Chapter 6 - Operation of Statutes and Resolutions

California Government Code — §§ 9600-9612

Sections (12)

Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 7.

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), a statute enacted at a regular session shall go into effect on January 1 next following a 90-day period from the date of enactment of the statute and a statute enacted at a special session shall go into effect on the 91st day after adjournment of the special session at which the bill was passed.

(b)Statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state, and urgency statutes shall go into effect immediately upon their enactment.

§ 9602

Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 123.

Every concurrent and joint resolution takes effect upon the filing of it with the Secretary of State.

§ 9603

Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

The general rules for the construction of statutes are contained in the preliminary provisions of the different codes.

§ 9604

Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

When the provisions of one statute are carried into another statute under circumstances in which they are required to be construed as restatements and continuations and not as new enactments, any reference made by any statute, charter or ordinance to such provisions shall, unless a contrary intent appears, be deemed a reference to the restatements and continuations.

§ 9605

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 28, Sec. 59. (SB 1380) Effective January 1, 2023.

(a)(1) When a section or part of a statute is amended, it is not to be considered as having been repealed and reenacted in the amended form. The unaltered provisions are to be considered as having been the law from the time when those provisions were enacted. The new provisions are to be considered as having been enacted at the time of the amendment. The omitted provisions are to be considered as having been repealed at the time of the amendment.

(2)When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more acts enacted at the same session, any portion of provisions from an earlier one of those successive acts that are omitted by a subsequent act

shall be deemed to have been omitted deliberately and any provisions omitted by an earlier act that are restored by a subsequent act shall be deemed to have been restored deliberately.

(b)When the same section or part of a statute is amended by two or more statutes enacted at the same session:

(1)In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute that is enacted last, it shall be conclusively presumed that the statute that is enacted last is intended to prevail over statutes that are enacted earlier at the same session.

(2)In the absence of any express provision to the contrary in the statute with a higher chapter number, it shall be presumed that the statute with a higher chapter number is intended

by the Legislature to prevail over a statute that is enacted at the same session with a lower chapter number. For the purposes of this paragraph, every statute enacted in the even-numbered year of a two-year regular session of the Legislature is deemed to bear a higher chapter number than any statute enacted in the odd-numbered year of that session.

§ 9606

Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

Any statute may be repealed at any time, except when vested rights would be impaired. Persons acting under any statute act in contemplation of this power of repeal.

§ 9607

Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 10.

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), no statute or part of a statute, repealed by another statute, is revived by the repeal of the repealing statute without express words reviving such repealed statute or part of a statute.

(b)If a later enacted statute that deletes or extends the date of termination or repeal of a previously enacted law is chaptered before such date of termination or repeal, the terminated or repealed law is revived when the later enacted statute becomes operative.

§ 9608

Amended by Stats. 1943, Ch. 381.

The termination or suspension (by whatsoever means effected) of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to the indictment or information and punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so terminated or suspended, unless the intention to bar such indictment or information and punishment is expressly declared by an applicable provision of law.

§ 9609

Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

A statute amending a section of a repealed statute is void.

§ 9610

Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.

The fixing or authorizing the fixing of the salary of a State officer or employee by statute is not intended to and does not constitute an appropriation of money for the payment of the salary. The salary shall be paid only in the event that moneys are made available therefor by another provision of law.

§ 9611

Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 385.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever a provision of law is temporarily suspended, or is expressly or impliedly modified or repealed by a provision which is declared to be effective for only a limited period, the original provisions are not to be deemed repealed, but upon the expiration of the time of the temporary suspension or the effectiveness of the inconsistent provision, the original provision shall have the same force and effect as if the temporary provision had not been enacted.

§ 9612

Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 165.

Unless the context otherwise requires whenever the terms United States Army, Army of the United States, United States Navy, or military service appear in a statute whether singly or any combination of them, they shall be deemed to include the United States Air Force.