California

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

• § 29064 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), on or before June 30 of each year the board, by formal action, shall approve the recommended budget, including the revisions it deems necessary for the purpo
• § 29065 — On or before September 8 of each year, as the board directs, the recommended budget shall be made available to the public.
• § 29080 — On or before September 8 of each year, the board shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation stating that: (a) The recommended budget documents are available to members of the public.
• § 29081 — The hearing may be continued from day to day until concluded, but not to exceed a total of 14 calendar days.
• § 29082 — (a) At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall hear any official who wishes to be heard regarding the recommended budget for his or her budget unit.
• § 29083 — (a) The auditor, or a deputy designated by the auditor, shall attend the public hearing on the recommended budget, and shall furnish the board with any financial statements and data it requires.
• § 29084 — The budget may contain an appropriation or appropriations for contingencies in such amounts as the board deems sufficient.
• § 29085 — The budget for each fund may contain nonspendable, restricted, committed, or assigned fund balance classifications in such amounts as the board deems sufficient.
• § 29086 — Except in cases of a legally declared emergency, as defined in Section 29127, the general reserve may only be established, canceled, increased, or decreased at the time of adopting the budget as provi
• § 29088 — After the conclusion of the hearing, and not later than October 2 of each year, and after making any revisions of, deductions from, or increases or additions to, the recommended budget it deems advisa
• § 29089 — The resolution of adoption of the budget of the county, each dependent special district, and each other agency as defined in Section 29002, shall specify the following: (a) Appropriations by objects o
• § 29090 — The adoption of the budget may be accomplished by a resolution in which the adoption is effectuated by reference to the financing uses in the budget as finally determined, provided that the minimum re
• § 29092 — The board may set forth appropriations in greater detail than required in Section 29089 and may authorize any additional controls for the administration of the budget as it deems necessary.
• § 29093 — (a) A copy of the adopted budget in the format prescribed by the Controller shall be filed by the auditor in the office of the clerk of the board and the office of the Controller not later than Decemb
• § 29100 — (a) On or before October 3 of each year, the board shall adopt by resolution the rates of taxes on the secured roll, not to exceed the 1-percent limitation specified in Article XIII A of the Constitut
• § 29100.6 — On or before December 1 of each year, each county auditor shall file with the Controller in such form as the Controller directs, a statement of the amounts of exempt values granted for the homeowners’
• § 29101 — After adopting the rates, the board shall levy the taxes upon the taxable property of the county in specific sums in terms of the rates so adopted.
• § 29102 — Unless otherwise provided by law, the authority and duties of the county board of supervisors with respect to adopting tax rates and levying of taxes prescribed in this article shall have application
• § 29103 — It shall be the responsibility of the auditor to calculate the several tax rates for the board’s action thereon.
• § 29104 — The board may adopt a rate ending in the next highest fraction of a percent for a fund, or for a group of funds having the same tax base.
• § 29106 — In the resolution adopting tax rates, the entity or fund with its corresponding rate shall be classified in any manner sufficient to identify it.
• § 29107 — The tax rates for property not sufficiently secured as provided in Section 12 of Article XIII of the Constitution are levied in the amounts therein provided and need not be formally levied by the boar
• § 29109 — (a) On or before December 1 of each year, the auditor shall forward to the Controller, in the format prescribed by the Controller, a statement of the rates of taxation, the assessed valuation as shown
• § 29120 — Except as otherwise provided by law, the board and every other county or dependent special district official and person shall be limited in the incurring or paying of obligations to the amounts of the
• § 29121 — Except as otherwise provided by law, obligations incurred or paid in excess of the amounts authorized in the budget unit appropriations are not a liability of the county or dependent special district,
• § 29122 — The board shall not approve a claim and the auditor shall not issue payment for any obligation in excess of that authorized in the budget unit appropriation, except upon an order of a court, for an em
• § 29124 — (a) If at the beginning of any fiscal year, the budget has not been adopted, the auditor shall approve payments for the support of the various budget units in accordance with the following authorizati
• § 29125 — (a) Transfers and revisions to the adopted appropriations may be made by an action formally adopted by the board at a regular or special meeting as follows: (1) If between funds, by a four-fifths vote
• § 29126 — At any regular or special meeting the board may cancel any appropriation in whole or in part that is not needed and transfer the amount canceled to the appropriation for contingencies of the fund from
• § 29126.1 — At any regular or special meeting the board may cancel any unused appropriation in whole or in part upon determining that the source of funding of the appropriation will be unrealized in whole or part
• § 29126.2 — The auditor may review and issue reports and make recommendations regarding estimated financing sources, or actual financing sources, or both, and the status of appropriations.
