Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The Legislature finds and declares that wellness and physical fitness should be the goal of every American and, therefore, creates the Council on Wellness and Physical Fitness with the following responsibilities: (a) Develop and coordinate state and local activities involving the…

There is in the office of the Governor a Council on Wellness and Physical Fitness, hereinafter referred to as “council” which shall advocate and encourage wellness and physical fitness. (a) The council shall consist of 20 members, 10 to be appointed by the Governor, five by the S…

(a) Upon approval of the initial referendum, the office shall establish a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation named the California Travel and Tourism Commission. The commission shall be under the direction of a board of commissioners, which shall function as the board of directo…

Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 13995.40, the number of commissioners elected from each industry category shall be determined by the weighted percentage of assessments from that category, except that no more than six commissioners shall be elected from the passenger ca…

The purpose of the commission is to increase the number of persons traveling to and within California. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 229, Sec. 1.5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) The commission is a separate, independent California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation. Except as provided in Section 13995.43, the staff of the commission shall be employees solely of the commission, and the procedures adopted by the commission shall not be subject to the…

(a) The commission shall be administered by an executive director. That individual shall be a tourism industry marketing professional, recommended by a vote of the commissioners and approved by the Governor. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of both the commissio…

(a) (1) The commission shall annually provide to all assessed businesses, the chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and the chairpersons of the Assembly Committee on Budget and the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review a report on the activities and budget…

(a) The commission shall annually prepare, or cause to be prepared, a written marketing plan. In developing the plan, the commission shall utilize, as appropriate, the advice and recommendations of the industry marketing advisory committee or committees established pursuant to su…

Commissioners and employees of the commission are not responsible individually in any way whatsoever to any person for liability for any good faith activity of the commission. (Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 229, Sec. 1.5. Effective January 1, 2004.)

(a) The commission shall establish one or more industry marketing advisory committees, which may include noncommissioners as members. The industry marketing advisory committees shall be structured so that, in the aggregate, they include, to the maximum extent feasible and reasona…

If the commission believes that the administration of the marketing plan will be promoted thereby, the commission may borrow money, with or without interest, to carry out the provisions of the marketing plan, and may hypothecate anticipated assessment collections. (Added by Stats…

The commission may by written contract accept a voluntary assessment from any person in a travel and tourism related business who is not an assessed business. The contract shall apply solely to the person in question and not to any other person in a travel and tourism related bus…

The following definitions apply to this article: (a) “Equipment” means rail passenger cars, locomotives, other rail vehicles, bus and van fleets, and ferryboats. (b) “Equipment obligations” means notes, equipment trust certificates, or other obligations, including grant anticipat…

The department may take all action necessary to purchase, sell, or lease equipment by negotiation without competitive bidding to take advantage of Section 168 of Title 26 of the United States Code in connection with the sale and leasing of equipment. As required, the department m…

(a) The department may issue equipment obligations to finance the acquisition of equipment pursuant to a resolution adopted by the commission, authorizing the issuance thereof from time to time as provided in the resolution. (b) A resolution authorizing the issuance of equipment …

(a) Grant anticipation notes shall be issued only in anticipation of a grant or funding commitment to the department which has been stated by the granting authority or agency to be contracted, committed, or appropriated and payable on a specified date or dates or upon the happeni…

(a) Equipment obligations shall be sold by the Treasurer, after a resolution requesting the sale has been adopted by the commission. Equipment obligations may be sold by public bid or by a private negotiated sale. The Treasurer may sell equipment obligations at a discount not to …

(a) The Passenger Equipment Acquisition Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, all moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department to pay the principal of, interest on, and redemption premium, if any, on equipment obligatio…

Whenever any warrant issued by the Controller is unpaid for one year after it becomes payable, sufficient unapplied moneys having been available for the payment of the warrant and for the payment of all senior obligations, the Controller shall cancel it. (Amended by Stats. 1997, …

Any warrant issued prior to January 1, 1998, shall be governed by the law effective on the date of issue of the warrant. Any warrant issued on or after January 1, 1998, shall be governed by the one-year period of negotiability specified in Section 17070. (Added by Stats. 1997, Ch…

The Controller shall keep a record of all canceled warrants. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 158, Sec. 1. (SB 1475) Effective January 1, 2017.)

