California Code
CHAPTER 5 - Improvement Security
Section 66499.6.

66499.6. Such money, negotiable bond or instrument of credit shall be a trust fund to guarantee performance and shall not be subject to enforcement of a money judgment by any creditors of the depositor until the obligation secured thereby is performed to the satisfaction of the local agency.

(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 497, Sec. 120. Operative July 1, 1983, by Sec. 185 of Ch. 497.)