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• California Government Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Government Code.
• California Government Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall...
• California Government Code Section 3
  All persons who at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued...
• California Government Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein...
• California Government Code Section 5
  Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Government Code Section 6
  Title, division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• California Government Code Section 7
  Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be...
• California Government Code Section 7.5
  Whenever, by any law, the director of any state department is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee, or of the governing...
• California Government Code Section 7.6
  (a) If by law, any officer whose office is created by the California Constitution is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee,...
• California Government Code Section 7.7
  The provisions of Sections 7.5 and 7.6 do not affect or modify in any manner the provisions of Section 7.
• California Government Code Section 7.8
  Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, the Directors of Finance, General Services, and Education may appoint any deputy or assistant director in their...
• California Government Code Section 7.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction may designate...
• California Government Code Section 7.9a
  At the request of the Controller, two employees of that officer, in addition to those provided for in Section 7.9, shall be classified and compensated...
• California Government Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9
  Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and...
• California Government Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. "Subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which the term...
• California Government Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
• California Government Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Government Code Section 12.5
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms "man" or "men" where appropriate shall be deemed "person" or "persons" and any references to the...
• California Government Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• California Government Code Section 14
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Government Code Section 15
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Government Code Section 16
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Government Code Section 16.5
  (a) In any written communication with a public entity, as defined in Section 811.2, in which a signature is required or used, any party to...
• California Government Code Section 17
  "Person" includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company.
• California Government Code Section 18
  "State" means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of...
• California Government Code Section 19
  "County" includes city and county.
• California Government Code Section 20
  "City" includes "city and county" and "incorporated town," but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village."
• California Government Code Section 21
  "Town" includes "unincorporated town" and "village."
• California Government Code Section 22
  "Process" includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
• California Government Code Section 23
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Government Code Section 24
  The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term "workmen's compensation" shall hereafter also be known as "workers' compensation." In furtherance of this policy it...
• California Government Code Section 25
  (a) For purposes of this code, "assessed value" means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of...
• California Government Code Section 26
  For the purposes of this code, "recycled water" or "reclaimed water" has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 100
  (a) The sovereignty of the state resides in the people thereof, and all writs and processes shall issue in their name. (b) The style of...
• California Government Code Section 110
  The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this State extends to all places within its boundaries as established by the constitution. The extent of such jurisdiction over...
• California Government Code Section 111
  The jurisdiction of the State over certain lands designated in the following statutes is subject to the cession of jurisdiction granted the United States by...
• California Government Code Section 112
  The State has accepted the retrocession of jurisdiction over certain lands by the following statutes: (a) Statutes of 1935, Chapter 828, concerning the Presidio in...
• California Government Code Section 113
  The Legislature of California hereby consents to the retrocession of jurisdiction by the United States of land within this state upon and subject to each...
• California Government Code Section 115
  All jurisdiction ceded to the United States by this article is limited by the terms of any retrocession of jurisdiction heretofore or hereafter granted by...
• California Government Code Section 118
  The State consents to the use by the United States of the territorial waters of the State adjacent to any land on the coast of...
• California Government Code Section 119
  Exclusive jurisdiction shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States over and within all of the territory which is now or...
• California Government Code Section 126
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, the Legislature of California hereby cedes concurrent criminal jurisdiction to the United States within land held...
• California Government Code Section 127
  In addition to other records maintained by the State Lands Commission, the commission shall prepare and maintain an adequate index or record of documents with...
• California Government Code Section 160
  The line run and marked by the United States Government under the Act of June 10, 1872, 17 Stat. 358 (1872) from the southern boundary...
• California Government Code Section 170
  To give greater precision to the boundary of the State of California as defined in Article XXI of the Constitution, it is hereby declared that...
• California Government Code Section 171
  All waters between the mainland and the outermost of the islands, reefs and rocks along and adjacent to the coast of the State of California...
• California Government Code Section 172
  The reference in Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitution to "the navigable waters of this State," the reference in Section 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 175
  The interstate compact executed between the States of Arizona and California, as set forth in Section 176 of this chapter, fixing the location of the...
• California Government Code Section 176
  The provisions of the interstate compact between the States of Arizona and California referred to in Section 175 are as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT DEFINING THE...
• California Government Code Section 177
  The Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact as set forth in Section 178 executed between the State of California, through its then Governor, Earl Warren,...
• California Government Code Section 178
  The provisions of the Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact between the State of California and other states which are parties to the compact referred...
• California Government Code Section 178.5
  In addition to any other authority conferred upon him, the Governor is authorized and may execute for, on behalf of, and in the name of...
• California Government Code Section 179
  (a) It is the intent of the State of California to continue its long history of sharing emergency response resources with other states during times...
• California Government Code Section 179.5
  The provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact between the State of California and other states that are parties to the compact referred to in...
• California Government Code Section 179.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 6 of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall indemnify and make whole any officer...
• California Government Code Section 179.8
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall not deploy any personnel under the compact...
• California Government Code Section 179.9
  This article shall become inoperative on March 1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative...
• California Government Code Section 180
  As used herein, "property" includes real and personal property.
• California Government Code Section 181
  The original and ultimate right to all property within the limits of the State is in the people thereof.
• California Government Code Section 182
  All property within the limits of the State, which does not belong to any person, belongs to the people. Whenever the title to any property...
• California Government Code Section 183
  The State may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law.
• California Government Code Section 185
  The Governor may execute and deliver to the United States all necessary deeds or other conveyances on behalf of the State, in any case where...
• California Government Code Section 186
  (a) As used in succeeding subdivisions of this section "public domain" refers to such portion of the public domain of the State of California as...
• California Government Code Section 200
  The State has the rights prescribed in this article over persons within its limits, to be exercised in the cases and in the manner provided...
• California Government Code Section 201
  The State may punish for crime.
• California Government Code Section 202
  The state may imprison or confine for the protection of the public peace or health or of individual life or safety.
• California Government Code Section 203
  The State may establish custody and restraint of: (a) Mentally ill persons, insane persons, chronic inebriates, and other persons of unsound mind. (b) Paupers for...
• California Government Code Section 204
  The State may require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town officers; in highway labor;...
• California Government Code Section 240
  The people, as a political body, consist of: (a) Citizens who are electors. (b) Citizens not electors.
• California Government Code Section 241
  The citizens of the State are: (a) All persons born in the State and residing within it, except the children of transient aliens and of...
• California Government Code Section 242
  Persons in the State not its citizens are either: (a) Citizens of other States; or (b) Aliens.
• California Government Code Section 243
  Every person has, in law, a residence.
• California Government Code Section 244
  In determining the place of residence the following rules shall be observed: (a) It is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for...
• California Government Code Section 245
  Absence from this state, on business of the state or of the United States, shall not affect the question of residence of any person.
• California Government Code Section 270
  Every person while within the State is subject to its jurisdiction and entitled to its protection.
• California Government Code Section 271
  Allegiance is the obligation of fidelity and obedience which every citizen owes to the State.
• California Government Code Section 272
  Allegiance may be renounced by a change of residence.
• California Government Code Section 273
  A citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of the State, has the same rights and duties as a citizen of the...
• California Government Code Section 274
  An elector has no rights or duties beyond those of a citizen not an elector, except the right and duty of holding office and voting.
• California Government Code Section 275.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public officer who is a minor shall have the rights and liabilities of an adult, both civil and...
• California Government Code Section 399
  (a) There shall be a seal of this state, which shall be called "the Great Seal of the State of California." (b) The Great Seal...
• California Government Code Section 400
  The design of the Great Seal of the State shall correspond substantially with the following representation thereof: * * * * * * * *...
• California Government Code Section 401
  Any document signed prior to August 27, 1937, by the Governor, the Secretary of State, or both of them and bearing an impression purporting to...
• California Government Code Section 402
  (a) Every person who maliciously or for commercial purposes uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the Great Seal of the...
• California Government Code Section 402.5
  (a) In addition to the acts prohibited by Section 402, a person who uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the...
• California Government Code Section 403
  All grants and commissions shall be kept in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of California, sealed with the...
• California Government Code Section 404
  (a) No person shall represent, either directly or indirectly, that the State of California is sponsoring or endorsing a world's fair or exhibition unless the...
• California Government Code Section 405
  When the Great Seal of the state is prepared in color, the following colors shall be used: The field of the seal shall be Independence...
• California Government Code Section 420
  The Bear Flag is the State Flag of California. As viewed with the hoist end of the flag to the left of the observer there...
• California Government Code Section 420.5
  "Eureka" is the official State Motto.
• California Government Code Section 420.75
  "The Golden State" is the official State Nickname.
• California Government Code Section 421
  The golden poppy (Eschscholtzia) is the official State Flower. April 6 of each year is hereby designated California Poppy Day.
• California Government Code Section 421.5
  (a) West Coast Swing Dance is the official state dance. (b) The Square Dance is the official state folk dance.
• California Government Code Section 421.7
  "I Love You, California," a song published in 1913 with lyrics by F. B. Silverwood and music by A. F. Frankenstein, is an official state
• California Government Code Section 422
  The California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoia gigantea) is the official state tree.
• California Government Code Section 422.5
  (a) The California desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is the official state reptile. (b) The Pacific leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the official state marine
• 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
  (a) Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this part govern the construction of this division. (b) This division may be...
• California Government Code Section 810.2
  "Employee" includes an officer, judicial officer as defined in Section 327 of the Elections Code, employee, or servant, whether or not compensated, but does not...
• California Government Code Section 810.4
  "Employment" includes office or employment.
• California Government Code Section 810.6
  "Enactment" means a constitutional provision, statute, charter provision, ordinance or regulation.
• California Government Code Section 810.8
  "Injury" means death, injury to a person, damage to or loss of property, or any other injury that a person may suffer to his person,...
• California Government Code Section 811
  "Law" includes not only enactments but also the decisional law applicable within this State as determined and declared from time to time by the courts...
• California Government Code Section 811.2
  "Public entity" includes the state, the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University and the California State University, a...
• California Government Code Section 811.4
  "Public employee" means an employee of a public entity.
• California Government Code Section 811.6
  "Regulation" means a rule, regulation, order or standard, having the force of law, adopted by an employee or agency of the United States pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 811.8
  "Statute" means an act adopted by the Legislature of this State or by the Congress of the United States, or a statewide initiative act.
• California Government Code Section 811.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judges, subordinate judicial officers, and court executive officers of the superior courts are state officers for purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 814
  Nothing in this part affects liability based on contract or the right to obtain relief other than money or damages against a public entity or...
• California Government Code Section 814.2
  Nothing in this part shall be construed to impliedly repeal any provision of Division 4 (commencing with Section 3201) or Division 4.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 815
  Except as otherwise provided by statute: (a) A public entity is not liable for an injury, whether such injury arises out of an act or...
• California Government Code Section 815.2
  (a) A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by an act or omission of an employee of the public entity within the scope...
• California Government Code Section 815.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, unless the elected official and the public entity are named as codefendants in the same action, a...
• California Government Code Section 815.4
  A public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by a tortious act or omission of an independent contractor of the public entity to the...
• California Government Code Section 815.6
  Where a public entity is under a mandatory duty imposed by an enactment that is designed to protect against the risk of a particular kind...
• California Government Code Section 816
  A public entity is not liable for injury arising out of any activity conducted by a member of the California National Guard pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 818
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public entity is not liable for damages awarded under Section 3294 of the Civil Code or other damages...
• California Government Code Section 818.2
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by adopting or failing to adopt an enactment or by failing to enforce any law.
• California Government Code Section 818.4
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by the issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by the failure or refusal to...
• California Government Code Section 818.5
  The Department of Motor Vehicles is liable for any injury to a lienholder or good faith purchaser of a vehicle proximately caused by the department's...
• California Government Code Section 818.6
  A public entity is not liable for injury caused by its failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent...
• California Government Code Section 818.7
  No board, commission, or any public officer or employee of the state or of any district, county, city and county, or city is liable for...
• California Government Code Section 818.8
  A public entity is not liable for an injury caused by misrepresentation by an employee of the public entity, whether or not such misrepresentation be...
• California Government Code Section 818.9
  A court or county, its employees, independent contractors, and volunteers shall not be liable because of any advice provided to small claims court litigants or...
• California Government Code Section 820
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute (including Section 820.2), a public employee is liable for injury caused by his act or omission to the...
• California Government Code Section 820.2
  Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission where the act or...
• California Government Code Section 820.21
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the civil immunity of juvenile court social workers, child protection workers, and other public employees authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 820.25
  (a) For purposes of Section 820.2, the decision of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1 and 830.2 of the Penal Code, or a...
• California Government Code Section 820.4
  A public employee is not liable for his act or omission, exercising due care, in the execution or enforcement of any law. Nothing in this...
• California Government Code Section 820.6
  If a public employee acts in good faith, without malice, and under the apparent authority of an enactment that is unconstitutional, invalid or inapplicable, he...
• California Government Code Section 820.8
  Except as otherwise provided by statute, a public employee is not liable for an injury caused by the act or omission of another person. Nothing...
• California Government Code Section 820.9
  Members of city councils, mayors, members of boards of supervisors, members of school boards, members of governing boards of other local public entities, members of...
• California Government Code Section 821
  A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his adoption of or failure to adopt an enactment or by his failure to...
• California Government Code Section 821.2
  A public employee is not liable for an injury caused by his issuance, denial, suspension or revocation of, or by his failure or refusal to...
• California Government Code Section 821.4
  A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his failure to make an inspection, or by reason of making an inadequate or negligent...
• California Government Code Section 821.5
  A public entity or a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is not liable for failing to prohibit or restrict the time...
• California Government Code Section 821.6
  A public employee is not liable for injury caused by his instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding within the scope of his employment,...
• California Government Code Section 821.8
  A public employee is not liable for an injury arising out of his entry upon any property where such entry is expressly or impliedly authorized...
• California Government Code Section 822
  A public employee is not liable for money stolen from his official custody. Nothing in this section exonerates a public employee from liability if the...
• California Government Code Section 822.2
  A public employee acting in the scope of his employment is not liable for an injury caused by his misrepresentation, whether or not such misrepresentation...
• California Government Code Section 823
  Neither the widow, widower, nor the heirs of a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.32 of the Penal Code, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 825
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if an employee or former employee of a public entity requests the public entity to defend him...
• California Government Code Section 825.2
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), if an employee or former employee of a public entity pays any claim or judgment against him, or any portion...
• California Government Code Section 825.4
  Except as provided in Section 825.6, if a public entity pays any claim or judgment against itself or against an employee or former employee of...
• California Government Code Section 825.6
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if a public entity pays any claim or judgment, or any portion thereof, either against itself or...
• California Government Code Section 827
  A provider of health care, as defined in Section 56.05 of the Civil Code, its officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors, who are defended by the...
• California Government Code Section 830
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Dangerous condition" means a condition of property that creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial or insignificant)...
• California Government Code Section 830.1
  For purposes of this chapter, seismic safety improvements or fire sprinkler improvements which are owned, built, controlled, operated, and maintained by the private owner of...
• California Government Code Section 830.2
  A condition is not a dangerous condition within the meaning of this chapter if the trial or appellate court, viewing the evidence most favorably to...
• California Government Code Section 830.4
  A condition is not a dangerous condition within the meaning of this chapter merely because of the failure to provide regulatory traffic control signals, stop...
• California Government Code Section 830.5
  (a) Except where the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is applicable, the happening of the accident which results in the injury is not in and...
• California Government Code Section 830.6
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by the plan or design of a construction...
• California Government Code Section 830.8
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by the failure to provide traffic or warning...
• California Government Code Section 830.9
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the operation or nonoperation of official traffic control signals when...
• California Government Code Section 831
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the effect on the use of streets and highways of...
• California Government Code Section 831.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by a natural condition of any unimproved public property, including but...
• California Government Code Section 831.21
  (a) Public beaches shall be deemed to be in a natural condition and unimproved notwithstanding the provision or absence of public safety services such as...
• California Government Code Section 831.25
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for any damage or injury to property, or for emotional distress unless the plaintiff...
• California Government Code Section 831.3
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for any injury occurring on account of the grading or the performance of other maintenance...
• California Government Code Section 831.4
  A public entity, public employee, or a grantor of a public easement to a public entity for any of the following purposes, is not liable...
• California Government Code Section 831.5
  (a) The Legislature declares that innovative public access programs, such as agreements with public land trusts, can provide effective and responsible alternatives to costly public...
• California Government Code Section 831.6
  Neither the State nor an employee of the State is liable under this chapter for any injury caused by a condition of the unimproved and...
• California Government Code Section 831.7
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable to any person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity, including any person who...
• California Government Code Section 831.8
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (d) and (e), neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable under this chapter for an injury caused by...
• California Government Code Section 835
  Except as provided by statute, a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the plaintiff establishes that...
• California Government Code Section 835.2
  (a) A public entity had actual notice of a dangerous condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 835 if it had actual knowledge...
• California Government Code Section 835.4
  (a) A public entity is not liable under subdivision (a) of Section 835 for injury caused by a condition of its property if the public...
• California Government Code Section 840
  Except as provided in this article, a public employee is not liable for injury caused by a condition of public property where such condition exists...
• California Government Code Section 840.2
  An employee of a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of public property if the plaintiff establishes that the property...
• California Government Code Section 840.4
  (a) A public employee had actual notice of a dangerous condition within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 840.2 if he had actual personal...
• California Government Code Section 840.6
  (a) A public employee is not liable under subdivision (a) of Section 840.2 for injury caused by a dangerous condition of public property if he...
• California Government Code Section 844
  As used in this chapter, "prisoner" includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. For the purposes of this chapter, a...
• California Government Code Section 844.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, except as provided in this section and in Sections 814, 814.2, 845.4, and 845.6, or in Title...
• California Government Code Section 845
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise to provide police protection service or,...
• California Government Code Section 845.2
  Except as provided in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 830), neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to provide a...
• California Government Code Section 845.4
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for interfering with the right of a prisoner...
• California Government Code Section 845.6
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury proximately caused by the failure of the employee to furnish or obtain medical...
• California Government Code Section 845.8
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for: (a) Any injury resulting from determining whether to parole or release a prisoner or...
• California Government Code Section 846
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury caused by the failure to make an arrest or by the failure to...
• California Government Code Section 850
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a fire department or otherwise to provide fire protection service.
• California Government Code Section 850.2
  Neither a public entity that has undertaken to provide fire protection service, nor an employee of such a public entity, is liable for any injury...
• California Government Code Section 850.4
  Neither a public entity, nor a public employee acting in the scope of his employment, is liable for any injury resulting from the condition of...
• California Government Code Section 850.6
  (a) Whenever a public entity provides fire protection or firefighting service outside of the area regularly served and protected by the public entity providing that...
• California Government Code Section 850.8
  Any member of an organized fire department, fire protection district, or other firefighting unit of either the state or any political subdivision, any employee of...
• California Government Code Section 854
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "medical facility" includes a hospital, infirmary, clinic, dispensary, mental institution, or similar facility.
• California Government Code Section 854.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure continuity of care for clients of Agnews Developmental Center and Lanterman Developmental Center. (b) In...
• California Government Code Section 854.2
  As used in this chapter, "mental institution" means a state hospital for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered or persons with intellectual disabilities,...
• California Government Code Section 854.3
  As used in this chapter, "county psychiatric hospital" means the hospital, ward, or facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions of Section 7100...
• California Government Code Section 854.4
  As used in this chapter, "mental illness or addiction" means any condition for which a person may be detained, cared for, or treated in a...
• California Government Code Section 854.5
  As used in this chapter, "confine" includes admit, commit, place, detain, or hold in custody.
• California Government Code Section 854.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, except as provided in this section and in Sections 814, 814.2, 855, and 855.2, a public entity...
• California Government Code Section 855
  (a) A public entity that operates or maintains any medical facility that is subject to regulation by the State Department of Health Services, Social Services,...
• California Government Code Section 855.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for interfering with the right of an inmate...
• California Government Code Section 855.4
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury resulting from the decision to perform or not to perform any...
• California Government Code Section 855.6
  Except for an examination or diagnosis for the purpose of treatment, neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his...
• California Government Code Section 855.8
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing...
• California Government Code Section 856
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for any injury resulting from determining in...
• California Government Code Section 856.2
  (a) Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for: (1) An injury caused by an escaping or escaped person who has been...
• California Government Code Section 856.4
  Except as provided in Section 815.6, neither a public entity nor a public employee acting in the scope of his employment is liable for an...
• California Government Code Section 856.6
  (a) A public entity, public employee, or volunteer, participating in the National Influenza Program of 1976, shall not be liable for an injury caused by...
• California Government Code Section 860
  As used in this chapter, "tax" includes a tax, assessment, fee or charge.
• California Government Code Section 860.2
  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by: (a) Instituting any judicial or administrative proceeding or action for...
• California Government Code Section 860.4
  Nothing in this chapter affects any law relating to refund, rebate, exemption, cancellation, amendment or adjustment of taxes.
• California Government Code Section 862
  (a) As used in this section, "pesticide" means: (1) An "economic poison" as defined in Section 12753 of the Agricultural Code; (2) An "injurious material"...
• California Government Code Section 865
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The gradual movement of land, such as in prehistoric slide areas, or as a result of subsidence...
• California Government Code Section 866
  (a) Subject to the provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c), in the event of public necessity and to avoid impending peril to persons or property...
• California Government Code Section 867
  An employee of a local public entity is not liable for damages for injury to persons or property resulting from an impending peril or from...
• California Government Code Section 895
  As used in this chapter "agreement" means a joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of...
• California Government Code Section 895.2
  Whenever any public entities enter into an agreement, they are jointly and severally liable upon any liability which is imposed by any law other than...
• California Government Code Section 895.4
  As part of any agreement, the public entities may provide for contribution or indemnification by any or all of the public entities that are parties...
• California Government Code Section 895.6
  Unless the public entities that are parties to an agreement otherwise provide in the agreement, if a public entity is held liable upon any judgment...
• California Government Code Section 895.8
  Except for Section 895.6, this chapter applies to any agreement between public entities, whether entered into before or after the effective date of this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 900
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 900.2
  "Board" means: (a) In the case of a local public entity, the governing body of the local public entity. (b) In the case of the...
• California Government Code Section 900.3
  A "judicial branch entity" is a public entity and means any superior court, court of appeals, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, or the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 900.4
  "Local public entity" includes a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the State, but does...
• California Government Code Section 900.6
  "State" means the State and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State claims against which are paid by warrants...
• California Government Code Section 901
  For the purpose of computing the time limits prescribed by Sections 911.2, 911.4, 945.6, and 946.6, the date of the accrual of a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 905
  There shall be presented in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910) all claims for money or...
• California Government Code Section 905.1
  No claim is required to be filed to maintain an action against a public entity for taking of, or damage to, private property pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 905.2
  (a) This section shall apply to claims against the state filed with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board. (b) There shall be presented...
• California Government Code Section 905.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no claim shall be submitted by a local agency or school district, nor shall a claim...
• California Government Code Section 905.4
  Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 910) of this part shall not be construed to be an exclusive means...
• California Government Code Section 905.5
  A school district, its officers, directors, or employees shall have no civil liability in any civil action for injury, disease, death, or economic loss arising...
• California Government Code Section 905.6
  This part does not apply to claims against the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 905.7
  All claims against a judicial branch entity for money or damages based upon an express contract or for an injury for which the judicial branch...
• California Government Code Section 905.8
  Nothing in this part imposes liability upon a public entity unless such liability otherwise exists.
• California Government Code Section 905.9
  All claims against the California State University for money or damages based upon an express contract or for an injury for which the Trustees of...
• California Government Code Section 906
  (a) As used in this section, "amount allowed on the claim" means the amount allowed by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board on...
• California Government Code Section 907
  A local public entity, as defined in Section 900.4, may offset any delinquent amount due it for services rendered to any other local public entity....
• California Government Code Section 910
  A claim shall be presented by the claimant or by a person acting on his or her behalf and shall show all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 910.2
  The claim shall be signed by the claimant or by some person on his behalf. Claims against local public entities for supplies, materials, equipment or...
• California Government Code Section 910.4
  The board shall provide forms specifying the information to be contained in claims against the state or a judicial branch entity. The person presenting a...
• California Government Code Section 910.6
  (a) A claim may be amended at any time before the expiration of the period designated in Section 911.2 or before final action thereon is...
• California Government Code Section 910.8
  If, in the opinion of the board or the person designated by it, a claim as presented fails to comply substantially with the requirements of...
• California Government Code Section 911
  Any defense as to the sufficiency of the claim based upon a defect or omission in the claim as presented is waived by failure to...
• California Government Code Section 911.2
  (a) A claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person or to personal property or growing crops shall be...
• California Government Code Section 911.3
  (a) When a claim that is required by Section 911.2 to be presented not later than six months after accrual of the cause of action...
• California Government Code Section 911.4
  (a) When a claim that is required by Section 911.2 to be presented not later than six months after the accrual of the cause of...
• California Government Code Section 911.6
  (a) The board shall grant or deny the application within 45 days after it is presented to the board. The claimant and the board may...
• California Government Code Section 911.8
  (a) Written notice of the board's action upon the application shall be given in the manner prescribed by Section 915.4. (b) If the application is...
• California Government Code Section 912.2
  If an application for leave to present a claim is granted by the board pursuant to Section 911.6, the claim shall be deemed to have...
• California Government Code Section 912.4
  (a) The board shall act on a claim in the manner provided in Section 912.6, 912.7, or 912.8 within 45 days after the claim has...
• California Government Code Section 912.5
  (a) The Trustees of the California State University shall act on a claim against the California State University in accordance with the procedure that the...
• California Government Code Section 912.6
  (a) In the case of a claim against a local public entity, the board may act on a claim in one of the following ways:...
• California Government Code Section 912.7
  The Judicial Council shall act on a claim against a judicial branch entity or judge of one of those entities in accordance with the procedure...
• California Government Code Section 912.8
  Except as provided in Section 912.7, in the case of claims against the state, the board shall act on claims in accordance with that procedure...
• California Government Code Section 913
  (a) Written notice of the action taken under Section 912.5, 912.6, 912.7, or 912.8 or the inaction that is deemed rejection under Section 912.4 shall...
• California Government Code Section 913.2
  The board may, in its discretion, within the time prescribed by Section 945.6 for commencing an action on the claim, re-examine a previously rejected claim...
• California Government Code Section 915
  (a) A claim, any amendment thereto, or an application to the public entity for leave to present a late claim shall be presented to a...
• California Government Code Section 915.2
  (a) If a claim, amendment to a claim, or application to a public entity for leave to present a late claim is presented or sent...
• California Government Code Section 915.4
  (a) The notices provided for in Sections 910.8, 911.8, and 913 shall be given by either of the following methods: (1) Personally delivering the notice...
• California Government Code Section 920
  As used in this chapter, "omnibus claim appropriation" means an act of appropriation, or an item of appropriation in a budget act, by which the...
• California Government Code Section 920.2
  Promptly following the effective date of an omnibus claim appropriation, the board or its secretary shall submit to the Controller a claim covering the full...
• California Government Code Section 920.4
  If the Controller believes or has reason to believe that the payment of any portion of the omnibus claim appropriation may violate the provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 920.6
  Unless the Joint Legislative Budget Committee within 60 days after receipt of such notice advises the board in writing that the Legislature desires to reconsider...
• California Government Code Section 920.8
  If the Joint Legislative Budget Committee advises the board that the Legislature desires to reconsider any part of the omnibus claim appropriation withheld by the...
• California Government Code Section 925
  As used in this chapter, "board" means the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
• California Government Code Section 925.2
  Claims for expenses of either house of the Legislature or members or committees thereof are exempt from Section 13920 and this chapter, except Section 925.6,...
• California Government Code Section 925.4
  Any person having a claim against the State for which appropriations have been made, or for which state funds are available, may present it to...
• California Government Code Section 925.6
  (a) The Controller shall not draw his or her warrant for any claim until it has been audited by him or her in conformity with...
• California Government Code Section 925.8
  If the Controller approves a claim he shall draw his warrant for the amount approved in favor of the claimant.
• California Government Code Section 926
  If he disapproves a claim, the Controller shall file it and a statement of his disapproval and his reasons with the board as prescribed in...
• California Government Code Section 926.2
  The Controller shall not entertain for a second time a claim against the State once rejected by him or by the Legislature unless such facts...
• California Government Code Section 926.4
  Any person who is aggrieved by the disapproval of a claim by the Controller, may appeal to the board. If the board finds that facts...
• California Government Code Section 926.6
  After final rejection of a claim by the Controller following reconsideration, any person interested may appeal to the Legislature by filing with the board a...
• California Government Code Section 926.8
  Whenever a governmental agency of the United States, in the collection of taxes or amounts owing to it, is authorized by federal law to levy...
• California Government Code Section 926.10
  Any public entity as defined by Section 811.2 having a liquidated claim against any other public entity based on contract or statute of the State...
• California Government Code Section 927
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Prompt Payment Act. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that...
• California Government Code Section 927.1
  (a) (1) A state agency that acquires property or services pursuant to a contract with a business, including any approved change order or contract amendment,...
• California Government Code Section 927.2
  The following definitions apply to this chapter: (a) "Claim schedule" means a schedule of payment requests prepared and submitted by a state agency to the...
• California Government Code Section 927.3
  (a) Except where payment is made directly by a state agency pursuant to Section 927.6, an undisputed invoice received by a state agency shall be...
• California Government Code Section 927.4
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, to avoid late payment penalties, the maximum time from state agency receipt of an undisputed invoice to the...
• California Government Code Section 927.5
  This chapter shall not apply to claims for reimbursement for health care services provided under the Medi-Cal program, unless the Medi-Cal health care services provider...
• California Government Code Section 927.6
  (a) State agencies shall pay applicable penalties, without requiring that the claimant submit an additional invoice for these amounts, whenever the state agency fails to...
• California Government Code Section 927.7
  The Controller shall pay claimants within 15 calendar days of receipt of a correct claim schedule from the state agency. If the Controller fails to...
• California Government Code Section 927.8
  State agencies shall avoid seeking any additional appropriation to pay penalties that accrue as a result of the agency' s failure to make timely payments...
• California Government Code Section 927.9
  (a) On an annual basis, within 90 calendar days following the end of each fiscal year, state agencies shall provide the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 927.10
  State agencies shall encourage claimants to promptly pay their subcontractors and suppliers, especially those that are small businesses. In furtherance of this policy, state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 927.11
  (a) Except in the case of a contract with a certified small business, a nonprofit organization, or a nonprofit public benefit corporation, if an invoice...
• California Government Code Section 927.12
  Section 926.10 shall not apply to any contract covered by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 927.13
  (a) Unless otherwise provided for by statute, any state agency that fails to submit a correct claim schedule to the Controller within 30 days of...
• California Government Code Section 930
  (a) Any state agency may include in any written agreement to which the agency is a party, provisions governing the following: (1) The presentation, by...
• California Government Code Section 930.2
  The governing body of a local public entity may include in any written agreement to which the entity, its governing body, or any board or...
• California Government Code Section 930.4
  A claims procedure established by agreement made pursuant to Section 930 or Section 930.2 exclusively governs the claims to which it relates, except that if...
• California Government Code Section 930.6
  A claims procedure established by agreement made pursuant to Section 930 or Section 930.2 may include a requirement that a claim be presented and acted...
• California Government Code Section 935
  (a) Claims against a local public entity for money or damages which are excepted by Section 905 from Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and...
• California Government Code Section 935.2
  A charter provision, or a local public entity by ordinance or resolution, may establish a claims board or commission of not less than three members...
• California Government Code Section 935.4
  A charter provision, or a local public entity by ordinance or resolution, may authorize an employee of the local public entity to perform those functions...
• California Government Code Section 935.6
  (a) The Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board may authorize any state agency to settle and pay claims filed pursuant to Section 905.2 if the...
• California Government Code Section 935.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 935.6, the Department of Transportation may deny or adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of the department without...
• California Government Code Section 935.8
  The Judicial Council may adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of a judicial branch entity or judge thereof. The Judicial Council...
• California Government Code Section 935.9
  The Trustees of the California State University may adjust and pay any claim arising out of the activities of the California State University. The Trustees...
• California Government Code Section 940
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this part.
• California Government Code Section 940.2
  "Board" means: (a) In the case of a local public entity, the governing body of the local public entity. (b) In the case of the...
• California Government Code Section 940.3
  A "judicial branch entity" is a public entity and means any superior court, court of appeals, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, or the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 940.4
  "Local public entity" includes a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the State, but does...
• California Government Code Section 940.6
  "State" means the State and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or agency of the State claims against which are paid by warrants...
• California Government Code Section 942
  Nothing in this division shall be construed to deprive a claimant of the right to resort to writ of mandate or other proceeding against the...
• California Government Code Section 943
  This part does not apply to claims or actions against the Regents of the University of California nor to claims or actions against an employee...
• California Government Code Section 944
  Nothing in this part imposes liability upon a public entity unless such liability otherwise exists.
• California Government Code Section 945
  A public entity may sue and be sued.
• California Government Code Section 945.2
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the rules of practice in civil actions apply to actions brought against public entities.
• California Government Code Section 945.3
  No person charged by indictment, information, complaint, or other accusatory pleading charging a criminal offense may bring a civil action for money or damages against...
• California Government Code Section 945.4
  Except as provided in Sections 946.4 and 946.6, no suit for money or damages may be brought against a public entity on a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 945.6
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 946.4 and 946.6 and subject to subdivision (b), any suit brought against a public entity on a cause of...
• California Government Code Section 945.8
  Except where a different statute of limitations is specifically applicable to the public entity, and except as provided in Sections 930.6 and 935, any action...
• California Government Code Section 946
  Where a claim that is required to be presented to a public entity in accordance with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 900) and Chapter 2...
• California Government Code Section 946.4
  (a) Where provision is made by or pursuant to law that no suit may be brought against a public agency as defined in Section 53050...
• California Government Code Section 946.6
  (a) If an application for leave to present a claim is denied or deemed to be denied pursuant to Section 911.6, a petition may be...
• California Government Code Section 948
  (a) The head of the state agency concerned, upon recommendation of the Attorney General or other attorney authorized to represent the state, may settle, adjust,...
• California Government Code Section 948.1
  The Judicial Council may settle, adjust, or compromise any pending action arising out of the activities of a judicial branch entity or judge thereof. The...
• California Government Code Section 949
  The governing body of a local public entity may compromise, or may delegate the authority to its attorney or an employee to compromise, any pending
• California Government Code Section 950
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a claim need not be presented as a prerequisite to the maintenance of an action against a public...
• California Government Code Section 950.2
  Except as provided in Section 950.4, a cause of action against a public employee or former public employee for injury resulting from an act or...
• California Government Code Section 950.4
  A cause of action against a public employee or former public employee is not barred by Section 950.2 if the plaintiff pleads and proves that...
• California Government Code Section 950.6
  When a written claim for money or damages for injury has been presented to the employing public entity: (a) A cause of action for such...
• California Government Code Section 950.8
  Any provision of a charter, ordinance or regulation heretofore or hereafter adopted by a local public entity which requires the presentation of a claim as...
• California Government Code Section 951
  Notwithstanding Section 425.10 of the Code of Civil Procedure, any complaint for damages in any civil action brought against a publicly elected or appointed state...
• California Government Code Section 955
  The proper court for trial of actions against the State for the taking or damaging of private property for public use is a court of...
• California Government Code Section 955.1
  (a) The science of earthquake prediction is developing rapidly and, although still largely in a research stage, such predictions are now being initiated and are...
• California Government Code Section 955.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the State is named as a defendant in any action or proceeding for death or injury to person...
• California Government Code Section 955.3
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, when a city, county, or city and county, or local agency is a plaintiff in an action or proceeding against...
• California Government Code Section 955.4
  Except as provided in Sections 811.9, 955.6, 955.8, and 955.9: (a) Service of summons in all actions on claims against the state shall be made...
• California Government Code Section 955.6
  In actions for the taking or damaging of private property for public use within the meaning of Section 19 of Article I of the Constitution...
• California Government Code Section 955.8
  In actions for the taking or damaging of private property for public use within the meaning of Section 14 of Article I of the Constitution...
• California Government Code Section 955.9
  In actions on claims against a judicial branch entity, service of summons shall be made on: (a) The court executive officer, in actions on claims...
• California Government Code Section 956
  Whenever the State has acquired by gift, under the will of a decedent or through a decree of distribution in the estate of a decedent,...
• California Government Code Section 960
  As used in this chapter, "public agency" has the meaning given that term by Section 53050.
• California Government Code Section 960.2
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, service of process in an action or proceeding against a public agency may be made in the...
• California Government Code Section 960.3
  (a) If it is shown by affidavit to the satisfaction of the court or judge that the circumstances required by Section 960.2 exist, the court...
• California Government Code Section 960.4
  Upon receipt of the copies of process pursuant to Section 960.3, the Secretary of State shall give notice of the service of the process to...
• California Government Code Section 960.5
  The Attorney General, until he is relieved of further responsibility in the manner provided in Section 960.4, or until the matter has been reduced to...
• California Government Code Section 960.8
  Service of process in an action or proceeding against a public agency may be made in conformity with the information contained in the statement in...
• California Government Code Section 962
  Upon entry of a verdict against a public entity in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in an action for personal injury or wrongful...
• California Government Code Section 965
  (a) Upon the allowance by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board of all or part of a claim for which the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 965.1
  Pursuant to Section 13909, the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board may delegate to the executive officer the authority to allow a claim filed...
• California Government Code Section 965.2
  (a) The Controller shall draw a warrant for the payment of any final judgment or settlement against the state whenever the Director of Finance certifies...
• California Government Code Section 965.3
  (a) The Attorney General shall notify the Controller in writing when all claims for which an appropriation is made to the the Department of Justice...
• California Government Code Section 965.4
  The Governor shall report to the Legislature, at each session, all judgments or settlements against the State not theretofore reported.
• California Government Code Section 965.5
  (a) A judgment for the payment of money against the state or a state agency is enforceable until 10 years after the time the judgment...
• California Government Code Section 965.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither the state nor a judicial branch entity, nor any officers or employees thereof, may be required by any...
• California Government Code Section 965.65
  (a) If a request is made for certification of availability of funds, approval of a settlement, or inclusion of a claim in a claims bill...
• California Government Code Section 965.7
  (a) A writ of mandate is an appropriate remedy to compel the state, or an officer or employee of the state, to perform any act...
• California Government Code Section 965.8
  Where any provision of this division requires a certificate of the Director of Finance or the Director of Transportation that a sufficient appropriation exists for...
• California Government Code Section 965.9
  This chapter does not apply to claims, settlements, and judgments against the Regents of the University of California.
• California Government Code Section 970
  As used in this article: (a) "Fiscal year" means a year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 unless the local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 970.1
  (a) A judgment is enforceable until 10 years after the time the judgment becomes final or, if the judgment is payable in installments, until 10...
• California Government Code Section 970.2
  A local public entity shall pay any judgment in the manner provided in this article. A writ of mandate is an appropriate remedy to compel...
• California Government Code Section 970.4
  Except as provided in Section 970.6, the governing body of a local public entity shall pay, to the extent funds are available in the fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 970.5
  Except as provided in Section 970.6, if a local public entity does not pay a judgment, with interest thereon, during the fiscal year in which...
• California Government Code Section 970.6
  (a) The court which enters the judgment shall order that the governing body pay the judgment, with interest thereon, in not exceeding 10 equal annual...
• California Government Code Section 970.8
  (a) Each local public entity shall in each fiscal year include in its budget a provision to provide funds in an amount sufficient to pay...
• California Government Code Section 971
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Judgment resulting from a discretionary act" means a judgment arising from a liability which the local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 971.2
  (a) All judgments for which a local public entity is liable are legal investments for all trust funds, and for the funds of all insurance...
• California Government Code Section 975
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the governing body of a local taxing entity. (b) "Local taxing entity" means a local public entity...
• California Government Code Section 975.2
  Whenever the board deems it necessary for the local taxing entity to incur a bonded indebtedness to fund all or any portion of an outstanding...
• California Government Code Section 975.4
  Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication of a copy of the resolution pursuant to Section 6066 in a newspaper of general circulation...
• California Government Code Section 975.6
  The copy of the resolution published or posted shall be accompanied by a notice subscribed by the clerk or secretary of the local taxing entity...
• California Government Code Section 975.8
  At the time and place fixed for the hearing on the resolution or at any time and place to which the hearing is adjourned, the...
• California Government Code Section 976
  After the board has made its determination pursuant to Section 975.8, if it deems it necessary to incur the bonded indebtedness, it shall by resolution...
• California Government Code Section 976.2
  The resolution made pursuant to Section 976 shall constitute the notice of such election and such resolution shall be published pursuant to Section 6066 in...
• California Government Code Section 976.4
  The board shall provide for holding the election in the same manner as provided by law in respect to general elections of the local taxing...
• California Government Code Section 976.6
  Every elector authorized to vote in general elections of the local taxing entity may vote on the proposition to authorize the bonds.
• California Government Code Section 976.8
  If two-thirds or more of the votes cast upon the proposition at the election are in favor of incurring the bonded indebtedness, the board may...
• California Government Code Section 977
  The board shall prescribe the form of the bonds. The bonds may be issued in denominations not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not...
• California Government Code Section 977.2
  The board may provide for the redemption of bonds issued under this article before maturity at prices determined by it. A bond shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 977.4
  The bonds shall be signed by the presiding officer of the board and countersigned by the clerk or secretary of the local taxing entity, and...
• California Government Code Section 977.6
  The local taxing entity may sell the bonds at the times or in the manner the board deems to be to the public interest. The...
• California Government Code Section 977.8
  An action to determine the validity of bonds may be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2...
• California Government Code Section 978
  Any bonds issued by any local taxing entity under the provisions of this article have the same force, value and use as bonds issued by...
• California Government Code Section 978.2
  Bonds issued under this article constitute general obligations of the local taxing entity for the payment of both principal and interest of which all property...
• California Government Code Section 978.4
  The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this article shall not be used for any purpose other than the purpose stated in...
• California Government Code Section 978.6
  The board may by resolution adopted by two-thirds vote of all its members declare that no part of a described bond issue authorized under this...
• California Government Code Section 978.8
  The authority provided in this article is in addition and supplementary to any other law authorizing public entities to issue bonds to fund an outstanding
• California Government Code Section 984
  (a) As used in this section, "not insured" includes a public entity that has no liability insurance or is self-insured by itself, or through an...
• California Government Code Section 985
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Collateral source payment" includes either of the following: (A) The direct provision of services prior to the commencement...
• California Government Code Section 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 1021.5
  (a) If a public employee is convicted of any felony involving accepting or giving, or offering to give, any bribe, the embezzlement of public money,...
• California Government Code Section 1022
  Other provisions respecting disqualification for particular offices are contained in the Constitution and in the laws concerning the various offices.
• California Government Code Section 1023
  A person is ineligible to hold office or employment of any kind under the State, any county, city, district or other political or governmental unit...
• California Government Code Section 1024
  Any person who holds any office or employment under the state or any county, city, district or other political or governmental unit of the state...
• California Government Code Section 1026
  Every person who exercises the duties of any office in violation of the provisions of this article relative to oaths, and every person who knowingly...
• California Government Code Section 1027
  Every person who exercises the duties of any employment in violation of the provisions of this article relative to oaths, and every person who knowingly...
• California Government Code Section 1027.5
  The Legislature of the State of California finds that: (a) There exists a world-wide revolutionary movement to establish a totalitarian dictatorship based upon force and...
• California Government Code Section 1028
  It shall be sufficient cause for the dismissal of any public employee when such public employee advocates or is knowingly a member of the Communist...
• California Government Code Section 1028.1
  It shall be the duty of any public employee who may be subpenaed or ordered by the governing body of the state or local agency...
• California Government Code Section 1028.2
  Sections 1027.5, 1028.1, and 1028, added by Chapter 1418 of the Statutes of 1947, are not applicable to school district employees. It is the intent...
• California Government Code Section 1029
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), (c), or (d), each of the following persons is disqualified from holding office as a peace officer or...
• California Government Code Section 1029.1
  The Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority shall complete a background investigation, using as guidelines standards defined by the Commission on...
• California Government Code Section 1030
  A classifiable set of the fingerprints of every person who is now employed, or who hereafter becomes employed, as a peace officer of the state,...
• California Government Code Section 1031
  Each class of public officers or employees declared by law to be peace officers shall meet all of the following minimum standards: (a) Be a...
• California Government Code Section 1031.1
  (a) For purposes of performing a thorough background investigation for applicants not currently employed as a peace officer, as required by subdivision (d) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 1031.2
  Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336) and paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 12940, the collection of nonmedical...
• California Government Code Section 1031.5
  (a) Any person employed by a governmental agency on September 13, 1982, as a peace officer or a peace officer trainee, or who, prior to...
• California Government Code Section 1040
  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles may require fingerprint images and associated information from an employee or prospective employee whose duties include or would include...
• California Government Code Section 1041
  (a) (1) The Department of Managed Health Care may require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee whose duties would include access to...
• California Government Code Section 1042
  (a) (1) The California Gambling Control Commission may require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee if the employee's duties include, or would...
• California Government Code Section 1060
  The following officers shall keep their offices in the City of Sacramento: (a) The Governor. (b) Secretary of State. (c) Controller. (d) Treasurer. (e) Attorney...
• California Government Code Section 1061
  The director of each department who is a member of the Governor's council shall reside at Sacramento.
• California Government Code Section 1062
  No state or municipal officer shall absent himself from the state for more than 60 days, unless either: (a) Upon business of the state, or...
• California Government Code Section 1063
  No officer of a county or judicial district shall absent himself from the state for more than 30 days unless either: (a) Upon business for...
• California Government Code Section 1064
  No member of the governing board of a school district or a community college district shall be absent from the state for more than 60...
• California Government Code Section 1090
  Members of the Legislature, state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees shall not be financially interested in any contract made by them...
• California Government Code Section 1090.1
  No officer or employee of the State nor any Member of the Legislature shall accept any commission for the placement of insurance on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 1091
  (a) An officer shall not be deemed to be interested in a contract entered into by a body or board of which the officer is...
• California Government Code Section 1091.1
  The prohibition against an interest in contracts provided by this article or any other provision of law shall not be deemed to prohibit any public...
• California Government Code Section 1091.2
  Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by local workforce investment boards created pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment Act of...
• California Government Code Section 1091.3
  Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by a county children and families commission created pursuant to the California Children and...
• California Government Code Section 1091.4
  (a) As used in Section 1091, "remote interest" also includes a person who has a financial interest in a contract, if all of the following...
• California Government Code Section 1091.5
  (a) An officer or employee shall not be deemed to be interested in a contract if his or her interest is any of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 1091.6
  An officer who is also a member of the governing body of an organization that has an interest in, or to which the public agency...
• California Government Code Section 1092
  (a) Every contract made in violation of any of the provisions of Section 1090 may be avoided at the instance of any party except the...
• California Government Code Section 1092.5
  Notwithstanding Section 1092, no lease or purchase of, or encumbrance on, real property may be avoided, under the terms of Section 1092, in derogation of...
• California Government Code Section 1093
  The State Treasurer and Controller, county and city officers, and their deputies and clerks shall not purchase or sell, or in any manner receive for...
• California Government Code Section 1094
  Every officer whose duty it is to audit and allow the accounts of other state, county, or city officers shall, before allowing such accounts, require...
• California Government Code Section 1095
  Officers charged with the disbursement of public moneys shall not pay any warrant or other evidence of indebtedness against the State, county, or city when...
• California Government Code Section 1096
  Upon the officer charged with the disbursement of public moneys being informed by affidavit that any officer, whose account is about to be settled, audited,...
• California Government Code Section 1097
  Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser...
• California Government Code Section 1098
  (a) Any current public officer or employee who willfully and knowingly discloses for pecuniary gain, to any other person, confidential information acquired by him or...
• California Government Code Section 1099
  (a) A public officer, including, but not limited to, an appointed or elected member of a governmental board, commission, committee, or other body, shall not...
• California Government Code Section 1100
  As used in this article, "public securities" means any issue of bonds, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any,...
• California Government Code Section 1101
  As used in this article, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, school district, or any other public district...
• California Government Code Section 1102
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a member of the legislative body of any public body or any officer or employee thereof shall...
• California Government Code Section 1125
  "Local agency," as used in this article, means a county, city, city and county, political subdivision, district, or municipal corporation.
• California Government Code Section 1126
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 1128 and 1129, a local agency officer or employee shall not engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise for...
• California Government Code Section 1127
  It is not the intent of this article to prevent the employment by private business of a public employee, such as a peace officer, fireman,...
• California Government Code Section 1128
  Service on an appointed or elected governmental board, commission, committee, or other body by an attorney employed by a local agency in a nonelective position...
• California Government Code Section 1129
  Service on the Board of Directors of the Local Agency Self-Insurance Authority by an officer or employee of a local agency, as defined by subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 1130
  When the title of the incumbent of any office in this State is contested by proceedings instituted in any court for that purpose, no warrant...
• California Government Code Section 1131
  As soon as the proceedings are instituted, the clerk of the court in which they are pending shall certify the facts to the officers whose...
• California Government Code Section 1132
  This article does not apply to any party to a contest or proceeding who holds the certificate of election or commission of office and discharges...
• California Government Code Section 1150
  As used in this article: (a) "State employee" means all persons who receive wages for services through the uniform payroll system established and administered by...
• California Government Code Section 1151
  State employees may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for payment of one or more of the following: (a) Insurance premiums...
• California Government Code Section 1151.5
  (a) In addition to deductions authorized pursuant to Section 1151, a state employee may authorize deductions to be made from salaries or wages for payment...
• California Government Code Section 1152
  Deductions may be requested by employee organizations and bona fide associations from the salaries and wages of their members, as follows: (a) Employee organizations may...
• California Government Code Section 1153
  The Controller shall provide for the administration of payroll deductions as set forth in Sections 1151, 1151.5, and 1152, salary reductions pursuant to Section 12420.2,...
• California Government Code Section 1156
  (a) Any eligible employee who is participating in a flexible benefits program may elect to receive one or more benefits that qualify to be excluded...
• California Government Code Section 1156.1
  (a) Any eligible employee may elect to participate in the State Employees' Pretax Parking Payroll Deduction Program. The program shall be administered by the Department...
• California Government Code Section 1157
  (a) Officers and employees of a public agency, other than those under the uniform payroll system provided for in Article 5 (commencing with Section 12470)...
• California Government Code Section 1157.1
  Employees of a public agency, on approval of and in accordance with the provisions made by the governing body of the public agency, may authorize...
• California Government Code Section 1157.2
  With the approval of the governing body of a public agency and under such regulations as it may prescribe, employees of the public agency may...
• California Government Code Section 1157.3
  Employees, including retired employees, of a public agency in addition to any other purposes authorized in this article, on approval of the governing body of...
• California Government Code Section 1157.4
  (a) Employees of a county employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries...
• California Government Code Section 1157.5
  Employees, including retired employees, of a county, other than a city and county, employing more than 20,000 persons in addition to any other purposes authorized...
• California Government Code Section 1157.6
  Retired employees of a public agency, other than a school district, or eligible surviving spouses of such retired employees, on approval of the governing body...
• California Government Code Section 1157.7
  Employees of a public agency employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize dues deductions for membership in an ethnic...
• California Government Code Section 1157.8
  Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for the purchase of United States savings bonds...
• California Government Code Section 1157.9
  Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize wage and salary deductions for deposit into an account with a state or federal bank or savings...
• California Government Code Section 1157.10
  Payroll deductions for state employees of public agencies, other than those under the uniform payroll system, shall be administered by the appropriate officer of the...
• California Government Code Section 1157.11
  (a) Officers and employees of a county with a population of over 8,000,000, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for...
• California Government Code Section 1158
  No provision of law prohibiting, restricting or limiting the assignment or order for wages or salaries in any way prohibits, restricts or limits the powers...
• California Government Code Section 1170
  As used in this article, "law" means any federal law relating to internal revenue.
• California Government Code Section 1170.5
  In the case of the State, "law" also means the law of any state providing for the withholding of personal income tax from wages or...
• California Government Code Section 1171
  The State, its agencies and political subdivisions, cities, and all other public agencies may withhold from any wages or salaries paid by them that portion...
• California Government Code Section 1172
  They may pay the withheld sums at the times and in the manner provided by the law and make the records, reports, and returns required...
• California Government Code Section 1173
  The Department of Finance shall direct the manner and form in which each state department, board, commission, or other agency maintains the records incidental to...
• California Government Code Section 1174
  All funds withheld pursuant to this article by any state unit whose funds are deposited in the State Treasury shall, immediately upon such withholding, be...
• California Government Code Section 1175
  All funds withheld by any county pursuant to this article shall, immediately upon such withholding, be deposited in such depositary or depositaries as may be...
• California Government Code Section 1176
  All funds withheld pursuant to this article by any public agency not within the provisions of Sections 1174 or 1175 of this code shall, immediately...
• California Government Code Section 1190
  All assistants, deputies, and other subordinate officers, whose appointments are not otherwise provided for, shall be appointed by the officer or body to whom they...
• California Government Code Section 1191
  When not otherwise provided for, the appointment of deputies and other subordinate officers shall be made in writing and filed in the office of the...
• California Government Code Section 1192
  When not otherwise provided for, within 10 days after receiving notice of their appointment, deputies and other subordinate officers shall take and file an oath...
• California Government Code Section 1193
  When the number of deputies or other subordinate officers is not fixed by law, it is limited only by the discretion of the appointing power.
• California Government Code Section 1194
  When not otherwise provided for, each deputy possesses the powers and may perform the duties attached by law to the office of his principal.
• California Government Code Section 1195
  Every officer of the state, or of any county, city, or judicial district who accepts, keeps, retains or diverts for his own use or the...
• California Government Code Section 1220
  When an officer discharges ex officio the duties of another office than that to which he is elected or appointed, his official signature and attestation...
• California Government Code Section 1221
  Where not otherwise provided, the seals of office of the various executive officers are those in use by such officers on January 1, 1873.
• California Government Code Section 1222
  Every wilful omission to perform any duty enjoined by law upon any public officer, or person holding any public trust or employment, where no special...
• California Government Code Section 1223
  When traveling expenses are allowed by law to any state, county, judicial district, or city officer, he may contract with the appropriate authorities for an...
• California Government Code Section 1224
  Any money paid by a state, county, judicial district, or city officer for United States postage for use in conducting the official business of his...
• California Government Code Section 1225
  Every executive and judicial officer and every Member of the Legislature may administer and certify oaths. A former judge of a court of record in...
• California Government Code Section 1226
  When the records in the office of any public board or officer authorized to issue certificates show the issuance of a certificate other than a...
• California Government Code Section 1228
  An inmate of any state institution shall not be employed in the manufacture or production of any article intended for the private and personal use...
• California Government Code Section 1228.5
  The governing board of any local agency may grant to any employee of such local governmental agency, upon request, a leave of absence without pay...
• California Government Code Section 1229
  Any public officer who is charged with the custody of public records may take any action, including the transfer of such records to another place...
• California Government Code Section 1230
  The governing body of a city, county, city and county, or political subdivision of the State may grant leaves of absence to employees to appear...
• California Government Code Section 1230.1
  Whenever any person who is an employee subject to the provisions of Section 1230, or an employee of the state, is served with a subpoena...
• California Government Code Section 1231
  No state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose,...
• California Government Code Section 1231.1
  Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay to officers and employees whatever salary that...
• California Government Code Section 1231.2
  Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay any obligation incurred between the commencement of...
• California Government Code Section 1233
  Acting in accordance with Executive Order 11246 (30FR 12319), as amended, applicants for employment by, and incumbent employees of, public agencies may be solicited to...
• California Government Code Section 1234
  No public officer while serving in any elective office in this state shall receive a retirement allowance which is based in whole or part upon...
• California Government Code Section 1235
  The salary of any elected public office shall not be reduced during an election year after any candidate for that particular office has filed the...
• California Government Code Section 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 1300
  Every officer, the mode of whose appointment is not prescribed by law, shall be appointed by the Governor.
• California Government Code Section 1301
  Every office, the term of which is not fixed by law, is held at the pleasure of the appointing power.
• California Government Code Section 1302
  Every officer whose term has expired shall continue to discharge the duties of his office until his successor has qualified.
• California Government Code Section 1303
  Every person who exercises any function of a public office without taking the oath of office, or without giving the required bond, is guilty of...
• California Government Code Section 1320
  Nominations made by the Governor to the Senate shall be in writing, designating the residence of the nominee and the office for which he is
• California Government Code Section 1321
  Whenever the Senate concurs in a nomination, its secretary shall immediately deliver a copy of the resolution of concurrence, certified by the president and secretary,...
• California Government Code Section 1322
  In addition to any other statutory provisions requiring confirmation by the Senate of officers appointed by the Governor, the appointments by the Governor of the...
