California

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• § 51177 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Defensible space” means the area adjacent to a structure or dwelling where wildfire prevention or protection practices are implemented to provide defense from an approach
• § 51178 — The State Fire Marshal shall identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard tha
• § 51178.5 — Within 30 days after receiving a transmittal from the State Fire Marshal that identifies fire hazard severity zones pursuant to Section 51178, a local agency shall make the information available for p
• § 51179 — (a) A local agency shall designate, by ordinance, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal
• § 51180 — For the purposes of Division 3.
• § 51181 — The State Fire Marshal shall periodically review the areas in the state identified as very high fire hazard severity zones pursuant to this chapter, and as necessary, shall make recommendations relati
• § 51182 — (a) The State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection shall adopt regulations to implement the rules described in this subdivision.
• § 51182.4 — (a) The State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection shall adopt regulations to implement defensible space requirements for an ember-resistant zone required within five feet of a structure in the state
• § 51183 — (a) The local agency may exempt from the standards set forth in Section 51182 structures with exteriors constructed entirely of nonflammable materials, or conditioned upon the contents and composition
• § 51183.5 — (a) A transferor of real property that is located within a very high fire hazard severity zone, designated pursuant to this chapter, shall disclose to any prospective transferee the fact that the prop
• § 51184 — (a) Section 51182 shall not apply to any land or water area acquired or managed for one or more of the following purposes or uses: (1) Habitat for endangered or threatened species, or any species that
• § 51185 — (a) A violation of Section 51182 is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
• § 51186 — (a) The local agency having jurisdiction of property upon which conditions regulated by Section 51182 are being violated shall notify the owner of the property to correct the conditions.
• § 51187 — Any violation of Section 51182 may be considered a public nuisance pursuant to Section 38773.
• § 51188 — In the instance of conflict between this chapter and any provision of state law that allows a regional planning agency to regulate very high fire hazard severity zones, this chapter shall prevail.
• § 51189 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that site and structure defensibility is essential to reduce the risk of structure ignition as well as for effective fire suppression by firefighters.
• § 51190 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “City” means any city or city and county.
• § 51191 — (a) For purposes of this chapter, and for purposes of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 51200), the Department of Conservation, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, upon a req
• § 51191.1 — Any county or city may enter into an agreement with a landowner pursuant to Section 51255.
• § 51191.2 — The execution and acceptance of a deed or other instrument described in subdivision (c) of Section 51190 shall constitute a dedication to the public of the use of lands for solar photovoltaic use.
• § 51191.3 — (a) A county or city may require a deed or other instrument described in subdivision (c) of Section 51190 to contain any restrictions, conditions, or covenants as are necessary or desirable to restric
• § 51191.4 — No deed or other instrument described in subdivision (c) of Section 51190 shall be effective until it has been accepted or approved by resolution of the governing body of the county or city and its ac
• § 51191.5 — (a) During the term of the solar-use easement, the county or city shall not approve any land use on land covered by a solar easement that is inconsistent with the easement, and no building permit may
• § 51191.6 — Upon the acceptance or approval of any instrument creating a solar-use easement, the clerk of the governing body shall record the instrument in the office of the county recorder and file a copy with t
• § 51191.7 — The parcel or parcels subject to a solar-use easement shall be assessed pursuant to Section 402.
• § 51191.8 — The Department of Conservation may adopt regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 51192 — (a) A solar-use easement may be extinguished on all or a portion of the parcel only by nonrenewal, termination, or by returning the land to its previous contract pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with
• § 51192.1 — In the case of a solar-use easement that is extinguished because of a notice of nonrenewal by the landowner or due to termination, the landowner shall restore the land that is subject to the easement
• § 51192.2 — (a) If all or a portion of the parcel held in a solar-use easement will no longer be used for the purposes outlined in the easement the landowner may petition the county or city to approve termination
• § 512 — From the county seat of Glenn County to Sacramento it is eighty-eight (88) miles.
