Title GOV, California Gov. Code

Whenever a city having a population of less than 2,500 inhabitants adopts an ordinance code containing all ordinances and amendments previously adopted and amendments and new ordinances to bring the codification up to the date of adoption, instead of publishing such code, amendme…

Ordinances shall not be passed within five days of their introduction, nor at other than a regular meeting or at an adjourned regular meeting. However, an urgency ordinance may be passed immediately upon introduction and either at a regular or special meeting. Except when, after …

Resolutions or orders for the payment of money shall be adopted or made only at a regular meeting or at a special meeting for which the notice of such special meeting specifies the business to be transacted. (Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 775.)

Resolutions, orders for the payment of money, and all ordinances require a recorded majority vote of the total membership of the city council. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 454, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 2003.)

The rates of taxes to be levied or the amount of revenue required to be raised by taxation may be fixed either by ordinance or resolution. Where the tax rate or the amount of revenue required to be raised by taxation is fixed by resolution, such resolution shall be published in t…

Ordinances take effect 30 days after their final passage. An ordinance takes effect immediately, if it is an ordinance: (a) Relating to an election. (b) For the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, containing a declaration of the facts constituting the ur…

The legislative body may establish a pension plan and provide retirement and death benefits for city employees in order to effect economy and efficiency in the public service and provide a means by which employees who become superannuated or otherwise incapacitated may, without h…

Any pension or retirement system adopted shall be on a sound actuarial basis and provide for contributions by both the city and the employee members of the system which shall be based on percentages of pay roll to be changed only by adjustments on account of experience under the …

Contributions shall be in amounts which will accumulate at retirement a fund sufficient to carry out the promise to pay benefits to the individual on account of his service as a member of the system, without further contributions from any source. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Benefits based on service rendered prior to membership in the system shall be met by additional contributions of the employer. Such prior service liability may be funded over a fixed period of years. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

As an alternate method of providing a retirement system, the city may contract with the Board of Administration of the State Employees’ Retirement System and enter all or any portion of its employees under such system pursuant to law and under the terms and conditions of such con…

Whether governed under general laws or charter, a local agency may donate and grant to the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the governing board of a community college district real property that it owns as a site for uni…

For the purposes of Section 50330, a local agency may purchase land or options on land or contract for and make downpayments on land or options on land within or without its boundaries and make a gift of that land, option, or contract and downpayment to the Trustees of the Califo…

A local agency may acquire and hold land within its boundaries for: (a) Developing and encouraging agricultural, horticultural, or botanical products. (b) Exhibiting such products. (c) Erecting, rebuilding, or furnishing historical museums and art galleries. Such land may be acqu…

By a four-fifths vote of its legislative body, a local agency may donate and convey, for fairground or exposition, park, playground, or recreational purposes, to the State or to the district agricultural association of the agricultural district in which the local agency is situat…

Whether governed under general laws or charter, a local agency may donate and grant to the State real property which it owns within its boundaries as a site for public buildings and grounds. A local agency may acquire such real property by purchase or eminent domain proceedings i…

Whether governed under general laws or charter, a local agency may donate and grant to the United States real property which it owns within its boundaries as a site for post-office and federal office buildings and grounds. A local agency may expend its funds, incur indebtedness, …

The legislative body of a local agency may convey to any public corporation, or private corporation engaged in the public utility business, an easement to lay, construct, reconstruct, maintain, and operate water, sewer, gas or storm drain pipes or ditches, electric or telephone l…

As used in this article, “city” means a city governed under a freeholders’ charter. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

This article provides an alternative method by which the duties of city officers designated in this article may be performed by officers of the county in which the city is situated. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

When the city charter or a city ordinance authorized by the charter provides, the county officers designated in the charter or ordinance shall perform any of the following duties of the city legislative body, assessor, tax collector, or other officers: (a) The assessment of city …

The county officers designated shall be officers who perform duties of the same character as the city officers whose duties are transferred to them. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

A copy of the charter or ordinance providing for the transfer of duties shall be certified by the city clerk and filed with the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of the February following the effective date of the charter provision or ordinance. (Added by Stats. …

