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2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1091.2.

1091.2. Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by local workforce investment boards created pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 except where both of the following conditions are met:
(a) The contract or grant directly relates to services to be provided by any member of a local workforce investment board or the entity the member represents or financially benefits the member or the entity he or she represents.
(b) The member fails to recuse himself or herself from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use his or her official position to influence a decision on the grant or grants.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 108, Sec. 3. Effective July 10, 2000.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1091.3.

1091.3. Section 1090 shall not apply to any contract or grant made by a county children and families commission created pursuant to the California Children and Families Act of 1998 (Division 108 (commencing with Section 130100) of the Health and Safety Code), except where both of the following conditions are met:
(a) The contract or grant directly relates to services to be provided by any member of a county children and families commission or the entity the member represents or financially benefits the member or the entity he or she represents.
(b) The member fails to recuse himself or herself from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use his or her official position to influence a decision on the grant or grants.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 664, Sec. 88. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1091.4.

1091.4. (a) As used in Section 1091, “remote interest” also includes a person who has a financial interest in a contract, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The agency of which the person is a board member is a special district serving a population of less than 5,000 that is a landowner voter district, as defined in Section 56050, that does not distribute water for any domestic use.
(2) The contract is for either of the following:
(A) The maintenance or repair of the district’s property or facilities provided that the need for maintenance or repair services has been widely advertised. The contract will result in materially less expense to the district than the expense that would have resulted under reasonably available alternatives and review of those alternatives is documented in records available for public inspection.
(B) The acquisition of property that the governing board of the district has determined is necessary for the district to carry out its functions at a price not exceeding the value of the property, as determined in a record available for public inspection by an appraiser who is a member of a recognized organization of appraisers.
(3) The person did not participate in the formulation of the contract on behalf of the district.
(4) At a public meeting, the governing body of the district, after review of written documentation, determines that the property acquisition or maintenance and repair services cannot otherwise be obtained at a reasonable price and that the contract is in the best interests of the district, and adopts a resolution stating why the contract is necessary and in the best interests of the district.
(b) If a party to any proceeding challenges any fact or matter required by paragraph (2), (3), or (4) of subdivision (a) to qualify as a remote interest under subdivision (a), the district shall bear the burden of proving this fact or matter.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 183, Sec. 132. Effective January 1, 2005.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1091.6.

1091.6. An officer who is also a member of the governing body of an organization that has an interest in, or to which the public agency may transfer an interest in, property that the public agency may acquire by eminent domain shall not vote on any matter affecting that organization.
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 594, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1092.

1092. (a) Every contract made in violation of any of the provisions of Section 1090 may be avoided at the instance of any party except the officer interested therein. No such contract may be avoided because of the interest of an officer therein unless the contract is made in the official capacity of the officer, or by a board or body of which he or she is a member.
(b) An action under this section shall be commenced within four years after the plaintiff has discovered, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have discovered, a violation described in subdivision (a).
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 68, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1092.5.

1092.5. Notwithstanding Section 1092, no lease or purchase of, or encumbrance on, real property may be avoided, under the terms of Section 1092, in derogation of the interest of a good faith lessee, purchaser, or encumbrancer where the lessee, purchaser, or encumbrancer paid value and acquired the interest without actual knowledge of a violation of any of the provisions of Section 1090.
(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 66, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1093.

1093. (a) The Treasurer and Controller, county and city officers, and their deputies and clerks shall not purchase or sell, or in any manner receive for their own or any other person’s use or benefit any state, county or city warrants, scrip, orders, demands, claims, or other evidences of indebtedness against the state, or any county or city thereof.
(b) An individual shall not aid or abet the Treasurer, Controller, a county or city officer, or their deputy or clerk in violating subdivision (a).
(c) This section shall not apply to evidences of indebtedness issued to or held by an officer, deputy, or clerk for services rendered by them, nor to evidences of the funded indebtedness of the state, county, or city.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 483, Sec. 2. (SB 952) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1094.

1094. Every officer whose duty it is to audit and allow the accounts of other state, county, or city officers shall, before allowing such accounts, require each of such officers to make and file with him an affidavit or certificate under penalty of perjury that he has not violated any of the provisions of this article, and any individual who wilfully makes and subscribes such certificate to an account which he knows to be false as to any material matter shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties prescribed for perjury by the Penal Code of this State.
(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 385.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1095.

