Title GOV, California Gov. Code

If 50 percent or more of the registered voters, or six registered voters, whichever is more, residing within the district, or the owners of one-half or more of the area of the land in the territory included in the district and not exempt from the special tax file written protests…

(a) The hearing may be continued from time to time, but shall be completed within 30 days, except that if the legislative body finds that the complexity of the proposed changes or the need for public participation requires additional time, the hearing may be continued from time t…

The legislative body may, by ordinance, dissolve any existing Mello-Roos Community Facilities District which it has created upon making all of the following determinations: (a) That the district is not obligated to pay any outstanding debt. (b) That the district has no authorizat…

In the conduct of investigations and formal proceedings, the commission or the masters may (a) administer oaths; (b) order and otherwise provide for the inspection of books and records; and (c) issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, a…

In any investigation or formal proceeding in any part of the State, the process extends to all parts of the State. A person is not obliged to attend as a witness in any investigation or proceeding under this chapter unless the person is a resident within the state at the time of …

If any person refuses to attend or testify or produce any writings or things required by any subpoena, the commission or the masters may petition the superior court for the county in which the hearing is pending for an order compelling the person to attend and testify or produce …

In any pending investigation or formal proceeding, the commission or the masters may order the deposition of a person residing within or without the state to be taken in such form and subject to such limitations as may be prescribed in the order. If the judge and counsel for the …

Each witness, other than an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision or an officer or employee of a court of the state, shall receive for their attendance the same fees and all witnesses shall receive the same mileage allowed by law to a witness in civil cases.…

No award of costs shall be made in any proceeding before the commission, masters, or Supreme Court. (Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 564.)

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall be given access, on an ex parte basis, to all nonpublic records of court proceedings, including confidential sealed records and transcripts, relevant to the performance of any judge, former judge, or subordinate judicial off…

This article applies to state officers and employees who are members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System or the State Teachers’ Retirement System in compensated employment on and after the effective date of this article and to state officers and employees, whether or not m…

As used in this article: (a) “Industrial disability leave” means temporary disability as defined in Divisions 4 (commencing with Section 3201) and 4.5 (commencing with Section 6100) of the Labor Code and includes any period in which the disability is permanent and stationary and …

(a) Except as provided in Section 19871.2 or 19871.3, when a state officer or employee is temporarily disabled by illness or injury arising out of and in the course of state employment, he or she shall become entitled, regardless of his or her period of service, to receive indust…

(a) A state officer or employee who is receiving industrial disability leave benefits, shall continue to receive all employee benefits which he or she would have received had he or she not incurred disability. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisi…

When an excluded employee is temporarily disabled for more than 22 consecutive working days by an injury or type of injury designated by the director as qualifying an employee for the benefits of this section, he or she shall receive an enhanced industrial disability leave benefi…

(a) If an employee who is a member of State Bargaining Unit 8 is temporarily disabled by illness or injury arising out of and in the course of state employment, he or she shall receive an enhanced industrial disability leave benefit. The enhanced industrial disability leave benef…

(a) The disabled employee shall not receive temporary disability indemnity or sick leave or annual leave with pay for any period for which he or she receives industrial disability leave. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an employee may elect to supplement industrial disabilit…

(a) Division 4.7 (commencing with Section 6200) of the Labor Code shall not apply to employees to which this article applies. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, the memoran…

(a) If the employee continues to be temporarily disabled after termination of benefits under this article, he or she shall be entitled to the benefits provided by Divisions 4 (commencing with Section 3201) and 4.5 (commencing with Section 6100) of the Labor Code and to payments u…

(a) If an illness or injury causes temporary disability, the employee shall be placed on industrial disability leave on the fourth calendar day after the injured employee leaves work as a result of the illness or injury, except that in case the injury causes disability of more th…

(a) Payments shall be contingent on the complete medical certification of the illness or injury including diagnosis and any prognosis of recovery. Further, payments shall be contingent on the employee’s agreement to cooperate and participate in a reasonable and appropriate vocati…

State employees in state bargaining units 1, 4, 15, 18, and 20 who suffer a job-related injury or illness and become eligible for vocational rehabilitation under Section 139.5 of the Labor Code on or after January 1, 1993, shall first be subject to an evaluation to determine what…

