California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Chico Unified Sch. Dist. v. Board of Supervisors, 3 Cal.App.3d 852, 84 Cal.Rptr. 198 (Cal. App. 1970):
This is not a situation comparable to that in City and County of San Francisco v. Broderick, 125 Cal. 188, 57 P. 887, where the court held unconstitutional a statute which permitted certain officers to appoint as many deputies as may be necessary to discharge the duties of the office, holding that if the officers were allowed to appoint deputies at will and make their salaries a charge on the county '(S)uch a construction would result in a grievous interference with the county funds, and would come clearly within the purview of section 13, art. 11, of the construction.' (p. 193, 57 P. p. 889.)
Section 19685 is not unconstitutional.
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