Every wilful omission to perform any duty enjoined by law upon any public officer, or person holding any public trust or employment, where no special provision is made for the punishment of such delinquency, is punishable as a misdemeanor.
Cal. Gov. Code § 1222
Miscellaneous
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case City of South Lake Tahoe v. California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (1980)
Most recently applied in 225 Cal. App. 3d 1586 - Centinela Hospital Assn. v. City of Inglewood (December 1990)
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.