Gov. Code, § 5303 · Chapter 4. Signatures
Gov. Code, § 5303
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Whenever under any law of this State, or under the provisions of any ordinance, resolution or order, bonds of any public body are required or permitted to be signed or countersigned manually by any public officer who is permitted by law to have a deputy, such bonds may be signed or countersigned on behalf of such officer by any deputy of such officer who has been authorized by such officer in writing so to sign or countersign.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1061.
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=5303.
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- Composed by
- 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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