Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and of the Assembly shall: (a) Under the direction of their presiding officers, have general supervision of the Senate and Assembly chambers, and the rooms attached. (b) Attend during the sittings of their respective bodies, and execute their co…

The Sergeant at Arms and Assistant Sergeants at Arms of each house shall have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code in all parts of the state in carrying out their d…

The Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of each house shall perform the duties of doorkeeper and keep order in the halls and lobbies. They shall prohibit all persons, other than members, officers, employees, other persons who have the privilege of the floor assigned them by the rules of e…

The secretary and assistant secretaries, the chief clerk and assistant clerks, and the engrossing and enrolling clerks and the minute clerks of the Senate and Assembly shall mark, label, and arrange all bills and papers belonging to the archives of their respective houses at the …

Unless otherwise provided, following any election or appointment and before any officer enters on the duties of his or her office, he or she shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation set forth in Section 3 of Article XX of the Constitution of California. (Amended by Stats.…

Unless otherwise provided, the oath may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

(a) Unless otherwise provided, every oath of office certified by the officer before whom it was taken shall be filed within the time required as follows: (1) The oath of all officers whose authority is not limited to any particular county, in the office of the Secretary of State.…

It is unlawful to remove a person from an office or position of public trust because such person has not complied with any law, charter, or regulation prescribing an additional test or qualification for such office or position of public trust, other than tests and qualifications …

It is unlawful for any person having the power of removal from office of any officer to remove or threaten to remove the officer from his office because the officer, in the appointment of any person to a position of public trust under himself, refuses to require any additional te…

Any officer or person who is removed or threatened with removal from any office or position of public trust may bring an action to restrain such unlawful removal or to enforce restoration by process of injunction, both prohibitory and mandatory, if the real reason for the removal…

No compensation nor reimbursement for expenses incurred shall be paid to any officer by any public agency unless he has taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 1250.)

Every person who, while taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, states as true any material matter which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of perjury, and is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Pen…

Every person having taken and subscribed to the oath or affirmation required by this chapter, who while holding office, advocates or becomes a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States by force…

This article and Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 14925) of Part 5. 5 shall be known and may be cited as the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project. (Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1653, Sec. 2.)

The department shall establish and administer the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project in accordance with this article. The department shall develop standards and guidelines for the demonstration project, including a definition of return trip eligibility, and, upon approv…

The department shall publicize the project and solicit proposals for programs designed to provide mass transit and high-occupancy vehicle commuters with transportation to their homes, their personal vehicles, or another agreed upon location in the event of an emergency or specifi…

The department shall prescribe forms to be utilized to apply for a grant to fund a proposed program, and shall adopt regulations prescribing qualifications for eligibility for the award of a grant, and establishing standards for auditing the expenditure of grant funds. (Added by …

The Guaranteed Return Trip Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. An amount not exceeding one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for each of the calendar years of 1991 and 1992, is hereby appropriated from the fund for the purpose of making grants pursuant to this a…

Grants of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for projects covering a single employer or not more than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for projects covering multiple employers may be made to public and private entities, including, but not limited to, all of the follow…

(a) A public or private entity may submit to the department a program proposal and an application for a grant to fund the development and initial operation of a proposed program. (b) To be eligible for funding, a proposed program shall meet all of the following criteria: (1) Serv…

The department shall evaluate each proposal submitted to it and award grants to qualified applicants which are selected for participation in the demonstration project. Grants shall be awarded in a manner which assures a reasonable distribution of grant funds throughout the state.…

The amount of any grant shall be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the grant applicant. The funds granted, together with the matching funds, shall be used solely for purposes of the guaranteed return trip program, as specified in Section 14180. (Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 16…

The recipient of a grant may use the funds for costs related to the development and operation of a guaranteed return trip program, including any of the following: (a) Development and administration of the program. (b) Program operating costs. (c) Promotion of the program and the …

Upon its selection of a proposed program and the award of a grant for the program, the department shall notify the Controller of its action, and the Controller shall disburse the amount of the grant, as specified by the department, to the applicant from the Guaranteed Return Trip…

