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Title 5 - LOCAL AGENCIES
Division 1 - CITIES AND COUNTIES
Part 1 - POWERS AND DUTIES COMMON TO CITIES AND COUNTIES
Part 1 - POWERS AND DUTIES COMMON TO CITIES AND COUNTIES
California Government Code — §§ 50001-51299.4
Chapter 1 - General
§§ 50001-50290
Article 1 - Definitions
§§ 50001-50002
Article 2 - Powers and Duties of Legislative Bodies
§§ 50020-50034
Article 3 - Financial Affairs
§§ 50050-50057
Article 3.1 - Habitat Maintenance Assessment Districts
§§ 50060-50070
Article 3.5 - Voter-Approved Special Taxes
§§ 50075-50077.5
Article 3.6 - Fire Suppression Assessments
§§ 50078-50078.20
Article 3.8 - School Districts
§§ 50079-50079.6
Article 4 - Officers and Employees
§§ 50080-50089
Article 5 - Books, Maps, and Other Documents
§§ 50110-50115
Article 6 - Reimbursement for Use of Drainage Structures
§§ 50140-50143
Article 9 - Abandoned Excavations
§§ 50230-50257
Article 10 - Human Relations
§§ 50260-50265
Article 11 - City Selection Committees
§§ 50270-50279.2
Article 12 - Historical Property Contracts
§§ 50280-50290
Chapter 2 - Public Property
§§ 50300-50574
Article 1 - Extraterritorial Property
§§ 50300-50308
Article 2 - Grants of Property
§§ 50330-50335
Article 3 - Issuance of Bonds for the Acquisition of Property
§§ 50360-50369
Article 4 - Parks
§§ 50401-50402
Article 6 - Airports
§§ 50470-50479
Article 6.5 - Airport Approaches Zoning Law
§§ 50485-50485.14
Article 7 - Leases
§§ 50490-50516
Article 8 - Public Buildings
§§ 50530-50535
Article 9 - Sale of Improvements Financed by Special Assessments
§§ 50550-50564
Article 10 - Surplus Real Property
§§ 50568-50573
Article 11 - Property Within Designated Qualified Opportunity Zones
§§ 50574
Chapter 2.5 - Open Space Maintenance Districts
§§ 50575-50628
Article 1 - General Provisions
§§ 50575-50583
Article 2 - Formation of District
§§ 50590-50607
Article 3 - Administrative Provisions
§§ 50610-50615
Article 4 - Annexations, Additions and Withdrawals
§§ 50620-50628
Chapter 3 - Bonds
§§ 50630-50670.4
Article 2 - Registration of Bonds
§§ 50630-50633
Article 3 - Negotiability
§§ 50660-50663
Article 4 - Limited Obligation Bonds
§§ 50665.1-50670.4
Chapter 3.5 - Revenue Bonds for Public Improvements
§§ 50701-50798.4
Article 1 - Authority
§§ 50701-50713
Article 2 - Revenue Bonds
§§ 50715-50753
Article 3 - Rental Rates, Charges and Fees
§§ 50760-50762
Article 4 - Competitive Projects
§§ 50765-50766
Article 5 - Rights of Bondholders
§§ 50770-50771
Article 6 - Contributions and Cooperation
§§ 50786-50790
Article 7 - Funds
§§ 50793-50797
Article 8 - Definition and General Provisions
§§ 50798-50798.4
Chapter 4 - Police Officers’ Pension Fund and Firemen’s Pension Fund
§§ 50800-50927
Article 1 - General Provisions
§§ 50800-50807
Article 2 - Organization, Powers, and Duties of the Board
§§ 50830-50846
Article 3 - Pensions and Death Benefits
§§ 50870-50883
Article 4 - Contributions and Surplus
§§ 50910-50914
Article 5 - Extraterritorial Activities of County and City Peace Officers
§§ 50920-50922
Article 6 - Extraterritorial Activities of Firemen
§§ 50925-50927
Chapter 4.5 - Volunteer Firefighters Length of Service Award Act
§§ 50950-50979
Article 1 - General Provisions
§§ 50950-50952
Article 2 - Administration, Award System, and Membership
§§ 50953-50957
Article 3 - Service Credit and Contributions
§§ 50958-50963
Article 4 - Contract Provisions
§§ 50964-50971
Article 5 - Termination and Limitations
§§ 50972-50974
Article 6 - Indemnity
§§ 50975-50976
Article 7 - Termination of the Award System by the Public Employees’ Retirement System
§§ 50977-50979
Chapter 4.6 - The Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2025
§§ 50990-50996
Chapter 5 - Boundaries
§§ 51000-51009
Chapter 5.5 - The Elder California Pipeline Safety Act Of 1981
§§ 51010-51019.1
Chapter 6 - Massage
§§ 51030-51034
Chapter 6.1 - Cottage Food Operations
§§ 51035
Chapter 6.2 - Sidewalk Vendors
§§ 51036-51039
Chapter 6.3 - Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones
§§ 51040-51042
Chapter 6.5 - Open-Space Easements
§§ 51050-51065
Chapter 6.6 - Open-Space Easement Act of 1974
§§ 51070-51097
Article 1 - Declaration
§§ 51070-51073
Article 2 - Definitions
§§ 51075
Article 3 - General Provisions
§§ 51080-51087
Article 4 - Termination of an Open-Space Easement
§§ 51090-51094
Article 5 - Eminent Domain and Other Provisions
§§ 51095-51097
Chapter 6.7 - Timberland
§§ 51100-51155
Article 1 - General Provisions
§§ 51100-51104
Article 2 - Timberland Production Zones
§§ 51110-51119.5
Article 3 - Rezoning
§§ 51120-51121
Article 4 - Immediate Rezoning
§§ 51130-51134
Article 5 - Removal from Zone
§§ 51140-51146
Article 6 - Eminent Domain or Other Acquisition
§§ 51150-51155
Chapter 6.8 - Moderate, High, and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones
§§ 51175-51189
Chapter 6.9 - Solar-Use Easement
§§ 51190-51192.2
Article 1 - Definitions
§§ 51190
Article 2 - General Provisions
§§ 51191-51191.8
Article 3 - Extinguishment of a Solar-Use Easement
§§ 51192-51192.2
Chapter 7 - Agricultural Land
§§ 51200-51297.4
Article 1 - General Provisions
§§ 51200-51207
Article 2 - Declaration
§§ 51220-51223
Article 2.5 - Agricultural Preserves
§§ 51230-51239
Article 3 - Contracts
§§ 51240-51257.5
Article 5 - Cancellation
§§ 51280-51287
Article 6 - Eminent Domain or Other Acquisition
§§ 51290-51295
Article 7 - Farmland Security Zones
§§ 51296-51297.4
Chapter 8 - Capital Investment Incentive Program
§§ 51298-51298.5
Chapter 9 - Adaptive Reuse Investment Incentive Program
§§ 51299-51299.4