The department shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this article. The appointing power of any officer or employee not a member of the civil service shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary for the administration of this article for such…

(a) The provisions of this article shall be effective upon the adoption of applicable rules and regulations, but not later than January 1, 1975. (b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section …

A county service area may provide any governmental service and facility within the county service area that the county is authorized to perform and that the county does not perform to the same extent on a countywide basis, including, but not limited to, services and facilities fo…

In the County of Lassen, a county service area may be formed to purchase electrical energy generated within the boundaries of the county, and the board may enter into contracts for the sale of that energy at wholesale rates to any public agency or public utility engaged in the sa…

(a) In the County of Napa, a county service area may be formed for the sole purpose of acquiring, constructing, leasing, or maintaining, or any combination thereof, farmworker housing. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, only a county service area formed under th…

In the County of Orange, a county service area that is the successor to a dissolved harbor improvement district may exercise the powers of a harbor improvement district pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5800) of Division 8 of the Harbors and Navigation Code. (Added by S…

(a) In the County of San Bernardino, a county service area in whose territory all or any portion of the redevelopment project area referenced in subdivision (e) of Section 33492.41 of the Health and Safety Code is located may locate, construct, and maintain facilities and infrast…

(a) If the board desires to exercise a latent power, the board shall first receive the approval of the local agency formation commission, pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 56824.10) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 3. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section …

(a) If a board desires to divest a county service area of the authority to provide a service or facility, the board shall adopt a resolution of intention. The resolution of intention shall: (1) State the number or name of the county service area. (2) Generally describe the territ…

The boundaries of any district may be altered, and contiguous or noncontiguous territory may be annexed thereto. The legislative body may by resolution fix a time and place for hearing upon the question of annexation of such territory to an existing district. The resolution shall…

The legislative body shall direct the clerk to give notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing, by mailing written notice to each property owner within the boundaries of the territory sought to be annexed whose name and address appears on the last equalized assessment r…

The legislative body shall also direct the clerk to publish a notice as provided in Section 6061 and at least 15 days before the date set for hearing. The notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and shall contain a description of the territory proposed to be annexed,…

At the time fixed for the hearing or to which it may be continued, the legislative body shall hear and pass upon the proposal and any objections which may be filed to the inclusion of any property within the proposed annexation. The legislative body, by ordinance, may determine t…

If, after the formation of a district, the addition of properties to be maintained as open areas by the existing district is proposed, the legislative body shall adopt a resolution declaring its intention that the cost of maintaining the additional open areas shall be borne by th…

Any portion of any district which will not be benefited by remaining within the district may be withdrawn therefrom. The legislative body may by resolution fix a time for a hearing on the question of the withdrawal of any portion of a district which will not be benefited by remai…

Any person interested may appear at the hearing and object to the withdrawal of the portion from the district or may object to the continuance of the remaining territory as a district. The legislative body shall consider and pass upon all objections and if it finds that the porti…

This chapter shall be liberally construed in order to effectuate its purposes. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person, property, or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter w…

(a) After a community facilities district has been created and authorized to levy specified special taxes pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 53318), Article 3 (commencing with Section 53330), or Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 53339), the legislative body may, by…

(a) If a public agency owning property, including property held in trust for any beneficiary, which is exempt from a special tax pursuant to Section 53340 grants a leasehold or other possessory interest in the property to a nonexempt person or entity, the special tax shall, notwi…

(a) The legislative body levying the special tax shall designate an office, department, or bureau of the local agency that shall be responsible for annually preparing the current roll of special tax levy obligations by assessor’s parcel number on nonexempt property within the dis…

At the request of the legislative body, the tax collector may set forth on the tax bill descriptive information provided by the legislative body to identify each public entity receiving portions of the revenue from the special tax levied pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats.…

If the legislative body of the local agency levying the special taxes is not the legislative body of a county and those special taxes are collected by county officials, the county auditor shall, at the close of each tax collecting period, promptly provide the auditor of the local…

If the legislative body supplies to the tax collector each year a listing of the specific amount due from each parcel within the district, and the tax collector bills for and collects the tax without reference to tax rate areas, then Sections 54900 to 54916.5, inclusive, are not …

Any action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the levy of a special tax or an increase in a special tax pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within 30 days after the special tax is approved by the voters. Any appeal from a final judgment in that act…