• § 29127 — After adopting a resolution stating the facts constituting an emergency by a four-fifths vote of the board at any regular or special meeting, the board may appropriate and make the expenditure necessa
• § 29128 — All emergency expenditures shall be paid from any money in the county treasury in any fund from which the expenditure may properly be paid.
• § 29130 — At any regular or special meeting, the board by a four-fifths vote may make available for appropriation any of the following fund balances for which the board has authority: (a) Restricted, committed,
• § 29141 — The adopted budget shall include a schedule showing the managerial budget of each service activity financed by a proprietary fund established pursuant to Sections 25260 and 25261.
• § 29141.1 — The property tax bill in the County of Orange shall include a statement with language to the effect that a portion of the taxpayer’s property taxes may be used to implement the county recovery plan to
• § 29142 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when taxes or assessments are collected by the county for any special district, or zone or improvement district thereof, but excluding a school district, th
• § 29143 — Any unencumbered balance remaining to the credit of any appropriation shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year and shall revert to the available balance of the fund from which appropriated.
• § 29144 — All commitments covered by the restricted, committed, or assigned fund balance encumbrances account at fiscal yearend are appropriated for the succeeding fiscal year.
• § 29300 — The income and revenue paid into the county treasury shall be at once appropriated to and kept in separate funds.
• § 29300.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for the 1993–94 fiscal year, unreserved and undesignated fund balances in county or city and county special funds may be transferred to the county or c
• § 29301 — The general fund consists of money received into the treasury and not specially appropriated to any other fund.
• § 29302 — If by law a tax is required or permitted to be levied at one uniform rate on all the taxable property in the county for the purpose of creating, replenishing, or contributing to a fund for particular
• § 29303 — This section does not apply to the sale by counties of bonds purchased as investments.
• § 29304 — Whenever any special assessment or special assessment taxes are levied upon land or real property by any city, county, district or other public corporation, officer, or body, and the same are to be co
• § 29320 — As used in this article, “officer of the county” includes any elective or appointive officer of a county and any person in charge of any office, department, service, or institution of the county, or a
• § 29321 — The board of supervisors may establish a revolving fund for the use of any officer of the county by adopting a resolution setting forth: (a) the necessity for the fund, (b) the office, department, ser
• § 29321.1 — The board of supervisors may, by ordinance or resolution, authorize the county auditor to perform the functions of the board in establishing, increasing, reducing, or discontinuing any of the revolvin
• § 29322 — Certified copies of the resolution shall be transmitted to the county auditor and county treasurer.
• § 29323 — Before any money is withdrawn from the county treasury to be placed in the revolving fund, the officer for whose use the fund is created shall file with the clerk of the board of supervisors a bond ex
• § 29324 — Upon the filing of the required bond the auditor shall draw his warrant in favor of the officer for whose benefit the revolving fund is created, and the treasurer shall pay the warrant.
• § 29325 — The officer may be authorized to use the fund for making change, when necessary in carrying on his official work.
• § 29326 — The officer shall not be authorized to expend any portion of the revolving fund except for services or material which are a legal charge against the county.
• § 29327 — Any expenditure in excess of one dollar ($1) shall not be made unless a receipt is obtained, setting forth the date, purpose of the expenditure, and the amount expended.
• § 29328 — Demand shall be made upon the county for reimbursement of the fund in the same manner that other demands are made and shall be supported by receipts.
• § 29329 — Upon demand of the auditor or board of supervisors, the officer entrusted with the fund shall give an account of the fund.
