action or proceeding in the courts of this state or of the United States without the prior...
• California Government Code Section 10247
  When a bill is introduced in the Legislature and each time a bill is amended, on or after January 1, 1990, the Legislative Counsel shall...
• California Government Code Section 10248
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, make all of the following...
• California Government Code Section 10500
  It is the desire of the Legislature to create the Office of the Auditor General, whose primary duties shall be to perform performance audits as...
• California Government Code Section 10501
  The Joint Legislative Audit Committee is hereby created. The committee shall determine the policies of the Auditor General, ascertain facts, review reports and take action...
• California Government Code Section 10502
  The committee shall consist of seven Members of the Senate and seven Members of the Assembly who shall be selected in the manner provided for...
• California Government Code Section 10503
  The committee is authorized to make rule governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 10504
  After recommendation by the committee, the Auditor General shall be selected by concurrent resolution and shall serve until his or her successor is selected or...
• California Government Code Section 10504.1
  At least one deputy auditor general shall be a certified public accountant.
• California Government Code Section 10600
  The Legislature finds that the retirement of officers and employees of the state, school districts, and many cities, counties, and public jurisdictions in the state,...
• California Government Code Section 10601
  The Joint Legislative Retirement Committee is hereby created. The committee shall study and review the benefits, programs, actuarial condition, practices, investments and procedures of, and...
• California Government Code Section 10602
  The committee shall consist of a member from each of the following Senate committees: Banking and Commerce, Industrial Relations, Local Government, Public Employment and Retirement,...
• California Government Code Section 10603
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 10604
  The committeee shall have authority to appoint and fix the salary of such professional and other employees as may be necessary. Funds for the support...
• California Government Code Section 10605
  The committee shall establish a board of experts. The board of experts shall include: the Controller, the chairpersons of the investment committees of the Board...
• California Government Code Section 10606
  There shall be held during the last week of March of each year a joint meeting of the committee, the board of experts, the Board...
• California Government Code Section 11000
  (a) As used in this title, "state agency" includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. As used in any section of...
• California Government Code Section 11000.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every state agency shall establish the license periods and renewal dates for all licenses issued by the agencies in...
• California Government Code Section 11000.10
  (a) (1) Any state agency, including, but not limited to, a district agricultural association, or a joint powers agency that includes a district agricultural association,...
• California Government Code Section 11001
  Any state agency may make exhibits descriptive or illustrative of any activity or pursuit relating to its work or affairs at any international, state, district,...
• California Government Code Section 11002
  If a remittance to cover a payment required by law to be made to the state or to a state agency on or before a...
• California Government Code Section 11003
  If an application, tax return or claim for credit or refund required by law to be filed with the state or state agency on or...
• California Government Code Section 11004
  Sections 11002 and 11003 do not apply to: (a) Applications or other documents required or permitted to be filed under the Chapter 1 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11005
  (a) Unless the Legislature specifically provides that approval is not required, every gift or dedication to the state of personal property, or every gift to...
• California Government Code Section 11005.1
  The Director of Finance may accept on behalf of the State any gift of real or personal property whenever he deems such gift and the...
• California Government Code Section 11005.2
  Unless the Legislature specifically provides that approval by the Director of General Services is not required, every conveyance, contract, or agreement whereby an interest of...
• California Government Code Section 11005.3
  Any state department, board, or commission may lease any real property for the use of the state agency for storage, warehouse, or office purposes provided...
• California Government Code Section 11005.4
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Accepted nutritional guidelines" as used in this section means the following:...
• California Government Code Section 11005.5
  After January 1, 1983, if property is to be constructed, purchased, or leased, or any interest is acquired in the property, for a period of...
• California Government Code Section 11005.6
  Any lease of property by a state agency for warehouse or office uses which is entered into or renewed on or after January 1, 1991,...
• California Government Code Section 11005.7
  The Department of General Services on or before July 1, 1991, shall develop procedures and policies to expedite normal procedures for purchasing, leasing, and contracting...
• California Government Code Section 11006
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency that requires fingerprinting for any non-law-enforcement purpose shall not require the use of specified live...
• California Government Code Section 11006.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that Year 2000 Problem identification and remediation be the top information technology priority for all state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 11007
  (a) Except as expressly authorized by law or as specifically authorized by the Director of General Services, property belonging to the state shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 11007.1
  The Department of Transportation, when it has acquired title to any real property for highway purposes and leases such property for commercial or business uses...
• California Government Code Section 11007.4
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" includes an officer, employee, or servant, whether or not compensated, but does not include an independent contractor....
• California Government Code Section 11007.5
  Any state agency, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may secure insurance protecting the state against loss by burglary, robbery, theft, or...
• California Government Code Section 11007.6
  Any state agency may, subject to rules and regulations of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, insure its officers and employees not covered...
• California Government Code Section 11007.7
  (a) The procurement of insurance or official bonds by any state agency shall be subject to approval of the Department of General Services. Any procurement...
• California Government Code Section 11007.8
  (a) If a state agency is authorized to procure insurance, that agency may operate and administer a self-insurance program. The agency may contract with the...
• California Government Code Section 11008
  Whenever any State agency except the State Compensation Insurance Fund has drawn against any bank account for the payment of any claim and payment of...
• California Government Code Section 11008.2
  Any regulation, order, or other action, adopted, prescribed, taken, or performed by the former Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency as it existed on December 31,...
• California Government Code Section 11008.5
  Any program administered in part or whole by the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency prior to January 1, 2004, pursuant to an interagency agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 11009
  Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the members of State boards and commissions shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed necessary expenses incurred...
• California Government Code Section 11010
  (a) When a state agency, supported from the General Fund, is required to collect from any person, firm, or corporation a proportionate share of the...
• California Government Code Section 11010.5
  (a) Where authority is vested in any state agency to contract on behalf of the state, such authority shall include the power, by mutual consent...
• California Government Code Section 11011
  (a) On or before December 31 of each year, each state agency shall make a review of all proprietary state lands, other than tax-deeded land,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 54235) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 11011.2
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11011 and 14670, except as provided in this section, the Department of General...
• California Government Code Section 11011.5
  (a) When no state or other public entity seeks to obtain title to specific surplus state-owned real property, a state agency authorized to sell that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.7
  All real property acquired for park and recreation purposes by the state which was formerly part of Camp Pendleton shall be used solely for park...
• California Government Code Section 11011.11
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) There is no complete inventory of all state real property holdings containing information on present use,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.13
  For purposes of Section 11011.15, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Agency" means a state agency, department, division, bureau, board, commission, district agricultural association, and...
• California Government Code Section 11011.14
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services shall transfer title of state Building 101, the former Lake Norconian Club Hotel...
• California Government Code Section 11011.15
  (a) The Department of General Services shall maintain a complete and accurate statewide inventory of all real property held by the state and categorize that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.16
  The inventory prepared pursuant to Section 11011.15 shall contain the following additional information: (a) A description of the exact current and projected use of, and...
• California Government Code Section 11011.17
  (a) The University of California, by July 1, 1988, shall furnish the department, in a uniform format specified by the department, a record of each...
• California Government Code Section 11011.18
  The Department of Transportation, by July 1, 2002, shall furnish to the Department of General Services a record of each parcel of real property that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.19
  (a) The State Lands Commission, by July 1, 2011, shall furnish to the Department of General Services a record of each parcel of real property...
• California Government Code Section 11011.20
  (a) Any private person or private company which advertises that it provides information or services regarding the sale or purchase of public property of any...
• California Government Code Section 11011.21
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Department of General Services has, pursuant to former Section 11011.21, as added by Section 8 of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 11011.24
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the Director of General Services may sell or exchange, pursuant to Section 11011.1, at fair market...
• California Government Code Section 11011.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services shall transfer to the County of Ventura, no later than October 1, 1998,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.26
  The Director of General Services, subject to the approval of the State Public Works Board and specific authorization by the Legislature that may be provided...
• California Government Code Section 11011.27
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may advertise and award contracts for services related to the disposition of real property, in accordance with this...
• California Government Code Section 11012
  Whenever any state agency, including, but not limited to, state agencies acting in a fiduciary capacity, is authorized to invest funds, or to sell or...
• California Government Code Section 11012.5
  (a) The Director of General Services may exercise the option to accelerate the vesting of title in the state as set forth in the lease...
• California Government Code Section 11013
  The director of any state department, subject to approval of the Department of General Services, may establish and maintain, or by contract or otherwise cause...
• California Government Code Section 11014
  (a) In exercising the powers and duties granted to and imposed upon it, any state agency may construct and maintain communication lines as may be...
• California Government Code Section 11015
  No state funds under the control of an officer or employee of the state, or of any agency thereof, shall ever be used for membership...
• California Government Code Section 11015.5
  (a) On or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order D-3-99, every state agency, including...
• California Government Code Section 11016
  Any state agency may, within the powers otherwise conferred by law upon the state agency, in order that this state may participate in the federal...
• California Government Code Section 11016.1
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, if foreign assistance funds are appropriated by the President of the United States and the Congress...
• California Government Code Section 11016.5
  Each state agency may contract with a joint powers authority that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11016.9
  (a) Each state agency shall establish clear flextime policies and shall direct its managers to encourage the use of flextime. (b) Each state agency shall...
• California Government Code Section 11017
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each state agency in performing its duties shall comply with all local air pollution control rules, regulations, and ordinances...
• California Government Code Section 11017.1
  Each state agency shall take all practical and reasonable steps to recover civil damages for the negligent, willful, or unlawful damaging or taking of state...
• California Government Code Section 11017.5
  (a) When a statute is enacted establishing a new program or requiring interpretation pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, the state agency responsible for the...
• California Government Code Section 11017.6
  Every state agency responsible for implementing a statute which requires interpretation pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act shall prepare, by January 30 of each year,...
• California Government Code Section 11018
  Every state agency which is authorized by any law to conduct administrative hearings but is not subject to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) shall...
• California Government Code Section 11018.5
  (a) The Department of Real Estate, on or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order...
• California Government Code Section 11019
  (a) Any department or authority specified in subdivision (b) may, upon determining that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program...
• California Government Code Section 11019.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but to the extent consistent with applicable federal law or regulation, any state department and the Controller pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11019.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent not in conflict with federal law, if a principal agency is not designated...
• California Government Code Section 11019.7
  (a) No state agency shall send any outgoing United States mail to an individual that contains personal information about that individual, including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 11019.8
  (a) All state agencies, as defined in Section 11000, are encouraged and authorized to cooperate with federally recognized California Indian tribes on matters of economic...
• California Government Code Section 11019.9
  Each state department and state agency shall enact and maintain a permanent privacy policy, in adherence with the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Title 1.8...
• California Government Code Section 11019.10
  Except as provided in the Budget Act and implementing statutes, no automatic increases shall be provided to the University of California, California State University, the...
• California Government Code Section 11020
  (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, all offices of every state agency shall be kept open for the transaction of business from 8 a.m. until...
• California Government Code Section 11020.1
  Notwithstanding Section 11020, the Department of Motor Vehicles may reduce its hours of service for transacting business during the period between 8 a.m. to 5...
• California Government Code Section 11021
  (a) When a state agency is open or operates on Saturday such state agency may operate with a skeleton crew from 9 a.m. to 12...
• California Government Code Section 11022
  Each state agency shall establish a procedure pursuant to which incoming telephone calls on any public line shall be answered within 10 rings during regular...
• California Government Code Section 11030
  All elective constitutional officers, heads of departments, chiefs of divisions, assistants, deputies, agents, experts and other officers and employees of the State when away from...
• California Government Code Section 11030.1
  When a state employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 dies while traveling on official state business, the state...
• California Government Code Section 11030.2
  Any state officer or employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 when working overtime at his or her headquarters...
• California Government Code Section 11030.5
  Any state officer or officer or employee of any state agency may, when traveling on state business, fly in state-owned or leased civil aircraft as...
• California Government Code Section 11031
  The headquarters of elective constitutional officers, other than Members of the Legislature, shall be established by the filing of a written statement with the California...
• California Government Code Section 11031.5
  The headquarters of the Franchise Tax Commissioner is in the City of Sacramento. From and after the effective date of this section the Franchise Tax...
• California Government Code Section 11032
  Any state officer or employee of any state agency may confer with other persons, associations, or organizations outside of the state whenever it may be...
• California Government Code Section 11033
  No state officer or employee shall absent himself or herself from the state on business of the state without the prior approval of the Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 11033.5
  Sections 11032 and 11033 shall not apply to any member of the Commission on Uniform State Laws.
• California Government Code Section 11040
  (a) This article does not affect the right of any state agency or employee to employ counsel in any matter of the state, after first...
• California Government Code Section 11041
  (a) Sections 11042 and 11043 do not apply to the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, Legal Division...
• California Government Code Section 11042
  No state agency, commissioner, or officer shall employ any legal counsel other than the Attorney General, or one of his assistants or deputies, in any...
• California Government Code Section 11043
  Except as to the State agencies and laws specified in Section 11041, whenever any law authorizes any State agency to employ legal counsel other than...
• California Government Code Section 11044
  (a) The Legal Services Revolving Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Department of Justice shall administer this fund. Moneys in the fund,...
• California Government Code Section 11045
  (a) (1) Whenever a state agency requests the consent of the Attorney General to employ outside counsel, as required by Section 11040, the state agency...
• California Government Code Section 11080
  Whenever any state agency is required or authorized by law to prepare and cause the publishing of any notice, advertisement or publication in any newspaper...
• California Government Code Section 11081
  After approval of the notice, advertisement or publication, the Department of General Services shall cause it to be published in the newspapers or other medium...
• California Government Code Section 11090
  On order of the Governor the head of each State agency shall make a report to the Governor giving an account of all matters pertaining...
• California Government Code Section 11091
  The head of each state agency shall make a written report of its activities to the Governor at least biennially, a copy of which shall...
• California Government Code Section 11092
  Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of any statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Filipinos as Filipinos not later...
• California Government Code Section 11092.5
  Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Pacific Islanders as Pacific Islanders not...
• California Government Code Section 11093
  (a) (1) Any state agency or department that develops and maintains data and statistics on the municipal level, shall, in the preparation and maintenance of...
• California Government Code Section 11093.4
  (a) (1) The State Board of Equalization, Employment Development Department, Department of Industrial Relations, Department of Finance, and the Department of Transportation, shall, in the...
• California Government Code Section 11093.5
  (a) (1) The Employment Development Department shall, in the preparation and maintenance of any statistical analyses and data, by city, either by population, fiscal, or...
• California Government Code Section 11094
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to reduce the excessive flow of unsolicited state agency reports which, after being...
• California Government Code Section 11096
  (a) No state agency shall distribute a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, except in response to a specific request therefor, or to the...
• California Government Code Section 11097
  Beginning with the 1984-85 fiscal year, each state agency shall include in its budget request a listing of state publications, as defined in Section 14902,...
• California Government Code Section 11098
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when funding for any legislatively mandated publication is discontinued in the Budget Act, the statutory mandate for that publication...
• California Government Code Section 11099
  Each state agency that publishes or distributes a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, shall file a copy of the publication with the Joint...
• California Government Code Section 11100
  The Controller or other State disbursing officer may secure and use a facsimile signature machine and sign or countersign all warrants or checks issued in...
• California Government Code Section 11101
  The Controller and any other state disbursing officer using that machine may secure forgery insurance protecting himself or herself and all funds under his or...
• California Government Code Section 11102
  The premiums on forgery insurance are a proper charge against appropriations for the support or maintenance of the officer using the machine or the State...
• California Government Code Section 11104.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any requirement that a state agency send material, information, notices, correspondence, or other communication through the United States...
• California Government Code Section 11110
  The form of all bonds of licensees, permittees, and all persons other than public officers and employees, furnishing bonds to a State department, office, board,...
• California Government Code Section 11111
  The Attorney General may from time to time modify or revoke approvals so given.
• California Government Code Section 11112
  The approval, modification, or revocation of the Attorney General shall be by regulation filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 11380.
• California Government Code Section 11113
  The Attorney General may consult with private persons, groups, and associations as to bond forms to be approved, modified, or revoked.
• California Government Code Section 11120
  It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and the proceedings of...
• California Government Code Section 11121
  As used in this article, "state body" means each of the following: (a) Every state board, or commission, or similar multimember body of the state...
• California Government Code Section 11121.1
  As used in this article, "state body" does not include any of the following: (a) State agencies provided for in Article VI of the California...
• California Government Code Section 11121.9
  Each state body shall provide a copy of this article to each member of the state body upon his or her appointment to membership or...
• California Government Code Section 11121.95
  Any person appointed or elected to serve as a member of a state body who has not yet assumed the duties of office shall conform...
• California Government Code Section 11122
  As used in this article "action taken" means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by...
• California Government Code Section 11122.5
  (a) As used in this article, "meeting" includes any congregation of a majority of the members of a state body at the same time and...
• California Government Code Section 11123
  (a) All meetings of a state body shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of a state...
• California Government Code Section 11123.1
  All meetings of a state body that are open and public shall meet the protections and prohibitions contained in Section 202 of the Americans with...
• California Government Code Section 11124
  No person shall be required, as a condition to attendance at a meeting of a state body, to register his or her name, to provide...
• California Government Code Section 11124.1
  (a) Any person attending an open and public meeting of the state body shall have the right to record the proceedings with an audio or...
• California Government Code Section 11125
  (a) The state body shall provide notice of its meeting to any person who requests that notice in writing. Notice shall be given and also...
• California Government Code Section 11125.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6255 or any other provisions of law, agendas of public meetings and other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of...
• California Government Code Section 11125.2
  Any state body shall report publicly at a subsequent public meeting any action taken, and any rollcall vote thereon, to appoint, employ, or dismiss a...
• California Government Code Section 11125.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11125, a state body may take action on items of business not appearing on the posted agenda under any of the conditions...
• California Government Code Section 11125.4
  (a) A special meeting may be called at any time by the presiding officer of the state body or by a majority of the members...
• California Government Code Section 11125.5
  (a) In the case of an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of public...
• California Government Code Section 11125.6
  (a) An emergency meeting may be called at any time by the president of the Fish and Game Commission or by a majority of the...
• California Government Code Section 11125.7
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the state body shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the state...
• California Government Code Section 11125.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11131.5, in any hearing that the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board conducts pursuant to Section 13963.1 and that the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 11125.9
  Regional water quality control boards shall comply with the notification guidelines in Section 11125 and, in addition, shall do both of the following: (a) Notify,...
• California Government Code Section 11126
  (a) (1) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a state body from holding closed sessions during a regular or special meeting to...
• California Government Code Section 11126.1
  The state body shall designate a clerk or other officer or employee of the state body, who shall then attend each closed session of the...
• California Government Code Section 11126.2
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit a state body that has received a confidential final draft audit report from the Bureau...
• California Government Code Section 11126.3
  (a) Prior to holding any closed session, the state body shall disclose, in an open meeting, the general nature of the item or items to...
• California Government Code Section 11126.4
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the California Gambling Control Commission from holding a closed session when discussing matters involving trade...
• California Government Code Section 11126.5
  In the event that any meeting is willfully interrupted by a group or groups of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of such...
• California Government Code Section 11126.7
  No fees may be charged by a state body for providing a notice required by Section 11125 or for carrying out any provision of this...
• California Government Code Section 11127
  Each provision of this article shall apply to every state body unless the body is specifically excepted from that provision by law or is covered...
• California Government Code Section 11128
  Each closed session of a state body shall be held only during a regular or special meeting of the body.
• California Government Code Section 11128.5
  The state body may adjourn any regular, adjourned regular, special, or adjourned special meeting to a time and place specified in the order of adjournment....
• California Government Code Section 11129
  Any hearing being held, or noticed or ordered to be held by a state body at any meeting may by order or notice of continuance...
• California Government Code Section 11130
  (a) The Attorney General, the district attorney, or any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 11130.3
  (a) Any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of obtaining a judicial determination that an action...
• California Government Code Section 11130.5
  A court may award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to the plaintiff in an action brought pursuant to Section 11130 or 11130.3 where it...
• California Government Code Section 11130.7
  Each member of a state body who attends a meeting of that body in violation of any provision of this article, and where the member...
• California Government Code Section 11131
  No state agency shall conduct any meeting, conference, or other function in any facility that prohibits the admittance of any person, or persons, on the...
• California Government Code Section 11131.5
  No notice, agenda, announcement, or report required under this article need identify any victim or alleged victim of crime, tortious sexual conduct, or child abuse...
• California Government Code Section 11132
  Except as expressly authorized by this article, no closed session may be held by any state body.
• California Government Code Section 11135
  (a) No person in the State of California shall, on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color,...
• California Government Code Section 11136
  Whenever a state agency that administers a program or activity that is funded directly by the state or receives any financial assistance from the state,...
• California Government Code Section 11137
  If it is determined that a contractor, grantee, or local agency has violated the provisions of this article, the state agency that administers the program...
• California Government Code Section 11138
  Each state agency that administers a program or activity that is funded directly by the state or receives any financial assistance from the state and...
• California Government Code Section 11139
  The prohibitions and sanctions imposed by this article are in addition to any other prohibitions and sanctions imposed by law. This article shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 11139.3
  (a) It is the policy of this state and the purpose of this section to facilitate and support the development and operation of housing for...
• California Government Code Section 11139.5
  The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, with the advice and concurrence of the Fair Employment and Housing Commission, shall establish standards for determining...
• California Government Code Section 11139.6
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that subdivision (a) of Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution prohibits state and local government...
• California Government Code Section 11139.7
  (a) The Governor's Task Force on Diversity and Outreach, in its August 1, 2000, report, concluded that data on minority business participation is not currently...
• California Government Code Section 11140
  It is the policy of the State of California that the composition of state boards and commissions shall be broadly reflective of the general public...
• California Government Code Section 11141
  In making appointments to state boards and commissions, the Governor and every other appointing authority shall be responsible for nominating a variety of persons of...
• California Government Code Section 11145
  No state agency shall adopt or enforce any rule or regulation a violation of which can result in the imposition of a fine or imprisonment,...
• California Government Code Section 11146
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "State agency" has the same meaning as set forth in Section 82049,...
• California Government Code Section 11146.1
  Each state agency shall offer at least semiannually to each of its filers an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern...
• California Government Code Section 11146.2
  Each state agency shall maintain records indicating the specific attendees, each attendee's job title, and dates of their attendance for each orientation course offered pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11146.3
  Except as set forth in Section 11146.4, each filer shall attend the orientation course required in Section 11146.1, as follows: (a) For a filer who...
• California Government Code Section 11146.4
  (a) The requirements of Section 11146.3 shall not apply to filers with a state agency who have taken an equivalent ethics orientation course through another...
• California Government Code Section 11148
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to assist small businesses in this state in complying with regulatory standards designed...
• California Government Code Section 11148.5
  (a) Each state agency that significantly regulates small business or that significantly impacts small business shall designate at least one person who shall serve as...
• California Government Code Section 11150
  It is the policy of this State to vest in the Governor the civil administration of the laws of the State and for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 11151
  Each department shall maintain an office and the director of each department who is a member of the Governor's council shall reside at Sacramento. Each...
• California Government Code Section 11152
  Subject to the approval of the Governor, the head of each department may arrange and classify the work of the department and consolidate, abolish, or...
• California Government Code Section 11152.5
  Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations...
• California Government Code Section 11153
  Except as otherwise provided by law, each division of a department shall be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the head...
• California Government Code Section 11154
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the head of each department may, with the approval of the Governor, appoint such officers and employees as are...
• California Government Code Section 11155
  The head of a department has no authority to obligate the State for salaries in excess of money available by law for that purpose.
• California Government Code Section 11156
  In addition to any bonds required by the Director of General Services the head of each department may require any officer or employee in his...
• California Government Code Section 11157
  The Attorney General is the legal adviser of each department in all matters relating to the department and to the powers and duties of its...
• California Government Code Section 11158
  The sheriffs in the several counties shall execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties.
• California Government Code Section 11159
  Whenever a department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of a State agency, deputy, employee, or employment, the...
• California Government Code Section 11160
  Whenever a department is invested with the power and is charged with the duty of administering and enforcing any law which imposes a duty or...
• California Government Code Section 11161
  Every person is subject to the same obligations and duties, and has the same rights as if the rights, powers and duties imposed upon and...
• California Government Code Section 11162
  Every State officer, deputy and employee is subject to the same penalties, civil or criminal, for any offense as are prescribed by existing law for...
• California Government Code Section 11180
  The head of each department may make investigations and prosecute actions concerning: (a) All matters relating to the business activities and subjects under the jurisdiction...
• California Government Code Section 11180.5
  At the request of a prosecuting attorney or the Attorney General, any agency, bureau, or department of this state, any other state, or the United...
• California Government Code Section 11181
  In connection with any investigation or action authorized by this article, the department head may do any of the following: (a) Inspect and copy books,...
• California Government Code Section 11182
  The head of a department may delegate the powers conferred upon him by this article to any officer of the department he authorizes to conduct...
• California Government Code Section 11183
  Except in a report to the head of the department or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding at law or as...
• California Government Code Section 11184
  (a) In any hearing in any part of the state or in any investigation conducted under this article, the head of the department shall issue...
• California Government Code Section 11185
  (a) If the witness named in the subpoena is a natural person, the person is not obliged to attend as a witness in any matter...
• California Government Code Section 11186
  The superior court in the county in which any hearing is held or any investigation is conducted under the direction of the head of a...
• California Government Code Section 11187
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), if any witness refuses to answer any interrogatory or to attend or testify or produce or permit the...
• California Government Code Section 11188
  Upon the filing of the petition the court shall enter an order directing the person to appear before the court at a specified time and...
• California Government Code Section 11189
  In any matter pending before a department head, the department head may cause the deposition of persons residing within or without the state to be...
• California Government Code Section 11190
  Any party to any departmental hearing has the right to the attendance of witnesses in his behalf at the hearing or upon deposition upon making...
• California Government Code Section 11191
  Each witness, other than an officer or employee of the State or of a political subdivision of the State, who appears by order of the...
• California Government Code Section 11200
  The Governor, upon recommendation of the director of the following state departments, may appoint not to exceed two chief deputies for the Directors of the...
• California Government Code Section 11200.1
  The Governor, upon nomination by the Insurance Commissioner, shall appoint the nominees as one chief deputy, and as one deputy director of the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11200.4
  The Governor, upon recommendation of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations may appoint not to exceed one chief deputy for the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 11201
  Each deputy appointed pursuant to Section 11200 shall serve at the pleasure of the director of the department in which he is appointed, and his...
• California Government Code Section 11250
  Whenever a State agency supported from the General Fund renders services or furnishes materials to a State agency not supported from the General Fund, the...
• California Government Code Section 11251
  The Controller, after consulting with the Department of Finance, may approve any general plan whereby any state agency which is within a department and which...
• California Government Code Section 11252
  Such adjustments shall be made in accordance with the approved plan by filing a financial statement with the Controller, and requesting the Controller to make...
• California Government Code Section 11253
  Upon written request approved by the Department of General Services, a department shall furnish to another department such assistance as it is able to render...
• California Government Code Section 11255
  The Controller may establish procedures whereby some or all of the payments between funds and appropriations within a state agency and between funds and appropriations...
• California Government Code Section 11256
  Subject to approval of the Director of General Services, state agencies may furnish services, materials or equipment to, or perform work for, other state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 11257
  State agencies may provide for the advancing of funds as herein provided to defray the charges mentioned in Section 11256. Any state agency may, and...
• California Government Code Section 11258
  Any state agency which normally, as a part of its regular operating functions, is engaged in the business of performing work for, or furnishing services,...
• California Government Code Section 11259
  All money received by any state agency, other than the Regents of the University of California, for charges for work, services, materials or equipment shall...
• California Government Code Section 11260
  After work is performed, services are rendered, or materials or equipment are furnished pursuant to advances or transfers made under Sections 11257 and 11258, the...
• California Government Code Section 11261
  Amounts advanced or transferred in accordance with Sections 11257 and 11258 shall be available for expenditure for the same period and purpose as the appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 11262
  Whenever any payment heretofore or hereafter made by a state agency for work, services, materials or equipment performed or furnished under this article or any...
• California Government Code Section 11263
  As used in this article, "state agency" or "state agencies" includes the Department of General Services and any and all organizational units, parts, and subdivisions...
• California Government Code Section 11270
  As used in this article, "administrative costs" means the amounts expended by the Legislature, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the office of the Governor, the office...
• California Government Code Section 11270.1
  (a) The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund shall consist of those amounts...
• California Government Code Section 11271
  The Department of Finance shall determine, and may at any time redetermine, which funds, other than the General Fund and the Central Service Cost Recovery...
• California Government Code Section 11272
  (a) In determining or redetermining the fair share, the Department of Finance may consider the factors of cost distribution and cost estimation as it deems...
• California Government Code Section 11274
  (a) The Department of Finance shall certify annually to the Controller the amount determined to be the fair share of administrative costs due and payable...
• California Government Code Section 11275
  If, upon receipt of the statement provided in Section 11274, the state agency does not have funds available by law for the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 11276
  The Department of Finance may certify at any time during the year to the Controller any amount as it determines, based upon experience of the...
• California Government Code Section 11277
  If, upon receipt of the statement provided in Section 11276, the state agency does not have funds available by law for the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 11290
  The Department of General Services may fix the cost or pro rata share, or in its discretion an amount it considers equivalent to the cost...
• California Government Code Section 11291
  If a state agency refuses to pay the charges fixed by the Department of General Services pursuant to this article, the department may file a...
• California Government Code Section 11292
  All money received pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (d) of Section 11290, except as provided in Section 11293, shall be accounted for to the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 11293
  All money received by the Department of General Services pursuant to paragraph (b) of Section 11290 shall be deposited in the Service Revolving Fund.
• California Government Code Section 11330
  Every state agency having the control of any public institution owned or controlled by the state shall notify the Department of General Services of any...
• California Government Code Section 11331
  Upon receipt of such notices, the Department of General Services shall estimate the selling price of the products upon the basis of their reasonable value...
• California Government Code Section 11332
  No public institution owned or controlled by the state shall purchase any product from any source other than a public institution owned or controlled by...
• California Government Code Section 11333
  If it is impossible or impracticable to sell or exchange agricultural or livestock products between public institutions owned or controlled by the State and its...
• California Government Code Section 11334
  All money received by a state agency for the sale of products shall be accounted for and reported at the end of each month to...
• California Government Code Section 11335
  This article does not limit or prevent sales pursuant to any other law relating to the sale of personal property belonging to the State.
• California Government Code Section 11340
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of administrative regulations in recent years. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 11340.1
  (a) The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the public interest to establish an Office of Administrative Law which shall be charged with the...
• California Government Code Section 11340.2
  (a) The Office of Administrative Law is hereby established in state government. The office shall be under the direction and control of an executive officer...
• California Government Code Section 11340.3
  The director may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as is deemed necessary...
• California Government Code Section 11340.4
  (a) The office is authorized and directed to do the following: (1) Study the subject of administrative rulemaking in all its aspects. (2) In the...
• California Government Code Section 11340.5
  (a) No state agency shall issue, utilize, enforce, or attempt to enforce any guideline, criterion, bulletin, manual, instruction, order, standard of general application, or other...
• California Government Code Section 11340.6
  Except where the right to petition for adoption of a regulation is restricted by statute to a designated group or where the form of procedure...
• California Government Code Section 11340.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), a state...
• California Government Code Section 11340.85
  (a) As used in this section, "electronic communication" includes electronic transmission of written or graphical material by electronic mail, facsimile, or other means, but does...
• California Government Code Section 11340.9
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (a) An agency in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government. (b) A...
• California Government Code Section 11341
  (a) The office shall establish a system to give a unique identification number to each regulatory action. (b) The office and the state agency taking...
• California Government Code Section 11342.1
  Except as provided in Section 11342.4, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any state agency to adopt, administer, or...
• California Government Code Section 11342.2
  Whenever by the express or implied terms of any statute a state agency has authority to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, make specific or otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 11342.4
  The office shall adopt, amend, or repeal regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11342.510
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11342.520
  "Agency" means state agency.
• California Government Code Section 11342.530
  "Building standard" has the same meaning provided in Section 18909 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Government Code Section 11342.535
  "Cost impact" means the amount of reasonable range of direct costs, or a description of the type and extent of direct costs, that a representative...
• California Government Code Section 11342.540
  "Director" means the director of the office.
• California Government Code Section 11342.545
  "Emergency" means a situation that calls for immediate action to avoid serious harm to the public peace, health, safety, or general welfare.
• California Government Code Section 11342.548
  "Major regulation" means any proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law pursuant to Article 6...
• California Government Code Section 11342.550
  "Office" means the Office of Administrative Law.
• California Government Code Section 11342.560
  "Order of repeal" means any resolution, order, or other official act of a state agency that expressly repeals a regulation in whole or in part.
• California Government Code Section 11342.570
  "Performance standard" means a regulation that describes an objective with the criteria stated for achieving the objective.
• California Government Code Section 11342.580
  "Plain English" means language that satisfies the standard of clarity provided in Section 11349.
• California Government Code Section 11342.590
  "Prescriptive standard" means a regulation that specifies the sole means of compliance with a performance standard by specific actions, measurements, or other quantifiable means.
• California Government Code Section 11342.595
  "Proposed action" means the regulatory action, notice of which is submitted to the office for publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register.
• California Government Code Section 11342.600
  "Regulation" means every rule, regulation, order, or standard of general application or the amendment, supplement, or revision of any rule, regulation, order, or standard adopted...
• California Government Code Section 11342.610
  (a) "Small business" means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and...
• California Government Code Section 11343
  Every state agency shall: (a) Transmit to the office for filing with the Secretary of State a certified copy of every regulation adopted or amended...
• California Government Code Section 11343.1
  (a) All regulations transmitted to the Office of Administrative Law for filing with the Secretary of State shall conform to the style prescribed by the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.2
  The Secretary of State shall endorse on the certified copy of each regulation or order of repeal filed with or delivered to him or her,...
• California Government Code Section 11343.4
  A regulation or an order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall become effective on the 30th day after the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.5
  Within 10 days from the receipt of printed copies of the California Code of Regulations or of the California Code of Regulations Supplement from the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.6
  The filing of a certified copy of a regulation or an order of repeal with the Secretary of State raises the rebuttable presumptions that: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 11343.8
  Upon the request of a state agency, the office may file with the Secretary of State and the office may publish in such manner as...
• California Government Code Section 11344
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Provide for the official compilation, printing, and publication of adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations, which...
• California Government Code Section 11344.1
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Provide for the publication of the California Regulatory Notice Register, which shall be an official publication...
• California Government Code Section 11344.2
  The office shall supply a complete set of the California Code of Regulations, and of the California Code of Regulations Supplement to the county clerk...
• California Government Code Section 11344.3
  Every document, other than a notice of proposed rulemaking action, required to be published in the California Regulatory Notice Register by this chapter, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 11344.4
  (a) The California Code of Regulations, the California Code of Regulations Supplement, and the California Regulatory Notice Register shall be sold at prices which will...
• California Government Code Section 11344.6
  The publication of a regulation in the California Code of Regulations or California Code of Regulations Supplement raises a rebuttable presumption that the text of...
• California Government Code Section 11344.7
  Nothing in this chapter precludes any person or state agency from purchasing copies of the California Code of Regulations, the California Code of Regulations Supplement,...
• California Government Code Section 11344.9
  (a) Whenever the term "California Administrative Code" appears in law, official legal paper, or legal publication, it means the "California Code of Regulations." (b) Whenever...
• California Government Code Section 11345
  The office is not required to develop a unique identification number system for each regulatory action pursuant to Section 11341 or to make the California...
• California Government Code Section 11346
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish basic minimum procedural requirements for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of administrative regulations. Except as...
• California Government Code Section 11346.1
  (a) (1) The adoption, amendment, or repeal of an emergency regulation is not subject to any provision of this article or Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11346.2
  Every agency subject to this chapter shall prepare, submit to the office with the notice of the proposed action as described in Section 11346.5, and...
• California Government Code Section 11346.2
  Every agency subject to this chapter shall prepare, submit to the office with the notice of the proposed action as described in Section 11346.5, and...
• California Government Code Section 11346.3
  (a) State agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any administrative regulation shall assess the potential for adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and...
• California Government Code Section 11346.36
  (a) Prior to November 1, 2013, the Department of Finance, in consultation with the office and other state agencies, shall adopt regulations for conducting the...
• California Government Code Section 11346.4
  (a) At least 45 days prior to the hearing and close of the public comment period on the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation,...
• California Government Code Section 11346.45
  (a) In order to increase public participation and improve the quality of regulations, state agencies proposing to adopt regulations shall, prior to publication of the...
• California Government Code Section 11346.5
  (a) The notice of proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation shall include the following: (1) A statement of the time, place, and nature...
• California Government Code Section 11346.6
  (a) This section shall only apply to the following proposed regulations: (1) Regulations proposed by the Department of Rehabilitation. (2) Regulations that must be submitted...
• California Government Code Section 11346.7
  The office shall maintain a link on its website to the website maintained by the Small Business Advocate that also includes the telephone number of...
• California Government Code Section 11346.8
  (a) If a public hearing is held, both oral and written statements, arguments, or contentions, shall be permitted. The agency may impose reasonable limitations on...
• California Government Code Section 11346.9
  Every agency subject to this chapter shall do the following: (a) Prepare and submit to the office with the adopted regulation a final statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11347
  (a) If, after publication of a notice of proposed action pursuant to Section 11346.4, but before the notice of proposed action becomes ineffective pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 11347
  (a) If, after publication of a notice of proposed action pursuant to Section 11346.4, but before the notice of proposed action becomes ineffective pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 11347.1
  (a) An agency that adds any technical, theoretical, or empirical study, report, or similar document to the rulemaking file after publication of the notice of...
• California Government Code Section 11347.3
  (a) Every agency shall maintain a file of each rulemaking that shall be deemed to be the record for that rulemaking proceeding. Commencing no later...
• California Government Code Section 11348
  Each agency subject to this chapter shall keep its rulemaking records on all of that agency's pending rulemaking actions, in which the notice has been...
• California Government Code Section 11349
  The following definitions govern the interpretation of this chapter: (a) "Necessity" means the record of the rulemaking proceeding demonstrates by substantial evidence the need for...
• California Government Code Section 11349.1
  (a) The office shall review all regulations adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to the procedure specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346) and submitted...
• California Government Code Section 11349.1.5
  (a) The Department of Finance and the office shall, from time to time, review the standardized regulatory impact analyses required by subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 11349.2
  An agency may add material to a rulemaking file that has been submitted to the office for review pursuant to this article if addition of...
• California Government Code Section 11349.3
  (a) The office shall either approve a regulation submitted to it for review and transmit it to the Secretary of State for filing or disapprove...
• California Government Code Section 11349.4
  (a) A regulation returned to an agency because of failure to meet the standards of Section 11349.1, because of an agency's failure to comply with...
• California Government Code Section 11349.5
  (a) To initiate a review of a decision by the office, the agency shall file a written Request for Review with the Governor's Legal Affairs...
• California Government Code Section 11349.6
  (a) If the adopting agency has complied with Sections 11346.2 to 11347.3, inclusive, prior to the adoption of the regulation as an emergency, the office...
• California Government Code Section 11349.7
  The office, at the request of any standing, select, or joint committee of the Legislature, shall initiate a priority review of any regulation, group of...
• California Government Code Section 11349.8
  (a) If the office is notified of, or on its own becomes aware of, an existing regulation in the California Code of Regulations for which...
• California Government Code Section 11349.9
  (a) To initiate a review of the office's Notice of Repeal pursuant to Section 11349.8, the agency shall appeal the office's decision by filing a...
• California Government Code Section 11350
  (a) Any interested person may obtain a judicial declaration as to the validity of any regulation or order of repeal by bringing an action for...
• California Government Code Section 11350.3
  Any interested person may obtain a judicial declaration as to the validity of a regulation or order of repeal which the office has disapproved pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11351
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), Article 6 (commencing with Section 11349), Article 7 (commencing with Section 11349.7),...
• California Government Code Section 11352
  The following actions are not subject to this chapter: (a) The issuance, denial, or waiver of any water quality certification as authorized under Section 13160...
• California Government Code Section 11353
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this chapter does not apply to the adoption or revision of state policy for water quality control and...
• California Government Code Section 11354
  Sections 11352 and 11353 do not affect any court's determination, relating to the applicability of this chapter to any provision of a policy, plan, or...
• California Government Code Section 11354.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, "commission" means the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. (b) This chapter does not apply to any policy,...
• California Government Code Section 11356
  (a) Article 6 (commencing with Section 11349) is not applicable to a building standard. (b) Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346) is applicable to those...
• California Government Code Section 11357
  (a) The Department of Finance shall adopt and update, as necessary, instructions for inclusion in the State Administrative Manual prescribing the methods that any agency...
• California Government Code Section 11359
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after January 1, 1982, no new regulation, or the amendment or repeal of any regulation, which...
• California Government Code Section 11361
  This chapter does not apply to the adoption or revision of regulations, guidelines, or criteria to implement the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air,...
• California Government Code Section 11370
  Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)...
• California Government Code Section 11370.1
  As used in the Administrative Procedure Act "director" means the executive officer of the Office of Administrative Hearings.
• California Government Code Section 11370.2
  (a) There is in the Department of General Services the Office of Administrative Hearings which is under the direction and control of an executive officer...
• California Government Code Section 11370.3
  The director shall appoint and maintain a staff of full-time, and may appoint pro tempore part-time, administrative law judges qualified under Section 11502 which is...
• California Government Code Section 11370.4
  The total cost to the state of maintaining and operating the Office of Administrative Hearings shall be determined by, and collected by the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11370.5
  (a) The office is authorized and directed to study the subject of administrative adjudication in all its aspects; to submit its suggestions to the various...
• California Government Code Section 11371
  (a) There is within the Office of Administrative Hearings a Medical Quality Hearing Panel, consisting of no fewer than five full-time administrative law judges. The...
• California Government Code Section 11372
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all adjudicative hearings and proceedings relating to the discipline or reinstatement of licensees of the Medical Board of...
• California Government Code Section 11373
  All adjudicative hearings and proceedings conducted by an administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 shall be conducted under the terms and conditions set...
• California Government Code Section 11373.3
  The Office of Administrative Hearings shall provide facilities and support personnel for the review committee panel and shall assess the Medical Board of California for...
• California Government Code Section 11380
  (a) (1) The office shall hear and render a decision on any appeal filed by a business, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14775, in...
• California Government Code Section 11400
  (a) This chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) constitute the administrative adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. (b) A reference in any...
• California Government Code Section 11400.10
  (a) This chapter is operative on July 1, 1997. (b) This chapter is applicable to an adjudicative proceeding commenced on or after July 1, 1997....
• California Government Code Section 11400.20
  (a) Before, on, or after July 1, 1997, an agency may adopt interim or permanent regulations to govern an adjudicative proceeding under this chapter or...
• California Government Code Section 11405.10
  Unless the provision or context requires otherwise, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11405.20
  "Adjudicative proceeding" means an evidentiary hearing for determination of facts pursuant to which an agency formulates and issues a decision.
• California Government Code Section 11405.30
  "Agency" means a board, bureau, commission, department, division, office, officer, or other administrative unit, including the agency head, and one or more members of the...
• California Government Code Section 11405.40
  "Agency head" means a person or body in which the ultimate legal authority of an agency is vested, and includes a person or body to...
• California Government Code Section 11405.50
  (a) "Decision" means an agency action of specific application that determines a legal right, duty, privilege, immunity, or other legal interest of a particular person....
• California Government Code Section 11405.60
  "Party" includes the agency that is taking action, the person to which the agency action is directed, and any other person named as a party...
• California Government Code Section 11405.70
  "Person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, or public or private organization or entity of any character.
• California Government Code Section 11405.80
  "Presiding officer" means the agency head, member of the agency head, administrative law judge, hearing officer, or other person who presides in an adjudicative proceeding.
• California Government Code Section 11410.10
  This chapter applies to a decision by an agency if, under the federal or state Constitution or a federal or state statute, an evidentiary hearing...
• California Government Code Section 11410.20
  Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute: (a) This chapter applies to all agencies of the state. (b) This chapter does not apply to the...
• California Government Code Section 11410.30
  (a) As used in this section, "local agency" means a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, or other political subdivision or public corporation in...
• California Government Code Section 11410.40
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, by regulation, ordinance, or other appropriate action, an agency may adopt this chapter or any of its provisions...
• California Government Code Section 11410.50
  This chapter applies to an adjudicative proceeding required to be conducted under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) unless the statutes relating to the proceeding...
• California Government Code Section 11410.60
  (a) As used in this section, "quasi-public entity" means an entity, other than a governmental agency, whether characterized by statute as a public corporation, public...
• California Government Code Section 11415.10
  (a) The governing procedure by which an agency conducts an adjudicative proceeding is determined by the statutes and regulations applicable to that proceeding. If no...
• California Government Code Section 11415.20
  A state statute or a federal statute or regulation applicable to a particular agency or decision prevails over a conflicting or inconsistent provision of this
• California Government Code Section 11415.30
  (a) To the extent necessary to avoid a loss or delay of funds or services from the federal government that would otherwise be available to...
• California Government Code Section 11415.40
  Except to the extent prohibited by another statute or regulation, a person may waive a right conferred on the person by the administrative adjudication provisions...
• California Government Code Section 11415.50
  (a) An agency may provide any appropriate procedure for a decision for which an adjudicative proceeding is not required. (b) An adjudicative proceeding is not...
• California Government Code Section 11415.60
  (a) An agency may formulate and issue a decision by settlement, pursuant to an agreement of the parties, without conducting an adjudicative proceeding. Subject to...
• California Government Code Section 11420.10
  (a) An agency, with the consent of all the parties, may refer a dispute that is the subject of an adjudicative proceeding for resolution by...
• California Government Code Section 11420.20
  (a) The Office of Administrative Hearings shall adopt and promulgate model regulations for alternative dispute resolution under this article. The model regulations govern alternative dispute...
• California Government Code Section 11420.30
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a communication made in alternative dispute resolution under this article is protected to the following extent: (a) Anything said,...
• California Government Code Section 11425.10
  (a) The governing procedure by which an agency conducts an adjudicative proceeding is subject to all of the following requirements: (1) The agency shall give...
• California Government Code Section 11425.20
  (a) A hearing shall be open to public observation. Nothing in this subdivision limits the authority of the presiding officer to order closure of a...
• California Government Code Section 11425.30
  (a) A person may not serve as presiding officer in an adjudicative proceeding in any of the following circumstances: (1) The person has served as...
• California Government Code Section 11425.40
  (a) The presiding officer is subject to disqualification for bias, prejudice, or interest in the proceeding. (b) It is not alone or in itself grounds...
• California Government Code Section 11425.50
  (a) The decision shall be in writing and shall include a statement of the factual and legal basis for the decision. (b) The statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11425.60
  (a) A decision may not be expressly relied on as precedent unless it is designated as a precedent decision by the agency. (b) An agency...
• California Government Code Section 11430.10
  (a) While the proceeding is pending there shall be no communication, direct or indirect, regarding any issue in the proceeding, to the presiding officer from...
• California Government Code Section 11430.20
  A communication otherwise prohibited by Section 11430.10 is permissible in any of the following circumstances: (a) The communication is required for disposition of an ex...
• California Government Code Section 11430.30
  A communication otherwise prohibited by Section 11430.10 from an employee or representative of an agency that is a party to the presiding officer is permissible...
• California Government Code Section 11430.40
  If, while the proceeding is pending but before serving as presiding officer, a person receives a communication of a type that would be in violation...
• California Government Code Section 11430.50
  (a) If a presiding officer receives a communication in violation of this article, the presiding officer shall make all of the following a part of...
• California Government Code Section 11430.60
  Receipt by the presiding officer of a communication in violation of this article may be grounds for disqualification of the presiding officer. If the presiding...
• California Government Code Section 11430.70
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), the provisions of this article governing ex parte communications to the presiding officer also govern ex parte communications...
• California Government Code Section 11430.80
  (a) There shall be no communication, direct or indirect, while a proceeding is pending regarding the merits of any issue in the proceeding, between the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.05
  As used in this article, "language assistance" means oral interpretation or written translation into English of a language other than English or of English into...
• California Government Code Section 11435.10
  Nothing in this article limits the application or effect of Section 754 of the Evidence Code to interpretation for a deaf or hard-of-hearing party or...
• California Government Code Section 11435.15
  (a) The following state agencies shall provide language assistance in adjudicative proceedings to the extent provided in this article: Agricultural Labor Relations Board Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11435.20
  (a) The hearing, or any medical examination conducted for the purpose of determining compensation or monetary award, shall be conducted in English. (b) If a...
• California Government Code Section 11435.25
  (a) The cost of providing an interpreter under this article shall be paid by the agency having jurisdiction over the matter if the presiding officer...
• California Government Code Section 11435.30
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall establish, maintain, administer, and publish annually an updated list of certified administrative hearing interpreters it has determined meet the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.35
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall establish, maintain, administer, and publish annually, an updated list of certified medical examination interpreters it has determined meet the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.40
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall designate the languages for which certification shall be established under Sections 11435.30 and 11435.35. The languages designated shall include,...
• California Government Code Section 11435.45
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall establish and charge fees for applications to take interpreter examinations and for renewal of certifications. The purpose of these...
• California Government Code Section 11435.50
  The State Personnel Board may remove the name of a person from the list of certified interpreters if any of the following conditions occurs: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 11435.55
  (a) An interpreter used in a hearing shall be certified pursuant to Section 11435.30. However, if an interpreter certified pursuant to Section 11435.30 cannot be...
• California Government Code Section 11435.60
  Every agency subject to the language assistance requirement of this article shall advise each party of the right to an interpreter at the same time...
• California Government Code Section 11435.65
  (a) The rules of confidentiality of the agency, if any, that apply in an adjudicative proceeding shall apply to any interpreter in the hearing or...
• California Government Code Section 11440.10
  (a) The agency head may do any of the following with respect to a decision of the presiding officer or the agency: (1) Determine to...
• California Government Code Section 11440.20
  Service of a writing on, or giving of a notice to, a person in a procedure provided in this chapter is subject to the following...
• California Government Code Section 11440.30
  (a) The presiding officer may conduct all or part of a hearing by telephone, television, or other electronic means if each participant in the hearing...
• California Government Code Section 11440.40
  (a) In any proceeding under subdivision (h) or (i) of Section 12940, or Section 19572 or 19702, alleging conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, sexual assault,...
• California Government Code Section 11440.45
  (a) In any proceedings pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500), the portion of statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy...
• California Government Code Section 11440.50
  (a) This section applies in adjudicative proceedings of an agency if the agency by regulation provides that this section is applicable in the proceedings. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 11440.60
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) "Quasi-judicial proceeding" means any of the following: (A) A proceeding to...
• California Government Code Section 11445.10
  (a) Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the informal hearing procedure provided in this article. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 11445.20
  Subject to Section 11445.30, an agency may use an informal hearing procedure in any of the following proceedings, if in the circumstances its use does...
• California Government Code Section 11445.30
  (a) The notice of hearing shall state the agency's selection of the informal hearing procedure. (b) Any objection of a party to use of the...
• California Government Code Section 11445.40
  (a) Except as provided in this article, the hearing procedures otherwise required by statute for an adjudicative proceeding apply to an informal hearing. (b) In...
• California Government Code Section 11445.50
  (a) The presiding officer may deny use of the informal hearing procedure, or may convert an informal hearing to a formal hearing after an informal...
• California Government Code Section 11445.60
  (a) If the presiding officer has reason to believe that material facts are in dispute, the presiding officer may require a party to state the...
• California Government Code Section 11450.05
  (a) This article applies in an adjudicative proceeding required to be conducted under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500). (b) An agency may use the...
• California Government Code Section 11450.10
  (a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be issued for attendance at a hearing and for production of documents at any reasonable time and place...
• California Government Code Section 11450.20
  (a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum shall be issued by the agency or presiding officer at the request of a party, or by the attorney...
• California Government Code Section 11450.30
  (a) A person served with a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may object to its terms by a motion for a protective order, including...
• California Government Code Section 11450.40
  A witness appearing pursuant to a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum, other than a party, shall receive for the appearance the following mileage and...
• California Government Code Section 11450.50
  (a) In the case of the production of a party to the record of a proceeding or of a person for whose benefit a proceeding...
• California Government Code Section 11455.10
  A person is subject to the contempt sanction for any of the following in an adjudicative proceeding before an agency: (a) Disobedience of or resistance...
• California Government Code Section 11455.20
  (a) The presiding officer or agency head may certify the facts that justify the contempt sanction against a person to the superior court in and...
• California Government Code Section 11455.30
  (a) The presiding officer may order a party, the party's attorney or other authorized representative, or both, to pay reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred...
• California Government Code Section 11460.10
  Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the emergency decision procedure provided in this article.
• California Government Code Section 11460.20
  (a) An agency may issue an emergency decision for temporary, interim relief under this article if the agency has adopted a regulation that provides that...
• California Government Code Section 11460.30
  (a) An agency may only issue an emergency decision under this article in a situation involving an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or...
• California Government Code Section 11460.40
  (a) Before issuing an emergency decision under this article, the agency shall, if practicable, give the person to which the agency action is directed notice...
• California Government Code Section 11460.50
  (a) The agency shall issue an emergency decision, including a brief explanation of the factual and legal basis and reasons for the emergency decision, to...
• California Government Code Section 11460.60
  (a) After issuing an emergency decision under this article for temporary, interim relief, the agency shall conduct an adjudicative proceeding under a formal, informal, or...
• California Government Code Section 11460.70
  The agency record consists of any documents concerning the matter that were considered or prepared by the agency. The agency shall maintain these documents as...
• California Government Code Section 11460.80
  (a) On issuance of an emergency decision under this article, the person to which the agency action is directed may obtain judicial review of the...
• California Government Code Section 11465.10
  Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the declaratory decision procedure provided in this article.
• California Government Code Section 11465.20
  (a) A person may apply to an agency for a declaratory decision as to the applicability to specified circumstances of a statute, regulation, or decision...
• California Government Code Section 11465.30
  Within 30 days after receipt of an application for a declaratory decision, an agency shall give notice of the application to all persons to which...
• California Government Code Section 11465.40
  The provisions of a formal, informal, or other applicable hearing procedure do not apply to an agency proceeding for a declaratory decision except to the...
• California Government Code Section 11465.50
  (a) Within 60 days after receipt of an application for a declaratory decision, an agency shall do one of the following, in writing: (1) Issue...
• California Government Code Section 11465.60
  (a) A declaratory decision shall contain the names of all parties to the proceeding, the particular facts on which it is based, and the reasons...
• California Government Code Section 11465.70
  (a) The Office of Administrative Hearings shall adopt and promulgate model regulations under this article that are consistent with the public interest and with the...
• California Government Code Section 11470.10
  (a) Subject to any applicable regulation adopted under Section 11470.50, at any point in an agency proceeding the presiding officer or other agency official responsible...
• California Government Code Section 11470.20
  If the presiding officer or other agency official responsible for the original proceeding would not have authority over the new proceeding to which it is...
• California Government Code Section 11470.30
  To the extent practicable and consistent with the rights of parties and the requirements of this article relating to the new proceeding, the record of...
• California Government Code Section 11470.40
  After a proceeding is converted from one type to another, the presiding officer or other agency official responsible for the new proceeding shall do all...
• California Government Code Section 11470.50
  An agency may adopt regulations to govern the conversion of one type of proceeding to another. The regulations may include an enumeration of the factors...
• California Government Code Section 11475
  The rules imposed by this article may be referred to as the Administrative Adjudication Code of Ethics.
• California Government Code Section 11475.10
  (a) This article applies to the following persons: (1) An administrative law judge. As used in this subdivision, "administrative law judge" means an incumbent of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.20
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Code of Judicial Ethics adopted by the Supreme Court pursuant to subdivision (m) of Section 18 of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.30
  For the purpose of this article, the following terms used in the Code of Judicial Ethics have the meanings provided in this section: (a) "Appeal"...
• California Government Code Section 11475.40
  The following provisions of the Code of Judicial Ethics do not apply under this article: (a) Canon 3B(7), to the extent it relates to ex...
• California Government Code Section 11475.50
  A violation of an applicable provision of the Code of Judicial Ethics, or a violation of the restrictions and prohibitions on accepting honoraria, gifts, or...
• California Government Code Section 11475.60
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a person to whom this article applies shall comply immediately with all applicable provisions of the Code of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.70
  Nothing in this article shall be construed or is intended to limit or affect the rights of an administrative law judge or other presiding officer...
• California Government Code Section 11500
  In this chapter unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: (a) "Agency" includes the state boards, commissions, and officers to which this chapter is...
• California Government Code Section 11501
  (a) This chapter applies to any agency as determined by the statutes relating to that agency. (b) This chapter applies to an adjudicative proceeding of...
• California Government Code Section 11502
  (a) All hearings of state agencies required to be conducted under this chapter shall be conducted by administrative law judges on the staff of the...
• California Government Code Section 11503
  A hearing to determine whether a right, authority, license or privilege should be revoked, suspended, limited or conditioned shall be initiated by filing an accusation....
• California Government Code Section 11504
  A hearing to determine whether a right, authority, license, or privilege should be granted, issued, or renewed shall be initiated by filing a statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11504.5
  In the following sections of this chapter, all references to accusations shall be deemed to be applicable to statements of issues except in those cases...
• California Government Code Section 11505
  (a) Upon the filing of the accusation the agency shall serve a copy thereof on the respondent as provided in subdivision (c). The agency may...
• California Government Code Section 11506
  (a) Within 15 days after service of the accusation the respondent may file with the agency a notice of defense in which the respondent may:...
• California Government Code Section 11507
  At any time before the matter is submitted for decision the agency may file or permit the filing of an amended or supplemental accusation. All...
• California Government Code Section 11507.3
  (a) When proceedings that involve a common question of law or fact are pending, the administrative law judge on the judge's own motion or on...
• California Government Code Section 11507.5
  The provisions of Section 11507.6 provide the exclusive right to and method of discovery as to any proceeding governed by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11507.6
  After initiation of a proceeding in which a respondent or other party is entitled to a hearing on the merits, a party, upon written request...
• California Government Code Section 11507.7
  (a) Any party claiming the party's request for discovery pursuant to Section 11507.6 has not been complied with may serve and file with the administrative...
• California Government Code Section 11508
  (a) The agency shall consult the office, and subject to the availability of its staff, shall determine the time and place of the hearing. The...
• California Government Code Section 11509
  The agency shall deliver or mail a notice of hearing to all parties at least 10 days prior to the hearing. The hearing shall not...
• California Government Code Section 11511
  On verified petition of any party, an administrative law judge or, if an administrative law judge has not been appointed, an agency may order that...
• California Government Code Section 11511.5
  (a) On motion of a party or by order of an administrative law judge, the administrative law judge may conduct a prehearing conference. The administrative...
• California Government Code Section 11511.7
  (a) The administrative law judge may order the parties to attend and participate in a settlement conference. The administrative law judge shall set the time...
• California Government Code Section 11512
  (a) Every hearing in a contested case shall be presided over by an administrative law judge. The agency itself shall determine whether the administrative law...
• California Government Code Section 11513
  (a) Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. (b) Each party shall have these rights: to call and examine witnesses, to introduce...
• California Government Code Section 11514
  (a) At any time 10 or more days prior to a hearing or a continued hearing, any party may mail or deliver to the opposing...
• California Government Code Section 11515
  In reaching a decision official notice may be taken, either before or after submission of the case for decision, of any generally accepted technical or...
• California Government Code Section 11516
  The agency may order amendment of the accusation after submission of the case for decision. Each party shall be given notice of the intended amendment...
• California Government Code Section 11517
  (a) A contested case may be originally heard by the agency itself and subdivision (b) shall apply. Alternatively, at the discretion of the agency, an...
• California Government Code Section 11518
  Copies of the decision shall be delivered to the parties personally or sent to them by registered mail.
• California Government Code Section 11518.5
  (a) Within 15 days after service of a copy of the decision on a party, but not later than the effective date of the decision,...
• California Government Code Section 11519
  (a) The decision shall become effective 30 days after it is delivered or mailed to respondent unless: a reconsideration is ordered within that time, or...
• California Government Code Section 11519.1
  (a) A decision rendered against a licensee under Article 1 (commencing with Section 11700) of Chapter 4 of Division 5 of the Vehicle Code may...
• California Government Code Section 11520
  (a) If the respondent either fails to file a notice of defense or to appear at the hearing, the agency may take action based upon...
• California Government Code Section 11521
  (a) The agency itself may order a reconsideration of all or part of the case on its own motion or on petition of any party....
• California Government Code Section 11522
  A person whose license has been revoked or suspended may petition the agency for reinstatement or reduction of penalty after a period of not less...
• California Government Code Section 11523
  Judicial review may be had by filing a petition for a writ of mandate in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure,...
• California Government Code Section 11524
  (a) The agency may grant continuances. When an administrative law judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings has been assigned to the hearing, no continuance...
• California Government Code Section 11526
  The members of an agency qualified to vote on any question may vote by mail or another appropriate method.
• California Government Code Section 11527
  Any sums authorized to be expended under this chapter by any agency shall be a legal charge against the funds of the agency.
• California Government Code Section 11528
  In any proceedings under this chapter any agency, agency member, secretary of an agency, hearing reporter, or administrative law judge has power to administer oaths...
• California Government Code Section 11529
  (a) The administrative law judge of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel established pursuant to Section 11371 may issue an interim order suspending a license, or...
• California Government Code Section 11531
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Technology Act of 2005.
• California Government Code Section 11532
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Board member" means a member of...
• California Government Code Section 11534
  (a) There is in state government, in the California Technology Agency, the Office of Technology Services. (b) The purpose of this article is to establish...
• California Government Code Section 11535
  (a) There is, in the Office of Technology Services, the Technology Services Board. (b) The board shall consist of 13 members, as follows: (1) The...
• California Government Code Section 11536
  The board shall meet not less than once each quarter. A quorum shall consist of seven members of the board. All decisions of the board...
• California Government Code Section 11537
  (a) The Secretary of California Technology shall engage an independent firm of certified public accountants to conduct an annual financial audit of all accounts and...
• California Government Code Section 11538
  The director shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Governor, subject to Senate confirmation. The director shall act as executive officer...
• California Government Code Section 11539
  The director shall be responsible for managing the affairs of the Office of Technology Services and shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction,...
• California Government Code Section 11540
  (a) The director shall propose for board consideration and approval an annual budget for the Office of Technology Services' operations. (b) The Secretary of California...
• California Government Code Section 11541
  (a) The Office of Technology Services may acquire, install, equip, maintain, and operate new or existing business telecommunications systems and services. Acquisitions for information technology...
• California Government Code Section 11541.5
  (a) The Office of Technology Services shall create a link to state agency Internet Web sites at the State of California Internet portal specifically for...
• California Government Code Section 11542
  (a) (1) The Stephen P. Teale Data Center and the California Health and Human Services Agency Data Center are consolidated within, and their functions are...
• California Government Code Section 11543
  (a) The Secretary of California Technology shall confer as frequently as necessary or desirable, but not less than once every quarter, with the board, on...
• California Government Code Section 11544
  (a) The Technology Services Revolving Fund, hereafter known as the fund, is hereby created within the State Treasury. The fund shall be administered by the...
• California Government Code Section 11545
  (a) (1) There is in state government the California Technology Agency. The Secretary of California Technology shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure...
• California Government Code Section 11546
  (a) The California Technology Agency shall be responsible for the approval and oversight of information technology projects, which shall include, but are not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 11546.1
  The California Technology Agency shall improve the governance and implementation of information technology by standardizing reporting relationships, roles, and responsibilities for setting information technology priorities....
• California Government Code Section 11546.2
  On or before February 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, each state agency and state entity subject to Section 11546.1, shall submit, as instructed by the...
• California Government Code Section 11546.3
  (a) (1) A chief information officer appointed under Section 11546.1 shall develop a plan to leverage cost-effective strategies to reduce the total amount of energy...
• California Government Code Section 11546.4
  Notwithstanding any other law, any service contract proposed to be entered into by an agency that would not otherwise be subject to review, approval, or...
• California Government Code Section 11546.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all employees of the California Technology Agency shall be designated as excluded from collective bargaining pursuant to subdivision (b)...
• California Government Code Section 11546.6
  (a) The State Chief Information Officer shall require fingerprint images and associated information from an employee, prospective employee, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, or vendor whose duties...
• California Government Code Section 11547
  The Department of Finance shall perform fiscal oversight of the state's information technology projects. This oversight shall consist of a determination of the availability of...
• California Government Code Section 11548
  This chapter shall not apply to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Legislature, or the Legislative Data Center in the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
• California Government Code Section 11548.5
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Government Code Section 11549
  (a) There is in state government, in the California Technology Agency, the Office of Information Security. The purpose of the Office of Information Security is...
• California Government Code Section 11549.1
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Information Security. (b) "Office"...
• California Government Code Section 11549.3
  (a) The director shall establish an information security program. The program responsibilities include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) The creation,...
• California Government Code Section 11549.4
  The office shall consult with the State Chief Information Officer, the California Emergency Management Agency, the Director of General Services, the Director of Finance, and...
• California Government Code Section 11549.5
  (a) There is hereby created, in the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Office of Privacy Protection. The purpose of the Office of Privacy Protection...
• California Government Code Section 11549.7
  The Office of Privacy Protection shall be under the direction of a director who shall report to the Secretary of State and Consumer Services and...
• California Government Code Section 11549.8
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Privacy Protection. (b) "Office"...
• California Government Code Section 11549.10
  This chapter shall not apply to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Legislature, or the Legislative Data Center in the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
• California Government Code Section 11550
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of ninety-one thousand fifty-four dollars ($91,054) shall be paid to each of the following: (1) Director of...
• California Government Code Section 11552
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of eighty-five thousand four hundred two dollars ($85,402) shall be paid to each of the following: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 11553
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of eighty-one thousand six hundred thirty-five dollars ($81,635) shall be paid to each of the following: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 11553.5
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of seventy-nine thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars ($79,122) shall be paid to the following: (1) Member of...
• California Government Code Section 11554
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of seventy-five thousand three hundred fifty-four dollars ($75,354) shall be paid to each of the following: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 11554.5
  Effective July 1, 2007, an annual salary of two hundred twenty-two thousand dollars ($222,000) shall be paid to the State Public Health Officer. The annual...
• California Government Code Section 11555
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of seventy-one thousand five hundred eighty-seven dollars ($71,587) shall be paid to the following: (1) Chairperson of...
• California Government Code Section 11556
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of sixty-nine thousand seventy-six dollars ($69,076) shall be paid to each of the following: (1) Commissioner of...
• California Government Code Section 11561
  An annual salary of twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars ($25,500) shall be paid to each member of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board.
• California Government Code Section 11563.7
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of twenty-five thousand one hundred eighteen dollars ($25,118) shall be paid to each member of the State...
• California Government Code Section 11564
  (a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of twenty-five thousand one hundred eighteen dollars ($25,118) shall be paid to each member of the State...
• California Government Code Section 11564.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a member of a board, commission, committee, or similarly constituted body created by executive order or statute, is...
• California Government Code Section 11565
  If the salary specified in Article 1 (commencing with Section 11550) for any particular position is greater than the salary which the incumbent is receiving...
• California Government Code Section 11565.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 11553, 11553.5, 11555, 11556, 11563.7, and 11564, with respect to any salary increase made after January 1, 1997, for nonelected members of state...
• California Government Code Section 11566
  If the salary specified in Article 1 (commencing with Section 11550) for any particular position is less than the salary which the incumbent is receiving...
• California Government Code Section 11567
  If any constitutional provision prevents an increase in the salary during the term of office of a position for which an increase is provided by...
• California Government Code Section 11568
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be superseded or modified by any subsequent legislation except to the extent that such legislation shall do so
• California Government Code Section 11569
  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this chapter or of any statute specifying the salary to be paid to any state officer, in any fiscal year...
• California Government Code Section 11675
  There is established a Committee on Executive Salaries which shall consist of the following: (1) the Governor's Appointment Secretary, (2) two Members of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 11676
  The members of the committee shall be appointed for a period of one year.
• California Government Code Section 11677
  Staff assistance to the committee shall be supplied jointly by the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the State Personnel Board.
• California Government Code Section 11678
  The committee shall investigate and study all pertinent data regarding salary changes of state personnel and similar executive positions in private and other government organizations....
• California Government Code Section 11679
  The Members of the Legislature appointed to the committee shall meet with and participate in the work of the committee to the extent that such...
• California Government Code Section 11786
  (a) The Information Technology Innovation Council is hereby established in state government. (b) The council shall be composed of the following members: (1) Two representatives...
• California Government Code Section 11786.1
  (a) (1) No later than three months from the date of the enactment of the 2000-01 Budget Act, the Department of Finance and the Department...
• California Government Code Section 11786.2
  (a) The Information Technology Innovation Council shall evaluate competing project applications based on the guidelines established pursuant to Section 13161, and shall make recommendations to...
• California Government Code Section 11786.3
  (a) No grant approved under this chapter may be funded sooner than 30 days after written notice is provided by the Department of Finance to...
• California Government Code Section 11786.4
  (a) The Department of Finance shall provide funding for an outside vendor to conduct an independent evaluation of projects implemented pursuant to this chapter, and...
• California Government Code Section 11786.5
  This chapter shall not apply to the University of California, the California State University, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, community college districts, or the judicial...
• California Government Code Section 11786.6
  Funding for this chapter shall be subject to appropriations made for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.
• California Government Code Section 11790
  (a) There is in the Department of Justice the Hawkins Data Center. (b) The data center shall be under the supervision of a data center...
• California Government Code Section 11800
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Performance and Results Act of 1993.
• California Government Code Section 11801
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Legislature has an interest in improving the delivery of governmental services through the use of strategic...
• California Government Code Section 11810
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the State Government Strategic Planning and Performance and Review Act.
• California Government Code Section 11813
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Waste and inefficiency in state government undermine the confidence of Californians in government and reduces the state...
• California Government Code Section 11816
  Each agency, department, office, or commission for which strategic planning efforts are recommended pursuant to Section 11815 shall develop a strategic plan and shall report...
• California Government Code Section 11817
  It is the intent of the Legislature that strategic plans developed pursuant to Section 11816 form the basis for conducting performance reviews pursuant to this...
• California Government Code Section 11840
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The current regulatory responsibility for medical services is spread among many governmental entities including all...
• California Government Code Section 12001
  The Governor may appoint and fix the salaries of such assistants and other personnel as he deems necessary for his office. No salary fixed under...
• California Government Code Section 12001.5
  The Governor shall appoint a person to represent the state in Washington, D.C. to identify revenue sources available to the state in connection with the...
• California Government Code Section 12001.7
  The person appointed by the Governor pursuant to Section 12001.5 shall furnish the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly an...
