Title GOV — California Gov. Code

(a) If on the maturity date indorsed on a registered reimbursement warrant, there is no money available for its payment, either from unapplied money, or from the proceeds of refunding warrants the registered reimbursement warrant shall continue to bear interest on the principal a…

If it appears to the Controller that, on the maturity date on the face of any registered reimbursement warrant, there will be insufficient unapplied money in the General Fund available for its payment he or she may issue a refunding warrant, with the written approval of the Treas…

Refunding warrants issued, registered, and sold for the purpose of paying and retiring registered reimbursement warrants theretofore issued shall be based upon the same claims and shall be identical in form and amount to the warrants to be paid and retired except as to serial num…

Refunding warrants may be issued with or without a fixed maturity date and shall be sold in the same manner as reimbursement warrants. The proceeds shall be held by the Treasurer and applied exclusively to the payment of the registered reimbursement warrants for the payment of wh…

If at any time it is necessary to register warrants for the payment of principal and interest on State bonds, warrants so registered have a prior lien in the order of their issuance on any money thereafter received into the General Fund, and shall be paid before any other warrant…

(a) A taxpayer who has a tax liability, including any liability for periodic estimated tax payments, with respect to personal income taxes or bank and corporation taxes, and who is a payee named in a registered warrant as defined in Section 17221 which is received in payment of a…

In the event a tax liability is paid, in whole or in part, with a registered warrant which is redeemable at the time the tax liability is paid, interest as specified in this article, shall be credited to the taxpayer’s account.

(a) If a registered warrant, as defined in Section 17221, is issued for payment of any principal or interest due and payable on a state bond that is held in book entry form by a securities settlement system, the beneficial owner of the state bond may offset the portion of the pri…

It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to provide assurances to the persons who invest in the state’s registered reimbursement warrants that funds will be set aside in the Warrant Payment Fund and will be used to retire the registered reimbursement warrant…

(a) The Warrant Payment Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of setting aside unapplied moneys in the General Fund for the payment and redemption of registered reimbursement warrants issued during the 1994–95 fiscal year and maturing in the 1995–96 fiscal …

The Controller shall transfer from unapplied moneys in the General Fund to the Warrant Payment Fund the total amount of four billion dollars ($4,000,000,000) plus interest necessary to redeem the warrants identified in subdivision (a) of Section 17296.1, to be transferred in four…

The Controller shall transfer funds from the Warrant Payment Fund to the General Fund to pay and redeem registered reimbursement warrants at maturity.

Moneys in the Warrant Payment Fund shall be available for transfer to the General Fund pursuant to Section 16310.

Unless registered reimbursement warrants remain outstanding, this article shall be in effect only until July 1, 1996, and as of that date is repealed. If registered reimbursement warrants remain outstanding July 1, 1996, this article shall continue in effect until the warrants ar…

The annual salary of each member of the board is provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3. Each member shall also receive his or her actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the course of his or her duties.

The board may appoint and fix the compensation of a secretary and such other personnel as is necessary to carry out and perform the powers, duties, purposes, functions and jurisdiction of the board.

The board shall secure such suitable and convenient offices, examination rooms and accommodations throughout the State as may be required for the public convenience and furnish heat, and light them for carrying on the work of the board. The board shall acquire necessary supplies …

The board shall meet in Sacramento as often as the needs of the public service may require and in such other places as it may designate. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum. The vote of three concurring members shall be required to make any action of the b…

The intention of the Legislature is hereby declared to be that the executive officer shall perform and discharge under the direction and control of the board the powers, duties, purposes, functions, and jurisdiction vested in the board and delegated to him or her by it. Any power…

The executive officer shall administer the civil service statutes and rules, subject to the right of appeal to the board.

When any person selected to assist in examinations or to serve as an authorized representative or referee of the board or the department is employed by the State in some other capacity, it is a part of his or her official duties to serve without additional compensation other than…

The Attorney General shall render such opinions to and represent the board or any member in such matters as may be requested by the board or any such member. The district attorneys and other prosecuting attorneys of counties and cities shall prosecute violations of this part. Upo…

Pursuant to Section 3 of Article VII of the California Constitution, the board shall establish rules implementing and enforcing the merit principle in the state civil service system.

