California

Government Code

21,845 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 27100 — The books, accounts, and vouchers of the treasurer, including all books, accounts, vouchers, or other records in his office relating to reclamation districts, are at all time subject to the inspection
• § 27100.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when any public entity or any public official acting in a fiduciary capacity, who is required or authorized by law to deposit funds in the county treasury,
• § 27101 — The treasurer shall permit the chairman of the board of supervisors, district attorney, and auditor to examine his books and count the money in the treasury, including the books and money of reclamati
• § 27120 — Whenever an action based upon official misconduct is commenced against the county treasurer, the board of supervisors may suspend him from office until the suit is determined.
• § 27121 — In case of the death of the county treasurer, his legal representatives shall deliver to the person appointed to fill the vacancy all official money, books, accounts, papers, and documents which are o
• § 27130 — The Legislature finds and declares that local agencies, including school districts, should participate in reviewing the policies that guide the investment of those funds.
• § 27131 — (a) The board of supervisors in each county or city and county may, if the county or city and county is investing surplus funds, establish a county treasury oversight committee.
• § 27132 — The county treasury oversight committee, pursuant to Section 27131, shall consist of members appointed from the following: (a) The county treasurer.
• § 27132.1 — A member may not be employed by an entity that has (a) contributed to the campaign of a candidate for the office of local treasurer, or (b) contributed to the campaign of a candidate to be a member of
• § 27132.2 — A member may not directly or indirectly raise money for a candidate for local treasurer or a member of the governing board of any local agency that has deposited funds in the county treasury while a m
• § 27132.3 — A member may not secure employment with, or be employed by, bond underwriters, bond counsel, security brokerages or dealers, or financial services firms, with whom the treasurer is doing business duri
• § 27132.4 — Committee meetings shall be open to the public and subject to the Ralph M.
• § 27133 — In any county that establishes a county treasury oversight committee pursuant to this article, the county treasurer shall annually prepare an investment policy that will be reviewed and monitored by t
• § 27134 — The county treasury oversight committee shall cause an annual audit to be conducted to determine the county treasury’s compliance with this article.
• § 27135 — The costs of complying with this article shall be county charges and may be included with those charges enumerated under Section 27013.
• § 27136 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any local agency, public agency, public entity, or public official that has funds on deposit in the county treasury pool and that seeks to withdraw fund
• § 27137 — Nothing in this article shall be construed to allow the county treasury oversight committee to direct individual investment decisions, select individual investment advisors, brokers, or dealers, or im
• § 272 — Allegiance may be renounced by a change of residence.
• § 27201 — (a) (1) (A) The recorder shall, upon payment of proper fees and taxes, accept for recordation any instrument, paper, or notice that is authorized or required by statute, or court order to be recorded,
• § 27201.1 — (a) (1) A disinterested custodian of an electronic record may certify that a tangible copy is a complete and accurate reproduction of the electronic record.
• § 27201.5 — (a) A notary acknowledgment shall be deemed complete for recording purposes without a photographically reproducible official seal of the notary public if the seal, as described in Section 8207, is pre
• § 27202 — Upon the request of any officer of the United States, the county recorder shall record instruments to which the United States is a party without payment of the recording fee in advance and shall execu
• § 27203 — Any recorder to whom an instrument proved or acknowledged according to law or any paper or notice which may by law be recorded is delivered for record is liable to the party aggrieved for the amount o
• § 27203.5 — If the recorder willfully and maliciously commits any of the acts described in Section 27203 or derives a personal financial benefit from committing any of those acts, the recorder is liable to the pa
• § 27204 — Any person who receives a form from the recorder pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 27203, stating that the proffered document is unrecordable, and who subsequently attempts to record the document
• § 27205 — After two years from the date of filing in the recorder’s office of notice of completion of any building or improvement, the contract, plans, specifications and bond under which the work or improvemen
• § 27206 — The county recorder may destroy federal tax liens together with any release of said liens eight years after the lien was filed in his office; provided, a microfilm copy of each unreleased tax lien has
• § 27207 — At the request of the county recorder, the board of supervisors of any county may authorize the destruction of any or all of the filed papers or records books created under the Land Title Law (an init
• § 27208 — If a paper or document has been microfilmed, the county recorder may destroy or otherwise dispose of any paper or document filed with or submitted to him or her more than one year previously, unless a
• § 27210 — The county recorder may use a printed, stamped, photographically reproduced facsimile, electronic, or otherwise digitally created signature in certifying to a record in the recorder’s office provided
• § 27211 — (a) The recorder shall keep an official seal of the recorder’s office that shall, when embossed, stamped, impressed, or affixed to a certification, show legibly.
