Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Upon receipt of such notices, the Department of General Services shall estimate the selling price of the products upon the basis of their reasonable value and arrange so far as practicable for their sale or exchange between the several public institutions owned or controlled by t…

No public institution owned or controlled by the state shall purchase any product from any source other than a public institution owned or controlled by the state or one of its political subdivisions, if the Department of General Services determines that the product is available …

If it is impossible or impracticable to sell or exchange agricultural or livestock products between public institutions owned or controlled by the State and its political subdivisions, the products, except those grown by prison labor, may be sold in any manner authorized by law.

All money received by a state agency for the sale of products shall be accounted for and reported at the end of each month to the Controller and at the same time remitted to the Treasurer and credited to the support appropriation current at the time the proceeds were received by …

This article does not limit or prevent sales pursuant to any other law relating to the sale of personal property belonging to the State.

(a) To assist in the discharge of the duties of the Secretary of State’s office, the Secretary of State may appoint one Assistant Secretary of State, whose powers, duties, and liabilities shall be those of a deputy, and any deputies and clerical, expert, technical, and other assi…

The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent person to the position of Chief of Archives. In case of the appointee’s absence or inability to perform the duties of the Chief of Archives, the Secretary of State shall designate some other competent person to act in the Chief of …

The Secretary of State shall keep a correct record of the official acts of the legislative and executive departments of the government, and shall, when required, lay the same and all matters relative thereto before either branch of the Legislature, and shall perform such other du…

The Secretary of State is charged with custody of: (a) The enrolled copy of the Constitution. (b) All acts and resolutions passed by the Legislature. (c) The Journals of the Legislature. (d) The Great Seal. (e) All books, records, deeds, parchments, maps, and papers, kept or depo…

The Secretary of State shall attend at every session of the Legislature, for the purpose of receiving bills and resolutions and perform such other duties as may be devolved upon the Secretary of State by resolution of the two houses, or either of them.

The Secretary of State shall keep a register and attest the official acts of the Governor and shall affix the Great Seal, with the Secretary’s attestation, to commissions, pardons, and other public instruments, to which the official signature of the Governor is required.

The Secretary of State shall receive and record in proper books the official bonds of all officers whose bonds are required by law to be filed with the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of State shall record all conveyances made to the state, except (1) evidences of title acquired for state highway purposes and retained by the Department of Transportation, and (2) conveyances of tax-sold property.

The Secretary of State shall certify and declare the result of all elections upon a question submitted to the electors of the state by either initiative or referendum petition filed in the Secretary’s office and make official declaration of the vote upon each question.

Within 100 days after the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State Printing Office the Secretary’s certificate showing what acts, or sections, or parts of acts of the Legislature are delayed from going into effect by …

Within 60 days after the day on which a general election is held throughout the State, the Secretary of State shall deliver to the State Printing Office the Secretary’s certificate showing: (a) What laws or constitutional amendments, proposed by initiative petition and approved b…

On demand, the Secretary of State shall furnish, to a person paying the fees therefor, a certified copy of all or any part of a law, record, or other instrument filed, deposited, or recorded in the Secretary’s office.

(a) When not inconsistent with other provisions of law, in lieu of filing or recording documents presented in paper format, the Secretary of State may adopt rules and regulations to authorize the electronic filing, including filing by facsimile, of a document required to be filed…

(a) The Legislature hereby recognizes the need to adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording public records in electronic media or in a cloud computing storage service. (b) In order to ensure that uniform statewide standards remain current and rele…

The Secretary of State shall file in the Secretary’s office descriptions of seals in use by the different state officers and furnish those officers with new seals whenever required.

On or before the 15th day of September in each even numbered year, the Secretary of State shall report to the Governor a detailed account of all of the Secretary of State’s official actions since the Secretary’s previous report. The report shall be accompanied with a detailed sta…

The Secretary of State shall compile and maintain a complete list of all districts for which certificates or copies of orders, ordinances or resolutions declaring districts formed or organized have been filed. This list shall contain the name of each district, the date of formati…

The Secretary of State shall, upon the request of the proponents of an initiative measure which is to be submitted to the voters of the state, review the provisions of the initiative measure after it is prepared prior to its circulation. In conducting the review, the Secretary of…

The Secretary of State shall post on the Secretary’s Internet Web site and include in the pamphlet developed pursuant to Section 9018 of the Elections Code, information describing the following services that are available to the proponents of a proposed initiative measure. (a) Th…

(a) The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and shall administer the provisions of the Elections Code. The Secretary of State shall see that elections are efficiently conducted and that state election laws are enforced. The Secretary of State may requi…

