Title GOV, California Gov. Code

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 18531 and 19888.1, the Department of Industrial Relations may make emergency appointments that exceed 60 working days, subject to the limits of Section 5 of Article VII of the California Constitution, until December 1, 2026. (b) The Department of Indu…

(a) Whenever the board determines that it is in the public interest to provide different authorized services, provide different levels of service, provide different authorized facilities, or raise additional revenues within specific areas of a county service area, it may form one…

(a) At the public hearing, the board shall hear and consider any protests to the formation of the zone. (b) (1) In the case of inhabited territory, if at the conclusion of the public hearing, the board determines that more than 50 percent of the total number of voters residing wi…

The board may change the boundaries of a zone or dissolve a zone by following the procedures in Sections 25217 and 25217.1, as appropriate. (Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 158, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009.)

A local agency formation commission shall have no power or duty to review and approve or disapprove a proposal to form a zone, a proposal to change the boundaries of a zone, or a proposal to dissolve a zone. (Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 158, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009.)

(a) The board may provide any authorized service, any level of service, or any authorized facility within a zone that the board may provide in the county service area as a whole. (b) As determined by the board and pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, the board may exerci…

It is the purpose of this article to encourage the development and effective use of well-qualified and carefully selected executives. In order to carry out this purpose, the State Personnel Board shall establish by rule a merit system specifically suited to the selection and plac…

The provisions of this part governing the examination, selection, classification, and tenure of employees in the regular civil service shall not apply to “career executive assignments” unless provided for by State Personnel Board rule. The provisions of this part relating to puni…

(a) Eligibility for appointment to positions in the career executive assignment category shall be established as a result of competitive examinations. All candidates shall meet such minimum qualifications as the State Personnel Board may determine are requisite to the performance…

In accordance with State Personnel Board rules, the following shall apply when an appointing power terminates a career executive assignment: (a) An employee who at the time of his or her appointment to a career executive assignment was employed by the state and had permanent civi…

A state officer or employee shall not engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise which is clearly inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to his or her duties as a state officer or employee. Each appointing power shall determine, subject to approval of th…

Notwithstanding Sections 18000 and 19990, state officers and employees may render services during their office hours, or hours of work for the state, if compensation for these services may be made pursuant to Section 18000.5. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1513, Sec. 2. Effective Sep…

(a) Service on a local appointed or elected governmental board, commission, committee, or other body or as a local elected official by an attorney employed by the state in a nonelected position or by an administrative law judge, as defined in Section 11475.10, shall not, by itsel…

(a) Upon giving two days’ notice to his or her immediate superior, any state employee otherwise qualified shall be permitted to take any state civil service examination during working hours, if the examination is scheduled during such period, or to attend a meeting of the departm…

(a) Subject to department rule an appointing power may grant a leave of absence without pay, to any employee under his or her jurisdiction for a period not exceeding one year. An extension to an unpaid leave of absence may be granted by the appointing power upon the prior approva…

Where there exists no statutory authority to grant a paid leave of absence, no paid leave of absence shall exceed five working days without prior approval of the department. This section shall not be construed to provide or create any classification of paid leave of absence. For …

(a) Subject to subdivision (c), an appointing power shall grant to an employee, who has exhausted all available sick leave, the following leaves of absence with pay: (1) A leave of absence, not exceeding 30 days in a one-year period, to an employee who is an organ donor, for the …

(a) At the discretion of the appointing power, excluded employees as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 3527, may transfer eligible leave credits to an excluded employee when a catastrophic illness or injury occurs. (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms are…

(a) If a retired state employee dies from a nonwork-related illness or injury within 12 months of retirement, a request may be made to his or her employer to allow state employees to donate leave credits to a leave bank. This donated leave, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($…

(a) The appointing power may grant to an employee under his or her jurisdiction who has permanent civil service status or a probationer who immediately preceding his or her appointment to his or her position held permanent civil service status in the same or some other class a le…

(a) Leaves of absence granted for jury duty may be with or without pay. (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 memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without furt…

Any period of time during which an employee is required to be absent from his or her position by reason of an injury or disease for which he or she is entitled to receive temporary disability compensation under the provisions of Division 4 or 4.5 of the Labor Code is not a break …

(a) The department may permit the Commandant of the Veterans’ Home of California to authorize members of the medical staff and medical technicians, to include X-ray, clinical laboratory, and dental laboratory technicians, of the Veterans’ Home of California to attend medical and …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), an appointing power shall grant a leave of absence without pay for the purposes of pregnancy, childbirth or the recovery therefrom for a period as determined by the employee not exceeding one year to any permanent female employee under t…