• § 27230 — The recorder shall procure any books for records as the business of the recorder’s office requires, but orders for the books shall first be obtained from the board of supervisors.
• § 27231 — The recorder has the custody of, and shall keep all books, records, maps, and papers deposited in the recorder’s office.
• § 27232 — The recorder shall keep an index of deeds, grants, and transfers, labeled “Grantors,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Names of grantors,” “Names of grantees,” and “Where re
• § 27233 — The recorder shall keep an index of deeds, labeled “Grantees,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Names of grantees,” “Names of grantors,” and “Where recorded.
• § 27234 — The recorder shall keep two indices of mortgages, labeled respectively: “Mortgagors of real property” and “Mortgagors of personal property,” with the pages thereof divided into three columns, headed r
• § 27235 — The recorder shall keep two indices of mortgages, labeled respectively: “Mortgagees of real property” and “Mortgagees of personal property,” with the pages thereof divided into three columns, headed r
• § 27236 — The recorder shall keep two indices of releases of mortgages, labeled respectively: “Releases of mortgages of real property—mortgagors” and “Releases of mortgages of personal property—mortgagors,” wit
• § 27237 — The recorder shall keep two indices of releases of mortgages, labeled respectively: “Releases of mortgages of real property—mortgagees” and “Releases of mortgages of personal property—mortgagees,” wit
• § 27238 — The recorder shall keep an index of powers of attorney, labeled: “Powers of attorney,” each page divided into four columns, headed respectively: “Names of parties executing the powers,” “To whom power
• § 27239 — The recorder shall keep an index of leases, labeled: “Leases—lessors,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Names of lessors,” “Names of lessees,” and “When and where recorded.
• § 27240 — The recorder shall keep an index of leases, labeled: “Leases—lessees,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Names of lessees,” “Names of lessors,” and “When and where recorded.
• § 27243 — The recorder shall keep an index of assignments of mortgages and leases, labeled: “Assignments of mortgages and leases—assignors,” each page divided into four columns, headed respectively: “Assignors,
• § 27244 — The recorder shall keep an index of assignments of mortgages and leases, labeled: “Assignments of mortgages and leases—assignees,” each page divided into four columns, headed respectively: “Assignees,
• § 27246 — The recorder shall keep an index of official bonds, labeled: “Official bonds,” each page divided into four columns, headed respectively: “Names of officers,” “Names of offices,” “Amount of bonds,” and
• § 27247 — The recorder shall keep an index of notices of mechanics’ liens, labeled: “Mechanics’ liens,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Parties against whom claimed,” “Parties claimi
• § 27248 — (a) The recorder shall keep an index to abstracts of judgments, labeled: “Abstracts of judgments,” each page divided into six columns, headed respectively: “Judgment debtors,” “Judgment creditors,” “A
• § 27249 — The recorder shall keep an index of attachments, labeled: “Attachments,” each page divided into five columns, headed respectively: “Parties against whom attachments are levied (Defendants),” “Parties
• § 27250 — The recorder shall keep an index of notices of the pendency of actions, labeled: “Notices of actions,” each page divided into three columns, headed respectively: “Parties to the action,” “Notices—when
• § 27252 — The recorder shall keep an index to the certificates of births, deaths and marriages.
• § 27254 — The recorder shall keep an index of mining locations and of documents affecting them, labeled, “Mining locations,” divided into suitable columns showing the name of locator, date of locations, date of
• § 27255 — (a) The county recorder in each county shall develop and maintain, within the existing indexing system, a comprehensive index of conservation easements and Notice of Conservation Easement on land with
• § 27256 — The recorder shall keep such other indices as are required in the performance of official duties.
