Title GOV — California Gov. Code

All qualified electors of the territory proposed to be transferred who have been registered electors of the county 30 days prior to the date of the election are entitled to vote at the election. Registration and transfers of registration shall be made and shall close in the manne…

Ballots at the election shall contain the words “Shall (description of territory) be transferred to (name of county accepting transferred territory)?” To the right of or below those words, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets. If a vote…

The election shall be governed and controlled by the general election laws of the state so far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this article.

If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed boundary change is filed with the clerk of the transferring county the clerk shall select one of the arguments for and one of the arguments against the proposed boundary change for printing and distribut…

The elections official shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the proposed boundary change to be printed and mailed to each qualified elector in the territory proposed to be transferred. The ballot pamphlet shall contain the following in the order prescribed: (a) An impartial a…

The clerk shall also prepare and mail a sample ballot to the qualified electors of the territory proposed to be transferred. The sample ballot shall be mailed with and at the same time as the ballot pamphlet.

The law relating to the preparation, printing, and distribution of sample ballots and primary elections does not apply to any election held pursuant to this article.

Except as otherwise provided by this article, the election shall be conducted as other elections in the transferring county.

The board of the transferring county shall appoint as election officers three representatives who reside in the affected county represented.

Immediately on the closing of the polls the election officers shall: (a) Canvass the ballots. (b) Make up and certify the tally sheets of the ballots cast. (c) Seal up the ballots. (d) Attach a statement, signed by each election officer, to the tally sheets showing the number of …

The clerk of the transferring county shall upon the completion of a canvass of the vote in the territory proposed to be transferred, forward to the board of the transferring county, a certified copy of the results of the canvass, giving the number of votes cast in the territory t…

If upon a canvass of the total votes cast in the territory proposed to be transferred at the election, it appears that more than 50 percent of the total number of all votes cast within the territory proposed to be transferred are in favor of the proposed boundary change, the boar…

The board of supervisors of the county from which territory is transferred shall cause a copy of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 23281 to be filed with the State Board of Equalization, the Secretary of State, and the board of supervisors of the county accepting the tra…

If upon a canvass of the total votes cast in the territory proposed to be transferred at the election, it appears that 50 percent or less, of the total number of all votes cast within the territory proposed to be transferred are in favor of the proposed boundary change, the board…

All costs of the election shall be borne by the county accepting transferred territory if the boundary change is effected. If the boundary change is not effected, the costs of the election shall be borne by both affected counties, on an equal basis.

Whenever county boundaries are changed pursuant to this article, the board of supervisors of both affected counties shall cause to be filed before the following December 1, with the State Board of Equalization and with the assessors of both affected counties, a statement setting …

When a county boundary is changed, all taxes levied before the boundary change was effected shall be collected by the officers of and belong to the county in which the territory was situated before the boundary change.

The transferring county shall continue to provide necessary services from the date the county boundaries are changed until service responsibilities and functions are transferred to the accepting county, according to the provisions of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 232…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no special district, which is organized within either affected county and governed by the board of supervisors thereof, shall have its territory divided or in any other way have its organization changed as the result of a county boundar…

After the county boundary change is effected, the officers of the accepting county shall proceed to complete all proceedings necessary for the assessment or collection of the state and county taxes for the current year, in connection with all the property in the transferred terri…

The officers of the transferring county shall immediately execute and deliver to the board of supervisors of the accepting county, copies of all assessments or other proceedings relative to the assessment and collection of the current state and county taxes on property within the…

The county superintendent of schools of the transferring county shall furnish the county superintendent of schools of the accepting county with a certified copy of the last school census of the different school districts in the territory which is transferred, and the superintende…

The auditor of the transferring county shall draw a warrant on the treasurer of that county in favor of the treasurer of the accepting county for all money that is or may be due from the transferring county by apportionment or otherwise to the different road and supervisorial or …

The treasurer of the transferring county shall immediately cause to be transferred to the county treasurer of the accepting county all money standing to the credit of or belonging to any road or school district, the territory comprising which is included within the boundaries of …

