Title GOV, California Gov. Code

(a) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, the validity or enforceability of any bonds to which this chapter applies shall not be affected in any way by the failure of an awarding department to meet the goals established under this chapter. (b) No action may be…

(a) It shall be unlawful for a person to: (1) Knowingly and with intent to defraud, fraudulently obtain, retain, attempt to obtain or retain, or aid another in fraudulently obtaining or retaining or attempting to obtain or retain, acceptance or certification as a minority, women,…

Except for Article 5, the provisions of this part shall be applicable to claims for state reimbursement of costs mandated by the state on and after January 1, 1985. All claims for state reimbursement filed under Article 1 (commencing with Section 2201), Article 2 (commencing with…

(a) The department shall devise plans for and cooperate with appointing powers and other supervising officials in the conduct of employee training programs so that the quality of service rendered by persons in the state civil service may be continually improved. (b) If the provis…

For the purpose of meeting the development needs of the state’s workforce, the department shall analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate an integrated development strategy to continually advance employee skills and improve performance productivity and service. The depart…

(a) The department may provide training programs to any public employee or officer so that the quality of service rendered by those persons may be continually improved. For purposes of this subdivision, “public employee or officer” means any employee or officer of any of the foll…

(a) To such extent as practicable and within available resources for this purpose, the appointing power shall arrange for such counseling and training of employees as may be reasonably needed to prepare them for placement in other state civil service positions when their position…

(a) The department and the Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of disabled state employees who can be benefited by rehabilitation services and might be retrained for other appropriate positions within the state se…

(a) The department shall devise plans for, and cooperate with appointing powers in the conduct of, supervisor, manager, and career executive assignment employee training programs so that the quality of leadership services rendered by persons in those positions may be continually …

(a) Every county superintendent of schools shall enter into a contract with the board for the inclusion in this system of (1) all of the employees of the office of county superintendent whose compensation is paid from the county school service fund other than employees electing p…

A regional occupational center established pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 52300) of Division 4 of the Education Code by two or more school districts by a joint powers agreement shall be deemed a school district for purposes of this part. The board and the county s…

The board and the county superintendent of schools, upon the request of any school district in the county that is a contracting agency, shall amend the contract entered into under this chapter to include the employees of the district. The request for the amendment shall be made i…

An amendment executed under Section 20612 shall be deemed a continuation and an amendment, to the extent of any variation in the two contracts, of the district’s contract with respect to rights of all employees of the district under this system. Accumulated contributions held for…

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all of the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 20460) apply to contracts made pursuant to this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 379, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.)

Sections 20469, 20470, 20502, 20512, 20570, 20571, and 20572 do not apply to contracts made pursuant to this chapter. The county superintendent of schools shall have no authority to exercise any election under any provision of this part, other than Section 21623.6, that applies t…

The county superintendent of schools at the close of each month shall draw requisitions against the county school service fund and the funds of the respective school districts for amounts equal to the total of the employers’ contributions required to be paid from the county schoo…

(a) The assets and liabilities arising out of contracts with school employers, as defined in Section 20063, shall be merged, excluding that portion of a contract that provides benefits pursuant to Section 21623.6, that portion of a contract with respect to local police officers, …

(a) Employer and employee contribution rates may be determined by the terms of the memorandum of understanding applicable to each plan participant and the employer in accordance with the requirements of this section. (b) Through the Department of Human Resources, the employer sha…

The employer shall pick up, for the sole purpose of and in accordance with the requirements of Section 414(h)(2) of Title 26 of the United States Code and Section 17501 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, all of the amounts otherwise due as employee contributions, which shall be pa…

Pursuant to terms and conditions established by the board, a participant may be permitted to transfer funds from an eligible retirement plan into the plan to the extent that the transfers are allowable under applicable federal and state laws. (Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 820, Sec. …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or contract to the contrary, contributions to the plan shall be subject to the applicable limitations imposed by Section 415 of Title 26 of the United States Code, as that section may be amended from time to time and as these limits …