1095. Officers charged with the disbursement of public moneys shall not pay any warrant or other evidence of indebtedness against the State, county, or city when it has been purchased, sold, received, or transferred contrary to any of the provisions of this article.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1096.

1096. Upon the officer charged with the disbursement of public moneys being informed by affidavit that any officer, whose account is about to be settled, audited, or paid by him, has violated any of the provisions of this article, the disbursing officer shall suspend such settlement or payment, and cause the district attorney to prosecute the officer for such violation. If judgment is rendered for the defendant upon such prosecution, the disbursing officer may proceed to settle, audit, or pay the account as if no affidavit had been filed.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1097.

1097. (a) Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, who willfully violates any of the provisions of those laws, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(b) An individual who willfully aids or abets an officer or person in violating a prohibition by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip, or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 483, Sec. 3. (SB 952) Effective January 1, 2015.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1097.3.

1097.3. (a) Subject to the requirements of Section 1097.1, the Commission may file a civil action for an alleged violation of Section 1090. A person held liable for such a violation shall be subject to a civil fine payable to the Commission for deposit in the General Fund of the state in an amount not to exceed the greater of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or three times the value of the financial benefit received by the defendant for each violation.
(b) The Commission shall not commence a civil action pursuant to this section alleging a violation of Section 1090 if the Commission has commenced an administrative action pursuant to Section 1097.1 against the person for the same violation.
(c) A civil action brought by the Commission pursuant to this section shall not be filed more than four years after the date the violation occurred.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 650, Sec. 4. (AB 1090) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1097.4.

1097.4. In addition to any other remedies available, the Commission may obtain a judgment in superior court for the purpose of collecting any unpaid monetary penalties, fees, or civil penalties imposed pursuant to Section 1097.1, 1097.2, or 1097.3. Penalties shall be collected in accordance with Section 91013.5.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 650, Sec. 5. (AB 1090) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1097.5.

1097.5. (a) If the time for judicial review of a final Commission order or decision issued pursuant to Section 1097.2 has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted, the Commission may apply to the clerk of the superior court for a judgment to collect the penalties imposed by the order or decision, or the order as modified in accordance with a decision on judicial review.
(1) The application, which shall include a certified copy of the order or decision, or the order as modified in accordance with a decision on judicial review, and proof of service of the order or decision, constitutes a sufficient showing to warrant issuance of the judgment to collect the penalties. The clerk of the court shall enter the judgment immediately in conformity with the application.
(2) An application made pursuant to this section shall be made to the clerk of the superior court in the county where the monetary penalties, fees, or civil penalties were imposed by the Commission.
(3) A judgment entered in accordance with this section has the same force and effect as, and is subject to all the provisions of law relating to, a judgment in a civil action and may be enforced in the same manner as any other judgment of the court in which it is entered.
(4) The Commission may bring an application pursuant to this section only within four years after the date on which the monetary penalty, fee, or civil penalty was imposed.
(b) The remedy available under this section is in addition to those available under Section 1097.4 or any other law.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 650, Sec. 6. (AB 1090) Effective January 1, 2014.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1098.

1098. (a) Any current public officer or employee who willfully and knowingly discloses for pecuniary gain, to any other person, confidential information acquired by him or her in the course of his or her official duties, or uses any such information for the purpose of pecuniary gain, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Confidential information” means information to which all of the following apply:
(A) At the time of the use or disclosure of the information, the information is not a public record subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act.
(B) At the time of the use or disclosure of the information, the disclosure is prohibited by (i) a statute, regulation, or rule which applies to the agency in which the officer or employee serves; (ii) the statement of incompatible activities adopted pursuant to Section 19990 by the agency in which the officer or employee serves; or (iii) a provision in a document similar to a statement of incompatible activities if the agency in which the officer or employee serves is a local agency.
(C) The use or disclosure of the information will have, or could reasonably be expected to have, a material financial effect on any investment or interest in real property which the officer or employee, or any person who provides pecuniary gain to the officer or employee in return for the information, has at the time of the use or disclosure of the information or acquires within 90 days following the use or disclosure of the information.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1):
(A) “Interest in real property” has the definition prescribed by Section 82033.
(B) “Investment” has the definition prescribed by Section 82034.
(C) “Material financial effect” has the definition prescribed by Sections 18702 and 18702.2 of Title 2 of the California Administrative Code, as those sections read on September 1, 1987.
(3) “Pecuniary gain” does not include salary or other similar compensation from the officer’s or the employee’s agency.
(c) This section shall not apply to any disclosure made to any law enforcement agency, nor to any disclosure made pursuant to Sections 10542 and 10543.
(d) This section is not intended to supersede, amend, or add to subdivision (b) of Section 8920 regarding prohibited conduct of Members of the Legislature.
(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 962, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers › Section 1099.

