Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Immediately upon reorganization, all persons occupying or possessing the offices of each of the cities and the county shall surrender them to the proper officers of the city-county, except as may be otherwise provided in the charter.

Except as otherwise provided in the charter, reorganization does not affect any debts, demands, liabilities, or obligations of any kind existing in favor of or against the cities and the county, at the time of reorganization. Reorganization does not affect any pending action or p…

The legislative body of the city-county shall levy and collect the taxes necessary to pay the indebtedness or liability of each city and the county incurred prior to reorganization within the city or the county which incurred such indebtedness, except as may be otherwise provided…

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 2161), Part 4, Division 1, of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the charter shall contain provisions either establishing a limitation on the combined ad valorem property tax rate and increases in s…

Immediately upon reorganization, all ordinances of the cities and the county shall be deemed repealed. Such repeal shall not discharge any person from any existing civil or criminal liability, nor affect any pending prosecution for violation of any such ordinances, nor affect ves…

The repeal of ordinances pursuant to Section 51947 shall not apply to: (a) Ordinances under which vested rights have accrued to the extent legally necessary to protect said vested rights. (b) Ordinances relating to proceedings for street or other public improvements, to the exten…

Upon reorganization, the charter of the city-county shall have full effect throughout the city-county. The charter shall recognize the status of each of the other cities which have voted to retain their local governmental structure pursuant to Article 3 or their governmental inde…

If reorganization is completed, all proper expenses of reorganization proceedings not otherwise provided for shall be paid by the county. If reorganization is not completed, the county shall pay the expenses of calling and holding any election within it at which the question of c…

One copy of the charter ratified and approved in accordance with the provisions of this article shall be filed with the Secretary of State and one with the recorder in the city-county; and thereafter the courts shall take judicial notice of the provisions of such charter.

This chapter shall not be construed to prevent any consolidated city-county from framing and adopting a new or revised charter after consolidation in which case the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 34450) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 4 shall be applicable.

The charter may provide for the manner in which any of the other cities which has elected to retain its local governmental structure pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51920) or its governmental independence pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 51939.50), …

Upon application to the Department of Transportation, a flood control district, county, or city, and subject to any conditions imposed by it, permission may be granted to any person, or riding club to enter, traverse, and use for horseback riding, any trail, right of way, easemen…

A fee shall not be charged for the use of such bridle paths.

An equestrian group may be granted the right to erect and maintain suitable trail markers for the convenience and guidance of horseback riders, but a structure shall not be erected on state-owned property without the approval of the State Lands Commission.

It is unlawful for any person to remove, deface, or destroy the markers, or to erect fences, barbed wire, or other obstructions on the bridle trails.

The granting power may extend, terminate, or modify its permission at any time.

As used in this article: (a) “Local agency” means city, county, or subdivision of the State. (b) “Property” means real or personal property, easement, license, or other right in property.

By gift, lease, purchase, eminent domain, or other manner a local agency may acquire property for parking motor vehicles.

A local agency may use any property acquired for such purpose, or any other real property owned or possessed by it and not needed for other public use, for the parking or storage of vehicles belonging to or operated by it.

It may permit use of the property by the public for such purpose when in the judgment of the legislative body such use is necessary or convenient for the public or is incidental to or in furtherance of the purposes for which the property was acquired or is owned or possessed.

In the manner other public property is leased or sublet, a local agency may lease or sublet any such property for the purpose of operating or authorizing the operation of a parking station for the parking of automobiles by the public. It may also grant franchises authorizing such…

A local agency may construct, erect, or maintain any driveway, floor, fence, building, or other structure for the purposes of this article either in, under, or over any public building or on or under the surface of any public park, grounds, or any other property.

Any and all acts authorizing or providing methods for the improvement or acquisition of real property by a local agency for street, highway, library, school, playground, or other purposes may be used to provide methods for improving or acquiring any property to be acquired or imp…

The local agency may impose and collect a reasonable charge for the parking off street of motor vehicles.

This article provides an alternative authorization for the acquisition and use of property by local agencies for the parking of motor vehicles.

As used in this article, “local agency” means city, county, or district agricultural association.

A local agency may acquire necessary real and personal property to construct, equip, operate, and maintain parking facilities in connection with any stadium or coliseum maintained by it.

The local agency may make the parking facilities available for public use.

For the use of such property and facilities by the public, the local agency may make and collect a charge fixed by its legislative body.

For the purpose of subletting or permitting to the public parking privileges for vehicles, it may lease the parking facilities or, in the manner of granting a franchise for other public property, grant any person a franchise to operate a parking station on the property.

As used in this article “public beach” means any beach area used for recreational purposes which is owned, operated or controlled by the State, any state agency or any local agency.

Any city, county, or other local agency that owns, operates, or controls any public beach shall allow the use of that public beach by all persons regardless of ancestry, residence, or any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135. Nonresidents of the city, county, or othe…

Any city, county, or other local agency that allows any property owned, operated, or controlled by it to be used as a means of access to any public beach shall allow free access over that property to all persons regardless of ancestry, residence, or any characteristic listed or d…

The Department of Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the state, may acquire by appropriate means easements in property owned, operated or controlled by any city, county or other local agency in order to provide free public access to any public beach. However, any such easement sh…

The board may have prepared all necessary plans and specifications for buildings to be constructed or reconstructed pursuant to this article.

The board may establish and enforce any regulations it deems necessary for the administration and execution of this article.

The board may determine the terms under which buildings will be replaced or reconstructed.

The board may rent all or part of a building constructed or reconstructed pursuant to this article to the local agency within which the building is located.

The board may fix the rental to be paid by the local agency for such buildings and the terms and manner of the payment of the rental.

The board may insure all buildings replaced or reconstructed in a local agency by it until the total of the agreed rentals has been paid by the legislative body of the local agency.

The board may do any thing necessary to give full effect to this article.

The legislative body may enter into, comply with, and do all things necessary to execute an agreement with the board which is required or authorized by this article.

Before a building is replaced or reconstructed the legislative body of the local agency and the board shall enter into an agreement which shall fix the powers, duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of the legislative body and the board.

For the purposes of this article all or part of a building constructed or reconstructed by the board is the property of the State. The local agency in which the building or part is situated has no interest in it until it is conveyed to the local agency by the board.

The legislative body entering into an agreement to pay rentals to the board shall include in its budget for any year during which the agreement is in effect an amount sufficient to pay the rental due the board during the year. The amount included in the budget shall be used only …

When the legislative body has paid the board the total of the agreed rentals, the board shall convey to the local agency in the name of the State the building mentioned in the agreement.

The legislative body of a local agency entering into an agreement with the board may pay the rental charged under the agreement out of any of its funds whose use for the payment of the rental is not prohibited by the Constitution.

A contract shall not be let by the board until the plans have been approved by the Division of Architecture of the Department of Public Works, and in the case of schools by the Division of Schoolhouse Planning of the State Department of Education. Article 3, Chapter 3, Division 9…

A school district within which a public school building is constructed or reconstructed by the board under an agreement between the governing board of the school district and the board shall continue in existence as it exists at the time of making the agreement, for the purpose o…

As used in this article: “Board” means the State Allocation Board. “Local agency” means any city, city and county, county, or public district.