• § 29330 — The board may at any time increase, reduce or discontinue any revolving fund established by its order.
• § 29331 — The board of supervisors in any county having more than 900,000 population may, in addition to any other revolving fund, establish a revolving fund to be used by the purchasing agent of the county in
• § 29332 — In any county having more than 50,000 population, the board of supervisors may establish a revolving fund to be used by the purchasing agent, or other authorized officer, to maintain a stock of genera
• § 29333 — In any county having a population of over 200,000 according to the 1950 federal census, the board of supervisors may establish a revolving fund not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be used
• § 29334 — The board of supervisors in any county having a population of over 1,400,000, as determined by the 1970 federal census, may, in addition to any other revolving fund, establish a revolving fund to be u
• § 29350 — All fees directed to be paid into the county treasury shall be set apart as a separate salary fund, and shall be applied to the payment of salaries.
• § 29351 — If in the opinion of the auditor the fees to be collected are not sufficient to pay salaries, the board of supervisors at the time the tax levy is made shall estimate the deficiency and raise it by di
• § 29370 — The board of supervisors may establish a county officers cash difference fund for the use of any county officer or administrative head of any county department handling county funds by adopting a reso
• § 29370.1 — (a) As an alternative to Section 29370, the board of supervisors may, by resolution, authorize the county auditor to perform the functions of the board in establishing, increasing, reducing, or discon
• § 29371 — If the board elects to establish a cash difference fund, it shall by the same resolution also establish an overage fund for the use of each county officer or administrative head of a county department
• § 29372 — Upon the adoption of the resolution, the auditor shall draw a warrant in favor of the county officer or administrative head of a county department in the amount set forth in the resolution, and the tr
• § 29373 — Any person in any county office or department in which a cash difference fund has been established who receives and disburses money placed in the person’s custody as directed by law or by official aut
• § 29373.1 — The cash difference fund when authorized by resolution of the board of supervisors may be used to increase the amount tendered to any county officer so as to equal the amount due the county, for any a
• § 29374 — If a cash deficit is reported to the county officer or administrative head of a county department, the county officer or administrative head shall immediately reimburse the cash charged to the person
• § 29375 — If an overage is reported to the county officer or administrative head of a county department involved, the county officer or administrative head shall immediately deposit the overage in the overage f
• § 29375.1 — When an amount paid to any county officer exceeds the amount due the county for any account, and such excess does not exceed ten dollars ($10), the officer may deposit the excess in the overage fund i
• § 29376 — Each county officer or administrative head of a county department having a cash difference fund shall upon demand of the auditor or the board of supervisors give an account of the cash difference fund
• § 29377 — If the cash difference fund becomes exhausted, the county officer or administrative head of a county department involved may make a written application to the board of supervisors to have it replenish
• § 29378 — Upon application the board may replenish the cash difference fund by resolution directing the county auditor to draw his special warrant for that purpose upon the general fund.
• § 29379 — The board may at any time discontinue the cash difference fund.
• § 29380 — At the end of the fiscal year the board shall transfer any money in an overage fund to the county general fund.
• § 29380.1 — By resolution, the board of supervisors may provide that applications to have the cash difference fund replenished shall be made with the auditor of the county instead of with the board and may author
• § 29381 — Any violation of this article is a misdemeanor.
• § 29390 — The board of supervisors may, by a resolution incorporating such limitations and safeguards as may be deemed in the best interests of the county, provide that county officers and employees who are res
• § 29390.1 — By resolution, the board of supervisors may provide that an application to have a shortage in county funds replenished shall be made with the auditor of the county instead of with the board and may au
• § 29400 — There is a district attorney’s special appropriation in each county.
• § 29401 — At the beginning of each fiscal year in counties having a population of 90,000 or more, the board of supervisors shall make available to the district attorney’s special appropriation an amount suffici
• § 29402 — At the beginning of each fiscal year in all other counties, the board of supervisors shall make available to the district attorney’s special appropriation an amount sufficient to make the sum in the d
• § 29403 — The population basis is that fixed by the last decennial federal census.
