Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) A veteran, except a veteran who was reinstated from military leave, shall in the event of layoff receive seniority credit for recognized military service if the veteran entered the state service after discharge, the end of the national emergency, or the end of the state milit…

(a) Employees in the class under consideration, up to the number of positions to be abolished or discontinued, shall be laid off in the order as determined under this part. As between two or more of these employees who have the same score, veterans shall have preference in retent…

(a) In lieu of being laid off an employee may elect demotion to: (1) any class with substantially the same or a lower maximum salary in which he or she had served under permanent or probationary status, or (2) a class in the same line of work as the class of layoff, but of lesser…

(a) Any employee replaced by such demotion has the same option of demotion afforded by Section 19997.8 as if his or her position had been abolished or discontinued. Except as authorized by the department under the provisions of Section 19837, any employee demoted pursuant to this…

(a) It is the policy of the state that when an employee is to be separated from state service because the tasks he or she was assigned are to be eliminated or substantially changed due to management-initiated changes, including but not limited to automation or other technological…

(a) The department may temporarily restrict the choice of methods of appointment available to an appointing power if such restriction is deemed necessary in the placement in other state civil service positions of employees whose positions have been or are about to be changed subs…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an employee whose continuity of employment in the state service as either an exempt or civil service employee is broken for six months or longer by a permanent separation such as resignation, dismissal, or rejection duri…

(a) An employee who entered county employment pursuant to a resolution or agreement effecting the transfer of that employee by the State Department of Mental Health to a local mental health services program in accordance with Chapter 1330 of the Statutes of 1984, shall, upon reen…

By a four-fifths vote the board of supervisors may designate as wild flower reserves, during appropriate times of the year for not to exceed ninety (90) days at any one time, any portion of the public domain of the United States, any unsold or unleased public State land, and any …

The board may protect any land designated as wild flower reserves by prohibiting any person from driving, herding, or grazing herbivorous animals in groups of sizes designated by the board on or over such lands during such periods.

This article does not apply to any public grazing land within the scope of an act of Congress entitled “An act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement and development, to stabilize …

This article may be cited as the Shade Tree Law of 1909.

The board of supervisors may appoint a county board of forestry, to consist of no less than three persons who shall serve without compensation.

In any county in which a planning commission has been created, the board of supervisors may appoint a county board of forestry, to consist of the members of the planning commission, who, in addition to their powers and duties as members of the planning commission, shall exercise …

Whenever the board of supervisors desires to avail itself of this article, it shall by resolution or ordinance so declare.

Within two months after the adoption of the resolution or ordinance, the board of supervisors shall appoint a county board of forestry or designate the members of the county planning commission to act as the county board of forestry.

The term of office of the members of the county board of forestry is four years, except that the persons first appointed shall so classify themselves by lot that two of their number shall retire from office at the end of two years, two at the end of three years, and one at the en…

Within 10 days after notice of their appointment, the members of the county board of forestry shall organize by the election of one of their members as chairman and adopt suitable rules for their government.

The county board of forestry may employ a suitable and competent person as county forester to serve during the pleasure of the board and prescribe his duties.

The county board of forestry may also employ, or authorize the county forester to employ, a deputy county forester.

The board of supervisors may fix the compensation of the county forester.

Whenever the members of the county planning commission have been designated as the county board of forestry, it shall not employ or appoint a county forester, but the employment and appointment may be made by the board of supervisors. In such case the bond of the forester shall b…

When appointed the forester shall execute a bond to the county board of forestry in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the faithful performance of his duties. He shall be the secretary of the county board of forestry and shall perform such other duties as the board pres…

The board of forestry has exclusive charge and jurisdiction, with the exception of areas included within the limits of any city or fire protection district organized under state law, over the protection of the county from brush, grass, grain, or other fires. The board of forestry…

In the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties, the board of forestry shall not interfere with the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors over and in the improvement, care, and general control of the roads, highways, grounds, and property.

This article does not confer upon any county board of forestry, or other local authority however constituted or appointed, any jurisdiction over or within the right of way of any state road or highway, except that they may extinguish or assist in the suppression of fires within t…

In any county where a county board of forestry has been created and appointed, it is unlawful for any person except the county board of forestry or its employees to trim, prune, cut, deface, destroy, or remove any shade or ornamental tree or hedge growing upon any public road, hi…

All money received as penalties for the violation of this article shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the county board of forestry fund, and shall be used for the expenses of the county board of forestry in carrrying out this article and its policy and purpose…

Whenever this article is availed of, the board of supervisors shall appropriate money for the use of the county board of forestry sufficient to pay the compensation of the county forester and for the necessary expenses of the county board of forestry.

By a resolution or ordinance adopted by a four-fifths vote, the board of supervisors may repeal any resolution or ordinance previously enacted whereby it elected to avail itself of this article. Upon the adoption of the resolution or ordinance of repeal, any forestry board previo…

Any county may appropriate and expend money from the general fund of the county, either within or without the county, for cooperation with the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, the United States Forest Service, or the California Forest Experiment Station in investigati…

The board of supervisors may plant shade and ornamental trees on or about the public grounds and buildings of the county and provide for their care. The cost of planting and caring for the trees shall be paid out of the county general fund.

Under such regulations as it may adopt, the board of supervisors may encourage the planting and preservation of shade and ornamental trees on and about the public grounds and buildings of the county, and may pay a sum not exceeding one dollar to persons planting and cultivating t…

The board of supervisors may appropriate in any one year such sum of money as the board of supervisors deems necessary for the purpose of providing fire protection.

The board of supervisors of a county shall determine each year such sum of money as the board of supervisors deems necessary for fire protection services within the county, excluding therefrom any city or district which is at such time providing fire protection services within su…

On the application of any person interested, the board of supervisors may by ordinance declare all or any portion of any slough, river, or stream to be a public highway for the purpose of fishing therein, if it: (a) Does not lie within or run through cultivated land lying within …

If any owner of land adjacent to or across which the slough, river, or stream declared to be a highway for fishing flows does not consent to its use for such purpose with the right to pass along the banks for the purpose of fishing and on application refuses to grant the right of…

If the right of passage cannot be purchased at a satisfactory price, the board may authorize condemnation proceedings to be commenced to procure the right.

The board of supervisors may appropriate and expend money from the general fund of the county for the following purposes: (a) The construction of works, improvements, levees, or check dams to prevent the overflow and flooding of streams and rivers in the county. (b) The protectio…

The board may appropriate and expend money from the general or other appropriate funds of the county for the construction of works, improvements, levees, or check dams to prevent the overflow and flooding of streams and rivers in the county, and may construct works, improvements,…

A county may reclaim public and private lands therein by levees, bulkheads, breakwaters, fills, embankments, basins, drains, canals, excavations, sluices, pipes, watergates, pumping plants and all works and structures useful therefor. This work is a local improvement and a county…

In connection with flood control work done by the county or by any district therein or agency thereof, highways, bridges, and other public works affected thereby or which will be of public benefit, whether located in the county or wholly or partially in incorporated or unincorpor…

This article does not authorize the imposition of any tax or special assessment on any property outside the county doing the flood control work whether the work is done directly by the county or by any district in, or agency of the county, nor the doing of any work pursuant to th…

The board of supervisors may provide by ordinance for the organization and government of districts: (a) to protect and preserve the banks of rivers and streams and lands lying contiguous thereto from injury by overflow or the washing thereof, (b) to provide for the improvement of…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.