California Government Code CHAPTER 2 - City or City and County Charters

• Section 34450.
  Any city or city and county may enact, amend, or repeal a charter for its own government according to this article or Article 3 (commencing...
• Section 34451.
  The charter may be proposed by a charter commission chosen by the voters of the city or city and county, at any general or special...
• Section 34452.
  (a) An election for choosing charter commissioners may be called by a majority vote of the governing body of a city or city and county, or...
• Section 34453.
  At an election the voters shall vote first on the question “Shall a charter commission be elected to propose a new charter?” and, secondly, for...
• Section 34454.
  Candidates for the office of charter commissioner shall be nominated either in the same manner provided for the nomination of officers of the municipal or...
• Section 34455.
  The charter commissioners shall propose a charter and may propose amendments to a charter, for the government of the city or city and county. The...
• Section 34456.
  In any city or city and county, the governing body shall cause copies of the charter to be printed in type of not less than...
• Section 34457.
  After the charter prepared by the charter commission has been filed in the office of the clerk of the governing body of the city or...
• Section 34458.
  (a) As an alternative to the procedure provided for in Sections 34450 to 34457, inclusive, the governing body of a city or city and county, on...
• Section 34458.5.
  A proposal to adopt or amend a charter, whether submitted to the voters pursuant to Section 34457 or 34458, shall include in the ballot description...
• Section 34459.
  If the voters vote in favor of the charter proposal, amendment, or repeal, it shall be deemed to be ratified, but shall not take effect...
• Section 34460.
  Three copies of the complete text of a charter proposal or of any amended or repealed section ratified by the voters of a city or...
• Section 34461.
  A charter proposal, amendment, or repeal by the voters of a city or city and county and submitted to the Secretary of State in compliance...
• Section 34462.
  (a) A charter commission established for a city and county pursuant to this chapter shall complete a proposed or amended charter and submit the charter to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018