Every office, the term of which is not fixed by law, is held at the pleasure of the appointing power.
Cal. Gov. Code § 1301
General
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 125 Cal. App. 3d 931 - Jabola v. Pasadena Redevelopment Agency (1981)
Most recently applied in 4 Cal. 5th 1204 - Delano Farms Co. v. Cal. Table Grape Commission (May 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.
How often courts cite this section
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.