Counties: officers: qualification for office.

Existing law prohibits a person from being considered a legally qualified candidate for the offices of county auditor, county district attorney, county sheriff, county superintendent of schools, judge of the superior court, county treasurer, county tax collector, or county treasurer-tax collector, unless the person has filed a declaration of candidacy, nomination paper, or statement of write-in candidacy, accompanied by documentation, as specified, sufficient to establish, in the determination of the official with whom the declaration or statement is filed, that the person meets each qualification established by specified provisions for service in that office. Existing law applies these requirements to the office of county treasurer, county tax collector, and county treasurer-tax collector, and requires, where the board of supervisors has adopted a certain ordinance, that a person meet at least one of 5 specified criteria to be eligible for those offices. This bill, for elections or appointments on or after January 1, 2015, would extend these provisions to the offices of consolidated director of finance, the director of finance, and any office consolidated with the office of treasurer or tax collector of any county. By imposing new duties on local election officials and expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would eliminate the condition, for the application of the requirement that at least one of 5 specified criteria be met, with respect to the offices subject to that requirement, that the board of supervisors adopt a certain ordinance. The bill would revise one of the specified criteria, and would change the applicability date from January 1, 1998, to January 1, 2015. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.