Title GOV, California Gov. Code

Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 20670), the normal rate of contribution for a local miscellaneous member subject to Section 20552 shall be 2 percent of the compensation paid to the member. A contracting agency may pay all or a portion of the no…

(a) The normal rate of contribution for a local miscellaneous member subject to Section 20553 whose service is not included in the federal system shall be 8.25 percent of the compensation per month paid to the member. (b) The normal rate of contribution for a local miscellaneous …

The employer contribution rate of a contracting agency subject to this article shall not be reduced because of concurrent coverage of social security. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)

The books, accounts, and vouchers of the treasurer, including all books, accounts, vouchers, or other records in his office relating to reclamation districts, are at all time subject to the inspection and examination of the board of supervisors or grand jury, or of any officers o…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when any public entity or any public official acting in a fiduciary capacity, who is required or authorized by law to deposit funds in the county treasury, makes a deposit, those funds shall be deemed to be held in trust by the county t…

The treasurer shall permit the chairman of the board of supervisors, district attorney, and auditor to examine his books and count the money in the treasury, including the books and money of reclamation districts in his custody, whenever they wish to make an examination or counti…

The purpose of this article is to maintain in effect in every county the state plans for aid to the needy aged, aid to needy children, and aid to the needy blind; to protect such plans from interruption of operation in any county because of the temporary financial exigencies of t…

“Registered,” as used in this article, means endorsed and signed by the county treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

Any county which is liable under the Welfare and Institutions Code for the payment of aid to the needy aged, aid to the needy blind, or aid to needy children may apply to the Department of Finance for purchase by the State of registered warrants of the county in such amount as wi…

The county shall submit its application to the State Department of Social Services. The application shall be in such form and show such facts as are prescribed by the State Department of Social Services and the Department of Finance. If the State Department of Social Services app…

If the Department of Finance determines that the purchase will tend to effect the purpose of this article and that the county is eligible to make application, it may, with the approval of the Treasurer, purchase, in the name of the state, registered warrants of the county in the …

The purchase shall be effected as follows: (a) In lieu of the issue of registered warrants to the persons to whom the county is liable for the payment of aid, a warrant or warrants in favor of the State in the amount agreed upon between the county and the Department of Finance sh…

The funds received by a county from the State in payment for warrants of the county shall be kept in a separate fund and used only for the payment of the aid for which the county is liable under the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to the needy aged, aid to the needy blind…

Any funds received by the Department of Finance in payment of county registered warrants purchased pursuant to this article shall be immediately deposited in the State Treasury. The proceeds received as the principal amount of the warrants shall be credited to the appropriations …

All registered warrants issued to the State pursuant to this article are subject in every respect to Article 2. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

For the purpose of providing and maintaining a fund to meet the payments of demands drawn for the payment of pensions and the expenses of the board, a trust fund account to be known as “county foresters, firewardens, and firemen’s retirement fund” shall be opened upon the books o…

All transfers or payments to the fund and all withdrawals and other cash transactions shall be accounted upon the books of the auditor and treasurer in and out of this fund in the same manner as county transactions. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

All warrants drawn on the fund shall be signed by the treasurer and at least one other member of the board, who shall be designated by the board. No warrant is valid until it is countersigned, numbered, and recorded by the county auditor. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

Payments provided for in this chapter shall be made monthly upon proper vouchers. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

As used in this article, “veteran” means a soldier, sailor, airman, guardian, or marine who has served the United States honorably in any of its wars. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 379, Sec. 11. (AB 1715) Effective January 1, 2023.)