• § 51200 — This chapter shall be known as the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 or as the Williamson Act.
• § 51201 — As used in this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Agricultural commodity” means any and all plant and animal products produced
• § 51205 — Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary, land devoted to recreational use or land within a scenic highway corridor, a wildlife habitat area, a saltpond, a managed wetland area,
• § 51205.1 — Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter to the contrary, land within a scenic highway corridor, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 51201, shall, upon the request of the owner, be included
• § 51206 — The Department of Conservation may meet with and assist local, regional, state, and federal agencies, organizations, landowners, or any other person or entity in the interpretation of this chapter.
• § 51207 — (a) On or before May 1 of every other year, the Department of Conservation shall post on its internet website the following information: (b) The information shall contain the number of acres of land u
• § 51220 — The Legislature finds: (a) That the preservation of a maximum amount of the limited supply of agricultural land is necessary to the conservation of the state’s economic resources, and is necessary not
• § 51220.5 — The Legislature finds and declares that agricultural operations are often hindered or impaired by uses which increase the density of the permanent or temporary human population of the agricultural are
• § 51221 — The Legislature further declares that the expenditure of public funds under the provisions of this chapter is in the public interest and is necessary to the accomplishment of the purposes herein set f
• § 51222 — The Legislature further declares that it is in the public interest for local officials and landowners to retain agricultural lands which are subject to contracts entered into pursuant to this act in p
• § 51223 — (a) A city council or board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall, prior to rescinding a contract for the purpose of restricting the same land by an open-space contract pursuant to Section 51254 o
• § 51230 — Beginning January 1, 1971, any county or city having a general plan, and until December 31, 1970, any county or city, by resolution, and after a public hearing may establish an agricultural preserve.
• § 51230.1 — (a) Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the transfer of ownership from one immediate family member to another of a portion of land which is currently designated as an agricultural preserve
• § 51230.2 — (a) Except as provided in Section 51238, and notwithstanding Section 51222 or 66474.
• § 51231 — (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the board or council, by resolution, shall adopt rules governing the administration of agricultural preserves, including procedures for initiating, filing, and pr
• § 51232 — In the event any proposal to disestablish or to alter the boundary of an agricultural preserve will remove land under contract from such a preserve, notice of the proposed alteration or disestablishme
• § 51233 — When a county proposes to establish, disestablish, or alter the boundary of an agricultural preserve it shall give written notice at least two weeks before the hearing to the local agency formation co
• § 51234 — Any proposal to establish an agricultural preserve shall be submitted to the planning department of the county or city having jurisdiction over the land.
• § 51235 — An agricultural preserve shall continue in full effect following annexation, detachment, incorporation or disincorporation of land within the preserve.
• § 51236 — The effect of removal of land under contract from an agricultural preserve shall be the equivalent of notice of nonrenewal by the city or county removing the land from the agricultural preserve and su
• § 51237 — Whenever an agricultural preserve is established, and so long as it shall be in effect, a map of such agricultural preserve and the resolution under which the preserve was established shall be filed a
• § 51237.5 — On or before January 30 of each year, each city or county in which any agricultural preserve is located shall provide the Department with geographical information system (GIS) data files of all agricu
• § 51238 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any determination of compatible uses by the county or city pursuant to this article, unless the board or council after notice and hearing makes a finding to the contrary, the e
• § 51238.1 — (a) Uses approved on contracted lands shall be consistent with all of the following principles of compatibility: (1) The use will not significantly compromise the long-term productive agricultural cap
• § 51238.2 — Mineral extraction that is unable to meet the principles of Section 51238.
• § 51238.3 — (a) The requirements of Sections 51238.
• § 51238.5 — (a) If an owner of land agrees to permit the use of his or her land for free public recreation, the board or council may agree to indemnify the owner against all claims arising from that public use.