The board of supervisors shall cause notice of the charter provision or ordinance to be given to the designated county officers. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The county assessment roll made annually by the county assessor and equalized and corrected by the board of supervisors shall be the basis for levying city taxes. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

In the case of a sale of property for taxes or special assessments, except where the sale is conducted and the funds are accounted for as provided in Division 1 (commencing with Section 101) of the Revenue and Taxation Code, all proceeds shall be accounted for and distributed as …

As soon as practicable after the lien date following the effective date of the charter provision or ordinance, the city clerk shall deliver to the county assessor a written statement showing separately the exterior boundaries of the city as originally incorporated and the exterio…

Annually before September 1st, the city legislative body shall cause to be delivered to the county auditor a statement certified by the city clerk showing separately: (a) The levy or rate percent of taxes levied for all municipal purposes for the year, including amounts required …

Upon delivery of the certified statement from the city legislative body, the county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the municipal taxes on the property enumerated and assessed as being in the city, using the rate fixed by the city legislative body and the a…

The taxes so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and shall be paid into the county treasury. After deduction of the county’s compensation the net amount of the taxes shall be paid to the city. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 209.)

When delinquent city taxes, with costs and penalties, have been paid to the county treasurer or when property in the city has been sold for the nonpayment of city taxes and redeemed, and the money for the redemption paid to the county treasurer, the money collected shall be paid …

The net amounts of collections of current and delinquent taxes and redemptions shall be paid to the city monthly, or at such other times agreed upon between the city legislative body and the board of supervisors. (Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 209.)

The collection of unpaid city taxes levied on property by the city shall be enforced by the sale of the property in the manner, at the time, and upon the penalties, of property sold for nonpayment of county taxes. Real property so sold may be redeemed within the time and upon the…

The county auditor shall apportion to the city the money paid for redemption, in the proportion which the tax due the city bears to the total tax for which the real property was sold. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The proper city officers shall perform all duties relative to the collection of city taxes, including delinquent taxes, levied prior to the effective date of the charter provision or ordinance, the enforcement of their payment, the sale of property for nonpayment and redemption f…

Upon the repeal of the city charter provision or ordinance the performance of city functions by county officers authorized by it shall cease. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The county officers shall perform all duties relative to the collection of city taxes, including delinquent taxes, levied prior to the repeal, the enforcement of their payment, and the sale of property for nonpayment, and redemption from sale, pursuant to the laws applicable to c…

The compensation paid the county for the services shall be filed by agreement between the board of supervisors and the city legislative body. Not more than 1 percent shall be charged for collecting the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and not more than one-fourth of …

Notwithstanding any provision of this article relating to compensation paid to the county for assessing and collecting taxes for a city the board of supervisors may, upon a finding of public interest, perform such assessment and collection services for a city without compensation…

The legislative body of a county, city, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public district, or other public agency of the State may provide for the purchase of United States savings bonds or similar United States obligations by salary or wage deductions for officers an…

When the legislative body of a local agency and the legislative bodies of one or more cities or sanitary districts find and adopt a resolution declaring that it will be for the interests or advantage of the local agencies to do so, the legislative bodies may enter into a joint ag…

The legislative body of each local agency may bind or obligate it to pay a proportionate part of the construction and maintenance costs of the conduits or lines at the times and in the installments so approved. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

All contracts for construction of conduits or lines pursuant to this article shall be made and entered into by one of the local agencies designated by the legislative bodies of all the local agencies and in the manner provided by Section 55308. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The legislative body of a local agency and the legislative bodies of one or more cities or sanitary districts may enter into an agreement with each other for the joint use by them of any conduits or lines which have been wholly or partially constructed in the streets or other pub…

As used in this article: (a) “Commercial development project” means any project involving the issuance of a permit by an underlying land use jurisdiction for construction, not including remodeling of an existing property, that is undertaken within the jurisdiction of the authorit…

(a) (1) Subject to paragraph (4), the authority may establish, increase, or impose a commercial linkage fee, in an amount not to exceed ten dollars ($10) per square foot, within the jurisdiction of the authority by enactment of a resolution, in accordance with the requirements of…