• California Government Code Section 1323
  In addition to any other statutory provisions requiring confirmation by the Senate of officers appointed by the Governor, including Section 1322, the appointment by the...
• California Government Code Section 1340
  The Governor shall commission: (a) All officers elected by the people whose commissions are not otherwise provided for except those officers to whom a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 1341
  The commissions of all officers commissioned by the Governor shall be issued in the name of the people of the State. They shall be signed...
• California Government Code Section 1342
  The commissions of all other officers, where no special provision is made by law, shall be signed by the presiding officer of the body or...
• California Government Code Section 1360
  Unless otherwise provided, before any officer enters on the duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation set forth in...
• California Government Code Section 1362
  Unless otherwise provided, the oath may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths.
• California Government Code Section 1363
  (a) Unless otherwise provided, every oath of office certified by the officer before whom it was taken shall be filed within the time required as...
• California Government Code Section 1364
  It is unlawful to remove a person from an office or position of public trust because such person has not complied with any law, charter,...
• California Government Code Section 1365
  It is unlawful for any person having the power of removal from office of any officer to remove or threaten to remove the officer from...
• California Government Code Section 1366
  Any officer or person who is removed or threatened with removal from any office or position of public trust may bring an action to restrain...
• California Government Code Section 1367
  No compensation nor reimbursement for expenses incurred shall be paid to any officer by any public agency unless he has taken and subscribed to the...
• California Government Code Section 1368
  Every person who, while taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, states as true any material matter which he or...
• California Government Code Section 1369
  Every person having taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, who while holding office, advocates or becomes a member of...
• California Government Code Section 1450
  Unless otherwise provided, every official bond shall be filed in the proper office within the time prescribed for filing the oath.
• California Government Code Section 1451
  The approval of every official bond shall be indorsed thereon and signed by the officer approving the bond.
• California Government Code Section 1452
  No officer with whom any official bond is required to be filed shall file such bond until approved.
• California Government Code Section 1453
  Official bonds shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose entitled "Record of Official Bonds."
• California Government Code Section 1454
  Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of state officers prescribed by law shall be approved by either the Governor or the Director of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 1455
  Unless otherwise provided, all official bonds of state officers and employees not expressly prescribed by law shall be forwarded to the Department of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 1456
  The official bond of the Secretary of State shall be filed in the office of the Treasurer after it is recorded.
• California Government Code Section 1457
  Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of officers of a county and judicial district shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court,...
• California Government Code Section 1458
  The bonds of supervisors, treasurers, county clerks, auditors, sheriffs, tax collectors, district attorneys, recorders, assessors, surveyors, superintendents of schools, public administrators, and coroners shall be...
• California Government Code Section 1459
  After being recorded, the official bond of the county clerk shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer.
• California Government Code Section 1460
  Every officer with whom official bonds are filed shall carefully keep and preserve the bonds. He shall give certified copies thereof to any person demanding...
• California Government Code Section 1460.1
  The county recorder shall record the bond and return it to the county officer with whom it is required to be filed. Such officer shall...
• California Government Code Section 1461
  Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall give a bond, corresponding in substance and form with the bond required of the officer originally elected...
• California Government Code Section 1462
  No fee shall be charged by any officer to file or record any official bond of any official of this state or any political subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 1463
  For the purposes of this chapter, a government crime insurance policy or employee dishonesty insurance policy, including faithful performance, may be provided as an alternative...
• California Government Code Section 1480
  Every officer, agent or employee not required by statute to give an official bond may be required to give an individual official bond, or other...
• California Government Code Section 1481
  (a) When deemed expedient by the appointing power, a master official bond or other form of master bond may be used which shall provide coverage...
• California Government Code Section 1481.1
  For the purposes of Section 1481 the board of supervisors of a county is deemed to be the appointing power of the adult probation officer,...
• California Government Code Section 1482
  Each such bond may contain a provision authorizing the appointing power to cancel it, if it is an individual bond, or the contract of coverage...
• California Government Code Section 1500
  All official bonds shall be made payable to the State of California in such penalty and with such conditions as required by this article, or...
• California Government Code Section 1501
  The condition of an official bond shall be that the principal will well, truly, and faithfully perform all official duties then required of him by...
• California Government Code Section 1504
  Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein for: (a) Any and...
• California Government Code Section 1505
  Whenever, except in criminal prosecutions, any special penalty, forfeiture, or liability is imposed on any officer of a county or judicial district for nonperformance or...
• California Government Code Section 1530
  The officer whose duty it is to approve official bonds required of officers of a county or judicial district not named in Section 1458 shall...
• California Government Code Section 1531
  The sureties on the bonds of all officers of a county or judicial district named in Section 1458 shall first be approved by the presiding...
• California Government Code Section 1532
  A member of the board of supervisors shall not be accepted as surety upon the official bond of any officer of a county or judicial...
• California Government Code Section 1650
  This article does not apply to notaries public.
• California Government Code Section 1651
  The premium or charge for bonds given by surety companies for the officers, herein named, and for their deputies, clerks, assistants or subordinate officers shall...
• California Government Code Section 1652
  No premium or charge paid by the state, a county, city, or district shall exceed one-half of 1 percent per annum on the amount of...
• California Government Code Section 1653
  The payment of premiums for all bonds of deputies, clerks, assistants or subordinate officers of county officers shall not be a county charge unless the...
• California Government Code Section 1750
  Resignations shall be in writing, and made as follows: (a) By the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, to the Legislature, if it is in session; and...
• California Government Code Section 1750.5
  The Speaker of the Assembly and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee shall immediately inform the Governor in writing whenever a resignation has been...
• California Government Code Section 1751
  In all cases not otherwise provided for in this article or elsewhere, a resignation is made by filing the resignation in the office of the...
• California Government Code Section 1752
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person elected or appointed to the governing body of any city, county, or district having an elected...
• California Government Code Section 1770
  An office becomes vacant on the happening of any of the following events before the expiration of the term: (a) The death of the incumbent....
• California Government Code Section 1770.1
  The disqualification from holding office upon conviction, as provided in Section 1021, or the forfeiture of office upon conviction, as provided in subdivision (h) of...
• California Government Code Section 1770.2
  Upon the entry of a plea of guilty, the entry of a plea of nolo contendere, or the rendering of a verdict of a guilty...
• California Government Code Section 1771
  (a) When an officer is removed, declared insane, or convicted of a felony or offense involving a violation of his or her official duty, or...
• California Government Code Section 1772
  When any office becomes vacant and no mode is provided by law for filling the vacancy, the Governor shall fill the vacancy by granting a...
• California Government Code Section 1773
  When a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative to Congress, or in either house of the Legislature, the Governor shall within 14 calendar days...
• California Government Code Section 1773.5
  In addition to any other applicable provision of law, a vacancy occurs in the office of Representative in Congress in the event of his or...
• California Government Code Section 1774
  (a) When an office, the appointment to which is vested in the Governor and Senate, either becomes vacant or the term of the incumbent thereof...
• California Government Code Section 1774.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the appointment by the Governor of a person to a public office is subject to confirmation by the...
• California Government Code Section 1774.2
  (a) For any person whose term of office expires prior to Senate confirmation and who is reappointed to that office, the time served prior to,...
• California Government Code Section 1774.3
  With respect to any body or entity having more than one member, including, but not limited to, a board, commission, or committee, "office" includes every...
• California Government Code Section 1774.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no person holding an office which is deemed to be vacant pursuant to Section 1774 may, after the time...
• California Government Code Section 1774.7
  (a) Sections 1774, 1774.2, 1774.3, and 1774.5 shall apply to any person appointed, or reappointed, prior to, or on or after, January 1, 1981, except...
• California Government Code Section 1775
  Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, or Attorney General,...
• California Government Code Section 1776
  Except as otherwise provided in the Constitution, when a person is appointed by the Governor, or by the Governor by and with the advice and...
• California Government Code Section 1777
  After filing his official oath and bond, any person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy possesses all the rights and powers and is subject...
• California Government Code Section 1778
  A vacancy in any appointive office on the governing board of a special district shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors of...
• California Government Code Section 1779
  A vacancy on any appointed governing board of a special district shall be filled by the appointing authority within 90 days immediately subsequent to its...
• California Government Code Section 1780
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a vacancy in any elective office on the governing board of a special district, other than those specified...
• California Government Code Section 1781
  The provisions of Section 1780 shall not apply to a school district, a district organized pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 11501) of the...
• California Government Code Section 1782
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, whenever a vacancy occurs on a state board or commission, or a seat on a board or commission...
• California Government Code Section 1850
  Every officer is entitled to the possession of all books and papers pertaining to his office, or in the custody of a former incumbent by...
• California Government Code Section 1851
  If any person, including a former incumbent, refuses or neglects to deliver to the actual incumbent any such books or papers, the actual incumbent may...
• California Government Code Section 1852
  After notice to the adverse party, the court or judge shall proceed in a summary way to hear the allegations and proof of the parties,...
• California Government Code Section 1853
  The execution of the order and the delivery of the books and papers may be enforced by: (a) Attachment as for a witness. (b) At...
• California Government Code Section 1854
  Every person who wilfully and knowingly intrudes himself into any public office to which he has not been elected or appointed, and every person who,...
• California Government Code Section 1855
  Every officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the time for which he may be appointed or elected, or...
• California Government Code Section 3000
  An officer forfeits his office upon conviction of designated crimes as specified in the Constitution and laws of the State.
• California Government Code Section 3001
  Any State, county, or city officer who is intoxicated while in discharge of the duties of his office, or by reason of intoxication is disqualified...
• California Government Code Section 3002
  Whenever the Governor is authorized to appoint a person to an office with the advice and consent of, or subject to confirmation by, the Senate,...
• California Government Code Section 3003
  An elected officer of the state or a city, county, city and county, or district in this state forfeits his or her office upon the...
• California Government Code Section 3020
  State officers elected on a statewide basis, members of the State Board of Equalization, and judges of state courts are subject to impeachment for misconduct...
• California Government Code Section 3020.5
  The Senate when sitting as the court of impeachment is a court of record. The officers of the Senate are the officers of the court.
• California Government Code Section 3021
  All impeachments shall be by resolution adopted, originated in, and conducted by managers elected by the Assembly.
• California Government Code Section 3022
  The managers shall prepare articles of impeachment, present them at the bar of the Senate, and prosecute them. The trial shall be before the Senate,...
• California Government Code Section 3023
  When an officer is impeached by the Assembly for a misdemeanor in office, the articles of impeachment shall be delivered to the President of the
• California Government Code Section 3024
  The Senate shall assign a day for the hearing of the impeachment and inform the Assembly thereof.
• California Government Code Section 3025
  Not less than 10 days before the day fixed for the hearing, the President of the Senate shall have served on the defendant a copy...
• California Government Code Section 3026
  The service shall be made upon the defendant personally. If upon diligent inquiry he can not be found within the State, upon proof of that...
• California Government Code Section 3027
  If the defendant does not appear, upon proof of service or publication the Senate may, of its own motion or for cause shown, assign another...
• California Government Code Section 3028
  When the defendant appears, he may object in writing to the sufficiency of the articles of impeachment, or he may answer the articles by an...
• California Government Code Section 3029
  If the objection to the sufficiency of the articles of impeachment is not sustained by a majority of the members of the Senate who heard...
• California Government Code Section 3030
  If the defendant pleads not guilty, the Senate shall try the impeachment at the time it appoints. The plea shall be entered upon the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 3031
  At the time and place appointed, and before the Senate acts on the impeachment, the secretary shall administer to the President of the Senate, and...
• California Government Code Section 3032
  The defendant can not be convicted on impeachment without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected, voting by ayes and noes. If two-thirds of...
• California Government Code Section 3033
  After conviction and at the time appointed by the Senate, it shall pronounce judgment, in the form of a resolution entered upon the Senate Journal.
• California Government Code Section 3034
  On the adoption of the resolution by a majority of the members present who voted on the question of acquittal or conviction, it becomes the...
• California Government Code Section 3035
  The judgment may be that the defendant be suspended, or that he be removed from office and disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust,...
• California Government Code Section 3036
  If judgment of suspension is given, during the continuance of the judgment the defendant is disqualified from receiving the salary, fees, or emoluments of the
• California Government Code Section 3037
  Whenever articles of impeachment against any officer subject to impeachment are presented to the Senate, the officer is temporarily suspended from his office and can...
• California Government Code Section 3038
  Upon temporary suspension of any officer other than the Governor, his office shall at once be temporarily filled by an appointment made by the Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 3039
  If the Lieutenant Governor is impeached, notice of the impeachment shall be immediately given to the Senate by the Assembly in order that another president...
• California Government Code Section 3040
  If the offense for which the defendant is convicted on impeachment is also the subject of an indictment or information, the indictment or information is...
• California Government Code Section 3060
  An accusation in writing against any officer of a district, county, or city, including any member of the governing board or personnel commission of a...
• California Government Code Section 3061
  The accusation shall state the offense charged in ordinary and concise language, and without repetition.
• California Government Code Section 3062
  The accusation shall be delivered by the foreman of the grand jury to the district attorney of the county, unless he is the officer accused.
• California Government Code Section 3063
  The district attorney shall have a copy of the accusation served upon the defendant, and by notice in writing shall require the accused to appear...
• California Government Code Section 3064
  The defendant shall appear at the time stated in the notice and answer the accusation, unless for some sufficient cause the court assigns another day...
• California Government Code Section 3065
  The defendant may answer the accusation either by objecting to its sufficiency or any article therein, or by denying the truth of the accusation.
• California Government Code Section 3066
  If he objects to the legal sufficiency of the accusation, the objection shall be in writing. The objection need not be in any specific form....
• California Government Code Section 3067
  If he denies the truth of the accusation, the denial may be oral and without oath. The denial shall be entered upon the minutes.
• California Government Code Section 3068
  If an objection to the sufficiency of the accusation is not sustained, the defendant shall answer thereto forthwith.
• California Government Code Section 3069
  If the defendant pleads guilty, or refuses to answer the accusation, the court shall render judgment of conviction against him. If he denies the matters...
• California Government Code Section 3070
  The trial shall be by a jury, and conducted in all respects in the same manner as the trial of an indictment.
• California Government Code Section 3071
  The district attorney and the defendant are each entitled to such process as is necessary to enforce the attendance of witnesses as upon a trial...
• California Government Code Section 3072
  Upon a conviction and at the time appointed by the court it shall pronounce judgment that the defendant be removed from office. To warrant a...
• California Government Code Section 3073
  The same proceedings may be had on like grounds for the removal of a district attorney, except that the accusation shall be delivered by the...
• California Government Code Section 3074
  Any officer subject to removal pursuant to this article may be removed from office for willful or corrupt misconduct in office occurring at any time...
• California Government Code Section 3075
  In a proceeding under this article, appeal is to the court of appeal.
• California Government Code Section 3100
  It is hereby declared that the protection of the health and safety and preservation of the lives and property of the people of the state...
• California Government Code Section 3101
  For the purpose of this chapter the term "disaster service worker" includes all public employees and all volunteers in any disaster council or emergency organization...
• California Government Code Section 3102
  (a) All disaster service workers shall, before they enter upon the duties of their employment, take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation required by...
• California Government Code Section 3103
  The oath or affirmation required by this chapter is the oath or affirmation set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of
• California Government Code Section 3104
  The oath or affirmation may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths. The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker may be...
• California Government Code Section 3105
  (a) The oath or affirmation of any disaster service worker of the state shall be filed as prescribed by State Personnel Board rule within 30...
• California Government Code Section 3106
  Compliance with this chapter shall, as to state employees, be deemed full compliance with Chapter 4, Part 1, Division 5, Title 2 of this code,...
• California Government Code Section 3107
  No compensation nor reimbursement for expenses incurred shall be paid to any disaster service worker by any public agency unless such disaster service worker has...
• California Government Code Section 3108
  Every person who, while taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, states as true any material matter which he or...
• California Government Code Section 3109
  Every person having taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, who, while in the employ of, or service with, the...
• California Government Code Section 3110
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California State Government Volunteers Act.
• California Government Code Section 3111
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Volunteer" means any person who, of his own free will, provides goods or services, without any financial gain, to...
• California Government Code Section 3112
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Since the spirit of volunteerism has long animated generations of Americans to give of their time and abilities...
• California Government Code Section 3118
  All volunteers shall comply with applicable department and other state policy and regulations. It shall be the responsibility of the state department in which a...
• California Government Code Section 3119
  Each state department or division is hereby authorized to utilize the services of volunteers. Each state department or division utilizing the services of volunteers shall:...
• California Government Code Section 3119.1
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the Department of Aging's use of volunteers, pursuant to the provisions of Titles III (42 U.S.C....
• California Government Code Section 3119.5
  Notwithstanding Section 3118, any state or local agency that chooses to utilize volunteers shall implement a policy whereby no person aged 60 years or older...
• California Government Code Section 3120
  As used herein "local agency" means a county, city and county, city, school district, office of county superintendent of schools, or other special district.
• California Government Code Section 3121
  Any local agency may, subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the legislative body thereof, insure its officers, directors, deputies, assistants, employees and agents for...
• California Government Code Section 3122
  The travel insurance authorized by this chapter shall be in addition to any compensation secured under Division 4 (commencing with Section 3201) of the Labor...
• California Government Code Section 3123
  The office of county superintendent of schools may carry a master policy for travel insurance on behalf of the school districts of the county.
• California Government Code Section 3201
  The Legislature finds that political activities of public employees are of significant statewide concern. The provisions of this chapter shall supersede all provisions on this...
• California Government Code Section 3202
  This chapter applies to all officers and employees of a state or local agency. (a) "Local agency" means a county, city, city and county, political...
• California Government Code Section 3203
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or as necessary to meet requirements of federal law as it pertains to a particular employee or employees,...
• California Government Code Section 3204
  No one who holds, or who is seeking election or appointment to, any office or employment in a state or local agency shall, directly or...
• California Government Code Section 3205
  (a) An officer or employee of a local agency shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit a political contribution from an officer or employee of that...
• California Government Code Section 3205.5
  No one who holds, or who is seeking election or appointment to, any office shall, directly or indirectly, offer or arrange for any increase in...
• California Government Code Section 3206
  No officer or employee of a local agency shall participate in political activities of any kind while in uniform.
• California Government Code Section 3207
  Any city, county, or city and county charter or, in the absence of a charter provision, the governing body of any local agency and any...
• California Government Code Section 3208
  Except as provided in Section 19990, the limitations set forth in this chapter shall be the only restrictions on the political activities of state employees.
• California Government Code Section 3209
  Nothing in this chapter prevents an officer or employee of a state or local agency from soliciting or receiving political funds or contributions to promote...
• California Government Code Section 3250
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
• California Government Code Section 3251
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Firefighter" means any firefighter employed by a public agency, including, but not limited to, any...
• California Government Code Section 3252
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 3201), or whenever on duty or in uniform, no firefighter shall be prohibited from...
• California Government Code Section 3253
  When any firefighter is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member designated by the employing department...
• California Government Code Section 3254
  (a) A firefighter shall not be subjected to punitive action, or denied promotion, or be threatened with that treatment, because of the lawful exercise of...
• California Government Code Section 3254.5
  (a) An administrative appeal instituted by a firefighter under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the employing department...
• California Government Code Section 3255
  A firefighter shall not have any comment adverse to his or her interest entered in his or her personnel file, or any other file used...
• California Government Code Section 3256
  A firefighter shall have 30 days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his or her personnel file. The...
• California Government Code Section 3256.5
  (a) Every employer shall, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, upon the request of a firefighter, during usual business hours, with no loss of...
• California Government Code Section 3257
  (a) A firefighter shall not be compelled to submit to a lie detector test against his or her will. (1) Disciplinary action or other recrimination...
• California Government Code Section 3258
  A firefighter shall not be required or requested for purposes of job assignment or other personnel action to disclose any item of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3259
  A firefighter shall not have his or her locker or other space for storage that may be assigned to him or her searched except in...
• California Government Code Section 3260
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any employing department or licensing or certifying agency to deny or refuse to any firefighter the rights and protections...
• California Government Code Section 3261
  Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to limit the ability of any employing department, licensing or certifying agency, or any firefighter...
• California Government Code Section 3262
  The rights and protections described in this chapter shall only apply to a firefighter during events and circumstances involving the performance of his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3300
  This chapter is known and may be cited as the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act.
• California Government Code Section 3301
  For purposes of this chapter, the term public safety officer means all peace officers specified in Sections 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, except subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3302
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, or whenever on duty or in uniform, no public safety officer shall be prohibited from engaging, or be...
• California Government Code Section 3303
  When any public safety officer is under investigation and subjected to interrogation by his or her commanding officer, or any other member of the employing...
• California Government Code Section 3304
  (a) No public safety officer shall be subjected to punitive action, or denied promotion, or be threatened with any such treatment, because of the lawful...
• California Government Code Section 3304.5
  An administrative appeal instituted by a public safety officer under this chapter shall be conducted in conformance with rules and procedures adopted by the local...
• California Government Code Section 3305
  No public safety officer shall have any comment adverse to his interest entered in his personnel file, or any other file used for any personnel...
• California Government Code Section 3306
  A public safety officer shall have 30 days within which to file a written response to any adverse comment entered in his personnel file. Such...
• California Government Code Section 3306.5
  (a) Every employer shall, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, upon the request of a public safety officer, during usual business hours, with no...
• California Government Code Section 3307
  (a) No public safety officer shall be compelled to submit to a lie detector test against his or her will. No disciplinary action or other...
• California Government Code Section 3307.5
  (a) No public safety officer shall be required as a condition of employment by his or her employing public safety department or other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 3308
  No public safety officer shall be required or requested for purposes of job assignment or other personnel action to disclose any item of his property,...
• California Government Code Section 3309
  No public safety officer shall have his locker, or other space for storage that may be assigned to him searched except in his presence, or...
• California Government Code Section 3309.5
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any public safety department to deny or refuse to any public safety officer the rights and protections guaranteed to...
• California Government Code Section 3310
  Any public agency which has adopted, through action of its governing body or its official designee, any procedure which at a minimum provides to peace...
• California Government Code Section 3311
  Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to limit the use of any public safety agency or any public safety officer in...
• California Government Code Section 3312
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the employer of a public safety officer may not take any punitive action against an officer for wearing a...
• California Government Code Section 3313
  In the 2005-06 fiscal year, the Commission on State Mandates shall review its statement of decision regarding the Peace Officer Procedural Bill of Rights test...
• California Government Code Section 3400
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act.
• California Government Code Section 3401
  The Governor annually may award and present, in the name of the State of California, a Public Safety Medal of Valor of appropriate design, with...
• California Government Code Section 3402
  (a) There exists in state government the Public Safety Medal of Valor Review Board, whose purpose is to solicit and review applications for, and make...
• California Government Code Section 3403
  (a) The Attorney General shall review the candidates recommended to him or her by the Public Safety Medal of Valor Review Board and advise the...
• California Government Code Section 3410
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Golden Shield Act.
• California Government Code Section 3411
  The Governor annually shall award, and present in the name of the State of California, a Golden Shield Award of appropriate design, with ribbons and...
• California Government Code Section 3412
  For the purposes of this chapter, "public safety officer" means a person serving a public agency, with or without compensation, as a firefighter, law enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 3500
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between public employers and their employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving...
• California Government Code Section 3500.5
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Meyers-Milias-Brown Act."
• California Government Code Section 3501
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee organization" means either of the following: (1) Any organization that includes employees of a public agency and that...
• California Government Code Section 3501.5
  As used in this chapter, "public agency" does not mean a superior court.
• California Government Code Section 3502
  Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, public employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of...
• California Government Code Section 3502.1
  No public employee shall be subject to punitive action or denied promotion, or threatened with any such treatment, for the exercise of lawful action as...
• California Government Code Section 3502.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3502, any other provision of this chapter, or any other law, rule, or regulation, an agency shop agreement may be negotiated between...
• California Government Code Section 3503
  Recognized employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public agencies. Employee organizations may establish reasonable restrictions regarding...
• California Government Code Section 3504
  The scope of representation shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and employer-employee relations, including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3504.5
  (a) Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the governing body of a public agency, and boards and commissions designated by law...
• California Government Code Section 3505
  The governing body of a public agency, or such boards, commissions, administrative officers or other representatives as may be properly designated by law or by...
• California Government Code Section 3505.1
  If agreement is reached by the representatives of the public agency and a recognized employee organization or recognized employee organizations, they shall jointly prepare a...
• California Government Code Section 3505.2
  If after a reasonable period of time, representatives of the public agency and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the public agency and...
• California Government Code Section 3505.3
  Public agencies shall allow a reasonable number of public agency employee representatives of recognized employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation or other...
• California Government Code Section 3505.4
  (a) The employee organization may request that the parties' differences be submitted to a factfinding panel not sooner than 30 days, but not more than...
• California Government Code Section 3505.5
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the factfinding panel, or, upon agreement by both parties within a...
• California Government Code Section 3505.7
  After any applicable mediation and factfinding procedures have been exhausted, but no earlier than 10 days after the factfinders' written findings of fact and recommended...
• California Government Code Section 3506
  Public agencies and employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce or discriminate against public employees because of their exercise of their rights under...
• California Government Code Section 3506.5
  A public agency shall not do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or threaten to discriminate...
• California Government Code Section 3507
  (a) A public agency may adopt reasonable rules and regulations after consultation in good faith with representatives of a recognized employee organization or organizations for...
• California Government Code Section 3507.1
  (a) Unit determinations and representation elections shall be determined and processed in accordance with rules adopted by a public agency in accordance with this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 3507.3
  Professional employees shall not be denied the right to be represented separately from nonprofessional employees by a professional employee organization consisting of those professional employees....
• California Government Code Section 3507.5
  In addition to those rules and regulations a public agency may adopt pursuant to and in the same manner as in Section 3507, any such...
• California Government Code Section 3508
  (a) The governing body of a public agency may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily...
• California Government Code Section 3508.1
  For the purposes of this section, the term "police employee" includes the civilian employees of the police department of any city. Police employee does not...
• California Government Code Section 3508.5
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of a public employee to authorize a dues or service fees deduction from his or her...
• California Government Code Section 3509
  (a) The powers and duties of the board described in Section 3541.3 shall also apply, as appropriate, to this chapter and shall include the authority...
• California Government Code Section 3509.3
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed, the decision...
• California Government Code Section 3509.5
  (a) Any charging party, respondent, or intervenor aggrieved by a final decision or order of the board in an unfair practice case, except a decision...
• California Government Code Section 3510
  (a) The provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted and applied by the board in a manner consistent with and in accordance with judicial interpretations...
• California Government Code Section 3511
  The changes made to Sections 3501, 3507.1, and 3509 of the Government Code by legislation enacted during the 1999-2000 Regular Session of the Legislature shall...
• California Government Code Section 3511.1
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Compensation" means annual salary, stipend, or bonus, paid by a local agency employer to a...
• California Government Code Section 3511.2
  On or after January 1, 2012, any contract executed or renewed between a local agency and a local agency executive shall not provide for the...
• California Government Code Section 3512
  It is the purpose of this chapter to promote full communication between the state and its employees by providing a reasonable method of resolving disputes...
• California Government Code Section 3513
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee organization" means any organization that includes employees of the state and that has as one of its primary...
• California Government Code Section 3514
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3514.5
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3515
  Except as otherwise provided by the Legislature, state employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of...
• California Government Code Section 3515.5
  Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with the state, except that once an employee organization is recognized...
• California Government Code Section 3515.6
  All employee organizations shall have the right to have membership dues, initiation fees, membership benefit programs, and general assessments deducted pursuant to subdivision (a) of...
• California Government Code Section 3515.7
  (a) Once an employee organization is recognized as the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit it may enter into an agreement with the state employer...
• California Government Code Section 3515.8
  Any state employee who pays a fair share fee shall have the right to demand and receive from the recognized employee organization, under procedures established...
• California Government Code Section 3516
  The scope of representation shall be limited to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment, except, however, that the scope of representation shall...
• California Government Code Section 3516.5
  Except in cases of emergency as provided in this section, the employer shall give reasonable written notice to each recognized employee organization affected by any...
• California Government Code Section 3517
  The Governor, or his representative as may be properly designated by law, shall meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3517.5
  If agreement is reached between the Governor and the recognized employee organization, they shall jointly prepare a written memorandum of such understanding which shall be...
• California Government Code Section 3517.6
  (a) (1) In any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, or subdivision (i) of Section 3513, or Section 14876, 18714,...
• California Government Code Section 3517.61
  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6, for state employees in State Bargaining Unit 6, in any case where the provisions of Section 70031 of the Education Code, subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3517.63
  (a) Any side letter, appendix, or other addendum to a properly ratified memorandum of understanding that requires the expenditure of two hundred fifty thousand dollars...
• California Government Code Section 3517.7
  If the Legislature does not approve or fully fund any provision of the memorandum of understanding which requires the expenditure of funds, either party may...
• California Government Code Section 3517.8
  (a) If a memorandum of understanding has expired, and the Governor and the recognized employee organization have not agreed to a new memorandum of understanding...
• California Government Code Section 3518
  If after a reasonable period of time, the Governor and the recognized employee organization fail to reach agreement, the Governor and the recognized employee organization...
• California Government Code Section 3518.5
  A reasonable number of employee representatives of recognized employee organizations shall be granted reasonable time off without loss of compensation or other benefits when formally...
• California Government Code Section 3518.7
  Managerial employees and confidential employees shall be prohibited from holding elective office in an employee organization which also represents "state employees," as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3519
  It shall be unlawful for the state to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate or...
• California Government Code Section 3519.5
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the state to violate Section 3519. (b) Impose or threaten...
• California Government Code Section 3520
  (a) Judicial review of a unit determination shall only be allowed: (1) when the board, in response to a petition from the state or an...
• California Government Code Section 3520.5
  (a) The state shall grant exclusive recognition to employee organizations designated or selected pursuant to rules established by the board for employees of the state...
• California Government Code Section 3520.7
  The state employer shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations for all of the following: (a) Registering employee organizations, as defined by subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 3520.8
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization is appealed, the decision...
• California Government Code Section 3521
  (a) In determining an appropriate unit, the board shall be governed by the criteria in subdivision (b). However, the board shall not direct an election...
• California Government Code Section 3521.5
  The term "professional employee" means (a) any employee engaged in work (1) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical,...
• California Government Code Section 3521.7
  The board may, in accordance with reasonable standards, designate positions or classes of positions which have duties consisting primarily of the enforcement of state laws....
• California Government Code Section 3522
  (a) Physicians in any state bargaining unit may negotiate under this chapter for preauthorized travel outside the state for continuing medical education. (b) The execution...
• California Government Code Section 3523
  (a) All initial meet and confer proposals of recognized employee organizations shall be presented to the employer at a public meeting, and such proposals thereafter...
• California Government Code Section 3523.5
  The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to state employees.
• California Government Code Section 3524
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Ralph C. Dills Act.
• California Government Code Section 3525
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Bill of Rights for State Excluded Employees.
• California Government Code Section 3526
  The purpose of this chapter is to inform state supervisory, managerial, confidential, and employees otherwise excepted from coverage under the Ralph C. Dills Act by...
• California Government Code Section 3527
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Employee" means a civil service employee of the State of California. The "State of California" as used in this...
• California Government Code Section 3528
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the rights and protections provided to excluded employees under this chapter constitute a matter of important concern. The...
• California Government Code Section 3529
  (a) Except for supervisory employees as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 3513, excluded employees shall not hold any office in an employee organization which...
• California Government Code Section 3530
  Excluded employee organizations shall have the right to represent their excluded members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the State of California. Excluded employee...
• California Government Code Section 3531
  Supervisory employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of supervisory employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 3532
  The scope of representation for supervisory employees shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and supervisory employer-employee relations including wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3533
  Upon request, the state shall meet and confer with verified supervisory organizations representing supervisory employees on matters within the scope of representation. Prior to arriving...
• California Government Code Section 3534
  The state employer shall allow a reasonable number of supervisory public employee representatives of verified supervisory employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation...
• California Government Code Section 3535
  The Department of Human Resources 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 Human Resources....
• 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 Human Resources may adopt or amend regulations to implement employee benefits for those state officers and employees excluded from, or not...
• California Government Code Section 3540
  It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the improvement of personnel management and employer-employee relations within the public school systems in the State...
• California Government Code Section 3540.1
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Board" means the Public Employment Relations Board created pursuant to Section 3541. (b) "Certified organization" or "certified employee organization"...
• California Government Code Section 3540.2
  (a) A school district that has a qualified or negative certification pursuant to Section 42131 of the Education Code shall allow the county office of...
• California Government Code Section 3541
  (a) There is in state government the Public Employment Relations Board which shall be independent of any state agency and shall consist of five members....
• California Government Code Section 3541.3
  The board shall have all of the following powers and duties: (a) To determine in disputed cases, or otherwise approve, appropriate units. (b) To determine...
• California Government Code Section 3541.35
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3541.4
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3541.5
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3542
  (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to...
• California Government Code Section 3543
  (a) Public school employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the...
• California Government Code Section 3543.1
  (a) Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, except that once an employee organization...
• California Government Code Section 3543.2
  (a) The scope of representation shall be limited to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment. "Terms and...
• California Government Code Section 3543.3
  A public school employer or such representatives as it may designate who may, but need not be, subject to either certification requirements or requirements for...
• California Government Code Section 3543.4
  A person serving in a management position, senior management position, or a confidential position may not be represented by an exclusive representative. Any person serving...
• California Government Code Section 3543.5
  It is unlawful for a public school employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to discriminate...
• California Government Code Section 3543.6
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause a public school employer to violate Section 3543. 5. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 3543.7
  The duty to meet and negotiate in good faith requires the parties to begin negotiations prior to the adoption of the final budget for the...
• California Government Code Section 3543.8
  Any employee organization shall have standing to sue in any action or proceeding heretofore or hereafter instituted by it as representative and on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 3544
  (a) An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and negotiating by filing a...
• California Government Code Section 3544.1
  The public school employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 3544, unless any of the following apply: (a) The public school...
• California Government Code Section 3544.3
  If, by January 1 of any school year, no employee organization has made a claim of majority support in an appropriate unit pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 3544.5
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3544.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3544.3 or 3544.5, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations or hold any hearings it...
• California Government Code Section 3544.9
  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative for the purpose of meeting and negotiating shall fairly represent each and every employee in...
• California Government Code Section 3545
  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of the unit is an issue, the board shall decide the question on the basis of the community...
• California Government Code Section 3546
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receiving notice from the exclusive representative of a public school employee who is in a unit for...
• California Government Code Section 3546.3
  Notwithstanding subdivision (i) of Section 3540.1, Section 3546, or any other provision of this chapter, any employee who is a member of a religious body...
• California Government Code Section 3546.5
  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and...
• California Government Code Section 3547
  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers, which relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at...
• California Government Code Section 3547.5
  (a) Before a public school employer enters into a written agreement with an exclusive representative covering matters within the scope of representation, the major provisions...
• California Government Code Section 3548
  Either a public school employer or the exclusive representative may declare that an impasse has been reached between the parties in negotiations over matters within...
• California Government Code Section 3548.1
  (a) If the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 15 days after his appointment and the mediator declares that factfinding is...
• California Government Code Section 3548.2
  (a) The panel shall, within 10 days after its appointment, meet with the parties or their representatives, either jointly or separately, and may make inquiries...
• California Government Code Section 3548.3
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the panel, or, upon agreement by both parties, within a longer...
• California Government Code Section 3548.4
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the mediator appointed pursuant to Section 3548 from continuing mediation efforts on the basis of the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.5
  A public school employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written agreement covering matters within the scope of representation may include in the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.6
  If the written agreement does not include procedures authorized by Section 3548.5, both parties to the agreement may agree to submit any disputes involving the...
• California Government Code Section 3548.7
  Where a party to a written agreement is aggrieved by the failure, neglect, or refusal of the other party to proceed to arbitration pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 3548.8
  An arbitration award made pursuant to Section 3548.5, 3548.6, or 3548. 7 shall be final and binding upon the parties and may be enforced by...
• California Government Code Section 3549
  The enactment of this chapter shall not be construed as making the provisions of Section 923 of the Labor Code applicable to public school employees...
• California Government Code Section 3549.1
  All the proceedings set forth in subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, are exempt from the provisions of Sections 35144 and 35145 of the Education Code,...
• California Government Code Section 3549.3
  If any provisions of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
• California Government Code Section 3560
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) The people of the State of California have a fundamental interest in the development of harmonious and...
• California Government Code Section 3561
  (a) It is the further purpose of this chapter to provide orderly and clearly defined procedures for meeting and conferring and the resolution of impasses,...
• California Government Code Section 3562
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Arbitration" means a method of resolving a rights dispute under which the parties to a controversy must accept the...
• California Government Code Section 3562.1
  The California State University may meet and confer with the employee organization selected as the exclusive representative of appropriate units at the university on the...
• California Government Code Section 3562.2
  Notwithstanding subdivision (r) of Section 3562, for purposes of the California State University only, "scope of representation" also means any retirement benefits available to a...
• California Government Code Section 3563
  This chapter shall be administered by the Public Employment Relations Board. In administering this chapter the board shall have all of the following rights, powers,...
• California Government Code Section 3563.1
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with any member of the board, or any of its agents, in the performance of...
• California Government Code Section 3563.2
  The initial determination as to whether the charges of unfair practices are justified, and, if so, what remedy is necessary to effectuate the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 3563.3
  The board shall have the power to issue a decision and order directing an offending party to cease and desist from the unfair practice and...
• California Government Code Section 3563.5
  Notwithstanding any other law, if a decision by an administrative law judge regarding the recognition or certification of an employee organization as described in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 3564
  (a) No employer or employee organization shall have the right to judicial review of a unit determination except: (1) when the board in response to...
• California Government Code Section 3565
  Higher education employees shall have the right to form, join and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 3566
  The Trustees of the California State University shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations for all of the following: (a) Registering employee organizations, as defined in...
• California Government Code Section 3567
  Any employee or group of employees may at any time, either individually or through a representative of their own choosing, present grievances to the employer...
• California Government Code Section 3568
  Subject to reasonable regulations, employee organizations shall have the right of access at reasonable times to areas in which employees work, the right to use...
• California Government Code Section 3569
  A reasonable number of representatives of an exclusive representative shall have the right to receive reasonable periods of released or reassigned time without loss of...
• California Government Code Section 3569.5
  (a) The state shall allow up to three employee representatives from each employee organization which represents employees of the California State University reasonable time off...
• California Government Code Section 3570
  Higher education employers, or such representatives as they may designate, shall engage in meeting and conferring with the employee organization selected as exclusive representative of...
• California Government Code Section 3571
  It shall be unlawful for the higher education employer to do any of the following: (a) Impose or threaten to impose reprisals on employees, to...
• California Government Code Section 3571.1
  It shall be unlawful for an employee organization to: (a) Cause or attempt to cause the higher education employer to violate Section 3571. (b) Impose...
• California Government Code Section 3571.3
  The expression of any views, arguments, or opinions, or the dissemination thereof, whether in written, printed, graphic, or visual form, shall not constitute, or be...
• California Government Code Section 3572
  This section shall apply only to the California State University. (a) The duty to meet and confer in good faith requires the parties to begin...
• California Government Code Section 3572.1
  This section shall apply only to the California Maritime Academy. (a) The duty to engage in meeting and conferring requires the parties to begin meeting...
• California Government Code Section 3572.3
  This section shall apply only to the University of California. (a) The duty to engage in meeting and conferring requires the parties to begin meeting...
• California Government Code Section 3572.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in the case where the following provisions of law are in conflict with a memorandum of understanding, the...
• California Government Code Section 3573
  An employee organization may become the exclusive representative for the employees of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and conferring by filing a request...
• California Government Code Section 3574
  The higher education employer shall grant a request for recognition filed pursuant to Section 3573 unless any of the following occurs: (a) The employer reasonably...
• California Government Code Section 3575
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3576
  A petition may be filed with the board, in accordance with its rules and regulations, requesting it to investigate and decide the question of whether...
• California Government Code Section 3577
  (a) (1) (A) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant to Section 3575, the board shall conduct inquiries and investigations, or hold hearings, as it...
• California Government Code Section 3578
  The employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive representative shall represent all employees in the unit, fairly and impartially. A breach of this duty...
• California Government Code Section 3579
  (a) In each case where the appropriateness of a unit is an issue, in determining an appropriate unit, the board shall take into consideration all...
• California Government Code Section 3580
  Except as provided by this article, supervisory employees shall not have the rights, or be covered by, any provision or definition established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 3580.3
  "Supervisory employee" means any individual, regardless of the job description or title, having authority, in the interest of the employer to hire, transfer, suspend, lay...
• California Government Code Section 3580.5
  (a) Supervisory employees shall not participate in the handling of grievances on behalf of nonsupervisory employees. Nonsupervisory employees shall not participate in the handling of...
• California Government Code Section 3581.1
  Supervisory employees shall have the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 3581.2
  Employee organizations shall have the right to represent their supervisory employee members in their employment relations, including grievances, with the employer. Employee organizations may establish...
• California Government Code Section 3581.3
  The scope of representation for supervisory employees shall include all matters relating to employment conditions and supervisory employee-employer relations including wages, hours, and other terms...
• California Government Code Section 3581.4
  The higher education employer shall meet and confer with representatives of employee organizations upon request. Meet and confer means that they shall consider as fully...
• California Government Code Section 3581.5
  The higher education employer shall allow a reasonable number of supervisory public employee representatives of verified employee organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation...
• California Government Code Section 3581.6
  The higher education employer and employee organizations shall not interfere with, intimidate, restrain, coerce, or discriminate against supervisory employees because of their exercise of their...
• California Government Code Section 3581.7
  Subject to review by the board, the higher education employer may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the administration of supervisory employee-employer relations under this...
• California Government Code Section 3582
  Subject to the limitations set forth in this section, organizational security shall be within the scope of representation.
• California Government Code Section 3583
  Permissible forms of organizational security shall be limited to either of the following: (a) An arrangement pursuant to which an employee may decide whether or...
• California Government Code Section 3583.5
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee of the California State University or the University of California, other than a faculty member...
• California Government Code Section 3584
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3583.5, an employee of the California State University or the University of California, other than faculty of the University of California who...
• California Government Code Section 3585
  In the absence of an arrangement pursuant to Section 3583 or 3583.5, an employer shall, upon written authorization by the employee involved, deduct and remit...
• California Government Code Section 3586
  The Trustees of the California State University shall continue all payroll assignments authorized by an employee prior to and until recognition or certification of an...
• California Government Code Section 3587
  Every recognized or certified employee organization shall keep an adequate itemized record of its financial transactions and shall make available annually, to the board and...
• California Government Code Section 3589
  (a) An employer and an exclusive representative who enter into a written memorandum of understanding may agree to procedures for final and binding arbitration of...
• California Government Code Section 3590
  Either an employer or the exclusive representative may declare that an impasse has been reached between the parties in negotiations over matters within the scope...
• California Government Code Section 3591
  If the mediator is unable to effect settlement of the controversy within 15 days after his appointment and the mediator declares that factfinding is appropriate...
• California Government Code Section 3592
  The panel shall, within 10 days after its appointment, meet with the parties or their representatives and consider their respective positions. The panel may make...
• California Government Code Section 3593
  (a) If the dispute is not settled within 30 days after the appointment of the panel, or, upon agreement by both parties, within a longer...
• California Government Code Section 3594
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the mediator appointed pursuant to Section 3590, with the permission of the parties, from continuing mediation...
• California Government Code Section 3595
  (a) All initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of higher education employers, which relate to matters within the scope of representation, shall be presented at...
• California Government Code Section 3596
  All the proceedings set forth in this section shall be exempt from the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 3597
  (a) Subject to provisions of subdivision (d), in all meeting and conferring between higher education employers and employee organizations representing student service or academic personnel,...
• California Government Code Section 3598
  No memorandum of understanding shall contravene any federal or state law, including rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, prohibiting discrimination in employment.
• California Government Code Section 3599
  If any provision of this chapter or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this...
• California Government Code Section 3600
  There is within the Public Employment Relations Board a division known as the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service, which shall conduct the services provided...
• California Government Code Section 3601
  The board may investigate and mediate labor disputes providing any bona fide party to this type of dispute requests intervention by the board and the...
• California Government Code Section 3602
  Notwithstanding any other law, the board may seek and collect reimbursement from private and public sector employers, labor unions, and employee organizations for election, arbitration,...
• California Government Code Section 3603
  (a) The Public Employment Relations Board succeeds to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the Department...
• California Government Code Section 3610
  The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" means any...
• California Government Code Section 3611
  Notwithstanding any other law, the following provisions shall govern disputes between exclusive bargaining representatives of public transit employees and local agencies: (a) The disputes shall...
• California Government Code Section 3612
  (a) Whenever in the opinion of the Governor, a threatened or actual strike or lockout will, if permitted to occur or continue, significantly disrupt public...
• California Government Code Section 3613
  The board of investigation shall be composed of no more than five members, one of whom shall be designated by the Governor as chairperson. Members...
• California Government Code Section 3614
  Upon receiving a report from a board of investigation, the Governor may request the Attorney General to, and he or she shall, petition any court...
• California Government Code Section 3615
  If the charter or establishing legislation of the local agency establishes a time period for the negotiating or meeting and conferring process which is shorter...
• California Government Code Section 3616
  Except as expressly provided by subdivision (b) of Section 3612 and Section 3614, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to grant or deprive employees...
• California Government Code Section 4000
  This chapter does not apply to maintenance work, work occasioned by emergency, and work costing less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
• California Government Code Section 4001
  As used in this chapter, "engineer" means the Director of Transportation, the Director of Water Resources, the Director of General Services, or a deputy or...
• California Government Code Section 4002
  As used in this chapter, "public work" means the construction of any bridge, road, street, highway, ditch, canal, dam, tunnel, excavation, building or structure within...
• California Government Code Section 4003
  The engineer directing, supervising or superintending the construction, or in charge of the engineering work for or in connection with public work shall keep an...
• California Government Code Section 4004
  Prior to the commencement of the public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in his office either full, complete and accurate plans and specifications...
• California Government Code Section 4005
  Within 60 days from the completion of any public work, the engineer shall prepare and file in the office of the clerk of the board...
• California Government Code Section 4006
  Plans, specifications, work authorizations describing work to be performed, and all other information referred to in this chapter are open to inspection and examination as...
• California Government Code Section 4007
  Every engineer who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Government Code Section 4200
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Competent spoil" means soils that can be treated to bring their moisture content into the optimum range, and that...
• California Government Code Section 4201
  Any local agency that undertakes or contracts for an excavation for the installation, removal, maintenance, or repair of underground facilities may backfill that excavation in...
• California Government Code Section 4215
  In any contract to which a public agency as defined in Section 4401 is a party, the public agency shall assume the responsibility, between the...
• California Government Code Section 4216
  As used in this article the following definitions apply: (a) "Approximate location of subsurface installations" means a strip of land not more than 24 inches...
• California Government Code Section 4216.1
  Every operator of a subsurface installation, except the Department of Transportation, shall become a member of, participate in, and share in the costs of, a...
• California Government Code Section 4216.2
  (a) (1) Except in an emergency, any person planning to conduct any excavation shall contact the appropriate regional notification center, at least two working days,...
• California Government Code Section 4216.3
  (a) (1) Any operator of a subsurface installation who receives timely notification of any proposed excavation work in accordance with Section 4216.2 shall, within two...
• California Government Code Section 4216.4
  (a) When the excavation is within the approximate location of subsurface installation, the excavator shall determine the exact location of subsurface installations in conflict with...
• California Government Code Section 4216.5
  The requirements of this article apply to state agencies and to local agencies which own or operate subsurface installations, except as otherwise provided in Section...
• California Government Code Section 4216.6
  (a) (1) Any operator or excavator who negligently violates this article is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed ten thousand...
• California Government Code Section 4216.7
  (a) If a subsurface installation is damaged by an excavator as a result of failing to comply with Section 4216.2 or 4216.4, or as a...
• California Government Code Section 4216.8
  This article does not apply to any of the following persons: (a) An owner of real property who contracts for an excavation project on the...
• California Government Code Section 4216.9
  (a) No permit to excavate issued by any local agency, as defined in Section 4216, or any state agency, shall be valid unless the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 4217.10
  To help implement the policy set forth in Section 25008 of the Public Resources Code, and to extend that policy to facilities of local governments,...
• California Government Code Section 4217.11
  The following terms, whenever used in this chapter, have the meanings given in this section, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) "Alternate energy...
• California Government Code Section 4217.12
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public agency may enter into an energy service contract and any necessarily related facility ground lease on...
• California Government Code Section 4217.13
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public agency may enter into a facility financing contract and a facility ground lease on terms that its...
• California Government Code Section 4217.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the public agency may enter into contracts for the sale of electricity, electrical generating capacity, or thermal energy produced...
• California Government Code Section 4217.15
  The public agency may, but is not required to, base the findings required under Sections 4217.12 and 4217.13 on projections for electrical and thermal energy...
• California Government Code Section 4217.16
  Prior to awarding or entering into an agreement or lease, the public agency may request proposals from qualified persons. After evaluating the proposals, the public...
• California Government Code Section 4217.17
  This chapter does not limit the authority of any public agency to construct energy conservation projects or to enter into other leases or contracts relating...
• California Government Code Section 4217.18
  The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to provide the greatest possible flexibility to public agencies in structuring agreements entered into hereunder so that...
• California Government Code Section 4218
  Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525) of Division 5 of this code, or Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) of Division 2 of the...
• California Government Code Section 4300
  As used in this article: (a) "United States" means the United States of America, and includes any Territory or insular possession of the United States....
• California Government Code Section 4301
  This article does not apply to materials which are of a class or kind which are not, or which are manufactured from materials which are...
• California Government Code Section 4302
  This article does not apply to medical and surgical instruments, scientific equipment, microscopes, lenses, or instruments used for scientific or medical purposes, including research.
• California Government Code Section 4302.5
  The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase of sewing machines, regardless of the place of their manufacture or the source of...
• California Government Code Section 4302.6
  The provisions of this article do not apply to the purchase of printing presses of rotary gripper system or single revolution design, which are purchased...
• California Government Code Section 4303
  The governing body of any political subdivision, municipal corporation, or district, and any public officer or person charged with the letting of contracts for (1)...
• California Government Code Section 4303.5
  Any provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any such body or person may let a contract for the purchase of office machines or...
• California Government Code Section 4304
  Every contract for the construction, alteration or repair of public works or for the purchase of materials for public use shall contain a provision that...
• California Government Code Section 4305
  The name of the person failing to comply, together with a report of the facts constituting the violation, shall be posted by the governing board...
• California Government Code Section 4330
  As used in this article, "supplies" includes goods, wares, merchandise, manufactures, and produce.
• California Government Code Section 4331
  Price, fitness and quality being equal, any body, officer, or other person charged with the purchase, or permitted or authorized to purchase supplies for the...
• California Government Code Section 4332
  All State, county, or city officers, all bodies, and other persons charged with advertising for supplies shall state in their advertisement that such preferences for...
• California Government Code Section 4333
  In any advertisement for supplies no bid shall be asked for any article of a specific brand or mark nor any patent apparatus or appliances,...
• California Government Code Section 4334
  Public officers and bodies charged with the letting of contracts for public work, with the construction of public bridges, buildings and other structures, or with...
• California Government Code Section 4360
  As used in this article (a) "Agricultural aircraft operator" means any person who applies, from an aircraft, chemicals, seeds, or fertilizers. (b) "Services" means the...
• California Government Code Section 4361
  Public officers and bodies charged with the purchase or the letting of contracts for services or supplies for any public use may give such contracts...
• California Government Code Section 4400
  This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Emergency Termination of Public Contracts Act."
• California Government Code Section 4401
  "Public agency," as used in this chapter, includes the State, its various commissions, boards and departments and any county, city, district or state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 4410
  In the event a national emergency occurs, and public work, being performed by contract, is stopped, directly or indirectly, because of the freezing or diversion...
• California Government Code Section 4411
  Such an agreement shall include the terms and conditions of the termination of the contract and provision for the payment of compensation or money, if...
• California Government Code Section 4412
  It shall be competent for any public agency to provide in the specifications for any public works contract detailed provisions as to the conditions under...
• California Government Code Section 4420
  (a) No state or local governmental agency and no person acting on behalf of any state or local governmental agency, except a governmental agency created...
• California Government Code Section 4420.5
  (a) Subdivision (b) of Section 4420 shall not apply to any construction or renovation project undertaken by a school district. (b) The district may use...
• California Government Code Section 4420.8
  (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 4465
  (a) There is hereby established in the Division of the State Architect a Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund, as set forth in Section 4470,...
• California Government Code Section 4467
  (a) On and after January 1, 2013, and until December 31, 2018, any applicant for a local business license or equivalent instrument or permit, and...
• California Government Code Section 4469
  On and after January 1, 2013, each city, county, or city and county shall provide to an applicant for a business license or equivalent instrument...
• California Government Code Section 4470
  (a) All funds received by the Division of the State Architect under this chapter shall be deposited in the Disability Access and Education Revolving Fund,...
• California Government Code Section 4475
  "State agency," as used in this chapter, means any state agency defined in Section 11000, which is authorized to enter into contracts and shall include,...
• California Government Code Section 4476
  "Person," as used in this chapter means any individual, corporation, association, or any other entity organized for the purpose of conducting business.
• California Government Code Section 4477
  No state agency shall enter into any contract for the purchase of supplies, equipment, or services from any person who is in violation of any...
• California Government Code Section 4478
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to contracts with a dollar value below the required level for competitive bidding established in Section 10301...
• California Government Code Section 4479
  Each state agency shall exercise due diligence in determining whether or not one or more persons have divided a contract to avoid the limitation of...
• California Government Code Section 4480
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply when a person otherwise prohibited from contracting with the state under this chapter is the sole source...
• California Government Code Section 4481
  Each local agency or board set forth in Section 4477 shall notify within seven days after determination thereof, the Water Resources Control Board or Air...
• California Government Code Section 4482
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to contracts executed prior to the effective date of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 4500
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any statute, rule, regulation, decision, or pronouncement to the contrary, other than subdivision (b), every state agency, board, and department,...
• California Government Code Section 4525
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) "Firm" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity...
• California Government Code Section 4526
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, selection by a state or local agency head for professional services of private architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land...
• California Government Code Section 4526.5
  A state agency head entering into a contract pursuant to this chapter shall, in addition to any other applicable statute or regulation, also follow Section...
• California Government Code Section 4527
  In the procurement of architectural, landscape architectural, engineering, environmental, land surveying, and construction project management services, the state agency head shall encourage firms engaged in...
• California Government Code Section 4528
  (a) When the selection is by a state agency head the following procedures shall apply: (1) The state agency head shall negotiate a contract with...
• California Government Code Section 4529
  This chapter shall not apply where the state or local agency head determines that the services needed are more of a technical nature and involve...
• California Government Code Section 4529.5
  Any individual or firm proposing to provide construction project management services pursuant to this chapter shall provide evidence that the individual or firm and its...
• California Government Code Section 4529.10
  For purposes of Article XXII of the California Constitution and this act, the term "architectural and engineering services" shall include all architectural, landscape architectural, environmental,...
• California Government Code Section 4529.11
  All projects included in the State Transportation Improvement Program programmed and funded as interregional improvements or as regional improvements shall be subject to Article XXII...
• California Government Code Section 4529.12
  All architectural and engineering services shall be procured pursuant to a fair, competitive selection process which prohibits governmental agency employees from participating in the selection...
• California Government Code Section 4529.13
  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to change project design standards, seismic safety standards or project construction standards established by state, regional or...
• California Government Code Section 4529.14
  Architectural and engineering services contracts procured by public agencies shall be subject to standard accounting practices and may require financial and performance audits as necessary...
• California Government Code Section 4529.15
  This act only applies to architectural and engineering services defined in Government Code Section 4529.10. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to expand...
• California Government Code Section 4529.16
  This act shall not be applied in a manner that will result in the loss of federal funding to any governmental entity.
• California Government Code Section 4529.17
  The provisions of this act are severable. If any provision of this act or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Government Code Section 4529.18
  If any act of the Legislature conflicts with the provisions of this act, this act shall prevail.
• California Government Code Section 4529.19
  This act shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 4529.20
  This act seeks to comprehensively regulate the matters which are contained within its provisions. These are matters of statewide concern and when enacted are intended...
• California Government Code Section 4530
  This chapter shall be known as the "Target Area Contract Preference Act."
• California Government Code Section 4531
  The Legislature hereby declares that it serves a public purpose, and is of benefit to the state, to encourage and facilitate job maintenance and job...
• California Government Code Section 4532
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Block group" means the smallest area for which the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census provides...