A city may provide and maintain homes for veterans. It may also provide and maintain buildings, memorial halls, and meeting places for veterans’ patriotic, fraternal, and benevolent associations. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body may acquire real or personal property necessary for such buildings, by condemnation or otherwise. It may improve, manage, and control such property. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body may furnish sites for such buildings, and may use any portion of a public lot, block, or park for such purpose. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body may purchase, lease, construct, furnish, or repair such buildings. It may provide all necessary employees and supplies for the proper maintenance of the buildings. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body may establish a fund for the purposes of this article, and transfer money from the general fund to such fund as it deems necessary. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The city may incur a bonded indebtedness for the purposes of this article. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

To accomplish the objects of this article, the city may combine with the county in which it is situated and hold property and expend money jointly with the county. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Upon reorganization, the cities are deemed dissolved and disincorporated and are merged together with the county into the City-County of Sacramento, and the charter of the largest city and the charter of the county shall be deemed repealed. The City-County of Sacramento is a char…

Upon reorganization every special district within the county or exercising all or any part of its jurisdiction or powers within the county except as may be otherwise provided in the charter, is deemed dissolved. The functions of all such dissolved districts shall be assumed by th…

When cities and a county are reorganized pursuant to this chapter, the reorganized city-county is the successor of each of the cities and the county so consolidated. Upon reorganization, the title to any property owned or held by, or in trust for, each of the cities and the count…

Immediately upon reorganization, all persons occupying or possessing the offices of each of the cities and the county shall surrender them to the proper officers of the city-county, except as may be otherwise provided in the charter. (Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 972.)

Except as otherwise provided in the charter, reorganization does not affect any debts, demands, liabilities, or obligations of any kind existing in favor of or against the cities and the county, at the time of reorganization. Reorganization does not affect any pending action or p…

The legislative body of the city-county shall levy and collect the taxes necessary to pay the indebtedness or liability of each city and the county incurred prior to reorganization within the city or the county which incurred such indebtedness, except as may be otherwise provided…

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2161), Part 4, Division 1, of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the charter shall contain provisions either establishing a limitation on the combined ad valorem property tax rate and increases in s…

Immediately upon reorganization, all ordinances of the cities and the county shall be deemed repealed. Such repeal shall not discharge any person from any existing civil or criminal liability, nor affect any pending prosecution for violation of any such ordinances, nor affect ves…

The repeal of ordinances pursuant to Section 51947 shall not apply to: (a) Ordinances under which vested rights have accrued to the extent legally necessary to protect said vested rights. (b) Ordinances relating to proceedings for street or other public improvements, to the exten…

Upon reorganization, the charter of the city-county shall have full effect throughout the city-county. The charter shall recognize the status of each of the other cities which have voted to retain their local governmental structure pursuant to Article 3 or their governmental inde…

If reorganization is completed, all proper expenses of reorganization proceedings not otherwise provided for shall be paid by the county. If reorganization is not completed, the county shall pay the expenses of calling and holding any election within it at which the question of c…

One copy of the charter ratified and approved in accordance with the provisions of this article shall be filed with the Secretary of State and one with the recorder in the city-county; and thereafter the courts shall take judicial notice of the provisions of such charter. (Added …

This chapter shall not be construed to prevent any consolidated city-county from framing and adopting a new or revised charter after consolidation in which case the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 34450) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 4 shall be applicable. (Ad…

The charter may provide for the manner in which any of the other cities which has elected to retain its local governmental structure pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51920) or its governmental independence pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 51939.50), …

As used in this article “public beach” means any beach area used for recreational purposes which is owned, operated or controlled by the State, any state agency or any local agency. (Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1595.)

Any city, county, or other local agency that owns, operates, or controls any public beach shall allow the use of that public beach by all persons regardless of ancestry, residence, or any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135. Nonresidents of the city, county, or othe…

Any city, county, or other local agency that allows any property owned, operated, or controlled by it to be used as a means of access to any public beach shall allow free access over that property to all persons regardless of ancestry, residence, or any characteristic listed or d…

The Department of Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the state, may acquire by appropriate means easements in property owned, operated or controlled by any city, county or other local agency in order to provide free public access to any public beach. However, any such easement sh…

Petitions for the annexation of territory to, or detachment of territory from, a district shall be signed as follows: (a) For a registered voter district, by any of the following: (1) Not less than 25 percent of the registered voters within the affected territory. (2) Not less th…