Government Code section 13297

The money in the Treasury shall be counted by the State Auditor at least twice each year, without giving the Treasurer any previous notice of the day or hour of counting.
At any counting the State Auditor may place any sum in bags or boxes and mark and seal them with a seal adopted and kept by him or her. At any subsequent counting he or she may count each sealed bag or box separately and credit at the value stamped thereon the contents of the bags or boxes as part of the money counted without making a detailed count of the contents.

Source: Section 13297, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=13297.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2004; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

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Jun. 18, 2026

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