In any county a county counsel may be appointed by the board of supervisors.
Cal. Gov. Code § 27640
County Counsel
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 33 Cal. 4th 1055 - Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004)
Most recently applied in Guarino v. Cnty. of Siskiyou (March 2018)
Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1341.
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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.