• California Government Code Section 12002
  Every law of this State relating to the powers and duties of the Governor and to acts and duties to be performed by others toward...
• California Government Code Section 12010
  The Governor shall supervise the official conduct of all executive and ministerial officers.
• California Government Code Section 12010.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of statutory law, the Governor shall determine the distribution in the executive agencies of deputies or employees selected pursuant to subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 12010.6
  (a) The purpose of this section is to increase the Governor's managerial flexibility without increasing costs. It is the intent of the Legislature that positions...
• California Government Code Section 12011
  The Governor shall see that all offices are filled and their duties performed. If default occurs, he shall apply such remedy as the law allows....
• California Government Code Section 12011.5
  (a) In the event of a vacancy in a judicial office to be filled by appointment of the Governor, or in the event that a...
• California Government Code Section 12012
  The Governor is the sole official organ of communication between the government of this State and the government of any other State or of the...
• California Government Code Section 12012.1
  Whenever a treaty is in force providing for the transfer of offenders between the United States and a foreign country, the Governor or his designee...
• California Government Code Section 12012.5
  (a) The following tribal-state compacts entered in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 et seq. and 25 U.S.C....
• California Government Code Section 12012.25
  (a) The following tribal-state gaming compacts entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to 1168, incl.,...
• California Government Code Section 12012.30
  The tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to 1168, incl., and 25...
• California Government Code Section 12012.35
  (a) The tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to 1168, incl., and...
• California Government Code Section 12012.40
  (a) The following amendments to tribal-state gaming compacts entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.45
  (a) The following tribal-state gaming compacts and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18...
• California Government Code Section 12012.46
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.465
  The memorandum of agreement entered into between the State of California and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, executed on June 27, 2007, is...
• California Government Code Section 12012.47
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.475
  The letter of agreement entered into between the State of California and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, executed on September 5, 2007, is...
• California Government Code Section 12012.48
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.485
  The memorandum of agreement entered into between the State of California and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, executed on June 27, 2007, is hereby
• California Government Code Section 12012.49
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.495
  The memorandum of agreement entered into between the State of California and the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, executed on June 27, 2007, is hereby
• California Government Code Section 12012.51
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.515
  The memorandum of agreement entered into between the State of California and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, executed on June 27, 2007, is...
• California Government Code Section 12012.52
  (a) The tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1166 to 1168, incl., and...
• California Government Code Section 12012.53
  (a) The amendment to the tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to...
• California Government Code Section 12012.54
  (a) The tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to 1168, incl., and...
• California Government Code Section 12012.551
  (a) The tribal-state gaming compact entered into in accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1166 to 1168, incl., and...
• California Government Code Section 12012.75
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund called the "Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Trust Fund" for the receipt and deposit of...
• California Government Code Section 12012.85
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund called the "Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund" for the receipt and deposit of moneys received...
• California Government Code Section 12012.90
  (a) (1) For each fiscal year commencing with the 2002-03 fiscal year to the 2004-05 fiscal year, inclusive, the California Gambling Control Commission shall determine...
• California Government Code Section 12013
  The Governor may direct the Attorney General to appear on behalf of the State and may employ such additional counsel as he deems expedient whenever...
• California Government Code Section 12014
  The Governor may require the Attorney General or the district attorney of any county to inquire into the affairs or management of any corporation existing...
• California Government Code Section 12015
  The Legislature declares it to be the purpose of this article to promote the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration...
• California Government Code Section 12015.5
  The Governor may appoint for a period not to exceed 60 calendar days after the conclusion of his term of office persons to assist the...
• California Government Code Section 12017
  At each session the Governor shall report to the Legislature each reprieve, pardon, and commutation granted, stating the name of the convict, the crime of...
• California Government Code Section 12018
  Except as otherwise provided by statute, the Governor may designate which single state agency shall be responsible for each federal program in which federal money...
• California Government Code Section 12019
  (a) The Director of e-Government in the office of the Governor shall direct the development of, and shall make operational by July 1, 2003, an...
• California Government Code Section 12020
  The budget submitted by the Governor to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session shall contain a statement of accounts payable...
• California Government Code Section 12021
  The budget submitted by the Governor to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session shall contain a statement of cash flow...
• California Government Code Section 12021.3
  The budget for the 1983-84 and 1984-85 fiscal years submitted by the Governor to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session...
• California Government Code Section 12022
  The Governor shall annually provide to the Director of Finance an itemized statement of proposed expenditures, including special contingent expenses for support of the Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 12023
  The Governor shall annually issue a report to the public on the expenditures for support of his or her office on December 31. The report...
• California Government Code Section 12024
  The budget submitted by the Governor shall contain a statement on the estimated growth of property tax revenue for the fiscal year, and specific detail...
• California Government Code Section 12030
  The Governor shall cause the following registers to be kept: (a) All applications for pardon or for commutation of any sentence, with a list of...
• California Government Code Section 12031
  He shall cause accounts to be kept of: (a) All his official expenses and disbursements, including the incidental expenses of his office. (b) All rewards...
• California Government Code Section 12033
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that a vast and largely untapped reservoir of talent exists among the citizenry of the State of California, and...
• California Government Code Section 12033.1
  (a) The Governor shall prepare and maintain an Open Central Registry of Appointive Offices, which shall be known as the State Appointments List, that shall...
• California Government Code Section 12033.2
  The Governor shall make copies of all information on the State Appointments List and updated materials available to any organization or person for a reasonable...
• California Government Code Section 12033.3
  The State Appointments List located throughout the state shall contain the following: (a) A list of all boards and commissions to which the Governor, any...
• California Government Code Section 12033.4
  All new appointments shall be posted in the State Appointments List within 20 working days after they are made. All unscheduled vacancies shall be posted...
• California Government Code Section 12040
  This article shall be known as the California State Government Wellness and Physical Fitness Act.
• California Government Code Section 12041
  The Legislature finds and declares that wellness and physical fitness should be the goal of every American and, therefore, creates the Council on Wellness and...
• California Government Code Section 12042
  There is in the office of the Governor a Council on Wellness and Physical Fitness, hereinafter referred to as "council" which shall advocate and encourage...
• California Government Code Section 12058
  In case of vacancy in the office of Governor and in the office of Lieutenant Governor, the last duly elected President pro Tempore of the...
• California Government Code Section 12058.5
  In case of the death, disability or other failure to take office of the Governor-elect, whether occurring prior or subsequent to the returns of election,...
• California Government Code Section 12059
  In case of the death, disability or other failure to take office of both the Governor-elect and the Lieutenant Governor-elect, the last duly elected President...
• California Government Code Section 12060
  As used in this article "disaster" means a war or enemy-caused calamity occurring in the State of California, such as an attack by nuclear weapons,...
• California Government Code Section 12061
  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this article, and thereafter as soon as practicable after his election and qualification to office, the...
• California Government Code Section 12062
  In the event that the office of Governor is not filled within 24 hours after disaster as provided in Section 21 of Article IV of...
• California Government Code Section 12063
  Each Disaster Acting Governor shall, while filling the office of Governor, have the powers, perform all the duties, and receive the salary and perquisites of...
• California Government Code Section 12070
  There is in the state government a Commission on the Governorship, consisting of the President pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly,...
• California Government Code Section 12071
  The commission shall have exclusive authority to petition the Supreme Court to determine any questions that arise relating to vacancies in and succession to the...
• California Government Code Section 12072
  The commission shall have exclusive authority to petition the Supreme Court to decide any questions relating to the existence of a temporary disability of the
• California Government Code Section 12073
  The commission shall have exclusive authority to petition the Supreme Court to decide any questions relating to the termination of the temporary disability of the
• California Government Code Section 12074
  The President pro Tempore of the Senate shall be chairman of the commission and the Speaker of the Assembly shall be vice chairman. The commission...
• California Government Code Section 12075
  The commission may file a petition pursuant to Sections 12071, 12072, or 12073 only if a majority of the members of the commission vote to...
• California Government Code Section 12076
  The commission shall have the power of a head of a department to make investigations to determine whether or not a petition should be filed...
• California Government Code Section 12080
  As used in this article: (a) "Agency" means any statewide office, nonelective officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency in the executive branch of...
• California Government Code Section 12080.1
  The Governor, from time to time, shall examine the organization of all agencies and shall determine what changes therein are necessary to accomplish one or...
• California Government Code Section 12080.2
  Whenever the Governor finds that reorganization is in the public interest, he shall prepare one or more reorganization plans in the form and language of...
• California Government Code Section 12080.3
  Each reorganization plan transmitted by the Governor under this article: (a) May change the name of any agency affected by a reorganization and the title...
• California Government Code Section 12080.4
  No reorganization plan shall provide for, and no reorganization under this article shall have the effect of: (a) Continuing any agency beyond the period authorized...
• California Government Code Section 12080.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a reorganization plan submitted pursuant to this article shall become effective the first day after 60 calendar days...
• California Government Code Section 12080.6
  No reorganization plan shall have the effect of limiting in any way the validity of any statute enacted, or any regulation or other action made,...
• California Government Code Section 12080.7
  No suit, action or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the state, in his official...
• California Government Code Section 12080.8
  From the effective date of a reorganization plan, and as long as it is in effect, the operation of any prior act of the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 12080.9
  Each reorganization plan which takes effect shall be printed in the same volume as the acts of the session of the Legislature to which it...
• California Government Code Section 12081
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare for introduction not later than the next regular session of the Legislature occurring more than 90 days after that in...
• California Government Code Section 12081.1
  It is the intention of the Legislature in delegating legislative power to the Governor by this article pursuant to the authorization contained in Section 6...
• California Government Code Section 12081.2
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof, except Section 12080.5, to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not...
• California Government Code Section 12085
  (a) (1) Although the economic well-being of the state has progressed to a level surpassing that of any other achieved in world history, and although...
• California Government Code Section 12085.5
  Any reference in any provision of law or regulation to the State Office of Economic Opportunity or the Department of Economic Opportunity shall be deemed...
• California Government Code Section 12086
  (a) The department is under the direction of an executive officer known as the Director of Community Services and Development. The director shall be appointed...
• California Government Code Section 12087
  The department shall have the responsibility, and is hereby vested with all necessary powers and authority to do the following: (a) Recognize existing community action...
• California Government Code Section 12088
  The Department of Economic Opportunity, a separate, independent entity in state government, is hereby transferred to the Health and Welfare Agency, and renamed the Department...
• California Government Code Section 12089
  (a) The Naturalization Services Program is hereby established, to be administered within the Department of Community Services and Development. The department shall administer the Naturalization...
• California Government Code Section 12090
  The Department of Community Services and Development shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, land, and other property real or...
• California Government Code Section 12091
  All unexpended balances of appropriations and other funds available to the Department of Economic Opportunity shall be transferred to the Department of Community Services and...
• California Government Code Section 12080.8
  From the effective date of a reorganization plan, and as long as it is in effect, the operation of any prior act of the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 12080.9
  Each reorganization plan which takes effect shall be printed in the same volume as the acts of the session of the Legislature to which it...
• California Government Code Section 12081
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare for introduction not later than the next regular session of the Legislature occurring more than 90 days after that in...
• California Government Code Section 12081.1
  It is the intention of the Legislature in delegating legislative power to the Governor by this article pursuant to the authorization contained in Section 6...
• California Government Code Section 12081.2
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof, except Section 12080.5, to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not...
• California Government Code Section 12095
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Innovation in California industry is basic to the preservation and growth of a strong state economy and...
• California Government Code Section 12095.01
  In order to encourage industrial innovation, and to develop policies which maintain California's leadership in the national economy and retain its international competitive position, the...
• California Government Code Section 12095.02
  Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the definitions set forth in this section shall govern the interpretation of this chapter:...
• California Government Code Section 12095.10
  There is hereby created within the Office of Governor the California Commission on Industrial Innovation. The commission shall be composed of 25 members, five from...
• California Government Code Section 12095.11
  In making appointments the Governor, Senate Rules Committee, and Speaker of the Assembly shall be guided by the diversity of regions, needs, and interests which...
• California Government Code Section 12095.12
  The members of the commission shall be appointed within 60 days of the effective date of this chapter. Any vacancy in the commission shall not...
• California Government Code Section 12095.13
  The Governor shall be the chairman of the commission. The commission shall elect a cochairman to serve as chairman in the Governor's absence.
• California Government Code Section 12095.14
  The commission shall meet not fewer than four times each year at the call of the chairman. A majority of the members of the commission...
• California Government Code Section 12095.20
  The chairman or cochairman may appoint an advisory council to the commission. The advisory council shall consist of the designees of each commissioner and other...
• California Government Code Section 12095.21
  The council shall examine specific topics at the commission's direction, including the promotion of technological innovation through enhanced capital formation, education and training, and human
• California Government Code Section 12095.40
  The commission shall develop policies which maintain California's leadership in the national economy. This leadership position is necessary to preserve jobs for Californians, to create...
• California Government Code Section 12095.50
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Hire an executive director who has background and experience in the purposes of this chapter. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 12095.51
  The executive director shall do all of the following: (a) Carry out the management directives of the commission. (b) Manage and disburse all funds and...
• California Government Code Section 12095.52
  The Industrial Innovation Fund is hereby established as a special fund in the State Treasury. The fund shall consist of private sector money which may...
• California Government Code Section 12095.53
  The commission shall submit to the Department of Finance an annual budget, for inclusion in the Governor's Budget, showing funding from all sources.
• California Government Code Section 12096
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Economic Revitalization Act.
• California Government Code Section 12096.1
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Office" means the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. (b) "Director" means the Director of the Governor's Office...
• California Government Code Section 12096.2
  (a) The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as "GO-Biz," is hereby established in state government within the Governor's office. The office...
• California Government Code Section 12096.3
  The office shall serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private...
• California Government Code Section 12096.4
  (a) Each member of the Governor's cabinet shall identify a senior manager within his or her agency who shall coordinate business support activities with the...
• California Government Code Section 12096.5
  (a) The California Business Investment Services Program is hereby created within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. (b) The program shall be under...
• California Government Code Section 12098
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests...
• California Government Code Section 12098.1
  The following definitions apply to this article, unless otherwise indicated: (a) "Advocate" means the Small Business Advocate who is also the Director of the Office...
• California Government Code Section 12098.3
  (a) The Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate shall be appointed by, and shall serve at the pleasure of, the Governor. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 12098.4
  (a) Each agency of the state shall furnish to the advocate the reports, documents, and information that are public records and that the director deems...
• California Government Code Section 12098.5
  In addition to his or her other responsibilities under this article, the advocate shall do the following: (a) Develop on the office's Internet Web site...
• California Government Code Section 12101
  The Lieutenant Governor may appoint and, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance, fix the salaries of one secretary and such clerical assistants...
• California Government Code Section 12152
  (a) To assist him or her in the discharge of the duties of his or her office, the Secretary of State may appoint one Assistant...
• California Government Code Section 12153
  The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent person to the position of Keeper of the Archives. In case of his absence or inability to...
• California Government Code Section 12159
  The Secretary of State shall keep a correct record of the official acts of the legislative and executive departments of the government, and shall, when...
• California Government Code Section 12160
  The Secretary of State is charged with custody of: (a) The enrolled copy of the Constitution. (b) All acts and resolutions passed by the Legislature....
• California Government Code Section 12161
  The Secretary of State shall attend at every session of the Legislature, for the purpose of receiving bills and resolutions and perform such other duties...
• California Government Code Section 12162
  The Secretary of State shall keep a register and attest the official acts of the Governor and shall affix the Great Seal, with his attestation,...
• California Government Code Section 12163
  The Secretary of State shall receive and record in proper books the official bonds of all officers whose bonds are required by law to be...
• California Government Code Section 12164
  The Secretary of State shall record all conveyances made to the state, except (1) evidences of title acquired for state highway purposes and retained by...
• California Government Code Section 12165
  The Secretary of State shall certify and declare the result of all elections upon any question submitted to the electors of the State by either...
• California Government Code Section 12166
  Within 100 days after the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State Printing Office his...
• California Government Code Section 12167
  Within 60 days after the day on which a general election is held throughout the State, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State...
• California Government Code Section 12168
  On demand, the Secretary of State shall furnish, to any person paying the fees therefor, a certified copy of all or any part of any...
• California Government Code Section 12168.5
  (a) When not inconsistent with other provisions of law, in lieu of filing or recording documents presented in paper format, the Secretary of State may...
• California Government Code Section 12168.7
  (a) The California Legislature hereby recognizes the need to adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording permanent and nonpermanent documents in...
• California Government Code Section 12169
  The Secretary of State shall file in his office descriptions of seals in use by the different State officers and furnish such officers with new...
• California Government Code Section 12170
  On or before the fifteenth day of September in each even numbered year, the Secretary of State shall report to the Governor a detailed account...
• California Government Code Section 12171
  The Secretary of State shall compile and maintain a complete list of all districts for which certificates or copies of orders, ordinances or resolutions declaring...
• California Government Code Section 12172
  The Secretary of State shall, upon the request of the proponents of an initiative measure which is to be submitted to the voters of the...
• California Government Code Section 12172.5
  The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and shall administer the provisions of the Elections Code. The Secretary of State...
• California Government Code Section 12173
  The Secretary of State's office shall develop a program to utilize modern communications and information processing technology to enhance the availability and accessibility of information...
• California Government Code Section 12174
  (a) The Secretary of State shall administer, protect, develop, and interpret the Secretary of State and State Archives Building Complex located in Sacramento in the...
• California Government Code Section 12175
  The Secretary of State shall keep a fee book. There shall be entered in the book all fees, commissions, and compensation of whatever nature or...
• California Government Code Section 12176
  (a) Commencing July 1, 1992, all fees collected by the Secretary of State's office pursuant to the Business and Professions Code, Civil Code, Code of...
• California Government Code Section 12177
  For services performed in his or her office, the Secretary of State shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.
• California Government Code Section 12178
  No member of the Legislature or state officer shall be charged for any search relative to matters appertaining to the duties of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 12178.1
  (a) Except for copies of documents on file prepared pursuant to Section 12182, the fee for preparing a copy of any law, resolution, record, or...
• California Government Code Section 12179
  The fee for attesting each patent for land issued by the Governor is one dollar ($1) for each 160 acres, or fraction thereof.
• California Government Code Section 12179.1
  The fee for attesting each commission, passport, or other document signed by the Governor is ten dollars ($10). A fee shall not be charged for...
• California Government Code Section 12180
  The Secretary of State's office may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to carry out this article, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 12181
  The Secretary of State's office may refuse to perform a service or refuse a filing based on a reasonable belief that the service or filing...
• California Government Code Section 12182
  (a) The Secretary of State shall charge and collect fees as provided in this article and may also by regulation establish fees to be charged...
• California Government Code Section 12182.1
  The Secretary of State shall establish by regulation an application, examination, and commission fee that shall not exceed the amount necessary to cover the costs...
• California Government Code Section 12183
  The Secretary of State shall charge and collect the following fees for certification: (a) Certification of a document: Five dollars ($5). (b) Certificate of status...
• California Government Code Section 12184
  (a) The Secretary of State shall charge and collect a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) from an entity for its conversion made pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 12185
  Upon the filing of any document pursuant to any provision of the Corporations Code for which there is a filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25)...
• California Government Code Section 12186
  The fees for corporate filings are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of corporate name: Ten dollars ($10). (b) Registering a corporate name...
• California Government Code Section 12187
  The general partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Filing a statement of partnership: Seventy dollars ($70). (b) Filing a statement of dissolution for the...
• California Government Code Section 12188
  The limited partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of limited partnership name: ten dollars ($10). (b) Filing a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 12189
  The limited liability partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Filing a registration for a registered limited liability partnership: Seventy dollars ($70). (b) Filing a...
• California Government Code Section 12190
  The limited liability company filing fees are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of limited liability company name: Ten dollars ($10). (b) Filing...
• California Government Code Section 12191
  The miscellaneous business entity filing fees are the following: (a) Foreign Associations, as defined in Sections 170 and 171 of the Corporations Code: (1) Filing...
• California Government Code Section 12192
  The filing fees for a nonprofit mutual benefit ridesharing corporation are the following: (a) Nonprofit mutual benefit corporation having as its sole purpose the operation...
• California Government Code Section 12193
  The trademark and service mark fees are the following: (a) Filing an application for registration of a trademark: Seventy dollars ($70). (b) Issuing a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 12194
  The fees for filing liens pursuant to the Code of Civil Procedure and for filing financing statements and other Uniform Commercial Code filings are the...
• California Government Code Section 12195
  (a) Special filing fees for joint powers agreements are the following: (1) Filing a notice of a joint powers agreement: One dollar ($1). (2) Filing...
• California Government Code Section 12197
  The Secretary of State shall charge and collect, as applicable, fees for the following: (a) Service of process, as provided in Section 15800 of the...
• California Government Code Section 12220
  As used in this article, "item" includes but is not limited to any paper, document, book, map, or other type of record.
• California Government Code Section 12221
  The Secretary of State is the custodian of the public archives of the State.
• California Government Code Section 12222
  The Secretary of State shall maintain and properly equip safe and secure vaults for the preservation, indexing, and use of the archives.
• California Government Code Section 12223
  The Secretary of State shall receive into the archives any item that is required by law to be delivered to or filed with him.
• California Government Code Section 12223.5
  The Secretary of State shall receive into the State Archives any official committee file transmitted pursuant to Section 9080 or rulemaking file transmitted pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 12224
  The Secretary of State may receive into the archives any item that he deems to be of historical value and shall receive into the archives...
• California Government Code Section 12225
  With the approval of the Department of General Services, the Secretary of State may at any time return to the state agency from which it...
• California Government Code Section 12226
  With the consent of the Secretary of State, the governing body of a county or city may by order or resolution direct the transfer to...
• California Government Code Section 12227
  The Keeper of the Archives is responsible for the preservation and indexing of material deposited in the State archives, and shall make the material readily...
• California Government Code Section 12228
  The Keeper of the Archives shall give an appropriate receipt for all material received by him as a part of the archives.
• California Government Code Section 12229
  The Secretary of State may maintain any item in an active file in his office for such time as he deems proper before transferring it...
• California Government Code Section 12230
  The Secretary of State shall establish a Document Preservation Shop and an Indexing Section to facilitate the preservation and indexing of the archives. He shall...
• California Government Code Section 12231
  In carrying out the provisions of this article, the Secretary of State shall consult with and give consideration to the recommendations of the California Heritage...
• California Government Code Section 12232
  The Secretary of State shall utilize the California State Library to advise, encourage, and coordinate the activities of the county historical records commissions, either designated...
• California Government Code Section 12233
  (a) The Secretary of State shall conduct under the administration of the State Archives a regular governmental history documentation program to provide through the use...
• California Government Code Section 12234
  The secretary shall conduct a feasibility study to assess the needs, costs, and appropriate location for a new facility or conversion of an existing facility,...
• California Government Code Section 12235
  (a) The Director of General Services, as agent for the Secretary of State, shall construct on Site 7, Capital Area Plan, a Secretary of State...
• California Government Code Section 12236
  (a) The Secretary of State shall establish the Local Government Records Program to be administered by the State Archives to establish guidelines for local government...
• California Government Code Section 12237
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1, any provision of law that exempts from public...
• California Government Code Section 12240
  Whenever an appropriation is made by the Legislature for the purpose, the Secretary of State shall compile, publish, and distribute a roster of the State...
• California Government Code Section 12241
  The Secretary of State shall cause the roster to be printed and shall distribute copies free of charge, as follows: To the Governor, 50 copies;...
• California Government Code Section 12260
  For the purposes of this article, "termination document" means the certificate or other document required by the Corporations Code that is the last certificate or...
• California Government Code Section 12261
  The Secretary of State shall reinstate to active status on its records, a business entity for which a court finds any of the following: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 12262
  If the Secretary of State determines that the name of a business entity that has been ordered by a court to be reinstated creates a...
• California Government Code Section 12263
  Nothing in this article authorizes a court to order that any records of the Secretary of State be expunged. The Secretary of State shall file...
• California Government Code Section 12269
  The sole remedies for violations of the following provisions of this Act shall be fines of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for each advertisement, contract or...
• California Government Code Section 12302
  The Treasurer may appoint one deputy treasurer at the annual salary as the Treasurer shall establish. The Treasurer may also designate and appoint, or terminate...
• California Government Code Section 12304
  Every employee of the Treasurer's office when performing assigned duties as a guard or messenger has the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace...
• California Government Code Section 12305
  The Treasurer may contract for and secure insurance against the loss of any securities and money in his custody from any insurable risk whatsoever. The...
• California Government Code Section 12320
  The Treasurer shall receive and keep in the vaults of the State Treasury or deposit in banks or credit unions all moneys belonging to the...
• California Government Code Section 12321
  The Treasurer shall not receive money into the Treasury unless it is certified by the Controller as provided for in Section 12414.
• California Government Code Section 12323
  The Treasurer shall endorse a memorandum receipt upon documents accompanying money transmitted for deposit into the Treasury.
• California Government Code Section 12324
  The Treasurer shall pay warrants drawn by the Controller, except warrants canceled pursuant to law.
• California Government Code Section 12325
  The Treasurer may attach to or indorse upon warrants drawn by the Controller an order directing payment by any bank or credit union in which...
• California Government Code Section 12326
  The Treasurer shall keep an account of all money received and disbursed.
• California Government Code Section 12328
  The Treasurer shall report daily to the Controller the amounts disbursed during the preceding day and the funds out of which the disbursements were paid.
• California Government Code Section 12329
  On or before the fifteenth day of September in each even-numbered year, the Treasurer shall report to the Governor the exact balance in the treasury...
• California Government Code Section 12330
  (a) At the request of either house of the Legislature, or of any committee thereof, the Treasurer shall give written information as to the condition...
• California Government Code Section 12331
  Notwithstanding any general or specific law to the contrary, whenever any law or whenever any state agency or officer requires that a pledge of money...
• California Government Code Section 12332
  The Treasurer is designated as an elected representative of the state to approve the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, issued by...
• California Government Code Section 12333
  (a) The Treasurer may act as trustee, registrar, paying agent, tender agent, custodian, depository, transfer agent, fiscal agent, or in any other fiduciary or representative...
• California Government Code Section 12402
  The Controller may organize his or her office into divisions and may, in conformity with the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 12403
  The Controller may designate any one or more of his employees to administer oaths in respect to returns, reports, affidavits, or other documents that are...
• California Government Code Section 12404
  All deputy controllers, chiefs of divisions, assistant chiefs of divisions, attorneys, district managers, investigators, and financial data compiler in the State Controller's Office shall be...
• California Government Code Section 12405
  For the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 11180) of Chapter 2 of Part 1, the State Controller shall be deemed to be a...
• California Government Code Section 12406
  In addition to the positions authorized by subdivision (c) of Section 4 of Article VII of the California Constitution for the Controller, the Governor, with...
• California Government Code Section 12410
  The Controller shall superintend the fiscal concerns of the state. The Controller shall audit all claims against the state, and may audit the disbursement of...
• California Government Code Section 12410.5
  The Controller shall receive every audit report prepared for any local public agency in compliance with the federal Single Audit Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-502;...
• California Government Code Section 12411
  The Controller shall suggest plans for the improvement and management of the public revenues.
• California Government Code Section 12412
  The Controller shall keep and state all accounts in which the State is interested and keep a separate account under the head of each specific...
• California Government Code Section 12412.1
  The Controller shall: (a) Account for expenditures as scheduled in the Budget Act. This accounting shall utilize the uniform code structure developed jointly by the...
• California Government Code Section 12413
  The Controller shall keep an account between the State and the Treasurer and charge the Treasurer with the balance in the treasury when he comes...
• California Government Code Section 12415
  The Controller may require any person, presenting an account for settlement, to be sworn before him and to answer orally or in writing as to...
• California Government Code Section 12416
  The Controller shall require all persons who have received any money belonging to the State and have not accounted for it to settle their accounts...
• California Government Code Section 12417
  The Controller may require all persons who have received money or securities, or have had the disposition or management of any property of the State...
• California Government Code Section 12418
  The Controller shall direct and superintend the collection of all money due the State, and institute suits in its name: (a) For all official delinquencies...
• California Government Code Section 12419
  The Controller shall state an account with any person who: (a) Has received money or has money or other personal property which belongs to the...
• California Government Code Section 12419.2
  (a) The Controller shall, under the authority to offset granted by Section 12419.5 and in conjunction with the Franchise Tax Board, develop a program to...
• California Government Code Section 12419.3
  The Controller shall offset delinquent accounts against personal income tax refunds that have been certified by the Franchise Tax Board, in the following priority: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 12419.4
  The State has a lien for any taxes due the State from any person or entity, upon any and all personal property belonging to such...
• California Government Code Section 12419.5
  The Controller may, in his or her discretion, offset any amount due a state agency from a person or entity, against any amount owing that...
• California Government Code Section 12419.7
  For the purposes of Section 12419.5, an amount due a state agency from a person or entity shall include any amount due a community college...
• California Government Code Section 12419.8
  (a) The Controller may, in his or her discretion, offset any amount due a city or county from a person or entity pursuant to paragraph...
• California Government Code Section 12419.9
  (a) For the purposes of Section 12419.5, an amount due a state agency from a person or entity shall include any amount due an educational...
• California Government Code Section 12419.10
  (a) (1) The Controller shall, to the extent feasible, offset any amount overdue and unpaid for a fine, penalty, assessment, bail, vehicle parking penalty, or...
• California Government Code Section 12419.11
  (a) The Labor Commissioner shall submit a request to the Controller to offset amounts due from a person or entity as the result of any...
• California Government Code Section 12419.12
  (a) (1) The Controller shall, to the extent feasible, offset any amount overdue and unpaid for a bridge toll or a high-occupancy toll lane fee...
• California Government Code Section 12419.13
  (a) (1) The Controller shall, upon execution of a reciprocal agreement between the State Board of Equalization or the Franchise Tax Board, and any other...
• California Government Code Section 12420.1
  The Controller shall establish special accounts for any state officer or employee requesting salary or wage deductions in order that sufficient funds may be accumulated...
• California Government Code Section 12420.2
  The Controller may purchase annuity contracts on behalf of any state employer under the uniform state payroll system, excluding the California State University System, that...
• California Government Code Section 12421
  The Controller shall authenticate with his official seal all warrants drawn by him, and all copies of papers issued from his office. The Controller may...
• California Government Code Section 12422
  The Controller shall summon county auditors to meet with the Controller or his or her duly authorized representatives, at least once each year, in such...
• California Government Code Section 12423
  The Controller shall summon county tax collectors and redemption officers or the authorized representative of any county tax collector or redemption officer to meet with...
• California Government Code Section 12424
  The Controller may render service pertinent to financial, budgetary and taxation problems and procedures for any county, city, city and county, any other political subdivision,...
• California Government Code Section 12425
  Upon the submission of claims by a state agency, with the approval of the Department of General Services, the Controller may pay, from appropriations available...
• California Government Code Section 12428
  In the event either the Governor or the Legislature should obtain federal approval to transfer programs receiving federal support for the mentally retarded or mentally...
• California Government Code Section 12429
  The Controller may, with the approval of the Department of Finance, seek recovery from the federal government of Social Security contribution overpayments made with regard...
• California Government Code Section 12431
  Prior to the payment of any claim from funds appropriated pursuant to Section 7 of Chapter 1123 of the Statutes of 1977, the Controller shall...
• California Government Code Section 12432
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is essential for the state to replace the current automated human resource/payroll systems operated by the...
• California Government Code Section 12439
  (a) Beginning July 1, 2002, any state position that is vacant for six consecutive monthly pay periods shall be abolished by the Controller on the...
• California Government Code Section 12440
  The Controller shall draw warrants on the Treasurer for the payment of money directed by law to be paid out of the State Treasury; but...
• California Government Code Section 12440.1
  (a) The trustees, in conjunction with the Controller, shall implement a process that allows any campus or other unit of the university to make payments...
• California Government Code Section 12460
  The Controller shall submit an annual report to the Governor containing a statement of the funds of the state, its revenues, and the public expenditures...
• California Government Code Section 12461
  The Controller's annual report shall include: (a) General Purpose Financial Statements prepared in accordance with Section 12460 and "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles." (b) Tabular statements...
• California Government Code Section 12461.1
  The Controller shall also prepare a quarterly report on the General Fund comparing state revenues and expenditures for that quarter with the Budget Act, and...
• California Government Code Section 12461.2
  If any state agency, department, board, or commission, which is required by statute or regulation to furnish a financial statement or report to the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 12462
  Upon request, the Controller shall give information in writing to either house of the Legislature relating to the fiscal affairs of the State or the...
• California Government Code Section 12463
  (a) The Controller shall compile and publish reports of the financial transactions of each county, city, and special district, respectively, within this state, together with...
• California Government Code Section 12463.1
  (a) The Controller shall appoint an advisory committee consisting of seven local governmental officers to assist him or her in developing complete and adequate records....
• California Government Code Section 12463.3
  On or before May 1 of each year, the Controller shall compile and publish annually reports of the financial transactions of each community redevelopment agency...
• California Government Code Section 12464
  (a) If the county, city, or district reports are not made in the time, form, and manner required or there is reason to believe that...
• California Government Code Section 12465
  (a) When they are in excess of five years old, reports from county and city officials and individuals, claims, canceled and paid warrants, payroll documents,...
• California Government Code Section 12466
  On the first business day of each month, the Controller shall furnish the Department of Finance with a statement of the amount of money in...
• California Government Code Section 12467
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the General Fund has experienced significant deficits in recent years due to economic factors and extraordinary demand...
• California Government Code Section 12468
  The Controller shall regularly audit the apportionment and allocation by counties of property tax revenue pursuant to this chapter, in accordance with the following schedule:...
• California Government Code Section 12470
  In conformity with the accounting system prescribed by the Department of Finance pursuant to Section 13300, the Controller shall install and operate a uniform state...
• California Government Code Section 12471
  The uniform state pay roll system shall provide adequate accounting procedures to enable each state agency to properly account salary and wage expenditures under the...
• California Government Code Section 12472
  The uniform state payroll system may provide for the fixing of staggered payroll periods, and designated days of the month on which permanent monthly salaried...
• California Government Code Section 12472.5
  Notwithstanding any other law, on and after January 1, 2010, payments to employees made through the Uniform State Payroll System for master payroll paid on...
• California Government Code Section 12473
  The pay roll period of employees of a state agency shall not be changed by inclusion of the agency into the uniform state pay roll...
• California Government Code Section 12474
  The Controller shall establish and maintain a payroll roster of all persons employed by every state agency except the University of California and may establish...
• California Government Code Section 12475
  Each appointing power shall correctly and promptly certify to the Controller all changes, modifications, additions and deletions to the pay roll roster in compliance with...
• California Government Code Section 12476
  The Controller may audit the uniform state pay roll system, the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund, and related records of state agencies within the uniform...
• California Government Code Section 12477
  Rules and regulations adopted under this article or Section 1153 are excepted from the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act and shall be distributed in...
• California Government Code Section 12478
  Upon receipt of proof, satisfactory to the Controller, that a pay roll warrant issued by the Controller has been lost or destroyed prior to its...
• California Government Code Section 12479
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an employee of the state may file with his or her appointing power a designation of a person or persons...
• California Government Code Section 12480
  Officers and employees of the state may authorize the direct deposit by electronic fund transfer of their salary or wages, after any withholding required by...
• California Government Code Section 12481
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Controller shall make an agreement with one or more financial institutions participating in the Automated Clearing House...
• California Government Code Section 12500
  The annual salary of the Attorney General includes all services rendered ex officio as member of any board or commission.
• California Government Code Section 12502
  The Attorney General may appoint and fix the salaries of such Assistant Attorneys General, Deputy Attorneys General, service agents, experts, and technical and clerical employees...
• California Government Code Section 12503
  No person shall be eligible to the office of Attorney General unless he shall have been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the...
• California Government Code Section 12504
  The Attorney General shall not engage in the private practice of law, nor shall he be associated directly or indirectly with any attorney in private...
• California Government Code Section 12510
  The Attorney General is head of the Department of Justice.
• California Government Code Section 12511
  The Attorney General has charge, as attorney, of all legal matters in which the State is interested, except the business of The Regents of the...
• California Government Code Section 12511.5
  The Attorney General may defend a public or private provider of health care, as defined in Section 56.05 of the Civil Code, and its officers,...
• California Government Code Section 12512
  The Attorney General shall attend the Supreme Court and prosecute or defend all causes to which the State, or any State officer is a party...
• California Government Code Section 12513
  After judgment in any of the causes referred to in Section 12512, the Attorney General shall direct the issuing of such process as may be...
• California Government Code Section 12513.1
  Any person who fails to pay on a timely basis any liability or penalty imposed by or on behalf of any state agency or official,...
• California Government Code Section 12514
  The Attorney General shall keep a docket of all causes in which he is required to appear. The docket shall be open to the inspection...
• California Government Code Section 12515
  The Attorney General shall bid upon and purchase, in the name of the state and under the direction of the Department of General Services, any...
• California Government Code Section 12516
  Whenever the property of a judgment debtor in any judgment in favor or for the use of the state has been sold under a prior...
• California Government Code Section 12517
  When in his or her opinion it may be necessary for the collection or enforcement of any judgment in favor or for the use of...
• California Government Code Section 12518
  Whenever any action is brought against the State or any State agency involving the title, or right to possession or the boundaries of any lands...
• California Government Code Section 12519
  The Attorney General shall give his or her opinion in writing to any Member of the Legislature, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller,...
• California Government Code Section 12520
  (a) The Attorney General may not employ special counsel in any case except pursuant to either of the following: (1) Article 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 12521
  The Attorney General shall account for and pay over to the proper officer all money which may come into his possession belonging to the State...
• California Government Code Section 12522
  On or before the fifteenth day of September in each even-numbered year, the Attorney General shall report to the Governor the condition of the affairs...
• California Government Code Section 12523
  The Attorney General may appear for and represent the Indians of the State of California before the Indian Claims Commission created by an act of...
• California Government Code Section 12524
  The Attorney General may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, call into conference the district attorneys and sheriffs of the...
• California Government Code Section 12525
  In any case in which a person dies while in the custody of any law enforcement agency or while in custody in a local or...
• California Government Code Section 12526
  The Attorney General antitrust account is hereby created in the General Fund. All money in the account is available to the Department of Justice for...
• California Government Code Section 12527
  (a) This section applies to every action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 12527.5
  For purposes of this article, any property which is obtained in connection with any deceptive or misleading statements or conduct shall be deemed obtained through...
• California Government Code Section 12528
  (a) There is in the Office of the Attorney General the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud, which shall implement Sections 1903(a)(6), 1903(b)(3), and 1903(g) of the...
• California Government Code Section 12528.1
  (a) Any agent, investigator, or auditor of the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud within the office of the Attorney General shall have the authority to inspect,...
• California Government Code Section 12529
  (a) There is in the Department of Justice the Health Quality Enforcement Section. The primary responsibility of the section is to investigate and prosecute proceedings...
• California Government Code Section 12529
  (a) There is in the Department of Justice the Health Quality Enforcement Section. The primary responsibility of the section is to prosecute proceedings against licensees...
• California Government Code Section 12529.5
  (a) All complaints or relevant information concerning licensees that are within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine,...
• California Government Code Section 12529.5
  (a) All complaints or relevant information concerning licensees that are within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine,...
• California Government Code Section 12529.6
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Medical Board of California, by ensuring the quality and safety of medical care, performs one of the...
• California Government Code Section 12529.7
  By March 1, 2012, the Medical Board of California, in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Department of Consumer Affairs, shall report and...
• California Government Code Section 12530
  The Public Rights Law Enforcement Special Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, to be administered by the Department of Justice. Moneys in the...
• California Government Code Section 12540
  The Attorney General shall institute investigations for the discovery of all real and personal property to which the State may be entitled by escheat. For...
• California Government Code Section 12541
  The Attorney General shall commence and prosecute actions on behalf of the State pursuant to Title 10, Part 3, of the Code of Civil Procedure,...
• California Government Code Section 12542
  The Attorney General may employ counsel to act in his place and stead for the investigation for discovery and the recovery of any such property....
• California Government Code Section 12543
  The compensation for services of such counsel shall be determined by the Department of General Services and paid only out of the sums found to...
• California Government Code Section 12544
  If an escheat proceeding is prosecuted by the staff of the Attorney General's office, the Attorney General shall recover, by presenting a claim to the...
• California Government Code Section 12550
  The Attorney General has direct supervision over the district attorneys of the several counties of the State and may require of them written reports as...
• California Government Code Section 12552
  The powers and duties of the Attorney General with respect to grand juries are prescribed in Sections 913 and 923 of the Penal Code. The...
• California Government Code Section 12553
  If a district attorney is disqualified to conduct any criminal prosecution within the county, the Attorney General may employ special counsel to conduct the prosecution....
• California Government Code Section 12560
  The Attorney General has direct supervision over the sheriffs of the several counties of the State, and may require of them written reports concerning the...
• California Government Code Section 12561
  Whenever he deems it necessary in the public interest, the Attorney General may appoint some competent person to perform the duties of sheriff with respect...
• California Government Code Section 12570
  For the purpose of enabling him to perform the duties imposed upon him by Section 13 of Article V of the Constitution the Attorney General...
• California Government Code Section 12571
  When serving under the direction of the Attorney General each special agent or investigator is a peace officer of this State.
• California Government Code Section 12572
  Whenever the Attorney General deems it advisable to keep secret the identity of any special agent or investigator, claims for compensation and expenses of the...
• California Government Code Section 12573
  Upon the completion of each secret investigation and, in any event, within not more than one year after the payment of any claim, the Attorney...
• California Government Code Section 12574
  The Attorney General may employ additional special agents and investigators not exceeding 10 in number, to enable him to carry out his duties relative to...
• California Government Code Section 12580
  This article may be cited as the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act.
• California Government Code Section 12581
  This article applies to all charitable corporations, unincorporated associations, trustees, and other legal entities holding property for charitable purposes, commercial fundraisers for charitable purposes, fundraising...
• California Government Code Section 12581.2
  As used in this article, "solicitation" or "soliciting" for charitable purposes means any request, plea, entreaty, demand, or invitation, or attempt thereof, to give money...
• California Government Code Section 12582
  "Trustee" means (a) any individual, group of individuals, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity holding property in trust pursuant to any charitable trust, (b)...
• California Government Code Section 12582.1
  "Charitable corporation" means any nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this State for charitable or eleemosynary purposes and any similar foreign corporation doing business...
• California Government Code Section 12583
  The filing, registration, and reporting provisions of this article do not apply to the United States, any state, territory, or possession of the United States,...
• California Government Code Section 12584
  The Attorney General shall establish and maintain a register of charitable corporations, unincorporated associations, and trustees subject to this article and of the particular trust...
• California Government Code Section 12585
  (a) Every charitable corporation, unincorporated association, and trustee subject to this article shall file with the Attorney General an initial registration form, under oath, setting...
• California Government Code Section 12586
  (a) Except as otherwise provided and except corporate trustees which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of the State of...
• California Government Code Section 12586.1
  In addition to a registration fee, a charitable corporation or trustee, commercial fundraiser, fundraising counsel, or coventurer may be assessed a late fee or an...
• California Government Code Section 12586.2
  All fines, penalties, attorney's fees, if any, as authorized by law, and costs of investigation paid to the Attorney General pursuant to Section 12598 shall...
• California Government Code Section 12587
  The Attorney General may make additional rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this article, provided that any assessment of an annual registration or...
• California Government Code Section 12587.1
  (a) The Registry of Charitable Trusts Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, to be administered by the Department of Justice. (b) Notwithstanding any...
• California Government Code Section 12588
  The Attorney General may investigate transactions and relationships of corporations and trustees subject to this article for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the...
• California Government Code Section 12589
  When the Attorney General requires the attendance of any person, as provided in Section 12588, he shall issue an order setting forth the time when...
• California Government Code Section 12590
  Subject to reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the Attorney General, the register, copies of instruments, and the reports filed with the Attorney General shall...
• California Government Code Section 12591
  The Attorney General may institute appropriate proceedings to secure compliance with this article and to invoke the jurisdiction of the court. The powers and duties...
• California Government Code Section 12591.1
  (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article with intent to deceive or defraud any charity or individual is liable for a civil...
• California Government Code Section 12591.2
  In any case where the Attorney General has authority to institute an action or proceeding under this article, he or she may accept an assurance...
• California Government Code Section 12592
  This article shall apply regardless of any contrary provisions of any instrument.
• California Government Code Section 12593
  Every person who offers for probate any instrument which establishes a testamentary trust of property for charitable purposes or who records in any county or...
• California Government Code Section 12594
  Every officer, agency, board, or commission of this State receiving applications for exemption from taxation of any corporation, charitable trust or similar relationship in which...
• California Government Code Section 12595
  This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
• California Government Code Section 12596
  Any action brought by the Attorney General against trustees or other persons holding property in trust for charitable purposes or against any charitable corporation or...
• California Government Code Section 12597
  In any proceeding brought by the Attorney General to secure compliance with the provisions of Sections 12584 to 12587, inclusive, or any regulation issued pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 12598
  (a) The primary responsibility for supervising charitable trusts in California, for ensuring compliance with trusts and articles of incorporation, and for protection of assets held...
• California Government Code Section 12599
  (a) "Commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes" means any individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity who for compensation does any of the following: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 12599.1
  (a) "Fundraising counsel for charitable purposes" is defined as any individual, corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity who is described by all of the...
• California Government Code Section 12599.2
  (a) "Commercial coventurer" is defined as any person who, for profit, is regularly and primarily engaged in trade or commerce other than in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 12599.3
  (a) A contract between a charitable organization and a commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes or fundraising counsel for charitable purposes shall be voidable by the...
• California Government Code Section 12599.5
  Each application for registration or renewal of registration under subdivision (b) of Section 12599 shall be accompanied by a cash deposit or by a bond...
• California Government Code Section 12599.6
  (a) Charitable organizations and commercial fundraisers for charitable purposes shall not misrepresent the purpose of the charitable organization or the nature or purpose or beneficiary...
• California Government Code Section 12599.7
  (a) A commercial fundraiser for charitable purposes shall maintain during each solicitation campaign and for not less than 10 years following the completion of each...
• California Government Code Section 12600
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) It is the policy of this state to conserve, protect, and enhance its environment. It is the...
• California Government Code Section 12601
  The provisions of this article are not exclusive, and the remedies provided for in this article shall be in addition to any other remedies provided...
• California Government Code Section 12602
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the chapter...
• California Government Code Section 12603
  This article shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.
• California Government Code Section 12604
  As used in this article, "person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, district, county, city and county,...
• California Government Code Section 12605
  As used in this article, "natural resource" includes land, water, air, minerals, vegetation, wildlife, silence, historic or aesthetic sites, or any other natural resource which,...
• California Government Code Section 12606
  The Attorney General shall be permitted to intervene in any judicial or administrative proceeding in which facts are alleged concerning pollution or adverse environmental effects...
• California Government Code Section 12607
  The Attorney General may maintain an action for equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California against any person for...
• California Government Code Section 12608
  In any action maintained under Section 12607, the defendant may also show, by way of an affirmative defense, that there is no more feasible and...
• California Government Code Section 12609
  Any action brought pursuant to Section 12607 to review, set aside, void or annul any decision in any zoning matter of an administrative body or...
• California Government Code Section 12610
  In granting temporary and permanent equitable relief, the court may impose such conditions upon the defendant as are required to protect the natural resources of...
• California Government Code Section 12611
  (a) Whenever proceedings before an administrative agency are pending or available to determine the legality of the defendants' conduct, program, or product, the court shall...
• California Government Code Section 12612
  (a) In any administrative, licensing, or other such proceeding or in any proceeding for judicial review thereof which is made available by law, the Attorney...
• California Government Code Section 12620
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Supervision of International Student Exchange Visitor Placement Organizations Act of 1994.
• California Government Code Section 12621
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "International student exchange visitor...
• California Government Code Section 12622
  The Attorney General shall establish and maintain a register of organizations subject to this article. The registry shall be known as the Registry of International...
• California Government Code Section 12623
  (a) Each organization shall, prior to arranging the placement of any international student exchange visitor in any school in California, register with the Attorney General's...
• California Government Code Section 12624
  The Registry of International Student Exchange Visitor Placement Organizations Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All fees collected by the Attorney General pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 12625
  Subject to reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the Attorney General, the registry and copies of instruments and the documents filed with the Attorney General...
• California Government Code Section 12626
  (a) An application for registration pursuant to this article shall be submitted in the manner and on the forms prescribed by the Attorney General. The...
• California Government Code Section 12627
  The Attorney General shall adopt regulations pursuant to the portion of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 12628
  Each organization shall provide an informational document, in English, to each student, host family, and designated school official in which the student is being placed....
• California Government Code Section 12629
  (a) If the Attorney General has probable cause to believe that the organization is not complying with this article, the Attorney General may conduct whatever...
• California Government Code Section 12630
  Any person or organization who violates any provision of this article or who willfully and knowingly provides false or incorrect information to the Attorney General...
• California Government Code Section 12650
  (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the False Claims Act. (b) For purposes of this article: (1) "Claim" means any...
• California Government Code Section 12651
  (a) Any person who commits any of the following enumerated acts in this subdivision shall have violated this article and shall be liable to the...
• California Government Code Section 12652
  (a) (1) The Attorney General shall diligently investigate violations under Section 12651 involving state funds. If the Attorney General finds that a person has violated...
• California Government Code Section 12652.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the University of California shall be considered a political subdivision, and the General Counsel of the University of California...
• California Government Code Section 12653
  (a) No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy preventing an employee from disclosing information to a government or law enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 12654
  (a) A civil action under Section 12652 may not be filed more than three years after the date of discovery by the Attorney General or...
• California Government Code Section 12655
  (a) The provisions of this article are not exclusive, and the remedies provided for in this article shall be in addition to any other remedies...
• California Government Code Section 12656
  (a) If a violation of this article is alleged or the application or construction of this article is in issue in any proceeding in the...
• California Government Code Section 12657
  For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Securities law" shall mean the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 (Division...
• California Government Code Section 12658
  (a) Whenever it appears to the Attorney General that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a...
• California Government Code Section 12659
  (a) The Attorney General, in his or her discretion, (1) may make public or private investigations within or outside of this state that the Attorney...
• California Government Code Section 12660
  (a) Any person who violates any provision of the securities law or the commodities law shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed...
• California Government Code Section 12661
  (a) The Attorney General may take any actions as are authorized by Section 6d of the federal Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. Sec. 1 et...
• California Government Code Section 12700
  As used in this chapter "disaster" means a war or enemy-caused calamity, such as an attack by nuclear weapons, which renders unavailable the Lieutenant Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 12701
  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this chapter, and thereafter as soon as practicable after his election and qualification to office, each...
• California Government Code Section 12702
  If any constitutional officer who has appointed successors as provided in this chapter becomes unavailable because of a disaster, the powers and duties of his...
• California Government Code Section 12703
  The Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Controller shall, in addition to the appointments required to be made by Section 12701, designate the order...
• California Government Code Section 12704
  Any such person shall, while holding the office, be known as Acting Lieutanant Governor, Acting Attorney General, Acting Secretary of State, Acting Treasurer, and Acting...
• California Government Code Section 12710
  This chapter establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for grants to local government agencies impacted...
• California Government Code Section 12711
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a fair and proportionate system to award grants from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund...
• California Government Code Section 12712
  As used in this chapter: (a) "County Tribal Casino Account" means an account consisting of all moneys paid by tribes of that county into the...
• California Government Code Section 12713
  The Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, shall calculate the total revenue in the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund that...
• California Government Code Section 12714
  (a) A County Tribal Casino Account is hereby created in the treasury for each county that contains a tribal casino. (b) The amount to be...
• California Government Code Section 12715
  (a) The Controller, acting in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, shall divide the County Tribal Casino Account for each county that has gaming...
• California Government Code Section 12715.5
  In San Diego County, the Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee shall be comprised of seven representatives, consisting of the following: (a) Two representatives from...
• California Government Code Section 12716
  (a) Each county that administers grants from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund shall provide an annual report to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative...
• California Government Code Section 12717
  The State Auditor shall conduct an audit every three years regarding the allocation and use of moneys from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund by...
• California Government Code Section 12718
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is...
• California Government Code Section 12725
  This chapter may be cited as the California Community Services Block Grant Program.
• California Government Code Section 12726
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide authorization for the Governor of the State of California to assume responsibility for the Community Services...
• California Government Code Section 12727
  All activities of the California Community Services Block Grant Program eligible entities shall have the following basic and specific purposes: (a) The basic purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 12728
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of this chapter shall supersede and prevail over any provisions of law relating to or in any...
• California Government Code Section 12729
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 12730
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Community Services Block Grant" refers to the federal funds and program established by the...
• California Government Code Section 12735
  (a) The Governor shall submit an application containing the assurances and certification required under Section 12736 to the secretary in any form the secretary may...
• California Government Code Section 12736
  For the purposes of Section 12735, the application shall contain assurance and certification that the state shall comply with all of the items listed below....
• California Government Code Section 12738
  In addition to the general powers vested in the Department of Community Services and Development by Section 12087, the department may promulgate regulations, make grants,...
• California Government Code Section 12740
  The department shall prepare a state plan for the California Community Services Block Grant Program, as required by the secretary, which shall include all of...
• California Government Code Section 12741
  The state's planning process shall include the following: (a) The state plan shall identify eligible activities and the eligible entities that will conduct those activities...
• California Government Code Section 12742
  The current state plan may be amended by the department at any time during the program year, provided that any proposed amendments, together with the...
• California Government Code Section 12745
  (a) Eligible activities for which financial assistance may be obtained pursuant to this chapter shall be designed to have a measurable and potentially major impact...
• California Government Code Section 12747
  (a) Community action plans shall be developed by eligible entities as required by the secretary and the director using processes that assess poverty-related needs, available...
• California Government Code Section 12750
  (a) A community action agency shall be a public or private nonprofit agency that fulfills all of the following requirements: (1) Has been designated by...
• California Government Code Section 12750.1
  (a) No new community action agency may be designated by the director for a political subdivision that is served by an existing community action agency...
• California Government Code Section 12750.2
  For purposes of serving any area of the state in which community action programs cease to be provided, the director shall designate an organization in...
• California Government Code Section 12751
  Each community action agency shall have a board of directors conforming to the following requirements: (a) One-third of the members of the board are elected...
• California Government Code Section 12752
  The powers of the tripartite governing board of the nonprofit community action agency shall include the power to appoint the executive director, to determine major...
• California Government Code Section 12752.1
  (a) If a political subdivision or local government is designated as a community action agency, it shall do all of the following: (1) Establish a...
• California Government Code Section 12753
  (a) Each community action agency shall adopt procedures to provide a continuing and effective mechanism for securing broad community involvement in programs assisted under this...
• California Government Code Section 12754
  In exercising its powers and carrying out its overall responsibility for a community action program, a community action agency shall have, subject to the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 12756
  Every community action agency has a fundamental responsibility to encourage, assist, and strengthen the ability of the poor in the areas served by the community...
• California Government Code Section 12757
  Where a community action agency places responsibility for major policy determinations with respect to the character, funding, extent, and administration of and budgeting for programs...
• California Government Code Section 12758
  (a) All Community Services Block Grant funds made available by Congress shall be used by the state, together with any state funds as may from...
• California Government Code Section 12759
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Agency" means a community action agency, limited purpose agency, or...
• California Government Code Section 12760
  Community action agencies funded under this article shall coordinate their plans and activities with other eligible entities funded under Articles 7 (commencing with Section 12765)...
• California Government Code Section 12761
  A community action agency or eligible entity shall not use any funds received under this article to replace discontinued state or local funding.
• California Government Code Section 12763
  Consistent with Section 1090, no Member of the Legislature, or any state, county, district, judicial district, or city officer or employee who also serves on...
• California Government Code Section 12765
  The purpose of this article is to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families to achieve a greater degree of self-sufficiency within or outside...
• California Government Code Section 12767
  Programs assisted under this article may include projects or activities to do any of the following: (a) Meet the immediate needs of migrant and seasonal...
• California Government Code Section 12768
  Migrant and seasonal farmworker entities funded by the department shall coordinate their plans and activities with other eligible entities funded by the department to avoid...
• California Government Code Section 12770
  (a) The purpose of this article is to set aside funds for assisting American Indians and Alaskan Natives residing in off-reservation and reservation areas of...
• California Government Code Section 12771
  These set-aside funds shall be used to implement programs consistent with the purposes of this chapter and as are permissible under Section 12745 with specific...
• California Government Code Section 12772
  American Indian entities funded by the department shall be limited to tribes and other Indian organizations in urban or rural off-reservation areas who demonstrate community...
• California Government Code Section 12773
  American Indian entities funded by the department and operating under authority of this chapter in the prior program year shall have the same protections against...
• California Government Code Section 12775
  (a) "Limited purpose agency" means a private nonprofit organization or public agency which in federal fiscal year 1981 received direct funding under Section 221 or...
• California Government Code Section 12776
  Limited purpose agencies funded under this article shall coordinate their plans and activities with other eligible entities funded by the department to avoid duplication of...
• California Government Code Section 12780
  The powers and responsibilities of the department as the state administering agency for the California Community Services Block Grant Program are those necessary to do...
• California Government Code Section 12781
  The department shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Development of an orderly grant application process culminating in a prescribed contract. (b) Ensuring that...
• California Government Code Section 12785
  (a) If diminished federal appropriations for the Community Services Block Grant result in California's share for any fiscal year being reduced by any amount up...
• California Government Code Section 12786
  The state shall set aside up to 5 percent of the total Community Services Block Grant for discretionary use for special projects, training, technical assistance,...
• California Government Code Section 12787
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit an eligible entity under Article 6 (commencing with Section 12750), Article 7 (commencing with Section 12765),...
• California Government Code Section 12790
  This chapter shall remain in effect until the Director of Finance finds that federal Community Services Block Grant funding to the state has been terminated...
• California Government Code Section 12800
  There are in the state government the following agencies: State and Consumer Services; Business, Transportation and Housing; California Emergency Management; California Environmental Protection; California Health...
• California Government Code Section 12801
  Each agency is under the supervision of an executive officer known as the secretary. Each secretary shall be appointed by, and hold office at the...
• California Government Code Section 12802
  (a) The Natural Resources Agency shall succeed to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction previously vested in the Resources...
• California Government Code Section 12802.5
  The Governor may, with respect to the Resources Agency, appoint an Assistant Secretary for Energy Matters who may serve as Secretary for Resources designee on...
• California Government Code Section 12802.8
  The Governor may, with respect to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, appoint a Deputy Secretary of Housing, who shall serve as the secretary's primary...
• California Government Code Section 12803
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency consists of the following departments: Health Care Services; Mental Health; Developmental Services; Public Health; Social Services; Alcohol...
• California Government Code Section 12803.3
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Systems Integration. (2) "Office" means...
• California Government Code Section 12803.4
  The Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency shall evaluate, on or before April 1, 2006, how the use of established state and...
• California Government Code Section 12803.5
  The Governor, upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, may appoint not to exceed two deputies for the secretary.
• California Government Code Section 12803.6
  (a) The Governor shall authorize the Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, in collaboration with the secretary of the California Health and Human...
• California Government Code Section 12803.65
  (a) The Governor shall rename and establish, in the California Health and Human Services Agency, Department of Rehabilitation, the existing "California Governor's Committee on Employment...
• California Government Code Section 12803.8
  The secretary shall provide all possible assistance to any county desiring to integrate or otherwise unify services administered by one or more departments in the...
• California Government Code Section 12804
  The Agriculture and Services Agency is hereby renamed the State and Consumer Services Agency. The State and Consumer Services Agency consists of the following: the...
• California Government Code Section 12804.5
  The Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency is hereby authorized to develop programs for technical and fiscal assistance to facilitate nonprofit, self-help community...
• California Government Code Section 12804.7
  The State and Consumer Services Agency succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, and responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department...
• California Government Code Section 12805
  (a) The Resources Agency is hereby renamed the Natural Resources Agency. The Natural Resources Agency consists of the departments of Forestry and Fire Protection, Conservation,...
• California Government Code Section 12805.1
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall facilitate coordination between the Department of Fish and Game and the California Coastal Commission in a manner consistent...
• California Government Code Section 12805.2
  (a) The Resources Agency, in consultation with each department, board, conservancy, and commission within the agency, shall develop and maintain a database of lands and...
• California Government Code Section 12805.3
  (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, before July 1,...
• California Government Code Section 12805.4
  (a) The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December...
• California Government Code Section 12805.5
  (a) The Governor, utilizing the staff and resources of state agencies, shall transmit to the Legislature, not later than March 15 of each year, an...
• California Government Code Section 12805.6
  The Resources Agency shall identify, for future conservation, key buffer properties adjacent to large ecologically valuable working landscapes that provide significant economic benefits to the...
• California Government Code Section 12806
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency shall succeed to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in...
• California Government Code Section 12807
  (a) The Resources Agency succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Health and Welfare Agency...
• California Government Code Section 12807.5
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency, in reviewing projects pursuant to Sections 5096.87 and 5096.128 of the Public Resources Code, shall consider the arborescent prototype...
• California Government Code Section 12807.6
  (a) The Resources Agency shall establish a revolving low-interest loan program and a grant program for commercial fishing vessel owners, operators, and crew members whose...
• California Government Code Section 12808
  The Health and Welfare Agency and the Resources Agency may use the unexpended balances of funds available for use by the Human Relations Agency in...
• California Government Code Section 12809
  All officers and employees of the Human Relations Agency who, on the effective date of the 1972 amendment of this section, are serving in the...
• California Government Code Section 12810
  The Health and Welfare Agency and the Resources Agency shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations,...
• California Government Code Section 12811.2
  Any reference in any law in effect on June 30, 1979, to the Health and Welfare Agency or to the secretary of that agency, with...
• California Government Code Section 12811.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of subdivision (i), any employee of a department, board, or commission under the...
• California Government Code Section 12812.2
  (a) One of the deputies to the Secretary for Environmental Protection shall be a deputy secretary for law enforcement and counsel, who, subject to the...
• California Government Code Section 12812.3
  One of the deputies to the Secretary for Environmental Protection authorized pursuant to Section 12812.1 shall be a deputy secretary for external affairs who shall...
• California Government Code Section 12812.5
  On or before March 1, 1994, the California Environmental Protection Agency, using existing resources and in consultation with other relevant agencies in state and local...
• California Government Code Section 12812.6
  The Secretary for Environmental Protection shall coordinate greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate-change activities in state government.
• California Government Code Section 12813
  The Labor and Workforce Development Agency consists of the following: (a) Office of the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development. (b) Agricultural Labor Relations Board....
• California Government Code Section 12814
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each state agency or department or political subdivision of the state may isolate any of its automated applications,...
• California Government Code Section 12838
  (a) There is hereby created in state government the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to be headed by a secretary, who shall be appointed by...
• California Government Code Section 12838.1
  (a) There is hereby created within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, under the Chief Deputy Secretary for Adult Operations, the Division of Adult Institutions...
• California Government Code Section 12838.2
  There is hereby created within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, under the Chief Deputy Secretary for Adult Programs, the Division of Community Partnerships, the...
• California Government Code Section 12838.3
  There is hereby created within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice, the Division of Juvenile Facilities, the...
• California Government Code Section 12838.4
  The Board of Parole Hearings is hereby created. The Board of Parole Hearings shall be comprised of 17 commissioners, who shall be appointed by the...
• California Government Code Section 12838.5
  The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation hereby succeeds to, and is vested with, all the powers, functions, duties, responsibilities, obligations, liabilities, and jurisdiction of the...
• California Government Code Section 12838.6
  The following entities shall be continued in existence within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and shall retain existing functions, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction, except...
• California Government Code Section 12838.7
  (a) The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and...
• California Government Code Section 12838.8
  All regulations adopted by the predecessor entities, continuing entities, and any of their predecessors are expressly continued in force. Any statute, law, rule, or regulation...
• California Government Code Section 12838.9
  No contract, lease, license, or any other agreement to which the predecessor entities, continuing entities, and any of their predecessors are a party shall be...
• California Government Code Section 12838.10
  On and after July 1, 2005, the unencumbered balance of all money available for expenditure by the predecessor entities, continuing entities, and any of their...
• California Government Code Section 12838.11
  On and after July 1, 2005, positions filled by appointment by the Governor in the predecessor entities or continuing entities shall be transferred to the...
• California Government Code Section 12838.12
  (a) Any officer or employee of the predecessor entities who is engaged in the performance of a function specified in this reorganization plan and who...
• California Government Code Section 12838.13
  This article shall become operative as of July 1, 2005.
• California Government Code Section 12804.7
  The State and Consumer Services Agency succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, and responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department...
• California Government Code Section 12805
  (a) The Resources Agency is hereby renamed the Natural Resources Agency. The Natural Resources Agency consists of the departments of Forestry and Fire Protection, Conservation,...
• California Government Code Section 12805.1
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall facilitate coordination between the Department of Fish and Game and the California Coastal Commission in a manner consistent...
• California Government Code Section 12805.2
  (a) The Resources Agency, in consultation with each department, board, conservancy, and commission within the agency, shall develop and maintain a database of lands and...
• California Government Code Section 12805.3
  (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, before July 1,...
• California Government Code Section 12805.4
  (a) The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December...
• California Government Code Section 12805.5
  (a) The Governor, utilizing the staff and resources of state agencies, shall transmit to the Legislature, not later than March 15 of each year, an...
• California Government Code Section 12805.6
  The Resources Agency shall identify, for future conservation, key buffer properties adjacent to large ecologically valuable working landscapes that provide significant economic benefits to the...
• California Government Code Section 12806
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency shall succeed to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in...
• California Government Code Section 12807
  (a) The Resources Agency succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Health and Welfare Agency...
• California Government Code Section 12807.5
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency, in reviewing projects pursuant to Sections 5096.87 and 5096.128 of the Public Resources Code, shall consider the arborescent prototype...
• California Government Code Section 12807.6
  (a) The Resources Agency shall establish a revolving low-interest loan program and a grant program for commercial fishing vessel owners, operators, and crew members whose...
• California Government Code Section 12808
  The Health and Welfare Agency and the Resources Agency may use the unexpended balances of funds available for use by the Human Relations Agency in...
• California Government Code Section 12809
  All officers and employees of the Human Relations Agency who, on the effective date of the 1972 amendment of this section, are serving in the...
• California Government Code Section 12810
  The Health and Welfare Agency and the Resources Agency shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations,...
• California Government Code Section 12811.2
  Any reference in any law in effect on June 30, 1979, to the Health and Welfare Agency or to the secretary of that agency, with...
• California Government Code Section 12811.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of subdivision (i), any employee of a department, board, or commission under the...
• California Government Code Section 12812.2
  (a) One of the deputies to the Secretary for Environmental Protection shall be a deputy secretary for law enforcement and counsel, who, subject to the...
• California Government Code Section 12812.3
  One of the deputies to the Secretary for Environmental Protection authorized pursuant to Section 12812.1 shall be a deputy secretary for external affairs who shall...
• California Government Code Section 12812.5
  On or before March 1, 1994, the California Environmental Protection Agency, using existing resources and in consultation with other relevant agencies in state and local...
• California Government Code Section 12812.6
  The Secretary for Environmental Protection shall coordinate greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate-change activities in state government.
• California Government Code Section 12813
  The Labor and Workforce Development Agency consists of the following: (a) Office of the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development. (b) Agricultural Labor Relations Board....
• California Government Code Section 12814
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each state agency or department or political subdivision of the state may isolate any of its automated applications,...
• California Government Code Section 12850
  The secretary of each agency has the power of general supervision over, and is directly responsible to the Governor for, the operations of each department,...
• California Government Code Section 12850.2
  The secretary of each agency shall advise the Governor on, and assist him in establishing, major policy and program matters affecting each department, office, or...
• California Government Code Section 12850.4
  The secretary of each agency shall exercise the authority vested in the Governor in respect to the functions of each department, office, or other unit...
• California Government Code Section 12850.6
  The secretary of each agency shall be generally responsible for the sound fiscal management of each department, office, or other unit within his agency. He...
• California Government Code Section 12850.7
  The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall review and evaluate the systems within the agency for the payment and computation of benefits, insurance,...
• California Government Code Section 12851
  Each secretary shall develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formulation in...
• California Government Code Section 12852
  For the purpose of administration, the secretary of each agency shall review the organization of the agency and report to the Governor on such changes...
• California Government Code Section 12853
  The secretary of each agency and any other officer or employee within the agency designated in writing by the secretary shall have the power of...
• California Government Code Section 12854
  Whenever a power is granted to the secretary of an agency, the power may be exercised by such officer or employee within the agency as...
• California Government Code Section 12855
  For the purpose of this chapter, "agency" means the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Health and Welfare Agency, or the Resources Agency, or the...
• California Government Code Section 12856
  In addition to any other provision of law, the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency may appoint an assistant, who is exempt from...
• California Government Code Section 12890
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of...
• California Government Code Section 12891
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Environmental Protection Agency. (b) "Climate Action Team...
• California Government Code Section 12892
  (a) On or before October 1 of each year, each state agency shall prepare and submit to the secretary in a standardized format as determined...
• California Government Code Section 12893
  Not less than once every three years, each state agency reporting pursuant to Section 12892 shall, to the extent funds are available, conduct an independent...
• California Government Code Section 12850.7
  The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall review and evaluate the systems within the agency for the payment and computation of benefits, insurance,...
• California Government Code Section 12851
  Each secretary shall develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formulation in...
• California Government Code Section 12852
  For the purpose of administration, the secretary of each agency shall review the organization of the agency and report to the Governor on such changes...
• California Government Code Section 12853
  The secretary of each agency and any other officer or employee within the agency designated in writing by the secretary shall have the power of...
• California Government Code Section 12854
  Whenever a power is granted to the secretary of an agency, the power may be exercised by such officer or employee within the agency as...
• California Government Code Section 12855
  For the purpose of this chapter, "agency" means the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Health and Welfare Agency, or the Resources Agency, or the...
• California Government Code Section 12856
  In addition to any other provision of law, the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency may appoint an assistant, who is exempt from...
• California Government Code Section 12900
  This part may be known and referred to as the "California Fair Employment and Housing Act."
• California Government Code Section 12901
  There is in the state government, in the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. The department is under the...
• California Government Code Section 12902
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 apply to the director and the director...
• California Government Code Section 12903
  There is in the State and Consumer Services Agency the Fair Employment and Housing Commission. The commission shall consist of seven members, to be known...
• California Government Code Section 12904
  Any member chosen to fill a vacancy on the commission occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the unexpired term of...
• California Government Code Section 12905
  Each member of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day actually spent in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 12906
  Any member of the commission may be removed by the Governor for inefficiency, for neglect of duty, misconduct or malfeasance in office, after being given...
• California Government Code Section 12920
  It is hereby declared as the public policy of this state that it is necessary to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all...