• § 27257 — Instead of those indices indicated in this division, the recorder may utilize either of the following systems of indexing: (a) The recorder may keep two indices, labeled respectively: “General index o
• § 27263 — When a conveyance is executed by a sheriff or marshal, the name of the sheriff or marshal and the party charged in the execution shall both be inserted in the index.
• § 27264 — The recorder shall provide a separate book called “Record of Patents” or official records in which shall be recorded all patents of land situate in the county, whether issued by the United States or t
• § 27265 — Where indexes are compiled by the use of key punch and printing machines, if temporary index sheets are provided for the use of the public before the permanent yearly indexes are compiled, county reco
• § 27279 — (a) “Instrument,” as used in this chapter, means a written paper signed by a person or persons transferring the title to, or giving a lien on real property, or giving a right to a debt or duty.
• § 27279.1 — (a) The recorders of San Bernardino County and Orange County may accept, in lieu of a written paper document, a digitized image of a recordable instrument if both of the following conditions are met:
• § 27279.2 — For purposes of Section 27279.
• § 27279.3 — (a) A requester and addressee for delivery of a recorded image may record a digitized image of a recordable instrument if the requester meets the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) of subdivision (
• § 27279.4 — (a) The California Attorney General shall appoint an Electronic Recordation Task Force consisting of voluntary representatives from governmental agencies and industry groups specified in subdivision (
• § 27280 — (a) Any instrument or judgment affecting the title to or possession of real property may be recorded pursuant to this chapter.
• § 27280.5 — The names of parties required to be indexed appearing in any instrument, paper, or notice presented for recordation shall be legibly signed, typed, or printed therein before acceptance by the county r
• § 27280.6 — (a) It is unlawful to present for recording or filing, or otherwise attempt to record or file, with a county recorder an exclusive listing agreement of any duration or any memoranda or notice of such
• § 27281 — (a) Deeds or grants conveying any interest in or easement upon real estate to a political corporation or governmental agency for public purposes shall not be accepted for recordation without the conse
• § 27281.5 — (a) Any restriction imposed upon real property on or after January 1, 1982, which restricts either the ability of the owner of real property to convey the real property or the owner of a proprietary l
• § 27282 — (a) The following documents may be recorded without acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgment, or further proof: (1) A judgment affecting the title to or possession of real property, authenticated
• § 27283 — The record of all notices of location of mining claims made prior to March 9, 1897 in the proper office without acknowledgment, or certificate of acknowledgment, or other proof, has the same force and
• § 27284 — Affidavits showing work or posting of notices upon mining claims may be recorded in the recorder’s office of the county where the mining claims are situated.
• § 27285 — The following documents may be recorded without acknowledgment or further proof: (a) Letters patent from the United States or from the state, executed and authenticated pursuant to existing law.
• § 27286 — If letters patent have been lost or are beyond the control of any party deraigning title from them, or if for any reason they remain unrecorded, any person claiming title thereunder may cause a transc
• § 27287 — Unless it belongs to the class provided for in either Sections 27282 to 27286, inclusive, or Section 1202 or 1203, of the Civil Code, or is a fictitious mortgage or deed of trust as provided in Sectio
• § 27288 — If the instrument is an agreement for sale, lease, option agreement, deposit receipt, commission receipt, or affidavit which quotes or refers to an agreement for sale, lease, option agreement, deposit
• § 27288.1 — All documents described in this section now or hereafter authorized by law to be recorded in the official records of a county shall contain the following information in addition to any information as
• § 27288.2 — Pursuant to Section 5029 of the Public Resources Code, after March 15, 1993, the county recorder shall record a certified resolution establishing an historical resources designation issued by the Stat
• § 27289 — Whenever a notice is required by law to be recorded for any purpose, it shall be signed by the person giving notice or his agent.
• § 27290 — An instrument proved and certified pursuant to Sections 1198 and 1199 of the Civil Code may be recorded in the proper office only if the original is at the same time deposited therein to remain for pu
• § 27291 — (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9501) of Division 9 of the Commercial Code or any other provision of law, a financing statement to perfect a security interest o
• § 27293 — (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), if an instrument, paper, or notice intended for record is executed or certified in whole or in part in a language other than English, the recor
• § 27294 — In all cases the recorder shall endorse the amount of the fee for recordation on the instrument, paper, or notice recorded.