(a) Employee after-tax contributions to the plan shall be made solely at the option of the participant. (b) Employee contributions may be made directly by the participant to the plan on a periodic basis as specified by the board, or may be withheld from the employee’s compensatio…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, contributions to the plan shall be subject to the applicable limitations imposed by Section 415 of Title 26 of the United States Code, as that section may be amended from time to time and as these limits may be adjus…

(a) There shall be no employer contributions to the plan. (b) There shall be no employer payment of participant contributions on behalf of a participant in accordance with paragraph (2) of subsection (h) of Section 414 of Title 26 of the United States Code. (Added by Stats. 1999,…

The board may permit a participant to transfer funds, including eligible rollover contributions, from an eligible retirement plan into this plan to the extent that the transfers are allowed under applicable federal and state laws, and pursuant to the terms and conditions establis…

Sheriffs, clerks, recorders, treasurers, and auditors, shall have their offices at the county seat in the courthouse, hall of records, jail, or other buildings. However, these officials may situate their offices outside the county seat, provided that the offices are conveniently …

Sheriffs shall also have offices in each city in which they perform court-related services and a facility of the superior court is located. (Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 149, Sec. 17. Effective January 1, 2004.)

Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 20,000 as ascertained by the preceding census taken under the authority of the Congress or the Legislature in which the city hall is not less than 30 miles distant from the county cou…

Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 50,000 as ascertained by the last census taken under the authority of the Congress or the Legislature in which the city hall is not less than six miles distant from the county courtho…

Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 7,000, as ascertained by the preceding census taken under the authority of Congress or the Legislature in which the city hall is not less than 55 miles distant from the site of the co…

Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in each city wherein the city hall is not less than eighteen miles from the site of the county courthouse and which has a population of not less than ten thousand, and within the ten-mile radius from the city hall of which there is a po…

All offices required by this chapter shall be provided by the county through the board of supervisors. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

Whenever the law specifies that an office or building shall be located at the county seat and an incorporated city has been designated as the county seat, the location of that office or building may be either within or in the immediate vicinity of the corporate limits of said cit…

In this chapter “transaction of business” means that during the hours named there shall be present in each office at least one person qualified and prepared to transact the business that properly comes into the office. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

If any officer required by this chapter to have an office has no regularly appointed deputy paid by the county at the same time and in the same manner as the principal, he may close his office during the hour from 12 o'clock noon to 1 o'clock p.m. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)…

If the officer has a branch office to which a single deputy is assigned, he may close the branch office during the hour from 12 o'clock noon to 1 o'clock p.m. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

In all counties county officers shall keep their offices open for the transaction of business during such hours and on such days as are fixed by the board of supervisors by ordinance or resolution. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 661.)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no office of the sheriff or clerk shall be established elsewhere than at the county seat without the approval of the board of supervisors. (Added by Stats. 1961, Ch. 1601.)

This chapter may be cited as the County Peace Officer and Fire Service Retirement Plan Law. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1479.)

It is the intent of this chapter to enable any county to adopt such a retirement, disability and death benefit plan as may be determined upon by the board of supervisors or qualified electors thereof for those officers and employees in the public service whose duties expose them …

This chapter and every retirement, disability and death benefit plan adopted pursuant to its terms, shall be given a liberal interpretation with a view to carrying out its purposes. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1479.)

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: “County peace officers” shall comprehend and include all persons duly and regularly appointed…

Subject only to the limitations of this chapter, any county may, by ordinance adopted by a four-fifths (45) vote of the board of supervisors, or by a majority vote of the qualified electors of said county, establish and maintain a retirement, disability and death benefit plan for…

Any retirement plan established pursuant to this chapter shall be under the exclusive control and management of a “board of administration” to be composed of not less than three (3) nor more than seven (7) members. The members of said board shall be chosen in such manner, shall s…

When any county establishes a retirement plan under the provisions of this chapter, there shall be created in the treasury of the county and opened upon the books of the auditor and treasurer of the county, a trust fund to be known as the “peace officers and fire service retireme…

All transfers or payments to said fund and all withdrawals and cash transactions shall be accounted for upon the books of the auditor and treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 1479.)