The enacting clause of ordinances shall be: “The city council of the City of ____ does ordain as follows:”.
Cal. Gov. Code § 36931
Enactment
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 1 Cal. App. 4th 1168 - Bischel v. Fire Insurance Exchange (1991)
Most recently applied in 175 Cal. App. 4th 1306 - Habitat Trust for Wildlife, Inc. v. City of Rancho Cucamonga (July 2009)
Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.