Section 8765 Of Chapter 9.5. California Poet Laureate From California Government Code >> Division 1. >> Title 2. >> Chapter 9.5.

. The council may solicit and receive gifts, donations, bequests, grants of funds, or any other revenues, from public or private sources, and expend those moneys to increase the stipend of the California Poet Laureate and for any other purpose it deems necessary to implement this chapter.