California · * California Constitution - CONS
CONS §SEC. 24: (a) The Legislature may not impose taxes for local purposes but may authorize local governments to impose them.
What this law says, in plain English
The state legislature cannot directly levy local taxes but may give local governments the power to impose them.
Read the full statutory text
(a) The Legislature may not impose taxes for local purposes but may authorize local governments to impose them. (b) The Legislature may not reallocate, transfer, borrow, appropriate, restrict the use of, or otherwise use the proceeds of any tax imposed or levied by a local government solely for the local government’s purposes. (c) Money appropriated from state funds to a local government for its local purposes may be used as provided by law. (d) Money subvened to a local government under Section 25 may be used for state or local purposes.
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