• § 51239 — The board or council may appoint an advisory board, the members of which shall serve at the pleasure of the board or council and may be paid their expenses.
• § 51240 — Any city or county may by contract limit the use of agricultural land for the purpose of preserving such land pursuant and subject to the conditions set forth in the contract and in this chapter.
• § 51241 — If such a contract is made with any landowner, the city or county shall offer such a contract under similar terms to every other owner of agricultural land within the agricultural preserve in question
• § 51242 — No city or county may contract with respect to any land pursuant to this chapter unless the land: (a) Is devoted to agricultural use.
• § 51243 — Every contract shall do both of the following: (a) Provide for the exclusion of uses other than agricultural, and other than those compatible with agricultural uses, for the duration of the contract.
• § 51243.5 — (a) This section shall apply only to land that was within one mile of a city boundary when a contract was executed pursuant to this article and for which the contract was executed prior to January 1,
• § 51243.6 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The enforceability of contracts entered into pursuant to this article is necessary to permit the preferential taxation provided to the owners of l
• § 51244 — (a) Each contract shall be for an initial term of no less than 10 years.
• § 51244.3 — (a) This section shall apply to properties under a 9-year or 18-year contract, as the case may be, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 51244.
• § 51244.5 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 51244, if the initial term of the contract is for more than 10 years, the contract may provide that on the anniversary date of the contract or such other annu
• § 51245 — If either the landowner or the city or county desires in any year not to renew the contract, that party shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the contract upon the other party in advance of the
• § 51246 — (a) If the county or city or the landowner serves notice of intent in any year not to renew the contract, the existing contract shall remain in effect for the balance of the period remaining since the
• § 51247 — The landowner shall furnish the city or county with such information as the city or county shall require in order to enable it to determine the eligibility of the land involved.
• § 51248 — No later than 20 days after a city or county enters into a contract with a landowner pursuant to this chapter, the clerk of the board or council, as the case may be, shall record with the county recor
• § 51248.5 — Whenever any city or county is required to record any contract by this chapter, it may file a fictitious contract.
• § 51250 — (a) The purpose of this section is to identify certain structures that constitute material breaches of contract under this chapter and to provide an alternate remedy to a contract cancellation petitio
• § 51251 — The county, city, or landowner may bring any action in court necessary to enforce any contract, including, but not limited to, an action to enforce the contract by specific performance or injunction.
• § 51252 — Open-space land under a contract entered into pursuant to this chapter shall be enforceably restricted within the meaning and for the purposes of Section 8 of Article XIII of the State Constitution an
• § 51253 — Any contract or agreement entered into pursuant to this chapter prior to the 61st day following final adjournment of the 1969 Regular Session of the Legislature may be amended to conform with the prov
• § 51254 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the parties may upon their mutual agreement rescind a contract in order simultaneously to enter into a new contract pursuant to this chapter, which
• § 51255 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the parties may upon their mutual agreement rescind a contract in order simultaneously to enter into an open-space easement agreement pursuant
• § 51255.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the parties may, upon their mutual agreement, rescind a contract for a parcel or parcels of land that, upon review and approval, are determined
• § 51256 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a city or county, upon petition by a landowner, may enter into an agreement with the landowner to rescind a contract in accordance with the contrac
• § 51256.1 — No agreement entered into pursuant to Section 51256 shall take effect until it is approved by the Secretary of Resources.
• § 51256.2 — (a) One or more cities or counties may adopt a plan for implementing the provisions of Section 51256 with respect to multiple transactions within one or more specific areas, and submit the plan to the
• § 51256.3 — For the purposes of facilitating long-term agricultural land conservation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, an agricultural conservation easement located within the primary or secondary zone of the
• § 51257 — (a) To facilitate a lot line adjustment, pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 66412, and notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the parties may mutually agree to rescind the contract o
• § 51257.5 — (a) If the state fails to make payments to a city or county pursuant to Section 16142 or 16142.