• § 27295 — Where real property acquired by a municipality or a redevelopment agency is to be transferred in accordance with an official redevelopment plan any contract for such transfer and the official redevelo
• § 27296 — (a) The county recorder in each county shall complete a yearly statistical report of documents, including electronically transmitted documents, recorded and filed on the form described in subdivision
• § 27297 — For purposes of this article, a certificate describing real property and any lien thereon claimed pursuant to law for the costs of abatement of a nuisance upon such property, is an instrument affectin
• § 27297.5 — (a) Upon recordation of an abstract of judgment or other document creating an involuntary lien affecting the title to real property, unless the county recorder has received from the judgment creditor
• § 27297.6 — (a) Following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles County Recorder may, within 30 days of recordation of a deed, quitclaim deed, or
• § 27297.7 — (a) On or before January 1, 2027, each county within the state shall establish a recorder notification program, in accordance with this section, and the board of supervisors of each county shall adopt
• § 273 — A citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of the State, has the same rights and duties as a citizen of the State not an elector.
• § 27300 — As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Official record” means the permanent archival record of all instruments, papers, and notices as accepted for recording by
• § 27301 — (a) The county recorder of each county shall establish a social security number truncation program in order to create a public record version of each official record.
• § 27302 — (a) A county recorder shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of Section 27301 and shall not be liable for failure to truncate a social security number if he or she uses due diligenc
• § 27303 — When a public record version of an official record exists, both of the following shall apply: (a) Upon a request for inspection, copying, or any other public disclosure of an official record that is n
• § 27303.5 — Notwithstanding Section 27303, a county recorder may provide a copy of a DD214 official record when requested by a person listed in subdivision (b) of Section 6107 and upon certification by that perso
• § 27304 — (a) Each county may use funds generated by fees authorized by subdivision (d) of Section 27361 to implement a social security number truncation program required by this article.
• § 27305 — (a) To assist the Legislature in monitoring the progress of each county recorder’s social security number truncation program, the County Recorders Association of California, no later than January 1, 2
• § 27307 — A county recorder is authorized to take all actions required by this article notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 27203 or any other provision of law.
• § 27320 — When any instrument, paper, or notice authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder’s office for record, the recorder shall endorse upon it in the order in which it is deposited, the y
• § 27321 — (a) The recorder shall endorse upon each instrument, paper, or notice the identification number or book and page where it is recorded, and shall thereafter mail it to the person named in the instrumen
• § 27321.5 — Before acceptance for recording, in addition to the address required on each document for delivery by the recorder, all of the following shall apply: (a) Every deed or instrument executed to convey fe
• § 27322 — The recorder shall record by legible handwriting, by typewriting, or by photographic reproduction process, in well-bound books or by such other means as provided in this chapter, all instruments, pape
• § 27322.1 — The words “file for record” when used as a directive in any law relating to any document to be filed in the recorders office shall be deemed to mean “record” in the manner provided for in Section 2732
• § 27322.2 — A system of microphotography, optical disk, or reproduction by any other technique that does not permit additions, deletions, or changes to the original document may be used by the recorder as a photo
• § 27322.3 — If the recorded instruments, papers, or notices or the record books in the office of the recorder have been microfilmed for preservation purposes, a type of record book may be used that will permit th
• § 27322.4 — The county recorder may cause any or all files or records in his or her official custody to be microphotographed or otherwise reproduced pursuant to Section 27322.
• § 27323 — The recorder may segregate the instruments, papers, and notices and record them in separate books, or sheets or rolls of film under titles of indices provided for in Article 2 of this chapter.
• § 27324 — Each instrument, paper, or notice presented for recordation shall have a title or titles indicating the kind or kinds of documents contained therein.