1099. (a)  A public officer, including, but not limited to, an appointed or elected member of a governmental board, commission, committee, or other body, shall not simultaneously hold two public offices that are incompatible. Offices are incompatible when any of the following circumstances are present, unless simultaneous holding of the particular offices is compelled or expressly authorized by law:
(1) Either of the offices may audit, overrule, remove members of, dismiss employees of, or exercise supervisory powers over the other office or body.
(2)  Based on the powers and jurisdiction of the offices, there is a possibility of a significant clash of duties or loyalties between the offices.
(3) Public policy considerations make it improper for one person to hold both offices.
(b) When two public offices are incompatible, a public officer shall be deemed to have forfeited the first office upon acceding to the second. This provision is enforceable pursuant to Section 803 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(c) This section does not apply to a position of employment, including a civil service position.
(d) This section shall not apply to a governmental body that has only advisory powers.
(e) For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), a member of a multimember body holds an office that may audit, overrule, remove members of, dismiss employees of, or exercise supervisory powers over another office when the body has any of these powers over the other office or over a multimember body that includes that other office.
(f) This section codifies the common law rule prohibiting an individual from holding incompatible public offices.
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 254, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.5 - Sales of Public Securities › Section 1100.

1100. As used in this article, “public securities” means any issue of bonds, notes, warrants, or other evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any, attached thereto, issued by any public body.
(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 53.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.5 - Sales of Public Securities › Section 1101.

1101. As used in this article, “public body” means any county, city and county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, school district, or any other public district or public corporation, any public authority, or any agency of any thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 53.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.5 - Sales of Public Securities › Section 1102.

1102. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a member of the legislative body of any public body or any officer or employee thereof shall not be deemed interested in a contract for the sale of any public securities issued by such public body; provided, that such public securities are sold at public sale to the highest bidder after notice inviting bids has been published as required by the law under which said bonds are issued, or for one time in a newspaper of general circulation not less than five (5) days prior to the date of such sale.
(Added by Stats. 1958, 1st Ex. Sess., Ch. 53.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.7 - Incompatible Activities › Section 1125.

1125. “Local agency,” as used in this article, means a county, city, city and county, political subdivision, district, or municipal corporation.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 633.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.7 - Incompatible Activities › Section 1127.

1127. It is not the intent of this article to prevent the employment by private business of a public employee, such as a peace officer, fireman, forestry service employee, among other public employees, who is off duty to do work related to and compatible with his regular employment, or past employment, provided the person or persons to be employed have the approval of their agency supervisor and are certified as qualified by the appropriate agency.
(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 633.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.7 - Incompatible Activities › Section 1128.

1128. Service on an appointed or elected governmental board, commission, committee, or other body by an attorney employed by a local agency in a nonelective position shall not, by itself, be deemed to be inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to the duties of the attorney as an officer or employee of the local agency and shall not result in the automatic vacation of either such office.
(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 391, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 4.7 - Incompatible Activities › Section 1129.

1129. Service on the Board of Directors of the Local Agency Self-Insurance Authority by an officer or employee of a local agency, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 6599.02, or by a person who serves in an appointed or employed position with an agency or entity created by a joint powers agreement pursuant to Section 6503.5 to provide insurance pooling, shall not, by itself, be deemed to be inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or inimical to, duties of the officer or employee in either capacity.
(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 32, Sec. 2. Effective May 29, 1987.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 5 - Withholding Salary on Contest of Title › Section 1130.

1130. When the title of the incumbent of any office in this State is contested by proceedings instituted in any court for that purpose, no warrant shall thereafter be drawn or paid for any part of his salary until such proceedings have been finally determined.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 5 - Withholding Salary on Contest of Title › Section 1131.

1131. As soon as the proceedings are instituted, the clerk of the court in which they are pending shall certify the facts to the officers whose duty it would otherwise be to draw the warrant or pay the salary.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 5 - Withholding Salary on Contest of Title › Section 1132.

1132. This article does not apply to any party to a contest or proceeding who holds the certificate of election or commission of office and discharges the duties of the office. No certification by the clerk need be made. Such party shall receive the salary of the office the same as if no contest or proceeding was pending.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1150.