• California Government Code Section 4533
  Whenever the state prepares a solicitation for a contract for goods in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which the...
• California Government Code Section 4533.1
  Where a bidder complies with the provisions of Section 4533, or the worksite or worksites where at least 50 percent of the labor required to...
• California Government Code Section 4534
  In evaluating proposals for contracts for services in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which the worksite is fixed by...
• California Government Code Section 4534.1
  Where a bidder complies with the provisions of Section 4534, the state shall award the additional preferences as set forth in Section 4533.1 as appropriate.
• California Government Code Section 4535
  All state contracts issued to bidders who are awarded preferences under this chapter shall contain conditions to ensure that the contractor performs the contract at...
• California Government Code Section 4535.1
  A business that requests and is given the preference provided for in Section 4533, 4533.1, 4534, or 4534.1 by reason of having furnished a false...
• California Government Code Section 4535.2
  (a) The maximum preference and incentive a bidder may be awarded pursuant to this chapter and any other provision of law shall be 15 percent....
• California Government Code Section 4535.3
  The Department of General Services, with the cooperation of the Employment Development Department, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Office of Planning and Research,...
• California Government Code Section 4550
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public purchase" means a purchase by means of competitive bids of goods, services, or materials by the state or...
• California Government Code Section 4552
  In submitting a bid to a public purchasing body, the bidder offers and agrees that if the bid is accepted, it will assign to the...
• California Government Code Section 4553
  If an awarding body or public purchasing body receives, either through judgment or settlement, a monetary recovery for a cause of action assigned under this...
• California Government Code Section 4554
  Upon demand in writing by the assignor, the assignee shall, within one year from such demand, reassign the cause of action assigned under this part...
• California Government Code Section 4560
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a substantial need to provide adequate child care facilities for state employees. (b) When the state...
• California Government Code Section 4561
  Child care facilities for the employees of the California State University and Colleges and the University of California shall be incorporated into the campus master...
• California Government Code Section 4562
  This chapter shall not apply to the design of new state office buildings, additions, alterations, or repairs of existing state-owned office buildings, where the Public...
• California Government Code Section 4563
  (a) Sections 4560, 4561, and 4562 are not applicable to any state-owned transportation facility. (b) Space at a state-owned transportation facility may be leased by...
• California Government Code Section 5000
  The owner of any coupon bond, or of any bond payable to bearer, issued by the State, or any county, municipal corporation, or other public...
• California Government Code Section 5001
  The treasurer, or officer performing the duties of treasurer, shall cut off and cancel the coupons of a coupon bond so presented, and shall stamp,...
• California Government Code Section 5002
  The statement may be in substantially the following form: (Date, giving month, year, and day.) This bond is registered pursuant to the statute in such...
• California Government Code Section 5003
  After any bond is registered, the principal and interest of the bond are payable to the registered owner.
• California Government Code Section 5004
  The treasurer, or other officer performing the duties of treasurer, shall keep in his office a book which shall at all times show what bonds...
• California Government Code Section 5005
  After a bond is registered it may be transferred from time to time by the registered owner, in person or by attorney, on presentation of...
• California Government Code Section 5006
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any law or municipal charter authorizing the issuance of bonds, whenever under any statute of the State or...
• California Government Code Section 5007
  Any legislative or governing body which authorizes the issuance of bonds of any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, public district, public authority or...
• California Government Code Section 5008
  The treasurer, or officer performing the duties of treasurer, of any county, district, municipal corporation, or other public corporation in the State shall be entitled...
• California Government Code Section 5009
  All moneys received by the State Treasurer under this chapter shall be paid monthly into the State Treasury for credit to the General Fund.
• California Government Code Section 5050
  This chapter may be cited as the Registered Public Obligations Act of California.
• California Government Code Section 5051
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Authorized officer" means any individual required or...
• California Government Code Section 5052
  (a) The code provides that interest with respect to certain obligations may not be exempt from federal income taxation unless they are in registered form....
• California Government Code Section 5053
  (a) Each issuer is authorized to establish and maintain a system of registration with respect to each obligation which it issues. The system may either...
• California Government Code Section 5054
  (a) A certificated registered public obligation shall be executed by the issuer by the manual or facsimile signature or signatures of authorized officers. Any signature...
• California Government Code Section 5055
  (a) Any certificated registered public obligation signed by the authorized officers at the time of the signing thereof shall remain valid and binding, notwithstanding that...
• California Government Code Section 5056
  When a seal is required or permitted in the execution of any certificated registered public obligation, an authorized officer may cause the seal to be...
• California Government Code Section 5057
  (a) An issuer may appoint for such term as may be agreed, including for so long as a registered public obligation may be outstanding, corporate...
• California Government Code Section 5058
  (a) An issuer, prior to or at original issuance of registered public obligations, may provide as a part of a system of registration that the...
• California Government Code Section 5059
  Obligations issued by public entities under the laws of this state, which are in registered form, whether or not represented by an instrument, and which,...
• California Government Code Section 5060
  (a) Records, with regard to the ownership of or security interests in registered public obligations, are not subject to inspection or copying under any law...
• California Government Code Section 5061
  (a) Unless at any time prior to or at original issuance of a registered public obligation the official or official body of the issuer determines...
• California Government Code Section 5062
  This chapter shall be construed in conjunction with the Uniform Commercial Code and the principles of contract law relative to the registration and transfer of
• California Government Code Section 5100
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that the purpose hereof may be made effective.
• California Government Code Section 5101
  As used in this chapter, "bonds" means State, county, municipal, or other public corporation or district bonds.
• California Government Code Section 5102
  As used in this chapter, "guarantor" means the person or persons guaranteeing the payment of bonds, the repurchase thereof, or the payment or repurchase of...
• California Government Code Section 5103
  As used in this chapter, "issuing body" means the State, any subdivision thereof, municipality, public corporation, or district.
• California Government Code Section 5104
  As used in this chapter, "order" means declaration, proclamation, or order of any officer or court having jurisdiction to make the declaration, proclamation, or order.
• California Government Code Section 5105
  Whenever by operation of law or by order the bonded indebtedness of any issuing body is reduced in amount, the interest thereon reduced, the time...
• California Government Code Section 5106
  Whenever by operation of law or by order any issuing body defaults in the payment of its bonded indebtedness, the obligations of guarantors shall be...
• California Government Code Section 5107
  The relief of guarantors is limited to the extent of defaults in principal, interest, or both principal and interest of the bonds guaranteed.
• California Government Code Section 5108
  If the guarantors function in the capacity of trustee or if the custody of the bonds is in the possession of a trustee, and administered...
• California Government Code Section 5300
  As used in this chapter, "bond" means any bond and the interest coupons attached thereto issued by any public body.
• California Government Code Section 5301
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city, district, or any other political subdivision of the State.
• California Government Code Section 5302
  (a) Wherever any statute requires that any bond issued by a public body be signed, manually by two or more officers or other individuals, all...
• California Government Code Section 5303
  Whenever under any law of this State, or under the provisions of any ordinance, resolution or order, bonds of any public body are required or...
• California Government Code Section 5304
  If any officer or deputy whose signature, countersignature or attestation appears on bonds or coupons ceases to be such officer or deputy before delivery of...
• California Government Code Section 5400
  "Public body" as used in this chapter means any county, city and county, city, public district, public authority or other public corporation which is authorized...
• California Government Code Section 5401
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness the principal and interest of which are payable or may be...
• California Government Code Section 5402
  "Governing body" as used in this chapter means the board of supervisors, city council, board of directors or other legislative or governing body which has...
• California Government Code Section 5403
  When bonds to be issued by or on behalf of a public body have been authorized by an election or other method provided by law,...
• California Government Code Section 5404
  If at any time following the levy of the tax or assessment authorized by Section 5403, the board, council or other body having the power...
• California Government Code Section 5450
  (a) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, commercial paper, or other evidences of indebtedness, or lease, installment purchase, or other agreements, or certificates...
• California Government Code Section 5451
  (a) A pledge of collateral by any public body to secure, directly or indirectly, the payment of the principal or redemption price of, or interest...
• California Government Code Section 5451.5
  (a) All obligations of the West Contra Costa Healthcare District in connection with any and all certificates of participation executed and delivered by or on...
• California Government Code Section 5452
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize new or increased authority to issue bonds.
• California Government Code Section 5500
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by...
• California Government Code Section 5501
  Any authorized officer may, after filing with the Secretary of State his manual signature certified by him under oath, execute or cause to be executed...
• California Government Code Section 5502
  When the seal of this State or any of its departments, agencies, or other instrumentalities, or of any county, city, or public district, is required...
• California Government Code Section 5503
  Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a public security or an instrument of payment; (a) A facsimile signature, or any reproduction of...
• California Government Code Section 5504
  This act shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of states which enact it.
• California Government Code Section 5505
  This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act.
• California Government Code Section 5506
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 5600
  "Public body" as used in this chapter means any county, city and county, city, public district, public authority or other public corporation, or any agency...
• California Government Code Section 5601
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means bonds, warrants, notes and other evidences of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of any public body.
• California Government Code Section 5602
  "Governing body" means a board of supervisors, city council, board of directors or other legislative or governing body which has the power to provide for...
• California Government Code Section 5603
  Any provision of law specifying the maximum or minimum denomination of bonds to the contrary notwithstanding, a governing body in its ordinance, resolution or order...
• California Government Code Section 5604
  A governing body, in its ordinance, resolution or order providing for the issuance of any bonds, may provide a method whereby, at any time after...
• California Government Code Section 5650
  As used in this chapter, "public securities" means any issue of bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any,...
• California Government Code Section 5651
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public district, public corporation or public authority,...
• California Government Code Section 5652
  No public body shall enter into any contract which provides that such public body shall be furnished any report relating to the financial feasibility of...
• California Government Code Section 5700
  "Bonds" as used in this chapter means (a) any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued after the effective date of this chapter by the...
• California Government Code Section 5701
  The provisions of this chapter apply to every bond regardless of any other provision of law or any provision of the bond's authorization.
• California Government Code Section 5702
  The State Treasurer shall be the sole agent for offering and selling bonds. In selling bonds on behalf of any department of state government or...
• California Government Code Section 5703
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), the Treasurer, in exercising the duties of agent for offering and selling bonds, whose duties...
• California Government Code Section 5750
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a growing need for the state to finance capital projects to renew and...
• California Government Code Section 5751
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, or any derivative evidence of...
• California Government Code Section 5752
  The Treasurer may sell California savings bonds in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. Notwithstanding any provision of law, when the Treasurer determines that...
• California Government Code Section 5753
  In arranging the sale of bonds, the Treasurer may impose the following requirements on any financial institution that sells the bonds to the public: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 5754
  (a) A person who redeems California savings bonds and who has owned the bonds for at least five years, or a person designated by the...
• California Government Code Section 5755
  The general authority of the Treasurer to sell bonds, as provided in this chapter, is intended to be in addition to, and not limited by,...
• California Government Code Section 5800
  As used in this chapter, "nonprofit corporation" means any nonprofit corporation formed under the Corporations Code, or otherwise, which proposes to aid any public body...
• California Government Code Section 5801
  As used in this chapter, "joint powers authority" means any entity defined in Section 6542.
• California Government Code Section 5802
  As used in this chapter, "parking authority" means any entity created pursuant to Division 18 (commencing with Section 31500) of the Streets and Highways Code.
• California Government Code Section 5803
  As used in this chapter, "issuer" means a nonprofit corporation, a joint powers authority or a parking authority.
• California Government Code Section 5804
  As used in this chapter, "public body" means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public district, public corporation or public authority,...
• California Government Code Section 5805
  As used in this chapter, "securities" means any bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any, attached thereto, issued...
• California Government Code Section 5806
  As used in this chapter, "public project" means any land, structure, facility or equipment or other personal property, the acquisition, construction or completion of which...
• California Government Code Section 5807
  As used in this chapter, "public leaseback" means any lease by a public body of all or any part of a public project where the...
• California Government Code Section 5808
  (a) Before selling any securities, any issuer shall advertise such securities for sale at public sale and shall invite sealed bids therefor by publication of...
• California Government Code Section 5809
  All securities as defined in Section 5805, and all bonds, notes, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness of an issuer in an aggregate principal amount...
• California Government Code Section 5850
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness or other evidences of indebtedness issued after January 1, 1989, by...
• California Government Code Section 5851
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law specifying that interest on bonds is payable semiannually, interest on bonds is payable at the times established in the...
• California Government Code Section 5852
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law specifying that bonds shall be issued pursuant to a resolution of a governing body of a public body, a...
• California Government Code Section 5853
  The general authority provided in this chapter is intended to be in addition to, and not limited by, specific provisions authorizing the issuance of bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 5854
  Section 3 of Article XIII C of the California Constitution, as adopted at the November 5, 1996, general election, shall not be construed to mean...
• California Government Code Section 5870
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Conduit financing" means the issuance of conduit revenue bonds. (b) "Conduit financing provider" means any...
• California Government Code Section 5871
  A conduit financing provider shall make the following information available on its Internet Web site, to the extent that it maintains an Internet Web site:...
• California Government Code Section 5872
  (a) When an audit of a conduit financing provider's accounts and records is required by law, in addition to any other requirements, the audit shall...
• California Government Code Section 5900
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The ability of the state and local governments to issue bonds is essential to their...
• California Government Code Section 5901
  It is the intent of the Legislature that state and local governments be provided with the powers and flexibility necessary and appropriate for them to...
• California Government Code Section 5902
  As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires another or different...
• California Government Code Section 5903
  If, prior to issuing any bonds, the legislative body determines that the interest payable on the bonds to be issued by the state or local...
• California Government Code Section 5903.5
  Section 5903 shall apply to any bonds the interest on which will not be subject to federal income taxation under the law in existence on...
• California Government Code Section 5904
  The state or a local government may take any actions, and enter into any agreements, necessary or appropriate to register or qualify the bonds described...
• California Government Code Section 5905
  One or more state or local governments may cause to be formed, and may acquire all, but not less than all, of the voting stock...
• California Government Code Section 5906
  Any bonds issued by a state or local government pursuant to this chapter, or otherwise, and the purchasers or holders thereof, shall be exempt from...
• California Government Code Section 5907
  This chapter shall not affect bonds approved by the voters of the state or local government issuer prior to the effective date of this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 5908
  The authority conferred by this chapter includes the authority to enter into any and all contracts incident to the exercise of the authority conferred by...
• California Government Code Section 5909
  To the extent that the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with any other provision of general law or special act or any part thereof,...
• California Government Code Section 5920
  The Legislature finds and declares that the incurring or carrying of obligations and making and managing of investments by state and local governments involves a...
• California Government Code Section 5921
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent: (a) "Bonds" mean...
• California Government Code Section 5921.5
  For purposes of this chapter, in addition to any other authorization provided by law, the Treasurer may enter into and manage on behalf of the...
• California Government Code Section 5922
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all of the following apply: (a) (1) In connection with, or incidental to, the issuance or carrying of bonds,...
• California Government Code Section 5923
  (a) To the extent that this chapter is inconsistent with any other general statute or special act or parts thereof, now or hereafter enacted, this...
• California Government Code Section 5924
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the...
• California Government Code Section 5925
  The purchase or other acquisition of bonds by or on behalf of the state or local government that issued the bonds does not cancel, extinguish,...
• California Government Code Section 5950
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Accredited investor" has the meaning specified in Rule 501 of the Securities Act of 1933. (b) "In this state"...
• California Government Code Section 5951
  It is unlawful for any person to offer or sell in an issuer transaction in this state, or otherwise knowingly to offer or sell in...
• California Government Code Section 5952
  Any consent granted by a local agency under Section 5951 shall be conclusively evidenced by a resolution of the governing body of the local agency,...
• California Government Code Section 5953
  No local agency that consents to an offer or sale of a security that constitutes a fractional interest in a lease, installment sale, or other...
• California Government Code Section 5954
  Any person who violates this chapter shall upon conviction be fined not more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or imprisoned pursuant to subdivision (h) of...
• California Government Code Section 5955
  The obtaining of local agency consent to an offer or sale of a security under Section 5951 shall not obviate the necessity of qualification of...
• California Government Code Section 5956
  Local governmental agencies have experienced a significant decrease in available tax revenues to fund necessary infrastructure improvements. If local governmental agencies are going to maintain...
• California Government Code Section 5956.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that local governmental agencies have the authority and flexibility to utilize private investment capital to study, plan, design,...
• California Government Code Section 5956.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter be construed as creating a new and independent authority for local governmental agencies to utilize...
• California Government Code Section 5956.3
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "governmental agency" includes a city, county, city and county, including a chartered city or county, school district, community college...
• California Government Code Section 5956.4
  A governmental agency may solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction by, and may lease to, private...
• California Government Code Section 5956.5
  Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525) of Division 5, or Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) or Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100) of...
• California Government Code Section 5956.6
  (a) For purposes of facilitating projects, the agreements specified in Section 5956.4 may include provisions for the lease of rights-of-way in, and airspace over, property...
• California Government Code Section 5956.7
  (a) The governmental agency may exercise any power possessed by it with respect to the development and construction of infrastructure projects pursuant to this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 5956.8
  The plans and specifications for each project constructed pursuant to this chapter shall comply with all applicable governmental design standards for that particular infrastructure project....
• California Government Code Section 5956.9
  In order to use the authority conferred by this chapter to the maximum extent, a governmental agency may use private infrastructure financing pursuant to this...
• California Government Code Section 5956.10
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, neither the state or any state agency may directly or indirectly use the authority in this chapter, nor may...
• California Government Code Section 5970
  As used in this chapter, the following phrases have the following meanings: (a) "Person" means any broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, investment advisor, or investment...
• California Government Code Section 5971
  In selecting any person to provide underwriting services, including financial, advisory or other financial services, involving the issuance of securities, the state or the legislative...
• California Government Code Section 6000
  A "newspaper of general circulation" is a newspaper published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, which has...
• California Government Code Section 6001
  A newspaper devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race, or denomination, or for...
• California Government Code Section 6002
  For a newspaper to be "established," it shall have been in existence under a specified name during the whole of the one-year period; provided, however,...
• California Government Code Section 6003
  For a newspaper to be "printed," the mechanical work of producing it, that is the work of typesetting and impressing type on paper, shall have...
• California Government Code Section 6004
  For a newspaper to be "published," it shall have been issued from the place where it is printed and sold to or circulated among the...
• California Government Code Section 6004.5
  In order to qualify as a newspaper of general circulation the newspaper, if either printed or published in a town or city, shall be both...
• California Government Code Section 6005
  "Printed" and "published" are not synonymous. Each relates to separate acts or functions necessary to constitute a newspaper of general circulation.
• California Government Code Section 6006
  Nothing in this chapter alters the standing of any newspaper which, prior to the passage of Chapter 258 of the Statutes of 1923, was an...
• California Government Code Section 6007
  The status of a newspaper of general circulation remains unchanged in the event that the publication of the newspaper is discontinued by reason of economic...
• California Government Code Section 6008
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a newspaper is a "newspaper of general circulation" if it meets the following criteria: (a) It is...
• California Government Code Section 6020
  Whenever a newspaper desires to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation ascertained and established, it may, by its publisher, manager, editor or...
• California Government Code Section 6021
  The petition or the substance thereof, together with a notice that the petitioner intends on a named day to apply for an order declaring it...
• California Government Code Section 6022
  Upon proof of the publication of the petition and notice, the court shall set the petition for hearing. Any person may appear and contest the...
• California Government Code Section 6023
  The court shall hear the proofs of the petitioner and contestant, if there be any. Within 10 days thereafter it shall render its decision and...
• California Government Code Section 6024
  (1) The decision and judgment may be vacated, modified or set aside by the court on its own motion, or on the motion of any...
• California Government Code Section 6025
  All publications made in a newspaper during the period it was adjudged to be a newspaper of general circulation are valid and sufficient.
• California Government Code Section 6026
  An appeal may be taken to the supreme court from any final decision or judgment, or from any final order vacating, modifying or setting aside...
• California Government Code Section 6027
  On and after July 1, 1952, a newspaper shall not be in fact or in law a newspaper of general circulation unless it obtains or...
• California Government Code Section 6040
  Whenever any official advertising, notice, resolution, order, or other matter of any nature whatsoever is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such...
• California Government Code Section 6040.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6040, notice shall be given of ordinances enacted to authorize issuance of revenue bonds by joint powers entities and the fact that...
• California Government Code Section 6040.5
  As used in any law of this State providing for any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising, "daily newspaper" means a newspaper of...
• California Government Code Section 6041
  Whenever any publication, or notice by publication, or official advertising is required by any law of the State to be given or made by any...
• California Government Code Section 6041.1
  Any officer who gives or makes any publication, notice by publication, or official advertising pursuant to Section 6041 may also give or make such publication,...
• California Government Code Section 6042
  Where no newspaper of general circulation is published within the jurisdiction of the officer, then the publication, notice by publication, or official advertising shall be...
• California Government Code Section 6043
  All such publications, notices by publication, or official advertisements shall be set in type not smaller than nonpareil, and shall be preceded with words printed...
• California Government Code Section 6044
  State, county or city officers, officers of political subdivisions, and officers of courts who violate or disregard the provisions of this article, or of Article...
• California Government Code Section 6060
  Whenever any law provides that publication of notice shall be made pursuant to a designated section of this article, such notice shall be published in...
• California Government Code Section 6061
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for one time.
• California Government Code Section 6061.3
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for three successive times.
• California Government Code Section 6062
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for 10 days. The period of notice commences upon the first day of publication and terminates...
• California Government Code Section 6062a
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for 10 days in a newspaper regularly published once a week or oftener. Two publications, with...
• California Government Code Section 6063
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for three successive weeks. Three publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6063a
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be for at least 10 days. Three publications in a newspaper published once a week or oftener,...
• California Government Code Section 6064
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for four successive weeks. Four publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6065
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for eight successive weeks. Eight publications in a newspaper regularly published once a...
• California Government Code Section 6066
  Publication of notice pursuant to this section shall be once a week for two successive weeks. Two publications in a newspaper published once a week...
• California Government Code Section 6075
  As used in this article, "newspaper" includes weekly newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication.
• California Government Code Section 6076
  The publisher or owner of any newspaper published in the foreign language of any enemy nation shall file with the district attorney of the county...
• California Government Code Section 6077
  Upon request the publisher shall furnish to the Attorney General or to the district attorney of the county where the newspaper is published a translation...
• California Government Code Section 6078
  Any person violating this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Government Code Section 6090
  It is the public policy in this state that public administrative agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and that the...
• California Government Code Section 6091
  Radio and television stations shall be permitted to broadcast and telecast, either directly or by means of transcriptions and film, the proceedings of all meetings...
• California Government Code Section 6100
  Officers of the state, or of a county or judicial district, shall not perform any official services unless upon the payment of the fees prescribed...
• California Government Code Section 6101
  No fee shall be charged in proceedings upon habeas corpus.
• California Government Code Section 6103
  Neither the state nor any county, city, district, or other political subdivision, nor any public officer or body, acting in his or her official capacity...
• California Government Code Section 6103.1
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Parts 2 (commencing with Section 1200) 3 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 6103.2
  (a) Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge or expense for official services rendered by a sheriff or marshal in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 6103.3
  (a) For any order or injunction for which the sheriff or marshal provides service of process and is prohibited under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6103.4
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Section 100860 of the Health and Safety Code, or Part...
• California Government Code Section 6103.5
  (a) Whenever a judgment is recovered by a public agency named in Section 6103, either as plaintiff or petitioner or as defendant or respondent, in...
• California Government Code Section 6103.6
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services established by a city or county ordinance as a reasonable and nondiscriminatory...
• California Government Code Section 6103.7
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services established by a city, county, city and county, or district as a...
• California Government Code Section 6103.8
  (a) Sections 6103 and 27383 do not apply to any fee or charge for recording full releases executed or recorded pursuant to Section 7174 of...
• California Government Code Section 6103.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in this section, the local child support agency and the district attorney shall be exempt...
• California Government Code Section 6103.10
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charges required to be paid to the State Director of Health Services or to the State...
• California Government Code Section 6103.11
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee or charge for official services required by Title 7.3 (commencing with Section 66700).
• California Government Code Section 6103.12
  Section 6103 does not apply to any fee charged by a county clerk or county recorder, or clerk of the court, pursuant to Section 17980.1...
• California Government Code Section 6104
  Whenever an oath or affidavit is necessary in order that the State or any political subdivision thereof may recover funds or property due the State...
• California Government Code Section 6105
  Whenever an oath or affidavit is necessary in order that a person may obtain charity or relief from any agency or department of the United...
• California Government Code Section 6106
  Neither the State, nor any county or city, nor any public officer or body acting in his official capacity on behalf of the State, any...
• California Government Code Section 6107
  (a) No public entity, including the state, a county, city, or other political subdivision, nor any officer or employee thereof, including notaries public, shall demand...
• California Government Code Section 6108
  No officer of a county or judicial district shall charge or receive any fee or compensation for administering or certifying the oath of office or...
• California Government Code Section 6109
  Every officer of a county or judicial district, upon receiving any fees for official duty or service, may be required by the person paying the...
• California Government Code Section 6110
  Upon payment of the fees required by law, the officer shall perform the services required. For every failure or refusal to do so, the officer...
• California Government Code Section 6150
  Any officer of a county who is not specifically authorized by statute so to do may be authorized by the board of supervisors of the...
• California Government Code Section 6151
  As used in this chapter, "negotiable paper" means bank checks and drafts and express and post-office money orders.
• California Government Code Section 6151.5
  Any local officer, office, agency or unit which collects or receives taxes, fees, charges or any funds for public services may, when payment is acceptable...
• California Government Code Section 6152
  The acceptance of negotiable paper pursuant to this chapter constitutes payment of any amount owing to a county as of the date of acceptance when,...
• California Government Code Section 6153
  (a) If, pursuant to another provision of law, a bank account has been authorized for the use of the officer, he shall deposit in that...
• California Government Code Section 6154
  Any negotiable paper redeemed by or charged back to the county treasurer by reason of nonpayment shall be returned to the officer who deposited it...
• California Government Code Section 6155
  If any negotiable paper is not paid on due presentment for any reason, any record of payment made by the officer receiving such paper shall...
• California Government Code Section 6156
  When a cancellation is made, the officer making it shall enter it in the accounting records of his office. He shall immediately send a notice...
• California Government Code Section 6157
  (a) The state, and each city, whether general law or chartered, county, and district, each subdivision, department, board, commission, body, or agency of the foregoing,...
• California Government Code Section 6159
  (a) The following definitions apply for purposes of this section: (1) "Credit card" means any card, plate, coupon book, or other credit device existing for...
• California Government Code Section 6160
  The Legislature finds and declares that there are costs associated with all forms of payment, including cash and checks. The Legislature further finds and declares...
• California Government Code Section 6161
  For the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Cardholder" means a person making a payment to a state agency by credit card or payment device. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6162
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6159, the Director of General Services, or his or her designee, may negotiate and enter into any contracts necessary...
• California Government Code Section 6163
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), all state agencies shall accept payment made by means of a credit card or other...
• California Government Code Section 6164
  No officer or employee of a state agency, or other individual, who in the course of his or her employment or duty has or had...
• California Government Code Section 6165
  The Department of General Services and state agencies shall enter into interagency agreements to reimburse the Department of General Services for its costs in entering...
• California Government Code Section 6166
  Any state agency accepting payment by a means of credit card, whether pursuant to this chapter or Section 19005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,...
• California Government Code Section 6200
  Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court, filed or deposited in any...
• California Government Code Section 6201
  Every person not an officer referred to in Section 6200, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section, is punishable by...
• California Government Code Section 6203
  (a) Every officer authorized by law to make or give any certificate or other writing is guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she makes...
• California Government Code Section 6204
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Archivist" means the Keeper of the Archives, as specified in Section 12227. (2)...
• California Government Code Section 6204.1
  (a) If a person, organization, or institution that receives a written notice and demand from the secretary pursuant to Section 6204 does not deliver the...
• California Government Code Section 6204.2
  (a) If a local agency has reasonable grounds to believe that a record belonging to that local agency is in the possession of a person,...
• California Government Code Section 6204.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an organization or institution having physical custody of a record shall be exempt from Sections 6204 to...
• California Government Code Section 6204.4
  In an action brought pursuant to this chapter, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party.
• California Government Code Section 6205
  The Legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking frequently establish new names or addresses in...
• California Government Code Section 6205.5
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (a) "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or...
• California Government Code Section 6206
  (a) An adult person, a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor, or a guardian acting on behalf of an incapacitated person, who...
• 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
  Upon termination of a program participant's certification, the Secretary of State shall retain records as follows: (a) Except as provided in subdivision (g) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 6206.7
  (a) A program participant may withdraw from program participation by submitting to the Secretary of State written notification of withdrawal and his or her current...
• California Government Code Section 6207
  (a) A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as his or her address....
• California Government Code Section 6207.5
  A program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may seek to register and vote in a confidential manner pursuant to Section 2166.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6208
  The Secretary of State may not make a program participant's address, other than the address designated by the Secretary of State, or a program participant's...
• California Government Code Section 6208.1
  (a) (1) No person, business, or association shall knowingly and intentionally publicly post or publicly display on the Internet the home address, home telephone number,...
• California Government Code Section 6208.2
  (a) (1) No person shall post on the Internet, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence...
• California Government Code Section 6208.5
  The Secretary of State shall designate state and local agencies and nonprofit agencies that provide counseling and shelter services to victims of domestic violence or...
• California Government Code Section 6209
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules to facilitate the administration of this chapter by state and local agencies.
• California Government Code Section 6209.7
  (a) Nothing in this chapter, nor participation in this program, affects custody or visitation orders in effect prior to or during program participation. A program...
• California Government Code Section 6210
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Legislature, no later than January 10 of each year, a report that includes...
• California Government Code Section 6215
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Persons working in the reproductive health care field, specifically the provision of terminating a pregnancy, are often...
• California Government Code Section 6215.1
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (a) "Address" means a residential street address, school address, or...
• California Government Code Section 6215.2
  (a) An adult person, a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor, or a guardian acting on behalf of an incapacitated person, who...
• California Government Code Section 6215.3
  (a) The Secretary of State shall cancel certification of a program participant who fails to disclose a change in employment status, or termination as a...
• California Government Code Section 6215.4
  (a) A program participant may withdraw from program participation by submitting to the Secretary of State written notification of withdrawal and his or her current...
• California Government Code Section 6215.5
  (a) A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as his or her address....
• California Government Code Section 6215.6
  A program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may seek to register and vote in a confidential manner pursuant to Section 2166.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6215.7
  The Secretary of State may not make a program participant's address, other than the address designated by the Secretary of State, available for inspection or...
• California Government Code Section 6215.8
  The Secretary of State shall designate state and local agencies and nonprofit agencies that may assist persons applying to be program participants. Any assistance and...
• California Government Code Section 6215.9
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules to facilitate the administration of this chapter by state and local agencies. The Secretary of State shall administer...
• California Government Code Section 6216
  (a) The Secretary of State shall submit to the Legislature, no later than January 10 of each year, a report that includes the total number...
• California Government Code Section 6218
  (a) (1) No person, business, or association shall knowingly publicly post or publicly display on the Internet the home address, home telephone number, or image...
• California Government Code Section 6218.01
  (a) (1) No person shall post on the Internet, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence...
• California Government Code Section 6218.05
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Reproductive health care services" means health care services relating to the termination...
• California Government Code Section 6219
  (a) Each department, commission, office, or other administrative agency of state government shall write each document that it produces in plain, straightforward language, avoiding technical...
• California Government Code Section 6223
  (a) No person shall file or record a lawsuit, lien, or other encumbrance, including, but not limited to, a notice of lis pendens, against a...
• California Government Code Section 6250
  In enacting this chapter, the Legislature, mindful of the right of individuals to privacy, finds and declares that access to information concerning the conduct of...
• California Government Code Section 6251
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Public Records Act.
• California Government Code Section 6252
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" includes a county; city, whether general law or chartered; city and county; school district; municipal corporation; district;...
• California Government Code Section 6252.5
  Notwithstanding the definition of "member of the public" in Section 6252, an elected member or officer of any state or local agency is entitled to...
• California Government Code Section 6252.6
  Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 827 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, after the death of a foster child who is a...
• California Government Code Section 6252.7
  Notwithstanding Section 6252.5 or any other provision of law, when the members of a legislative body of a local agency are authorized to access a...
• California Government Code Section 6253
  (a) Public records are open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or local agency and every person has a...
• California Government Code Section 6253.1
  (a) When a member of the public requests to inspect a public record or obtain a copy of a public record, the public agency, in...
• California Government Code Section 6253.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, information regarding persons paid by the state to provide in-home supportive services pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6253.3
  A state or local agency may not allow another party to control the disclosure of information that is otherwise subject to disclosure pursuant to this
• California Government Code Section 6253.31
  Notwithstanding any contract term to the contrary, a contract entered into by a state or local agency subject to this chapter, including the University of...
• California Government Code Section 6253.4
  (a) Every agency may adopt regulations stating the procedures to be followed when making its records available in accordance with this section. The following state...
• California Government Code Section 6253.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 6252 and 6253, statewide, county, city, and district initiative, referendum, and recall petitions, petitions circulated pursuant to Section 5091 of the Education Code,...
• California Government Code Section 6253.6
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 6252 and 6253, information compiled by public officers or public employees revealing the identity of persons who have requested...
• California Government Code Section 6253.8
  (a) Every final enforcement order issued by an agency listed in subdivision (b) under any provision of law that is administered by an entity listed...
• California Government Code Section 6253.9
  (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, any agency that has information that constitutes an identifiable public record not exempt from disclosure pursuant to this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6254
  Except as provided in Sections 6254.7 and 6254.13, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records that are any of the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.1
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6254.7, nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that are the residence address of any person contained in...
• California Government Code Section 6254.2
  (a) Nothing in this chapter exempts from public disclosure the same categories of pesticide safety and efficacy information that are disclosable under paragraph (1) of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.3
  (a) The home addresses and home telephone numbers of state employees and employees of a school district or county office of education shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6254.4
  (a) The home address, telephone number, e-mail address, precinct number, or other number specified by the Secretary of State for voter registration purposes, and prior...
• California Government Code Section 6254.5
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, whenever a state or local agency discloses a public record which is otherwise exempt from this chapter, to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.6
  Whenever a city and county or a joint powers agency, pursuant to a mandatory statute or charter provision to collect private industry wage data for...
• California Government Code Section 6254.7
  (a) All information, analyses, plans, or specifications that disclose the nature, extent, quantity, or degree of air contaminants or other pollution which any article, machine,...
• California Government Code Section 6254.8
  Every employment contract between a state or local agency and any public official or public employee is a public record which is not subject to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.9
  (a) Computer software developed by a state or local agency is not itself a public record under this chapter. The agency may sell, lease, or...
• California Government Code Section 6254.10
  Nothing in this chapter requires disclosure of records that relate to archaeological site information and reports maintained by, or in the possession of, the Department...
• California Government Code Section 6254.11
  Nothing in this chapter requires the disclosure of records that relate to volatile organic compounds or chemical substances information received or compiled by an air...
• California Government Code Section 6254.12
  Any information reported to the North American Securities Administrators Association/National Association of Securities Dealers' Central Registration Depository and compiled as disciplinary records which are made...
• California Government Code Section 6254.13
  Notwithstanding Section 6254, upon the request of any Member of the Legislature or upon request of the Governor or his or her designee, test questions...
• California Government Code Section 6254.14
  (a) (1) Except as provided in Sections 6254 and 6254.7, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the Department...
• California Government Code Section 6254.15
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that are any of the following: corporate financial records, corporate proprietary information...
• California Government Code Section 6254.16
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of the name, credit history, utility usage data, home address, or telephone number of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.17
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board that relate to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.18
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of any personal information received, collected, or compiled by a public agency regarding the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.19
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of an information security record of a public agency, if, on the facts of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.20
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure of records that relate to electronically collected personal information, as defined by Section 11015.5,...
• California Government Code Section 6254.21
  (a) No state or local agency shall post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official on the Internet without first...
• California Government Code Section 6254.22
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of records of a health plan that is licensed pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6254.23
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a risk assessment or railroad infrastructure protection program filed with...
• California Government Code Section 6254.24
  As used in this chapter, "public safety official" means the following parties, whether active or retired: (a) A peace officer as defined in Sections 830...
• California Government Code Section 6254.25
  Nothing in this chapter or any other provision of law shall require the disclosure of a memorandum submitted to a state body or to the...
• California Government Code Section 6254.26
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or other law, the following records regarding alternative investments in which public investment funds invest shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6254.27
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a county recorder of any "official record" if a "public record" version of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.28
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the disclosure by a filing office of any "official record" if a "public record" version of...
• California Government Code Section 6254.29
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, in order to protect against the risk of identity theft, local agencies shall redact social security...
• California Government Code Section 6255
  (a) The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that...
• California Government Code Section 6257.5
  This chapter does not allow limitations on access to a public record based upon the purpose for which the record is being requested, if the...
• California Government Code Section 6258
  Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief or writ of mandate in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his or her...
• California Government Code Section 6259
  (a) Whenever it is made to appear by verified petition to the superior court of the county where the records or some part thereof are...
• California Government Code Section 6260
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed in any manner to affect the status of judicial records as it existed immediately prior to...
• California Government Code Section 6261
  Notwithstanding Section 6252, an itemized statement of the total expenditures and disbursement of any agency provided for in Article VI of the California Constitution shall...
• California Government Code Section 6262
  The exemption of records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, any state or local agency for licensing purposes under subdivision (f) of Section 6254...
• California Government Code Section 6263
  A state or local agency shall allow an inspection or copying of any public record or class of public records not exempted by this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6264
  The district attorney may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to require a state or local agency to allow him to inspect or receive a...
• California Government Code Section 6265
  Disclosure of records to a district attorney under the provisions of this chapter shall effect no change in the status of the records under any...
• California Government Code Section 6267
  All patron use records of any library which is in whole or in part supported by public funds shall remain confidential and shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 6268
  Public records, as defined in Section 6252, in the custody or control of the Governor when he or she leaves office, either voluntarily or involuntarily,...
• California Government Code Section 6270
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state or local agency shall sell, exchange, furnish, or otherwise provide a public record subject to disclosure...
• California Government Code Section 6275
  It is the intent of the Legislature to assist members of the public and state and local agencies in identifying exemptions to the California Public...
• California Government Code Section 6276
  Records or information not required to be disclosed pursuant to subdivision (k) of Section 6254 may include, but shall not be limited to, records or...
• California Government Code Section 6276.01
  Crime victims, confidential information or records, The Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008: Marsy's Law, Section 28 of Article I of the California Constitution.
• California Government Code Section 6276.02
  Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, blood test results, written authorization not necessary for disclosure, Section 121010, Health and Safety Code. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, blood test...
• California Government Code Section 6276.04
  Aeronautics Act, reports of investigations and hearings, Section 21693, Public Utilities Code. Agricultural producers marketing, access to records, Section 59616, Food and Agricultural Code. Aiding...
• California Government Code Section 6276.06
  Bank and Corporation Tax, disclosure of information, Article 2 (commencing with Section 19542), Chapter 7, Part 10.2, Division 2, Revenue and Taxation Code. Bank employees,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.08
  Cable television subscriber information, confidentiality of, Section 637.5, Penal Code. CalFresh, disclosure of information, Section 18909, Welfare and Institutions Code. California AIDS Program, personal data,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.10
  Cancer registries, confidentiality of information, Section 103885, Health and Safety Code. Candidate for local nonpartisan elective office, confidentiality of ballot statement, Section 13311, Elections Code....
• California Government Code Section 6276.12
  Conservatee, confidentiality of the conservatee's report, Section 1826, Probate Code. Conservatee, estate plan of, confidentiality of, Section 2586, Probate Code. Conservatee with disability, confidentiality of...
• California Government Code Section 6276.14
  Dairy Council of California, confidentiality of ballots, Section 64155, Food and Agricultural Code. Death, report that physician's or podiatrist's negligence or incompetence may be cause,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.16
  Educational psychologist-patient, privileged communication, Section 1010.5, Evidence Code. Electronic and appliance repair dealer, service contractor, financial data in applications, subdivision (x), Section 6254. Electronic Recording...
• California Government Code Section 6276.18
  Family Court, records, Section 1818, Family Code. Farm product processor license, confidentiality of financial statements, Section 55523.6, Food and Agricultural Code. Farm product processor licensee,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.22
  Gambling Control Act, exemption from disclosure for records of the California Gambling Control Commission and the Department of Justice, Sections 19819 and 19821, Business and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.24
  Hazardous substance tax information, prohibition against disclosure, Section 43651, Revenue and Taxation Code. Hazardous waste control, business plans, public inspection, Section 25506, Health and Safety...
• California Government Code Section 6276.26
  Improper governmental activities reporting, confidentiality of identity of person providing information, Section 8547.5. Improper governmental activities reporting, disclosure of information, Section 8547.6. Industrial loan companies,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.28
  Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, confidentiality of reports and records, Section 8953. Judicial candidates, confidentiality of communications concerning, Section 12011.5. Judicial proceedings, confidentiality of employer records...
• California Government Code Section 6276.30
  Managed care health plans, confidentiality of proprietary information, Section 14091.3, Welfare and Institutions Code. Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, negotiations with entities contracting or seeking...
• California Government Code Section 6276.32
  Narcotic addict outpatient revocation proceeding, confidentiality of reports, Section 3152.5, Welfare and Institutions Code. Narcotic and drug abuse patients, confidentiality of records, Section 11845.5, Health...
• California Government Code Section 6276.34
  Parole revocation proceedings, confidentiality of information in reports, Section 3063.5, Penal Code. Passenger fishing boat licenses, records, Section 7923, Fish and Game Code. Paternity, acknowledgement,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.36
  Pregnancy tests by local public health agencies, confidentiality of, Section 123380, Health and Safety Code. Pregnant women, confidentiality of blood tests, Section 125105, Health and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.38
  Radioactive materials, dissemination of information about transportation of, Section 33002, Vehicle Code. Railroad infrastructure protection program, disclosure not required for risk assessments filed with the...
• California Government Code Section 6276.40
  Sales and use tax, disclosure of information, Section 7056, Revenue and Taxation Code. Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority, exemption from disclosure for records maintained by...
• California Government Code Section 6276.42
  State agency activities relating to unrepresented employees, subdivision (p) of Section 6254. State agency activities relating to providers of health care, subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 6276.44
  Taxpayer information, confidentiality, local taxes, subdivision (i), Section 6254. Tax preparer, disclosure of information obtained in business of preparing tax returns, Section 17530.5, Business and...
• California Government Code Section 6276.46
  Unclaimed property, Controller records of, disclosure, Section 1582, Code of Civil Procedure. Unemployment compensation, disclosure of confidential information, Section 2111, Unemployment Insurance Code. Unemployment compensation,...
• California Government Code Section 6276.48
  Wards, petition for sealing records, Section 781, Welfare and Institutions Code. Winegrowers of California Commission, confidentiality of producers' or vintners' proprietary information, Sections 74655 and...
• California Government Code Section 6300
  As used in this chapter, "public corporation" means the State, any political subdivision thereof, any incorporated municipality therein, any public agency of the State, of...
• California Government Code Section 6301
  As used in this chapter, "act of Congress" means the act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment,...
• California Government Code Section 6302
  Any public corporation may make application for the privilege of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with the act of Congress.
• California Government Code Section 6303
  Any private corporation organized under the laws of the State subsequent to September 15, 1935, for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining a foreign-trade...
• California Government Code Section 6304
  Any public or private corporation authorized by this chapter to make such application and whose application is granted pursuant to the terms of the act...
• California Government Code Section 6305
  If authorized to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone, a public corporation may, in addition to its other powers: (a) Provide for such...
• California Government Code Section 6310
  (a) There is in state government the International Genocide Memorial Commission composed of nine members, as follows: (1) Two members appointed by the Speaker of...
• California Government Code Section 6311
  (a) The construction of a memorial to California's genocide survivors in the Capitol Historic Region is hereby authorized. The actual construction of the memorial may...
• California Government Code Section 6312
  With respect to the design and construction of the memorial, the commission may do all of the following: (a) Establish a schedule for design, construction,...
• California Government Code Section 6313
  (a) No state moneys shall be expended for any of the purposes specified in this chapter. Funds for the construction of the memorial shall be...
• California Government Code Section 6500
  As used in this article, "public agency" includes, but is not limited to, the federal government or any federal department or agency, this state, another...
• California Government Code Section 6500.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Joint Exercise of Powers Act.
• California Government Code Section 6501
  This article does not authorize any state officer, board, commission, department, or other state agency or institution to make any agreement without the approval of...
• California Government Code Section 6502
  If authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, two or more public agencies by agreement may jointly exercise any power common to the contracting...
• California Government Code Section 6502.5
  In addition to any power common to its member districts, the Resource Conservation Energy Joint Powers Agency has the authority to finance, construct, install, and...
• California Government Code Section 6502.7
  (a) If authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, two or more public agencies which have the authority to identify, plan for, monitor, control,...
• California Government Code Section 6503
  The agreements shall state the purpose of the agreement or the power to be exercised. They shall provide for the method by which the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6503.1
  (a) When property tax revenues of a county of the second class are allocated by that county to an agency formed for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 6503.5
  Whenever a joint powers agreement provides for the creation of an agency or entity that is separate from the parties to the agreement and is...
• California Government Code Section 6503.6
  Whenever an agency or entity files a notice of agreement or amendment with the office of the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 6503.5, the...
• California Government Code Section 6503.7
  Within 90 days after the effective date of this section, any separate agency or entity constituted pursuant to a joint powers agreement entered into prior...
• California Government Code Section 6504
  The parties to the agreement may provide that (a) contributions from the treasuries may be made for the purpose set forth in the agreement, (b)...
• California Government Code Section 6505
  (a) The agreement shall provide for strict accountability of all funds and report of all receipts and disbursements. (b) In addition, and provided a separate...
• California Government Code Section 6505.1
  The contracting parties to an agreement made pursuant to this chapter shall designate the public office or officers or person or persons who have charge...
• California Government Code Section 6505.5
  If a separate agency or entity is created by the agreement, the agreement shall designate the treasurer of one of the contracting parties, or in...
• California Government Code Section 6505.6
  In lieu of the designation of a treasurer and auditor as set forth in Section 6505.5, the agency or entity may appoint one of its...
• California Government Code Section 6506
  The agency or entity provided by the agreement to administer or execute the agreement may be one or more of the parties to the agreement...
• California Government Code Section 6507
  For the purposes of this article, the agency is a public entity separate from the parties to the agreement.
• California Government Code Section 6508
  The agency shall possess the common power specified in the agreement and may exercise it in the manner or according to the method provided in...
• California Government Code Section 6508.1
  If the agency is not one or more of the parties to the agreement but is a public entity, commission, or board constituted pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 6509
  Such power is subject to the restrictions upon the manner of exercising the power of one of the contracting parties, which party shall be designated...
• California Government Code Section 6509.5
  Any separate agency or entity created pursuant to this chapter shall have the power to invest any money in the treasury pursuant to Section 6505.5...
• California Government Code Section 6509.6
  Notwithstanding any other law, a joint powers authority created pursuant to this chapter may purchase or acquire, by sale, assignment, pledge, or other transfer from...
• California Government Code Section 6509.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, two or more public agencies that have the authority to invest funds in their treasuries may, by agreement,...
• California Government Code Section 6510
  The agreement may be continued for a definite term or until rescinded or terminated. The agreement may provide for the method by which it may...
• California Government Code Section 6511
  The agreement shall provide for the disposition, division, or distribution of any property acquired as the result of the joint exercise of powers.
• California Government Code Section 6512
  The agreement shall provide that after the completion of its purpose, any surplus money on hand shall be returned in proportion to the contributions made.
• California Government Code Section 6512.1
  If the purpose set forth in the agreement is the acquisition, construction or operation of a revenue-producing facility, the agreement may provide (a) for the...
• California Government Code Section 6512.2
  If the purpose set forth in the agreement is to pool the self-insurance claims of two or more local public entities, the agreement may provide...
• California Government Code Section 6513
  All of the privileges and immunities from liability, exemptions from laws, ordinances and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workmen's compensation, and other benefits which apply...
• California Government Code Section 6514
  A state department or agency concerned with the provisions of services or facilities to persons with intellectual disabilities and their families may enter into agreements...
• California Government Code Section 6514.5
  Any public agency may enter into agreements with other state agencies pursuant to the provisions of Section 11256.
• California Government Code Section 6515
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission or board provided for by a joint powers agreement entered into pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 6516
  Public agencies conducting agricultural, livestock, industrial, cultural, or other types of fairs or exhibitions may enter into a joint powers agreement to form an insurance...
• California Government Code Section 6516.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency established in Orange County pursuant to a joint powers agreement in accordance with this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 6516.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 6516.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency established pursuant to a joint powers agreement in accordance with this chapter may issue...
• California Government Code Section 6516.7
  One or more public agencies and one or more private entities that provide child care or operate child day care facilities, as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 6516.8
  Any two or more harbor agencies may establish a joint powers authority pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 1690) of Division 6 of the...
• California Government Code Section 6516.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a joint powers agency or entity provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to this article, the members...
• California Government Code Section 6517
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Department of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with any other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 6517.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles may advance funds, not to exceed four...
• California Government Code Section 6517.6
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the Department of General Services may enter into a joint powers agreement with any other public agency...
• California Government Code Section 6518
  (a) A joint powers agency, without being subject to any limitations of any party to the joint powers agreement pursuant to Section 6509, may also...
• California Government Code Section 6519
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State of California does hereby pledge to, and agree with, the holders of bonds issued by any agency...
• California Government Code Section 6520
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County and the City Council of the City of San Diego...
• California Government Code Section 6520.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the Board of Supervisors of Siskiyou County and the city councils of the cities within Siskiyou County may...
• California Government Code Section 6522
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any state department or agency entering into a joint powers agreement with a federal, county, or city government...
• California Government Code Section 6523
  (a) The West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, a joint powers entity that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into, in accordance with this...
• California Government Code Section 6523.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Selma Community Hospital, a private, nonprofit hospital in Fresno County, may enter into a joint powers...
• California Government Code Section 6523.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Contra Costa may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Tulare may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit hospital in the County of Kings may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6523.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a nonprofit hospital in the County of Tuolumne may enter into a joint powers agreement with a...
• California Government Code Section 6523.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a nonprofit hospital in the County of San Diego may enter into a joint powers agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 6524
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit children's hospital in a county of the third class may enter into a joint powers...
• California Government Code Section 6525
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a mutual water company may enter into a joint powers agreement with any public agency for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6526
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public agency that is a member of the South East Regional Reclamation Authority, the Aliso Water Management Agency,...
• California Government Code Section 6527
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where two or more health care districts have joined together to pool their self-insurance claims or losses, a...
• California Government Code Section 6528
  A charter school, including a charter school organized pursuant to Section 47604 of the Education Code, may be considered a public agency, as defined in...
• California Government Code Section 6529
  (a) (1) The Elk Valley Rancheria Tribal Council, as the governing body of the Elk Valley Rancheria, California, a federally recognized Indian tribe, may enter...
• California Government Code Section 6529.5
  (a) Any joint powers authority that includes a federally recognized Indian tribe shall not have the authority to authorize or issue bonds pursuant to the...
• California Government Code Section 6531
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is in the best interests of communities located within the City of San...
• California Government Code Section 6531.5
  (a) There is hereby created the California In-Home Supportive Services Authority, hereafter referred to as the Statewide Authority. Notwithstanding any other law, the Statewide Authority...
• California Government Code Section 6532
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the communities located in and around the City of Santa Clara...
• California Government Code Section 6533
  (a) The board of directors of the Eastern Water Alliance Joint Powers Agency may grant available funds to a member public agency for the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 6534
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Prison Inmate Health Service Reform Act. (b) The Department of Corrections may...
• California Government Code Section 6535
  Any entity that is established pursuant to a joint powers agreement authorized under this article that is also licensed under Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 6536
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a private, nonprofit corporation that conducts fairs and other events and exhibitions on land leased from the County...
• California Government Code Section 6540
  As used in this article "bonds" means revenue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness.
• California Government Code Section 6541
  "Bondholder" or "holder of bonds" or any similar term, as used in this article, shall mean any person who shall be the bearer of any...
• California Government Code Section 6542
  "Entity" as used in this article means any agency, board or commission provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 of this...
• California Government Code Section 6542.1
  "Fair and exhibition authority," as used in this article, means an entity created by a joint powers agreement for the purpose of financing or otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 6542.5
  "Local agency" as used in this article means any public agency designated in Section 6500 other than the federal government or any federal department or...
• California Government Code Section 6543
  "Governing body" as used in this article means the board or commission provided for by a joint powers agreement, pursuant to Article 1 of this
• California Government Code Section 6544
  "Indenture" as used in this article means the instrument providing the terms and conditions for the issuance of the revenue bonds, and may be a...
• California Government Code Section 6545
  "Project" as used in this article includes buildings, structures, improvements and all facilities appurtenant thereto or provided therefor together with land and offstreet parking facilities...
• California Government Code Section 6546
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 6546.1
  In the County of Los Angeles, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint powers agreement entered into by cities pursuant to Article 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.2
  In addition to other powers, any agency, commission or board provided for by joint powers agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 6546.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any local agency entering into one or more leases or rental contracts or agreements with a joint powers entity...
• California Government Code Section 6546.4
  The governing body of any local agency adopting an ordinance pursuant to Section 6546.3 shall call an election for purposes of submitting to the qualified...
• California Government Code Section 6546.5
  In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast in an election called pursuant to Section 6546.4 are against adoption of the ordinance, no ordinance...
• California Government Code Section 6546.6
  In addition to any other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint powers agreement entered into by cities pursuant to Article 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.7
  Public agencies may enter into a joint powers agreement for the purposes of creating a fair and exhibition authority with the power to issue revenue...
• California Government Code Section 6546.11
  In addition to other powers, any joint powers entity created to exercise the powers granted by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 33750) of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 6546.12
  In any county with a population determined by the last official census of 4,000,000 or more, any agency, commission, or board provided for by joint...
• California Government Code Section 6546.13
  (a) The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, or its successor organization, may issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article or bonds pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 6547
  The power of the entity to issue revenue bonds is additional to the powers common to the parties to the joint powers agreement, but shall...
• California Government Code Section 6547.1
  Any entity which shall have been authorized to exercise the power to issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article shall have the further additional power...
• California Government Code Section 6547.2
  Notice of the enactment of an ordinance subject to referendum under Section 6547 shall be published after adoption as required by Section 6040.1 within 15...
• California Government Code Section 6547.3
  In the event that an ordinance enacted pursuant to Section 6547 authorizing the entity to issue revenue bonds is subjected to a successful referendum election...
• California Government Code Section 6547.4
  Except for the requirement of an ordinance and the right to referendum thereon, the amendments to Section 6547 adopted at the 1971 Regular Session of...
• California Government Code Section 6547.5
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may issue revenue bonds pursuant to this article upon authorization by ordinance of only those individual...
• California Government Code Section 6547.6
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may incur other forms of indebtedness pursuant to Section 6547.1 for one or more projects specified...
• California Government Code Section 6547.7
  A joint powers entity created pursuant to this chapter may issue mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 52000) of Division 31...
• California Government Code Section 6547.8
  No member of the governing body of the authority shall be personally liable on the bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability...
• California Government Code Section 6547.9
  The Treasurer is designated as an elected representative for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created pursuant to this chapter. In the discretion...
• California Government Code Section 6548
  The revenue bonds may be issued to provide all or any part of the funds required for the acquisition, construction and financing of said project,...
• California Government Code Section 6548.5
  The level of fees or charges imposed by, or on behalf of, an agency or entity for the issuance of bonds pursuant to this article...
• California Government Code Section 6549
  An indenture providing the terms and conditions for the issuance of the bonds and the covenants relating thereto shall be adopted in or approved by...
• California Government Code Section 6550
  The principal and interest of the bonds shall be payable: (a) First, out of the revenue derived from the operation of the project or projects...
• California Government Code Section 6551
  Revenue bonds issued under this article and contracts or obligations entered into to carry out the purposes for which bonds are issued, payable in whole...
• California Government Code Section 6552
  All bonds issued by the entity shall contain a recital on their face that neither the payment of the principal or any part thereof nor...
• California Government Code Section 6553
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds shall recite the objects and purposes for which the bonds are to be issued, which may include...
• California Government Code Section 6554
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall provide the denomination or denominations of the bonds, the medium of payment of principal thereof and...
• California Government Code Section 6555
  In the indenture authorizing the issuance of said bonds the governing body may also fix additional terms and conditions and may in any article, section...
• California Government Code Section 6556
  Said indenture may provide the terms and conditions under which said bonds may be paid, redeemed before maturity (including the premiums, if any, to be...
