California Government Code PART 1 - GENERAL

• Section 36501.
  The government of a general law city is vested in:(a) A city council of at least five members.(b) A city clerk.(c) A city treasurer.(d) A chief of police.(e) A fire...
• Section 36501.5.
  Every employee has the right to inspect personnel records pursuant to Section 1198.5 of the Labor Code(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 886, Sec. 8. Effective...
• Section 36502.
  (a) A person is not eligible to hold office as councilmember, city clerk, or city treasurer unless he or she is at the time of assuming...
• Section 36502.5.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 36502, the city council of the City of Tustin may adopt by ordinance a proposal to limit the number of...
• Section 36503.
  Unless otherwise required by Section 57379, a general municipal election shall be held on a date prescribed by Section 1301 of the Elections Code. Except...
• Section 36503.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the period commencing the day of a recall election pursuant to Division 11 (commencing with Section 11000) of...
• Section 36505.
  The city council shall appoint the chief of police. It may appoint a city attorney, a superintendent of streets, a civil engineer, and such other...
• Section 36506.
  By resolution or ordinance, the city council shall fix the compensation of all appointive officers and employees. Such officers and employees hold office during the...
• Section 36507.
  Before entering upon his or her duties, each city officer shall take and file with the city clerk the constitutional oath of office, except that...
• Section 36508.
  At any municipal election, or a special election held for that purpose, the city council may submit to the electors the question whether the elective...
• Section 36509.
  The question shall be printed on the ballots used at the election substantially in one of the following forms:(a) “Shall the offices of city clerk and...
• Section 36510.
  If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is for it, the city council shall appoint such officers at the expiration of the...
• Section 36511.
  The petition for incorporation of a city may provide for the appointment of the elective officers, or any of them except council members. If it...
• Section 36512.
  (a) If a vacancy occurs in an appointive office provided for in this chapter, the council shall fill the vacancy by appointment. A person appointed to...
• Section 36513.
  (a) If a city councilmember is absent without permission from all regular city council meetings for 60 days consecutively from the last regular meeting he or...
• Section 36514.5.
  City council members may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. Reimbursement for these expenses is subject to...
• Section 36515.
  The compensation of a city council member appointed or elected to fill a vacancy is the same as that payable to the member whose office...
• Section 36516.
  (a) (1) A city council may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the city council shall receive a salary based on the population of the...
• Section 36516.1.
  A mayor elected pursuant to Sections 34900 to 34904, inclusive, may be provided with compensation in addition to that which he or she receives as...
• Section 36516.5.
  A change in compensation does not apply to a councilman during his term of office; however, the prohibition herein expressed shall not prevent the adjustment...
• Section 36517.
  The city clerk and the city treasurer shall receive, at stated times, a compensation fixed by ordinance or resolution.(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 275.)
• Section 36518.
  Before entering upon the duties of their offices, the city clerk and city treasurer shall each execute a bond to the city. Except as otherwise...
• Section 36519.
  The city council may require bonds of any other officer or employee of the city.(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)
• Section 36520.
  The city council shall approve all bonds. When approved, the clerk’s bond shall be filed with the mayor, and other bonds shall be filed with...
• Section 36521.
  Except as otherwise provided, all laws relating to the official bonds of officers apply to bonds required by this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)
• Section 36522.
  Any officer or employee collecting or receiving any money belonging to, or for the use of, the city shall deposit it immediately in the treasury...
• Section 36523.
  By ordinance or resolution, the city council may provide for a treasurer’s departmental trust fund into which collections of the police department and other officers...
• Section 36524.
  The city treasurer shall make withdrawals from such a fund only on order signed by the proper department head and for the following purposes:(a) Making a...
• Section 36525.
  (a) As used in this section “city auditor” includes an elected or appointed officer or full-time employee of the city who is compensated, but does not...

Last modified: October 22, 2018