• § 27325 — If any instrument, paper, or notice is presented and accepted for recordation or filing without a title or an endorsement indicating the manner of indexing, it shall be indexed as the recorder determi
• § 27326 — The recorder shall file and record in the record of deeds, grants, and transfers, certified copies of final judgments or decrees partitioning or affecting the title or possession of real property, any
• § 27327 — Any instrument, paper, or notice filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county where it is entitled to record and that is copied into a book of record other than that designated
• § 27328 — Any instrument which is filed for record with the recorder as a deed, deed of trust, mortgage, or chattel mortgage, or which is copied into any book of deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, or chattel mor
• § 27329 — (a) If any record of an instrument, paper, or notice is lost, injured, or destroyed by conflagration or other public calamity, the recorder shall record any instrument, paper, or notice of writing ent
• § 27330 — On or before January 1, 1968, notices of liens for internal revenue taxes payable to the United States and certificates of release, discharge, subordination or nonattachment of such liens shall be fil
• § 27331 — An order affecting title to or possession of real property issued by a court in an action subject to Section 12527 may be recorded in any of the indices described in Section 27232, 27233, 27248, 27249
• § 27333 — All conveyances of real estate, except patents issued by the State as a party, made by any public officer pursuant to law, when recorded shall be alphabetically indexed in the “Index of Grantors,” bot
• § 27334 — If the name of the person in whom title to real estate is vested is changed from any cause, the recorder shall alphabetically index the conveyance in the “Index of Grantors,” both in the name by which
• § 27335 — In the recording of instruments of writing required or authorized by law to be recorded, the clerk, recorder, or other officer whose duty it is to make the record, shall, if the instruments have affix
• § 27336 — County recorders shall accept form books or blanks from any incorporated water users’ association organized to secure the benefits of an act of Congress approved June 17, 1902, known as the “Reclamati
• § 27337 — (a) If any military veteran or any person authorized to receive a certified copy of a record pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 6107 requests the recordation in any county in this
• § 27338 — A deed, instrument, or other document related to a conveyance that is subject to Section 8560 of the Public Resources Code shall not be recorded without a certificate from the State Lands Commission.
• § 27360 — For services performed by the recorder’s office, the county recorder shall charge and collect the fees fixed in this article.
• § 27360.5 — As used in this code, the word “folio” means 100 words.
• § 27361 — (a) The fee for recording and indexing every instrument, paper, or notice required or permitted by law to be recorded shall not exceed ten dollars ($10) for recording the first page and three dollars
• § 27361.1 — Whenever two or more instruments, papers, or notices are serially incorporated on one form or sheet, or are attached to one another, except as an exhibit marked as such, each instrument, paper, or not
• § 27361.2 — (a) Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded that contains references to more than one previously recorded document and requires additional indexing by the county recorder to give notice
• § 27361.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the law, the fee for recording every release of lien, encumbrance, or notice executed by the state, or any municipality, county, city, district, or other
• § 27361.4 — (a) The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee of one dollar ($1) for filing every instrument, paper, or notice for record, in order to defray the cost of converting the
• § 27361.5 — (a) As used in Section 27361, a page shall be one printed side of a single piece of paper being 8 1 2 inches by 11 inches.
• § 27361.6 — Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, all documents submitted for recording shall have at least a 1 2 -inch margin on the two vertical sides except in the space reserved for recording inf
• § 27361.7 — Whenever the text of a document presented for record may be made out but is not sufficiently legible to reproduce a readable photographic record, the recorder may require the person presenting it for
• § 27361.8 — (a) Whenever any instrument, paper, or notice is recorded that requires additional indexing by the county recorder to give notice required by law and does not refer to a previously recorded document b
• § 27361.9 — The board of supervisors of any county may provide for an additional fee for filing every preliminary notice pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8214 of the Civil Code for the exclusive purpose of
• § 27364 — The fee for each certificate under seal shall be set by the board of supervisors in an amount necessary to recover the direct and indirect costs of providing the product or service or the cost of enfo
• § 27365 — The fee for any copy of a birth, death, or marriage certificate, when the copy is made by the recorder, is the same as is payable to a state or local registrar of vital statistics.
• § 27366 — The fee for any copy of any other record or paper on file in the office of the recorder, when the copy is made by the recorder, shall be set by the board of supervisors in an amount necessary to recov
• § 27369 — The fee for searching the records of his office for a birth, death, or marriage certificate is the same as is payable to a state or local registrar of vital statistics; in all other cases, for each ye
• § 27371 — The fee for recording each map or plat where it is copied in a book of record is ten cents ($0.
• § 27372 — The fee for recording or filing and indexing each map wherein land is subdivided in lots, tracts, or parcels is five dollars ($5) for the first page and two dollars ($2) for each additional page.