• California Government Code Section 6557
  Said indenture may include covenants or other provisions relating to the bonds issued thereunder requiring the entity to fix, prescribe and collect rates, tolls, fees,...
• California Government Code Section 6558
  The indenture may include covenants or other provisions, other than or in lieu of the provisions required by Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 6559
  The indenture may include a covenant or other provision relating to the insurance upon such project, or any part thereof, against any or all risks,...
• California Government Code Section 6560
  The indenture may include a covenant or other provision containing prohibitions against or limitations upon the sale, lease or other disposition of such project or...
• California Government Code Section 6561
  The indenture may contain covenants or other provisions providing for prohibitions against or limitations upon the issuance of any additional bonds or the incurring of...
• California Government Code Section 6562
  The indenture may contain covenants or other provisions whereby the consent or agreement of a stated percentage or number of the holders of the bonds...
• California Government Code Section 6563
  The indenture may provide for the issuance of a duplicate in the manner and upon such terms and conditions as the governing body of the...
• California Government Code Section 6564
  The indenture may include a covenant or provision against the entering into of any agreement which impairs the operation of the project or any part...
• California Government Code Section 6565
  The indenture may provide for events of default and the terms upon which the bonds may be declared due before maturity and the terms upon...
• California Government Code Section 6566
  The indenture may provide for the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the entity's breach of any covenants, conditions or obligations of the indenture.
• California Government Code Section 6567
  The indenture may provide for a fiscal agent and the deposit of funds therewith.
• California Government Code Section 6568
  The indenture may contain any other provision or covenant valid under the Constitutions of the State of California and the United States of America which...
• California Government Code Section 6569
  The indenture authorizing the issuance of said bonds and all resolutions or orders in the proceeding for the issuance of said bonds shall constitute a...
• California Government Code Section 6570
  Any bonds issued under this act shall be payable within not more than forty (40) years from the date of issue thereof. No bond may...
• California Government Code Section 6571
  The bonds shall be issued and sold as the governing body may determine and for not less than par and accrued interest to date of...
• California Government Code Section 6571.2
  Any joint powers agency which, prior to January 1, 1972, has issued revenue bonds pursuant to Section 6571.1 of this article for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 6572
  The bonds shall be secured by a pledge of and lien upon the revenues of the project described in the indenture authorizing the issuance of...
• California Government Code Section 6573
  So long as any bonds or interest coupons thereof are outstanding and unpaid, the revenues and interest thereon shall not be used for any purpose...
• California Government Code Section 6574
  The entity shall operate, maintain and preserve the project in good repair and working order, and shall operate the project in an efficient and economical...
• California Government Code Section 6575
  All bonds and the interest thereon or income therefrom are exempt from all taxation in this State other than gift, inheritance and estate taxes.
• California Government Code Section 6576
  The entity may provide for the issuance, sale or exchange of refunding bonds for the purpose of redeeming or retiring any revenue bonds issued by...
• California Government Code Section 6577
  Funding or refunding bonds may be issued in a principal amount sufficient to provide funds for the payment of all of the following: (a) All...
• California Government Code Section 6578
  This article shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 6579
  In addition to the revenue bonds authorized by this article, an agency or entity established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may also issue...
• California Government Code Section 6579.5
  In addition to the revenue bonds authorized by this article and in addition to other powers, any agency, commission, or board provided for by a...
• California Government Code Section 6580
  As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (a) "Joint county park board" means a board, commission, or other public...
• California Government Code Section 6581
  A joint county park board may designate the sheriff of any one of the counties as the park sheriff. The park sheriff shall be designated...
• California Government Code Section 6582
  Upon the designation of a park sheriff in the manner provided in Section 6581, and until such time as the designation is revoked by the...
• California Government Code Section 6583
  The provisions of this article applicable to a park sheriff, if one has been designated, shall apply to all deputies and subordinates of the park...
• California Government Code Section 6584
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Marks-Roos Local Bond Pooling Act of 1985.
• California Government Code Section 6584.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That there is a critical need within the state to expand, upgrade, and otherwise improve...
• California Government Code Section 6585
  The definitions in this section shall govern the construction and interpretation of this article. (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), "authority"...
• California Government Code Section 6586
  It is the Legislature's intent that this article be used to assist local agencies in financing public capital improvements, working capital, liability and other insurance...
• California Government Code Section 6586.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6587, an authority, or any entity acting on behalf of or for the benefit of an authority, may not authorize bonds to...
• California Government Code Section 6586.7
  (a) A copy of the resolution adopted by an authority authorizing bonds or any issuance of bonds, or accepting the benefit of any bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 6587
  This article does not limit any other law authorizing, or providing for, the financing of public capital improvements. Likewise, this article does not limit any...
• California Government Code Section 6588
  In addition to other powers specified in an agreement pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) and Article 2 (commencing with Section 6540), the...
• California Government Code Section 6588.5
  (a) An authority that was in existence at the time of the enactment of this section may purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or...
• California Government Code Section 6588.6
  (a) An authority that was in existence on July 28, 2009, may purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or its revenue, Proposition 1A receivables...
• California Government Code Section 6589
  An authority may enter into a bond purchase agreement with a local agency or agencies. The bond purchase agreement shall specify the maximum rate of...
• California Government Code Section 6590
  The authority may, from time to time, issue its bonds in the principal amount as the authority determines necessary to provide sufficient funds for its...
• California Government Code Section 6590.1
  (a) In the case of bonds issued by an authority to acquire local obligations, the offering documents for the bonds shall clearly delineate investment criteria...
• California Government Code Section 6590.2
  (a) An authority shall solicit at least three bids, and select the highest bid, for any guaranteed investment contract purchased with the proceeds of bonds...
• California Government Code Section 6591
  (a) The authority is authorized from time to time to issue bonds to provide funds to achieve its purposes. (b) Bonds may be authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 6591.1
  (a) No broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, or other firm that underwrites a bond issue of an authority shall serve as financial advisor or investment...
• California Government Code Section 6592
  Any resolution authorizing any bonds or any issue of bonds may contain the following provisions, which shall be a part of the contract with the...
• California Government Code Section 6592.1
  A resolution authorizing bonds or any issuance of bonds or accepting the benefit of any bonds or the proceeds of bonds shall be adopted by...
• California Government Code Section 6592.5
  (a) No bonds issued by any local agency shall be purchased pursuant to this article by an authority at a price to yield in excess...
• California Government Code Section 6593
  No member of the governing body of the authority shall be personally liable on the bonds or be subject to any personal liability or accountability...
• California Government Code Section 6594
  The authority may, out of any funds available therefor, purchase its bonds. The authority may hold, pledge, cancel, or resell the bonds, subject to, and...
• California Government Code Section 6595
  Any bonds issued under this article may be secured by a trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee or trustees, which may include...
• California Government Code Section 6595.3
  (a) The authority may issue bonds for the purpose of refunding any bonds, notes, or other securities of the authority then outstanding, including the payment...
• California Government Code Section 6595.5
  Bonds issued by the authority are legal investments for all trust funds, the funds of all insurance companies, banks, both commercial and savings, trust companies,...
• California Government Code Section 6595.7
  (a) The authority is not required to pay any property taxes or assessments upon, or with respect to, any public capital improvement or any property...
• California Government Code Section 6596
  The State of California does hereby pledge to, and agrees with, the holders of any bonds issued under this article, and with those parties who...
• California Government Code Section 6597
  All public capital improvements financed by the authority shall pay interest within a reasonable time after the authority receives revenues or proceeds from bonds as...
• California Government Code Section 6597.5
  All public capital improvements financed by the authority shall be constructed or completed subject to the rules and regulations of the authority. When the principal...
• California Government Code Section 6598
  Interest earned on any bonds issued by the authority shall at all times be free from state personal income tax and corporate income tax.
• California Government Code Section 6598.5
  Local agencies may request advice from the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission pursuant to Section 8859 regarding the formation of local bond pooling authorities...
• California Government Code Section 6599
  (a) In an action filed pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure...
• California Government Code Section 6599.1
  (a) The legislative body shall, no later than 30 days prior to the sale of any bonds pursuant to this article, give written notice of...
• California Government Code Section 6599.2
  Notwithstanding Sections 863 and 869 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the Attorney General or the Treasurer may jointly or separately file an action pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 6599.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an action may be brought under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of...
• California Government Code Section 6599.01
  Pursuant to Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, local agencies may enter into a joint pooling agreement to form a single statewide...
• California Government Code Section 6599.02
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Local agency" means any city, county, city and county, school district, special district, authority, other political subdivision of or...
• California Government Code Section 6599.03
  In addition to the powers specified in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500), the authority may issue revenue bonds or certificates of participation, or both,...
• California Government Code Section 6599.04
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) applies to the authority.
• California Government Code Section 6599.05
  The authority is not a state agency and has no power at any time or in any manner to pledge the credit of the state.
• California Government Code Section 6599.06
  The authority shall be organized and administered by a board of directors. The original board shall be constituted and selected as follows: (a) Two directors...
• California Government Code Section 6599.07
  There shall not be any liability in an individual or private capacity on the part of the board of directors or any member of the...
• California Government Code Section 6599.08
  The authority shall be operated on an actuarially sound basis and become neither more nor less than self-supporting. For that purpose, loss experience and expense...
• California Government Code Section 6599.09
  The board shall do all of the following: (a) Develop, promulgate, and effectuate loss prevention programs, risk management programs, and safety programs. (b) Subject to...
• California Government Code Section 6599.10
  All those local agencies that request membership in the authority and meet the standards established by the authority pursuant to Section 6599.09, for entry into...
• California Government Code Section 6599.21
  The authority may only cover risks to the extent that liability on any one occurrence exceeds one million dollars ($1,000,000), and may not provide coverage...
• California Government Code Section 6599.22
  The authority may establish limits on coverage for a member or category of members, but those limits may neither be less than the minimum nor...
• California Government Code Section 6599.23
  A local agency requesting membership from the authority may request coverage in any sum, so long as the coverage requested is neither less than the...
• California Government Code Section 6599.31
  The books and records of the authority shall be audited annually and a summary of the audit shall be provided to the authority's members and...
• California Government Code Section 6599.41
  If the original board is not selected on or before January 1, 1990, this chapter shall cease to be operative.
• California Government Code Section 6600
  This chapter applies only to property and funds, and the disposition thereof, of inmates of any state home, reformatory, hospital, state prison, or other institution...
• California Government Code Section 6601
  When any person confined in any state home, reformatory, hospital, state prison, or other institution dies, escapes, or is discharged or paroled from the home,...
• California Government Code Section 6602
  If the charge is not paid, a lien to secure the payment of the charge accrues to the State. The lien may be foreclosed pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 6603
  If the charge is not paid within three years, the lien may be foreclosed, and the superintendent or warden may sell the property, or such...
• California Government Code Section 6604
  At least 10 days before the sale notice of sale shall be posted in a public place at the state home, reformatory, hospital, institution, or...
• California Government Code Section 6605
  The proceeds of the sale shall be turned over immediately to the State Treasurer to be credited to the General Fund, except that the proceeds...
• California Government Code Section 6606
  The superintendent or warden may deposit any funds of inmates in his possession in any bank in the state. With the consent of the owners...
• California Government Code Section 6607
  The superintendent or warden is the trustee of the benefit fund.
• California Government Code Section 6608
  He may expend the money in the benefit fund or post fund for the education or entertainment of the inmates of the institution or prison...
• California Government Code Section 6650
  (a) Any marching band organized by or maintained by any educational institution supported in whole or in part by public funds or granted any tax...
• California Government Code Section 6700
  The holidays in this state are: (a) Every Sunday. (b) January 1st. (c) The third Monday in January, known as "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....
• California Government Code Section 6701
  If January 1st, February 12th, March 31st, July 4th, September 9th, November 11th, or December 25th falls upon a Sunday, the Monday following is a...
• California Government Code Section 6702
  Every Saturday from noon to midnight is a holiday as regards the transaction of business in the public offices of the state and political divisions...
• California Government Code Section 6703
  (a) Public offices of the state, state institutions, and the University of California shall be closed on Admission Day. (b) Public offices of the state...
• California Government Code Section 6704
  The legislative body of any city or district may, by ordinance or resolution, provide that every Saturday is a holiday as respects the transaction of...
• California Government Code Section 6705
  A special or limited holiday is a holiday applying only to a special class or classes of business, or a special class or classes of...
• California Government Code Section 6706
  Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon...
• California Government Code Section 6707
  When the last day for filing any instrument or other document with a state agency falls upon a Saturday or holiday, such act may be...
• California Government Code Section 6708
  The Governor shall proclaim September 28th to be known hereafter as "Cabrillo Day."
• California Government Code Section 6709
  The Governor shall proclaim January 15 to be known hereafter as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
• California Government Code Section 6710
  The Governor shall proclaim March 7, to be known hereafter as "Arbor Day."
• California Government Code Section 6711
  The Governor shall proclaim February 19 to be known hereafter as "A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation," to reflect upon that day of February...
• California Government Code Section 6712
  The Governor shall proclaim annually the fourth Friday in September to be "Native American Day."
• California Government Code Section 6713
  The Governor shall annually proclaim the first Sunday in October to be known as "Stepparents Day."
• California Government Code Section 6714
  The Governor annually shall proclaim April 21st to be "John Muir Day."
• California Government Code Section 6715
  The Governor shall annually proclaim March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
• California Government Code Section 6716
  The Governor shall annually proclaim December 7 as "Pearl Harbor Day."
• California Government Code Section 6717
  The Governor shall annually proclaim March 31 as "Cesar Chavez Day."
• California Government Code Section 6718
  The Governor shall proclaim the month of February as Black History Month each year.
• California Government Code Section 6719
  The Governor shall proclaim the third Saturday in June of each year to be known as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day: A day of observance," to...
• California Government Code Section 6721
  The Governor shall annually proclaim May 22 as Harvey Milk Day.
• California Government Code Section 6722
  The Governor annually shall proclaim January 30 as Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
• California Government Code Section 6723
  The Governor shall annually proclaim February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
• California Government Code Section 6724
  The Governor shall annually proclaim January 23 as Ed Roberts Day.
• California Government Code Section 6800
  The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless...
• California Government Code Section 6801
  Time is computed according to the Gregorian or new style; and January 1st, in every year, after 1752 is reckoned as the first day of...
• California Government Code Section 6802
  The years 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other future hundredth year, of which the year 2000 is the first, except only every fourth hundredth...
• California Government Code Section 6803
  "Year" means a period of 365 days; "half year," 182 days; "quarter of a year," 91 days. The added day of a leap year, and...
• California Government Code Section 6804
  "Month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.
• California Government Code Section 6805
  A week consists of seven consecutive days.
• California Government Code Section 6806
  A day is the period of time between any midnight and the midnight following.
• California Government Code Section 6807
  "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset. "Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.
• California Government Code Section 6850
  The money of account of this State is the dollar, cent, and mill. Public accounts and all proceedings in courts shall be kept and had...
• California Government Code Section 6851
  This chapter does not vitiate or affect any account, charge, or entry originally made, or any note, bond, or other instrument expressed in any other...
• California Government Code Section 6852
  All legal tender notes issued by the United States shall be received at par in payment for all taxes due this State, or to any...
• California Government Code Section 6860
  Notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in any laws, farm loan bonds, consolidated farm loan bonds, collateral trust debentures, consolidated debentures, or other obligations issued...
• California Government Code Section 6900
  Whenever any governmental body is a shareholder of any corporation, and a resolution is before the shareholders which will permit or authorize cumulative voting for...
• California Government Code Section 6901
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, every state agency owning common stock shall, when returning proxies to a corporation, vote each proxy that is...
• California Government Code Section 6930
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Governmental investor" means the Treasurer, the Teachers' Retirement Board, and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement...
• California Government Code Section 6931
  Each securities transaction or brokerage agreement carried out for a governmental investor pursuant to a soft dollar and directed brokerage arrangement, as defined in subdivision...
• California Government Code Section 6932
  Any written contract entered into between a governmental investor and an investment manager on or after January 1, 1991, for the management of assets of...
• California Government Code Section 6933
  Soft dollar and directed brokerage arrangements are not subject to any statutory competitive bidding requirements. This section does not constitute a change in, but is...
• California Government Code Section 6934
  This chapter shall apply to contracts entered into, renewed, or extended on and after January 1, 1991.
• California Government Code Section 6950
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide a means whereby any county or city may acquire, by purchase, gift,...
• California Government Code Section 6951
  The Legislature finds that the rapid growth and spread of urban development is encroaching upon, or eliminating, many open areas and spaces of varied size...
• California Government Code Section 6952
  The Legislature hereby declares that it is necessary for sound and proper urban and metropolitan development, and in the public interest of the people of...
• California Government Code Section 6953
  The Legislature further declares that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces and areas constitutes a public...
• California Government Code Section 6954
  For the purposes of this chapter an "open space" or "open area" is any space or area characterized by (1) great natural scenic beauty or...
• California Government Code Section 7000
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide a means whereby the Departments of Water Resources, Parks and Recreation, Fish...
• California Government Code Section 7001
  The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation and conservation of the scenic lands and areas...
• California Government Code Section 7002
  The state agencies specified in Section 7000 may exercise the powers specified in that section for the acquisition of rights or interests in real property...
• California Government Code Section 7050
  With the consent of the city, county, or city and county, as the case may be, an irrevocable offer of dedication of real property for...
• California Government Code Section 7060
  (a) No public entity, as defined in Section 811.2, shall, by statute, ordinance, or regulation, or by administrative action implementing any statute, ordinance or regulation,...
• California Government Code Section 7060.1
  Notwithstanding Section 7060, nothing in this chapter does any of the following: (a) Prevents a public entity from enforcing any contract or agreement by which...
• California Government Code Section 7060.2
  If a public entity, by valid exercise of its police power, has in effect any control or system of control on the price at which...
• California Government Code Section 7060.3
  If a public entity determines to apply constraints pursuant to Section 7060.2 to a successor in interest of an owner who has withdrawn accommodations from...
• California Government Code Section 7060.4
  (a) Any public entity which, by a valid exercise of its police power, has in effect any control or system of control on the price...
• California Government Code Section 7060.5
  The actions authorized by Sections 7060.2 and 7060.4 may be taken by regulation adopted after public notice and hearing by a public body of a...
• California Government Code Section 7060.6
  If an owner seeks to displace a tenant or lessee from accommodations withdrawn from rent or lease pursuant to this chapter by an unlawful detainer...
• California Government Code Section 7060.7
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to supersede any holding or portion of any holding in Nash v. City of...
• California Government Code Section 7070
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Enterprise Zone Act.
• California Government Code Section 7071
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) The health, safety, and welfare of the people of California depend upon the development, stability, and expansion...
• California Government Code Section 7072
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (b) "Date of original designation"...
• California Government Code Section 7072.3
  The department shall deposit funds collected pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 7076, subdivision (a) of Section 7097.1, and subdivision (a) of Section 7114.2 into...
• California Government Code Section 7072.5
  By April 1, 1998, a governing body that has already designated a target employment area may request, by a resolution of all cities or counties...
• California Government Code Section 7073
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any city, county, or city and county with an eligible area within its jurisdiction may complete a preliminary...
• California Government Code Section 7073.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (e), any city, county, or city and county with an eligible area within its jurisdiction may complete a preliminary...
• California Government Code Section 7073.8
  (a) The department shall designate up to two Manufacturing Enhancement Areas requested by the governing boards of cities each of which shall meet at least...
• California Government Code Section 7073.9
  Upon approval by the department of an application by a city, county, or city and county, a manufacturing enhancement area in Imperial County is expanded...
• California Government Code Section 7074
  (a) In the case of any enterprise zone, including an enterprise zone formerly designated as an enterprise zone pursuant to Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section...
• California Government Code Section 7074.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or a city and county may designate a joint powers authority to administer an enterprise...
• California Government Code Section 7074.5
  In the case of the Counties of Fresno and Kern, an enterprise zone that is located in a city or in the unincorporated area of...
• California Government Code Section 7075
  (a) For preliminary applications filed before October 1, 2007, the following shall apply: (1) Upon filing a preliminary application, the applicant city, county, or city...
• California Government Code Section 7076
  (a) (1) The department shall provide technical assistance to the enterprise zones designated pursuant to this chapter with respect to all of the following activities:...
• California Government Code Section 7076.1
  (a) The department may audit the program of any jurisdiction in any designated G-TEDA at any time during the duration of the designation, as appropriate....
• California Government Code Section 7076.2
  (a) The department shall dedesignate a zone on the first day of the month immediately following the date upon which the department has received from...
• California Government Code Section 7077
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, state and local agencies may lease land to businesses in a designated enterprise zone at a price below fair...
• California Government Code Section 7078
  The limitations in Section 91503 on the allowable uses of proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to Title 10 (commencing with Section 91500) shall not apply...
• California Government Code Section 7079
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office of Small Business shall establish regulations for loans and loan guarantees administered by the office that give...
• California Government Code Section 7080
  Notwithstanding Sections 32646 and 32647 of the Financial Code, a high priority in ranking loan applications by the State Assistance Fund for Energy, California Business...
• California Government Code Section 7081
  Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the Employment Development Department and the State Department of Education...
• California Government Code Section 7082
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Office of Criminal Justice Planning shall give high priority to designated enterprise zones in the allocation of its...
• California Government Code Section 7082.2
  In the case of a G-TEDA being dedesignated pursuant to Section 7085.1, any business located within any jurisdiction that comprises a G-TEDA that has been...
• California Government Code Section 7083
  Any designation of an enterprise zone in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed appropriate state designation of an enterprise zone for...
• California Government Code Section 7084
  (a) Whenever the state prepares a solicitation for a contract for goods in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), except a contract in which...
• California Government Code Section 7085
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5, the department shall submit a report to the Legislature every five years beginning January 1, 1998, that evaluates the effect of...
• California Government Code Section 7085.1
  (a) The governing board of the G-TEDA shall report to the department by October 1, 2008, and by that date every other year thereafter, on...
• California Government Code Section 7085.5
  The Franchise Tax Board shall annually make available to the department and the Legislature information, by enterprise zone and by city or county, on the...
• California Government Code Section 7086
  (a) The department shall design, develop, and make available the applications and the criteria for selection of enterprise zones pursuant to Section 7073 and shall...
• California Government Code Section 7089
  For purposes of the Revenue and Taxation Code, each of the following shall apply: (a) Enterprise zones designated pursuant to former Chapter 12.8 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 7097
  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development shall rank applicant communities and shall designate the first ranking community whose governing body is applying as...
• California Government Code Section 7097.1
  (a) The department shall assess each targeted tax area a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for each application for issuance of a certificate pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 7099
  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development may approve a proposed expansion of a targeted tax area subject to the following conditions: (1) The...
• California Government Code Section 7105
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Local Agency Military Base Recovery Area Act.
• California Government Code Section 7106
  The Legislature finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the people of California depend upon the development, stability, and expansion of private...
• California Government Code Section 7107
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (b) "Base" means a federal military installation or subinstallation as...
• California Government Code Section 7110
  (a) The governing body may, either by ordinance or resolution, propose an eligible area within its respective jurisdiction as the geographic area for a local...
• California Government Code Section 7110.5
  A designation of a local agency military base recovery area pursuant to Section 7110 shall be for an eight-year period, that shall expire eight years...
• California Government Code Section 7111
  (a) An eligible area is a military base or former military base which, based upon the determination of the department, fulfills the following: (1) The...
• California Government Code Section 7112
  All property which is owned by or leased to the state or governing body within the boundaries of the closed military base or the military...
• California Government Code Section 7113
  (a) Upon filing a preliminary application, the applicant, as lead agency, shall submit an initial study and a notice of preparation to the department, the...
• California Government Code Section 7113.5
  When selecting successful applicants for a local agency military base recovery area, the department shall limit the number of local agency military base recovery areas...
• California Government Code Section 7114
  (a) The department shall design, develop, and make available the applications and the criteria for selection of a local agency military base recovery area, and...
• California Government Code Section 7114.2
  (a) The department shall assess each LAMBRA a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for each application for issuance of a certificate pursuant to subdivision (c)...
• California Government Code Section 7114.5
  (a) The department shall provide, as a high priority, to a designated local agency military base recovery area: (1) Technical assistance for state and federal...
• California Government Code Section 7115
  The department shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 1996, and every year thereafter, which: (a) Evaluates the effect of...
• California Government Code Section 7116
  (a) A local agency military base recovery area governing body shall provide information at the request of the department as necessary for the department to...
• California Government Code Section 7117
  A business located within a local agency military base recovery area shall be eligible for the tax benefits set forth within Sections 17053.45, 17053.46, 17268,...
• California Government Code Section 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 Department of Human Resources shall be responsible for informing state agencies of their responsibilities under this chapter and providing state agencies with technical assistance,...
• 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 Department of Human Resources may exempt state agencies from the requirements of Section 7299.4, where it determines that any of the following conditions apply:...
• California Government Code Section 7299.6
  The Department of Human Resources shall review the results of the surveys and implementation plans required to be made by Section 7299.4, compile this data,...
• 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 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 7500.5
  (a) This section shall only apply to the City of San Diego. (b) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1)...
• California Government Code Section 7501
  It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to safeguard the solvency of all public retirement systems and funds. The...
• California Government Code Section 7502
  The State Controller shall review the annual financial report of each state and local public retirement system submitted pursuant to Section 7504 giving particular consideration...
• California Government Code Section 7503
  All state and local public retirement systems shall prepare an annual report in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• California Government Code Section 7504
  (a) All state and local public retirement systems shall, not less than triennially, secure the services of an enrolled actuary. An enrolled actuary, for the...
• California Government Code Section 7505
  Every state and local public retirement system shall permit any person entitled to the receipt of benefits to designate that payment of such benefits shall...
• California Government Code Section 7506
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person entitled to the receipt of benefits from any state retirement system may authorize the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 7506.5
  The Controller shall make an agreement with one or more financial institutions participating in the Automated Clearing House pursuant to the local rules, and shall...
• California Government Code Section 7507
  (a) For the purpose of this section: (1) "Actuary" means an actuary who is an associate or fellow of the Society of Actuaries. (2) "Future...
• California Government Code Section 7507.2
  (a) There is hereby enacted the California Actuarial Advisory Panel. The panel shall provide impartial and independent information on pensions, other postemployment benefits, and best...
• California Government Code Section 7507.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Regents of the University of California provide written notice to the Legislature of any proposed changes...
• California Government Code Section 7508
  A retired member of a state retirement system, other than the University of California Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System, the Judges' Retirement System II,...
• California Government Code Section 7508.5
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 20098 or 31528 of this code, or Section 22212.5 of the Education Code, an individual who was a member...
• California Government Code Section 7509
  (a) The restrictions upon rates of interest contained in Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution shall not apply to any loans made...
• California Government Code Section 7510
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a public retirement system, which has invested assets in real property and improvements thereon for business or...
• California Government Code Section 7511
  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary: (a) A public retirement system may purchase insurance for its fiduciaries or for itself to cover liability or...
• California Government Code Section 7512
  Each state and local public pension or retirement system shall, on and after the 90th day following the completion of the annual audit of the...
• California Government Code Section 7513
  (a) In the case of a state or local retirement system or plan that is subject to Section 401(a)(31) of the Internal Revenue Code, if,...
• California Government Code Section 7513.5
  (a) On or before the first day of March of each year, the Teachers' Retirement Board and the Board of Administration of the Public Employees'...
• California Government Code Section 7513.6
  (a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Active business operations" means a company engaged in business operations that provide revenue...
• California Government Code Section 7513.7
  (a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System or...
• California Government Code Section 7513.8
  As used in this section and Sections 7513.85, 7513.86, 7513.87, 7513.9, and 7513.95: (a) "Board" means the retirement board of a public pension or retirement...
• California Government Code Section 7513.85
  (a) The board shall develop and implement, on or before June 30, 2010, a policy requiring the disclosure of payments to placement agents in connection...
• California Government Code Section 7513.86
  Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 82047.3, a person shall not act as a placement agent in connection with any potential...
• California Government Code Section 7513.87
  (a) A person acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential system investment made by a local public retirement system shall file any...
• California Government Code Section 7513.9
  (a) Any placement agent, prior to acting as a placement agent in connection with any potential system investment, shall disclose to the board all campaign...
• California Government Code Section 7513.95
  A member or employee of the board shall not, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself, or as an agent, partner, or employee of a...
• California Government Code Section 7513.97
  As used in Section 11 of Article VII of the Constitution, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Actuarial equivalent" means a benefit of...
• California Government Code Section 7514
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 16649.80) of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2, any state...
• California Government Code Section 7514.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 16649.80) of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2, any state or...
• California Government Code Section 7514.2
  (a) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System and...
• 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 7522
  This article shall be known as the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013.
• California Government Code Section 7522.02
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in this article, on and after January 1, 2013, this article shall apply to all state...
• California Government Code Section 7522.04
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Defined benefit formula" means a formula used by the retirement system to determine a retirement benefit based on...
• California Government Code Section 7522.10
  (a) On and after January 1, 2013, each public retirement system shall modify its plan or plans to comply with the requirements of this section...
• California Government Code Section 7522.15
  Except as provided in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 7522.02, each public employer and each public retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan...
• California Government Code Section 7522.18
  (a) A public employer that does not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan before January 1, 2013, shall not offer a supplemental defined benefit plan...
• California Government Code Section 7522.20
  (a) Each retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan for nonsafety members of the system shall use the formula prescribed by this section. The...
• California Government Code Section 7522.25
  (a) Each retirement system that offers a defined benefit plan for safety members of the system shall use one or more of the defined benefit...
• California Government Code Section 7522.30
  (a) This section shall apply to all public employers and to all new members. Equal sharing of normal costs between public employers and public employees...
• California Government Code Section 7522.32
  For the purposes of determining a retirement benefit to be paid to a new member of a public retirement system, the following shall apply: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 7522.34
  (a) "Pensionable compensation" of a new member of any public retirement system means the normal monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member...
• California Government Code Section 7522.40
  A public employer shall not provide to a public employee who is elected or appointed, a trustee, excluded from collective bargaining, exempt from civil service,...
• California Government Code Section 7522.42
  (a) In addition to any other benefit limitation prescribed by law, for the purposes of determining a public retirement benefit paid to a new member...
• California Government Code Section 7522.43
  (a) A public employer shall not offer a plan of replacement benefits for members and any survivors or beneficiaries whose retirement benefits are limited by...
• California Government Code Section 7522.44
  This section shall apply to all public employers and to all public employees: (a) Any enhancement to a public employee's retirement formula or retirement benefit...
• California Government Code Section 7522.46
  (a) A public retirement system shall not allow the purchase of nonqualified service credit, as defined by Section 415(n) (3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code...
• California Government Code Section 7522.48
  (a) Final compensation of a member for the purpose of determining any pension or benefit resulting from service as an elective or appointed officer on...
• California Government Code Section 7522.52
  (a) In any fiscal year, a public employer's contribution to a defined benefit plan, in combination with employee contributions to that defined benefit plan, shall...
• California Government Code Section 7522.56
  (a) This section shall apply to any person who is receiving a pension benefit from a public retirement system and shall supersede any other provision...
• California Government Code Section 7522.57
  (a) This section shall apply to any retired person who is receiving a pension benefit from a public retirement system and is first appointed on...
• California Government Code Section 7522.66
  (a) A safety member of a public retirement system who retires for industrial disability shall receive an industrial disability retirement benefit equal to the greater...
• California Government Code Section 7522.70
  (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 7522.72
  (a) This section shall apply to a public employee first employed by a public employer or first elected or appointed to an office before January...
• California Government Code Section 7522.74
  (a) This section shall apply to a public employee first employed by a public employer or first elected or appointed to an office on or...
• California Government Code Section 7525
  The letterhead or other prominent location on official stationery of each state agency, and county, city, including, but not limited to, a chartered city, and...
• California Government Code Section 7526
  In addition to the requirements of Section 7525, the letterhead or other prominent location on official stationery of each state agency, and county, city, including,...
• California Government Code Section 7527
  Every letter to any person from a state agency shall be signed by, or contain the name of, the writer, authorized representative, or contact person...
• California Government Code Section 7530
  All public agencies, public entities, districts, cities, counties, and cities and counties shall, when being identified by such entity for any purpose, be identified as...
• California Government Code Section 7550
  (a) Any document or written report prepared for or under the direction of a state or local agency, that is prepared in whole or in...
• California Government Code Section 7550.1
  In an effort to reduce the cost of preparing state reports, a state agency shall, when preparing a report, consider cost reduction options, including, but...
• California Government Code Section 7550.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, until June 30, 1995, no local educational agency shall be required to prepare or to submit any written report...
• California Government Code Section 7551
  The Department of General Services shall cause to be designed a series of commemorative gold medallions in not less than 1 troy ounce, 0.5 troy...
• California Government Code Section 7552
  Each medallion shall bear: (a) On one side, the Great Seal of the State of California. (b) On the reverse side; (1) across the top,...
• California Government Code Section 7553
  Upon the showing of sufficient interest by gold producers, the department shall contract with a registered, certified mint for the minting of gold medallions in...
• California Government Code Section 7554
  The Department of General Services shall, for the use of the Great Seal of the State of California, charge the following royalties: (a) For each...
• California Government Code Section 7555
  After minting, the medallions shall be returned to the producers who, notwithstanding Section 402, shall have sole responsibility for distribution, marketing, and sales.
• California Government Code Section 7556
  Only registered, certified mints which have contracted with the department may produce the medallions, as ordered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Any other...
• California Government Code Section 7560
  It is the intent of the Legislature to assure receipt of federal funding by the State of California. It is also the intent of the...
• California Government Code Section 7561
  It is further the intent of the Legislature that there shall be a single line of responsibility with regard to the education of all handicapped...
• California Government Code Section 7562
  If any state agency applies for federal funds to meet a mandatory responsibility under federal or state law and such application is not approved, the...
• California Government Code Section 7563
  The Joint Legislative Budget Committee shall submit to each member of the appropriate legislative policy committees and to each member of the legislative fiscal committees,...
• California Government Code Section 7564
  Any state agency which has not received federal agency approval of an application for funds as described in Section 7542 shall submit to the Department...
• California Government Code Section 7570
  Ensuring maximum utilization of all state and federal resources available to provide a child with a disability, as defined in Section 1401(3) of Title 20...
• California Government Code Section 7571
  The Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency may designate a department of state government to assume the responsibilities described in Section 7570. The...
• California Government Code Section 7572
  (a) A child shall be assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability by those qualified to make a determination of the child's need...
• California Government Code Section 7573
  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ensure that local education agencies provide special education and those related services and designated instruction and services contained in...
• California Government Code Section 7575
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Health Care Services, or any designated local agency administering the California Children's Services,...
• California Government Code Section 7577
  (a) The State Department of Rehabilitation and the State Department of Education shall jointly develop assessment procedures for determining client eligibility for State Department of...
• California Government Code Section 7578
  The provision of special education programs and related services for disabled children and youth residing in state hospitals shall be ensured by the State Department...
• California Government Code Section 7579
  (a) Prior to placing a disabled child or a child suspected of being disabled in a residential facility, outside the child's home, a court, regional...
• California Government Code Section 7579.1
  (a) Prior to the discharge of any disabled child or youth who has an active individualized education program from a public hospital, proprietary hospital, or...
• California Government Code Section 7579.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any disabled individual who has an active individualized education program and is being discharged from a state...
• California Government Code Section 7579.5
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(B) of Title 20 of the United States Code, a local educational agency shall make reasonable efforts to ensure the...
• California Government Code Section 7579.6
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(A) of Title 20 of the United States Code, in the case of a child who is a ward of...
• California Government Code Section 7580
  Prior to licensing a community care facility, as defined in Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code, in which a disabled child or youth...
• California Government Code Section 7581
  The residential and noneducational costs of a child placed in a medical or residential facility by a public agency, other than a local education agency,...
• California Government Code Section 7582
  Assessments and therapy treatment services provided under programs of the State Department of Health Care Services, or its designated local agencies, rendered to a child...
• California Government Code Section 7584
  As used in this chapter, "disabled youth," "child," or "pupil" means individuals with exceptional needs as defined in Section 56026 of the Education Code.
• California Government Code Section 7585
  (a) Whenever a department or local agency designated by that department fails to provide a related service or designated instruction and service required pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 7586
  (a) All state departments, and their designated local agencies, shall be governed by the procedural safeguards required in Section 1415 of Title 20 of the...
• California Government Code Section 7587
  By January 1, 1986, each state department named in this chapter shall develop regulations, as necessary, for the department or designated local agency to implement...
• California Government Code Section 7591
  (a) The amount of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) is appropriated, subject to subdivision (b), from the General Fund to the Trade and Commerce Agency for...
• California Government Code Section 7591.5
  The Secretary of Trade and Commerce shall remove any lien placed in connection with a loan authorized pursuant to Section 7591 by January 1, 1999....
• California Government Code Section 7592
  There is in the General Fund the California Olympic Training Account. The account shall consist of those revenues derived from the additional vehicle registration fees...
• California Government Code Section 7593
  The Legislature finds and declares that the federal Selective Service System registration program is considered to be in the national interest because it helps to...
• California Government Code Section 7593.1
  All state agencies shall cooperate with the United States Selective Service System in efforts to publicize the necessity of, and requirements for, compliance with the...
• California Government Code Section 7593.5
  (a) October 15, 2013, and every October 15 thereafter, is hereby designated as Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day. (b) The Legislature encourages California public...
• California Government Code Section 7594
  The last week of August commencing in 1991, is hereby designated as California's Salute to Youth Achievement Week. The purpose of California's Salute to Youth...
• California Government Code Section 7594.5
  The first week in January, commencing in 1995, is hereby designated as Braille Literacy Week. The purpose of California's Braille Literacy Week shall be to...
• California Government Code Section 7595
  All state agencies which provide over-the-counter information and services directly to the public shall provide those services during the customary lunch hours of 11:30 a.m....
• California Government Code Section 7596
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public building" means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied,...
• California Government Code Section 7597
  (a) No public employee or member of the public shall smoke any tobacco product inside a public building, or in an outdoor area within 20...
• California Government Code Section 7597.1
  (a) The governing bodies of the California State University, the University of California, and each community college district have the authority to: (1) Set enforcement...
• California Government Code Section 7598
  Except as provided in Section 7597, a public employee or other person may smoke in any outdoor area of a public building unless otherwise prohibited...
• California Government Code Section 7600
  It is the intent of the Legislature that: (a) Specified state agencies be authorized to invest marketable securities by entering into security loan agreements; (b)...
• California Government Code Section 7601
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Security loan agreement" means a written contract whereby a legal owner (the lender) agrees to lend specific marketable corporate...
• California Government Code Section 7602
  A state agency which is authorized pursuant to Section 22312 of the Education Code and Sections 16481 and 20208.5 of the Government Code may enter...
• California Government Code Section 7603
  All loans of securities shall be made pursuant to one of the standardized security loan agreement forms, as developed by the administrators of the State...
• California Government Code Section 7604
  In the event of a loss in the reacquisition of loaned securities, the responsible state agency shall make a written report of the loss to...
• California Government Code Section 7605
  Each state agency which enters into security loan agreements shall (a) maintain detailed records of all security loans, (b) develop controls and reports to monitor...
• California Government Code Section 7900
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this division is to provide for the effective and efficient implementation of Article XIII B...
• California Government Code Section 7901
  For the purposes of Article XIII B of the California Constitution and this division: (a) "Change in California per capita personal income" means the number...
• California Government Code Section 7902
  (a) For the 1980-81 fiscal year, the appropriations limit of the state and of each local jurisdiction shall be determined as follows: (1) Multiply the...
• California Government Code Section 7902.1
  (a) If, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, the proceeds of taxes of a school district, community college district, or...
• California Government Code Section 7902.5
  The governing body of any city incorporated after July 1, 1978, but prior to January 1, 1980, may, by resolution, adopt an appropriations limit for...
• California Government Code Section 7902.6
  The governing body of any city incorporated at the General Election held on November 4, 1980, for which no appropriations limit has been established by...
• California Government Code Section 7902.7
  (a) The appropriations limit of a city incorporated on or after January 1, 1990, shall be determined pursuant to Section 56812. (b) The appropriations limit...
• California Government Code Section 7902.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to any special district formed during the 1978-79 fiscal year which initially was totally funded by other...
• California Government Code Section 7903
  "State subventions" shall include only money received by a local agency from the state, the use of which is unrestricted by the statute providing the
• California Government Code Section 7904
  In no event shall the appropriation of the same proceeds of taxes be subject to the appropriations limit of more than one local jurisdiction or...
• California Government Code Section 7905
  Revenues to a local jurisdiction from regulatory licenses, user charges, or user fees may be aggregated if they are reasonably related.
• California Government Code Section 7906
  For school districts: (a) "ADA" means a school district's second principal apportionment units of average daily attendance as determined pursuant to Section 42238.5 of the...
• California Government Code Section 7907
  For county superintendents of schools: (a) "Proceeds of taxes" shall be deemed to include subventions received from the state only if those subventions are received...
• California Government Code Section 7908
  For community college districts: (a) As used in this section, "ADA" means the annual average daily attendance reported for students attending the community college district...
• California Government Code Section 7909
  No later than May 1 of each year, the Department of Finance shall notify each local agency of the change in the cost of living...
• California Government Code Section 7910
  (a) Each year the governing body of each local jurisdiction shall, by resolution, establish its appropriations limit and make other necessary determinations for the following...
• California Government Code Section 7911
  For the purposes of Section 2 of Article XIII B, a local jurisdiction may return excess revenues by granting a tax credit or refund, by...
• California Government Code Section 7912
  Each year, the Governor shall include in the budget as submitted to the Legislature an estimate of the state's appropriations limit for the budget year....
• California Government Code Section 7913
  For purposes of subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, the financial responsibility of providing services is transferred in...
• California Government Code Section 7914
  An appropriation for a "qualified capital outlay project," as used in subdivision (d) of Section 9 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, means...
• California Government Code Section 8000
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the following advisory bodies are hereby abolished: (1) Ethics and Advertising Committee in Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair. (2)...
• California Government Code Section 8001
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following advisory bodies are hereby abolished: (1) Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System. (2) Law Enforcement Regional...
• California Government Code Section 8100
  The Governor shall execute for, in behalf of, and in the name of the State of California, a compact or agreement with the State of...
• California Government Code Section 8101
  No compact or agreement is binding on the State of California until it has been approved by the Legislature of this State.
• California Government Code Section 8130
  There is in the state government a California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8131
  As used in this chapter "commission" means California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8132
  The commission shall consist of seven members, the Director of Water Resources and six members appointed by the Governor, from California electors residing, owning property...
• California Government Code Section 8133
  Each member of the commission shall be entitled to receive his actual necessary expenses while on official business of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8134
  The chairman of the commission shall be selected by the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8135
  The commission shall appoint a secretary who may be one of its members and may employ such employees as it deems necessary to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8136
  It is the function of the commission to cooperate with a similar commission representing the State of Nevada in formulating and submitting to the legislatures...
• California Government Code Section 8137
  No compact or agreement is binding on the State of California until it has been approved by the Legislature of this state and the Congress...
• California Government Code Section 8138
  The Director of Water Resources shall cooperate with the commission and furnish it with such engineering and other data as the commission may require in...
• California Government Code Section 8139
  Members and employees of the commission may travel outside of the state and may hold hearings and conduct investigations within and outside the state, whenever...
• California Government Code Section 8140
  The commission shall be abolished upon the earlier occurrence of either the effective date of the compact, or January 1, 1977.
• California Government Code Section 8150
  Any instrumentality jointly created by this State and other state or states is hereby authorized, to the extent that this State may confer authority, upon...
• California Government Code Section 8160
  The plan for location of state buildings and other improvements in the central city of the City of Sacramento, approved by the director on March...
• California Government Code Section 8160.1
  The following terms, used in this article, shall be given the following meanings: (a) "Metropolitan area" means the greater metropolitan Sacramento area, including the City...
• California Government Code Section 8161
  The department may request the assistance and advice of any state agency in the development of the master plan. Any state agency receiving such a...
• California Government Code Section 8162
  The department shall inform the City of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento of the master plan, and subsequent revisions thereof, and shall make every...
• California Government Code Section 8162.5
  (a) This section and Sections 8162.6, 8162.7, 8162.8, and 8162.9 shall be known as the Capitol View Protection Act. (b) "Capitol Park" means the area...
• California Government Code Section 8162.6
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Sacramento's State Capitol and Capitol Park provide the City of Sacramento with a unique...
• California Government Code Section 8162.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in Section 8162.9, the following height limits shall apply as follows: (a) The applicable height limit...
• California Government Code Section 8162.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following setback requirements shall apply: (a) Buildings in the first half block north of L Street between a...
• California Government Code Section 8162.9
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8162.7, a 96-foot height limit shall apply to construction, exclusively for the purposes of residential development, for Lot 4,...
• California Government Code Section 8163
  The Capitol Area Plan was established for the orderly development of the state's facilities in the metropolitan area and the department shall be continuously responsible...
• California Government Code Section 8164.1
  There is in state government a Capitol Area Committee consisting of nine members who shall be appointed in the following manner: (a) Four members of...
• California Government Code Section 8164.2
  (a) The committee shall elect a chairperson. The committee shall meet annually and upon the call of the chairperson or the written request of any...
• California Government Code Section 8164.3
  (a) It is the purpose of the committee to independently review the reports of the department to the Legislature and counsel and advise the department...
• California Government Code Section 8165
  The Legislature finds and declares: (a) There is clear justification and need for the creation of a beautiful and impressive western approach to the capital...
• California Government Code Section 8166
  The department shall have the overall responsibility and authority for the formulation and implementation of a long-range master plan for the improvement of the Capitol...
• California Government Code Section 8167
  That portion of Route 275 that extends from the end of the Sacramento River Bridge in the City of Sacramento to the junction of Capitol...
• California Government Code Section 8168
  The department, in addition to the other powers granted by this article, shall have the express power to do all acts necessary to accomplish the...
• California Government Code Section 8169
  (a) The director may lease the real property owned by the state within the core area, and not under the jurisdiction of any other state...
• California Government Code Section 8169.1
  The director may maintain, repair, alter, sell, remove, or demolish buildings or other structures within the Capitol area when the director deems it desirable to...
• California Government Code Section 8169.2
  The director shall promulgate regulations for relocation payments and assistance consistent with the requirements of Sections 51063 and 51310 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Government Code Section 8169.3
  Construction of parking structures in the core area on state-owned property for the use of the state pursuant to Section 14671.5 is hereby authorized by...
• California Government Code Section 8169.4
  The department and the City of Sacramento are authorized to enter into an agreement pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500)...
• California Government Code Section 8169.5
  (a) In furtherance of the Capitol Area Plan, the objectives of Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991, and the legislative findings and declarations...
• California Government Code Section 8169.6
  (a) (1) In furtherance of the Capitol Area Plan, the objectives of Resolution Chapter 131 of the Statutes of 1991, and the legislative findings and...
• California Government Code Section 8169.7
  (a) The department may sell all or a portion of the following properties located in the County of Sacramento, City of Sacramento, State of California,...
• California Government Code Section 8170
  The site of the Governor's Mansion is hereby designated as all that certain real property situate, lying and being in the County of Sacramento, State...
• California Government Code Section 8171
  The Director of General Services shall appoint an architect to be a professional adviser to the department for purposes of this chapter. The professional adviser,...
• California Government Code Section 8172
  The Director of General Services is authorized and directed to immediately proceed with the acquisition and development, including landscaping, of the site designated in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8173
  Should any Governor choose not to reside in the Governor's Mansion, the Director of General Services may permit the property to be used by government...
• California Government Code Section 8174
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all of that real property designated as the site of the Governor's Mansion, and particularly described in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8180
  The following terms, used in this article, shall have the following meanings: (a) "Project area" includes both of the following: (1) The area within the...
• California Government Code Section 8181
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) The project area is blighted and in need of redevelopment in the interest of the health and safety...
• California Government Code Section 8182
  The authority shall have those powers of a redevelopment agency created by Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and...
• California Government Code Section 8182.5
  The authority shall, in cooperation with the City of Sacramento, prepare an appropriate plan for the development and redevelopment of that portion of the project...
• California Government Code Section 8183
  (a) The authority may, by resolution, adopt documents necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers and may designate that any document shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8184
  For the purpose of allocating taxes pursuant to Section 8183, state subvention payments made with respect to property within the project area are deemed to...
• California Government Code Section 8185
  For the purpose of exercising powers of a redevelopment agency, the jurisdiction of the authority shall be the "metropolitan area" as defined in subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8186
  The City of Sacramento shall not adopt a plan containing the provisions of Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code with respect to any...
• California Government Code Section 8187
  No action attacking or otherwise questioning the validity of any redevelopment plan or any adoption or incorporation of any document into the redevelopment plan as...
• California Government Code Section 8188
  The judgment shall determine the validity or invalidity respectively of the matters specified in Section 8187. The judgment shall be subject to being reopened under...
• California Government Code Section 8189
  The judgment, if no appeal is taken, or if taken and the judgment is affirmed, shall be forever binding and conclusive, as to all matters...
• California Government Code Section 8190
  Whenever property in the project area has been redeveloped and thereafter is leased for a term not less than 10 years, notwithstanding mutual rights of...
• California Government Code Section 8191
  (a) Except with respect to taxes allocated to the authority pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8183 which are used by the authority to make...
• California Government Code Section 8192
  The lessee of any property leased from the authority for residential purposes for a term of five years or less shall receive a credit against...
• California Government Code Section 8193
  (a) During the period commencing on July 1, 1982, and ending when 600 newly constructed dwelling units have been completed and initially occupied, the authority...
• California Government Code Section 8193.1
  (a) Whenever dwelling units located within that portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180 (the R Street...
• California Government Code Section 8193.2
  The requirements of Section 8193.1 shall apply solely to the portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180...
• California Government Code Section 8194
  The authority shall establish the following time limits for that portion of the project area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8180...
• California Government Code Section 8200
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission notaries public in such number as the Secretary of State deems necessary for the public convenience. Notaries...
• California Government Code Section 8201
  (a) Every person appointed as notary public shall meet all of the following requirements: (1) Be at the time of appointment a legal resident of...
• California Government Code Section 8201.1
  (a) Prior to granting an appointment as a notary public, the Secretary of State shall determine that the applicant possesses the required honesty, credibility, truthfulness,...
• California Government Code Section 8201.2
  (a) The Secretary of State shall review the course of study proposed by any vendor to be offered pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8201.5
  The Secretary of State shall require an applicant for appointment and commission as a notary public to complete an application form and submit a photograph...
• California Government Code Section 8202
  (a) When executing a jurat, a notary shall administer an oath or affirmation to the affiant and shall determine, from satisfactory evidence as described in...
• California Government Code Section 8202.5
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission the number of state, city, county, and public school district employees as notaries public to act for...
• California Government Code Section 8202.7
  A private employer, pursuant to an agreement with an employee who is a notary public, may pay the premiums on any bond and the cost...
• California Government Code Section 8202.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a private employer of a notary public who has entered into an agreement with his or her employee pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 8203.1
  The Secretary of State may appoint and commission notaries public for the military and naval reservations of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and...
• California Government Code Section 8203.2
  Such notaries public shall be appointed only upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of the reservation in which they are to act, and they...
• California Government Code Section 8203.3
  In addition to the qualifications established in Section 8203.1, appointment will be made only from among those persons who are federal civil service employees at...
• California Government Code Section 8203.4
  The term of office shall be as set forth in Section 8204, except that the appointment shall terminate if the person shall cease to be...
• California Government Code Section 8203.5
  In addition to the name of the State, the jurat shall also contain the name of the reservation in which the instrument is executed.
• California Government Code Section 8203.6
  No fees shall be collected by such notaries public for service rendered within the reservation in the capacity of a notary public.
• California Government Code Section 8204
  The term of office of a notary public is for four years commencing with the date specified in the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8204.1
  The Secretary of State may cancel the commission of a notary public if a check or other remittance accepted as payment for the examination, application,...
• California Government Code Section 8205
  (a) It is the duty of a notary public, when requested: (1) To demand acceptance and payment of foreign and inland bills of exchange, or...
• California Government Code Section 8206
  (a) (1) A notary public shall keep one active sequential journal at a time, of all official acts performed as a notary public. The journal...
• California Government Code Section 8206.5
  Upon receiving a request for a copy of a transaction pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 8206, the notary shall respond to the request within...
• California Government Code Section 8207
  A notary public shall provide and keep an official seal, which shall clearly show, when embossed, stamped, impressed or affixed to a document, the name...
• California Government Code Section 8207.1
  The Secretary of State shall assign a sequential identification number to each notary which shall appear on the notary commission. This section shall become operative...
• California Government Code Section 8207.2
  (a) No notary seal or press stamp shall be manufactured, duplicated, sold, or offered for sale unless authorized by the Secretary of State. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 8207.3
  (a) The Secretary of State shall issue certificates of authorization with which a notary public can obtain an official notary seal. (b) A vendor or...
• California Government Code Section 8207.4
  (a) Any person who willfully violates any part of Section 8207.1, 8207.2, 8207.3, or 8207.4 shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed...
• California Government Code Section 8208
  The protest of a notary public acting in the course and scope of employment by a financial institution, under his or her hand and official...
• California Government Code Section 8209
  (a) If any notary public resigns, is disqualified, removed from office, or allows his or her appointment to expire without obtaining reappointment within 30 days,...
• California Government Code Section 8211
  Fees charged by a notary public for the following services shall not exceed the fees prescribed by this section. (a) For taking an acknowledgment or...
• California Government Code Section 8212
  Every person appointed a notary public shall execute an official bond in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). The bond shall be in the...
• California Government Code Section 8213
  (a) No later than 30 days after the beginning of the term prescribed in the commission, every person appointed a notary public shall file an...
• California Government Code Section 8213.5
  A notary public shall notify the Secretary of State by certified mail within 30 days as to any change in the location or address of...
• California Government Code Section 8213.6
  If a notary public changes his or her name, the notary public shall complete an application for name change form and file that application with...
• California Government Code Section 8214
  For the official misconduct or neglect of a notary public, the notary public and the sureties on the notary public's official bond are liable in...
• California Government Code Section 8214.1
  The Secretary of State may refuse to appoint any person as notary public or may revoke or suspend the commission of any notary public upon...
• California Government Code Section 8214.15
  (a) In addition to any commissioning or disciplinary sanction, a violation of subdivision (f), (i), (l), (m), or (p) of Section 8214.1 is punishable by...
• California Government Code Section 8214.2
  (a) A notary public who knowingly and willfully with intent to defraud performs any notarial act in relation to a deed of trust on real...
• California Government Code Section 8214.21
  A notary public who willfully fails to provide access to the sequential journal of notarial acts when requested by a peace officer shall be subject...
• California Government Code Section 8214.23
  (a) A notary public who fails to obtain a thumbprint, as required by Section 8206, from a party signing a document shall be subject to...
• California Government Code Section 8214.3
  Prior to a revocation or suspension pursuant to this chapter or after a denial of a commission, or prior to the imposition of a civil...
• California Government Code Section 8214.4
  Notwithstanding this chapter or Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3, if the Secretary of State determines, after proceedings conducted...
• California Government Code Section 8214.5
  Whenever the Secretary of State revokes the commission of any notary public, the Secretary of State shall file with the county clerk of the county...
• California Government Code Section 8214.8
  Upon conviction of any offense in this chapter, or of Section 6203, or of any felony, of a person commissioned as a notary public, in...
• California Government Code Section 8216
  When a surety of a notary desires to be released from responsibility on account of future acts, the release shall be pursuant to Article 11...
• California Government Code Section 8219.5
  (a) Every notary public who is not an attorney who advertises the services of a notary public in a language other than English by signs...
• California Government Code Section 8220
  The Secretary of State may adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The regulations shall be adopted in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 8221
  (a) If any person shall knowingly destroy, deface, or conceal any records or papers belonging to the office of a notary public, such person shall...
• California Government Code Section 8222
  (a) Whenever it appears to the Secretary of State that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which...
• California Government Code Section 8223
  (a) No notary public who holds himself or herself out as being an immigration specialist, immigration consultant or any other title or description reflecting an...
• California Government Code Section 8224
  A notary public who has a direct financial or beneficial interest in a transaction shall not perform any notarial act in connection with such transaction....
• California Government Code Section 8224.1
  A notary public shall not take the acknowledgment or proof of instruments of writing executed by the notary public nor shall depositions or affidavits of...
• California Government Code Section 8225
  (a) Any person who solicits, coerces, or in any manner influences a notary public to perform an improper notarial act knowing that act to be...
• California Government Code Section 8227.1
  It shall be a misdemeanor for any person who is not a duly commissioned, qualified, and acting notary public for the State of California to...
• California Government Code Section 8227.3
  Any person who is not a duly commissioned, qualified, and acting notary public who does any of the acts prohibited by Section 8227.1 in relation...