• § 51280 — It is hereby declared that the purpose of this article is to provide relief from the provisions of contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter under the circumstances and conditions provided herei
• § 51280.1 — As used in this chapter, the finding of a board or council that “cancellation and alternative use will not result in discontiguous patterns of urban development” authorizes, but does not require, the
• § 51281 — A contract may not be canceled except pursuant to a request by the landowner, and as provided in this article.
• § 51281.1 — The board or council may require the payment of a reasonable application fee to be made at the time a petition for cancellation is filed.
• § 51282 — (a) The landowner may petition the board or council for cancellation of any contract as to all or any part of the subject land.
• § 51282.3 — (a) The landowner may petition the board or council, pursuant to Section 51282, for cancellation of any contract or of any portion of a contract if the board or council has determined that agricultura
• § 51282.5 — The owner of any land which has been zoned as a timberland production pursuant to Section 51112 or 51113, and that zoning has been recorded as provided in Section 51117, may petition the board or coun
• § 51283 — (a) Prior to any action by the board or council giving tentative approval to the cancellation of any contract, the county assessor of the county in which the land is located shall determine the curren
• § 51283.1 — (a) The assessor shall determine the current fair market value of the land as if it were free of the contractual restriction pursuant to Section 51283.
• § 51283.4 — (a) Upon tentative approval of a petition accompanied by a proposal for a specified alternative use of the land, the clerk of the board or council shall record in the office of the county recorder of
• § 51283.5 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that cancellation fees should be calculated in a timely manner and disputes over cancellation fees should be resolved before a city or county approves a tentativ
• § 51284 — No contract may be canceled until after the city or county has given notice of, and has held, a public hearing on the matter.
• § 51284.1 — When a landowner petitions a board or council for the tentative cancellation of a contract and when the board or council accepts the application as complete pursuant to Section 65943, the board or cou
• § 51285 — The owner of any property located in the county or city in which the agricultural preserve is situated may protest such cancellation to the city or county conducting the hearing.
• § 51286 — (a) Any action or proceeding which, on the grounds of alleged noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter, seeks to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul a decision of a board of superviso
• § 51287 — The city or county may impose a fee pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 66016) of Division 1 of Title 7 for recovery of costs under this article.
• § 51290 — (a) It is the policy of the state to avoid, whenever practicable, the location of any federal, state, or local public improvements and any improvements of public utilities, and the acquisition of land
• § 51290.5 — As used in this chapter, “public improvement” means facilities or interests in real property, including easements, rights-of-way, and interests in fee title, owned by a public agency or person, as def
• § 51291 — (a) As used in this section and Sections 51292 and 51295, (1) “public agency” means any department or agency of the United States or the state, and any county, city, school district, or other local pu
• § 51291.5 — The notice requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 51291 shall not apply to the acquisition of land for the erection, construction, or alteration of gas, electric, piped subterranean water or waste
• § 51292 — No public agency or person shall locate a public improvement within an agricultural preserve unless the following findings are made: (a) The location is not based primarily on a consideration of the l
• § 51293 — Section 51292 shall not apply to: (a) The location or construction of improvements where the board or council administering the agricultural preserve approves or agrees to the location thereof, except
• § 51293.1 — Any public agency or person requiring land in an agricultural preserve for a use which has been determined by a city or county to be a “compatible use” pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 51201 in
• § 51294 — Section 51292 shall be enforceable only by mandamus proceedings by the local governing body administering the agricultural preserve.
• § 51294.1 — After 30 days have elapsed following its action, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 51291, advising the local governing body of a county or city administering an agricultural preserve of its inten
• § 51294.2 — If any local governing body administering an agricultural preserve within 90 days after receiving a request pursuant to Section 51294.
• § 51295 — When any action in eminent domain for the condemnation of the fee title of an entire parcel of land subject to a contract is filed, or when that land is acquired in lieu of eminent domain for a public
• § 51296 — The Legislature finds and declares that it is desirable to expand options available to landowners for the preservation of agricultural land.
