Cal. Gov. Code § 36937

Enactment

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 71 Cal. App. 4th 965 - County of Del Norte v. City of Crescent City (1999)

Most recently applied in 9 Cal. 5th 1105 - Wilde v. City of Dunsmuir (August 2020)

Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 2347.

How often courts cite this section

citing decisions per year

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.

Ordinances take effect 30 days after their final passage. An ordinance takes effect immediately, if it is an ordinance:

(a) Relating to an election.

(b) For the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, containing a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the city council.

(d) Relating to taxes for the usual and current expenses of the city.

(e) Covered by particular provisions of law prescribing the manner of its passage and adoption.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.