GENERAL PROVISIONS

General Provisions enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

§§ 1–26 · 35 sections

• § 1 This act shall be known as the Government Code.
• § 2 The provisions of this code in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter shall be…
• § 3 All persons who at the time this code takes effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are continued by this code, continue…
• § 4 No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by this code, but all procedure thereafter taken therein…
• § 5 Unless the provision or the context otherwise requires, these general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions shall govern the construction of this…
• § 6 Title, division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this code.
• § 7 Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer…
• § 7.5 Whenever, by any law, the director of any state department is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee, or of the governing body of any state…
• § 7.6 (a) If by law, any officer whose office is created by the California Constitution is made a member of a state board, commission, or committee, or of the…
• § 7.7 The provisions of Sections 7.5 and 7.6 do not affect or modify in any manner the provisions of Section 7.
• § 7.8 Notwithstanding anything in this code to the contrary, the Directors of Finance, General Services, and Education may appoint any deputy or assistant director…
• § 7.9 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Controller, the Treasurer, the Director of Finance, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction…
• § 7.9a At the request of the Controller, two employees of that officer, in addition to those provided for in Section 7.9, shall be classified and compensated as…
• § 8 Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required…
• § 9 Whenever reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, the reference applies to all amendments and additions now or…
• § 10 “Section” means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned. “Subdivision” means a subdivision of the section in which the term…
• § 11 The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present.
• § 12 The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• § 12.2 “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.5 of the Family Code.
• § 12.5 The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the terms “man” or “men” where appropriate shall be deemed “person” or “persons” and any references to the…
• § 13 The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.
• § 14 “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive.
• § 15 “Oath” includes affirmation.
• § 16 “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer’s or subscriber’s name being written near the mark by a…
• § 16.5 (a) In any written communication with a public entity, as defined in Section 811.2, in which a signature is required or used, any party to the communication…
• § 17 “Person” includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company.
• § 18 “State” means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. In the latter case, it includes the District of Columbia and…
• § 19 “County” includes city and county.
• § 20 “City” includes “city and county” and “incorporated town,” but does not include “unincorporated town” or “village.”
• § 21 “Town” includes “unincorporated town” and “village.”
• § 22 “Process” includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature.
• § 23 If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the application of such…
• § 24 The Legislature hereby declares its intent that the term “workmen’s compensation” shall hereafter also be known as “workers’ compensation.” In furtherance of…
• § 25 (a) For purposes of this code, “assessed value” means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980–81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of full value for…
• § 26 For the purposes of this code, “recycled water” or “reclaimed water” has the same meaning as recycled water as defined in subdivision (n) of Section 13050 of…