Gov. Code, § 51508 · Article 1. General
Gov. Code, § 51508
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
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 property taxes necessary to support its departments for the current year and to pay the bonded or other indebtedness of the city, or any portion or district of the city.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1295.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=51508.
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- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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