Title GOV, California Gov. Code

A person is not eligible to hold office as mayor unless he or she is at the time of assuming that office an elector of the city, and was a registered voter of the city at the time nomination papers are issued to the candidate as provided for in Section 10227 of the Elections Code…

A mayor pro tempore shall be chosen in the manner provided by Section 36801. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1571.)

Notwithstanding Section 36503, if a city has an elected mayor and the election of the remaining members of the city council for four-year terms is not evenly staggered, the city council may, on a one-time basis only and prior to the first day for circulating nomination papers for…

As used in this article (a) “Agricultural aircraft operator” means any person who applies, from an aircraft, chemicals, seeds, or fertilizers. (b) “Services” means the application, from an aircraft, of chemicals, seeds, or fertilizers. (c) “Supplies” means supplies used by an agr…

Public officers and bodies charged with the purchase or the letting of contracts for services or supplies for any public use may give such contracts and purchase such services and supplies from agricultural aircraft operators who are residents of California if the bids of such pe…

The legislative body of any city, except a city and county, may provide for the funding or refunding of outstanding indebtedness pursuant to this article, if either of the following conditions exist: (a) The city has an outstanding indebtedness evidenced by bonds, warrants, notes…

By a two-thirds vote of its number, the legislative body may fund or refund the indebtedness at, after, or before maturity and issue bonds of the city for the indebtedness. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The bonds shall be issued in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, have not more than 40 years to run, and bear a rate of interest not to exceed 8 percent a year, payable semiannually. (Amended by Stats. 1975, …

The rate of interest during the entire term of the bonds need not be the same but different rates may be fixed for one or more interest payments. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The bonds shall be serial bonds, and not less than one-fortieth of the principal and interest on all sums unpaid shall be paid each year. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body may fix a date for the earliest maturity of the principal of the bonds, not more than three years from the date of the issue. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The bonds shall be payable in such money and at such places as the legislative body designates in the bonds. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The bonds may be sold in the manner provided by the legislative body, to the highest bidder, at such price that the interest rate paid by the city, computed on the sale price, will not exceed 8 percent a year, or may be exchanged for the outstanding evidences of indebtedness purs…

The proceeds of any sale for cash shall be placed in the city treasury to the credit of the funding fund, and applied only to refunding the indebtedness for which the bonds are issued. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Any proceeds of the refunding bonds remaining after the indebtedness has been paid shall be deposited in the fund established for the payment of principal and interest on the refunding bonds and used only for the purpose of paying such principal or interest as it matures. (Added …

At the time of making the general tax levy after incurring the bonded indebtedness and annually thereafter until the bonds are paid or until there is a sum in the treasury set apart for that purpose sufficient to meet all payments of principal and interest on the bonds as they be…

If the earliest maturity of the refunding bonds is more than one year after the date of issuance, the legislative body shall levy and collect annually a tax sufficient to pay the interest as it falls due and to constitute a sinking fund for payment of the principal on or before m…

The taxes shall be levied and collected as other city taxes, and are in addition to all other taxes. They shall be used only for the payment of the bonds and interest. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

(a) Prior to the issuance by a city of bonds pursuant to this chapter, the legislative body may elect, by resolution, to guarantee payment on outstanding bonds of the city issued pursuant to this chapter in accordance with the following: (1) A city that elects to participate unde…

Bonds to fund or refund the indebtedness shall not be issued unless authorized by the electors of the city voting at an election to be called and held for that purpose, in either of the following cases: (a) When the indebtedness is evidenced by warrants or by judgment obtained fo…

The election shall be called and held pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The ordinance calling the election shall recite the object and purposes for which the bonded indebtedness is to be incurred. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

When it is proposed to refund any outstanding bonded indebtedness of a city upon terms which permit any number of the refunding bonds to mature more than forty years from the time the original indebtedness was incurred, the proposition of refunding the indebtedness shall be submi…

The proceeds from the sale of the bonds shall be applied by the treasurer to the satisfaction of the judgment or the refunding of the indebtedness for which the bonds were issued, or the bonds may be exchanged at their par value for the evidences of indebtedness to be refunded, a…

If the refunding bonds are issued in whole or in part to refund before maturity an indebtedness evidenced by bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, which according to their terms are subject to call or payment before maturity at a price in excess of par, the refunding …

When sufficient money is in the funding fund to redeem one or more outstanding past due bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness or to redeem one or more of the outstanding bonds, warrants, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness which are subject t…

At the same time the treasurer shall deposit in the post office a copy of the notice, enclosed in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to the registered owner of any such bond, warrant, judgment, note or other evidence of indebtedness, registered pursuant to law, whose a…

If any bonds are authorized for funding or refunding before maturity any obligations which by their terms are subject to call and payment before maturity, and which specify the manner in which they shall be called and paid, the call and payment of such obligations shall be in the…

When any outstanding bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness are surrendered and paid, the treasurer shall cancel them by endorsing on their faces the amount for which they are received, “canceled,” and the date of cancellation. (Added by Stats. 1949…

The treasurer shall keep a record of bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness redeemed, and report the redemptions to the city legislative body. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

If the obligations were issued by, on account of, or against, any department, board, or special fund of the city, he shall make the report to such department, board, or officer having custody of the special fund. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The report shall be made at least once a month, and shall be accompanied by the bonds, warrants, judgments, or other evidences of indebtedness which have been taken up and canceled. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

Any money remaining in the funding fund, after all outstanding bonds, warrants, judgments, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness proposed to be refunded have been taken up and canceled, shall be deposited in the fund established for the payment of principal and interest on th…

When a member has attained age 60 and has served in the fire department for twenty years, or more, in the aggregate, the board may order him retired from further service. From the date of the order the service of the member in the fire department ceases and, during his lifetime, …

A member of the police department may retire for service pursuant to this section. Upon receipt of a member’s application for retirement, the board shall order him retired from further service. From the date of the order the service of the member in the police department ceases a…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if all members defined by Section 50804 or Section 50805 or both Sections 50804 and 50805 agree in writing thereto, the governing body of a local agency may, by resolution, provide to those members, in lieu of the benefits prov…

Upon the written request of a member who becomes physically disabled by reason of bodily injury received in the performance of his duty, the board may retire him and order that he be paid from the fund, during his lifetime, an annual pension equal to one-half of the annual salary…

On the death of a disabled member, his heirs or assigns have no claim against the fund. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

If the disability ceases, the pension ceases and the member shall be restored to active service at the same salary he received at retirement. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

A member shall not be retired for disability or receive any benefit from the fund unless certificates of his disability are filed with the board. The certificates shall be subscribed and sworn to by the member, the physician of the local agency if there is one, and two regularly …

The board may at any time summon before it a member retired for disability and require examination of his fitness for duty. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

A member retired pursuant to this chapter shall report to the chief of the department from which he was retired on the first Mondays of April, July, October, and January of each year. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

During great public emergency the chief of the department may assign members retired from that department to such duty as he directs. They have no claim against the local agency for payment for duty so performed. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Upon satisfactory proof that a member has lost his or her life in the performance of his or her duty, leaving a surviving spouse or children under age 16, the board shall order an annual pension of one-third the annual salary attached to the rank he or she held at his or her deat…

If the surviving spouse or a child marries, the pension to such person ceases. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1436.)

If a member dies from natural causes after 10 years of service, his or her surviving spouse or children, or if there are no surviving spouse or children, his or her parents or siblings, shall receive one thousand dollars ($1,000) from the fund. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1436.)…