California Military and Veterans Code GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Section 1.
  This act shall be known as the Military and Veterans Code.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 2.
  The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutes relating to the same subject matter shall be...
• Section 3.
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• Section 4.
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• Section 5.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 6.
  Division, part, chapter, and article headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or...
• Section 7.
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the power...
• 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 by this...
• Section 9.
  Whenever any reference is made to any section of this code or to any law of this State or the United States or to the...
• Section 10.
  “Section” means section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 11.
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 12.
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 13.
  “County” includes city and county.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 14.
  “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 15.
  “Oath” includes affirmation.(Enacted by Stats. 1935, Ch. 389.)
• Section 16.
  An oath authorized or required by Division 2 of this code or the regulations issued thereunder or the statutes or regulations governing the United States...
• Section 17.
  “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a witness...
• Section 18.
  Whenever used in this code, in specifying or defining the rights of employees of the State, or of any county, city and county, city, public...
• Section 19.
  “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 64. (SB 1005) Effective January...

Last modified: October 22, 2018