• California Government Code Section 8228
  The Secretary of State or a peace officer, as defined in Sections 830.1, 830.2, and 830.3 of the Penal Code, possessing reasonable suspicion and acting...
• California Government Code Section 8228.1
  (a) Any notary public who willfully fails to perform any duty required of a notary public under Section 8206, or who willfully fails to keep...
• California Government Code Section 8230
  If a notary public executes a jurat and the statement sworn or subscribed to is contained in a document purporting to identify the affiant, and...
• California Government Code Section 8240
  The Legislature finds and declares that despite the fact that women apparently have greater equality in California than in many states, they still are not...
• California Government Code Section 8241
  (a) There is in the state government the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. The commission shall consist of 17 members to be...
• California Government Code Section 8242
  (a) Public members of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per diem while on official business of the commission, not to exceed 12...
• California Government Code Section 8243
  All meetings of the commission shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meetings of the commission.
• California Government Code Section 8244
  The commission shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 8245
  (a) The commission shall study the following policy areas, including, but not limited to, for the purpose of examining any laws, practices, or conditions concerning...
• California Government Code Section 8246
  (a) The commission is expressly authorized to inform the Legislature of its position on any legislative proposal pending before the Legislature and to urge the...
• California Government Code Section 8247
  It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state to attempt to achieve an equitable relationship between the comparability of the value...
• California Government Code Section 8248
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Evaluate the compensation and classification plans for state civil service and related employees and the employees...
• California Government Code Section 8249
  With respect to its duties under Section 8248, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on...
• California Government Code Section 8250
  (a) The commission shall hire staff or contract for those experts or technical and professional services as may be required for the completion of the...
• California Government Code Section 8251
  Citizens Redistricting Commission General Provisions. (a) This chapter implements Article XXI of the California Constitution by establishing the process for the selection and governance of...
• California Government Code Section 8252
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Selection Process. (a) (1) By August 15 in each year ending in the number nine, the State Auditor shall initiate an application...
• California Government Code Section 8252.5
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Vacancy, Removal, Resignation, Absence. (a) In the event of substantial neglect of duty, gross misconduct in office, or inability to discharge the...
• California Government Code Section 8253
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Miscellaneous Provisions. (a) The activities of the Citizens Redistricting Commission are subject to all of the following: (1) The commission shall comply...
• California Government Code Section 8253.5
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Compensation. Members of the commission shall be compensated at the rate of three hundred dollars ($300) for each day the member is...
• California Government Code Section 8253.6
  Citizens Redistricting Commission Budget, Fiscal Oversight. (a) In each year ending in nine, the Governor shall include in the Governor's Budget submitted to the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 8255
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) community is the fastest growing community in the...
• California Government Code Section 8255.5
  The following definitions govern this chapter: (a) "Commission" means the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. (b) "APIA" means Asian and Pacific Islander
• California Government Code Section 8256
  (a) There is established in state government the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, which shall be comprised of 13 members appointed in...
• California Government Code Section 8256.5
  (a) A majority of the appointed members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to conduct business, but the commission may establish a lesser quorum...
• California Government Code Section 8257
  The commission shall do all of the following: (a) Advise the Governor, the Legislature, and state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to the...
• California Government Code Section 8258
  By December 1 of each year, the commission shall submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature detailing activities undertaken by the commission...
• California Government Code Section 8259
  With respect to its duties under Section 8257, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on...
• California Government Code Section 8259.5
  (a) The commission may apply for and accept grants and receive gifts, donations, and other financial support from public or private sources for purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 8280
  There is created in the State Government the California Law Revision Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8281
  The commission consists of one Member of the Senate appointed by the Committee on Rules, one Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker, and...
• California Government Code Section 8282
  (a) The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, except that each member appointed by the Governor shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for each...
• California Government Code Section 8283
  The commission shall select one of its members chairperson.
• California Government Code Section 8284
  The commission may appoint an executive secretary and fix his or her compensation, in accordance with law.
• California Government Code Section 8285
  The commission may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional, clerical and other assistants as may be necessary.
• California Government Code Section 8286
  The material of the State Library shall be made available to the commission. All state agencies, and other official state organizations, and all persons connected...
• California Government Code Section 8287
  The Board of Governors of the State Bar shall assist the commission in any manner the commission may request within the scope of its powers...
• California Government Code Section 8288
  No employee of the commission and no member appointed by the Governor shall, with respect to any proposed legislation concerning matters assigned to the commission...
• California Government Code Section 8289
  The commission shall, within the limitations imposed by Section 8293: (a) Examine the common law and statutes of the state and judicial decisions for the...
• California Government Code Section 8290
  The commission shall recommend the express repeal of all statutes repealed by implication, or held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the state or the...
• California Government Code Section 8291
  The commission shall submit its reports, and its recommendations as to revision of the laws, to the Governor and the Legislature, and shall distribute them...
• California Government Code Section 8292
  The commission may, within the limitations imposed by Section 8293, include in its report the legislative measures proposed by it to effect the adoption or...
• California Government Code Section 8293
  The commission shall file a report at each regular session of the Legislature that shall contain a calendar of topics selected by it for study,...
• California Government Code Section 8294
  The reports, exhibits, and proposed legislative measures shall be printed by the State Printing Office under the supervision of the commission. The exhibits shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8295
  The commission shall confer and cooperate with any legislative committee on revision of the law and may contract with any committee for the rendition of...
• California Government Code Section 8296
  The commission may cooperate with any bar association or other learned, professional, or scientific association, institution or foundation in any manner suitable for the fulfillment...
• California Government Code Section 8297
  The commission may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into, amend and terminate contracts with colleges, universities, schools of law or...
• California Government Code Section 8298
  The commission may study and recommend revisions to correct technical or minor substantive defects in the statutes of the state without a prior concurrent resolution...
• California Government Code Section 8299
  The Legislature finds and declares that, despite the fact that state law has provided persons with disabilities the right to full and equal access to...
• California Government Code Section 8299.01
  (a) There shall be established in the state government, on or before May 1, 2009, the California Commission on Disability Access. The commission shall consist...
• California Government Code Section 8299.02
  (a) Public members of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per diem while on official business of the commission, not to exceed 12...
• California Government Code Section 8299.03
  Meetings of the commission shall be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 8299.04
  The commission shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to,...
• California Government Code Section 8299.05
  (a) The commission may recommend, develop, prepare, or coordinate materials, projects, or other activities, as appropriate, relating to any subject within its jurisdiction. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 8299.06
  (a) A priority of the commission shall be the development and dissemination of educational materials and information to promote and facilitate disability access compliance. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 8299.07
  (a) On or before April 15, 2013, the commission shall report to the Legislature, and to the Chairs of the Senate and Assembly Committees on...
• California Government Code Section 8299.08
  The commission shall compile the following data with respect to any demand letter or complaint sent to the commission pursuant to Section 53.32 of the...
• California Government Code Section 8299.09
  With respect to its duties, the commission shall be an advisory commission only, and there shall be no right or obligation on the part of...
• California Government Code Section 8299.10
  The commission shall hire staff or contract for those experts or technical and professional services that may be required for the completion of any task...
• California Government Code Section 8299.11
  This chapter shall not be implemented, and shall not remain operative, unless funds are appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature in the annual Budget...
• California Government Code Section 8300
  The joint powers agreement entered into by the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and the Sixth District Agricultural Association known and...
• California Government Code Section 8310
  The inclusion of any question relative to an applicant's race, sex, marital status, or religion in any application blank or form required to be filled...
• California Government Code Section 8310.5
  (a) A state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians shall...
• California Government Code Section 8310.7
  (a) This section shall only apply to the following state agencies: (1) The Department of Industrial Relations. (2) The Department of Fair Employment and Housing....
• California Government Code Section 8311
  Wherever any notice or other communication is required by any law to be mailed by registered mail to or by the state, or any officer...
• California Government Code Section 8312
  No officer or employee of the state or any county, city and county, city, or district who is concerned with the organization or supervision of...
• California Government Code Section 8313
  No officer or employee of the state or any county, city and county, city, or district who is concerned with the administration of any program...
• California Government Code Section 8314
  (a) It is unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including any state or local appointee, employee, or consultant, to use or permit others...
• California Government Code Section 8314.5
  (a) In furtherance of Section 8314 and except as provided in subdivision (b), it shall be unlawful for any elected state or local officer, including...
• California Government Code Section 8315
  (a) "Racial discrimination" or "discrimination on the basis of race" for the purposes of Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution shall have...
• California Government Code Section 8317
  (a) Each state agency, as defined in subdivision (b), shall establish and maintain an index of the names or titles of all fees, license fees,...
• California Government Code Section 8330
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Citizen Complaint Act of 1997. All state agencies that have Internet websites shall implement...
• California Government Code Section 8331
  (a) State agencies shall make available on the Internet, on or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 8332
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this chapter shall not apply to the Reporting of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Article 3 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8333
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Grant Information Act of 1999. All state agencies that have Internet websites shall implement...
• California Government Code Section 8334
  (a) State agencies may make available on the Internet a listing of all grants administered by that agency, which shall provide instructions on filing grant...
• California Government Code Section 8455
  (a) The Department of General Services shall apply for federal funds made available through the federal Community Access to Emergency Devices Act (Public Law 107-188)...
• California Government Code Section 8350
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1990.
• California Government Code Section 8351
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Drug-free workplace" means a site for the performance of work done in connection with a specific grant or contract...
• California Government Code Section 8355
  (a) Every person or organization awarded a contract or a grant for the procurement of any property or services from any state agency shall certify...
• California Government Code Section 8356
  (a) Each contract or grant awarded by a state agency may be subject to suspension of payments under the contract or grant or termination of...
• California Government Code Section 8357
  This chapter shall not be construed to require any contractor or grantee to ensure that other businesses with which it subcontracts also provide drug-free workplaces.
• California Government Code Section 8501
  There is in the state government the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, hereafter in this chapter referred to...
• California Government Code Section 8502
  For the purposes of expenditures for the support of the commission, including the expenses of the members of the commission, the commission shall be deemed...
• California Government Code Section 8503
  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties.
• California Government Code Section 8504
  For the purposes of this chapter the Members of the Legislature serving as members of the commission shall be considered a joint committee of the...
• California Government Code Section 8506
  All vacancies in the commission membership shall be filled in the same manner in which original appointments were made.
• California Government Code Section 8507
  The commission shall select from among its members a chairman and vice chairman, who shall not be registered as members of the same political party.
• California Government Code Section 8508
  Six members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
• California Government Code Section 8521
  It is the purpose of the Legislature in creating the commission, to secure assistance for the Governor and itself in promoting economy, efficiency, and improved...
• California Government Code Section 8521.5
  The Legislature finds that our system of government is a complex structure of interlocking relationships among all levels of government for managing public funds and...
• California Government Code Section 8522
  The commission, on its own motion, may, for the purpose of making reports and recommendations to assist the Legislature in respect to the matters listed...
• California Government Code Section 8522.5
  The commission shall review final reports and make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor concerning the results of state audits and the revenues and...
• California Government Code Section 8523
  (a) The Governor shall submit to the commission for study and recommendation any reorganization plan which he intends to submit to the Legislature pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8524
  The commission may devise a basic test to determine what, if any, governmental activities should be granted continuing or permanent appropriations.
• California Government Code Section 8525
  The commission may submit to the Legislature and the Governor, at such time, or times, as the commission deems necessary, interim reports of its activities.
• California Government Code Section 8541
  In carrying out its duties and responsibilities, the commission shall have all of the following powers: (a) To meet at any time and place as...
• California Government Code Section 8542
  With respect to the Bureau of State Audits, the commission shall do all of the following: (a) Review reports completed by the bureau and make...
• California Government Code Section 8543
  (a) There is hereby created in state government the California State Auditor's Office under the direction of the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California...
• California Government Code Section 8543.1
  The duties of the California State Auditor's Office are to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch of the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.2
  (a) The head of the office is the California State Auditor, who shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of three qualified individuals...
• California Government Code Section 8543.3
  The California State Auditor shall be chosen without reference to party affiliation and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.4
  In administering the fiscal policies of the California State Auditor's Office, for each fiscal year, the office shall provide the Department of Finance with the...
• California Government Code Section 8543.5
  The Chief Deputy California State Auditor shall be appointed by the California State Auditor. The Chief Deputy California State Auditor shall carry out those duties...
• California Government Code Section 8543.6
  The California State Auditor may be removed for cause at any time by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. A California State Auditor removed pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8543.7
  (a) The annual salary for the California State Auditor shall be equal to that of agency secretaries of the executive branch of government pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8544
  (a) Consistent with subdivision (i) of Section 8546, the California State Auditor may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with Article VII of the...
• California Government Code Section 8544.2
  Persons employed by the office pursuant to Section 8544.1 shall be allowed to enroll in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act contained in...
• California Government Code Section 8544.3
  All persons employed by the office pursuant to Section 8544.1 who were members of the Public Employees' Retirement System as of November 3, 1992, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8544.4
  The permanent office of the California State Auditor shall be in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and sufficient offices. When...
• California Government Code Section 8544.5
  (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the State Audit Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the State Audit Fund is continuously appropriated for the...
• California Government Code Section 8544.6
  All unreimbursed expenditures of the office are defined as "administrative costs" defined in Section 11270.
• California Government Code Section 8545
  The California State Auditor shall not destroy any papers or memoranda used to support a completed audit sooner than three years after the audit report...
• California Government Code Section 8545.1
  (a) The California State Auditor, and any employee or former employee of the office, shall not divulge or make known to any person not employed...
• California Government Code Section 8545.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the California State Auditor during regular business hours shall have access to and authority to examine and reproduce,...
• California Government Code Section 8545.3
  It is a misdemeanor for the California State Auditor or any employee of the California State Auditor to release any information received pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 8545.4
  (a) In connection with any audit or investigation conducted by the California State Auditor, the California State Auditor, or his or her designee, may do...
• California Government Code Section 8545.5
  (a) The superior court in the county in which any interview is held under the direction of the California State Auditor or his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8546
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the California State Auditor's Office have the independence necessary to conduct all of its audits in conformity...
• California Government Code Section 8546.1
  (a) The California State Auditor shall conduct financial and performance audits as directed by statute. The California State Auditor may conduct these audits of any...
• California Government Code Section 8546.2
  (a) The California State Auditor shall request that any state agency, as defined in Section 11000, whether created by the California Constitution or otherwise, any...
• California Government Code Section 8546.3
  The California State Auditor shall examine and report annually upon the financial statements otherwise prepared by the executive branch of the state so that the...
• California Government Code Section 8546.4
  (a) The California State Auditor shall annually issue an auditor's report based upon the general purpose financial statements included in the Controller's annual report that...
• California Government Code Section 8546.5
  (a) The California State Auditor may establish a high-risk government agency audit program for the purpose of identifying, auditing, and issuing reports on any agency...
• California Government Code Section 8546.6
  The California State Auditor, in connection with any audit or investigation conducted pursuant to this chapter, shall be deemed to be a department head for...
• California Government Code Section 8546.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every contract involving the expenditure of public funds in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) entered into by any...
• California Government Code Section 8546.8
  Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, any reference to the Auditor General or the Office of the Auditor General in...
• California Government Code Section 8546.10
  (a) The California State Auditor may establish a high-risk local government agency audit program for the purpose of identifying, auditing, and issuing reports on any...
• California Government Code Section 8547
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "California Whistleblower Protection Act."
• California Government Code Section 8547.1
  The Legislature finds and declares that state employees should be free to report waste, fraud, abuse of authority, violation of law, or threat to public...
• California Government Code Section 8547.2
  For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means an individual appointed by the Governor, or employed or...
• California Government Code Section 8547.3
  (a) An employee may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority or influence of the employee for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 8547.4
  The State Auditor shall administer this article and shall investigate and report on improper governmental activities. If, after investigating, the State Auditor finds that an...
• California Government Code Section 8547.5
  (a) The State Auditor shall create the means for the submission of allegations of improper governmental activity both by transmission via mail or other carrier...
• California Government Code Section 8547.6
  (a) The State Auditor may request the assistance of any state department, agency, or employee in evaluating an allegation or conducting any investigation of an...
• California Government Code Section 8547.7
  (a) If, after investigating an allegation, the State Auditor finds that a state agency or employee may have engaged or participated in an improper governmental...
• California Government Code Section 8547.8
  (a) A state employee or applicant for state employment who files a written complaint with his or her supervisor, manager, or the appointing power alleging...
• California Government Code Section 8547.9
  Notwithstanding Section 19572, if the State Personnel Board determines that there is a reasonable basis for an alleged violation, or finds an actual violation of...
• California Government Code Section 8547.10
  (a) A University of California employee, including an officer or faculty member, or applicant for employment may file a written complaint with his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8547.11
  (a) A University of California employee, including an officer or faculty member, may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority...
• California Government Code Section 8547.12
  (a) A California State University employee, including an officer or faculty member, or applicant for employment may file a written complaint with his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8547.13
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Agency" means the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, the superior courts, or the Administrative Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 8548
  For purposes of this article, "state agency" means every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission, including the California State University, the University...
• California Government Code Section 8548.1
  No later than April 1, 2002, the State Auditor shall prepare for state employees a written explanation of the California Whistleblower Protection Act contained in...
• California Government Code Section 8548.2
  The State Auditor shall prepare for distribution to each state agency in an electronic format a notice containing the information in the written explanation prepared...
• California Government Code Section 8548.3
  On July 1, 2002, and annually thereafter, every state agency shall send the information contained in the notice by electronic mail to its employees who...
• California Government Code Section 8548.4
  The California State Auditor shall post the information described in Section 8548.1 on the Internet Web site of the California State Auditor's Office.
• California Government Code Section 8548.5
  The intentional failure of a state agency to comply with any provision of this article shall constitute an improper governmental activity for purposes of Article...
• California Government Code Section 8548.7
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Omnibus Audit Accountability Act of 2006.
• California Government Code Section 8548.9
  (a) The State Auditor shall, by January 15th of each year, report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, and the...
• California Government Code Section 8550
  The state has long recognized its responsibility to mitigate the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies which result in conditions of disaster or in...
• California Government Code Section 8551
  This chapter may be cited as the "California Emergency Services Act."
• California Government Code Section 8555
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8556
  "Governor" means the Governor or the person upon whom the powers and duties of the office of Governor have devolved pursuant to Section 10 of...
• California Government Code Section 8557
  (a) "State agency" means any department, division, independent establishment, or agency of the executive branch of the state government. (b) "Political subdivision" includes any city,...
• California Government Code Section 8558
  Three conditions or degrees of emergency are established by this chapter: (a) "State of war emergency" means the condition which exists immediately, with or without...
• California Government Code Section 8559
  (a) A "mutual aid region" is a subdivision of the state emergency services organization, established to facilitate the coordination of mutual aid and other emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8560
  (a) "Emergency plans" means those official and approved documents which describe the principles and methods to be applied in carrying out emergency operations or rendering...
• California Government Code Section 8561
  "Master Mutual Aid Agreement" means the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement, made and entered into by and between the State of...
• California Government Code Section 8565
  The Governor shall have the powers granted by this article, which powers shall be in addition to any other powers granted to him by this
• California Government Code Section 8565.1
  Nothing in this chapter shall operate to prevent the Governor from establishing a committee or board composed of heads of state agencies, should the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8566
  The Governor is empowered to expend any appropriation for support of the California Emergency Services Act to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8567
  (a) The Governor may make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The orders and regulations shall...
• California Government Code Section 8568
  The State Emergency Plan shall be in effect in each political subdivision of the state, and the governing body of each political subdivision shall take...
• California Government Code Section 8569
  The Governor shall coordinate the State Emergency Plan and those programs necessary for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state; and...
• California Government Code Section 8570
  The Governor may, in accordance with the State Emergency Plan and programs for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8570.5
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop a guidance document to the state emergency plan to specify the response of the state and its political...
• California Government Code Section 8571
  During a state of war emergency or a state of emergency the Governor may suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct...
• California Government Code Section 8571.5
  Nothing in this article shall authorize the seizure or confiscation of any firearm or ammunition from any individual who is lawfully carrying or possessing the...
• California Government Code Section 8572
  In the exercise of the emergency powers hereby vested in him during a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the Governor is authorized...
• California Government Code Section 8573
  The Governor may cooperate with the President and the heads of the armed forces and other agencies of the United States, and with officers and...
• California Government Code Section 8574
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall limit, modify, or abridge the powers vested in the Governor under the Constitution or statutes of the...
• California Government Code Section 8574.1
  In addition to any other authority conferred upon the Governor by this chapter, the Governor shall establish a California oil spill contingency plan pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8574.2
  Any plan established pursuant to this article shall provide for an integrated and effective state procedure to combat the results of major oil spills within...
• California Government Code Section 8574.3
  State agencies granted authority to implement a plan adopted under this article may use volunteer workers. The volunteers shall be deemed employees of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8574.4
  State agencies designated to implement the contingency plan shall account for all state expenditures made under the plan with respect to each oil spill. Expenditures...
• California Government Code Section 8574.7
  The Governor shall require the administrator, not in conflict with the National Contingency Plan, to amend the California oil spill contingency plan by adding a...
• California Government Code Section 8574.8
  (a) The administrator shall submit to the Governor and the Legislature an amended California oil spill contingency plan required, pursuant to Section 8574.7, by January...
• California Government Code Section 8574.16
  The Governor shall establish a state toxic disaster contingency plan pursuant to this article.
• California Government Code Section 8574.17
  (a) (1) A state toxic disaster contingency plan established pursuant to this article shall provide for an integrated and effective state procedure to respond to...
• California Government Code Section 8574.18
  (a) For purposes of this article, a "toxic disaster" means an occurrence where toxic substances are dispersed in the environment in such a manner as...
• California Government Code Section 8574.19
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, in order to protect the public health and safety and the environment, and to reduce personal injury...
• California Government Code Section 8574.20
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall manage the California Hazardous Substances Incident Response Training and Education Program to provide approved classes in hazardous substance response,...
• California Government Code Section 8574.21
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop the curriculum to be used in classes that meet the program requirements and shall adopt standards and...
• California Government Code Section 8574.22
  The California Emergency Management Agency may hire professional and clerical staff pursuant to the State Civil Service Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of...
• California Government Code Section 8575
  For the purposes of the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master Mutual Aid Agreement, the California Emergency Management Agency will serve as the State Disaster
• California Government Code Section 8584
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Urban Heavy Rescue Act of 1988.
• California Government Code Section 8584.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the state have an urban heavy rescue capability in the event of a major earthquake. It...
• California Government Code Section 8585
  (a) (1) There is in state government, the California Emergency Management Agency. The California Emergency Management Agency shall be under the supervision of the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8585.05
  Unless the context otherwise requires, for purpose of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Secretary" means...
• California Government Code Section 8585.1
  (a) The secretary shall be appointed by, and hold office at the pleasure of, the Governor. The appointment of the secretary is subject to confirmation...
• California Government Code Section 8585.2
  (a) All employees serving in state civil service, other than temporary employees, who are engaged in the performance of functions transferred to the agency or...
• California Government Code Section 8585.5
  The agency shall establish by rule and regulation various classes of disaster service workers and the scope of the duties of each class. The agency...
• California Government Code Section 8585.7
  The agency may certify the accredited status of local disaster councils, subject to the requirements of Section 8612.
• California Government Code Section 8586
  The Governor shall assign all or part of his or her powers and duties under this chapter to the California Emergency Management Agency.
• California Government Code Section 8587
  (a) During a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, the secretary shall coordinate the emergency activities of all state...
• California Government Code Section 8587.5
  (a) The Department of Transportation shall, in cooperation with interested cities with Traffic Signal Override Systems, apply to the United States Secretary of Transportation for...
• California Government Code Section 8587.7
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, the Department of General Services, and the Seismic Safety Commission, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8588
  Whenever conditions exist within any region or regions of the state which warrant the proclamation by the Governor of a state of emergency and the...
• California Government Code Section 8588.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that this state can only truly be prepared for the next disaster if the public and private sector collaborate....
• California Government Code Section 8588.2
  (a) The agency may establish a statewide registry of private businesses and nonprofit organizations that are interested in donating services, goods, labor, equipment, resources, or...
• California Government Code Section 8588.3
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the responsibility of the State of California to protect and preserve the right of its citizens...
• California Government Code Section 8588.5
  To promote an increase in the number of trained disaster search dog teams, the agency shall do all of the following: (a) Provide instruction to...
• California Government Code Section 8588.7
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall procure mobile communication translators to enable mutual-aid emergency response agencies to communicate effectively while operating on incompatible frequencies....
• California Government Code Section 8588.10
  (a) The secretary shall establish a Curriculum Development Advisory Committee to advise the agency on the development of course curricula, as specified by the secretary....
• California Government Code Section 8588.11
  (a) The agency shall contract with the California Fire Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop a fire service specific course of instruction on the responsibilities...
• California Government Code Section 8588.12
  (a) The Curriculum Development Advisory Committee, described in Section 8588.10, shall recommend criteria for terrorism awareness curriculum content to meet the training needs of state...
• California Government Code Section 8588.15
  (a) The secretary shall appoint representatives of the disabled community to serve on the evacuation, sheltering, communication, recovery, and other pertinent Standardized Emergency Management System...
• California Government Code Section 8589
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall be permitted such use of all state and local fair properties as conditions require.
• California Government Code Section 8589.1
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall plan to establish the State Computer Emergency Data Exchange Program (SCEDEP) which shall be responsible for collection and...
• California Government Code Section 8589.2
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in consultation with the California Highway Patrol and other state and local agencies, shall establish a statewide plan for...
• California Government Code Section 8589.3
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within a special flood hazard area (any...
• California Government Code Section 8589.4
  (a) A person who is acting as an agent for a transferor of real property that is located within an area of potential flooding shown...
• California Government Code Section 8589.5
  (a) Inundation maps showing the areas of potential flooding in the event of sudden or total failure of any dam, the partial or total failure...
• California Government Code Section 8589.6
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop model guidelines for local government agencies and community-based organizations planning to develop a disaster registry program. Adoption...
• California Government Code Section 8589.7
  (a) In carrying out its responsibilities pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8574.17, the California Emergency Management Agency shall serve as the central point in...
• California Government Code Section 8589.8
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act.
• California Government Code Section 8589.9
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a growing need to find new ways to acquire firefighting apparatus and equipment for use by...
• California Government Code Section 8589.10
  As used in this article: (a) "Acquire" means acquisition by purchase, grant, gift, or any other lawful means. (b) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management...
• California Government Code Section 8589.11
  The agency may acquire new or used firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to local agencies. If the apparatus or equipment is in a used...
• California Government Code Section 8589.12
  If a state agency, including the agency, proposes to make firefighting apparatus or equipment which is currently owned and operated by the state available to...
• California Government Code Section 8589.13
  (a) The agency shall give first priority for the sale of new or used firefighting apparatus and equipment to a local agency that serves a...
• California Government Code Section 8589.14
  The agency shall operate an information system which is capable of identifying firefighting apparatus and equipment which is available for acquisition, and local agencies which...
• California Government Code Section 8589.15
  The agency may contract with the Prison Industry Authority to perform any of the responsibilities or services required or authorized by this article.
• California Government Code Section 8589.16
  There is hereby created in the General Fund the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, which, notwithstanding Section 13340, is continuously appropriated to the agency...
• California Government Code Section 8589.17
  Every contract with a local agency for the resale of firefighting apparatus and equipment shall specify that the local agency shall make the apparatus or...
• California Government Code Section 8589.18
  If a local agency defaults on a contract for the resale of firefighting apparatus and equipment, the agency may either renegotiate the contract or take...
• California Government Code Section 8589.19
  (a) After consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency Fire Advisory Committee, the secretary shall adopt rules and regulations governing the operation of the programs...
• California Government Code Section 8589.20
  All state agencies, boards, and commissions shall cooperate with the agency in implementing the programs created by this article.
• California Government Code Section 8589.21
  The secretary shall be responsible for the programs created by this article which, except as provided by Sections 8589.12 and 8589.15, shall not be subject...
• California Government Code Section 8590
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Firefighting Thermal Imaging Equipment Act of 2001.
• California Government Code Section 8590.1
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Local agency" means any...
• California Government Code Section 8590.2
  There is established in the agency a thermal imaging equipment purchasing program under which the agency shall acquire firefighting thermal imaging equipment on behalf of...
• California Government Code Section 8590.3
  In administering the purchasing program, the secretary shall do all of the following: (a) No later than 45 days after the effective date of this...
• California Government Code Section 8590.4
  (a) The secretary shall seek funding for the program from the private sector, grant programs, and other appropriate sources. (b) The secretary, after consultation with...
• California Government Code Section 8591
  Nothing in this chapter shall operate to prevent the Governor or Emergency Management from formally recognizing committees or boards established by or with segments of...
• California Government Code Section 8592
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002.
• California Government Code Section 8592.1
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Backward compatibility" means that the equipment is able to function with older,...
• California Government Code Section 8592.2
  (a) The committee shall have primary responsibility in state government for both of the following: (1) Developing and implementing a statewide integrated public safety communication...
• California Government Code Section 8592.3
  (a) The committee shall consult with the following organizations and entities: (1) California State Peace Officers Association. (2) California Police Chiefs Association. (3) California State...
• California Government Code Section 8592.4
  (a) The committee shall determine which state public safety departments listed in subdivision (b) of Section 8592.1 need new or upgraded communication equipment and shall...
• California Government Code Section 8592.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a state department that purchases public safety radio communication equipment shall ensure that the equipment purchased complies with...
• California Government Code Section 8592.7
  (a) A budget proposal submitted by a state agency for support of a new or modified radio system shall be accompanied by a technical project...
• California Government Code Section 8593
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall work with advocacy groups representing the deaf and hearing impaired, including, but not limited to, the California Association of...
• California Government Code Section 8593.1
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall investigate the feasibility of, and the funding requirements for, establishing a "Digital Emergency Broadcast System" network, to be used...
• California Government Code Section 8593.2
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall investigate the feasibility of establishing a toll-free 800 telephone hotline, including TDD (telecommunications device for the deaf) accessibility, which...
• California Government Code Section 8593.6
  (a) No later than six months after securing funding for the purposes of this section, the Secretary of Emergency Management shall convene a working group...
• California Government Code Section 8594
  (a) If an abduction has been reported to a law enforcement agency and the agency determines that a child 17 years of age or younger,...
• California Government Code Section 8594.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, "blue alert" means a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following an attack upon a law...
• California Government Code Section 8594.10
  (a) For purposes of this section, "Silver Alert" means a notification system, activated pursuant to subdivision (b), designed to issue and coordinate alerts with respect...
• California Government Code Section 8595
  The Governor may assign to a state agency any activity concerned with the mitigation of the effects of an emergency of a nature related to...
• California Government Code Section 8596
  (a) Each department, division, bureau, board, commission, officer, and employee of this state shall render all possible assistance to the Governor and to the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8597
  Whenever a state of emergency is proclaimed to exist within any region or area, or whenever a state of war emergency exists, the following classes...
• California Government Code Section 8598
  Whenever a local emergency exists within a region or area of the state and the Department of the California Highway Patrol or the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 8599
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall develop a plan for state and local governmental agencies to utilize volunteer resources during a state of emergency proclaimed...
• California Government Code Section 8599.2
  The plan required by Section 8599 shall address, at a minimum, all of the following issues: (a) A formal system for the utilization of volunteer...
• California Government Code Section 8600
  The Governor with the advice of the California Emergency Management Agency is hereby authorized and empowered to divide the state into mutual aid regions for...
• California Government Code Section 8605
  Each county is designated as an operational area. In a state of war emergency each operational area shall serve as a link in the system...
• California Government Code Section 8607
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with all interested state agencies with designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local...
• California Government Code Section 8607.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that a statewide system for fire hydrants be adopted so that all firefighters can respond to emergencies...
• California Government Code Section 8607.2
  (a) All public water systems, as defined in subdivision (f) of Section 116275 of the Health and Safety Code, with 10,000 or more service connections...
• California Government Code Section 8608
  The California Emergency Management Agency shall approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the...
• California Government Code Section 8609
  State agencies granted authority by the Governor, the Business Continuity Task Force, the Emergency Preparedness Task Force, or the Executive Committee established by Executive Order...
• California Government Code Section 8609.1
  Any disaster preparedness or response official may be specifically identified by name and title in any disaster, contingency, or business continuity plan developed pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8610
  Counties, cities and counties, and cities may create disaster councils by ordinance. A disaster council shall develop plans for meeting any condition constituting a local...
• California Government Code Section 8610.3
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) The California Emergency Management Agency, in consultation with the State Department of Health Services and affected...
• California Government Code Section 8610.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (2) "Previous fiscal year" means the...
• California Government Code Section 8611
  Counties, cities and counties, and cities may provide for the calling of test exercises, either singularly or jointly, whenever, in the opinion of such political...
• California Government Code Section 8612
  Any disaster council that both agrees to follow the rules and regulations established by the California Emergency Management Agency pursuant to Section 8585.5 and substantially...
• California Government Code Section 8613
  Should an accredited disaster council fail to comply with the rules and regulations of the California Emergency Management Agency in any material degree, the agency...
• California Government Code Section 8614
  (a) Each department, division, bureau, board, commission, officer, and employee of each political subdivision of the state shall render all possible assistance to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8615
  It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to facilitate the rendering of aid to areas stricken by an emergency and to...
• California Government Code Section 8616
  During any state of war emergency or state of emergency when the need arises for outside aid in any county, city and county, or city,...
• California Government Code Section 8617
  In periods other than a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency, state agencies and political subdivisions have authority to...
• California Government Code Section 8618
  Unless otherwise expressly provided by the parties, the responsible local official in whose jurisdiction an incident requiring mutual aid has occurred shall remain in charge...
• California Government Code Section 8619
  The Governor may on behalf of this state enter into reciprocal aid agreements or compacts, mutual aid plans, or other interstate arrangements for the protection...
• California Government Code Section 8620
  During a state of war emergency the Governor shall have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and the right to exercise within...
• California Government Code Section 8621
  During a state of war emergency every department, commission, agency, board, officer, and employee of the state government and of every political subdivision, county, city...
• California Government Code Section 8622
  During a state of war emergency, the Governor, any state agency, or any agency acting under the authority of this chapter may exercise outside the...
• California Government Code Section 8623
  During a state of war emergency, any person holding a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any state evidencing the meeting of the qualifications...
• California Government Code Section 8624
  All of the powers granted the Governor by this chapter with respect to a state of war emergency shall terminate when: (a) The state of...
• California Government Code Section 8625
  The Governor is hereby empowered to proclaim a state of emergency in an area affected or likely to be affected thereby when: (a) He finds...
• California Government Code Section 8626
  Such proclamation shall be in writing and shall take effect immediately upon its issuance. As soon thereafter as possible such proclamation shall be filed in...
• California Government Code Section 8627
  During a state of emergency the Governor shall, to the extent he deems necessary, have complete authority over all agencies of the state government and...
• California Government Code Section 8627.5
  (a) The Governor may make, amend, or rescind orders and regulations during a state of emergency that temporarily suspend any state, county, city, or special...
• California Government Code Section 8628
  During a state of emergency the Governor may direct all agencies of the state government to utilize and employ state personnel, equipment, and facilities for...
• California Government Code Section 8629
  The Governor shall proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. All of the powers granted the...
• California Government Code Section 8630
  (a) A local emergency may be proclaimed only by the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, or by an official designated...
• California Government Code Section 8631
  In periods of local emergency, political subdivisions have full power to provide mutual aid to any affected area in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8632
  State agencies may provide mutual aid, including personnel, equipment, and other available resources, to assist political subdivisions during a local emergency or in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 8633
  In the absence of a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the cost of extraordinary services incurred by political subdivisions in executing mutual...
• California Government Code Section 8634
  During a local emergency the governing body of a political subdivision, or officials designated thereby, may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide for the...
• California Government Code Section 8635
  The Legislature recognizes that if this state or nation were attacked by an enemy of the United States, many areas in California might be subjected...
• California Government Code Section 8636
  As used in this article, "unavailable" means that an officer is either killed, missing, or so seriously injured as to be unable to attend meetings...
• California Government Code Section 8637
  Each political subdivision may provide for the succession of officers who head departments having duties in the maintenance of law and order or in the...
• California Government Code Section 8638
  To provide for the continuance of the legislative and executive departments of the political subdivision during a state of war emergency or a state of...
• California Government Code Section 8639
  The qualifications of each standby officer should be carefully investigated, and the governing body may request the Secretary of Emergency Management to aid in the...
• California Government Code Section 8640
  Each standby officer shall take the oath of office required for the officer occupying the office for which he stands by. Persons appointed as standby...
• California Government Code Section 8641
  Each standby officer shall have the following duties: (a) To inform himself or herself of the duties of the office for which the officer stands...
• California Government Code Section 8642
  Whenever a state of war emergency a state of emergency or a local emergency exists the governing body of the political subdivision shall meet as...
• California Government Code Section 8643
  During a state of war emergency a state of emergency or a local emergency the governing body shall: (a) Ascertain the damage to the political...
• California Government Code Section 8644
  Should all members of the governing body, including all standby members, be unavailable, temporary officers shall be appointed to serve until a regular member or...
• California Government Code Section 8645
  In addition to any appropriation made to support activities contemplated by this chapter, the Governor is empowered to make expenditures from any fund legally available...
• California Government Code Section 8646
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Governor may: (a) Procure and maintain offices in such parts of the state as may be...
• California Government Code Section 8647
  (a) Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof shall offer to the state, or through the state to any political subdivision thereof,...
• California Government Code Section 8648
  The Governor may reimburse any state agency for funds expended in the performance of any and all activities as set forth in Section 8628 in...
• California Government Code Section 8649
  Subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, any state agency may use its personnel, property, equipment, and appropriations for carrying out the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 8650
  Any funds received by state agencies as reimbursement for services or supplies furnished under the authority of this chapter shall be deposited to the credit...
• California Government Code Section 8651
  The Secretary of Emergency Management may procure from the federal government or any of its agencies such surplus equipment, apparatus, supplies, and storage facilities therefor...
• California Government Code Section 8652
  Before payment may be made by the state to any person in reimbursement for taking or damaging private property necessarily utilized by the Governor in...
• California Government Code Section 8653
  In the event that the Governor, during a state of war emergency or a state of emergency and in the exercise of the emergency powers...
• California Government Code Section 8654
  (a) Whenever the Governor has proclaimed a state of emergency and the President has declared an emergency or a major disaster to exist in this...
• California Government Code Section 8654.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that financial assistance is essential to meet disaster-related necessary expenses of the state and local governments and the serious...
• California Government Code Section 8655
  The state or its political subdivisions shall not be liable for any claim based upon the exercise or performance, or the failure to exercise or...
• California Government Code Section 8655.5
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Community warning program" means any broadcast or notification program conducted by...
• California Government Code Section 8656
  All of the privileges and immunities from liability; exemptions from laws, ordinances, and rules; all pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation, and other benefits which apply...
• California Government Code Section 8657
  (a) Volunteers duly enrolled or registered with the California Emergency Management Agency or any disaster council of any political subdivision, or unregistered persons duly impressed...
• California Government Code Section 8657.5
  (a) (1) A private business included on the statewide registry pursuant to Section 8588.2 that voluntarily and without expectation and receipt of compensation donates services,...
• California Government Code Section 8658
  In any case in which an emergency endangering the lives of inmates of a state, county, or city penal or correctional institution has occurred or...
• California Government Code Section 8659
  (a) Any physician or surgeon (whether licensed in this state or any other state), hospital, pharmacist, respiratory care practitioner, nurse, or dentist who renders services...
• California Government Code Section 8660
  No other state or its officers or employees rendering aid in this state pursuant to any interstate arrangement, agreement, or compact shall be liable on...
• California Government Code Section 8661
  No organization established under the authority of this chapter shall participate in any form of political activity nor shall it be employed directly or indirectly...
• California Government Code Section 8665
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who refuses or willfully neglects to obey any lawful order or regulation promulgated...
• California Government Code Section 8666
  If any section, subdivision, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase in this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is for any reason...
• California Government Code Section 8668
  (a) Any disaster council previously accredited, the State Civil Defense and Disaster Plan, the State Emergency Resources Management Plan, the State Fire Disaster Plan, the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.1
  This chapter, Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 8574.1) of Chapter 7 of the Government Code, and Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public...
• California Government Code Section 8670.2
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) Each year, billions of gallons of crude oil and petroleum products are transported by vessel or pipeline...
• California Government Code Section 8670.3
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Administrator" means the administrator for oil spill response appointed...
• California Government Code Section 8670.4
  There shall be an administrator for oil spill response. The administrator shall be a chief deputy director of the Department of Fish and Game. The...
• California Government Code Section 8670.5
  The Governor shall ensure that the state fully and adequately responds to all oil spills in marine waters. The administrator, acting at the direction of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.5.1
  (a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, an owner or operator of a nontank vessel that is not used for commercial purposes and that weighs...
• California Government Code Section 8670.6
  (a) The administrator shall ensure that he or she has available for support, either under direct employment, elsewhere in state government, or through contract for...
• California Government Code Section 8670.7
  (a) The administrator, subject to the Governor, has the primary authority to direct prevention, removal, abatement, response, containment, and cleanup efforts with regard to all...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8
  (a) The administrator shall carry out programs to provide training for individuals in response, containment, and cleanup operations and equipment, equipment deployment, and the planning...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8.3
  The administrator shall offer grants to a local government with jurisdiction over or directly adjacent to marine waters to provide oil spill response equipment to...
• California Government Code Section 8670.8.5
  The administrator may use volunteer workers in response, containment, restoration, wildlife rehabilitation, and cleanup efforts for oil spills in marine waters. The volunteers shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.9
  (a) The administrator shall enter into discussions on behalf of the state with the States of Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.10
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), in coordination with all appropriate federal, state, and local government entities, the administrator shall periodically carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8670.12
  (a) The administrator shall conduct studies and evaluations necessary for improving oil spill response, containment, and cleanup and oil spill wildlife rehabilitation in marine waters...
• California Government Code Section 8670.13
  The administrator shall periodically evaluate the feasibility of requiring new technologies to aid prevention, response, containment, cleanup and wildlife rehabilitation.
• California Government Code Section 8670.13.1
  (a) The administrator shall license all oil spill cleanup agents, and shall adopt regulations governing the expedited testing, licensing, and use of oil spill cleanup...
• California Government Code Section 8670.13.2
  The administrator shall prepare and periodically revise regulations regarding licensing of oil spill cleanup agents. The authority of the administrator shall be substituted for the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.14
  The administrator shall coordinate the oil spill prevention and response programs and marine facility, tank vessel, and nontank vessel safety standards of the state with...
• California Government Code Section 8670.16
  The administrator shall take any action necessary and appropriate to promote the adoption of statutes or regulations by the federal government that establish all of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.17
  (a) The administrator shall adopt regulations regarding the equipment, personnel, and operation of vessels to and from marine terminals that are used to transfer oil....
• California Government Code Section 8670.17.1
  The administrator may, for purposes of efficiency, safety, or implementation consistency, provide for services to vessels, ports, and port users which are necessary to achieve...
• California Government Code Section 8670.17.2
  (a) The administrator shall adopt regulations governing tugboat escorts for tank ships and tank barges entering, leaving, or navigating in the harbors of the state....
• California Government Code Section 8670.18
  (a) The administrator may inspect or cause to be inspected on a regular basis all vessels. (b) The administrator shall evaluate and periodically review the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.19
  (a) The administrator shall periodically conduct a comprehensive review of all oil spill contingency plans. The administrator shall do both of the following: (1) Segment...
• California Government Code Section 8670.20
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "vessel" means a vessel, as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, of 300 gross...
• California Government Code Section 8670.21
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Vessels" means vessels as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors...
• California Government Code Section 8670.22
  Any vessel that is not in compliance with the time schedules and requirements relating to double hulls set forth in the federal Oil Pollution Prevention,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23
  (a) The administrator shall establish Harbor Safety Committees for harbors and adjacent regions of San Diego; Los Angeles/Long Beach; Port Hueneme; San Francisco; and Humboldt...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23.1
  (a) Each harbor safety committee established pursuant to Section 8670.23 shall be responsible for planning for the safe navigation and operation of tank ships, tank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.23.2
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that because the administrator must rely on the expertise provided by volunteer members of the harbor safety committees...
• California Government Code Section 8670.24
  (a) The administrator shall evaluate all pilotage areas in the state. This evaluation shall include all of the following: (1) The effectiveness of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8670.25
  (a) A person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any oil to be discharged in or on the marine waters or...
• California Government Code Section 8670.25.5
  (a) (1) Without regard to intent or negligence, any party responsible for the discharge or threatened discharge of oil in marine waters shall report the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.26
  Any local or state agency responding to a spill of oil shall notify the California Emergency Management Agency, if notification as required under Section 8670.25.5,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.27
  (a) (1) All potentially responsible parties for discharged oil and all of their agents and employees and all state and local agencies shall carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8670.28
  (a) The administrator, taking into consideration the marine facility or vessel contingency plan requirements of the national and California contingency plans, the State Lands Commission,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.28.5
  An operator shall maintain a level of readiness that will allow effective implementation of the applicable contingency plans.
• California Government Code Section 8670.29
  (a) In accordance with the rules, regulations, and policies established by the administrator pursuant to Section 8670.28, an owner or operator of a marine facility,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.30
  (a) An oil spill response organization may apply to the administrator for a rating of that OSRO's response capabilities. The administrator shall establish rating levels...
• California Government Code Section 8670.30.5
  (a) The administrator may review each oil spill contingency plan that has been approved pursuant to Section 8670.29 to determine whether it complies with Sections...
• California Government Code Section 8670.31
  (a) Each oil spill contingency plan required under this article shall be submitted to the administrator before a tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying...
• California Government Code Section 8670.32
  (a) To reduce the risk of an oil spill as a result of fuel, cargo, and lube oil transfers, the administrator shall develop and implement...
• California Government Code Section 8670.33
  (a) If the operator of a tank ship or tank barge for which a contingency plan has not been approved desires to have the tank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.34
  This article shall not apply to any tank vessel, nontank vessel, or vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo that enters marine waters of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.35
  (a) The administrator, taking into consideration the California oil spill contingency plan, shall promulgate regulations regarding the adequacy of oil spill contingency plan elements of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.36
  (a) The administrator shall, within five working days after receipt of a contingency plan prepared pursuant to Section 8670.28 or 8670.35, send a notice that...
• California Government Code Section 8670.36.1
  (a) To reduce the damages and costs from spills, the administrator shall develop an outreach program to provide assistance to the operators of small craft...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37
  (a) The administrator, with the assistance of the State Lands Commission, the California Coastal Commission, and the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.5
  (a) The administrator shall establish a network of rescue and rehabilitation stations for sea birds, sea otters, and other marine mammals. In addition to rehabilitative...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.51
  (a) No tank vessel or vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo may be used to transport oil across marine waters of the state unless...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.52
  The certificate of financial responsibility shall be conclusive evidence that the person or entity holding the certificate is the party responsible for the specified vessel,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.53
  (a) To receive a certificate of financial responsibility for a tank vessel or for all of the oil contained within such a vessel, the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.54
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, financial responsibility may be demonstrated by evidence of insurance, surety bond, letter of credit, qualifications as a self-insurer,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.55
  (a) An owner or operator of more than one tank vessel, vessel carrying oil as a secondary cargo, nontank vessel, or marine facility shall only...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.56
  If the administrator determines that, because of a spill outside of the state or some other action or potential liability, the holder of a certificate...
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.57
  No certificate of financial responsibility shall have a term greater than two years. The administrator may issue certificates for shorter periods where appropriate.
• California Government Code Section 8670.37.58
  (a) A nontank vessel required to have a contingency plan pursuant to this chapter shall not enter marine waters of the state unless the nontank...
• California Government Code Section 8670.38
  (a) The Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The money in the fund is available for appropriation by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.39
  (a) The administrator shall administer the fund in accordance with this article. (b) The administrator may develop and adopt any rules, regulations, and guidelines determined...
• California Government Code Section 8670.40
  (a) The State Board of Equalization shall collect a fee in an amount determined by the administrator to be sufficient to carry out the purposes...
• California Government Code Section 8670.41
  (a) The administrator shall charge a nontank vessel owner or operator a reasonable fee, to be collected with each application to obtain a certificate of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.42
  (a) The Department of Fish and Game and the State Lands Commission, independently, shall contract with the Department of Finance for the preparation of a...
• California Government Code Section 8670.46
  (a) The Oil Spill Response Trust Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the money in the fund is continuously appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 8670.47
  (a) The administrator shall administer the fund in accordance with this article. (b) The administrator may develop and adopt any rules, regulations, and guidelines determined...
• California Government Code Section 8670.47.5
  The following shall be deposited into the fund: (a) The fee required pursuant to Section 8670.48. (b) Any federal funds received to pay for response,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48
  (a) (1) A uniform oil spill response fee in an amount not exceeding twenty-five cents ($0.25) for each barrel of petroleum products, as set by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48.3
  (a) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 8670.48, a loan or other transfer of money from the fund to the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.48.5
  (a) The administrator may raise the fees specified in Section 8670.48 to a maximum of one dollar ($1) per barrel, provided that the fee may...
• California Government Code Section 8670.49
  (a) (1) The administrator may only expend money from the fund to pay for any of the following, subject to the lien established in Section...
• California Government Code Section 8670.50
  (a) Money from the fund may only be expended to cover the costs incurred by the state and local governments and agencies for any of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.51
  (a) When a person has obtained a final judgment for damages resulting from an oil spill in marine waters, but is unable, within one year...
• California Government Code Section 8670.51.1
  (a) (1) Upon learning of an oil spill, the administrator shall immediately designate the responsible party, who, if that designation is not challenged, shall immediately,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53
  The Attorney General, in consultation with the administrator, shall undertake actions to recover all costs to the funds from any responsible party for an oil...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.1
  (a) Following an oil spill, the administrator, in consultation with the Treasurer, shall notify the Governor if the administrator determines that it is likely that...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.2
  Money borrowed pursuant to this chapter, including draws on the financial security obtained pursuant to subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, shall be expended and repaid...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.3
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Bond" means any bond, note, commercial paper, bond anticipation note, or other evidence...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.4
  (a) With the exception of borrowing from the Pooled Money Investment Account, which shall be on the terms determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.5
  Any financial arrangements made or issued pursuant to this article or subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, including the issuance of bonds or other obligations, and...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.7
  (a) All financial arrangements made or issued pursuant to this article or subdivision (o) of Section 8670.48, including bonds or other obligations, are a legal...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.8
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the fund, without regard to fiscal years, any and all moneys necessary to pay principal, interest, premium,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.9
  Whenever the Treasurer determines that it will increase the marketability or reduce the cost of obtaining any standby arrangement, other arrangement, or of issuing any...
• California Government Code Section 8670.53.95
  Section 10295 and Sections 10336 to 10381, inclusive, of the Public Contract Code shall not apply to agreements entered into by the Treasurer in connection...
• California Government Code Section 8670.54
  (a) The Oil Spill Technical Advisory Committee, hereafter in this article the committee, is hereby established to provide public input and independent judgment of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.55
  (a) The committee shall provide recommendations to the administrator, the State Lands Commission, the California Coastal Commission, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56
  The administrator may expend from the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund any amounts necessary for the purposes of carrying out this article.
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.1
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that because the administrator must rely on expertise provided by members of the committee and be guided by...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.5
  (a) A responsible party, as defined in Section 8670.3, shall be absolutely liable without regard to fault for any damages incurred by any injured party...
• California Government Code Section 8670.56.6
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (d), and subject to subdivision (c), no person, including, but not limited to, an oil spill...
• California Government Code Section 8670.57
  (a) When the administrator determines that any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or threatens to engage in, any acts or practices which constitute...
• California Government Code Section 8670.58
  Every civil action commenced pursuant to this chapter or Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code at the request of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.59
  (a) Any civil action brought pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.61
  The civil and criminal penalties provided in this chapter and Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code shall be separate and...
• California Government Code Section 8670.61.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "wildlife rehabilitation" means those actions that are necessary to fully mitigate for the damage caused to wildlife, fisheries, wildlife...
• California Government Code Section 8670.62
  (a) Any person who discharges oil into marine waters, upon order of the administrator, shall do all of the following: (1) Clean up the oil....
• California Government Code Section 8670.63
  (a) No provision of this chapter, or of Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of the Public Resources Code, or any ruling of the administrator,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.64
  (a) A person who commits any of the following acts, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than...
• California Government Code Section 8670.65
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 8670.64, any person who knowingly violates any provision of this chapter, or Division 7.8 (commencing with Section 8750) of...
• California Government Code Section 8670.66
  (a) Any person who intentionally or negligently does any of the following acts shall be subject to a civil penalty for a spill of not...
• California Government Code Section 8670.67
  (a) Any person who intentionally or negligently does any of the following acts shall be subject to an administrative civil penalty for a spill not...
• California Government Code Section 8670.67.5
  (a) Any person who without regard to intent or negligence causes or permits a spill or inland spill shall be strictly liable civilly in accordance...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68
  (a) The administrator may issue a complaint to any person on whom civil liability may be imposed pursuant to Section 8670.67 or 8670.67.5. The complaint...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.1
  After the time for review has expired for a violation under this chapter or Division 36 (commencing with Section 71200) of the Public Resources Code,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.4
  Any operator of a small craft refueling dock who fails to register in compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 8670.36.1 shall be subject to a...
• California Government Code Section 8670.68.5
  Twenty-five percent of any penalty collected under this article shall be paid to the agency or office prosecuting the action.
• California Government Code Section 8670.69
  Actions on behalf of the state or any other public entity to enforce Section 8670.61.5 through injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and all costs of the...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.4
  (a) When the administrator determines that any person has undertaken, or is threatening to undertake, any activity or procedure that (1) requires a permit, certificate,...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.6
  Within 30 days after service of a copy of a cease and desist order issued by the administrator under Section 8670.69.4, any aggrieved party may...
• California Government Code Section 8670.69.7
  All penalties collected under this article for inland spills shall be deposited into the Fish and Wildlife Pollution Account in the Fish and Game Preservation...
• California Government Code Section 8670.70
  The Environmental Enhancement Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. All penalties collected under Article 9 (commencing with Section 8670.57) shall be deposited into...
• California Government Code Section 8670.71
  (a) The administrator shall fund only those projects approved by the Environmental Enhancement Committee. (b) For the purposes of this article, an enhancement project is...
• California Government Code Section 8670.72
  (a) The Environmental Enhancement Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of the following members: (1) The administrator. (2) A public member, to be...
• California Government Code Section 8670.73
  (a) The Environmental Enhancement Grant Program is hereby established. Project proposals shall be solicited when adequate funds have accumulated in the Environmental Enhancement Fund to...
• California Government Code Section 8680
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Disaster Assistance Act.
• California Government Code Section 8680.1
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8680.2
  "Local agency" means any city, city and county, county, county office of education, community college district, school district, or special district.
• California Government Code Section 8680.3
  "Disaster" means a fire, flood, storm, tidal wave, earthquake, terrorism, epidemic, or other similar public calamity that the Governor determines presents a threat to public
• California Government Code Section 8680.4
  "Project" means the repair or restoration, or both, other than normal maintenance, or the replacement of, real property of a local agency used for essential...
• California Government Code Section 8680.5
  "Project application" means the written application made by a local agency to the director for state financial assistance, which shall include all damage to public...
• California Government Code Section 8680.7
  "Secretary" means the Secretary of Emergency Management.
• California Government Code Section 8680.8
  "State agency" means the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Health, the Department of Finance,...
• California Government Code Section 8680.9
  "Local emergency" means a condition of extreme peril to persons or property proclaimed as such by the governing body of the local agency affected, in...
• California Government Code Section 8682
  The secretary shall administer this chapter. The secretary may delegate any power or duty vested in him or her under this chapter to a state...
• California Government Code Section 8682.2
  To the extent that funds are allocated therefor, a state agency, when requested by the secretary, shall render services and perform duties within its area...
• California Government Code Section 8682.6
  The project proposal executed between a local agency and the secretary pursuant to Section 8685.6 shall contain a provision under which the local agency agrees...
• California Government Code Section 8682.8
  When certified by the secretary, claims of local agencies for payment shall be presented to the Controller for payment out of funds made available therefor....
• California Government Code Section 8682.9
  The secretary shall adopt regulations, as necessary, to govern the administration of the disaster assistance program authorized by this chapter in accordance with the Administrative...
• California Government Code Section 8683
  Whenever funds are available for purposes of this chapter, the director shall make allocations therefrom in the amounts that he or she determines to be...
• California Government Code Section 8684.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature: (1) To provide the Governor with appropriate emergency powers in order to enable utilization of available emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8685
  From any moneys appropriated for that purpose, and subject to the conditions specified in this article, the secretary shall allocate funds to meet the cost...
