Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Whenever a State agency supported from the General Fund renders services or furnishes materials to a State agency not supported from the General Fund, the cost of the services or materials is a charge against the fund from which is derived the support of the State agency receivin…

The Controller, after consulting with the Department of Finance, may approve any general plan whereby any state agency which is within a department and which is supported either by a special fund or by a separate appropriation from the General Fund, may make financial adjustments…

Such adjustments shall be made in accordance with the approved plan by filing a financial statement with the Controller, and requesting the Controller to make the necessary transfers or other entries upon his books. Upon receipt of such a request, the Controller shall make such t…

Upon written request approved by the Department of General Services, a department shall furnish to another department such assistance as it is able to render without detriment to its administration, including the deputizing of agents and inspectors, when consistent with law, and …

The Controller may establish procedures whereby some or all of the payments between funds and appropriations within a state agency and between funds and appropriations of different state agencies may be made by transfers upon his accounts in lieu of making such payments by claims…

Subject to approval of the Director of General Services, state agencies may furnish services, materials or equipment to, or perform work for, other state agencies upon such terms and conditions and for such considerations as they may determine and, subject to such approval, may e…

State agencies may provide for the advancing of funds as herein provided to defray the charges mentioned in Section 11256. Any state agency may, and upon order of the Director of General Services shall, authorize such advances from any fund or appropriation available to it for pa…

Any state agency which normally, as a part of its regular operating functions, is engaged in the business of performing work for, or furnishing services, materials or equipment to, other state agencies shall, at its request, be furnished by such other state agencies with a writte…

All money received by any state agency, other than the Regents of the University of California, for charges for work, services, materials or equipment shall be deposited in the State Treasury and, except advances or transfers under Sections 11257 and 11258, credited by the State …

After work is performed, services are rendered, or materials or equipment are furnished pursuant to advances or transfers made under Sections 11257 and 11258, the Controller shall process transfers from time to time as requested by the state agency that performed the work. Any ag…

Amounts advanced or transferred in accordance with Sections 11257 and 11258 shall be available for expenditure for the same period and purpose as the appropriation from which the advance or transfer is made. All or any portion of the amounts so advanced or transferred may be retu…

Whenever any payment heretofore or hereafter made by a state agency for work, services, materials or equipment performed or furnished under this article or any other law by another state agency was erroneous, in excess of the amount that should have been paid or was unearned, the…

As used in this article, “state agency” or “state agencies” includes the Department of General Services and any and all organizational units, parts, and subdivisions of state agencies as defined in Section 11000.

As used in this article, “administrative costs” means the amounts expended by the Legislature, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Governor’s Office, the Department of Technology, the Office of Planning and Research, the Department of Justice, the State Controller’s Office, the S…

(a) The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Central Service Cost Recovery Fund shall consist of those amounts transferred in accordance with Section 11274, and any interest earnings. Money in the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund shall…

The Department of Finance shall determine, and may at any time redetermine, which funds, other than the General Fund and the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund, and which functions or activities of the Department of Water Resources supported by the General Fund, shall be charged …

(a) In determining or redetermining the fair share, the Department of Finance may consider the factors of cost distribution and cost estimation as it deems necessary, except that, as to the proceeds of those taxes, the use of which is restricted by Article XIX of the California C…

Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Finance may allocate and charge a fair share of the administrative costs to all funds directly. The Department of Finance shall certify to the Controller the amount determined to be the fair share of administrative costs due and pa…

In the event a fund has an insufficient fund balance for the payment of the administrative costs, the Controller shall request that the Department of Finance provide direction on effecting the transfer and its timing.

The Department of General Services may fix the cost or pro rata share, or in its discretion an amount it considers equivalent to the cost or pro rata share, and collect from each state agency in advance or upon any other basis that it may determine: (a) The cost of insuring motor…

If a state agency refuses to pay the charges fixed by the Department of General Services pursuant to this article, the department may file a claim for such charges against any appropriations made for the support or maintenance of all or any part of the work and affairs of the sta…

All money received pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (d) of Section 11290, except as provided in Section 11293, shall be accounted for to the Controller at the close of each month and on order of the Controller be paid into the Treasury and credited to the appropriation from which t…

All money received by the Department of General Services pursuant to paragraph (b) of Section 11290 shall be deposited in the Service Revolving Fund.