Where the county accepting territory is located in a different district court of appeals district than the transferring county, the district court of appeals district which includes the transferring county shall retain jurisdiction in all cases pending in a session of such court,…

On and after the date the boundary change is effected, the superior court in the transferring county shall retain jurisdiction in all cases pending in a session of such court which is located within the boundaries of the territory which is transferred immediately prior to its tra…

Any action to determine the validity of any change, alteration, or reformation to the boundaries of a county pursuant to this article shall be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The people, as a political body, consist of: (a) Citizens who are electors. (b) Citizens not electors. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The citizens of the state are: (a) All persons born in the state and residing within it, except the children of foreign public ministers and consuls. (b) All persons born out of the state who are citizens of the United States and residing within the state.

Persons in the state who are not its citizens are either: (a) Citizens of other states; or (b) Persons who are not citizens of the United States.

Every person has, in law, a residence. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

In determining the place of residence the following rules shall be observed: (a) It is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purpose, and to which he or she returns in seasons of repose. (b) There can only be one residence. …

Absence from this state, on business of the state or of the United States, shall not affect the question of residence of any person.

The sheriff shall preserve peace, and to accomplish this object may sponsor, supervise, or participate in any project of crime prevention, rehabilitation of persons previously convicted of crime, or the suppression of delinquency.

The sheriff shall arrest and take before the nearest magistrate for examination all persons who attempt to commit or who have committed a public offense.

The sheriff shall prevent and suppress any affrays, breaches of the peace, riots, and insurrections that come to his or her knowledge, and investigate public offenses which have been committed. The sheriff may execute all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose …

The sheriff shall command the aid of as many inhabitants of the sheriff’s county as he or she thinks necessary in the execution of his or her duties.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except in counties in which the sheriff, as of July 1, 1993, is not in charge of and the sole and exclusive authority to keep the county jail and the prisoners in it, the sheriff shall take charge of and be the sole and exclusive author…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no deputy sheriff shall be required to become a custodial or other officer involuntarily.

(a) The sheriff has the authority, after conferring with a physician who is neither a county employee nor under a preexisting contract with the county, to release from a county correctional facility for transfer to a medical facility or residential care facility, a prisoner whose…

(a) The sheriff, or his or her designee, has the authority, after conferring with a physician who has oversight for providing medical care at a county jail, or that physician’s designee, to release from a county correctional facility, a prisoner sentenced to a county jail if the …

(a) The sheriff, or his or her designee, after conferring with the physician who has oversight for providing medical care, or the physician’s designee, may request the court to grant medical probation or to resentence a prisoner to medical probation in lieu of jail time for any p…

Before implementing Sections 26605.6 and 26605.7, the county board of supervisors shall adopt a process to fund the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal costs for the period of time that a prisoner would have otherwise been incarcerated or for the period of time that a probationer is on …

The sheriff shall endorse upon all process and notices the year, month, day, hour, and minute of reception and on payment of fees issue to the person delivering it a certificate showing the names of the parties, title of paper, and time when received.

The sheriff shall serve all process and notices in the manner prescribed by law.

The sheriff, when serving any process or notice, shall, if the instructions to the sheriff include a request for a certificate as prescribed by the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940 as amended (50 United States Code Appendix, Section 520) make inquiry of the person served t…

Whenever a county or city and county owns land in another county, it may request the sheriff of that county to deputize its officers or employees as deputy sheriffs so that they may perform police duties solely upon said land. The sheriff may appoint such deputies.

(a) In Shasta County, the board of supervisors by ordinance or resolution may transfer from the sheriff to the marshal of the Shasta County Superior Court the duty to serve all writs, notices, and other process issued by any state court, or other competent authority. (b) After ad…

The sheriff shall certify upon process or notices the manner and time of service, or if he fails to make service, the reason of his failure, and return the process or notices without delay.

The sheriff of any county which maintains a jail in another county has the same control and supervision of the property, personnel, and inmates that he would have if the jail were located within the boundaries of the county which maintains it.