Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The annual Budget Act shall not provide for projected expenditures in excess of projected revenues. Further, it is the intention of the Legislature that in the event, after enactment of the Budget Act, revised estimates of expected revenues or expenditures, or both, show that exp…

(a) The Budget Bill shall utilize a coding scheme compatible with the Governor’s Budget and with the records of the Controller. (b) The Budget Bill shall provide for the appropriation of federal funds received by the state and deposited in the State Treasury.

(a) There is hereby created a California Fiscal Advisory Board consisting of the following members, or their representatives: (1) Chairman of the committee in each house which considers appropriations. (2) Chairman of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. (3) Chairman of the Jo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2026, no moneys in any fund that, by any statute other than a Budget Act, are continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years may be encumbered unless the Legislature, by statute, specifies that the moneys i…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the existing budgeting, accounting, and reporting systems of the University of California shall not be substantially modified to comply with the requirements of this article.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit implementation of any provision of this article prior to a specified date.

(a) The Department of Finance shall revise the Governor’s Budget documents display for the State Department of Public Health to include a display of the supplemental local assistance appropriation summary, including actual past year, estimated current year, and proposed budget ye…

(a) State agencies shall prepare and maintain financial and accounting data for inclusion in the Governor’s Budget, Budget Act and related documents, and the budgetary-legal basis annual report described in Section 12460, according to the methods and bases provided in regulations…

Unless otherwise provided, every official bond shall be filed in the proper office within the time prescribed for filing the oath. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The approval of every official bond shall be indorsed thereon and signed by the officer approving the bond. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

No officer with whom any official bond is required to be filed shall file such bond until approved. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Official bonds shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose entitled “Record of Official Bonds.” (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of state officers prescribed by law shall be approved by either the Governor or the Director of General Services and filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State.

Unless otherwise provided, all official bonds of state officers and employees not expressly prescribed by law shall be forwarded to the Department of General Services for recordation. Upon such recordation the Department of General Services shall forward the bonds to the Secretar…

Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of officers of a county and judicial district shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court, recorded in the office of the county recorder, and then filed in the county clerk’s office.

The bonds of supervisors, treasurers, county clerks, auditors, sheriffs, tax collectors, district attorneys, recorders, assessors, surveyors, superintendents of schools, public administrators, and coroners shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court before the …

After being recorded, the official bond of the county clerk shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Every officer with whom official bonds are filed shall carefully keep and preserve the bonds. He shall give certified copies thereof to any person demanding copies, upon being paid the same fees as are allowed by law for certified copies of papers in other cases. (Enacted by Stat…

The county recorder shall record the bond and return it to the county officer with whom it is required to be filed. Such officer shall keep the bond on file for one year following the expiration of the term of the office for which the bond was issued at which time said bond may b…

Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall give a bond, corresponding in substance and form with the bond required of the officer originally elected or appointed, before entering upon the duties of the office. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

No fee shall be charged by any officer to file or record any official bond of any official of this state or any political subdivision of this state.

For the purposes of this chapter, a government crime insurance policy or employee dishonesty insurance policy, including faithful performance, may be provided as an alternative to the official bond by any county or city, subject to approval by the presiding judge of the superior …

Every officer, agent or employee not required by statute to give an official bond may be required to give an individual official bond, or other form of individual bond, in the amount to be fixed by the appointing power and such bond shall inure to the benefit of the appointing po…

(a) When deemed expedient by the appointing power, a master official bond or other form of master bond may be used which shall provide coverage on more than one officer, employee, or agent who is required by the appointing power or the board of supervisors of a chartered or gener…

For the purposes of Section 1481 the board of supervisors of a county is deemed to be the appointing power of the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies and the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies are deemed to be employees of the county in which th…

Each such bond may contain a provision authorizing the appointing power to cancel it, if it is an individual bond, or the contract of coverage of any officer, agent or employee covered thereunder, or the entire bond, if it is a master bond.

