Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Every state agency which is authorized by any law to conduct administrative hearings but is not subject to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) shall nonetheless comply with Sections 11435.20, 11435.25, and 11435.55 relative to the furnishing of language assistance at the he…

(a) The Bureau of Real Estate, on or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order D-3-99, shall provide on the internet information regarding the status of every license issued by that entity in accordance…

(a) Any department or authority specified in subdivision (b) may, upon determining that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program within the provisions of this section, and to the extent funds are available, advance to a community-based private…

Except as provided in the Budget Act and implementing statutes, no automatic increases shall be provided to the University of California, California State University, the state courts, or to state agency operations, including, but not limited to, annual price increases to state d…

(a) Except as provided in Section 11019.12, every state agency that requests on any written form or written publication, or through its internet website, whether a person is a veteran, shall request that information only in the following format: “Have you ever served in the Unite…

(a) Each agency named in subdivision (d) shall include all of the following on any intake or application form at the next scheduled update of their intake or application forms: (1) An option for a person to indicate whether they are affiliated with the Armed Forces of the United …

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to improve and expand the state’s existing advance payment practices for state grants and contract with nonprofits and tribes. (b) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply: (1) “Administering state agency” means …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but to the extent consistent with applicable federal law or regulation, any state department and the Controller pursuant to Section 15202, after receiving a request by a board of supervisors of an affected county which has a populat…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent not in conflict with federal law, if a principal agency is not designated by statute, a principal state agency shall be designated by the Governor for the coordination of procedures, forms, and deadlines in e…

(a) A state agency shall not send any outgoing United States mail to an individual that contains personal information about that individual, including, but not limited to, the individual’s social security number, telephone number, driver’s license number, or credit card account n…

(a) All state agencies, as defined in Section 11000, are encouraged and authorized to cooperate with federally recognized California Indian tribes on matters of economic development and improvement for the tribes. (b) Cooperation by state agencies with federally recognized Califo…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Government-to-Government Consultation Act. (b) For purposes of this section, all of the following shall apply: (1) “Agency action” includes, but is not limited to, agency development of policies, regulations, guidelines, pro…

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tribal Cogovernance and Comanagement of Ancestral Lands and Waters Act. (b) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Ancestral lands and waters” means lands, resources, and waters within a federa…

(a) Each state department and state agency shall enact and maintain a permanent privacy policy, in adherence with the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Title 1.8 (commencing with Section 1798) of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code). Each state department and state agency sha…

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a member of the legislative body of any public body or any officer or employee thereof shall not be deemed interested in a contract for the sale of any public securities issued by such public body; provided, that such public s…

(a) Unless otherwise provided by law, all offices of every state agency shall be kept open for the transaction of business from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. of each day from Monday to Friday, inclusive, other than legal holidays. However, any state agency or division, branch, or office th…

Notwithstanding Section 11020, the Department of Motor Vehicles may reduce its hours of service for transacting business during the period between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., inclusive, Monday to Friday, inclusive, in order to ensure that service for transacting business may be provided wi…

(a) When a state agency is open or operates on Saturday such state agency may operate with a skeleton crew from 9 a.m. to 12 noon of each Saturday if the total number of hours per week of its employees is not less than the total number of office hours established in this article.…

Each state agency shall establish a procedure pursuant to which incoming telephone calls on any public line shall be answered within 10 rings during regular business hours as set forth in Section 11020, except where emergency or illness require adjustments to normal staffing leve…

All elective constitutional officers, heads of departments, chiefs of divisions, assistants, deputies, agents, experts and other officers and employees of the State when away from their headquarters for purposes of state business and all members of the Legislature when attending …

When a state employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 dies while traveling on official state business, the state shall, under rules and regulations adopted by the Department of General Services, pay the traveling expenses necessary to return …

Any state officer or employee not covered by Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 19815) of Division 5 when working overtime at his or her headquarters on state business may receive his or her actual and necessary expenses, during his or her regular workweek, subject to rules and re…

Any state officer or officer or employee of any state agency may, when traveling on state business, fly in state-owned or leased civil aircraft as a passenger or as part of the crew.

The headquarters of elective constitutional officers, other than Members of the Legislature, shall be established by the filing of a written statement with the Department of General Services that certifies that the selected headquarters is the place where the officer spends the l…

The headquarters of the Franchise Tax Commissioner is in the City of Sacramento. From and after the effective date of this section the Franchise Tax Commissioner shall actually maintain his office in the City of Sacramento and shall reside in the County of Sacramento.

