California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Impeachment

• 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...
• 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.(Added...
• Section 3021.
  All impeachments shall be by resolution adopted, originated in, and conducted by managers elected by the Assembly.(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
• 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,...
• 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...
• Section 3024.
  The Senate shall assign a day for the hearing of the impeachment and inform the Assembly thereof.(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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.(Enacted...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018