Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The commission shall conduct a public hearing to receive information regarding its determinations, and to hear any protests and objections to the proposed county boundary change. Notices of hearing shall be published pursuant to Section 6061 in a newspaper of general circulation …

At any time prior to final adjournment of the hearing on protests, any owner of property within the uninhabited territory proposed to be transferred may file written protest against the boundary change. The protest shall state the name of the owner of the property affected and th…

On the date and at the time set for hearing, the commission shall hear and consider all protests made by owners of property within the uninhabited territory proposed to be transferred. If the territory proposed to be transferred is uninhabited, the commission shall hear and pass …

The commission shall determine at the hearing or within 30 days after the closing of the hearing whether or not a majority protest, of owners of property within uninhabited territory proposed to be transferred has been made. If it does not make a determination within such period,…

On the date and at the time fixed for hearing, the commission shall also hear and may grant or deny any request for exclusion filed pursuant to Sections 23256.5 and 23257.

At any time prior to the final hearing on the proposed county boundary change, any owners of real property within the territory proposed to be transferred and contiguous to the boundary line thereof, may make a written request, filed with the commission, for exclusion of his prop…

Written requests for exclusion of any territory within the territory proposed to be transferred and contiguous to the boundary line thereof may be filed with the commission by any registered elector of that territory. Such a request shall contain sufficient information to identif…

Boundary lines between counties may not be changed if as a result of such change: (a) a strip of untransferred territory less than 200 feet wide and more than 300 feet long is created; (b) a strip of untransferred territory consisting solely of a highway or portion thereof is cre…

The hearing of protests and requests for exclusion may be continued from time to time during the course of the commission’s determinations. By citation or subpoena signed by its chairman and secretary, the commission may compel the attendance of such persons and the production of…

Except as otherwise provided in this article, the commission may, in determining a fair, just and equitable distribution of the indebtedness of the transferring county between that county and the accepting county, provide for: (a) The levying or fixing and the collection in the a…

The commission shall also identify and determine the location and value of all real and personal property owned by the transferring county located within the territory to be transferred. Any real and personal property identified by the commission pursuant to this section shall be…

Except as provided by the commission, when the boundary change is effected the territory which is transferred shall be relieved of annual tax liability for the outstanding indebtedness of the transferring county in the year following the year in which the election on the question…

Members of the commission shall receive as compensation a per diem not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) a day for every day they are actually employed together with their actual expenses incurred in performing their duties. If the boundary change is effected, all expenses of the com…

The commission shall adopt a resolution making its determinations and transmit its report in writing within 180 days of the date of notice and acceptance of appointment of the last appointed member of the commission, to the board of supervisors of both affected counties and shall…

If either board disapproves the proposed boundary change, no further proceedings shall be taken for that boundary change and no new proceedings for substantially the same boundary change may be initiated within one year after the date of such disapproval, provided both boards may…

If the territory proposed to be transferred is uninhabited, no majority protest has been made and the boards of both affected counties approve the proposed boundary change, the proposed boundary change shall be deemed effected pursuant to the general laws of this state from the d…

If the proposed territory to be transferred is inhabited and the boards of both affected counties have approved the boundary change, the board of the transferring county shall, not later than 30 days after receiving the commission’s determinations, order and give proclamation and…

The proclamation and notice of election shall be published at least once a week for three weeks commencing not less than 70 days prior to the date of the election in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory proposed to be transferred. If there is no newspaper of genera…

The notice of election shall contain the following: (a) A statement of the proposition to be voted on and a description of the county boundaries as they will exist if the proposal is adopted. (b) An invitation to any qualified elector entitled to vote on the proposition, or any b…

All qualified electors of the territory proposed to be transferred who have been registered electors of the county 30 days prior to the date of the election are entitled to vote at the election. Registration and transfers of registration shall be made and shall close in the manne…

Ballots at the election shall contain the words “Shall (description of territory) be transferred to (name of county accepting transferred territory)?” To the right of or below those words, the words “Yes” and “No” shall be printed on separate lines, with voting targets. If a vote…

The election shall be governed and controlled by the general election laws of the state so far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this article.

