Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The Secretary of State shall, upon the request of the proponents of an initiative measure which is to be submitted to the voters of the state, review the provisions of the initiative measure after it is prepared prior to its circulation. In conducting the review, the Secretary of…

The Secretary of State shall post on the Secretary’s Internet Web site and include in the pamphlet developed pursuant to Section 9018 of the Elections Code, information describing the following services that are available to the proponents of a proposed initiative measure. (a) Th…

(a) The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and shall administer the provisions of the Elections Code. The Secretary of State shall see that elections are efficiently conducted and that state election laws are enforced. The Secretary of State may requi…

Beginning in the year before the federal decennial census and continuing through the completion of the enumeration activities for that census, the Secretary of State shall include on the secretary’s Internet Web site information designed to educate the public regarding, and encou…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to affirm and inform every Californian of their right and obligation to participate in the federal decennial census freely and without fear of fraud, intimidation, or harm. (b) The Secretary of State may work with the California Census Offi…

(a) The Secretary of State’s office shall develop a program to utilize electronic communications and enhance the availability and accessibility of information on statewide candidates and ballot initiatives. This includes making information available online as well as through othe…

(a) The Secretary of State shall administer, protect, develop, and interpret the Secretary of State and State Archives Building Complex located in Sacramento in the area bounded by 10th, 11th, O, and P Streets for the use, education, and enjoyment of the public, including uses to…

The Secretary of State shall keep a fee book. There shall be entered in the book all fees, commissions, and compensation of whatever nature or kind that are earned, collected, or charged, with the date, name of payer, paid or not paid, and the nature of the service in each case. …

(a) Commencing July 1, 1992, all fees collected by the Secretary of State’s office pursuant to the Business and Professions Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Commercial Code, Corporations Code, Food and Agricultural Code, Harbors and Navigation Code, and this code, exclu…

For services performed in the Secretary’s office, the Secretary of State shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article. (Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 50, Sec. 49. (AB 378) Effective January 1, 2022.)

No Member of the Legislature or state officer shall be charged for a search relative to matters appertaining to the duties of the Member’s or officer’s office, nor shall a Member of the Legislature or state officer be charged a fee for a certified copy of a law or resolution pass…

(a) Except for copies of documents on file prepared pursuant to Section 12182, the fee for preparing a copy of any law, resolution, record, or other document on file in the office of the Secretary of State, is one dollar ($1) for the first page, and fifty cents ($0.50) for each a…

The fee for attesting each patent for land issued by the Governor is one dollar ($1) for each 160 acres, or fraction thereof. (Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1000, Sec. 51. Effective January 1, 2000.)

The fee for attesting each commission, passport, or other document signed by the Governor is ten dollars ($10). A fee shall not be charged for attesting pardons, extradition papers, military commissions, and commissions issued to nonsalaried state officers other than notaries pub…

Every State agency and court for which an appropriation has been made, shall submit to the department for approval, a complete and detailed budget at such time and in such form as may be prescribed by the department, setting forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues …

The budgets shall show the allotments of appropriations or other funds available for the fiscal year by quarter or other period of time and by organization unit. Expenditures may be classified by line item for each program in the detail prescribed by the department. The departmen…

Until enactment of the budget act containing the appropriations funding the fiscal year budget, the department may revise, alter, or amend any fiscal year budget, if, in its opinion, revision, alteration or amendment is required in the interest of the State. The department shall …

Upon request of a State agency or court at any time during the fiscal year, the department may authorize transfers between its budget allotments, including reserves. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 112.)

Notwithstanding any limitation contained in any budget subject to this article, the department, upon the request of any agency which has an employee or employees on disability leave under Section 4800 of the Labor Code, may authorize an increase in the budgeted number for the age…

Every person who incurs any expenditure in excess of the allotments or other provisions of the fiscal year budget as approved by the department or as subsequently changed by or with the approval of the department, is liable both personally and on his official bond for the amount …

Approval by the Department of General Services of contracts, leases and other transactions or expenditures of state agencies, where such approval is required by law, shall be necessary regardless of the fact that the Department of Finance may have approved a budget, under this ar…

Every state agency, when making requests or preparing budgets to be submitted to the Federal Government for funds, equipment, material or services, other than for highway purposes, shall, upon completion of such request or budget, first submit it to the department. The department…

