California Government Code CHAPTER 3 - Corporate Name

• Section 34500.
  The provisions of this chapter do not apply to chartered cities.(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)
• Section 34501.
  Every city organized pursuant to this part shall have a name, and by such name has perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued. It...
• Section 34501.5.
  (a) Any person who uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the seal of the city in any campaign literature or mass...
• Section 34502.
  The legislative body may, by ordinance adopted by a four-fifths vote of its members, change the name of the city. In the same manner, the...
• Section 34503.
  Within 10 days of the effective date of an ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 34502, or within 10 days of the date the legislative body...
• Section 34504.
  If an ordinance proposed pursuant to Section 34502 fails passage by the legislative body or if the voters fail to confirm the ordinance, no ordinance...

Last modified: October 22, 2018