[Lassen.] Counties having a population of four thousand five hundred and under four thousand six hundred shall belong to and be known as counties of the fifty-first class. [Trinity.] Counties having a population of four thousand three hundred and eighty and under four thousand five hundred shall belong to and be known as counties of the fifty-second class. [Inyo.] Counties having a population of four thousand two hundred and under four thousand three hundred and eighty shall belong to and be known as counties of the fifty-third class. [Sierra.] Counties having a population of four thousand and under four thousand two hundred shall belong to and be known as counties of the fiftyfourth class. [Del Norte.] Counties having a population of two thousand two hundred and under four thousand shall belong to and be known as counties of the fiftyfifth class. [Mono.] Counties having a population of two thousand and under two thousand two hundred shall belong to and be known as counties of the fiftysixth class. [Alpine.] Counties having a population of under two thousand shall belong to and be known as counties of the fifty-seventh class. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, § 4006a. CHANGE OF CLASSIFICATION. Counties created or organ ized after July 1, 1907, shall immediately come under and be governed by the provisions of this title so far as the same are applicable thereto. When the population of any existing county shall have been reduced, by reason of the creation of any new county from the territory thereof, below the class and rank first assumed hereunder, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to designate by order the class to which such county has been reduced by reason thereof, and such county shall thereafter enter the list of such class; provided, that the salary of county officers shall not be affected by reason of such division of the county or order of the board, for the term for which they were elected and qualified. In any newly created county, for the purpose of fixing the salaries and fees of county and township officers, the board of supervisors of such new county shall classify such new county according to the population thereof. In each case the population shall be numerically fixed, and when so fixed shall be certified to the secretary of state by the board fixing the same. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 360. § 4007. NEW FEDERAL CENSUS TO GOVERN. Whenever a new federal census is taken, the counties on the first day of July following the session of the legislature next thereafter, are, by operation of law, classified under such census. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, § 4013. OFFICERS OF A COUNTY. The officers of a county are: 1. A district attorney; 2. A sheriff; 3. A county clerk; 4. An auditor; 5. A treasurer; 6. A recorder; 7. A license-collector; 8. A tax-collector, who shall be ex officio license-collector; 9. An assessor; 10. A superintendent of schools; 11. A public administrator; 12. A coroner; 13. A surveyor; 14. Members of the board of supervisors; 15. A live-stock inspector; 16. A fish and game warden; 17. Such other officers as may be provided by law. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 360. § 4014. Officers of township. ARTICLE II. TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. 84015. Supervisors shall divide counties into townships. § 4016. This article not to affect incumbent. $4014. OFFICERS OF TOWNSHIP. The officers of a township are, two justices of the peace, two constables, and such subordinate officers as are provided by law. In townships containing cities in which city justices or recorders are elected there shall be but one justice of the peace, and in townships having a population of less than five thousand, there shall be but one justice of the peace and one constable; provided however, that in townships containing a population of more than one hundred thousand and less than three hundred thousand there shall be four justices of the peace and four constables. [Appointment of additional justices.] Upon the approval of this title the board of supervisors must appoint competent persons to fill the additional offices of justices of the peace and constables by this section created. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 361. In effect immediately. § 4015. SUPERVISORS SHALL DIVIDE COUNTIES INTO TOWNSHIPS. The board of supervisors of each county, as public convenience may require, shall divide their respective counties into townships for the purpose of electing justices of the peace and constables; provided, however, that in the establishment of townships that may be hereafter established no incorporated city shall be divided so as to lie partly within one township and partly within another. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 361. § 4016. THIS ARTICLE NOT TO AFFECT INCUMBENT. The provisions of this article shall not affect any incumbent of the office of justice of the peace or constable. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 361. § 4020. Each office filled by election, when. § 4017. OFFICES, AND HOW MAY BE CONSOLIDATED. In counties where the board of supervisors by proper ordinance so elect, except as otherwise provided in this title, the duties of certain of the officers mentioned in section four thousand and thirteen are hereby consolidated, as follows: Sheriff and tax-collector; auditor and recorder; county clerk, auditor and recorder; county clerk and recorder; county clerk and auditor; treasurer and taxcollector; assessor and tax-collector; public administrator and coroner. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 361. In effect immediately. $ 4018. CONSOLIDATED OFFICES SEPARATED, HOW. In counties where the duties of said officers have been, or may hereafter be, consolidated in any manner designated in the preceding section, the board of supervisors thereof, by proper ordinance, may elect to separate the duties so consolidated, and reconsolidate them in any other manner above provided, or may separate said duties without reconsolidation, and provide that the duties of each office shall be performed by a separate person, whenever, in their discretion, the public interest will be best subserved thereby. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 361. 4019. OFFICER FILLING CONSOLIDATED OFFICES, DUTY OF. When offices are united and consolidated, the person elected to fill the offices so united and consolidated must take the oath and give the bond required for each, discharge all the duties pertaining to each, and receive the compensation of the offices consolidated. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 362. In effect immediately. § 4020. EACH OFFICE FILLED BY ELECTION, WHEN. When there is an omission by the board of supervisors to consolidate and to advertise the consolidation of offices as in this article authorized, each office not so consolidated must be filled by an election. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 362. § 4021. OFFICERS, WHEN ELECTED. All elective county and township officers, except otherwise provided for in this title, and by law, shall be elected at the general election at which the governor is elected, and shall take office at twelve o'clock meridian on the first Monday after the first day of January next succeeding their election. All officers elected under the provisions of this title shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. Supervisors shall be elected at the general election prior to expiration of the term of the incumbent. The supervisors of any county created after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seven, shall, within six months after the first general election succeeding the creation of such county, classify themselves by lot into two classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, and the term of office of the class having the greater number shall expire in two years from such general election, and the term of office of the class having the lesser number shall terminate in four years from such general election. History: Enacted March 18, 1907, Stats. and Amdts. 1907, p. 362. § 4022. OFFICIAL BONDS. The board of supervisors of each county shall, on or before the first Monday in September, preceding the election of the following officers, prescribe the amount in which said officers must execute official bonds: Treasurer, county clerk, auditor, sheriff, tax-collector, district attorney, recorder, assessor, surveyor, superintendent of schools, public administrator, coroner, justice of the peace, and constable. The judge or judges of the superior court shall, on or before the said first Monday of September, prescribe the amount in which each member of the board of supervisors must execute an official bond before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office. [Approval of bonds.] The bonds and sureties of such officers must, before the bonds can be recorded and filed, be approved by the judge, or judges, if Stats. and Amdts.-13 there be more than one, of the superior court. All persons offered as sureties on official bonds may be examined on oath touching their qualifications, and no person can be admitted as surety on any such bond unless he is a resident and freeholder or householder within the state, and is worth in real or personal property, or both, situate in this state, the amount of his undertaking, over and above all sums for which he is already liable, exclusive of property exempt from execution and forced sale. All official bonds shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder, and then filed and kept in the office of the county clerk. The official bond of the county clerk shall, after being recorded, be filed and kept in the office of the county treasurer. The tax-collector shall also before qualifying give a bond as license-collector in such sum as may be fixed by the board of supervisors, to be approved as provided in this section. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, § 4023. WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO COUNTY AND LOCAL OFFICES. No person is eligible to a county, district, or township office, who, at the time. of his election, is not of the age of twenty-one years, or over, a citizen of the state, and an elector of the county, district, township, or other division, in which the duties of the office are to be exercised; provided, that any woman who is of the age of twenty-one years, or over, a citizen of the state, and a resident of the county or district, shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of public schools, school trustee, or member of the county board of education; and provided further, that no person shall hereafter be eligible to the office of district attorney who has not been admitted to practise in the supreme court of the state of California; and provided further, that the county livestock inspector shall, at the time of his appointment, be a duly qualified veterinary surgeon having on file in the office of the county clerk a certificate issued to him by the state veterinary medical board. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, $ 4024. APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTIES. Every county, township, or district officer, except a supervisor or judicial officer, may appoint as many deputies as may be necessary for the prompt and faithful discharge of the duties of his office. Such appointment must be made in writing, and filed in the office of the county clerk; and until such appointment is so made and filed, and until such deputy shall have taken the oath of office, no one shall be or act as such deputy. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, § 4025. REGISTERS, INDEXES, ETC. The board must provide the registers required by law and printed copies of the indexes, poll-lists, pollbooks, blank returns and certificates, proclamations of elections, and other appropriate and necessary appliances for holding all elections in the county, and allow reasonable charges therefor, and for the transmission and return of the same to the proper officers. History: Former section repealed and present enacted March 18, 1907, |