• § 51296.1 — A landowner or group of landowners may petition the board to rescind a contract or contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter in order to simultaneously place the land subject to that contract or
• § 51296.2 — Both of the following shall apply to land within a designated farmland security zone: (a) The land shall be eligible for property tax valuation pursuant to Section 423.
• § 51296.3 — Notwithstanding any provision of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000)), a local agency formation commission shall not appr
• § 51296.4 — Notwithstanding any provision of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 (Division 3 (commencing with Section 56000)), a local agency formation commission shall not appr
• § 51296.5 — Notwithstanding Article 5 (commencing with Section 53090) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of Title 5, a school district shall not render inapplicable a county zoning ordinance to the use of land by the sch
• § 51296.6 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district shall not acquire any land that is within a designated farmland security zone.
• § 51296.7 — The board shall not approve any use of land within a designated farmland security zone based on the compatible use provisions contained in subdivision (c) of Section 51238.
• § 51296.8 — Sections 51296 to 51297.
• § 51296.9 — Nonrenewal of a farmland security zone contract shall be pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 51240), except as otherwise provided in this article.
• § 51297 — A petition for cancellation of a farmland security zone contract created under this article may be filed only by the landowner with the city or county within which the contracted land is located.
• § 51297.1 — All of the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 51290) shall apply to farmland security zones created pursuant to this article except as specifically provided in this article.
• § 51297.2 — No state agency, as defined in Section 65934, or local agency, as defined in Section 65930, shall require any land to be placed under a farmland security zone contract as a condition of the issuance o
• § 51297.3 — Sections 51296.
• § 51297.4 — Nothing in Sections 51296 to 51297.
• § 51298 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide local governments with opportunities to attract large manufacturing facilities to invest in their communities and to encourage i
• § 51298.1 — (a) The governing body of a county, city and county, or city, may, by means of an ordinance or resolution approved by a majority of its entire membership, elect to establish a capital investment incen
• § 51298.5 — (a) This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2035.
• § 51299 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide cities and counties with opportunities to adaptively reuse existing buildings, such as office buildings, in order to facilitate
• § 51299.1 — For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Adaptive reuse investment incentive funds” means, with respect to a qualified adaptive reuse project property for a relevant fiscal year, an amount up to or equal to
• § 51299.2 — (a) Commencing in the 2026–27 fiscal year, the governing body of a city or county, or city and county, may, by ordinance or resolution, establish an adaptive reuse investment incentive program pursuan
• § 51299.3 — A city or special district may pay to the city or county, or city and county, an amount equal to the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated to that city or special district, but not the a
• § 51299.4 — This chapter shall become operative on July 1, 2026.
• § 513 — From the county seat of Humboldt County to Sacramento it is three hundred and twelve (312) miles.
• § 51300 — This article does not apply to cities containing a population of over 1,900,000 according to the 1950 federal census or to cities which are also cities and counties.
• § 51301 — A board of supervisors may contract with a city, governed under general laws or charter, within the county, and the city legislative body may contract with the county for the performance by its approp
• § 51302 — The term of the contract shall not exceed five years but may continue for periods of five years each, unless the legislative body of either local agency votes not to continue the term at a meeting mor
• § 51303 — The county officers and employees named in the contract shall exercise within the city all of the powers and duties conferred upon the city officers or employees named in the contract.
• § 51304 — The city may provide in the contract for the payment to the county of a consideration agreed upon, which shall be paid to the county treasurer.
• § 51305 — If the contract results in a unification of a county department with a similar city department requiring a reduction of employees in either department and in a particular line of promotion, the reduct
• § 51306 — The contract shall provide for the assumption of all city pension rights of the transferred employees by the county, or for their continuation by the city, or by both.