• § 27375 — The fee for taking an acknowledgment of any instrument is seventy-five cents ($0.
• § 27379 — The fee for administering and certifying each oath or affirmation is fifty cents ($0.
• § 27380 — The fee for filing, indexing, and keeping each paper not required by law to be recorded is three dollars ($3).
• § 27381 — No charge or fee shall be made for recording, indexing, or issuing certified copies of any discharge, certificate of service, certificate of satisfactory service, report of separation, or notice of se
• § 27383 — No fee shall be charged by the recorder for services rendered to the State, to any municipality, county in the State or other political subdivision thereof, except for making a copy of a paper or reco
• § 27387 — In addition to any other fee, the county recorder shall collect a fee from any lienor, other than a governmental entity, for the recordation of an abstract of judgment or other document creating an in
• § 27387.1 — (a) In addition to any other recording fee, the recorder, pursuant to Section 27297.
• § 27388 — (a) (1) In addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, upon the adoption of a resolution by the county board of supervisors, a fee of up to ten dollars ($10) shall be paid at the time
• § 27388.1 — (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2018, and except as provided in paragraph (2), in addition to any other recording fees specified in this code, a fee of seventy-five dollars ($75) shall be paid at the ti
• § 27388.2 — (a) In addition to all other fees authorized by this section, a county recorder may charge a fee of two dollars ($2) for recording the first page of every real estate instrument, paper, or notice requ
• § 27390 — (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Electronic Recording Delivery Act of 2004.
• § 27391 — (a) Upon approval by resolution of the board of supervisors and system certification by the Attorney General, a county recorder may establish an electronic recording delivery system.
• § 27392 — (a) No electronic recording delivery system may become operational without system certification by the Attorney General.
• § 27393 — (a) The Attorney General shall, in consultation with interested parties, adopt regulations for the review, approval, and oversight of electronic recording delivery systems.
• § 27394 — (a) To be eligible to establish an electronic recording delivery system, a county recorder shall contract with, and obtain a report from, a computer security auditor selected from a list of computer s
• § 27395 — (a) No person shall be a computer security auditor or be granted secure access to an electronic recording delivery system if he or she has been convicted of a felony, has been convicted of a misdemean
• § 27396 — (a) The Attorney General shall monitor the security of electronic recording delivery systems statewide, in close cooperation with county recorders and public prosecutors.
• § 27397 — (a) A county establishing an electronic recording delivery system pursuant to this article shall pay for the direct cost of regulation and oversight by the Attorney General.
• § 27397.5 — (a) A county recorder may include in the county’s electronic recording delivery system a secure method for accepting for recording a digital or digitized electronic record that is an instrument of rec
• § 27398 — (a) The Attorney General shall conduct an evaluation of electronic recording delivery systems authorized by this article, and report to both houses of the Legislature on or before June 30, 2009.
• § 27399 — (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize any state agency to administer any of the processes or procedures relating to the business of the county recorders of the state in any manne
• § 274 — An elector has no rights or duties beyond those of a citizen not an elector, except the right and duty of holding office and voting.
• § 27400 — The tax-collector is ex officio license-collector, and as license-collector shall collect all county licenses and perform the duties prescribed by law and by the ordinances of the board of supervisors
• § 27401 — At least once a month the tax collector shall pay the public money in his hands into the county treasury, taking the receipt of the treasurer therefor.
• § 27421 — The county assessor in each county who is designated to perform the duty of assessing property for a local taxing jurisdiction shall, upon request of the governing body of such jurisdiction, excluding
• § 27422 — The assessor shall not hold the office of tax collector or auditor, whether it is an appointive or elective office, at the same time he holds the office of assessor.
• § 27423 — (a) On or before May 1, 1977, the assessor of each county for the local roll and the State Board of Equalization for the board roll shall determine the annual assessed value attributable to timber, as
• § 27430 — (a) In any county the board of supervisors may by ordinance create the office of public guardian and subordinate positions which may be necessary and fix compensation therefor.
• § 27431 — (a) The board of supervisors may appoint a public guardian to fill the office and provide for appointment to the subordinate positions.
• § 27432 — (a) The board of supervisors may by ordinance designate that the public administrator is ex officio public guardian.
