California Administrative Code

(a) Pursuant to Section 17717 of the act, the board shall establish allowable school building cost standards which shall be effective until next revised. (b) No application or bid shall be approved and no funds shall be provided for any construction which exceeds the allowable co…

Any school district may qualify to file an application for a lease-purchase project and enter into a lease agreement with option to purchase with the board, providing such applicant school district has sufficient building area entitlement as determined pursuant to the provisions …

(a) Site development for new building area may be included as a part of the project and classified as follows: (1) Utility Services may include but are not limited to facilities required to bring water, sewer, electricity, telephone, and fuel supply services to such suitable poin…

(a) The district shall make all repairs, renewals and replacements necessary to keep the project in good repair, working order and condition at all times. All costs for this purpose will be borne by the district. (b) In the event the project requires repairs, renewals or replacem…

The executive officer shall perform all acts necessary to carry out the provisions of the act except such functions as are reserved to the board and to other agencies by law or by these regulations.

The board may approve in whole or in part any application submitted pursuant to the Act. Upon receipt of the application, the executive officer shall review it for proper form and compliance with statutes and regulations of the board. After such review and any necessary correctio…

Upon receipt of a request first submitted to and approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction (as required by Education Code Section 8478), the Board may reimburse extended day care agencies for the costs of initial utility service installation when such facilities have n…

(a) A recipient of a loan for renovation shall agree to use the renovated facility for the purpose of child care and development during the specified loan period or longer. (b) The maximum loan shall not exceed $50,000.00 per eligible facility. (c) The loan period shall be 3 year…

(a) Eviction of persons in occupancy as of the date of acquisition shall be undertaken only for one or more of the following reasons: (1) Failure to pay rent, except in those cases where the failure to pay is due to the lessor's failure to keep the premises in habitable condition…

(a) Basic Rule: A public official at any level of state or local government has a prohibited conflict of interest and may not make, participate in making, or in any way use or attempt to use the official's position to influence a governmental decision when the official knows or h…

(a) For purposes of Sections 82019 and 82048, “consultant” means an individual who, pursuant to a contract with a state or local government agency: (1) Makes a governmental decision whether to: (A) Approve a rate, rule, or regulation; (B) Adopt or enforce a law; (C) Issue, deny, …

(a) Financial Interest Explicitly Involved: A financial effect on a financial interest is presumed to be reasonably foreseeable if the financial interest is a named party in, or the subject of, a governmental decision before the official or the official's agency. A financial inte…

(a) In order to determine if a governmental decision's reasonably foreseeable financial effect on a financial interest is material, for a governmental decision that affects: (1) A financial interest in a business entity, -- apply Regulation 18702.1; (2) A financial interest in re…

(a) The reasonably foreseeable financial effect of a governmental decision on an official's financial interest in a business entity is material if any of the following criteria are met: (1) Explicitly Involved. The entity is a named party in, or the subject of, the decision, incl…

(a) The reasonably foreseeable financial effect of a governmental decision on a parcel of real property in which an official has a financial interest, other than a leasehold interest, is material whenever the governmental decision: (1) Involves the adoption of or amendment to a d…

The financial effect of a governmental decision on the source of a gift to a public official, as identified in Section 87103(e), is material if: (a) The source is a claimant, applicant, respondent, contracting party, or is otherwise named or identified as the subject of the proce…

(a) A public official who has a financial interest in a decision or has received a disqualifying contribution under Section 84308 may establish that the official is legally required to make or to participate in the making of a governmental decision within the meaning of Section 8…

(a) Adoptions and Substantive Code Amendments. Any state agency or any local agency with jurisdiction in more than one county, other than judicial branch agencies, adopting or substantively amending a conflict of interest code must: (1) Drafting Requirements. Prepare a draft code…

(a) General. (1) The owner of a displaced advertising sign eligible under Section 1873.01 (a) is eligible to receive a payment for actual reasonable moving and related expenses which include: (A) Actual reasonable expenses in moving his advertising sign as provided in subsection …

Nothing contained in an agency's conflict of interest code shall be interpreted to require the reporting of gifts from outside the agency's jurisdiction if the purpose of disclosure of the source of the gift does not have some connection with or bearing upon the functions or duti…

(a) When a person assumes office or comes under the coverage of a newly effective conflict of interest code between October 1 and December 31 and files an initial Statement of Economic Interests pursuant to the conflict of interest code, that person need not file an annual Statem…

(a) Every local government agency with jurisdiction in more than one county shall review its conflict of interest code and, no later than October 1 of each even-numbered year, submit to the Fair Political Practices Commission a written statement which shall state either: (1) That…

Whenever a designated employee appeals a provision of the employing agency's Conflict of Interest Code pursuant to Section 87307, the code reviewing body may, in its discretion, suspend or modify the disclosure obligations of the appellant and persons similarly situated pending r…

