Title GOV, California Gov. Code

It is the intent of the Legislature to specifically include in the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 provisions of law that limit public retirement benefits, other than health benefits, for the members of the legislative bodies of counties and districts and provisions respe…

The board of supervisors, in compliance with Section 23026, shall make public, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the board, all salary and benefit increases that affect either or both represented employees and nonrepresented employees. Notice of any salary or benefit increase s…

The board of supervisors, in compliance with Section 7507, shall secure the services of an enrolled actuary to provide a statement of the actuarial impact upon future annual costs before authorizing increases in benefits. An “enrolled actuary” means an actuary enrolled under Sect…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, as provided in Section 53060.1, the benefits of any member of a legislative body of any county or district shall be no greater than that received by nonsafety employees of that public agency. In the case of agencies with di…

No appeal taken to the Supreme Court or to a court of appeal shall be dismissed for the reason only that the same was not taken to the proper court, but the cause shall be transferred to the proper court upon such terms as to costs or otherwise as may be just, and shall be procee…

All state money held by the State Treasurer in treasury trust accounts, and all money in the State Treasury, except money in the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund during any period when an election under Section 16470 is not in effect, is appropriated for the purpose of i…

There is hereby created a Pooled Money Investment Board, which shall consist of the Controller, Treasurer and Director of Finance. The Pooled Money Investment Board shall meet at least once in every three months and shall designate at least once a month the amount of money availa…

It is the intent of this article that money available for investment or deposit be invested in securities or deposited in banks and savings and loan associations in such a way as to realize the maximum return consistent with safe and prudent treasury management. (Amended by Stats…

Immediately after designations described in Section 16480.1, the Treasurer shall invest or make deposits in banks and savings and loan associations in accordance with the designations. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 349.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that the Pooled Money Investment Board, in administering its investment program, shall give due regard to assisting such specific programs of the state designed to support the economy of economically disadvantaged areas as the California Job De…

(a) Amounts available for investment under this article may be invested and reinvested by the State Treasurer in any securities described in Section 16430 of this code or in loans to the General Fund as provided in Section 16310 of this code. Such securities may be sold by the St…

In addition to any other investment authorized by this article, the Treasurer may invest in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds, as defined in Section 26054 of the Public Resources Code. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 396, Sec. 8. (AB 1513) Effective January 1, 2020.)

Investments pursuant to this article shall be purchased by Controller’s warrants. Such warrants shall not be drawn upon a fund but shall be drawn on all moneys in the treasury. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1703.)

(a) At the conclusion of each calendar quarter, all interest earned and increment derived from investments in securities, time deposits and loans made pursuant to this article, interest earnings from demand accounts, and interest earnings pursuant to Section 20825 shall upon orde…

Not later than 30 days after the close of each month there shall be placed on file for public inspection during business hours at the offices of the Controller, Treasurer and Director of Finance: (a) A report by the Treasurer with respect to investments made under this article an…

If any provision in this chapter, or the application thereof to the money in any fund in the Treasury, is held invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter shall not be affected thereby. The provisions of this article and Article 4 (commencing with Section 16470) of Chapter …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16480.6, as of December 31 and June 30 each year all interest earned and increment derived from the investment pursuant to this article of money of the Fish and Game Preservation Fund shall be transferred to the Fish and Game Preservation…

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the State Treasurer may enter into security loan agreements pursuant to the provisions of Division 8 (commencing with Section 7600) of Title 1 of the Government Code with respect to securities which he is authorized by law to invest…

The Pooled Money Investment Board shall succeed to and is vested with all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction in matters now or hereafter vested by law in the committee which fixes the rate of interest paid on registered warrants pursuant to Articl…

(a) The Treasurer shall annually prepare and submit to the Pooled Money Investment Board a written statement of investment policy. The Treasurer shall promptly notify the board of any material change in the statement of investment policy. The board shall consider the statement of…

