Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The Director of FISCal shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the Governor, subject to Senate confirmation. (Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 569, Sec. 29. (AB 156) Effective September 27, 2022.)

(a) The director shall, at least annually, confer with the partner agencies and at least one representative of other agencies utilizing the system to prioritize system enhancements, defects, and workarounds. (b) The director retains the discretion and ultimate authority on the im…

A city may acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation, water, water rights, reservoir sites, rights of way for pipes, aqueducts, flumes, or other conduits, and all other property and appliances suitable and proper to supply water for the use of the city and its inhabitants. (Adde…

Two or more cities may jointly acquire and develop a source of water supply for municipal and domestic purposes and construct the works necessary for their joint and several purposes and needs. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

When a city legislative body deems it advisable to investigate the desirability of joint action with any other city for acquiring and maintaining a water supply, the legislative body shall pass a resolution so stating. With the consent and advice of the legislative body, the mayo…

The commissioners from the several cities shall meet and consider the desirability of the joint acquisition and development of a water supply and the plans and terms they deem feasible and equitable. If they agree upon the plans and terms, they shall report them to their legislat…

If the legislative bodies approve the plans and terms reported by the commissioners, they shall declare their approval by resolution and submit them to the qualified voters of their respective cities for approval or rejection at the next city election or at a special election cal…

If the terms and plans are approved by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition at the election, the cities may begin developing or acquiring the water supply in accordance with the plans and terms. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Any city may issue bonds to complete the acquisition of a water supply jointly with other cities. All proceedings relating to the issue of such bonds shall be taken pursuant to law for the issue of bonds to acquire a water supply. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Joint ownership and costs shall be restricted to those portions of the sources and works which are common to all the cities served. Each city shall exclusively own, construct, and operate those sources and works which are for its exclusive use. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The apportionment of all costs of acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of the joint properties shall be made upon the basis of the amount of water proposed to be apportioned to the several cities, unless a different apportionment of costs is agreed upon. (Added b…

The total costs of works which exclusively serve one city shall be borne by that city exclusively. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The plans and terms or other agreement for acquiring the water supply may be modified by agreement between the cities, as declared by the legislative bodies. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Before a resolution or ordinance relating to the joint acquisition of a water supply is binding upon a city, it shall be approved by the mayor or passed over the mayor’s veto pursuant to the charter provision or general law for the passage of ordinances. (Amended by Stats. 2018, …

The legislative body of any city may: (a) Contract for supplying the city with water for municipal purposes. (b) Acquire, construct, repair, and manage pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary or proper for supplying water for the use of the city or its inhabitants …

A city may, pursuant to the notice, protest, and hearing procedures in Section 53753, fix, on or before the first day of July in each calendar year, an annual water service standby or immediate availability charge to be applied on an area or frontage or parcel basis, or a combina…

If any water standby charge authorized to be collected pursuant to Section 38743 remains unpaid on the first day of the month before the month in which the board of supervisors of the county in which the city is located is required by law to levy county general taxes, a 6-percent…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city council of a city may, by resolution, establish zones or areas of benefit within the city for purposes of restricting the imposition of the water service standby or immediate availability charges authorized in Section 38743 to …

There is hereby appropriated to the California Public Broadcasting Commission the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) from the General Fund to the California Public Broadcasting Fund for direct grants in fiscal year 1983–84 to the five minority-controlled and ope…

The commission shall annually distribute the total amount, less the commission’s necessary administrative expenses, available for allocation to public broadcasting stations. The commission shall reserve for distribution among the public broadcasting stations an amount not less th…

The commission shall, after consultation with the radio, television, and instructional broadcast committees, establish, and review annually, criteria and conditions regarding the distribution of amounts disbursed to the various public television and radio stations. Amounts disbur…

(a) The commission shall prepare an annual financial statement showing all income and expenditures for the preceding year. The commission shall, by regulation, require each recipient of assistance by grant or contract, other than a fixed price contract awarded pursuant to competi…

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to supersede the responsibilities of a state agency or regional or local agency except as expressly provided. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to conflict with Section 6443.5, 6444, 6444.1, 6444.2, or 6444.3 of the Education Code.…

By ordinance the city legislative body may declare what constitutes a nuisance. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