1150. As used in this article:
(a) “State employee” means all persons who receive wages for services through the uniform payroll system established and administered by the Controller under Section 12470.
(b) “Public agency” includes counties, cities, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, public districts, and other public agencies of the state.
(c) “Employee organization” means an organization which represents employees of a public employer and that has been recognized or certified by the public employer or the Public Employment Relations Board as the exclusive representative of the employees.
(d) “Bona fide association” means an organization of employees and former employees of an agency of the state and the California State University, and which does not have as one of its purposes representing these employees in their employer-employee relations.
(e) “Deduction” does not include direct deposit by electronic fund transfer, as authorized by Sections 7506 and 12480.
(f) (1) “Public employer” means the state, the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University and the California State University, the Judicial Council, a trial court, a county, city, district, public authority, including transit district, public agency, or any other political subdivision or public corporation of the state, except as provided in paragraph (2).
(2) A public school employer or community college district is not a public employer for purposes of transmittal of payroll deductions to professional organizations or employee organizations. These entities shall be governed by Sections 45060, 45168, 87833, and 88167 of the Education Code, as may be applicable.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 53, Sec. 5. (SB 866) Effective June 27, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1151.

1151. State employees may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for payment of one or more of the following:
(a) Insurance premiums or other employee benefit programs sponsored by a state agency under appropriate statutory authority.
(b) Premiums on National Service Life Insurance or United States Government Converted Insurance.
(c) Shares or obligations to any regularly chartered credit union.
(d) Recurrent fees or charges payable to a state agency for a program that has a purpose related to government, as determined by the Controller.
(e) The purchase of United States savings bonds in accordance with procedures established by the Controller.
(f) Payment of charitable contributions under any plan approved by the Department of General Services in accordance with procedures established by the Controller.
(g) Passes, tickets, or tokens issued for a period of one month, or more, by a public transportation system.
(h) Deposit into an employee’s account with a state or federal bank or savings and loan association located in this state, for services offered by that bank or savings and loan association.
(i) The purchase of any investment or thrift certificate issued by an industrial loan company licensed by this state.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 31, Sec. 58. (SB 836) Effective June 27, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1151.5.

1151.5. (a) In addition to deductions authorized pursuant to Section 1151, a state employee may authorize deductions to be made from salaries or wages for payment for the support, maintenance, or care of the employee’s child, children, family, or former spouse for whom the employee has a duty of support. A service charge may be assessed for this deduction.
(b) A public agency may establish payroll deduction programs for any of the following purposes:
(1) Payment for the support, maintenance, or care of an employee’s child, children, family, or former spouse for whom the employee has a duty of support.
(2) Payment of an employee’s legal judgment.
(3) Garnishment or deduction of an employee’s wages pursuant to a court order.
(4) Payment of an employee’s loan or obligation to a commercial lending institution.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1144, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1152.

1152. Deductions may be requested by employee organizations and bona fide associations from the salaries and wages of their members, and public employers shall honor these requests, as follows:
(a)  Employee organizations may request membership dues, initiation fees, and general assessments, as well as payment of any other membership benefit program sponsored by the organization.
(b) Bona fide associations may request membership dues and initiation fees.
The Controller shall not be required to make any benefit deductions for an employee member whose membership dues are not deducted.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 53, Sec. 6. (SB 866) Effective June 27, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1156.

1156. (a) Any eligible employee who is participating in a flexible benefits program may elect to receive one or more benefits that qualify to be excluded from gross income in lieu of a portion of his or her salary.
(b) For purposes of this section, an “eligible employee” means any of the following:
(1) An employee excluded from the definition of “state employee” in Section 3513.
(2) A “managerial employee” as defined in Section 3513.
(3) A “confidential employee” as defined in Section 3513 and Section 3562.
(4) A “supervisory employee” as defined in Section 3580.3.
(5) An officer or employee of the State of California in the executive or judicial branch of government who is not a state civil service employee pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2.
(6) A “state employee,” as defined by Section 3513 or employed by the state as provided for in Article VI of the Constitution.
(c) Any eligible employee participating in the flexible benefits program shall be subject to federal laws and implementing regulations of the Department of Human Resources which affects the flexible benefit program throughout the period of the employee’s enrollment.
(d) Unless the trustee or the administrator of the state’s flexible benefit program is the Controller or another state officer, that program shall be administered in compliance with the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA: 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 et seq.).
(e) As a condition of participating in a flexible benefits program, each eligible employee shall provide evidence, in a manner satisfactory to the Department of Human Resources, that the employee is covered by a basic health benefits plan, and his or her agreement to remain covered for the period of participation in the flexible benefits plan.
(f) There is in the State Treasury the Flexelect Benefit Fund which, notwithstanding Section 13340, is continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years to the Department of Human Resources for expenditure to implement the flexible benefits program and to pay the related administrative costs. The fund shall consist of the amounts received from state employee compensation excluded from gross income and transmitted to the Flexelect Benefit Fund, income of whatever nature earned on the money in the Flexelect Benefit Fund during any fiscal year and credited to the fund, and amounts appropriated therefor in the annual Budget Act and other statutes.
(g) On or after July 1, 1990, any funds remaining in the State Employees’ Dependent Care Assistance and Health Care Assistance Fund shall be transmitted into the account in the Flexelect Benefit Fund for the administrative expenses of the Controller’s office to pay the related administrative costs.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 33. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1156.1.