• California Government Code Section 8685.2
  An allocation may be made to a local agency for a project when, within 10 days after the actual occurrence of a disaster, the local...
• California Government Code Section 8685.4
  A local agency shall make application to the secretary for state financial assistance within 60 days after the date of the proclamation of a local...
• California Government Code Section 8685.6
  No money shall be allocated for a project until the local agency has indicated in writing its acceptance of the project proposal and the cost-sharing...
• California Government Code Section 8685.7
  Any work performed by a state agency at the request of a local agency shall be agreed upon in writing and be subject to the...
• California Government Code Section 8685.8
  Under procedures to be prescribed by the secretary, a local agency may receive an advance of funds to initiate a project. Such advances shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8685.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Section 8686, for any eligible project, the state share shall not exceed 75 percent of total state eligible...
• California Government Code Section 8686
  (a) For any eligible project, the state share shall amount to no more than 75 percent of total state eligible costs. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),...
• California Government Code Section 8686.1
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8686, the state share shall be up to 100 percent of total state eligible costs connected with the Middle...
• California Government Code Section 8686.2
  When the United States or any agency thereof is to provide disaster relief funds for any portion of the cost of a project, the amount...
• California Government Code Section 8686.3
  Local agencies shall undertake to recover maximum federal participation in funding projects. No funds allocated under this chapter shall be used to supplant federal funds...
• California Government Code Section 8686.4
  (a) Whenever the local agency and the secretary determine for projects that the general public and state interest will be better served by replacing a...
• California Government Code Section 8686.8
  If the secretary determines that a local agency is financially unable to meet the matching requirements set forth in Section 8686, or unable to provide...
• California Government Code Section 8687
  Deferred payments made by a local agency pursuant to Section 8686.8 shall be made by the agency: (a) Out of the current revenues of the...
• California Government Code Section 8687.2
  Notwithstanding Section 8686, whenever the secretary determines that a local agency to which funds are proposed to be allocated for a public facilities project is...
• California Government Code Section 8687.4
  Whenever the secretary determines that a local agency which would otherwise be eligible for funds under the formula of Section 8686 is unable to finance...
• California Government Code Section 8687.6
  If the local agency, under Section 8687.4, is a county, the amount contributed by the county shall not be reduced to less than an amount...
• California Government Code Section 8687.7
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (2) "Community" means a...
• California Government Code Section 8687.8
  If the local agency, under Section 8687.4, is a county, the director, in determining whether the county's financial resources are exhausted, shall ascertain whether the...
• California Government Code Section 8690.25
  The Disaster Assistance Fund, referred to as "fund" in this article, is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. This fund and...
• California Government Code Section 8690.45
  The Controller shall establish the following special account in the Disaster Assistance Fund. The Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, into which shall be paid all moneys...
• California Government Code Section 8690.5
  Income from investment of moneys in the fund and all payments by local agencies in reimbursement of moneys disbursed from the fund, including deferred payments...
• California Government Code Section 8690.6
  (a) The Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account is hereby established in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties. Notwithstanding Section 13340, moneys in the account are continuously...
• California Government Code Section 8690.7
  Any county which distributed funds to other local agencies pursuant to Chapter 16 of the Statutes of 1986 shall not be held financially liable for...
• California Government Code Section 8692
  (a) If a state of emergency is proclaimed, an eligible private nonprofit organization may receive state assistance for distribution of supplies and other disaster or...
• California Government Code Section 8695
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Farr Economic Disaster Act of 1984.
• California Government Code Section 8695.5
  The Legislature finds and declares that the disaster response of state agencies does not adequately focus on the economic impact of a natural disaster on...
• California Government Code Section 8696
  It is the purpose of this chapter to institutionalize the planning and response of state agencies to disasters in order to reduce economic hardship stemming...
• California Government Code Section 8696.5
  As used in this chapter, the term "disaster" means those conditions specified in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8558 if the estimated damage exceeds...
• California Government Code Section 8697
  (a) Upon the completion of the emergency phase and the immediate recovery phase of a disaster, appropriate state agencies shall take actions to provide continuity...
• California Government Code Section 8697.5
  The Secretary of Emergency Management, in executing the purposes of this chapter, shall establish appropriate task forces or emergency teams to include concerned elements of...
• California Government Code Section 8698
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Political subdivision" includes the state, any city, city and county, county, special district, or...
• California Government Code Section 8698.1
  Upon a declaration of a shelter crisis, the following provisions shall apply during the period of the emergency. (a) The political subdivision shall be immune...
• California Government Code Section 8698.2
  (a) (1) The governing body may declare a shelter crisis, and may take such action as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this...
• California Government Code Section 8700
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The United States and Mexican economies have become increasingly integrated, particularly since the 1994 adoption of the...
• California Government Code Section 8701
  The following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Office" means the Office of California-Mexico Affairs. (b) "Conference" means the Southwest Border Regional
• California Government Code Section 8702
  (a) There is in state government an Office of California-Mexico Affairs. Within this office the operations of the California Office of the Southwest Border Regional...
• California Government Code Section 8703
  The members of the Southwest Border Regional Conference shall be the Governors of the four American border states. The California member of the conference is...
• California Government Code Section 8705
  The office shall further and develop favorable relations with the State of Baja California, the State of Baja California Sur, other Mexican states bordering on...
• California Government Code Section 8706
  The Governor shall appoint a director of the office. The director may appoint and employ any personnel which he or she deems necessary to carry...
• California Government Code Section 8708
  Members and employees of the office may travel outside of California and may hold hearings and conduct investigations within and outside of the state whenever...
• California Government Code Section 8709
  The office shall be responsible for the establishment of committees in those topic areas deemed necessary by the director. Recommendations of the committees shall not...
• California Government Code Section 8710
  The following definitions shall apply to this chapter: (a) "Border" means the line of demarcation between California and Mexico. (b) "Council" means the California-Mexico Border...
• California Government Code Section 8711
  (a) The California-Mexico Border Relations Council is hereby established in state government. The council shall consist of the Secretary of the Resources Agency, the Secretary...
• California Government Code Section 8712
  The council shall do all of the following: (a) Coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that...
• California Government Code Section 8713
  Beginning January 1, 2008, the council shall submit a report to the Legislature on the council's activities annually.
• California Government Code Section 8720
  This chapter may be cited as the "Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program."
• California Government Code Section 8721
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Beginning in 1929, government authorities and certain private sector entities in California and throughout the...
• California Government Code Section 8722
  The State of California apologizes to those individuals described in Section 8721 for the fundamental violations of their basic civil liberties and constitutional rights committed...
• California Government Code Section 8723
  A plaque commemorating the individuals described in Section 8721 shall be installed and maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation at an appropriate public...
• California Government Code Section 8740
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) That Latino Americans have made major contributions to the social, cultural, and economic greatness of California. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 8741
  The Board of Trustees for the California Museum of Latino History, Art, and Culture shall, on or before January 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, report...
• California Government Code Section 8742
  State moneys, from whichever fund appropriated, may be used only for developing preliminary plans and working drawings, construction, and initial equipment, including equipment for exhibits....
• California Government Code Section 8743
  The state shall have no liability arising from the project and its operation, and shall have no operational or maintenance responsibility for the project. The...
• California Government Code Section 8750
  The Legislature perceives that life in California is enriched by art. The source of art is in the natural flow of the human mind. Realizing...
• California Government Code Section 8751
  (a) There is in the state government an Arts Council which shall be composed of 11 members. On or before January 10, 1979, the Speaker...
• California Government Code Section 8751.5
  If any member of the council is an employee, member, director, or officer of any arts organization that has applied to the council for a...
• California Government Code Section 8752
  The council shall meet at the call of the chairperson no more than eight times each calendar year. Unless there are extraordinary circumstances, all meetings...
• California Government Code Section 8753
  The council shall: (a) Encourage artistic awareness, participation and expression. (b) Help independent local groups develop their own art programs. (c) Promote the employment of...
• California Government Code Section 8753.5
  The council shall not make any grants or fund any program which has not been established pursuant to the powers granted by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8754
  The council shall select a director for the Arts Council. The council may delegate to the director the responsibilities for carrying out council policy. The...
• California Government Code Section 8755
  Upon nomination by the council, the Governor may grant special recognition to any citizen with exceptional talent who has made a unique contribution to the...
• California Government Code Section 8755.5
  The executive or principal office of the Arts Council shall be located in the County of Sacramento. The council may establish one or more secondary...
• California Government Code Section 8756
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Dixon-Zenovich-Maddy California Arts Act of 1975.
• California Government Code Section 8760
  (a) The position of California Poet Laureate is hereby established. (b) The California Poet Laureate shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the...
• California Government Code Section 8761
  The Arts Council may establish an appropriate stipend for the California Poet Laureate and shall provide for the payment of the poet laureate's expenses incurred...
• California Government Code Section 8762
  The California Poet Laureate shall, as a condition of the appointment, assume the following minimum responsibilities: (a) Provide a minimum of six public readings during...
• California Government Code Section 8763
  The Arts Council shall, commencing in 2010 and every 10 years thereafter, and with the agreement of the past California Poets Laureate and their representatives,...
• California Government Code Section 8765
  The council may solicit and receive gifts, donations, bequests, grants of funds, or any other revenues, from public or private sources, and expend those moneys...
• California Government Code Section 8790
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) It is to the advantage of the people of the State of California that...
• California Government Code Section 8790.1
  (a) There is created in the state government the California Collider Commission. (b) The commission shall consist of the following six members: the Governor, the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.2
  The California Collider Commission is created for the following purposes: (a) To act as an agent of the State of California in presenting a site...
• California Government Code Section 8790.3
  The California Collider Commission is authorized to do all of the following: (a) Hold public meetings. (b) Contract through the University of California for research...
• California Government Code Section 8790.4
  Subject to approval by the Regents of the University of California, the University of California, from the funds appropriated to it specifically for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 8790.5
  The Executive Steering Committee on the Superconducting Super Collider, established pursuant to ACR 89, shall serve as an advisory body to the California Collider Commission...
• California Government Code Section 8790.6
  The Treasurer may sell revenue bonds issued on behalf of the state for the purpose of financing the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in
• California Government Code Section 8790.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3, any action taken by the commission prior to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.9
  (a) The siting of the Superconducting Super Collider shall not alter the existing land use zoning which protects prime agricultural land and preserves the agricultural...
• California Government Code Section 8790.10
  The Employment Development Department, the Employment Training Panel, and the local Job Training Partnership Act service delivery area, and the local community colleges shall, to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.11
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that preference shall be provided in the distribution of emergency school facilities, as necessary, to school districts...
• California Government Code Section 8790.20
  As used in this article: (a) "Board" means the State Public Works Board. (b) "Bonds" means revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes issued as...
• California Government Code Section 8790.21
  (a) Without obtaining further authorization under Section 15808, the board shall select, and accept the transfer of title to, any state facility at any site...
• California Government Code Section 8790.22
  (a) The board may issue bonds, including refunding bonds, pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) of Part 10b of Division 3 in an...
• California Government Code Section 8790.23
  Bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this article shall be sold pursuant to Section 15832.
• California Government Code Section 8790.24
  Notwithstanding Section 15816, the public buildings financed by the board pursuant to this article shall, subject to the terms of the lease, be and remain...
• California Government Code Section 8790.25
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that lease payments required pursuant to this article be made from moneys received by the State Lands...
• California Government Code Section 8790.26
  The revenues, rentals, and receipts from the facility authorized to be financed under this article may be pledged for the payment of principal of, premium,...
• California Government Code Section 8790.27
  The board, as additional security for the lease, may agree to pledge and assign all or any portion of any moneys as may be legally...
• California Government Code Section 8790.28
  In addition to any other powers granted by law, the board may, for the purposes of this chapter, do any or all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8790.29
  A lease may be for any term not to exceed 40 years and may contain other terms, covenants, and conditions as the board and the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.30
  The board shall transfer any proceeds received from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this article to the Department of General Services. The Department...
• California Government Code Section 8790.31
  (a) There is under the jurisdiction of the Department of General Services the SSC Development Fund, which is hereby created. Moneys derived from the sale...
• California Government Code Section 8790.32
  An amount not to exceed the amount of unsold bonds which the board has by resolution authorized to be sold for the purposes of carrying...
• California Government Code Section 8790.33
  (a) Any bonds issued under this chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be free from taxation of every kind by...
• California Government Code Section 8790.34
  (a) This chapter provides a complete, additional, and alternative method for accomplishing the acts authorized in this chapter, and is supplemental and additional to the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.36
  This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out the objects and purposes and the declared policy of the state as set forth in this
• California Government Code Section 8790.40
  (a) The State Public Works Board shall select and acquire, in the name of and on behalf of the state, pursuant to Part 11 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 8790.41
  (a) Any land acquired by the State Public Works Board pursuant to Section 8790.40 shall be transferred to the Department of General Services. (b) Notwithstanding...
• California Government Code Section 8790.42
  Section 10295, Article 4 (commencing with Section 10335) of Chapter 2 of Division 2, and Section 10382 of, the Public Contract Code, do not apply...
• California Government Code Section 8790.43
  If, for any reason, the Superconducting Super Collider project is canceled, withdrawn, terminated, or the land is otherwise not needed, the Department of General Services...
• California Government Code Section 8790.44
  In determining the price to be paid for agricultural land, the department shall consider the price which the owner originally paid for the land, any...
• California Government Code Section 8790.45
  This article applies only to land acquired for purposes of the Superconducting Super Collider project.
• California Government Code Section 8790.70
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all contracts awarded by any state agency, department, officer, or other state governmental entity pursuant to this chapter for...
• California Government Code Section 8790.71
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, governmental entity, or other officer or entity empowered...
• California Government Code Section 8790.72
  In awarding contracts to the lowest responsible bidder, the awarding department shall consider the responsiveness of a bidder to minority business enterprise and women business...
• California Government Code Section 8790.73
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in this article. (b) The awarding department shall adopt rules...
• California Government Code Section 8790.74
  In implementing this article, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business, the Minority Business Development Agency,...
• California Government Code Section 8790.75
  Beginning July 1, 1988, and on January 1, 1989, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8790.76
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the failure of an awarding department to meet the goals established under this article shall not affect the...
• California Government Code Section 8790.77
  If another statute, which is chaptered and takes effect after this article, establishes minority and women business enterprise participation goals which are generally applicable to...
• California Government Code Section 8790.80
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each awarding department shall offer participation to minority and women business enterprises in all contracts for bonds issued...
• California Government Code Section 8790.81
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Awarding department" means any state agency, department, constitutional officer, governmental entity, or other officer or...
• California Government Code Section 8790.82
  Notwithstanding Section 8790.80, if a contract for professional bond services of an underwriter is to be obtained by competitive bid, the awarding department shall, at...
• California Government Code Section 8790.83
  (a) The awarding department shall establish a method of monitoring adherence to the goals specified in Section 8790.80, including requiring a followup report from all...
• California Government Code Section 8790.84
  In implementing this article, the awarding department shall utilize existing resources such as the Office of Small and Minority Business.
• California Government Code Section 8790.85
  Beginning July 1, 1988, and on January 1, 1989, and on January 1 of each year thereafter, each awarding department shall report to the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 8790.86
  Notwithstanding anything in this article to the contrary, the validity or enforceability of any bonds to which this article applies shall not be affected in...
• California Government Code Section 8790.87
  If another statute, which is chaptered and takes effect after this article, establishes minority and women business enterprise participation goals which are generally applicable to...
• California Government Code Section 8800
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Broadcasting Act of 1975.
• California Government Code Section 8801
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) It is the policy of this state to support and encourage the provision of a high-quality educational,...
• California Government Code Section 8802
  The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Government Code Section 8803
  "Commission" means the California Public Broadcasting Commission.
• California Government Code Section 8804
  "Corporation for Public Broadcasting" means the corporation established pursuant to Section 396 of Title 47 of the United States Code.
• California Government Code Section 8804.5
  "Instructional programming" means public broadcast programming which is curriculum related, whether for credit or not.
• California Government Code Section 8805
  "Interconnection" means the use of apparatus or equipment for the electronic transmission and distribution of public broadcast programming to public broadcasting stations.
• California Government Code Section 8806
  "Public broadcast programming" means programming intended for presentation on public broadcast stations, including, but not limited to, public affairs, cultural, and instructional programming.
• California Government Code Section 8807
  "Public broadcasting station" means a noncommercial educational broadcasting station licensed as such by the Federal Communications Commission and eligible for financial grants from the Corporation...
• California Government Code Section 8807.5
  "Instructional committee" means the instructional broadcast advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8808
  "Radio committee" means the radio advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8809
  "T.V. committee" means the television advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830).
• California Government Code Section 8809.5
  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
• California Government Code Section 8810
  The California Public Broadcasting Commission is hereby created in state government as an independent commission in order to encourage the growth and development of public...
• California Government Code Section 8811
  The commission shall consist of 11 members, as follows: (a) Five members appointed by the Governor for terms of five years, except that the terms...
• California Government Code Section 8812
  Appointees to the commission shall be persons who are eminent in such fields as education, cultural affairs, public service, or the arts, including public broadcasting....
• California Government Code Section 8813
  The appointive members of the commission shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day of official commission meetings they...
• California Government Code Section 8814
  The commission shall select annually from among its membership a chairman and vice chairman.
• California Government Code Section 8815
  The commission shall appoint an executive secretary and employ such staff as it may deem necessary in performing the duties prescribed by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8816
  The commission shall, in carrying out its responsibility and exercising its authority, make maximum use, for the purposes of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness, of existing...
• California Government Code Section 8817
  (a) The commission shall adopt and enforce reasonable standards governing the acceptance of any salary or other compensation by its employees from sources other than...
• California Government Code Section 8818
  The meetings of the commission shall be open and public in accordance with Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1...
• California Government Code Section 8820
  The commission shall develop and support a statewide policy to encourage the orderly growth and development of public broadcasting service responsive to the informational, cultural,...
• California Government Code Section 8821
  The commission may make grants to public broadcasting stations in order to aid in the improvement of their broadcast operations, programming, and capital facilities and
• California Government Code Section 8822
  The commission may cause to be established, managed, and operated systems of interconnection and other methods of statewide distribution of public television and radio programs....
• California Government Code Section 8823
  The commission may, taking into account the advice of the radio committee or the T.V. committee, as appropriate, make grants for the development, production, and...
• California Government Code Section 8824
  The commission may apply for, receive, and distribute federal funds, state funds, and other public or private funds from any source for all or any...
• California Government Code Section 8825
  The commission may conduct, through grants or contracts, research and demonstration activities in matters relating to public broadcasting.
• California Government Code Section 8826
  The commission may enter into contracts, leases, and other arrangements, and shall do all things necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this...
• California Government Code Section 8827
  The commission shall perform its duties under this chapter in a manner that will assure the maximum freedom of the public broadcasting stations and systems...
• California Government Code Section 8828
  The commission shall submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31 of each year, covering the commission's activities,...
• California Government Code Section 8830
  At its first meeting, the commission shall establish the radio committee, the T.V. committee, and the instructional committee. Each committee shall elect a chairman who...
• California Government Code Section 8831
  Each public radio station may appoint a representative to the radio committee, and each public television station may appoint a representative to the T.V. committee....
• California Government Code Section 8832
  The commission shall also establish the instructional committee composed of one member and one alternate member appointed for one-year terms by each of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8833
  The instructional committee shall advise the commission on instructional programming. In fulfilling this responsibility, the committee may do all of, but shall not be limited...
• California Government Code Section 8835.5
  There is hereby appropriated to the California Public Broadcasting Commission the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) from the General Fund to the...
• California Government Code Section 8836
  The commission shall annually distribute the total amount, less the commission's necessary administrative expenses, available for allocation to public broadcasting stations. The commission shall reserve...
• California Government Code Section 8836.5
  The commission shall, after consultation with the radio, television, and instructional broadcast committees, establish, and review annually, criteria and conditions regarding the distribution of amounts...
• California Government Code Section 8837
  (a) The commission shall prepare an annual financial statement showing all income and expenditures for the preceding year. The commission shall, by regulation, require each...
• California Government Code Section 8838
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede the responsibilities of a state agency or regional or local agency except as expressly provided. Nothing...
• California Government Code Section 8840
  For purposes of this article, "eligible radio station" means a radio station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, meets...
• California Government Code Section 8841
  For purposes of this article, "eligible television station" means a television station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, unless...
• California Government Code Section 8842
  For the purposes of this article, "nonfederal financial support" means the total sum of revenues from nonfederal sources derived by a licensee in a fiscal...
• California Government Code Section 8843
  For purposes of this article, "station" or "public broadcasting station" means any eligible radio or television station.
• California Government Code Section 8844
  (a) Recognizing the necessity of converting California stations to the technologies of digital broadcasting, the Legislature intends that funds may be appropriated to the California...
• California Government Code Section 8846
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any funds provided to stations under this article shall supplement, rather than supplant, funds provided from other...
• California Government Code Section 8855
  (a) There is created the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, consisting of nine members, selected as follows: (1) The Treasurer, or his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8856
  (a) In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the commission may charge fees to the lead underwriter or the purchaser in an amount equal...
• California Government Code Section 8857
  The chairperson of the commission, on its behalf, may employ an executive director and other persons necessary to perform the duties imposed upon it by...
• California Government Code Section 8859
  The commission may, upon request, advise local agencies regarding the formation of local bond pooling authorities pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 6584) of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.80
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-514) establishes a unified volume ceiling...
• California Government Code Section 8869.81
  This chapter is enacted to implement the state unified volume limit established in Section 1301 of the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Public Law...
• California Government Code Section 8869.82
  (a) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this section shall have the following meanings: (1) "Committee" means...
• California Government Code Section 8869.83
  (a) There is in state government the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, consisting of six members as follows: (1) The Treasurer, or his or her...
• California Government Code Section 8869.84
  (a) The committee shall, as soon as is practicable after the start of each calendar year, determine and announce the state ceiling for the calendar...
• California Government Code Section 8869.85
  (a) Each state agency shall apply to the committee for allocation of a portion of the state ceiling, supplying any information which the committee may...
• California Government Code Section 8869.86
  (a) Subject to any limitations on transferred private activity bond limit as may be provided in subdivision (d) of Section 8869.85, any state agency or...
• California Government Code Section 8869.87
  The committee may request local agencies and state agencies to provide the committee with information pertaining to the amount and purpose of anticipated future private...
• California Government Code Section 8869.88
  The committee may transfer any private activity bond limit directly to any joint powers authority created pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.89
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the committee may, upon any terms and conditions as it determines, authorize the use of a portion of...
• California Government Code Section 8869.90
  (a) The committee may charge fees to the lead underwriter, the bond purchaser, or the bond issuer to cover the committee's costs in carrying out...
• California Government Code Section 8869.91
  This chapter is intended to provide a full, fair, flexible, and workable means of utilizing the state ceiling available under the Internal Revenue Code, and...
• California Government Code Section 8869.92
  To the extent that any provision of this chapter is held to be inconsistent with or repugnant to the federal law, the provision shall be...
• California Government Code Section 8869.93
  The Treasurer, or his or her designee, is designated as the state official to certify that an issue of private activity bonds meets the requirements...
• California Government Code Section 8869.94
  The committee may adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the...
• California Government Code Section 8870
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: First, many different agencies at various levels of government have substantial responsibilities in the fields of earthquake preparedness...
• California Government Code Section 8870.1
  (a) (1) There is created in the state government the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission as an independent unit within the State and Consumer...
• California Government Code Section 8870.2
  (a) The Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall consist of 15 members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, one member representing...
• California Government Code Section 8870.3
  (a) The membership of the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate from lists of...
• California Government Code Section 8870.35
  The term of office for each member of the Seismic Safety Commission shall be four years and each shall hold office until the appointment and...
• California Government Code Section 8870.4
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the members of the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission shall serve without compensation but shall be paid...
• California Government Code Section 8870.5
  The commission, in the discharge of its responsibilities, may do any of the following: (a) Accept grants, contributions, and appropriations from public agencies, private foundations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.55
  The commission shall initiate, with the assistance and participation of other state, federal, and local government agencies, a comprehensive program to prepare the state for...
• California Government Code Section 8870.6
  The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall be responsible for managing the affairs of the commission, subject to the direction and policies of...
• California Government Code Section 8870.7
  The commission is responsible for all of the following in connection with earthquake hazard mitigation: (a) Setting goals and priorities in the public and private...
• California Government Code Section 8870.71
  To implement the foregoing responsibilities, the commission may do any of the following: (a) Review state budgets and review grant proposals, other than those grant...
• California Government Code Section 8870.9
  Prior to July 1, 2010, the Legislature shall hold public hearings to receive testimony from the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, any interested organizations,...
• California Government Code Section 8870.95
  The Hospital Building Safety Board established in Section 129925 of the Health and Safety Code shall report annually to the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety
• California Government Code Section 8871
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) California is situated on the rim of the Circum-Pacific seismic belt and it is inevitable that earthquakes...
• California Government Code Section 8871.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as The California Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1986.
• California Government Code Section 8871.2
  (a) There is hereby established a coordinated program pursuant to which the state shall implement new and expanded activities to significantly reduce the earthquake threat...
• California Government Code Section 8871.3
  (a) The California Emergency Management Agency shall establish an interim state operations center in southern California to coordinate response to a major earthquake. The agency...
• California Government Code Section 8871.4
  The commission shall prepare the California Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, in consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency, the Division of Mines and Geology in...
• California Government Code Section 8871.5
  The disastrous effects and after effects of the Mexico City earthquake of September 19, 1985, have increased the urgency for development of local plans to...
• California Government Code Section 8875
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Potentially hazardous building" means any building constructed prior to...
• California Government Code Section 8875.1
  A program is hereby established within all cities, both general law and chartered, and all counties and portions thereof located within seismic zone 4, as...
• California Government Code Section 8875.2
  Local building departments shall do all of the following: (a) Identify all potentially hazardous buildings within their respective jurisdictions on or before January 1, 1990....
• California Government Code Section 8875.3
  Local jurisdictions undertaking inventories and providing structural evaluations of potentially hazardous buildings pursuant to this chapter shall have the same immunity from liability for action...
• California Government Code Section 8875.4
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall report annually to the Legislature on the filing of mitigation programs from local jurisdictions. The annual report required by this...
• California Government Code Section 8875.5
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall coordinate the earthquake-related responsibilities of government agencies imposed by this chapter to ensure compliance with the purposes of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8875.6
  On and after January 1, 1993, the transferor, or his or her agent, of any unreinforced masonry building with wood frame floors or roofs, built...
• California Government Code Section 8875.7
  If the transferee has received notice pursuant to Section 8875.8, and has not brought the building or structure into compliance within five years of that...
• California Government Code Section 8875.8
  (a) An owner who has received actual or constructive notice that a building located in seismic zone 4 is constructed of unreinforced masonry shall post...
• California Government Code Section 8875.9
  Section 8875.8 shall not apply to either one of the following: (a) Unreinforced masonry construction if the walls are nonload bearing with steel or concrete...
• California Government Code Section 8875.95
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8876.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (a) This state is located along a major tectonic plate boundary that is part of the Circum-Pacific...
• California Government Code Section 8876.2
  The Legislature hereby requests that on or after July 1, 1996, the University of California establish the California Center for Earthquake Engineering Research in this...
• California Government Code Section 8876.3
  The center shall disseminate its findings among the academic community, design professionals, government officials, building regulatory personnel, and the public. In carrying out this objective,...
• California Government Code Section 8876.4
  The center shall cooperate and coordinate with other leading organizations in the earthquake engineering field to achieve the following collaborative objectives: (a) Timely communication to...
• California Government Code Section 8876.5
  (a) The Legislature finds that the National Science Foundation will require the center to provide an annual report of its activities. The center shall make...
• California Government Code Section 8876.6
  The governance, administration, and operation of the center shall be established by agreement between the University of California and the National Science Foundation.
• California Government Code Section 8876.7
  In carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter, the Seismic Safety Commission, in close consultation with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, the California Emergency...
• California Government Code Section 8876.8
  Funding for the Seismic Safety Commission under this chapter shall be made available by interagency agreement with the University of California the first year that...
• California Government Code Section 8876.9
  (a) The Earthquake Risk Reduction Fund of 1996 is hereby created in the State Treasury for support of the center. All moneys for support of...
• California Government Code Section 8876.10
  No provision of this chapter shall apply to the Regents of the University of California, unless the regents adopt a resolution making that provision applicable.
• California Government Code Section 8877.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Disaster Recovery Reconstruction Act of 1986.
• California Government Code Section 8877.2
  The Legislature finds and declares that the impact of the Mexico City earthquake disaster of September 19, 1985, has rendered more cogent and compelling the...
• California Government Code Section 8877.3
  It is the purpose of this chapter to authorize, guide, and otherwise enable cities, counties, and other entities to prepare in advance of a disaster,...
• California Government Code Section 8877.4
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Disaster" means a devastating earthquake or other conditions specified in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 8558. (b) "Recovery"...
• California Government Code Section 8877.5
  Each city, county, or other local subdivision of the state, in conjunction with planning activities authorized under Article 5 (commencing with Section 65300) of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8877.6
  Each city, county, or other local subdivision of the state may take such actions as are necessary to assure the orderly transition from emergencies declared...
• California Government Code Section 8878.15
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Earthquake Safety and Housing Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1988.
• California Government Code Section 8878.16
  As used in this chapter, and for the purposes of this chapter as used in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the following words have...
• California Government Code Section 8878.20
  (a) Of the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) shall be deposited in a special account in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.21
  Of the proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, seventy million dollars ($70,000,000) shall be deposited in a special account in the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.22
  Notwithstanding the allocation of bond proceeds specified in Sections 8878.20 and 8878.21, the director of the department every two years, commencing June 30, 1990, may...
• California Government Code Section 8878.25
  Bonds in the total amount of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 8878.34, or so much thereof...
• California Government Code Section 8878.26
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8878.27
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8878.28
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8878.29
  There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.30
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter,...
• California Government Code Section 8878.31
  For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• California Government Code Section 8878.315
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this bond act, or of the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
• California Government Code Section 8878.32
  All money deposited in the fund which is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall...
• California Government Code Section 8878.33
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8878.34
  Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8878.35
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312 of...
• California Government Code Section 8878.50
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Bond Act of 1990.
• California Government Code Section 8878.51
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California is likely to experience moderate to severe earthquakes in the foreseeable future, and increased...
• California Government Code Section 8878.52
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Committee" means the Earthquake...
• California Government Code Section 8878.55
  The Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 is hereby created. The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter for...
• California Government Code Section 8878.60
  (a) State building or facility projects eligible for retrofitting, reconstruction, repair, replacement, relocation, or other seismic hazard abatement shall be based upon criteria established by...
• California Government Code Section 8878.61
  The Director of General Services shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairpersons of the fiscal committees in each house of the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.90
  (a) The State Architect, with the consultation of the Seismic Safety Commission and the agency, shall establish criteria for projects potentially eligible for an appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 8878.95
  Applications for funds for local government buildings under this article shall be made to the State Architect in the form and with the supporting material...
• California Government Code Section 8878.96
  Any appropriation of bond funds pursuant to this article may include provisions as agreed by the parties thereto, and the contract shall include, but not...
• California Government Code Section 8878.98
  Allocations are limited to only the seismic rehabilitation portion of the improvement project, as determined by the State Architect. To the extent that other elements...
• California Government Code Section 8878.99
  (a) Allocations made by the State Architect to local governments shall only be used to improve existing essential services buildings, as defined in Section 16007...
• California Government Code Section 8878.100
  Funds shall be distributed by the State Architect in the following manner: (a) Upon receipt of an application by a local government for a grant...
• California Government Code Section 8878.101
  (a) An application for an allocation pursuant to this article shall not be recommended for approval by the State Architect unless the project meets the...
• California Government Code Section 8878.102
  For a local government to be eligible for funding, the local government must have complied with Chapter 12.2 (commencing with Section 8875) and also have...
• California Government Code Section 8878.103
  First priority for allocations of funds shall be given to projects located in seismic hazard zone 4, as defined and illustrated in Chapter 23 (commencing...
• California Government Code Section 8878.104
  Operation and maintenance costs shall be the responsibility of the grantee and may not be considered as part of the project cost. Costs for planning...
• California Government Code Section 8878.105
  Funds allocated pursuant to this article shall be available for expenditure by the local government within three years of the awarding of the allocation.
• California Government Code Section 8878.106
  (a) The office and the State Architect, after public notice and hearing and with the concurrence of the Seismic Safety Commission, shall establish guidelines necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8878.107
  The office shall notify local governments that may be eligible for grants pursuant to this article of the following: (a) The purposes of this article....
• California Government Code Section 8878.109
  Bonds in the total amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds issued pursuant to Section 8878.118, or so much thereof as...
• California Government Code Section 8878.110
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8878.111
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8878.112
  The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this chapter in order to carry out...
• California Government Code Section 8878.113
  There shall be collected annually in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8878.114
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8878.115
  For the purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• California Government Code Section 8878.116
  All moneys derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as...
• California Government Code Section 8878.117
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this article are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8878.118
  Any bonds issued and sold pursuant to this article may be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8878.119
  The "board" may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8878.120
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or the State General Obligation Bond Law set forth in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3...
• California Government Code Section 8878.121
  Notwithstanding anything in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 20 years from...
• California Government Code Section 8878.122
  All moneys deposited in the Earthquake Safety and Public Buildings Rehabilitation Fund of 1990 pursuant to any provision of law requiring repayments to the state...
• California Government Code Section 8878.123
  The administrative provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 8878.60) and Article 4 (commencing with Section 8878.95) may be amended by statute without submission to...
• California Government Code Section 8878.124
  Charges incurred by the Attorney General in protecting the state's interest in the grant funds under this chapter shall be payable from proceeds of bond...
• California Government Code Section 8878.125
  (a) The proceeds from the sale of the bonds pursuant to this chapter shall not replace or supplant funds available from the Federal Emergency Management...
• California Government Code Section 8878.126
  (a) No local government building or facility that is listed or is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places or listed on...
• California Government Code Section 8879
  (a) This chapter shall be known as the Seismic Retrofit Bond Act of 1996. (b) This chapter shall only become operative upon adoption by the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the completion of seismic safety retrofit work is essential to the welfare and economy of the state. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 8879.2
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means any department receiving an allocation from the Department of Finance....
• California Government Code Section 8879.3
  The Seismic Retrofit Bond Fund of 1996 is hereby created in the State Treasury. The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.5
  Bonds in the total amount of two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary, are hereby authorized to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.6
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.7
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8879.8
  Upon request of the board stating that funds are needed for earthquake relief purposes, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or...
• California Government Code Section 8879.9
  There shall be collected annually, in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8879.10
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8879.11
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8879.12
  For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of any...
• California Government Code Section 8879.13
  The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the electors...
• California Government Code Section 8879.14
  Notwithstanding anything in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 30 years from...
• California Government Code Section 8879.15
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8879.16
  Notwithstanding any provision of the State General Obligation Bond Law with regard to the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter that...
• California Government Code Section 8879.20
  (a) This chapter shall be known as the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006. (b) This chapter shall...
• California Government Code Section 8879.22
  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Board" means any department receiving an allocation of bond proceeds pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.23
  The Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Fund of 2006 is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Legislature intends that the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.25
  Bonds in the total amount of nineteen billion nine hundred twenty-five million dollars ($19,925,000,000), exclusive of refunding bonds, or so much thereof as is necessary,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.26
  The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8879.27
  (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this...
• California Government Code Section 8879.28
  Upon request of the board stating that funds are needed for purposes of this chapter, the committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8879.29
  There shall be collected annually, in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, a sum of money in...
• California Government Code Section 8879.30
  Notwithstanding Section 13340, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will...
• California Government Code Section 8879.31
  The board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account, in accordance with Section 16312, for...
• California Government Code Section 8879.32
  For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of any...
• California Government Code Section 8879.33
  The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the electors...
• California Government Code Section 8879.34
  Notwithstanding any provisions in the State General Obligation Bond Law, the maximum maturity of any bonds authorized by this chapter shall not exceed 30 years...
• California Government Code Section 8879.35
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter are not "proceeds of taxes"...
• California Government Code Section 8879.36
  Notwithstanding any provision of the State General Obligation Bond Law with regard to the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter that...
• California Government Code Section 8879.37
  All money derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold pursuant to this chapter shall be transferred to the General Fund as a credit...
• California Government Code Section 8879.50
  (a) As used in this chapter and in Chapter 12.49 (commencing with Section 8879.20), the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Commission" means the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.501
  (a) A regional or local agency that is a lead applicant agency for a project that may be funded pursuant to Chapter 12.49 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 8879.51
  (a) Funds for the program contained in subdivision (b) of Section 8879.23 shall be deposited in the State Route 99 Account, which is hereby created...
• California Government Code Section 8879.52
  (a) The commission shall evaluate, consistent with the commission's Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF) Guidelines, adopted November 27, 2007, as part of the 2010 TCIF...
• California Government Code Section 8879.53
  (a) Funds for the program contained in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23 shall be deposited in the Port and Maritime Security Account,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.54
  For the program funded by funds deposited in the Transportation Facilities Account established in subdivision (e) of Section 8879.23, the commission shall include in its...
• California Government Code Section 8879.55
  For funds appropriated for fiscal year 2009-10 or any subsequent fiscal year in the annual Budget Act from the Public Transportation Modernization, Improvement, and Service...
• California Government Code Section 8879.57
  Funds made available, upon appropriation of the Legislature, from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account, created in subdivision (h) of Section 8879.23,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.58
  (a) (1) No later than September 1 of the first fiscal year in which the Legislature appropriates funds from the Transit System Safety, Security, and...
• California Government Code Section 8879.59
  (a) For funds appropriated from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account for allocation to transit agencies eligible to receive funds pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.60
  (a) For funds appropriated from the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response Account for allocation to intercity and commuter rail operators eligible to receive...
• California Government Code Section 8879.61
  (a) (1) Entities described in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 8879.57 receiving an allocation of funds pursuant to this article shall expend those...
• California Government Code Section 8879.62
  (a) Funds deposited in the Local Bridge Seismic Retrofit Account established pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 8879.23 shall be appropriated to the department to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.63
  (a) Prior to allocating funds appropriated from the Highway-Railroad Crossing Safety Account established pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 8879.23, the commission, in cooperation with...
• California Government Code Section 8879.64
  (a) Funds appropriated from the Highway Safety, Rehabilitation, and Preservation Account established in paragraph (1) of subdivision (k) of Section 8879.23 shall be available to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.65
  (a) Funds appropriated from the Local Street and Road Improvement, Congestion Relief, and Traffic Safety Account of 2006, established by subdivision (l) of Section 8879.23,...
• California Government Code Section 8879.66
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 8879.23, to establish criteria and conditions for use of the funds...
• California Government Code Section 8879.67
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Program" means the State-Local Partnership Program established in this article and funded pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 8879.68
  An eligible applicant under the program shall be a local or regional transportation agency that has responsibility for funding, procuring, or constructing transportation improvements within...
• California Government Code Section 8879.69
  Eligible local matching funds required to obtain funding under the program shall be obtained from revenues from any voter-approved local or regional tax or fee...
• California Government Code Section 8879.70
  (a) Eligible projects shall include all of the following: (1) Improvements to the state highway system, including, but not limited to, all of the following:...
• California Government Code Section 8879.71
  (a) For purposes of distributing funds annually appropriated by the Legislature to the State-Local Partnership Program Account, the commission shall segregate the funds into two...
• California Government Code Section 8879.72
  (a) To establish the funding shares for each eligible applicant described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 8879.71, the commission shall do the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.73
  (a) To distribute funds from the Uniform Developer Fees Subaccount to eligible applicants, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8879.71, the...
• California Government Code Section 8879.74
  (a) The commission shall adopt a program of projects to receive allocations under this article for each funding cycle, with allocations to projects to be...
• California Government Code Section 8879.75
  Pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 8879.23, an eligible project funded pursuant to this article shall require a match of one dollar ($1) of eligible...
• California Government Code Section 8879.76
  The commission shall include in its annual report to the Legislature, required pursuant to Section 14535, a summary of its activities related to the administration...
• California Government Code Section 8879.77
  (a) The department, with the approval of the Director of Finance, may make a loan or loans from the State Highway Account of federal funds...
• California Government Code Section 8879.78
  If a metropolitan planning organization, county transportation commission, regional transportation planning agency, or other local agency uses funds made available to it pursuant to Section...
• California Government Code Section 8879.79
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department, with the approval of the Director of Finance and the California Transportation Commission, may make a...
• California Government Code Section 8880
  Citation of Chapter This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California State Lottery Act of 1984.
• California Government Code Section 8880.1
  Purpose and Intent The People of the State of California declare that the purpose of this Act is support for preservation of the rights, liberties...
• California Government Code Section 8880.2
  Activities Not Affected Except for the state-operated lottery established by this Chapter, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to repeal or modify existing State...
• California Government Code Section 8880.3
  Prohibition on Use of State Funds No appropriations, loans, or other transfer of State funds shall be made to the California State Lottery Commission except...
• California Government Code Section 8880.4
  Revenues of the state lottery shall be allocated so as to maximize the amount of funding allocated to public education, including from the first full...
• California Government Code Section 8880.4.5
  (a) Following the end of each full fiscal year, the commission shall calculate and report to the Controller and to the Legislature the amount of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.5
  Allocations for education: The California State Lottery Education Fund is created within the State Treasury, and is continuously appropriated for carrying out the purposes of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.6
  Other Statutory Provisions Sections 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, and 328 of the Penal Code do not apply to the California State Lottery...
• California Government Code Section 8880.7
  Governing Definitions The definitions contained in this Chapter shall govern the construction of this Chapter unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Government Code Section 8880.8
  "Lottery" or "California State Lottery" "Lottery" or "California State Lottery" means the California State Lottery created and operated pursuant to this Chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8880.9
  "Commissioner" "Commissioner" means one of the members of the Lottery Commission appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter to oversee the California State Lottery.
• California Government Code Section 8880.10
  "Director" "Director" means the Director of the California State Lottery appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter as the chief administrator of the California...
• California Government Code Section 8880.11
  "Lottery Commission" or "Commission" "Lottery Commission" or "Commission" means the five members appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Chapter to oversee the Lottery and...
• California Government Code Section 8880.12
  "Lottery Game" "Lottery Game" means any procedure authorized by the commission whereby prizes are distributed among persons who have paid, or who have unconditionally agreed...
• California Government Code Section 8880.13
  "Lottery Game Retailer" "Lottery Game Retailer" means a person or organization with whom the Lottery Commission may contract for the purpose of selling tickets or...
• California Government Code Section 8880.14
  "Lottery Contractor" "Lottery Contractor" means a person or organization with whom the Lottery has contracted for the purpose of providing goods and services required by...
• California Government Code Section 8880.15
  Creation of Commission The California State Lottery Commission is hereby created in state government.
• California Government Code Section 8880.16
  Membership; Appointment; Vacancies; Political Affiliation; Removal (a) The Commission shall consist of five members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.17
  Qualifications of Commissioners At least one of the Commissioners shall have a minimum of five years experience in law enforcement, and at least one of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.18
  Compensation and Expenses Commissioners shall be compensated at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day they are engaged in commission business. Commission...
• California Government Code Section 8880.19
  Annual Selection of Chairperson The Commission shall select annually from its membership a chairperson. The chairperson shall have the power to convene special meetings of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.20
  Meetings Meetings of the Commission shall be open and public in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.21
  Quorum; Voting A quorum shall consist of three members of the Commission. All decisions of the Commission shall be made by a majority vote of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.22
  The Commission shall make quarterly reports of the operation of the Lottery to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Controller, the Treasurer, and the Legislature....
• California Government Code Section 8880.23
  Appointment of Director; Removal The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a Director within thirty days of the effective day...
• California Government Code Section 8880.24
  Powers and Duties of the Commission (a) The California State Lottery Commission shall exercise all powers necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In...
• California Government Code Section 8880.25
  Operation of the Lottery The Lottery shall be initiated and operated so as to produce the maximum amount of net revenues to supplement the total...
• California Government Code Section 8880.25.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Lottery Commission may do all of the following: (1) Purchase and sell assets in its own name....
• California Government Code Section 8880.26
  (a) The provisions of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 are not applicable to any rule or regulation promulgated...
• California Government Code Section 8880.27
  Meetings with the Director The Commission shall meet with the Director not less than once each quarter to make recommendations and set policy, to approve...
• California Government Code Section 8880.28
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the types of lottery games to be conducted by the lottery, provided: (1) No lottery game may use...
• California Government Code Section 8880.29
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations that specify the number and value of prizes for winning tickets or shares in each lottery game including, without...
• California Government Code Section 8880.30
  The commission shall promulgate regulations that specify the method for determining winners in each lottery game, provided: (a) A lottery game may be based on...
• California Government Code Section 8880.31
  Sale Price of Tickets and Shares The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying the retail sales price for each ticket or share for each...
• California Government Code Section 8880.321
  The commission shall promulgate regulations to establish a system of verifying the validity of prizes and to effect payment of the prizes, provided that: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 8880.325
  The right of any person to a prize shall not be assignable, except that the payment of any prize may be assigned, in whole or...
• California Government Code Section 8880.326
  Upon the death of the prizewinner, the prize may be paid by any of the following methods: (a) To the trustee of a trust established...
• California Government Code Section 8880.327
  For any assignments, transfers, or security interests provided for in Sections 8880.325 and 8880.326, the following shall apply: (a) The commission may establish a reasonable...
• California Government Code Section 8880.33
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the manner of distribution, dissemination, or sale of lottery tickets or shares to lottery game retailers or directly...
• California Government Code Section 8880.335
  The commission may promulgate regulations to authorize the use of an electronic or electromechanical device to dispense lottery tickets to be used in the play...
• California Government Code Section 8880.34
  Salary The Director shall receive the salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2....
• California Government Code Section 8880.35
  The director shall, subject to the approval of the commission, perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry...
• California Government Code Section 8880.36
  Power to Hire The Director shall hire, pursuant to the approval of the Commission, such professional, clerical, technical and administrative personnel as may be necessary...
• California Government Code Section 8880.37
  Deputy Directors Upon recommendation of the Director, the Governor shall appoint up to four deputy directors. The Director shall supervise each deputy director's activities. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.38
  (a) One of the deputy directors shall be the Deputy Director for Security, and be responsible for a security division to assure integrity, honesty, and...
• California Government Code Section 8880.39
  The director shall confer as frequently as necessary or desirable, but not less than once every quarter, with the commission, on the operation and administration...
• California Government Code Section 8880.40
  Study of Lottery Systems; Recommendations for Improvement The Director shall make an on-going study of the operation and the administration of the lotteries which may...
• California Government Code Section 8880.41
  The director shall make and keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect each day's transactions, including, but not limited to, the distribution of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.42
  The director shall provide a monthly cumulative sales report to the commission and the Controller within 15 days after the end of each month. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.44
  Demographic Study of Lottery Players After the first six months of sales to the public, the Director shall engage an independent firm experienced in demographic...
• California Government Code Section 8880.45
  Study of the Effectiveness of Lottery Communications After the first full year of sales to the public, the Director shall engage an independent firm experienced...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46
  After the first nine months of sales to the public, the Commission shall engage an independent firm experienced in security procedures, including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46.5
  The director shall engage an independent firm of certified public accountants to conduct an annual audit of all accounts and transactions of the lottery. The...
• California Government Code Section 8880.46.6
  The Controller shall conduct quarterly and annual postaudits of all accounts and transactions of the commission and other special postaudits as the Controller deems necessary....
• California Government Code Section 8880.47
  The commission shall promulgate regulations specifying the terms and conditions for contracting with lottery game retailers so as to provide adequate and convenient availability of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.48
  (a) The director shall, pursuant to this chapter and the regulations of the commission, select as lottery game retailers those persons and organizations as the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.49
  A contract with a lottery game retailer shall not be assignable or transferable.
• California Government Code Section 8880.50
  (a) The commission shall promulgate regulations that prescribe the procedure by which a contract with a lottery game retailer may be terminated and the reasons...
• California Government Code Section 8880.51
  Compensation for Lottery Game Retailers Unless the Commission shall otherwise determine, the compensation paid to Lottery Game Retailers shall be a minimum of 5% of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.52
  Sales to Minors (a) No tickets or shares in Lottery Games shall be sold to persons under the age of 18 years. Any person who...
• California Government Code Section 8880.53
  No lottery tickets or shares shall be sold by a lottery game retailer unless the retailer has a certificate of authority, issued by the lottery,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.54
  Bonding The Director may require a bond from any Lottery Game Retailer in an amount specified by regulation or may purchase blanket bonds covering the...
• California Government Code Section 8880.55
  (a) No payment by lottery game retailers to the lottery for tickets or shares shall be in cash. All payments for tickets or shares shall...
• California Government Code Section 8880.56
  (a) Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the director may purchase or lease goods and services as are necessary for effectuating the purposes of this chapter....
• California Government Code Section 8880.57
  In order to allow an evaluation of the competence, integrity, and character of potential Lottery Contractors for the California State Lottery, any person, corporation, trust,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.58
  Compliance with Applicable Laws Each Lottery Contractor shall perform its contract consistent with the laws of this State, Federal law, and laws of the state...
• California Government Code Section 8880.59
  Performance Bond Any Lottery Contractor may be required by the Lottery to post, with the Commission an acceptable performance bond, letter of credit, or other...
• California Government Code Section 8880.60
  No member of the commission shall, for a two-year period after the end of the member's term, accept any consideration from, whether directly or indirectly,...
• California Government Code Section 8880.61
  State Lottery Fund (a) A special fund to be known as the "State Lottery Fund" is created within the State Treasury that is continuously appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 8880.62
  Funds shall be disbursed from the State Lottery Fund by the Controller for any of the purposes authorized by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8880.63
  (a) As nearly as practical, at least 50 percent of the total projected revenue, computed on a fiscal-year basis, accruing from the sales of all...
• California Government Code Section 8880.64
  (a) Expenses of the lottery shall include all costs incurred in the operation and administration of the lottery and all costs resulting from any contracts...
• California Government Code Section 8880.65
  Transfer of Net Revenues The funds remaining in the State Lottery Fund after accrual of all revenues to the State Lottery Fund, and after accrual...
• California Government Code Section 8880.66
  Intergovernmental Reimbursements for Services The Commission shall reimburse all other governmental entities for any and all services necessary to effectuate the purpose of this Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 8880.68
  Except as provided in subdivision (d), no state or local taxes shall be imposed upon the following: (a) The sale of lottery tickets or shares...
• California Government Code Section 8880.69
  Preemption of Local Laws It is the intent of this Chapter that all matters related to the operation of the Lottery as established hereby be...
• California Government Code Section 8880.70
  Lawful Activity Any other state or local law providing any penalty, disability, restriction, or prohibition for the possession, manufacture, transportation, distribution, advertising, or sale of...
• California Government Code Section 8880.71
  Restrictions No person shall be selected, appointed or hired to be a Commissioner, Director, deputy director, or Commission employee who has been convicted of a...
• California Government Code Section 8880.72
  All civil process in any action brought against the Director, the Commission, or the Lottery and any subpoena for the production of Lottery records shall...
• California Government Code Section 8885
  The California Broadband Council is established in state government for the purpose of promoting broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas of the state, as...
• California Government Code Section 8886
  (a) The membership of the California Broadband Council shall include all of the following: (1) The State Chief Information Officer, or his or her designee....
• California Government Code Section 8887
  Duties of the California Broadband Council shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) Ensuring communication among state agencies regarding California's...
• California Government Code Section 8888
  (a) The President of the Public Utilities Commission shall call the first meeting of the California Broadband Council, to be held not later than March...
• California Government Code Section 8889
  (a) The council shall be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 8893
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that buildings constructed of precast concrete wall construction (commonly referred to as tilt-up buildings) or reinforced masonry buildings with...
• California Government Code Section 8893.1
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "adequate wall anchorage" means a connection between the wall and the floor, or between the wall and the roof...
• California Government Code Section 8893.2
  On and after January 1, 1993, the transferor, or his or her agent, of any precast concrete or reinforced masonry building with wood frame floors...
• California Government Code Section 8893.3
  This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Transfers which are required to be preceded by the furnishing to a prospective transferee...
• California Government Code Section 8893.4
  If the transferee has received notice pursuant to this chapter and has not brought the building or structure into compliance within three years of that...
• California Government Code Section 8893.5
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8894
  (a) The State Architect, in consultation with the State Building Standards Commission, the California Council of the American Institute of Architects, the California Building Officials,...
• California Government Code Section 8894.1
  This chapter shall not apply to potentially hazardous (unreinforced masonry) buildings covered under Chapter 12.2 (commencing with Section 8875), any building covered under Chapter 13.4...
• California Government Code Section 8894.2
  "Seismic retrofit" means retrofitting or reconstruction of an existing building or structure, to significantly reduce structural collapse and falling hazards from structural or nonstructural components...
• California Government Code Section 8894.3
  For purposes of this chapter, the term "in consultation with" means the meaningful and open solicitation of suggestions, ideas, and comments, and the response to...
• California Government Code Section 8897
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) There exists a serious threat to homes in the State of California from damage...
• California Government Code Section 8897.1
  (a) After January 1, 1993, the transferor of any real property containing any residential dwelling built prior to January 1, 1960, with one to four...
• California Government Code Section 8897.2
  (a) The transferor shall disclose any of the following deficiencies which are within the transferor's actual knowledge and material to the transaction, and which may...
• California Government Code Section 8897.3
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, if it is determined that retrofit work is appropriate to address potential deficiencies listed in paragraph (1) or...
• California Government Code Section 8897.4
  No transfer of title shall be invalidated on the basis of a failure to comply with this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8897.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, the duty of the real estate licensee shall be limited to providing to the seller a copy of the...
• California Government Code Section 8899.10
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) (1) As demonstrated by the California earthquake of October 17, 1989, the citizens of California...
• California Government Code Section 8899.11
  There shall be an Earthquake Research Evaluation Conference (EREC) for the purposes set forth in this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 8899.12
  (a) Participants in the EREC shall be selected by the Seismic Safety Commission in collaboration with the California Council on Science and Technology and the...
• California Government Code Section 8899.13
  (a) The purpose of the EREC shall be to develop and present to the Seismic Safety Commission a strategy for earthquake research in California which...
• California Government Code Section 8899.14
  The Seismic Safety Commission, in collaboration with the California Council on Science and Technology, the California Geological Survey, and the Office of Competitive Technology, shall...
• California Government Code Section 8899.15
  The Seismic Safety Commission shall develop a final five-year statewide earthquake research plan as part of its five-year hazard reduction plan. The findings made by...
• California Government Code Section 8899.18
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Alfred E. Alquist Earthquake Act.
• California Government Code Section 8899.19
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 1835, which was enacted into law as Chapter 782...
• California Government Code Section 8899.20
  The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "EREC" means the Earthquake Research Evaluation...
• California Government Code Section 8899.24
  (a) The Controller shall transfer an amount not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) from the Pooled Money Investment Account as a loan...
• California Government Code Section 8902
  During those times that a Member of the Legislature is required to be in Sacramento to attend a session of the Legislature and during those...
• California Government Code Section 8903
  When traveling to and from a session of the Legislature, or when traveling to and from a meeting of a committee of which he or...
• California Government Code Section 8920
  (a) No Member of the Legislature, state elective or appointive officer, or judge or justice shall, while serving as such, have any interest, financial or...
• California Government Code Section 8921
  A person subject to this article has an interest which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest...
• California Government Code Section 8922
  A person subject to the provisions of this article shall not be deemed to be engaged in any activity which is in substantial conflict with...
• California Government Code Section 8924
  (a) No employee of either house of the Legislature shall, during the time he is so employed, commit any act or engage in any activity...
• California Government Code Section 8924.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the California Council on Science and Technology was organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of...
• California Government Code Section 8925
  No person shall induce or seek to induce any Member of the Legislature to violate any provision of this article.
• California Government Code Section 8926
  Every person who knowingly and willfully violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who conspires to violate any provision...
• California Government Code Section 8940
  The Joint Legislative Ethics Committee is hereby created. The committee shall consist of three Members of the Senate and three Members of the Assembly who...
• California Government Code Section 8941
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings. The provisions of Rule 36 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly...
• California Government Code Section 8942
  Funds for the support of the committee shall be provided from the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and the Senate in the same manner that...
• California Government Code Section 8943
  (a) The committee shall have power, pursuant to the provisions of this article, to investigate and make findings and recommendations concerning alleged violations by Members...
• California Government Code Section 8944
  (a) Any person may file a statement alleging a violation of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) with the committee. (b) To constitute a valid...
• California Government Code Section 8945
  (a) If the committee determines that the complaint does not allege facts, directly or upon information and belief, sufficient to constitute a violation of any...
