California Government Code ARTICLE 4 - Miscellaneous

• Section 53060.
  The legislative body of any public or municipal corporation or district may contract with and employ any persons for the furnishing to the corporation or...
• Section 53060.1.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section, to provide a uniform limit on the retirement benefits for the members of the...
• Section 53060.3.
  (a) Every employee of a local agency has the right to inspect personnel records pursuant to Section 1198.5 of the Labor Code.(b) As used in this section:(1) “City”...
• Section 53060.4.
  (a) The legislative body of a city or county may delegate to a county or city official or department head its authority to issue subpoenas and...
• Section 53060.5.
  The term “district,” as used in this section, means a district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the...
• Section 53060.7.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:(1) That police protection is an essential service for the protection of life and property and necessary to ensure...
• Section 53061.
  The legislative body of a city, county, or fire protection district may expend money for the payment of contributions to a retirement system authorized to...
• Section 53062.
  Whenever any notice or other communication is required by law to be mailed by registered mail to or by any county, city or district, or...
• Section 53063.
  Any county, city, city and county, district, authority or other public corporation or agency which has the power to produce, conserve, control or supply water...
• Section 53064.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event there are two or more identical lowest or highest bids, as the case may be, submitted...
• Section 53064.5.
  No local agency furnishing water for residential use to a tenant shall seek to recover any charges or penalties for the furnishing of water to...
• Section 53065.
  The provisions of law (except Section 25256 of this code) relating to budgets and other fiscal matters except borrowing which apply to counties shall also...
• Section 53065.5.
  Each special district, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 56036, shall, at least annually, disclose any reimbursement paid by the district within the immediately...
• Section 53066.
  (a) Any city or county or city and county in the State of California may, pursuant to such provisions as may be prescribed by its governing...
• Section 53066.01.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 53066, with respect to any franchise which becomes effective on or after January 1, 1984, the initial franchise fee payment...
• Section 53066.2.
  (a) In awarding a cable television franchise pursuant to Section 53066, a city, county, or city and county shall assure that access to cable service is...
• Section 53066.3.
  (a) If a city, county, or city and county elects to grant an additional cable television franchise in an area where a franchise has already been...
• Section 53066.4.
  Every cable television system operating under a franchise or license awarded pursuant to Section 53066 shall, by July 1, 1984, and thereafter, offer to make...
• Section 53066.5.
  Unless a cable television system operating under a franchise granted pursuant to Section 53066 incorporates technology to prevent unwanted reception of audio and video signals...
• Section 53067.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:(1) That trees and other woody plants respond in specific and predictable ways to pruning and other maintenance practices.(2) That careful...
• Section 53068.
  Any local agency, as defined in Section 54951 of the Government Code, which seeks to enter a contract that requires the letting of bids, shall...
• Section 53069.
  In any agreement entered into whereby any city, county, city and county, or local agency obtains a grant of easement, lease, license, right-of-way or right-of-entry,...
• Section 53069.3.
  (a) A city, county, or city and county may enact an ordinance to provide for the use of city or county funds to remove graffiti or...
• Section 53069.4.
  (a) (1) The legislative body of a local agency, as the term “local agency” is defined in Section 54951, may by ordinance make any violation of any...
• Section 53069.5.
  A local agency, as defined in Section 54951, may offer and pay a reward, the amount thereof to be determined by the local agency, for...
• Section 53069.6.
  Each local agency, as defined in Section 54951, shall take all practical and reasonable steps to recover civil damages for the negligent, willful, or unlawful...
• Section 53069.7.
  A local agency, as defined in Section 54951, may offer and pay a reward, the amount thereof to be determined by the local agency, to...
• Section 53069.75.
  In order to comply with state law requirements mandated by Section 3753 of Title 42 of the United States Code, which bases eligibility of federal...
• Section 53069.8.
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county may contract on behalf of the sheriff of that county, and the legislative body of any city may...
• Section 53069.85.
  The legislative body of a city, county, or district may include or cause to be included in contracts for public projects a provision establishing the...
• Section 53069.9.
  (a) Any public agency providing water for fire protection purposes may, by ordinance or resolution, fix and collect a charge to pay the costs of operation,...
• Section 53070.
  (a) No city, county, or district may enact an ordinance prohibiting or regulating the playing of duplicate bridge. Duplicate bridge is defined as the card game...
• Section 53071.
  It is the intention of the Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation of the registration or licensing of commercially manufactured firearms as encompassed...
• Section 53071.5.
  (a) By the enactment of this section, the Legislature occupies the whole field of regulation of the manufacture, sale, or possession of imitation firearms, as defined...
• Section 53072.
  Whenever a special district as defined in Section 56036 is formed, the district shall reimburse the county in which all or a portion of the...
• Section 53073.
  Notwithstanding anything in the law to the contrary, the governing body of any public district may convey, upon such terms and conditions as it determines...
• Section 53074.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any local ordinance, an officer or employee of any animal control agency shall not seize or impound a...
• Section 53074.5.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “undomesticated burro” means a wild burro or a burro which has not been tamed or domesticated for a period of...
• Section 53075.
  (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...
• Section 53075.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 5351) of Division 2 of the Public Utilities Code, every city or county shall protect the public health, safety,...
• Section 53075.5.a.
  (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...
• Section 53075.51.
  (a) Any city or county, regardless of whether a taxicab company or driver is substantially located within its jurisdiction as defined in Section 53075.5, may adopt,...
• Section 53075.52.
  Beginning January 1, 2018, taxicab companies and taxicab drivers shall collect trip data to determine in what jurisdictions each company and driver are substantially located....
• Section 53075.53.
  (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...
• Section 53075.6.
  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...
• Section 53075.61.
  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...
• Section 53075.7.
  (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...
• Section 53075.8.
  (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...
• Section 53075.9.
  (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...
• Section 53076.
  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...
• Section 53077.
  (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...
• Section 53077.5.
  (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...
• Section 53078.
  (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,...
• Section 53079.
  (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...
• Section 53080.
  (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,...
• Section 53080.5.
  (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...
• Section 53082.
  (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...
• Section 53082.5.
  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...
• Section 53083.
  (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...
• Section 53084.
  (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...
• Section 53084.5.
  (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...
• Section 53085.
  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...
• Section 53086.
  (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...
• Section 53087.4.
  (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...
• Section 53087.5.
  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...
• Section 53087.6.
  (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...
• Section 53087.7.
  (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,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018