California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Green, 50 Cal.App.4th 1076, 58 Cal.Rptr.2d 259 (Cal. App. 1996):
"An addition or subtraction in relation to the volume of the duties required to be performed by an officer, which does not substantially affect the primary duties of his office, is not such a change of duties as would prevent immediate effectiveness of legislation properly declared to be urgent." (Martin v. Riley (1942) 20 Cal.2d 28, 37, 123 P.2d 488.)
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