California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• 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 State...
• 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...
• 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 nominated...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 Section...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 expenses...
• Section 8544.6.
  All unreimbursed expenditures of the office are defined as “administrative costs” defined in Section 11270.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 281, Sec. 18. (SB 1395) Effective...
• 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...
• 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 by...
• 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, any...
• 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...
• 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 any...
• 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 designee...
• Section 8545.6.
  Any officer, employee, or person who, with intent to deceive or defraud, commits obstruction of the California State Auditor in the performance of his or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018