Title GOV — California Gov. Code

It is the desire of the Legislature to create the Office of the Auditor General, whose primary duties shall be to perform performance audits as may be requested by the Legislature. The authority of the office under the direction of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee is confine…

The Joint Legislative Audit Committee is hereby created. The committee shall determine the policies of the Auditor General, ascertain facts, review reports and take action thereon, and make reports and recommendations to the Legislature and to the houses thereof concerning the st…

The committee shall consist of seven Members of the Senate and seven Members of the Assembly who shall be selected in the manner provided for in the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly. The committee shall elect its own chairman. Vacancies occurring in the membership of the co…

The committee is authorized to make rule governing its own proceedings and to create subcommittees from its membership and assign to such subcommittees any study, inquiry, investigation, or hearing which the committee itself has authority to undertake or hold. The provisions of R…

After recommendation by the committee, the Auditor General shall be selected by concurrent resolution and shall serve until his or her successor is selected or until his or her removal by concurrent resolution. When the Legislature is not in session, the committee may suspend the…

At least one deputy auditor general shall be a certified public accountant.

Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) constitute, and may be cited as, the Administrative Procedure Act.

As used in the Administrative Procedure Act “director” means the executive officer of the Office of Administrative Hearings.

(a) There is in the Department of General Services the Office of Administrative Hearings which is under the direction and control of an executive officer who shall be known as the director. (b) The director shall have the same qualifications as administrative law judges, and shal…

The director shall appoint and maintain a staff of full-time, and may appoint pro tempore part-time, administrative law judges qualified under Section 11502 which is sufficient to fill the needs of the various state agencies. The director shall also appoint any other technical an…

The total cost to the state of maintaining and operating the Office of Administrative Hearings shall be determined by, and collected by the Department of General Services in advance or upon such other basis as it may determine from the state or other public agencies for which ser…

(a) The office is authorized and directed to study the subject of administrative adjudication in all its aspects; to submit its suggestions to the various agencies in the interests of fairness, uniformity and the expedition of business; and to report its recommendations to the Go…

(a) There is within the Office of Administrative Hearings a Medical Quality Hearing Panel, consisting of no fewer than five full-time administrative law judges. The administrative law judges shall have medical training as recommended by the Division of Medical Quality of the Medi…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all adjudicative hearings and proceedings relating to the discipline or reinstatement of licensees of the Medical Board of California, including licensees of affiliated health agencies within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of Cali…

All adjudicative hearings and proceedings conducted by an administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 shall be conducted under the terms and conditions set forth in the Administrative Procedure Act, except as provided in the Medical Practice Act (Chapter 5 (commencing…

The Office of Administrative Hearings shall provide facilities and support personnel for the review committee panel and shall assess the Medical Board of California for facilities and personnel, where used to adjudicate cases involving the Medical Board of California.

(a) (1) The office shall hear and render a decision on any appeal filed by a business, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14775, in the event the business contests the certification by a state agency head that reporting requirements meet established criteria and shall not be …

The Treasurer may appoint one deputy treasurer at the annual salary as the Treasurer shall establish. The Treasurer may also designate and appoint, or terminate the designation and appointment of, an officer or employee of the Treasurer’s office, in addition to the deputy treasur…

Peace officers of the Department of the California Highway Patrol shall make routine inspections of the premises of the Treasurer’s office after normal working hours each day and on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

The Treasurer may contract for and secure insurance against the loss of securities and money in the Treasurer’s custody from any insurable risk whatsoever. The amount of insurance obtained shall not exceed the daily average amount of cash and securities respectively, in the custo…

The Treasurer shall receive and keep in the vaults of the State Treasury or deposit in banks or credit unions all moneys belonging to the state, not required to be received and kept by some other person. Bonds, and other securities or investments belonging to the state, except th…

The Treasurer shall not receive money into the Treasury unless it is certified by the Controller as provided for in Section 12414.

The Treasurer shall endorse a memorandum receipt upon documents accompanying money transmitted for deposit into the Treasury.

The Treasurer shall pay warrants drawn by the Controller, except warrants canceled pursuant to law.

The Treasurer may attach to or indorse upon warrants drawn by the Controller an order directing payment by any bank or credit union in which money of the state is on deposit. Upon presentation for payment, the person to whom it is paid shall receipt therefor in the manner customa…

The Treasurer shall keep an account of all money received and disbursed.

