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Cal. Gov. Code § 40401

General

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 65 Cal. 2d 13 - Irwin v. City of Manhattan Beach (1966)

Most recently applied in 20 Cal. App. 4th 152 - Friends of H Street v. City of Sacramento (October 1993)

Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

In its discretion the legislative body may expend the ordinary annual city income to pay all or part of the cost of work to:

(a) Establish, build, and repair bridges.

(b) Acquire by purchase or otherwise land for squares, parks, playgrounds, and places within the city and improve, equip, and maintain them.

(c) Establish, lay out, alter, keep open, improve, and repair streets, sidewalks, alleys, tunnels, and other public highways, and drain, sprinkle, oil, and light them.

(d) Remove all obstructions from them.

(e) Establish grades for them.

(f) Grade, pave, gravel, and curb all or part of them.

(g) Construct gutters, culverts, sidewalks, and crosswalks in all or on any part of them.

(h) Cause shade trees to be planted, set out, and cultivated in them.

(i) Generally manage and control all such highways, tunnels, and places.

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