CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 206.

§§ 68070–68114.10 · 72 sections

§ 68070 (a) Every court may make rules for its own government and the government of its officers not inconsistent with law or with the rules adopted and prescribed by…
§ 68070.5 (a) When a case is appealed, there shall be no communication direct or indirect between the judge or judicial officer who heard the case and any judge of the…
§ 68071 No rule adopted by a superior court shall take effect until January 1 or July 1, whichever comes first, following the 45th day after it has been filed with the…
§ 68072 Rules adopted by the Judicial Council, the Supreme Court, or a court of appeal shall take effect on a date to be fixed in the order of adoption. If no…
§ 68073.1 (a) All furniture, furnishings, and equipment used solely by a trial court on June 30, 1997, shall become the property of the court unless the county is…
§ 68074 Each court shall have a seal.
§ 68074.1 The seal of any superior court may be affixed by a seal press or stamp which will print or emboss a seal which will reproduce legibly under photographic…
§ 68075 The seal used by the Supreme Court abolished by the Constitution of 1879 shall be the seal of the Supreme Court provided for in this title. The Supreme Court…
§ 68076 The seals of the superior courts shall: (a) Be circular. (b) Be not less than one and one-fourth inches in diameter. (c) Have in the center any word, words, or…
§ 68079 A court for which the necessary seal has not been provided, or the judges of that court, shall provide it. The expense shall be an item of court operations.
§ 68080 The clerk of the court shall keep the seal of the court.
§ 68080.5 (a) A person who uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the seal of the California Supreme Court, an appellate court, or a superior court…
§ 68081 Before the Supreme Court, a court of appeal, or the appellate division of a superior court renders a decision in a proceeding other than a summary denial of a…
§ 68082 Except as otherwise provided by law, during the officer’s continuance in office, a court commissioner, judge, or court executive or administrative officer…
§ 68083 Each salaried officer of a superior court shall charge, collect, and promptly deposit the fees allowed in each case, as provided by law. No salaried officer…
§ 68083.5 Each officer of a superior court authorized to collect money shall pay into the county treasury all money collected by that officer, or under the officer’s…
§ 68084 (a) If any money is deposited with the clerk or judge of any superior court pursuant to any action or proceeding in the court, or pursuant to any order,…
§ 68084.1 (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any money, excluding restitution to victims, that has been deposited with a superior court, or that a superior court…
§ 68085 (a) (1) There is hereby established the Trial Court Trust Fund, the proceeds of which shall be apportioned for the purposes authorized in this section,…
§ 68085.1 (a) This section applies to all fees and fines that are collected on or after January 1, 2006, under all of the following: (1) Sections 177.5, 209, 403.060,…
§ 68085.2 (a) Notwithstanding Section 77201.1, commencing with the 2005-06 fiscal year, the amount of each county’s annual remittance to the Trial Court Trust Fund under…
§ 68085.3 (a) Fees collected under Sections 70611, 70612, 70650, 70651, 70652, 70653, 70655, 70658, and 70670 shall be deposited in a bank account established by the…
§ 68085.35 (a) Fees collected under Section 70616.5 shall be deposited in a bank account established by the Administrative Office of the Courts for deposit of fees…
§ 68085.4 (a) Fees collected under Sections 70613, 70614, 70621, 70654, and 70656 of this code, Section 103470 of the Health and Safety Code, and Section 7660 of the…
§ 68085.45 (a) There is hereby established the State Trial Court Operations Trust Fund. Upon the retirement of all bonded indebtedness that may be incurred in connection…
§ 68085.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except subdivision (h) and Section 68085.6, the fees and fines collected pursuant to Sections 116.390, 116.570,…
§ 68085.6 (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the counties’ obligation to remit to the Trial Court Trust Fund each fiscal year the difference between thirty-one million dollars…
§ 68085.7 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Section 68085.5 does not apply to the following fees and fines collected on or after July 1, 2005: any fees…
§ 68085.8 (a) On or before December 31, 2005, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) shall complete an…
§ 68085.9 Notwithstanding any other provision of law requiring a trial court or officer of a trial court to deposit money received by the court or officer into the…
§ 68086 The following provisions apply in superior court: (a) In addition to any other fee required in civil actions or cases: (1) For each proceeding anticipated to…
§ 68086.1 (a) For each three-hundred-fifty-five-dollar ($355) fee collected under Section 70611, 70612, or 70670, thirty dollars ($30) of the amount distributed to the…
§ 68088 (a) The Judicial Council may provide by rule of court for racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and sexual harassment training and training for any other bias based…
§ 68089 Two years after judgment in any civil action or proceeding has become final the court may order any vouchers on file for the action or proceeding delivered to…
§ 68090.8 (a) (1) The Legislature finds that the management of civil and criminal cases, including traffic cases, and the accounting for funds in the trial courts…
§ 68091 Except as otherwise provided by law, the board of supervisors in each county may specify by ordinance the compensation and mileage for members of the grand…
