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Cal. Gov. Code § 54980

Municipal Services and Functions

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 15 Cal. 4th 909 - County of San Bernardino v. City of San Bernardino (1997)

Most recently applied in 17 Cal. 4th 170 - Lockheed Information Management Services Co. v. City of Inglewood (January 1998)

Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 960.

How often courts cite this section

19841990199810
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.

As used in this chapter:

(a) “Legislative body” means the board of supervisors in the case of a county or a city and county, the city council or board of trustees in the case of a city, and the board of directors or other governing body in the case of a district.

(b) “Local agency” means any county, city, city and county, or public district which provides or has authority to provide or perform municipal services or functions.

(c) “Municipal services or functions” includes, but is not limited to, firefighting, police, ambulance, utility services, and the improvement, maintenance, repair, and operation of streets and highways.

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