§ 995.670.Public Agency Requiring Compliance With Requirements Other Than Those Stated In Section 995.660 Prohibited

This section keeps § 995.660's document list uniform statewide. It applies to any bond executed, filed, posted, furnished, or otherwise given as security under a California statute or a public agency's own law or ordinance. No public agency -- defined broadly to include the state, its agencies and authorities, and cities, counties, districts, and other public corporations or their instrumentalities -- may demand anything beyond § 995.660's requirements from an admitted surety insurer whose sufficiency is objected to or whose bond requires approval.

Without this uniformity, an insurer writing bonds across dozens of local agencies could face a different documentation checklist from each one. Section 995.675 carves out the one narrow exception this chapter allows, for certain environmental regulators enforcing federal waste-management law.