BILL NUMBER: AB 1318	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to amend Section 24011 of the Government Code, relating to
county officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1318, as introduced, Evans.   County officers: public
administrators.
   Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified
counties to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be
appointed by the board.
   This bill would include Sonoma County within those counties whose
boards of supervisors are authorized to provide for the appointment
of the public administrator by the board.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 24011 of the  Government Code  is amended to
read:
   24011.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24009:(a) The
Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County, Madera County, Mendocino
County, Napa County, Solano County,  Sonoma County,  Trinity
County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may, by ordinance, provide
that the public administrator shall be appointed by the board.
   (b) The Boards of Supervisors of Madera County, Mendocino County,
Napa County, Trinity County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may
appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator,
veteran service officer, and public guardian. The Board of
Supervisors of Glenn County and Solano County may, by ordinance,
appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator and
public guardian.
   (c) The Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County, Madera County,
Mendocino County, Napa County, Trinity County, Tuolumne County, and
Lake County may separate the consolidated offices of district
attorney and public administrator at any time in order to make the
appointments permitted by this section. Upon approval by the board of
supervisors, the officer elected to these offices at any time may
resign, or decline to qualify for, the office of public administrator
without resigning from, or declining to qualify for, the office of
district attorney.