Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, solid waste handling service provided by, or arranged for provision by, a county under Section 25827 or 25830, or under Section 40059 of the Public Resources Code, is not a public utility within the meaning of Section 10001 of the Publi…

The board of supervisors may prohibit and prevent the unnecessary firing and discharge of firearms on or into the highways and other public places and may pass all necessary ordinances regulating or forbidding such acts.

The board of supervisors may provide for the control or destruction of gophers, squirrels, other wild animals, noxious weeds, plant diseases, and insects injurious to fruit or fruit trees, vines, or vegetable or plant life.

(a) The board of supervisors may provide the same services and exercise the powers of mosquito abatement districts or vector control districts formed pursuant to the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 2000) of Division 3 of the …

The board of supervisors may establish safety incentive programs designed to encourage county officers and employees to follow recognized safety practices and focus upon policies and activities established to reduce the incidence of occupational injury and its associated costs, a…

The board of supervisors of any county may appropriate and expend money from the general fund of the county, either within or without the county, for the purpose of providing weather data and may co-operate with the United States, the State, other counties, municipal corporations…

(a) The board of supervisors, by ordinance, may establish a procedure for the abatement of a nuisance. The ordinance shall, at a minimum, provide that the owner of the parcel, and anyone known to the board of supervisors to be in possession of the parcel, be given notice of the a…

The board of supervisors, by ordinance, may provide that upon entry of a second or subsequent civil or criminal judgment within a two-year period finding that an owner of property is responsible for a condition that may be abated in accordance with an ordinance enacted pursuant t…

Subject to the provisions contained in Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 38780) of Chapter 10 of Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 4, a county may provide that prior to the sale or exchange of any residential building situated outside the boundaries of any incorporated city, the o…

Sections 24350 to 24356, inclusive, and Sections 29350 and 29351 apply to officers of superior courts and to the disposition of fees collected by those officers.

The deputy marshals serving as custodians shall be paid only for their actual services as keepers of property taken under legal process and shall be paid out of funds deposited by the parties to the action in which such services are rendered.

Court-related services are provided by the marshal’s office in Shasta County.

Within the jurisdiction of the court and under the direction of the judges, commissioners shall exercise all the powers and perform all of the duties prescribed by law. At the direction of the judges, commissioners may have the same jurisdiction and exercise the same powers and d…

A commissioner may conduct arraignment proceedings on a complaint if directed to perform those duties by the presiding judge of the court, including the issuance and signing of bench warrants.

If directed to perform such duties by the presiding judge, a commissioner may issue and sign a bench warrant for the arrest of a defendant who fails to appear in court when required to appear by law or who fails to perform any act required by court order.

Whenever the charter of any city creates the office of city prosecutor, or provides that a deputy city attorney shall act as city prosecutor, and charges such prosecutor with the duty, when authorized by law, of prosecuting misdemeanor offenses arising out of violations of state …

The clerk of the superior court or one or more deputy clerks, the sheriff or one or more deputy sheriffs, or one or more city police officers shall be in attendance at all hours of the day and night, including Sundays and holidays, and may fix and accept bail pursuant to procedur…

If a defendant has been arrested for felony upon a warrant issued by a judge of that court, the clerk may, under like conditions, accept bail in the amount fixed in the warrant.

The authority to accept bail provided for in this article includes authority to approve it, to issue and sign an order for the release of the defendant, and to set a time and place for the appearance of the defendant before the appropriate department or judge of such court and gi…

Any commissioner or traffic referee of such court may exercise all of the powers and duties provided for in this article for the clerk relating to bail and the discharge of defendants under bail, and the authority to fix the amount of bail in cases of misdemeanor defined in the V…

At the direction of the court the traffic referee may do any of the following: (a) With respect to any misdemeanor violation of the Vehicle Code he may fix the amount of bail, grant continuances, arraign the defendant, hear and recommend orders to be made on demurrers and motions…

In conducting arraignments, taking pleas, granting continuances, setting cases for trial and imposing penalties for traffic offenses as provided in this article the traffic referee shall have the same powers as a judge of the court.

The traffic referee shall have the power of a deputy clerk of the court, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the court.

Short title This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Legislative Reform Act of 1983.”

Findings and declaration. The people find and declare: (a) All citizens of the State are entitled to full and effective representation by their elected representatives. (b) In recent years spending for the support of the Legislature has increased at a rate greatly exceeding the g…

Purposes of chapter The people enact this chapter to accomplish the following purposes: (a) Appropriations for the support of the Legislature should be reduced by thirty percent from 1983–84 budgeted levels and future growth in legislative spending should be limited to a rate com…

Construction of chapter This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.