The department shall conduct an evaluation of the Guaranteed Return Trip Demonstration Project in order to determine the effectiveness of individual programs funded pursuant to this article in promoting the use of mass transit and high-occupancy vehicle commuting. Not later than …

The Department of General Services has control of the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento, and of the Union Cemetery in San Mateo County accepted by Chapter 1096 of the Statutes of 1947. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

The fee to the state burial grounds, in the city cemetery of the City of Sacramento, is in the people of the state. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

There may be interred in the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento the remains of any person who: (a) Was a state officer or a Member of the Senate or Assembly at the time of his death. (b) At the death of any state officer or Member of the Senate or Assembly, was the sp…

The department may employ such employees as are necessary to perform its duties concerning the state burial grounds in the City of Sacramento and the Union Cemetery. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

A revolving fund in the State Treasury is hereby created, to be known as the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund, which fund may be utilized for the payment of compensation to officers and employees of the State and all amounts withheld therefrom pursuant to law, and for the payment of…

The Controller may, from time to time, provide that compensation due officers and employees, and amounts withheld therefrom pursuant to law, where properly chargeable to appropriations made from funds in the State Treasury, shall be paid by Controller’s warrant drawn against the …

The Controller may transfer to the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund the contributions required by Sections 20751, 20752, 20782, 20783, 22881, and 22883, and upon certification by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System in accordance with Sections 20754…

Refunds of amounts disbursed from the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund shall, on order of the Controller, be deposited in the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund and, on order of the Controller, shall be transferred forthwith from such fund to the fund and appropriation from which such am…

Any amount erroneously paid into the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund shall be refunded by the Controller. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 929.)

All amounts increasing the cash balance in the State Pay Roll Revolving Fund pursuant to the cancellation of warrants issued therefrom shall, on order of the Controller, be transferred to and in augmentation of the cash balance of the fund from which the amount covered by such ca…

For the purpose of determining the fund or funds from which the state’s contributions to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund under Chapter 6 of Part 3 of Division 5 of Title 2 of this code and the contributions required of an employer under Chapter 3 of Part 3.5 of Division 5 o…

All warrants are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. The Controller shall cause to be endorsed upon the face of each warrant drawn upon the Treasurer a provision th…

(a) A registered warrant that bears a maturity date shall be paid by the Treasurer upon that date out of any unapplied money in the General Fund on the due date, available therefor. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), accrued interest on a registered reimbursement warrant shall …

Registered warrants not bearing a maturity date, and registered warrants bearing a maturity date, but for the payment of which refunding warrants have not been sold or unapplied money is not available on the due date, shall be paid, together with all interest due, at such times a…

The Treasurer shall immediately publish notice that such registered warrants are redeemable by advertising for six consecutive days, Sundays excepted, in newspapers publishing legal notices in the cities of Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 12…

The notice of redemption shall read substantially as follows: “NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA WARRANTS State Controller’s warrants number ______ to number ______, inclusive, drawn against the General Fund in the state treasury will be payable on (redemption date) upon p…

Any interest paid on any registered warrant shall accrue to the person holding the warrant on the date of redemption, except a registered reimbursement warrant may provide otherwise. A registered warrant ceases to bear interest on the first of the following dates: (a) The maturit…

(a) If on the maturity date indorsed on a registered reimbursement warrant, there is no money available for its payment, either from unapplied money, or from the proceeds of refunding warrants the registered reimbursement warrant shall continue to bear interest on the principal a…

If it appears to the Controller that, on the maturity date on the face of any registered reimbursement warrant, there will be insufficient unapplied money in the General Fund available for its payment he or she may issue a refunding warrant, with the written approval of the Treas…

Refunding warrants issued, registered, and sold for the purpose of paying and retiring registered reimbursement warrants theretofore issued shall be based upon the same claims and shall be identical in form and amount to the warrants to be paid and retired except as to serial num…

Refunding warrants may be issued with or without a fixed maturity date and shall be sold in the same manner as reimbursement warrants. The proceeds shall be held by the Treasurer and applied exclusively to the payment of the registered reimbursement warrants for the payment of wh…