CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS. CHAPTER CONTENTS. PART I. THE GOVERNOR. Sec. 423. Messages to Legislature. (Constitution.) Sec. 424. When to adjourn Legislature. (Constitution.) Sec. 425. When to convene special sessions. (Constitution.) Sec. 426. Approval and return of bills-Passage over veto. (Constitution.) Sec. 427. Bills received by the Governor must be indorsed by his Private Secretary. (Political Code.) Sec. 428. Approval of bills. (Political Code.) Sec. 429. Bills returned without approval. (Political Code.) Sec. 430. Return, when house not in session. (Political Code.) Sec. 431. Bills remaining with the Governor more than ten days. (Political Code.) Sec. 432. Nominations to Senate must be in writing. (Political Code.) Sec. 433. Power of the Governor to grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons. (Penal Code.) Sec. 434. Governor's power in respect to convictions for treason. (Penal Code.) Sec. 435. Governor to communicate to Legislature reprieves, commutations and pardons. (Penal Code.) Sec. 436. Messengers from the Governor may be introduced. (Senate rule; Assembly rule.) Sec. 437. Executive communications and nominations to committee. (Joint rule.) Sec. 439. Message from the Governor. (Form.) PART II. PRESIDING OFFICERS. (Form.) (Senate rule.) Sec. 441. Per diem, etc., of Speaker. (Political Code.) Sec. 443. Speaker to preserve order; to decide points of order; and may speak to same. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 444. Speaker to have direction of the hall; may call any member to the chair. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 445. Speaker to sign resolutions, etc., attested by the Clerk. (Assembly rule,) Sec. 446. Speaker may order the galleries and lobby cleared. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 447. Speaker to call house to order. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 448. Speaker to decide who is entitled to the place. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 449. Motions to be stated by Speaker, and if desired shall be reduced to writing, or may be withdrawn. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 450. Calling to order. (Senate rule.) Sec. 455. President pro tem.-His powers and privileges. (Senate rule,) (Senate rule.) (Senate rule.) Sec. 452. President may order lobbies cleared. (Joint rule.) Sec. 455. President pro tem-His powers and privileges. (Senate rule, ) 10-16821 PART III. OTHER OFFICERS AND ATTACHES. Sec. 458. Officers, employees and attaches. (Constitution.) Sec. 460. Resolution of concurrence to be transmitted to Secretary of State and Sec. 461. Oaths to be transmitted to Secretary of State. (Political Code.) Sec. 465. Duties of Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms. (Political Code.) (Political Code.) Sec. 472. Records or papers not to be taken from desk. (Senate rule.) Sec. 474. Assignment of attaches. (Assembly rule.) (Assembly rule.) Sec. 476. Expenses of Sergeant-at-Arms. (Assembly rule.) (Assembly rule.) Sec. 479. Printed bills, etc.. must be placed on desks. (Senate rule.) Sec. 481. Resolution. (Form.) PART IV. PRINTING. Sec. 482. Duties of Superintendent of State Printing. (Political Code.) Sec. 483. Number of documents to be printed. (Political Code.) Sec. 485. Manner of printing. (Political Code.) Sec. 486. Specific duties of. (Political Code.) Sec. 487. Each house to keep a journal. (Constitution.) Sec. 488. Daily journal of each house to be printed. (Political Code.) Sec. 489. What shall be printed in the journal. (Senate rule.) Sec. 490. Elections by Legislature to be viva voce. (Constitution.) Sec. 491. Record of votes and petitions. (Senate rule.) Sec. 492. On first reading of a bill, what printed in the journal. (Senate rule.) Sec. 493. Committee on revision and printing. (Joint rule.) Sec. 494. Numbering lines of bills. (Joint rule.) Sec. 495. Reports of committee on revision. (Joint rule.) Sec. 496. Form for printed amended bills. (Senate rule.) Sec. 497. Printing of bills. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 498. Printing extra number of bills, etc. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 499. Printing of maps. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 500. Printing. (Senate rule.) Sec. 501. Number of copies to be printed. (Senate rule.) Sec. 502. History of bills, resolutions and constitutional amendments. (Joint rule.) Sec. 503. Number of copies to be printed of journal. (Senate rule.) Sec. 504. When not in committee of the whole, proceedings must be entered in the PART V. USE OF AND ADMISSION TO SENATE AND ASSEMBLY CHAMBERS. Sec. 508. Open doors and secret sessions. Sec. 509. Lobbying. (Assembly rule.) (Constitution.) Sec. 511. Press rules. (Joint rule.) Sec. 512. Persons admitted to the floor. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 513. Executive session. (Senate rule.) Sec. 514. Smoking in chamber. (Senate rule; Assembly rule.) Sec. 515. Use of Assembly Chamber. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 516. Press representatives. (Form.) Sec. 517. Privilege of floor of Senate extended. (Form.) Sec. 518. Use of Senate chamber granted. (Form.) PART VI. ATTENDANCE, REMUNERATION, PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS. Sec. 519. Privilege of members. (Constitution.) Sec. 520. Compensation of members of Legislature-Legislative expenses limited. (Constitution.) Sec. 521. Per diem and mileage of members of Legislature. PART VII. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Sec. 524. Senate order of business. (Political Code.) (Senate rule.) PART VIII. CHANGING AND SUSPENDING THE RULES. Sec. 527. Dispensing with joint rules. (Joint rule.) Sec. 528. Suspending and changing Assembly rules. (Assembly rule.) Sec. 529. Suspending or changing Senate rules. (Senate rule.) PART IX. PENALTIES FOR INTERFERING WITH THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE. Sec. 531. Preventing the meeting or organization of either branch of the Legislature. (Penal Code.) Sec. 532. Disturbing the Legislature while in session. (Penal Code.) Sec. 534. Altering enrolled copy of bill or resolution. (Penal Code.) Sec. 535. Giving or offering bribes to members of the Legislature. (Penal Code.) Sec. 538. Members of the Legislature, in addition to other penalties, to forfeit office and be disqualified, etc. (Penal Code.) (Constitution.) Sec. 539. Lobbying defined-Punishment for. SEC. 423. PART I. THE GOVERNOR. MESSAGES TO LEGISLATURE. He shall communicate by message to the Legislature, at every session, the condition of the State, and recommend such matters as he shall deem expedient. (Constitution, art. V, sec. 10.) SEC. 424. WHEN TO ADJOURN LEGISLATURE. In case of a disagreement between the two houses with respect to the time of adjournment, the Governor shall have power to adjourn the Legislature to such time as he may think proper; provided, if it be not beyond the time fixed for the meeting of the next Legislature. (Constitution, art. V, sec. 11.) SEC. 425. WHEN TO CONVENE SPECIAL SESSIONS. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature by proclamation, stating the purposes for which he has convened it, and when so convened it shall have no power to legislate on any subjects other than those specified in the proclamation, but may provide for the expenses of the session and other matters incidental thereto. (Constitution, art. V, sec. 9.) SEC. 426. APPROVAL AND RETURN OF BILLS-PASSAGE OVER VETO. Every bill which may have passed the Legislature shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor. If he approve it, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it originated, which shall enter such objections upon the Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, it again pass both houses, by yeas and nays, two-thirds of the members elected to each house voting therefor, it shall become a law, notwithstanding the Governor's objections. If any bill shall not be returned within ten days after it shall have been presented to him (Sundays excepted), the same shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by adjournment, prevents such return, in which case it shall not become a law, unless the Governor, within thirty days after such adjournment (Sundays excepted), shall sign and deposit the same in the office of the Secretary of State, in which case it shall become a law in like manner as if it had been signed by him before adjournment. If any bill presented to the Governor contains several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more items, while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the reasons therefor, and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect unless passed over the Governor's veto, as hereinbefore provided. If the Legislature be in session, the Governor shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such statement, and the items so objected to shall be separately reconsidered in the same manner as bills which have been disapproved by the Governor. (Constitution, art. IV, sec. 16.) SEC. 427. BILLS RECEIVED BY THE GOVERNOR MUST BE INDORSED BY HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY. Every bill must, as soon as delivered to the Governor, be indorsed as follows: "This bill was received by the Governor this eighteen [nineteen] day of The indorsement must be signed by the private secretary of the Governor. (Political Code, sec. 309.) SEC. 428. APPROVAL OF BILLS. When the Governor approves a bill he must set his name thereto, with the date of his approval, and deposit the same in the office of the Secretary of State. If any bill presented to the Governor contains several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more items while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the reasons therefor. If the Legislature be in session, the Governor shall transmit to the House in which the bill originated a copy of such statement, and the items so objected to shall be separately reconsidered in the same manner as bills which have been disapproved by the Governor. (Political Code, sec. 310.) SEC. 429. BILLS RETURNED WITHOUT APPROVAL. When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if it be a bill containing several items of appropriation of money, with objections to one or more items, and upon reconsideration, such bill, or item, or items, pass both houses by the constitutional majority, the bill, or item, or items must be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate indorsed on or attached to the bill, or indorsed on or attached to the copy of the statement of objections, in the following form: "This bill having been returned by the Governor with his objections thereto, and, after reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, has become a law this day of or, "The following items in the within statement (naming them) having, after reconsideration, passed both houses by the constitutional majority, have become a law this day of " which indorsement, signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly, is a sufficient authentication thereof. Such bill or statement must then be delivered to the Governor, and by him must be deposited with the laws in the office of the Secretary of State. (Political Code, sec. 311.) A. D. 119 A. D. |