In addition to the penalty affixed by express terms, to every neglect or violation of official duty on the part of public officers, State, county, city, or township, where it is not so expressly provided, they may, in the discretion of the Court, be removed from office.
Cal. Penal Code § 661
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case City of South Lake Tahoe v. California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (1980)
Most recently applied in 687 F. Supp. 2d 1155 - Young v. City of Visalia (January 2010)
Enacted 1872.
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.