• § 51307 — The board of supervisors shall hold separately in trust pension money or property taken over by it from the city under the contract and all earnings, increases, and additions to such funds.
• § 51308 — Any person pensioned at the execution of the contract has a vested property right in the pension fund for the payment of his pension.
• § 51330 — If authorized by the city charter and approved by resolution of the board of supervisors, a city organized under a freeholders’ charter may transfer any of its functions and any of the functions of an
• § 51331 — The resolution of the board of supervisors shall recite: (a) The functions to be transferred.
• § 51332 — The transfer may be rescinded: (a) At any time by the joint action of the city and the county.
• § 51333 — The city shall express its rescission as provided by its charter or, if the charter does not provide, by resolution of its legislative body.
• § 51334 — City functions relating to the assessment of property for taxation, the collection of taxes levied for municipal purposes, the collection of assessments, and the sale of property for the nonpayment of
• § 51335 — If the city charter so authorizes, other functions may be transferred and performed as provided by law.
• § 51350 — A county which provides services through its appropriate departments, boards, commissions, officers or employees, to any city pursuant to contract or as authorized by law, shall charge the city all th
• § 514 — From the county seat of Imperial County to Sacramento it is six hundred sixty-one (661) miles.
• § 515 — From the county seat of Inyo County to Sacramento it is four hundred and sixty-six (466) miles.
• § 51500 — A city, except a city which is also a city and county, may transfer its functions pursuant to this article.
• § 51501 — By ordinance, a city legislative body may transfer the duties of the city treasurer to the treasurer of the county in which the city is situated, and shall, by January 1, 1969, transfer the assessment
• § 51502 — A certified copy of the ordinance transferring the duties of the assessor and tax collector shall be filed with the county auditor on or before the first Monday of the February following the adoption
• § 51503 — Certified copies of the ordinance transferring the duties of the treasurer shall be served on the county auditor, tax collector, and treasurer.
• § 51504 — All assessments made by the county assessor and equalized or corrected by the board of supervisors or State Board of Equalization shall be the basis for levying city taxes.
• § 51505 — The ordinance transferring the duties of the treasurer is effective until repealed.
• § 51506 — The offices of city assessor, tax collector, and treasurer may be abolished by ordinance after their duties have been transferred.
• § 51507 — When a city transfers the duties of assessing and collecting taxes, all duties performed by the city assessor other than the assessing of the city property shall be transferred to, and performed by, t
• § 51508 — Before fixing the rate of taxes the legislative body of a city which has transferred the duties of the assessor and tax collector shall fix by ordinance or resolution the amount of revenue from proper
• § 51510 — Annually on or before the third Monday in August, the county auditor shall transmit to the city legislative body a written statement, showing separately the total value of all property within the city
• § 51511 — Annually, before September 1st, the city legislative body shall fix the rate of taxes, or rates of taxes, if different portions or districts require different rates, by determining the percentage of f
• § 51512 — The county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the city tax on the property enumerated and assessed as being in the city, using the rates fixed by the city legislative body and the
• § 51513 — The taxes so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and paid into the county treasury.
• § 51514 — The compensation paid to the county for assessing and collecting taxes for a city shall be fixed by agreement between the board of supervisors and the city legislative body.
• § 51515 — When the duties of the city treasurer have been transferred to the county treasurer, one-fourth of 1 percent shall be deducted from the money collected by the county tax collector as compensation for
• § 51516 — When a city has transferred the assessing and collecting of taxes, property which has been sold to the city for nonpayment of taxes may be redeemed pursuant to Part 7, Division 1, of the Revenue and T
• § 51517 — The collection of unpaid taxes levied on property by the city shall be enforced by the sale of the property in the manner, at the time, and upon the penalties, of property sold for nonpayment of count
• § 51518 — The county auditor shall apportion to the city the money paid for redemption in the proportion which the tax due the city bears to the total tax for which the real property was sold.
