Title GOV, California Gov. Code

At the beginning of each volume of the statutes there shall be printed: (a) The Constitution of the state. (b) The name and place of residence of: (1) The Governor. (2) The Lieutenant Governor. (3) The other executive officers of the state. (4) The Senators and Members of the Ass…

The Office of State Printing shall print the number of copies of the statutes of each session prepared at the direction of the Department of General Services that the Joint Rules Committee determines is necessary. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9768 or any other provis…

The statutes shall be bound in law buckram binding. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 111.)

Whenever any state agency requires the compilation, printing, and publication of any volumes or pamphlets of laws or other matter for use or information in the discharge of its duties or for the general use or information of the people it shall apply to the department for its app…

After approval of the application by the department and upon its written direction or request, the Legislative Counsel, State Librarian, or other state agency authorized or required by law to render the service, shall compile the volumes and pamphlets for printing and publication…

The state agency requiring the compilation shall furnish the state agency compiling it such data and information as it has or may be able to obtain conveniently concerning the compilation. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

If the compilation is required for its own use or information, the cost of compiling, printing, and publishing the volumes or pamphlets shall be paid for from any appropriation for the state agency that is available for printing purposes. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

If the compilation is for the general use or information of the people, the cost of compiling, printing, and publishing the volumes or pamphlets shall be paid for from funds appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature. (Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 371.)

The board of supervisors may acquire, develop, distribute, and sell water to the county and its inhabitants for domestic, irrigation, agricultural, and other beneficial uses. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1176.)

For purposes of this article the board may acquire water rights by purchase or condemnation and may file applications for the appropriation of unappropriated waters. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1176.)

The board may acquire, construct, repair, and manage a water system, pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, and all other works necessary or proper for supplying water for the use of the county and its inhabitants. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1176.)

For the purposes of this article, the county may incur a bonded indebtedness, upon the conditions, in the manner, and in accordance with the procedure prescribed by Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Division 3 of this title. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1176.)

Any tax for the purposes of this article may be levied only if a proposal therefor, specifying the purpose, the rate of tax, and the number of years for which the tax is to be levied, is submitted to the qualified electors of the county, at a general or special election, and is a…

When the acquisition, improvement, development or construction of a water supply system is completed, and the board of supervisors so finds and determines, the management and control of that water system vests in the board of supervisors. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1176.)

In managing and controlling a water system, the board of supervisors has authority, upon such terms and conditions as the board shall prescribe, to establish the rate or rates for the use of water furnished or provided by the county. All revenues derived from such charge, are ava…

In any year a tax may be levied for the maintenance of the water system in the county at a rate calculated to raise a sum of money equal to the amount of the excess, if any, of the amount of the estimated cost of such maintenance over the estimated amount of revenues derived that…

No tax for the purposes of this article may be levied for acquisition, improvement, development, construction, maintenance or operation upon property within incorporated cities maintaining a municipal water system until approved by a vote of the electors thereof as provided in Se…

The board of supervisors may establish a committee or board to advise and make recommendations to the board of supervisors with respect to the water resources of the county. The members appointed to the committee or board so established shall receive no compensation but shall be …

It is hereby declared that the purpose of this article is to provide relief from the provisions of contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter under the circumstances and conditions provided herein. (Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 1095, Sec. 1.)

As used in this chapter, the finding of a board or council that “cancellation and alternative use will not result in discontiguous patterns of urban development” authorizes, but does not require, the board or council to cancel a contract if it finds that the alternative use will …

A contract may not be canceled except pursuant to a request by the landowner, and as provided in this article. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1372.)

The board or council may require the payment of a reasonable application fee to be made at the time a petition for cancellation is filed. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1120.)

