Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The governing body of a city, county, city and county, or political subdivision of the State may grant leaves of absence to employees to appear as a witness in court other than as a litigant, to serve on a jury, or to respond to an official order from another governmental jurisdi…

Whenever any person who is an employee subject to the provisions of Section 1230, or an employee of the state, is served with a subpoena which compels his presence as a witness, unless he is a party or an expert witness, such employee shall be granted a leave of absence with pay …

No state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose, nor to have incurred any change in his or her authority, status, or jurisdiction or in his or her salary or other conditions of employment, solely…

Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay to officers and employees whatever salary that would have otherwise been received had the budget act been adopted on or prior to July 1 of that fiscal year.

Funds from each appropriation made in the budget act for any fiscal year may be expended to pay any obligation incurred between the commencement of that fiscal year and the effective date of the budget act for that fiscal year, which would otherwise have been authorized by the bu…

Acting in accordance with Executive Order 11246 (30FR 12319), as amended, applicants for employment by, and incumbent employees of, public agencies may be solicited to voluntarily declare their ethnic identification, provided this information shall be used for research and statis…

No public officer while serving in any elective office in this state shall receive a retirement allowance which is based in whole or part upon service in that elective office. The monthly retirement allowance shall be suspended during the period of such service and shall resume u…

(a) Any person who is receiving an allowance from a public retirement system, who is charged by indictment or complaint, either in a court of this state or a federal court whose jurisdiction encompasses all or any portion of the state, with the commission of any felony involving …

(a) All city, county, city and county, and district employees that conduct audits or that conduct audit activities of those respective agencies shall conduct their work under the general and specified standards prescribed by the Institute of Internal Auditors or the Government Au…

All state and local agencies with an aggregate spending of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or more annually shall consider establishing an ongoing audit function.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1236, if a city, county, city and county, or district determines that the implementation of any specific standard enumerated in Section 1236 would result in net additional costs which exceed any potential savings, the governing body of th…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1236, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, may, by majority vote, grant a waiver to any agency that petitions the committee from compliance with any standard prescribed in Section 1236.

Whenever a section of the California Constitution uses both the terms “salary” and “compensation”, with respect to a public officer or employee, the terms shall be construed to apply only to salary.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, the Legislature of California, acting through the State Lands Commission, hereby cedes concurrent criminal jurisdiction to the United States within lands identified and held by the United States upon and subject …

In addition to other records maintained by the State Lands Commission, the commission shall prepare and maintain an adequate index or record of documents with description of the lands over which the United States acquired jurisdiction pursuant to Section 126 of this code or pursu…

There is in the State Government a Department of Finance.

The department is under the control of an executive officer known as Director of Finance. As used in this part, “director” and “department” refer to the Director and Department of Finance, respectively, unless the context otherwise requires.

The director is appointed by and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The annual salary of the director is provided for by Chapter 6 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

The director shall perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all purposes vested by law in the department, except as otherwise expressly provided by this code.

For the purpose of administration, the director shall organize the department with the approval of the Governor, in the manner that he deems necessary properly to segregate and conduct the work of the department. The director may arrange and classify the work of the department an…

For the purpose of administering Article 1 (commencing with Section 13290) of Chapter 3, the Director of Finance may appoint and prescribe the duties and fix the salaries of such number of skillful accountants or assistants as he or she deems necessary. Each appointee is a civil …

Whenever any statute, heretofore or hereafter enacted, requires by the use of the word or words “approve,” “approval,” “authorize,” or “authorization,” the director or the department to approve or authorize any act or transaction, such approval or authorization shall hereafter be…

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who: (a) Fails or neglects to make, verify and file with the Department of Finance any report required by this part. (b) Fails or neglects to follow the directions of the Department of Finance in keeping the accounts of his office. (c) Refu…

The department shall annually require each department head or designee whose duty it is to audit the accounts of a state agency, department, office, bureau, or other state entity to provide a certification, signed under penalty of perjury, to the department that the budgeting and…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Tourism Marketing Act.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Tourism is among California’s biggest industries, contributing over fifty-two billion dollars ($52,000,000,000) to the state economy and employing nearly 700,000 Californians in 1995. (b) In order to retain and e…

