California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC
GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. - 1. This act shall be known as the Welfare and...

Section 2. - 2. The provisions of this code, in so far as...

Section 3. - 3. All persons who, at the time this code goes...

Section 4. - 4. No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes...

Section 5. - 5. Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter...

Section 6. - 6. Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein...

Section 7. - 7. Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power...

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

Section 9. - 9. Whenever any reference is made to any portion of...

Section 10. - 10. “Section” means a section of this code unless some...

Section 11. - 11. The present tense includes the past and future tenses,...

Section 12. - 12. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter. (Enacted...

Section 12.2. - 12.2. “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section...

Section 13. - 13. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural...

Section 14. - 14. “County” includes “city and county.” (Enacted by Stats. 1937,...

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

Section 16. - 16. “Oath” includes affirmation. (Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 369.)

Section 17. - 17. “Signature” or “subscription” includes mark when the signer or...

Section 17.1. - 17.1. Unless otherwise provided under the provisions of this code,...

Section 18. - 18. If any provision of this code, or the application...

Section 19. - 19. It is the purpose of this code, in establishing...

Section 19.1. - 19.1. The purpose of the public social services for which...

Section 21. - 21. (a) Whenever any reference is made in any provision...

Section 22. - 22. Whenever in any provision of law there is a...

Section 23. - 23. Whenever in any provision of law there is a...

Section 24. - 24. The provisions of Chapter 1129 of the Statutes of...

Section 26. - 26. (a) For purposes of this code, “assessed value” means...

Section 27. - 27. Each agency and department responsible for listing in regulations...