Title GOV, California Gov. Code

“Board” means Board of Firemen’s Pension Fund Commissioners or Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

“Fund” means the Police Relief and Pension Fund or the Firemen’s Relief and Pension Fund. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

“Department” means regularly constituted fire department or regularly constituted police department. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

“Member” means a person duly appointed or selected and sworn as a member of the regularly constituted police department if the local agency has established a police relief and pension fund pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

“Member” also means any person duly appointed or selected and sworn as a member of the regularly constituted fire department if the local agency has established a firemen’s relief and pension fund pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Every local agency in which there is a police department or a fire department may establish a relief and pension fund for either department or for both departments. If a fund is established for both departments, there shall be two separate funds, one for each department. The fund…

Any fund, for the relief or pensioning of police officers or firemen, their life or health insurance, or the payment of a sum of money on their death, is merged with and constitutes a part of the fund created for that purpose pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 8…

Where the duties of assessing property and collecting city taxes are performed for a city by the county assessor and the county tax collector in a manner provided by law, cities and counties may enter into an agreement whereby special assessments may be collected at the same time…

As used in this article, “local agency” means county, city, city and county, including a chartered city or county, school district, community college district, public district, county board of education, county superintendent of schools, or any public or municipal corporation. (A…

Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 27000.3, all governing bodies of local agencies or persons authorized to make investment decisions on behalf of those local agencies investing public funds pursuant to this chapter are trustees and therefore fiduciaries subject to …

When investing, reinvesting, purchasing, acquiring, exchanging, selling, or managing public funds, the primary objective of a trustee shall be to safeguard the principal of the funds under its control. The secondary objective shall be to meet the liquidity needs of the depositor.…

The Legislature hereby finds that the solvency and creditworthiness of each individual local agency can impact the solvency and creditworthiness of the state and other local agencies within the state. Therefore, to protect the solvency and creditworthiness of the state and all of…

This section shall apply to a local agency that is a city, a district, or other local agency that does not pool money in deposits or investments with other local agencies, other than local agencies that have the same governing body. However, Section 53635 shall apply to all local…

The authority of a local agency to invest funds pursuant to Section 53601 includes, in addition thereto, authority to invest in financial futures or financial option contracts in any of the investment categories enumerated in that section. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 534, Sec. 3.)…

As used in this article, “corporation” includes a limited liability company. (Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 118, Sec. 18. Effective January 1, 2005.)

The purchase by a local agency of any investment authorized pursuant to Section 53601 or 53601.1, not purchased directly from the issuer, shall be purchased either from an institution licensed by the state as a broker-dealer, as defined in Section 25004 of the Corporations Code, …

(a) A local agency shall not invest any funds pursuant to this article or pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) in inverse floaters, range notes, or mortgage-derived, interest-only strips. (b) A local agency shall not invest any funds pursuant to this article or p…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a local agency that has the authority under law to invest funds, at its discretion, may invest a portion of its surplus funds in deposits at a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union that uses …

The legislative body shall invest only in notes, bonds, bills, certificates of indebtedness, warrants, or registered warrants which are legal investments for savings banks in the State, provided, that the board of supervisors of a county may, by a four-fifths vote thereof, invest…

The legislative body may make the investment by direct purchase of any issue of eligible securities at their original sale or after they have been issued. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 537.)

The legislative body may sell, or exchange for other eligible securities, and reinvest the proceeds of, the securities purchased. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 537.)

From time to time, the legislative body shall sell the securities so that the proceeds may be applied to the purposes for which the original purchase money was placed in the sinking fund or the treasury of the local agency. (Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 537.)

The bonds purchased, which were issued by the purchaser, may be canceled either in satisfaction or sinking fund obligations or otherwise. When canceled, they are no longer outstanding, unless in its discretion, the legislative body holds then uncanceled. While held uncanceled, th…

The authority of the legislative body to invest or to reinvest funds of a local agency, or to sell or exchange securities so purchased, may be delegated for a one-year period by the legislative body to the treasurer of the local agency, who shall thereafter assume full responsibi…

The legislative body of a local agency may deposit for safekeeping with a federal or state association (as defined by Section 5102 of the Financial Code), a trust company or a state or national bank located within this state or with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or an…

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of this code, funds held by a local agency pursuant to a written agreement between the agency and employees of the agency to defer a portion of the compensation otherwise receivable by the agency’s employees a…

(a) For purposes of this section, “Proposition 1A receivable” means the right to payment of moneys due or to become due to a local agency, pursuant to clause (iii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constituti…

As used in this article, “local agency” means a city, chartered city, or a fire protection district. (Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 465, Sec. 2. Effective August 22, 1988.)

As used in this article, “county” means a county in which a county firewarden has been appointed. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

As used in this article, “forest fire” means any fire burning uncontrolled on any lands partially or wholly covered by timber, brush, grass, grain, or other inflammable vegetation. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The board of supervisors of any county may contract with any local agency within the county, and the legislative body of the local agency may contract with the county, for the performance by the county firewarden of functions for the prevention and suppression of fires. (Added by…

Every contract between a county and a city that provides for the furnishing of fire protection services by the county to the city, except a contract to render assistance whenever a fire occurs within the limits of a city of when it cannot be adequately handled by the fire departm…

When the contract has been made, the county firewarden, his deputies, and assistants may exercise the same powers and duties within the local agency as are conferred upon officers charged with the duty of preventing and suppressing fires by State and local law within such county …

In the contract the local agency may provide for the payment by it to the county of an agreed consideration to be paid to the county treasurer. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The board of supervisors may contract with the state, through the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, for the performance by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection, his or her deputies, and assistants of functions for the prevention or suppression of fires within th…

The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection may contract with the county for the performance by the county fire warden, his or her deputies, and assistants of functions for the prevention or suppression of fires within the county. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 427, Sec. 69. Eff…

When a contract has been made, the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection or the county fire warden may exercise the same powers and duties within the county for the prevention and suppression of fires which by state or local law is conferred upon those officers. (Amended by St…

The contract between the county and the State may provide for the duties, directions, and salaries of such personnel upon the terms agreed upon. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

For any proposal that includes an incorporation, the executive officer shall prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, a comprehensive fiscal analysis. This analysis shall become part of the report required pursuant to Section 56665. Data used for the analysis shall be from t…

(a) For any proposal that includes an incorporation, the executive officer shall, at the request of an interested party, which request is submitted pursuant to subdivision (b), and prior to issuing his or her report and recommendation pursuant to Section 56665, request the Contro…

(a) For any proposal for incorporation of the territory within the Mountain House Community Services District, San Joaquin County shall provide the required funds to those petitioners filing the incorporation application for all costs involved in filing the application for incorp…

If the commission approves a proposal which includes the incorporation of a city, the resolution making determinations shall accept or reject each of the findings and recommendations made in the executive officer’s report prepared pursuant to Section 56665, and the fiscal analysi…

For any proposal that includes a disincorporation, the executive officer shall prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, a comprehensive fiscal analysis. This analysis shall become part of the report required pursuant to Section 56665. Data used for the analysis shall be from…

It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities, as well as to implement such general plan as may be in effect in any such county or city. Except as provided in Article 4 (co…

Any action brought in the superior court relating to this chapter may be subject to a mediation proceeding conducted pursuant to Chapter 9.3 (commencing with Section 66030). (Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 699, Sec. 21. (SB 894) Effective January 1, 2011.)

No provisions of this code, other than the provisions of this chapter, and no provisions of any other code or statute shall restrict or limit the procedures provided in this chapter by which the legislative body of any county or city enacts, amends, administers, or provides for t…