• California Government Code Section 12920.5
  In order to eliminate discrimination, it is necessary to provide effective remedies that will both prevent and deter unlawful employment practices and redress the adverse...
• California Government Code Section 12921
  (a) The opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination because of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical...
• California Government Code Section 12922
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, an employer that is a religious corporation may restrict eligibility for employment in any position involving the performance...
• California Government Code Section 12925
  As used in this part, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Commission" means the Fair Employment and Housing Commission and "commissioner"...
• California Government Code Section 12926
  As used in this part in connection with unlawful practices, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Affirmative relief" or "prospective relief"...
• California Government Code Section 12926.1
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) The law of this state in the area of disabilities provides protections independent from those in the...
• California Government Code Section 12926.2
  As used in this part in connection with unlawful practices, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Religious corporation" means any corporation...
• California Government Code Section 12927
  As used in this part in connection with housing accommodations, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) "Affirmative actions" means any activity...
• California Government Code Section 12928
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, there is a rebuttable presumption that "employer," as defined by subdivision (d) of Section 12926, includes any person...
• California Government Code Section 12930
  The department shall have the following functions, powers, and duties: (a) To establish and maintain a principal office and any other offices within the state...
• California Government Code Section 12931
  The department may also provide assistance to communities and persons therein in resolving disputes, disagreements, or difficulties relating to discriminatory practices based on race, religious...
• California Government Code Section 12932
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the avoidance of discriminatory practices in the employment of disabled persons is most effectively achieved through the ongoing efforts of...
• California Government Code Section 12933
  The department shall maintain liaison with the human relations commissions of cities, counties, and any city and county, and shall provide any information not designated...
• California Government Code Section 12935
  The commission shall have the following functions, powers, and duties: (a) To adopt, promulgate, amend, and rescind suitable rules, regulations, and standards (1) to interpret,...
• California Government Code Section 12940
  It is an unlawful employment practice, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification, or, except where based upon applicable security regulations established by the...
• California Government Code Section 12940.1
  For the purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 12940, it shall be presumed that an individual with heart trouble, as referred to...
• California Government Code Section 12940.3
  Prior to January 1, 1996, a study or survey of the costs, including litigation and reasonable accommodation expenses and other impacts on California employers of...
• California Government Code Section 12941
  The Legislature hereby declares its rejection of the court of appeal opinion in Marks v. Loral Corp. (1997) 57 Cal.App.4th 30, and states that the...
• California Government Code Section 12942
  (a) Every employer in this state shall permit any employee who indicates in writing a desire in a reasonable time and can demonstrate the ability...
• California Government Code Section 12943
  It shall be an unlawful employment practice unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification: (a) For the governing board of any school district, because...
• California Government Code Section 12944
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a licensing board to require any examination or establish any other qualification for licensing that has an adverse impact...
• California Government Code Section 12945
  (a) In addition to the provisions that govern pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition in Sections 12926 and 12940, each of the following shall...
• California Government Code Section 12945.1
  Sections 12945.2 and 19702.3 shall be known, and may be cited, as the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act.
• California Government Code Section 12945.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), it shall be an unlawful employment practice for any employer, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c),...
• California Government Code Section 12945.5
  It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require any employee to be sterilized as a condition of employment.
• California Government Code Section 12946
  It shall be an unlawful practice for employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies subject to the provisions of this part to fail to maintain and...
• California Government Code Section 12947
  It shall not be an unlawful practice under this part for an employer or labor organization to provide or make financial provision for child care...
• California Government Code Section 12947.5
  (a) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to permit an employee to wear pants on account of the sex...
• California Government Code Section 12948
  It is an unlawful practice under this part for a person to deny or to aid, incite, or conspire in the denial of the rights...
• California Government Code Section 12949
  Nothing in this part relating to gender-based discrimination affects the ability of an employer to require an employee to adhere to reasonable workplace appearance, grooming,...
• California Government Code Section 12950
  In addition to employer responsibilities set forth in subdivisions (j) and (k) of Section 12940 and in rules adopted by the department and the commission,...
• California Government Code Section 12950.1
  (a) By January 1, 2006, an employer having 50 or more employees shall provide at least two hours of classroom or other effective interactive training...
• California Government Code Section 12951
  (a) It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 12926, to adopt or enforce a policy that...
• California Government Code Section 12955
  It shall be unlawful: (a) For the owner of any housing accommodation to discriminate against or harass any person because of the race, color, religion,...
• California Government Code Section 12955.1
  (a) For purposes of Section 12955, "discrimination" includes, but is not limited to, a failure to design and construct a covered multifamily dwelling in a...
• California Government Code Section 12955.1.1
  For purposes of Section 12955.1, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Covered multifamily dwellings" means both of the following: (1) Buildings that consist of at...
• California Government Code Section 12955.2
  For purposes of this part, "familial status" means one or more individuals under 18 years of age who reside with a parent, another person with...
• California Government Code Section 12955.3
  For purposes of this part, "disability" includes, but is not limited to, any physical or mental disability as defined in Section 12926.
• California Government Code Section 12955.4
  Nothing in this part shall prohibit a religious organization, association or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in...
• California Government Code Section 12955.5
  Nothing in this part shall preclude the government from establishing programs to collect information relating to discriminatory housing practices.
• California Government Code Section 12955.6
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to afford to the classes protected under this part, fewer rights or remedies than the federal Fair Housing...
• California Government Code Section 12955.7
  It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of that person...
• California Government Code Section 12955.8
  For purposes of this article, in connection with unlawful practices: (a) Proof of an intentional violation of this article includes, but is not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 12955.9
  (a) The provisions of this part relating to discrimination on the basis of familial status shall not apply to housing for older persons. (b) As...
• California Government Code Section 12956
  Upon notice that a verified complaint against it has been filed under this part, any owner of housing accommodations shall maintain and preserve any and...
• California Government Code Section 12956.1
  (a) As used in this section, "association," "governing documents," and "declaration" have the same meanings as set forth in Section 1351 of the Civil Code....
• California Government Code Section 12956.2
  (a) A person who holds an ownership interest of record in property that he or she believes is the subject of an unlawfully restrictive covenant...
• California Government Code Section 12960
  (a) The provisions of this article govern the procedure for the prevention and elimination of practices made unlawful pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 12961
  Where an unlawful practice alleged in a verified complaint adversely affects, in a similar manner, a group or class of persons of which the aggrieved...
• California Government Code Section 12962
  (a) The department shall cause any verified complaint filed for investigation under the provisions of this part to be served, either personally or by certified...
• California Government Code Section 12963
  After the filing of any complaint alleging facts sufficient to constitute a violation of any of the provisions of this part, the department shall make...
• California Government Code Section 12963.1
  Upon the filing of a complaint under Section 12960, 12961, or 12980: (a) The department may issue and serve upon an individual, corporation, partnership, association,...
• California Government Code Section 12963.2
  Upon the filing of a complaint under Section 12960, 12961, or 12980: (a) The department may issue and serve written interrogatories on the same individuals...
• California Government Code Section 12963.3
  (a) Depositions taken by the department shall be noticed by issuance and service of a subpoena pursuant to Section 12963.1. If, in the course of...
• California Government Code Section 12963.4
  (a) The department may issue and serve requests for production for inspection and copying of books, records, documents, and physical materials in the possession or...
• California Government Code Section 12963.5
  (a) The superior courts shall have jurisdiction to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, the production of books, records, documents, and physical materials, and...
• California Government Code Section 12963.7
  (a) If the department determines after investigation that the complaint is valid, the department shall immediately endeavor to eliminate the unlawful employment practice complained of...
• California Government Code Section 12964
  Any agreement entered into by conference, conciliation and persuasion shall be reduced to writing, signed by all parties, and approved by the director or the...
• California Government Code Section 12965
  (a) In the case of failure to eliminate an unlawful practice under this part through conference, conciliation, or persuasion, or in advance thereof if circumstances...
• California Government Code Section 12966
  Where the department issues an accusation, or is about to do so, and the respondent accused of engaging in unlawful practices under this part is...
• California Government Code Section 12967
  The commission shall hold hearings on accusations issued pursuant to Section 12965 and shall determine the issues raised therein.
• California Government Code Section 12968
  Hearings shall take place not more than 90 days after the issuance of the accusation upon which they are based.
• California Government Code Section 12969
  The case in support of the accusation shall be presented before the commission by the attorneys or agents of the department. Any commissioner who, in...
• California Government Code Section 12970
  (a) If the commission finds that a respondent has engaged in any unlawful practice under this part, it shall state its findings of fact and...
• California Government Code Section 12971
  If, at any time during the proceedings described in this part, after a complaint has been served on a respondent, the complaint is withdrawn by...
• California Government Code Section 12972
  (a) The commission shall conduct all actions and procedures in accordance with its procedural regulations. (b) (1) If the commission does not have a procedural...
• California Government Code Section 12973
  (a) Within one year of the effective date of every final order or decision issued pursuant to this part, the department shall conduct a compliance...
• California Government Code Section 12974
  Whenever a complaint is filed with the department and the department concludes on the basis of a preliminary investigation that prompt judicial action is necessary...
• California Government Code Section 12975
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the department or the commission or any of its agents or...
• California Government Code Section 12976
  Any person who willfully violates Section 12946 concerning recordkeeping is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, not exceeding six months,...
• California Government Code Section 12980
  This article governs the procedure for the prevention and elimination of discrimination in housing made unlawful pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 12955) of...
• California Government Code Section 12981
  (a) In the case of failure to eliminate a violation of Section 12955, 12955.1, or 12955.7 that has occurred, or is about to occur, through...
• California Government Code Section 12981.1
  The department shall not dismiss a complaint or an accusation unless the complainant withdraws the complaint or the department determines after a thorough investigation that,...
• California Government Code Section 12983
  The department, or at its election the Attorney General, at any time after a complaint is filed with it and it has been determined that...
• California Government Code Section 12984
  Except as provided in Section 12980, all matters connected with any conference, conciliation, or persuasion efforts under this part are privileged and may not be...
• California Government Code Section 12985
  When a person is contacted by the department, a commissioner, or a member of the department's staff, following the filing of a complaint against that...
• California Government Code Section 12986
  The department shall within 10 days cause a copy of the verified complaint that has been filed under the provisions of this part to be...
• California Government Code Section 12987
  (a) If the commission, after hearing, finds that a respondent has engaged in any unlawful practice as defined in this part, the commission shall state...
• California Government Code Section 12987.1
  (a) Any party aggrieved by the commission's final order for relief may obtain a review of that order in accordance with the provisions of Section...
• California Government Code Section 12988
  The commission and the department may engage in affirmative actions with owners in furtherance of the purpose of this part as expressed in Section 12920.
• California Government Code Section 12989
  (a) If an accusation is issued under Section 12981, a complainant, a respondent, or an aggrieved person on whose behalf a complaint is filed may...
• California Government Code Section 12989.1
  An aggrieved person may commence a civil action in an appropriate court not later than two years after the occurrence or the termination of an...
• California Government Code Section 12989.2
  (a) In a civil action brought under Section 12989 or 12989.1, if the court finds that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred or is about...
• California Government Code Section 12989.3
  (a) Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of...
• California Government Code Section 12990
  (a) Any employer who is, or wishes to become, a contractor with the state for public works or for goods or services is subject to...
• California Government Code Section 12981
  (a) In the case of failure to eliminate a violation of Section 12955, 12955.1, or 12955.7 that has occurred, or is about to occur, through...
• California Government Code Section 12981.1
  The department shall not dismiss a complaint or an accusation unless the complainant withdraws the complaint or the department determines after a thorough investigation that,...
• California Government Code Section 12983
  The department, or at its election the Attorney General, at any time after a complaint is filed with it and it has been determined that...
• California Government Code Section 12984
  Except as provided in Section 12980, all matters connected with any conference, conciliation, or persuasion efforts under this part are privileged and may not be...
• California Government Code Section 12985
  When a person is contacted by the department, a commissioner, or a member of the department's staff, following the filing of a complaint against that...
• California Government Code Section 12986
  The department shall within 10 days cause a copy of the verified complaint that has been filed under the provisions of this part to be...
• California Government Code Section 12987
  (a) If the commission, after hearing, finds that a respondent has engaged in any unlawful practice as defined in this part, the commission shall state...
• California Government Code Section 12987.1
  (a) Any party aggrieved by the commission's final order for relief may obtain a review of that order in accordance with the provisions of Section...
• California Government Code Section 12988
  The commission and the department may engage in affirmative actions with owners in furtherance of the purpose of this part as expressed in Section 12920.
• California Government Code Section 12989
  (a) If an accusation is issued under Section 12981, a complainant, a respondent, or an aggrieved person on whose behalf a complaint is filed may...
• California Government Code Section 12989.1
  An aggrieved person may commence a civil action in an appropriate court not later than two years after the occurrence or the termination of an...
• California Government Code Section 12989.2
  (a) In a civil action brought under Section 12989 or 12989.1, if the court finds that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred or is about...
• California Government Code Section 12989.3
  (a) Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of...
• California Government Code Section 12993
  (a) The provisions of this part shall be construed liberally for the accomplishment of the purposes of this part. Nothing contained in this part shall...
• California Government Code Section 12993.5
  Notwithstanding Section 12993, nothing contained in this part shall be construed, in any manner or way, to limit or restrict the application of Section 51.7...
• California Government Code Section 12995
  (a) Nothing contained in this part relating to discrimination in housing shall be construed to: (1) Affect the title or other interest of a person...
• California Government Code Section 12996
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this part relating to discrimination in employment or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall,...
• California Government Code Section 13000
  There is in the State Government a Department of Finance.
• California Government Code Section 13001
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as Director of Finance. As used in this part, "director" and "department" refer to...
• California Government Code Section 13002
  The director is appointed by and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The annual salary of the director is provided for by Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 13004
  The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by...
• California Government Code Section 13005
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor, in the manner that he deems necessary properly...
• California Government Code Section 13008
  For the purpose of administering Article 1 (commencing with Section 13290) of Chapter 3, the Director of Finance may appoint and prescribe the duties and...
• California Government Code Section 13012
  Whenever any statute, heretofore or hereafter enacted, requires by the use of the word or words "approve," "approval," "authorize," or "authorization," the director or the...
• California Government Code Section 13030
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Fails or neglects to make, verify and file with the Department of Finance any report required...
• California Government Code Section 13070
  The department has general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the State and whenever it deems it necessary,...
• California Government Code Section 13071
  The Director of Finance, in coordinating the internal auditors of state agencies, shall ensure that these auditors utilize the "Standards for the Professional Practices of...
• California Government Code Section 13073
  Within the Department of Finance, there is the Population Research Unit. The purposes of the unit include, but are not limited to, the following: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 13073.1
  Whenever the department issues reports containing population breakdowns or analyses based on race or ethnicity, it shall report Asian-Pacific Islanders as a distinct category, and...
• California Government Code Section 13073.5
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) population size and distribution patterns in California exert a major influence on the physical, social, and economic structure...
• California Government Code Section 13074
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any revision, subsequent to the first revision, of the annual provisional county population estimates, made by the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 13075
  (a) When authorized or required by the Legislature in the Budget Act, the Department of Finance may exercise control over the adoption of regulations as...
• California Government Code Section 13076
  The director shall visit or cause to be visited from time to time every public institution maintained in whole or in part by State appropriations,...
• California Government Code Section 13077
  Whenever a nonprofit corporation or foundation enters into a contract with a state educational institution, maintained in whole or in part by state appropriation, under...
• California Government Code Section 13078
  The director may exempt from his approval or from approval of the department any transactions involving not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for which...
• California Government Code Section 13079
  With the consent of the Legislature, the director may make application for and accept loans of funds made available by the federal government or a...
• California Government Code Section 13080
  Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between...
• California Government Code Section 13081
  Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between...
• California Government Code Section 13082
  Subject to the approval of the Capitol Building and Planning Commission, the department shall acquire and do all acts necessary to erect and maintain a...
• California Government Code Section 13083
  The State Agricultural Society has control of the real property in the City of Sacramento, described as Lots 62, 63, 64 and 65 on Fifth...
• California Government Code Section 13100
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article that the state shall establish and annually update a five-year plan for funding infrastructure....
• California Government Code Section 13101
  As used in this article, "infrastructure" means real property, including land and improvements to the land, structures and equipment integral to the operation of structures,...
• California Government Code Section 13102
  In conjunction with the Governor's Budget submitted pursuant to Section 13337, the Governor shall submit annually a proposed five-year infrastructure plan to the Legislature. This...
• California Government Code Section 13103
  By January 1, 2005, if a state agency requests infrastructure pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 13102, that agency shall specify how...
• California Government Code Section 13103.5
  (a) The department may perform audits, as it deems necessary, of the allocations or expenditures made in accordance with Article XIX B of the California...
• California Government Code Section 13104
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the proposed infrastructure plan be considered by the Legislature in conjunction with its consideration of the Budget
• California Government Code Section 13140
  As used in this article: (a) "Permit" includes application, license, certificate, or authorization. (b) "Fee" includes any monetary exaction imposed or collected for or as...
• California Government Code Section 13141
  This article does not affect payments required by Article 2 (commencing with Section 16370) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 to be...
• California Government Code Section 13142
  This article does not authorize the refund of any fee when: (a) The payor, either before or after the issuance of a permit, has exercised...
• California Government Code Section 13143
  Whenever any law which provides for fees or payments to a state agency does not authorize, as provided in this article, the refund of erroneous...
• California Government Code Section 13144
  Any fee or payment subject to refund under this article, and any excess payment to a revolving fund as defined in Section 13140, may be...
• California Government Code Section 13290
  The fiscal year shall commence on the first day of July.
• California Government Code Section 13291
  The department may require financial and statistical reports, duly verified and covering the period of each fiscal year, from all agencies of the state included...
• California Government Code Section 13292
  When necessary, the department may require special reports from any such State or public agency. These special reports shall be filed with the department without
• California Government Code Section 13293
  The department may examine all records, files, documents, accounts and all financial affairs of every agency mentioned in Section 13300. It may enter any public...
• California Government Code Section 13294
  The Department of Finance shall examine the books of the several state agencies as often as the director deems necessary, taking into consideration the work...
• California Government Code Section 13295
  Every State agency shall permit such examination and experting and upon demand shall produce without unnecessary delay all books, contracts, and papers in its offices,...
• California Government Code Section 13296
  The director shall supply to the Controller a certified copy of each periodical audit of the accounts of any state agency. Additionally, if the audit...
• California Government Code Section 13297
  The money in the Treasury shall be counted by the State Auditor at least twice each year, without giving the Treasurer any previous notice of...
• California Government Code Section 13298
  The State Auditor shall count as cash all evidence of money belonging to the state upon deposit outside the treasury that may be held by...
• California Government Code Section 13299
  After each count of money the State Auditor shall make and file with the Secretary of State and cause to be published in some newspaper...
• California Government Code Section 13299.1
  Securities held in the treasury or other depositories for safekeeping purposes shall be counted or confirmed, at least annually, by the State Auditor. After each...
• California Government Code Section 13300
  (a) The department shall devise, install, supervise, and, at its discretion, revise and modify, a modern and complete accounting system and policies for each agency...
• California Government Code Section 13301
  For the purpose of administering Section 13300 of this code the director may appoint and prescribe the duties and fix the salaries of such number...
• California Government Code Section 13302
  The accounting system devised as provided in Section 13300 shall provide, with respect to the General Fund and other governmental funds, for all of the...
• California Government Code Section 13303
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all accounts, special accounts and funds established by statute in the General Fund to reserve specific revenues for a...
• California Government Code Section 13304
  (a) Beginning on December 15, 1993, and annually thereafter, the Department of Finance shall submit to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and...
• California Government Code Section 13305
  (a) The department shall provide an annual report to the Legislature on tax expenditures by no later than September 15 of each year. The report...
• California Government Code Section 13306
  (a) The Department of Finance, with the concurrence of the Controller, may establish additional funds as are necessary to properly manage and account for the...
• California Government Code Section 13307
  In determining whether the General Fund budget, in any given fiscal year, is in a surplus or deficit condition, the controlling factor shall be the...
• California Government Code Section 13308
  (a) (1) At the time of the submission of the Governor's Budget pursuant to Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, within the...
• California Government Code Section 13308.05
  For purposes of Section 13308, "workload budget" means the budget year cost of currently authorized services, adjusted for changes in enrollment, caseload, or population, or...
• California Government Code Section 13309
  (a) The Director of Finance shall reconcile with the Controller, and report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by October 1 of each year, the...
• California Government Code Section 13310
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department set statewide fiscal and accounting policies and procedures, and provide adequate fiscal and accounting...
• California Government Code Section 13311
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to achieve effective management of state cash resources, the Director of Finance may defer payment of...
• California Government Code Section 13311.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Section 13311, in order to achieve effective management of state cash resources, the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 13312
  (a) (1) Commencing with the 2008-09 fiscal year, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, if after the annual Budget Act is enacted, the Director...
• California Government Code Section 13320
  Every State agency and court for which an appropriation has been made, shall submit to the department for approval, a complete and detailed budget at...
• California Government Code Section 13321
  The budgets shall show the allotments of appropriations or other funds available for the fiscal year by quarter or other period of time and by...
• California Government Code Section 13322
  Until enactment of the budget act containing the appropriations funding the fiscal year budget, the department may revise, alter, or amend any fiscal year budget,...
• California Government Code Section 13323
  Upon request of a State agency or court at any time during the fiscal year, the department may authorize transfers between its budget allotments, including
• California Government Code Section 13323.5
  Notwithstanding any limitation contained in any budget subject to this article, the department, upon the request of any agency which has an employee or employees...
• California Government Code Section 13324
  Every person who incurs any expenditure in excess of the allotments or other provisions of the fiscal year budget as approved by the department or...
• California Government Code Section 13325
  Approval by the Department of General Services of contracts, leases and other transactions or expenditures of state agencies, where such approval is required by law,...
• California Government Code Section 13326
  Every state agency, when making requests or preparing budgets to be submitted to the Federal Government for funds, equipment, material or services, other than for...
• California Government Code Section 13332
  The Controller, at the request of a state institution, department, board, bureau, commission, officer, employee or other agency for which an appropriation is made, may...
• California Government Code Section 13332.01
  Any state agency which collects funds from the federal government shall include in the collections, amounts to offset federally allowed statewide indirect costs, as determined...
• California Government Code Section 13332.02
  All funds recovered from the federal government to offset statewide indirect costs shall be transferred to the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund or to the...
• California Government Code Section 13332.03
  Whenever an appropriation has not been made to provide for recovery of general administrative costs pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 11270) of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 13332.05
  No funds may be encumbered for paying a civil service employee a salary which is above the maximum of the salary range of the employee's...
• California Government Code Section 13332.06
  The California Coastal Commission, without regard to fiscal year, shall not be subject to the Statewide Cost Allocation Plan for statewide indirect costs established pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 13332.07
  No funds shall be used to purchase furnishings for any house, mobilehome, or apartment of three or more rooms other than a dormitory that is...
• California Government Code Section 13332.09
  (a) No purchase order or other form of documentation for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall be issued against any appropriation until the Department...
• California Government Code Section 13332.09
  (a) No purchase order or other form of documentation for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall be issued against any appropriation until the Department...
• California Government Code Section 13332.10
  The Director of General Services may not enter into a lease agreement between the state and another entity, public or private, in which the state...
• California Government Code Section 13332.11
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise specified in paragraph (2), no funds appropriated for capital outlay may be expended by any state agency, including the University...
• California Government Code Section 13332.11.1
  Notwithstanding Section 13332.11, the expenditure by the Department of Water Resources of funds appropriated pursuant to Section 5096.821 or 75032 of the Public Resources Code...
• California Government Code Section 13332.12
  (a) Any acquisition of land or other real property authorized in any appropriation, except an appropriation from the California Water Fund and an appropriation to...
• California Government Code Section 13332.13
  The Controller may not disburse funds from any appropriation for acquisition made to the Department of Parks and Recreation to pay for any property rights,...
• California Government Code Section 13332.14
  No expenditures for park furnishings shall be made unless the Department of Parks and Recreation has made reasonable efforts to acquire the furnishings on a...
• California Government Code Section 13332.15
  No appropriation may be combined or used in any manner to avoid budgeting the salary or operating expenses of any position or to achieve any...
• California Government Code Section 13332.16
  This article shall not apply to appropriations to the Legislature, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Bureau of State Audits, the California Commission on Uniform State...
• California Government Code Section 13332.17
  Purchase estimates for supplies or equipment submitted to the Department of General Services pursuant to Section 10311 of the Public Contract Code received during the...
• California Government Code Section 13332.18
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as specified in subdivision (b), revenues derived from the assessment of fines and penalties by any...
• California Government Code Section 13332.19
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Design-build" means a construction procurement process in which both the design and...
• California Government Code Section 13335
  The department shall develop, issue, and implement consistent and adequate guidelines to be utilized by agencies required to submit budgets pursuant to the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 13336
  The department shall, in cooperation with the Legislature, develop a format for utilization by agencies required to submit a program budget.
• California Government Code Section 13337
  (a) The budget required by the State Constitution to be submitted by the Governor at each regular session of the Legislature shall be submitted within...
• California Government Code Section 13337.3
  (a) (1) "Advisory body" means every board, bureau, commission, committee, panel, task force, or similar group created by statute or executive order whose principal function...
• California Government Code Section 13337.5
  The annual Budget Act shall not provide for projected expenditures in excess of projected revenues. Further, it is the intention of the Legislature that in...
• California Government Code Section 13338
  (a) The Budget Bill shall utilize a coding scheme compatible with the Governor's Budget and with the records of the Controller. (b) The Budget Bill...
• California Government Code Section 13339
  (a) There is hereby created a California Fiscal Advisory Board consisting of the following members, or their representatives: (1) Chairman of the committee in each...
• California Government Code Section 13340
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2012, no moneys in any fund that, by any statute other than a...
• California Government Code Section 13341
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the existing budgeting, accounting, and reporting systems of the University of California shall not be substantially modified...
• California Government Code Section 13342
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit implementation of any provision of this article prior to a specified date.
• California Government Code Section 13343
  (a) The Department of Finance shall revise the Governor's Budget documents display for the State Department of Public Health to include a display of the...
• California Government Code Section 13400
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Financial Integrity and State Manager's Accountability Act of 1983.
• California Government Code Section 13401
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds the following: (1) Active oversight processes, including regular and ongoing monitoring processes, for the prevention and early detection of fraud...
• California Government Code Section 13402
  State agency heads are responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a system or systems of internal accounting, administrative control, and effective, independent, and objective...
• California Government Code Section 13403
  (a) Internal accounting and administrative controls, if maintained and reinforced through effective monitoring systems and processes, are the methods through which reasonable assurances can be...
• California Government Code Section 13404
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Governor" means the Governor of California. (b) "Controller" means the Controller of California. (c) "Director" means the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 13405
  (a) To ensure that the requirements of this chapter are fully complied with, the head of each state agency that the director determines is covered...
• California Government Code Section 13406
  (a) The head of the internal audit staff of a state agency or a division, as specified by the director, or, in the event there...
• California Government Code Section 13407
  Because sound internal accounting and administrative controls and the regular and ongoing monitoring of those internal controls significantly inhibits waste of resources and thereby creates...
• California Government Code Section 13451
  At any sale of bonds by the Treasurer the director may become a bidder and purchase bonds with the funds at his disposal. The appropriate...
• California Government Code Section 13470
  Whenever there is in the treasury to the credit of the Unclaimed Property Fund the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or more, the Director...
• California Government Code Section 13472
  Investments under this article may be made in bonds of this State, of the United States, or of any county, permanent road district, city, school...
• California Government Code Section 13473
  The investments shall be made in such manner and on such terms as the director deems best for such fund.
• California Government Code Section 13474
  All bonds purchased under this article shall be delivered to the Treasurer, who shall credit the interest to the State School Fund, when collected.
• California Government Code Section 13877
  It shall be the function of the department to provide consultation and co-ordination to the departments and agencies of the state government with respect to...
• California Government Code Section 13878
  In the field of organization planning the department shall: (a) Counsel with, assist, and provide co-ordination to the heads of state departments: (1) In the...
• California Government Code Section 13879
  In the field of manpower and costs control, the department shall: (a) Counsel with and provide co-ordination to the heads of departments in the development...
• California Government Code Section 13880
  In the field of organization research, the department shall: (a) Counsel with and provide co-ordination to the heads of departments on the internal exchange of...
• California Government Code Section 13881
  The department may: (a) Conduct such relationships with agencies of the governments of municipalities, counties, other states, and the United States as are appropriate in...
• California Government Code Section 13885
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Recent corporate scandals and federal legislation, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-204), focus attention...
• California Government Code Section 13886
  (a) Any governing body that oversees a state agency that performs or reviews internal audits shall establish an audit committee that generally meets the frameworks...
• California Government Code Section 13886.5
  (a) The Controller, the Director of Finance, and the respective staffs thereof, and all state agencies that have their own internal auditors or that conduct...
• California Government Code Section 13887
  (a) In order to achieve independence and objectivity pursuant to Section 13886, for any state agency that does not report to a governing body, the...
• California Government Code Section 13887.5
  (a) When the chief internal auditor of a state agency believes that senior management in the state agency has accepted a level of residual risk...
• California Government Code Section 13888
  (a) If an internal auditor employed by a state agency has a good faith belief that the agency management is interfering with the internal auditor's...
• California Government Code Section 13900
  (a) As used in this chapter, "board" means the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. (b) Any reference in statute or regulation to the...
• California Government Code Section 13901
  (a) There is within the State and Consumer Services Agency the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. (b) The board consists of the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 13902
  (a) If the third member is not a state officer acting ex officio, the member shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for every day of actual...
• California Government Code Section 13903
  The Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency shall serve as chair of the board.
• California Government Code Section 13904
  The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings and any member may cause his dissent to the action of the majority upon any...
• California Government Code Section 13905
  The board shall have a seal, bearing the following inscription: "California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board." The seal shall be fixed to all writs...
• California Government Code Section 13906
  A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of...
• California Government Code Section 13907
  The act of a majority of the board when in session as a board is the act of the board; but any investigation, inquiry, or...
• California Government Code Section 13908
  The evidence in any investigation, inquiry, or hearing may be taken by the member to whom the investigation, inquiry, or hearing has been assigned or,...
• California Government Code Section 13909
  (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer who shall hold office at its pleasure. It may also employ those personnel, including examiners, as it...
• California Government Code Section 13910
  The executive officer, or his or her designee, shall keep a full and true record of all proceedings of the board, issue all necessary process,...
• California Government Code Section 13911
  The examiners may administer oaths, examine witnesses, issue subpenas, and receive evidence, under such rules and regulations as the board may adopt.
• California Government Code Section 13915
  The board shall hold regular meetings in Sacramento and may hold other meetings at the times and places within the state as a majority of...
• California Government Code Section 13920
  The board may adopt regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3: (a) Limiting the amount, time, and...
• California Government Code Section 13923
  The board may approve plans for payroll deduction from the salaries or wages of state officers and employees under subdivision (f) of Section 1151 for...
• California Government Code Section 13928
  The board shall take any and all necessary steps to ensure that all claims which have been approved by the board, and for which there...
• California Government Code Section 13940
  Any state agency or employee required to collect any state taxes, licenses, fees, or money owing to the state for any reason that is due...
• California Government Code Section 13941
  The application for a discharge under this chapter shall be filed with the Controller and include the following: (a) A statement of the nature and...
• California Government Code Section 13942
  The Controller shall audit the applications and recommend to the board an order discharging the applicant from further accountability for collection and authorizing the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 13943
  The board may delegate to the Controller, under terms and conditions that are acceptable to the board, the authority to discharge from accountability a state...
• California Government Code Section 13943.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a discharge granted pursuant to this chapter to a state agency or employee does not release any person...
• California Government Code Section 13943.2
  Upon authorization of the board, a state agency is not required to collect taxes, licenses, fees, or money owing to the state for any reason...
• California Government Code Section 13943.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board may authorize the Controller to discharge the Department of Water Resources from accountability for collection of...
• California Government Code Section 13944
  (a) The board may investigate, inquire, and, if necessary, conduct hearings concerning property in the possession of the Treasurer which has escheated to the state...
• California Government Code Section 13950
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to assist residents of the State of California in obtaining compensation for...
• California Government Code Section 13951
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Board" means the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. (b) (1) "Crime" means...
• California Government Code Section 13952
  (a) An application for compensation shall be filed with the board in the manner determined by the board. (b) (1) The application for compensation shall...
• California Government Code Section 13952.5
  (a) An emergency award shall be available to a person eligible for compensation pursuant to this chapter if the board determines that such an award...
• California Government Code Section 13953
  (a) An application for compensation shall be filed within one year of the date of the crime, one year after the victim attains 18 years...
• California Government Code Section 13954
  (a) The board shall verify with hospitals, physicians, law enforcement officials, or other interested parties involved, the treatment of the victim or derivative victim, circumstances...
• California Government Code Section 13955
  Except as provided in Section 13956, a person shall be eligible for compensation when all of the following requirements are met: (a) The person for...
• California Government Code Section 13956
  Notwithstanding Section 13955, a person shall not be eligible for compensation under the following conditions: (a) An application shall be denied if the board finds...
• California Government Code Section 13957
  (a) The board may grant for pecuniary loss, when the board determines it will best aid the person seeking compensation, as follows: (1) Subject to...
• California Government Code Section 13957.2
  (a) The board may establish maximum rates and service limitations for reimbursement of medical and medical-related services and for mental health and counseling services. The...
• California Government Code Section 13957.5
  (a) In authorizing compensation for loss of income and support pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 13957, the board may take any...
• California Government Code Section 13957.7
  (a) No reimbursement may be made for any expense that is submitted more than three years after it is incurred by the victim or derivative...
• California Government Code Section 13957.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13954, the board shall develop a simplified and expedited procedure for paying claims of a qualified provider of mental health services. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 13958
  The board shall approve or deny applications, based on recommendations of the board staff, within an average of 90 calendar days and no later than...
• California Government Code Section 13959
  (a) The board shall grant a hearing to an applicant who believes he or she is entitled to compensation pursuant to this chapter to contest...
• California Government Code Section 13960
  (a) Judicial review of a final decision made pursuant to this chapter may be had by filing a petition for a writ of mandate in...
• California Government Code Section 13962
  (a) The board shall publicize through the board, law enforcement agencies, victim centers, hospitals, medical, mental health or other counseling service providers, and other public...
• California Government Code Section 13963
  (a) The board shall be subrogated to the rights of the recipient to the extent of any compensation granted by the board. The subrogation rights...
• California Government Code Section 13964
  (a) Claims under this chapter shall be paid from the Restitution Fund. (b) Notwithstanding Section 13340, the proceeds in the Restitution Fund are hereby continuously...
• California Government Code Section 13965
  (a) A person who has been overpaid or on whose behalf any provider or other person has been overpaid under this chapter is liable for...
• California Government Code Section 13966
  The board may do all of the following to recover moneys owed to the Restitution Fund: (a) File a civil action against the liable person...
• California Government Code Section 13970
  Direct action on the part of private citizens in preventing the commission of crimes against the person or property of others, or in apprehending criminals,...
• California Government Code Section 13971
  As used in this article, "private citizen" means any natural person other than a peace officer, fireman, lifeguard, or person whose employment includes the duty...
• California Government Code Section 13972
  (a) If a private citizen incurs personal injury or death or damage to his or her property in preventing the commission of a crime against...
• California Government Code Section 13973
  (a) Upon presentation of a claim pursuant to this chapter, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board shall fix a time and place for...
• California Government Code Section 13974
  The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board is hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 13974.1
  (a) The board shall utilize the provisions of this article, insofar as they may be made applicable, to establish a claim and reward procedure to...
• California Government Code Section 13974.2
  Any reference to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13970) of Chapter 5, as it read on December 31, 2002, shall be construed to refer to...
• California Government Code Section 13974.5
  (a) The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board shall enter into an interagency agreement with the University of California, San Francisco, to establish a...
• California Government Code Section 13975
  The Business and Transportation Agency in state government is hereby renamed the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. The agency consists of the State Department of...
• California Government Code Section 13975.1
  (a) This section applies to every action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Commissioner of Corporations before,...
• California Government Code Section 13975.2
  (a) This section applies to every action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Director of the Department...
• California Government Code Section 13976
  The agency is under the supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. He shall be appointed...
• California Government Code Section 13977
  Before entering upon the duties of his office the secretary shall execute an official bond to the state in the penal sum of fifty thousand...
• California Government Code Section 13978
  The secretary has the power of general supervision over, and is directly responsible to the Governor for, the operations of each department, office, and unit...
• California Government Code Section 13978.2
  The Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall advise the Governor on, and assist the Governor in establishing, major policy and program matters...
• California Government Code Section 13978.4
  The Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall exercise the authority vested in the Governor in respect to the functions of each department,...
• California Government Code Section 13978.6
  (a) The Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall be generally responsible for the sound fiscal management of each department, office, or other...
• California Government Code Section 13979
  The secretary shall develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formulation in...
• California Government Code Section 13979.1
  With respect to coordinated planning and policy formulation in transportation and housing policies, the secretary shall be responsible for resolving significant policy conflicts among state,...
• California Government Code Section 13980
  For the purpose of administration, the secretary shall review the organization of the agency and report to the Governor on such changes as he deems...
• California Government Code Section 13981
  The secretary and any other officer or employee within the agency designated in writing by the secretary shall have the power of a head of...
• California Government Code Section 13982
  Whenever a power is granted to the secretary, the power may be exercised by such officer or employee within the agency as designated in writing...
• California Government Code Section 13983
  The secretary shall conduct a program relating to the medical aspects of traffic injury and accident control.
• California Government Code Section 13984
  In order to ensure that Section 10240.3 of the Business and Professions Code and Sections 215.5, 22171, and 50333 of the Financial Code are applied...
• California Government Code Section 13990
  (a) The State Transportation Board and the State Transportation Board Office are hereby abolished, and the California Transportation Commission succeeds to, and is vested with,...
• California Government Code Section 13995
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Tourism Marketing Act.
• California Government Code Section 13995.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Tourism is among California's biggest industries, contributing over fifty-two billion dollars ($52,000,000,000) to the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.20
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Appointed commissioner" means a commissioner appointed by the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.30
  (a) The Governor shall appoint a Tourism Selection Committee based upon recommendations from established industry associations. The committee shall consist of 25 representatives, with no...
• California Government Code Section 13995.40
  (a) Upon approval of the initial referendum, the office shall establish a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation named the California Travel and Tourism Commission. The commission...
• California Government Code Section 13995.40.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 13995.40, the number of commissioners elected from each industry category shall be determined by the weighted percentage of assessments...
• California Government Code Section 13995.41
  The purpose of the commission is to increase the number of persons traveling to and within California.
• California Government Code Section 13995.42
  (a) The commission is a separate, independent California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation. Except as provided in Section 13995.43, the staff of the commission shall be...
• California Government Code Section 13995.43
  (a) The commission shall be administered by an executive director. That individual shall be a tourism industry marketing professional, recommended by a vote of the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.44
  (a) (1) The commission shall annually provide to all assessed businesses a report on the activities and budget of the commission including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 13995.45
  (a) The commission shall annually prepare, or cause to be prepared, a written marketing plan. In developing the plan, the commission shall utilize, as appropriate,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.46
  Commissioners and employees of the commission are not responsible individually in any way whatsoever to any person for liability for any good faith activity of...
• California Government Code Section 13995.47
  (a) The commission shall establish one or more industry marketing advisory committees, which may include noncommissioners as members. The industry marketing advisory committees shall be...
• California Government Code Section 13995.48
  If the commission believes that the administration of the marketing plan will be promoted thereby, the commission may borrow money, with or without interest, to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.49
  The commission may by written contract accept a voluntary assessment from any person in a travel and tourism related business who is not an assessed...
• California Government Code Section 13995.50
  (a) The marketing of California tourism is hereby declared to be affected with the public interest. This chapter is enacted in the exercise of the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.51
  (a) The following powers, and any other powers provided in this act, with the exception of the exercising of police powers and of that power...
• California Government Code Section 13995.52
  (a) Except as otherwise specified in Section 13995.70, the commission may be terminated by referendum of the assessed businesses pursuant to Section 13995.60 or at...
• California Government Code Section 13995.53
  The secretary may require any and all assessed businesses to maintain books and records that reflect their income or sales as reflected in the assessment,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.54
  Information pertaining to assessed businesses obtained by the secretary pursuant to this chapter is confidential and shall not be disclosed except to a person with...
• California Government Code Section 13995.55
  For the purpose of carrying out Section 13995.51, the secretary may hold hearings, take testimony, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, and issue subpoenas for the production...
• California Government Code Section 13995.56
  A person shall not be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing documentary evidence, before the secretary in obedience to the subpoena of the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.57
  Any funds appropriated to the office may be used to implement the tourism marketing plan specified in Section 13995.45. In addition to any other authority...
• California Government Code Section 13995.58
  The office may contract with the commission in order for the commission to undertake marketing activities utilizing state funds. Section 10295 of the Public Contract...
• California Government Code Section 13995.60
  (a) As used in this article and Article 7 (commencing with Section 13995.65), "assessment level" means the estimated gross dollar amount received by assessment from...
• California Government Code Section 13995.60
  (a) As used in this article and Article 7 (commencing with Section 13995.65), "assessment level" means the estimated gross dollar amount received by assessment from...
• California Government Code Section 13995.61
  (a) The costs of marketing and promoting the initial referendum shall be provided by private payments. The costs of the initial referendum shall be paid...
• California Government Code Section 13995.62
  (a) Assessed businesses may place on a referendum pursuant to Section 13995.60 additional candidates for commissioner, a different assessment level, or both. (b) A minimum...
• California Government Code Section 13995.63
  (a) Upon receipt of the resolution required by Section 13995.60, including any assessed business referendum request pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 13995.52 or Section...
• California Government Code Section 13995.64
  (a) Each assessed business is entitled to a weighted vote in each referendum. In calculating weighted votes, each assessed business receives a vote equal to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.64.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 13995.64, if an assessed business within the passenger car rental category pays an assessment greater than the maximum assessment,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.65
  (a) Each industry category shall establish a committee to determine the following within its industry category: industry segments, assessment formula for each industry segment, and...
• California Government Code Section 13995.65.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13995.65 or any other provision of this chapter, for purposes of calculating the assessment for a business within the passenger car rental...
• California Government Code Section 13995.66
  The initial assessment level shall be the amount that the selection committee recommends in its report to the Governor pursuant to Section 13995.30, which may...
• California Government Code Section 13995.67
  Assessments may be used in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 13995.41, or to fund the costs pursuant to Section 13995.57. Assessments may...
• California Government Code Section 13995.68
  (a) The secretary shall establish a list of businesses to be assessed and the amount of assessment owed by each. The secretary shall collect the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.69
  (a) The office shall develop a list of California businesses within each segment included within the report required by subdivision (b) of Section 13995.30, periodically...
• California Government Code Section 13995.70
  (a) Funding for the commission is a cooperative venture. Because of the benefits that accrue to the state and to its residents by virtue of...
• California Government Code Section 13995.71
  Any assessment levied as provided in this chapter is a personal debt of every person so assessed and shall be due and payable to the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.72
  If any assessed business that is duly assessed pursuant to this chapter fails to pay to the secretary the assessed amount by the due date,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.73
  The secretary may require assessed businesses to deposit with him or her in advance the following amounts: (a) An amount for necessary expenses. (b) An...
• California Government Code Section 13995.74
  In lieu of requiring advance deposits pursuant to Section 13995.73, or in order generally to provide funds for defraying administrative expenses or the expenses of...
• California Government Code Section 13995.75
  Upon termination of the commission, any remaining funds that are not required by the secretary to defray commission expenses shall be returned by the secretary...
• California Government Code Section 13995.76
  Any check or warrant that is drawn against the funds of the commission that remains unclaimed or uncashed for a period of six months from...
• California Government Code Section 13995.77
  A business is exempt from the assessments provided for in this chapter if any of the following apply: (a) The business is a travel agency...
• California Government Code Section 13995.80
  Any action for any penalty or other remedy that is prescribed under any provision of this chapter shall be commenced within three years from the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.81
  Any person who files false information concerning an assessment is civilly liable in an amount of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), in addition...
• California Government Code Section 13995.82
  (a) When the secretary makes a determination that an assessment is deficient as to the payment due, the secretary may determine the amount of the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.83
  It is a violation of this chapter for any person to willfully render or furnish a false or fraudulent report, statement, or record that is...
• California Government Code Section 13995.84
  Any suit brought by the secretary to enforce any provision of this chapter, or any regulation, or rule and regulation, that is issued by the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.90
  In any civil or criminal action or proceeding for violation of any of the following, proof that the act that is complained of was done...
• California Government Code Section 13995.91
  If any section, sentence, clause, or part of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is for any reason held to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.92
  (a) The California Travel and Tourism Commission shall submit a referendum to the passenger rental car industry as soon as possible, but not later than...
• California Government Code Section 13995.100
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that, because of the size and significant economic impact of the tourism industry on the economy of the County of Los...
• California Government Code Section 13995.101
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "County commission" means the Los Angeles County Tourism Marketing Commission. (b) "County commissioner"...
• California Government Code Section 13995.102
  (a) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors shall appoint the Los Angeles County Tourism Selection Committee to consist of persons, or principals of entities,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.103
  (a) Based upon the criteria established by the county selection committee, the county commission shall be established by industry referenda within the county conducted in...
• California Government Code Section 13995.104
  (a) The county commission shall be a private, nonprofit corporation, and shall not be part of state or county government, nor be construed in any...
• California Government Code Section 13995.105
  (a) Not later than six months following its formation, the county commission shall adopt procedures concerning the operation of the county commission in order to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.106
  County commissioners and employees of the county commission shall not be individually liable in any way to any person for any good faith activity of...
• California Government Code Section 13995.107
  The county commission may be terminated at any time after the initial four years of operation by referendum of the assessed businesses. Notice of the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.108
  (a) The county may require assessed businesses to maintain books and records that reflect their income or sales as reflected in the assessment, and to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.109
  (a) The county commission shall recommend the assessments approved by the industry referendum to the board of supervisors. Upon approval by the board of supervisors,...
• California Government Code Section 13995.110
  (a) No referendum required under this article shall be undertaken until any of the following occurs, whichever is earliest: (1) A statewide referendum held pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 13995.111
  Assessments shall be set by the county commission, as follows: (a) Each industry category shall establish a committee to determine the following within its industry...
• California Government Code Section 13995.112
  An assessed business may appeal an assessment to the county commission upon the basis that the business does not meet the definition established for an...
• California Government Code Section 13995.113
  (a) The county treasurer/tax collector shall collect the assessment from all assessed businesses, and, in collecting an assessment, may bring enforcement actions. (b) Funds collected...
• California Government Code Section 13995.114
  (a) Any assessment levied as provided in this article is a debt of the business so assessed and shall be due and payable at the...
• California Government Code Section 13995.115
  The county commission shall separately contract with the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau to serve as its administrative contractor in the promotion, implementation, and...
• California Government Code Section 13995.116
  This article is subject to Article 8 (commencing with Section 13995.80) and Article 9 (commencing with Section 13995.90) except that, as to Article 8, either...
• California Government Code Section 13995.117
  A business is exempt from the assessments provided for in this chapter if the business is a travel agency or tour operator that derives less...
• California Government Code Section 13995.118
  This article shall become operative only upon adoption by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors of a resolution by majority vote making the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 13995.150
  The Legislature finds and declares that a statewide network of visitor information centers, to be known as California Welcome Centers, that are readily accessible to...
• California Government Code Section 13995.151
  For the purpose of establishing and enhancing a statewide network of California Welcome Centers, the Office of Tourism shall perform the following functions and activities:...
• California Government Code Section 13995.152
  The Department of Transportation shall, to the maximum extent feasible, install and maintain California Welcome Center highway signs when requested by the Office of Tourism.
• California Government Code Section 13995.153
  Costs associated with the ongoing maintenance and operation of centers shall be borne by the entity operating a California Welcome Center.
• California Government Code Section 13995.154
  Every entity of state government shall cooperate with the Office of Tourism to further the provisions of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 13995.155
  If the Office of Tourism drafts regulations to implement this chapter, the office shall submit the regulations to the California Tourism Commission for the commission's...
• California Government Code Section 13996.4
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The statutory authority for the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency, including the agency's international trade...
• California Government Code Section 13996.45
  (a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), and subject to Section 13996.75, the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall be the primary state agency authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 13996.55
  (a) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall provide to the Legislature, not later than February 1, 2008, a strategy for international trade and...
• California Government Code Section 13996.6
  (a) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall convene a statewide business partnership for international trade and investment no later than March 1, 2007....
• California Government Code Section 13996.65
  (a) (1) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing is prohibited from establishing any international trade and investment office unless the following conditions are met:...
• California Government Code Section 13996.7
  (a) Except as specified in Section 13997.1, international trade and investment offices are prohibited from being established except under the conditions specified in the international...
• California Government Code Section 13996.75
  The Controller shall not allocate any state funds to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency for international trade and investment activities if any of the...
• California Government Code Section 13997
  (a) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing may accept private sector moneys in an amount not in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per...
• California Government Code Section 13997.2
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) California's economic development organizations and corporations are an integral component of the state job...
• California Government Code Section 13997.6
  (a) The California Economic Development Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving federal, state, local, and private economic development...
• California Government Code Section 13997.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective January 1, 2008, the Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant funded through the United States Economic Development Administration under...
• California Government Code Section 13994
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Agency" means the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency....
• California Government Code Section 13994.1
  (a) (1) There is within the agency the Regional Technology Alliance Program. The intent of the regional technology alliances is to decentralize the delivery of...
• California Government Code Section 13994.2
  (a) There is within the agency the Challenge Grant Program, consisting of technology transfer grants and defense industry conversion and diversification grants. Challenge grant projects...
• California Government Code Section 13994.3
  (a) An eligible technology transfer or defense industry conversion and diversification project shall, at least, do all of the following: (1) Identify the sources of...
• California Government Code Section 13994.4
  The technology transfer grantee shall not incur expenses to be paid with grant funds without evidence of a workable agreement between the parties participating in...
• California Government Code Section 13994.5
  (a) In awarding technology transfer grants, the agency shall consider the following: (1) The likelihood of commercialization of a product, service, or process. (2) The...
• California Government Code Section 13994.6
  Technology transfer projects may include reasonable overhead costs incurred by a research institute and related to the project that shall not exceed the allowable federal...
• California Government Code Section 13994.7
  Except for defense industry conversion and diversification projects, only a public agency or a not-for-profit or nonprofit organization shall receive funds under this chapter. Any...
• California Government Code Section 13994.8
  (a) The agency may obtain scientific and technological expertise as needed to provide advice and input on the program, the establishment of targeted technologies and...
• California Government Code Section 13994.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 13994.2, 13994.3, 13994.4, and 13994.5, and the regulations implementing this chapter, the secretary may award discretionary technology transfer grants totaling not more...
• California Government Code Section 13994.10
  (a) In order to carry out this chapter, there is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Competitive Technology Fund. (b) The fund shall...
• California Government Code Section 13994.11
  The agency shall report on this program to the Governor and the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 13994.12
  There is hereby established within the agency the Technology Planning Program. The program shall provide grants and technical assistance to California nonprofit organizations and public...
• California Government Code Section 13999
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Space Enterprise Development Act.
• California Government Code Section 13999.1
  For purposes of this act, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. (b) "Authority" means the...
• California Government Code Section 13999.2
  (a) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for that purpose, the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency shall implement a space enterprise development program to...
• California Government Code Section 13999.3
  (a) The California Spaceport Authority shall designate spaceports for the operation of launch sites or reentry sites. (b) Any city, county, city and county, special...
• California Government Code Section 13999.4
  (a) The California Space Enterprise Competitive Grant Program is hereby established within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to provide funding, upon appropriation by the...
• California Government Code Section 14000
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) Continued growth in transport demand resulting from population growth, concentration of population in urban areas, and...
• California Government Code Section 14000.5
  The Legislature further finds and declares that the role of the state in transportation shall be to: (a) Encourage and stimulate the development of urban...
• California Government Code Section 14000.6
  The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following: (a) California has established statewide greenhouse gas emissions targets and requirements to be achieved by...
• California Government Code Section 14001
  There is in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency a Department of Transportation. Any reference in any law or regulation to the Department of Public...
• California Government Code Section 14002
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Transportation.
• California Government Code Section 14002.5
  As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Department" means the Department of Transportation. (b) "Director" means the Director of Transportation. (c)...
• California Government Code Section 14003
  The director is appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The annual salary...
• California Government Code Section 14005
  The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by...
• California Government Code Section 14006
  There shall be within the department the position of Deputy Director of Transportation. The deputy director is appointed by the Governor, upon recommendation of the...
• California Government Code Section 14007
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor and the secretary in the manner that they...
• California Government Code Section 14007.1
  (a) There is in the Department of Transportation the Division of Rail, which is responsible for the development of a comprehensive rail passenger system and...
• California Government Code Section 14007.2
  (a) There is in the Department of Transportation a unit, known as the Spaceport Office, whose primary responsibility is to seek and obtain federal funding...
• California Government Code Section 14008
  The department succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department of Aeronautics, the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 14009
  (a) Not later than June 30, 1994, the department shall apply for federal funding to be used for a comprehensive, rapid conversion of data pertaining...
• California Government Code Section 14010
  The department shall have the possession and control of all licenses, permits, leases, agreements, contracts, orders, claims, judgments, records, papers, equipment, supplies, bonds, moneys, funds,...
• California Government Code Section 14011
  The department may expend money appropriated for the administration of the laws the enforcement of which is committed to the department. The department may expend...
• California Government Code Section 14012
  (a) The director may sell or lease excess right-of-way parcels to municipalities or other local agencies for public purposes, and may accept as all or...
• California Government Code Section 14013
  The director may lease nonoperating right-of-way areas to municipalities or other local agencies for public purposes, and may contribute toward the cost of developing local...
• California Government Code Section 14014
  The director may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of fees, licenses, permits, tools, or for rentals, property...
• California Government Code Section 14015
  (a) The Director of General Services, as agent for the Department of Transportation, may enter into an agreement to purchase, lease-purchase, or lease with an...
• California Government Code Section 14016
  (a) The Director of General Services, as agent for the Department of Transportation, may enter into an agreement to purchase, lease-purchase, or lease with an...
• California Government Code Section 14030
  The powers and duties of the department shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following activities: (a) Supporting the commission in coordinating...
• California Government Code Section 14031
  The Governor, the secretary, and the department may enter into such agreements, execute such documents, establish and manage such accounts and deposits, and take any...
• California Government Code Section 14031.1
  In accordance with federal regulation (49 C.F.R. 661.21), the state or a local agency, relative to the use of federal funds for transit purposes, shall...
• California Government Code Section 14031.5
  (a) The Mass Transit Revolving Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund. The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby transferred from...
• California Government Code Section 14031.6
  (a) The Governor shall include in the Budget Bill an appropriation from the Transportation Planning and Development Account in the State Transportation Fund or from...
• California Government Code Section 14031.7
  Prior to any allocation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14031. 6, for any recommended new service, the department shall submit a report to the...
• California Government Code Section 14031.8
  (a) The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall establish, through an annual budget process, the level of state funding available for the operation of...
• California Government Code Section 14032
  The department shall provide reports and analyses for the commission on all of the following: (a) The review and evaluation of regional transportation plans and...
• California Government Code Section 14032.5
  The department may assist regional transportation planning agencies with the preparation of regional transportation plans and improvement programs by providing technical services and other assistance...
• California Government Code Section 14032.6
  The department shall, within existing resources, collect, analyze, and summarize highway congestion data and make it available upon request to California regional transportation planning agencies,...
• California Government Code Section 14032.7
  The department shall publish annually a list of major new facility projects, exclusive public mass transit guideway projects, and operational improvement projects that are beyond...
• California Government Code Section 14034
  (a) During the planning and development of any proposed commuter rail service, the department shall consult with the county transportation commission and the transportation planning...
• California Government Code Section 14035
  (a) The department may enter into contracts with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation under Section 403(b) of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 to...
• California Government Code Section 14035.1
  Commuter rail service shall be provided to the communities between San Jose and Gilroy if the conditions specified in subdivision (a) of Section 14035.4 are...
• California Government Code Section 14035.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department adopt and implement the following policies applicable to the operation of feeder bus service...
• California Government Code Section 14035.3
  The department may request a railroad corporation under contractual obligation to the department for services to institute operating efficiencies, other than with respect to the...
• California Government Code Section 14035.4
  The department shall request the involvement and cooperation of affected local agencies and public and private passenger carriers in decisions relative to the acquisition, development,...
• California Government Code Section 14035.5
  The department may enter into contracts with common carriers, as defined by Section 211 of the Public Utilities Code, or with any corporation, partnership, or...
• California Government Code Section 14035.55
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Intercity passenger bus service provided by intercity bus companies on a regular-route basis is...
• California Government Code Section 14035.57
  The department shall encourage the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Amtrak, and any private motor carrier of passengers that...
• California Government Code Section 14035.65
  In developing or funding intermodal passenger service facilities, the department shall give full consideration to existing and projected operational requirements of all participating passenger carriers....
• California Government Code Section 14035.7
  Funds allocated for commuter rail purposes shall be consistent with the regional transportation plan and the regional transportation improvement program for the region in which...
• California Government Code Section 14035.9
  The department shall in conjunction with the Department of Corrections evaluate the addition of stations or stops on existing bus or rail routes, or the...
• California Government Code Section 14036
  (a) The department shall prepare a 10-year State Rail Plan biennially for submission to the Legislature, the Governor, the Public Utilities Commission, and the California...
• California Government Code Section 14036.1
  As part of its ongoing marketing activities to increase the utilization and performance of rail and bus services operated pursuant to this article, the department...
• California Government Code Section 14036.2
  The department shall identify in the rail passenger development plan prepared pursuant to Section 14036, the three most decrepit intercity rail passenger stations in the...
• California Government Code Section 14036.3
  The department shall consider and estimate the cost of each of the following types of service improvements to the San Joaquin Amtrak route, and report...
• California Government Code Section 14036.4
  The department shall report in the rail passenger development plan prepared pursuant to Section 14036 on the amount of funds available to the state under...
• California Government Code Section 14036.5
  (a) As part of its marketing activities in support of intercity rail services and associated feeder bus services, the department shall provide for complete train...
• California Government Code Section 14036.6
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Rail passes offering unlimited travel on certain passenger rail and associated transit services for...
• California Government Code Section 14036.7
  The department shall give high priority to the development of direct linkages between intercity rail passenger services and airports served by commercial airlines and to...
• California Government Code Section 14036.8
  (a) The department, using existing rail marketing funds, shall fully participate in the railroad public safety awareness program known as "Operation Lifesaver." The department shall...
• California Government Code Section 14036.9
  The California Coast Passenger Rail Corridor consists of the Counties of Los Angeles, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara,...
• California Government Code Section 14037
  Funds which are available to the department for rail and bus operations may be used by the department for maintenance of capital facilities related to...
• California Government Code Section 14038
  (a) The department may purchase, sell, and lease rail passenger cars and locomotives and other self-propelled rail vehicles. (b) The department may acquire, lease, design,...
• California Government Code Section 14038.1
  Rail passenger equipment owned by the department and operated by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) in a state-supported rail service shall prominently display the...
• California Government Code Section 14038.2
  (a) The department may acquire by purchase, lease, or eminent domain, any property necessary for the development and implementation of the state's rail passenger program....
• California Government Code Section 14038.3
  The department may, if requested by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire, in the name and for the...
• California Government Code Section 14038.5
  (a) The department may, at the request of a transportation planning agency, county transportation commission, or metropolitan transit development board, and subject to approval of...
• California Government Code Section 14039
  The department shall have no authority to operate railroads.
• California Government Code Section 14040
  The department may provide by contract with a railroad corporation that any tracks or signaling devices constructed, improved, repaired, or acquired with funds made available...
• California Government Code Section 14041
  The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority is encouraged to coordinate with local private industry councils in service delivery areas to develop training programs and employment opportunities...
• California Government Code Section 14050
  State highway projects to be included in the program of proposed projects report submitted to the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Section 105...
• California Government Code Section 14051
  (a) At the commencement of each regular session of the Legislature, the department shall submit to the Legislature a report summarizing information required under, and...
• California Government Code Section 14052
  (a) The department shall prepare an inventory of all state-owned bridges that are required to be strengthened or replaced in order to meet seismic safety...
• California Government Code Section 14055
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Elderly persons and persons with disabilities have the same rights as other persons to utilize...
• California Government Code Section 14055.1
  The department shall act as the applicant for grants of funds to provide mass transit services to meet the special needs of elderly persons and...
• California Government Code Section 14055.2
  Funds made available to the department shall be allocated as follows: (a) Not more than 5 percent of the annual federal apportionment may be retained...
• California Government Code Section 14055.3
  The commission shall establish an appeals process.
• California Government Code Section 14055.4
  Prior to approving its program of projects, the commission shall hold not less than one public hearing.
• California Government Code Section 14060
  The following definitions apply to this article: (a) "Equipment" means rail passenger cars, locomotives, other rail vehicles, bus and van fleets, and ferryboats. (b) "Equipment...
• California Government Code Section 14061
  The department may take all action necessary to purchase, sell, or lease equipment by negotiation without competitive bidding to take advantage of Section 168 of...
• California Government Code Section 14062
  (a) The department may issue equipment obligations to finance the acquisition of equipment pursuant to a resolution adopted by the commission, authorizing the issuance thereof...
• California Government Code Section 14063
  (a) Grant anticipation notes shall be issued only in anticipation of a grant or funding commitment to the department which has been stated by the...
• California Government Code Section 14064
  (a) Equipment obligations shall be sold by the Treasurer, after a resolution requesting the sale has been adopted by the commission. Equipment obligations may be...
• California Government Code Section 14066
  (a) The Passenger Equipment Acquisition Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, all moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to...
• California Government Code Section 14070
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" or "joint powers board" means the governing board of a joint...
• California Government Code Section 14070.2
  (a) If authorized by the secretary, the department may, through an interagency agreement, transfer to a joint powers board, and the board may assume, all...
• California Government Code Section 14070.4
  (a) An interagency transfer agreement between the department and a joint powers board, when approved by the secretary, shall do all of the following: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 14070.6
  The department and any entity that assumes administrative responsibility for passenger rail services through an interagency transfer agreement, may, through a competitive solicitation process, contract...
• California Government Code Section 14072
  The Southern California Regional Rail Authority is an existing joint powers authority formed pursuant to Section 130255 of the Public Utilities Code, made up of...
• California Government Code Section 14072.2
  The joint powers authority, known as the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, may, if the authority elects to be a party to an interagency agreement...
• California Government Code Section 14072.4
  Membership in the expanded Southern California Regional Rail Authority shall be one voting representative from each of the designated member agencies. Members shall be appointed...
• California Government Code Section 14072.6
  This article shall be applicable only if the entities to be represented on the authority enter into a joint exercise of powers agreement to expand...
• California Government Code Section 14074
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means the governing board of the San Joaquin Corridor Joint Powers...
• California Government Code Section 14074.2
  (a) The San Joaquin Corridor Joint Powers Agency may be established by agreement of the represented agencies for the purpose of assuming responsibility for intercity...
• California Government Code Section 14074.6
  This article shall be applicable only if the entities that would be represented on the board enter into a joint exercise of powers agreement to...
• California Government Code Section 14074.8
  The Steering Committee of the Caltrans Rail Task Force may confer with the secretary to coordinate intercity passenger rail service for the San Joaquin Corridor,...
• California Government Code Section 14076
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Authority" or "Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority" means the joint exercise of...
• California Government Code Section 14076.2
  (a) There is hereby created the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board, subject to being organized pursuant to subdivision (b). The board shall be composed of...
• California Government Code Section 14076.4
  If the board and the department enter into an interagency transfer agreement pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 14070), for an initial period, that...
• California Government Code Section 14076.6
  The board shall make its decisions in accordance with the votes of its members, requiring a majority vote for all matters with the exception of...
• California Government Code Section 14076.8
  For the purpose of carrying out its responsibilities pursuant to this article, the board may seek funds from any jurisdiction served by the Capitols passenger...
• California Government Code Section 14080
  For purposes of this article: (a) "Public entity" has the same meaning as defined in Section 811.2 of the Government Code. (b) "State funds" means...
• California Government Code Section 14081
  (a) When the governing body of any public entity proposes to commence project planning, development, improvement, or acquisition for exclusive public mass transit guideways and...
• California Government Code Section 14081.5
  The director shall not enter into an agreement referred to in Section 14081 if, in the director's judgment, the proposed agreement cannot be carried out...
• California Government Code Section 14082
  The department may secure the services of consultants to provide expert assistance to the department in performing any of the agreed-upon services referred to in...
• California Government Code Section 14082.5
  In any agreement made pursuant to Section 14081, the governing body shall retain final authority to decide those matters for which it is responsible by...
• California Government Code Section 14083
  Any agreement made pursuant to Section 14081 shall provide that the department shall be fully reimbursed by the governing body for all costs incurred by...
• California Government Code Section 14083.5
  Any funds received by the department from the governing body pursuant to an agreement made pursuant to Section 14081 shall be deposited in the State...
• California Government Code Section 14084
  If at any time, in carrying out any agreement made pursuant to Section 14081, the required payment of reimbursements becomes a matter in dispute that...
• California Government Code Section 14085
  Whenever any public entity is to receive state or federal funds for the purposes of project planning, design, rights-of-way, construction, acquisition, or improvement of exclusive...
• California Government Code Section 14085.5
  With respect to the review and approval of policies, procedures, and performance standards pursuant to Section 14085, the department's authority shall be directed at such...
• California Government Code Section 14086
  The department shall adopt guidelines for purposes of Section 14085. The guidelines and the department's review and approval required pursuant to Section 14085 shall be...
• California Government Code Section 14086.5
  Before approving an overall project financing plan and an overall project development schedule, the department shall obtain the finding of the California Transportation Commission, and...
• California Government Code Section 14087
  If the governing body of a public entity wishes to appeal an action of the department taken under Section 14085 the matter shall be appealed...
• California Government Code Section 14088
  For emergency conditions, and for those minor improvement projects which are not interrelated to proposed projects of greater scope, the director may waive any or...
• California Government Code Section 14089
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to make the receipt of state or federal funds by public entities for the purpose of project planning,...
• California Government Code Section 14101
  The department shall contract with qualified architects and engineers for the performance of work when it is determined by the Director of Transportation, with the...
• California Government Code Section 14102
  The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the department, shall study the potential cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency of utilizing retroreflective sheeting...
• California Government Code Section 14103
  The department may prepare, publish, and issue such printed pamphlets and bulletins as the director deems necessary for the dissemination of information to the public...
• California Government Code Section 14104
  The department may employ such assistance as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties, and may purchase or rent any necessary supplies,...
• California Government Code Section 14104.5
  Where work to be performed, excluding regular maintenance work, which would otherwise be subject to the State Contract Act, does not lend itself to the...
• California Government Code Section 14105
  (a) The department may verify that all construction projects performed under its jurisdiction meet or exceed all standards and specifications included in the projects. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 14120
  In times of extraordinary stress and of disaster, resulting from storms and floods, the director may declare the existence of an emergency and designate the...
• California Government Code Section 14121
  The department may perform any work required or take any remedial measures necessary to avert, alleviate, repair, or restore damage or destruction to property as...
• California Government Code Section 14122
  The director shall transmit any declaration made under this article to the Department of Finance with a recommendation and request that money be allocated from...
• California Government Code Section 14123
  The Director of Finance shall forthwith determine if a state emergency exists, and if money is available in any appropriation or emergency fund for the...
• California Government Code Section 14130
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a compelling public interest in ensuring that all federal, state, local,...
• California Government Code Section 14131
  The department may contract for the services of engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, environmental specialists, and materials testing specialists to provide professional and technical services relating...
• California Government Code Section 14131.1
  The department, in applying the criteria for contracting for services established pursuant to this article, shall consider the workload relating to project study reports, project...
• California Government Code Section 14131.2
  (a) Solely for the purpose of validating the selection of consultants completed prior to July 1, 1990, the Legislature hereby declares that the process of...
• California Government Code Section 14132
  (a) In addition to the requirements set forth in this section, in the department's contracting out for the services of engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, environmental...
• California Government Code Section 14133
  (a) Contracts made pursuant to this article are not subject to Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 6 of Part 2 of Division...
• California Government Code Section 14134
  (a) The department, after consultation with the commission and local transportation agencies, shall adopt guidelines for determining the appropriateness of contracting with private firms or...
• California Government Code Section 14135
  Each contract for engineering, architectural, or landscape architectural services entered into pursuant to this article and any construction contract resulting therefrom is subject to all...
• California Government Code Section 14136
  (a) The department shall encourage mentor-protege agreements between prime contractors and subcontractors whereby protege firms may receive appropriate developmental assistance from the mentor firm to...
• California Government Code Section 14137
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Office of Small Business Advocate, may establish a Small and Emerging Contractor Technical Assistance Program. The purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 14137.1
  (a) The program shall include small contractor training and technical assistance throughout the state. Training shall be scheduled for locations that are reasonably accessible to...
• California Government Code Section 14137.2
  For the purpose of providing training under the program, the department may use up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of state funds if those...
• California Government Code Section 14137.4
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is...
• California Government Code Section 14150
  When requested in writing by the Federal Highway Administration, the Maritime Commission, the Army, the Air Force, or the Navy, the department and each division...
• California Government Code Section 14151
  Any architectural or construction work on buildings shall be limited to projects on property owned or controlled by the State.
• California Government Code Section 14152
  In the performance of any such federally financed work the department may adopt any procedure as to the letting of contracts for, the conduct of,...
• California Government Code Section 14153
  As to such work to be performed by the department, the department and the California Transportation Commission may do any and all things in connection...
• California Government Code Section 14154
  In addition to the purposes for which money is appropriated to the department or any division thereof, all of such money or so much thereof...
• California Government Code Section 14155
  "Department," as used in this article, means the Department of Transportation as to work within its jurisdiction, the Department of Water Resources as to work...
• California Government Code Section 14170
  This article and Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 14925) of Part 5. 5 shall be known and may be cited as the Guaranteed Return Trip...
• California Government Code Section 14171
  The department shall establish and administer the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project in accordance with this article. The department shall develop standards and guidelines for...
• California Government Code Section 14172
  The department shall publicize the project and solicit proposals for programs designed to provide mass transit and high-occupancy vehicle commuters with transportation to their homes,...
• California Government Code Section 14173
  The department shall prescribe forms to be utilized to apply for a grant to fund a proposed program, and shall adopt regulations prescribing qualifications for...
• California Government Code Section 14174
  The Guaranteed Return Trip Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. An amount not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for each of...