• § 27433 — The authority of the public guardian or ex officio public guardian ceases upon the termination of his or her tenure in office as public guardian or ex officio public guardian and his or her authority
• § 27434 — The public guardian shall give an official bond in an amount fixed, from time to time, by the board of supervisors.
• § 27435 — (a) Necessary expenses of the public guardian in the conduct of any guardianship or any conservatorship estate may be advanced by the county.
• § 27436 — The board of supervisors may designate who shall be authorized as public representative payee, and designate the public guardian to collect any fees authorized by the board of supervisors for public r
• § 27440 — If the public administrator fails to qualify or fails to perform in person the duties of his office, the coroner shall be ex officio public administrator.
• § 27441 — The public administrator shall charge and collect such fees as are allowed by law.
• § 27442 — If the public administrator is salaried and all fees and charges allowed him are paid or turned over to the county, then all fees and charges incurred by him for the benefit of any estate in which the
• § 27443 — Every person holding the office of public administrator, public guardian, or public conservator and any deputy or agent of such officer is guilty of a crime who: (a) Purchases, directly or indirectly,
• § 27443.5 — Employees in the office of public administrator, public guardian, or public conservator shall be subject to the provisions of Section 27443; provided that, the restrictions of Section 27443 shall appl
• § 27444 — The authority of the public administrator ceases upon termination of his or her tenure in the office of public administrator, and his or her authority vests in the successor in the office of public ad
• § 27460 — If an inquest is held by the coroner and no other person takes charge of the body of the deceased, he shall cause it to be interred decently.
• § 27461 — In order to inter decently the body of the deceased, the coroner may apply to a judge of the superior court of his county for an order permitting him to: (a) sell summarily any personal property belon
• § 27462 — The coroner shall file with the clerk of the court a statement showing the property of the deceased that came into his hands, the amount received from the sale of any personal property, and the dispos
• § 27463 — The coroner shall keep an official register, labeled “Coroner’s Register,” with pages numbered, indexed and bound, in which he shall enter: (a) The name and any aliases of the deceased, when known, in
• § 27463.5 — In lieu of the “coroner’s register,” the coroner may keep an official file for each deceased person containing all of the information required by Section 27463.
• § 27464 — Whenever the death of any person shall have been referred to the coroner for investigation, there shall be delivered to the coroner any note, letter or other document apparently written by the decease
• § 27465 — Within 90 days after an inquest upon a dead body the coroner shall deliver to the legal representatives of the deceased any money or other property found upon the body.
• § 27466 — If, within 90 days after the inquest, no legal representative makes a demand upon the coroner for the money or property found upon the body of the decedent, the coroner shall deliver to the treasurer
• § 27467 — If the coroner fails to deliver to the treasurer within 120 days after any inquest upon a dead body all money and proceeds from the sale of property found upon the body, unless claimed in the meantime
• § 27468 — If within 90 days after an inquest upon a dead body no legal representative of the decedent demands from the coroner the property found upon the person of the decedent, the coroner shall sell the prop
• § 27469 — In any action or proceeding in which the sheriff is a party, the coroner shall discharge the duties of sheriff.
• § 27470 — If no private ambulance service other than that operated by a coroner is available, in addition to his salary and other fees allowed by law the coroner may be reimbursed for ambulance services rendere
• § 27470.5 — Any county with a population under 250,000 that has elected to implement a trauma care system plan pursuant to Section 1797.
• § 27471 — (a) Whenever the coroner takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, he or she shall make a reasonable attempt to locate the family.
• § 27472 — If authorized by the county board of supervisors by ordinance, the coroner, whenever he or she takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, may charge and collect from the person entitled to control
• § 27473 — In coroners’ cases, interpreters’ and translators’ fees or other compensation shall be paid from the county treasury upon warrants drawn by the county auditor, when so ordered by the coroner.
• § 27490 — The coroner shall hold inquests pursuant to this article.
• § 27491 — (a) It shall be the duty of the coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of all violent, sudden, or unusual deaths; unattended deaths; deaths where the deceased has n
• § 27491.1 — In all cases in which a person has died under circumstances that afford a reasonable ground to suspect that the person’s death has been occasioned by the act of another by criminal means, the coroner,