PART 1. OFFICERS GENERALLY

Part 1 added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.

§§ 24000–24356 · 77 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. County Officers §§ 24000–24012 · 17 sections

   • § 24000 The officers of a county are: (a) A district attorney. (b) A sheriff. (c) A county clerk. (d) A controller. (e) An auditor, who shall be ex officio controller.…
   • § 24001 Except as otherwise provided in Sections 27550.1 and 27641.1 or in this section, or in Section 21123 or 34711 of the Water Code, or in any landowner voting…
   • § 24001.5 The office of director of a mutual water district or irrigation district, shall not be deemed to be incompatible with the office of director of a district…
   • § 24002 A person is not eligible to the office of district attorney unless he has been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State.
   • § 24002.5 (a) A person may not exercise the powers and duties of the office of assessor unless he or she holds a valid appraiser’s certificate issued by the State Board…
   • § 24003 The county veterinarian shall at the time of his or her appointment be a qualified veterinary surgeon having a certificate issued to him or her by the…
   • § 24004 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Section 24004.5, a sheriff or clerk, or any of their deputies, shall not do any of the following: (1)…
   • § 24004.3 (a) No person is eligible to become a candidate for the office of sheriff in any county unless, at the time of the final filing date for election, he or she…
   • § 24004.5 Nothing in Section 24004 shall be construed to prohibit a deputy sheriff who is otherwise qualified to practice law from: (a) giving legal advice to his or her…
   • § 24005 County officers and employees are entitled to a vacation with pay for each year of full-time service. Elected county officers under bond are not subject to the…
   • § 24006 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, appointments may be made by the authorized appointing power, including the board of supervisors, to fill any…
   • § 24007 If any officer, deputy, assistant, or employee of a county or judicial district was required by law to file an oath of office or to execute a bond prior to his…
   • § 24008 (a) The board of supervisors may appoint a county fire warden and assistant and deputy county fire wardens as it may consider necessary. The county fire warden…
   • § 24009 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the county officers to be elected by the people are the treasurer, county clerk, auditor, sheriff, tax collector,…
   • § 24010 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board of supervisors may by ordinance abolish the office of coroner and provide instead for the office of…
   • § 24011 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24009: (a) The Boards of Supervisors of Amador County, Contra Costa County, Glenn County, Imperial County, Lake…
   • § 24012 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24009, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Del Norte may, by ordinance, provide that the office of public…
2. CHAPTER 2. Duties §§ 24050–24058 · 8 sections

   • § 24050 Each county officer shall complete the business of his office to the time of the expiration of his term. If at the close of his term any officer leaves to his…
   • § 24051 (a) On or before July 10th in each year, or at any other interval designated by the board of supervisors, each county officer or person in charge of any…
   • § 24052 Whenever notice is required by law to be published in a newspaper by any officer of a county or judicial district, the person for whom the notice is to be…
   • § 24054 Any officer authorizing, aiding to authorize, auditing, allowing, or paying any claim or demand upon or against the treasury of any county, or any fund…
   • § 24055 Any clerk or sheriff who receives any fine or forfeiture and refuses or neglects to pay it over according to law and within 30 days after its receipt is guilty…
   • § 24056 The board of supervisors upon receiving a certified copy of the record of conviction of any officer for receiving illegal fees shall declare his office vacant.
   • § 24057 Every county officer and the officer’s deputies may administer and certify oaths.
   • § 24058 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, but excepting herefrom any meetings of law enforcement officers called pursuant to Section 12524 of the…
3. CHAPTER 3. Deputies §§ 24100–24105 · 5 sections

   • § 24100 Whenever the official name of any principal officer is used in any law conferring power or imposing duties or liabilities, it includes deputies.
   • § 24101 Every county or district officer, except a supervisor or judicial officer, may appoint as many deputies as are necessary for the prompt and faithful discharge…
   • § 24102 (a) An appointee shall not act as deputy until: (1) A written appointment by the deputy’s principal is filed with the county clerk. (2) A copy of the…
   • § 24104 A county officer shall not be appointed or act as a deputy of another officer of the same county for compensation, except if his pay is less than one hundred…
   • § 24105 If the office of any of the county officers enumerated in Section 24000 of this code is vacant the duties of such office may be temporarily discharged by a…
4. CHAPTER 4. Bonds §§ 24150–24156 · 7 sections

   • § 24150 Prior to the primary election immediately preceding the election of county officers, the board of supervisors shall prescribe the amounts of the official bonds…
   • § 24151 Prior to the primary election immediately preceding the election of county officers the judges of the superior court shall prescribe the amount in which each…
   • § 24152 Before qualifying the tax collector shall give an additional bond as license collector in such sum as is fixed by the board of supervisors.
   • § 24153 The board of supervisors shall require that the sheriff give separate bonds in such amounts as are prescribed by it in reference (a) to civil matters and (b)…
   • § 24154 As an alternative or supplementary to the bonds required by this chapter, the board of supervisors may include the county officers listed in this chapter as…
   • § 24155 When the duties of officers are consolidated pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 24300) of this part, the board of supervisors may elect to provide…
   • § 24156 The board of supervisors of any county may, by resolution, adopt a program of self-insurance in lieu of bonds for any officer or employee employed by such…
5. CHAPTER 5. Election §§ 24200–24206 · 7 sections