The face amount of each warrant canceled under this article shall revert and be credited by the Controller to the fund against which the warrant was drawn. Amounts reverted to the Special Deposit Fund shall be credited to and augment the account, within the fund, against which th…

Warrants canceled under this article are void. (Added by Stats. 1945, Ch. 120.)

As used herein, “property” includes real and personal property. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The original and ultimate right to all property within the limits of the State is in the people thereof. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

All property within the limits of the State, which does not belong to any person, belongs to the people. Whenever the title to any property fails for want of heirs or next of kin, it reverts to the people. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The State may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The Governor may execute and deliver to the United States all necessary deeds or other conveyances on behalf of the State, in any case where the Legislature conveys to the United States land, rights of way, or other easements in land held by the State, to permit the United States…

This part does not prohibit any state agency which is authorized by law to contract for such services from contracting with an independent contractor for the performance of work of a character for which a license is required under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Divis…

The “state civil service” includes state officers and employees, appointed or employed by or under the Adult Authority or the Director of Corrections, and who are engaged exclusively in the administration or enforcement, or the performance or discharge, of the laws, rules or regu…

The “state civil service” shall include all fire protection personnel employed at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Los Alamitos. (Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 310, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994. Conditionally operative as prescribed by Secs. 2 and 3 of Ch. 310.)

The “state civil service” shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of Pupil Personnel Services in the Division of Instruction of the Department of Education. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 449.)

The “state civil service” shall include all vocational education personnel appointed or employed in the State Department of Education, who are now excluded because they are engaged in work financed in whole or in part with federal funds or in work done by co-operation between the…

The “state civil service” shall include all teachers who have been employed for a period of six months at the Orientation Center for the Blind who are now excluded under subdivision (i) of Article VII of the Constitution. (Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 794, Sec. 13.)

The “state civil service” shall include all personnel appointed or employed in the Bureau of National Defense Education Act Administration of the Department of Education. Personnel of the Bureau of National Defense Education Act Administration who on the effective date of this se…

(a) The “state civil service” does not include a California Science and Technology Policy Fellow provided by the California Council on Science and Technology and duly authorized by an executed memorandum of understanding between the council and an executive branch agency or depar…

(a) The “state civil service” does not include a policy fellow provided by an association. (b) For purposes of this section, “association” means any of the following organizations that are exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code: (1) The …

(a) As used in succeeding subdivisions of this section “public domain” refers to such portion of the public domain of the State of California as is contiguous to the portion of the Klamath River between the mouth of the river and Katamin Rancheria and such portion of the public d…

(a) An employee or annuitant is eligible to enroll in an approved health benefit plan, in accordance with this part and the regulations of the board. (b) Regulations may provide for the exclusion of employees on the basis of the nature, conditions, and type of their employment, i…

(a) An annuitant whose retirement allowance is not sufficient to pay his or her required contribution for the health benefit plan in which he or she is enrolled may only remain enrolled if the annuitant pays to the board the balance of the contributions plus the related administr…

An out-of-state employee shall be eligible for enrollment, in accordance with reasonable rules as the board may prescribe, to receive the benefits provided by this part. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 69, Sec. 22. Effective June 24, 2004.)

An employee receiving full-time service credit pursuant to Section 20900 may continue enrollment in a health benefit plan. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 69, Sec. 22. Effective June 24, 2004.)

(a) With respect to state officers and employees, a permanent intermittent employee who has an appointment of more than six months and works at least half-time shall be eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan within 60 calendar days after having been credited with a minimum o…

(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 22772, a contracting agency may, by resolution filed with the board, deem all permanent or regular employees, except members of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, who have an appointment of six months or longer but are employed les…

Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 22772, a contracting agency that is a community college district may, by resolution filed with the board, deem all part-time faculty employees who have an appointment of at least one semester and whose teaching assignment with one or mor…