Article 7. Miscellaneous of California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 4. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 10. >> Article 7.

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.

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

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.

(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.

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.

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