(a) The Legislature recognizes that, because of the size and significant economic impact of the tourism industry on the economy of the County of Los Angeles, it being the second largest economic activity within the county, and due to many independent factors that have adversely a…

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “County commission” means the Los Angeles County Tourism Marketing Commission. (b) “County commissioner” means a commissioner of the county commission. (c) “County selection committee” means the Los Ange…

(a) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors shall appoint the Los Angeles County Tourism Selection Committee to consist of persons, or principals of entities, from within the industry categories that are to be assessed, based upon recommendations from established industry ass…

(a) Based upon the criteria established by the county selection committee, the county commission shall be established by industry referenda within the county conducted in accordance with subdivision (d) and Section 13995.104, and shall include certain ex officio voting members pr…

(a) The county commission shall be a private, nonprofit corporation, and shall not be part of state or county government, nor be construed in any other manner as a public entity. (b) No person employed by the county commission shall be a state or county employee. (c) The procedur…

(a) Not later than six months following its formation, the county commission shall adopt procedures concerning the operation of the county commission in order to provide due process rights for assessed businesses. (b) The county commission shall annually provide to all assessed b…

County commissioners and employees of the county commission shall not be individually liable in any way to any person for any good faith activity of the county commission, county commissioners, or employees.

The county commission may be terminated at any time after the initial four years of operation by referendum of the assessed businesses. Notice of the termination shall be mailed to all assessed businesses. Upon termination, the county commission shall continue its existence as a …

(a) The county may require assessed businesses to maintain books and records that reflect their income or sales as reflected in the assessment, and to furnish the county treasurer/tax collector with any information that may, from time to time, be requested by the treasurer/tax co…

(a) The county commission shall recommend the assessments approved by the industry referendum to the board of supervisors. Upon approval by the board of supervisors, the Los Angeles County Treasurer/Tax Collector shall collect all assessments so approved. In that collection effor…

(a) No referendum required under this article shall be undertaken until any of the following occurs, whichever is earliest: (1) A statewide referendum held pursuant to this chapter has obtained a passing vote in the County of Los Angeles. (2) Two statewide referenda have been hel…

Assessments shall be set by the county commission, as follows: (a) Each industry category shall establish a committee to determine the following within its industry category: industry segments, assessment formulae for each industry segment, and any type of business exempt from as…

An assessed business may appeal an assessment to the county commission upon the basis that the business does not meet the definition established for an assessed business within its industry segment, or that the level of assessment is incorrect. If the error is based upon failure …

(a) The county treasurer/tax collector shall collect the assessment from all assessed businesses, and, in collecting an assessment, may bring enforcement actions. (b) Funds collected shall be deposited into an account or accounts for the benefit of the county commission, subject …

(a) Any assessment levied as provided in this article is a debt of the business so assessed and shall be due and payable at the direction of the county treasurer/tax collector. If any assessed business fails to pay any assessment, the county treasurer/tax collector may file a com…

The county commission shall separately contract with the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau to serve as its administrative contractor in the promotion, implementation, and administration of the Los Angeles County Marketing Plan adopted by the county commission. If the cou…

This article is subject to Article 8 (commencing with Section 13995.80) and Article 9 (commencing with Section 13995.90) except that, as to Article 8, either the county or the county treasurer/tax collector, as designated in this article, shall act in the place of the Director of…

A business is exempt from the assessments provided for in this chapter if the business is a travel agency or tour operator that derives less than 20 percent of its gross revenue from travel and tourism occurring within the state. A travel agency or tour operator that qualifies fo…

This article shall become operative only upon adoption by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors of a resolution by majority vote making the provisions of this article applicable in that county.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) “Appointed commissioner” means a commissioner appointed by the Governor pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 13995.40. (b) “Assessed business” me…

(a) The Governor shall appoint a Tourism Selection Committee based upon recommendations from established industry associations. The committee shall consist of 25 representatives, with no fewer than six from each industry category. In selecting the representatives, the Governor sh…

Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 13995.40, the number of commissioners elected from each industry category shall be determined by the weighted percentage of assessments from that category, except that no more than six commissioners shall be elected from the passenger ca…

The purpose of the commission is to increase the number of persons traveling to and within California.

(a) The commission is a separate, independent California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation. Except as provided in Section 13995.43, the staff of the commission shall be employees solely of the commission, and the procedures adopted by the commission shall not be subject to the…