• California Government Code Section 8946
  After the complaint has been filed the respondent shall be entitled to examine and make copies of all evidence in the possession of the committee...
• California Government Code Section 8947
  If a hearing is to be held pursuant to Section 8945 the committee, before the hearing has commenced, shall issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum...
• California Government Code Section 8948
  At any hearing held by the committee: (a) Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation. (b) Each party shall have these rights:...
• California Government Code Section 8949
  Any official or other person whose name is mentioned at any investigation or hearing of the committee and who believes that testimony has been given...
• California Government Code Section 8950
  (a) After the hearing the committee shall state its findings of fact. If the committee finds that the respondent has not violated any provisions of...
• California Government Code Section 8951
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude any person from instituting a prosecution for violation of any provision of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) unless...
• California Government Code Section 8952
  The filing of a complaint with the committee pursuant to this article suspends the running of the statute of limitations applicable to any violation of...
• California Government Code Section 8953
  The committee shall maintain a record of its investigations, inquiries, and proceedings. All records, complaints, documents, reports filed with or submitted to or made by...
• California Government Code Section 8954
  All actions of the committee shall require the concurrence of two members of the committee from each house.
• California Government Code Section 8955
  The committee may render advisory opinions to Members of the Legislature with respect to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 8920) and their...
• California Government Code Section 8956
  (a) The appropriate legislative ethics committees shall conduct at least semiannually an orientation course of the relevant statutes and regulations governing official conduct. The curriculum...
• California Government Code Section 9000
  The Legislature consists of: (a) Forty Senators. (b) Eighty members of the Assembly.
• California Government Code Section 9001
  The term of office of a Senator is four years. The term of office of a Member of the Assembly is two years.
• California Government Code Section 9002
  At the general election in every fourth year after 1908 a Senator shall be elected in each odd-numbered senatorial district. At the general election in...
• California Government Code Section 9003
  At the general election in every even-numbered year a Member of the Assembly shall be elected in each of the Assembly districts.
• California Government Code Section 9004
  When the Legislature convenes or is convened in regular or extraordinary session during or following a war or enemy-caused disaster and vacancies exist to the...
• California Government Code Section 9020
  The Legislature shall convene in regular session at the City of Sacramento at noon on the first Monday in December of each even-numbered year, and...
• California Government Code Section 9021
  The certificate of election is prima facie evidence of the right to membership.
• California Government Code Section 9022
  At the day and hour appointed for the assembling of any regular session of the Legislature, the President of the Senate, or in case of...
• California Government Code Section 9023
  At the day and hour appointed for the assembling of any regular session of the Legislature, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, or in case...
• California Government Code Section 9024
  Members of the Legislature who did not take the oath of office at the assembling of the Legislature may take the oath at any time...
• California Government Code Section 9025
  An entry of the oath taken by members of the Legislature shall be made on the journals of the proper house.
• California Government Code Section 9026
  All standing committees of either the Senate or Assembly shall be appointed by the presiding officer of their respective house if the house by resolution...
• California Government Code Section 9026.5
  (a) No television signal generated by the Assembly shall be used for any political or commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, any campaign for...
• California Government Code Section 9027
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, all meetings of a house of the Legislature or a committee thereof shall be open and public, and...
• California Government Code Section 9028
  Any meeting that is required to be open and public pursuant to this article, including any closed session held pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 9029
  (a) A house of the Legislature or a committee thereof may hold a closed session solely for any of the following purposes: (1) To consider...
• California Government Code Section 9029.5
  (a) A closed session may be held pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 9029 under any of the following circumstances: (1) An...
• California Government Code Section 9030
  Each Member of the Legislature who attends a meeting of the Assembly, the Senate, or any committee or subcommittee thereof, where action is taken in...
• California Government Code Section 9031
  Any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of stopping or preventing violations or threatened violations of...
• California Government Code Section 9035
  As used in this article, "disaster" means a war or enemy-caused calamity within this State, such as an attack by nuclear weapons.
• California Government Code Section 9036
  If a disaster occurs, the Legislature shall convene itself in special session immediately after such disaster first occurs, which session shall convene at the permanent...
• California Government Code Section 9037
  If the Legislature is convened in special session pursuant to this article on the date specified by the State Constitution for the convening of a...
• California Government Code Section 9050
  Every person who wilfully, and by force or fraud, prevents the Legislature, either of the houses composing it, or any of the members thereof from...
• California Government Code Section 9051
  Every person who wilfully disturbs the Legislature, or either of the houses composing it, while in session, or who commits any disorderly conduct in the...
• California Government Code Section 9051.5
  As used in this article, "bill or resolution" includes a constitutional amendment.
• California Government Code Section 9052
  Every person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or resolution which has been presented to either of the houses composing the Legislature for...
• California Government Code Section 9053
  Every person who fraudulently alters the enrolled copy of any bill or resolution which has been passed or adopted by the Legislature, with intent to...
• California Government Code Section 9053.5
  (a) Every person who intentionally, maliciously, with knowledge of the falsity, and with intent to defame a particular legislator, publishes or causes to be published...
• California Government Code Section 9054
  Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain, money or other thing of value from another person upon a pretense, claim, or representation that he...
• California Government Code Section 9055
  Every member of the Legislature convicted of any crime defined in this article, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever...
• California Government Code Section 9056
  Any person who shall secure through his influence, knowingly exerted for that purpose, the introduction of any bill, resolution or amendment into the State Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9070
  The Legislature finds and declares that access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business by the Legislature is a fundamental and necessary right...
• California Government Code Section 9071
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Legislative Open Records Act.
• California Government Code Section 9072
  As used in this article: (a) "Person" includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. (b) "Legislature" includes any Member of...
• California Government Code Section 9073
  Legislative records are open to inspection at all times during the normal office hours of the Legislature and any person has a right to inspect...
• California Government Code Section 9074
  All requests to inspect any legislative record shall be made to the appropriate Rules Committee of each house of the Legislature or the Joint Rules...
• California Government Code Section 9075
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to invalidate or affect the operation of Sections 10207, 10208, 10525, and 10526 of this code, or Temporary...
• California Government Code Section 9076
  Any person may institute proceedings for injunctive or declarative relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce his right to inspect any legislative record...
• California Government Code Section 9077
  Whenever it is made to appear by verified petition to the superior court of the county where the records or some part thereof are situated...
• California Government Code Section 9078
  The court shall award court costs and reasonable attorney fees to the plaintiff should the plaintiff prevail in litigation filed pursuant to Section 9077.
• California Government Code Section 9079
  If the court finds that the plaintiff's case is clearly frivolous, it shall award court costs and reasonable attorney fees to the public agency.
• California Government Code Section 9080
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that legislative records relating to bills, resolutions, or proposed constitutional amendments before the Legislature provide evidence of legislative intent...
• California Government Code Section 9100
  Legislative offices for the use of the Members of the Legislature in the performance of their legislative duties, shall be maintained at all times, and...
• California Government Code Section 9101
  The legislative offices provided for in this article shall be under the management and control of the Senate Committee on Rules.
• California Government Code Section 9103
  The Department of General Services shall provide suitable office space in the State Building in Los Angeles and in the State Building in San Francisco...
• California Government Code Section 9104
  Appropriations for the support of the offices provided for in this article shall be included in the Budget Bill.
• California Government Code Section 9105
  The State Capitol Building Annex is the annex to the historic State Capitol, constructed to the east of the original building, situated in the area...
• California Government Code Section 9106
  The State Capitol Building Annex is intended primarily for the use of the legislative department and, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9107
  There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall have the membership specified in the Joint Rules of the Senate and the Assembly. The...
• California Government Code Section 9107.5
  Any reference in any code or statute to the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization shall be deemed a reference to the Joint Rules Committee.
• California Government Code Section 9108
  The first floor of the State Capitol Building Annex is excepted from the provisions of this article. Such excepted space shall continue under the control...
• California Government Code Section 9109
  The determination of the Joint Rules Committee as to the needs of the Legislature shall be subject to change only by action of the committee...
• California Government Code Section 9110
  (a) The maintenance and operation of all of the State Capitol Building Annex is under the control of the Department of General Services, subject to...
• California Government Code Section 9111
  The Joint Rules Committee may participate in the work of the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders. The following Members of the Legislature are authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9115
  (a) In order to adequately provide for the proper housing and administrative requirements of the Legislature, it is necessary for the Legislature to acquire and...
• California Government Code Section 9117
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, bond anticipation notes, and any other evidence of...
• California Government Code Section 9118
  (a) The lessee may lease the project from the lessor, and the lessor may lease the project to the lessee. The lessor may acquire all...
• California Government Code Section 9119
  (a) The State Public Works Board may issue bonds pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) of Part 10b of Division 3 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 9120
  The terms of the lease financing are those specified in the lease, trust agreement, indenture, and any related documents executed and delivered between the lessor,...
• California Government Code Section 9121
  (a) This article shall be deemed and construed to be separate and complete authority for all of the actions authorized by this article, including, but...
• California Government Code Section 9122
  The State of California does pledge to, and agree with, the holders of any bonds issued under this article, and with those parties who may...
• California Government Code Section 9123
  (a) Title to the buildings and property bounded by 10th, 11th, N, and O Streets in the City of Sacramento shall vest in the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9124
  (a) The determination of the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules as to the needs of the Legislature shall be subject...
• California Government Code Section 9126
  Unless specifically exempted from this section, all appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate and legislative committees thereof, including appropriations previously made which have not...
• California Government Code Section 9127
  Unless specifically exempted from this section, all appropriations for contingent expenses of the Assembly and legislative committees thereof, including appropriations previously made which have not...
• California Government Code Section 9128
  Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate or Assembly as provided in the rules,...
• California Government Code Section 9129
  Appropriations deposited in and credited to the Senate Contingent Fund or the Assembly Contingent Fund shall be continuously available without regard to fiscal years, except...
• California Government Code Section 9130.5
  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, on any claim against the Senate Contingent Fund or the Assembly Contingent Fund there may be a certification under...
• California Government Code Section 9131
  For the period ending on November 30 of each year, the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee...
• California Government Code Section 9131.5
  When expenditures are made from the appropriate contingent fund at the direction of the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Senate Committee on Rules, or the...
• California Government Code Section 9132
  The Assembly Committee on Rules and Senate Committee on Rules, and the Joint Rules Committee, shall annually provide to the Director of Finance an itemized...
• California Government Code Section 9133
  (a) The Joint Rules Committee shall annually contract for an independent audit or audits of all funds and entities of the Legislature, including, but not...
• California Government Code Section 9133.5
  No funds from the Assembly Operating Fund, the Senate Operating Fund, the Operating Funds of the Assembly and Senate, or appropriations made for legislative printing,...
• California Government Code Section 9134
  Any reference in any code or statute to the Senate Contingent Fund, the Assembly Contingent Fund or the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9140
  The Joint Legislative Budget Committee is hereby created. The committee shall ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and to the houses thereof concerning...
• California Government Code Section 9141
  The committee shall consist of eight Members of the Senate and eight Members of the Assembly who shall be selected in the manner provided for...
• California Government Code Section 9142
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 9143
  The committee shall have authority to appoint a legislative analyst and such other clerical and technical employees as may appear necessary, pursuant to the provisions...
• California Government Code Section 9144
  The Legislative Analyst shall prepare a judicial impact analysis, with the assistance of the Department of Finance and the Judicial Council when and as requested...
• California Government Code Section 9146
  Any state agency which is required or permitted by federal law or regulation to establish or alter a federal aid allocation formula to a local...
• California Government Code Section 9147
  If a state agency finds that there is imminent danger of irreparable harm to the public peace, health, safety, or welfare of the state if...
• California Government Code Section 9147.7
  (a) For the purpose of this section, "eligible agency" means any agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, conservancy, council, department, division, or office of state government,...
• California Government Code Section 9148
  Any state board or category of licensed professional proposed for creation by the Legislature shall be subject to this article.
• California Government Code Section 9148.2
  For purposes of this article, "state board" means any administrative or regulatory board, commission, committee, council, association, or authority consisting of more than one person,...
• California Government Code Section 9148.4
  Prior to consideration by the Legislature of legislation creating a new state board or legislation creating a new category of licensed professional, a plan for...
• California Government Code Section 9148.6
  Prior to consideration by the Legislature of legislation creating a new state board that is advisory only, except for a proposed new state board whose...
• California Government Code Section 9148.8
  (a) The appropriate policy committee of the Legislature may evaluate a plan prepared pursuant to Section 9148.4 or 9148.6. The chairperson of a policy committee...
• California Government Code Section 9148.50
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California's multilevel, complex governmental structure today contains more than 400 categories of administrative or regulatory...
• California Government Code Section 9148.51
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed eligible agencies, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 9147.7, be subject...
• California Government Code Section 9148.52
  (a) The Joint Sunset Review Committee established pursuant to Section 9147.7 shall review all eligible agencies. (b) The committee shall evaluate and make determinations pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 9149
  The Legislature finds and declares that the historic State Capitol is a state historic and architectural legacy which must be preserved and maintained in a...
• California Government Code Section 9149.1
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Commission" means the Historic State Capitol Commission created by Section 9149.2. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 9149.2
  (a) There is in state government, the Historic State Capitol Commission, which shall consist of seven members, initially appointed as follows: (1) Two members appointed...
• California Government Code Section 9149.3
  The appointees of both the Speaker of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore of the Senate shall include one person who represents the arts...
• California Government Code Section 9149.4
  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall receive reimbursement for travel and living expenses in connection with their official duties, at...
• California Government Code Section 9149.5
  The Joint Rules Committee shall appoint a Subcommittee on the Capitol Restoration Project, comprised of three members from the Senate and three from the Assembly,...
• California Government Code Section 9149.6
  (a) Four members of the commission shall constitute a quorum to do business, and no action of the commission may be taken except upon an...
• California Government Code Section 9149.7
  The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To prepare, complete, and, from time to time, to amend, a comprehensive master plan, based...
• California Government Code Section 9149.8
  In carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this article, the commission shall follow accepted standards for restoration, preservation, and maintenance of historic structures, including...
• California Government Code Section 9149.9
  The commission shall maintain and may utilize all historic data, research, and project files developed and gathered by the state, and in the possession of...
• California Government Code Section 9149.10
  The commission may request and shall receive assistance and data, relevant to the commission's duties and responsibilities, from every agency of state government.
• California Government Code Section 9149.11
  The commission shall maintain complete records of its proceedings and may publish reports and other publications in connection with its duties and responsibilities.
• California Government Code Section 9149.12
  The commission shall use any funds appropriated to its use, or allocated to its use by the Joint Rules Committee, donated to it, or acquired...
• California Government Code Section 9149.13
  The commission shall review and advise on any interagency agreement for management of concessions within the historic State Capitol.
• California Government Code Section 9149.14
  The commission shall employ an executive officer, who shall have at least three years of administrative-curatorial experience in the cultural or historic preservation fields, and...
• California Government Code Section 9149.15
  The commission may contract with any agency, public or private, for services, in connection with the commission's duties and responsibilities, as the commission determines to...
• California Government Code Section 9149.16
  The commission annually shall report to the Legislature on its activities. The commission shall propose to the Legislature such recommendations for legislation in connection with...
• California Government Code Section 9149.17
  The commission shall be supported by allocations by the Joint Rules Committee from the Contingent Funds of the Assembly and Senate. The commission annually shall...
• California Government Code Section 9149.20
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Whistleblower Protection Act.
• California Government Code Section 9149.21
  It is the intent of the Legislature that state employees and other persons should disclose, to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, improper governmental
• California Government Code Section 9149.22
  For the purposes of this article, the following words have the following meanings: (a) "Committee" means any investigating committee of the Legislature. (b) "Employee" means...
• California Government Code Section 9149.23
  (a) An employee may not directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority or influence of the employee for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 9150
  The Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the minute clerks and Sergeant-at-Arms of each house for any session shall perform...
• California Government Code Section 9151
  The Secretary of the Senate may appoint such temporary employees as are in his opinion necessary for the proper organization of the Senate. The Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9170
  The officers and employees of the Senate are: (a) A President. (b) A President pro tempore, one secretary, one Sergeant-at-Arms, one minute clerk and one...
• California Government Code Section 9171
  The officers and employees of the Assembly are: (a) A Speaker, a Speaker pro Tempore, a Majority Floor Leader, a Minority Floor Leader, one Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9172
  All permanent officers and employees of the Senate or Assembly, except the President of the Senate and the Majority and Minority Floor Leaders and Minute...
• California Government Code Section 9173
  Any officer or employee appointed or elected by the Senate or Assembly may at any time be removed in the same manner as is provided...
• California Government Code Section 9190
  The President or President pro tempore of the Senate may administer the oath of office to any Senator and to the officers of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9191
  The Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall: (a) Administer the constitutional oath of office to the employees of their respective...
• California Government Code Section 9191.5
  The Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly may administer and certify oaths and may provide the proof or acknowledgment of an...
• California Government Code Section 9192
  The assistant secretaries of the Senate and the assistant clerks of the Assembly shall take charge of all bills, petitions, and other papers presented to...
• California Government Code Section 9193
  The Minute Clerk of the Senate and the Minute Clerk of the Assembly shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of their respective houses.
• California Government Code Section 9194
  The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and of the Assembly shall: (a) Under the direction of their presiding officers, have general supervision of the Senate and...
• California Government Code Section 9194.5
  The Sergeant at Arms and Assistant Sergeants at Arms of each house shall have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed...
• California Government Code Section 9195
  The Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of each house shall perform the duties of doorkeeper and keep order in the halls and lobbies. They shall prohibit all persons,...
• California Government Code Section 9196
  The secretary and assistant secretaries, the chief clerk and assistant clerks, and the engrossing and enrolling clerks and the minute clerks of the Senate and...
• California Government Code Section 9200
  Each employee of the Legislature may elect to receive one or more employee benefits, as prescribed by concurrent resolution heretofore or hereafter adopted, in lieu...
• California Government Code Section 9220
  The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly from the final adjournment of any session of...
• California Government Code Section 9221
  Every member, officer, and employee of the Assembly shall, upon request, assist the Speaker in carrying out the duties imposed upon him under this article.
• California Government Code Section 9222
  Neither the Speaker nor any Member of the Assembly who assists him shall receive any additional salary for services rendered pursuant to this article, but...
• California Government Code Section 9223
  Whenever the Speaker incurs expenses in connection with the work of an Assembly committee of which he is a member, whether an ex officio or...
• California Government Code Section 9225
  (a) The Joint Rules Committee shall include, in planning the Legislature's new building to be located at the corner of 10th Street and "N" Street...
• California Government Code Section 9320
  The compensation of each officer and employee of the Senate or Assembly shall be fixed, insofar as such compensation is fixed, by the Senate or...
• California Government Code Section 9321
  The Secretary of the Senate, the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, and the minute clerks and Sergeant-at-Arms of each house, and no others, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9322
  (a) Notwithstanding Part 6 (commencing with Section 22950) of Division 5, or any other law, the Legislature shall provide dental care plan coverage, pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 9350
  This chapter may be cited as the Legislators' Retirement Law.
• California Government Code Section 9350.1
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions and general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.2
  "Retirement system" or "this system" means the Legislators' Retirement System established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.3
  "Board of Administration" or "board" means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System.
• California Government Code Section 9350.4
  "Retirement Fund" or "fund" means the Legislators' Retirement Fund established by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9350.5
  "Member" means any person who is a member of this system.
• California Government Code Section 9350.55
  "Legislative statutory officer" means any of the following officers who has 10 or more years' full-time state service: (a) the Secretary of the Senate, (b)...
• California Government Code Section 9350.56
  "State service," within the meaning of Sections 9350.55, 9356.15, and 9356.16 means employment with the Legislature or either house thereof as an officer or employee.
• California Government Code Section 9350.6
  (a) "Compensation" and "salary" mean the remuneration paid in cash out of funds controlled by the state, excluding mileage, reimbursement for expenses incurred in the...
• California Government Code Section 9350.7
  "Regular interest" means interest at the annual rate fixed by the board, compounded annually, plus such additional interest as the board may credit from year...
• California Government Code Section 9350.8
  "Contributions" means contributions made by a member at the rate of contribution prescribed in this chapter and not contributions made by the state unless the...
• California Government Code Section 9350.9
  "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all contributions standing to the credit of a member's account, and interest thereon.
• California Government Code Section 9350.10
  "Net earnings" means the earnings of the retirement fund less the administrative costs specified in Section 9354 and transfers to the reserve against deficiencies.
• California Government Code Section 9351
  "Service" means the period of time, computed in years and fractions thereof, a member has held office as a Member of the Senate or of...
• California Government Code Section 9351.1
  "Retirement" means withdrawal from membership in this system with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 9351.2
  "Benefit" means the retirement or survivor allowance granted under this chapter or payment of accumulated contributions or lump-sum payments with respect to the death of...
• California Government Code Section 9351.3
  "Legislator" means a Member of the Assembly or a Member of the Senate, an elective officer of the state whose office is provided by the...
• California Government Code Section 9351.4
  All references to "spouse," "surviving spouse," or "marriage" in this chapter apply equally to a domestic partner or domestic partnership, as defined in Section 297...
• California Government Code Section 9353
  This system shall be administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. The board shall administer this system in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 9353.1
  The board may make such rules as it deems necessary and proper for the administration of this system.
• California Government Code Section 9353.2
  The board shall determine who are members of this system and is the sole judge of the conditions under which persons may be admitted to...
• California Government Code Section 9353.3
  From time to time the board shall determine the rate of interest being earned on the Legislators' Retirement Fund, and shall credit all contributions of...
• California Government Code Section 9353.4
  At the end of each fiscal year the board may credit to all contributions held in the fund at June 30th of the then current...
• California Government Code Section 9353.5
  Each member of this system shall file with the board any information affecting his or her status as a member as the board may require.
• California Government Code Section 9353.6
  The Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall give the board immediate written notice of the change in status of any legislative statutory officer elected by...
• California Government Code Section 9353.7
  If it is impracticable for the board to determine from the records the length of service, compensation, or age of any member of this system,...
• California Government Code Section 9353.8
  If more or less than the correct amount of contribution required of members or the State is paid, proper adjustment shall be made in connection...
• California Government Code Section 9354
  The Legislators' Retirement Fund in the State Treasury is hereby established. All moneys received by this system pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in...
• California Government Code Section 9354.1
  The board has the exclusive control of the administration and investment of the fund, with the same powers and duties, and subject to the same...
• California Government Code Section 9354.2
  In addition to other records and accounts, the board shall keep such records and accounts as may be necessary to show at any time: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 9354.3
  As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the board shall file with the Governor a report of its work for such...
• California Government Code Section 9354.5
  The board shall keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the actuarial valuation of this system. As of June 30, 1973, and...
• California Government Code Section 9354.6
  When there is insufficient data upon which to establish mortality rates or other actuarial assumptions required to evaluate the obligations of the system, the board...
• California Government Code Section 9354.7
  (a) Whenever a person entitled to payment of a member's accumulated contributions or any other benefit fails to claim the payment or cannot be located...
• California Government Code Section 9355
  Any Member of the Senate or Assembly may file with the board at any time during incumbency in that office, a written election to become...
• California Government Code Section 9355.1
  A person ceases to be a member of this system: (a) Upon retirement pursuant to this chapter. (b) Upon death. (c) Except as provided in...
• California Government Code Section 9355.16
  Any member of this system who is charged, by indictment, with the commission of any felony involving the accepting or giving, or offering to accept...
• California Government Code Section 9355.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the service of a member is discontinued by any means other than death or retirement pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 9355.3
  Any member may resign from this system at any time prior to retirement, by written resignation filed with the Board of Administration.
• California Government Code Section 9355.4
  (a) Every elective officer of the state whose office is provided for by the California Constitution, except judges, may become a member of this system....
• California Government Code Section 9355.41
  (a) The Insurance Commissioner may become a member of this system as provided in this section. An Insurance Commissioner who is elected after January 1,...
• California Government Code Section 9355.45
  (a) Every legislative statutory officer may become a member of this system. Every such officer in office at the time this section becomes effective may,...
• California Government Code Section 9355.5
  Membership in this system is exclusive of membership in any other retirement system for state officers and employees. Upon becoming a member of this system,...
• California Government Code Section 9355.6
  A member is absent on military service while serving with the armed forces of the United States, either during a war as defined in Section...
• California Government Code Section 9355.7
  Any member who, while serving a term of office as a Member of the Senate or Assembly, is elected or appointed to another public office...
• California Government Code Section 9355.8
  For purposes of Section 9355.7, "public office" includes, but is not limited to, positions within the federal government that require appointment by the President of...
• California Government Code Section 9356
  Each member of this system shall receive credit for service for time during which he or she holds office as a legislator after becoming a...
• California Government Code Section 9356.1
  Each member who rendered service prior to the date this chapter becomes operative shall receive credit therefor if he or she makes contributions therefor to...
• California Government Code Section 9356.15
  Any person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45 may also receive credit for state service prior to the date he...
• California Government Code Section 9356.16
  Any person who is a member of the system may also receive credit for state service prior to the date he or she became a...
• California Government Code Section 9356.2
  Each member shall receive credit for service while absent on military service, provided he or she is a member at the time the absence commences...
• California Government Code Section 9356.21
  Each member or former member who has 10 years of credited service in this system shall receive credit for active service of not less than...
• California Government Code Section 9356.3
  This section applies to any member heretofore or hereafter elected to fill an unexpired term of office as Member of the Legislature, and who is...
• California Government Code Section 9356.5
  Any member whose service is discontinued but whose membership is continued under Section 9355.2 and who becomes a member of the Judges' Retirement System or...
• California Government Code Section 9357
  For each year of service rendered after the date this chapter becomes operative, each legislator who is a member of this system shall contribute 4...
• California Government Code Section 9357.01
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9357 or 9357.05, the rate of contribution for a member of the system first elected after the date this section...
• California Government Code Section 9357.05
  Each person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45 shall contribute 6 1/2 percent of his or her compensation for each...
• California Government Code Section 9357.1
  Immediately upon receipt of the written election of a legislator to become a member of this system, the board of administration shall certify to the...
• California Government Code Section 9357.15
  With respect to each person who is a member of the system pursuant to Section 9355.45, the Controller shall deduct 6 1/2 percent from each...
• California Government Code Section 9357.2
  Any member who rendered service prior to the date he or she became a member may elect, at any time prior to retirement, to contribute...
• California Government Code Section 9357.3
  If the membership of a member is terminated, except by death or retirement pursuant to this chapter, he or she shall be paid forthwith all...
• California Government Code Section 9357.4
  A member may redeposit in the Legislators' Retirement Fund, in one sum or in not to exceed 12 monthly or 24 semimonthly payments, an amount...
• California Government Code Section 9357.45
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a person who was a member and entitled to be credited with 10 or more years of service...
• California Government Code Section 9357.46
  Any person who was a member and who withdrew his or her accumulated contributions after discontinuance of service may, at any time while he or...
• California Government Code Section 9357.5
  Upon reentering this system after a termination of his or her membership, if a member does not elect to make, or having so elected, does...
• California Government Code Section 9358
  (a) On and after January 1, 2000, the state's contribution on account of liability for benefits under this chapter shall be established in accordance with...
• California Government Code Section 9358.01
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state may pick up, for the sole purpose of deferring income taxes thereon, as authorized by Section 414(h)(2)...
• California Government Code Section 9358.1
  The board shall report annually to the Joint Rules Committee the rate of contributions which, if paid by the state pursuant to Section 9358, would...
• California Government Code Section 9359
  Upon his or her written application to the Board of Administration, (a) a member of this system who was a member on the effective date...
• California Government Code Section 9359.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the benefits payable to any person who becomes a member for the first time on or after...
• California Government Code Section 9359.02
  (a) The amount of compensation used to compute benefits payable to any person who becomes a member of this system on or after July 1,...
• California Government Code Section 9359.03
  If a person qualifies to retire as a legislative statutory officer, and has held more than one of the offices enumerated in Section 9350.55, his...
• California Government Code Section 9359.05
  The amount of compensation that is taken into account in computing benefits payable to any person who first becomes a member of this system on...
• California Government Code Section 9359.1
  (a) The retirement allowance for a member all of whose credited service was rendered as a Member of the Senate or Assembly, except as provided...
• California Government Code Section 9359.10
  The retirement allowance for a legislative statutory officer is an annual amount equal to 3 percent of the compensation payable to the officer at the...
• California Government Code Section 9359.11
  Any contrary provisions of Section 9359.1 notwithstanding, in computing the retirement allowance of a legislator member of the Legislators' Retirement System whose service as a...
• California Government Code Section 9359.12
  (a) Any contrary provisions of Section 9359.1 or Section 9360.9 notwithstanding, and subject to the further limitations in subdivision (b), the retirement allowance of any...
• California Government Code Section 9359.13
  Notwithstanding any contrary provision of Section 9359.1 the retirement allowance of a member who is an elective officer of the state whose office is provided...
• California Government Code Section 9359.15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no retirement allowance or optional settlement in lieu thereof under this chapter shall be paid to or in...
• California Government Code Section 9359.16
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9359, a member of this system, other than a legislative statutory officer, who is under age 60 and who is...
• California Government Code Section 9359.17
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9359, a legislative statutory officer who has attained the age of 55 shall be retired upon his or her written...
• California Government Code Section 9359.2
  A retirement allowance granted by this chapter is payable in equal monthly installments but a smaller pro rata amount may be paid for part of...
• California Government Code Section 9359.3
  The right of a person to any benefit or other right under this chapter and the money in the Legislators' Retirement Fund are not subject...
• California Government Code Section 9359.4
  A member may at any time designate a beneficiary to receive those benefits as may be payable to his or her beneficiary or estate under...
• California Government Code Section 9359.5
  The designation of a beneficiary under this system, other than designations under Optional Settlements 2, 3 and 4, may be revoked at the pleasure of...
• California Government Code Section 9359.6
  The designation of a beneficiary by a member is not affected by termination of nor a break in his membership.
• California Government Code Section 9359.7
  If any person entitled to a benefit of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) from this system is a minor who has no guardian...
• California Government Code Section 9359.8
  Upon the death of any member before retirement, the member' s accumulated contributions shall be paid to the member's beneficiary, if he or she has...
• California Government Code Section 9359.83
  Retired members of the system, and beneficiaries, who are entitled to receive allowances under the provisions of this chapter, may authorize deductions to be made...
• California Government Code Section 9359.85
  Upon the death of any person, after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance from this system, there shall be paid to his or her...
• California Government Code Section 9359.9
  If a beneficiary is not designated, or if the estate is the beneficiary and the estate would not be probated if no amount were due...
• California Government Code Section 9359.95
  In addition to any other benefits provided for in this chapter, upon the death, on or after January 1, 1959, and before retirement, of any...
• California Government Code Section 9360
  No payment shall be made to persons included in any group if at the date of payment there are living persons in any of the...
• California Government Code Section 9360.1
  If the estate of the deceased member is his beneficiary, or if no beneficiary has been designated by him, or if the designated beneficiary cannot...
• California Government Code Section 9360.2
  As used in this chapter, "disability" and "incapacity for performance of duty" as a basis of retirement, mean disability of permanent or extended and uncertain...
• California Government Code Section 9360.3
  Application to the board for retirement of a member for disability may be made by the member or any person in his or her behalf....
• California Government Code Section 9360.4
  The board may require any recipient of a disability allowance under the minimum age for voluntary retirement to undergo medical examination. The examination shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9360.5
  If any recipient of a disability retirement allowance under the minimum age for voluntary retirement refuses to submit to medical examination, the retirement allowance shall...
• California Government Code Section 9360.6
  The disability allowance for other than legislative statutory officers is the same as the retirement allowance that would be payable to the member had he...
• California Government Code Section 9360.7
  (a) Any Member of the Senate or Assembly who, after the effective date of this section, retires for service or disability shall receive the retirement...
• California Government Code Section 9360.9
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the provisions of this section shall be applicable to all allowances granted by this chapter commencing with each...
• California Government Code Section 9360.10
  On or before January 15, 1968, and on or before January 15 of each year thereafter, the amount of any allowances provided by this chapter...
• California Government Code Section 9360.11
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any member who would have been eligible to retire under Section 9359.01 had it not been repealed because...
• California Government Code Section 9361
  In lieu of the retirement allowance for his life alone, a member or retired member may elect, or revoke or change a previous election, to...
• California Government Code Section 9361.1
  (a) The election, revocation, or change of election set forth in Section 9361 may be made at any time before the effective date of retirement...
• California Government Code Section 9361.12
  Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a retired member who was a Member of the Senate or Assembly may revoke an optional settlement and may...
• California Government Code Section 9361.15
  A member may designate one or more persons as beneficiaries. If more than one person is designated under an optional settlement involving life contingency of...
• California Government Code Section 9361.2
  Optional Settlement 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death and if he or...
• California Government Code Section 9361.3
  Optional Settlement 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death and thereafter to his...
• California Government Code Section 9361.4
  Optional Settlement 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid him or her until his or her death, and thereafter to have...
• California Government Code Section 9361.5
  Optional Settlement 4 consists of such other benefits as are the actuarial equivalent of his retirement allowance, that he may select subject to the approval...
• California Government Code Section 9371
  (a) This article applies to members who elect to be subject to its provisions and does not apply to any member while his or her...
• California Government Code Section 9372
  "Survivor allowance" means the allowance provided for in Section 9374.
• California Government Code Section 9373
  "Disability," "disabled" or "incapacitated" means, with respect to qualification for a survivor allowance, inability to engage in any substantial gainful occupation by reason of any...
• California Government Code Section 9374
  Upon the death of a member before retirement (a) the surviving wife or surviving husband of the member, who has the care of unmarried children,...
• California Government Code Section 9375
  For the purposes of Section 9374, a person shall be considered to be under the age of 18 if he or she is under the...
• California Government Code Section 9376
  When the survivor is entitled to receive a monthly allowance as a death benefit provided by any other provision of this chapter and at the...
• California Government Code Section 9377
  The rate of contribution of a member subject to this article shall include in addition to his normal rate, two dollars ($2) per month. Such...
• California Government Code Section 9378
  A person who in any month is an eligible survivor of more than one member, shall receive only one allowance under this article, which shall...
• California Government Code Section 9400
  As used in this chapter, "committee" means a committee of either the Senate or Assembly, a joint committee of both houses, or, when any of...
• California Government Code Section 9401
  A subpoena requiring the attendance of any witness before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee may be issued by the President of the Senate, Speaker...
• California Government Code Section 9402
  A subpena is sufficient if it: (a) States whether the proceeding is before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee. (b) Is addressed to the witness....
• California Government Code Section 9403
  The service of a subpena may be made by any person over 18 years of age.
• California Government Code Section 9404
  (a) The members of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses in any matter under examination. (b) Anyone authorized to administer oaths who is designated...
• California Government Code Section 9405
  If any witness neglects or refuses to obey a subpena, or appearing, neglects or refuses to testify, or to produce upon reasonable notice any material...
• California Government Code Section 9406
  If the contempt is committed before the Senate or Assembly, the Senate or Assembly may commit him for contempt by resolution entered on the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9407
  If the contempt is committed before a committee during the session of the Legislature, the committee shall report the contempt to the Senate or Assembly,...
• California Government Code Section 9408
  If the contempt is committed before a committee when the Legislature is not in session, the superior court in and for the county in which...
• California Government Code Section 9409
  Any witness neglecting or refusing to attend in obedience to subpena may be arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms and brought before the Senate, Assembly or committee,...
• California Government Code Section 9409.5
  No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he or she shall be examined by...
• California Government Code Section 9410
  (a) If, in response to a question posed, or a command to produce documents or other materials issued, by the Senate, the Assembly, or a...
• California Government Code Section 9411
  Every State department, office, board, commission or bureau, including The Regents of the University of California, shall discharge any person who commits a contempt before...
• California Government Code Section 9412
  Every person who, being summoned to attend as witness before the Senate, Assembly, or any committee, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 9414
  (a) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Coerces or attempts to coerce any person not to appear...
• California Government Code Section 9500
  As used in this chapter, "clerk" means the engrossing and enrolling clerk or the employee who performs the duties of engrossing and enrolling clerk when...
• California Government Code Section 9501
  As used in this chapter, "committee" means the engrossing and enrolling committee of the house ordering the engrossing or enrolling of a bill or other...
• California Government Code Section 9501.5
  The enacting clause of every law shall be "The people of the State of California do enact as follows:".
• California Government Code Section 9502
  All bills and other documents ordered engrossed or enrolled by the Senate or Assembly shall be delivered by the Secretary of the Senate or Chief...
• California Government Code Section 9503
  The clerk shall deliver the bills and documents without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer.
• California Government Code Section 9504
  The State Printer shall receipt for the bills or documents, and without delay engross or enroll (print) them in the order of their receipt by...
• California Government Code Section 9505
  The State Printer shall deliver the engrossed or enrolled copy of the bill or document, with the original thereof, to the clerk from whom he...
• California Government Code Section 9506
  All bills and documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed if no amendments have been made after being printed. The original bill or...
• California Government Code Section 9507
  If the enrolled copy of a bill or other document is found to be correct, the committee shall present it to the proper officers for...
• California Government Code Section 9508
  Enrolled bills shall be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. Until otherwise provided by the joint rules of the Legislature, enrolled constitutional amendments and...
• California Government Code Section 9509
  As soon as an enrolled bill is delivered to the Governor, it shall be endorsed as follows: "This bill was received by the Governor this...
• California Government Code Section 9510
  When the Governor approves a bill, he shall affix his name thereto, with the date of signing, and deposit it in the Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 9510.5
  There shall be two series of bill chapter numbers for each two-year regular session of the Legislature. Bills deposited with the Secretary of State from...
• California Government Code Section 9511
  If a bill presented to the Governor contains an item or several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving...
• California Government Code Section 9512
  When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if...
• California Government Code Section 9513
  The certificate shall be indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections. It...
• California Government Code Section 9514
  The bill or statement so authenticated shall then be delivered to the Governor, and by him deposited with the laws in the Office of the...
• California Government Code Section 9515
  If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated...
• California Government Code Section 9516
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every bill which has passed both houses of the Legislature, and has not been returned by the Governor...
• California Government Code Section 9517
  The Legislature shall finish its actions on the budget required by the Constitution by June 15th of each year.
• California Government Code Section 9600
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a statute enacted at a regular session shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day...
• California Government Code Section 9602
  Every concurrent and joint resolution takes effect upon the filing of it with the Secretary of State.
• California Government Code Section 9603
  The general rules for the construction of statutes are contained in the preliminary provisions of the different codes.
• California Government Code Section 9604
  When the provisions of one statute are carried into another statute under circumstances in which they are required to be construed as restatements and continuations...
• California Government Code Section 9605
  Where a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended...
• California Government Code Section 9606
  Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when vested rights would be impaired. Persons acting under any statute act in contemplation of this...
• California Government Code Section 9607
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no statute or part of a statute, repealed by another statute, is revived by the repeal of the...
• California Government Code Section 9608
  The termination or suspension (by whatsoever means effected) of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information...
• California Government Code Section 9609
  A statute amending a section of a repealed statute is void.
• California Government Code Section 9610
  The fixing or authorizing the fixing of the salary of a State officer or employee by statute is not intended to and does not constitute...
• California Government Code Section 9611
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever a provision of law is temporarily suspended, or is expressly or impliedly modified or repealed by a...
• California Government Code Section 9612
  Unless the context otherwise requires whenever the terms United States Army, Army of the United States, United States Navy, or military service appear in a...
• California Government Code Section 9700
  All printing ordered by the Legislature or the Senate or Assembly, and all printing to be charged to legislative printing shall be governed by the...
• California Government Code Section 9701
  The receipt of the Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly is a sufficient voucher for printing for any work done for...
• California Government Code Section 9702
  The Secretary of the Senate, in the case of Members and Members-elect of the Senate, and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, in the case...
• California Government Code Section 9703
  The State Printing Office shall print the laws, including initiative measures adopted by the people, public documents ordered to be printed by the Legislature, the...
• California Government Code Section 9704
  Proceeds from sales of all documents, the cost of publication of which is or has been paid from any appropriation for legislative printing, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9705
  The general officers of the Assembly whose names and titles shall appear on the frontpiece of all publications sponsored in whole or in part by...
• California Government Code Section 9706
  The Legislative Printing Fund in the State Treasury is abolished. The Controller, on the effective date of this section, shall transfer the balance in that...
• California Government Code Section 9708
  Whenever the Senate or the Assembly undertakes to publish in a separate volume the Constitution of the State of California and related documents, the text...
• California Government Code Section 9720
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall determine what is a sufficient number of copies to supply the members...
• California Government Code Section 9721
  A sufficient number of copies, with proper repaging, as determined by the Secretary and Chief Clerk, shall also be bound at the end of the...
• California Government Code Section 9722
  Each daily Journal and the Journals of the Senate and Assembly shall be printed by the State Printing Office. Each daily Journal shall be printed...
• California Government Code Section 9723
  One copy of the daily Journal of each house, upon its approval by the house, shall be authenticated as so approved by the chief clerk...
• California Government Code Section 9724
  Upon final adjournment of the Legislature, the authenticated copy of the daily Journal of each house for the entire session shall be properly bound in...
• California Government Code Section 9740
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall during the month of December in each even-numbered year, commence to compile...
• California Government Code Section 9741
  The legislative manual shall be uniform in size and style with similar publications of previous sessions. It shall include: (a) A list of State officers....
• California Government Code Section 9742
  The manual shall be distributed as follows: (a) To each Senator and Assemblyman as determined by the Rules Committee of the respective houses. (b) Each...
• California Government Code Section 9743
  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall each retain the number of manuals needed for use in the respective...
• California Government Code Section 9744
  The remainder shall be sold at a price to be fixed by the Joint Rules Committee. The price shall be sufficient to cover the cost...
• California Government Code Section 9760
  Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.
• California Government Code Section 9761
  Upon the receipt of the notice, the State Printing Office shall print for the use of the Legislature such number of copies of the law,...
• California Government Code Section 9762
  When a new or a revised code is established, it shall be prepared by the Legislative Counsel with all amendments and superseding sections enacted during...
• California Government Code Section 9763
  The Department of General Services shall direct the preparation of the statutes of each session of the Legislature after each regular session. The statutes for...
• California Government Code Section 9764
  The statutes of each session shall be prepared for printing and publication by the Legislative Counsel, the State Librarian, or such other state agency authorized...
• California Government Code Section 9765
  Preparation of the statutes shall include the making of an index and statutory record, and the delivery thereof to the State Printing Office as soon...
• California Government Code Section 9766
  At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed: (a) The Constitution of the state. (b) The name and place of...
• California Government Code Section 9767
  The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 9768
  The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding.
• California Government Code Section 9790
  The Department of General Services shall maintain a bill-filing room for the Senate and Assembly, and file all bills, resolutions, journals and other documents ordered...
• California Government Code Section 9791
  The laws, resolutions and journals of the Legislature shall be distributed by the Department of General Services as follows: (a) To the Library of Congress,...
• California Government Code Section 9792
  All other copies of the laws, resolutions and journals shall be sold by the Department of General Services at such price as it may fix.
• California Government Code Section 9795
  (a) (1) Any report required or requested by law to be submitted by a state or local agency to the Members of either house of...
• California Government Code Section 9900
  Short title This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Legislative Reform Act of 1983."
• California Government Code Section 9901
  Findings and declaration. The people find and declare: (a) All citizens of the State are entitled to full and effective representation by their elected representatives....
• California Government Code Section 9902
  Purposes of chapter The people enact this chapter to accomplish the following purposes: (a) Appropriations for the support of the Legislature should be reduced by...
• California Government Code Section 9903
  Construction of chapter This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.
• California Government Code Section 9904
  Amendment or repeal of chapter; procedures This chapter may be amended only by the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection...
• California Government Code Section 9905
  Imposition of additional requirements; law governing Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Legislature from imposing additional requirements on itself if the requirements do not...
• California Government Code Section 9906
  Severability If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder...
• California Government Code Section 9907
  Effective date This chapter shall go into effect immediately. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all changes in the structure or operation of the Legislature...
• California Government Code Section 9910
  Speaker of the Assembly The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly. The Speaker shall be...
• California Government Code Section 9911
  Assembly Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Assembly a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the Speaker, who shall be the...
• California Government Code Section 9912
  Powers of the Assembly Committee on Rules (a) The Assembly Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Assembly committees....
• California Government Code Section 9913
  Appointments by the speaker; confirmation by Assembly Committee on Rules Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all statutory appointments delegated to the Speaker of the...
• California Government Code Section 9914
  President pro tempore of the senate The President pro Tempore is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Senate....
• California Government Code Section 9915
  Senate Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Senate a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the President pro Tempore of the...
• California Government Code Section 9916
  Powers of the Senate Committee on Rules (a) The Senate Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Senate committees....
• California Government Code Section 9917
  Joint rules committee (a) There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall be comprised of the combined membership of the Assembly Committee on...
• California Government Code Section 9920
  Rules Each house of the Legislature shall adopt rules for its proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded...
• California Government Code Section 9921
  Joint Rules The Senate and Assembly shall adopt rules for their joint proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative...
• California Government Code Section 9922
  Standing committees All standing committees of both the Senate and the Assembly, except the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules, shall...
• California Government Code Section 9923
  Special and select committees; subcommittees No special or select committees nor any subcommittee shall be established in either the Senate or the Assembly except by...
• California Government Code Section 9924
  Joint committees No joint committee shall be established except by passage of concurrent resolution, two thirds of the membership of each house concurring. The membership...
• California Government Code Section 9925
  Member voting Each house of the Legislature shall provide in its rules for appropriate voting procedures on the floor and in committees or subcommittees; provided,...
• California Government Code Section 9930
  Legislative contingent funds All appropriations for contingent expenses of the Legislature and committees thereof shall be deposited in and credited to the following funds, which...
• California Government Code Section 9931
  Disbursements from Senate Contingent Fund and Assembly Contingent Fund Except as provided by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the rules...
• California Government Code Section 9932
  Disbursements from Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly No disbursements shall be made from the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly except as...
• California Government Code Section 9933
  Disbursement of money appropriated for legislative printing Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate...
• California Government Code Section 9934
  Limits upon public expenditure Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 30 days following the enactment of this chapter, the total amount of monies appropriated...
• California Government Code Section 9935
  Continuous availability of funds; special accounts Except as described in Section 9934 and this Section, appropriations deposited in and credited to the Senate Contingent Fund,...
• California Government Code Section 9936
  Reports to public on expenditures made from contingent funds; contents (a) For the periods beginning December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1 of...
• California Government Code Section 9937
  Independent audit of contingent funds The Joint Rules Committee shall annually contract for an independent audit of the revenues and expenditures, for each fiscal year,...
• California Government Code Section 10200
  There is in the State Government the Legislative Counsel Bureau. The bureau is in charge of a chief, who is a civil executive officer and...
• California Government Code Section 10201
  The Legislative Counsel shall be selected by concurrent resolution at the beginning of each regular session and shall serve until his or her successor is...
• California Government Code Section 10202
  If a vacancy occurs while the Legislature is not in session, a committee consisting of the Speaker of the Assembly, the Speaker pro Tempore of...
• California Government Code Section 10203
  The Legislative Counsel shall be chosen without reference to party affiliations and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of his or...
• California Government Code Section 10204
  The annual salary of the Legislative Counsel is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or such greater amount as may be prescribed by the Joint Rules Committee....
• California Government Code Section 10205
  (a) The Legislative Counsel may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as he...
• California Government Code Section 10205.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 18523, 18900, 18901, 18930, 18930.5, 18931, 18933, 18936, 18937, 18938.5, 18939, 18950, 19050, 19052, 19054, 19054.1, 19057, 19057.1, 19057.2, 19057.4, 19081, and...
• California Government Code Section 10206
  The permanent office of the Legislative Counsel shall be in the State Capitol in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and...
• California Government Code Section 10207
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall maintain the attorney-client relationship with each Member of the Legislature with respect to communications between the member and the Legislative...
• California Government Code Section 10208
  Neither the Legislative Counsel nor any other employee of the bureau shall reveal to any person outside thereof the contents or nature of any matter...
• California Government Code Section 10209
  The material, including books and other publications, of the State Library shall be made available to the bureau. The University of California, all State agencies...
• California Government Code Section 10210
  Subject to Article 3 (commencing with Section 10270), neither the Legislative Counsel nor any employee of the bureau shall oppose or urge legislation.
• California Government Code Section 10211
  The Legislative Counsel, or any deputy legislative counsel, may administer and certify oaths.
• California Government Code Section 10230
  The Legislative Counsel shall be in attendance upon all regular and special sessions of the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 10231
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare and assist in the preparation, amendment and consideration of legislative measures when requested or upon suggestion as herein provided.
• California Government Code Section 10231.5
  (a) A bill that, as introduced or amended in either house of the Legislature, would require a state agency to submit a report on any...
• California Government Code Section 10232
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise any State agency as to the preparation of measures to be submitted to the Legislature.
• California Government Code Section 10232.5
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel may provide legal services to the State Auditor.
• California Government Code Section 10233
  Insofar as in his power, upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall aid and assist any member of the Legislature as to bills, resolutions and measures,...
• California Government Code Section 10234
  The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any measure before the Legislature as circumstances will permit, and which is in any...
• California Government Code Section 10235
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall give such consideration to and service concerning any bill in the Governor's hands for rejection, approval, or other action, as...
• California Government Code Section 10236
  Upon request, the Legislative Counsel shall advise as to its work with any legislative committee appointed to carry on investigations.
• California Government Code Section 10237
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare or assist in the preparation or amendment of legislative measures at the written suggestion of any judge of the Supreme...
• California Government Code Section 10238
  Every suggestion of a judge shall set forth the substance of the provisions desired or which may be needed with the reasons therefor.
• California Government Code Section 10239
  A suggestion by a judge of the Supreme Court shall be filed with the clerk of that court. A suggestion by a judge of a...
• California Government Code Section 10240
  When a suggestion is so filed with the clerk, he shall make and send to the permanent office of the Legislative Counsel a certified copy...
• California Government Code Section 10241
  The Legislative Counsel shall prepare a measure in accordance with the suggestion of a judge, and shall transmit it to the chairman of the judiciary...
• California Government Code Section 10242
  The Legislative Counsel shall advise the Legislature from time to time as to legislation necessary to maintain the codes and legislation necessary to codify such...
• California Government Code Section 10242.5
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall annually prepare, publish, and maintain an electronic list of all reports that state and local agencies are required or requested...
• California Government Code Section 10243
  The Legislative Counsel shall cooperate with the proponents of an initiative measure in its preparation when: (a) Requested in writing so to do by 25...
• California Government Code Section 10244
  The Legislative Counsel may contract, at not less than cost and subject to regulations approved by the Director of General Services, with any county or...
• California Government Code Section 10245
  The Legislative Counsel may cooperate with any educational institution of the State in any manner approved by the Legislative Counsel and such institution.
• California Government Code Section 10246
  The Legislative Counsel shall not appear in any action or proceeding in the courts of this state or of the United States without the prior...
• California Government Code Section 10247
  When a bill is introduced in the Legislature and each time a bill is amended, on or after January 1, 1990, the Legislative Counsel shall...
• California Government Code Section 10248
  (a) The Legislative Counsel shall, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, make all of the following...
• California Government Code Section 10270
  There is, in the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Commission on Uniform State Laws.
• California Government Code Section 10271
  (a) The commission consists of one Member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; one Member of the Assembly, appointed by the...
• California Government Code Section 10272
  Each appointed member of the commission shall be any of the following: (a) A member in good standing of the State Bar of California. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 10273
  Each member appointed by the Governor to the commission shall hold office for a term of four years and until the appointment and qualification of...
• California Government Code Section 10274
  When a vacancy occurs in an office filled by appointment by the Governor, the Governor shall appoint a person to the office for the balance...
• California Government Code Section 10275
  A member of the commission is eligible for reappointment.
• California Government Code Section 10276
  A member of the commission shall not receive compensation for services as a member, but shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) for each day while...
• California Government Code Section 10277
  The commission may participate in the work of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and the Legislative Counsel may allocate funds to...
• California Government Code Section 10278
  The commission shall meet at some place in the state at least once every two years. The commission shall elect one of its members as...
• California Government Code Section 10279
  The members of the commission shall attend the meetings of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The attendance of a member at...
• California Government Code Section 10280
  The commission shall do all in its power to promote uniformity in state laws upon all subjects where uniformity is deemed desirable and practicable.
• California Government Code Section 10281
  The commission shall bring about, as far as practicable, the passage of the various uniform acts recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform...
• California Government Code Section 10282
  The commission shall report to the Legislature from time to time as the commission deems desirable and practicable, giving an account of its transactions and...
• California Government Code Section 10290
  This article may be cited as the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act.
• California Government Code Section 10291
  As used in this article: (a) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. (b) "Legal material" means...
• California Government Code Section 10292
  This article applies to all legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under Section 10293 and first published electronically on or...
• California Government Code Section 10293
  (a) If an official publisher publishes legal material only in an electronic record, the publisher shall do all of the following: (1) Designate the electronic...
• California Government Code Section 10294
  An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under Section 10293 shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an...
• California Government Code Section 10295
  (a) Legal material in an electronic record that is authenticated under Section 10294 is presumed to be an accurate copy of the legal material. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 10296
  (a) An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is or was designated as official under Section 10293 shall provide for the...
• California Government Code Section 10297
  An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that must be preserved under Section 10296 shall ensure that the material is reasonably available...
• California Government Code Section 10298
  In implementing this article, an official publisher of legal material in an electronic record shall consider all of the following: (a) Standards and practices of...
• California Government Code Section 10299
  In applying and construing this article, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter...
• California Government Code Section 10300
  This article modifies, limits, or supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001 et seq.) but does not...
• California Government Code Section 10500
  It is the desire of the Legislature to create the Office of the Auditor General, whose primary duties shall be to perform performance audits as...
• California Government Code Section 10501
  The Joint Legislative Audit Committee is hereby created. The committee shall determine the policies of the Auditor General, ascertain facts, review reports and take action...
• California Government Code Section 10502
  The committee shall consist of seven Members of the Senate and seven Members of the Assembly who shall be selected in the manner provided for...
• California Government Code Section 10503
  The committee is authorized to make rule governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 10504
  After recommendation by the committee, the Auditor General shall be selected by concurrent resolution and shall serve until his or her successor is selected or...
• California Government Code Section 10504.1
  At least one deputy auditor general shall be a certified public accountant.
• California Government Code Section 10600
  The Legislature finds that the retirement of officers and employees of the state, school districts, and many cities, counties, and public jurisdictions in the state,...
• California Government Code Section 10601
  The Joint Legislative Retirement Committee is hereby created. The committee shall study and review the benefits, programs, actuarial condition, practices, investments and procedures of, and...
• California Government Code Section 10602
  The committee shall consist of a member from each of the following Senate committees: Banking and Commerce, Industrial Relations, Local Government, Public Employment and Retirement,...
• California Government Code Section 10603
  The committee is authorized to make rules governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study,...
• California Government Code Section 10604
  The committeee shall have authority to appoint and fix the salary of such professional and other employees as may be necessary. Funds for the support...
• California Government Code Section 10605
  The committee shall establish a board of experts. The board of experts shall include: the Controller, the chairpersons of the investment committees of the Board...
• California Government Code Section 10606
  There shall be held during the last week of March of each year a joint meeting of the committee, the board of experts, the Board...
• California Government Code Section 11000
  (a) As used in this title, "state agency" includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. As used in any section of...
• California Government Code Section 11000.7
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every state agency shall establish the license periods and renewal dates for all licenses issued by the agencies in...
• California Government Code Section 11000.10
  (a) (1) Any state agency, including, but not limited to, a district agricultural association, or a joint powers agency that includes a district agricultural association,...
• California Government Code Section 11001
  Any state agency may make exhibits descriptive or illustrative of any activity or pursuit relating to its work or affairs at any international, state, district,...
• California Government Code Section 11002
  If a remittance to cover a payment required by law to be made to the state or to a state agency on or before a...
• California Government Code Section 11003
  If an application, tax return or claim for credit or refund required by law to be filed with the state or state agency on or...
• California Government Code Section 11004
  Sections 11002 and 11003 do not apply to: (a) Applications or other documents required or permitted to be filed under the Chapter 1 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11005
  (a) Unless the Legislature specifically provides that approval is not required, every gift or dedication to the state of personal property, or every gift to...
• California Government Code Section 11005.1
  The Director of Finance may accept on behalf of the State any gift of real or personal property whenever he deems such gift and the...
• California Government Code Section 11005.2
  Unless the Legislature specifically provides that approval by the Director of General Services is not required, every conveyance, contract, or agreement whereby an interest of...
• California Government Code Section 11005.3
  Any state department, board, or commission may lease any real property for the use of the state agency for storage, warehouse, or office purposes provided...