(a) The landowner may petition the board or council for cancellation of any contract as to all or any part of the subject land. The board or council may grant tentative approval for cancellation of a contract only if it makes one of the following findings: (1) That the cancellati…

(a) The landowner may petition the board or council, pursuant to Section 51282, for cancellation of any contract or of any portion of a contract if the board or council has determined that agricultural laborer housing is not a compatible use on the contracted lands. The petition,…

The owner of any land which has been zoned as a timberland production pursuant to Section 51112 or 51113, and that zoning has been recorded as provided in Section 51117, may petition the board or council for cancellation of any contract as to all or part of the land. Upon petitio…

(a) Prior to any action by the board or council giving tentative approval to the cancellation of any contract, the county assessor of the county in which the land is located shall determine the current fair market value of the land as though it were free of the contractual restri…

(a) The assessor shall determine the current fair market value of the land as if it were free of the contractual restriction pursuant to Section 51283. The Department of Conservation or the landowner, also referred to in this section as “parties,” may provide information to assis…

(a) Upon tentative approval of a petition accompanied by a proposal for a specified alternative use of the land, the clerk of the board or council shall record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which is located the land as to which the contract is applicable a…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that cancellation fees should be calculated in a timely manner and disputes over cancellation fees should be resolved before a city or county approves a tentative cancellation. However, the city or county may approve a tentative cancellation…

No contract may be canceled until after the city or county has given notice of, and has held, a public hearing on the matter. Notice of the hearing shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 and shall be mailed to every owner of land under contract, any portion of which is situa…

When a landowner petitions a board or council for the tentative cancellation of a contract and when the board or council accepts the application as complete pursuant to Section 65943, the board or council shall send that information to the assessor that is necessary to describe t…

The owner of any property located in the county or city in which the agricultural preserve is situated may protest such cancellation to the city or county conducting the hearing. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1372.)

(a) Any action or proceeding which, on the grounds of alleged noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter, seeks to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul a decision of a board of supervisors or a city council to cancel a contract shall be brought pursuant to Section 1…

The city or county may impose a fee pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 66016) of Division 1 of Title 7 for recovery of costs under this article. The fee shall not exceed an amount necessary to recover the reasonable cost of services provided by the city or county unde…

(a) As of the implementation date of this article, as provided in Section 71658, each trial court shall establish a trial court employment protection system that shall become the minimum employment protection system for all trial court employees and shall become part of the sole …

(a) The trial court employment protection system in each trial court shall include progressive discipline, as defined by each trial court’s personnel policies, procedures, or plans, subject to meet and confer in good faith. Except for layoffs for organizational necessity as provi…

(a) Consistent with federal and California labor law, a trial court shall not retaliate against an official reporter or official reporter pro tempore who notifies the judicial officer that technology or audibility issues are interfering with the creation of the verbatim record fo…

(a) A trial court employee may be laid off based on the organizational necessity of the court. Each trial court shall develop, subject to meet and confer in good faith, personnel rules regarding procedures for layoffs for organizational necessity. Employees shall be laid off on t…

Subject to meet and confer in good faith, each trial court shall establish in its personnel rules a process for conducting an evidentiary due process hearing to review disciplinary decisions that by law require an evidentiary due process hearing, which shall include, at a minimum…

Subject to meet and confer in good faith, each trial court shall establish in its personnel rules a process for the trial court to review a hearing officer’s report and recommendation made pursuant to Section 71653 that provides, at a minimum, that the decision of the hearing off…

(a) An employee may challenge the decision of the disciplining trial court, made pursuant to Section 71654, rejecting or modifying the hearing officer’s recommendation by filing a writ of mandamus pursuant to Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure in the appropriate court,…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, in a county of the first class as defined in Section 28022 as of January 1, 2001: (a) As of the implementation date provided in Section 71658, a trial court employee who was a member of a county civil service system shall remai…

(a) Disciplinary action served on a trial court employee prior to the implementation date of this chapter shall remain in effect in accordance with the procedures established under the trial court’s predecessor personnel system. (b) Appeals of disciplinary action served on a tria…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the implementation date of this article is the effective date of this chapter. (b) Representatives of a trial court and representatives of recognized employee organizations may mutually agree to an implementation date of this article dif…

(a) (1) There is in state government, within the office of the Governor, the Office of Emergency Services. The Office of Emergency Services shall be under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services, who shall have all rights and powers of a head of an office as provide…

The Office of Emergency Services shall be the lead agency for emergency response to a large, ongoing leak or release of natural gas and associated gases from a natural gas storage facility that poses a significant present or potential hazard to the public health and safety, prope…