All official bonds shall be made payable to the State of California in such penalty and with such conditions as required by this article, or the law creating or regulating the duties of the office. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The condition of an official bond shall be that the principal will well, truly, and faithfully perform all official duties then required of him by law, and also all such additional duties as may be imposed on him by any existing law of the State or law enacted subsequently to the…

Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law is in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties therein for: (a) Any and all breaches of the conditions thereof committed during the time such officer continues to discharge any of the duties of or hold the of…

Whenever, except in criminal prosecutions, any special penalty, forfeiture, or liability is imposed on any officer of a county or judicial district for nonperformance or malperformance of official duties, the liability therefor attaches to the official bond of the officer, and to…

The officer whose duty it is to approve official bonds required of officers of a county or judicial district not named in Section 1458 shall not accept or approve any such bond unless the affidavit of each of the personal sureties on the bond contains a statement that the surety …

The sureties on the bonds of all officers of a county or judicial district named in Section 1458 shall first be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court as is provided for the approval of the bond of their principals, before their principals’ bonds may be recorded an…

A member of the board of supervisors shall not be accepted as surety upon the official bond of any officer of a county or judicial district of his county. The sheriff, county clerk, tax collector, treasurer, recorder, auditor, assessor, or district attorney of the same county sha…

The Legislature finds and declares that many special districts have the ability to raise revenue through user charges and fees and that their ability to raise revenue directly from the property tax for district operations has been eliminated by Article XIII A of the California Co…

As used in this chapter: (a) “Governing body” means the board of supervisors except that in the case of a subsidiary district “governing body” means the city council, and in the case of a multi-county district “governing body” means the governing body of the multi-county district…

Out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100, there shall be allocated among the governing bodies, for the 1978–79 fiscal year only, one hundred and twenty-five million dollars ($125,000,000) to be distributed as provided in this article.

The State Controller, shall total the amounts determined pursuant to former Section 16272.3, as amended by Chapter 332 of the Statutes of 1978, and shall determine the proportion which the amounts submitted by each governing body bears to the total amount of the property taxes re…

(a) The allocation for each governing body as determined in Section 16272.5 shall be distributed to each governing body by the State Controller as follows: 33 percent—on August 31, 1978, or a subsequent date if the information needed by the State Controller is not available by th…

Not later than seven days after the notice from the State Controller, the governing body shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of determining the distribution of funds received pursuant to Section 16272.5. The governing body shall send written notice to the legislative body…

Following the close of the public hearing, the governing body shall distribute the funds in accordance with the following criteria: (a) Public Safety Services: (1) In distributing funds to districts which provide fire protection services, and any police protection district, count…

Within 30 days of the notice of allocation received pursuant to Section 16272.5, the governing body shall determine the amount of funds to be disbursed to each special district. The funds provided for by this chapter shall be used exclusively for special districts and shall not b…

Within five days of the determination by the governing body pursuant to Section 16276, the governing body shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation which includes: (1) the districts which received funds, (2) the amount of funds received, and (3) the purpose for…

The county auditor shall disburse funds to the special district in the same manner as disbursements which are made from the county treasurer’s property tax trust fund.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the governing body to specify the manner in which such funds are to be expended by any district where such district has a legislative body other than the governing body.

The determination of the governing body in distributing funds to a special district pursuant to this chapter shall be final and conclusive in the absence of fraud or prejudicial abuse of discretion. In any action or proceeding to review any determination of the governing body, su…

No action or proceeding shall be commenced to contest any determination of the governing body pursuant to this chapter, unless such action or proceeding shall have been brought within 90 days after the governing body’s determination.

The Legislature finds and declares that Article XIII A of the Constitution, as added by the adoption of Proposition 13 on the ballot at the Direct Primary Election held on June 6, 1978, has substantially reduced the property tax revenues of many special districts, and that the re…

(a) The sum of thirty-five million seven hundred ten thousand dollars ($35,710,000) is hereby appropriated from the Local Agency Emergency Loan Fund to the State Controller for allocation to special districts as provided in this article. (b) The State Controller shall apply the p…

As used in this article, “eligible special district” means a special district, subsidiary district, or multicounty special district which, during the three fiscal years prior to the 1978–79 fiscal year, received, on the average, more than 50 percent of its total revenue directly …

Pursuant to a resolution adopted by its governing board, a county or city may distribute funds to any special district from any available county or city sources, including funds allocated to the county or city pursuant to Section 16272 of the Government Code or Section 35.5 of Ch…