(a) The legislative body of a city, county, or city and county may provide for the summary abatement of any nuisance resulting from the defacement of the property of another by graffiti or any other inscribed material at the expense of the minor or other person creating, causing,…

The legislative body may provide for the summary abatement of any nuisance at the expense of the persons creating, causing, committing, or maintaining it and by ordinance may make the expense of abatement of nuisances a lien against the property on which it is maintained and a pe…

(a) The legislative body may by ordinance establish a procedure to collect abatement and related administrative costs by a nuisance abatement lien. This ordinance shall require notice prior to the recordation of the lien to the owner of record of the parcel of land or which the n…

(a) The legislative body of a city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance, establish a procedure to collect abatement and related administrative costs incurred in the summary abatement of any nuisance resulting from the defacement by a minor or other person of the property…

(a) As an alternative to the procedure authorized by Section 38773.1, the legislative body may by ordinance establish a procedure for the abatement of a nuisance and make the cost of abatement of a nuisance upon a parcel of land a special assessment against that parcel. (b) A cit…

(a) As an alternative to the procedure specified in Section 38773.2, the legislative body of a city, county, or city and county may, by ordinance, establish a procedure for the abatement of any nuisance resulting from the defacement by a minor or other person of property of anoth…

The legislative body, by ordinance, may provide that upon entry of a second or subsequent civil or criminal judgment within a two-year period finding that an owner of property or a person described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 38772 is responsible for a conditio…

The legislative body may: (a) Regulate the exhibition, posting, or carrying of banners, placards, posters, cards, pictures, signs, or advertisements in or on the street, or on or upon buildings, fences, billboards, or other structures; or on or upon any pole in any sidewalk, alle…

The legislative body may prohibit and prevent encroachments upon or obstruction in or to any sidewalks, street, alley, lane, court, park, or other public place and provide for the removal of such encroachment or obstruction. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

For purposes of this article, “eligible radio station” means a radio station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, meets both of the following requirements: (a) It has met all of the following requirements for a period of two years unless another time is s…

For purposes of this article, “eligible television station” means a television station that, at the time of applying for a grant under this article, unless another time is specified, meets all of the following requirements: (a) It has met all of the following requirements for a p…

For the purposes of this article, “nonfederal financial support” means the total sum of revenues from nonfederal sources derived by a licensee in a fiscal year and reported in an audited financial statement thereof, and does not include in-kind services, funds received for the pu…

For purposes of this article, “station” or “public broadcasting station” means any eligible radio or television station. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1087, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2001.)

(a) Recognizing the necessity of converting California stations to the technologies of digital broadcasting, the Legislature intends that funds may be appropriated to the Office of Emergency Services for the purchase of equipment by eligible stations, the installation of that equ…

It is the intent of the Legislature that any funds provided to stations under this article shall supplement, rather than supplant, funds provided from other sources. To that end, institutions that have heretofore provided funding to stations licensed to them shall certify, in app…

By gift, purchase, or condemnation any city may acquire land within the county where the city is located for garbage disposal sites and rights of way for roadways to the site. “Garbage” includes: (a) Animal, fruit, and vegetable refuse. (b) Offal. (c) Leaves and cuttings, trimmin…

Any city collecting garbage fees or charges may collect delinquent fees or charges in the manner provided in Section 25831 for counties. (Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 175.)

By ordinance the legislative body of a city may provide for a chief executive who, during periods of great public calamity such as extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, earthquake, sabotage or enemy attack, shall have complete authority over the city and the right to exerci…

(a) The legislative body of a city may impose and collect a license fee for a period not to exceed two years and not exceeding the cost of services relating to dogs, including, but not limited to, animal shelters and control and the programs specified in Section 30652 of the Food…

As a means of implementing a municipal underground utility district formed to remove existing overhead utility lines and to require property owners of the district, served by such lines, to prepare their properties to accept underground utility lines, cities may provide by ordina…

The legislative body of a city may contract for ambulance service to serve the residents of the city as convenience requires. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 182.)

This article applies to the municipal court established in a district embracing the Judicial District of El Cajon. (Repealed and added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 784, Sec. 416. Effective January 1, 2003. Repealed as of January 1, 2074, pursuant to Section 73643.)