Any contract, authorization, allowance, payment, or liability to pay, made or attempted to be made in violation of law, is void, and shall not be the foundation or basis of a claim against the treasury of any county.
Cal. Gov. Code § 23006
General
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case County of Orange v. Merrill Lynch & Co. (In Re County of Orange) (1996)
Most recently applied in County of Orange v. Fuji Securities, Inc. (December 1998)
Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.
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.