• California Government Code Section 14175
  Grants of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for projects covering a single employer or not more than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for projects...
• California Government Code Section 14176
  (a) A public or private entity may submit to the department a program proposal and an application for a grant to fund the development and...
• California Government Code Section 14177
  The department shall evaluate each proposal submitted to it and award grants to qualified applicants which are selected for participation in the demonstration project. Grants...
• California Government Code Section 14178
  The amount of any grant shall be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the grant applicant. The funds granted, together with the matching funds, shall...
• California Government Code Section 14179
  The recipient of a grant may use the funds for costs related to the development and operation of a guaranteed return trip program, including any...
• California Government Code Section 14180
  Upon its selection of a proposed program and the award of a grant for the program, the department shall notify the Controller of its action,...
• California Government Code Section 14181
  The department shall conduct an evaluation of the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project in order to determine the effectiveness of individual programs funded pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 14200
  As used in this chapter, "telecommuting" means the partial or total substitution of computers or telecommunication technologies, or both, for the commute to work by...
• California Government Code Section 14200.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Telecommuting can be an important means to reduce air pollution and traffic congestion and to reduce...
• California Government Code Section 14201
  Every state agency shall review its work operations to determine where in its organization telecommuting can be of practical benefit to the agency. On or...
• California Government Code Section 14202
  The Department of General Services shall establish a unit for the purpose of overseeing telecommuting programs established pursuant to this chapter. This unit shall do...
• California Government Code Section 14203
  Each state agency shall evaluate its telecommuting program. The Department of General Services shall establish criteria for evaluating the state's telecommuting program and recommend modifications,...
• California Government Code Section 14254.5
  "Department," as used in this chapter, means (a) the Department of Water Resources as to any project under the jurisdiction of that department, (b) the...
• California Government Code Section 14255
  Whenever provision is made by law for any project which is not under the jurisdiction of the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Boating...
• California Government Code Section 14310
  The department may, and on contracts the estimated cost of which exceeds three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) the department shall, require from prospective bidders answers...
• California Government Code Section 14450
  The department, in preparing its research and development program, shall consult with other parts of the transportation industry, including the private and public sectors, in...
• California Government Code Section 14452
  (a) All funds made available pursuant to Section 99315.6 of the Public Utilities Code and Section 203 of the Streets and Highways Code shall be...
• California Government Code Section 14453
  The department's role in this program shall be limited to research and development. The department shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating and selecting a...
• California Government Code Section 14454
  (a) If a decision is made to proceed with a research and development center, proceeds from the sale or lease of existing facilities owned by...
• California Government Code Section 14455
  (a) Research contracts approved by the department shall require the contractor to disclose administrative overhead as a separate cost item, with a detailed statement identifying...
• California Government Code Section 14456
  Pursuant to Section 14453, the department may enter into a joint powers agreement with other entities for development and operation of the center.
• California Government Code Section 14500
  There is in the state government a California Transportation Commission.
• California Government Code Section 14501
  As used in this part, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Commission" means the California Transportation Commission. (b) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
• California Government Code Section 14502
  The commission consists of 13 members appointed as follows: (a) Nine members shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the...
• California Government Code Section 14503
  (a) Other than ex officio members, the members of the commission shall hold office for terms of four years, and until their successors are appointed,...
• California Government Code Section 14504
  In appointing members, the Governor shall make every effort to assure that there is a geographic balance of representation on the commission as a whole,...
• California Government Code Section 14505
  The commission shall elect one of its members as a chairman who shall preside at all meetings, and a vice chairman who shall preside in...
• California Government Code Section 14505.5
  After consulting with members of the commission, the chairman of the commission shall appoint the members of all the committees of the commission, including those...
• California Government Code Section 14506
  In order to perform its duties and functions, the commission shall organize itself into at least the following four committees: (a) The Committee on Aeronautics,...
• California Government Code Section 14506.5
  The chairman shall appoint a Technical Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, after consultation with members of the aviation industry, airport operators, pilots, and other aviation interest...
• California Government Code Section 14507
  The commission shall not form a committee for the purpose of considering budgetary and related fiscal matters.
• California Government Code Section 14508
  The chairman shall not serve on any of the committees except in an ex officio capacity.
• California Government Code Section 14509
  Each member shall receive a compensation of one hundred dollars ($100) per day, but not to exceed eight hundred dollars ($800) for any commission business...
• California Government Code Section 14510
  The commission shall appoint an executive director for the commission who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The executive director shall receive the...
• California Government Code Section 14511
  The executive director shall administer the affairs of the commission as directed by the commission and shall direct the staff of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 14512
  The executive director may appoint, with the approval of the commission, such staff as necessary to carry out the provisions of this part. The commission...
• California Government Code Section 14513
  The commission may employ its own legal staff or contract with other state agencies for legal services, or both.
• California Government Code Section 14514
  The commission may sue or be sued.
• California Government Code Section 14515
  Except where a statute expressly provides that the commission itself shall hold a public hearing, the commission may delegate functions such as listening to argument,...
• California Government Code Section 14520
  The commission shall advise and assist the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and the Legislature in formulating and evaluating state policies and...
• California Government Code Section 14520.3
  (a) The Legislature, through the enactment of Senate Bill 45 during the 1997-98 Regular Session, intends to establish priorities and processes for the programming and...
• California Government Code Section 14521
  The commission may request and review reports of the department and of other entities which pertain to transportation issues and concerns that the commission determines...
• California Government Code Section 14522
  In cooperation with the regional transportation planning agencies, the commission may prescribe study areas for analysis and evaluation by such agencies and guidelines for the...
• California Government Code Section 14522.1
  (a) (1) The commission, in consultation with the department and the State Air Resources Board, shall maintain guidelines for travel demand models used in the...
• California Government Code Section 14522.2
  (a) A metropolitan planning organization shall disseminate the methodology, results, and key assumptions of whichever travel demand models it uses in a way that would...
• California Government Code Section 14523
  The commission may prepare an independent evaluation of the department's budget regarding the adequacy of funding levels and the relative needs of program categories as...
• California Government Code Section 14524
  (a) Not later than July 15, 2001, and July 15 of each odd-numbered year thereafter, the department shall submit to the commission a five-year estimate...
• California Government Code Section 14524.16
  (a) The department shall, as part of the reports required pursuant to Sections 14524.15 and 14525.5, report on its costs of project development for all...
• California Government Code Section 14524.2
  (a) If the department's total project delivery plan for any year requires a permanent and temporary capital outlay support staffing level which equals the 1986-87...
• California Government Code Section 14525
  (a) Not later than August 15, 2001, and August 15 of each odd-numbered year thereafter, the commission shall adopt a five-year estimate pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 14525.1
  The department and the commission shall use an inflation rate that has been established by the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall consult...
• California Government Code Section 14525.5
  (a) The department shall submit a project delivery report to the Governor and the Legislature not later than November 15 of each year. The report...
• California Government Code Section 14526
  (a) Not later than December 15, 2001, and December 15 of each odd-numbered year thereafter, and after consulting with the transportation planning agencies, county transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14526.5
  (a) The department shall prepare a state highway operation and protection program for the expenditure of transportation funds for major capital improvements that are necessary...
• California Government Code Section 14527
  (a) After consulting with the department, the regional transportation planning agencies and county transportation commissions shall adopt and submit to the commission and the department,...
• California Government Code Section 14528.5
  (a) To resolve local transportation problems resulting from the infeasibility of planned state transportation facilities on State Highway Route 238 in the City of Hayward...
• California Government Code Section 14528.55
  (a) To resolve local transportation problems resulting from the infeasibility of planned state transportation facilities on State Highway Route 84 in the Cities of Fremont...
• California Government Code Section 14528.56
  The following shall pertain to local alternative transportation improvement programs developed and approved pursuant to Sections 14528.5 and 14528.55: (a) The department shall maintain a...
• California Government Code Section 14528.6
  A local alternative transportation improvement program, approved pursuant to Section 14528.5, shall include all of the following: (a) A program to provide relocation assistance for...
• California Government Code Section 14528.6
  (a) A local alternative transportation improvement program, approved pursuant to Section 14528.5, and pursuant to the terms and conditions of the applicable court-approved settlement agreement...
• California Government Code Section 14528.65
  (a) All of the following shall apply to the sale or other disposition of excess property to fund the local alternative transportation improvement program approved...
• California Government Code Section 14528.7
  A city or county acting jointly with the transportation planning agency having jurisdiction over the city or county may adopt a resolution requesting the rescission...
• California Government Code Section 14528.8
  When the department sells any real property or interest therein acquired for a state highway route location rescinded pursuant to Section 14528.7, the proceeds from...
• California Government Code Section 14529
  (a) The state transportation improvement program shall include a listing of all capital improvement projects that are expected to receive an allocation of state transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14529.01
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to facilitate project development work on needed transportation projects to produce a steady flow of construction projects...
• California Government Code Section 14529.1
  The commission shall establish guidelines for the allocation of funds to an entity for a project to verify that the entity has the resources and...
• California Government Code Section 14529.3
  At least 20 days prior to the adoption of the state transportation improvement program, the executive director shall make available to the commission, the department,...
• California Government Code Section 14529.4
  The commission may include capacity-increasing projects in the adopted state transportation improvement program adopted pursuant to Section 14529 only if the project studies report has...
• California Government Code Section 14529.6
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission may advance unallocated funds in the State Highway Account, in the form of loans, to...
• California Government Code Section 14529.7
  (a) A local jurisdiction may, with the concurrence of the appropriate transportation planning agency, the commission, and the department, advance a project included in the...
• California Government Code Section 14529.8
  (a) Funds may be allocated by the commission for each project element during the fiscal year that is identified in the state transportation improvement program...
• California Government Code Section 14529.9
  (a) A transportation planning agency, county transportation commission, or local transportation authority may, with the concurrence of the commission, request the department to make a...
• California Government Code Section 14529.10
  The department shall recommend, and the commission shall adopt, guidelines and procedures to implement Sections 14529.8 and 14529.9.
• California Government Code Section 14529.11
  (a) In order to assist in the delivery of high-priority transportation projects, as determined by the commission, or advance project development work, the commission shall...
• California Government Code Section 14529.12
  (a) The department and the regional planning agencies shall consult and seek consensus on state highway projects to be proposed for inclusion in the state...
• California Government Code Section 14529.17
  (a) A regional or local entity that is the sponsor of, or is eligible to receive funding for, a project contained in the state transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14529.19
  (a) If no deficiencies that require clarification by a local or regional entity are identified in the preaward audit for a local or regional project...
• California Government Code Section 14529.23
  The department shall implement systems that allow rapid access to funds made available under executed agreements to transfer funds. The Controller shall develop a system...
• California Government Code Section 14530
  The commission may deviate, in the adoption of the state transportation improvement program, from a regional transportation improvement program based on a finding that there...
• California Government Code Section 14530.1
  (a) The department, in cooperation with the commission, transportation planning agencies, and county transportation commissions and local governments, shall develop guidelines for the development of...
• California Government Code Section 14531
  (a) The commission may amend the state transportation improvement program if the amendment meets both of the following conditions: (1) The request for the amendment...
• California Government Code Section 14532
  (a) In appropriating the funds allocated under paragraph (C) of subdivision (c) of Article XIX B of the California Constitution, the funds shall be apportioned...
• California Government Code Section 14533
  The commission shall allocate funds for transportation projects consistent with those provisions of the current and prior Budget Acts that apply to the use of...
• California Government Code Section 14533.1
  Not less than 30 days prior to adopting changes to any guidelines for the expenditure of any funds pursuant to the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction,...
• California Government Code Section 14533.2
  (a) A local agency, as defined in Section 99602 of the Public Utilities Code, that is a lead applicant agency for a project that may...
• California Government Code Section 14533.5
  (a) The department shall advance funds for an exclusive public mass transit guideway project to a public entity eligible for those funds when all of...
• California Government Code Section 14533.6
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Minority business enterprise" means a business concern which is all of the following: (1) At least 51 percent owned...
• California Government Code Section 14534
  Upon the adoption of the state transportation improvement program, the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the commission, and the department shall act...
• California Government Code Section 14535
  The commission shall adopt and submit to the Legislature, by December 15 of each year, an annual report summarizing the commission's prior-year decisions in allocating...
• California Government Code Section 14536
  (a) The annual report shall include an explanation and summary of major policies and decisions adopted by the commission during the previously completed state and...
• California Government Code Section 14550
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Between 1970 and 1990, California's population grew by 50 percent, while the total number...
• California Government Code Section 14552
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 14552.2
  (a) "Eligible project" means the federally funded portion of any highway or other transportation project that has been designated for accelerated construction by the commission,...
• California Government Code Section 14552.4
  "Federal transportation funds" means any funds apportioned to the state by the United States Department of Transportation, including, but not limited to, funds paid pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 14552.6
  A "note" is a federal highway grant anticipation note issued by the Treasurer under this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 14553
  (a) The commission may from time to time select and designate eligible projects to be funded from the proceeds of notes, if financing of the...
• California Government Code Section 14553.2
  The commission, in cooperation with the department and regional transportation planning agencies, shall establish guidelines for eligibility for funding allocations under this chapter. The guidelines...
• California Government Code Section 14553.4
  The Treasurer may not authorize the issuance of notes if the annual repayment obligations of all outstanding notes in any fiscal year would exceed 15...
• California Government Code Section 14553.6
  Funds allocated to a State Transportation Improvement Program project under this chapter, including cost overruns and financing costs, shall be counted against the interregional improvement...
• California Government Code Section 14553.7
  In order to provide security for repayment of the notes, the commission shall adopt a resolution dedicating and pledging any future receipts of federal transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14553.8
  Before notes are issued under this chapter, the commission, in cooperation with the department and the Department of Finance, shall consider and determine the appropriateness...
• California Government Code Section 14553.9
  (a) Upon taking the actions authorized under this article, the commission may request the Treasurer to issue notes to provide funds for the eligible projects....
• California Government Code Section 14553.10
  On or before October 1 of each year, the commission shall report to the Governor, the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the Chairs...
• California Government Code Section 14554
  (a) In order to provide for the financing of selected projects, the Treasurer may issue tax-exempt or taxable notes under this article. Proceeds of the...
• California Government Code Section 14554.2
  The Treasurer shall issue notes from time to time pursuant to a resolution from the commission. Those pledges shall be governed under Chapter 5.5 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 14554.4
  Any notes issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement, indenture, or resolution by and between the commission and a trustee. The...
• California Government Code Section 14554.6
  The notes shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the Treasurer, shall be in the form, shall bear the date or dates, and shall...
• California Government Code Section 14554.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code or any other provision of law, the amounts deposited in the State Highway Account in the State...
• California Government Code Section 14555
  Upon request of the commission, the Treasurer may issue refunding notes to refund any outstanding notes, and to pay costs associated with that refunding.
• California Government Code Section 14555.2
  Whenever the Treasurer deems that it will increase the salability or the price of the notes to obtain, prior to or after sale, a legal...
• California Government Code Section 14555.4
  The Treasurer may employ financial, engineering, or transportation consultants or advisers, underwriters, and accountants as may be necessary in his or her judgment in connection...
• California Government Code Section 14555.6
  Section 10295 of the Public Contract Code and Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of, and Article 5 (commencing with Section 10355) of, Chapter 2...
• California Government Code Section 14555.8
  Notes issued under this chapter are a legal investment for any state special or trust fund notwithstanding any provision of law limiting the investments that...
• California Government Code Section 14555.9
  Notes issued under the provisions of this chapter may not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any political...
• California Government Code Section 14556
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Traffic Congestion Relief Act of 2000.
• California Government Code Section 14556.1
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless expressly stated otherwise: (a) "Commission" is the California Transportation Commission. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 14556.3
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the interest of the State of California to immediately take steps to relieve congestion on the...
• California Government Code Section 14556.5
  (a) The Traffic Congestion Relief Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The fund shall include deposits of funds provided in the annual Budget...
• California Government Code Section 14556.6
  The purpose of this article is to relieve traffic congestion, provide additional funding for local street and road deferred maintenance, and provide additional transportation capacity...
• California Government Code Section 14556.7
  (a) To provide adequate cash for projects, including, but not limited to, projects in the State Transportation Improvement Program, the State Highway Operation and Protection...
• California Government Code Section 14556.8
  (a) (1) To the extent necessary to provide adequate cash to fund projected expenditures under this chapter, the Director of Finance may authorize, by executive...
• California Government Code Section 14556.10
  (a) The lead applicant agency specified for each project in Article 5 (commencing with Section 14556.40) shall be responsible for preparing and submitting a project...
• California Government Code Section 14556.11
  Not later than 90 days from the effective date of the act that added this section, the commission, in consultation with the department and representatives...
• California Government Code Section 14556.12
  (a) Designated lead applicant agencies shall submit applications to the commission within two years of the effective date of the act that added this section....
• California Government Code Section 14556.13
  (a) The project applications shall define the project purpose, intended scope, proposed cost, intended funding sources, and schedule for project completion. Each application shall also...
• California Government Code Section 14556.14
  The commission shall ascertain from the appropriate regional transportation planning agency that a project is included in, or is consistent with, the appropriate regional transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14556.16
  (a) The commission, with the assistance of the department, shall begin review of a project application within 30 days of receipt of the application. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 14556.18
  (a) Commission approval of a project application establishes the time schedule, by fiscal year, for implementation of the phases of a project. Project approval shall...
• California Government Code Section 14556.20
  (a) The commission shall direct the department to allocate funds to the department, regional transportation planning agencies, local transportation commissions, congestion management agencies, transportation authorities,...
• California Government Code Section 14556.25
  (a) The department shall execute a cooperative agreement with the lead applicant agency or the agency responsible for carrying out the work for reimbursement of...
• California Government Code Section 14556.26
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a regional or local agency receiving an allocation from this program shall certify, by resolution of its governing...
• California Government Code Section 14556.28
  (a) For applicants other than the department, funds allocated shall generally be administered as a reimbursement program. At the request of an applicant, the commission...
• California Government Code Section 14556.29
  The Controller shall develop a system that provides access to funds allocated by the commission under this article from the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund by...
• California Government Code Section 14556.30
  (a) After receiving an allocation, the lead applicant shall make diligent and timely progress toward completing the work as described in the submitted application. If...
• California Government Code Section 14556.32
  (a) The rate of reimbursement of expenditures shall not exceed the rate determined by the commission in its allocation of funds. (b) After notifying the...
• California Government Code Section 14556.33
  (a) A regional or local entity that is a lead applicant agency under Article 5 (commencing with Section 14556.40), may apply to the commission for...
• California Government Code Section 14556.34
  Any agency or combination of agencies that succeed to an agency having any rights, powers, duties, or obligations under this chapter, including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 14556.36
  The commission shall report annually, starting no later than February 2001, to the Governor and the Legislature on progress in implementation of the program. The...
• California Government Code Section 14556.40
  (a) The following projects are eligible for grants from the fund for the purposes and amounts specified: (1) BART to San Jose; extend BART from...
• California Government Code Section 14556.50
  The grant authorized under paragraph (32) of subdivision (a) of Section 14556.40 shall be allocated as follows: (a) (1) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)...
• California Government Code Section 14556.52
  (a) Before grants from the fund may be allocated to any of the three Alameda Corridor East Projects identified in paragraphs (54), (55), and (73)...
• California Government Code Section 14557
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Governor has issued a proclamation pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 1 of Article...
• California Government Code Section 14557.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 14556.5 and 14556.6, the money transferred from the Transportation Investment Fund to the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund during the 2003-04 fiscal year,...
• California Government Code Section 14558
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Governor has issued a proclamation pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 1 of Article...
• California Government Code Section 14600
  The Legislature declares that a centralization of business management functions and services of state government is necessary to take advantage of specialized techniques and skills,...
• California Government Code Section 14601
  There is in the state government, in the State and Consumer Services Agency, the Department of General Services.
• California Government Code Section 14602
  The Department of General Services is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services. As used in this part,...
• California Government Code Section 14603
  The Director of General Services is appointed by and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The appointment of the director is subject to...
• California Government Code Section 14604
  Commencing no later than August 1, 2005, and no later than August 1 annually thereafter, the Department of General Services shall submit to the Department...
• California Government Code Section 14605
  The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by...
• California Government Code Section 14606
  Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 applies to the director and the director is the head of a department within the meaning...
• California Government Code Section 14607
  For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor, in the manner that he deems necessary properly...
• California Government Code Section 14608
  Whenever any statute requires by the use of the word or words "approve," "approval," "authorize," or "authorization," the director of the department to approve or...
• California Government Code Section 14610
  Notwithstanding Section 11043, the department may employ such persons as are necessary to provide house legal counsel for the department. These persons may advise the...
• California Government Code Section 14611
  The department may prepare, publish, and issue such printed pamphlets and bulletins as the director deems necessary for the dissemination of information to the public...
• California Government Code Section 14612
  (a) The department shall commit itself to achieve improved levels of performance, as specified in this section, by focusing its efforts on enhancing the value...
• California Government Code Section 14612.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for state printing procurement purposes, printing is not considered a personal service contract as defined in Section 19130.
• California Government Code Section 14613
  (a) The Governor may appoint the person, who, on the date of the transfer of the California State Police Division to the Department of the...
• California Government Code Section 14613.5
  The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall present to the host agency or family member designated by the host agency of any peace officer...
• California Government Code Section 14613.7
  (a) Each state agency that is protected by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, those state agencies currently being protected by contract private security...
• California Government Code Section 14614
  The director and the civil executive officers of the department have the powers of a peace officer in all parts of the state in enforcing...
• California Government Code Section 14615
  (a) The department has general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the state in regard to the duties,...
• California Government Code Section 14615.1
  (a) Where the Legislature directs or authorizes the department to maintain, develop, or prescribe processes, procedures, or policies in connection with the administration of its...
• California Government Code Section 14616
  The director may exempt from his or her approval or from approval of the department any transactions involving not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)...
• California Government Code Section 14617
  The Office of the State Architect and the California Building Standards Commission, in consultation with offices and divisions within the Department of General Services, and...
• California Government Code Section 14618
  The Department of General Services may require from all agencies of the state permitted or charged by law with the handling of public money or...
• California Government Code Section 14619
  The Department of General Services may examine all records, files, documents, accounts, and all financial affairs of every agency mentioned in Section 14618. It may...
• California Government Code Section 14620
  There is in the department a general services planning officer, a procurement officer, and an executive officer of the Office of Public School Construction. Each...
• California Government Code Section 14621
  The department has the possession and control of all records, books, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, money, funds, appropriations, land and other property, real or personal,...
• California Government Code Section 14622
  The director may make available to elected state officials, without charge, state parking facilities for the parking of the privately owned cars of such officials.
• California Government Code Section 14623
  The department shall engage competent artists to paint oil portraits of all Governors of California whose portraits have not been painted, and a portrait of...
• California Government Code Section 14624
  The department may render advisory, investigational, or other similar service to any city, county, district or any other political subdivision of the state, or to...
• California Government Code Section 14625
  The director may require any person who has charge of, handles or has access to any state property to file an official bond in an...
• California Government Code Section 14627
  With the approval of the department, state agencies may install and operate toll-free telephone lease lines to provide access by the public and local governmental...
• California Government Code Section 14628
  (a) The California State Sheriffs Search and Rescue Coordinators, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region, in...
• California Government Code Section 14629
  (a) The Military Order of the Purple Heart, Capitol Chapter 385, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic...
• California Government Code Section 14630
  (a) Upon its establishment, the California Crime Victims' Memorial Foundation, or any successor entity, may plan and construct a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region,...
• California Government Code Section 14650
  In addition to the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Director of General Services or the Department of General Services pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 14651
  The Department of General Services succeeds to and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Division of...
• California Government Code Section 14654
  All public property, real or personal, of the Department of Finance or the Department of Transportation used principally or primarily in carrying out of any...
• California Government Code Section 14655
  All officers and employees of the Department of Finance or the Department of Transportation on September 16, 1965, who are serving in the state civil...
• California Government Code Section 14656
  The director and the Department of General Services succeed to and are vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in...
• California Government Code Section 14658
  The Director and the Department of General Services succeed to and are vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore vested in...
• California Government Code Section 14660
  The director may acquire title to real property in the name of the state whenever the acquisition of real property is authorized or contemplated by...
• California Government Code Section 14660.1
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 14669, the Director of General Services, on behalf of the state, may enter into an agreement to convert an...
• California Government Code Section 14660.5
  Whenever by statutory enactment or operation of law, a state agency is abolished or ceases to function, the control and possession of its assets, unless...
• California Government Code Section 14661
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the definitions in subdivision (a) of Section 13332.19 shall apply. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of the Public Contract...
• California Government Code Section 14661.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, the definitions in subdivision (a) of Section 13332.19 shall apply. For purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 13332.19, references...
• California Government Code Section 14662
  The Director of General Services may acquire any easements or rights-of-way which he determines to be necessary for the proper utilization of real property owned...
• California Government Code Section 14662.5
  In any agreement entered into whereby the state obtains a grant of easement, lease, license, right-of-way, or right of entry (including without limitation, a right-of-way,...
• California Government Code Section 14663
  With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may establish boundaries between property of the state held in proprietary capacity and property in...
• California Government Code Section 14664
  (a) The director may execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, whenever the sale...
• California Government Code Section 14665
  With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon...
• California Government Code Section 14666
  With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director may grant and convey in the name of the state, easements and rights-of-way across real...
• California Government Code Section 14666.6
  (a) With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director shall negotiate in the name of the state, access to state-owned property, not used...
• California Government Code Section 14666.8
  (a) The director shall, within 120 days of the operative date of this section, compile and maintain an inventory of state-owned real property that may...
• California Government Code Section 14667
  With the approval of the state agency concerned, the director may quitclaim in the name of the state, the right, title and interest of the...
• California Government Code Section 14667.1
  Notwithstanding Section 14616, the director may exempt from his or her approval, or from the approval of the department, any state real estate acquisition or...
• California Government Code Section 14667.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for approximately one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in road, street, and other improvements and for reasonable administrative...
• California Government Code Section 14668
  With the approval of the Governor, the director may by executive order withdraw from sale any and all public lands belonging to the state, and...
• California Government Code Section 14669
  (a) The director may hire, lease, lease-purchase, or lease with the option to purchase any real or personal property for the use of any state...
• California Government Code Section 14669.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and...
• California Government Code Section 14669.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the Oakland Redevelopment Agency and a...
• California Government Code Section 14669.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or a lease with an option to purchase with an initial...
• California Government Code Section 14669.35
  (a) The Director of General Services may purchase, exchange, or otherwise acquire real property and construct facilities, including any improvements, betterments, and related facilities, in...
• California Government Code Section 14669.4
  Notwithstanding Section 14669, the director may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, or a lease with an option to purchase, with an initial option purchase price...
• California Government Code Section 14669.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an additional amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 14669.6
  Notwithstanding Section 14669, if the plan requested pursuant to Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991 has been completed, the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 14669.65
  Notwithstanding Section 14669, if the plan requested pursuant to Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991 has been completed, the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 14669.7
  The Director of General Services may enter into an agreement with federal authorities to sell, lease, or exchange land at the Northern California Women's Facility,...
• California Government Code Section 14669.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with the...
• California Government Code Section 14669.9
  The legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) Based upon information contained in a statewide property inventory, the state has both substantial real estate...
• California Government Code Section 14669.11
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may sell or exchange, based on current market value and upon any terms and...
• California Government Code Section 14669.12
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into an amendment to the existing joint powers agreement with the...
• California Government Code Section 14669.13
  (a) The Director of General Services may enter into an agreement to lease-purchase finance or lease with an option to purchase, with an initial option...
• California Government Code Section 14669.14
  (a) The director may exercise the option to purchase 137,275 of net usable square feet of data center, office space, and appurtenances set forth in...
• California Government Code Section 14669.15
  (a) (1) The Director of General Services may enter into one or more agreements to acquire, construct, purchase, lease, lease-purchase, lease-purchase finance, or lease with...
• California Government Code Section 14669.17
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with the City of Fresno, the Fresno...
• California Government Code Section 14669.21
  (a) The Director of the Department of General Services is authorized to acquire, develop, design, and construct, according to plans and specifications approved by the...
• California Government Code Section 14670
  (a) With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may do any of the following: (1) Let for a period of not to...
• California Government Code Section 14670.1
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may let to a nonprofit corporation, for...
• California Government Code Section 14670.10
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Director of General Services leases property located at the Sonoma Developmental Center that was formerly an...
• California Government Code Section 14670.11
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the concurrence of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, may lease to the County of...
• California Government Code Section 14670.12
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, and with the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may let any real property owned by the state not exceeding...
• California Government Code Section 14670.13
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, but subject to the conditions specified in subdivision (c), the Department of General Services may enter into a sale or...
• California Government Code Section 14670.15
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may lease to Napa County for a...
• California Government Code Section 14670.2
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may, in the best interests of the...
• California Government Code Section 14670.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Motor Vehicles, may lease or exchange,...
• California Government Code Section 14670.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may let the Nurses Cottage at the Agnew's Developmental Center in the City of Santa Clara...
• California Government Code Section 14670.3
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Health, may let to a nonprofit corporation, for the...
• California Government Code Section 14670.35
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may let in the best interests of...
• California Government Code Section 14670.4
  The Director of General Services may, subject to the approval of the State Public Works Board, enter into an agreement or agreements whereby the state...
• California Government Code Section 14670.5
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Mental Hygiene may let to a nonprofit corporation, for the...
• California Government Code Section 14670.55
  The Director of General Services, with the approval of the State Public Works Board, may, based on current market value and upon any terms and...
• California Government Code Section 14670.6
  The Director of General Services, with the approval of the State Public Works Board and the Department of the California Highway Patrol, may exchange, based...
• California Government Code Section 14670.67
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services, with the approval of the Director of Parks and Recreation and the State...
• California Government Code Section 14670.7
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Transportation, may let...
• California Government Code Section 14670.75
  The Director of General Services may enter into a lease-purchase agreement, an agreement for the appointment of a bond trustee, an amendment to the existing...
• California Government Code Section 14670.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 11011 and 14670, and Section 118 of the Streets and Highways Code, the Director of General Services, with the approval of the...
• California Government Code Section 14670.95
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 11011, 14670, and 14670.9 and Section 118 of the Streets and Highways Code, the Director of General Services, with the approval of...
• California Government Code Section 14671
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the state agency concerned, may let for any period of time any real...
• California Government Code Section 14671.2
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the state agency concerned and the approval of the governing body of any...
• California Government Code Section 14671.5
  In addition to any other provision of law granting authority to the Director of General Services to enter into leases of state property, the Director...
• California Government Code Section 14671.6
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the state agency concerned, or the Trustees of the California State University with...
• California Government Code Section 14672
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may let to the City of Vacaville for a...
• California Government Code Section 14672.1
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may let to a nonprofit corporation, for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 14672.14
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 11011 and 54222 or any other provision of law, the Director of General Services, with the approval of the State Public Works...
• California Government Code Section 14672.15
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, upon any terms and conditions as the director...
• California Government Code Section 14672.16
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority may...
• California Government Code Section 14672.17
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the federal government and the Department of Corrections, upon the terms and...
• California Government Code Section 14672.2
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Mental Hygiene, may let to the City of Costa Mesa...
• California Government Code Section 14672.25
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the director, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may lease to the City of San Jose for the...
• California Government Code Section 14672.3
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services may lease for a term of up to five years, with an option for a five-year extension...
• California Government Code Section 14672.4
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, on terms and conditions the director deems in the interests of the state and for a period...
• California Government Code Section 14672.5
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may lease to the City of Folsom a parcel...
• California Government Code Section 14672.51
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may lease to the City of Folsom for...
• California Government Code Section 14672.6
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Director of Mental Health, may let to a nonprofit corporation, for the...
• California Government Code Section 14672.7
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Director of Conservation, may lease to a nonprofit corporation, for the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 14672.8
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the state agency concerned, on terms and conditions he deems...
• California Government Code Section 14672.85
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the director, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may let to East Valley Water District for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 14672.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may let in the best interests...
• California Government Code Section 14672.91
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may lease to the County of Humboldt a 5.5-acre...
• California Government Code Section 14672.92
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Health Services, may let to a nonprofit corporation, for...
• California Government Code Section 14672.93
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, whenever a private, nonprofit organization has acquired state-owned equipment for the purpose of helping disadvantaged and minority youth learn the technical skills...
• California Government Code Section 14672.94
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services may let to Solano Community College, for a period not to exceed 25 years, for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 14672.95
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may let to a nonprofit corporation or...
• California Government Code Section 14672.96
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, or any other provision of law, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, may lease...
• California Government Code Section 14672.97
  Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Corrections, upon the terms and conditions as the director deems...
• California Government Code Section 14672.98
  (a) The Department of General Services shall lease upon terms and conditions deemed in the best interest of the state, any or all of the...
• California Government Code Section 14672.99
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of the Youth Authority, shall lease a five acre portion...
• California Government Code Section 14672.100
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Department of the Youth Authority, may lease real property appurtenant to...
• California Government Code Section 14673
  The jurisdiction of real property owned by the state may be transferred from one state agency to another state agency with the written approval of...
• California Government Code Section 14673.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The state owns approximately 1.69 acres of real property located at 995 Fir Street...
• California Government Code Section 14673.5
  The Director of General Services may enter into negotiations with the City of Concord on behalf of the Military Department for the exchange of certain...
• California Government Code Section 14673.6
  The Director of General Services may transfer and convey, without charge or consideration, to the City of Salinas, all rights, title, and interests, including any...
• California Government Code Section 14673.7
  The Director of General Services, with the concurrence of the Director of Parks and Recreation, shall quitclaim to the County of Los Angeles, at no...
• California Government Code Section 14673.8
  (a) The Director of General Services, with the concurrence of the Director of Parks and Recreation, may convey to, exchange, or lease for a term...
• California Government Code Section 14673.9
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The state owns approximately three acres of real property located at 875 Cypress Avenue...
• California Government Code Section 14673.10
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Located in the City of San Diego, the state owns approximately 2.7 acres of...
• California Government Code Section 14673.11
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The state owns approximately 3.14 acres of real property located at 2440 Main Street...
• California Government Code Section 14674
  (a) With the consent of the state agency concerned, the director may authorize the sale or exchange of any personal property which belongs to the...
• California Government Code Section 14675
  The director may authorize the transfer or loan of personal property owned by the state from one state agency to another state agency if he...
• California Government Code Section 14676
  Upon behalf and in the name of the state, the department may contract to purchase or otherwise acquire, that certain real property situate in the...
• California Government Code Section 14677
  Any state agency, with the approval of the director, may permit motor vehicle parking by state officers and employees or other persons upon state property...
• California Government Code Section 14678
  The Department of General Services is authorized to acquire, pursuant to the Property Acquisition Law (Part 11, commencing with Section 15850, Division 3, Title 2,...
• California Government Code Section 14678.5
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14678, the Department of General Services may enter into agreements with the federal government, including the Urban Mass Transportation...
• California Government Code Section 14679
  (a) A parking facility under the jurisdiction or control of a state agency, that is available to private persons who desire to conduct business with...
• California Government Code Section 14679.5
  (a) Any state agency which has under its jurisdiction or control any parking facility, which is available to state officers and employees or to private...
• California Government Code Section 14680
  Whenever a state building or other state structure is about to be constructed and it is necessary to clear any land, public street or public...
• California Government Code Section 14681
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law the Department of General Services is authorized to approve and make effective an agreement between any state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 14681.5
  (a) Whenever the Director of Corrections, the Director of the Youth Authority, or the Director of General Services acting on behalf of either director, decides...
• California Government Code Section 14682
  (a) Final determination of the use of existing state-owned and state-leased facilities that are currently under the jurisdiction of the Department of General Services by...
• California Government Code Section 14684
  (a) The department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall ensure that solar energy equipment is installed, no later than...
• California Government Code Section 14684.1
  (a) The department, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall ensure that solar energy equipment is installed, no later than...
• California Government Code Section 14685
  (a) The director shall appoint assistants, clerks, and employees as may be necessary to maintain the state buildings and grounds. The employees shall not have...
• California Government Code Section 14686
  The Department of General Services shall purchase and provide for the display of both the Flag of the United States and the Bear Flag of...
• California Government Code Section 14687
  To enable it better to perform its powers and duties relating to public buildings, the department may become a member and participate in the activities...
• California Government Code Section 14688
  The department shall consider all matters of city planning affecting the future needs of the state and the relation of the state plans to those...
• California Government Code Section 14689
  The department shall confer and advise with the planning body of the capital city concerning all matters affecting the metropolitan district in and within 15...
• California Government Code Section 14690
  The department may make recommendations to such political units concerning the metropolitan district. In so doing it shall have regard for: (a) The present conditions...
• California Government Code Section 14700
  The Department of General Services has control of the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento, and of the Union Cemetery in San Mateo...
• California Government Code Section 14701
  The fee to the state burial grounds, in the city cemetery of the City of Sacramento, is in the people of the state.
• California Government Code Section 14702
  There may be interred in the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento the remains of any person who: (a) Was a state officer...
• California Government Code Section 14703
  The department may employ such employees as are necessary to perform its duties concerning the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento and the...
• California Government Code Section 14705
  All money received by the department under this article shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
• California Government Code Section 14706
  The Department of General Services has complete control of all of the land owned by the state in the Delhi Colony in Merced County, consisting...
• California Government Code Section 14707
  The department has control of real property in the City of Sacramento, consisting of property known as the State Garage on L Street, and lots...
• California Government Code Section 14708
  All personal property received from the state land settlement shall be held by the department for use by it, for transfer to and for use...
• California Government Code Section 14710
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Alternative energy equipment" means alternative energy equipment, as defined in subdivision (d)...
• California Government Code Section 14711.5
  (a) The department in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, shall identify each...
• California Government Code Section 14712
  The director may enter into third party agreements that the director, with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, determines are appropriate and cost-effective to...
• California Government Code Section 14713
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 15814.12, the department shall retrofit all public buildings, identified in Section 14711.5, where feasible, provided that work on public...
• California Government Code Section 14714
  On or before two years after the effective date of the act adding this section, and every two years thereafter, the Department of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 14715
  The Veterans' Home of California, for all purposes including irrigation and domestic, shall have the first and prior right to all available water stored in...
• California Government Code Section 14717
  (a) The Department of General Services shall apply for grants and other funding as may be available from state, federal, or other sources and upon...
• California Government Code Section 14720
  There is hereby created within the Department of General Services the General Services Advisory Council. The council shall be composed of not to exceed 12...
• California Government Code Section 14721
  The functions of the council shall include but not be limited to: (a) Consideration of improved methods of providing centralized services. (b) Consideration of suggestions...
• California Government Code Section 14722
  The council shall serve as an advisory body and make recommendations to the Department of General Services. The members of the council shall serve without...
• California Government Code Section 14723
  The Director of General Services may create special advisory committees to advise the director with regard to specific problems which may arise in providing centralized...
• California Government Code Section 14735
  Upon being directed by the Controller to sell a residential dwelling pursuant to Section 16201, the department shall sell the residential dwelling in the manner...
• California Government Code Section 14740
  This chapter shall be known as the "State Records Management Act."
• California Government Code Section 14741
  As used in this chapter "record" or "records" means all papers, maps, exhibits, magnetic or paper tapes, photographic films and prints, punched cards, and other...
• California Government Code Section 14741.1
  As used in this chapter, "public use forms" means those forms used by the state to obtain or to solicit facts, opinions, or other information...
• California Government Code Section 14745
  The director shall establish and administer in the executive branch of state government a records management program, which will apply efficient and economical management methods...
• California Government Code Section 14746
  The duties of the director shall include but not be limited to: (a) Establishing standards, procedures, and techniques for effective management of records. (b) Providing...
• California Government Code Section 14750
  The head of each agency shall: (a) Establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the records and information...
• California Government Code Section 14755
  (a) No record shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by any agency of the state, unless it is determined by the director that the...
• California Government Code Section 14756
  The public records of any state agency may be microfilmed, electronically data imaged, or otherwise photographically reproduced and certified upon the written authorization of the...
• California Government Code Section 14760
  The director shall, through the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency, make an annual written report to the Governor. The report shall describe...
• California Government Code Section 14765
  All persons, other than temporary employees, serving in the state civil service and employed by the Secretary of State in the Central Record Depository, shall...
• California Government Code Section 14766
  All equipment and records in the Central Record Depository in the office of the Secretary of State are transferred to the Department of General Services.
• California Government Code Section 14767
  The director shall establish, maintain and operate record centers for the storage, processing, and servicing of records for state agencies pending their deposit with the...
• California Government Code Section 14768
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 1967.
• California Government Code Section 14769
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Acquire" includes acquisition by gift, purchase, lease, eminent domain, or otherwise. (2) "Public record plant" means the plant,...
• California Government Code Section 14766
  All equipment and records in the Central Record Depository in the office of the Secretary of State are transferred to the Department of General Services.
• California Government Code Section 14767
  The director shall establish, maintain and operate record centers for the storage, processing, and servicing of records for state agencies pending their deposit with the...
• California Government Code Section 14768
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 1967.
• California Government Code Section 14770
  The director shall establish and staff an activity within the department to be known as the "forms management center" for the orderly design, implementation and...
• California Government Code Section 14771
  (a) The director, through the forms management center, shall do all of the following: (1) Establish a State Forms Management Program for all state agencies,...
• California Government Code Section 14772
  Each state agency shall appoint a forms management representative and provide necessary assistance to implement the State Forms Management Program within the agency.
• California Government Code Section 14773
  "State agency" as used in this chapter does not include educational institutions.
• California Government Code Section 14774
  This chapter shall not apply to any state form with provisions specifically authorized and established by statute.
• California Government Code Section 14775
  (a) By June 30, 1995, each state agency shall inventory all reports and forms it requires businesses to complete and submit in order to comply...
• California Government Code Section 14825
  The Department of General Services shall publish, or shall cause to be published, the California State Contracts Register, describing therein contracts proposed by the state....
• California Government Code Section 14825.1
  The California State Contracts Register shall be published not less than twice a month and shall include information deemed appropriate by the Department of General...
• California Government Code Section 14826
  In order to broaden subcontracting opportunities for small business, agencies shall maintain and provide, upon request to interested parties, the names and addresses of firms...
• California Government Code Section 14827
  State agencies shall develop procedures for assuring that proposed contract opportunities are published in the California State Contracts Register as required by this article.
• California Government Code Section 14827.1
  No state agency shall award a contract unless notice thereof has first been published in the California State Contracts Register.
• California Government Code Section 14827.2
  Every state agency shall furnish to the Department of General Services the information required by Section 14825.1 in sufficient time for it to be published...
• California Government Code Section 14827.3
  The Department of General Services may exempt a state agency from the requirement of advertising in the California State Contracts Register where the contract is...
• California Government Code Section 14828
  All governmental contracting entities shall provide to the Department of General Services which shall maintain, for review by those desiring the information, all of the...
• California Government Code Section 14829
  The Department of General Services shall offer copies of the California State Contracts Register for sale, and the "price" thereof shall not exceed the amount...
• California Government Code Section 14829.1
  The Department of General Services may adopt rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose of carrying into effect this article.
• California Government Code Section 14829.2
  This article shall remain in effect until January 1, 1988, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which is chaptered...
• California Government Code Section 14835
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.
• California Government Code Section 14836
  (a) The Legislature hereby declares that it serves a public purpose, and it is of benefit to the state, to promote and facilitate the fullest...
• California Government Code Section 14837
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of General Services. (b) "Director" means the Director of General Services. (c) "Manufacturer" means a...
• California Government Code Section 14838
  In order to facilitate the participation of small business, including microbusiness, in the provision of goods, information technology, and services to the state, and in...
• California Government Code Section 14838.1
  (a) In order to encourage the participation of small businesses in the construction, alteration, demolition, repair, or improvement, of the state's infrastructure, as provided in...
• California Government Code Section 14838.2
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Market demand is a driving factor in determining profitability of California companies and the ability...
• California Government Code Section 14838.4
  No small business preference shall be allowed if allowing the small business preference would result in a computed bid of the preference recipient which would...
• California Government Code Section 14838.5
  (a) Notwithstanding the advertising, bidding, and protest provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 14825) of this part and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 10290)...
• California Government Code Section 14838.7
  (a) Notwithstanding the advertising and bidding provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 14825) of this code and Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100) of...
• California Government Code Section 14839
  There is hereby established within the department the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services. The duties of the office shall include:...
• California Government Code Section 14839.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the department shall have sole responsibility for certifying and determining the eligibility of small businesses and microbusinesses under...
• California Government Code Section 14840
  (a) In the process of certifying and determining the eligibility of a disabled veteran business enterprise or a small business enterprise, including a microbusiness, the...
• California Government Code Section 14841
  Upon completion of a public contract for which a commitment to achieve small business or disabled veteran business enterprise participation goals was made, the contractor...
• California Government Code Section 14842
  (a) A business that has obtained classification as a small business or microbusiness by reason of having furnished incorrect supporting information or by reason of...
• California Government Code Section 14842.5
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Knowingly and with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtain, retain, attempt...
• California Government Code Section 14843
  The department may make all rules and regulations consistent with the law for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter. Rules...
• California Government Code Section 14845
  Using existing resources, the Department of General Services' small business advocate shall, at a minimum, provide the following services: (a) Assist certified small businesses and...
• California Government Code Section 14846
  (a) (1) Using existing resources, each state agency shall consolidate its existing staff functions that relate to contract opportunities for small business into a single...
• California Government Code Section 14847
  (a) In determining eligibility of a business for an award, state agencies may consider all of the following: (1) Whether the bidder has the necessary...
• California Government Code Section 14850
  All state printing shall be done in the Office of State Printing. State work only shall be done in the Office of State Printing. The...
• California Government Code Section 14851
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e) or (f), the Office of State Publishing may accept or authorize paid advertisements in materials printed or published...
• California Government Code Section 14852
  All printing required by the California Exposition and State Fair and district agricultural associations is exempt from Section 14850.
• California Government Code Section 14853
  The department has entire charge and superintendence of the state printing and binding.
• California Government Code Section 14854
  The department shall decide upon the style and manner of printing all laws and other state documents except those printed for the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 14855
  The department may revise, reduce or decline to execute any order, or part of any order, which it deems unnecessary or unwarranted by law, and...
• California Government Code Section 14856
  Appropriations from the General Fund shall not be expended for the printing or publishing of any book, pamphlet, report of activities, or compilation or synopsis...
• California Government Code Section 14857
  When any chart, map, diagram, or other engraving is required to illustrate any document ordered to be printed, such chart, map, diagram, or engraving shall...
• California Government Code Section 14858
  The department may cause the state printing plant, its contents and all printing supplies and other property used or intended to be used for state...
• California Government Code Section 14860
  Whenever the Office of State Printing is not equipped to fill an order for printing or other work, the Office of State Printing shall so...
• California Government Code Section 14865
  All printed matter for all state agencies and the Regents of the University of California shall be prepared at the expense of their respective funds...
• California Government Code Section 14866
  The cost of all printing and publishing by the Office of State Printing shall be fixed by the department in an amount which will pay...
• California Government Code Section 14867
  The department shall cause to be installed and the Office of State Printing shall use a cost finding system for determining the cost of all...
• California Government Code Section 14868
  Charges for printing publications, including legislative printing, shall include the cost of printing and distributing copies thereof to libraries as required by Section 14901.
• California Government Code Section 14870
  The department shall execute promptly all orders for printing or binding received from the various state agencies.
• California Government Code Section 14871
  Orders for printing shall be forwarded to the department by the state agency ordering the printing. Such orders shall contain a statement showing that sufficient...
• California Government Code Section 14872
  There is in the Department of General Services a State Printer, who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon recommendation of the director, and shall...
• California Government Code Section 14873
  The department shall take charge of and is responsible for all manuscripts and other matter delivered to it for printing.
• California Government Code Section 14874
  There shall be retained and filed in the Office of State Printing, with the job ticket, one copy or sample of the printing produced on...
• California Government Code Section 14875
  The department shall employ such compositors, bookbinders, pressmen, assistants and such other skilled craftsmen as the exigency of the work from time to time requires....
• California Government Code Section 14876
  (a) Pressmen, typographers, linotypers, compositors, bookbinders, lithographers, engravers, apprentices and assistants and all other employees of the Office of State Printing employed in allied work...
• California Government Code Section 14877
  There shall be kept in the Office of State Printing, a time book, containing the name of every employee connected with the Office of State...
• California Government Code Section 14880
  The department has general supervision of the distribution of all public documents and other publications printed for any state agency and the custody of all...
• California Government Code Section 14881
  The department may accept for distribution or disposal documents and other publications from the Legislature, the Governor, or the elective officers of the state, when...
• California Government Code Section 14882
  The department may compile and publish such documents, pamphlets, bulletins or other publications as it deems are for the best interests of the state or...
• California Government Code Section 14883
  There shall be deducted from all money received from the sale of such documents or publications, a pro rata share of the cost of administration...
• California Government Code Section 14884
  The index of the Constitution and laws shall be offered for sale to the public at a price to be fixed by the department. Such...
• California Government Code Section 14885
  In the year 1963 and in every fourth year thereafter the Office of State Printing shall, with the approval of the department, compile or cause...
• California Government Code Section 14886
  The volumes shall be distributed as follows: to each Member of the Senate and Assembly as determined by the Rules Committee of each house; to...
• California Government Code Section 14890
  Whenever any state agency requires the compilation, printing, and publication of any volumes or pamphlets of laws or other matter for use or information in...
• California Government Code Section 14891
  After approval of the application by the department and upon its written direction or request, the Legislative Counsel, State Librarian, or other state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 14892
  The state agency requiring the compilation shall furnish the state agency compiling it such data and information as it has or may be able to...
• California Government Code Section 14893
  If the compilation is required for its own use or information, the cost of compiling, printing, and publishing the volumes or pamphlets shall be paid...
• California Government Code Section 14894
  If the compilation is for the general use or information of the people, the cost of compiling, printing, and publishing the volumes or pamphlets shall...
• California Government Code Section 14900
  It is the policy of the State of California to make freely available to its inhabitants all state publications by distribution to libraries throughout the...
• California Government Code Section 14901
  To the end that the policy specified in Section 14900 may be effectively carried out, the State Printer shall print a sufficient number of copies...
• California Government Code Section 14902
  "State publication" or "publication" as herein employed is defined to include any document, compilation, journal, law, resolution, Blue Book, statute, code, register, pamphlet, list, book,...
• California Government Code Section 14903
  As soon as practicable after deposit of the copies in the library stockroom, the State Printer shall forward of each publication other than the legislative...
• California Government Code Section 14904
  The copies remaining in the library stockroom, including the legislative bills, daily journals, and daily or weekly histories, shall be distributed as soon as practicable...
• California Government Code Section 14905
  To be placed on the mailing list as a "complete depository" or as a "selective depository," a library must contract with the Department of General...
• California Government Code Section 14905.1
  The California State Library may enter into agreements with the appropriate state agencies of each of the 49 other states of the United States of...
• California Government Code Section 14906
  Any municipal or county free library, any state college or state university library, the library of any incorporated college or university in this state, the...
• California Government Code Section 14907
  Upon application, county law libraries, the law libraries of any law school approved by the State Bar of California, the Supreme Court Library, the law...
• California Government Code Section 14908
  Because of the specialized service rendered the citizens of this state through assistance in the administration of justice, proximity to another depository library shall be...
• California Government Code Section 14909
  Maintenance of basic general documents shall not be required of law library depositories, but basic legal documents shall be maintained by them. Such basic legal...
• California Government Code Section 14910
  To facilitate the distribution of state publications, the State Library shall issue monthly or quarterly a complete list of state publications issued during the immediately...
• California Government Code Section 14911
  Whenever any state agency maintains a mailing list of public officials or other persons to whom publications or other printed matter is sent without charge,...
• California Government Code Section 14912
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the number of copies of statutes distributed to an authorized recipient shall not exceed the number requested by...
• California Government Code Section 14920
  (a) The Department of General Services provides for the specialized consideration of all traffic problems of the state; develops specialized knowledge of rates, tariffs, and...
• California Government Code Section 14921
  The director, subject to the State Civil Service Act, shall appoint such personnel as is necessary to perform the following duties: (a) Watch the movements...
• California Government Code Section 14922
  Upon request of any state agency, the Director of General Services may assign competent personnel to work directly with such state agency at such locations...
• California Government Code Section 14925
  This chapter and Article 4 (commencing with Section 14170) of Chapter 2 of Part 5 shall be known and may be cited as the Guaranteed...
• California Government Code Section 14926
  The Department of General Services shall establish and administer the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project in accordance with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 14927
  The demonstration project shall utilize state owned equipment and facilities operated by the department, or equipment and services contracted for by the department, to make...
• California Government Code Section 14928
  The department shall develop standards and guidelines for the demonstration project, including standards for eligibility for and utilization of services provided under the demonstration project....
• California Government Code Section 14929
  (a) The department shall conduct an evaluation of the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project established pursuant to this chapter to determine the effectiveness of the...
• California Government Code Section 14950
  There is in the Department of General Services a State Architect who shall report directly to the director. He or she shall be appointed by...
• California Government Code Section 14951
  The Department of General Services shall succeed to the powers, duties, and functions with respect to architectural services previously vested in the Division of Architecture...
• California Government Code Section 14952
  The department shall contract with qualified architects and engineers for the performance of work when it is determined by the Director of General Services, with...
• California Government Code Section 14953
  The cost of all architectural services performed by the department for a state agency, which is supported otherwise than by appropriations from the General Fund,...
• California Government Code Section 14954
  The department may employ such assistance as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties, and may purchase or rent any necessary supplies,...
• California Government Code Section 14955
  Where work to be performed, excluding regular maintenance work, which would otherwise be subject to the State Contract Act (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10100)...
• California Government Code Section 14956
  This chapter, insofar as it vests in the State Architect general charge of the erection of all state buildings and require him or her to...
• California Government Code Section 14957
  (a) The Division of Architecture Revolving Fund in the State Treasury is continued in existence and is retitled the Architecture Revolving Fund. With the approval...
• California Government Code Section 14958
  The Department of General Services shall file against the Architecture Revolving Fund all claims covering expenditures incurred in connection with services, new construction, major construction...
• California Government Code Section 14959
  The Department of General Services shall keep a record of all expenditures chargeable against each specific portion of the revolving fund, and any unencumbered balance...
• California Government Code Section 14960
  Without at the time furnishing vouchers and itemized statements, the Department of General Services may withdraw from the Architecture Revolving Fund not to exceed at...
• California Government Code Section 14961
  The Director of General Services may authorize the refund of moneys received or collected by the department in payment of fees, licenses, permits, or for...
• California Government Code Section 14963
  The duties and functions formerly conducted by the State Fire Marshal that relate to construction, school, plan checking, and construction inspection are hereby transferred to...
• California Government Code Section 14964
  (a) The duties and functions formerly conducted by the Office of the State Architect and the State Fire Marshal that relate to hospital plan checking...
• California Government Code Section 14970
  In times of extraordinary stress and of disaster, resulting from storms, floods, fire, or other calamitous events the director may declare the existence of an...
• California Government Code Section 14971
  The department may perform any work required or take any remedial measures necessary to avert, alleviate, repair, or restore damage or destruction to property as...
• California Government Code Section 14972
  The director shall transmit any declaration made under this chapter to the Department of Finance with a recommendation and request that money be allocated from...
• California Government Code Section 14973
  The Director of Finance shall forthwith determine if a state emergency exists, and if money is available in any appropriation or emergency fund for the...
• California Government Code Section 14974
  Any work to be done as provided for in this chapter may be accomplished by day labor, negotiated contract, contract made upon informal bids or...
• California Government Code Section 14975
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3247 of the Civil Code, the contractor under any contract made under this chapter need not provide a payment bond...
• California Government Code Section 14975
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9550 of the Civil Code, the contractor under any contract made under this chapter need not provide a payment bond...
• California Government Code Section 14976
  Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Article 2 (commencing with Section 1770) of Chapter 1 of Part 7 of Division 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 14977
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the Department of General Services.
• California Government Code Section 14977.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of General Services may enter into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts on a bid or negotiated basis...
• California Government Code Section 14977.5
  (a) The following state agencies shall participate in the prescription drug bulk purchasing program authorized under this chapter. (1) State Department of Mental Health. (2)...
• California Government Code Section 14978
  The department, in consultation with the agencies listed in subdivision (a) of Section 14977.5, may investigate and implement other options and strategies to achieve the...
• California Government Code Section 14979
  The department may appoint and contract with a pharmaceutical benefits manager or other entity for purposes of the prescription drugs purchased under this chapter. The...
• California Government Code Section 14980
  The department may explore additional strategies for managing the increasing costs of prescription drugs, including: (a) Coordinating programs offered by pharmaceutical manufacturers that provide prescription...
• California Government Code Section 14982
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of General Services, University of California, and the Public Employees' Retirement System regularly meet...
• California Government Code Section 14995
  (a) The Electronic Funds Transfer Task Force is hereby established in state government. (b) The Electronic Funds Transfer Task Force shall consist of one representative...
• California Government Code Section 14998
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited as, the Motion Picture, Television, and Commercial Industries Act of 1984.
• California Government Code Section 14998.1
  The Legislature finds that motion picture production in California provides unique and significant contributions to the economy of California and to the cultural enrichment of...
• California Government Code Section 14998.2
  (a) There is in the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency, the California Film Commission consisting of 26 members. The Governor shall appoint 13 members, the...
• California Government Code Section 14998.3
  (a) The commission shall submit a list of recommended candidates for the position of Director of the Film Commission to the Governor for consideration. The...
• California Government Code Section 14998.4
  (a) The commission shall meet at least quarterly and shall select a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members. The vice chairperson shall...
• California Government Code Section 14998.5
  The commission is authorized to contract for production consultants and appoint an advisory board. No member of the advisory board shall receive any compensation, or...
• California Government Code Section 14998.55
  The commission shall release annually the number of motion picture starts that occurred within the State of California.
• California Government Code Section 14998.6
  The director of the commission shall provide staff support to the California Film Commission. When needed, the secretary may assign additional staff on a temporary...
• California Government Code Section 14998.7
  Any funds appropriated to, or for use by, the California Film Commission for purposes of this chapter, shall be under the control of the secretary...
• California Government Code Section 14998.8
  (a) The director of the commission shall be the permitting authority for the use of state-owned property and state employee services for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 14998.9
  The director of the commission shall prepare and implement a program to promote the production of motion pictures and still photography for the benefit of...
• California Government Code Section 14998.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage local governments to develop uniform procedures for issuing permits and to charge fees for the use...
• California Government Code Section 14998.11
  The Film Office shall perform the following functions and activities: (a) Provide staff for the California Film Commission. (b) Implement the Cooperative Motion Picture Marketing...
• California Government Code Section 14998.12
  (a) (1) The California Film Commission shall develop and oversee the implementation of a Cooperative Motion Picture Marketing Plan. The plan shall increase the marketing...
• California Government Code Section 14998.13
  (a) As a means to carry out the California Film Commission's purposes of encouraging and promoting motion picture and television filming in California and maintaining...
• California Government Code Section 14999
  The Commission for Economic Development, hereinafter referred to as the commission, is continued in existence. The purpose of the commission is to provide continuing bipartisan...
• California Government Code Section 14999.1
  The commission shall consist of 17 members appointed as follows: Three Members of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Rules Committee. Three Members of the...
• California Government Code Section 14999.2
  The commission may appoint task forces to study and report on specific issues which relate to the purposes of this chapter. The commission may contract...
• California Government Code Section 14999.3
  The commission shall appoint advisory committees from outside its membership to represent the aerospace, manufacturing, maritime, tourism and world trade segments of the state's economy,...
• California Government Code Section 14999.4
  Members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for actual necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, as authorized...
• California Government Code Section 14999.5
  A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business for the commission. All meetings of the commission shall be open...
• California Government Code Section 14999.6
  The commission may act at any regular or special meeting. Regular meetings shall be held once during each three-month period and special meetings may be...
• California Government Code Section 14999.7
  The commission shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 14999.8
  The commission shall consider programs to further the economic development of the state. The commission shall study the laws and programs of other states relating...
• California Government Code Section 14999.9
  The commission shall make a report of its activities, findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature not later than February 1 of each
• California Government Code Section 14999.10
  The Legislature finds and declares that the Commission for Economic Development is solely an advisory body to the Legislature, to the Governor, and to state...
• California Government Code Section 14999.20
  The California Film Commission shall, with input from the motion picture industry and local and state government, develop and adopt a "model process for granting...
• California Government Code Section 14999.21
  (a) The California Film Commission shall send to each city and county a copy of the model process for granting film permits for local consideration....
• California Government Code Section 14999.30
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Film Permit Act.
• California Government Code Section 14999.31
  The Film Office and its director shall encourage the use of the uniform application form described in Section 14999.32 for obtaining a local permit to...
• California Government Code Section 14999.32
  The uniform film permit application form shall include all of the following provisions: (a) The name, address, and telephone number of the applicant or duly...
• California Government Code Section 14999.33
  (a) If a county, city, or city and county requires a film permit, it is encouraged to use the uniform film permit application form when...
• California Government Code Section 14999.34
  This chapter shall apply to any city, including any charter city.
• California Government Code Section 14999.35
  No fee which is greater than the actual cost incurred shall be charged by any county, city, city and county, or special district for film...
• California Government Code Section 14999.36
  A city or county may adopt an ordinance or other regulation governing the issuance of permits to engage in the use of property for occasional...
• California Government Code Section 14999.37
  (a) A local or state public official involved in the granting of a film permit may not require directly or indirectly a charitable donation or...
• California Government Code Section 14999.50
  It is the intent of the Legislature to help develop California's film industry and thereby further strengthen the state's economy by providing surplus government-owned property...
• California Government Code Section 14999.55
  (a) The State Theatrical Arts Resources (STAR) Partnership is hereby established within the California Film Commission. (b) The commission shall collaborate with the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 14999.30
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Film Permit Act.
• California Government Code Section 14999.31
  The Film Office and its director shall encourage the use of the uniform application form described in Section 14999.32 for obtaining a local permit to...
• California Government Code Section 14999.32
  The uniform film permit application form shall include all of the following provisions: (a) The name, address, and telephone number of the applicant or duly...
• California Government Code Section 14999.33
  (a) If a county, city, or city and county requires a film permit, it is encouraged to use the uniform film permit application form when...
• California Government Code Section 14999.34
  This chapter shall apply to any city, including any charter city.
• California Government Code Section 14999.35
  No fee which is greater than the actual cost incurred shall be charged by any county, city, city and county, or special district for film...
• California Government Code Section 14999.36
  A city or county may adopt an ordinance or other regulation governing the issuance of permits to engage in the use of property for occasional...
• California Government Code Section 14999.37
  (a) A local or state public official involved in the granting of a film permit may not require directly or indirectly a charitable donation or...
• California Government Code Section 15000
  There is in the State Government a Department of Justice. The department is under the direction and control of the Attorney General.
• California Government Code Section 15001
  The department is composed of the Office of the Attorney General and those other divisions, bureaus, branches, sections, or other units as the Attorney General...
• California Government Code Section 15001.1
  The Department of Justice is responsible for investigation and enforcement of controlled gambling activity in this state as set forth in the Gambling Control Act...
• California Government Code Section 15001.2
  Any process issued by the Department of Justice for purposes of implementing and enforcing the Gambling Control Act (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19800) of...
• California Government Code Section 15002
  The civil service status, positions and rights of officers and employees of the Department of Justice who were members of the State civil service prior...
• California Government Code Section 15002.5
  The Attorney General may arrange and classify the work of the Department of Justice, and consolidate, abolish, or create divisions, bureaus, branches, sections or units...
• California Government Code Section 15003
  There is in the Department of Justice the office of deputy director. The deputy director shall be appointed by the Attorney General. The deputy director...
• California Government Code Section 15004
  The department may prepare and publish every two years a compilation of the laws of this State relating to crimes and criminal law enforcement, which...
• California Government Code Section 15005
  Notwithstanding Section 18932, the minimum age limit for appointment to the position of special or narcotic agent shall be 18 years, and the maximum age...
• California Government Code Section 15005
  Notwithstanding Section 18932, the minimum age limit for appointment to the position of special or narcotic agent shall be 18 years. Any examination for the...
• California Government Code Section 15006
  The Department of Justice shall maintain a continuing investigation on a statewide basis of investment frauds and business crimes and shall assist district attorneys of...
• California Government Code Section 15025
  The Department of Justice shall seek to control and eradicate organized crime in California by: (a) Gathering, analyzing and storing intelligence pertaining to organized crime....
• California Government Code Section 15026
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the department focus its investigative and prosecutive endeavors with regard to organized crime in controlling crime which...
• California Government Code Section 15027
  The department's functions concerning organized crime shall be divided among five programs as follows: (a) Operations and training. (b) Intelligence. (c) Long-range intelligence research. (d)...
• California Government Code Section 15028
  The department shall annually report on its activities and accomplishments to the Legislature and to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as...
• California Government Code Section 15029
  (a) The Crack Down Task Force Program is hereby created within the Department of Justice with responsibility for establishing, conducting, supporting, and coordinating crack down...
• California Government Code Section 15050
  The Attorney General shall study, in conjunction with representatives of the States of Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon, the necessity and desirability of an interstate compact...
• California Government Code Section 15051
  No compact proposed pursuant to this article is binding on the State of California until it has been approved by the Legislature of this state...
• California Government Code Section 15100
  The California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System shall be operated by the Department of Justice.
• California Government Code Section 15101
  The system shall be used exclusively for the official business of the State, and the official business of any city, county, city and county, or...
• California Government Code Section 15102
  The charges for transmitting messages over the system shall be fixed pursuant to Section 13240.
• California Government Code Section 15103
  The department shall file with the Controller a monthly report of all money received for the use of the system, and at the same time...
• California Government Code Section 15104
  All sums so deposited shall be credited by the Controller to the appropriation for the support of the department from which the cost of such...
• California Government Code Section 15105
  This chapter does not prohibit the use of the State's Teletype System by any other state or public agency thereof when connection is made to...
• California Government Code Section 15106
  The Attorney General may lease facilities and equipment for the purpose of connecting the State's Teletypewriter System with any county, city, or district, if the...
• California Government Code Section 15130
  The Attorney General may arrange for the connection of the State Teletype System with that of any adjacent state.
• California Government Code Section 15131
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the State Teletype System with points to be selected by him in the Counties of...
• California Government Code Section 15132
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the state teletype system with each of the Counties of Amador, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El...
• California Government Code Section 15133
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the State Teletype System with the sheriff's office in the counties of: (a) Alpine. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 15134
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the State Teletype System with sheriff's office substations at: (a) Monterey, in Monterey County. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 15135
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the state teletype system with the police department of each of the following cities: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 15136
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the State Teletype System with the police department of each of the following cities: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 15137
  The Attorney General shall lease facilities and equipment to connect the state teletype system with the police department of the City of Lompoc if the...
• California Government Code Section 15150
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Justice shall commence to operate under this chapter as soon as feasible, but...
• California Government Code Section 15151
  The maintenance of law and order is, and always has been, a primary function of government and is so recognized in both Federal and State...
• California Government Code Section 15152
  The Department of Justice shall maintain a statewide telecommunications system of communication for the use of law enforcement agencies.
• California Government Code Section 15153
  The system shall be under the direction of the Attorney General, and shall be used exclusively for the official business of the state, and the...
• California Government Code Section 15154
  The Attorney General shall appoint an advisory committee on the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, hereinafter referred to as the committee, to advise and assist...
• California Government Code Section 15155
  The committee shall consist of representatives from the following organizations: (1) Two representatives from the Peace Officers' Association of the State of California. (2) One...
• California Government Code Section 15156
  The Department of Justice shall provide an executive secretary to the committee.
• California Government Code Section 15157
  The committee shall elect a chairman for a term to be determined by the committee.
• California Government Code Section 15158
  The committee shall meet at least twice each year at a time and place to be determined by the Attorney General and the chairman. Special...
• California Government Code Section 15159
  All meetings of the committee and all hearings held by the committee shall be open to the public.
• California Government Code Section 15160
  The Attorney General shall, upon the advice of the committee, adopt and publish for distribution to the system subscribers and other interested parties the operating...
• California Government Code Section 15161
  The Department of Justice shall provide a basic telecommunications communications network consisting of no more than two relay or switching centers in the state and...
• California Government Code Section 15162
  The system may connect and exchange traffic with compatible systems of adjacent states and otherwise participate in interstate operations.
• California Government Code Section 15163
  The system shall provide service to any law enforcement agency qualified by the committee which, at its own expense, desires connection through the county terminal.
• California Government Code Section 15164
  The system shall be maintained at all times with equipment and facilities adequate to the needs of law enforcement. The committee shall recommend to the...
• California Government Code Section 15164.1
  (a) The person designated as a county's "control agent" as defined by the policies, practices, and procedures adopted pursuant to Section 15160, or the chief...
• California Government Code Section 15165
  Any subscriber to the system shall file with the Attorney General an agreement to conform to the operating policies, practices and procedures approved by the...
• California Government Code Section 15166
  The Director of General Services shall fix the charge to be paid by any state department, officer, board or commission to the Department of Justice.
• California Government Code Section 15167
  In the case of a state agency, the charge shall be paid from the money available by law for the support of the state agency...
• California Government Code Section 15200
  The Legislature hereby declares that: (1) The uniform administration of justice throughout the State is a matter of statewide interest; (2) The prosecution and conduct...
• California Government Code Section 15201
  As used in this chapter, "costs incurred by the county" means all costs, except normal salaries and expenses, incurred by the county in bringing to...
• California Government Code Section 15202
  (a) A county that is responsible for the cost of a trial or trials or any hearing of a person for the offense of homicide...
• California Government Code Section 15202.1
  (a) If the venue for trial of a homicide case has been changed from the county which is eligible for reimbursement under Section 15202 to...
• California Government Code Section 15203
  If the county meets the conditions described in Section 15202 and applies to the State Controller for reimbursement pursuant to that section, and the State...
• California Government Code Section 15204
  The State Controller may establish rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 15250
  This part may be cited as the California State Communications Law.
• California Government Code Section 15251
  Unless the context requires otherwise, as used in this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Technology Agency....
• California Government Code Section 15252
  The purpose of this part is to improve and coordinate the use of public safety radio and other public safety communications facilities owned and operated...
• California Government Code Section 15253
  This part shall apply only to those communications facilities which are owned and operated by public agencies in connection with official business of law enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 15254
  Radio and other communications facilities owned or operated by the state and subject to the jurisdiction of the agency shall not be used for political,...
• California Government Code Section 15275
  The agency may do all of the following: (a) Provide adequate representation of local and state governmental bodies and agencies before the Federal Communications Commission...
• California Government Code Section 15277
  The Public Safety Communications Division is established within the agency. The duties of the division shall include, but not be limited to, all of the...
