Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The fee for searching records or files is five dollars ($5) for each file.

The fee for taking acknowledgment of any deed or other instrument, including the certificate, is two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) for each signature.

The fee for filing a power of attorney for an admitted surety insurer, or a notice of cancellation, revocation, or withdrawal of a power of attorney for an admitted surety insurer, is three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50), or, if more than one name is designated, two dollars and …

The fee for filing a financial statement of an admitted surety insurer is three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50), but nothing in this section shall be construed to require an admitted surety insurer to file such a statement.

The fee for issuing a certificate pursuant to Section 995.640 of the Code of Civil Procedure is three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50).

No fee shall be charged by the clerk for service rendered to any municipality or county in the state, or to the state or national government, nor for any service relating thereto.

No fees or other compensation shall be charged by any county clerk for taking and certifying affidavits for pension claimants, the payment of a pension voucher, or any matters relating thereto under the laws of the United States.

A fee of fifteen dollars ($15) may be charged for performing a marriage ceremony pursuant to Section 401 of the Family Code, which shall be paid into the county treasury.

Charges incurred against the county pursuant to this title are county charges.

The following expenses of the district attorney and the sheriff are county charges: (a) Traveling and other personal expenses incurred in criminal cases arising in the county and in civil actions and proceedings in which the county is interested. (b) All other expenses necessaril…

Expenses incurred by a county in returning a fugitive or escaped prisoner to another county for trial or detention in a county facility shall be paid by the county of trial or detention to the county which incurred the expenses of returning the fugitive.

The expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of a crime and committed to the county jail and the maintenance therein and in other county adult detention facilities of a program of rehabilitative services in the fields of training, employme…

The sums required by law to be paid to grand jurors and witnesses in criminal cases tried in a superior court, other than expert witnesses appointed by the court for the court’s needs pursuant to Section 730 of the Evidence Code, are county charges.

The accounts of the coroner for such services as are not otherwise provided for are county charges.

The necessary expenses incurred in the support of the county hospitals, almshouses, and the indigent sick and otherwise dependent poor, whose support is chargeable to the county, are county charges.

When authorized by the board of supervisors, expenses incurred by county authorities pursuant to Section 1451.5 of the Health and Safety Code or for temporary, emergency, or extended care or treatment of indigent patients of the county by local hospitals or any hospital maintaine…

The contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county are county charges.

The premiums on official bonds of county officers are county charges.

The expenses of any elected county officer incurred while traveling to and from and while attending the annual convention of his or her respective association, are county charges which do not require prior approval of the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors may require…

The necessary expenses, incurred by the auditor and treasurer in the defense and prosecution of any action brought by or against them to test the validity or constitutionality of any act of the Legislature or of the board of supervisors or of any order providing for the payment o…

The expenses necessarily incurred in searching for and rescuing persons who are lost or in danger of their lives are county charges.

The expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation of plans for meeting any emergency caused by a flood, fire, earthquake, pestilence, tornado, or other act of God which may cause extraordinary loss of life or destruction of property are county charges.

Every sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of supervisors or declared to be such is a county charge.

The actual and necessary expenses incurred in the drafting of a county charter by a board of freeholders, when such expenses are authorized by the board of supervisors, are county charges.

The Legislature hereby declares that it serves a public purpose, and is of benefit to the state and to every county and city in the state, to indemnify those innocent residents of the State of California whose property has been injured or destroyed as a result of the acts specifi…

The legislative body of a county or of a city may establish a program which provides for the reimbursement of any innocent resident of the county or city, as the case may be, whose property is or has been at any time subsequent to a date designated by the legislative body injured…

The legislative body may impose such other restrictions and conditions as it finds advisable and which do not impair the constitutional rights of any person.

In establishing a program pursuant to this article the legislative body may provide for the procedures to determine whether or not a claimant is entitled to reimbursement.

If a claim is paid under this article the county or city shall be subrogated to the rights of the claimant to whom such claim was paid against any person injuring or destroying the property of the claimant for which payment was made to the extent of the payment of the claim. The …

Upon conviction of any person of a crime which has resulted in the injury or destruction of property for which reimbursement is provided for under a program established pursuant to this article, in addition to the requirements of Section 13964 the court shall take into considerat…

For the purposes of this article, the legislative body of a county or a city may by resolution determine that a resident may be reimbursed for any losses not otherwise covered by insurance.

This chapter may be cited as the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937.

The purpose of this chapter is to recognize a public obligation to county and district employees who become incapacitated by age or long service in public employment and its accompanying physical disabilities by making provision for retirement compensation and death benefit as ad…

The right of a person to a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, return of contributions, the pension, annuity, or retirement allowance, any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under this chapter, the money in the fund created or continued under …

(a) The board may comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member entitled to a retirement allowance or benefit under this chapter or the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, author…

(a) The board shall comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member entitled to a retirement allowance or benefit under this chapter or the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, auth…

(a) (1) This section applies only to a retirement system in a county of the first class, as described in Sections 28020 and 28022. (2) The board shall comply with and give effect to a revocable written authorization signed by a retired member or beneficiary of a retired member en…

Upon receipt of proof, satisfactory to the board, that a warrant or check drawn in payment of a retirement allowance or in payment of any other account due from the retirement system has been lost or destroyed, the treasurer or other entity authorized by the board upon request of…

(a) Upon the death of any member after retirement, any retirement allowance earned but not yet paid to the member shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be paid to the member’s designated beneficiary. (b) Upon the death of any person receiving a survivor’s allowance u…

(a) An actuarial valuation shall be made within one year after the date on which any system established under this chapter becomes effective, and thereafter at intervals not to exceed three years. The valuation shall be conducted under the supervision of an actuary and shall cove…

Notwithstanding Section 31587, and in accordance with Section 31453 or 31510.1, the board may determine county or district contributions on the basis of a normal contribution rate which shall be computed as a level percentage of compensation which, when applied to the future comp…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of retirement may, at the request of the board of supervisors, adopt a funding period of 30 years to amortize unfunded accrued actuarial obligations, as determined by their actuary or by an actuary employed by the boa…

(a) The board of supervisors shall, not later than 90 days after the beginning of the immediately succeeding fiscal year, adjust the rates of interest, the rates of contributions of members, and county and district appropriations in accordance with the recommendations of the boar…

(a) The independent assumptions and calculations of an actuary contained in the actuarial valuation required by Section 31453 shall not be subject to the “meet and confer” provisions of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act; however, it is recognized that those provisions require that the …

In any county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1, 31676.11, 31676.12, or 31695.1 the board of supervisors may, by vote entered in the minutes of the board, make an additional appropriation sufficient to fund over a period of 30 years any deficit which may result to the …

Whenever, in any county subject to the provisions of Section 31676.1 the board of supervisors makes any additional appropriations pursuant to Section 31454.5, the governing body of every district, including the board of supervisors where it is the governing body, also shall make …

The Legislature affirms the ruling of Mijares v. Orange County Employees’ Retirement System (2019) 32 Cal.App.5th 316, with respect to a board’s plenary authority to recommend adjustments to county and district contributions as necessary to ensure the appropriate funding of the s…

Unless the context otherwise requires, or unless superseded by any provision of the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, the definitions and general provisions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

(a) It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Make, or cause to be made, any knowingly false material statement or material representation, to knowingly fail to disclose a material fact, or to otherwise provide false information with the intent to use it, or all…

“Actuarial equivalent” means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the board of supervisors and regular interest thereon.