Gov. Code, § 12153 · Article 1. General
Gov. Code, § 12153
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent person to the position of Chief of Archives.
In case of the appointee’s absence or inability to perform the duties of the Chief of Archives, the Secretary of State shall designate some other competent person to act in the Chief of Archive’s place.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 50, Sec. 35. (AB 378) Effective January 1, 2022.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=12153.
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- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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