Title GOV, California Gov. Code

The district attorney shall render legal services to the county without fee and may render legal services to school districts and to other local public entities as requested. The district attorney may charge a school district or other local public entity a fee, not to exceed the …

The district attorney or county counsel may, with the approval of the county board of supervisors, provide legal services to an association or nonprofit corporation which contracts with a county for the operation of a county fair pursuant to the provisions of Sections 25905 and 2…

The district attorney shall defend all suits brought against the state in his or her county or against his or her county wherever brought, and prosecute all recognizances forfeited in the courts of record and, except as provided in Sections 1305 and 1306 of the Penal Code, prosec…

Upon request of any board of education, board of school trustees, or high school board, the district attorney may prepare all the legal papers and forms necessary for the voting of school bond issues within the county and may advise them in relation to school bond issues. The dis…

Upon request of the auditor or treasurer, the district attorney shall defend or prosecute any action brought by or against the auditor or treasurer for the purpose of testing the validity or constitutionality of any act of the Legislature or of the board of supervisors or of any …

If the board of supervisors without authority of law orders any amount paid as salary, fees, or for any other purposes and the money is actually paid, or if any county officer draws any warrant in his own favor or in favor of any other person without authorization by the board or…

The county counsel, or if none the district attorney, is the legal adviser of the board of supervisors. The county counsel or if none, the district attorney, shall attend its meetings, when required, and shall attend and oppose all claims and accounts against the county he or she…

The district attorney except for his own services shall not present any claim, account, or demand for allowance against the county nor in any way advocate the relief asked or any claim or demand made by another. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

The district attorney may, and when directed by the board of supervisors shall, bring a civil action in the name of the people of the State of California to abate a public nuisance in his county. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)

The board of supervisors of any county may authorize the county counsel in lieu of the district attorney to file the petition to remove or destroy neglected or abandoned plants or crops under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 5551) of Part 1 of Division 4 of the Food and Agricul…

(a) In counties that have a county counsel, the county counsel shall discharge all the duties vested in the district attorney by Sections 26520, 26522, 26523, and 26526. The county counsel shall defend or prosecute all civil actions and proceedings in which the county or any of i…

Unless otherwise designated by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 5114 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the district attorney shall represent the county in proceedings under Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (…

On or before June 10 of each year, each official in charge of any budget unit shall provide the administrative officer or the auditor, as the board directs, an itemized request detailing the estimate of financing sources, financing uses, and any other matter required by the board…

The requests shall be submitted as prescribed by the administrative officer or the auditor, as designated by the board. (Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 332, Sec. 19. (SB 113) Effective January 1, 2010.)

The auditor shall provide the estimates for bonded debt service requirements. The auditor shall also provide or furnish to the responsible authority, as applicable, the estimates for bonded debt service requirements of: (a) School districts. (b) Any special district, the records …

The auditor shall provide to the administrative officer or such other official as the board directs, any financial statements, data, or recommendations, if any, for any changes to the estimated financing sources referenced in Section 29040. (Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 332, Sec. …

In the absence or disability, or failure of any official or person required to submit budget requests, they shall be submitted by the acting official in charge of the budget unit or shall be prepared by the administrative officer or the auditor, as designated by the board. (Amend…

Elections in cities organized pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 34400), or its predecessors, shall be held pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 9200) of Division 9 of the Elections Code, except as otherwise specifically provided. (Amended by Stats. 1994, C…

This article does not apply to any city governed by general law until its legislative body elects to avail itself of the article. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

If the legislative body elects to proceed under this article, annually on or before the lien date, it shall pass an ordinance to that effect and file a certified copy of the ordinance with the auditor of the county in which the city is situated. (Amended by Stats. 1966, 1st Ex. S…

The legislative body shall meet annually on the first Monday in August, and by ordinance fix the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation upon the taxable property in the city, as a revenue to operate the various city departments and to pay the city indebtedness for the…

Annually on or before the third Monday in August, the county auditor shall transmit to the legislative body of each city within the county a written statement showing the total value of all property within the city. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The value shall be ascertained from the county assessment-book for the year, as equalized and corrected by the board of supervisors. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

