SECTIONS 24200-24205 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 24200-24205

24200. Except as otherwise provided, all elective county officers
shall be elected at the general election at which the Governor is
elected, and take office at 12 o'clock noon on the first Monday after
the January 1st succeeding their election.

24201. All officers elected pursuant to this chapter shall hold
office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified.

24202. Supervisors shall be elected at the general election prior
to expiration of the term of the incumbents.

24203. Within six months after the first general election
succeeding the creation of the county, the supervisors of any county
created after July 1, 1907, shall 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 the commencement of the term, and the term of office of
the class having the lesser number shall terminate in four years from
the commencement of the term.

24204. Whenever any county frames and adopts a charter for its
government, which is approved by the Legislature, and the charter
provides for the appointment of any officers of a county, the
officers first appointed under the charter are the successors of the
like elective officers in office at the time of the approval of the
charter. The elective officers shall continue to hold office for the
term for which they were elected and until the appointment and
qualification of their successors under the charter. No election for
any officer whose successor is to be appointed shall be had at any
election held subsequent to the approval of the charter, except to
fill a vacancy for an unexpired term.

24205. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 24204, or any
other statute, the office of sheriff shall be filled by election as
provided in this chapter for elective county officers, and vacancies
shall be filled as provided by law for filling elective county
offices, unless the county or city and county is chartered and such
charter provides for election of the sheriff by vote of the electors.
(b) In any charter county or city and county, whose charter
provides for filling the office of sheriff other than by election by
vote of the electors, in conflict with subdivision (c) of Section 4
of Article XI of the California Constitution, the office of sheriff
of such charter county or city and county shall be filled as provided
in subdivision (a).