The Treasurer shall report daily to the Controller the amounts disbursed during the preceding day and the funds out of which the disbursements were paid.

On or before the fifteenth day of September in each even-numbered year, the Treasurer shall report to the Governor the exact balance in the treasury to the credit of the State, and a summary of the receipts and payments of the treasury during the two preceding fiscal years.

(a) At the request of either house of the Legislature, or of a committee thereof, the Treasurer shall give written information as to the condition of the State Treasury, or upon a subject relating to the duties of the Treasurer’s office. (b) The Treasurer annually shall prepare a…

Notwithstanding any general or specific law to the contrary, whenever any law or whenever any state agency or officer requires that a pledge of money be made to secure the performance of an act or duty, the pledges shall first be approved by the governing or administrating state …

The Treasurer is designated as an elected representative of the state to approve the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, issued by or on behalf of the state, to the extent this approval is required by federal tax law. In the event the Treasurer is unavai…

(a) The Treasurer may act as trustee, registrar, paying agent, tender agent, custodian, depository, transfer agent, fiscal agent, or in any other fiduciary or representative capacity for any purpose permitted by law, and may accept and execute any trust business permitted by any …

(a) As soon as April 1, 2022, but no later than one year after the effective date of this chapter, the Treasurer, in consultation with the California Housing Finance Agency, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and other relevant stakeholders, shall dev…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Between 1970 and 1990, California’s population grew by 50 percent, while the total number of miles driven in the state increased by 100 percent. (b) Conservative estimates have the state adding an additional 6 mi…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

(a) “Eligible project” means the federally funded portion of any highway or other transportation project that has been designated for accelerated construction by the commission, and increases the capacity, reduces the travel time, or provides long-life rehabilitation of the key b…

“Federal transportation funds” means any funds apportioned to the state by the United States Department of Transportation, including, but not limited to, funds paid pursuant to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178).

A “note” is a federal highway grant anticipation note issued by the Treasurer under this chapter.

(a) The commission may from time to time select and designate eligible projects to be funded from the proceeds of notes, if financing of the project from the proceeds of notes has been approved by the Federal Highway Administration and the regional transportation planning agency,…

On or before October 1 of each year, the commission shall report to the Governor, the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the Chairs of the transportation committees in the Assembly and Senate on the amount of notes that the commission intends to issue for the sub…

The commission, in cooperation with the department and regional transportation planning agencies, shall establish guidelines for eligibility for funding allocations under this chapter. The guidelines shall be nondiscriminatory and shall be designed to allow as many counties as po…

The Treasurer may not authorize the issuance of notes if the annual repayment obligations of all outstanding notes in any fiscal year would exceed 15 percent of the total amount of federal transportation funds deposited in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fun…

Funds allocated to a State Transportation Improvement Program project under this chapter, including cost overruns and financing costs, shall be counted against the interregional improvement program share in the case of a project in the interregional improvement program and the co…

In order to provide security for repayment of the notes, the commission shall adopt a resolution dedicating and pledging any future receipts of federal transportation funds received by the state to the payment of principal of, and interest and premium on the notes, for as long as…

Before notes are issued under this chapter, the commission, in cooperation with the department and the Department of Finance, shall consider and determine the appropriateness of the mechanism authorized by this chapter in comparison to other funding mechanisms, including, but not…

(a) Upon taking the actions authorized under this article, the commission may request the Treasurer to issue notes to provide funds for the eligible projects. (b) On or before April 1 of each year, the commission shall prepare and submit an annual report regarding the preceding c…

(a) In order to provide for the financing of selected projects, the Treasurer may issue tax-exempt or taxable notes under this article. Proceeds of the sale of those notes shall be deposited in the Transportation Financing Subaccount, which is hereby created as a special trust fu…

The Treasurer shall issue notes from time to time pursuant to a resolution from the commission. Those pledges shall be governed under Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 5450) of Division 6 of Title 1 of the Government Code. The resolution may contain any of the following provis…

Any notes issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement, indenture, or resolution by and between the commission and a trustee. The trustee may be the Treasurer or a bank or trust company chartered under the laws of this state or of the United States and designated…

The notes shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions of the Treasurer, shall be in the form, shall bear the date or dates, and shall mature at the time or times, as the resolution or resolutions may provide, except that no note may mature more than 30 years from the date of…