• § 29404 — The district attorney shall only use the special appropriation to pay: (a) Expenses lawfully incurred in criminal cases arising in the county.
• § 29405 — On the presentation by the district attorney of his requisition to the auditor, the auditor shall draw his warrant in favor of the district attorney on the special appropriation for such amounts as th
• § 29406 — The district attorney shall file vouchers with the auditor at the end of each fiscal year, and may file vouchers from time to time during the year, showing the disposition he has made of any money rec
• § 29407 — The district attorney’s special appropriation is in addition to any other appropriations at his disposal, and this article does not limit or affect any provision of law relative to the expenses of the
• § 29408 — This article does not apply to any county operating under a charter making provision for a similar appropriation.
• § 29410 — The board of supervisors of a county may establish a local child support agency’s family or child support trust fund pursuant to this article.
• § 29411 — In any county that establishes a local child support agency family or child support trust fund pursuant to this article, the board of supervisors shall make these amounts available annually to the loc
• § 29412 — The local child support agency shall use the trust fund solely for the purpose of advancing reimbursement for moneys erroneously attached or intercepted by a government agency for payment of a delinqu
• § 29413 — Upon the presentation by the local child support agency of a requisition to the auditor, the auditor shall draw a warrant in favor of the local child support agency on the trust fund for such amounts
• § 29414 — (a) The local child support agency shall forward attached or intercepted moneys upon which advances were made to the trust fund within three days of receipt from the attaching or intercepting agency.
• § 29415 — The local child support agency trust fund is in addition to any other appropriations for the local child support agency, and this article shall not be construed to limit or affect any provision of law
• § 29416 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the budget of each county shall indicate the amount appropriated for the local child support agency for child and spousal support enforcement.
• § 29430 — The county board of supervisors shall establish a sheriff’s special appropriation in such amount as the board determines.
• § 29434 — The population basis is that fixed by the last decennial federal census.
• § 29435 — The sheriff may use the appropriation for: (a) His expenses incurred in criminal cases arising in the county.
• § 29436 — On the presentation by the sheriff of his requisition to the auditor, the auditor shall draw his warrant in favor of the sheriff on the special appropriation for such amounts as the sheriff requires.
• § 29437 — The sheriff shall file vouchers with the auditor at the end of the fiscal year and may file vouchers from time to time during the year showing the disposition he has made of any money received from th
• § 29438 — Upon the filing of vouchers at any time, the board may reimburse the special appropriation in a sum not to exceed the amount accounted for by the vouchers.
• § 29439 — The sheriff’s special appropriation is in addition to any other appropriations at his disposal, and this article does not limit or affect any provision of law relative to the expenses of the sheriff w
• § 29440 — The provisions of this article relating to the sheriff’s special appropriation do not apply to any county operating under a charter making provision for a similar appropriation.
• § 29441 — In addition to any other revolving funds provided for by this chapter, the board of supervisors may establish a revolving fund to be used by the sheriff in paying the expense of transporting persons c
• § 29460 — The board of supervisors in any county in which the public administrator or guardian receives a salary in lieu of fees may, in addition to any other revolving fund, establish a revolving fund to be us
• § 29461 — The fees, charges, and expenses incurred in connection with any estate required to be administered by the public administrator or guardian in which the assets of the estate prove insufficient are coun
• § 29462 — The board shall fix the amount of the public administrator’s revolving fund and the amount of the public guardian’s revolving fund in a sum sufficient to enable the public administrator and the public
• § 29463 — As soon as sufficient assets of an estate are received by the public administrator or guardian, he shall replenish his revolving fund by payment from such assets.
• § 29464 — In all other respects, the provisions of Article 2 shall govern this fund.
• § 29480 — All money received by the State from the United States in pursuance of any act of Congress providing for the distribution and payment to states and territories of a fixed percentage of the money recei
• § 29481 — The payment made to each county from the receipts of any given forest reserve shall be in the proportion which the area of the forest reserve situated in the county bears to the total area of the rese
• § 29482 — The State Controller shall keep a record of the money received from the United States on account of each forest reserve in this State.
