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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  All persons who at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...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, 2012, and, as of January 1, 2013, 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 song.
• 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, a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision...
• 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. (b) In the effort to achieve...
• 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, 912, and 945.6, 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 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 912.6
  (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 912.6, 912.7, or 912.8 or the inaction which is deemed rejection under Section 912.4 shall be...
• 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
  If a claim, amendment to a claim, or application to a public entity for leave to present a late claim is presented or sent by...
• 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 926.16
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no local assistance funds shall be used by any state agency to make penalty payments required under Section 926.15....
• California Government Code Section 926.19
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for by statute, any state agency that fails to pay a person any undisputed payment or refund due to that person...
• 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 invoices prepared and submitted by a state agency to the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 927.3
  Except where payment is made directly by a state agency pursuant to Section 927.6, any undisputed invoice received by a state agency shall be submitted...
• 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 issuance...
• 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 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 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 Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board of all or part of a claim for which the Director of Finance...
• 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 shall be absent from the state for more than 60 days, except in any of...
• 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
  When an officer is removed, declared insane, or convicted of a felony or offense involving a violation of his official duty, or when his election...
• 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 a city, county, city and county, or district in this state forfeits his or her office upon the conviction of a...
• 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 3113
  There is in the Office of the Governor an Office for Citizen Initiative and Voluntary Action, hereinafter referred to as "office", to advocate and encourage...
• California Government Code Section 3114
  The office shall be administered by a director who shall be appointed by and report to, the Governor.
• California Government Code Section 3115
  In addition to funds otherwise provided, the office shall be supported by federal funds. Initial state funding for the office for fiscal year 1978-79 shall...
• California Government Code Section 3116
  In order to maximize the involvement of volunteers in state government, the office is, hereby, authorized in order to develop effective citizen involvement to assist...
• California Government Code Section 3117
  The goals of the office shall be as follows: (a) To foster the spirit of citizen initiative and voluntary action among businesses, industries and individual...
• 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 3119.2
  (a) There is hereby created, within the Office for Citizen Initiative and Voluntary Action, an advisory body which shall be known as the Public Employee...
• 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
  An administrative appeal instituted by a firefighter under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the employing department or...
• 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 following definitions govern this chapter: (a) "Board" means the Medal of Valor Review Board. (b) "Public safety officer" means a person serving a public...
• California Government Code Section 3402
  The Governor annually may award, and present in the name of the State of California, a Medal of Valor of appropriate design, with ribbons and...
• California Government Code Section 3403
  (a) There is established a Medal of Valor Review Board, which shall be comprised of representatives of the organizations named in subdivision (b) and shall...
• California Government Code Section 3404
  (a) The board shall conduct its first meeting not later than 90 days after the appointment of the last member appointed of the initial group...
• California Government Code Section 3405
  (a) The board is authorized to receive donations which shall be used to pay any costs associated with holding its annual meeting and having witnesses....
• 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
  If after meeting and conferring in good faith, an impasse has been reached between the public agency and the recognized employee organization, and impasse procedures,...
• 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 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 3509.5
  (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 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 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 3541.4
  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 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 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 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 XIIIC of the California Constitution, as adopted at the November 5, 1996, general election, shall not be construed to mean that...
• 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) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose...
• 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 in the state prison for...
• 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 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 program participant's certification if there is a change in the residential address from the one listed on the...
• 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 6208.5
  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 6211
  This chapter 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 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 6217
  This chapter 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 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 6218.05
  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) Except as provided in Sections 6254 and 6254.7, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the Department of...
• 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 6254.20
  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: (a) An active or retired peace officer as defined in Sections 830 and 830.1...
• 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 registration and circulation records of any library which is in whole or in part supported by public funds shall remain confidential and shall not...
• 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
  Accident Reports, Admissibility as Evidence, Section 315, Public Utilities Code. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, blood test results, written authorization not necessary for disclosure, Section 121010,...
• 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. California AIDS Program, personal data, confidentiality, Section 120820, Health and Safety Code. California Apple Commission,...
• 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. Data processing systems contracts with state agencies, confidentiality of information, Section 11772,...
• 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, Government Code....
• California Government Code Section 6276.18
  Family counselor and client, confidential information, Section 4982, Business and Professions Code. Family Court, records, Section 1818, Family Law Code. Farm product processor license, confidentiality...
• California Government Code Section 6276.22
  Genetic test results in medical record of applicant or enrollee of specified insurance plans, Sections 10123.35 and 10140.1, Insurance Code. Genetically Handicapped Person's Program, confidentiality...