Every state agency having the control of any public institution owned or controlled by the state shall notify the Department of General Services of any horticultural, agricultural, livestock, manufactures, mineral, natural or other products of the public institution in excess of …

Upon receipt of such notices, the Department of General Services shall estimate the selling price of the products upon the basis of their reasonable value and arrange so far as practicable for their sale or exchange between the several public institutions owned or controlled by t…

No public institution owned or controlled by the state shall purchase any product from any source other than a public institution owned or controlled by the state or one of its political subdivisions, if the Department of General Services determines that the product is available …

If it is impossible or impracticable to sell or exchange agricultural or livestock products between public institutions owned or controlled by the State and its political subdivisions, the products, except those grown by prison labor, may be sold in any manner authorized by law.

All money received by a state agency for the sale of products shall be accounted for and reported at the end of each month to the Controller and at the same time remitted to the Treasurer and credited to the support appropriation current at the time the proceeds were received by …

This article does not limit or prevent sales pursuant to any other law relating to the sale of personal property belonging to the State.

(a) To assist in the discharge of the duties of the Secretary of State’s office, the Secretary of State may appoint one Assistant Secretary of State, whose powers, duties, and liabilities shall be those of a deputy, and any deputies and clerical, expert, technical, and other assi…

The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent person to the position of Chief of Archives. In case of the appointee’s absence or inability to perform the duties of the Chief of Archives, the Secretary of State shall designate some other competent person to act in the Chief of …

The Secretary of State shall keep a correct record of the official acts of the legislative and executive departments of the government, and shall, when required, lay the same and all matters relative thereto before either branch of the Legislature, and shall perform such other du…

The Secretary of State is charged with custody of: (a) The enrolled copy of the Constitution. (b) All acts and resolutions passed by the Legislature. (c) The Journals of the Legislature. (d) The Great Seal. (e) All books, records, deeds, parchments, maps, and papers, kept or depo…

The Secretary of State shall attend at every session of the Legislature, for the purpose of receiving bills and resolutions and perform such other duties as may be devolved upon the Secretary of State by resolution of the two houses, or either of them.

The Secretary of State shall keep a register and attest the official acts of the Governor and shall affix the Great Seal, with the Secretary’s attestation, to commissions, pardons, and other public instruments, to which the official signature of the Governor is required.

The Secretary of State shall receive and record in proper books the official bonds of all officers whose bonds are required by law to be filed with the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State shall record all conveyances made to the state, except (1) evidences of title acquired for state highway purposes and retained by the Department of Transportation, and (2) conveyances of tax-sold property.

The Secretary of State shall certify and declare the result of all elections upon a question submitted to the electors of the state by either initiative or referendum petition filed in the Secretary’s office and make official declaration of the vote upon each question.

Within 100 days after the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State Printing Office the Secretary’s certificate showing what acts, or sections, or parts of acts of the Legislature are delayed from going into effect by …

Within 60 days after the day on which a general election is held throughout the State, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State Printing Office the Secretary’s certificate showing: (a) What laws or constitutional amendments, proposed by initiative petition and approved b…

On demand, the Secretary of State shall furnish, to a person paying the fees therefor, a certified copy of all or any part of a law, record, or other instrument filed, deposited, or recorded in the Secretary’s office.

(a) When not inconsistent with other provisions of law, in lieu of filing or recording documents presented in paper format, the Secretary of State may adopt rules and regulations to authorize the electronic filing, including filing by facsimile, of a document required to be filed…

(a) The Legislature hereby recognizes the need to adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording public records in electronic media or in a cloud computing storage service. (b) In order to ensure that uniform statewide standards remain current and rele…

The Secretary of State shall file in the Secretary’s office descriptions of seals in use by the different state officers and furnish those officers with new seals whenever required.

On or before the 15th day of September in each even numbered year, the Secretary of State shall report to the Governor a detailed account of all of the Secretary of State’s official actions since the Secretary’s previous report. The report shall be accompanied with a detailed sta…

The Secretary of State shall compile and maintain a complete list of all districts for which certificates or copies of orders, ordinances or resolutions declaring districts formed or organized have been filed. This list shall contain the name of each district, the date of formati…

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…