GENERAL PROVISIONS
General Provisions enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 364.
§§ 1–22 · 23 sections
- § 1 This act is known and may be cited as the Financial Code.
- § 2 The provisions of this code insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall be construed…
- § 3 Any action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, or any right accrued, is not affected by this code, but all procedure taken shall conform to…
- § 4 Unless the context otherwise requires the general provisions hereinafter set forth govern the construction of this code.
- § 5 Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
- § 6 Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty imposed on any person or board by any provision of this code, it may be exercised or performed by any deputy or…
- § 7 Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law, the reference applies to all amendments and additions thereto, now or hereafter…
- § 8 “Writing” includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, petition, permit, statement, or…
- § 9 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned, and “subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which the…
- § 10 The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
- § 11 The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
- § 11.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
- § 12 The singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular.
- § 13 “City” includes incorporated city, city and county, municipal corporation, municipality, town and incorporated town.
- § 14 “County” includes city and county.
- § 15 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
- § 16 “Oath” includes affirmation.
- § 17 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark. The mark shall be made as required in the Civil Code.
- § 18 “Person” includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or…
- § 19 If any provision of this code, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of the…
- § 20 The existence of corporations formed or existing on the date this code takes effect is not affected by the enactment of this code nor by any change in the…
- § 21 All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code,…
- § 22 Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 10000) of Division 2 shall be known and may be cited as the…