• California Government Code Section 6276.24
  Harmful matter, distribution, confidentiality of certain recipients, Section 313.1, Penal Code. Hazardous substance tax information, prohibition against disclosure, Section 43651, Revenue and Taxation Code. Hazardous...
• California Government Code Section 6276.26
  Improper obtaining or distributing of information from Department of Motor Vehicles, Sections 1808.46 and 1808.47, Vehicle Code. Improper governmental activities reporting, confidentiality of identity of...
• California Government Code Section 6276.28
  Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, confidentiality of reports and records, Section 8953, Government Code. Judicial candidates, confidentiality of communications concerning, Section 12011.5, Government Code. Jurors' lists,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.30
  Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, negotiations with entities contracting or seeking to contract with the board, subdivisions (v) and (y) of Section 6254, Government Code....
• 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 11977, 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. Real estate broker, annual report to Department of Real Estate of financial information,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.40
  Sales and use tax, disclosure of information, Section 7056, Revenue and Taxation Code. Savings association employees, disclosure of criminal history information, Sections 6525 and 8012,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.42
  State agency activities relating to unrepresented employees, subdivision (p) of Section 6254, Government Code. State agency activities relating to providers of health care, subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 6276.44
  Taxpayer information, confidentiality, local taxes, subdivision (i), Section 6254, Government Code. Tax preparer, disclosure of information obtained in business of preparing tax returns, Section 17530.5,...
• 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 and dependent children, release of description information about minor escapees, Section 828, Welfare and Institutions Code. Wards, petition for sealing records, Section 781, Welfare...
• 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 6503.7
  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 6509.7
  (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) The Elk Valley Rancheria Tribal Council, as the governing body of the Elk Valley Rancheria, California, a federally recognized Indian tribe, may enter into...
• California Government Code Section 6530
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians are authorized to enter into a joint powers agreement to participate in...
• 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 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 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) "Authority" means an entity created pursuant to Article 1 (commencing...
• 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 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 6592.5
  (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
  Public offices of the State, state institutions, and the University of California shall be closed on Admission Day. Public offices of the State and 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 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 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 7072.5
  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 may establish, charge, and collect a fee as reimbursement for the costs of its administration of this chapter. The department shall assess...
• 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 may establish, charge, and collect a fee as reimbursement for the costs of its administration of this chapter. The department shall assess...
• 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 prohibits any of the following: (a) The dissemination of any financial information that is not identified with, or identifiable as being...
• 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 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 7514
  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 7528
  (a) In addition to any other requirement, every state agency, as defined in Section 11000, that issues permits or licenses or accepts applications, proposals, bids,...
• California Government Code Section 7528.1
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• 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 7572.5
  (a) When an assessment is conducted pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 56320) of Chapter 4 of Part 30 of the Education Code, which...
• California Government Code Section 7572.55
  (a) Residential placements for a child with a disability who is seriously emotionally disturbed may be made out-of-state only after in-state alternatives have been considered...
• 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 7576
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health, or a community mental health service, as described in Section 5602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, designated...
• California Government Code Section 7576.2
  (a) The Director of the State Department of Mental Health is responsible for monitoring county mental health agencies to ensure compliance with the requirement to...
• California Government Code Section 7576.3
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Director of the State Department of Mental Health collaborate with an entity with expertise in children's...
• California Government Code Section 7576.5
  If funds are appropriated to local educational agencies to support the costs of providing services pursuant to this chapter, the local educational agencies shall transfer...
• 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 Services or the State Department of Mental Health, or their designated...
• 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 7586.5
  Not later than January 1, 1988, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency jointly shall submit to...
• California Government Code Section 7586.6
  (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency shall ensure that the State Department of Education and...
• California Government Code Section 7586.7
  The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency jointly shall prepare and implement within existing resources a plan...
• 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 7588
  This chapter shall become operative on July 1, 1986, except Section 7583, which shall become operative on January 1, 1985.
• 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 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 XIIIB of...
• California Government Code Section 7901
  For the purposes of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution and this division: (a) "Change in California per capita personal income" means the number resulting...
• 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, 1988, but prior to January 1, 1990, shall be determined pursuant to...
• 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 XIIIB, a local jurisdiction may return excess revenues by granting a tax credit or refund, by providing...
• 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 XIIIB of the California Constitution, the financial responsibility of providing services is transferred in whole...
• California Government Code Section 7914
  An appropriation for a "qualified capital outlay project," as used in subdivision (d) of Section 9 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution, means an...
• 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...
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