• § 51519 — When a county charter permits and the county consents, a city governed under general laws or charter permitting the discharge of certain city functions by county officers and which is situated within
• § 51520 — Notwithstanding any provisions of this article relating to compensation paid to the county for assessing and collecting taxes for a city the board of supervisors may, upon a finding of public interest
• § 51521 — When delinquent taxes of a general law city, with costs and penalties, have been paid to the county treasurer, the money collected, including, if authorized by the board of supervisors as a matter of
• § 51540 — As used in this article, “city” means a city governed under a freeholders’ charter.
• § 51541 — This article provides an alternative method by which the duties of city officers designated in this article may be performed by officers of the county in which the city is situated.
• § 51542 — When the city charter or a city ordinance authorized by the charter provides, the county officers designated in the charter or ordinance shall perform any of the following duties of the city legislati
• § 51543 — The county officers designated shall be officers who perform duties of the same character as the city officers whose duties are transferred to them.
• § 51544 — A copy of the charter or ordinance providing for the transfer of duties shall be certified by the city clerk and filed with the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of the February follo
• § 51545 — The board of supervisors shall cause notice of the charter provision or ordinance to be given to the designated county officers.
• § 51546 — The county assessment roll made annually by the county assessor and equalized and corrected by the board of supervisors shall be the basis for levying city taxes.
• § 51547 — In the case of a sale of property for taxes or special assessments, except where the sale is conducted and the funds are accounted for as provided in Division 1 (commencing with Section 101) of the Re
• § 51549 — As soon as practicable after the lien date following the effective date of the charter provision or ordinance, the city clerk shall deliver to the county assessor a written statement showing separatel
• § 51551 — Annually before September 1st, the city legislative body shall cause to be delivered to the county auditor a statement certified by the city clerk showing separately: (a) The levy or rate percent of t
• § 51552 — Upon delivery of the certified statement from the city legislative body, the county auditor shall compute and enter in the assessment book the municipal taxes on the property enumerated and assessed a
• § 51553 — The taxes so levied shall be collected at the time and in the manner of county taxes and shall be paid into the county treasury.
• § 51554 — When delinquent city taxes, with costs and penalties, have been paid to the county treasurer or when property in the city has been sold for the nonpayment of city taxes and redeemed, and the money for
• § 51555 — The net amounts of collections of current and delinquent taxes and redemptions shall be paid to the city monthly, or at such other times agreed upon between the city legislative body and the board of
• § 51556 — The collection of unpaid city taxes levied on property by the city shall be enforced by the sale of the property in the manner, at the time, and upon the penalties, of property sold for nonpayment of
• § 51557 — The county auditor shall apportion to the city the money paid for redemption, in the proportion which the tax due the city bears to the total tax for which the real property was sold.
• § 51558 — The proper city officers shall perform all duties relative to the collection of city taxes, including delinquent taxes, levied prior to the effective date of the charter provision or ordinance, the en
• § 51559 — Upon the repeal of the city charter provision or ordinance the performance of city functions by county officers authorized by it shall cease.
• § 51560 — The county officers shall perform all duties relative to the collection of city taxes, including delinquent taxes, levied prior to the repeal, the enforcement of their payment, and the sale of propert
• § 51561 — The compensation paid the county for the services shall be filed by agreement between the board of supervisors and the city legislative body.
• § 51562 — Notwithstanding any provision of this article relating to compensation paid to the county for assessing and collecting taxes for a city the board of supervisors may, upon a finding of public interest,
• § 516 — From the county seat of Kern County to Sacramento it is two hundred and seventy-eight (278) miles.
• § 517 — From the county seat of Kings County to Sacramento it is two hundred and fourteen (214) miles.
• § 518 — From the county seat of Lake County to Sacramento it is one hundred and sixty (160) miles.
• § 51800 — Where the duties of assessing property and collecting city taxes are performed for a city by the county assessor and the county tax collector in a manner provided by law, cities and counties may enter