• California Government Code Section 15301
  (a) The El Centro and Calexico armories in Imperial County; the Culver City, Glendale, Inglewood, Long Beach 7th Street, Pomona, Sylmar, and West Los Angeles...
• California Government Code Section 15301.1
  State armories shall not be made available during any period that any organization of the state militia or of the Armed Forces of the United...
• California Government Code Section 15301.3
  Any county or city authorized in Section 15301 electing to use a state armory or armories for the purpose of this chapter, in consultation with...
• California Government Code Section 15301.6
  (a) Each county that obtains a license under Section 15301.3 shall establish a local shelter advisory committee, which shall have all of the following responsibilities:...
• California Government Code Section 15363.60
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Film California First Program.
• California Government Code Section 15363.61
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) The entertainment industry is one of California's leading industries in terms of employment and tax revenue....
• California Government Code Section 15363.62
  For purposes of this chapter, the following meanings shall apply: (a) "Agency" means the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, which includes the California Film Commission....
• California Government Code Section 15363.63
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency may pay and reimburse the film costs incurred by a public...
• California Government Code Section 15363.64
  (a) The Film California First Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. (b) The following moneys shall be paid into the fund: (1) Any...
• California Government Code Section 15363.65
  Procedures and guidelines promulgated to clarify and make specific provisions of the program established pursuant to this chapter, or of any other film assistance program...
• California Government Code Section 15400
  The Governor shall appoint a State Public Defender, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The State Public Defender shall be a member of the State...
• California Government Code Section 15401
  (a) The State Public Defender shall be appointed for a term of four years commencing on January 1, 1976, and shall serve until the appointment...
• California Government Code Section 15402
  The State Public Defender may employ deputies and other employees, and establish and operate offices, as he or she may need for the proper performance...
• California Government Code Section 15403
  The State Public Defender shall formulate plans for the representation of indigents in the Supreme Court and in each appellate district as provided in this...
• California Government Code Section 15404
  The State Public Defender may issue any regulations and take any actions as may be necessary for proper implementation of this part.
• California Government Code Section 15420
  The primary responsibility of the State Public Defender is to represent those persons who are entitled to representation at public expense in the proceedings listed...
• California Government Code Section 15421
  Upon appointment by the court or upon the request of the person involved the State Public Defender is authorized to represent any person who is...
• California Government Code Section 15422
  Where a county public defender has refused, or is otherwise reasonably unable to represent a person because of conflict of interest or other reason, the...
• California Government Code Section 15423
  The State Public Defender is authorized to appear as a friend of the court and may appear in a legislative, administrative or other similar proceeding.
• California Government Code Section 15424
  A person requesting the appointment of counsel shall make a financial statement under oath in the manner provided in rules adopted by the Judicial Council.
• California Government Code Section 15425
  The duties prescribed for the State Public Defender by this chapter are not exclusive and he may perform any acts consistent with them in carrying...
• California Government Code Section 15430
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act.
• California Government Code Section 15431
  The California Health Facilities Authority is continued in state government as the California Health Facilities Financing Authority. The authority constitutes a public instrumentality, and the...
• California Government Code Section 15432
  As used in this part, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates or requires another or different...
• California Government Code Section 15433
  The authority shall consist of nine members, including the State Treasurer, who shall serve as chairman, the State Controller, the Director of Finance, two members...
• California Government Code Section 15434
  The chairperson of the authority on its behalf shall appoint an executive director, who shall not be a member of the authority and who shall...
• California Government Code Section 15435
  The executive director or other person designated by resolution of the authority shall keep a record of the proceedings of the authority and shall be...
• California Government Code Section 15436
  Five members of the authority shall constitute a quorum. The affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum shall be necessary for any action taken...
• California Government Code Section 15437
  (a) The provisions of this part shall be administered by the authority, which shall have and is hereby vested with all powers reasonably necessary to...
• California Government Code Section 15438
  The authority may do any of the following: (a) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business. (b) Adopt...
• California Government Code Section 15438.2
  (a) When capital outlay funds are granted on property which is leased for a child day care facility, the term of the lease shall be...
• California Government Code Section 15438.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to provide financing only, and, except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and...
• California Government Code Section 15438.6
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Cedillo-Alarcon Community Clinic Investment Act of 2000. (b) The Legislature finds and declares...
• California Government Code Section 15438.7
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) There are small health care facilities throughout the state that are in critical need...
• California Government Code Section 15439
  (a) The California Health Facilities Authority Fund is continued in existence in the State Treasury as the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund. All money...
• California Government Code Section 15440
  All expenses of the authority incurred in carrying out the provisions of this part shall be payable solely from funds provided pursuant to this part,...
• California Government Code Section 15441
  (a) The authority is authorized, from time to time, to issue its negotiable revenue bonds in order to provide funds for achieving any of its...
• California Government Code Section 15442
  In the discretion of the authority, any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this part may be secured by a trust agreement or indenture...
• California Government Code Section 15443
  Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this part shall not be deemed to constitute a debt or liability of the state or of any...
• California Government Code Section 15444
  Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this part or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee or trustees under...
• California Government Code Section 15445
  All moneys received pursuant to this part, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust...
• California Government Code Section 15446
  (a) The authority may provide for the issuance of bonds of the authority for the purpose of redeeming, refunding, or retiring any bonds or any...
• California Government Code Section 15447
  Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this part are hereby made securities in which all banks, bankers, savings banks, trust companies and...
• California Government Code Section 15448
  Any bonds issued under the provisions of this part, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be free from taxation of every...
• California Government Code Section 15449
  The State of California does pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds issued pursuant to this part, and with those parties who...
• California Government Code Section 15450
  A pledge by or to the authority of revenues, moneys, accounts, accounts receivable, contract rights and other rights to payment of whatever kind made by...
• California Government Code Section 15451
  The authority shall fix, revise, charge and collect rents for the use of each project owned by the authority and contract with any person, partnership,...
• California Government Code Section 15451.5
  A participating health institution that is a private nonprofit corporation or association and that borrows money to finance working capital pursuant to this part, other...
• California Government Code Section 15452
  When the principal of and interest on bonds issued by the authority to finance the cost of a project or working capital or to refinance...
• California Government Code Section 15455
  (a) This part shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized by this part, and shall be...
• California Government Code Section 15456
  To the extent that the provisions of this part are inconsistent with any other provisions of any general statute or special act or parts thereof,...
• California Government Code Section 15457
  Any net earnings of the authority beyond that necessary for retirement of any obligations issued by the authority or to implement the purposes of this...
• California Government Code Section 15458
  Upon dissolution of the authority, title to all property owned by the authority shall vest in the successor authority created by the Legislature, if any,...
• California Government Code Section 15459
  As a condition of the issuance of revenue bonds, whether by the authority or any local agency, to finance the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing,...
• California Government Code Section 15459.1
  As part of its assurance under Section 15459, the participating health institution shall agree to all of the following actions: (a) To advise each person...
• California Government Code Section 15459.2
  If the participating health institution cannot demonstrate that it meets the requirements of Sections 15459 and 15459.1, it may nonetheless be eligible for financing through...
• California Government Code Section 15459.3
  Each participating health institution shall make available to the authority and to the public upon request an annual report substantiating compliance with the requirements of...
• California Government Code Section 15459.4
  The remedies and sanctions available to the authority against the participating health institution for failure to adhere to the assurance given to the authority under...
• California Government Code Section 15460
  The State Department of Health Services, in establishing reimbursement for services rendered under the Medi-Cal program by facilities financed under this part, shall reflect those...
• California Government Code Section 15462
  Exclusively for the purpose of securing the financing of projects or working capital pursuant to this part through the issuance of revenue bonds, certificates of...
• California Government Code Section 15462.5
  Exclusively for the purpose of securing the financing of projects pursuant to this part or through the issuance of revenue bonds, certificates of participation, or...
• California Government Code Section 15490
  (a) There is in the state government the State Allocation Board, consisting of the Director of Finance, the Director of General Services, a person appointed...
• California Government Code Section 15491
  (a) The State Allocation Board shall provide for live video and audio transmission of all board meetings and hearings that are open to the public...
• California Government Code Section 15492
  (a) The Department of General Services shall assign one full-time position within the Office of Public School Construction to the performance of the following functions:...
• California Government Code Section 15500
  This part may be cited as the Local Agency Allocation Law.
• California Government Code Section 15501
  As used in this part: (a) "Local agencies" means cities, counties, housing authorities, districts, and any other local public agencies. (b) "Public works projects" means...
• California Government Code Section 15502
  Whenever the Legislature makes an appropriation of state or federal funds for apportionment or allocation to any class or classes of local agencies for public...
• California Government Code Section 15503
  Whenever the board is required to make allocations or apportionments under this part, it shall prescribe rules and regulations for the administration of, and not...
• California Government Code Section 15504
  The Director of General Services shall provide the board with the assistance it may require in order to carry out the provisions of this part.
• California Government Code Section 15505
  Any money appropriated for allocation or apportionment upon a fixed formula basis or upon a basis not requiring the exercise of judgment or discretion as...
• California Government Code Section 15506
  This part shall not be construed as affecting or changing any authority or practice existing on May 24, 1949 whereby any state officer or agency...
• California Government Code Section 15550
  As used in this part, "agency" and "secretary" refer to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, respectively,...
• California Government Code Section 15551
  The Labor and Workforce Development Agency in state government is under the supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of Labor and Workforce...
• California Government Code Section 15552
  The Governor may appoint two deputies, subject to confirmation by the Senate, to assist the secretary. These officers shall serve at the pleasure of the
• California Government Code Section 15553
  Any entity within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency may share information for research, enforcement, or training with any other entity in the agency without...
• California Government Code Section 15554
  The secretary has the power of general supervision over, and is directly responsible to the Governor for, the operations of each department, office, and unit...
• California Government Code Section 15555
  The secretary shall advise the Governor on, and assist the Governor in, establishing major policy and program matters affecting each department, office, or other unit...
• California Government Code Section 15556
  The secretary shall exercise the authority vested in the Governor in respect to the functions of each department, office, or other unit within the agency,...
• California Government Code Section 15557
  The secretary shall be generally responsible for the sound fiscal management of each department, office, or other unit within the agency. The secretary shall review...
• California Government Code Section 15558
  Other duties of the secretary include, but are not limited to, reviewing personnel management, acting as public advisor and providing public information in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 15559
  The secretary shall develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formulation in...
• California Government Code Section 15560
  For the purpose of administration, the secretary shall organize the agency, subject to the approval of the Governor, in the manner he or she deems...
• California Government Code Section 15561
  The secretary and any other officer or employee within the agency designated in writing by the secretary shall have the power of a head of...
• California Government Code Section 15562
  Whenever a power is granted to the secretary, the power may be exercised by an officer or employee within the agency as designated in writing...
• California Government Code Section 15602
  If a person who is chosen as a member of the State Board of Equalization is not an inhabitant of the district for which he...
• California Government Code Section 15603
  The annual salary of each member of the State Board of Equalization representing one of the equalization districts of the state is provided for by...
• California Government Code Section 15604
  The board may appoint its secretary and prescribe and enforce his duties. The secretary shall hold office during the pleasure of the board and shall...
• California Government Code Section 15605
  The secretary shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of the board in a book specially provided for such purpose. When required by the...
• California Government Code Section 15605.5
  Notwithstanding any other law, but consistent with Section 4 of Article VII of the California Constitution and Section 12010.5, each member of the State Board...
• California Government Code Section 15606
  The State Board of Equalization shall do all of the following: (a) Prescribe rules for its own government and for the transaction of its business....
• California Government Code Section 15606.1
  The duties, rules, regulations, and instructions as specified in Section 15606 shall include provisions for mobilehomes which are subject to local property taxations.
• California Government Code Section 15606.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any regulation to be prescribed by the board shall become operative only if the board itself approves adoption of...
• California Government Code Section 15606.5
  Training of assessors and their staffs under Sections 15606 and 15608 shall be provided by the board on a nonreimbursable basis.
• California Government Code Section 15607
  The board shall summon assessors to meet with it or its duly authorized representatives at least once annually, at places within the state it designates,...
• California Government Code Section 15608
  The board shall instruct, advise, and direct assessors as to their duties under the laws. It may obtain the opinion of the Attorney General upon...
• California Government Code Section 15609
  The board shall hold regular meetings each month at times and places within the state as the chairperson directs. At least one regular meeting shall...
• California Government Code Section 15609.5
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 do not apply to the board.
• California Government Code Section 15610
  The board may confer, in this State or elsewhere, either as a board, individually, or through its staff, with officers or employees of this State,...
• California Government Code Section 15611
  Whenever the board deems it necessary, it may visit as a board or by its individual members, or may send its secretary or duly appointed...
• California Government Code Section 15612
  The board may inspect, either as a board, individually, or by its duly appointed representative, the work of any local officers whose duties relate to...
• California Government Code Section 15613
  The board may issue subpenas for the attendance of witnesses or the production of books, records, accounts, and papers before it, its secretary, any of...
• California Government Code Section 15614
  Any person duly subpenaed who refuses or neglects to attend as a witness, or to produce any books, records, accounts, or papers in his possession,...
• California Government Code Section 15615
  Every person served with a subpena who fails or neglects without just excuse to obey it, and every officer who refuses to obey the rules...
• California Government Code Section 15616
  The board shall report annually to the Governor, the report to be printed at state expense. The report shall show: (a) The assessed value of...
• California Government Code Section 15617
  The board may require anybody having knowledge of the business of any person who is or whose property is subject to assessment by it, or...
• California Government Code Section 15618
  The board may examine, as a board, individually, or through its staff, the books, accounts, and papers of all persons required to report to it,...
• California Government Code Section 15618.5
  Notwithstanding Section 1808.5 of the Vehicle Code, the board, as a board, individually, or through its staff, may obtain copies of fullface engraved pictures or...
• California Government Code Section 15619
  Any member or ex-member of the State Board of Equalization, or any agent employed by it, or the Controller, or ex-Controller, or any person employed...
• California Government Code Section 15620
  By order entered upon its minutes and for good cause shown, the board may extend for not exceeding 30 days the time fixed for filing...
• California Government Code Section 15620.5
  The board, whenever it deems it necessary to ensure voluntary compliance with the due dates prescribed by law for submission of any remittance, claim for...
• California Government Code Section 15621
  The board may hire or lease upon the written approval of the Department of General Services any property, real or personal, for its occupancy or...
• California Government Code Section 15622
  The board may sell at prices fixed by the board copies of compilations of the revenue laws of the State, maps, and other documents.
• California Government Code Section 15623
  Each member of the State Board of Equalization elected by the voters of an equalization district shall investigate the administration, enforcement, and operation within the...
• California Government Code Section 15624
  When requested by the legislative body of any county, city, or city and county or the assessor to render advisory or other service, other than...
• California Government Code Section 15625
  (a) The members of the State Board of Equalization and the employees thereof shall not engage in any gainful profession, trade, business or occupation whatsoever...
• California Government Code Section 15626
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Quentin L. Kopp Conflict of Interest Act of 1990. (b) Prior to rendering...
• California Government Code Section 15640
  (a) The State Board of Equalization shall make surveys in each county and city and county to determine the adequacy of the procedures and practices...
• California Government Code Section 15641
  In order to verify the information furnished to the assessor of the county, the board may audit the original books of account, wherever located, of...
• California Government Code Section 15642
  The board shall send members of its staff to the several counties and cities and counties of the state for the purpose of conducting that...
• California Government Code Section 15643
  (a) The board shall proceed with the surveys of the assessment procedures and practices in the several counties and cities and counties as rapidly as...
• California Government Code Section 15644
  The surveys shall incorporate reviews of existing assessment procedures and practices as well as recommendations for their improvement in conformity with the information developed in...
• California Government Code Section 15645
  (a) Upon completion of a survey of the procedures and practices of a county assessor, the board shall prepare a written survey report setting forth...
• California Government Code Section 15646
  Copies of final survey reports shall be filed with the Governor, Attorney General, and with the assessors, the boards of supervisors, the grand juries and...
• California Government Code Section 15650
  For purposes of this chapter, "public record" means any public record as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 6252.
• California Government Code Section 15651
  (a) In light of State Board of Equalization v. Superior Court, 10 Cal.App.4th 1177, in which the Court of Appeal affirmed an order of the...
• California Government Code Section 15652
  Pursuant to Section 6253, the State Board of Equalization shall adopt regulations to establish procedures and guidelines to access public records. These regulations shall facilitate...
• California Government Code Section 15653
  Notwithstanding Section 7550.5, the State Board of Equalization shall study and report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2000, on the feasibility and...
• California Government Code Section 15700
  There is in the state government, in the Agriculture and Services Agency, a Franchise Tax Board consisting of the State Controller, the Director of Finance...
• California Government Code Section 15701
  The Franchise Tax Board, with the consent and approval of two-thirds of the membership of the Senate, may appoint an executive officer who shall be...
• California Government Code Section 15702
  (a) Any power granted to, or duty imposed on, the Franchise Tax Board by any provision of law may be exercised or performed by any...
• California Government Code Section 15703
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Franchise Tax Board shall, upon the request of the local child support agency, provide to that agency the...
• California Government Code Section 15704
  The Director of General Services may construct on a site contiguous to the first phase of the Franchise Tax Board's central office, the second phase...
• California Government Code Section 15705
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless prohibited by federal law, the Franchise Tax Board shall truncate social security numbers on lien abstracts and any...
• California Government Code Section 15710
  (a) Upon the effective date of the repeal of Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 15399.10), all money remaining in the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing...
• California Government Code Section 15752
  As used in this part, "board" means the State Public Works Board, and "director" means Director of General Services.
• California Government Code Section 15770
  There is in the state government the State Public Works Board. The board consists of the Director of Finance, the Director of Transportation, and the...
• California Government Code Section 15770.1
  The Director of the Employment Development Department shall meet with and advise the board whenever the board is engaged in activities imposed by Section 15799.2.
• California Government Code Section 15770.2
  (a) The Director of Finance may designate a deputy or other official in the Department of Finance to act for him or her and represent...
• California Government Code Section 15770.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of Transportation and the Director of General Services may appoint a deputy or assistant director in their...
• California Government Code Section 15771
  The members of the board and of the interim committee shall receive no compensation for their services under this part, but shall be reimbursed for...
• California Government Code Section 15790
  The board shall determine if construction, improvements, and the purchase of equipment shall be undertaken, and the time of undertaking, and shall give due consideration...
• California Government Code Section 15791
  The board may authorize the purchase of property with improvements in lieu of purchasing sites and constructing new improvements when in its opinion it is...
• California Government Code Section 15792
  (a) The Director of Finance shall administer this part and provide assistance to the board as it requires. When the board has determined that any...
• California Government Code Section 15793
  So far as is reasonably practicable, the state departments and agencies concerned with the expenditure of funds appropriated and the performance of work provided for,...
• California Government Code Section 15799
  The Legislature finds and declares that properly timed capital outlays for needed public works are an important instrument for combating unemployment and for maintaining a...
• California Government Code Section 15799.2
  The board, pursuant to its powers and duties under subdivision (d) of Section 15790, may, if in the board's opinion conditions warrant, develop and maintain...
• California Government Code Section 15799.4
  The contingency plan for emergency public works shall consist of capital outlay or maintenance projects that have never been included in the Governor's Budget or...
• California Government Code Section 15799.6
  If the board determines that an emergency public works plan is necessary, the board shall submit the plan annually to the Governor in time for...
• California Government Code Section 15800
  This part is known and may be cited as the "State Building Construction Act of 1955."
• California Government Code Section 15801
  No public building shall be acquired or constructed under this part, unless authorized by a separate act or appropriation enacted by the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 15802
  The following terms whenever used in this part have the meanings given in this section except where the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) "Board" means...
• California Government Code Section 15803
  This part provides an additional and alternative method for doing the things authorized herein and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred...
• California Government Code Section 15806
  The state office building and garage in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, bounded by First Street on the northerly side, Broadway...
• California Government Code Section 15808
  When authorized by a separate act or appropriation enacted by the Legislature, the board may acquire and construct public buildings for use by state agencies.
• California Government Code Section 15808.1
  After January 1, 1980, with respect to the construction, purchase, or lease for a period of five years firm term or more, of buildings for...
• California Government Code Section 15809
  The board may do any of the following: (a) Acquire in the name of the State of California, and use any property, and lease as...
• California Government Code Section 15811
  The board has no power at any time or in any manner to pledge the credit or taxing power of the State or any of...
• California Government Code Section 15812
  The unused balance of any amount heretofore or hereafter authorized or appropriated by the Legislature for any public building to be acquired or constructed pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15813
  The Legislature finds and declares that the State of California has a responsibility for expanding public experience with art. The Legislature recognizes that other states...
• California Government Code Section 15813.1
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "State buildings" includes state office buildings, hospitals, and prisons, and such other...
• California Government Code Section 15813.2
  (a) Financing for works of art in state buildings shall be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. The Governor shall include a...
• California Government Code Section 15813.3
  In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the State Architect and the council, jointly, shall do all of the following: (a) (1)...
• California Government Code Section 15813.4
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the selection and commissioning of artists, and the purchase and execution of works of art for state buildings...
• California Government Code Section 15813.5
  (a) The state shall receive sole ownership of each work of art acquired pursuant to this chapter, including all tangible rights and privileges thereof, subject...
• California Government Code Section 15813.6
  In consultation with the State Architect, the council shall prepare a report relative to the art in state buildings program pursuant to this chapter, to...
• California Government Code Section 15813.7
  If a work of art acquired pursuant to this chapter is to be sold by the state, such sale shall be made to the highest...
• California Government Code Section 15813.8
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Art in Public Buildings Program.
• California Government Code Section 15814.10
  To help implement the policy set forth in Section 25008 of the Public Resources Code, the board may develop energy and water conservation and cogeneration...
• California Government Code Section 15814.11
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public building" means a public building as defined in Section 15802, and...
• California Government Code Section 15814.12
  (a) Without obtaining the authorization required by Section 15808, the board may acquire, and engage in the construction of, cogeneration equipment, alternative energy equipment, or...
• California Government Code Section 15814.13
  The board may contract to sell or exchange electricity produced by cogeneration equipment and alternative energy equipment acquired by the board to or with any...
• California Government Code Section 15814.14
  (a) Any state agency may enter into a contract with the board for the purchase or exchange of thermal or electrical energy or water, or...
• California Government Code Section 15814.16
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount necessary to pay monthly for electrical or thermal energy or water or conservation measures for any state...
• California Government Code Section 15814.17
  Notwithstanding Section 15816, the public buildings acquired or constructed by the board pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 15814.12 shall remain under the...
• California Government Code Section 15814.18
  The board shall employ the Energy Assessments Program of the Department of General Services to assist the board in performing its duties, including the making...
• California Government Code Section 15814.19
  The board shall publish and transmit to the Legislature an annual report, within four months after the end of each fiscal year, describing the activities...
• California Government Code Section 15814.20
  The board shall not enter into leases and energy service contracts authorized under this chapter sooner than 15 days after notification in writing of the...
• California Government Code Section 15814.21
  (a) In addition to revenues calculated for apportionment to community college districts pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 84750) of Chapter 5 of Part...
• California Government Code Section 15814.22
  The Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and other state agencies and departments, shall develop a...
• California Government Code Section 15814.23
  The Department of General Services or each state agency having jurisdiction shall ensure that all new state buildings are designed and constructed to meet at...
• California Government Code Section 15814.24
  (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion state aid equal to the amount necessary for each school district to meet its energy service contract...
• California Government Code Section 15814.25
  Energy conservation measures eligible for financing by kindergarten through grade 12 schools shall be limited to those measures recommended pursuant to an energy audit provided...
• California Government Code Section 15814.25
  Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 15814.11, for the purposes of this chapter "state agency" also shall include any local government as defined in subdivision (b)...
• California Government Code Section 15814.26
  A local government that enters into an energy service contract with the State Public Works Board pursuant to this chapter shall do both of the...
• California Government Code Section 15814.27
  If a local government enters into an energy service contract with the State Public Works Board pursuant to this chapter, its governing body shall annually...
• California Government Code Section 15814.28
  The department shall, no later than March 1, 2009, and biennially thereafter, make the recommendations required in Section 15814.22, and report on all of the...
• California Government Code Section 15814.30
  (a) All new public buildings for which construction begins after January 1, 1993, shall be models of energy efficiency and shall be designed, constructed, and...
• California Government Code Section 15814.31
  All existing public buildings, when renovated or remodeled, shall be retrofitted to meet the minimum standards, consistent with subdivision (d) of Section 2-5301 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 15814.32
  (a) Any new public building for which construction begins after January 1, 1992, shall include meters or other technologies to measure the energy used at...
• California Government Code Section 15814.33
  On or before July 1, 1992, the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall do the...
• California Government Code Section 15814.34
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The state purchases a number of commodities, including, but not limited to, lighting fixtures,...
• California Government Code Section 15814.35
  The energy efficiency provisions of this chapter apply only to those public buildings in which energy costs exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per year.
• California Government Code Section 15814.40
  (a) The Department of General Services shall define a life cycle cost analysis model that shall be used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of state building...
• California Government Code Section 15816
  (a) When any public building has been acquired or constructed by the board, and the revenues, rentals, or receipts from the operation of the public...
• California Government Code Section 15817
  Any state agency may lease, as lessee or lessor, and the board may lease, as lessee or lessor, any public building for a term not...
• California Government Code Section 15817.1
  (a) Exclusively for the purpose of facilitating the financing of public buildings pursuant to this part through the issuance of revenue bonds, notes, or certificates...
• California Government Code Section 15818
  Exclusively for the purpose of securing the financing of projects through the issuance of revenue bonds, notes, or certificates by the board, and notwithstanding any...
• California Government Code Section 15819
  After first obtaining the written consent of all of the holders of the revenue bonds or certificates issued on the public buildings from which the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.05
  (a) The State Public Works Board may issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830)...
• California Government Code Section 15814.40
  (a) The Department of General Services shall define a life cycle cost analysis model that shall be used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of state building...
• California Government Code Section 15819.1
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Bonds" means revenue bonds, notes, including commercial paper notes or other forms of negotiable short-term indebtedness, or bond anticipation...
• California Government Code Section 15819.2
  Without obtaining further authorization under Section 15808, the board may acquire, may obtain an option to purchase, and may engage in the construction of prison...
• California Government Code Section 15819.3
  The board may finance prison facilities using lease-purchase financing arrangements by the issuance of bonds pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830). The construction...
• California Government Code Section 15819.4
  (a) Lease-purchase financing shall not be sold by the Treasurer unless, at the time any notes or bond anticipation notes constituting the lease-purchase financing are...
• California Government Code Section 15819.5
  Bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this chapter shall be sold pursuant to Sections 15832 and 15832.5.
• California Government Code Section 15819.6
  Notwithstanding Section 15816, the public buildings financed by the board pursuant to this chapter shall be and remain under the jurisdiction and control of, and...
• California Government Code Section 15819.7
  Amounts necessary to pay rent for the public buildings financed pursuant to this chapter and under and pursuant to a prison facilities lease are hereby...
• California Government Code Section 15819.8
  At least 20 days prior to marketing bonds authorized by this chapter, the Department of Corrections shall notify the chairpersons of the fiscal committees in...
• California Government Code Section 15819.9
  The revenues, rentals, and receipts from all public buildings authorized to be financed under this chapter may be pledged for the payment of principal of,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.10
  The board, as additional security for a prison facilities lease, may agree to pledge and assign all or any portion of any moneys as may...
• California Government Code Section 15819.11
  In addition to any other powers granted by law, the board may, for the purposes of this chapter, do any or all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 15819.12
  A prison facilities lease may be for any term not to exceed 35 years and may contain other terms, covenants, and conditions as the board...
• California Government Code Section 15819.13
  An amount not to exceed the amount of unsold bonds which the board has by resolution authorized to be sold for the purposes of carrying...
• California Government Code Section 15819.14
  (a) There is in the State Treasury the New Prison Construction Revenue Fund, which is hereby created. Moneys derived from the lease-purchase financing of the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.15
  This chapter shall be interpreted in a manner that will promote the security of the bond holders and the expeditious acquisition, construction, renovation, or improvement...
• California Government Code Section 15819.19
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, funds derived from the financing methods provided by this chapter for the prison in the vicinity of Corcoran in Kings County and...
• California Government Code Section 15819.20
  (a) This section applies to the funding through lease-purchase financing arrangements for the construction of the California State Prison-Del Norte County as authorized by the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.21
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Madera County authorized by Section 6.5 of Chapter 1393 of the Statutes of 1986,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.22
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Imperial County authorized by Chapter 1220 of the Statutes of 1988 may be obtained...
• California Government Code Section 15819.23
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Imperial County, South authorized by Chapter 1413 of the Statutes of 1989 may be...
• California Government Code Section 15819.24
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature in enabling the construction of the California State Prison-Fresno County, as authorized by Chapter 981 of the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.25
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Monterey County (Soledad) authorized by Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 2045.10) of Title 1...
• California Government Code Section 15819.26
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison - Lassen County (Susanville) authorized by Section 2 of Chapter 981 of the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.27
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the prison facility authorized by Section 3 of Chapter 981 of the Statutes of 1990 may be...
• California Government Code Section 15819.28
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Kings County at Corcoran II authorized by Section 1 of the act enacting this...
• California Government Code Section 15819.29
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Kern County at Delano II authorized by Section 3 of the act enacting this...
• California Government Code Section 15819.295
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15819.29, the necessary funding for the construction of the California State Prison-Kern County at Delano II authorized by Section 1 of the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.30
  (a) The necessary funding for the construction of the Secure Substance Abuse Treatment Facility authorized by Section 5 of the act enacting this section may...
• California Government Code Section 15819.30
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) to finance the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.31
  The Director of General Services may execute and deliver a lease with the board for the lease of the facilities described in Section 15819.30 which...
• California Government Code Section 15819.40
  (a) (1) (A) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may design, construct, or renovate housing units, support buildings, and programming space in order to add...
• California Government Code Section 15819.401
  The scope and costs of the projects authorized by this chapter shall be subject to approval and administrative oversight by the State Public Works Board,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.402
  For all projects authorized by this chapter, the board may borrow funds for project costs, including studies, acquisition, design, construction, and construction-related costs from the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.403
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to this part to finance the acquisition, design, and construction,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.404
  Notwithstanding Section 15819.403, the amount of revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to be sold may include the following: (a) The cost...
• California Government Code Section 15819.41
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall complete site assessments at facilities where it intends to construct or renovate additional housing units, support buildings,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.411
  The scope and costs of the projects authorized by this chapter shall be subject to approval and administrative oversight by the State Public Works Board,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.412
  For all projects authorized by this chapter, the board may borrow funds for project costs, including studies, design, construction, including, without limitation, renovation, and construction-related...
• California Government Code Section 15819.413
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to this part to finance the design, construction, and the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.414
  Notwithstanding Section 15819.413, the amount of revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to be sold may include the following: (a) The cost...
• California Government Code Section 15819.417
  The State Public Works Board may not release any funds pursuant to this chapter until the panel created pursuant to Section 7021 of the Penal...
• California Government Code Section 15819.60
  (a) The Department of General Services, on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs, may acquire, design, equip, construct, and establish additional veterans' homes to...
• California Government Code Section 15819.65
  (a) (1) The State Public Works Board may issue lease-revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in the amount of one hundred sixty-two million dollars...
• California Government Code Section 15819.70
  (a) (1) There is hereby appropriated thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) from the Public Buildings Construction Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the acquisition,...
• California Government Code Section 15819.413
  (a) The board may issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to this part to finance the design, construction, and the...
• California Government Code Section 15819.414
  Notwithstanding Section 15819.413, the amount of revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to be sold may include the following: (a) The cost...
• California Government Code Section 15819.417
  The State Public Works Board may not release any funds pursuant to this chapter until the panel created pursuant to Section 7021 of the Penal...
• California Government Code Section 15819.90
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make an appropriation for three additional sites of the Southern California Veterans' Home, following construction of...
• California Government Code Section 15819.95
  (a) The funds generated from the issuance of the bonds pursuant to Section 15819.90 shall be expended only upon receipt of the matching amount of...
• California Government Code Section 15820
  The Legislature finds and declares that California's public colleges and universities, recognized as being among the world's finest, require assistance in the development of teaching...
• California Government Code Section 15820.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the cost of any project authorized by statute pursuant to this chapter be considered an expenditure of...
• California Government Code Section 15820.3
  The board is authorized to, and may, finance the construction or renovation, and the equipping, of public buildings or facilities on a site or sites...
• California Government Code Section 15820.5
  Any public building or facility which is constructed or renovated and equipped pursuant to this chapter shall be utilized only for educational and research purposes...
• California Government Code Section 15820.7
  The board shall lease-purchase to the Regents of the University of California and lease or lease-purchase to the Trustees of the California State University, the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.10
  (a) The board may issue certificates pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15821) or revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15820.11
  (a) The Legislature authorizes the use of revenue bonds and negotiable notes or negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance the construction of the Food and...
• California Government Code Section 15820.12
  The board may contract for a project authorized by the Legislature before issuing certificates, revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 15820.10...
• California Government Code Section 15820.13
  (a) The Legislature authorizes the use of revenue bonds and negotiable notes or negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance the construction of the Equine Drug...
• California Government Code Section 15820.15
  The Legislature finds and declares that the University of California, recognized as being the world's finest public university, requires assistance in the furtherance of its...
• California Government Code Section 15820.16
  (a) The State Public Works Board may finance the acquisition of land, buildings, related infrastructure, and equipment and the construction, renovation, and equipping of research...
• California Government Code Section 15820.18
  (a) The board may issue certificates pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15821) or revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15820.19
  The board may contract for a project authorized by the Legislature before issuing certificates, revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 15820.18...
• California Government Code Section 15820.20
  In order to properly establish facilities for research within the University of California, it is the Legislature's intent to authorize, through the Budget Act, funding...
• California Government Code Section 15820.21
  (a) In order to provide for facilities or portions thereof for research within the University of California, including the acquisition of land, buildings, related infrastructure,...
• California Government Code Section 15820.22
  No provision of this article shall be applicable to the Regents of the University of the California unless the regents adopt a resolution to make...
• California Government Code Section 15820.30
  The Legislature finds and declares that California's public colleges and universities, recognized as being among the world' s finest, require assistance in the development of...
• California Government Code Section 15820.31
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the cost of any project authorized by statute pursuant to this chapter shall be considered an expenditure...
• California Government Code Section 15820.35
  The board is authorized to, and may, finance the construction or renovation, and the equipping, of public buildings or facilities on a site or sites...
• California Government Code Section 15820.36
  Any public building or facility which is constructed or renovated and equipped pursuant to this chapter shall be utilized only for library and related educational...
• California Government Code Section 15820.37
  The board shall lease-purchase to the Regents of the University of California and lease or lease-purchase to the Trustees of the California State University, the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.40
  (a) The board may issue certificates pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15821) or revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15820.41
  The board may contract for a project authorized by the Legislature before issuing certificates, revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 15820.40...
• California Government Code Section 15820.50
  The Legislature finds and declares that California's public colleges and universities, which are recognized as being among the world's finest, require assistance to meet the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.51
  This article shall not be construed to supersede or otherwise affect Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 15820), Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 15820.15), or Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 15820.55
  (a) The State Public Works Board is authorized to finance the construction, renovation, and equipping of instructional facilities and related instructional laboratory and support space...
• California Government Code Section 15820.60
  (a) The board may issue certificates pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15821) or revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15820.61
  The board may contract for a project authorized by the Legislature before issuing certificates, revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 15820.60...
• California Government Code Section 15820.70
  The Legislature finds and declares that California's public colleges and universities, recognized as being among the world' s finest, require assistance in reducing their operating...
• California Government Code Section 15820.71
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter the board may finance the construction, renovation, and equipping of facilities or acquisition of equipment, or both, on...
• California Government Code Section 15820.72
  The board may contract for a project authorized by the Legislature before issuing certificates, revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes pursuant to Section 15820.74...
• California Government Code Section 15820.73
  The California State University, any community college district, the California Maritime Academy, and the University of California may be reimbursed for expenditures for preliminary plans...
• California Government Code Section 15820.74
  (a) The board may issue certificates pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 15821) or revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 15820.80
  For the purposes of this article, "Regents" means the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 15820.81
  The Regents of the University of California may acquire, design, construct, or renovate acute care hospital buildings, as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 130005...
• California Government Code Section 15820.82
  Project financing requests from the regents shall be accompanied by an opinion of bond counsel to the effect that the board's bonds issued for the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.83
  The board and the regents may borrow funds for project costs, excluding preliminary plans and working drawings, from the Pooled Money Investment Account pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 15820.85
  Notwithstanding Section 15820.84, the amount of revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to be sold shall equal the following: (a) The cost...
• California Government Code Section 15820.86
  (a) The board and the regents may lease any properties of the regents to facilitate the financing authorized by this chapter that is mutually agreed...
• California Government Code Section 15820.90
  For the purposes of this chapter, "participating county" means any county, or regional consortium of counties, within the state that has been certified to the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.901
  (a) The CDCR, a participating county, and the SPWB are authorized to acquire, design, and construct, a local jail facility approved by the Corrections Standards...
• California Government Code Section 15820.902
  Upon a participating county's receipt of responsive construction bids, the SPWB and the CDCR may borrow funds for project costs after the project has been...
• California Government Code Section 15820.903
  (a) The SPWB may issue up to six hundred seventeen million one hundred nineteen thousand dollars ($617,119,000) in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes,...
• California Government Code Section 15820.904
  In support of this state funding, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The county jail system needs more capacity. (b) Without...
• California Government Code Section 15820.905
  With the consent of the SPWB, the CDCR, and a participating county are authorized to enter into leases or subleases, as lessor or lessee, for...
• California Government Code Section 15820.906
  (a) The CSA shall adhere to its duly adopted regulations for the approval or disapproval of local jail facilities. The CSA shall also consider cost-effectiveness...
• California Government Code Section 15820.907
  (a) Participating county matching funds for projects funded under this chapter shall be a minimum of 25 percent of the total project costs. The CSA...
• California Government Code Section 15820.91
  For the purposes of this chapter, "participating county" means any county, or regional consortium of counties, within the state that has been certified to the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.910
  A participating county that has received a conditional award under the financing program, as set forth in Chapter 3.11 (commencing with Section 15820.80), may relinquish...
• California Government Code Section 15820.911
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a participating county, and the board are authorized to acquire, design, and construct a local jail facility approved...
• California Government Code Section 15820.912
  Upon a participating county's receipt of responsive construction bids, the SPWB and the CDCR may borrow funds for project costs after the project has been...
• California Government Code Section 15820.913
  (a) The SPWB may issue up to six hundred two million eight hundred eighty-one thousand dollars ($602,881,000) in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes,...
• California Government Code Section 15820.914
  In support of this state funding, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The county jail system needs more capacity. (b) Without...
• California Government Code Section 15820.915
  With the consent of the SPWB, the CDCR, and a participating county are authorized to enter into leases or subleases, as lessor or lessee, for...
• California Government Code Section 15820.916
  (a) The CSA shall adhere to its duly adopted regulations for the approval or disapproval of local jail facilities. The CSA shall also consider cost-effectiveness...
• California Government Code Section 15820.917
  (a) Participating county contribution for projects funded under this chapter shall be a minimum of 10 percent of the total project costs. The CSA may...
• California Government Code Section 15820.100
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) On February 14, 2006, the United States District Court in the case of Plata v....
• California Government Code Section 15820.101
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Department" means the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. (b) "Medical Care Receiver" means the...
• California Government Code Section 15820.102
  (a) In order to expedite the improvement of medical, dental, and mental health at San Quentin State Prison and to expedite compliance with the case...
• California Government Code Section 15820.103
  (a) For purposes of compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code), the board shall...
• California Government Code Section 15820.104
  (a) The State Public Works Board may issue up to one hundred forty-six million one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($146,160,000) in revenue bonds, negotiable notes,...
• California Government Code Section 15820.105
  (a) Plans and specifications for the project shall comply with applicable building codes. (b) The project is hereby deemed a "public work" project for purposes...
• California Government Code Section 15820.105
  (a) Plans and specifications for the project shall comply with applicable building codes. (b) The project is hereby deemed to be governed by Title 3...
• California Government Code Section 15821
  Certificates issued pursuant to this part are negotiable instruments and are transferable between state agencies having jurisdiction over special or trust funds or between such...
• California Government Code Section 15822
  The certificates shall be authorized by resolutions of the board, and shall bear such dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding 25 years...
• California Government Code Section 15823
  The certificates shall be sold by the board at their face value to state agencies having jurisdiction over special or trust funds, without advertisement or...
• California Government Code Section 15824
  Any resolutions authorizing any certificates may contain provisions which are part of the contract with the state agency as to: (a) Pledging all or any...
• California Government Code Section 15825
  The board may provide, by resolution, for the issuance of refunding certificates for the purpose of refunding any certificates of the board issued pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 15826
  The State Treasurer shall act as trustee for the board and the holders of the certificates issued under this part, and the board may authorize...
• California Government Code Section 15827
  The rights and remedies conferred by this part upon or granted to certificate holders are in addition to and not in limitation of any rights...
• California Government Code Section 15828
  A trustee, appointed pursuant to Section 15827, or acting under a deed of trust, indenture, or other agreement, whether or not all certificates have been...
• California Government Code Section 15829
  In addition to all other rights and all other remedies the holder of certificates of the board may by an action at law enforce his...
• California Government Code Section 15829.5
  This chapter shall not apply to the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund.
• California Government Code Section 15830
  The bonds issued to finance the construction of a public building or buildings pursuant to this part shall be special obligations of this state secured...
• California Government Code Section 15831
  All bonds issued under this part shall bear the facsimile signature of the Governor and the facsimile countersignature of the Controller and the Treasurer, and...
• California Government Code Section 15832
  Upon receipt of a resolution of the board authorizing the issuance of bonds, the Treasurer shall provide for their preparation in accordance with the resolution....
• California Government Code Section 15832.5
  The board is authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable notes, including commercial paper notes or other forms of negotiable short-term indebtedness, or...
• California Government Code Section 15834
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, prior to the appropriation of any moneys for purposes of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 15820), Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 15835
  The bond or interim receipt is a negotiable instrument unless there is an express recital on its face that the bond or interim receipt in
• California Government Code Section 15836
  Bonds, negotiable notes, and negotiable bond anticipation notes issued pursuant to this part are a legal investment for any state special or trust fund notwithstanding...
• California Government Code Section 15837
  Whenever the board deems that it will increase the salability or the price of the bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to obtain,...
• California Government Code Section 15837.5
  The board is authorized and empowered to employ financial consultants, advisers, and accountants as may be necessary in its judgment in connection with the issuance...
• California Government Code Section 15837.6
  The provisions of Section 10295 and Sections 10335 to 10382, inclusive, of the Public Contract Code shall not apply to agreements entered into by the...
• California Government Code Section 15838
  Any resolutions authorizing any bonds may contain provisions which are part of the contract with the bondholders as to: (a) Pledging all or any of...
• California Government Code Section 15838.5
  (a) The Treasurer may be appointed to act as trustee for the board and the holders of its bonds. Any resolution authorizing any bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 15839
  The board may enter into any deeds of trust, indentures, or other agreements with any bank or trust company, or other person in the United...
• California Government Code Section 15840
  The board may provide, by resolution, for the issuance of refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds of the board issued pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 15841
  The rights and remedies conferred by this part upon or granted to bondholders are in addition to and not in limitation of any rights and...
• California Government Code Section 15842
  A trustee, appointed pursuant to Section 15841, or acting under a deed of trust, indenture, or other agreement, whether or not all bonds have been...
• California Government Code Section 15843
  In addition to all other rights and all other remedies the holder of bonds of the board may by an action at law enforce his...
• California Government Code Section 15845
  All money received by the board from whatever source derived, shall be transmitted by the board at least once in every calendar month to the...
• California Government Code Section 15845.5
  Payments to the board pursuant to Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 15814.10) shall be deposited in a separate revenue account in the Public Buildings Construction...
• California Government Code Section 15846
  The board may provide in the resolution for the allocation of financial and administrative costs of the board during the period of actual construction, and...
• California Government Code Section 15847
  Subject to the obligations of the board to its certificate holders or bondholders, the Treasurer is authorized to invest and reinvest moneys in any of...
• California Government Code Section 15848
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 or any other provision of law, the amount as may be necessary to pay the rent of any agency occupying space in...
• California Government Code Section 15849
  Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required to pay rent for the buildings and facilities authorized to be constructed on...
• California Government Code Section 15849.1
  An amount not to exceed the amount of unsold bonds which the board has by resolution authorized to be sold for the purposes of carrying...
• California Government Code Section 15849.2
  In order to more fully secure the bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this part, when during any fiscal year any appropriation is made...
• California Government Code Section 15849.3
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, the board may from time to time issue its bonds, notes, or other obligations pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 15849.5
  The California State University, any community college district, the California Maritime Academy, and the University of California may be reimbursed for expenditures for preliminary plans...
• California Government Code Section 15849.6
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, the board may issue bonds, notes, or other obligations to finance the acquisition or construction of...
• California Government Code Section 15849.6
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, the board may issue bonds, notes, or other obligations to finance the acquisition or construction of...
• California Government Code Section 15849.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, any specific grant of authority on or after June 30, 2001, the State Public...
• California Government Code Section 15849.20
  For purposes of this chapter and the issuance of debt pursuant to this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Acquire" has...
• California Government Code Section 15849.21
  (a) With respect to the report required in subdivision (b), the Legislature finds and declares that given the state's fiscal situation, the report should examine...
• California Government Code Section 15849.22
  (a) (1) To serve the best interest of the state by optimizing the financial business management of the state, the Department of Finance, the Controller,...
• California Government Code Section 15849.23
  (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 15849.22, the FISCal system shall include a State Budget transparency component that allows the public to have...
• California Government Code Section 15849.24
  The board may issue bonds, notes, or certificates to finance and to refinance the costs of the FISCal system pursuant to this chapter and this...
• California Government Code Section 15849.26
  (a) (1) Subject to the limitation provided in paragraph (2), the board may issue bonds, notes, or certificates in accordance with this chapter and this...
• California Government Code Section 15849.28
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15849.1 and any other provision of law permitting withdrawal of funds from the General Fund to pay for the cost of the...
• California Government Code Section 15849.30
  The board and the office may execute and deliver any lease, contract, agreement, or other document to permit the issuance or securitization of bonds, notes,...
• California Government Code Section 15849.34
  (a) The office shall establish rates and a payment schedule for state departments and agencies to use the FISCal system, and may enter into any...
• California Government Code Section 15849.35
  (a) The FISCal Internal Services Fund and the FISCal Support Fund are hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) All funds received pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 15849.36
  (a) The Controller shall create the FISCal System Development Fund in the State Treasury. (b) The Controller shall create within the FISCal System Development Fund...
• California Government Code Section 15849.38
  (a) The Controller shall create the FISCal Debt Service Fund within the State Treasury. Moneys in this fund shall be available only upon annual appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 15850
  This part may be cited as the Property Acquisition Law.
• California Government Code Section 15851
  As used in this part, "board" means the State Public Works Board.
• California Government Code Section 15852
  The State Public Works Board has all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Property Acquisition Board and whenever by law a duty...
• California Government Code Section 15853
  (a) The board may select and acquire, in the name of and on behalf of the state, with the consent of the state agency concerned,...
• California Government Code Section 15854
  Property may be acquired pursuant to this part by condemnation in the manner provided for in Title 7 (commencing with Section 1230.010) of Part 3...
• California Government Code Section 15854.1
  At the request of the owner of property acquired pursuant to this part, the board may enter into an agreement with the owner specifying the...
• California Government Code Section 15854.5
  To promote the safety of students, comprehensive community planning, and greater educational usefulness of state university sites, the Trustees of the California State University, before...
• California Government Code Section 15855
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subdivision (b), the State Public Works Board is the only state agency that may...
• California Government Code Section 15857
  The board may agree with the owner of part or all of the property to be condemned as to the compensation to be paid, and...
• California Government Code Section 15860
  (a) Any appropriation for the acquisition of real property pursuant to this part may be expended for the payment of all costs and expenses, including...
• California Government Code Section 15861
  Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the board that any part of the campus of a state university acquired as a site for student...
• California Government Code Section 15862
  (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), all real property or interest in real property acquired by the state or the Judicial Council pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 15862.5
  Notwithstanding Section 15862, all real property or interest in real property acquired by the Department of Parks and Recreation pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 15863
  (a) The net proceeds of any sale made pursuant to Section 15862 shall be deposited in the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount established...
• California Government Code Section 15864
  (a) On behalf of the board, the Director of General Services shall file against any appropriation made for expenditure under this part all claims covering...
• California Government Code Section 15865
  Whenever the board finds that any portion of the funds in any appropriation for the acquisition of real property under this part is unneeded for...
• California Government Code Section 15866
  Without at the time furnishing vouchers and itemized statements, the board may withdraw from any appropriation made for expenditure under this part a sum that...
• California Government Code Section 15900
  The Legislature declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the state to foster and promote growth in employment, productivity, income, and purchasing...
• California Government Code Section 15901
  (a) The Governor, utilizing his staff and the resources of state agencies, shall transmit to the Legislature, not later than April 15 of each year,...
• California Government Code Section 15902
  The Governor may utilize all or part of other programs prepared in furtherance of the State's economic development as he deems advisable, but all such...
• California Government Code Section 15950
  This part shall be known and cited as the "Social Service Transportation Improvement Act."
• California Government Code Section 15951
  It is the intent of the Legislature, through the enactment of this part, to improve transportation service required by social service recipients by promoting the...
• California Government Code Section 15952
  (a) Centralized administration of consolidated social service transportation services shall utilize, to the maximum extent possible, existing public and private administrative capabilities and expertise. Utilization...
• California Government Code Section 15955
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 15956
  "County transportation commission" means such a commission created pursuant to Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000) of the Public Utilities Code.
• California Government Code Section 15957
  "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. On and after January 1, 1985, any duty, power, purpose, responsibility, or jurisdiction which...
• California Government Code Section 15958
  "Transportation planning agency" means an entity designated by the secretary pursuant to Section 29532. For purposes of this part, the Counties of Imperial and Ventura...
• California Government Code Section 15960
  For the purposes of this part, the following agencies, organizations, and programs enumerated in this chapter shall be exempt from consolidation required by this part;...
• California Government Code Section 15970
  The requirements of this chapter shall be completed by December 31, 1980, except for the requirements of Section 15972, which shall be completed not later...
• California Government Code Section 15971
  (a) The Director of Finance shall identify in the proposed budget all state funds that are available for the support of social service transportation services....
• California Government Code Section 15975
  The transportation planning agencies and the county transportation commissions shall prepare and adopt an action plan that describes in detail the steps required to accomplish...
• California Government Code Section 15980
  The Director of Transportation shall be responsible for generally monitoring the implementation of this part . The funds for administration and monitoring of this program...
• California Government Code Section 15982
  (a) Any social service transportation provider may request an exemption from coordination or consolidation as required under the action plan. The request for exemption shall...
• California Government Code Section 15984
  The Department of Transportation shall provide technical assistance to paratransit providers who may wish to explore coordination strategies but lack the capability to develop and...
• California Government Code Section 15985
  Provisions of the Public Utilities Code and orders and regulations of the Public Utilities Commission relating to common carriers of passengers shall not apply to...
• California Government Code Section 15986
  No county, city, or district may impose a special license or fee for social service transportation provided by a nonprofit social service transportation provider organization...
• California Government Code Section 16100
  There is hereby continuously appropriated from the State General Fund to the Controller an amount sufficient to pay the subventions required by this part.
• California Government Code Section 16100.6
  Out of the amount appropriated to the Controller by Section 16100, the Controller shall pay each year to each local government on claims submitted 45...
• California Government Code Section 16101
  It is the purpose of this part to provide property tax relief to the citizens of this state, as undue reliance on the property tax...
• California Government Code Section 16101.5
  (a) For purposes of this part, "assessed value" means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of...
• California Government Code Section 16110
  It is the purpose of this chapter to provide special supplemental subventions to certain cities, multicounty special districts, and redevelopment agencies which, without these subventions,...
• California Government Code Section 16111
  (a) Out of the amount appropriated to the Controller from the General Fund, the Controller shall allocate to each city, multicounty special district, and redevelopment...
• California Government Code Section 16111.5
  (a) From the amount appropriated specifically for the purposes of this section, for the 1984-85 fiscal year only, the Controller shall allocate to each nonenterprise...
• California Government Code Section 16112
  (a) Applications to the Controller pursuant to this chapter shall be made in the time, format, and manner prescribed by the Controller. Any rules or...
• California Government Code Section 16112.5
  Notwithstanding Section 16112, the Controller shall make payments to each redevelopment agency for the 1990-91 fiscal year and all subsequent fiscal years thereafter, pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 16112.7
  Notwithstanding Sections 16111 and 16112, redevelopment agencies shall receive state subventions for the 1990-91 fiscal year in accordance with the following procedures: (a) The Department...
• California Government Code Section 16113
  As used in this chapter, "multicounty special district" has the same meaning as that term is defined in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 16271.
• California Government Code Section 16120
  On or before November 30, 1973, and the last day of November of each year thereafter, the Controller shall pay from the amount appropriated from...
• California Government Code Section 16121
  Revenues paid pursuant to this chapter may be used for county, city, district or other municipal purposes and may, but need not necessarily, be used...
• California Government Code Section 16122
  For the purpose of fixing tax rates for ad valorem taxes every taxing agency and revenue district shall compute the rates by including in the...
• California Government Code Section 16131
  The funds appropriated by Section 16100 shall be used for any advances authorized by Section 17401.5 of the Education Code.
• California Government Code Section 16140
  There is hereby continuously appropriated to the Controller from the General Fund a sum sufficient to make the payments required by this chapter. The payments...
• California Government Code Section 16141
  It is the purpose of this chapter to provide replacement revenues to local government by reason of the reduction of the property tax on open-space...
• California Government Code Section 16142
  (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall direct the Controller to pay annually out of the funds appropriated by Section 16140, to each...
• California Government Code Section 16142
  (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall direct the Controller to pay annually out of the funds appropriated by Section 16140, to each...
• California Government Code Section 16142.1
  (a) In lieu of the payments made pursuant to Section 16142, in a county that has adopted farmland security zones pursuant to Section 51296, the...
• California Government Code Section 16142.1
  (a) In lieu of the payments made pursuant to Section 16142, in a county that has adopted farmland security zones pursuant to Section 51296, the...
• California Government Code Section 16142.5
  (a) For the fiscal year 1977-78, no payment to a city or county shall increase or reduce the amount which would have been paid to...
• California Government Code Section 16143
  Land shall be deemed to be devoted to open-space uses of statewide significance if it: (a) Could be developed as prime agricultural land, or (b)...
• California Government Code Section 16144
  On or before October 31 each year, the governing body of each county, city, or city and county shall report to the Secretary of the...
• California Government Code Section 16145
  Funds received by local governments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for county, city, or city and county purposes, as the...
• California Government Code Section 16146
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency may determine, after notice and hearing, that a local government is ineligible to receive state payments pursuant to this...
• California Government Code Section 16147
  The Secretary of the Resources Agency may request the Attorney General to bring any action in court necessary to enforce any enforceable restriction as defined...
• California Government Code Section 16148
  Zero dollars ($0) is appropriated for the 2010-11 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Controller to make subvention payments to counties pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 16154
  In addition to the report required by Section 16144, the Secretary of the Resources Agency shall require from local government agencies such other information relative...
• California Government Code Section 16160
  Out of the amount appropriated to the Controller by Section 16100, he shall expend the sums required by Section 15204.1 of the Welfare and Institutions
• California Government Code Section 16180
  Out of the amount appropriated to the Controller by Section 16100, the sum of twelve million seven hundred thousand dollars ($12,700,000) for the 1977-78 fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 16181
  (a) The Controller shall maintain a record of all properties against which a notice of lien for postponed property taxes has been recorded. The record...
• California Government Code Section 16181.5
  For purposes of this chapter, "real property" shall include possessory interests in real property for which property taxes have been postponed pursuant to the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 16182
  (a) All sums paid by the Controller under the provisions of this chapter, together with interest thereon, shall be secured by a lien in favor...
• California Government Code Section 16183
  (a) (1) From the time a payment is made pursuant to Section 16180, the amount of that payment shall bear interest at a rate (not...
• California Government Code Section 16184
  The Controller shall reduce the amount of the obligation secured by the lien against the real property or mobilehome by the amount of any payments...
• California Government Code Section 16185
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16182, provided the interests of the state are adequately protected, the Controller may subordinate the lien for postponed real property...
• California Government Code Section 16186
  If at any time the amount of the obligation secured by the lien for postponed property taxes is paid in full or otherwise discharged, the...
• California Government Code Section 16186.5
  In the event that a payment which is made to satisfy an obligation secured by a lien for postponed property taxes exceeds the amount owing...
• California Government Code Section 16187
  (a) In the event of a judicial foreclosure of any lien senior in priority to the lien provided by Section 16182, notice shall be given...
• California Government Code Section 16190
  All amounts owing pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 16180) of this chapter shall become due if any of the following occurs: (a) The...
• California Government Code Section 16191
  The amounts paid pursuant to Section 16180 shall continue to draw interest but amounts owing pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 16180) of this...
• California Government Code Section 16192
  If, at any time, a person meeting the requirements of subdivision (a) or (c) of Section 16191 elects, or any surviving spouse described in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 16200
  In the event that the Controller receives the notice described in Section 16187 of this code or Section 3375 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,...
• California Government Code Section 16201
  If the Controller, by reason of the notice described in Section 3375 of the Revenue and Taxation Code or by reason of information from any...
• California Government Code Section 16202
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event that the state acquires an interest in real property pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 16200,...
• California Government Code Section 16210
  In the event that the amount secured by the state's lien provided for in Article 1 (commencing with Section 16180) is paid by reason of...
• California Government Code Section 16211
  The claimant under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 20581), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 20625), Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 20639, or Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 16211.5
  (a) In the event that the real property securing the state' s lien provided for in Article 1 (commencing with Section 16180) is the residential...
• California Government Code Section 16212
  An amount drawn pursuant to Section 16211 or 16211.5 shall be treated as an amount paid pursuant to Section 16180 for all purposes of this
• California Government Code Section 16213
  At the end of the six-month period specified in Section 16210 or the six-month period specified in Section 16211.5, all funds remaining in an impound...
• California Government Code Section 16214
  All moneys in an impound account created pursuant to this article are continually appropriated to the Controller for the purposes of this article.
• California Government Code Section 16250
  (a) Out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100, there shall be allocated to the cities in this state, for the 1978-79 fiscal year only,...
• California Government Code Section 16251
  No action or proceeding shall be commenced to contest any determination of the governing body pursuant to this chapter, unless such action or proceeding shall...
• California Government Code Section 16260
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (x), out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100, there shall be allocated for counties and cities and counties,...
• California Government Code Section 16261
  No action or proceeding shall be commenced to contest any determination of the governing body pursuant to this chapter, unless such action or proceeding shall...
• California Government Code Section 16262
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, until June 30, 1996, if county-imposed funding reductions prevent a county from fully funding the county share of...
• California Government Code Section 16262.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, until June 30, 2001, the reimbursement of counties meeting one of the following conditions shall not be reduced...
• California Government Code Section 16265
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Bergeson-Costa-Nielsen County Revenue Stabilization Act of 1987."
• California Government Code Section 16265.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The provision of basic social welfare and public health programs by counties is a matter...
• California Government Code Section 16265.2
  As used in this chapter: (a) "County" means a county and a city and county. (b) "County costs of eligible programs" means the amount of...
• California Government Code Section 16265.4
  (a) On or before October 31 of each year, the Director of Finance shall do all of the following: (1) Determine for each county the...
• California Government Code Section 16265.5
  If a statute appropriates more than fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the purposes of this chapter in a fiscal year, then Section 16265.4 shall not...
• California Government Code Section 16265.7
  (a) The state's liability under this chapter shall be limited to the amounts appropriated for this purpose. (b) Moneys distributed to counties pursuant to this...
• California Government Code Section 16270
  The Legislature finds and declares that many special districts have the ability to raise revenue through user charges and fees and that their ability to...
• California Government Code Section 16271
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Governing body" means the board of supervisors except that in the case of a subsidiary district "governing body" means...
• California Government Code Section 16272
  Out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100, there shall be allocated among the governing bodies, for the 1978-79 fiscal year only, one hundred and...
• California Government Code Section 16272.5
  The State Controller, shall total the amounts determined pursuant to former Section 16272.3, as amended by Chapter 332 of the Statutes of 1978, and shall...
• California Government Code Section 16272.7
  (a) The allocation for each governing body as determined in Section 16272.5 shall be distributed to each governing body by the State Controller as follows:...
• California Government Code Section 16274
  Not later than seven days after the notice from the State Controller, the governing body shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of determining...
• California Government Code Section 16275
  Following the close of the public hearing, the governing body shall distribute the funds in accordance with the following criteria: (a) Public Safety Services: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 16276
  Within 30 days of the notice of allocation received pursuant to Section 16272.5, the governing body shall determine the amount of funds to be disbursed...
• California Government Code Section 16276.3
  Within five days of the determination by the governing body pursuant to Section 16276, the governing body shall publish a notice in a newspaper of...
• California Government Code Section 16276.5
  The county auditor shall disburse funds to the special district in the same manner as disbursements which are made from the county treasurer's property tax...
• California Government Code Section 16277
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the governing body to specify the manner in which such funds are to be expended by...
• California Government Code Section 16278
  The determination of the governing body in distributing funds to a special district pursuant to this chapter shall be final and conclusive in the absence...
• California Government Code Section 16279
  No action or proceeding shall be commenced to contest any determination of the governing body pursuant to this chapter, unless such action or proceeding shall...
• California Government Code Section 16279.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that Article XIII A of the Constitution, as added by the adoption of Proposition 13 on the ballot at the...
• California Government Code Section 16279.2
  (a) The sum of thirty-five million seven hundred ten thousand dollars ($35,710,000) is hereby appropriated from the Local Agency Emergency Loan Fund to the State...
• California Government Code Section 16279.3
  As used in this article, "eligible special district" means a special district, subsidiary district, or multicounty special district which, during the three fiscal years prior...
• California Government Code Section 16279.4
  Pursuant to a resolution adopted by its governing board, a county or city may distribute funds to any special district from any available county or...
• California Government Code Section 16279.5
  Pursuant to a resolution adopted by its governing board, a county or city may lend any of its available funds to any special district which...
• California Government Code Section 16280
  No state funds from the state surplus or state loan funds shall be available to any local public agency which provides a cost-of-living wage or...
• California Government Code Section 16280.5
  No state funds from the state surplus or state loan funds shall be available to any local public agency which provides an increase in salary...
• California Government Code Section 16281
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to alleviate the current fiscal crisis created by the passage of Proposition 13 (Article...
• California Government Code Section 16282
  For the purpose of this chapter "local public agency" means a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, county board of education, or...
• California Government Code Section 16300
  The General Fund consists of money received into the treasury and not required by law to be credited to any other fund.
• California Government Code Section 16301
  Except as otherwise provided by law, all money belonging to the State received from any source whatever by any state agency shall be accounted for...
• California Government Code Section 16301.5
  Any money collected or received after September 18, 1947, by the Controller as restitutions from former recipients of relief under the California Unemployment Relief Act...
• California Government Code Section 16302
  Whenever any person donates any money to the State, the Treasurer shall receive it, upon the receipt of a certificate from the Controller. If the...
• California Government Code Section 16302.1
  (a) Whenever any person pays to any state agency pursuant to law an amount covering taxes, penalties, interest, license, or other fees, or any other...
• California Government Code Section 16302.2
  Upon approval of the Director of Finance, any state agency with respect to any amount required to be shown on any form prescribed by the...
• California Government Code Section 16302.3
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16302.2, state agencies may accept forms on which any amount or tax, penalty, interest, license or other fee, or any...
• California Government Code Section 16303
  If money withdrawn from the Treasury pursuant to a valid act of appropriation is subsequently returned, in whole or part, the Controller shall credit it...
• California Government Code Section 16304
  An appropriation shall be available for encumbrance during the period specified therein, or, if not otherwise limited by law, for three years after the date...
• California Government Code Section 16304.01
  Notwithstanding Section 16304, an appropriation available for the acquisition of real property to the extent that such appropriation is required to carry out the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 16304.1
  Disbursements in liquidation of encumbrances may be made before or during the two years following the last day an appropriation is available for encumbrance, except...
• California Government Code Section 16304.2
  Notwithstanding Section 16304, any capital outlay appropriation enacted on or after July 1, 1987, from a fund created by a general obligation bond act approved...
• California Government Code Section 16304.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 16304, an appropriation for an approved cooperative work agreement shall be available for expenditure as provided in this section. (b) An approved...
• California Government Code Section 16304.5
  Upon prior approval of the Department of Finance, contracts for construction of any California State Fair and Exposition project for which funds have been appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 16304.6
  Within the time during which the appropriation is available for expenditure, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board at the request of the director...
• California Government Code Section 16304.7
  Upon the effective date of an act abolishing any of the powers or duties of any state officer or agency, the unexpended balance of any...
• California Government Code Section 16304.8
  Upon the effective date of an act making any change in the fund from which an appropriation for any state officer or agency is payable,...
• California Government Code Section 16304.9
  Upon the effective date of an act transferring any of the powers or duties of any state officer or agency to another state officer or...
• California Government Code Section 16305
  The purpose of this legislation is hereby declared to be the establishment of a centralized State Treasury System under which state moneys will be adequately...
• California Government Code Section 16305.1
  It is anticipated that as a result of this legislation state agencies will no longer need to maintain large sums of money in agency bank...
• California Government Code Section 16305.2
  All money in the possession of or collected by any state agency or department, except for money in the Local Agency Investment Fund, is subject...
• California Government Code Section 16305.3
  All state money shall be deposited in trust in the custody of the Treasurer, except when otherwise authorized by the Director of Finance, or unless...
• California Government Code Section 16305.4
  The Director of Finance shall establish any system which may be necessary or convenient in the handling of trust accounts of the state agencies and...
• California Government Code Section 16305.5
  Money in treasury trust accounts shall be deposited, invested and reinvested in the same manner and to the same extent as if the money in...
• California Government Code Section 16305.7
  Any increment collected as the result of investment of state money shall be collected by the State Treasurer and reported by him to the State...
• California Government Code Section 16305.8
  Nothing in Sections 16305.3 to 16305.7, inclusive, shall apply to money drawn or collected by the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 16305.9
  (a) All money in the Local Agency Investment Fund shall be held in trust in the custody of the Treasurer. (b) All money in the...
• California Government Code Section 16306
  When any State revenue, other than revenue payable into the General Fund, is set apart to be applied by the State to the support of...
• California Government Code Section 16307
  There are hereby appropriated out of the General Fund such amounts as may be necessary to make such repayments. Such repayments shall be made from...
• California Government Code Section 16308
  Claims against special fund appropriations for the support of any State agency, that can not be paid by reason of the depletion of the special...
• California Government Code Section 16309
  If money is set apart from more than one nongeneral fund revenue, and available money is insufficient for repayment in full, repayments shall be made...
• California Government Code Section 16310
  (a) When the General Fund in the Treasury is or will be exhausted, the Controller shall notify the Governor and the Pooled Money Investment Board....
• California Government Code Section 16311
  The Treasurer may pay all expense for collecting bonds and bond coupons. Where the proceeds of the collection are part of any special fund, the...
• California Government Code Section 16312
  (a) Notwithstanding and in addition to any other provision of law permitting withdrawal of moneys from the General Fund for deposit into a special fund...
• California Government Code Section 16312.1
  (a) (1) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that there are adequate resources to fund critical state highway and local...
• California Government Code Section 16313
  Notwithstanding and in addition to any other provision of law permitting loans to state agencies from the Pooled Money Investment Account, the Pooled Money Investment...
• California Government Code Section 16314
  (a) The Pooled Money Investment Board shall establish the annual rate of interest charged on short-term loans of state funds executed after January 1, 1981,...
• California Government Code Section 16315
  Any appropriation made for major construction, improvements, equipment, designs, working plans, and specifications may be expended to reimburse the Division of Architecture Revolving Fund, the...
• California Government Code Section 16316
  Any appropriation made for acquisition of real property may be expended to pay for expenses incurred for appraisals, title searches, surveys and other investigations prior...
• California Government Code Section 16317
  (a) The Controller shall maintain a system of accounts for each of the funds redesignated by the act enacting this section as accounts within the...
• California Government Code Section 16317.5
  No state funds or employee activities financed by the state shall, directly or indirectly, be used for accounting of, or authorizing the disbursement of, any...
• California Government Code Section 16320
  (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, moneys in the State Treasury may be loaned from one state fund or account to any other state fund...
• California Government Code Section 16324
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in order to effectively manage state cash resources, the General Fund payments to be made in March 2010 for the...
• California Government Code Section 16325
  (a) An effective cash management plan is needed for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 fiscal years to address General Fund cash shortages that otherwise may occur...
• California Government Code Section 16325.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and to the extent not prohibited by federal law or the California Constitution, in order to effectively manage state cash...
• California Government Code Section 16326
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as otherwise specified in Sections 16325 and 16325.5, cash deferrals specified in Sections 16325 and 16325.5, as amended by...
• California Government Code Section 16328
  Subdivision (g) of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution created the Education Protection Account in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding any law, the...
• California Government Code Section 16329
  Subdivision (d) of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution created the Local Revenue Fund 2011 in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding any law,...
• California Government Code Section 16330
  (a) (1) The State Agency Investment Fund is hereby created within the State Treasury, for the receipt of deposits from state agencies with moneys not...
• California Government Code Section 16346
  Whenever by statutory enactment or operation of the law, a special fund in the State Treasury is abolished, all of its assets, liabilities, and surplus...
• California Government Code Section 16347
  Any moneys received by any state agency after the date of abolition of any special fund in the State Treasury which, by law, would otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 16350
  Except as otherwise provided by law, every special fund created by a statute which has been repealed or which has been declared invalid by a...
• California Government Code Section 16351
  (a) When any special fund in the treasury is exhausted, and there is money in the General Fund not required to meet any demand which...
• California Government Code Section 16351.5
  The unexpended balance in any appropriation for capital outlay heretofore or hereafter made payable from each special fund which the Director of Finance, with the...
• California Government Code Section 16352
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, any augmentation of an appropriation for a state public works project from the General Fund or any other fund in the State...
• California Government Code Section 16352.5
  There is hereby appropriated from the money in the State Construction Program Fund derived from the proceeds of bonds sold pursuant to the Community College...
• California Government Code Section 16353
  The unexpended balance in any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made payable from the State Construction Program Fund which the Director of Finance, with the approval...
• California Government Code Section 16354
  There is hereby appropriated from the State Construction Program Fund, without regard to fiscal years, any amounts transferred to this appropriation in accordance with the...
