A county may exercise its powers only through the board of supervisors or through agents and officers acting under authority of the board or authority conferred by law.
Cal. Gov. Code § 23005
General
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Bouman v. Block (1991)
Most recently applied in Bouman v. Block (July 1991)
Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.
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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.
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