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Cal. Gov. Code § 900
Definitions
Known as the Government Claims Act
The act spans §§ 810–998.3 (301 sections).
Applied in 122 court decisions — leading case 66 Cal. 2d 468 - Tammen v. County of San Diego (1967)
Most recently applied in 7 Cal. 5th 718 - Stoetzl v. Dept. of Human Resources (July 2019)
Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1715.
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.