Title GOV, California Gov. Code

(a) No local agency may impose a tax upon, or require a license for, the conduct of ridesharing which uses a motor vehicle with a seating capacity of not more than 15 persons, including the driver, if the ridesharing purpose is incidental to another purpose of the driver of the r…

(a) Notwithstanding Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 5351) of Division 2 of the Public Utilities Code, every city or county in which a taxicab company is substantially located, as defined in paragraph (5) of subdivision (k), shall protect the public health, safety, and welfare …

(a) Any city or county, regardless of whether a taxicab company is substantially located within its jurisdiction as defined in Section 53075.5, may adopt, by ordinance, operating requirements for taxicab companies and taxicab drivers that do not relate to permitting or business l…

Beginning January 1, 2018, taxicab companies shall collect data that demonstrates the total number of prearranged and nonprearranged trips that originate within a particular local jurisdiction for the purpose of determining where that taxicab company is substantially located, and…

(a) Notwithstanding Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 5351) of Division 2 of the Public Utilities Code, the City and County of San Francisco shall protect the public health, safety, and welfare by adopting an ordinance or resolution in regard to taxicab transportation service re…

Whenever a peace officer or public officer or employee, when authorized by ordinance and as defined in Section 836.5 of the Penal Code, arrests any person for operating as a taxicab without a valid taxicab certificate, license, or permit required by any ordinance, and the offense…

A transportation inspector, authorized by a local government to cite any person for operating as a taxicab without a valid taxicab certificate, license, or permit required by any ordinance, may impound and retain possession of any vehicle used in a violation of the ordinance. If …

(a) Upon receipt of a complaint containing sufficient information to warrant conducting an investigation, the local agency shall investigate any business that advertises or operates taxicab transportation service for hire. The local agency shall, by ordinance, resolution, or othe…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that advertising and use of telephone service is essential for a taxicab transportation service to obtain business and conduct intrastate passenger transportation services. Unlawful advertisements by taxicabs operating without a valid taxica…

(a) Every taxicab transportation service shall include the number of its certificate, license, or permit in every written or oral advertisement of the services it offers. (b) For purposes of this subdivision, “advertisement” includes, but is not limited to, the issuance of any ca…

No local agency shall deny a permit to repair an underground steel storage tank containing a motor vehicle fuel product not under pressure which has developed a leak due to corrosion of the interior of the tank solely on the basis that the tank is to be repaired by an interior-co…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 51037, the City and County of San Francisco may adopt an ordinance requiring a permit for the sale, on public property, including public streets or sidewalks, of merchandise that the City and County of San Francisco has determined is a common target of…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governing body of a district may adopt or the residents of a district may propose, by initiative, a proposal to limit or repeal a limit on the number of terms a member of the governing body of the district may serve on the gover…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1) “Charge” means any fee or other impost, including, but not limited to, a financial requirement to pay a percentage of any revenues received for an organized activity held on, or involving the us…

(a) For the purposes of this section, “local agency” means any local agency which awards direct service contracts to nonprofit organizations including, but not limited to, any city, county, or city and county, special district, housing authority, school district, community colleg…

(a) “Local public entity,” as used in this section, means any city or county, whether general law or chartered, district, public authority, public agency, or public corporation but does not include any entity of the state. (b) If a local public entity requires any person, on or a…

(a) No city, county, city and county, or special district, including, but not limited to, a community services district, recreation and park district, regional park district, regional park and open-space district, regional open-space park district, or resort improvement district,…

(a) No city or county may require an applicant for a building or encroachment permit to file a certificate of insurance evidencing coverage for bodily injury or property damage liability as a condition to the issuance of either, or both, of those permits, unless the city or count…

(a) By July 1, 1991, local agencies shall refund any sewer service fees collected for which no services were delivered. (b) Any sewer service fees collected by a local agency from any person for which no service has been provided shall be refunded in accordance with subdivisions …

Subject to all applicable constitutional restrictions, a county, a city, or a special district that provides, or intends to provide, water or wastewater treatment facilities or services may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11676…

A local agency may serve as an administrator for the purposes of Section 116686 of the Health and Safety Code. (Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 1. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)

(a) On and after January 1, 2014, each local agency shall, before approving any economic development subsidy within its jurisdiction, provide all of the following information in written form available to the public, and through its Internet Web site, if applicable: (1) The name a…