• California Government Code Section 16360
  The Federal Trust Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. It consists of money which is paid into it in trust pursuant to law....
• California Government Code Section 16361
  All money in the Federal Trust Fund is hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, for expenditure for the purposes for which the money deposited...
• California Government Code Section 16362
  Whenever any law provides for the payment and deposit of specific money received by the state from the United States into a specific State Treasury...
• California Government Code Section 16363
  Whenever any agency receives money from the United States for expenditure by the state and no specific State Treasury fund has been created to which...
• California Government Code Section 16364
  The State Controller and all state agencies receiving money from the United States shall keep an accurate account of all money deposited in, transferred to...
• California Government Code Section 16365
  The Director of Finance and the State Controller may approve any general plan whereby: (a) Any expenditures which are a proper charge against the money...
• California Government Code Section 16365.5
  Any federal funds received by the state as a result of federally administered timber harvesting pursuant to Section 500 of Title 16 of the United...
• California Government Code Section 16366.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The federal government is proposing significant and fundamental changes in the structure and funding...
• California Government Code Section 16366.2
  As used in this article: (a) "Service provider" means any public or private nonprofit agency which provides service directly to categorical populations. (b) "Consolidated program"...
• California Government Code Section 16366.3
  Federal block grant legislation provides that, for the first fiscal year, states have the option to accept or reject designated block grants. Consistent with this...
• California Government Code Section 16366.35
  Counties shall be granted maximum flexibility in administering federal categorical and block grant programs to the extent permitted by state planning requirements. It is the...
• California Government Code Section 16366.4
  (a) Based on the criteria specified in Section 16366.3, the Legislature directs the state to assume administrative responsibility for the following federal block grants in...
• California Government Code Section 16366.5
  For the 1981-82 state fiscal year, block grants which the state chooses to accept and administer shall be disbursed in grant form and shall be...
• California Government Code Section 16366.6
  (a) The funds shall be used to serve the populations defined in the federal statutes and regulations which governed the federal categorical programs as of...
• California Government Code Section 16366.7
  Since federal block grant funds were reduced by an average of 26 percent during the 1981-82 fiscal year and are proposed for further reductions during...
• California Government Code Section 16366.8
  For those programs for which the state does not assume full administrative responsibility under the block grant consolidations reflected in the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation...
• California Government Code Section 16366.81
  It shall be the policy of this state to provide mechanisms for allocating federal employment and training block grant funds which maximize local control and...
• California Government Code Section 16366.9
  (a) The 1981-82 state fiscal year shall be a transition year during which the Legislature shall require certain critical reviews and reports as it deems...
• California Government Code Section 16367.5
  The Department of Community Services and Development shall receive and administer the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Block Grant, provided for pursuant to the...
• California Government Code Section 16367.55
  (a) In determining the maximum allowable annual payment of Energy Crisis Intervention Program benefits for eligible households under Section 16367.5, the Department of Economic Opportunity...
• California Government Code Section 16367.6
  (a) The Department of Economic Opportunity shall receive and administer all state and federal funds which are allocated for programs to provide energy assistance to...
• California Government Code Section 16367.61
  In order to make administrative improvements in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program components provided for in subdivisions (c), (d), and (e) of Section 16367.5,...
• California Government Code Section 16367.65
  The Department of Economic Opportunity may enter into an agreement with the California Energy Extension Service to provide technical assistance and outreach programs to low-income...
• California Government Code Section 16367.7
  Whenever the Department of Economic Opportunity does not allocate Energy Crisis Intervention Program funds on schedule to a community-based organization or community action agency and...
• California Government Code Section 16367.71
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever a warrant distributed pursuant to Section 16367.5 or 16367.6 remains unclaimed, or the claimant cannot be found, for...
• California Government Code Section 16367.8
  Any advisory agency, commission, or other entity established by any city, county, or special district relative to the application for or use of federal block...
• California Government Code Section 16368
  The Special Account for Capital Outlay is hereby created as a special account in the General Fund. This account is a reserve fund within the...
• California Government Code Section 16368.1
  Funds deposited in the Special Account for Capital Outlay may be appropriated by the Legislature for the following purposes: (a) To augment the allocations of...
• California Government Code Section 16368.2
  This article shall remain in effect only until the later of the following dates, and on that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute...
• California Government Code Section 16368
  The Special Account for Capital Outlay is hereby created as a special account in the General Fund. This account is a reserve fund within the...
• California Government Code Section 16368.1
  Funds deposited in the Special Account for Capital Outlay may be appropriated by the Legislature for the following purposes: (a) For transfer to any of...
• California Government Code Section 16368.2
  This article shall become operative upon the date that Article 1.8 (commencing with Section 16368) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of...
• California Government Code Section 16370
  The Special Deposit Fund in the treasury is continued in existence. It consists of money which is paid into it in trust pursuant to law....
• California Government Code Section 16371
  Trust funds which have come into the possession of any agency of the State may be paid into the Special Deposit Fund in trust, subject...
• California Government Code Section 16372
  Whenever any law provides for the payment of money into the treasury which has been collected or received for specific purposes by any State agency,...
• California Government Code Section 16373
  (a) Money that has remained unclaimed in the hands of any state agency, or for which the claimant cannot be found, may be deposited in...
• California Government Code Section 16374
  Whenever any money has been deposited in trust in the Treasury by any state agency because it has remained unclaimed, or the claimant cannot be...
• California Government Code Section 16375
  The Controller shall keep an accurate account of all money deposited in the Special Deposit Fund for each respective agency making such a deposit.
• California Government Code Section 16376
  All funds on deposit in trust in the State Treasury for the use and benefit of the California State Historical Association are hereby transferred to...
• California Government Code Section 16377
  There is permanently established in the Special Deposit Fund in the State Treasury the Child Support Intercept Account which shall be continuously available pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 16378
  The State Motor Vehicle Insurance Account is hereby created as a special account in the General Fund.
• California Government Code Section 16379
  Amounts collected by the Department of General Services pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 11290 shall be deposited in the account and such amounts are...
• California Government Code Section 16380
  This article does not apply to the Unemployment Fund or the Unemployment Administration Fund created by the Unemployment Insurance Act.
• California Government Code Section 16381
  The General Cash Revolving Fund in the treasury is continued in existence. Whenever the Governor, upon request of the Controller, determines in writing that there...
• California Government Code Section 16382
  This article does not authorize any transfer which will interfere with the carrying out of the object for which a special fund or other State...
• California Government Code Section 16383
  Warrants may be drawn by the Controller against the General Cash Revolving Fund, to the extent of the amounts available, in accordance with demands audited...
• California Government Code Section 16384
  The General Cash Revolving Fund shall be reimbursed as provided in Chapter 2, Part 4.
• California Government Code Section 16390
  A revolving fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund, which fund may be utilized...
• California Government Code Section 16391
  The Controller may, from time to time, provide that compensation due officers and employees, and amounts withheld therefrom pursuant to law, where properly chargeable to...
• California Government Code Section 16391.1
  The Controller may transfer to the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund the contributions required by Sections 20751, 20752, 20782, 20783, 22881, and 22883, and upon...
• California Government Code Section 16392
  Refunds of amounts disbursed from the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund shall, on order of the Controller, be deposited in the State Pay Roll Revolving...
• California Government Code Section 16393
  Any amount erroneously paid into the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund shall be refunded by the Controller.
• California Government Code Section 16394
  All amounts increasing the cash balance in the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund pursuant to the cancellation of warrants issued therefrom shall, on order of...
• California Government Code Section 16395
  For the purpose of determining the fund or funds from which the state's contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement Fund under Chapter 6 of Part...
• California Government Code Section 16400
  (a) Any state agency for which an appropriation is made, may, without at the time furnishing vouchers and itemized statements, draw from that appropriation for...
• California Government Code Section 16401
  Any revolving fund drawn under the provisions of Section 16400 may only be used in accordance with law for payment of compensation earned, traveling expenses,...
• California Government Code Section 16402
  In lieu of actually withdrawing such revolving fund from the State Treasury, the Controller may in his discretion, upon request of the state agency for...
• California Government Code Section 16403
  Any state agency that withdraws a revolving fund shall remain fully accountable therefor. All disbursements must be substantiated by vouchers filed with and audited by...
• California Government Code Section 16404
  Where the duties of any state agency for which an appropriation is available make necessary the use of moneys for purposes of a confidential nature,...
• California Government Code Section 16404.5
  Notwithstanding Section 16404, the Department of Corrections may withdraw funds for confidential use in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 16405
  No state agency or person shall use or disburse any money withdrawn under the provisions of this article for any purpose whatever, unless authorized by
• California Government Code Section 16407
  The Capital Outlay and Savings Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. All money credited to the Capital Outlay and Savings Fund is transferred to...
• California Government Code Section 16408
  The unexpended balance in any appropriation heretofore made payable from the Capital Outlay and Savings Fund, or hereafter made from the General Fund for capital...
• California Government Code Section 16409
  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, without regard to fiscal years, any amounts transferred to this appropriation in accordance with the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 16410
  The Revenue Deficiency Reserve Fund in the Treasury is continued in existence to meet the needs of the State for General Fund revenues when revenues...
• California Government Code Section 16411
  Whenever the Governor, Controller, and Director of Finance determine that the General Fund revenues for any fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 1947,...
• California Government Code Section 16412
  The money in the Revenue Deficiency Reserve Fund may be loaned temporarily to the General Fund upon the joint authorization of the Governor, Controller, and...
• California Government Code Section 16415
  All money received by the State from the United States in pursuance of any act of Congress providing for the distribution and payment to states...
• California Government Code Section 16416
  The Controller shall keep a record of the money received from the United States on account of the federal flood control land in each county...
• California Government Code Section 16417
  The auditor of any county receiving a payment of money pursuant to this article shall immediately apportion the money by placing 50 percent to the...
• California Government Code Section 16418
  (a) The Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties is hereby created in the State Treasury and is continuously appropriated for the purposes of this section. The...
• California Government Code Section 16418.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each special fund shall include a contingency reserve for economic uncertainties. These reserves shall constitute reserve funds within...
• California Government Code Section 16419
  The Disaster Relief Fund is hereby established. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the fund is continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years for purposes of funding disbursements...
• California Government Code Section 16420
  There is in the State Treasury the Service Revolving Fund, hereafter referred to as "the fund."
• California Government Code Section 16421
  The fund consists of the following: (a) All money appropriated by the Legislature for such fund or payable into such fund in accordance with law....
• California Government Code Section 16422
  The fund is under the control of the Department of General Services and is available for expenditure for the payment of rent; the cost of...
• California Government Code Section 16423
  The State Printing Fund and the Purchasing Revolving Fund in the State Treasury are abolished. The Controller, on the operative date of this section, shall...
• California Government Code Section 16424
  The Surplus Personal Property Revolving Fund in the State Treasury, created by Section 10383.5 of the Public Contract Code, is abolished. On January 1, 1989,...
• California Government Code Section 16425
  There is in the State Treasury the Litigation Deposits Fund, hereafter referred to as "the fund," which is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this
• California Government Code Section 16426
  The fund consists of all money received as litigation deposits where the State of California is a party to the litigation and no other state...
• California Government Code Section 16427
  (a) For purposes of this article, "department" means the Department of Justice. (b) The fund is under the control of the department. The department shall...
• California Government Code Section 16428
  Money in the fund may be invested and reinvested in any securities described in Section 16430 or deposited in banks as provided in Chapter 4...
• California Government Code Section 16428.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Ratepayers and the state's economy have been harmed by improper and unfair energy market manipulation...
• California Government Code Section 16428.15
  (a) The Ratepayer Relief Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The purpose of the fund is to benefit electricity and natural gas ratepayers...
• California Government Code Section 16428.2
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Fund" means the Ratepayer Relief Fund established in Section 16428.1. (b) "Energy...
• California Government Code Section 16428.3
  (a) Any energy settlement agreement entered into by the Attorney General, after reimbursing the Attorney General's litigation and investigation expenses, to the maximum extent possible,...
• California Government Code Section 16428.4
  All funds recovered on behalf of the Department of Water Resources, after deduction of litigation and investigation expenses, shall be deposited in the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 16428.5
  Moneys in the fund shall be expended upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the benefit of ratepayers. Moneys in the fund may be appropriated for...
• California Government Code Section 16428.6
  (a) The Attorney General shall promptly notify the Director of Finance, Senate President pro Tempore, and the Speaker of the Assembly upon agreeing on behalf...
• California Government Code Section 16428.7
  Nothing in this article affects the allocation of funds from settlements entered into before the effective date of this article.
• California Government Code Section 16429
  (a) The Condemnation Deposits Fund in the State Treasury is continued in existence. The fund consists of all money deposited in the State Treasury pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 16429.1
  (a) There is in trust in the custody of the Treasurer the Local Agency Investment Fund, which fund is hereby created. The Controller shall maintain...
• California Government Code Section 16429.2
  There is created the Local Investment Advisory Board consisting of five members. The chairman shall be the State Treasurer or his or her designated representative....
• California Government Code Section 16429.3
  Moneys placed with the Treasurer for deposit in the Local Agency Investment Fund by cities, counties, special districts, nonprofit corporations, or qualified quasi-governmental agencies shall...
• California Government Code Section 16429.4
  The right of a city, county, city and county, special district, nonprofit corporation, or qualified quasi-governmental agency to withdraw its deposited moneys from the Local...
• California Government Code Section 16429.30
  The California Unitary Fund is hereby abolished. Any assets or liability of that fund is transferred to the General Fund. On and after January 1,...
• California Government Code Section 16430
  Eligible securities for the investment of surplus moneys shall be any of the following: (a) Bonds or interest-bearing notes or obligations of the United States,...
• California Government Code Section 16431
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, funds held by the state pursuant to a written agreement between the state and employees of the...
• California Government Code Section 16470
  The Pooled Money Investment Board shall, at such times as it deems necessary, determine whether any portion of the money then on deposit in the...
• California Government Code Section 16471
  Upon the determination and designation of surplus money in any special fund, the Controller shall transfer from that fund to the Surplus Money Investment Fund...
• California Government Code Section 16472
  All moneys transferred to or deposited in the Surplus Money Investment Fund are hereby appropriated without regard to fiscal years to carry out the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 16473
  The Pooled Money Investment Board shall, at such times as it deems necessary, determine whether any portion of the money theretofore transferred to and remaining...
• California Government Code Section 16473.5
  For the purposes of this article, a written determination signed by a majority of the members of the Pooled Money Investment Board shall be deemed...
• California Government Code Section 16474
  The money in the Surplus Money Investment Fund, shall be invested and reinvested by the State Treasurer as a part of the Pooled Money Investment
• California Government Code Section 16475
  At the conclusion of each calendar quarter, all interest earned and other increment derived from investments made pursuant to this article shall, on order of...
• California Government Code Section 16475.1
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the interest earned by governmental cost funds, as determined jointly by the Controller and Director of Finance, for the...
• California Government Code Section 16475.5
  Notwithstanding Section 16475, at the conclusion of each calendar quarter, all interest earned and other increment derived from the investment pursuant to this article of...
• California Government Code Section 16476
  If any provision of this article, or the application thereof to the money in any fund referred to herein, is held invalid, the remaining provisions...
• California Government Code Section 16480
  All state money held by the State Treasurer in treasury trust accounts, and all money in the State Treasury, except money in the Unemployment Compensation...
• California Government Code Section 16480.1
  There is hereby created a Pooled Money Investment Board, which shall consist of the Controller, Treasurer and Director of Finance. The Pooled Money Investment Board...
• California Government Code Section 16480.2
  It is the intent of this article that money available for investment or deposit be invested in securities or deposited in banks and savings and...
• California Government Code Section 16480.3
  Immediately after designations described in Section 16480.1, the Treasurer shall invest or make deposits in banks and savings and loan associations in accordance with the
• California Government Code Section 16480.35
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Pooled Money Investment Board, in administering its investment program, shall give due regard to assisting such...
• California Government Code Section 16480.4
  (a) Amounts available for investment under this article may be invested and reinvested by the State Treasurer in any securities described in Section 16430 of...
• California Government Code Section 16480.45
  In addition to any other investment authorized by this article, the Treasurer may invest in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds, as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 16480.5
  Investments pursuant to this article shall be purchased by Controller's warrants. Such warrants shall not be drawn upon a fund but shall be drawn on...
• California Government Code Section 16480.6
  (a) At the conclusion of each calendar quarter, all interest earned and increment derived from investments in securities, time deposits and loans made pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 16480.7
  Not later than 30 days after the close of each month there shall be placed on file for public inspection during business hours at the...
• California Government Code Section 16480.8
  If any provision in this chapter, or the application thereof to the money in any fund in the Treasury, is held invalid, the remaining provisions...
• California Government Code Section 16480.9
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16480.6, as of December 31 and June 30 each year all interest earned and increment derived from the investment pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 16481
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the State Treasurer may enter into security loan agreements pursuant to the provisions of Division 8 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 16481.1
  The Pooled Money Investment Board shall succeed to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters now or...
• California Government Code Section 16481.2
  (a) The Treasurer shall annually prepare and submit to the Pooled Money Investment Board a written statement of investment policy. The Treasurer shall promptly notify...
• California Government Code Section 16482
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency that has entered into a grant agreement for...
• California Government Code Section 16485
  It is the purpose of this article to authorize the establishment of procedures for the transfer of bonds between funds in the State Treasury in...
• California Government Code Section 16486
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Investing authority," with respect to any State Treasury fund, means the state agency...
• California Government Code Section 16487
  The State Controller may establish procedures for the purpose of carrying out the purposes set forth in Section 16485. These procedures are exempt from the...
• California Government Code Section 16488
  The procedures authorized to be adopted by this article are permissive only, and no provision hereof shall require any state agency to approve or perform...
• California Government Code Section 16489
  Any procedure established under this article shall provide that the market value of the bonds shall be regarded, for the purposes thereof, as the equivalent...
• California Government Code Section 16490
  Any procedure established under this article shall require that in connection with any purchase, sale or transfer of bonds thereunder, the State Controller, State Treasurer,...
• California Government Code Section 16492
  The Legislature finds and declares that local agencies may be unable to sell short-term notes to financial institutions at the end of the 1977-78 fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 16492.5
  It is the purpose of the Local Agency Emergency Loan Fund to provide short-term loans to local agencies for operational purposes so that vital services...
• California Government Code Section 16493
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the Pooled Money Investment Board. (b) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county, special district,...
• California Government Code Section 16493.5
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Local Agency Emergency Loan Fund. Short-term loans shall be available to local agencies for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 16494
  The amount of any loan shall not exceed 50 percent of the local agency's property tax revenues for the 1977-78 fiscal year, including state property...
• California Government Code Section 16494.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any local agency may apply to the board, by no later than August 21, 1978, for a loan pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 16495
  (a) The board may approve, reduce, or deny any loan application. Such action shall be taken within 10 days of the receipt of an application....
• California Government Code Section 16495.5
  (a) All loans shall bear an interest rate comparable to the prevailing market interest rate statewide for tax anticipation notes purchased by major California banks,...
• California Government Code Section 16500
  As used in this chapter, "eligible bank" means a state or national bank located in this state, selected by the Treasurer for the safekeeping of...
• California Government Code Section 16500.5
  (a) The definitions in Section 1700 of, and Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 99) of Division 1 of, the Financial Code apply to this section....
• California Government Code Section 16501
  Under the conditions as the Treasurer with the approval of the Director of Finance may establish, the Treasurer may deposit money in banks outside this...
• California Government Code Section 16502
  All other money in the State Treasury or under the control of the Treasurer belonging to or in the custody of the State, shall, so...
• California Government Code Section 16503
  Subject to the limitations of Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 16480) of Chapter 3, the Treasurer shall determine what amounts of money shall be deposited:...
• California Government Code Section 16504
  Subject to the applicable contract, the Treasurer may call in money from time deposits and place it in demand deposits, when necessary to meet current...
• California Government Code Section 16505
  Deposits in any bank shall not exceed the total of its net worth.
• California Government Code Section 16506
  All money belonging to or in the custody of the state under the control of any state officer or employee, other than the Treasurer, except...
• California Government Code Section 16507
  A State officer is not liable on his official bond for losses caused by the failure of a bank in which is made a deposit...
• California Government Code Section 16508
  The Treasurer is not responsible for any money deposited in a bank pursuant to this chapter, and while it remains so deposited.
• California Government Code Section 16509
  The Treasurer is responsible for the safekeeping, management and disbursement of the certificates of deposit received and the securities deposited with him, the interest received...
• California Government Code Section 16510
  Any State officer or employee who deposits any money belonging to or in the custody of the State in any manner other than as prescribed...
• California Government Code Section 16520
  Security shall not be required for that portion of any deposit that is insured under any law of the United States.
• California Government Code Section 16521
  To be eligible to receive and retain demand or time deposits, a bank shall deposit with the Treasurer as security for such deposits, securities specified...
• California Government Code Section 16522
  The following securities may be received as security for demand and time deposits: (a) Bonds, notes, or other obligations of the United States, or those...
• California Government Code Section 16523
  If it appears to him necessary for the security of the State, the Treasurer shall require as a condition of eligibility that a bank furnish...
• California Government Code Section 16525
  In lieu of deposits of securities, any otherwise eligible bank may deposit with the Treasurer bonds of admitted surety insurers as security for demand and...
• California Government Code Section 16526
  An admitted surety insurer is not eligible as surety for demand or time deposits in any one bank in amounts in excess of 10 percent...
• California Government Code Section 16527
  On demand of the Treasurer, the Insurance Commissioner shall issue a certificate showing the qualifications of any admitted surety insurer as surety for demand or...
• California Government Code Section 16528
  The bond of an admitted surety insurer shall not be accepted as security for demand or time deposits unless it has been certified by the...
• California Government Code Section 16529
  The form of bonds required under this chapter shall be prescribed by the Attorney General.
• California Government Code Section 16530
  A surety upon any bond to secure demand or time deposits may terminate the bond as to future liability by giving 10 days' written notice...
• California Government Code Section 16531
  That portion of any security for deposit that is in excess of the requirements of this article may be withdrawn or released on the written...
• California Government Code Section 16531.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and without regard to fiscal year, if the annual State Budget is not enacted by June 30 of...
• California Government Code Section 16532
  If any bank fails to pay all or any part of such deposits on demand of the Treasurer, pursuant to the terms and conditions of...
• California Government Code Section 16533
  If at any time the security deposited with the Treasurer is not deemed satisfactory by the Treasurer, he may require such additional security as is...
• California Government Code Section 16550
  As used in this article, "qualified trust company" means the trust department of any State or National bank in this State or a trust company...
• California Government Code Section 16551
  With the consent of the bank owning securities deposited or to be deposited with him as security, the Treasurer may: (a) Authorize any qualified trust...
• California Government Code Section 16552
  The Treasurer shall take from the qualified trust company or from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or a branch thereof a receipt for...
• California Government Code Section 16553
  Any qualified trust company or the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or any branch thereof to which securities are delivered, either as agent or...
• California Government Code Section 16554
  The charges of any qualified trust company or of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or a branch thereof for the handling and safekeeping...
• California Government Code Section 16560
  The Treasurer shall enter into such contracts with such depositaries as in his judgment will be to the public advantage so to do. The contracts...
• California Government Code Section 16561
  In order to obtain as high rates of interest as possible, the contracts may contain any conditions necessary to conform with Section 19 of the...
• California Government Code Section 16562
  The contracts covering demand state deposits shall provide that each depositary shall render daily to the Treasurer a statement of the account showing the date...
• California Government Code Section 16563
  The contracts shall be executed by the depositaries in triplicate. The Treasurer shall file one copy of each contract with the Controller.
• California Government Code Section 16564
  At the time of depositing State money in any bank, designated as a depositary, the Treasurer shall take and preserve a receipt, certificate of deposit,...
• California Government Code Section 16565
  On the order of the Treasurer, depositary banks shall handle, collect and pay all checks, drafts and other exchange in the same manner and under...
• California Government Code Section 16580
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Accounts Receivable Management Act.
• California Government Code Section 16581
  "Participant" for the purposes of this chapter means all state agencies, departments, and offices.
• California Government Code Section 16582
  Within the uniform state payroll system, the Controller may, for each participant, disregard errors of twenty-five dollars ($25) or less in individual accounts receivable, if...
• California Government Code Section 16583
  (a) Each participant shall allocate collection resources based on giving highest priority to those accounts with the highest expected return. (b) Each participant shall consult...
• California Government Code Section 16583.1
  A participant may impose a reasonable fee, not to exceed the actual costs, to recover the participant's collection costs on a past due account.
• California Government Code Section 16583.2
  (a) A participant shall submit an annual report to the Controller of the participant's accounts receivables and discharged accounts. (b) The Controller shall inform a...
• California Government Code Section 16584
  (a) A participant may enter into a contract with a private debt collector or private person or entity for the assignment or sale of all...
• California Government Code Section 16585
  (a) A city, county, or city and county may sell or transfer part or all of its accounts receivable to a private debt collector or...
• California Government Code Section 16586
  Claims for reimbursement under Sections 11487 and 11487.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code are not subject to this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 16600
  (a) As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Eligible savings and loan association" means a state or federal savings association, as...
• California Government Code Section 16601
  Notwithstanding Section 16502, all other money in the State Treasury or under the control of the Treasurer belonging to or in the custody of the...
• California Government Code Section 16602
  Subject to the limitations of Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 16480) of Chapter 3, the Treasurer shall determine what amounts of money shall be deposited...
• California Government Code Section 16603
  Subject to the applicable contract, the Treasurer may call in money from deposits in savings and loan associations and credit unions and place it in...
• California Government Code Section 16604
  Deposits in any savings and loan association or credit union shall not exceed the total of its net worth.
• California Government Code Section 16605
  Notwithstanding Section 16506, all money belonging to or in the custody of the state under the control of any state officer or employee, other than...
• California Government Code Section 16606
  A state officer is not liable on his or her official bond for losses caused by the failure of a savings and loan association or...
• California Government Code Section 16607
  The Treasurer is not responsible for any money deposited in a savings and loan association or credit union pursuant to this chapter, and while it...
• California Government Code Section 16608
  The Treasurer is responsible for the safekeeping, management and disbursement of the certificates of deposit received and the securities deposited with him, the interest received...
• California Government Code Section 16609
  Any state officer or employee who deposits any money belonging to or in the custody of the state in any manner other than as prescribed...
• California Government Code Section 16610
  Security shall not be required for that portion of any deposit that is insured under any law of the United States.
• California Government Code Section 16611
  To be eligible to receive and retain deposits, a savings and loan association and credit union shall deposit with the Treasurer as security for deposits,...
• California Government Code Section 16612
  The following securities may be received as security for deposits: (a) Bonds, notes, or other obligations of the United States, or those for which the...
• California Government Code Section 16613
  If it appears to him or her necessary for the security of the state, the Treasurer shall require as a condition of eligibility that a...
• California Government Code Section 16614
  In lieu of deposits of securities, any otherwise eligible savings and loan association or credit union may deposit with the Treasurer bonds of admitted surety...
• California Government Code Section 16615
  An admitted surety insurer is not eligible as surety for deposits in any one savings and loan association or credit union in amounts in excess...
• California Government Code Section 16616
  On demand of the Treasurer, the Insurance Commissioner shall issue a certificate showing the qualifications of any admitted surety insurer as surety for deposits.
• California Government Code Section 16617
  The bond of an admitted surety insurer shall not be accepted as security for deposits unless it has been certified by the Insurance Commissioner as...
• California Government Code Section 16618
  The form of bonds required under this chapter shall be prescribed by the Attorney General.
• California Government Code Section 16619
  A surety upon any bond to secure deposits may terminate the bond as to future liability by giving 10 days' written notice of termination to...
• California Government Code Section 16620
  That portion of any security for deposit that is in excess of the requirements of this article may be withdrawn or released on the written...
• California Government Code Section 16621
  If any savings and loan association or credit union fails to pay all or any part of deposits on demand of the Treasurer, pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 16622
  If at any time the security deposited with the Treasurer is not deemed satisfactory by the Treasurer, he may require such additional security as is...
• California Government Code Section 16625
  As used in this article, "qualified trust company" means the trust department of any state or national bank in this state or a trust company...
• California Government Code Section 16626
  With the consent of the savings and loan association or credit union owning securities deposited or to be deposited with him or her as security,...
• California Government Code Section 16627
  The Treasurer shall take from the qualified trust company or from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or a branch thereof or the Federal...
• California Government Code Section 16628
  Any qualified trust company or the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or any branch thereof or the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco...
• California Government Code Section 16629
  The charges of any qualified trust company or of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or a branch thereof or the Federal Home Loan...
• California Government Code Section 16630
  The Treasurer shall enter into contracts with savings and loan associations as in his or her judgment will be to the public advantage so to...
• California Government Code Section 16631
  In order to obtain as high rates of interest as possible, the contracts may contain any conditions necessary to conform with Section 5B of the...
• California Government Code Section 16632
  The contracts covering deposits shall provide that the interest to be paid by the savings and loan association or credit union shall be paid upon...
• California Government Code Section 16633
  The contracts shall be executed by the savings and loan associations and credit unions in triplicate. The Treasurer shall file one copy of each contract...
• California Government Code Section 16634
  At the time of depositing state money in any savings and loan association or credit union, designated as a depository, the Treasurer shall take and...
• California Government Code Section 16640
  Present and former members of the governing board of any trust fund, jointly and individually, state officers and employees, and investment managers under contract with...
• California Government Code Section 16641
  Present and former Regents of the University of California, jointly and individually, officers and employees of the University of California, and investment managers under contract...
• California Government Code Section 16641.5
  The Public Employees' Retirement System, as a public entity, and the present, future, and former board members of the Public Employees' Retirement System, jointly and...
• California Government Code Section 16642
  Present, future, and former board members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the State Teachers' Retirement System, jointly and individually, state officers and employees,...
• California Government Code Section 16645
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Assist, promote, or deter union organizing" means any attempt by an employer...
• California Government Code Section 16645.1
  (a) No state funds shall be used to reimburse a state contractor for any costs incurred to assist, promote, or deter union organizing. (b) Every...
• California Government Code Section 16645.2
  (a) The recipient of a grant of state funds, including state funds disbursed as a grant by a public agency, shall not use the funds...
• California Government Code Section 16645.3
  (a) No state contractor shall assist, promote, or deter union organizing by employees who are performing work on a service contract, including a public works...
• California Government Code Section 16645.4
  (a) A state contractor that receives state funds in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) pursuant to a contract with the state or a state...
• California Government Code Section 16645.5
  (a) An employer conducting business on state property pursuant to a contract or concession agreement with the state or a state agency, or a subcontractor...
• California Government Code Section 16645.6
  (a) A public employer receiving state funds shall not use any of those funds to assist, promote, or deter union organizing. (b) Any public official...
• California Government Code Section 16645.7
  (a) A private employer receiving state funds in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in any calendar year on account of its participation in a...
• California Government Code Section 16645.8
  (a) A civil action for a violation of this chapter may be brought by the Attorney General, or by any state taxpayer, on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 16646
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, any expense, including legal and consulting fees and salaries of supervisors and employees, incurred for research for, or preparation,...
• California Government Code Section 16647
  This chapter does not apply to an activity performed, or to an expense incurred, in connection with any of the following: (a) Addressing a grievance...
• California Government Code Section 16648
  This chapter does not apply to an expenditure made prior to January 1, 2001, or to a grant or contract awarded prior to January 1,...
• California Government Code Section 16649
  The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any section or portion of this chapter, or any application thereof, is held invalid, in whole or...
• California Government Code Section 16649.80
  The definitions in this section shall govern the construction and interpretation of this chapter. (a) "Investment" or "invest" means the commitment of funds or other...
• California Government Code Section 16649.81
  On or after January 1, 1994, state trust moneys shall not be used to make additional or new investments or to renew existing investments in...
• California Government Code Section 16649.82
  Section 16649.81 shall not apply to any business firm which, by resolution of its governing body, adopts a policy not to renew existing, expand existing,...
• California Government Code Section 16649.83
  On or after January 1, 1994, state trust moneys shall not be used to make additional or new investments or to renew existing investments in...
• California Government Code Section 16649.84
  Section 16649.83 shall not apply to any financial institution which, by resolution of its governing body, adopts a policy not to renew existing, expand existing,...
• California Government Code Section 16649.86
  (a) A copy of a resolution, as described in Sections 16649.82 and 16649.84, shall be submitted to the Treasurer and to the chief administrative officer...
• California Government Code Section 16649.87
  Beginning January 1, 1995, and continuing thereafter until January 1, 1998, state trust funds shall annually reduce by one-third the value of their respective investments...
• California Government Code Section 16649.88
  Effective January 1, 1998, state trust funds shall not make or hold any investment in any business firm or financial institution that engages in discriminatory...
• California Government Code Section 16649.89
  State moneys shall not be deposited with financial institutions that, following January 1, 1994, engage in discriminatory business practices in furtherance of or in compliance...
• California Government Code Section 16649.90
  The prohibitions contained in Sections 16649.83, 16649.87, 16649.88, and 16649.89, shall not apply to any loan or extension of credit for which an agreement is...
• California Government Code Section 16649.92
  Present, future, and former members of the governing board of any trust fund, jointly and individually, state officers and employees, and investment managers under contract...
• California Government Code Section 16649.93
  Present, future, and former Regents of the University of California, jointly and individually, officers and employees of the University of California, and investment managers under...
• California Government Code Section 16649.94
  This chapter shall not apply to any Internal Revenue Code Section 457, 401(k), or 403(b) defined contribution plan administered by the Department of Personnel Administration.
• California Government Code Section 16649.95
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a business firm from utilizing a single resolution to satisfy the requirements of both Sections 16649.82 and 16641.5,...
• California Government Code Section 16650
  As used in this part, "fiscal agent" means any state fiscal agent selected and acting pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16670).
• California Government Code Section 16651
  Whenever the statute of limitations has run against any outstanding bond or coupon issued by the State, the Treasurer may, at such time as he...
• California Government Code Section 16652
  Whenever it appears to the Treasurer, upon competent proof, that any bonds, coupons, or other evidences of state indebtedness, except warrants, have been lost or...
• California Government Code Section 16653
  The expense incurred by the State Treasurer and his agents in the payment of bonds and bond coupons upon maturity or when called for prior...
• California Government Code Section 16654
  The Controller shall establish and maintain accounts and perform accounting transactions as determined by the Treasurer to be necessary to comply with all provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 16670
  Upon the recommendation of the Treasurer, the Governor may designate well-known and responsible banking firms or associations, or incorporated banking institutions having a paid-up capital...
• California Government Code Section 16672
  With the approval of the Governor, the Treasurer may fix the amount of and require bonds from any fiscal agent to the State, conditioned on...
• California Government Code Section 16673
  Subject to the approval of the Governor, the Treasurer may do all things necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, including, among...
• California Government Code Section 16674
  All bonds and coupons issued by the State, which by their terms are payable at the Office of the Treasurer, without further designation of a...
• California Government Code Section 16676
  At such time as the Treasurer may fix with the approval of the Governor in accordance with Section 16673; (a) the Controller shall draw his...
• California Government Code Section 16677
  Any fiscal agent shall promptly notify the remitting officer of the receipt of the remittances and shall promptly cancel paid bonds and coupons and return...
• California Government Code Section 16678
  Any fiscal agent may redeem state bonds and coupons when duly presented to it by the holder, with or without a certificate making them payable...
• California Government Code Section 16679
  Express charges and postage are a proper charge against the State.
• California Government Code Section 16700
  As used in this chapter, "instrument" means bonds, coupons, and other evidences of State indebtedness, except warrants.
• California Government Code Section 16701
  Whenever it appears to the Treasurer upon competent proof that any instrument has been lost or destroyed and the required security is deposited, he may...
• California Government Code Section 16702
  If the Treasurer refuses to issue or cause to be issued new instruments to replace those lost or destroyed, the owner may apply to the...
• California Government Code Section 16703
  A copy of the petition for the order to show cause shall be served upon the Treasurer not less than 10 days prior to the...
• California Government Code Section 16704
  If the court finds that the petitioner is the lawful owner of the instruments described in the petition, that they have been lost or destroyed...
• California Government Code Section 16705
  Before the Treasurer may issue a new instrument or pay the indebtedness represented by a lost or destroyed instrument, the owner shall give security in...
• California Government Code Section 16706
  The owner shall pay all costs and expenses in connection with the issuance of any new instrument.
• California Government Code Section 16707
  Every new instrument and every coupon of any instrument so issued shall state upon its face the number and denomination of the instrument for which...
• California Government Code Section 16720
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the State General Obligation Bond Law.
• California Government Code Section 16721
  The purpose of this chapter is to provide a procedure which may be adopted by other acts for use with whatever modifications are necessary in...
• California Government Code Section 16722
  As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meaning unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Board" means the state board, department,...
• California Government Code Section 16723
  Any bond act may adopt the provisions of this chapter by reference to its short title, and such reference shall serve to incorporate the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 16724
  The bond act shall contain all of the following provisions: (a) A statement of the total amount of bonds authorized to be issued and the...
• California Government Code Section 16724.4
  Any state bond measure approved by the voters on or after January 1, 2004, shall be subject to an annual reporting process, as follows: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 16724.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, "revolving fund" means the General Obligation Bond Expense Revolving Fund created pursuant to this section. (b) There is in...
• California Government Code Section 16724.6
  There is hereby transferred from any bond fund created for the proceeds of sales of state general obligation bonds, the amounts necessary to reimburse the...
• California Government Code Section 16724.7
  Costs incurred by the state in connection with state general obligation bonds bearing variable interest rates that are different from costs determined by the Treasurer...
• California Government Code Section 16725
  The Controller, the State Treasurer and the committee shall keep full and particular account and record of all their proceedings under the bond act and...
• California Government Code Section 16726
  Upon request of the board stating that the purposes for which the bonds were issued and sold has been effected, the committee shall certify this...
• California Government Code Section 16727
  Proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be used only for the following purposes: (a) The costs of construction...
• California Government Code Section 16730
  Upon request of the board, supported as required in the bond act, the committee shall determine the necessity or desirability of obtaining interim financing pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 16731
  Whenever the committee determines that the sale of all or any part of the bonds authorized to be issued is necessary or desirable, it shall...
• California Government Code Section 16731.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the committee may provide for the issuance of all or part of the bonds authorized to be...
• California Government Code Section 16731.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and as an alternative to the procedures set forth in Section 16731, the committee may provide for...
• California Government Code Section 16732
  In determining the dates of maturity of the bonds, and the amount thereof to mature at each date of maturity, the committee shall be guided,...
• California Government Code Section 16733
  The rate of interest to be borne by the bonds need not be uniform for all bonds of the same issue, and shall be the...
• California Government Code Section 16734
  Both principal of and interest on the bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States, at the Office of the State Treasurer,...
• California Government Code Section 16735
  Each bond shall contain a reference to the bond act, and if subject to call, tender, or redemption prior to maturity, a recital to that
• California Government Code Section 16737
  (a) When the committee deems it in the best interests of the state, it may authorize the Treasurer, upon those terms and conditions that may...
• California Government Code Section 16740
  After the adoption by the committee of any resolution in conformity with Section 16731, 16731.5, or 16731.6, the Treasurer shall arrange for the preparation of...
• California Government Code Section 16741
  All bonds shall bear the facsimile signature of the Governor, the facsimile signature of the Controller, and the facsimile signature of the Treasurer, and each...
• California Government Code Section 16742
  Whenever the committee may determine by resolution that for any reason any bonds which have been prepared and executed under the foregoing provisions should not...
• California Government Code Section 16743
  If the right to do so has been reserved in the resolution adopted in conformity with Section 16731, 16731.5, or 16731.6, temporary or interim bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 16752
  The Treasurer may from time to time, by electronic means or by public announcement at the place and at or before the time fixed for...
• California Government Code Section 16752.1
  The Treasurer may cancel or postpone a competitive sale of bonds to an indefinite date by public announcement, including by electronic means, made prior to...
• California Government Code Section 16753
  (a) Each bid at a competitive sale shall be submitted to the Treasurer in the form and by the means specified by the Treasurer by...
• California Government Code Section 16754
  (a) The bonds specified in the resolution shall be sold by the Treasurer, at the time fixed by the Treasurer, and upon the notice that...
• California Government Code Section 16754.3
  (a) The bonds specified in the resolution shall be sold by the Treasurer, at the time fixed by the Treasurer, and upon the notice that...
• California Government Code Section 16754.5
  Notwithstanding any provision in this article to the contrary, bonds to provide farm and home aid for veterans in accordance with the Veterans' Farm and...
• California Government Code Section 16755
  (a) The deposit of each unsuccessful bidder shall be returned to the bidder promptly upon the rejection of the bidder's bid or the acceptance of...
• California Government Code Section 16756
  Upon payment in full, the bonds shall be delivered to the purchaser in definitive form, unless the right to deliver temporary securities has been reserved...
• California Government Code Section 16757
  (a) The proceeds of each sale of bonds, and the amount that may have been paid as accrued interest on the bonds, shall be forthwith...
• California Government Code Section 16758
  All actual and necessary expenses of the committee and of the members thereof incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid out of...
• California Government Code Section 16759
  The Treasurer shall submit to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, after each sale of bonds authorized to be sold under this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 16760
  Whenever the committee deems that it will increase the salability or the price of the bonds to obtain, prior to or after sale, a legal...
• California Government Code Section 16770
  The State Treasurer, directly or through state fiscal agents, or other duly authorized agents, shall, on the respective dates of maturity of all bonds, or...
• California Government Code Section 16771
  Upon the payment of any such bond or coupon, the State Treasurer, or the state fiscal agent, or other duly authorized agent, shall cancel the...
• California Government Code Section 16772
  The State Treasurer, or state fiscal agents, or other duly authorized agents, may destroy or cremate any or all bonds and any or all coupons...
• California Government Code Section 16773
  Whenever any payment of principal of any bonds shall become due, either upon the maturity of any of the bonds or upon the redemption thereof...
• California Government Code Section 16774
  (a) If the committee determines that any bonds then outstanding, including bonds that by their terms are subject to redemption prior to maturity, should be...
• California Government Code Section 16754.5
  Notwithstanding any provision in this article to the contrary, bonds to provide farm and home aid for veterans in accordance with the Veterans' Farm and...
• California Government Code Section 16755
  (a) The deposit of each unsuccessful bidder shall be returned to the bidder promptly upon the rejection of the bidder's bid or the acceptance of...
• California Government Code Section 16756
  Upon payment in full, the bonds shall be delivered to the purchaser in definitive form, unless the right to deliver temporary securities has been reserved...
• California Government Code Section 16757
  (a) The proceeds of each sale of bonds, and the amount that may have been paid as accrued interest on the bonds, shall be forthwith...
• California Government Code Section 16758
  All actual and necessary expenses of the committee and of the members thereof incurred in the performance of their duties shall be paid out of...
• California Government Code Section 16759
  The Treasurer shall submit to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, after each sale of bonds authorized to be sold under this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 16760
  Whenever the committee deems that it will increase the salability or the price of the bonds to obtain, prior to or after sale, a legal...
• California Government Code Section 16780
  (a) The committee may provide for the issuance and sale or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming, retiring, or purchasing for retirement,...
• California Government Code Section 16781
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article or in subdivision (b), all of the provisions of this chapter are applicable to the issuance and...
• California Government Code Section 16781.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the renewal and reissuance from time to time of commercial paper notes within the amount and time of...
• California Government Code Section 16782
  (a) Refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds, either directly or by the purchase of nonredeemable securities, the principal...
• California Government Code Section 16783
  Refunding bonds may be issued before the first date upon which the bonds being refunded are subject to call or redemption. The final maturity date...
• California Government Code Section 16784
  The Refunding Escrow Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury and is continuously appropriated for the purposes of this section....
• California Government Code Section 16785
  Refunding bonds shall be valid and binding obligations of the State of California, and the full faith and credit of the State of California shall...
• California Government Code Section 16786
  This article applies only to the refunding of bonds authorized at a statewide election held after the effective date of this article pursuant to a...
• California Government Code Section 16787
  In any report of outstanding general obligation bonds or bonded debt of the state, the Controller shall include both refunding bonds and bonds which have...
• California Government Code Section 16800
  In 1962 the electorate repealed Sections 2, 3, 4, 4 1/2, 5, 6, 8, 8 1/2, 15, 16, 16.5, 17, 18, 19, 19.5, 20, and...
• California Government Code Section 16804
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California in the sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) and the use and disposition...
• California Government Code Section 16805
  The issuance and sale of one thousand bonds of the State of California in the denomination of one thousand dollars each, and the use and...
• California Government Code Section 16806
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), and...
• California Government Code Section 16807
  The issuance and sale of 10,000 bonds of the State of California in the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, and the use and...
• California Government Code Section 16808
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California in the sum of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) and the use and disposition of...
• California Government Code Section 16809
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000), in such denominations,...
• California Government Code Section 16810
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000),...
• California Government Code Section 16811
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of one hundred eighty-five million dollars ($185,000,000), in such denominations,...
• California Government Code Section 16812
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), in such denominations, to...
• California Government Code Section 16813
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), in such denominations, to...
• California Government Code Section 16814
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of two hundred twenty million dollars ($220,000,000), in such denominations,...
• California Government Code Section 16815
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California in the sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) and the use and disposition...
• California Government Code Section 16816
  Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000), in such denominations, to...
• California Government Code Section 16817
  The issuance and sale of bonds of the State of California, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000), and...
• California Government Code Section 16850
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each awarding department shall have annual statewide participation goals of not less than 15 percent for minority business...
• California Government Code Section 16851
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any agency, department, constitutional officer, governmental entity, or other officer or entity...
• California Government Code Section 16852
  Notwithstanding Section 16850, if a contract for professional bond services of an underwriter is to be obtained by competitive bid, the awarding department shall, at...
• California Government Code Section 16852.5
  (a) Any awarding department taking bids in connection with the award of any contract shall provide, in the general conditions under which bids will be...
• California Government Code Section 16853
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in Section 16850, including requiring a followup report from all...
• California Government Code Section 16854
  In implementing this chapter, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business.
• California Government Code Section 16855
  Beginning July 1, 1989, and on January 1, 1990, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 16856
  (a) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the validity or enforceability of any bonds to which this chapter applies shall not be affected...
• California Government Code Section 16857
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to: (1) Knowingly and with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtain, retain, attempt to obtain or retain, or...
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• California Government Code Section 16851
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any agency, department, constitutional officer, governmental entity, or other officer or entity...
• California Government Code Section 16852
  Notwithstanding Section 16850, if a contract for professional bond services of an underwriter is to be obtained by competitive bid, the awarding department shall, at...
• California Government Code Section 16852.5
  (a) Any awarding department taking bids in connection with the award of any contract shall provide, in the general conditions under which bids will be...
• California Government Code Section 16853
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in Section 16850, including requiring a followup report from all...
• California Government Code Section 16854
  In implementing this chapter, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business.
• California Government Code Section 16855
  Beginning July 1, 1989, and on January 1, 1990, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 16856
  (a) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the validity or enforceability of any bonds to which this chapter applies shall not be affected...
• California Government Code Section 16857
  (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to: (1) Knowingly and with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtain, retain, attempt to obtain or retain, or...
• California Government Code Section 16940
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Pension Restructuring Bond Act of 2004.
• California Government Code Section 16941
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to provide for an efficient, equitable, and economical means of satisfying certain pension obligations...
• California Government Code Section 16942
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the state's obligation to pay its pension obligations to the Public Employees' Retirement System in the amounts established...
• California Government Code Section 16943
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Ancillary obligation" means the obligation of the state under...
• California Government Code Section 16945
  The committee is authorized and empowered, for and in the name and on behalf of the state, to do all of the following: (a) Upon...
• California Government Code Section 16946
  Every issue of bonds, and any ancillary obligation entered into with respect to those bonds, shall be a debt and liability of the state payable...
• California Government Code Section 16947
  (a) The cumulative amount of outstanding bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may not exceed the lesser of (1) the sum of two billion dollars...
• California Government Code Section 16948
  (a) The resolution, certificate, or other instrument of the committee authorizing the issuance of the bonds may provide, or the committee may delegate to the...
• California Government Code Section 16949
  The proceeds of the bonds shall be applied to the funding or refunding of pension obligations, or refunding of bonds previously issued under this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 16950
  When proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are used to pay the state's pension obligations to the retirement system for members whose compensation...
• California Government Code Section 16951
  When proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are used to pay the state's pension obligations to the retirement system for members whose compensation...
• California Government Code Section 16952
  In the discretion of the committee, any bonds issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement, indenture, or resolution between the state...
• California Government Code Section 16953
  The committee may provide for the issuance of bonds any portion of which is to be used for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds issued...
• California Government Code Section 16954
  The net proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Pension Obligation Bond Fund established pursuant to Section
• California Government Code Section 16955
  This chapter, being necessary for the health, welfare, and safety of the state and its residents, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 16956
  This chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete and alternative authorization to take the actions necessary to implement this chapter, and shall be regarded...
• California Government Code Section 16957
  Section 10295 of the Public Contract Code and Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 16958
  Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter are a legal investment for any state special fund or trust fund, notwithstanding any provision of law limiting the...
• California Government Code Section 16959
  The committee may bring an action to determine the validity of any bonds to be issued, or any ancillary obligations and other contracts to be...
• California Government Code Section 16960
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, from the General Fund for the purposes of this chapter, an amount,...
• California Government Code Section 16965
  (a) The Transportation Debt Service Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund shall, among other things, as provided in this...
• California Government Code Section 16965.1
  (a) (1) The loan repayment dates relative to State Highway Account loans to the General Fund that are specified in the provisional language of the...
• California Government Code Section 17000
  Every warrant shall be drawn by the Controller upon the fund out of which it is payable, and such fund shall be designated thereon.
• California Government Code Section 17002
  Before delivering a warrant to the payee, the Controller shall, upon request, permit the Treasurer to endorse upon or attach to the warrant an order...
• California Government Code Section 17004
  Unless otherwise requested, the Controller may mail a warrant to the last known address of the claimant, and the signature of the payee on the...
• California Government Code Section 17004.5
  Each warrant issued by the Controller payable pursuant to Sections 21235, 21236, and 21237 from the Investment Dividend Disbursement Account in the Public Employees' Retirement...
• California Government Code Section 17004.6
  Each warrant issued by the Controller payable pursuant to Section 24701 or 24702 of the Education Code to a retirant or beneficiary of the State...
• California Government Code Section 17005
  The Controller shall keep a register of warrants showing the fund upon which each is drawn, its number, in whose favor, and the appropriation applicable...
• California Government Code Section 17006
  The Controller shall, on each business day, furnish the Treasurer with a report of the total number and amount of warrants drawn by him upon...
• California Government Code Section 17007
  The Controller may, from time to time, provide that funds shall be designated by name, code number, letter, or combination of number and letter, on...
• California Government Code Section 17050
  Whenever any state officer or employee accepts payment from a revolving fund of a state agency pursuant to Section 16401, the person authorized to make...
• California Government Code Section 17051
  Whenever any warrant is drawn in favor of a payee having a claim against the State and is delivered to a State agency for delivery...
• California Government Code Section 17051.5
  A state agency shall notify the Treasurer not to pay a warrant drawn by the Controller upon that agency's request whenever that agency has reason...
• California Government Code Section 17052
  The indorsements authorized by this article may be accepted by the Treasurer and he may pay such warrants.
• California Government Code Section 17070
  Whenever any warrant issued by the Controller is unpaid for one year after it becomes payable, sufficient unapplied moneys having been available for the payment...
• California Government Code Section 17070.1
  Any warrant issued prior to January 1, 1998, shall be governed by the law effective on the date of issue of the warrant. Any warrant...
• California Government Code Section 17071
  The Controller and Treasurer shall each keep a register of all canceled warrants. The register shall show the number, date, and amount of each warrant,...
• California Government Code Section 17072
  The face amount of each warrant canceled under this article shall revert and be credited by the Controller to the fund against which the warrant...
• California Government Code Section 17073
  Warrants canceled under this article are void.
• California Government Code Section 17090
  Whenever any warrant lawfully drawn by the Controller is lost or destroyed before it is paid by the Treasurer, the owner or custodian may, prior...
• California Government Code Section 17091
  Application for a duplicate warrant shall be made by filing with the Controller: (a) An affidavit setting forth the fact of its loss or destruction,...
• California Government Code Section 17091.5
  In the case of a lost or destroyed warrant issued by the Controller payable to a retirant, beneficiary, or disabilitant of a state retirement system,...
• California Government Code Section 17092
  The indemnity agreement shall be in a form as approved by the Attorney General. The Controller shall examine and pass upon the sufficiency of the...
• California Government Code Section 17093
  If the application is approved, the Controller shall issue and deliver to the applicant, on demand, a duplicate warrant for the full amount of the...
• California Government Code Section 17094
  The Controller shall make the proper entries on his books, showing the lost or destroyed warrants, and the issuance of duplicate warrants in lieu thereof.
• California Government Code Section 17095
  The Treasurer shall pay such a duplicate warrant as though it were the original.
• California Government Code Section 17096
  A duplicate warrant is void if not presented to the Treasurer for payment within the same time limit provided by law for the original warrant.
• California Government Code Section 17096.1
  An agency that submits a claim schedule to the State Controller's office that results in a warrant that is canceled under Section 17070 may submit...
• California Government Code Section 17097
  Any loss incurred in connection with the issuance of a duplicate warrant shall be charged against the account from which the payment was derived.
• California Government Code Section 17200
  All provisions of this chapter referring to registered warrants are applicable to "reimbursement warrants" and "refunding warrants," unless the context otherwise requires.
• California Government Code Section 17201
  The California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board may make rules and regulations governing the issuance and sale of registered warrants.
• California Government Code Section 17202
  All registered warrants issued by the state are legal investments for all: (a) Trust funds. (b) Funds of all insurers. (c) Funds of savings and...
• California Government Code Section 17203
  Such registered warrants are acceptable and may be used as security for the faithful performance of any public or private trust or obligation or for...
• California Government Code Section 17204
  Any State agency that is authorized to invest funds in the treasury in securities which are legal investments for savings banks may invest the funds...
• California Government Code Section 17205
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, all registered warrants are negotiable instruments.
• California Government Code Section 17206
  Whenever a registered warrant is issued for the purpose of making an interdepartmental payment or in error the State agency having legal ownership of the...
• California Government Code Section 17207
  After verification of the proper appropriation to be credited, the Controller shall cancel the warrant and credit the amount to the proper fund or appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 17208
  Whenever such a registered warrant is canceled the Controller shall so notify the Treasurer in writing, specifying the number, date, amount, to whom drawn, fund...
• California Government Code Section 17209
  Whenever the Controller deems that it will increase the salability or the price of registered warrants to obtain, prior to or after sale, a legal...
• California Government Code Section 17210
  Registered warrants shall be paid by the Treasurer in conformity with law.
• California Government Code Section 17211
  Registered warrants described in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 17212 issued in connection with any credit enhancement or liquidity agreement (including in the form...
• California Government Code Section 17212
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17222, if at any time it is necessary to register warrants pursuant to this chapter for the payment of principal of or...
• California Government Code Section 17213
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Controller is the agent for sale for registered warrants, reimbursement warrants, and refunding warrants issued pursuant to this
• California Government Code Section 17220
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Unapplied money" means money in the General Fund in the treasury for which outstanding warrants have not already been...
• California Government Code Section 17221
  Whenever the Controller draws a warrant upon the Treasurer payable out of the General Fund in an amount in excess of the balance remaining in...
• California Government Code Section 17221.5
  (a) The Controller, with the approval of the Pooled Money Investment Board, may fix a maturity date for registered warrants. To the extent legally permissible,...
• California Government Code Section 17222
  By a majority vote, the committee shall fix the rate of interest paid on registered warrants at not more than 5 percent per annum, except,...
• California Government Code Section 17223
  The Controller shall furnish the Treasurer with a separate register for registered warrants, and the Treasurer shall stamp on the register the date on which...
• California Government Code Section 17224
  If the Controller presents a warrant to the Treasurer for registration, after registration, the Treasurer shall return the warrant to the Controller for distribution.
• California Government Code Section 17240
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Reimbursement warrants" refers to warrants drawn by the Controller on the General Fund pursuant to this article to reimburse...
• California Government Code Section 17240.5
  (a) If the Controller requests that registered reimbursement warrants be issued, and the Governor determines pursuant to Section 16381 that the need for those warrants...
• California Government Code Section 17241
  To reimburse the General Cash Revolving Fund, the Controller may draw reimbursement warrants on the General Fund in the same manner as if General Cash...
• California Government Code Section 17242
  If a reimbursement warrant represents an amount in excess of the balance remaining in the unapplied money in the General Fund after first deducting from...
• California Government Code Section 17243
  The Controller may fix a maturity date for reimbursement warrants, and indorse upon each warrant, the date upon which the principal amount of the warrant...
• California Government Code Section 17244
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of prescribing a precise interest rate on registered reimbursement warrants, the committee may fix a maximum...
• California Government Code Section 17245
  Registered reimbursement warrants shall be sold by the Controller at public sale to the best bidders or in negotiated sales on the terms and conditions...
• California Government Code Section 17246
  Notice of public sale of registered reimbursement warrants shall be given by the Controller by publication, not less than three days prior to sale, at...
• California Government Code Section 17247
  The notice of public sale shall specify the amount of warrants to be sold, and the minimum amount for which the Controller will consider bids,...
• California Government Code Section 17248
  The Controller may give additional notice of any such sale in such form and manner as he may determine.
• California Government Code Section 17249
  At the time specified in the notice of sale, the Controller shall open the bids, and award the warrants to the persons making the best...
• California Government Code Section 17250
  The Controller shall endorse any registered reimbursement warrant so sold or to be sold in the name of and on behalf of the payee named...
• California Government Code Section 17251
  The cancellation, invalidity or abatement, in whole or in part, of any such claim, or of any warrant drawn against the General Cash Revolving Fund,...
• California Government Code Section 17252
  It is not essential to the validity of the sale of any reimbursement warrant that it be actually registered prior to sale.
• California Government Code Section 17253
  The proceeds of the sale of any registered reimbursement warrant shall be deposited in the State Treasury; an amount equal to its face value shall...
• California Government Code Section 17255
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section, to recognize the state's General Fund budget deficit accumulated prior to July 1,...
• California Government Code Section 17270
  All warrants are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for...
• California Government Code Section 17271
  (a) A registered warrant that bears a maturity date shall be paid by the Treasurer upon that date out of any unapplied money in the...
• California Government Code Section 17272
  Registered warrants not bearing a maturity date, and registered warrants bearing a maturity date, but for the payment of which refunding warrants have not been...
• California Government Code Section 17273
  The Treasurer shall immediately publish notice that such registered warrants are redeemable by advertising for six consecutive days, Sundays excepted, in newspapers publishing legal notices...
• California Government Code Section 17274
  The notice of redemption shall read substantially as follows: "NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA WARRANTS State Controller's warrants number______to number______, inclusive, drawn against...
• California Government Code Section 17275
  Any interest paid on any registered warrant shall accrue to the person holding the warrant on the date of redemption, except a registered reimbursement warrant...
• California Government Code Section 17276
  (a) If on the maturity date indorsed on a registered reimbursement warrant, there is no money available for its payment, either from unapplied money, or...
• California Government Code Section 17277
  If it appears to the Controller that, on the maturity date on the face of any registered reimbursement warrant, there will be insufficient unapplied money...
• California Government Code Section 17278
  Refunding warrants issued, registered, and sold for the purpose of paying and retiring registered reimbursement warrants theretofore issued shall be based upon the same claims...
• California Government Code Section 17279
  Refunding warrants may be issued with or without a fixed maturity date and shall be sold in the same manner as reimbursement warrants. The proceeds...
• California Government Code Section 17280
  If at any time it is necessary to register warrants for the payment of principal and interest on State bonds, warrants so registered have a...
• California Government Code Section 17280.1
  (a) A taxpayer who has a tax liability, including any liability for periodic estimated tax payments, with respect to personal income taxes or bank and...
• California Government Code Section 17280.2
  In the event a tax liability is paid, in whole or in part, with a registered warrant which is redeemable at the time the tax...
• California Government Code Section 17280.3
  (a) If a registered warrant, as defined in Section 17221, is issued for payment of any principal or interest due and payable on a state...
• California Government Code Section 17296
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to provide assurances to the persons who invest in the state' s registered reimbursement...
• California Government Code Section 17296.1
  (a) The Warrant Payment Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of setting aside unapplied moneys in the General Fund for...
• California Government Code Section 17296.2
  The Controller shall transfer from unapplied moneys in the General Fund to the Warrant Payment Fund the total amount of four billion dollars ($4,000,000,000) plus...
• California Government Code Section 17296.3
  The Controller shall transfer funds from the Warrant Payment Fund to the General Fund to pay and redeem registered reimbursement warrants at maturity.
• California Government Code Section 17296.4
  Moneys in the Warrant Payment Fund shall be available for transfer to the General Fund pursuant to Section 16310.
• California Government Code Section 17296.5
  Unless registered reimbursement warrants remain outstanding, this article shall be in effect only until July 1, 1996, and as of that date is repealed. If...
• California Government Code Section 17300
  Whenever the Controller determines that moneys in the General Fund are, or are expected to be, insufficient for the payment of all appropriations by the...
• California Government Code Section 17301
  Notes authorized to be issued may be sold by the Treasurer from time to time on a negotiated or a competitive bid basis as the...
• California Government Code Section 17302
  Notes shall be issued pursuant to this part only to raise funds in an amount sufficient to satisfy the Controller's registered demand or demands. Proceeds...
• California Government Code Section 17303
  Upon receipt of the purchase price of the notes, the Treasurer shall notify the Controller that funds for the payment of all or part of...
• California Government Code Section 17304
  Any revenues in the General Fund are available for the payment of all notes and the interest thereon until the notes and the interest thereon...
• California Government Code Section 17306
  All notes issued pursuant to this part by the state are legal investments for any of the following: (a) Trust funds. (b) Funds of insurers....
• California Government Code Section 17307
  Notes issued under this part are acceptable and may be used as security for the faithful performance of any public or private trust or obligation...
• California Government Code Section 17308
  Any state or local agency that is authorized to invest funds in its treasury in securities which are legal investments for savings banks may invest...
• California Government Code Section 17309
  Whenever the Treasurer deems that it will increase the salability of the notes to obtain, prior to or after sale, a legal opinion as to...
• California Government Code Section 17310
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund any unapplied money, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 17220, in any...
• California Government Code Section 17311
  (a) There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund without regard to fiscal years two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), which shall be set aside...
• California Government Code Section 17313
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this part shall, in all respects, fall within the procedures validated by, and meet the requirements for...
• California Government Code Section 17400
  The State Treasurer may promulgate regulations as to the redemption of state warrants and agency checks.
• California Government Code Section 17401
  The State Treasurer may examine warrants and checks presented for redemption and refuse payment of any item and shall have a reasonable time to make...
• California Government Code Section 17402
  The presenting bank and the endorsers of a state warrant or check presented to the Treasurer for redemption are deemed to guarantee that all prior...
• California Government Code Section 17403
  In any case in which the Treasurer redeems or gives credit for a warrant or check, he or she may revoke the payment or credit...
• California Government Code Section 17404
  Upon notification from the State Treasurer that a forged or erroneously endorsed state warrant has been charged back to the presenting financial institution, the State...
• California Government Code Section 17500
  The Legislature finds and declares that the existing system for reimbursing local agencies and school districts for the costs of state-mandated local programs has not...
• California Government Code Section 17510
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this part. The definition of a word applies to any...
• California Government Code Section 17511
  "City" means any city whether general law or charter, except a city and county.
• California Government Code Section 17512
  "Commission" means the Commission on State Mandates.
• California Government Code Section 17513
  "Costs mandated by the federal government" means any increased costs incurred by a local agency or school district after January 1, 1973, in order to...
• California Government Code Section 17514
  "Costs mandated by the state" means any increased costs which a local agency or school district is required to incur after July 1, 1980, as...
• California Government Code Section 17515
  "County" means any chartered or general law county. "County" includes a city and county.
• California Government Code Section 17516
  "Executive order" means an order, plan, requirement, rule, or regulation issued by any of the following: (a) The Governor. (b) An officer or official serving...
• California Government Code Section 17517.5
  "Cost savings authorized by the state" means any decreased costs that a local agency or school district realizes as a result of any statute enacted...
• California Government Code Section 17518
  "Local agency" means any city, county, special district, authority, or other political subdivision of the state.
• California Government Code Section 17518.5
  (a) "Reasonable reimbursement methodology" means a formula for reimbursing local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514....
• California Government Code Section 17519
  "School district" means any school district, community college district, or county superintendent of schools.
• California Government Code Section 17520
  "Special district" means any agency of the state that performs governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries. "Special district" includes a county service area, a...
• California Government Code Section 17521
  "Test claim" means the first claim filed with the commission alleging that a particular statute or executive order imposes costs mandated by the state, and...
• California Government Code Section 17521.5
  "Legislatively determined mandate" means the provisions of a statute or executive order that the Legislature, pursuant to Article 1.5, has declared by statute to be...
• California Government Code Section 17522
  (a) "Initial reimbursement claim" means a claim filed with the Controller by a local agency or school district for costs to be reimbursed for the...
• California Government Code Section 17523
  "Deflator" means the Implicit Price Deflator for the Costs of Goods and Services to Governmental Agencies, as determined by the Department of Finance.
• California Government Code Section 17524
  "Base year entitlement" means that amount determined to be the average for the approved reimbursement claims of each local agency or school district for the...
• California Government Code Section 17525
  (a) There is hereby created the Commission on State Mandates, which shall consist of seven members as follows: (1) The Controller. (2) The Treasurer. (3)...
• California Government Code Section 17526
  (a) All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public, except that the commission may meet in executive session to consider the appointment...
• California Government Code Section 17527
  In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the commission shall have the following powers: (a) To examine any document, report, or data, including computer programs...
• California Government Code Section 17528
  The members of the commission shall elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 17529
  The commission may appoint as attorney to the commission an attorney at law of this state, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the...
• California Government Code Section 17530
  The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall be exempt from civil service and shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission. The...
• California Government Code Section 17531
  The executive director may employ those officers, examiners, experts, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks, and employees as the executive director deems necessary to carry out the...
• California Government Code Section 17532
  A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise...
• California Government Code Section 17533
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 does not apply to a hearing by the commission under...
• California Government Code Section 17550
  Reimbursement of local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state shall be provided pursuant to this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 17551
  (a) The commission, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall hear and decide upon a claim by a local agency or school district that...
• California Government Code Section 17552
  This chapter shall provide the sole and exclusive procedure by which a local agency or school district may claim reimbursement for costs mandated by the...
• California Government Code Section 17553
  (a) The commission shall adopt procedures for receiving claims filed pursuant to this article and Section 17574 and for providing a hearing on those claims....
• California Government Code Section 17554
  With the agreement of all parties to the claim, the commission may waive the application of any procedural requirement imposed by this chapter or pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 17555
  (a) Not later than 30 days after hearing and deciding upon a test claim pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 17551, and determining the amount...
• California Government Code Section 17556
  The commission shall not find costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514, in any claim submitted by a local agency or school...
• California Government Code Section 17557
  (a) If the commission determines there are costs mandated by the state pursuant to Section 17551, it shall determine the amount to be subvened to...
• California Government Code Section 17557.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, within 30 days of the commission's adoption of a statement of decision on a test claim, the...
• California Government Code Section 17557.2
  (a) A reasonable reimbursement methodology developed pursuant to Section 17557.1 or a joint request for early termination of a reasonable reimbursement methodology shall have broad...
• California Government Code Section 17558
  (a) The commission shall submit the adopted parameters and guidelines or a reasonable reimbursement methodology approved pursuant to Section 17557.2 to the Controller. As used...
• California Government Code Section 17558.5
  (a) A reimbursement claim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district pursuant to this chapter is subject to the initiation of...
• California Government Code Section 17558.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Commission on State Mandates review its process by which local agencies may appeal the reduction of...
• California Government Code Section 17558.7
  (a) If the Controller reduces a claim approved by the commission, the claimant may file with the commission an incorrect reduction claim pursuant to regulations...
• California Government Code Section 17558.8
  (a) The commission may, on its own initiative, consolidate incorrect reduction claims filed with the commission by different claimants under the same mandate if all...
• California Government Code Section 17559
  (a) The commission may order a reconsideration of all or part of a test claim or incorrect reduction claim on petition of any party. The...
• California Government Code Section 17560
  Reimbursement for state-mandated costs may be claimed as follows: (a) A local agency or school district may, by February 15 following the fiscal year in...
• California Government Code Section 17561
  (a) The state shall reimburse each local agency and school district for all "costs mandated by the state," as defined in Section 17514 and for...
• California Government Code Section 17561.5
  The payment of an initial reimbursement claim by the Controller shall include accrued interest at the Pooled Money Investment Account rate, if the payment is...
• California Government Code Section 17561.6
  A budget act item or appropriation pursuant to this part for reimbursement of claims shall include an amount necessary to reimburse any interest due pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 17562
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the increasing revenue constraints on state and local government and the increasing costs of financing state-mandated local...
• California Government Code Section 17563
  Any funds received by a local agency or school district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for any public purpose.
• California Government Code Section 17564
  (a) No claim shall be made pursuant to Sections 17551, 17561, or 17573, nor shall any payment be made on claims submitted pursuant to Sections...
• California Government Code Section 17565
  If a local agency or a school district, at its option, has been incurring costs which are subsequently mandated by the state, the state shall...
• California Government Code Section 17567
  In the event that the amount appropriated for reimbursement purposes pursuant to Section 17561 is not sufficient to pay all of the claims approved by...
• California Government Code Section 17568
  If a local agency or school district submits an otherwise valid reimbursement claim to the Controller after the deadline specified in Section 17560, the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 17570
  (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Mandates law" means published court decisions arising from state mandate determinations by the...
• California Government Code Section 17570.1
  As part of its review and consideration pursuant to Sections 17581 and 17581.5, the Legislature may, by statute, request that the Department of Finance consider...
• California Government Code Section 17571
  The commission, upon request of a local agency or school district, shall review the claiming instructions issued by the Controller or any other authorized state...
• California Government Code Section 17572
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Early settlement of mandate claims will allow the commission to focus its efforts on rendering...
• California Government Code Section 17573
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17551, the Department of Finance and a local agency, school district, or statewide association may jointly request of the chairpersons of the...
• California Government Code Section 17574
  (a) A local agency or school district agrees to the following terms and conditions when it accepts reimbursement for a legislatively determined mandate pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 17574.5
  The determination of a legislatively determined mandate pursuant to Section 17573 shall not be binding on the commission when making its determination pursuant to subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 17554
  With the agreement of all parties to the claim, the commission may waive the application of any procedural requirement imposed by this chapter or pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 17555
  (a) Not later than 30 days after hearing and deciding upon a test claim pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 17551, and determining the amount...
