ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

Article 1 added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 12, Sec. 8.

§§ 8543–8545.6 · 22 sections

§ 8543 (a) There is hereby created in state government the California State Auditor’s Office under the direction of the Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on…
§ 8543.1 The duties of the California State Auditor’s Office are to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch of the…
§ 8543.2 (a) The head of the office is the California State Auditor, who shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of three qualified individuals nominated by the…
§ 8543.3 The California State Auditor shall be chosen without reference to party affiliation and solely on the ground of fitness to perform the duties of the office of…
§ 8543.4 In administering the fiscal policies of the California State Auditor’s Office, for each fiscal year, the office shall provide the Department of Finance with…
§ 8543.5 The Chief Deputy California State Auditor shall be appointed by the California State Auditor. The Chief Deputy California State Auditor shall carry out those…
§ 8543.6 The California State Auditor may be removed for cause at any time by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. A California State Auditor removed pursuant to…
§ 8543.7 (a) The annual salary for the California State Auditor shall be equal to that of agency secretaries of the executive branch of government pursuant to Section…
§ 8544 (a) Consistent with subdivision (i) of Section 8546, the California State Auditor may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with Article VII of the…
§ 8544.1 (a) (1) The California State Auditor shall require fingerprint images and related information from a prospective employee whose duties include or would include…
§ 8544.2 Persons employed by the office pursuant to Section 8544.1 shall be allowed to enroll in the Public Employees’ Medical and Hospital Care Act contained in Part 5…
§ 8544.3 All persons employed by the office pursuant to Section 8544.1 who were members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System as of November 3, 1992, shall retain…
§ 8544.4 The permanent office of the California State Auditor shall be in Sacramento or within a two-mile radius of the State Capitol Building, where they shall be…
§ 8544.5 (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the State Audit Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the State Audit Fund is continuously appropriated…
§ 8544.6 All unreimbursed expenditures of the office are defined as “administrative costs” defined in Section 11270.
§ 8545 The California State Auditor shall not destroy any papers or memoranda used to support a completed audit sooner than three years after the audit report is…
§ 8545.1 (a) The California State Auditor, and any employee or former employee of the office, shall not divulge or make known to any person not employed by the office…
§ 8545.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the California State Auditor during regular business hours shall have access to and authority to examine and…
§ 8545.3 It is a misdemeanor for the California State Auditor or any employee of the California State Auditor to release any information received pursuant to Section…
§ 8545.4 (a) In connection with any audit or investigation conducted by the California State Auditor, the California State Auditor, or his or her designee, may do any…
§ 8545.5 (a) The superior court in the county in which any interview is held under the direction of the California State Auditor or his or her designee has jurisdiction…
§ 8545.6 Any officer, employee, or person who, with intent to deceive or defraud, commits obstruction of the California State Auditor in the performance of his or her…