(a) The board may conduct an audit of any appointing authority’s personnel practices to ensure compliance with the civil service laws and board regulations. The board may audit selection and examination procedures, appointments, promotions, the management of probationary periods,…

(a) The board shall determine the total annual cost associated with the board’s audit authority. The board shall recover costs by billing appointing authorities in accordance with subdivision (b). (b) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), an appointing authority shall be char…

The board may hold hearings and make investigations concerning all matters relating to the enforcement and effect of this part and rules prescribed under this part and under Section 3254.6. It may inspect any state institution, office, or other place of employment affected by thi…

Such hearings and investigations may be conducted by the board, any member, or any authorized representative of the board. Any authorized person conducting such hearing or investigation may administer oaths, subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses and the production of b…

(a) If a hearing or investigation is conducted by the board or its authorized representative in regard to an appeal by an employee, the hearing or investigation shall be commenced within a reasonable time after the filing of the appeal. For appeals from actions resulting in the t…

(a) The board shall determine the total cost to the state of maintaining and operating the hearing office of the board, in advance or upon any other basis as it may determine, utilizing information from the state agencies for which services are provided by the hearing office. (b)…

(a) Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum may be issued for attendance at a hearing and for production of documents at any reasonable time and place. However, a subpoena shall not be issued to compel attendance of any witness who does not reside within 100 miles of the place where …

(a) A person served with a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may object to its terms by a motion for a protective order, including a motion to quash made orally to the board or its authorized representative or in writing. (b) The objection shall be resolved by the board or its a…

If a witness does not reside within 100 miles of the place where the hearing or investigation is held, is out of the state or is too infirm to attend the hearing or investigation, any party thereto at his or her own expense may cause his or her deposition to be taken. If a “state…

Witnesses at a hearing or investigation are entitled to the same fees as are allowed witnesses in civil cases in courts of record. An officer serving a subpoena to secure the attendance of those witnesses shall receive the same mileage as for the service by him or her of a writ o…

(a) All hearings and investigations authorized by this part shall be governed by this part and by rules of practice and procedure adopted by the board. In the conduct of any hearing or investigation any informality in any proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall not …

When ordered to do so, a witness shall not be excused from testifying or from producing any documentary evidence in that investigation or hearing upon the ground that the testimony or documentary evidence required of the witness may tend to incriminate or subject the witness to p…

A person who claims and is granted immunity prior to testimony or the production of books or papers, shall not be prosecuted, punished, or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he or she shall, under oa…

Any person served with a subpena to appear and testify or to produce books or papers issued in the course of any such investigation or hearing who disobeys or neglects to obey such subpena is guilty of a misdemeanor.

The board and any person authorized by it to conduct a hearing or investigation is the head of a department within the meaning of Article 2, Chapter 2, Part 1, Division 3, Title 2.

The remedy provided in Sections 11186 to 11188 inclusive is cumulative, and does not impair or interfere with either the power of the board or its authorized representative to conduct the hearing or investigation to enforce the attendance of witnesses and the production of books …

Whenever any matter is pending before the board involving a dispute between one or more employees and an appointing power and the parties to such dispute agree upon a settlement or adjustment thereof, the terms of such settlement or adjustment may be submitted to the board, and i…

Whenever any employee, department, or other person, actively interested in a matter before the board and in connection with which it is holding a hearing, requests that the board make findings, then the board shall make findings if the request is made at any time prior to the tim…

(a) Whenever any employee, department, or other person actively interested in a matter before the board and for which a hearing will be or has been held, requests that the board prepare a transcript, the board may establish reasonable fees for the preparation, production, and dis…

The board shall prescribe, amend, and repeal rules in accordance with law for the administration and enforcement of this part and other sections of this code over which the board is specifically assigned jurisdiction. Due notice of the contents of the rules shall be given to appo…

The board shall create and adjust classes of positions in the state civil service in accordance with Article VII of the Constitution and this part.

The board shall provide for dismissals, demotions, suspensions, and other adverse action for or in the state civil service in accordance with Article VII of the Constitution and this part.

The board may make agreements with personnel agencies in other jurisdictions, political subdivisions, and state agencies excepted from the state civil service.

The board and the Department of Human Resources may enter into agreements to make available their services and facilities, upon request, to any county, city, district or other subdivision of the state recognized by law, and to state agencies excepted from the state civil service,…

The board shall cooperate with the Director of Finance, the Department of Human Resources, the Controller, and other state agencies in matters not covered by this part and not inconsistent with this part to promote the efficient and economical administration of the state’s busine…

All orders and decisions of the board made pursuant to Article VII of the California Constitution or this part shall be obeyed by and are binding upon all parties to a proceeding before it, including, but not limited to, appointing powers and all their employees, including their …

The board and the Department of Human Resources may join associations of personnel agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of personnel administration.