Title GOV, California Gov. Code

It is unlawful for any person: (a) To practice any deception or fraud with regard to his identity in connection with any examination, application, or request to be examined. (b) To obtain examination questions or other examination material except by specific authorization either …

Every person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. In accordance with Section 19683, action may be taken by the appointing power, the department, or the executive officer of the board may file charges, against a state employee who violates any pro…

(a) The State Personnel Board shall initiate a hearing or investigation of a written complaint of conduct prohibited by Section 8547.3 within 10 working days of its submission. The executive officer shall complete findings of the hearing or investigation within 60 working days th…

The State Personnel Board shall assist the State Auditor in preparing the written explanation required by Section 8548.1 by providing the State Auditor with a written explanation of the board’s role in investigating a claim that a state employee has been subject to retaliation as…

If a state employee is successful in an action brought pursuant to Section 19683, the complaining employee shall be reimbursed for all costs incurred pursuant to Section 995.3. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1212, Sec. 8.)

Subject to Chapter 1, Division 7 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, the board of supervisors may grant licenses and franchises for the construction of wharves, chutes, booms, and piers, and for the taking and keeping of tolls thereon. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

The board may grant franchises along and over the public roads and highways for all lawful purposes, upon such terms, conditions, and restrictions as in its judgment are necessary and proper, and in such manner as to present the least possible obstruction and inconvenience to the…

The board may deposit funds that it receives from its grant of a franchise to use the public roads in the general fund of the county. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 108, Sec. 1. Effective May 27, 1986.)

Unless otherwise provided by law, the board may lay out, maintain, control, construct, repair, and manage public ferries, bridges, wharves, chutes, other shipping facilities, and passenger transportation facilities within the county and may cooperate with any city in so doing. Th…

The legislative body of any city and county located in the area served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company from the City of San Jose to the City and County of San Francisco may make a bulk purchase of tickets for that line from the company, or from the Greyhound Bus Li…

Whenever an application is made to the board of supervisors for an order, franchise, or license relating to any road, bridge, ferry, wharf, chute, pier, or other subject over which the board has jurisdiction in which a majority of the board are interested, the application by orde…

The board of supervisors may install and maintain watering troughs along any state highway subject to agreement as to location with the Department of Transportation, and along any county road or stock trail in the county. (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 681, Sec. 16.)

If the board of supervisors determines that it is beneficial to the county, and an equal or greater sum of money has been made available from private sources, it may appropriate and expend money from the general fund of the county for making surveys, maps, plans, and plats and fo…

The board of supervisors may make contributions of public funds, materials, property and services to any city or to any statutorily created transit district for the purpose of improving public transportation within the county. The contributions may be subject to such terms and co…

If an inquest is held by the coroner and no other person takes charge of the body of the deceased, he shall cause it to be interred decently. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

In order to inter decently the body of the deceased, the coroner may apply to a judge of the superior court of his county for an order permitting him to: (a) sell summarily any personal property belonging to the deceased, (b) withdraw any money that the deceased has on deposit wi…

The coroner shall file with the clerk of the court a statement showing the property of the deceased that came into his hands, the amount received from the sale of any personal property, and the disposition of the property of the deceased. He shall also file with the clerk voucher…

The coroner shall keep an official register, labeled “Coroner’s Register,” with pages numbered, indexed and bound, in which he shall enter: (a) The name and any aliases of the deceased, when known, including such description as may be sufficient for identification and which may, …

In lieu of the “coroner’s register,” the coroner may keep an official file for each deceased person containing all of the information required by Section 27463. At any time after the completion of the coroner’s investigation, and the closing of the particular case involved, the c…

Whenever the death of any person shall have been referred to the coroner for investigation, there shall be delivered to the coroner any note, letter or other document apparently written by the deceased which may tend to indicate an intention by the writer to take the writer’s lif…

Within 90 days after an inquest upon a dead body the coroner shall deliver to the legal representatives of the deceased any money or other property found upon the body. (Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 77, Sec. 1.)

If, within 90 days after the inquest, no legal representative makes a demand upon the coroner for the money or property found upon the body of the decedent, the coroner shall deliver to the treasurer any money, and the proceeds of the sale of any property found upon the body. At …

If the coroner fails to deliver to the treasurer within 120 days after any inquest upon a dead body all money and proceeds from the sale of property found upon the body, unless claimed in the meantime by the public administrator or other legal representative of the decedent, the …

If within 90 days after an inquest upon a dead body no legal representative of the decedent demands from the coroner the property found upon the person of the decedent, the coroner shall sell the property at public auction upon reasonable public notice, and immediately thereafter…

In any action or proceeding in which the sheriff is a party, the coroner shall discharge the duties of sheriff. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

If no private ambulance service other than that operated by a coroner is available, in addition to his salary and other fees allowed by law the coroner may be reimbursed for ambulance services rendered in conveying any person to the county hospital, where the person and the perso…

Any county with a population under 250,000 that has elected to implement a trauma care system plan pursuant to Section 1797.257 of the Health and Safety Code may charge any actual costs incurred in the performance of an autopsy upon a person who was a resident of another county t…

(a) Whenever the coroner takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, he or she shall make a reasonable attempt to locate the family. After a reasonable attempt, the coroner may embalm the body or authorize the embalming by a mortician for purposes of preserving the remains for …

If authorized by the county board of supervisors by ordinance, the coroner, whenever he or she takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, may charge and collect from the person entitled to control the disposition of the remains, as specified in Section 7100 of the Health and S…

In coroners’ cases, interpreters’ and translators’ fees or other compensation shall be paid from the county treasury upon warrants drawn by the county auditor, when so ordered by the coroner. (Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 212, Sec. 6. (AB 2767) Effective January 1, 2011.)

The legislative body of a city may provide fire engines and all other necessary or proper apparatus for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. (Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 624.)

The legislative body of a city may: (a) Establish and maintain fire limits. (b) Regulate building and construction and removal of buildings within the city. (Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 624.)

The legislative body of a city organized under general law shall establish a fire department for the city. The fire department shall be under the charge of a chief who shall have had previous training and experience as a fireman. The other members of the fire department shall con…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Public Broadcasting Act of 1975. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

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, cultural, and public affairs program service designed to meet the needs of the citizens of this state and its various localities…

The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter unless the context requires otherwise. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“Commission” means the California Public Broadcasting Commission. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“Corporation for Public Broadcasting” means the corporation established pursuant to Section 396 of Title 47 of the United States Code. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“Instructional programming” means public broadcast programming which is curriculum related, whether for credit or not. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“Interconnection” means the use of apparatus or equipment for the electronic transmission and distribution of public broadcast programming to public broadcasting stations. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“Public broadcast programming” means programming intended for presentation on public broadcast stations, including, but not limited to, public affairs, cultural, and instructional programming. (Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 1227.)

“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 for Public Broadcasting, as well as any other noncommercial educational broadcasti…

“Instructional committee” means the instructional broadcast advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830). (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 466, Sec. 51.)

“Radio committee” means the radio advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830). (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 466, Sec. 52.)

“T.V. committee” means the television advisory committee created by Article 4 (commencing with Section 8830). (Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 466, Sec. 53.)

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 or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the…