   • § 24200 Except as otherwise provided, all elective county officers shall be elected at the election specified pursuant to Section 1300 of the Elections Code and take…
   • § 24201 All officers elected pursuant to this chapter shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified.
   • § 24202 Supervisors shall be elected at the general election prior to expiration of the term of the incumbents.
   • § 24203 Within six months after the first general election succeeding the creation of the county, the supervisors of any county created after July 1, 1907, shall…
   • § 24204 Whenever any county frames and adopts a charter for its government, which is approved by the Legislature, and the charter provides for the appointment of any…
   • § 24205 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 24204, or any other statute, the office of sheriff shall be filled by election as provided in this chapter for…
   • § 24206 Notwithstanding any other law, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara may adopt, or a voter of that county may propose by initiative, an…
6. CHAPTER 6. Offices and Office Hours §§ 24250–24262 · 13 sections

   • § 24250 Sheriffs, clerks, recorders, treasurers, and auditors, shall have their offices at the county seat in the courthouse, hall of records, jail, or other…
   • § 24250.1 Sheriffs shall also have offices in each city in which they perform court-related services and a facility of the superior court is located.
   • § 24252 Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 20,000 as ascertained by the preceding census taken under the…
   • § 24253 Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 50,000 as ascertained by the last census taken under the…
   • § 24254 Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in any city containing a population of not less than 7,000, as ascertained by the preceding census taken under the…
   • § 24254.5 Sheriffs and clerks shall also have offices in each city wherein the city hall is not less than eighteen miles from the site of the county courthouse and which…
   • § 24255 All offices required by this chapter shall be provided by the county through the board of supervisors.
   • § 24256 Whenever the law specifies that an office or building shall be located at the county seat and an incorporated city has been designated as the county seat, the…
   • § 24257 In this chapter “transaction of business” means that during the hours named there shall be present in each office at least one person qualified and prepared to…
   • § 24258 If any officer required by this chapter to have an office has no regularly appointed deputy paid by the county at the same time and in the same manner as the…
   • § 24259 If the officer has a branch office to which a single deputy is assigned, he may close the branch office during the hour from 12 o'clock noon to 1 o'clock p.m.
   • § 24260 In all counties county officers shall keep their offices open for the transaction of business during such hours and on such days as are fixed by the board of…
   • § 24262 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no office of the sheriff or clerk shall be established elsewhere than at the county seat without the…
7. CHAPTER 7. Consolidation of Offices §§ 24300–24308 · 13 sections

   • § 24300 By ordinance the board of supervisors may consolidate the duties of certain of the county offices in one or more of these combinations: (a) Sheriff and tax…
   • § 24300.5 In addition to the duties of the county offices which may be consolidated under the provisions of Section 24300, the board of supervisors may by ordinance…
   • § 24301 If the duties of officers are consolidated pursuant to this chapter, the board of supervisors, by ordinance, may elect to separate the duties so consolidated,…
   • § 24302 When the duties of offices are united and consolidated, the person elected to fill the united and consolidated offices shall take the oath and give the bond…
   • § 24303 When there is an omission by the board of supervisors to consolidate the duties of offices as authorized in this chapter and to advertise the ordinance of…
   • § 24304 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24300, in counties of the 13th to 58th classes, inclusive, the board of supervisors by ordinance may consolidate the…
   • § 24304.1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24300, in counties of the 11th class, the board of supervisors by ordinance may consolidate the duties of certain of…
   • § 24304.2 Notwithstanding Section 24300, in the Counties of Lake, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Trinity, and Tulare, the board of supervisors, by ordinance, may…
   • § 24305 When the duties of officers are consolidated pursuant to this chapter, the board of supervisors, by ordinance, may elect to consolidate the budgets of the…
   • § 24306 If the board of supervisors in counties having a population of 4,000,000 or more persons, consolidates two or more offices pursuant to statute or charter, the…
   • § 24306.5 In any county with a population of over 1,350,000 and not over 1,420,000 as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census, the board of supervisors may…
   • § 24307 In any county having a population of 4,000,000 or more, the board of supervisors may designate any county officer as responsible for all or any of the…
   • § 24308 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 24300 and 24304, the board of supervisors of any county may organize, pursuant to ordinance or charter, the delivery of any…
8. CHAPTER 8. Fees §§ 24350–24356 · 7 sections

   • § 24350 Each salaried officer of a county shall charge and collect for the use of his or her county and pay into the county treasury on or before the fifth day of each…
   • § 24351 Unless otherwise specifically provided for by law, each officer of a county shall on the certificate of the auditor immediately deposit in the county treasury…
   • § 24351.5 Upon implementation of the State Disbursement Unit pursuant to Section 17309 of the Family Code, and notwithstanding Section 24351, the local child support…
   • § 24352 Each officer authorized to receive fees pursuant to this title shall keep, in accordance with the guidelines of the Controller, a monthly record of all fees or…
   • § 24353 Each officer of a county authorized to collect money shall pay into the county treasury all money collected by him or her, or under his or her control, that is…
   • § 24355.2 In counties using a mechanized management reporting system in reporting information for a uniform four-week period, the board of supervisors by ordinance may…
   • § 24356 The auditor shall file in his or her office the forms required by this chapter, and may dispose of them after five years in accordance with Section 26907.