Every officer, agent or employee not required by statute to give an official bond may be required to give an individual official bond, or other form of individual bond, in the amount to be fixed by the appointing power and such bond shall inure to the benefit of the appointing po…

(a) When deemed expedient by the appointing power, a master official bond or other form of master bond may be used which shall provide coverage on more than one officer, employee, or agent who is required by the appointing power or the board of supervisors of a chartered or gener…

For the purposes of Section 1481 the board of supervisors of a county is deemed to be the appointing power of the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies and the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies are deemed to be employees of the county in which th…

Each such bond may contain a provision authorizing the appointing power to cancel it, if it is an individual bond, or the contract of coverage of any officer, agent or employee covered thereunder, or the entire bond, if it is a master bond. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1947, Ch.…

Out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100, there shall be allocated among the governing bodies, for the 1978–79 fiscal year only, one hundred and twenty-five million dollars ($125,000,000) to be distributed as provided in this article. (Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 332.)

The State Controller, shall total the amounts determined pursuant to former Section 16272.3, as amended by Chapter 332 of the Statutes of 1978, and shall determine the proportion which the amounts submitted by each governing body bears to the total amount of the property taxes re…

(a) The allocation for each governing body as determined in Section 16272.5 shall be distributed to each governing body by the State Controller as follows: 33 percent—on August 31, 1978, or a subsequent date if the information needed by the State Controller is not available by th…

The following persons are excluded from membership in this system: (a) Inmates of state or public agency institutions who are allowed compensation for the service they are able to perform. (b) Independent contractors who are not employees. (c) Persons employed as student assistan…

Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who on October 1, 1963, is employed by the university, and is a member of any retirement system maintained by the university, or who after that date enters university employment, shall be excluded from membership in this sy…

(a) Persons who are members of any other retirement or pension system supported wholly or in part by funds of the United States government, any state government, or any political subdivision thereof and who are receiving credit in the other system for service are, as to that serv…

Notwithstanding Sections 20303 and 20894, nothing shall act to prohibit the receipt of credit in this system, nor the payment of benefits relating thereto, for service that is also being credited in the federal system, and persons shall not be excluded from this system as to the …

(a) An employee whose appointment or employment contract does not fix a term of full-time, continuous employment in excess of six months is excluded from this system unless: (1) They are a member at the time they render that service and are not otherwise excluded pursuant to this…

(a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 20305, an employee participating in this system, other than a local safety member, who is credited with less than five years of state service and whose service falls below the minimum service prescribed by paragraph …

(a) A member of the system described in subdivision (b) who subsequently is employed to perform service subject to coverage by the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, may elect to retain coverage by this system for that subsequent service. An election …

(a) Any person who is a member of the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan and who subsequently became employed, on or after July 1, 1991, and who continues to be employed by the state to perform service that requires membership in the Public Employees’ …

(a) A person who was employed by a school employer before January 1, 2018, in a position that includes activities that meet the definition of creditable service under Section 22119.5 of the Education Code, and whose service in that position was reported to this system, shall cont…

For the purposes of this article, the term “public agency” includes the Board of Regents of the University of California. (Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1441.)

A school district whose employees in positions covered under a retirement system, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 22009.1, are included in the agreement, shall be subject to all obligations and liabilities imposed on a public agency under this article. (Amended by Stats.…

(a) The board may charge or assess a public agency, and the public agency shall pay and reimburse the state at the times and in the amounts as the board may determine, the public agency’s proportionate share of all costs incurred by the state in the administration of the federal …

The board may charge or assess each public agency and each public agency shall pay and reimburse the state at such times and in such amounts as the board may determine, the approximate cost to the state of any and all work and services relating to a division under Article 2.5 (co…

Each public agency included in the agreement between the board and the federal agency pursuant to the provisions of this part shall be liable for the contributions required of an employer under the provisions of Section 3111 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and the portion re…

Every public agency included in the agreement between the board and the federal agency may withhold from wages and salaries paid by them to officers and employees covered by the said agreement that portion required to be withheld from the salaries and wages of employees under the…

Every public agency included in the agreement shall upon written request of the board pay to the board moneys that the state may be obligated to pay or forfeit to the federal government by reason of any failure on the part of any public agency for any cause or reason to pay contr…

A public agency on whose behalf the board has made advances of money pursuant to Section 22601 shall reimburse the state the amount of the advances, with interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum from the time of the advance, unless the amount of interest, if charged, would be …