• § 29483 — The computation of the amount of money due each county pursuant to this article shall be based on data furnished to the State by the responsible agency of the United States Government, showing the are
• § 29484 — The auditor of any county receiving a payment of money pursuant to this article, shall immediately apportion the money by placing 50 percent to the credit of the forest reserve account in the county s
• § 29501 — Whenever the principal or interest on any bonds legally issued by the county or any district within the county which becomes due and there is not sufficient money in the fund established for the payme
• § 29530 — (a) If the board of supervisors so agrees by contract with the State Board of Equalization, the board of supervisors shall establish a local transportation fund in the county treasury and shall deposi
• § 29530.2 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of supervisors for any county of the first class may, upon the adoption of a resolution approved by a majority of all of its members, modify,
• § 29531 — The board of supervisors shall continuously appropriate the money in such fund for expenditure for the purposes specified in this article and in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 99200) of Part 11 of
• § 29532 — From funds appropriated pursuant to Section 29531, the county auditor shall pay to public transportation entities the amounts allocated by the transportation planning agencies designated by the Direct
• § 29532.1 — Pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 29532, each of the following entities is designated the transportation planning agency for its respective area: (a) The Metropolitan Transportation Commission cr
• § 29532.4 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 29532, the county transportation commission created in the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino by Division 12 (commencing with
• § 29533 — In the event that any allocation, if approved in accordance with Section 29532, would cause the county to incur any indebtedness or liability in any year in excess of the money in the local transporta
• § 29534 — The county auditor shall keep records and make reports concerning the local transportation fund as the Director of Transportation or the Controller shall prescribe.
• § 29535 — Within each county which is not within the jurisdiction of a statutorily created regional transportation planning agency or a council of governments, a local transportation commission shall be establi
• § 29536 — A county that is not included within the jurisdiction of a statutorily created regional transportation agency but for which there is a council of governments may, pursuant to this section, elect, with
• § 29550 — (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (d) of Section 29551, a county may impose a fee upon a city, special district, school district, community college district, college, or university for reimbursement of c
• § 29551 — (a) The board of supervisors or city council of any county, city and county, or city that opts to receive funds pursuant to Section 29552 shall establish a local detention facility revenue account, on
• § 29552 — (a) (1) Commencing with the 2007–08 fiscal year, all counties and cities and counties that charged fees pursuant to Section 29550 and cities with Type One detention facilities that charged fees pursua
• § 29553 — (a) The amount specified in Chapter 92 of the Statutes of 2020 shall be appropriated according to the methodology specified within this section to counties to provide fiscal relief due to the repeal o
• § 29554 — (a) The amount specified in Chapter 257 of the Statutes of 2021 shall be appropriated according to the methodology specified within this section to counties to provide fiscal relief due to the repeal
• § 29600 — Charges incurred against the county pursuant to this title are county charges.
• § 29601 — The following expenses of the district attorney and the sheriff are county charges: (a) Traveling and other personal expenses incurred in criminal cases arising in the county and in civil actions and
• § 29601.5 — Expenses incurred by a county in returning a fugitive or escaped prisoner to another county for trial or detention in a county facility shall be paid by the county of trial or detention to the county
• § 29602 — The expenses necessarily incurred in the support of persons charged with or convicted of a crime and committed to the county jail and the maintenance therein and in other county adult detention facili
• § 29603 — The sums required by law to be paid to grand jurors and witnesses in criminal cases tried in a superior court, other than expert witnesses appointed by the court for the court’s needs pursuant to Sect
• § 29604 — The accounts of the coroner for such services as are not otherwise provided for are county charges.
• § 29606 — The necessary expenses incurred in the support of the county hospitals, almshouses, and the indigent sick and otherwise dependent poor, whose support is chargeable to the county, are county charges.
• § 29607 — When authorized by the board of supervisors, expenses incurred by county authorities pursuant to Section 1451.
• § 29608 — The contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county are county charges.
• § 29609 — The premiums on official bonds of county officers are county charges.