• California Government Code Section 17556
  The commission shall not find costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514, in any claim submitted by a local agency or school...
• California Government Code Section 17557
  (a) If the commission determines there are costs mandated by the state pursuant to Section 17551, it shall determine the amount to be subvened to...
• California Government Code Section 17557.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, within 30 days of the commission's adoption of a statement of decision on a test claim, the...
• California Government Code Section 17557.2
  (a) A reasonable reimbursement methodology developed pursuant to Section 17557.1 or a joint request for early termination of a reasonable reimbursement methodology shall have broad...
• California Government Code Section 17558
  (a) The commission shall submit the adopted parameters and guidelines or a reasonable reimbursement methodology approved pursuant to Section 17557.2 to the Controller. As used...
• California Government Code Section 17558.5
  (a) A reimbursement claim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district pursuant to this chapter is subject to the initiation of...
• California Government Code Section 17558.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Commission on State Mandates review its process by which local agencies may appeal the reduction of...
• California Government Code Section 17558.7
  (a) If the Controller reduces a claim approved by the commission, the claimant may file with the commission an incorrect reduction claim pursuant to regulations...
• California Government Code Section 17558.8
  (a) The commission may, on its own initiative, consolidate incorrect reduction claims filed with the commission by different claimants under the same mandate if all...
• California Government Code Section 17559
  (a) The commission may order a reconsideration of all or part of a test claim or incorrect reduction claim on petition of any party. The...
• California Government Code Section 17560
  Reimbursement for state-mandated costs may be claimed as follows: (a) A local agency or school district may, by February 15 following the fiscal year in...
• California Government Code Section 17561
  (a) The state shall reimburse each local agency and school district for all "costs mandated by the state," as defined in Section 17514 and for...
• California Government Code Section 17561.5
  The payment of an initial reimbursement claim by the Controller shall include accrued interest at the Pooled Money Investment Account rate, if the payment is...
• California Government Code Section 17561.6
  A budget act item or appropriation pursuant to this part for reimbursement of claims shall include an amount necessary to reimburse any interest due pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 17562
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the increasing revenue constraints on state and local government and the increasing costs of financing state-mandated local...
• California Government Code Section 17563
  Any funds received by a local agency or school district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for any public purpose.
• California Government Code Section 17564
  (a) No claim shall be made pursuant to Sections 17551, 17561, or 17573, nor shall any payment be made on claims submitted pursuant to Sections...
• California Government Code Section 17565
  If a local agency or a school district, at its option, has been incurring costs which are subsequently mandated by the state, the state shall...
• California Government Code Section 17567
  In the event that the amount appropriated for reimbursement purposes pursuant to Section 17561 is not sufficient to pay all of the claims approved by...
• California Government Code Section 17568
  If a local agency or school district submits an otherwise valid reimbursement claim to the Controller after the deadline specified in Section 17560, the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 17570
  (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Mandates law" means published court decisions arising from state mandate determinations by the...
• California Government Code Section 17570.1
  As part of its review and consideration pursuant to Sections 17581 and 17581.5, the Legislature may, by statute, request that the Department of Finance consider...
• California Government Code Section 17571
  The commission, upon request of a local agency or school district, shall review the claiming instructions issued by the Controller or any other authorized state...
• California Government Code Section 17575
  When a bill is introduced in the Legislature, and each time a bill is amended, on and after January 1, 1985, the Legislative Counsel shall...
• California Government Code Section 17576
  Whenever the Legislative Counsel determines that a bill will mandate a new program or higher level of service pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII...
• California Government Code Section 17577
  The estimate required by Section 17576 shall be the amount estimated to be required during the first fiscal year of a bill's operation in order...
• California Government Code Section 17578
  In the event that a bill is amended on the floor of either house, whether by adoption of the report of a conference committee or...
• California Government Code Section 17579
  Any bill introduced or amended for which the Legislative Counsel has determined the bill will mandate a new program or higher level of service pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 17581
  (a) No local agency shall be required to implement or give effect to any statute or executive order, or portion thereof, during any fiscal year...
• California Government Code Section 17581.5
  (a) A school district or community college district shall not be required to implement or give effect to the statutes, or a portion of the...
• California Government Code Section 17600
  (a) At least twice each calendar year the commission shall report to the Legislature on the number of mandates it has found pursuant to Article...
• California Government Code Section 17601
  The commission shall report to the Legislature on January 15, 1986, and each January 15 thereafter, on the number of claims it denied during the...
• California Government Code Section 17602
  On or before January 15, 2007, and on or before each January 15 thereafter, the commission shall report to the Legislature the number of individual...
• California Government Code Section 17612
  (a) Upon receipt of the report submitted by the commission pursuant to Section 17600, except as provided in Section 13823.95 of the Penal Code, funding...
• California Government Code Section 17613
  (a) The Director of Finance may, upon receipt of any report submitted pursuant to Section 17567, authorize the augmentation of the amount available for expenditure...
• California Government Code Section 17615
  The Legislature finds and declares that the existing system for reimbursing local agencies and school districts for actual costs mandated by the state on an...
• California Government Code Section 17615.1
  The commission shall establish a procedure for reviewing, upon request, mandated cost programs for which appropriations have been made by the Legislature for the 1982-83,...
• California Government Code Section 17615.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17561, after November 30, 1985, for those programs included in the State Mandates Apportionment System, after approval by the commission, there shall...
• California Government Code Section 17615.3
  Notwithstanding Section 17561, by November 30, 1986, and by November 30 of each year thereafter, for those programs included in the State Mandates Apportionment System,...
• California Government Code Section 17615.4
  (a) When a new mandate imposes costs that are funded either by legislation or in local government claims bills, local agencies and school districts may...
• California Government Code Section 17615.5
  (a) If any local agency or school district has an established base year entitlement which does not include costs for a particular mandate, that local...
• California Government Code Section 17615.6
  If a local agency or school district realizes a decrease in the amount of costs incurred because a mandate is discontinued, or made permissive, the...
• California Government Code Section 17615.7
  If a mandated program included in the State Mandates Apportionment System is modified or amended by the Legislature or by executive order, and the modification...
• California Government Code Section 17615.8
  (a) The commission shall establish a procedure for reviewing, upon request, any apportionment or base year entitlement of a local agency or school district. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 17615.9
  The commission shall periodically review programs funded under the State Mandate Apportionments System to evaluate the effectiveness or continued statewide need for each such mandate.
• California Government Code Section 17616
  The Controller shall have the authority to do either or both of the following: (a) Audit the fiscal years comprising the base year entitlement no...
• California Government Code Section 17617
  The total amount due to each city, county, city and county, and special district, for which the state has determined that reimbursement is required under...
• California Government Code Section 17630
  Except for Article 5, the provisions of this part shall be applicable to claims for state reimbursement of costs mandated by the state on and...
• California Government Code Section 17700
  (a) The state or any state board, department, agency, or authority, including, but not limited to, the State Public Works Board, may bring an action...
• California Government Code Section 18000
  The salary fixed by law for each state officer, elective or appointive, is compensation in full for that office and for all services rendered in...
• California Government Code Section 18000.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 18000 and 19990, any officer or employee of the state may receive for his or her personal use compensation from any nonprofit...
• California Government Code Section 18001
  Every employee has the right to inspect personnel records pursuant to Section 1198.5 of the Labor Code.
• California Government Code Section 18003
  The Controller may, prior to the close of any pay roll period, draw his warrant in favor of any officer or employee covering the total...
• California Government Code Section 18004
  (a) Any report, study, audit, evaluation, survey, or similar document prepared by any state officer or state agency, which discloses any change in the numbers...
• California Government Code Section 18150
  The oath required by this chapter is the oath set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California.
• California Government Code Section 18150.5
  If the provisions of this chapter are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 18151
  The oath required by this chapter shall be taken and subscribed by: (a) Every person who is appointed to a State position not in the...
• California Government Code Section 18152
  The method and manner of taking, subscribing, and filing the oath by a person appointed to a State position not in the State civil service...
• California Government Code Section 18153
  The oath shall be taken by a state civil service employee before his appointing power or before any person authorized in writing by his appointing...
• California Government Code Section 18154
  Any person who is appointed to a State position not in the State civil service and who fails to take the oath required by this...
• California Government Code Section 18155
  The failure of any person who is appointed to a permanent position in the State civil service to take and subscribe the oath within the...
• California Government Code Section 18156
  Each civil service employee who takes, subscribes and files the oath within the time prescribed by Section 18151 is conclusively presumed to have been and...
• California Government Code Section 18157
  Every appointing power shall notify every new civil service employee immediately following his appointment of the provisions of this chapter that are applicable to the
• California Government Code Section 18158
  No fee shall be charged by any person before whom the oath is taken and subscribed.
• California Government Code Section 18200
  A person shall not be knowingly employed by any state agency or court who either directly or indirectly carries on, advocates, teaches, justifies, aids, or...
• California Government Code Section 18210
  The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this chapter is to establish basic minimum procedural requirements for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of...
• California Government Code Section 18211
  Regulations adopted by the State Personnel Board are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division...
• California Government Code Section 18212
  For the purposes of this chapter, "regulation" means every rule, regulation, order, or standard of general application adopted or amended by the board to implement,...
• California Government Code Section 18213
  A regulation concerning the following may be adopted without public notice or comment: (a) Selection and examinations. However, all of these rules shall be reasonably...
• California Government Code Section 18214
  (a) The procedures set forth in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to the adoption of a regulation concerning all matters not specified in...
• California Government Code Section 18215
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), regulations concerning the following shall be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340)...
• California Government Code Section 18216
  Regulations concerning contracting out shall be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3).
• California Government Code Section 18220
  (a) State agencies, when hiring for internships and student assistant positions, shall give preference to qualified applicants who are, or have been, dependent children in...
• California Government Code Section 18500
  It is the purpose of this part: (a) To facilitate the operation of Article VII of the Constitution. (b) To promote and increase economy and...
• California Government Code Section 18520
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this part and the rules adopted hereunder.
• California Government Code Section 18521
  "Board" means the agency created by Section 2 of Article VII of the Constitution and includes the "State Personnel Board" provided in Section 2(a) and...
• California Government Code Section 18522
  "Position" means any office or employment in the "state civil service" as the phrase is defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution....
• California Government Code Section 18523
  "Class" means a group of positions sufficiently similar with respect to duties and responsibilities that the same title may reasonably and fairly be used to...
• California Government Code Section 18524
  "Appointing power" means a person or group having authority to make appointments to positions in the State civil service.
• California Government Code Section 18525
  "Appointment" means the offer to and acceptance by a person of a position in the State civil service in accordance with this part.
• California Government Code Section 18525.1
  "Promotion" means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a higher salary range, unless the appointment is by transfer,...
• California Government Code Section 18525.2
  "Demotion" means the appointment of an employee to a position in a different class with a lower salary range, as provided by Section 19253 if...
• California Government Code Section 18525.3
  "Transfer" means both of the following: (a) The appointment of an employee to another position in the same class but under another appointing power. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 18526
  "Employee" means a person legally holding a position in the State civil service.
• California Government Code Section 18527
  "Probationer" means an employee who has probationary status. "Probationary status" means the status of an employee who has been certified and appointed from an employment...
• California Government Code Section 18528
  "Permanent employee" means an employee who has permanent status. "Permanent status" means the status of an employee who is lawfully retained in his position after...
• California Government Code Section 18529
  "Temporary employee" means an employee holding a position under temporary appointment. "Temporary appointment" means an appointment made in the absence of any appropriate employment list...
• California Government Code Section 18530
  "Limited term employee" means an employee whose appointment as a result of reinstatement or certification from an employment list shall not exceed two years, as...
• California Government Code Section 18531
  "Emergency employee" means an employee holding a position under emergency appointment. "Emergency appointment" means an appointment made for a period not to exceed 60 working...
• California Government Code Section 18532
  "Eligible list" means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and are eligible for certification for a specific class....
• California Government Code Section 18532.1
  "Preferred limited term list" means a list of persons who have served under limited-term appointment and who, in accordance with board rule, are granted eligiblity...
• California Government Code Section 18532.2
  "Departmental eligible list" means a list of persons who have been examined in an open competitive examination and who are eligible for certification for a...
• California Government Code Section 18533
  (a) "Subdivisional promotional list" means a list of persons eligible for certification for a specific class resulting from a promotional examination for a particular subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 18534
  "General reemployment list" means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in any State agency, irrespective of the State agency...
• California Government Code Section 18535
  "Departmental reemployment list" means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular State agency.
• California Government Code Section 18536
  "Subdivisional reemployment list" means a list established for the reemployment of persons in a particular class in a particular subdivision of a State agency.
• California Government Code Section 18537
  "Employment list" means preferred limited-term list, limited-term list, eligible list, departmental eligible list, subdivisional promotional list, departmental promotional list, multidepartmental promotional list, servicewide promotional list,...
• California Government Code Section 18538
  "Part" means this part and those portions of Part 1 that confer powers or impose duties on the board.
• California Government Code Section 18538.1
  The board may provide by rule the instances in which "month" or "calendar month" as used in this part shall be construed as calendar month,...
• California Government Code Section 18540
  "Armed forces" means the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Revenue Marine Service, and the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. Active...
• California Government Code Section 18540.1
  "National emergency" as used in this part means any period in which the United States is at war prior to the declaration by the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 18540.2
  "State military emergency," as used in this part, means an emergency declared and terminable by the Governor by proclamation during, but not limited to, such...
• California Government Code Section 18540.3
  "Recognized military service" means full-time service by a person in the armed forces during the national emergency or a state military emergency.
• California Government Code Section 18540.4
  "Veteran" means: Any person who has served full time in the armed forces in time of national emergency or state military emergency or during any...
• California Government Code Section 18541
  "Disabled veteran" means any veteran as defined in Section 18540.4 who is currently declared by the United States Veterans Administration to be 10 percent or...
• California Government Code Section 18542
  "Rehabilitation" as used within this part shall mean a restoration of veterans declared to be 10 per cent or more disabled, either physically or mentally.
• California Government Code Section 18543
  "Military leave" means the leave of absence status of a permanent employee or probationer who leaves a position to serve in the armed forces of...
• California Government Code Section 18544
  "Duration employment" means an employment during time of war or during an emergency in connection with the national defense, which employment is subject to termination...
• California Government Code Section 18545
  "Duration examination" means an open competitive examination, or promotional examination, held for the express purpose of providing a list of persons available for duration employment....
• California Government Code Section 18546
  (a) "Career executive" means an employee appointed from an employment list established for the express purpose of providing a list of persons with permanent status...
• California Government Code Section 18546
  (a) "Career executive" means an employee appointed from an employment list established for the express purpose of providing a list of persons with permanent status...
• California Government Code Section 18547
  "Career executive assignment" means an appointment to a high administrative and policy influencing position within the state civil service in which the incumbent's primary responsibility...
• California Government Code Section 18550
  A "full-time" position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work the amount of time required for the employee...
• California Government Code Section 18551
  A "part-time" position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work a specific fraction of the full-time work schedule.
• California Government Code Section 18552
  An "intermittent" position or appointment is a position or appointment in which the employee is to work periodically or for a fluctuating portion of the...
• California Government Code Section 18570
  This part shall be known as the State Civil Service Act.
• California Government Code Section 18571
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 18572
  Whenever a power is granted or a duty imposed upon an appointing power, the power may be exercised or the duty performed by a deputy...
• California Government Code Section 18573
  Each appointing power shall report promptly to the board such information as the board may require in connection with each appointment, separation from service, or...
• California Government Code Section 18574
  All officers and employees of the State and any county, city, district, or other subdivision of the State recognized by law shall aid in all...
• California Government Code Section 18575
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), service by mail of any notice, paper, or document to be served upon a person...
• California Government Code Section 18576
  Judicial notice shall be taken of board rules and amendments.
• California Government Code Section 18577
  Whenever this part refers to "board rule," "rules of the board," or makes similar reference, such reference authorizes the board to make rules concerning the...
• California Government Code Section 18590
  This part does not prohibit any state agency which is authorized by law to contract for such services from contracting with an independent contractor for...
• California Government Code Section 18591
  The "state civil service" includes state officers and employees, appointed or employed by or under the Adult Authority or the Director of Corrections, and who...
• California Government Code Section 18592
  The "state civil service" shall include all fire protection personnel employed at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Los Alamitos.
• California Government Code Section 18596
  The "state civil service" shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of Pupil Personnel Services in the Division of Instruction of the...
• California Government Code Section 18596.5
  The "state civil service" shall include all vocational education personnel appointed or employed in the State Department of Education, who are now excluded because they...
• California Government Code Section 18597
  The "state civil service" shall include all teachers who have been employed for a period of six months at the Orientation Center for the Blind...
• California Government Code Section 18599
  The "state civil service" shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of National Defense Education Act Administration of the Department of Education....
• California Government Code Section 18650
  The annual salary of each member of the board is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3....
• California Government Code Section 18651
  The board may appoint and fix the compensation of a secretary and such other personnel as is necessary to carry out and perform the powers,...
• California Government Code Section 18652
  The board shall secure such suitable and convenient offices, examination rooms and accommodations throughout the State as may be required for the public convenience and...
• California Government Code Section 18653
  The board shall meet in Sacramento as often as the needs of the public service may require and in such other places as it may...
• California Government Code Section 18654
  The intention of the Legislature is hereby declared to be that the executive officer shall perform and discharge under the direction and control of the...
• California Government Code Section 18654.5
  The executive officer shall administer the civil service statutes under rules of the board, subject to the right of appeal to the board.
• California Government Code Section 18655
  When any person selected to assist in examinations or to serve as an authorized representative or referee of the board is employed by the State...
• California Government Code Section 18656
  The Attorney General shall render such opinions to and represent the board or any member in such matters as may be requested by the board...
• California Government Code Section 18670
  (a) The board may hold hearings and make investigations concerning all matters relating to the enforcement and effect of this part and rules prescribed under...
• California Government Code Section 18671
  Such hearings and investigations may be conducted by the board, any member, or any authorized representative of the board. Any authorized person conducting such hearing...
• California Government Code Section 18671.1
  (a) If a hearing or investigation is conducted by the board or its authorized representative in regard to an appeal by an employee, the hearing...
• California Government Code Section 18671.2
  (a) The total cost to the state of maintaining and operating the hearing office of the board shall be determined by the board, in advance...
• California Government Code Section 18672
  (a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be issued for attendance at a hearing and for production of documents at any reasonable time and place....
• California Government Code Section 18672.1
  (a) A person served with a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may object to its terms by a motion for a protective order, including...
• California Government Code Section 18673
  If a witness does not reside within 100 miles of the place where the hearing or investigation is held, is out of the state or...
• California Government Code Section 18674
  Witnesses at a hearing or investigation are entitled to the same fees as are allowed witnesses in civil cases in courts of record. An officer...
• California Government Code Section 18675
  (a) All hearings and investigations authorized by this part shall be governed by this part and by rules of practice and procedure adopted by the...
• California Government Code Section 18676
  When ordered to do so, a witness shall not be excused from testifying or from producing any documentary evidence in that investigation or hearing upon...
• California Government Code Section 18677
  A person who claims and is granted immunity prior to testimony or the production of books or papers, shall not be prosecuted, punished, or subjected...
• California Government Code Section 18678
  Any person served with a subpena to appear and testify or to produce books or papers issued in the course of any such investigation or...
• California Government Code Section 18679
  The board and any person authorized by it to conduct a hearing or investigation is the head of a department within the meaning of Article...
• California Government Code Section 18680
  The remedy provided in Sections 11186 to 11188 inclusive is cumulative, and does not impair or interfere with either the power of the board or...
• California Government Code Section 18681
  Whenever any matter is pending before the Personnel Board involving a dispute between one or more employees and an appointing power and the parties to...
• California Government Code Section 18682
  Whenever any employee, department, or other person, actively interested in a matter before the Personnel Board and in connection with which it is holding a...
• California Government Code Section 18683
  (a) Whenever any employee, department, or other person actively interested in a matter before the board and for which a hearing will be or has...
• California Government Code Section 18701
  The board shall prescribe, amend, and repeal rules in accordance with law for the administration and enforcement of this part and other sections of this...
• California Government Code Section 18702
  The board shall create and adjust classes of positions in the state civil service in accordance with Article VII of the Constitution and this part.
• California Government Code Section 18703
  The board shall provide for dismissals, demotions, suspensions, and other adverse action for or in the state civil service in accordance with Article VII of...
• California Government Code Section 18706
  The board may make agreements with personnel agencies in other jurisdictions, political subdivisions, and State agencies excepted from the State civil service.
• California Government Code Section 18707
  The board may enter into agreements to make available its services and facilities upon request, to any county, city, district or other subdivision of the...
• California Government Code Section 18708
  The board shall cooperate with the Director of Finance, the Department of Personnel Administration, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, the Controller, and...
• California Government Code Section 18710
  All orders and decisions of the board made pursuant to Article VII of the California Constitution or this part shall be obeyed by and are...
• California Government Code Section 18711
  The board may join associations of personnel agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of personnel administration.
• California Government Code Section 18714
  (a) Nothing in this part shall preclude the Department of Personnel Administration from providing by rule for a system of adjusting employee grievances which shall...
• California Government Code Section 18717
  (a) The board shall develop objective criteria for determining the application of the state safety category of membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System to...
• California Government Code Section 18720
  It is the purpose of this article to ensure that the employment procedures of each state agency conform to the federal and state laws governing...
• California Government Code Section 18720.1
  The State Personnel Board shall be responsible for the collection and review of all employment forms used by state agencies for civil service employment and...
• California Government Code Section 18720.2
  The Department of Fair Employment and Housing shall collect and review all other forms used by state agencies for employment, and occupational licensing and registration,...
• California Government Code Section 18720.3
  Each state agency is responsible for ensuring that the employment application forms, and occupational licensing and registration forms, used by the agency conform to federal...
• California Government Code Section 18720.4
  State agencies shall exhaust existing supplies of forms which conform with federal and state law before using any new form approved by the State Personnel...
• California Government Code Section 18720.5
  A violation of this article shall constitute an unlawful employment practice which is subject to the enforcement provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing...
• California Government Code Section 18800
  The board shall create and adjust classes of positions in the State civil service. The classes adopted by the board, shall be known as the...
• California Government Code Section 18801.1
  The Department of Personnel Administration shall designate managerial positions, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 3513, and shall report those designations to the board...
• California Government Code Section 18802
  From time to time as it deems necessary, the board may establish additional classes and divide, combine, alter, or abolish existing classes. In establishing, altering,...
• California Government Code Section 18804
  Upon the reallocation of a position, other than by action of the board under Section 18802, the incumbent of the position shall not thereby gain...
• California Government Code Section 18806
  The classification title or a code symbol approved by the board shall be used in all communications relating to personnel and in all budget and...
• California Government Code Section 18807
  (a) The board, by resolution, shall define the term "salary step" for the purpose of administering civil service laws and rules that control movement of...
• California Government Code Section 18900
  (a) Eligible lists shall be established as a result of free competitive examinations open to persons who lawfully may be appointed to any position within...
• California Government Code Section 18900.5
  For purposes of this chapter, "designated appointing power" means an appointing power designated by the executive officer pursuant to Section 18654.
• California Government Code Section 18900.6
  (a) The board may authorize the use of skills-based certification for information technology classifications if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) There is...
• California Government Code Section 18901
  (a) The board may remove all names from open and promotional eligible lists after they have remained thereon for more than one year from the...
• California Government Code Section 18901.5
  Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 18901, the board may authorize the retention of eligibles on an employment list for an indefinite period of time based...
• California Government Code Section 18902
  The board may divide the state into districts and departments and establish district eligible lists and departmental eligible lists therefor. A person on an eligible...
• California Government Code Section 18903
  (a) For each class there shall be maintained a general reemployment list consisting of the names of all persons who have occupied positions with probationary...
• California Government Code Section 18904
  For each class there shall be maintained a separate departmental reemployment list within a given state agency, which shall consist of the names of persons...
• California Government Code Section 18905
  The order in which names appear on reemployment lists shall be determined by the relative order of the scores determined as for layoff in accordance...
• California Government Code Section 18906
  Any name, after a period of five consecutive years, shall be removed from the re-employment lists for the class unless the period is extended by...
• California Government Code Section 18930
  Examinations for the establishment of eligible lists shall be competitive and of such character as fairly to test and determine the qualifications, fitness, and ability...
• California Government Code Section 18930.5
  The board may designate an appointing power to design, announce, or administer examinations for the establishment of employment lists in accordance with Section 18654 and...
• California Government Code Section 18931
  The board shall establish minimum qualifications for determining the fitness and qualifications of employees for each class of position; for temporary appointments, and for applicants...
• California Government Code Section 18932
  The board shall not establish any minimum or maximum age limits for any civil service examination, except in the cases of positions involving public health...
• California Government Code Section 18933
  Within a reasonable time before the scheduled date, the board or a designated appointing power shall announce or advertise examinations for the establishment of eligible...
• California Government Code Section 18934
  Every applicant for examination shall file a formal signed application in the office of the board or a designated appointing power within a reasonable length...
• California Government Code Section 18935
  The board may refuse to examine or, after examination, may refuse to declare as eligible or may withhold or withdraw from certification, prior to appointment,...
• California Government Code Section 18936
  The final earned rating of each person competing in any examination shall be determined by the weighted average of the earned ratings on all phases...
• California Government Code Section 18937
  The passing mark for an examination may be other than the true percentage or average published as a part of the announcement of the examination,...
• California Government Code Section 18938
  The board or a designated appointing power may issue certificates of competence to candidates who are successful in certain phases of examinations involving a particular...
• California Government Code Section 18938.5
  When the employment list resulting from examination has been established, each competitor shall be notified in writing of the results of the examination. For competitors...
• California Government Code Section 18938.6
  The board shall provide by rule for the inspection of examination papers for all written test competitors.
• California Government Code Section 18939
  For classes of positions for which the board or a designated appointing power finds it difficult to maintain adequate eligible lists it may receive applications,...
• California Government Code Section 18940
  (a) When an examination is scheduled to be given during the period from sundown on a Friday until sundown on the following day, and it...
• California Government Code Section 18941
  (a) For purposes of this section, "Section 211" means the board regulation restricting a dismissed employee from taking civil service examinations, provided for pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 18950
  Vacancies in positions shall be filled insofar as consistent with the best interests of the state from among employees holding positions in appropriate classes, and...
• California Government Code Section 18950.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, full-time employees of the state who are exempt from state civil service pursuant to the provisions of Section...
• California Government Code Section 18951
  The board and each state agency and employee shall encourage economy and efficiency in and devotion to state service by encouraging promotional advancement of employees...
• California Government Code Section 18951.5
  (a) In an examination held on an open, nonpromotional basis under Section 18950, a competitor who has served at least one full year in, or...
• California Government Code Section 18952
  Any employee who feels aggrieved at any action taken by any superior or fellow employee in discouraging or in any manner hindering or preventing him...
• California Government Code Section 18954
  In any promotional examinations for positions in the California Highway Patrol, there shall be allowed to each competitor an additional credit for merit, efficiency and...
• California Government Code Section 18955
  Examinations for those classes designated as supervisory level peace officers in the Department of Corrections and Youth Authority, with respect to those peace officers enumerated...
• California Government Code Section 18971
  In the case of entrance examinations to establish eligible lists for policemen and watchmen, veterans who become eligible for appointment by attaining the passing mark...
• California Government Code Section 18972
  For specific State services or employments as determined by the board, it may in examination allow general or individual preference in ratings to veterans who...
• California Government Code Section 18973
  Except as provided in Section 18978, in the case of all other entrance examinations, veterans and widows or widowers of veterans who become eligible for...
• California Government Code Section 18973.1
  (a) Except as provided in Section 18978, and in addition to the veterans' credits set forth in Section 18973, in the case of all other...
• California Government Code Section 18973.5
  (a) For purposes of Sections 18973, 18973.1, and 18978, an entrance examination is any open competitive examination other than one for a class having a...
• California Government Code Section 18974
  Such credit shall be added to the percentage attained in the examination by the veteran, widow or widower. The name of each shall be placed...
• California Government Code Section 18974.5
  Any member of the Armed Forces who successfully passes any state civil service examination and whose name as a result is placed on an employment...
• California Government Code Section 18975
  In any examinations to establish employment lists in which credits are allowed for experience, periods of service in the recognized military service shall be counted...
• California Government Code Section 18976
  Request for and proof of eligibility for veterans' preference credits shall be submitted by the veteran to the department conducting the employment examination. The procedures...
• California Government Code Section 18977
  Where experience is required as a minimum qualification for any civil service examination, a person, who is or has been on military leave from a...
• California Government Code Section 18978
  (a) For any entrance examination held on an open, nonpromotional basis pursuant to Section 18950, a veteran who becomes eligible for certification from eligible lists...
• California Government Code Section 18979
  (a) In making appointments to positions performing the duties of disabled veterans' outreach program representatives in the disabled veterans' outreach program or successor program of...
• California Government Code Section 18990
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons employed by the Legislature for two or more consecutive years shall be eligible to apply...
• California Government Code Section 18990
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons employed by the Legislature for two or more consecutive years shall be eligible to apply...
• California Government Code Section 18991
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons retired from the United States military, honorably discharged from active military duty with a service-connected disability, or...
• California Government Code Section 18992
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons holding, for two or more consecutive years, nonelected exempt positions in the executive branch of...
• California Government Code Section 18992
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule, persons holding, for two or more consecutive years, nonelected exempt positions in the executive branch of...
• California Government Code Section 18993
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a legislative or nonelected exempt executive branch employee who is appointed to a career executive assignment pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 19050
  The appointing power in all cases not excepted or exempted by virtue of Article VII of the Constitution shall fill positions by appointment, including cases...
• California Government Code Section 19050.2
  Subject to the approval of the board, the appointing authority may enter into arrangements with personnel agencies in other jurisdictions for the purpose of exchanging...
• California Government Code Section 19050.3
  Transfer of an employee from a position under one appointing power to a position under another appointing power may be made, subject to board rule.
• California Government Code Section 19050.4
  A transfer, as defined in Section 18525.3, may be accomplished without examination. The board may require an employee to demonstrate in an examination that he...
• California Government Code Section 19050.5
  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6, an appointing power may transfer any employee under his or her jurisdiction to another position in a different class designated as appropriate...
• California Government Code Section 19050.7
  Whenever any position is changed by the adoption of new, different or additional machines or processes while the purpose or product is the same or...
• California Government Code Section 19050.8
  The board may prescribe rules governing the temporary assignment or loan of employees within an agency or between agencies for not to exceed two years...
• California Government Code Section 19050.9
  Whenever a function or the administration of a law is transferred from one state agency to another state agency, all persons serving in the state...
• California Government Code Section 19051
  No person shall be appointed under a class not appropriate to the duties to be performed.
• California Government Code Section 19052
  Whenever a vacancy in any position is to be filled and not by transfer, demotion, or reinstatement, the appointing power shall submit to the board,...
• California Government Code Section 19054
  Except as provided in Section 19054.1, the order of preference in certifying eligibles shall be: subdivisional reemployment list, departmental reemployment list, general reemployment list, subdivisional...
• California Government Code Section 19054.1
  When an examination for a managerial position is conducted on an open and promotional basis, the names of eligibles shall be placed on one list,...
• California Government Code Section 19055
  The board may by rule provide for certification of names from appropriate employment lists of the same or higher level in the event an employment...
• California Government Code Section 19056
  If the appointment is to be made from a departmental reemployment list or subdivisional reemployment list, unless either one is used as an appropriate employment...
• California Government Code Section 19056.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision in this part, if the appointment is to be made from a general reemployment list, the names of the three persons...
• California Government Code Section 19057
  Except as provided in Section 19056, there shall be certified to the appointing power the names and addresses of the three persons standing highest on...
• California Government Code Section 19057.1
  Notwithstanding Section 19057, for positions in classes designated by the board as professional, scientific, or administrative, or for any open employment list, there shall be...
• California Government Code Section 19057.2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 19057, for positions in classes designated by the board as management, there shall be certified to the appointing power the...
• California Government Code Section 19057.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 19057, for a position in the Department of Corrections, there shall be certified to the appointing power the names and addresses of...
• California Government Code Section 19057.4
  Notwithstanding Section 19057, for positions in classes which are designated by the board as supervisory and not professional, scientific, or administrative, and are not examined...
• California Government Code Section 19058
  When there is no employment list from which a position may be filled, the appointing power, with the consent of the board, may fill the...
• California Government Code Section 19059
  A person who does not possess the minimum qualifications for the class to which the position belongs shall not be appointed under a temporary appointment....
• California Government Code Section 19061
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person appointed to a trade-rate apprentice class in the Office of State Printing shall be appointed to the...
• California Government Code Section 19062
  If there are no vacancies in the appropriate journeyman trade-rate class, the employee completing an apprenticeship under Section 19061 shall be afforded the opportunity to...
• California Government Code Section 19062.3
  An employee holding a full- or part-time appointment shall be entitled to the amount of employment specified at the time of the appointment, subject to...
• California Government Code Section 19062.5
  The board may establish rules specifying minimum service and eligibility requirements governing movement of employees between full-time, part-time, and intermittent positions.
• California Government Code Section 19063
  (a) Any person receiving state public assistance under the CalWORKs program (Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division...
• California Government Code Section 19063.1
  Each state agency that intends to establish qualified hiring pools, as defined by the State Personnel Board, for seasonal or entry level nontesting class employment...
• California Government Code Section 19063.2
  Each state agency that has an open seasonal or entry level nontesting class position, but does not have a qualified hiring pool, shall notify the...
• California Government Code Section 19063.3
  This article may be waived by the Governor, if requested to do so by the state agency involved, in order to address an emergency which...
• California Government Code Section 19063.4
  If no public assistance recipient applies for a opening within the time limits established by this article, the state agency may fill the opening with...
• California Government Code Section 19063.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, participation in a seasonal or entry level nontesting class vacancy by a public assistance recipient shall be voluntary only,...
• California Government Code Section 19063.8
  Any seasonal or entry level nontesting classifications specifically designed to support a program to train students, as determined by the board, to the extent that...
• California Government Code Section 19080
  Whenever an appointing power requires the appointment of a person on a limited term basis, the request for certification shall state the duration of the
• California Government Code Section 19080.3
  Limited term appointments shall be made only for temporary staffing needs and shall not individually or consecutively exceed one year, provided that the board may...
• California Government Code Section 19080.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 19080.3, a limited term appointment for a period not to exceed two years may be made to professional education classifications established for...
• California Government Code Section 19081
  Eligibles shall be certified in accordance with their position on the appropriate employment list and their willingness to accept appointment to such position as "limited...
• California Government Code Section 19082
  The board by rule may provide for the establishment, maintenance, and use of preferred limited-term lists.
• California Government Code Section 19083
  Limited-term employees shall be subject to such conditions affecting appointment, status, tenure and separation during and after employment as the board by rule determines, including...
• California Government Code Section 19100.5
  Whenever the appointing power requires the appointment of a person to a position requiring the performance of work on an intermittent or irregular time basis,...
• California Government Code Section 19101
  The board may by rule provide for establishment of employment lists from which intermittent appointments may be made. Eligibles shall be certified in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 19130
  The purpose of this article is to establish standards for the use of personal services contracts. (a) Personal services contracting is permissible to achieve cost...
• California Government Code Section 19131
  Any state agency proposing to execute a contract pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 19130 shall notify the State Personnel Board of its intention. All...
• California Government Code Section 19132
  The State Personnel Board, at the request of an employee organization that represents state employees, shall review the adequacy of any proposed or executed contract...
• California Government Code Section 19133
  (a) Any state agency may enter into an agreement with any public or private institution of higher education in California, nonprofit campus foundation, or state...
• California Government Code Section 19134
  (a) Personal services contracts entered into by a state agency in accordance with Section 19130 for persons providing janitorial and housekeeping services, custodians, food service...
• California Government Code Section 19135
  (a) If a contract is disapproved by action of the board or its delegate, a state agency shall immediately discontinue that contract unless ordered otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 19140
  (a) In addition to reinstatement required under any other section, an appointing power may, in his or her discretion, reinstate any person having probationary or...
• California Government Code Section 19140.5
  This section applies only to a permanent employee, or an employee who previously had permanent status and who, since receiving permanent status, has had no...
• California Government Code Section 19141
  (a) This section applies only to a permanent employee, or an employee who previously had permanent status and who, since that permanent status, has had...
• California Government Code Section 19141.1
  (a) This section applies only to a permanent employee, or an employee who previously had permanent status, and who has a reinstatement right pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 19142
  (a) Every person accepts and holds a position in the state civil service subject to mandatory reinstatement of another person. (b) Upon reinstatement of a...
• California Government Code Section 19143
  At the termination of any temporary separation, except termination of a permanent or probationary employee by layoff and termination by displacement, as defined in board...
• California Government Code Section 19144
  Subject to Sections 21223 and 21224, a person who has retired from state civil service may be employed temporarily in a civil service position at...
• California Government Code Section 19170
  (a) The board shall establish for each class the length of the probationary period. The probationary period that shall be served upon appointment shall be...
• California Government Code Section 19171
  The service of a probationary period is required under the following circumstances: (a) when an employee enters or is promoted in the state civil service...
• California Government Code Section 19172
  During the probationary period the appointing power or his or her officially delegated representative shall evaluate the work and efficiency of a probationer in the...
• California Government Code Section 19173
  (a) Any probationer may be rejected by the appointing power during the probationary period for reasons relating to the probationer's qualifications, the good of the...
• California Government Code Section 19175
  The board at the written request of a rejected probationer, filed within 15 calendar days of the effective date of rejection, may investigate with or...
• California Government Code Section 19175.1
  The board, upon the written request of a probationer who has been rejected for medical reasons only, may restore the name of the rejected probationer...
• California Government Code Section 19175.2
  The board, upon the written request of a probationer who has been rejected after appointment from a general re-employment list, shall restore the name of...
• California Government Code Section 19175.5
  Subject to board rule an appointing power may cancel or withdraw a notice of rejection of a probationer.
• California Government Code Section 19180
  If the board restores a rejected probationer to his position it shall direct the payment of salary to the employee for such period of time...
• California Government Code Section 19200
  Whenever the United States is engaged in war or whenever the board finds that an emergency exists in connection with the national defense, the board...
• California Government Code Section 19230
  The Legislature hereby declares that: (a) It is the policy of this state to encourage and enable individuals with a disability to participate fully in...
• California Government Code Section 19231
  As used in this article, "individual with a disability" means any individual who has a physical or mental disability as defined in Section 12926.
• California Government Code Section 19232
  Each state agency shall be responsible for establishing an effective affirmative action program to ensure individuals with a disability, who are capable of remunerative employment,...
• California Government Code Section 19233
  The State Personnel Board shall be responsible for the following: (a) Outline specific actions to improve the representation of individuals with a disability in the...
• California Government Code Section 19234
  Each state agency shall annually review its hiring activities designed to achieve the employment objectives established pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 19233 to determine...
• California Government Code Section 19236
  The State Personnel Board shall provide technical assistance, statewide advocacy, coordination, and monitoring of plans to overcome any underrepresentation determined pursuant to Section 19234.
• California Government Code Section 19237
  On or before November 15 of each year, beginning in 1978, the State Personnel Board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the...
• California Government Code Section 19240
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall be responsible for the Limited Examination and Appointment Program. This program shall provide an alternative to the traditional civil...
• California Government Code Section 19241
  The board shall establish rules and procedures for the implementation of this chapter, which may provide for the establishment of eligibility criteria for participation, special...
• California Government Code Section 19242
  The board or its designee shall conduct competitive examinations to determine the qualifications and readiness of persons with disabilities for state employment. The examinations may...
• California Government Code Section 19242.1
  An appointment to a position for the purpose of completing a job performance evaluation shall be known as an examination appointment.
• California Government Code Section 19242.2
  The board or its designee shall refer the names of persons with disabilities who meet eligibility criteria for participation and the minimum qualifications of the...
• California Government Code Section 19242.4
  All examination appointments to positions under the Limited Examination and Appointment Program shall be made on a temporary and provisional basis to allow candidates to...
• California Government Code Section 19242.6
  Candidates serving in positions under the Limited Examination and Appointment Program shall not acquire permanent civil service status but shall receive the same salary and...
• California Government Code Section 19242.8
  The board or its designee shall develop evaluation standards which are appropriate tests of fitness for the job classification. During the job examination period, the...
• California Government Code Section 19242.9
  Upon failure of the appointing power to terminate the appointment of the candidate within 30 days following the end of the job examination period, it...
• California Government Code Section 19243
  Upon successful completion of the job examination period, the candidate shall have qualified in the examination. With the approval of the board, the appointing power...
• California Government Code Section 19243.2
  With the approval of the board, the appointing power may shorten or extend the duration of the job examination period.
• California Government Code Section 19243.4
  Upon unsuccessful completion of the job examination period, the appointing power may terminate the appointment of the candidate in accordance with board rule.
• California Government Code Section 19244
  Applicants for and candidates in the Limited Examination and Appointment Program examination process may appeal in accordance with board rule any of the following actions:...
• California Government Code Section 19251.5
  All state employees and employees of the University of California and the California State University shall have the right to communicate with Members and employees...
• California Government Code Section 19253
  Subject to approval by the board an appointing power with the concurrence or at the request of an employee may request the voluntary demotion of...
• California Government Code Section 19253.5
  (a) In accordance with board rule, the appointing power may require an employee to submit to a medical examination by a physician or physicians designated...
• California Government Code Section 19257
  Any person acting in good faith in accepting an appointment or employment contrary to this part or the rules prescribed hereunder, shall be paid by...
• California Government Code Section 19257.5
  Where the appointment of an employee has been made and accepted in good faith, but where such appointment would not have been made but for...
• California Government Code Section 19261
  (a) The Department of Personnel Administration may establish standards of health and safety in state agencies and may develop a comprehensive health and safety program...
• California Government Code Section 19400
  It is the intent of this article to aid the implementation of affirmative action programs in state agencies and departments by creating an effective upward...
• California Government Code Section 19401
  All departments and agencies of state government shall establish an effective program of upward mobility for employees in low paying occupational groups, as defined by...
• California Government Code Section 19402
  All upward mobility programs shall include annual goals that include the number of employees expected to progress from positions in low paying occupational groups to...
• California Government Code Section 19403
  The State Personnel Board shall, in cooperation with departments, establish bridging classifications and career ladders to provide upward mobility from jobs in low paying occupations...
• California Government Code Section 19405
  The State Personnel Board shall annually submit a report to the Legislature on the performance of each department and agency in state government in meeting...
• California Government Code Section 19406
  The State Personnel Board shall prepare written guidelines for implementation of the upward mobility program described in this article within six months from the effective...
• California Government Code Section 19570
  As used in this article "adverse action" means dismissal, demotion, suspension, or other disciplinary action. This article shall not apply to any adverse action affecting...
• California Government Code Section 19571
  In conformity with this article and the board rule, adverse action may be taken against any employee, or person whose name appears on any employment...
• California Government Code Section 19572
  Each of the following constitutes cause for discipline of an employee, or of a person whose name appears on any employment list: (a) Fraud in...
• California Government Code Section 19574
  (a) The appointing power, or its authorized representative, may take adverse action against an employee for one or more of the causes for discipline specified...
• California Government Code Section 19574.1
  (a) An employee who has been served with notice of adverse action, or a representative designated by the employee, shall have the right to inspect...
• California Government Code Section 19574.2
  (a) Any party claiming that his or her request for discovery pursuant to Section 19574.1 has not been complied with may serve and file a...
• California Government Code Section 19574.5
  Pending investigation by the appointing power of accusations against an employee involving misappropriation of public funds or property, drug addiction, mistreatment of persons in a...
• California Government Code Section 19575
  The employee has 30 calendar days after the effective date of the adverse action to file with the board a written answer to the notice...
• California Government Code Section 19575.5
  At any time before an employee's appeal is submitted to the board or its authorized representative for decision, the appointing power may with the consent...
• California Government Code Section 19576
  Whenever an answer is filed by an employee who has been suspended without pay for five days or less, or who has received a formal...
• California Government Code Section 19576.1
  Effective January 1, 1996, notwithstanding Section 19576, this section shall apply only to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5. Whenever an answer is filed...
• California Government Code Section 19578
  Except as provided in Section 19576, whenever an answer is filed to an adverse action, the board or its authorized representative shall within a reasonable...
• California Government Code Section 19579
  Failure of either party (the employee, the employer, or their representatives) to proceed at the hearing shall be deemed a withdrawal of the action or...
• California Government Code Section 19580
  Either by deposition or at the hearing the employee may be examined and may examine or cause any person to be examined under Section 776...
• California Government Code Section 19581
  The board or its authorized representative shall issue subpenas for witnesses for the employee upon his written request and at his cost. The board or...
• California Government Code Section 19581.5
  Prior to the scheduling of a contested adverse action or rejection on probation for hearing, the board may require or any party may request a...
• California Government Code Section 19582
  (a) Hearings may be held by the board, or by any authorized representative, but the board shall render the decision that in its judgment is...
• California Government Code Section 19582.5
  The board may designate certain of its decisions as precedents. Decisions of the board are subject to Section 11425.60. The board may provide by rule...
• California Government Code Section 19582.51
  Effective January 1, 1996, notwithstanding Section 19582.5, this section shall only apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5. The board may designate certain...
• California Government Code Section 19583
  The board shall render a decision within a reasonable time after the hearing or investigation. The adverse action taken by the appointing power shall stand...
• California Government Code Section 19583.1
  Dismissal of an employee from the service shall, unless otherwise ordered by the board: (a) Constitute a dismissal as of the same date from any...
• California Government Code Section 19583.5
  (a) Any person, except for a current ward of the Division of Juvenile Facilities, a current inmate of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or...
• California Government Code Section 19583.51
  (a) Effective January 1, 1996, notwithstanding Section 19583.5, this section shall only apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5. Any person, except for...
• California Government Code Section 19584
  Whenever the board revokes or modifies an adverse action and orders that the employee be returned to his or her position, it shall direct the...
• California Government Code Section 19585
  (a) This section shall apply to permanent and probationary employees and may be used in lieu of adverse action and rejection during probation when the...
• California Government Code Section 19586
  Within 30 days after the day a copy of the decision rendered by the board in a proceeding under this article is served by the...
• California Government Code Section 19587
  If the petition for rehearing is granted, the matter shall be set down for rehearing by the board or its authorized representative. If the matter...
• California Government Code Section 19588
  The right to petition a court for writ of mandate, or to bring or maintain any action or proceeding based on or related to any...
• California Government Code Section 19589
  Letters of reprimand shall be removed from the personnel file of the state employee and destroyed not later than three years from the date the...
• California Government Code Section 19590
  Notwithstanding Article 1 (commencing with Section 19570), persons who have been designated as managerial employees under Section 3513 from the beginning of their current appointment,...
• California Government Code Section 19590.5
  Notwithstanding Section 19590, a managerial employee who, without a subsequent break in service due to a permanent separation, has previously served with permanent status in...
• California Government Code Section 19591
  Any employee demoted pursuant to Section 19590 shall, as specified by Section 19140.5, have the right to be reinstated to his or her former civil...
• California Government Code Section 19592
  When action is taken under this article, the provisions of this article and related board rule shall constitute the entire disciplinary action and review process,...
• California Government Code Section 19592.2
  Pending investigation by the appointing power of accusations against an employee involving any of the causes for discipline specified in Section 19572, the appointing power...
• California Government Code Section 19592.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, when a demotion action is taken against a managerial employee who was hired from outside of state civil service...
• California Government Code Section 19593
  This article shall not apply to managerial appointments that took effect prior to January 1, 1984, or in subsequent appointments, except that it shall apply...
• California Government Code Section 19600
  The board may, directly or through agreement or contract with one or more agencies and other public and private organizations, conduct and evaluate demonstration projects....
• California Government Code Section 19600.1
  "Demonstration project" means a project conducted by the State Personnel Board, or under its supervision, to determine whether a specified change in personnel management policies...
• California Government Code Section 19601
  No demonstration project may provide for a waiver of any provision of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 19680).
• California Government Code Section 19602
  Before conducting or entering into any agreement or contract to conduct a demonstration project, the board shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a...
• California Government Code Section 19602.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 18900, 18901, 18930, 18930.5, 18931, 18933, 18936, 18937, 18938.5, 18939, 18950, 19050, 19052, 19054, 19054.1, 19057, 19057.1, 19057.2, 19057.4, 19081, or 19101,...
• California Government Code Section 19602.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 18900, 18901, 18930, 18930.5, 18931, 18933, 18938.5, 18950, 19050, 19054.1, or 19057.2, or any other law, but consistent with the merit principles...
• California Government Code Section 19603
  Each demonstration project shall terminate before the end of the five-year period beginning on the date on which the project takes effect, except that the...
• California Government Code Section 19604
  Employees within a unit with respect to which a labor organization is accorded exclusive recognition shall not be included in any demonstration project unless there...
• California Government Code Section 19605
  (a) Supervisory employees, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 3513, shall not be included within any demonstration project unless there are written agreements with...
• California Government Code Section 19606
  The board shall provide for an evaluation of the results of each demonstration project and its impact on improving public management. All agencies shall cooperate...
• California Government Code Section 19607
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall affect any rights of employees included within demonstration projects, except those rights directly pertaining to the subject matter of...
• California Government Code Section 19608
  Any demonstration project implemented under this chapter shall not include the adoption or waiver of regulations or statutes that are administered or enforced by the...
• California Government Code Section 19608
  Any demonstration project implemented under this chapter shall not include the adoption or waiver of regulations or statutes that are administered or enforced by the...
• California Government Code Section 19609
  (a) For a demonstration project made permanent pursuant to legislation operative on or after January 1, 2008, a department participating in the demonstration project shall...
• California Government Code Section 19630
  No action or proceeding shall be brought by any person having or claiming to have a cause of action or complaint or ground for issuance...
• California Government Code Section 19631
  The time for filing or commencing any such action or proceeding does not run during any time that the matter involved, including layoff appeals, is...
• California Government Code Section 19632
  Process directed to any officer or employee, or the board or its members, in any action or proceeding arising under this part shall be served...
• California Government Code Section 19633
  In any proceeding brought pursuant to Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure for the purpose of inquiring into the validity of any final...
• California Government Code Section 19635
  No adverse action shall be valid against any state employee for any cause for discipline based on any civil service law of this state, unless...
• California Government Code Section 19680
  It is unlawful for any person: (a) Wilfully by himself or in cooperation with another person to defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person with respect...
• California Government Code Section 19681
  It is unlawful for any person: (a) To practice any deception or fraud with regard to his identity in connection with any examination, application, or...
• California Government Code Section 19682
  Every person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. In accordance with Section 19683, action may be taken by the...
• California Government Code Section 19683
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall initiate a hearing or investigation of a written complaint of reprisal or retaliation as prohibited by Section 8547.3 within...
• California Government Code Section 19683.1
  The State Personnel Board shall assist the State Auditor in preparing the written explanation required by Section 8548.1 by providing the State Auditor with a...
• California Government Code Section 19683.5
  If a state employee is successful in an action brought pursuant to Section 19683, the complaining employee shall be reimbursed for all costs incurred pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 19700
  The board, its executive officer, or any appointing power shall not adopt any rule, either written or unwritten, prohibiting the employment of any person in...
• California Government Code Section 19701
  A person shall not be discriminated against under this part because of total or partial blindness unless normal eyesight is absolutely indispensable to do the...
• California Government Code Section 19702
  (a) A person shall not be discriminated against under this part on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940, as those bases are...
• California Government Code Section 19702.1
  Hiring and promotion pursuant to this part shall conform to the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• California Government Code Section 19702.2
  Educational prerequisites or testing or evaluation methods which are not job-related shall not be employed as part of hiring practices or promotional practices conducted pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 19702.3
  (a) An appointing authority shall not refuse to hire, and shall not discharge, suspend, expel, or discriminate against, any individual because of any of the...
• California Government Code Section 19702.5
  (a) The board shall provide to the Fair Employment and Housing Commission a copy of each affirmative action plan, and all subsequent amendments of such...
• California Government Code Section 19703
  A recommendation, question, or inquiry under this part shall not relate to the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any person, and an appointment...
• California Government Code Section 19704
  (a) It is unlawful to require, permit, or suffer any notation or entry to be made upon or in any application, examination paper, or other...
• California Government Code Section 19705
  Notwithstanding Section 19704, the State Personnel Board may, after public hearing, adopt a system in which applicants for employment in the state civil service shall...
• California Government Code Section 19706
  It is unlawful to require or permit any notation or entry to be made upon or in any state civil service application form for examination...
• California Government Code Section 19760
  It is unlawful for any State officer or employee to draw, sign, issue, or authorize the drawing, signing, or issuing of any warrant or check...
• California Government Code Section 19762
  No salary, compensation, or other emolument shall be paid to any person appointed to or retained in any position in violation of this part. Any...
• California Government Code Section 19763
  If the board notifies an officer or employee that any position has been filled in violation of this part or board rule, demands for the...
• California Government Code Section 19764
  Every person who makes a payment of salary, compensation or other emolument to any person holding a position in the State civil service in violation...
• California Government Code Section 19765
  All money recovered in such an action, when collected, shall be paid into the State treasury except that the prevailing party in such an action...
• California Government Code Section 19770
  (a) With the exception of Chapter 7.5 (commencing with Section 400) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Military and Veterans Code, this part,...
• California Government Code Section 19771
  (a) Upon presentation of a copy of orders for active duty in the Armed Forces, the National Guard, or the Naval Militia, the appointing power...
• California Government Code Section 19772
  "Short-term military leave" means a leave for six months or less. "Long-term military leave" means a leave of over six months.
• California Government Code Section 19773
  The appointing power shall grant a military leave of absence to an employee who is a member of the National Guard for the period of...
• California Government Code Section 19774
  (a) Employee members of reserve military units and the National Guard required to attend scheduled reserve drill periods or perform other inactive duty reserve obligations...
• California Government Code Section 19775
  An employee who is granted a long-term military leave of absence and who for a period of not less than one year immediately prior to...
• California Government Code Section 19775.1
  An employee who is granted a short-term military leave of absence for active military duty, but not for inactive duty, including, but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 19775.15
  (a) In addition to the benefits provided pursuant to Sections 19775 and 19775.1, an employee who, as a member of the California National Guard or...
• California Government Code Section 19775.16
  (a) In addition to the benefits provided pursuant to Sections 19775 and 19775.1, an employee who, as a member of the California National Guard or...
• California Government Code Section 19775.17
  (a) In addition to the benefits provided pursuant to Sections 19775 and 19775.1, a state employee who, as a member of the California National Guard...
• California Government Code Section 19775.18
  (a) In addition to the benefits provided pursuant to Sections 19775 and 19775.1, a state employee who, as a member of the California National Guard...
• California Government Code Section 19775.2
  (a) Pay under the provisions of Sections 19775 and 19775.1, excluding emergency military leave pay provisions, shall not exceed 30 calendar days in any one...
• California Government Code Section 19775.2
  (a) Pay under the provisions of Sections 19775 and 19775.1, excluding emergency military leave pay provisions, shall not exceed 30 calendar days in any one...
• California Government Code Section 19775.3
  An employee who meets the conditions under Sections 19775 or 19775.1, or who is granted an emergency military leave shall receive the same vacation, sick...
• California Government Code Section 19775.4
  Except as provided in Section 19781, a person in recognized military service whose name was high enough on an employment list to be available for...
• California Government Code Section 19775.5
  Any person in recognized military service, whose name appears on a promotional list, or general reemployment list, appointment from which would accord permanent status, and...
• California Government Code Section 19775.6
  Time spent on military leave, including rehabilitation afforded by the United States or the state following recognized military service by any person having an absolute...
• California Government Code Section 19775.7
  Whenever a state employee is certified for appointment to a higher position by a department before entering military service and the department has requested his...
• California Government Code Section 19775.8
  Except as provided in Section 19781, when any person successfully completes part of an open or promotional examination but is unable to complete all portions...
• California Government Code Section 19775.9
  An individual on military leave from either a state civil service position held under duration appointment, a position held under an exempt appointment but included...
• California Government Code Section 19776
  If a promotional examination was held while an employee was on military leave that he or she would otherwise have been entitled to take, the...
• California Government Code Section 19780
  Except as provided in Section 19781, a permanent, probationary, or exempt employee who begins active duty within 90 calendar days from the effective date of...
• California Government Code Section 19782
  A limited-term employee or temporary employee who begins active duty within 10 days from the effective date of his or her military leave and who...
• California Government Code Section 19783
  A permanent, probationary, or exempt employee who resigns from state service for the purpose of entering the recognized military service and begins active duty and...
• California Government Code Section 19784
  Upon reinstatement of a person under the provisions of Sections 19780 and 19783, any necessary separations shall be effected under the provisions of this part...
• California Government Code Section 19785
  A civil service employee who is entitled to reinstatement under Section 19780 or 19782 shall be considered as a person serving in state civil service...
• California Government Code Section 19786
  (a) When a civil service employee has been reinstated after military service in accordance with Section 19780, and any question arises relative to his or...
• California Government Code Section 19790
  Each state agency is responsible for establishing an effective equal employment opportunity program. The State Personnel Board shall be responsible for taking all steps necessary...
• California Government Code Section 19791
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Equal employment opportunity" mean ensuring nondiscrimination and providing equal access to state jobs, work assignments,...
• California Government Code Section 19792
  The State Personnel Board shall do all of the following: (a) Provide statewide leadership, designed to achieve equal employment opportunity in the state civil service....
• California Government Code Section 19792.5
  (a) In order to permit the public to track upward mobility and the impact of equal opportunities on persons, categorized by race, ethnicity, gender, and...
• California Government Code Section 19793
  By November 15 of each year, the State Personnel Board shall submit to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Department of Finance a census report...
• California Government Code Section 19794
  In cooperation with the State Personnel Board, the appointing power of each state agency shall have the major responsibility for monitoring the effectiveness of the...
• California Government Code Section 19795
  (a) The appointing power of each state agency and the director of each state department shall appoint, at the managerial level, an equal employment opportunity...
• California Government Code Section 19796
  Bureau or division chiefs within a state agency shall be accountable to the appointing power for the effectiveness and results of the equal employment opportunity...
• California Government Code Section 19797
  Each state agency shall develop, update annually, and implement an equal employment opportunity plan which shall, at a minimum, identify the areas of significant underutilization...
• California Government Code Section 19798
  In establishing order and subdivisions of layoff and reemployment, the board, when it finds past discriminatory hiring practices, may authorize modification of the order of...
• California Government Code Section 19798.5
  State departments, agencies, and the State Personnel Board shall continue to carry out their respective duties required by Sections 19230 to 19237, inclusive, with respect...
• California Government Code Section 19799
  When any state agency conducts any survey as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of state civil service employees, or maintains any statistical tabulation of...
• California Government Code Section 19800
  The State Personnel Board is hereby vested with the jurisdiction and responsibility of establishing and maintaining personnel standards on a merit basis and administering merit...
• California Government Code Section 19801
  For the purposes of administration of state or federally supported programs under Section 19800, the State Personnel Board shall, by regulation, establish and maintain personnel...
• California Government Code Section 19802
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any local agency from establishing its own merit system and determining thereunder the personnel standards to be applicable to...
• California Government Code Section 19802.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 19801 and 19803, and after the State Personnel Board approves the memorandum of understanding standards, the State Personnel Board may...
• California Government Code Section 19803
  The merit system for employees engaged in administering programs under Section 19800 in a local agency not administering its own merit system approved under this...
• California Government Code Section 19804
  In the exercise of functions under this chapter, the board shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office and compensation of...
• California Government Code Section 19805
  The board shall by regulation, establish and administer procedures, including provisions for investigations and hearings, to determine whether a particular merit system is in conformity...
• California Government Code Section 19806
  When the board, after hearing, determines that a local merit system is not in conformity with the established standards, it shall notify such local agency...
• California Government Code Section 19807
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, upon receiving certification of the board, pursuant to Section 19806, the appropriate state officer shall take such action against...
• California Government Code Section 19808
  Local agencies shall provide such information and reports relating to merit system administration as are required by the board.
• California Government Code Section 19809
  State departments having responsibility for the overall administration of grant-in-aid programs under Section 19800 shall reimburse the board for all costs incurred by the board...
• California Government Code Section 19810
  As used in this chapter, "local agency" means any city, county, city and county, district, or other subdivision of the state, or any independent instrumentality
• California Government Code Section 19815
  As used in this part: (a) "Department" means the Department of Personnel Administration. (b) "Director" means the Director of the Department of Personnel Administration. (c)...
• California Government Code Section 19815.2
  There is hereby created the Department of Personnel Administration, for the purposes of managing the nonmerit aspects of the state's personnel system.
• California Government Code Section 19815.3
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at his pleasure, an executive officer who shall be director of the department....
• California Government Code Section 19815.4
  The director shall do all of the following: (a) Be responsible for the management of the department. (b) Administer and enforce the laws pertaining to...
• California Government Code Section 19815.41
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 19815.4, this section shall apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5, 6, or 8. (b) The director...
• California Government Code Section 19815.5
  Subject to the State Civil Service Act, the director shall appoint such other assistants and other employees as are necessary for the administration of the...
• California Government Code Section 19815.6
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 11042 and 11043, the chief counsel shall represent the department in all legal matters in which the department is...
• California Government Code Section 19815.8
  (a) No action or proceeding shall be brought by any person having or claiming to have a cause of action or complaint or ground for...
• California Government Code Section 19816
  (a) Except as provided by Section 19816.2, the department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State...
• California Government Code Section 19816.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, regulations and other provisions pertaining to the layoff or demotion in lieu of layoff of civil service employees...
• California Government Code Section 19816.4
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property real or personal held...
• California Government Code Section 19816.6
  All officers and employees of the State Personnel Board, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, the Department of General Services, and the Department...
• California Government Code Section 19816.8
  The department may expend, in accordance with law, all moneys made available for its use or for the administration of any statute administered by it.
• California Government Code Section 19816.10
  (a) In order to secure substantial justice and equality among employees in the state civil service, the department may provide by rule for days, hours...
• California Government Code Section 19816.12
  The department shall establish and maintain in suitable form an official roster of all persons holding positions under this part and enter thereupon their names,...
• California Government Code Section 19816.14
  The department, with the concurrence of the Department of Finance, shall provide for such audit and certification of payrolls as it deems necessary to insure...
• California Government Code Section 19816.16
  The department shall implement the State Employee Assistance Program established by Executive Order B96-82 and may enter into one or more contracts to provide problem...
• California Government Code Section 19816.17
  The department may enter into contracts for the provision of legally authorized employee benefits not requiring voluntary participation or payroll deductions. Where these contracts are...
• California Government Code Section 19816.18
  (a) The department may either self-fund or self-insure any benefit program under its administration when it is cost-effective to do so. The department may administer...
• California Government Code Section 19816.20
  Notwithstanding Section 18717, this section shall apply to state employees in state bargaining units that have agreed to these provisions in a memorandum of understanding...
• California Government Code Section 19816.21
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 18717 and 19816.20, effective July 1, 2004, the following officers and employees, who are in the following classifications or positions on or...
• California Government Code Section 19816.22
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in providing funds for the Human Resources Modernization Project, within the Department of Personnel Administration's budget, to...
• California Government Code Section 19817.10
  (a) This article shall apply only to employees in state bargaining units who have agreed to this article in a memorandum of understanding. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 19818
  Subject to Article VII of the California Constitution, the department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the...
• California Government Code Section 19818.2
  The department shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property, real or personal, held...
• California Government Code Section 19818.4
  All officers and employees of the State Personnel Board, who, on the effective date of this article, are serving in the state civil service, other...
• California Government Code Section 19818.6
  The department shall administer the Personnel Classification Plan of the State of California including the allocation of every position to the appropriate class in the...
• California Government Code Section 19818.8
  (a) A person shall not be assigned to perform the duties of any class other than that to which his or her position is allocated,...
• California Government Code Section 19818.10
  The department shall assess the adequacy of the Personnel Classification Plan and, as needed, recommend changes in the plan to the State Personnel Board. The...
• California Government Code Section 19818.12
  Positions in the state service shall be established by the appointing power as authorized by law subject to budgetary authorization and the availability of funds....
• California Government Code Section 19818.14
  The department may designate an appointing power to allocate positions to the Personnel Classification Plan in accordance with Section 19818.6 and department rule. The department...
• California Government Code Section 19818.16
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 905.2, 19818.8, and 19823, the department shall have the authority to review employee claims for additional reimbursement for the performance of duties...
• California Government Code Section 19818.18
  Upon the allowance of the department of all or part of an employee claim for additional reimbursement for the performance of duties outside the scope...
• California Government Code Section 19818.20
  (a) Reasonable opportunity to appeal shall be provided by the department to any employee affected by the allocation or reallocation of his or her position....
• California Government Code Section 19818.21
  When the Legislature, in the Budget Act, authorizes a specified number of positions in a specified class in a specified agency, the department shall approve...
• California Government Code Section 19819.5
  There is in the Department of Personnel Administration, the Division of Labor Relations.
• California Government Code Section 19819.6
  The Governor shall appoint a deputy director from a list of nominees submitted by the director. This deputy director shall be in addition to the...
• California Government Code Section 19819.7
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, it shall be the function of the division to represent the Governor regarding all the relevant provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 19820
  The director shall adopt general rules and regulations doing all of the following: (a) Limiting the amount, time, and place of expenses and allowances to...
• California Government Code Section 19822
  (a) The director, by rule, shall determine the fair and reasonable value of maintenance, living quarters, housing, lodging, board, meals, food, household supplies, fuel, laundry,...
• California Government Code Section 19822.3
  (a) All state agencies shall implement and use the California Automated Travel Expense Reimbursement System (CalATERS) to automate processing of employee travel claims by July...
• California Government Code Section 19822.5
  The department shall by rule authorize such expenditures as are reasonably necessary for the meals, lodging, or travel of persons who provide nonsalaried assistance to...
• California Government Code Section 19822.6
  There is hereby established a Child Care Fund to which funds shall be allocated from the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for employee...
• California Government Code Section 19822.7
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Work and Family Fund to which funds shall be allocated from the amount negotiated in...
• California Government Code Section 19823
  (a) The department may make awards to current or retired state employees who do any of the following: (1) Propose procedures or ideas which hereafter...
• California Government Code Section 19824
  (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, the salaries of state officers shall be paid monthly out of the General Fund. (b) If the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 19825
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever any state agency is authorized by special or general statute to fix the salary or compensation of...
• California Government Code Section 19825.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 11550, 11552, and 11554, the department shall set and adjust, as needed, the annual compensation of the officers and employees listed in...
• California Government Code Section 19826
  (a) The department shall establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in the state civil service subject to any merit limits contained...
• California Government Code Section 19826.5
  Whenever the department finds that pay data was furnished to the department on the basis that the source remain confidential, the source shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 19827
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in order to recruit and retain the highest qualified employees, the state shall pay...
• California Government Code Section 19827.1
  (a) The state recognizes the historic problem of recruitment and retention of peace officers in the Department of Corrections and the Department of Youth Authority....
• California Government Code Section 19827.2
  (a) The Legislature, having recognized December 1980 statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, finds: that 60 percent of all women 18 to 64 are...
• California Government Code Section 19827.3
  In order for the state to recruit skilled firefighters for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, it is the policy of the state...
• California Government Code Section 19827.5
  (a) There is allocated from the salary or wage paid to a member of the clergy, in an amount up to 50 percent of the...
• California Government Code Section 19828
  (a) Reasonable opportunity to be heard shall be provided by the department to any employee affected by a change in the salary range for the...
• California Government Code Section 19829
  (a) Salary ranges shall consist of minimum and maximum salary limits. The department shall provide for intermediate steps within these limits to govern the extent...
• California Government Code Section 19829.5
  (a) The Department of Personnel Administration shall provide a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 3517.5 to the Legislative Analyst who shall have 10 calendar...
• California Government Code Section 19829.6
  The Department of Personnel Administration shall post, in a clear and conspicuous manner on the department's Web site, each memorandum of understanding that has been...
• California Government Code Section 19829.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2010-11 fiscal year, if the Budget Act of 2010 is not enacted by July 1, 2010, for the memoranda...
• California Government Code Section 19829.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2010-11 fiscal year, if the Budget Act of 2010 is not enacted by July 1, 2010, for the memoranda...
• California Government Code Section 19829.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2011-12 fiscal year, if the 2011-12 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2011, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2011-12 fiscal year, if the 2011-12 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2011, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2012-13 fiscal year, if the 2012-13 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2012, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2012-13 fiscal year, if the 2012-13 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2012, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.95
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, solely for the effective period of the following memoranda of understanding, and not including a date beyond the expiration date of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.95
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, solely for the effective period of the following memoranda of understanding, and not including a date beyond the expiration date of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.96
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2011-12 fiscal year, if the 2011-12 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2011, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.97
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2012-13 fiscal year, if the 2012-13 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2012, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19829.98
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2013-14 fiscal year, if the 2013-14 Budget Act is not enacted by July 1, 2013, for the memoranda of...
• California Government Code Section 19830
  (a) The minimum and maximum salary limits for laborers, workers, and mechanics employed on an hourly or per diem basis need not be uniform throughout...
• California Government Code Section 19831
  (a) The department may authorize payments into a private fund to provide health and welfare benefits to nonpermanent employees in classes compensated in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 19832
  (a) After completion of the first year in a position, each employee shall receive a merit salary adjustment equivalent to one of the intermediate steps...
• California Government Code Section 19833
  (a) When the compensation of an employee is established at a fixed amount per unit of work with a maximum limit for his or her...
• California Government Code Section 19834
  (a) Automatic salary adjustments shall be made for employees in the state civil service in accordance with this chapter and department rule adopted pursuant hereto,...
• California Government Code Section 19835
  (a) The right of an employee to automatic salary adjustments is cumulative for a period not to exceed two years and he or she shall...
• California Government Code Section 19835.5
  In submitting budgetary requirements to the Director of Finance, each appointing power shall carefully estimate and call attention to the need for money sufficient to...
• California Government Code Section 19836
  (a) The department may authorize payment at any step above the minimum salary limit to classes or positions in order to meet recruiting problems, to...
• California Government Code Section 19837
  (a) Employees in a class shall receive a salary within the limits established for that class; provided, that when a position has been allocated to...
• California Government Code Section 19838
  (a) When the state determines an overpayment has been made to an employee, it shall notify the employee of the overpayment and afford the employee...
• California Government Code Section 19839
  (a) Upon separation from service without fault on his or her part, a person is entitled to a lump-sum payment as of the time of...
• California Government Code Section 19839.5
  Unless in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, every department shall calculate and forward to the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 19840
  (a) Any time off to which an employee is entitled by reason of overtime worked prior to June 9, 1948, may be compensated by a...
• California Government Code Section 19841
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11030, whenever a state officer or employee is required by the appointing power because of a change in assignment, promotion, or other...
