California Code
Financial Code - FIN
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act is known and may be cited as...

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code insofar as they are...

Section 3. - 3. Any action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...

Section 4. - 4. Unless the context otherwise requires the general provisions hereinafter...

Section 5. - 5. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not...

Section 6. - 6. Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...

Section 8. - 8. “Writing” includes any form of recorded message capable of...

Section 9. - 9. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 10. - 10. The present tense includes the past and future tenses;...

Section 11. - 11. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (Enacted...

Section 11.2. - 11.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 12. - 12. The singular number includes the plural and the plural...

Section 13. - 13. “City” includes incorporated city, city and county, municipal corporation,...

Section 14. - 14. “County” includes city and county. (Enacted by Stats. 1951,...

Section 15. - 15. “Shall” is mandatory and “may” is permissive. (Enacted by...

Section 16. - 16. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 364.)

Section 17. - 17. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark. The mark shall be...

Section 18. - 18. “Person” includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company,...

Section 19. - 19. If any provision of this code, or its application...

Section 20. - 20. The existence of corporations formed or existing on the...

Section 21. - 21. All persons who, at the time this code goes...

Section 22. - 22. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, Chapter 10...