2023 California Code
Government Code - GOV
TITLE 1 - GENERAL
DIVISION 4 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 1 - General
ARTICLE 4 - Prohibitions Applicable to Specified Officers
Section 1097.
1097. (a) Every officer or person prohibited by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, who willfully violates any of the provisions of those laws, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(b) An individual who willfully aids or abets an officer or person in violating a prohibition by the laws of this state from making or being interested in contracts, or from becoming a vendor or purchaser at sales, or from purchasing scrip, or other evidences of indebtedness, including any member of the governing board of a school district, is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the state prison, and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 483, Sec. 3. (SB 952) Effective January 1, 2015.)