• California Government Code Section 11005.4
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) "Accepted nutritional guidelines" as used in this section means the following:...
• California Government Code Section 11005.5
  After January 1, 1983, if property is to be constructed, purchased, or leased, or any interest is acquired in the property, for a period of...
• California Government Code Section 11005.6
  Any lease of property by a state agency for warehouse or office uses which is entered into or renewed on or after January 1, 1991,...
• California Government Code Section 11005.7
  The Department of General Services on or before July 1, 1991, shall develop procedures and policies to expedite normal procedures for purchasing, leasing, and contracting...
• California Government Code Section 11006
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency that requires fingerprinting for any non-law-enforcement purpose shall not require the use of specified live...
• California Government Code Section 11006.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that Year 2000 Problem identification and remediation be the top information technology priority for all state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 11007
  (a) Except as expressly authorized by law or as specifically authorized by the Director of General Services, property belonging to the state shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 11007.1
  The Department of Transportation, when it has acquired title to any real property for highway purposes and leases such property for commercial or business uses...
• California Government Code Section 11007.4
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Employee" includes an officer, employee, or servant, whether or not compensated, but does not include an independent contractor....
• California Government Code Section 11007.5
  Any state agency, with the approval of the Department of General Services, may secure insurance protecting the state against loss by burglary, robbery, theft, or...
• California Government Code Section 11007.6
  Any state agency may, subject to rules and regulations of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, insure its officers and employees not covered...
• California Government Code Section 11007.7
  (a) The procurement of insurance or official bonds by any state agency shall be subject to approval of the Department of General Services. Any procurement...
• California Government Code Section 11007.8
  (a) If a state agency is authorized to procure insurance, that agency may operate and administer a self-insurance program. The agency may contract with the...
• California Government Code Section 11008
  Whenever any State agency except the State Compensation Insurance Fund has drawn against any bank account for the payment of any claim and payment of...
• California Government Code Section 11008.2
  Any regulation, order, or other action, adopted, prescribed, taken, or performed by the former Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency as it existed on December 31,...
• California Government Code Section 11008.5
  Any program administered in part or whole by the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency prior to January 1, 2004, pursuant to an interagency agreement with...
• California Government Code Section 11009
  Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the members of State boards and commissions shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed necessary expenses incurred...
• California Government Code Section 11010
  (a) When a state agency, supported from the General Fund, is required to collect from any person, firm, or corporation a proportionate share of the...
• California Government Code Section 11010.5
  (a) Where authority is vested in any state agency to contract on behalf of the state, such authority shall include the power, by mutual consent...
• California Government Code Section 11011
  (a) On or before December 31 of each year, each state agency shall make a review of all proprietary state lands, other than tax-deeded land,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 54235) of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title...
• California Government Code Section 11011.2
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11011 and 14670, except as provided in this section, the Department of General...
• California Government Code Section 11011.5
  (a) When no state or other public entity seeks to obtain title to specific surplus state-owned real property, a state agency authorized to sell that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.7
  All real property acquired for park and recreation purposes by the state which was formerly part of Camp Pendleton shall be used solely for park...
• California Government Code Section 11011.11
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) There is no complete inventory of all state real property holdings containing information on present use,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.13
  For purposes of Section 11011.15, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Agency" means a state agency, department, division, bureau, board, commission, district agricultural association, and...
• California Government Code Section 11011.14
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services shall transfer title of state Building 101, the former Lake Norconian Club Hotel...
• California Government Code Section 11011.15
  (a) The Department of General Services shall maintain a complete and accurate statewide inventory of all real property held by the state and categorize that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.16
  The inventory prepared pursuant to Section 11011.15 shall contain the following additional information: (a) A description of the exact current and projected use of, and...
• California Government Code Section 11011.17
  (a) The University of California, by July 1, 1988, shall furnish the department, in a uniform format specified by the department, a record of each...
• California Government Code Section 11011.18
  The Department of Transportation, by July 1, 2002, shall furnish to the Department of General Services a record of each parcel of real property that...
• California Government Code Section 11011.19
  (a) The State Lands Commission, by July 1, 2011, shall furnish to the Department of General Services a record of each parcel of real property...
• California Government Code Section 11011.20
  (a) Any private person or private company which advertises that it provides information or services regarding the sale or purchase of public property of any...
• California Government Code Section 11011.21
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Department of General Services has, pursuant to former Section 11011.21, as added by Section 8 of Chapter...
• California Government Code Section 11011.24
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the Director of General Services may sell or exchange, pursuant to Section 11011.1, at fair market...
• California Government Code Section 11011.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of General Services shall transfer to the County of Ventura, no later than October 1, 1998,...
• California Government Code Section 11011.26
  The Director of General Services, subject to the approval of the State Public Works Board and specific authorization by the Legislature that may be provided...
• California Government Code Section 11011.27
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may advertise and award contracts for services related to the disposition of real property, in accordance with this...
• California Government Code Section 11011.28
  (a) The Director of General Services may sell or lease, pursuant to Section 11011.1, at market value based upon an appraisal approved by the Department...
• California Government Code Section 11012
  Whenever any state agency, including, but not limited to, state agencies acting in a fiduciary capacity, is authorized to invest funds, or to sell or...
• California Government Code Section 11012.5
  (a) The Director of General Services may exercise the option to accelerate the vesting of title in the state as set forth in the lease...
• California Government Code Section 11013
  The director of any state department, subject to approval of the Department of General Services, may establish and maintain, or by contract or otherwise cause...
• California Government Code Section 11014
  (a) In exercising the powers and duties granted to and imposed upon it, any state agency may construct and maintain communication lines as may be...
• California Government Code Section 11015
  No state funds under the control of an officer or employee of the state, or of any agency thereof, shall ever be used for membership...
• California Government Code Section 11015.5
  (a) On or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order D-3-99, every state agency, including...
• California Government Code Section 11016
  Any state agency may, within the powers otherwise conferred by law upon the state agency, in order that this state may participate in the federal...
• California Government Code Section 11016.1
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, if foreign assistance funds are appropriated by the President of the United States and the Congress...
• California Government Code Section 11016.5
  Each state agency may contract with a joint powers authority that is created pursuant to an agreement entered into pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11016.9
  (a) Each state agency shall establish clear flextime policies and shall direct its managers to encourage the use of flextime. (b) Each state agency shall...
• California Government Code Section 11017
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each state agency in performing its duties shall comply with all local air pollution control rules, regulations, and ordinances...
• California Government Code Section 11017.1
  Each state agency shall take all practical and reasonable steps to recover civil damages for the negligent, willful, or unlawful damaging or taking of state...
• California Government Code Section 11017.5
  (a) When a statute is enacted establishing a new program or requiring interpretation pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, the state agency responsible for the...
• California Government Code Section 11017.6
  Every state agency responsible for implementing a statute which requires interpretation pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act shall prepare, by January 30 of each year,...
• California Government Code Section 11018
  Every state agency which is authorized by any law to conduct administrative hearings but is not subject to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) shall...
• California Government Code Section 11018.5
  (a) The Department of Real Estate, on or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order...
• California Government Code Section 11019
  (a) Any department or authority specified in subdivision (b) may, upon determining that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program...
• California Government Code Section 11019.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but to the extent consistent with applicable federal law or regulation, any state department and the Controller pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11019.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent not in conflict with federal law, if a principal agency is not designated...
• California Government Code Section 11019.7
  (a) No state agency shall send any outgoing United States mail to an individual that contains personal information about that individual, including, but not limited...
• California Government Code Section 11019.8
  (a) All state agencies, as defined in Section 11000, are encouraged and authorized to cooperate with federally recognized California Indian tribes on matters of economic...
• California Government Code Section 11019.9
  Each state department and state agency shall enact and maintain a permanent privacy policy, in adherence with the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Title 1.8...
• California Government Code Section 11019.10
  Except as provided in the Budget Act and implementing statutes, no automatic increases shall be provided to the University of California, California State University, the...
• California Government Code Section 11020
  (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, all offices of every state agency shall be kept open for the transaction of business from 8 a.m. until...
• California Government Code Section 11020.1
  Notwithstanding Section 11020, the Department of Motor Vehicles may reduce its hours of service for transacting business during the period between 8 a.m. to 5...
• California Government Code Section 11021
  (a) When a state agency is open or operates on Saturday such state agency may operate with a skeleton crew from 9 a.m. to 12...
• California Government Code Section 11022
  Each state agency shall establish a procedure pursuant to which incoming telephone calls on any public line shall be answered within 10 rings during regular...
• California Government Code Section 11030
  All elective constitutional officers, heads of departments, chiefs of divisions, assistants, deputies, agents, experts and other officers and employees of the State when away from...
• California Government Code Section 11030.1
  When a state employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 dies while traveling on official state business, the state...
• California Government Code Section 11030.2
  Any state officer or employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 when working overtime at his or her headquarters...
• California Government Code Section 11030.5
  Any state officer or officer or employee of any state agency may, when traveling on state business, fly in state-owned or leased civil aircraft as...
• California Government Code Section 11031
  The headquarters of elective constitutional officers, other than Members of the Legislature, shall be established by the filing of a written statement with the California...
• California Government Code Section 11031.5
  The headquarters of the Franchise Tax Commissioner is in the City of Sacramento. From and after the effective date of this section the Franchise Tax...
• California Government Code Section 11032
  Any state officer or employee of any state agency may confer with other persons, associations, or organizations outside of the state whenever it may be...
• California Government Code Section 11033
  No state officer or employee shall absent himself or herself from the state on business of the state without the prior approval of the Governor,...
• California Government Code Section 11033.5
  Sections 11032 and 11033 shall not apply to any member of the Commission on Uniform State Laws.
• California Government Code Section 11040
  (a) This article does not affect the right of any state agency or employee to employ counsel in any matter of the state, after first...
• California Government Code Section 11041
  (a) Sections 11042 and 11043 do not apply to the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, Legal Division...
• California Government Code Section 11042
  No state agency, commissioner, or officer shall employ any legal counsel other than the Attorney General, or one of his assistants or deputies, in any...
• California Government Code Section 11043
  Except as to the State agencies and laws specified in Section 11041, whenever any law authorizes any State agency to employ legal counsel other than...
• California Government Code Section 11044
  (a) The Legal Services Revolving Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Department of Justice shall administer this fund. Moneys in the fund,...
• California Government Code Section 11045
  (a) (1) Whenever a state agency requests the consent of the Attorney General to employ outside counsel, as required by Section 11040, the state agency...
• California Government Code Section 11080
  Whenever any state agency is required or authorized by law to prepare and cause the publishing of any notice, advertisement or publication in any newspaper...
• California Government Code Section 11081
  After approval of the notice, advertisement or publication, the Department of General Services shall cause it to be published in the newspapers or other medium...
• California Government Code Section 11090
  On order of the Governor the head of each State agency shall make a report to the Governor giving an account of all matters pertaining...
• California Government Code Section 11091
  The head of each state agency shall make a written report of its activities to the Governor at least biennially, a copy of which shall...
• California Government Code Section 11092
  Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of any statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Filipinos as Filipinos not later...
• California Government Code Section 11092.5
  Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Pacific Islanders as Pacific Islanders not...
• California Government Code Section 11093
  (a) (1) Any state agency or department that develops and maintains data and statistics on the municipal level, shall, in the preparation and maintenance of...
• California Government Code Section 11093.4
  (a) (1) The State Board of Equalization, Employment Development Department, Department of Industrial Relations, Department of Finance, and the Department of Transportation, shall, in the...
• California Government Code Section 11093.5
  (a) (1) The Employment Development Department shall, in the preparation and maintenance of any statistical analyses and data, by city, either by population, fiscal, or...
• California Government Code Section 11094
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to reduce the excessive flow of unsolicited state agency reports which, after being...
• California Government Code Section 11096
  (a) No state agency shall distribute a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, except in response to a specific request therefor, or to the...
• California Government Code Section 11097
  Beginning with the 1984-85 fiscal year, each state agency shall include in its budget request a listing of state publications, as defined in Section 14902,...
• California Government Code Section 11098
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when funding for any legislatively mandated publication is discontinued in the Budget Act, the statutory mandate for that publication...
• California Government Code Section 11099
  Each state agency that publishes or distributes a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, shall file a copy of the publication with the Joint...
• California Government Code Section 11100
  The Controller or other State disbursing officer may secure and use a facsimile signature machine and sign or countersign all warrants or checks issued in...
• California Government Code Section 11101
  The Controller and any other state disbursing officer using that machine may secure forgery insurance protecting himself or herself and all funds under his or...
• California Government Code Section 11102
  The premiums on forgery insurance are a proper charge against appropriations for the support or maintenance of the officer using the machine or the State...
• California Government Code Section 11104.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any requirement that a state agency send material, information, notices, correspondence, or other communication through the United States...
• California Government Code Section 11110
  The form of all bonds of licensees, permittees, and all persons other than public officers and employees, furnishing bonds to a State department, office, board,...
• California Government Code Section 11111
  The Attorney General may from time to time modify or revoke approvals so given.
• California Government Code Section 11112
  The approval, modification, or revocation of the Attorney General shall be by regulation filed with the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 11380.
• California Government Code Section 11113
  The Attorney General may consult with private persons, groups, and associations as to bond forms to be approved, modified, or revoked.
• California Government Code Section 11120
  It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and the proceedings of...
• California Government Code Section 11121
  As used in this article, "state body" means each of the following: (a) Every state board, or commission, or similar multimember body of the state...
• California Government Code Section 11121.1
  As used in this article, "state body" does not include any of the following: (a) State agencies provided for in Article VI of the California...
• California Government Code Section 11121.9
  Each state body shall provide a copy of this article to each member of the state body upon his or her appointment to membership or...
• California Government Code Section 11121.95
  Any person appointed or elected to serve as a member of a state body who has not yet assumed the duties of office shall conform...
• California Government Code Section 11122
  As used in this article "action taken" means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by...
• California Government Code Section 11122.5
  (a) As used in this article, "meeting" includes any congregation of a majority of the members of a state body at the same time and...
• California Government Code Section 11123
  (a) All meetings of a state body shall be open and public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of a state...
• California Government Code Section 11123.1
  All meetings of a state body that are open and public shall meet the protections and prohibitions contained in Section 202 of the Americans with...
• California Government Code Section 11124
  No person shall be required, as a condition to attendance at a meeting of a state body, to register his or her name, to provide...
• California Government Code Section 11124.1
  (a) Any person attending an open and public meeting of the state body shall have the right to record the proceedings with an audio or...
• California Government Code Section 11125
  (a) The state body shall provide notice of its meeting to any person who requests that notice in writing. Notice shall be given and also...
• California Government Code Section 11125.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 6255 or any other provisions of law, agendas of public meetings and other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of...
• California Government Code Section 11125.2
  Any state body shall report publicly at a subsequent public meeting any action taken, and any rollcall vote thereon, to appoint, employ, or dismiss a...
• California Government Code Section 11125.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11125, a state body may take action on items of business not appearing on the posted agenda under any of the conditions...
• California Government Code Section 11125.4
  (a) A special meeting may be called at any time by the presiding officer of the state body or by a majority of the members...
• California Government Code Section 11125.5
  (a) In the case of an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of public...
• California Government Code Section 11125.6
  (a) An emergency meeting may be called at any time by the president of the Fish and Game Commission or by a majority of the...
• California Government Code Section 11125.7
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the state body shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the state...
• California Government Code Section 11125.8
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11131.5, in any hearing that the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board conducts pursuant to Section 13963.1 and that the applicant...
• California Government Code Section 11125.9
  Regional water quality control boards shall comply with the notification guidelines in Section 11125 and, in addition, shall do both of the following: (a) Notify,...
• California Government Code Section 11126
  (a) (1) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a state body from holding closed sessions during a regular or special meeting to...
• California Government Code Section 11126.1
  The state body shall designate a clerk or other officer or employee of the state body, who shall then attend each closed session of the...
• California Government Code Section 11126.2
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit a state body that has received a confidential final draft audit report from the Bureau...
• California Government Code Section 11126.3
  (a) Prior to holding any closed session, the state body shall disclose, in an open meeting, the general nature of the item or items to...
• California Government Code Section 11126.4
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the California Gambling Control Commission from holding a closed session when discussing matters involving trade...
• California Government Code Section 11126.5
  In the event that any meeting is willfully interrupted by a group or groups of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of such...
• California Government Code Section 11126.7
  No fees may be charged by a state body for providing a notice required by Section 11125 or for carrying out any provision of this...
• California Government Code Section 11127
  Each provision of this article shall apply to every state body unless the body is specifically excepted from that provision by law or is covered...
• California Government Code Section 11128
  Each closed session of a state body shall be held only during a regular or special meeting of the body.
• California Government Code Section 11128.5
  The state body may adjourn any regular, adjourned regular, special, or adjourned special meeting to a time and place specified in the order of adjournment....
• California Government Code Section 11129
  Any hearing being held, or noticed or ordered to be held by a state body at any meeting may by order or notice of continuance...
• California Government Code Section 11130
  (a) The Attorney General, the district attorney, or any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 11130.3
  (a) Any interested person may commence an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief for the purpose of obtaining a judicial determination that an action...
• California Government Code Section 11130.5
  A court may award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to the plaintiff in an action brought pursuant to Section 11130 or 11130.3 where it...
• California Government Code Section 11130.7
  Each member of a state body who attends a meeting of that body in violation of any provision of this article, and where the member...
• California Government Code Section 11131
  No state agency shall conduct any meeting, conference, or other function in any facility that prohibits the admittance of any person, or persons, on the...
• California Government Code Section 11131.5
  No notice, agenda, announcement, or report required under this article need identify any victim or alleged victim of crime, tortious sexual conduct, or child abuse...
• California Government Code Section 11132
  Except as expressly authorized by this article, no closed session may be held by any state body.
• California Government Code Section 11135
  (a) No person in the State of California shall, on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color,...
• California Government Code Section 11136
  Whenever a state agency that administers a program or activity that is funded directly by the state or receives any financial assistance from the state,...
• California Government Code Section 11137
  If it is determined that a contractor, grantee, or local agency has violated the provisions of this article, the state agency that administers the program...
• California Government Code Section 11138
  Each state agency that administers a program or activity that is funded directly by the state or receives any financial assistance from the state and...
• California Government Code Section 11139
  The prohibitions and sanctions imposed by this article are in addition to any other prohibitions and sanctions imposed by law. This article shall not be...
• California Government Code Section 11139.3
  (a) It is the policy of this state and the purpose of this section to facilitate and support the development and operation of housing for...
• California Government Code Section 11139.5
  The Secretary of California Health and Human Services, with the advice and concurrence of the Fair Employment and Housing Council of the Department of Fair...
• California Government Code Section 11139.6
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that subdivision (a) of Section 31 of Article I of the California Constitution prohibits state and local government...
• California Government Code Section 11139.7
  (a) The Governor's Task Force on Diversity and Outreach, in its August 1, 2000, report, concluded that data on minority business participation is not currently...
• California Government Code Section 11140
  It is the policy of the State of California that the composition of state boards and commissions shall be broadly reflective of the general public...
• California Government Code Section 11141
  In making appointments to state boards and commissions, the Governor and every other appointing authority shall be responsible for nominating a variety of persons of...
• California Government Code Section 11145
  No state agency shall adopt or enforce any rule or regulation a violation of which can result in the imposition of a fine or imprisonment,...
• California Government Code Section 11146
  For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "State agency" has the same meaning as set forth in Section 82049,...
• California Government Code Section 11146.1
  Each state agency shall offer at least semiannually to each of its filers an orientation course on the relevant ethics statutes and regulations that govern...
• California Government Code Section 11146.2
  Each state agency shall maintain records indicating the specific attendees, each attendee's job title, and dates of their attendance for each orientation course offered pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11146.3
  Except as set forth in Section 11146.4, each filer shall attend the orientation course required in Section 11146.1, as follows: (a) For a filer who...
• California Government Code Section 11146.4
  (a) The requirements of Section 11146.3 shall not apply to filers with a state agency who have taken an equivalent ethics orientation course through another...
• California Government Code Section 11148
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to assist small businesses in this state in complying with regulatory standards designed...
• California Government Code Section 11148.5
  (a) Each state agency that significantly regulates small business or that significantly impacts small business shall designate at least one person who shall serve as...
• California Government Code Section 11150
  It is the policy of this State to vest in the Governor the civil administration of the laws of the State and for the purpose...
• California Government Code Section 11151
  Each department shall maintain an office and the director of each department who is a member of the Governor's council shall reside at Sacramento. Each...
• California Government Code Section 11152
  Subject to the approval of the Governor, the head of each department may arrange and classify the work of the department and consolidate, abolish, or...
• California Government Code Section 11152.5
  Wherever, pursuant to this code, any state department, officer, board, agency, committee, or commission is authorized to adopt rules and regulations, such rules and regulations...
• California Government Code Section 11153
  Except as otherwise provided by law, each division of a department shall be in charge of a chief who shall be appointed by the head...
• California Government Code Section 11154
  Except as otherwise provided by law, the head of each department may, with the approval of the Governor, appoint such officers and employees as are...
• California Government Code Section 11155
  The head of a department has no authority to obligate the State for salaries in excess of money available by law for that purpose.
• California Government Code Section 11156
  In addition to any bonds required by the Director of General Services the head of each department may require any officer or employee in his...
• California Government Code Section 11157
  The Attorney General is the legal adviser of each department in all matters relating to the department and to the powers and duties of its...
• California Government Code Section 11158
  The sheriffs in the several counties shall execute all lawful orders of a department in their counties.
• California Government Code Section 11159
  Whenever a department succeeds to and is vested with the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of a State agency, deputy, employee, or employment, the...
• California Government Code Section 11160
  Whenever a department is invested with the power and is charged with the duty of administering and enforcing any law which imposes a duty or...
• California Government Code Section 11161
  Every person is subject to the same obligations and duties, and has the same rights as if the rights, powers and duties imposed upon and...
• California Government Code Section 11162
  Every State officer, deputy and employee is subject to the same penalties, civil or criminal, for any offense as are prescribed by existing law for...
• California Government Code Section 11180
  The head of each department may make investigations and prosecute actions concerning: (a) All matters relating to the business activities and subjects under the jurisdiction...
• California Government Code Section 11180.5
  At the request of a prosecuting attorney or the Attorney General, any agency, bureau, or department of this state, any other state, or the United...
• California Government Code Section 11181
  In connection with any investigation or action authorized by this article, the department head may do any of the following: (a) Inspect and copy books,...
• California Government Code Section 11182
  The head of a department may delegate the powers conferred upon him by this article to any officer of the department he authorizes to conduct...
• California Government Code Section 11183
  Except in a report to the head of the department or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding at law or as...
• California Government Code Section 11184
  (a) In any hearing in any part of the state or in any investigation conducted under this article, the head of the department shall issue...
• California Government Code Section 11185
  (a) If the witness named in the subpoena is a natural person, the person is not obliged to attend as a witness in any matter...
• California Government Code Section 11186
  The superior court in the county in which any hearing is held or any investigation is conducted under the direction of the head of a...
• California Government Code Section 11187
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), if any witness refuses to answer any interrogatory or to attend or testify or produce or permit the...
• California Government Code Section 11188
  Upon the filing of the petition the court shall enter an order directing the person to appear before the court at a specified time and...
• California Government Code Section 11189
  In any matter pending before a department head, the department head may cause the deposition of persons residing within or without the state to be...
• California Government Code Section 11190
  Any party to any departmental hearing has the right to the attendance of witnesses in his behalf at the hearing or upon deposition upon making...
• California Government Code Section 11191
  Each witness, other than an officer or employee of the State or of a political subdivision of the State, who appears by order of the...
• California Government Code Section 11200
  The Governor, upon recommendation of the director of the following state departments, may appoint not to exceed two chief deputies for the Directors of the...
• California Government Code Section 11200.1
  The Governor, upon nomination by the Insurance Commissioner, shall appoint the nominees as one chief deputy, and as one deputy director of the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11200.4
  The Governor, upon recommendation of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations may appoint not to exceed one chief deputy for the Director of...
• California Government Code Section 11201
  Each deputy appointed pursuant to Section 11200 shall serve at the pleasure of the director of the department in which he is appointed, and his...
• California Government Code Section 11250
  Whenever a State agency supported from the General Fund renders services or furnishes materials to a State agency not supported from the General Fund, the...
• California Government Code Section 11251
  The Controller, after consulting with the Department of Finance, may approve any general plan whereby any state agency which is within a department and which...
• California Government Code Section 11252
  Such adjustments shall be made in accordance with the approved plan by filing a financial statement with the Controller, and requesting the Controller to make...
• California Government Code Section 11253
  Upon written request approved by the Department of General Services, a department shall furnish to another department such assistance as it is able to render...
• California Government Code Section 11255
  The Controller may establish procedures whereby some or all of the payments between funds and appropriations within a state agency and between funds and appropriations...
• California Government Code Section 11256
  Subject to approval of the Director of General Services, state agencies may furnish services, materials or equipment to, or perform work for, other state agencies...
• California Government Code Section 11257
  State agencies may provide for the advancing of funds as herein provided to defray the charges mentioned in Section 11256. Any state agency may, and...
• California Government Code Section 11258
  Any state agency which normally, as a part of its regular operating functions, is engaged in the business of performing work for, or furnishing services,...
• California Government Code Section 11259
  All money received by any state agency, other than the Regents of the University of California, for charges for work, services, materials or equipment shall...
• California Government Code Section 11260
  After work is performed, services are rendered, or materials or equipment are furnished pursuant to advances or transfers made under Sections 11257 and 11258, the...
• California Government Code Section 11261
  Amounts advanced or transferred in accordance with Sections 11257 and 11258 shall be available for expenditure for the same period and purpose as the appropriation...
• California Government Code Section 11262
  Whenever any payment heretofore or hereafter made by a state agency for work, services, materials or equipment performed or furnished under this article or any...
• California Government Code Section 11263
  As used in this article, "state agency" or "state agencies" includes the Department of General Services and any and all organizational units, parts, and subdivisions...
• California Government Code Section 11270
  As used in this article, "administrative costs" means the amounts expended by the Legislature, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Governor's Office, the California Technology Agency,...
• California Government Code Section 11270.1
  (a) The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund shall consist of those amounts...
• California Government Code Section 11271
  The Department of Finance shall determine, and may at any time redetermine, which funds, other than the General Fund and the Central Service Cost Recovery...
• California Government Code Section 11272
  (a) In determining or redetermining the fair share, the Department of Finance may consider the factors of cost distribution and cost estimation as it deems...
• California Government Code Section 11274
  (a) The Department of Finance shall certify annually to the Controller the amount determined to be the fair share of administrative costs due and payable...
• California Government Code Section 11275
  If, upon receipt of the statement provided in Section 11274, the state agency does not have funds available by law for the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 11276
  The Department of Finance may certify at any time during the year to the Controller any amount as it determines, based upon experience of the...
• California Government Code Section 11277
  If, upon receipt of the statement provided in Section 11276, the state agency does not have funds available by law for the payment of the...
• California Government Code Section 11290
  The Department of General Services may fix the cost or pro rata share, or in its discretion an amount it considers equivalent to the cost...
• California Government Code Section 11291
  If a state agency refuses to pay the charges fixed by the Department of General Services pursuant to this article, the department may file a...
• California Government Code Section 11292
  All money received pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (d) of Section 11290, except as provided in Section 11293, shall be accounted for to the Controller...
• California Government Code Section 11293
  All money received by the Department of General Services pursuant to paragraph (b) of Section 11290 shall be deposited in the Service Revolving Fund.
• California Government Code Section 11330
  Every state agency having the control of any public institution owned or controlled by the state shall notify the Department of General Services of any...
• California Government Code Section 11331
  Upon receipt of such notices, the Department of General Services shall estimate the selling price of the products upon the basis of their reasonable value...
• California Government Code Section 11332
  No public institution owned or controlled by the state shall purchase any product from any source other than a public institution owned or controlled by...
• California Government Code Section 11333
  If it is impossible or impracticable to sell or exchange agricultural or livestock products between public institutions owned or controlled by the State and its...
• California Government Code Section 11334
  All money received by a state agency for the sale of products shall be accounted for and reported at the end of each month to...
• California Government Code Section 11335
  This article does not limit or prevent sales pursuant to any other law relating to the sale of personal property belonging to the State.
• California Government Code Section 11340
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of administrative regulations in recent years. (b) The...
• California Government Code Section 11340.1
  (a) The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the public interest to establish an Office of Administrative Law which shall be charged with the...
• California Government Code Section 11340.2
  (a) The Office of Administrative Law is hereby established in state government. The office shall be under the direction and control of an executive officer...
• California Government Code Section 11340.3
  The director may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as is deemed necessary...
• California Government Code Section 11340.4
  (a) The office is authorized and directed to do the following: (1) Study the subject of administrative rulemaking in all its aspects. (2) In the...
• California Government Code Section 11340.5
  (a) No state agency shall issue, utilize, enforce, or attempt to enforce any guideline, criterion, bulletin, manual, instruction, order, standard of general application, or other...
• California Government Code Section 11340.6
  Except where the right to petition for adoption of a regulation is restricted by statute to a designated group or where the form of procedure...
• California Government Code Section 11340.7
  (a) Upon receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), a state...
• California Government Code Section 11340.85
  (a) As used in this section, "electronic communication" includes electronic transmission of written or graphical material by electronic mail, facsimile, or other means, but does...
• California Government Code Section 11340.9
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (a) An agency in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government. (b) A...
• California Government Code Section 11341
  (a) The office shall establish a system to give a unique identification number to each regulatory action. (b) The office and the state agency taking...
• California Government Code Section 11342.1
  Except as provided in Section 11342.4, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any state agency to adopt, administer, or...
• California Government Code Section 11342.2
  Whenever by the express or implied terms of any statute a state agency has authority to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, make specific or otherwise...
• California Government Code Section 11342.4
  The office shall adopt, amend, or repeal regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11342.510
  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11342.520
  "Agency" means state agency.
• California Government Code Section 11342.530
  "Building standard" has the same meaning provided in Section 18909 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Government Code Section 11342.535
  "Cost impact" means the amount of reasonable range of direct costs, or a description of the type and extent of direct costs, that a representative...
• California Government Code Section 11342.540
  "Director" means the director of the office.
• California Government Code Section 11342.545
  "Emergency" means a situation that calls for immediate action to avoid serious harm to the public peace, health, safety, or general welfare.
• California Government Code Section 11342.548
  "Major regulation" means any proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law pursuant to Article 6...
• California Government Code Section 11342.550
  "Office" means the Office of Administrative Law.
• California Government Code Section 11342.560
  "Order of repeal" means any resolution, order, or other official act of a state agency that expressly repeals a regulation in whole or in part.
• California Government Code Section 11342.570
  "Performance standard" means a regulation that describes an objective with the criteria stated for achieving the objective.
• California Government Code Section 11342.580
  "Plain English" means language that satisfies the standard of clarity provided in Section 11349.
• California Government Code Section 11342.590
  "Prescriptive standard" means a regulation that specifies the sole means of compliance with a performance standard by specific actions, measurements, or other quantifiable means.
• California Government Code Section 11342.595
  "Proposed action" means the regulatory action, notice of which is submitted to the office for publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register.
• California Government Code Section 11342.600
  "Regulation" means every rule, regulation, order, or standard of general application or the amendment, supplement, or revision of any rule, regulation, order, or standard adopted...
• California Government Code Section 11342.610
  (a) "Small business" means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and...
• California Government Code Section 11343
  Every state agency shall: (a) Transmit to the office for filing with the Secretary of State a certified copy of every regulation adopted or amended...
• California Government Code Section 11343.1
  (a) All regulations transmitted to the Office of Administrative Law for filing with the Secretary of State shall conform to the style prescribed by the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.2
  The Secretary of State shall endorse on the certified copy of each regulation or order of repeal filed with or delivered to him or her,...
• California Government Code Section 11343.3
  Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency that is required to promulgate administrative regulations, including, but not limited to, the State Air Resources Board, the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.4
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a regulation or an order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall...
• California Government Code Section 11343.5
  Within 10 days from the receipt of printed copies of the California Code of Regulations or of the California Code of Regulations Supplement from the...
• California Government Code Section 11343.6
  The filing of a certified copy of a regulation or an order of repeal with the Secretary of State raises the rebuttable presumptions that: (a)...
• California Government Code Section 11343.8
  Upon the request of a state agency, the office may file with the Secretary of State and the office may publish in such manner as...
• California Government Code Section 11344
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Provide for the official compilation, printing, and publication of adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations, which...
• California Government Code Section 11344.1
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Provide for the publication of the California Regulatory Notice Register, which shall be an official publication...
• California Government Code Section 11344.2
  The office shall supply a complete set of the California Code of Regulations, and of the California Code of Regulations Supplement to the county clerk...
• California Government Code Section 11344.3
  Every document, other than a notice of proposed rulemaking action, required to be published in the California Regulatory Notice Register by this chapter, shall be...
• California Government Code Section 11344.4
  (a) The California Code of Regulations, the California Code of Regulations Supplement, and the California Regulatory Notice Register shall be sold at prices which will...
• California Government Code Section 11344.6
  The publication of a regulation in the California Code of Regulations or California Code of Regulations Supplement raises a rebuttable presumption that the text of...
• California Government Code Section 11344.7
  Nothing in this chapter precludes any person or state agency from purchasing copies of the California Code of Regulations, the California Code of Regulations Supplement,...
• California Government Code Section 11344.9
  (a) Whenever the term "California Administrative Code" appears in law, official legal paper, or legal publication, it means the "California Code of Regulations." (b) Whenever...
• California Government Code Section 11345
  The office is not required to develop a unique identification number system for each regulatory action pursuant to Section 11341 or to make the California...
• California Government Code Section 11346
  (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish basic minimum procedural requirements for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of administrative regulations. Except as...
• California Government Code Section 11346.1
  (a) (1) The adoption, amendment, or repeal of an emergency regulation is not subject to any provision of this article or Article 6 (commencing with...
• California Government Code Section 11346.2
  Every agency subject to this chapter shall prepare, submit to the office with the notice of the proposed action as described in Section 11346.5, and...
• California Government Code Section 11346.3
  (a) State agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any administrative regulation shall assess the potential for adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and...
• California Government Code Section 11346.36
  (a) Prior to November 1, 2013, the Department of Finance, in consultation with the office and other state agencies, shall adopt regulations for conducting the...
• California Government Code Section 11346.4
  (a) At least 45 days prior to the hearing and close of the public comment period on the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation,...
• California Government Code Section 11346.45
  (a) In order to increase public participation and improve the quality of regulations, state agencies proposing to adopt regulations shall, prior to publication of the...
• California Government Code Section 11346.5
  (a) The notice of proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation shall include the following: (1) A statement of the time, place, and nature...
• California Government Code Section 11346.6
  (a) This section shall only apply to the following proposed regulations: (1) Regulations proposed by the Department of Rehabilitation. (2) Regulations that must be submitted...
• California Government Code Section 11346.7
  The office shall maintain a link on its website to the website maintained by the Small Business Advocate that also includes the telephone number of...
• California Government Code Section 11346.8
  (a) If a public hearing is held, both oral and written statements, arguments, or contentions, shall be permitted. The agency may impose reasonable limitations on...
• California Government Code Section 11346.9
  Every agency subject to this chapter shall do the following: (a) Prepare and submit to the office with the adopted regulation a final statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11347
  (a) If, after publication of a notice of proposed action pursuant to Section 11346.4, but before the notice of proposed action becomes ineffective pursuant to...
• California Government Code Section 11347.1
  (a) An agency that adds any technical, theoretical, or empirical study, report, or similar document to the rulemaking file after publication of the notice of...
• California Government Code Section 11347.3
  (a) Every agency shall maintain a file of each rulemaking that shall be deemed to be the record for that rulemaking proceeding. Commencing no later...
• California Government Code Section 11348
  Each agency subject to this chapter shall keep its rulemaking records on all of that agency's pending rulemaking actions, in which the notice has been...
• California Government Code Section 11349
  The following definitions govern the interpretation of this chapter: (a) "Necessity" means the record of the rulemaking proceeding demonstrates by substantial evidence the need for...
• California Government Code Section 11349.1
  (a) The office shall review all regulations adopted, amended, or repealed pursuant to the procedure specified in Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346) and submitted...
• California Government Code Section 11349.1.5
  (a) The Department of Finance and the office shall, from time to time, review the standardized regulatory impact analyses required by subdivision (c) of Section...
• California Government Code Section 11349.2
  An agency may add material to a rulemaking file that has been submitted to the office for review pursuant to this article if addition of...
• California Government Code Section 11349.3
  (a) The office shall either approve a regulation submitted to it for review and transmit it to the Secretary of State for filing or disapprove...
• California Government Code Section 11349.4
  (a) A regulation returned to an agency because of failure to meet the standards of Section 11349.1, because of an agency's failure to comply with...
• California Government Code Section 11349.5
  (a) To initiate a review of a decision by the office, the agency shall file a written Request for Review with the Governor's Legal Affairs...
• California Government Code Section 11349.6
  (a) If the adopting agency has complied with Sections 11346.2 to 11347.3, inclusive, prior to the adoption of the regulation as an emergency, the office...
• California Government Code Section 11349.7
  The office, at the request of any standing, select, or joint committee of the Legislature, shall initiate a priority review of any regulation, group of...
• California Government Code Section 11349.8
  (a) If the office is notified of, or on its own becomes aware of, an existing regulation in the California Code of Regulations for which...
• California Government Code Section 11349.9
  (a) To initiate a review of the office's Notice of Repeal pursuant to Section 11349.8, the agency shall appeal the office's decision by filing a...
• California Government Code Section 11350
  (a) Any interested person may obtain a judicial declaration as to the validity of any regulation or order of repeal by bringing an action for...
• California Government Code Section 11350.3
  Any interested person may obtain a judicial declaration as to the validity of a regulation or order of repeal which the office has disapproved pursuant...
• California Government Code Section 11351
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), Article 6 (commencing with Section 11349), Article 7 (commencing with Section 11349.7),...
• California Government Code Section 11352
  The following actions are not subject to this chapter: (a) The issuance, denial, or waiver of any water quality certification as authorized under Section 13160...
• California Government Code Section 11353
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this chapter does not apply to the adoption or revision of state policy for water quality control and...
• California Government Code Section 11354
  Sections 11352 and 11353 do not affect any court's determination, relating to the applicability of this chapter to any provision of a policy, plan, or...
• California Government Code Section 11354.1
  (a) For purposes of this section, "commission" means the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. (b) This chapter does not apply to any policy,...
• California Government Code Section 11356
  (a) Article 6 (commencing with Section 11349) is not applicable to a building standard. (b) Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346) is applicable to those...
• California Government Code Section 11357
  (a) The Department of Finance shall adopt and update, as necessary, instructions for inclusion in the State Administrative Manual prescribing the methods that any agency...
• California Government Code Section 11359
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after January 1, 1982, no new regulation, or the amendment or repeal of any regulation, which...
• California Government Code Section 11361
  This chapter does not apply to the adoption or revision of regulations, guidelines, or criteria to implement the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air,...
• California Government Code Section 11370
  Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500)...
• California Government Code Section 11370.1
  As used in the Administrative Procedure Act "director" means the executive officer of the Office of Administrative Hearings.
• California Government Code Section 11370.2
  (a) There is in the Department of General Services the Office of Administrative Hearings which is under the direction and control of an executive officer...
• California Government Code Section 11370.3
  The director shall appoint and maintain a staff of full-time, and may appoint pro tempore part-time, administrative law judges qualified under Section 11502 which is...
• California Government Code Section 11370.4
  The total cost to the state of maintaining and operating the Office of Administrative Hearings shall be determined by, and collected by the Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11370.5
  (a) The office is authorized and directed to study the subject of administrative adjudication in all its aspects; to submit its suggestions to the various...
• California Government Code Section 11371
  (a) There is within the Office of Administrative Hearings a Medical Quality Hearing Panel, consisting of no fewer than five full-time administrative law judges. The...
• California Government Code Section 11372
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all adjudicative hearings and proceedings relating to the discipline or reinstatement of licensees of the Medical Board of...
• California Government Code Section 11373
  All adjudicative hearings and proceedings conducted by an administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 shall be conducted under the terms and conditions set...
• California Government Code Section 11373.3
  The Office of Administrative Hearings shall provide facilities and support personnel for the review committee panel and shall assess the Medical Board of California for...
• California Government Code Section 11380
  (a) (1) The office shall hear and render a decision on any appeal filed by a business, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14775, in...
• California Government Code Section 11400
  (a) This chapter and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) constitute the administrative adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. (b) A reference in any...
• California Government Code Section 11400.10
  (a) This chapter is operative on July 1, 1997. (b) This chapter is applicable to an adjudicative proceeding commenced on or after July 1, 1997....
• California Government Code Section 11400.20
  (a) Before, on, or after July 1, 1997, an agency may adopt interim or permanent regulations to govern an adjudicative proceeding under this chapter or...
• California Government Code Section 11405.10
  Unless the provision or context requires otherwise, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11405.20
  "Adjudicative proceeding" means an evidentiary hearing for determination of facts pursuant to which an agency formulates and issues a decision.
• California Government Code Section 11405.30
  "Agency" means a board, bureau, commission, department, division, office, officer, or other administrative unit, including the agency head, and one or more members of the...
• California Government Code Section 11405.40
  "Agency head" means a person or body in which the ultimate legal authority of an agency is vested, and includes a person or body to...
• California Government Code Section 11405.50
  (a) "Decision" means an agency action of specific application that determines a legal right, duty, privilege, immunity, or other legal interest of a particular person....
• California Government Code Section 11405.60
  "Party" includes the agency that is taking action, the person to which the agency action is directed, and any other person named as a party...
• California Government Code Section 11405.70
  "Person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, governmental subdivision or unit of a governmental subdivision, or public or private organization or entity of any character.
• California Government Code Section 11405.80
  "Presiding officer" means the agency head, member of the agency head, administrative law judge, hearing officer, or other person who presides in an adjudicative proceeding.
• California Government Code Section 11410.10
  This chapter applies to a decision by an agency if, under the federal or state Constitution or a federal or state statute, an evidentiary hearing...
• California Government Code Section 11410.20
  Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute: (a) This chapter applies to all agencies of the state. (b) This chapter does not apply to the...
• California Government Code Section 11410.30
  (a) As used in this section, "local agency" means a county, city, district, public authority, public agency, or other political subdivision or public corporation in...
• California Government Code Section 11410.40
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, by regulation, ordinance, or other appropriate action, an agency may adopt this chapter or any of its provisions...
• California Government Code Section 11410.50
  This chapter applies to an adjudicative proceeding required to be conducted under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) unless the statutes relating to the proceeding...
• California Government Code Section 11410.60
  (a) As used in this section, "quasi-public entity" means an entity, other than a governmental agency, whether characterized by statute as a public corporation, public...
• California Government Code Section 11415.10
  (a) The governing procedure by which an agency conducts an adjudicative proceeding is determined by the statutes and regulations applicable to that proceeding. If no...
• California Government Code Section 11415.20
  A state statute or a federal statute or regulation applicable to a particular agency or decision prevails over a conflicting or inconsistent provision of this
• California Government Code Section 11415.30
  (a) To the extent necessary to avoid a loss or delay of funds or services from the federal government that would otherwise be available to...
• California Government Code Section 11415.40
  Except to the extent prohibited by another statute or regulation, a person may waive a right conferred on the person by the administrative adjudication provisions...
• California Government Code Section 11415.50
  (a) An agency may provide any appropriate procedure for a decision for which an adjudicative proceeding is not required. (b) An adjudicative proceeding is not...
• California Government Code Section 11415.60
  (a) An agency may formulate and issue a decision by settlement, pursuant to an agreement of the parties, without conducting an adjudicative proceeding. Subject to...
• California Government Code Section 11420.10
  (a) An agency, with the consent of all the parties, may refer a dispute that is the subject of an adjudicative proceeding for resolution by...
• California Government Code Section 11420.20
  (a) The Office of Administrative Hearings shall adopt and promulgate model regulations for alternative dispute resolution under this article. The model regulations govern alternative dispute...
• California Government Code Section 11420.30
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a communication made in alternative dispute resolution under this article is protected to the following extent: (a) Anything said,...
• California Government Code Section 11425.10
  (a) The governing procedure by which an agency conducts an adjudicative proceeding is subject to all of the following requirements: (1) The agency shall give...
• California Government Code Section 11425.20
  (a) A hearing shall be open to public observation. Nothing in this subdivision limits the authority of the presiding officer to order closure of a...
• California Government Code Section 11425.30
  (a) A person may not serve as presiding officer in an adjudicative proceeding in any of the following circumstances: (1) The person has served as...
• California Government Code Section 11425.40
  (a) The presiding officer is subject to disqualification for bias, prejudice, or interest in the proceeding. (b) It is not alone or in itself grounds...
• California Government Code Section 11425.50
  (a) The decision shall be in writing and shall include a statement of the factual and legal basis for the decision. (b) The statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11425.60
  (a) A decision may not be expressly relied on as precedent unless it is designated as a precedent decision by the agency. (b) An agency...
• California Government Code Section 11430.10
  (a) While the proceeding is pending there shall be no communication, direct or indirect, regarding any issue in the proceeding, to the presiding officer from...
• California Government Code Section 11430.20
  A communication otherwise prohibited by Section 11430.10 is permissible in any of the following circumstances: (a) The communication is required for disposition of an ex...
• California Government Code Section 11430.30
  A communication otherwise prohibited by Section 11430.10 from an employee or representative of an agency that is a party to the presiding officer is permissible...
• California Government Code Section 11430.40
  If, while the proceeding is pending but before serving as presiding officer, a person receives a communication of a type that would be in violation...
• California Government Code Section 11430.50
  (a) If a presiding officer receives a communication in violation of this article, the presiding officer shall make all of the following a part of...
• California Government Code Section 11430.60
  Receipt by the presiding officer of a communication in violation of this article may be grounds for disqualification of the presiding officer. If the presiding...
• California Government Code Section 11430.70
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), the provisions of this article governing ex parte communications to the presiding officer also govern ex parte communications...
• California Government Code Section 11430.80
  (a) There shall be no communication, direct or indirect, while a proceeding is pending regarding the merits of any issue in the proceeding, between the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.05
  As used in this article, "language assistance" means oral interpretation or written translation into English of a language other than English or of English into...
• California Government Code Section 11435.10
  Nothing in this article limits the application or effect of Section 754 of the Evidence Code to interpretation for a deaf or hard-of-hearing party or...
• California Government Code Section 11435.15
  (a) The following state agencies shall provide language assistance in adjudicative proceedings to the extent provided in this article: Agricultural Labor Relations Board Department of...
• California Government Code Section 11435.20
  (a) The hearing, or any medical examination conducted for the purpose of determining compensation or monetary award, shall be conducted in English. (b) If a...
• California Government Code Section 11435.25
  (a) The cost of providing an interpreter under this article shall be paid by the agency having jurisdiction over the matter if the presiding officer...
• California Government Code Section 11435.30
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall establish, maintain, administer, and publish annually an updated list of certified administrative hearing interpreters it has determined meet the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.35
  (a) The State Personnel Board shall establish, maintain, administer, and publish annually, an updated list of certified medical examination interpreters it has determined meet the...
• California Government Code Section 11435.40
  (a) The Department of Human Resources shall designate the languages for which certification shall be established under Sections 11435.30 and 11435.35. The languages designated shall...
• California Government Code Section 11435.45
  (a) The Department of Human Resources shall establish and charge fees for applications to take interpreter examinations and for renewal of certifications. The purpose of...
• California Government Code Section 11435.50
  The Department of Human Resources may remove the name of a person from the list of certified interpreters if any of the following conditions occurs:...
• California Government Code Section 11435.55
  (a) An interpreter used in a hearing shall be certified pursuant to Section 11435.30. However, if an interpreter certified pursuant to Section 11435.30 cannot be...
• California Government Code Section 11435.60
  Every agency subject to the language assistance requirement of this article shall advise each party of the right to an interpreter at the same time...
• California Government Code Section 11435.65
  (a) The rules of confidentiality of the agency, if any, that apply in an adjudicative proceeding shall apply to any interpreter in the hearing or...
• California Government Code Section 11440.10
  (a) The agency head may do any of the following with respect to a decision of the presiding officer or the agency: (1) Determine to...
• California Government Code Section 11440.20
  Service of a writing on, or giving of a notice to, a person in a procedure provided in this chapter is subject to the following...
• California Government Code Section 11440.30
  (a) The presiding officer may conduct all or part of a hearing by telephone, television, or other electronic means if each participant in the hearing...
• California Government Code Section 11440.40
  (a) In any proceeding under subdivision (h) or (i) of Section 12940, or Section 19572 or 19702, alleging conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, sexual assault,...
• California Government Code Section 11440.45
  (a) In any proceedings pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500), the portion of statements, writings, or benevolent gestures expressing sympathy...
• California Government Code Section 11440.50
  (a) This section applies in adjudicative proceedings of an agency if the agency by regulation provides that this section is applicable in the proceedings. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 11440.60
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) "Quasi-judicial proceeding" means any of the following: (A) A proceeding to...
• California Government Code Section 11445.10
  (a) Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the informal hearing procedure provided in this article. (b)...
• California Government Code Section 11445.20
  Subject to Section 11445.30, an agency may use an informal hearing procedure in any of the following proceedings, if in the circumstances its use does...
• California Government Code Section 11445.30
  (a) The notice of hearing shall state the agency's selection of the informal hearing procedure. (b) Any objection of a party to use of the...
• California Government Code Section 11445.40
  (a) Except as provided in this article, the hearing procedures otherwise required by statute for an adjudicative proceeding apply to an informal hearing. (b) In...
• California Government Code Section 11445.50
  (a) The presiding officer may deny use of the informal hearing procedure, or may convert an informal hearing to a formal hearing after an informal...
• California Government Code Section 11445.60
  (a) If the presiding officer has reason to believe that material facts are in dispute, the presiding officer may require a party to state the...
• California Government Code Section 11450.05
  (a) This article applies in an adjudicative proceeding required to be conducted under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500). (b) An agency may use the...
• California Government Code Section 11450.10
  (a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be issued for attendance at a hearing and for production of documents at any reasonable time and place...
• California Government Code Section 11450.20
  (a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum shall be issued by the agency or presiding officer at the request of a party, or by the attorney...
• California Government Code Section 11450.30
  (a) A person served with a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may object to its terms by a motion for a protective order, including...
• California Government Code Section 11450.40
  A witness appearing pursuant to a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum, other than a party, shall receive for the appearance the following mileage and...
• California Government Code Section 11450.50
  (a) In the case of the production of a party to the record of a proceeding or of a person for whose benefit a proceeding...
• California Government Code Section 11455.10
  A person is subject to the contempt sanction for any of the following in an adjudicative proceeding before an agency: (a) Disobedience of or resistance...
• California Government Code Section 11455.20
  (a) The presiding officer or agency head may certify the facts that justify the contempt sanction against a person to the superior court in and...
• California Government Code Section 11455.30
  (a) The presiding officer may order a party, the party's attorney or other authorized representative, or both, to pay reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred...
• California Government Code Section 11460.10
  Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the emergency decision procedure provided in this article.
• California Government Code Section 11460.20
  (a) An agency may issue an emergency decision for temporary, interim relief under this article if the agency has adopted a regulation that provides that...
• California Government Code Section 11460.30
  (a) An agency may only issue an emergency decision under this article in a situation involving an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or...
• California Government Code Section 11460.40
  (a) Before issuing an emergency decision under this article, the agency shall, if practicable, give the person to which the agency action is directed notice...
• California Government Code Section 11460.50
  (a) The agency shall issue an emergency decision, including a brief explanation of the factual and legal basis and reasons for the emergency decision, to...
• California Government Code Section 11460.60
  (a) After issuing an emergency decision under this article for temporary, interim relief, the agency shall conduct an adjudicative proceeding under a formal, informal, or...
• California Government Code Section 11460.70
  The agency record consists of any documents concerning the matter that were considered or prepared by the agency. The agency shall maintain these documents as...
• California Government Code Section 11460.80
  (a) On issuance of an emergency decision under this article, the person to which the agency action is directed may obtain judicial review of the...
• California Government Code Section 11465.10
  Subject to the limitations in this article, an agency may conduct an adjudicative proceeding under the declaratory decision procedure provided in this article.
• California Government Code Section 11465.20
  (a) A person may apply to an agency for a declaratory decision as to the applicability to specified circumstances of a statute, regulation, or decision...
• California Government Code Section 11465.30
  Within 30 days after receipt of an application for a declaratory decision, an agency shall give notice of the application to all persons to which...
• California Government Code Section 11465.40
  The provisions of a formal, informal, or other applicable hearing procedure do not apply to an agency proceeding for a declaratory decision except to the...
• California Government Code Section 11465.50
  (a) Within 60 days after receipt of an application for a declaratory decision, an agency shall do one of the following, in writing: (1) Issue...
• California Government Code Section 11465.60
  (a) A declaratory decision shall contain the names of all parties to the proceeding, the particular facts on which it is based, and the reasons...
• California Government Code Section 11465.70
  (a) The Office of Administrative Hearings shall adopt and promulgate model regulations under this article that are consistent with the public interest and with the...
• California Government Code Section 11470.10
  (a) Subject to any applicable regulation adopted under Section 11470.50, at any point in an agency proceeding the presiding officer or other agency official responsible...
• California Government Code Section 11470.20
  If the presiding officer or other agency official responsible for the original proceeding would not have authority over the new proceeding to which it is...
• California Government Code Section 11470.30
  To the extent practicable and consistent with the rights of parties and the requirements of this article relating to the new proceeding, the record of...
• California Government Code Section 11470.40
  After a proceeding is converted from one type to another, the presiding officer or other agency official responsible for the new proceeding shall do all...
• California Government Code Section 11470.50
  An agency may adopt regulations to govern the conversion of one type of proceeding to another. The regulations may include an enumeration of the factors...
• California Government Code Section 11475
  The rules imposed by this article may be referred to as the Administrative Adjudication Code of Ethics.
• California Government Code Section 11475.10
  (a) This article applies to the following persons: (1) An administrative law judge. As used in this subdivision, "administrative law judge" means an incumbent of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.20
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, the Code of Judicial Ethics adopted by the Supreme Court pursuant to subdivision (m) of Section 18 of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.30
  For the purpose of this article, the following terms used in the Code of Judicial Ethics have the meanings provided in this section: (a) "Appeal"...
• California Government Code Section 11475.40
  The following provisions of the Code of Judicial Ethics do not apply under this article: (a) Canon 3B(7), to the extent it relates to ex...
• California Government Code Section 11475.50
  A violation of an applicable provision of the Code of Judicial Ethics, or a violation of the restrictions and prohibitions on accepting honoraria, gifts, or...
• California Government Code Section 11475.60
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a person to whom this article applies shall comply immediately with all applicable provisions of the Code of...
• California Government Code Section 11475.70
  Nothing in this article shall be construed or is intended to limit or affect the rights of an administrative law judge or other presiding officer...
• California Government Code Section 11500
  In this chapter unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: (a) "Agency" includes the state boards, commissions, and officers to which this chapter is...
• California Government Code Section 11501
  (a) This chapter applies to any agency as determined by the statutes relating to that agency. (b) This chapter applies to an adjudicative proceeding of...
• California Government Code Section 11502
  (a) All hearings of state agencies required to be conducted under this chapter shall be conducted by administrative law judges on the staff of the...
• California Government Code Section 11503
  A hearing to determine whether a right, authority, license or privilege should be revoked, suspended, limited or conditioned shall be initiated by filing an accusation....
• California Government Code Section 11504
  A hearing to determine whether a right, authority, license, or privilege should be granted, issued, or renewed shall be initiated by filing a statement of...
• California Government Code Section 11504.5
  In the following sections of this chapter, all references to accusations shall be deemed to be applicable to statements of issues except in those cases...
• California Government Code Section 11505
  (a) Upon the filing of the accusation the agency shall serve a copy thereof on the respondent as provided in subdivision (c). The agency may...
• California Government Code Section 11506
  (a) Within 15 days after service of the accusation the respondent may file with the agency a notice of defense in which the respondent may:...
• California Government Code Section 11507
  At any time before the matter is submitted for decision the agency may file or permit the filing of an amended or supplemental accusation. All...
• California Government Code Section 11507.3
  (a) When proceedings that involve a common question of law or fact are pending, the administrative law judge on the judge's own motion or on...
• California Government Code Section 11507.5
  The provisions of Section 11507.6 provide the exclusive right to and method of discovery as to any proceeding governed by this chapter.
• California Government Code Section 11507.6
  After initiation of a proceeding in which a respondent or other party is entitled to a hearing on the merits, a party, upon written request...
• California Government Code Section 11507.7
  (a) Any party claiming the party's request for discovery pursuant to Section 11507.6 has not been complied with may serve and file with the administrative...