California Government Code 14902 – (a) For purposes of this article, “state publication” or …
(a) For purposes of this article, “state publication” or “publication” includes any document, compilation, journal, law, resolution, Blue Book, statute, code, register, pamphlet, list, book, report, memorandum, hearing, legislative bill, leaflet, order, regulation, directory, periodical, or magazine, in physical or electronic format, issued by the state, the Legislature, constitutional officers, or any department, commission, or other agency thereof or prepared for the state by a private individual or organization and issued in print for access by the public. For purposes of this section, “print” includes either physical or electronic format. The publications of the University of California, however, and intraoffice or interoffice publications and forms are not state publications for purposes of this article.
(b) Publications prepared by an officer or employee of the state as part of the person‘s official duties shall be placed in the public domain.
Terms Used In California Government Code 14902
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(c) Documents in the public domain can generally be reprinted without legal restriction. However, state government publications may contain copyrighted material that was used with the permission of the copyright owner. Publication in a government document does not authorize any use or appropriation of the copyrighted material without consent of the owner.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 110, Sec. 36. (SB 820) Effective September 18, 2020.)