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2007 California Elections Code Chapter 1. Purchasing Procedures
CA Codes (elec:13000-13007)
ELECTIONS CODESECTION 13000-13007
13000. The person in charge of elections for any county, city and county, city, or district shall provide ballots for any elections within his or her jurisdiction, and shall cause to be printed on them the name of every candidate whose name has been certified to or filed with the proper officer pursuant to law and who, therefore, is entitled to a place on the appropriate ballot. 13001. (a) All expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation for and conduct of elections as provided in this code shall be paid from the county treasuries, except that when an election is called by the governing body of a city the expenses shall be paid from the treasury of the city. All payments shall be made in the same manner as other county or city expenditures are made. The elections official, in providing the materials required by this division, need not utilize the services of the county or city purchasing agent. (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2008. 13002. All ballot paper and punchcards used by any jurisdiction holding an election pursuant to the laws of California, shall be tinted and watermarked or overprinted with a design, to be furnished by the Secretary of State, so that the watermark or overprint shall be plainly discernible. 13004. The Secretary of State shall adopt regulations governing the manufacture, distribution, and inventory control of punchcards and requiring the periodic inspection of the manufacturing and storage facilities involving punchcards. The Secretary of State shall also approve each punchcard manufacturer prior to a manufacturer providing punchcards for use in California elections. 13005. (a) Before any user may purchase punchcards, the user shall request in writing a release for a specific quantity of these punchcards from the Secretary of State. If the request is in order, the Secretary of State shall then issue a written release for that quantity to the manufacturer, or to the authorized warehouse, and to the user. The format, text, and use of the request and release shall be governed by regulations adopted by the Secretary of State. (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a verbal request or verbal release, provided that this verbal request or verbal release is immediately confirmed in writing. The regulations shall expressly deny the manufacturing of punchcards without a specific release. 13006. No user, vendor, or manufacturer shall warehouse for a subsequent election any ballot paper or punchcards furnished or released by the Secretary of State for a specific election without first obtaining authorization in writing from the Secretary of State for the storage. The authorization shall include the particular details of the amount to be stored so that audit controls may be established and maintained. Any ballot paper or punchcards not used in that election, not authorized to be retained for subsequent elections, and not returned to the Secretary of State, shall be destroyed. A certificate of destruction setting forth the date of destruction and the amount of the ballot paper or punchcards destroyed shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State. 13007. There shall be a revolving fund for the purchase of ballot paper and punchcards. The fund shall be continuously appropriated and shall be continuously utilized without regard to fiscal years for the payment of expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in accordance with this section. The fund shall be used for the purchase of ballot paper and punchcards, as provided in this chapter, and shall be reimbursed by the receipts from the jurisdiction obtaining the ballot paper or punchcards in accordance with this chapter. The fund shall at all times be intact and represented either by cash in the State Treasury, ballot paper, or punchcards in the custody of the Secretary of State, or accounts receivable representing ballot paper or punchcard sales.
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