1156.1. (a) Any eligible employee may elect to participate in the State Employees’ Pretax Parking Payroll Deduction Program. The program shall be administered by the Department of Human Resources. An amount equivalent to the value of the parking, to the extent permitted by Internal Revenue Code Section 132, shall be excluded from the gross income of the employee, in lieu of a portion of the employee’s compensation, and shall be transmitted to the State Employees’ Pretax Parking Fund. Each eligible employee electing to participate in the program, for the period that he or she is enrolled as a participant in the program, shall be subject to the applicable federal law and regulations and related state administrative regulations adopted by the Department of Human Resources.
(b) For purposes of this section, an “eligible employee” means any of the following:
(1) A “state employee,” as defined in Section 3513.
(2) An “excluded employee,” as defined in Section 3527.
(3) An officer or employee of the State of California in the executive branch of government who is not a state civil service employee pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 18500) of Division 5 of Title 2.
(c) There is in the State Treasury the State Employees’ Pretax Parking Fund which, notwithstanding Section 13340, is continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years to the Department of Human Resources for expenditure to implement the State Employees’ Pretax Parking Payroll Deduction Program. The fund shall consist of the amounts received from employee compensation excluded from gross income and transmitted to the State Employees’ Pretax Parking Fund pursuant to subdivision (a).
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 665, Sec. 34. (SB 1308) Effective January 1, 2013.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.

1157. (a) Officers and employees of a public agency, other than those under the uniform payroll system provided for in Article 5 (commencing with Section 12470) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2, may authorize the governing body of the public agency to make deductions from their salaries or wages for the payment of premiums on life, accident, health, disability, legal expense, or automobile liability insurance, or on any two or more, under a system of insurance approved by or adopted and carried into effect by the governing body, or for the payment of premiums on National Service Life Insurance or United States Government Converted Insurance. Officers and employees of the public agency may authorize the governing body of the public agency to make deductions from their salaries or wages for the payment of dues or subscription charges of nonprofit membership corporations for defraying the cost of medical service (including services rendered by doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathic medicine, or doctors of chiropractic), or hospital care, or legal services, or, any of them, under system of medical service, or hospital care, or legal services, or, any of them, approved by or adopted and carried into effect by the governing body.
(b) The board of supervisors may, by resolution, permit officers and employees of a county to authorize deductions from their salaries or wages for the premiums on long-term care insurance established pursuant to Article 8.8 (commencing with Section 31696.1) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 3 or pursuant to Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 21660) of Part 3 of Division 5 of Title 2 and approved by, or adopted and carried into effect by, the retirement association. Materials offering that long-term care insurance shall specify that the long-term care insurance is approved by, or adopted and carried into effect by, the retirement association and not by the county.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 491, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.1.

1157.1. Employees of a public agency, on approval of and in accordance with the provisions made by the governing body of the public agency, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for the payment of dues in, or for any other services provided by, any bona fide association (a) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such public agency, or (b) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such public agency and one or more other public agencies the payrolls of which are prepared by the same finance officer, or (c) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such public agency or agencies as provided in (a) or (b) above, together with former employees of such public agency or agencies if such former employees (1) were employees of such public agency or agencies at the time of joining such association, and (2) were members of such association at the time of ceasing to be such employees.
(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1624.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.2.

1157.2. With the approval of the governing body of a public agency and under such regulations as it may prescribe, employees of the public agency may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages either for the payment of contributions to bona fide charitable organizations or for the payment of designated sums to a nonprofit California corporation which is compelled by its by-laws to make, and which does expend such sums solely by the making of, contributions to bona fide charitable organizations.
(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1215.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.3.