Beginning in the year before the federal decennial census and continuing through the completion of the enumeration activities for that census, the Secretary of State shall include on the secretary’s Internet Web site information designed to educate the public regarding, and encou…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to affirm and inform every Californian of their right and obligation to participate in the federal decennial census freely and without fear of fraud, intimidation, or harm. (b) The Secretary of State may work with the California Census Offi…

(a) The Secretary of State’s office shall develop a program to utilize electronic communications and enhance the availability and accessibility of information on statewide candidates and ballot initiatives. This includes making information available online as well as through othe…

(a) The Secretary of State shall administer, protect, develop, and interpret the Secretary of State and State Archives Building Complex located in Sacramento in the area bounded by 10th, 11th, O, and P Streets for the use, education, and enjoyment of the public, including uses to…

The Secretary of State shall keep a fee book. There shall be entered in the book all fees, commissions, and compensation of whatever nature or kind that are earned, collected, or charged, with the date, name of payer, paid or not paid, and the nature of the service in each case. …

(a) Commencing July 1, 1992, all fees collected by the Secretary of State’s office pursuant to the Business and Professions Code, Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Commercial Code, Corporations Code, Food and Agricultural Code, Harbors and Navigation Code, and this code, exclu…

For services performed in the Secretary’s office, the Secretary of State shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.

No Member of the Legislature or state officer shall be charged for a search relative to matters appertaining to the duties of the Member’s or officer’s office, nor shall a Member of the Legislature or state officer be charged a fee for a certified copy of a law or resolution pass…

(a) Except for copies of documents on file prepared pursuant to Section 12182, the fee for preparing a copy of any law, resolution, record, or other document on file in the office of the Secretary of State, is one dollar ($1) for the first page, and fifty cents ($0.50) for each a…

The fee for attesting each patent for land issued by the Governor is one dollar ($1) for each 160 acres, or fraction thereof.

The fee for attesting each commission, passport, or other document signed by the Governor is ten dollars ($10). A fee shall not be charged for attesting pardons, extradition papers, military commissions, and commissions issued to nonsalaried state officers other than notaries pub…

The Secretary of State’s office may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to carry out this article, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1.

The Secretary of State’s office may refuse to perform a service or refuse a filing based on a reasonable belief that the service or filing is being requested for an unlawful, false, or fraudulent purpose, to promote or conduct an illegitimate object or purpose, or is being reques…

(a) The Secretary of State shall charge and collect fees as provided in this article and may also by regulation establish fees to be charged and collected for copying and special handling in connection with filing documents, issuing of certificates, and other services performed b…

The Secretary of State shall establish by regulation an application, examination, and commission fee that shall not exceed the amount necessary to cover the costs of commissioning notaries public and the enforcement of laws governing notaries public. The fee shall not exceed one …

The Secretary of State shall charge and collect the following fees for certification: (a) Certification of a document: Five dollars ($5). (b) Certificate of status or filing: Five dollars ($5). (c) Certificate of information: Ten dollars ($10) if the request is communicated in wr…

(a) The Secretary of State shall charge and collect a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) from an entity for its conversion made pursuant to Chapter 11.5 (commencing with Section 1150) of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code. (b) This section shall become operative …

Upon the filing of any document pursuant to any provision of the Corporations Code for which there is a filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) or more, at the time of filing the Secretary of State shall provide a copy without charge.

The fees for corporate filings are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of corporate name: Ten dollars ($10). (b) Registering a corporate name for the calendar year pursuant to Section 2101 of the Corporations Code: Fifty dollars ($50). (c) Filing articles of i…

The general partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Filing a statement of partnership: Seventy dollars ($70). (b) Filing a statement of dissolution for the purposes of canceling a statement of partnership: No fee. (c) Filing any other partnership statement pursuant to this…

The limited partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of limited partnership name: ten dollars ($10). (b) Filing a certificate of limited partnership of a limited partnership: seventy dollars ($70). (c) Filing an application for registrat…

The limited liability partnership filing fees are the following: (a) Filing a registration for a registered limited liability partnership: Seventy dollars ($70). (b) Filing a registration for a foreign limited liability partnership: Seventy dollars ($70). (c) Filing an amendment …

The limited liability company filing fees are the following: (a) Issuing a certificate of reservation of limited liability company name: Ten dollars ($10). (b) Filing articles of organization of a limited liability company: Seventy dollars ($70). (c) Filing an application for reg…

The miscellaneous business entity filing fees are the following: (a) Foreign associations, as defined in Sections 170 and 171 of the Corporations Code: (1) Filing the statement and designation upon the qualification of a foreign association pursuant to Section 2105 of the Corpora…

The filing fees for a nonprofit mutual benefit ridesharing corporation are the following: (a) Nonprofit mutual benefit corporation having as its sole purpose the operation of a single ridesharing vanpool vehicle designed for transporting at least seven persons, including the driv…