Any state officer or employee of any state agency may confer with other persons, associations, or organizations outside of the state whenever it may be of assistance in the conduct of state business. Actual and necessary expenses for travel outside of the state as authorized by t…

No state officer or employee shall absent himself or herself from the state on business of the state without the prior approval of the Governor, except when the absence is for less than five consecutive working days’ duration and involves only travel into states bordering upon th…

Sections 11032 and 11033 shall not apply to any member of the Commission on Uniform State Laws.

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that overall fiscal efficiency and economy in state government be enhanced by employment of the Attorney General as counsel for the representation of state agencies and employees in judicial and administrative adjudicative proceedings. The …

(a) Section 11042 does not apply to the office of the Governor, the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, Legal Division of the Department of Transportation, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the Department of Industria…

(a) For purposes of promoting fiscal efficiency and economy, no state agency shall employ any in-house counsel to act on behalf of the state agency or its employees in any judicial or administrative adjudicative proceeding in which the agency is interested, or is a party as a res…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Attorney General performs separate functions in enforcing state laws, pursuant to Section 13 of Article V of the California Constitution, and serving as counsel, whenever requested, for the representation of sta…

(a) The Legal Services Revolving Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The Department of Justice shall administer this fund. Moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall be used by the Attorney General for investigation and litigation activities taken …

(a) (1) Whenever a state agency requests the consent of the Attorney General to contract with outside counsel, as required by Sections 11040 and 11042, the state agency shall within five business days of the date the request is transmitted to the Attorney General provide the desi…

Whenever any state agency is required or authorized by law to prepare and cause the publishing of any notice, advertisement or publication in any newspaper or other medium, it shall properly prepare the notice, advertisement or publication and deliver it to the Department of Gene…

After approval of the notice, advertisement or publication, the Department of General Services shall cause it to be published in the newspapers or other medium required by law. The Department of General Services has exclusive control of the publication of all such advertisements,…

On order of the Governor the head of each State agency shall make a report to the Governor giving an account of all matters pertaining to the agency covering the period specified by the Governor.

The head of each state agency shall make a written report of its activities to the Governor at least biennially, a copy of which shall be filed with the Secretary of State. No biennial or annual reports of agency activities shall be printed without the approval of the Department …

Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of any statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Filipinos as Filipinos not later than 60 days following the operative date of this section.

Each state agency and department shall, in the maintenance of statistical tabulation of minority groups, commence the categorization of Pacific Islanders as Pacific Islanders not later than March 1, 1985. As used in this section, “Pacific Islander” means a person who is defined a…

(a) (1) Any state agency or department that develops and maintains data and statistics on the municipal level, shall, in the preparation and maintenance of any statistical analyses, by city, either by population, fiscal, or other bases, make a separate breakdown of the San Fernan…

(a) (1) The State Board of Equalization, Employment Development Department, Department of Industrial Relations, Department of Finance, and the Department of Transportation, shall, in the preparation and maintenance of any statistical analyses and data, by city, either by populati…

(a) (1) The Employment Development Department shall, in the preparation and maintenance of any statistical analyses and data, by city, either by population, fiscal, or other bases, make a separate breakdown of the Antelope Valley using the boundaries described in subdivision (b).…

Each state agency or department authorized to undertake any infrastructure project costing one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) or more shall publicly post on its internet website any change in the cost or schedule of the project that would result in the project exceeding i…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to reduce the excessive flow of unsolicited state agency reports which, after being written, printed, and distributed at significant public expense, are received without having been requested by legislative office…

(a) No state agency shall distribute a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, except in response to a specific request therefor, or to the subjects of a mailing list or distribution list who have previously requested the automatic receipt of reports of this type, or purs…

Beginning with the 1984–85 fiscal year, each state agency shall include in its budget request a listing of state publications, as defined in Section 14902, which were added by legislative mandate or otherwise during the previous fiscal year.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when funding for any legislatively mandated publication is discontinued in the Budget Act, the statutory mandate for that publication shall be automatically suspended.

Each state agency that publishes or distributes a state publication, as defined in Section 14902, shall file a copy of the publication with the Joint Committee on Rules if it has published or distributed more than 1000 copies of the publication in the preceding 12 months. This se…

The jurisdiction of the State over certain lands designated in the following statutes is subject to the cession of jurisdiction granted the United States by such statutes: (a) Statutes of 1854, Chapter 43, concerning Mare Island. (b) Statutes of 1859, Chapter 305, concerning Lime…