If more than one argument for or more than one argument against the proposed boundary change is filed with the clerk of the transferring county the clerk shall select one of the arguments for and one of the arguments against the proposed boundary change for printing and distribut…

The elections official shall cause a ballot pamphlet concerning the proposed boundary change to be printed and mailed to each qualified elector in the territory proposed to be transferred. The ballot pamphlet shall contain the following in the order prescribed: (a) An impartial a…

The clerk shall also prepare and mail a sample ballot to the qualified electors of the territory proposed to be transferred. The sample ballot shall be mailed with and at the same time as the ballot pamphlet.

The law relating to the preparation, printing, and distribution of sample ballots and primary elections does not apply to any election held pursuant to this article.

Except as otherwise provided by this article, the election shall be conducted as other elections in the transferring county.

The board of the transferring county shall appoint as election officers three representatives who reside in the affected county represented.

Immediately on the closing of the polls the election officers shall: (a) Canvass the ballots. (b) Make up and certify the tally sheets of the ballots cast. (c) Seal up the ballots. (d) Attach a statement, signed by each election officer, to the tally sheets showing the number of …

The clerk of the transferring county shall upon the completion of a canvass of the vote in the territory proposed to be transferred, forward to the board of the transferring county, a certified copy of the results of the canvass, giving the number of votes cast in the territory t…

If upon a canvass of the total votes cast in the territory proposed to be transferred at the election, it appears that more than 50 percent of the total number of all votes cast within the territory proposed to be transferred are in favor of the proposed boundary change, the boar…

The board of supervisors of the county from which territory is transferred shall cause a copy of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 23281 to be filed with the State Board of Equalization, the Secretary of State, and the board of supervisors of the county accepting the tra…

If upon a canvass of the total votes cast in the territory proposed to be transferred at the election, it appears that 50 percent or less, of the total number of all votes cast within the territory proposed to be transferred are in favor of the proposed boundary change, the board…

All costs of the election shall be borne by the county accepting transferred territory if the boundary change is effected. If the boundary change is not effected, the costs of the election shall be borne by both affected counties, on an equal basis.

Whenever county boundaries are changed pursuant to this article, the board of supervisors of both affected counties shall cause to be filed before the following December 1, with the State Board of Equalization and with the assessors of both affected counties, a statement setting …

When a county boundary is changed, all taxes levied before the boundary change was effected shall be collected by the officers of and belong to the county in which the territory was situated before the boundary change.

The transferring county shall continue to provide necessary services from the date the county boundaries are changed until service responsibilities and functions are transferred to the accepting county, according to the provisions of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 232…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no special district, which is organized within either affected county and governed by the board of supervisors thereof, shall have its territory divided or in any other way have its organization changed as the result of a county boundar…

After the county boundary change is effected, the officers of the accepting county shall proceed to complete all proceedings necessary for the assessment or collection of the state and county taxes for the current year, in connection with all the property in the transferred terri…

The officers of the transferring county shall immediately execute and deliver to the board of supervisors of the accepting county, copies of all assessments or other proceedings relative to the assessment and collection of the current state and county taxes on property within the…

The county superintendent of schools of the transferring county shall furnish the county superintendent of schools of the accepting county with a certified copy of the last school census of the different school districts in the territory which is transferred, and the superintende…

The auditor of the transferring county shall draw a warrant on the treasurer of that county in favor of the treasurer of the accepting county for all money that is or may be due from the transferring county by apportionment or otherwise to the different road and supervisorial or …

The treasurer of the transferring county shall immediately cause to be transferred to the county treasurer of the accepting county all money standing to the credit of or belonging to any road or school district, the territory comprising which is included within the boundaries of …

Where the county accepting territory is located in a different district court of appeals district than the transferring county, the district court of appeals district which includes the transferring county shall retain jurisdiction in all cases pending in a session of such court,…

On and after the date the boundary change is effected, the superior court in the transferring county shall retain jurisdiction in all cases pending in a session of such court which is located within the boundaries of the territory which is transferred immediately prior to its tra…

Any action to determine the validity of any change, alteration, or reformation to the boundaries of a county pursuant to this article shall be brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The people, as a political body, consist of: (a) Citizens who are electors. (b) Citizens not electors. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The citizens of the state are: (a) All persons born in the state and residing within it, except the children of foreign public ministers and consuls. (b) All persons born out of the state who are citizens of the United States and residing within the state.

Persons in the state who are not its citizens are either: (a) Citizens of other states; or (b) Persons who are not citizens of the United States.

Every person has, in law, a residence. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)