(a) On and after January 1, 2020, each local agency shall, before approving any economic development subsidy for a warehouse distribution center within its jurisdiction, and instead of complying with Section 53083, provide all of the following information in written form availabl…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a local agency shall not provide any form of financial assistance to a vehicle dealer or big box retailer, or a business entity that sells or leases land to a vehicle dealer or big box retailer, that is relocating from the ter…

(a) On or after January 1, 2016, a local agency shall not enter into any form of agreement that would result, directly or indirectly, in the payment, transfer, diversion, or rebate of any tax revenue resulting from the imposition of a sales and use tax under the Bradley-Burns Uni…

A local agency, as defined in Section 54951, may require an applicant for economic development loans, grants, or similar financial assistance to sign a statement under penalty of perjury that he or she has not been convicted of a felony. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 583, Sec. 1.)

(a) Any private person or private company which advertises that it provides information or services regarding the sale or purchase of public property of any kind shall prominently indicate in the advertisement and any other presentation that the person or company is not a governm…

(a) In the case of a special tax levied by a local agency on a per parcel basis, both of the following conditions shall apply: (1) A parcel created by a subdivision map approved in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act (Division 2 (commencing with Section 66410) of Title 7) sha…

A loan or expenditure of funds by a local public entity, including a charter city, to upgrade or improve privately owned property for purposes of seismic safety or retrofitting, where the provision of funds creates or can create a lien on the property, shall not, when combined wi…

(a) (1) A city, county, or city and county auditor or controller who is elected to office may maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding fraud, waste, or abuse or improper governmental activity. (2) A city, county, or city and co…

(a) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and county, shall not enact any ordinance or regulation, or enforce any existing ordinance or regulation, that prohibits the installation of drought-tolerant landscaping using living plant material on residential property. (b)…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), beginning on January 1, 2020, every independent special district, as defined in Section 56044, shall maintain an internet website. (2) The internet website required by paragraph (1) shall conform to any other provisions of law applic…

(a) (1) A local agency, as defined in Section 7920.510, may, at the request of the governing board of a California Community College district, enter into a memorandum of understanding that would allow the agency and the district to share electronically collected personal informat…

When the legislative bodies of two or more local agencies determine and adopt a resolution declaring that it will be for the interest or advantage of the local agencies to do so, the legislative bodies, may enter an agreement authorizing and providing for the joint construction a…

The agreement may include the joint construction and maintenance of all necessary outfall sewers within or outside of the boundaries of the local agencies. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The agreement shall provide for the joint payment of the cost of the joint use, benefit, and maintenance of all the outfall sewers and conduits upon the terms and under the regulations approved by the legislative bodies of all the local agencies. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The legislative body of each such local agency may bind and obligate the local agency to pay its proportionate part of the construction and maintenance costs of the outfall sewer and conduits at the times and in the installments provided for in the agreement. (Added by Stats. 194…

By unanimous consent, the local agencies may amend or supplement the agreement and permit additional local agencies to become parties to the agreement. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

When by resolution a legislative body determines and declares that it is for the interest or advantage of the local agency to become a party to the amended or supplemental joint agreement, it may provide for the joint payment of the costs, and joint use, benefit, and maintenance,…

Each such local agency is obligated to pay the proportionate part of the construction and maintenance costs of the outfall sewer and conduit at the times and in the installments provided for in the amended or supplemental agreement. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

Each such local agency is also obligated to reimburse the parties to the original agreement for money they expended pursuant to the original agreement. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

An amended or supplemental agreement may be entered into prior to the commencement, during the construction, or after the completion of the outfall sewer and conduit. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

All contracts for construction pursuant to this article shall be made and entered into by one local agency designated by the legislative bodies of all the local agencies in the manner provided in Article 3. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

By their legislative bodies two or more local agencies may also enter into an agreement with each other for the joint use by them of any outfall sewers and conduits already constructed in whole or in part in the streets or other public places of any such local agencies upon the t…

The local agencies entering into the agreements may use the streets within such local agencies for the construction and maintenance of outfall sewers and conduits pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

When it is necessary to extend the outfall sewers and conduits without the limits of the local agencies, they may use public highways without the city limits subject only to the right of the board of supervisors to make reasonable police regulations for the protection of the high…