§ 68092 Court interpreters’ and translators’ fees or other compensation shall be paid: (a) In criminal cases, by the court. (b) In civil cases, by the litigants, in…
§ 68092.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is imperative that courts provide interpreters to all parties who require one, and that both the legislative and…
§ 68092.5 (a) A party requiring testimony before any court, tribunal, or arbiter in any civil action or proceeding from any expert witness, other than a party or…
§ 68093 Except as otherwise provided by law, witness’ fees for each day’s actual attendance, when legally required to attend a civil action or proceeding in the…
§ 68094 Except as otherwise provided by law, witness’ fees for each day’s actual attendance, when legally required to attend before a grand jury, are twelve dollars…
§ 68095 Except as otherwise provided by law, witness’ fees for each day’s actual attendance, when legally required to attend, or if the witness attends voluntarily and…
§ 68096.1 (a) Any employee of a local agency who is obliged by a subpoena to attend a civil action or proceeding as a witness in litigation in a matter regarding an…
§ 68097 Witnesses in civil cases may demand the payment of their mileage and fees for one day, in advance, and when so demanded may not be compelled to attend until…
§ 68097.1 (a) Whenever an employee of the Department of Justice who is a peace officer or an analyst in a technical field, peace officer of the Department of the…
§ 68097.2 (a) Any peace officer, as that term is defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, any firefighter, any state…
§ 68097.3 Whenever a member of the California Highway Patrol is not subject to a subpoena pursuant to Section 1989 of the Code of Civil Procedure, he may nevertheless be…
§ 68097.4 Any member of the California Highway Patrol who is obliged to appear pursuant to a subpoena issued under the provisions of Section 68097.3 as a witness, shall…
§ 68097.5 No employee of the Department of Justice who is a peace officer or an analyst in a technical field, peace officer of the Department of the California Highway…
§ 68097.55 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 68097.5, the court, upon good cause shown, including the fact that the party is proceeding in forma pauperis pursuant…
§ 68097.6 Sections 68097.1, 68097.2, 68097.3, 68097.4, and 68097.5 apply to subpoenas issued for the taking of depositions of employees of the Department of Justice who…
§ 68097.7 Any person who pays or offers to pay any money or other form of consideration for the services of any employee of the Department of Justice who is a peace…
§ 68097.8 All deposits made pursuant to Sections 68097.2 or 68097.4 of this code, except such deposits as the party may be entitled to have refunded, shall be taxable as…
§ 68097.9 An employee of the Department of Justice who is a peace officer or an analyst in a technical field, peace officer of the Department of the California Highway…
§ 68097.10 Whenever an employee of the Department of Justice who is a peace officer or an analyst in a technical field, peace officer of the Department of the California…
§ 68098 Witness’ fees in criminal cases in superior courts, other than fees for expert witnesses appointed by the court for the court’s needs pursuant to Section 730…
§ 68100 When the court is held at a place appointed, pursuant to Section 68115, every person held to appear at the court shall appear at the place so appointed.
§ 68101 (a) Whenever pursuant to law the state is entitled to receive any portion of any money, forfeited bail or fines received by a judge of any court, that portion…
§ 68102 Whenever an imprisonment has been imposed for a violation of any act, and before the termination of the sentence, the defendant is released by the vacation of…
§ 68103 The State Controller shall check the reports and records received by him with the transmittals of such fines and forfeitures. Whenever it is apparent that such…
§ 68104 The records kept by any judge pursuant to Sections 68101 and 68102 shall be open to public inspection, and may be checked by the State Controller, the Attorney…
§ 68105 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Supreme Court, any court of appeal, or any superior court may appoint as an official…
§ 68106 (a) (1) In making appropriations for the support of the trial courts, the Legislature recognizes the importance of increased revenues from litigants and…
§ 68106.2 (a) Any person shall have the right to obtain the following information under Rule 10.802 of the California Rules of Court: (1) Baseline budget information…
§ 68107 A court may order a criminal defendant upon whom a fine, forfeiture, or penalty is imposed, to disclose to the court his or her social security number in order…
§ 68108 (a) To the extent that a memorandum of understanding for trial court employees designates certain days as unpaid furlough days for employees assigned to…
§ 68109 (a) Every court of this state shall cooperate with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify and place a deportation hold on any…
§ 68110 Every judge of a court of this state shall, in open court during the presentation of causes before him or her, wear a judicial robe, which the judge shall…
§ 68111 (a) Whenever any judge of any court of this state is a witness in an official capacity as judge in any action or proceeding, the judge shall be entitled to be…
§ 68114.7 The coordination, consolidation, merger, or conversion of any court pursuant to this chapter or otherwise shall not of itself cause any reduction in judicial…
§ 68114.8 Notwithstanding Section 69906, in the Superior Court of San Bernardino County, the official court reporters shall be compensated at Step E of the range set…
§ 68114.10 Effective July 1, 2003, there is hereby established in the State Treasury the Judicial Branch Workers’ Compensation Fund for the purpose of funding workers’…