(a) For civil service employees employed in positions requiring teaching certification qualifications appointing powers may grant educational leave to attend study sessions at accredited schools, colleges or programs recommended by a trade advisory council for the purpose of rece…

During any state military emergency and subject to department rule, an appointing power may grant a leave of absence without pay to a permanent or probationary employee under his or her jurisdiction to: (a) Engage in civilian warwork pursuant to mandatory order of the agency of t…

Any permanent state civil service employee or an employee serving under another appointment who previously had permanent status and who, since that permanent status, has had no break in the continuity of his or her state service, who served in the armed forces, and who is eligibl…

This article shall apply to all of the following: (a) Employees who are excluded from the definition of “state employee” in subdivision (c) of Section 3513. (b) Nonelected officers of the executive branch of government exempt from civil service designated by the department as eli…

In lieu of the sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 19858.3, may elect to participate in an annual leave program. Each employee who has elected to participate in the annual le…

In lieu of sick leave and vacation provisions of Sections 19858.1 and 19859, eligible employees, as defined by subdivision (d) of Section 19858.3, may participate in an annual leave program subject to the conditions of the appropriate memorandum of understanding. Each employee wh…

Notwithstanding Section 19839, upon applying for retirement, a person entitled to a lump-sum payment for any unused or accumulated annual leave may elect to take all or any portion of that annual leave rather than accept the lump-sum payment on or prior to the effective date of r…

Territory may be annexed to an existing community facilities district as provided in this article. The annexed territory need not be contiguous to territory included in the existing community facilities district. The territory proposed to be annexed to the community facilities di…

If the legislative body of the local agency that created a community facilities district determines that public convenience and necessity require that territory be added to the existing community facilities district, or if the voters residing within certain territory or landowner…

The resolution of intention to annex the territory or to provide for future annexation of territory shall do all of the following: (a) State the name of the existing community facilities district. (b) Generally describe the territory included in the existing district and the terr…

The clerk of the legislative body shall give notice of the hearing in the same manner and within the same time as provided for the giving of notice of a hearing on a resolution of intention to establish a community facilities district, as required by Section 53322. Notice pursuan…

At the hearing, protests against the proposals described in the resolution of intention may be made orally or in writing by any interested person. Any protests pertaining to the regularity or sufficiency of the proceedings shall be in writing and shall clearly set forth the irreg…

If 50 percent or more of the registered voters, or six registered voters, whichever is more, residing within the existing community facilities district, or if 50 percent or more of the registered voters or six registered voters, whichever is more, residing within the territory pr…

(a) The hearing may be continued from time to time, but shall be completed within 30 days. At the conclusion of the hearing, the legislative body may abandon the proceedings, may, after passing upon all protests, submit the question of levying a special tax within the area propos…

(a) After the canvass of returns of any election conducted in accordance with Section 53339.7, the legislative body shall determine that the area proposed to be annexed is added to and part of the existing community facilities district with full legal effect, and the legislative …

After the canvass of returns of any election conducted in accordance with Section 53339.7, the legislative body shall take no further action on annexing the territory proposed to be annexed to the community facilities district for a period of one year from the date of the electio…

The department, in accordance with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code shall authorize any member of Bargaining Unit 6 to elect to receive one or more employee benefits, in lieu of a portion of the compensation provided to the employee. Any such benefit shall satisfy the req…

The department may charge an administrative fee to annuitants and employees participating in a group legal services plan established through regulation for annuitants, excluded employees, and memoranda of understanding reached pursuant to the Ralph C. Dills Act (Chapter 10.3 (com…

This act shall be known and may be cited as the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act. (Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 789, Sec. 1. (AB 609) Effective January 1, 2015.)

For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Peer-reviewed manuscript” means a manuscript after it has been peer reviewed and in the form in which it has been accepted for publication in a scientific journal. (b) “Research grant” means a grant to a…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The state is home to many of the world’s top research universities, national laboratories, and leading-edge high-technology companies that generate significant intellectual property. (b) It is in the interest of the sta…

(a) (1) A grantee that receives funding, in whole or in part, in the form of a research grant from a state agency shall provide for free public access to any publication of a peer-reviewed manuscript describing state-agency-funded knowledge, a state-agency-funded invention, or st…