General Powers
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 39 Cal. 3d 740 - People Ex Rel. Clancy v. Superior Court (1985)
Most recently applied in Costa Mesa City Employees' Ass'n v. City of Costa Mesa (August 2012)
Amended by Stats. 1949, Ch. 354.
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.
The legislative body may contract with any specially trained and experienced person, firm, or corporation for special services and advice in financial, economic, accounting, engineering, legal, or administrative matters.
It may pay such compensation to these experts as it deems proper.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.