SECTIONS 38790-38794 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 38790-38794

38790. By gift, purchase, or condemnation any city may acquire land
within the county where the city is located for garbage disposal
sites and rights of way for roadways to the site. "Garbage" includes:
(a) Animal, fruit, and vegetable refuse.
(b) Offal.
(c) Leaves and cuttings, trimmings from trees, shrubs, and grass.
(d) Inorganic refuse and rubbish.
(e) Anything thrown away as worthless.

38790.1. Any city collecting garbage fees or charges may collect
delinquent fees or charges in the manner provided in Section 25831
for counties.

38791. By ordinance the legislative body of a city may provide for
a chief executive who, during periods of great public calamity such
as extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, earthquake, sabotage
or enemy attack, shall have complete authority over the city and the
right to exercise all police power vested in the city by the
Constitution and general laws.

38792. (a) The legislative body of a city may impose and collect a
license fee for a period not to exceed two years and not exceeding
the cost of services relating to dogs, including, but not limited to,
animal shelters and control and the programs specified in Section
30652 of the Food and Agricultural Code, provided by the city, on
every dog owned or harbored within the city limits. The license fee
for spayed bitches and neutered males shall not exceed 50 percent of
the license fee otherwise imposed.
(b) In addition to the authority provided in subdivision (a), the
legislative body of a city may impose and collect a license fee, as
described in subdivision (a), for a period not to exceed three years
for dogs that have attained the age of 12 months or older and have
been vaccinated. The person from whom the license fee is collected
pursuant to this subdivision may choose a license period as
established by the legislative body of up to one, two, or three
years. However, when imposing and collecting a license fee pursuant
to this subdivision, the license period shall not extend beyond the
remaining period of validity for the current rabies vaccination. The
license fee for spayed bitches and neutered males, under this
subdivision, shall not exceed 50 percent of the license fee otherwise
imposed.

38793. As a means of implementing a municipal underground utility
district formed to remove existing overhead utility lines and to
require property owners of the district, served by such lines, to
prepare their properties to accept underground utility lines, cities
may provide by ordinance that if any property owner, after due
notice, refuses to comply within a reasonable time to effect such
removal or preparation in accordance with the applicable rules of the
utility involved the city may cause such work to be done and assess
the costs thereof against the property and that such assessment shall
become a lien against the property. The assessment may be collected
at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal ad
valorem taxes are collected, and shall be subject to the same
penalties and the same procedure and sale in case of delinquency as
provided for such taxes. All laws applicable to the levy, collection
and enforcement of municipal ad valorem taxes shall be applicable to
such assessment.

38794. The legislative body of a city may contract for ambulance
service to serve the residents of the city as convenience requires.