(a) General. (1) A displaced owner-occupant of a dwelling may receive additional payments, the combined total of which may not exceed $15,000.00, for the additional cost necessary: (A) To purchase replacement housing; (B) To compensate the owner for the loss of favorable financin…

(a) The prohibitions of Sections 87401 and 87402 apply to any state administrative official if all of the following criteria are met: (1) The official has permanently left or is on a leave of absence from, as defined in Regulation 18746.4(a), any particular state office or employ…

(a) A formal or informal appearance or oral or written communication is for the purpose of influencing if it is made for the principal purpose of supporting, promoting, influencing, modifying, opposing, delaying, or advancing the action or proceeding. An appearance or communicati…

(a) For the purposes of Regulation 18741.1, the following apply: (1) The date on which an official permanently leaves office or employment or takes a leave of absence is the date on which the official is no longer authorized to perform the duties of the office or employment, and …

(a) Any person may observe the recount proceedings, subject to space limitations of the recount location selected by the elections official pursuant to section 20356. (b) Upon request by the elections official, each interested party shall appoint one of his or her representatives…

(a) The elections official shall develop, and prior to each statewide election, maintain a written policy providing reasonable access to the recount location by the media, and the use of cameras or audio or video recording devices in the recount location in a manner that will not…

The purpose of this chapter is to establish procedures for determining the projected number of valid signatures on an elections petition based on a verification of a random sampling of the petition signatures.

This chapter shall apply to the verification of signatures on the following petitions: (a) Petitions circulated pursuant to Division 5 (commencing with Section 3500) of the California Elections Code. (b) Signatures in Lieu of Filing Fee petitions circulated pursuant to Chapter 5 …

“Raw Count” means the total number of unverified signatures affixed to a petition and submitted to an elections official.

(a) The source code for any voting system or ballot marking system intended for use by an election jurisdiction in California must be placed in an approved escrow facility. If the source code has not been placed in an approved escrow facility, no voting system or ballot marking s…

For purposes of this chapter, no escrow facility, including any which may have been providing such services for any vendor prior to the effective date of these regulations, may serve as an escrow facility for purposes of these regulations after the effective date without having f…

A “voting system” means a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic system and its software, or any combination of these used for casting a ballot, tabulating votes, or both. This includes the software that defines the election definition files, ballot layout and structure, re…

A “vendor” is any person, group, organization, company, or entity, whether or not incorporated, who sells, leases, or grants use of, with or without compensation, a voting system, ballot marking system or an election management system for use by jurisdictions that conduct electio…

The Secretary of State shall consider all applicants for certification as an escrow company and shall certify, in writing, those that meet the minimum requirements set forth in these regulations.

(a) Within ten working days after receipt of an application for certification as an escrow company or approval of an escrow facility, the Secretary of State shall inform the applicant in writing whether the application is complete and accepted for filing or that it is deficient a…

(a) Within five working days of any submission of source code materials, each vendor shall certify to each affected election jurisdiction, with a copy to the Secretary of State, that they have placed their source code or codes in escrow. The certification shall include a descript…

(a) Once used in any election, no source code materials in escrow may be changed or modified. Except as specified in this section, change or modification requires that a new escrow be established. (b) Once used in any election, the unchanged source code shall be retained, at a mi…

(a) Prior to being used in any election, the vendor shall submit all voting system or ballot marking system source code changes or modifications into escrow in the same manner and under the same conditions in which the source code materials originally were placed in escrow. (b) A…

A certified escrow company shall: (a) Be authorized by the Secretary of State to operate its escrow facilities. (b) Submit a copy of every escrow agreement to the Secretary of State. The copy shall be submitted by the escrow company within ten days of the date the escrow agreemen…

Applications for approval of an escrow facility not included in the original application shall be made in writing to the Secretary of State on the Escrow Company and Facility Application (2014).

A vendor may enter into a written agreement with any certified escrow company for deposit of each source code.

(a) The approved escrow facility shall post a copy of the approval in its business office. The approval shall be posted in a place conspicuous to the public and must also be located so that it is easily readable by members of the public doing business at the escrow facility. (b) …

No person having access to the voting system, ballot marking system, or election management system source code materials shall interfere with or prevent the escrow representative from monitoring the security and the integrity of the source code materials.

(a) No voting system that has not been certified or conditionally approved shall be used in a pilot program except as provided for in this Chapter and Section 19209 of the Elections Code. (b) No later than nine months before the election during which the pilot program of a voting…

(a) An application to conduct a pilot program shall be submitted to Secretary of State by the governing board of the jurisdiction that plans to conduct the pilot program. (b) The application shall include the following: (1) Information regarding the request for approval, includin…

(a) The plan for the pilot program shall include the following: (1) A description of all devices that will be utilized. (2) The number of voters the voting system is expected to serve as well as the voting system's maximum capacity and any information about what specialized segme…

(a) The Secretary of State shall review the application, Pilot Program Plan, and other documents and materials required pursuant to this Chapter in order to evaluate the voting system. (b) The applicant shall make available all equipment needed to review the application and Pilot…