Amendment or repeal of chapter; procedures This chapter may be amended only by the procedures set forth in this section. If any portion of subsection (a) is declared invalid, then subsection (b) shall be the exclusive means of amending or repealing this chapter. (a) This chapter …

Imposition of additional requirements; law governing Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Legislature from imposing additional requirements on itself if the requirements do not conflict with the purposes of this chapter. If any act of the Legislature conflicts with the provi…

Severability If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this chapter to the extent it can be given effect, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances othe…

Effective date This chapter shall go into effect immediately. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all changes in the structure or operation of the Legislature required by this chapter, including but not limited to the adoption of rules in accordance with Section 9920 and …

Speaker of the Assembly The Speaker is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Assembly. The Speaker shall be elected upon organization of the Assembly at the beginning of each regular or special session and shall serve until adj…

Assembly Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Assembly a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the Speaker, who shall be the chairman of the committee, and six other Members of the Assembly, three to be elected by the party having the largest number of Members i…

Powers of the Assembly Committee on Rules (a) The Assembly Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Assembly committees. (2) To appoint the Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of all other Assembly Committees, provided that the Chairman and Vice-chairman of each…

Appointments by the speaker; confirmation by Assembly Committee on Rules Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all statutory appointments delegated to the Speaker of the Assembly are subject to confirmation by the Assembly Committee on Rules, two thirds of the membership th…

President pro tempore of the senate The President pro Tempore is responsible for the efficient conduct of the legislative and administrative affairs of the Senate. The President pro Tempore shall be elected upon organization of the Senate at the beginning of each regular or speci…

Senate Committee on Rules There is hereby created in the Senate a Committee on Rules, which shall consist of the President pro Tempore of the Senate, who shall be the chairman of the committee, and four other Members of the Senate, two to be elected by the party having the larges…

Powers of the Senate Committee on Rules (a) The Senate Committee on Rules shall have the power: (1) To assign all bills to Senate committees. (2) To appoint the Chairmen and Vice-chairmen of all other Senate committees, provided that the Chairman and Vice-chairman of each committ…

Joint rules committee (a) There is hereby created the Joint Rules Committee which shall be comprised of the combined membership of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules as specified in this article and two other Members of the Senate, one to be elected…

Rules Each house of the Legislature shall adopt rules for its proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the house in question. No rule of either the Senate or Assembly shall be amended…

Joint Rules The Senate and Assembly shall adopt rules for their joint proceedings for each regular and special session by resolution adopted by an affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of each house. No joint rule so adopted may be amended except by resolution…

Standing committees All standing committees of both the Senate and the Assembly, except the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules, shall be created and the size and jurisdiction thereof established through the adoption of or amendment to the rules of the r…

Special and select committees; subcommittees No special or select committees nor any subcommittee shall be established in either the Senate or the Assembly except by affirmative vote of two thirds of the Committee on Rules of the house in question. Membership of special or select…

Joint committees No joint committee shall be established except by passage of concurrent resolution, two thirds of the membership of each house concurring. The membership of each joint committee shall be allocated equally between the Senate and the Assembly, and the delegation fr…

Member voting Each house of the Legislature shall provide in its rules for appropriate voting procedures on the floor and in committees or subcommittees; provided, that no Member shall be allowed to cast a vote for another Member, nor shall any Member be allowed to change his or …

Legislative contingent funds All appropriations for contingent expenses of the Legislature and committees thereof shall be deposited in and credited to the following funds, which funds are created in the State Treasury: (a) Appropriations for the contingent expenses of the Senate…

Disbursements from Senate Contingent Fund and Assembly Contingent Fund Except as provided by affirmative recorded vote of two thirds of the membership of the rules committee having powers of direction under Section 9930, all disbursements from the Senate Contingent Fund and the A…

Disbursements from Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly No disbursements shall be made from the Contingent Funds of the Senate and Assembly except as provided by vote of the Joint Rules Committee, two thirds of the total membership thereof concurring.

Disbursement of money appropriated for legislative printing Any money appropriated for legislative printing shall be disbursed under or pursuant to the direction of the Senate or Assembly as provided in the rules of the Senate or Assembly or their joint rules, in accordance with …

Limits upon public expenditure Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 30 days following the enactment of this chapter, the total amount of monies appropriated for the support of the Legislature, including but not limited to all monies appropriated to the Senate Contin…