SECTIONS 13900-13915 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 13900-13915

13900. (a) As used in this chapter, "board" means the California
Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
(b) Any reference in statute or regulation to the State Board of
Control shall be construed to refer to the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board.

13901. (a) There is within the State and Consumer Services Agency
the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
(b) The board consists of the Secretary of State and Consumer
Services or his or her designee and the Controller, both acting ex
officio, and a third member who shall be appointed by and serve at
the pleasure of the Governor. The third member may be a state officer
who shall act ex officio.
(c) Any reference in statute or regulation to the State Board of
Control shall be construed to refer to the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board.

13902. (a) If the third member is not a state officer acting ex
officio, the member shall receive fifty dollars ($50) for every day
of actual attendance at meetings of the board not in excess of eight
meetings per month, together with necessary traveling expenses in
attending these meetings.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 1990.

13903. The Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency
shall serve as chair of the board.

13904. The board shall keep a record of all its proceedings and any
member may cause his dissent to the action of the majority upon any
matter to be entered upon such record.

13905. The board shall have a seal, bearing the following
inscription: "California Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board." The seal shall be fixed to all writs and authentications of
copies of records and to other instruments that the board directs.

13906. A majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the
transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for
the exercise of any power of the board. A vacancy in the board does
not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the
powers of the board.

13907. The act of a majority of the board when in session as a
board is the act of the board; but any investigation, inquiry, or
hearing which the board has power to undertake or to hold may be
undertaken or held by or before any member designated for the purpose
by the board.

13908. The evidence in any investigation, inquiry, or hearing may
be taken by the member to whom the investigation, inquiry, or hearing
has been assigned or, in his or their behalf, by an examiner
designated for that purpose. Every finding, opinion, and order made
by a member so designated, pursuant to investigation, inquiry, or
hearing, when approved or confirmed by the board and ordered filed in
its office at the State Capitol, Sacramento, is the finding,
opinion, and order of the board.

13909. (a) The board shall appoint an executive officer who shall
hold office at its pleasure. It may also employ those personnel,
including examiners, as it deems necessary for the performance of its
duties.
(b) The executive officer shall execute those duties and
responsibilities as may be delegated by the board. The board may,
except as otherwise provided in this section, delegate any statutory
power of the board to the executive officer, or any examiner,
employee, or committee as the board may designate, by means of a
board order that is adopted by a majority of all of the board's
members and that prescribes the limits of the delegation.
(c) This section shall not be construed to authorize the board to
delegate the authority to allow a claim filed pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 905.2 that exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

13910. The executive officer, or his or her designee, shall keep a
full and true record of all proceedings of the board, issue all
necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and perform those
other duties as the board prescribes. The executive officer and the
deputy executive officers, or their designees may administer oaths,
certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas for the attendance
of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts,
documents, and testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, or
proceeding in any part of the state.

13911. The examiners may administer oaths, examine witnesses, issue
subpenas, and receive evidence, under such rules and regulations as
the board may adopt.

13915. The board shall hold regular meetings in Sacramento and may
hold other meetings at the times and places within the state as a
majority of the board directs. At any meeting the board may transact
any business and perform all duties imposed upon it.