• § 29610 — The expenses of any elected county officer incurred while traveling to and from and while attending the annual convention of his or her respective association, are county charges which do not require
• § 29611 — The necessary expenses, incurred by the auditor and treasurer in the defense and prosecution of any action brought by or against them to test the validity or constitutionality of any act of the Legisl
• § 29612 — The expenses necessarily incurred in searching for and rescuing persons who are lost or in danger of their lives are county charges.
• § 29613 — The expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation of plans for meeting any emergency caused by a flood, fire, earthquake, pestilence, tornado, or other act of God which may cause extraordinary loss
• § 29617 — Every sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of supervisors or declared to be such is a county charge.
• § 29618 — The actual and necessary expenses incurred in the drafting of a county charter by a board of freeholders, when such expenses are authorized by the board of supervisors, are county charges.
• § 29631 — The Legislature hereby declares that it serves a public purpose, and is of benefit to the state and to every county and city in the state, to indemnify those innocent residents of the State of Califor
• § 29632 — The legislative body of a county or of a city may establish a program which provides for the reimbursement of any innocent resident of the county or city, as the case may be, whose property is or has
• § 29633 — The legislative body may impose such other restrictions and conditions as it finds advisable and which do not impair the constitutional rights of any person.
• § 29634 — In establishing a program pursuant to this article the legislative body may provide for the procedures to determine whether or not a claimant is entitled to reimbursement.
• § 29635 — If a claim is paid under this article the county or city shall be subrogated to the rights of the claimant to whom such claim was paid against any person injuring or destroying the property of the cla
• § 29636 — Upon conviction of any person of a crime which has resulted in the injury or destruction of property for which reimbursement is provided for under a program established pursuant to this article, in ad
• § 29637 — For the purposes of this article, the legislative body of a county or a city may by resolution determine that a resident may be reimbursed for any losses not otherwise covered by insurance.
• § 29700 — Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter applies to all claims for money or damages against counties including claims which are governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (co
• § 29701 — The board shall not consider a claim unless it is presented not less than three days or, if prescribed by ordinance, five days prior to the date of the meeting of the board at which it is considered.
• § 29702 — A claim based upon an expenditure directed to be made by any officer shall be approved by such officer before it is considered by the board.
• § 29703 — When the board acts upon a claim the clerk of the board shall file a memorandum of the action taken and endorse on the claim a statement thereof.
• § 29704 — If the auditor approves the action taken upon the claim, he shall endorse on the claim “approved” and attest the endorsement with his signature.
• § 29705 — The board may adopt forms for the submission and payment of claims and may prescribe and adopt warrant forms separate from claim forms, to the end that the approved claims may be retained in the audit
• § 29706 — Failure of a claimant to use a form prescribed by the board pursuant to Section 29705 is not a defense to a suit against the county on a claim for which Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4
• § 29707 — Any claim against the county presented by a member of the board for per diem and mileage or for service rendered by him shall be itemized, verified, and state that the expense was actually incurred or
• § 29707.1 — In a county where the board of supervisors has adopted the procedures prescribed in Article 2 (commencing with Section 29740) of this chapter a claim against the county presented by a member of the bo
• § 29708 — Except for his own service, no county officer or employee may present any claim for allowance against the county.
• § 29709 — Any person may appear before the board and oppose the allowance of any claim made against the county.
• § 29710 — No fee or charge shall be made or collected by any officer for verifying or receiving any claim against the county.
• § 29740 — By resolution the board of supervisors may adopt the procedure for the approval of claims prescribed in this article.
• § 29741 — The auditor shall audit and allow or reject claims in lieu of, and with the same effect as, allowance or rejection by the board of supervisors in any of the following cases: (a) Expenditures which hav
• § 29742 — The auditor shall issue his warrant on the county treasury for such an amount for each claim as he finds to be a correct and legal county charge.
• § 29743 — If the auditor finds that any claim presented is a proper county charge, but is greater in amount than is justly due, he may allow the claim in part and issue his warrant for the portion allowed.
• § 29744 — If the claimant is unwilling to receive the amount tendered in full payment, he shall return the warrant to the auditor within 30 days after the tender together with his written refusal to accept the
• § 29745 — If the auditor finds that any claim is not a proper county charge, he shall reject it and endorse his rejection thereon.