• California Government Code Section 19842
  (a) For the purpose of facilitating either the recruitment of professional and technically trained persons to fill positions for which there is a shortage of...
• California Government Code Section 19842.5
  For persons employed on an intermittent or irregular time base, the vacation and sick leave privileges, salary, and other conditions of employment governed by this...
• California Government Code Section 19843
  (a) For each class or position for which a monthly or annual salary range is established by the department, the department shall establish and adjust...
• California Government Code Section 19844
  (a) The department shall provide the extent to which, and establish the method by which, ordered overtime or overtime in times of critical emergency is...
• California Government Code Section 19844.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, personal leave, sick leave, annual leave, vacation, bereavement leave, holiday leave, and any other paid or unpaid leave,...
• California Government Code Section 19844.5
  (a) A state employee who is called into service by the California Emergency Management Agency pursuant to a mission assignment number for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 19844.7
  (a) Pursuant to regulations adopted by the Department of Personnel Administration, and subject to the collective bargaining agreement between the state and the employee's exclusive...
• California Government Code Section 19845
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department is authorized to provide for overtime payments as prescribed by the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
• California Government Code Section 19846
  (a) It is the policy of the state that the normal workweek of permanent employees in fire suppression classes of the Department of Forestry and...
• California Government Code Section 19847
  (a) Every state agency in which there are employees not subject to state civil service shall submit to the department all information necessary for determination...
• California Government Code Section 19848
  (a) The granting of compensating time off in lieu of cash compensation is not prohibited where compensating time off can be granted within 12 calendar...
• California Government Code Section 19849
  (a) The department shall adopt rules governing hours of work and overtime compensation and the keeping of records related thereto, including time and attendance records....
• California Government Code Section 19849.1
  (a) The department may provide by rule for compensation to employees who are required to report back to work after completion of the normal workday,...
• California Government Code Section 19849.2
  Any state agency may, subject to rules and regulations of the department, insure its employees against injury or death incurred while flying on state business...
• California Government Code Section 19849.3
  When a state employee dies while traveling on official state business the state shall, under rules and regulations adopted by the department, pay the approved...
• California Government Code Section 19849.4
  (a) Any state employee when working overtime at his or her headquarters on state business may receive his or her actual and necessary expenses, during...
• California Government Code Section 19849.5
  The headquarters of members of all boards and commissions unless fixed by law, shall be determined and fixed by the department, and the headquarters of...
• California Government Code Section 19849.6
  Any person who vacates a position in the state civil service to accept appointment by the Governor or by the Legislature to a position or...
• California Government Code Section 19849.7
  (a) Each state agency shall at the time of each payment of salary or wages, whether by direct deposit by electronic fund transfer pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 19849.8
  The department in which an employee is employed may pay the cost of replacing or repairing eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures, watches, or articles of clothing...
• California Government Code Section 19849.9
  (a) Any appointing power may present to an employee who has completed 25 or more years of state service a certificate, plaque, or other suitable...
• California Government Code Section 19849.10
  It is the purpose of this article to provide for management compensation incentives to promote increased productivity and efficiency in the management of state services,...
• California Government Code Section 19849.11
  The Department of Personnel Administration, subject to such conditions as it may establish, subject to existing statutes governing health benefits and group term life insurance...
• California Government Code Section 19849.12
  (a) The state may contribute all, part, or none of the cost of benefits purchased pursuant to this article. The remainder of the costs, if...
• California Government Code Section 19849.13
  Notwithstanding Sections 19839, 19858.1, 19858.3, 19858.4, 19859, and 19859.3, the Department of Personnel Administration may provide for vacation, sick leave, annual leave, and bereavement leave...
• California Government Code Section 19849.14
  Effective July 1, 1987, there is hereby established in the State Treasury the Nonrepresented State Employee Long-Term Disability Insurance Fund for the purpose of funding...
• California Government Code Section 19849.15
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 22846, the state employer shall, upon the death of an employee while in state service, continue to pay employer contributions for health,...
• California Government Code Section 19849.16
  Notwithstanding Section 18000, the Department of Personnel Administration may provide by rule for the accumulation and use of paid leave, including a lump-sum payment for...
• California Government Code Section 19849.18
  Supervisors of state employees represented by State Bargaining Unit 5, 6, or 8 shall receive salary and benefits changes that are at least generally equivalent...
• California Government Code Section 19849.22
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) If the state is to attract and retain a competent correction workforce, there is a compelling need...
• California Government Code Section 19850
  As used in this article: (a) "Uniform" means outer garments, excluding shoes, which are required to be worn exclusively while carrying out the duties and...
• California Government Code Section 19850.1
  (a) State employees shall be responsible for the purchase of uniforms required as a condition of employment. The state shall provide for an annual uniform...
• California Government Code Section 19850.2
  Each state employee, including employees having probationary status, employed in a position which is permanent and full time, or employed in a position which is...
• California Government Code Section 19850.3
  To implement the provisions of Sections 19850.1 and 19850.2, the department shall: (a) Establish a procedure to determine what articles are to be included in...
• California Government Code Section 19850.4
  Subject to the availability of funds appropriated specifically for that purpose, each state employee shall be furnished work clothes if: (a) The work clothes are...
• California Government Code Section 19850.5
  (a) The state shall furnish the initial issuance of all safety equipment and police protective equipment required by the employing state agency. All safety equipment...
• California Government Code Section 19850.6
  The state department in which an employee is employed may pay the cost of replacing personal tools or other equipment required in the employee's work...
• California Government Code Section 19850.7
  In addition to other equipment furnished to peace officers within the Department of Corrections and the California Youth Authority, the department and the California Youth...
• California Government Code Section 19851
  (a) It is the policy of the state that the workweek of the state employee shall be 40 hours, and the workday of state employees...
• California Government Code Section 19851.1
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 19851, the Department of Corrections shall establish a standardized overtime cap for correctional officers not to exceed 80 hours per month....
• California Government Code Section 19852
  When the Governor determines that the best interests of the state would be served thereby, the Governor may require that the 40-hour workweek established as...
• California Government Code Section 19853
  (a) All state employees shall be entitled to the following holidays: January 1, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, March 31,...
• California Government Code Section 19853.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 19853, this section shall apply to state employees in State Bargaining Unit 5. (b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), all employees...
• California Government Code Section 19854
  (a) Every employee, upon completion of six months of his or her initial probationary period in state service, shall be entitled to one personal holiday...
• California Government Code Section 19855
  Any state employee who was laid off from the Department of Employment on the 31st day of December 1941 and thereafter entered the employ of...
• California Government Code Section 19856
  (a) The department shall provide by rule for the regulation and accumulation of vacations for civil service employees and may provide for vacations for such...
• California Government Code Section 19856.1
  (a) It shall be within the discretion of the department to define the effect of an absence from the payroll of 10 working days or...
• California Government Code Section 19857
  (a) The appointing power of any officer or employee not a member of the civil service may promulgate regulations governing vacations for these officers or...
• California Government Code Section 19858.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), following completion of six months of continuous service, for each completed calendar month of service, except as provided...
• California Government Code Section 19858.2
  The department may provide by rule for the regulation and accumulation of vacation credits on an hourly basis to conform to the frequency of the...
• California Government Code Section 19858.3
  This article shall apply to all of the following: (a) Employees who are excluded from the definition of "state employee" in subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 19858.4
  In lieu of the sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of...
• California Government Code Section 19858.5
  In lieu of sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivision (d) of Section 19858.3, may participate...
• California Government Code Section 19858.7
  Notwithstanding Section 19839, upon applying for retirement, a person entitled to a lump-sum payment for any unused or accumulated annual leave may elect to take...
• California Government Code Section 19859
  (a) Following completion of one month of continuous service, except as otherwise provided in Section 19863.1, each state officer and employee who is employed full...
• California Government Code Section 19859.3
  (a) Any permanent employee who is either excluded from the definition of state employee in subdivision (c) of Section 3513, or is a nonelected officer...
• California Government Code Section 19860
  The department may provide by rule for the regulation and accumulation of sick leave credits on an hourly basis for all or certain designated employees....
• California Government Code Section 19861
  (a) It shall be within the discretion of the department to define the effect of an absence from the payroll of 10 working days or...
• California Government Code Section 19862
  (a) Sick leave may be accumulated, and no additional sick leave with pay beyond that accumulated shall be granted, except as provided in Section 19863....
• California Government Code Section 19862.1
  (a) The department may provide by rule for crediting to the sick leave account of an employee formerly employed in a state position exempt from...
• California Government Code Section 19863
  (a) Except as provided in Article 4 (commencing with Section 19869), a state officer or employee who is or may be entitled to temporary disability...
• California Government Code Section 19863.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, a state officer or employee who is entitled to temporary disability indemnity or vocational...
• California Government Code Section 19864
  (a) The department may provide by rule for sick leave or annual leave without pay for those employees who have used all sick leave or...
• California Government Code Section 19865
  No state employee who is an inmate or member of any state institution and who is employed on a full or part time basis shall...
• California Government Code Section 19865.1
  When an employee uses sick leave, vacation, annual leave, or any combination of these, because of an injury compensable under the Labor Code, and the...
• California Government Code Section 19866
  (a) The appointing power of any officer or employee not a member of the civil service shall administer the sick leave authorized by this part...
• California Government Code Section 19867
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the interests of the state would be served by the Department of Personnel Administration meeting and conferring with...
• California Government Code Section 19868
  Any employee of the State Department of Health performing functions which, prior to July 1, 1973, were vested in the Department of Mental Hygiene and...
• California Government Code Section 19868.1
  For the purposes of Sections 19859, 19860, 19861, 19862, 19862.1, 19863, 19863.1, 19864, 19865.1, 19866, and 19868, sick leave benefits provided to state employees pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 19868.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever sick leave benefits are provided to state employees pursuant to the state sick leave system,...
• California Government Code Section 19868.3
  Any employee of the State Department of Developmental Services performing functions which, prior to September 9, 1981, were vested in the State Department of Developmental...
• California Government Code Section 19869
  This article applies to state officers and employees who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the State Teachers' Retirement System in compensated...
• California Government Code Section 19870
  As used in this article: (a) "Industrial disability leave" means temporary disability as defined in Divisions 4 (commencing with Section 3201) and 4.5 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 19871
  (a) Except as provided in Section 19871.2, when a state officer or employee is temporarily disabled by illness or injury arising out of and in...
• California Government Code Section 19871.1
  (a) A state officer or employee who is receiving industrial disability leave benefits, shall continue to receive all employee benefits which he or she would...
• California Government Code Section 19871.2
  When an excluded employee is temporarily disabled for more than 22 consecutive working days by an injury or type of injury designated by the director...
• California Government Code Section 19872
  (a) The disabled employee shall not receive temporary disability indemnity or sick leave or annual leave with pay for any period for which he or...
• California Government Code Section 19873
  (a) Division 4.7 (commencing with Section 6200) of the Labor Code shall not apply to employees to which this article applies. (b) If the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 19874
  (a) If the employee continues to be temporarily disabled after termination of benefits under this article, he or she shall be entitled to the benefits...
• California Government Code Section 19875
  (a) If an illness or injury causes temporary disability, the employee shall be placed on industrial disability leave on the fourth calendar day after the...
• California Government Code Section 19876
  (a) Payments shall be contingent on the complete medical certification of the illness or injury including diagnosis and any prognosis of recovery. Further, payments shall...
• California Government Code Section 19876.5
  State employees in state bargaining units 1, 4, 15, 18, and 20 who suffer a job-related injury or illness and become eligible for vocational rehabilitation...
• California Government Code Section 19877
  The department shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this article. The appointing power of any officer or employee not a...
• California Government Code Section 19877.1
  (a) The provisions of this article shall be effective upon the adoption of applicable rules and regulations, but not later than January 1, 1975. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 19878
  As used in this article: (a) "Employee" means any of the following: (1) A permanent or probationary full-time state officer or employee, regardless of period...
• California Government Code Section 19879
  (a) When an employee is disabled, whether temporarily or permanently, the employee shall become entitled, subject to the provisions of this article, to receive nonindustrial...
• California Government Code Section 19879.1
  (a) For the purpose of this section, an eligible employee is an employee defined by Section 19858.3. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article,...
• California Government Code Section 19880
  A disabled employee is eligible to receive nonindustrial disability benefits under this article equal to one-seventh of his or her weekly benefit amount specified in...
• California Government Code Section 19880.1
  (a) A disabled employee shall be eligible to receive nonindustrial disability benefits under this article without being required to use any vacation leave accrued under...
• California Government Code Section 19881
  (a) An employee is not eligible for disability benefits under this article with respect to any period for which the Director of Employment Development finds...
• California Government Code Section 19882
  (a) Except as provided in this section, an individual is not eligible for disability benefits under this article for any day of unemployment and disability...
• California Government Code Section 19883
  (a) Discretionary deductions of the employee, including those for coverage under a state health benefits plan in which the employee is enrolled, shall be deducted...
• California Government Code Section 19884
  (a) Filing, determination, and payment of disability benefit claims under this article shall be made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by Article 4 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 19885
  The department shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this article. The appointing power of any officer or employee of the...
• California Government Code Section 19886
  As used in this article the term "firefighter of the state" or "firefighter" shall be deemed to include a member of a fire department or...
• California Government Code Section 19886.1
  Whenever any firefighter of the state dies or is disabled from performing his or her duties as a firefighter by reason of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 19886.2
  Nothing in this article shall be deemed to: (a) Require the extension of any benefits to a firefighter who at the time of his or...
• California Government Code Section 19887
  (a) The department may establish a clerical pool in any locality where the demand for temporary clerical help warrants it. Such pool shall be established...
• California Government Code Section 19887.1
  (a) Upon a request from any appointing power for temporary help which can be filled from those employed by the department in the clerical pool,...
• California Government Code Section 19887.2
  (a) For all purposes of this part such persons are employees of the department and not of the appointing power to which they are assigned....
• California Government Code Section 19888
  Service under emergency appointment shall be credited for purposes of vacation, sick leave, annual leave, and salary adjustment only if and as provided by department...
• California Government Code Section 19888.1
  The appointing power, to prevent the stoppage of public business when an actual emergency arises, or because the work will be of limited duration, not...
• California Government Code Section 19889
  It is the purpose of this article to encourage the development and effective use in the civil service of well-qualified and carefully selected executives. In...
• California Government Code Section 19889.2
  The provisions of this part governing the selection, classification, and tenure of employees in the regular civil service shall not apply in administering executive personnel...
• California Government Code Section 19889.3
  (a) Eligibility for appointment to positions in the career executive assignment category shall be established as a result of competitive examination of the following persons...
• California Government Code Section 19889.3
  (a) Eligibility for appointment to positions in the career executive assignment category shall be established as a result of competitive examination of persons with permanent...
• California Government Code Section 19889.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who, prior to March 30, 1977, was reinstated to a career executive assignment position, or appointed to...
• California Government Code Section 19889.6
  The department, in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code shall authorize any member of Bargaining Unit 6 to elect to receive one...
• California Government Code Section 19889.7
  The department may charge an administrative fee to annuitants and employees participating in a group legal services plan established through regulation for annuitants, excluded employees,...
• California Government Code Section 19990
  A state officer or employee shall not engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise which is clearly inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to...
• California Government Code Section 19990.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 18000 and 19990, state officers and employees may render services during their office hours, or hours of work for the state, if compensation...
• California Government Code Section 19990.6
  (a) Service on a local appointed or elected governmental board, commission, committee, or other body or as a local elected official by an attorney employed...
• California Government Code Section 19991
  (a) Upon giving two days' notice to his or her immediate superior, any state employee otherwise qualified shall be permitted to take any state civil...
• California Government Code Section 19991.1
  (a) Subject to department rule an appointing power may grant a leave of absence without pay, to any employee under his or her jurisdiction for...
• California Government Code Section 19991.2
  (a) The appointing power may grant to an employee under his or her jurisdiction who has permanent civil service status or a probationer who immediately...
• California Government Code Section 19991.3
  (a) Leaves of absence granted for jury duty may be with or without pay. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with...
• California Government Code Section 19991.4
  Any period of time during which an employee is required to be absent from his or her position by reason of an injury or disease...
• California Government Code Section 19991.5
  (a) The department may permit the Commandant of the Veterans' Home of California to authorize members of the medical staff and medical technicians, to include...
• California Government Code Section 19991.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an appointing power shall grant a leave of absence without pay for the purposes of pregnancy, childbirth or...
• California Government Code Section 19991.7
  (a) For civil service employees employed in positions requiring teaching certification qualifications appointing powers may grant educational leave to attend study sessions at accredited schools,...
• California Government Code Section 19991.8
  During any state military emergency and subject to department rule, an appointing power may grant a leave of absence without pay to a permanent or...
• California Government Code Section 19991.9
  Any permanent state civil service employee or an employee serving under another appointment who previously had permanent status and who, since that permanent status, has...
• California Government Code Section 19991.10
  Where there exists no statutory authority to grant a paid leave of absence, no paid leave of absence shall exceed five working days without prior...
• California Government Code Section 19991.11
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), an appointing power shall grant to an employee, who has exhausted all available sick leave, the following leaves of absence...
• California Government Code Section 19991.13
  (a) At the discretion of the appointing power, excluded employees as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 3527, may transfer eligible leave credits to an...
• California Government Code Section 19991.14
  (a) If a retired state employee dies from a nonwork-related illness or injury within 12 months of retirement, a request may be made to his...
• California Government Code Section 19992
  (a) After consultation with appointing powers and other supervising officials the department shall assist and encourage state agencies to establish standards of performance for each...
• California Government Code Section 19992.1
  (a) The system of performance reports shall be designed to permit as accurately and fairly as is reasonably possible, the evaluation by his or her...
• California Government Code Section 19992.2
  (a) Appointing powers shall prepare performance reports and keep them on file as prescribed by department rule. The rules shall provide that employees be shown...
• California Government Code Section 19992.3
  (a) Performance reports shall be considered, in the manner prescribed by department rule, in determining salary increases and decreases, the order of layoffs, and the...
• California Government Code Section 19992.4
  (a) The department may establish rules under which records of unsatisfactory service may lead to reduction in class and compensation, and providing for the manner...
• California Government Code Section 19992.8
  After consultation with appointing powers and other supervising officials the department shall assist and encourage state agencies to establish standards of performance for managerial employees...
• California Government Code Section 19992.9
  The system of performance appraisal reports shall be designed by managerial employees and their appointing powers to permit the evaluation by appointing powers of each...
• California Government Code Section 19992.10
  Appointing powers shall prepare performance appraisal reports and keep them on file as prescribed by department rule. The rules shall provide that managerial employees be...
• California Government Code Section 19992.11
  Performance reports shall be considered, in the manner prescribed by department rule, for purposes of employee development, in determining salary increases and decreases, the order...
• California Government Code Section 19992.12
  The department may establish rules under which records of unsatisfactory service may lead to reduction in class and compensation, and providing for the manner in...
• California Government Code Section 19992.13
  The department shall establish a procedure whereby a managerial employee may appeal his or her performance appraisal report to the appointing power. At a minimum,...
• California Government Code Section 19992.14
  Each state agency shall establish a system of performance appraisal reports which shall form the basis for awarding merit salary increases to managers on or...
• California Government Code Section 19993
  (a) The department may establish for officers and employees a deferred compensation plan. Participation in such plan shall be by written agreement between such officers...
• California Government Code Section 19993.05
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Freedom of Financial Choice Act. (b) The department shall permit officers and employees...
• California Government Code Section 19993.1
  State-owned motor vehicles shall be used only in the conduct of state business. State business shall include the operation of state-owned vehicles as commute vehicles...
• California Government Code Section 19993.2
  The department shall prescribe rules and regulations which: (a) Define the use of state-owned motor vehicles which constitutes use in the conduct of state business...
• California Government Code Section 19993.3
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the incumbents of elective state offices.
• California Government Code Section 19993.4
  The Department of General Services shall administer the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto; provided, however, that it shall...
• California Government Code Section 19993.5
  Any violation by a state officer or employee of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto shall constitute misuse of state property...
• California Government Code Section 19993.6
  The department, upon its own initiative, may suspend from state service without pay for a period not exceeding 30 days, any officer or employee of...
• California Government Code Section 19993.7
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to members of the California Highway Patrol nor to a peace officer defined in subdivision (a) of...
• California Government Code Section 19993.8
  Section 89008 of the Education Code, and not this chapter, shall govern use of state-owned motor vehicles by employees of the California State University.
• California Government Code Section 19994
  (a) When the state takes over and there is transferred to it a function from any other public agency, the department may determine the extent,...
• California Government Code Section 19994.1
  (a) An appointing power may transfer any employee under his or her jurisdiction: (1) to another position in the same class; or (2) from one...
• California Government Code Section 19994.2
  (a) When there are two or more employees in a class and an involuntary transfer is required to a position in the same class, or...
• California Government Code Section 19994.3
  (a) If a transfer is protested to the department by an employee as made for the purpose of harassing or disciplining the employee, the appointing...
• California Government Code Section 19994.4
  (a) At the time it is filed with the department a copy of the protest shall be filed with the appointing power. Such a protest...
• California Government Code Section 19994.30
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Building" means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state. (b) "State" or "state agency"...
• California Government Code Section 19994.33
  (a) The State Department of Health Services may develop guidelines for the content and effective presentation of tobacco smoking control programs designed to assist an...
• California Government Code Section 19994.34
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an agency specified in Division 3 (commencing with Section 3001) of the Food and Agricultural Code may accommodate the...
• California Government Code Section 19994.35
  (a) No tobacco product advertising shall be allowed in any state-owned and state-occupied building excepting advertising contained in a program, leaflet, newspaper, magazine, or other...
• California Government Code Section 19995
  (a) The department shall devise plans for and cooperate with appointing powers and other supervising officials in the conduct of employee training programs so that...
• California Government Code Section 19995.1
  For the purpose of meeting the needs of the state service for continuing employee educational development, the upgrading of employee skills, and improving productivity and...
• California Government Code Section 19995.2
  (a) To such extent as practicable and within available resources for this purpose, the appointing power shall arrange for such counseling and training of employees...
• California Government Code Section 19995.3
  (a) The department and the Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of disabled state employees who can be...
• California Government Code Section 19995.4
  (a) The department shall devise plans for, and cooperate with appointing powers in the conduct of, supervisorial employee training programs so that the quality of...
• California Government Code Section 19995.5
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury, the State Employee Scholarship Fund to which funds shall be allocated from the amount negotiated in...
• California Government Code Section 19995.5
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury, the State Employee Scholarship Fund to which funds shall be allocated from the amount negotiated in...
• California Government Code Section 19995.5
  The Governor may make each year awards which shall be known as the Governor's Awards to employees or groups of employees who distinguished themselves by...
• California Government Code Section 19995.6
  Employees shall be nominated for the award by the directors of the various state departments and agencies and the Governor shall select from the persons...
• California Government Code Section 19995.7
  The award shall consist of a suitable medal or trophy.
• California Government Code Section 19996
  The tenure of every permanent employee holding a position is during good behavior. Any such employee may be temporarily separated from the state civil service...
• California Government Code Section 19996.1
  (a) Resignations from the state civil service are subject to department rules. A resignation, except as provided in this section, does not jeopardize any rights...
• California Government Code Section 19996.2
  (a) Absence without leave, whether voluntary or involuntary, for five consecutive working days is an automatic resignation from state service, as of the last date...
• California Government Code Section 19996.3
  (a) Effective July 1, 1992, the department shall implement a personal leave program for state officers and employees excluded from, or otherwise not subject to,...
• California Government Code Section 19996.19
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Many individuals in our society possess great productive potential which goes unused because they...
• California Government Code Section 19996.20
  "Reduced worktime," as used in this article, means employment of less than 40 hours of work per week, and includes arrangements involving job sharing, four-,...
• California Government Code Section 19996.21
  (a) It is the policy of the state that to the extent feasible, reduced worktime be made available to employees who are unable, or who...
• California Government Code Section 19996.22
  (a) Any employee who is being coerced, or who has been required, by the appointing power, a supervisor, or another employee, to involuntarily reduce his...
• California Government Code Section 19996.23
  In counting the number of employees any state agency employs for purposes of any personnel ceiling, an employee employed on a reduced worktime basis shall...
• California Government Code Section 19996.24
  (a) Permanent employees who voluntarily reduce their worktime shall, upon request, be given first priority for returning to a full-time work schedule to the extent...
• California Government Code Section 19996.25
  If the provisions of this article are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Sections 3517.5 and 3572, the...
• California Government Code Section 19996.26
  All persons employed in reduced worktime positions pursuant to Section 19996.21, shall receive, on a pro rata basis, except for benefits provided under the Public...
• California Government Code Section 19996.27
  The department shall adopt appropriate rules and guidelines relating to reduced worktime implementation.
• California Government Code Section 19996.28
  The Trustees of the California State University shall adopt the appropriate rules and guidelines relating to the implementation of the reduced worktime program for the...
• California Government Code Section 19996.29
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Reduced Worktime Act."
• California Government Code Section 19996.30
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Partial Service Retirement Act."
• California Government Code Section 19996.31
  It is the intent of the Legislature in adopting this article to pursue the following objectives: (a) To protect the fiscal soundness of the Public...
• California Government Code Section 19996.32
  Any state employee, or legislative employee, who is a state miscellaneous or industrial member working standard hours on a full-time basis, other than a university...
• California Government Code Section 19996.33
  "Reduced worktime for partial service retirement" means any arrangement of worktime agreeable to both the appointing authority and the employee which aggregates no less, on...
• California Government Code Section 19996.34
  It is the policy of the state that reduced worktime for partial service retirement shall be made available to state employees and legislative employees eligible...
• California Government Code Section 19996.35
  (a) Any employee who is being coerced, or who has been required, by the appointing power, a supervisor, or another employee, to involuntarily reduce his...
• California Government Code Section 19996.36
  In counting the number of employees any state agency employs for purposes of any personnel ceiling, an employee employed on a reduced worktime basis for...
• California Government Code Section 19996.37
  (a) A permanent state employee or legislative employee who voluntarily reduces his or her worktime for partial service retirement pursuant to this article shall, upon...
• California Government Code Section 19996.38
  If the provisions of this article are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, the memorandum of...
• California Government Code Section 19996.39
  All persons employed in reduced worktime positions for partial service retirement pursuant to this article, shall receive proportionally reduced compensation and, on a pro rata...
• California Government Code Section 19997
  Whenever it is necessary because of lack of work or funds, or whenever it is advisable in the interests of economy, to reduce the staff...
• California Government Code Section 19997.1
  The duties performed by any employee laid off may be assigned to any other employee or employees in the state agency holding positions in appropriate
• California Government Code Section 19997.2
  (a) With the approval of the department, only the employees of a designated geographical, organizational or functional subdivision of a state agency need be considered...
• California Government Code Section 19997.3
  (a) Layoff shall be made in accordance with the relative seniority of the employees in the class of layoff. In determining seniority scores, one point...
• California Government Code Section 19997.4
  (a) For the purposes of determining seniority pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 19997.3, the term "state service" shall include all service that is exempt...
• California Government Code Section 19997.5
  (a) Separations that are necessary by reason of reinstatement of an employee or employees after recognized military service as provided for in Section 19780 shall...
• California Government Code Section 19997.6
  (a) A veteran, except a veteran who was reinstated from military leave, shall in the event of layoff receive seniority credit for recognized military service...
• California Government Code Section 19997.7
  (a) Employees in the class under consideration, up to the number of positions to be abolished or discontinued, shall be laid off in the order...
• California Government Code Section 19997.8
  (a) In lieu of being laid off an employee may elect demotion to: (1) any class with substantially the same or a lower maximum salary...
• California Government Code Section 19997.9
  (a) Any employee replaced by such demotion has the same option of demotion afforded by Section 19997.8 as if his or her position had been...
• California Government Code Section 19997.10
  (a) Any officer or employee, directly or indirectly, entitled to or having permanent status under the provisions of Article VII of the Constitution or the...
• California Government Code Section 19997.11
  (a) The names of employees to be laid off or demoted shall be placed upon the reemployment list for the subdivision, if such a subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 19997.12
  (a) An employee who is certified to a position in a class after layoff, or demotion in lieu of layoff, shall receive not less than...
• California Government Code Section 19997.13
  (a) An employee compensated on a monthly basis shall be notified that he or she is to be laid off 30 days prior to the...
• California Government Code Section 19997.14
  (a) An employee may appeal to the department within 30 days after receiving notice of layoff on the ground that the required procedure has not...
• California Government Code Section 19997.15
  (a) In order to provide state civil service employees of the California Maritime Academy with an opportunity to remain in the state civil service system,...
• California Government Code Section 19998
  (a) It is the policy of the state that when an employee is to be separated from state service because the tasks he or she...
• California Government Code Section 19998.1
  (a) The department may temporarily restrict the choice of methods of appointment available to an appointing power if such restriction is deemed necessary in the...
• California Government Code Section 19998.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an employee whose continuity of employment in the state service as either an exempt or civil...
• California Government Code Section 19998.4
  (a) An employee who entered county employment pursuant to a resolution or agreement effecting the transfer of that employee by the State Department of Mental...
• California Government Code Section 19999
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that retirement costs to the state and its employees would be reduced by the establishment of a two-tiered retirement...
• California Government Code Section 19999.1
  The Department of Personnel Administration, in conjunction with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System, shall develop legislation which will implement a...
• California Government Code Section 19999.2
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that this chapter is intended to satisfy the requirements prescribed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990...
• California Government Code Section 19999.21
  The Department of Personnel Administration shall administer the retirement program established by this chapter. The department shall provide by rule for the regulation of the...
• California Government Code Section 19999.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that this chapter is intended to provide an alternate retirement program for new state employees who are members of...
• California Government Code Section 19999.31
  The Department of Personnel Administration shall administer the retirement program established by this chapter. The department shall provide the method by which benefit payments shall...
• California Government Code Section 19999.5
  In order to encourage savings and increase the savings options available to state employees, the department may establish and administer tax-deferred savings plans in accordance...
• California Government Code Section 19999.7
  (a) The department may establish and administer the purchase of annuity contracts which meet the requirements of Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code and...
• California Government Code Section 20000
  This part may be cited as the Public Employees' Retirement Law.
• California Government Code Section 20001
  The purpose of this part is to effect economy and efficiency in the public service by providing a means whereby employees who become superannuated or...
• California Government Code Section 20002
  The Public Employees' Retirement System created by Chapter 700 of the Statutes of 1931, as amended, is continued in existence under this part. This system...
• California Government Code Section 20003
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 20010
  "Accumulated additional contributions" means the sum of all additional contributions standing to the credit of a member's individual account, and interest thereon.
• California Government Code Section 20011
  "Accumulated contributions" means accumulated normal contributions plus any accumulated additional contributions standing to the credit of a member's account.
• California Government Code Section 20012
  "Accumulated normal contributions" means the sum of all normal contributions standing to the credit of a member's individual account, and interest thereon.
• California Government Code Section 20013
  "Actuarial equivalent" means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted and the actuarial interest rate fixed by...
• California Government Code Section 20014
  "Actuarial interest rate" means the interest rate fixed by the board for purposes of actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of this system.
• California Government Code Section 20015
  "Actuary" means an actuary regularly employed on a full-time or part-time basis by the board.
• California Government Code Section 20016
  "Additional contributions" means contributions made by members and their employers in addition to their normal contributions under Article 2 (commencing with Section 20710) of Chapter
• California Government Code Section 20017
  "Annual interest rate" means the net earnings rate reduced by 110 basis points for purposes of crediting interest.
• California Government Code Section 20018
  "Annuity" means payments for life derived from contributions made by a member.
• California Government Code Section 20019
  "Beneficiary" means any person or corporation designated by a member, a retired member, or by statute to receive a benefit payable under this part, on...
• California Government Code Section 20020
  "Benefit" means the retirement allowance, basic death benefit, limited death benefit, special death benefit, any monthly allowance for survivors of a member or retired person,...
• California Government Code Section 20021
  "Board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
• California Government Code Section 20022
  "Contracting agency" means any public agency that has elected to have all or any part of its employees become members of this system and that...
• California Government Code Section 20023
  "County peace officer service" shall include service rendered in the sheriff's office of a city and county in positions that were subsequently reclassified as positions...
• California Government Code Section 20023.5
  "County retirement system" means a retirement system established under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 31450) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 3, the...
• California Government Code Section 20024
  "Current service" means all state service rendered by a member on and after the date upon which he or she first became a member, service...
• California Government Code Section 20025
  "Dependent," in reference to any benefit provided, upon the death of a member, for a surviving dependent parent, or parent dependent upon the member for...
• California Government Code Section 20026
  "Disability" and "incapacity for performance of duty" as a basis of retirement, mean disability of permanent or extended and uncertain duration, as determined by the...
• California Government Code Section 20027
  "Disability," "disabled," or "incapacitated" means, with respect to qualification for an allowance payable to a surviving child, inability to engage in any substantial gainful occupation...
• California Government Code Section 20027.5
  (a) "Electronic funds transfer" means any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft, or similar paper instrument, that is initiated through...
• California Government Code Section 20028
  "Employee" means all of the following: (a) Any person in the employ of the state, a county superintendent of schools, or the university whose compensation,...
• California Government Code Section 20029
  "Employee federal contributions" means those contributions required of employees under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform services in employment...
• California Government Code Section 20030
  "Employer" means the state, the university, a school employer, and any contracting agency employing an employee.
• California Government Code Section 20031
  "Employer federal contributions" means those contributions required of employers under the federal system with respect to wages paid to individuals who perform services in employment...
• California Government Code Section 20032
  "Federal-state agreement" means the agreement or any modification thereof executed by the board pursuant to Section 418 of Title 42 of the United States Code.
• California Government Code Section 20033
  "Federal system" means the old age, survivors, disability, and health insurance provisions of the Social Security Act.
• California Government Code Section 20034
  The average monthly salary during any period of service as a member of any retirement system maintained by the university shall be considered compensation earnable...
• California Government Code Section 20035
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20037, "final compensation" for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state member who retires or dies...
• California Government Code Section 20035.2
  Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who retires or...
• California Government Code Section 20035.21
  Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation" for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a patrol member who retires or...
• California Government Code Section 20035.3
  Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous or peace officer/firefighter...
• California Government Code Section 20035.4
  Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or dies...
• California Government Code Section 20035.5
  Notwithstanding Section 20037, "final compensation" for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a school member who retires or dies on...
• California Government Code Section 20035.6
  Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a member who retires or dies...
• California Government Code Section 20035.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous member (1)...
• California Government Code Section 20035.10
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, "final compensation," for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit with respect to a state miscellaneous member (1)...
• California Government Code Section 20036
  In the computation of the disability retirement allowance payable upon the retirement of a member for industrial disability, final compensation shall be determined only with...
• California Government Code Section 20037
  For a state member, or for a local member who is an employee of a contracting agency that is subject to this section, "final compensation"...
• California Government Code Section 20037.5
  Notwithstanding Section 20035, "final compensation" for a state member who has elected to be subject to Section 21353.5, for the purposes of determining any pension...
• California Government Code Section 20037.5
  Notwithstanding Section 20035, "final compensation" for a state member who has elected to be subject to Section 21353.5, for the purposes of determining any pension...
• California Government Code Section 20037.6
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.10
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.11
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.12
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.13
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, for the purposes of determining any pension or benefit with respect to benefits based on service with the state,...
• California Government Code Section 20037.14
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.14
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 20035 and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed by the state for the first time and becomes a state...
• California Government Code Section 20037.15
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 3517.8, 20035, and 20037, final compensation for a person who is employed for the first time and becomes a member of the...
• California Government Code Section 20039
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, "final compensation" of a local member for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit resulting from state...
• California Government Code Section 20039.5
  Notwithstanding Article 5 (commencing with Section 20350) of Chapter 3, or any other provision of this part, "final compensation" for the purposes of determining any...
• California Government Code Section 20040
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, "final compensation," for the purposes of determining any benefits payable under this part for coverage under the Second...
• California Government Code Section 20042
  On the election of a contracting agency, other than a county superintendent of schools with respect to a contract under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 20044
  "Fiscal year" is any year commencing on July 1st and ending with June 30th next following.
• California Government Code Section 20045
  "Highway patrol service" means service rendered as a member of the California Highway Patrol, only while the member is receiving compensation from the state for...
• California Government Code Section 20046
  "Industrial," in reference to the death or disability of any member of this system who is in a membership category under which special benefits are...
• California Government Code Section 20046.5
  "Industrial" with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability on or after January 1, 1995, resulting from an injury that is a...
• California Government Code Section 20047
  "Industrial" with respect to state miscellaneous members also means death or disability after January 1, 1993, resulting from an injury that is a direct consequence...
• California Government Code Section 20047.5
  "Industrial," with respect to state miscellaneous members, means death or disability on or after January 1, 2002, or the date agreed to in the memorandum...
• California Government Code Section 20048
  "Industrial," with respect to state industrial members, means death or disability resulting from an injury that is a direct consequence of a violent act perpetrated...
• California Government Code Section 20049
  "Labor policy or agreement" means any written policy, agreement, memorandum of understanding, legislative action of the elected or appointed body governing the employer, or any...
• California Government Code Section 20050
  "Local safety service" means state service rendered as a local firefighter, local police officer, county peace officer, local safety officer, or positions defined as local...
• California Government Code Section 20051
  "Month," except as otherwise expressly provided, means a period commencing on any day of a calendar month and extending through the day preceding the corresponding...
• California Government Code Section 20052
  "Net earnings" means the earnings of the retirement fund less the amounts specified in Sections 20173 and 20174.
• California Government Code Section 20053
  "Normal contributions" means contributions required to be paid by a member at the normal rates of contribution fixed by the law, by contract, or by...
• California Government Code Section 20054
  "Pension" means payments for life derived from contributions made from employer controlled funds.
• California Government Code Section 20055
  (a) "Prior service" as applied to a state member who while employed on a part-time basis became a member because of amendments of the laws...
• California Government Code Section 20056
  "Public agency" means any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of or within this state.
• California Government Code Section 20057
  "Public agency" also includes the following: (a) The Commandant, Veterans' Home of California, with respect to employees of the Veterans' Home Exchange and other post...
• California Government Code Section 20057.1
  To qualify as a "public agency" within the meaning of this part, any organization that qualifies under amendments to the definitions of "public agency" effective...
• California Government Code Section 20058
  (a) "Retirement system" or "this system" means the Public Employees' Retirement System. (b) As used in this code and in every other statute heretofore or...
• California Government Code Section 20059
  "Regular interest" means interest at the annual interest rate for purposes of crediting of interest, compounded annually.
• California Government Code Section 20060
  "Retirement" means the granting of a retirement allowance under this part.
• California Government Code Section 20061
  "Retirement allowance" means the service retirement allowance or the disability retirement allowance.
• California Government Code Section 20062
  "Retirement fund" means the Public Employees' Retirement Fund continued in existence by this part.
• California Government Code Section 20062.5
  "Risk pool" means the combination of assets and liabilities with respect to one or more contracting agencies for the purpose of pooling actuarial experience and...
• California Government Code Section 20063
  (a) "School employer" means a county superintendent of schools, other than the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools and the San Diego County Superintendent of...
• California Government Code Section 20064
  "School safety service" includes service rendered as a school safety member in employment with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 20065
  An employee is "serving on a part-time basis" when he or she engages in his or her duties for less time than is required of...
• California Government Code Section 20066
  "State peace officer/firefighter service" means service rendered as a state peace officer/firefighter member only while receiving compensation for that service, except as provided in Article...
• California Government Code Section 20067
  "State peace officer/firefighter service," with respect to a member who becomes a state peace officer/firefighter member pursuant to Section 20394, also includes service prior to...
• California Government Code Section 20068
  (a) "State safety service" means service rendered as a state safety member only while receiving compensation for that service, except as provided in Article 4...
• California Government Code Section 20069
  (a) "State service" means service rendered as an employee or officer (employed, appointed, or elected) of the state, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and...
• California Government Code Section 20069.1
  "Trial court" shall have the same meaning as the term is defined in the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 20070
  "1959 survivor allowance" means the allowance provided for in Sections 21571, 21572, 21573, 21574, 21574.5, and 21574.7.
• California Government Code Section 20071
  "University" means the University of California and includes The Regents of the University of California as defined and authorized by Section 9 of Article IX...
• California Government Code Section 20085
  (a) It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Make, or cause to be made, any knowingly false material statement...
• California Government Code Section 20090
  The Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System is continued in existence. It consists of: (a) One member of the State Personnel Board,...
• California Government Code Section 20090.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the member of the board who is an elected official of a contracting agency appointed...
• California Government Code Section 20091
  The members of the board appointed by the Governor pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 20090, the public member appointed jointly by the Senate Committee...
• California Government Code Section 20092
  Each employing agency that employs an elected member of the board and that employs a person to replace the member during attendance at meetings of...
• California Government Code Section 20093
  The members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred through service on the board.
• California Government Code Section 20094
  The counsel to the board shall notify each new member of the board upon his or her assumption of office and each member of the...
• California Government Code Section 20095
  The term of office of members of the board is four years expiring on January 15 in the order fixed by law. The board shall...
• California Government Code Section 20096
  The board shall cause ballots to be distributed to each active and retired member of the system in advance of each election, and shall provide...
• California Government Code Section 20096.3
  If an incumbent member of the board, holding a board seat described in subdivision (g) of Section 20090, does not deliver his or her completed...
• California Government Code Section 20096.5
  Candidates for board seats described in subdivision (g) of Section 20090, including incumbent board members running for reelection, shall file campaign statements with the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 20097
  The board shall maintain its office in the City of Sacramento. A quorum of the board is seven members. The board shall elect a president...
• California Government Code Section 20098
  (a) The board shall appoint and, notwithstanding Sections 19816, 19825, 19826, 19829, and 19832 shall fix the compensation of an executive officer, a general counsel,...
• California Government Code Section 20099
  The board may appoint a committee of one or more of its members to perform any act within the power of the board itself to...
• California Government Code Section 20120
  The management and control of this system is vested in the board.
• California Government Code Section 20121
  The board may make such rules as it deems proper.
• California Government Code Section 20122
  Each member and each person retired is subject to this part and the rules adopted by the board.
• California Government Code Section 20123
  Subject to this part and its rules, the board shall determine and may modify benefits for service and disability.
• California Government Code Section 20124
  The board shall adjust the payment of benefits payable pursuant to this part, as necessary, in order to maximize the benefits available to members who...
• California Government Code Section 20125
  The board shall determine who are employees and is the sole judge of the conditions under which persons may be admitted to and continue to...
• California Government Code Section 20126
  Refusal by this system to admit liability pursuant to any provision of this part shall not be considered arbitrary or capricious action or conduct within...
• California Government Code Section 20127
  The board may require a member to provide evidence of his or her entitlement to benefits under the federal system.
• California Government Code Section 20128
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may require a member or beneficiary to provide information it deems necessary to determine this system's liability...
• California Government Code Section 20129
  The board shall secure and pay reasonable compensation for medical service and advice necessary to discharge its duties respecting matters involving disability or death, or
• California Government Code Section 20130
  The board may enter into an agreement with the State Compensation Insurance Fund under which the latter shall represent this system, as its agent, or...
• California Government Code Section 20131
  The board shall keep in convenient form data necessary for the actuarial valuation of this system.
• California Government Code Section 20132
  (a) Upon the basis of any investigation, valuation, or determination, or all of these, the board shall adopt mortality, service and other tables and annual...
• California Government Code Section 20133
  As of June 30, 1991, and thereafter at the end of periods not to exceed four years, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into...
• California Government Code Section 20134
  The board may, in its discretion, hold a hearing for the purpose of determining any question presented to it involving any right, benefit, or obligation...
• California Government Code Section 20135
  To the extent possible, the board shall resolve conflicts between retirement systems applicable to state hospital employees transferred to county or local mental health programs...
• California Government Code Section 20136
  (a) Commencing August 1, 2012, the board shall provide a five-year strategic plan for emerging investment manager participation across all asset classes. (b) The board...
• California Government Code Section 20138
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the board shall provide by rule for conducting structured preretirement information seminars. The seminars shall be for the...
• California Government Code Section 20150
  A board member or employee of the board shall not, directly or indirectly: (a) Have any interest in the making of any investment, or in...
• California Government Code Section 20151
  The board and its officers and employees shall discharge their duties with respect to this system solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries:...
• California Government Code Section 20152
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, from the retirement fund to the board, the amount necessary to pay...
• California Government Code Section 20152.5
  No matter involving any vendor or contractor in their individual or any other capacity shall be considered during a closed session on any transaction involving...
• California Government Code Section 20153
  (a) During the process leading to an award of any contract by the system, no member of the board or its staff shall knowingly communicate...
• California Government Code Section 20160
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (c) and (d), the board may, in its discretion and upon any terms it deems just, correct the errors or omissions...
• California Government Code Section 20161
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of Section 13943.2 or 16302.1 to the contrary, the following shall apply: (a) When there has been...
• California Government Code Section 20163
  (a) If more or less than the correct amount of contribution required of members, the state, or any contracting agency, is paid, proper adjustment shall...
• California Government Code Section 20164
  (a) The obligations of this system to its members continue throughout their respective memberships, and the obligations of this system to and in respect to...
• California Government Code Section 20170
  The Public Employees' Retirement Fund in the State Treasury is continued in existence. The Public Employees' Retirement Fund is a trust fund created, and administered...
• California Government Code Section 20171
  The board has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the retirement fund.
• California Government Code Section 20172
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may retain a bank or trust company to serve as custodian for safekeeping, delivery, securities valuation, investment...
• California Government Code Section 20173
  Costs of administration of this system shall be paid from funds appropriated for interest income from the retirement fund.
• California Government Code Section 20174
  Interest earned on any cash deposit in a bank by the Treasurer and income on other assets constituting a part of the fund shall be...
• California Government Code Section 20175
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds in the reserve against deficiencies shall not be used to pay any employers' contribution required by this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 20176
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds in the retirement fund shall be expended for any purpose other than the cost of administration of...
• California Government Code Section 20177
  The board shall deposit monthly in the State Treasury to the credit of the retirement fund all amounts received by it under this part.
• California Government Code Section 20178
  (a) The board shall credit all contributions of members in the retirement fund with interest at an interest crediting rate of 6 percent compounded at...
• California Government Code Section 20190
  The board has exclusive control of the investment of the retirement fund. Except as otherwise restricted by the California Constitution and by law, the board...
• California Government Code Section 20191
  The board may itself make any investment authorized by law or sell any security, obligation, or real property in which moneys in the retirement fund...
• California Government Code Section 20191.5
  (a) All investment transaction decisions made during a closed session pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (c) of Section 11126 shall be by rollcall vote...
• California Government Code Section 20192
  In addition to the other investments authorized by this article, the board may invest in real estate and leases thereof and improvements thereon for business...
• California Government Code Section 20193
  The board may invest the money in the retirement fund in real property or improvements thereon or to be constructed thereon when the real property...
• California Government Code Section 20194
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall give first priority to investing not less than 25 percent of all funds which become...
• California Government Code Section 20194.5
  In addition to the other investments authorized by this article, the board may invest in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds, as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 20195
  (a) The board may select, purchase, or acquire in the name of the system, the fee or any lesser interest in real property, improved or...
• California Government Code Section 20196
  The board may contract with the Department of General Services or any other state department for assistance and supervision in the acquisition of real property...
• California Government Code Section 20197
  All buildings and improvements constructed by the board under this article may contain space in excess of the immediate requirements of the board that, until...
• California Government Code Section 20198
  Any building or improvement constructed by the board under this article shall be subject to the supervision of the board in accordance with rules and...
• California Government Code Section 20199
  The board shall establish a building account for the transfer of money that is continuously appropriated for that purpose from the retirement fund for the...
• California Government Code Section 20200
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may establish a program utilizing the retirement fund to assist system members, through financing, to obtain...
• California Government Code Section 20201
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this section be available to assist members in obtaining homes throughout the United...
• California Government Code Section 20202
  The board may, subject to and consistent with its fiduciary duty, establish a program utilizing the retirement fund to assist currently employed members and annuitants...
• California Government Code Section 20203
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the board may enter into security loan agreements pursuant to Division 8 (commencing with Section 7600) of Title...
• California Government Code Section 20204
  The board may sell exchange-traded call options only through an exchange, and only with respect to stock owned by this system. Common stock that is...
• California Government Code Section 20206
  The board shall employ investment counsel on its staff or on a consulting basis or trust companies or trust departments of bands to render service...
• California Government Code Section 20207
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that changing economic conditions and increasing complexity in the investment market make it necessary and desirable that this system...
• California Government Code Section 20208
  Upon a finding by the board that necessary investment expertise is not available within existing civil service classifications, and with the approval of the State...
• California Government Code Section 20209
  The board shall, pursuant to the state civil service statutes, either contract with, or establish and fill a full-time position for, a person who is...
• California Government Code Section 20210
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board shall, by contract, retain not less than two separate individual investment advisers. There is hereby appropriated, without...
• California Government Code Section 20220
  The board shall, on the request of a board of retirement of a county retirement system supply information and data necessary for administration of that...
• California Government Code Section 20221
  Each state agency, school employer, and the chief administrative officer of a contracting agency or any other person who its governing body may designate shall...
• California Government Code Section 20221.5
  Every state agency, school employer, or contracting agency shall, upon request from the board, provide information on its employees who are not enrolled as members...
• California Government Code Section 20222
  The comptroller of the university, or any other official who the university may designate, shall furnish monthly reports to the board showing changes in the...
• California Government Code Section 20222.5
  (a) The board may, during the course of an audit, require each state employer, school employer, including each school district represented by a school employer,...
• California Government Code Section 20223
  Each employee shall file with the board information affecting his or her status as a member as the board may require.
• California Government Code Section 20224
  If it is impracticable for the board to determine from the records the length of service, compensation, or age of any member, or if any...
• California Government Code Section 20225
  (a) In addition to other records and accounts, the board shall keep records and accounts necessary to compute at any time: (1) The total accumulated...
• California Government Code Section 20226
  The records and accounts required under Section 20225 shall not include the contributions made by the state or contracting agencies with respect to the survivor...
• California Government Code Section 20227
  The actuary shall cause to be published, as of the date of the investigation and valuation made pursuant to Section 20131, a financial statement showing...
• California Government Code Section 20228
  The board shall annually employ a certified public accountant, who is not in public employment, to audit the financial statements of this system. The costs...
• California Government Code Section 20229
  (a) The board, notwithstanding Section 10231.5, shall provide the Legislature, the Governor, and the Chair of the California Actuarial Advisory Panel, established pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 20230
  Data filed by any member or beneficiary with the board is confidential, and no individual record shall be divulged by any official or employee having...
• California Government Code Section 20231
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Employment Development Department shall disclose to the board information in its possession relating to the earnings of any...
• California Government Code Section 20232
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year the board shall file with the Governor and the Legislature a report of its...
• California Government Code Section 20233
  The board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature, not later than December 1 of each year, on the extent to which the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 20235
  (a) The board shall submit a review of this system's assets to the Legislature on a quarterly basis. The report shall also be made available...
• California Government Code Section 20236
  (a) The board shall provide the Legislature with an analysis of the asset and liability implications of each bill that would affect the investment strategy...
• California Government Code Section 20237
  In addition to any other reports that it may be required to make by law, the board shall annually file a separate report with the...
• California Government Code Section 20238
  In addition to any other reports that it may be required to make by law, the board shall annually file a separate report to the...
• California Government Code Section 20250
  The provisions of this article shall be deemed to create a right of subrogation only to amounts paid as disability retirement allowances and special death
• California Government Code Section 20251
  As used in this article, "state fund" means the State Compensation Insurance Fund.
• California Government Code Section 20252
  If benefits are payable under this part because of an injury to or the death of a member and the injury or death is the...
• California Government Code Section 20253
  The board may contract with the state fund or the Attorney General for the recovery on behalf of this system of any amounts that the...
• California Government Code Section 20254
  Any amount recovered by way of subrogation by the employer, workers' compensation insurer or this system shall be applied first to the amounts that the...
• California Government Code Section 20255
  Actions brought by the board under this article shall be commenced within three years after the liability of this system to pay benefits is fixed....
• California Government Code Section 20260
  All computations, payments, and other acts heretofore made or done by the board or its officers and employees are hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated.
• California Government Code Section 20280
  This article does not apply to persons expressly excluded from membership in this system by Article 2 (commencing with Section 20300) and Article 3 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 20281
  All members of the retirement system immediately prior to the time this part becomes operative continue to be members of this system. An employee of...
• California Government Code Section 20281.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20281, a person who becomes a state miscellaneous member or state industrial member of the system on or after the effective date...
• California Government Code Section 20282
  All officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men who after October 1, 1961, are placed on full-time active duty with the office of the Adjutant General,...
• California Government Code Section 20283
  (a) Any employer that fails to enroll an employee into membership when he or she becomes eligible, or within 90 days thereof, when the employer...
• California Government Code Section 20284
  When any person who is an employee of the state within the meaning of Section 20028 is assigned to the performance of work for which...
• California Government Code Section 20285
  Any employee, who was a state member in employment in a function at the time of the assumption of the function by a city and...
• California Government Code Section 20300
  The following persons are excluded from membership in this system: (a) Inmates of state or public agency institutions who are allowed compensation for the service...
• California Government Code Section 20301
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who on October 1, 1963, is employed by the university, and is a member of any...
• California Government Code Section 20303
  (a) Persons who are members of any other retirement or pension system supported wholly or in part by funds of the United States government, any...
• California Government Code Section 20304
  Notwithstanding Sections 20303 and 20894, nothing shall act to prohibit the receipt of credit in this system, nor the payment of benefits relating thereto, for...
• California Government Code Section 20305
  (a) An employee whose appointment or employment contract does not fix a term of full-time, continuous employment in excess of six months is excluded from...
• California Government Code Section 20306
  (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 20305, an employee participating in this system, other than a local safety member, who is credited...
• California Government Code Section 20309
  (a) A member of the system described in subdivision (b) who subsequently is employed to perform service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program...
• California Government Code Section 20309.5
  (a) Any person who is a member of the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan and who subsequently became employed, on or...
• California Government Code Section 20320
  (a) A person directly appointed by the Governor, without the nomination of any officer or board, or directly appointed by the Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 20321
  Persons appointed to the office of the Adjutant General or Assistant Adjutant General after October 1, 1961, shall have rights to membership as provided in...
• California Government Code Section 20322
  (a) An elective officer is excluded from membership in this system unless the officer files with the board an election in writing to become a...
• California Government Code Section 20323
  For the purposes of this section "veteran" means a member of the Veterans' Home of California. Any veteran who is employed by the Veterans' Home...
• California Government Code Section 20324
  (a) An employee of the Senate or the Assembly, or the respective committees thereof, whose salaries or wages are paid from the Senate Operating Fund...
• California Government Code Section 20325
  (a) A county superintendent of schools, a school district, a community college district, or a contracting agency, whose respective resolution or contract contains an election...
• California Government Code Section 20326
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20305, officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the California National Guard who are not members pursuant to Section 20282 are excluded...
• California Government Code Section 20327
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a National Guard member may, at any time and on a prospective basis, cancel his or her...
• California Government Code Section 20340
  A person ceases to be a member: (a) Upon retirement, except while participating in reduced worktime for partial service retirement. (b) If he or she...
• California Government Code Section 20341
  When any state member is charged by indictment with the commission of any felony involving the accepting or giving, or offering to accept or give,...
• California Government Code Section 20342
  Until his or her return to state service any member absent on military service may resign from this system.
• California Government Code Section 20343
  Notwithstanding Section 21259, a person ceases to be a member for any portion of his or her service as an elected public officer that is...
• California Government Code Section 20350
  Notwithstanding Section 20638, if a member on deferred retirement from this system is eligible to retire for service from a reciprocal retirement system and does...
• California Government Code Section 20351
  The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system, or subjecting him or her to any limitation by reason of his...
• California Government Code Section 20352
  The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system or subjecting him or her to any limitation, by reason of his...
• California Government Code Section 20353
  Any public agency that has pursuant to the provisions of Section 20351 entered into an agreement to establish a reciprocal retirement system with this system...
• California Government Code Section 20354
  The provisions of this part extending rights to a member of this system by reason of his or her membership in a county retirement system...
• California Government Code Section 20355
  Wherever in this part the rights of a member, because of membership in another retirement system, are conditioned upon employment within 90 days of termination...
• California Government Code Section 20356
  Whenever in this part the rights of a local member, because of membership in another retirement system, are conditioned upon employment within six months of...
• California Government Code Section 20370
  (a) "Member" means an employee who has qualified for membership in this system and on whose behalf an employer has become obligated to pay contributions....
• California Government Code Section 20371
  "Member classification" means either of the following: (a) Miscellaneous member classification, which includes state miscellaneous members, National Guard members, university members, local miscellaneous members, state...
• California Government Code Section 20380
  "State miscellaneous member" includes all members employed by the state and university, except National Guard, industrial, patrol, state peace officer/firefighter, and state safety members.
• California Government Code Section 20380.5
  "National Guard member" means a person who elects to become a member of this system as described in Section 20326. Except as otherwise provided, the...
• California Government Code Section 20381
  "University member" includes all members who are employees of the university.
• California Government Code Section 20382
  "State industrial member" includes all state employees appointed by the Governor or by the Director of Corrections or the Board of Prison Terms or the...
• California Government Code Section 20383
  "Local miscellaneous member" includes all employees of a county office of education, school district, or community college district who are included in a risk pool...
• California Government Code Section 20390
  (a) "Patrol member" includes all members employed in the Department of the California Highway Patrol or by a county in connection with its highway patrol...
• California Government Code Section 20391
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" means: (a) All persons in the Board of Prison Terms, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Developmental Services, the...
• California Government Code Section 20392
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" also includes officers and employees with the following class titles: Class Code Classification 6875 Air Operations Officer I 1056 Air Operations...
• California Government Code Section 20393
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" also means: (a) All persons in the office of the Secretary of State, office of the Controller, and the Public Employees'...
• California Government Code Section 20394
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" also includes the employees of a California State University police department, established pursuant to Section 89560 of the Education Code, who...
• California Government Code Section 20395
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" means all members who are full-time permanent employees represented in Corrections Unit No. 6, Protective Services and Public Safety Unit No....
• California Government Code Section 20396
  (a) "State peace officer/firefighter member" also includes employees of the California State University who are campus fire apparatus engineers and who are members represented by...
• California Government Code Section 20397
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" also includes: (a) The Sergeants-at-Arms of each house of the Legislature who have been designated as peace officers in subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 20398
  "State peace officer/firefighter member" also includes: (a) (1) State officers and employees designated as peace officers as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.38, 830.4,...
• California Government Code Section 20399
  "State safety member," includes persons employed in the Department of Fish and Game in connection with its warden service, whose principal duties consist of active...
• California Government Code Section 20400
  (a) "State safety member" also includes members employed in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression or...
• California Government Code Section 20401
  "State safety member" means all persons within the Department of Justice designated as peace officers and performing investigative duties and whose principal duties consist of...
• California Government Code Section 20401.5
  (a) "State safety member" also includes state prosecutors and state public defenders. (b) For purposes of this part, "state prosecutor" means a state officer or...
• California Government Code Section 20402
  "State safety member" shall also include those persons while employed by the San Francisco Port Authority prior to their transfer to the San Francisco Port...
• California Government Code Section 20403
  "State safety member" shall also include officers and employees in (a) the Department of Corrections employed to perform the duties now performed in positions with...
• California Government Code Section 20404
  Notwithstanding Section 20401 "state safety member" shall include persons employed as members of a state college police department who meet the minimum standards of competence...
• California Government Code Section 20405
  (a) "State safety member" shall also include officers and employees of the Board of Prison Terms, the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth...
• California Government Code Section 20405.1
  Notwithstanding Section 20405, this section shall apply to state employees in state bargaining units that have agreed to these provisions in a memorandum of understanding...
• California Government Code Section 20405.2
  A member who made the election to remain under the miscellaneous or industrial retirement benefit, as provided in Section 20405.1, may elect to be subject...
• California Government Code Section 20405.3
  (a) A member who is an employee of the Department of Corrections, who made the election to remain under the state industrial membership classification, as...
• California Government Code Section 20406
  "State safety member" also includes persons employed by the state to perform lifeguard services and whose principal duties consist of active protection, rescue, and rendition...
• California Government Code Section 20407
  "State safety member" also includes officers and employees with the State Department of Mental Health and the Department of Corrections in the following classifications: Classification...
• California Government Code Section 20407.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20407, any person designated as a state safety member pursuant to Section 20407 who elected to remain subject to the miscellaneous service...
• California Government Code Section 20408
  "State safety member" also includes officers and employees with the Department of Mental Health or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in the following...
• California Government Code Section 20409
  (a) "State safety member" shall also include officers and employees of the following departments with the following class titles: Class Code Classification Department Aircraft Pilot,...
• California Government Code Section 20410
  "State safety member" also includes all persons in the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the Board of Prison Terms, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the...
• California Government Code Section 20411
  "State safety member" also includes members employed in the positions with the classification of Vocational Instructor (Barber Shop Practices) (Correctional Facility) (Class Code 2441).
• California Government Code Section 20412
  "State safety member" shall also include persons employed to perform full-time active firefighting duties performed on April 1, 1972, under the titles of "institution fire...
• California Government Code Section 20413
  "State safety member" shall also include persons employed under the title of "campus firefighter" who performed active firefighting duties for the state on April 1,...
• California Government Code Section 20414
  "State safety member" also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: State Park Ranger Trainee, State Park Ranger...
• California Government Code Section 20415
  "State safety member" also includes members employed in the Department of Parks and Recreation in the following classifications: Manager I, State Park; Manager II, State...
• California Government Code Section 20416
  "State safety member" includes all persons specified in this article by employer, classification, or duties performed, except persons in those classes defined as state peace...
• California Government Code Section 20420
  "Local safety member" includes all local police officers, local sheriffs, firefighters, safety officers, county peace officers, and school safety members, employed by a contracting agency...
• California Government Code Section 20421
  "Local safety member" also includes all employees of a city who have by contract been included within this system, and whose principal duties consist of...
• California Government Code Section 20422
  "Local safety member" also includes all employees of a public agency whose principal duties consist of rendering prehospital emergency medical care to ill or injured...
• California Government Code Section 20423
  "Local safety member" also includes any harbor or port police officer, employed by a contracting agency, who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 20423.3
  (a) "Local safety member" also includes any airport patrol officer, airport law enforcement officer, or airport police officer employed by a contracting agency who is...
• California Government Code Section 20423.5
  "Local safety member" also includes any park ranger employed by a contracting agency who is a peace officer as defined in subdivision (b) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 20423.6
  (a) "Local safety member" also includes local prosecutors, local public defenders, and local public defender investigators. (b) For purposes of this part, "local prosecutor" means...
• California Government Code Section 20424
  "Local safety officer" means any officer or employee of a public safety department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of...
• California Government Code Section 20425
  "Local police officer" means any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency which is a city, except one whose principal duties...
• California Government Code Section 20426
  "Local police officer" also includes any officer or employee of a police department of a contracting agency that is a city, employed to perform communication...
• California Government Code Section 20427
  "Local police officer" also includes any officer or employee of a juvenile bureau of a contracting agency whose principal duties consist of active law enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 20428
  "Local police officer" shall also include any officer or employee of a contracting agency that is a city and county, in any employment in which...
• California Government Code Section 20429
  "Local police officer" also includes any officer or employee of a contracting agency other than a city or a county who is a peace officer...
• California Government Code Section 20430
  "Local police officer" also includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district that has established a police department pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 20431
  "Local police officer" also includes any employee of a contracting agency that is a city, who is employed in a jail or a detention or...
• California Government Code Section 20432
  (a) "Local sheriff" means any officer or employee of a sheriff's office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a...
• California Government Code Section 20432.5
  (a) "Local sheriff" also means a regularly employed marshal of Shasta County or of a judicial district of Shasta County. "Local sheriff" also means a...
• California Government Code Section 20432.6
  (a) "Local sheriff" also means a regularly employed district attorney investigator of Solano County whose principal duties are to investigate crime and criminal cases, if...
• California Government Code Section 20433
  "Local firefighter" means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a telephone...
• California Government Code Section 20434
  "Local firefighter" also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a...
• California Government Code Section 20434.5
  "Local firefighter" also means any officer or employee of a fire department of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties are those of a...
• California Government Code Section 20435
  "Local firefighter" means any officer or employee of a contracting agency performing a fire training function for a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties...
• California Government Code Section 20436
  (a) "County peace officer" means the sheriff and any officer or employee of a sheriff's office of a contracting agency, except one whose principal duties...
• California Government Code Section 20437
  (a) "County peace officer" shall also include the constable and each regularly employed deputy constable and the marshal and each regularly employed deputy marshal who...
• California Government Code Section 20438
  "County peace officer" shall also include probation officers, deputy and assistant probation officers, and persons employed in a juvenile hall or home and having as...
• California Government Code Section 20439
  "County peace officer" shall also include employees of the sheriff employed in a county jail, detention or correctional facility and having as their primary duty...
• California Government Code Section 20440
  "County peace officer" shall also include employees of the sheriff employed to attend sessions of the superior or former municipal courts and preserve order in...
• California Government Code Section 20441
  "County peace officer" shall also include persons employed by a county parks and recreation department whose primary responsibility is maintaining the peace and whose duties...
• California Government Code Section 20442
  Persons employed in positions that are found to come within the definition of local safety member as the result of administrative review by the board...
• California Government Code Section 20443
  A member who is employed in a position that is reclassified from local miscellaneous to local safety and is made subject to a safety service...
• California Government Code Section 20444
  "School safety member" includes any officer or employee of a school district or a community college district which has established a police department pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 20445
  A member employed with a school district or community college district, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 20057, who is in a position that...
• California Government Code Section 20460
  Any public agency may participate in and make all or part of its employees members of this system by contract entered into between its governing...
• California Government Code Section 20460.1
  (a) For all counties that contract with the board for the provision of retirement benefits for their eligible employees as of the implementation date of...
• California Government Code Section 20461
  The board may refuse to contract with, or to agree to an amendment proposed by, any public agency for any benefit provisions that are not...
• California Government Code Section 20462
  The governing body of a public agency that has established a pension trust or retirement plan funded by individual or group life insurance or annuity...
• California Government Code Section 20463
  (a) The governing body of a public agency, or an employee organization, recognized under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 20465
  (a) On request of the board, the public agency shall furnish data concerning its employees as the board requires to make the necessary valuations and...
• California Government Code Section 20466
  The approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contribution to be made if a contract results shall be determined by actuarial valuations by...
• California Government Code Section 20467
  Notwithstanding Section 20466, the approximate contribution quoted by the board and the actual contributions for a contracting agency that is an employer for purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 20468
  The approximate and actual contributions are similar to premiums under insurance policies. The approximate contribution quoted by the board to the public agency is subject...
• California Government Code Section 20469
  If after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body intends to approve the proposed contract, it shall adopt a resolution giving notice of that...
• California Government Code Section 20469.1
  (a) Notwithstanding 20469, if after receiving the approximate contribution quotation the governing body of a county and the presiding officer of a trial court located...
• California Government Code Section 20470
  The governing body shall not include in this system any group if a majority of its members voted to disapprove the proposed plan or if...
• California Government Code Section 20471
  Approval of the contract shall be by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the governing body, not less...
• California Government Code Section 20471.1
  Notwithstanding Section 20471, and except as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 20469.1, approval of a proposed joint contract by a trial court and county...
• California Government Code Section 20472
  Errors in any contract may be corrected through amendments approved by the adoption of suitable resolutions by the contracting parties. Excluded employees may be included...
• California Government Code Section 20473
  Investigations and valuations necessary to adjust the agency' s contributions on account of changed benefits or conditions of retirement shall be made in the manner...
• California Government Code Section 20474
  Whenever by any provision of law an election is given to contracting agencies to subject themselves and their employees to provisions of this part otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 20475
  Notwithstanding Section 20474, a contracting agency may amend its contract or previous amendments to its contract, without election among its employees, to reduce benefits, to...
• California Government Code Section 20476
  Whenever any provision of this part requires action by ordinance, action by resolution is authorized, except with respect to cities and counties, if the governing...
• California Government Code Section 20477
  If the head of a public agency is an individual, rather than a board or other governing body, all actions required or permitted by this...
• California Government Code Section 20478
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the board of directors of a metropolitan water district, or the governing body of any other public agency,...
• California Government Code Section 20479
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1, no contract...
• California Government Code Section 20479.5
  Notwithstanding Section 20479, where a memorandum of understanding entered prior to August 11, 1988, provided a different retirement benefit formula for a subgroup of employees...
• California Government Code Section 20481
  All members of a local system included by contract in this system thereupon become subject to this part and cease to be members of the...
• California Government Code Section 20482
  Subject to the approval of the board as in the case of all other employees, the contracting agency may elect to continue the local system...
• California Government Code Section 20483
  If all members of the local system become members of this system, the operation of the local system shall be discontinued as of the date...
• California Government Code Section 20484
  Notwithstanding Section 20483, if a member of a local system, which is also a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, elects to join this system...
• California Government Code Section 20485
  It is the intent of the Legislature that contracting agencies in conjunction with recognized local employee organizations, develop alternative retirement plans that provide benefits under...
• California Government Code Section 20486
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 20484, a contracting agency that continued the local system for members who elected to become members of this system prospectively pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 20487
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contracting agency or public agency that becomes the subject of a case under the bankruptcy provisions of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 20500
  The contract may include any provisions consistent with this part and necessary in the administration of this system as it affects the public agency and...
• California Government Code Section 20501
  Contracts with school employers may include school district employees in this system only with respect to service rendered in a status in which they are...
• California Government Code Section 20502
  The contract shall include in this system all firefighters, police officers, county peace officers, local sheriffs, and other employees of the contracting agency, except as...
• California Government Code Section 20503
  Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency may amend its contract to remove exclusions prospectively only, and without creating liability for prior service.
• California Government Code Section 20504
  Notwithstanding Section 20055, a contracting agency, which is a reciprocal system pursuant to Section 20351, may amend its contract to remove an exclusion of groups...
• California Government Code Section 20505
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every employee who enters or reenters service with a contracting agency on and after January 1, 1992, shall immediately...
• California Government Code Section 20506
  Any contract heretofore or hereafter entered into shall subject the contracting agency and its employees to all provisions of this part and all amendments thereto...
• California Government Code Section 20507
  A contracting agency whose contract is effective on and after January 1, 1974, that does not become an employer for purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 20508
  When a contracting agency is succeeded by another agency, whether or not the former agency ceases to exist, or when the functions of a contracting...
• California Government Code Section 20509
  When a school district ceases to exist and is succeeded by, or the territory thereof is attached to, another school district that is a contracting...
• California Government Code Section 20510
  When a hospital becomes a contracting agency pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 20057, the contract shall be construed as a continua