On the first Monday of October, the city legislative body shall fix the tax rate, designating the number of cents upon each one hundred dollars ($100) and using as a basis the value of property as assessed by the county assessor and returned to the legislative body by the county …

The tax rate shall be sufficient to raise the amount fixed by the legislative body. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The legislative body shall immediately transmit to the county auditor a statement of the tax rate so fixed. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

The auditor shall compute and enter in a separate column in the assessment book, to be headed “City Tax, City of ____” (naming it), the respective sums, in dollars and cents, to be paid as a city tax on the property therein enumerated and assessed as being in any city. He shall u…

Taxes levied pursuant to this article shall be collected at the time and in the manner as county taxes. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

When collected, the net amount shall be paid to the treasurer of the city to which it belongs, under the general requirements and penalties provided by law for the settlement of other taxes. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

On the filing of itemized statements by the county auditor and county tax collector showing the additional expense to their offices of assessing and collecting city taxes, by an order spread upon its minutes, the board of supervisors may deduct such expenses from the taxes of eac…

When a statute requires a local agency to take legislative action by resolution and the local agency is required by its charter to take legislative action by ordinance, action by ordinance is compliance with the statute for all purposes. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

(a) “Code,” as used in this article, means any statute, or any published compilation of rules, regulations or standards adopted by the federal government or the State of California, or by any agency of either of them. It shall include any codification or compilation of existing o…

A code adopted and fully published or adopted by reference as provided in this article, may be subsequently recodified or recompiled and thereafter adopted by reference in the same manner as prescribed by this article for the original adoption by reference of the code. (Added by …

Provided that all the procedures and requirements of this article are complied with, any local agency is hereby authorized to enact any ordinance which adopts any code by reference, in whole or in part; and such primary code, thus adopted, may in turn adopt by reference, in whole…

After the first reading of the title of the adopting ordinance and of the title of the code to be adopted thereby, and of the title of the secondary codes therein adopted by reference, the legislative body shall schedule a public hearing thereon. Notice of the hearing shall be pu…

After the hearing, the legislative body may amend, adopt or reject the adopting ordinance in the same manner in which it is empowered to act in the case of other ordinances; and, except as to the adoption of a code of existing ordinances of the adopting agency, nothing in this ar…

Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to relieve any local agency from the requirement of publishing in full the ordinance that adopts any code, and all provisions applicable to the publication shall be fully carried out. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 124, Sec. 43. Eff…

At least one copy of each primary code adopted by reference, and of each secondary code pertaining thereto, all certified to be true copies by the clerk of the legislative body, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the legislative body at least 15 days preceding the heari…

If at any time any code which any local agency has previously adopted by reference, shall be amended by the agency which originally promulgated or adopted it, then the legislative body may adopt such amendment or amended code by reference through the same procedure as required fo…

Copies of such codes in published form, duly certified by the clerk of the legislative body, shall be received without further proof as prima facie evidence of the provisions of such codes or public records in all courts and administrative tribunals of this State. (Added by Stats…

A city may enact ordinances which adopt by reference county ordinances, codes, or any parts thereof and any amendments thereto by complying with the requirements of this article. (Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 374.)

The legislative body of a local agency, directly or through a representative, may attend the Legislature and Congress, and any committees thereof, and present information to aid the passage of legislation which the legislative body deems beneficial to the local agency or to preve…

The legislative bodies of local agencies may enter into associations and through a representative of the associations attend the Legislature and Congress, and any committees thereof, and present information to aid the passage of legislation which the association deems beneficial …

By resolution, a legislative body may withdraw from the association at any time. (Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)

The legislative body of any local agency, chartered or general law, which is otherwise authorized by law or charter to impose any tax on the privilege of earning a livelihood by an employee or any other tax, fee or charge on or measured by the earnings, or any part thereof, of an…

(a) The legislative body of any local agency, chartered or general law, which is otherwise authorized by law or charter to impose any tax, shall not impose any tax, fee, or charge on or measured by the sale of any stocks, bonds, or any other securities. (b) It is the intent of th…