1157.3. (a) Employees, including retired employees, of a public employer in addition to any other purposes authorized in this article, may also authorize deductions to be made from their salaries, wages, or retirement allowances for the payment of dues in, or for any other service, program, or committee provided or sponsored by, any employee organization or bona fide association whose membership is comprised, in whole or in part, of employees of the public employer and employees of such organization and which has as one of its objectives improvements in the terms or conditions of employment for the advancement of the welfare of the employees.
(b) The public employer shall honor employee authorizations for the deductions described in subdivision (a). The revocability of an authorization shall be determined by the terms of the authorization.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 53, Sec. 8. (SB 866) Effective June 27, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.4.

1157.4. (a) Employees of a county employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for the payment of dues in, or for any other services provided by, any bona fide association (a) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such county, other than a city and county, or (b) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such county, other than a city and county, and one or more other public agencies the payrolls of which are prepared by the same finance officer, or (c) whose members are comprised exclusively of the employees of such county, other than a city and county, or agencies as provided in (a) or (b) above, together with former employees of such county, other than a city and county, or agencies if such former employees (1) were employees of such county, other than a city and county, or other agencies at the time of joining such association, and (2) were members of such association at the time of ceasing to be such employees.
In addition to the other requirements of this section, any employee organization for which dues are to be deducted from pay warrants shall have in membership at least 1 percent of the employees of such county, other than a city and county, provided that an employee organization which is formally recognized as the majority representative of employees of such county, other than a city and county, in an established employee representational unit shall qualify as an employee organization for which dues are to be deducted from pay warrants.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an employee organization which has in membership at least 1 percent of the total number of employees of such county, other than a city and county, on April 30, 1973, and which, on April 30, 1973, was an employee organization for which dues could be deducted from pay warrants, shall not lose such qualification for the reason that such employee organization does not have after April 30, 1973, a membership of at least 1 percent of the total number of employees of such county, other than a city and county.
(c) No employee may have deductions for more than a total of two organizations under this section and under Section 1157.5.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 681.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.5.

1157.5. Employees, including retired employees, of a county, other than a city and county, employing more than 20,000 persons in addition to any other purposes authorized in this article may also authorize deductions to be made from their salaries, wages, or retirement allowances for the payment of dues in, or for any other service provided by, any bona fide organization whose membership is comprised, in whole or in part, of employees of such county, other than a city and county, and employees of such organization and which has as one of its objectives improvements in the terms or conditions of employment for the advancement of the welfare of such employees.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1624.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.6.

1157.6. Retired employees of a public agency, other than a school district, or eligible surviving spouses of such retired employees, on approval of the governing body of such public agency, in addition to any other purposes authorized in this article, may authorize deductions to be made from their retirement or survivors’ allowances for the payment of dues in any bona fide association whose membership is comprised in whole or in part of retired employees of such public agency in accordance with provisions made by the governing body of the public agency.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 198.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.7.

1157.7. Employees of a public agency employing more than 20,000 persons, other than a city and county, may authorize dues deductions for membership in an ethnic employee organization operating within the public agency prior to January 1, 1981, which includes ethnic minority employees and which has as its primary purpose representing those employees in their employment civil rights with the employer. This purpose shall not include meeting and conferring with the public agency concerning matters within the scope of representation pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500).
(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 612, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.8.

1157.8. Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize deductions to be made from their salaries or wages for the purchase of United States savings bonds in accordance with provision made by the governing body of the public agency.
All auditors, treasurers, and other disbursing officers of public agencies are authorized to recognize and act upon these requests for salary or wage deductions and to establish special accounts for each officer or employee so that sufficient funds may be accumulated to the credit of the officer or employee for the purchase of United States savings bonds. All funds so accumulated are trust funds.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1270, Sec. 16.)
2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 1 - GENERAL › DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › CHAPTER 1 - General › ARTICLE 6 - Salary and Wage Deductions › Section 1157.9.

1157.9. Officers and employees of public agencies may authorize wage and salary deductions for deposit into an account with a state or federal bank or savings and loan association located in this state, or for the purchase of shares in, or the payment of money to, any regularly chartered credit union, or for the purchase of any investment or thrift certificate issued by an industrial loan company licensed by this state. Auditors, treasurers, and other disbursing officers of any public agency other than a state agency are authorized to recognize and act upon these wage or salary assignments.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1270, Sec. 17.)