Article 2. Chartered Cities of California Government Code >> Division 1. >> Title 5. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 2.

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 officer, board, or commission to an officer, board, or commission of the county in which the city is situated.

The resolution of the board of supervisors shall recite:
  (a) The functions to be transferred.
  (b) The county officers, boards, or commissions to perform the function.
  (c) The compensation to be paid by the city to the county for the services to be performed.

The transfer may be rescinded:
  (a) At any time by the joint action of the city and the county.
  (b) By separate action of either with one year's notice.

The city shall express its rescission as provided by its charter or, if the charter does not provide, by resolution of its legislative body. The county shall express its rescission by resolution of the board of supervisors.

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 taxes or assessments, may be transferred pursuant to this article. Where a city transfers the assessment function to a county it may request the county to prepare only a secured roll in the first year of transfer and thereafter both the secured and unsecured rolls. Where a city which has been collecting taxes upon a calendar-year basis transfers such function to a county under this article, said collection by the county shall be continued upon such calendar-year basis.

If the city charter so authorizes, other functions may be transferred and performed as provided by law.