• § 29747 — The auditor shall prepare duplicate lists of all claims he allows, showing as to each claim: date allowed, warrant number, name of claimant, and amount allowed.
• § 29748 — The board may prescribe, by resolution, additional procedures for the audit and disposition of claims but the procedures so prescribed may not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, of P
• § 29749 — The auditor shall require the certificate of the requisitioning, inspection, or receiving officers that the articles and services have been received or furnished or contracted for.
• § 29800 — All warrants issued by the county auditor shall be numbered consecutively within each series.
• § 29801 — Separate series of numbers may be used for the different kinds of warrants, such as pay roll warrants, general warrants drawn for miscellaneous supplies and expenses, and special warrants drawn on cou
• § 29802 — (a) Unless otherwise provided by ordinance, any warrant issued is void if not presented to the county treasurer for payment within six months after its date.
• § 29803 — Except as provided in Section 53912, the auditor shall issue warrants on the treasurer in favor of the persons entitled thereto in payment of all claims chargeable against the county which have been l
• § 29804 — Except as provided in Section 53912, the auditor shall issue warrants on the treasurer for all debts and demands against the county when the amounts are fixed by law or are authorized by law to be all
• § 29806 — Warrants drawn by order of the board on the county treasury for the current expenses during each year shall be paid in the order of presentation to the treasurer.
• § 29807 — Whenever any district, public corporation or public agency uses the county treasury as the depository of its moneys, the county auditor, notwithstanding any other provision of law, may, in lieu of com
• § 29808 — The auditor may direct the transfer of the amount of the order, requisition or other authorization, from the account or funds of the district, public corporation or public agency to one or more cleari
• § 29820 — When a warrant is presented for payment, if there is money in the fund for that purpose, the treasurer shall pay it by any of the following methods: (a) By stamping thereon or perforating therein the
• § 29821 — Whenever an issuing officer draws a warrant upon the fund in an amount that exceeds the balance of the fund and the issuing officer determines that the warrant requires registration, the issuing offic
• § 29822 — The governing board of any local agency may, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, adopt a resolution authorizing the issuing of registered warrants.
• § 29823 — The treasurer shall register any warrant presented to him or her pursuant to Section 29821 or 29822 by endorsing upon the back of that warrant all of the following: (a) The date the warrant was presen
• § 29824 — (a) The rate of interest payable on a registered warrant shall be determined by a ratesetting committee upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its members.
• § 29825 — The treasurer shall maintain a separate register for registered warrants that records for each registered warrant all of the following information: (a) The date on which the warrant is presented.
• § 29826 — (a) Registered warrants shall be paid out of money in the fund that may be properly applied to those warrants according to the order in which each warrant was presented to the treasurer for registrati
• § 29827 — When the treasurer pays any warrant upon which any interest is due, he or she shall note on the warrant the amount of interest paid and enter on his or her account the amount of the interest distinct
• § 29828 — Actual costs incurred for warrant registration, record maintenance, notification, interest calculation, and payment processing may be recovered from the issuing entity as administrative costs by the c
• § 29830 — In lieu of the method in Article 2 (commencing with Section 29820) for the registration of county warrants, the provisions of this article may be followed upon adoption of a resolution by the board of
• § 29831 — As used in this chapter, “committee” means the chief administrative officer, auditor, and treasurer, or any other county employee appointed by the board of supervisors.
• § 29832 — Whenever the county auditor draws a warrant upon the treasury in an amount in excess of the balance of the fund, the county auditor shall present it to the treasurer for registration.
• § 29833 — By a majority vote the committee shall fix the rate of interest earned on registered warrants at not more than 5 percent per annum.
• § 29834 — Registered warrants are entitled to preference as to payment out of money in the fund properly applicable to the warrants according to the order in which they were issued.
• § 29835 — After registration, the treasurer shall return the warrant to the county auditor for distribution to the payees.
• § 29836 — When there is sufficient money in the fund to redeem the warrants drawing interest, the treasurer shall give notice in a newspaper published in the county, or if none is published therein, by written