CHAPTER III. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. ARTICLE I. CLASSIFICATION, NUMBER, AND DESIGNATION OF EXEC- II. MODE OF ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT, AND TERM OF III. GOVERNOR. IV. LIEUTENANT GOVERnor. V. SECRETARY OF STATE. VI. CONTROLLER. VII. TREASURER. VIII. ATTORNEY GENERAL. IX. SURVEYOR GENERAL. X. REGISTER OF THE STATE LAND OFFICE. XI. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. XIII. STATE GEOLOGIST. XIV. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. XV. INSPECTOR OF GAS METERS. XVI. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER. XVII. FISH COMMISSIONERS. XVIII. BOARD OF EXAMINERS. XIX. OTHER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. Classification of executive officers. ARTICLE I. CLASSIFICATION, NUMBER, AND DESIGNATION OF EXECUTIVE officers. NOTE.-Bouvier Law Dict., Vol. 1, p. 555, defines "executive" to be "that power in the Government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed." The President is the chief executive officer of the Federal, and the Governor is the chief executive officer of the State Government. The term executive is here used to designate all officers charged by the Constitution or the laws with any duty in executing or causing to be executed and obeyed the laws of the State. officers. 342. Military officers are designated and their Military duties prescribed in Title IV of Part III of this Code. NOTE.-Secs. 1895 to 2117, inclusive, post. 343. The number and designation of the civil Designa executive officers are as follows: A Governor; A Private Secretary for the Governor; An Executive Clerk for the Governor; A Secretary of State; A Deputy Secretary of State; A Clerk for the Secretary of State; Two Recording Clerks for the Secretary of State; A Deputy Controller; A Bookkeeper for the Controller; Five Clerks for the Controller; A Treasurer; Two Clerks for the Treasurer; An Attorney General; A Clerk for the Attorney General; A Surveyor General; A Deputy Surveyor General; Three Clerks for the Surveyor General; A Deputy Register of the State Land Office; A Superintendent of Public Instruction; tion and number of civil executive officers. A Deputy for the Superintendent of Public Instruction; A Clerk for the Superintendent of Public Instruc tion; A State Printer; Same. A State Sealer of Weights and Measures; A Vaccine Agent; A Commissioner of Immigration; An Insurance Commissioner; A Deputy for the Insurance Commissioner; Three Tide Land Commissioners; Three members of the State Board of Tide Land Four Port Wardens for the port of San Francisco; Three State Harbor Commissioners; Three Harbor Commissioners for the port of Eureka; Six Pilots for each harbor where there is no Board of Pilot Commissioners; Three members of the Marine Board for the port of San Francisco; Three members of the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the ports of San Francisco, Mare Island, and Benicia; Three members of the Board of Pilot Commissioners for Humboldt Bay and Bar; NOTE. The statute of 1872, p. 650, et seq., provides Pilot Commissioners for the port of San Diego. See note following Sec. 2491, post, and the Act there given. Three Fish Commissioners; Five members of the Board of Health of San Francisco; Five members of the Board of Health of Sacramento; Seven members of the State Board of Health; A President and nine Directors of the State Board of Agriculture; Three members of the State Board of Equalization; Ten members of the State Board of Education; A State Librarian; Two Deputy State Librarians; A Librarian of the Supreme Court Library; Five Directors of the Insane Asylum; A Medical Superintendent of the Insane Asylum; Five Trustees of the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind; Three Trustees of the State Burying Grounds; Nine Commissioners of the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove; Three members of the Board of Examiners; A Clerk for the Board of Examiners; Such other officers as fill offices created by or under the authority of the general laws for the government of counties, cities, and towns, or of the charters or special laws respecting the same, or of the health, school, election, road, or revenue laws. Same. ARTICLE II. THE MODE OF ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT AND TERM OF OFFICE OF CIVIL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. SECTION 348. Certain officers elected. 349. State Printer. 350. Register of Land Office. 351. State Sealer of Weights and Measures. 352. State Board of Equalization. 353. Regents of the University. 354. Trustees of State Normal School. 355. State Board of Education. 356. Officers of Libraries. 357. Yosemite and Big Tree Commissioners. 13-VOL. I. Certain officers elected, State Register of Land Office. SECTION 358. Superintendent, etc., of Insane Asylum. 360. San Francisco Board of Health. 361. Sacramento Board of Health. 362. Harbor Commissioners. 363. San Francisco Marine Board. 364. Board of Examiners. 365. State Board of Tide Land Commissioners. 366. State Capitol Commissioners. 367. State Prison Directors. 368. Inspector of Gas Meters. Trustees of the State Burying Grounds. Directors of Insane Asylum. Trustees of Asylum for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. Port Wardens. Insurance Commissioner. State Board of Health. Vaccine Agent. Commissioner of Immigration. Pilot Commissioners. Pilots. Fish Commissioners. State Geologist. Tide Land Commissioners. 369. Term of office of officers mentioned in preceding section. 370. Private Secretary and Clerk of Governor. 371. Deputies and Clerks. 348. The mode of election of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treas urer, Attorney General, Surveyor General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction is prescribed by the Constitution. NOTE.-Const., Art. V, Secs. 2, 16, 18, and 20, and Art. IX, Sec. 1. 349. The State Printer is elected at the same time as the State officers mentioned in the preceding section, and holds his office for the term of four years from the first Monday in December next succeeding his election. 350. The Surveyor General is ex officio Register and the Deputy Surveyor General is ex officio Deputy Register of the State Land Office. NOTE.-See Sec. 3395, et seq., post. |