This law allows the county's board of supervisors to establish the public guardian's office through a local law and set the necessary staff positions and their salaries. They also have the authority to shut down the public guardian's office if they choose to do so.

This law allows the board of supervisors in a county to appoint a public guardian, who may also handle conservatorship matters. When choosing a public guardian, the board can prefer someone already doing similar work, but they must ensure there's no conflict with conservatorship duties.

This law gives a county's board of supervisors the power to decide who will serve as the public guardian. They can either designate the public administrator to automatically take on this role or appoint another individual. If they choose someone else, they can later change their decision by making the public administrator the public guardian. Similarly, if the public administrator is already the public guardian, the board can decide to appoint someone else by ending the administrator's authority through an ordinance.

This law states that when a public guardian or an ex officio public guardian leaves their position, their authority passes to the person who takes over the role. If there are official documents known as 'letters' issued to the public guardian, these remain valid for the successor, so there is no need to issue new documents.

The public guardian must provide a bond, whose amount is set by the board of supervisors, to protect both the estates they oversee and the county. This bond covers all guardianships or conservatorships they manage, not individual estates.

This law allows a county to cover necessary expenses for a public guardian managing a guardianship or conservatorship estate and then be repaid once estate funds or property are available. The county can also create a revolving fund to help the public guardian with these expenses, following a specific financial procedure.

This law allows the board of supervisors to decide who can be a public representative payee, which is someone who manages another person's benefits. It also lets them assign the public guardian to collect fees for these services.