(a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency that has entered into a grant agreement for the expenditure of state bond funds where the state agency or grant recipient is, or may be, unable to comply with the terms of th…

If the election for the purpose of determining whether the proposed county shall be created results in the county’s creation being approved, an election for purposes of determining the location of the county seat and the selection of county officers shall be held in the approved …

The law relating to the preparation, printing, and distribution of sample ballots and general elections does not apply to any election held pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

Except as otherwise provided by this article, the election shall be conducted as other elections in the principal county. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

The election officers appointed pursuant to Section 23363 for purposes of the election held to determine whether the proposed county shall be created shall also act in such capacity for purposes of the election held to select county officers for the approved county and the locati…

The elections official of the principal county shall furnish to the officers of each precinct in the approved county the supplies and equipment as provided for in Sections 14105 and 14110 of the Elections Code. The elections official of each other affected county shall provide to…

Immediately on the closing of the polls, the election officers shall, in connection with the affected county they represent: (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 elec…

The clerk of the principal county shall, upon the completion of a canvass of the vote, forward to the board of the principal county a certified copy of the results of the canvass, giving the number of votes cast for each candidate and the number of votes cast for and against the …

Upon receiving a certified copy of the results of the canvass, the board of supervisors of the principal county, by resolution, shall: (a) Declare the results of the election on the county seat. If more than 50 percent of the total number of all votes cast within the approved new…

The clerk of the principal county shall immediately make out and deliver to each person elected a certificate of election, authenticated by his signature and the seal of the board of the principal county. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

All the officers elected at the election shall hold their offices until the times provided by general law for the election and qualification of such officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

All costs of an election shall first be paid by the principal county. The new county shall then reimburse the principal county for all costs of the election held pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

The proclamation and notice of election provided for pursuant to this article shall be published at least once a week for three weeks commencing not less than 70 days prior to the date of the election in a newspaper of general circulation in the approved county. (Added by Stats. …

The content of the notice of election for the election to select the county officers for the approved county and the location of the county seat in the approved county shall be determined by the board of supervisors of the principal county. The notice of election shall include a …

All registered voters residing in the boundaries of the approved county, who have been registered voters of the approved county 29 days prior to the election provided for in this article are entitled to vote in such election. Registration and transfers of registration shall be ma…

Ballots at the election provided for in this article shall contain the question: “Shall (insert the name of the county seat as determined by commission) be the county seat of the County of (insert the name of the county)?” To the right of or below the question, the words “Yes” an…

Candidates for elective offices of the approved county shall file nomination papers at the same time and in the same manner as candidates for the governing body of general law counties. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

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. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

The clerk of the principal county shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the election of county officers for the approved county and the location of the county seat in the approved county to be printed and mailed to each registered voter of the approved county. The ballot pamph…

The clerk shall also prepare and mail to the registered voters of the approved county a sample ballot. The sample ballot shall be mailed with and at the same time as the ballot pamphlet. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 370.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that this article authorize the Big Bear Fire Authority to assume all of the revenues, debts, obligations, and liabilities of the City of Big Bear Lake’s safety plan, which covers the employees of the Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District. (Ad…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Big Bear Fire Agencies Pension Consolidation Act of 2018. (Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 72, Sec. 1. (AB 2004) Effective July 9, 2018.)

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Authority” means the Big Bear Fire Authority, which is a joint powers authority established by the Big Bear City Community Services District and the Big Bear Lake Fire Protection District pursuant to the Joint Ex…

(a) On and after the effective date of a resolution of the Board of Retirement of the San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association consenting to membership of the authority’s employees pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 31557, all safety employees currently employe…

(a) This article is full authority for the issuance of bonds or refunding bonds by any city, county, city and county, school district, community college district, or special district, secured by the levy of ad valorem taxes, authorized in accordance with the Constitution and, in …

This article shall be liberally construed to promote its objectives. If inconsistent with any other law, this article shall be controlling. (Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 841, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994.)