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CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 2 VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL

SEC. 11. (a) Initiative and referendum powers may be exercised by the electors of each city or county under procedures that the Legislature shall provide. Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and
(c), this section does not affect a city having a charter.
(b) A city or county initiative measure may not include or exclude any part of the city or county from the application or effect of its provisions based upon approval or disapproval of the initiative measure, or based upon the casting of a specified percentage of votes in favor of the measure, by the electors of the city or county or any part thereof.
(c) A city or county initiative measure may not contain alternative or cumulative provisions wherein one or more of those provisions would become law depending upon the casting of a specified percentage of votes for or against the measure.

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(a) (1) A city council may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the city council shall receive a salary based on the population of the city as set forth in paragraph (2).
   (2) The salaries approved by ordinance under paragraph (1) shall be as follows:
   (A) In cities up to and including 35,000 in population, up to and including three hundred dollars ($300) per month.
   (B) In cities over 35,000 up to and including 50,000 in population, up to and including four hundred dollars ($400) per month.
   (C) In cities over 50,000 up to and including 75,000 inpopulation, up to and including five hundred dollars ($500) per
month.
   (D) In cities over 75,000 up to and including 150,000 in population, up to and including six hundred dollars ($600) per month.
   (E) In cities over 150,000 up to and including 250,000 in population, up to and including eight hundred dollars ($800) per
month.
   (F) In cities over 250,000 population, up to and including one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month.
   (3) For the purposes of this subdivision, the population of a city shall be determined by the last preceding federal census, or a subsequent census, or estimate validated by the Department of Finance.

(4) The salary of council members may be increased beyond the amount provided in this subdivision by an ordinance or by an amendment to an ordinance, but the amount of the increase shall not exceed an amount equal to 5 percent for each calendar year from the operative date of the last adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment is enacted. No ordinance shall be enacted\ or amended to provide automatic future increases in salary.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), at any municipal election, the question of whether city council members shall receive a salary for services, and the amount of that salary, may be submitted to the electors. If a majority of the electors voting at the election favor it, all of the council members shall receive the salary specified in the election call. The salary of council members may be increased beyond the amount provided in this section or decreased below the amount in the same manner.
   (c) Unless specifically authorized by another statute, a city council may not enact an ordinance providing for compensation to city council members in excess of that authorized by the procedures described in subdivisions (a) and (b). For the purposes of this section, compensation includes payment for service by a city council member on a commission, committee, board, authority, or similar body on which the city council member serves. If the other statute that authorizes the compensation does not specify the amount of compensation, the maximum amount shall be one hundred fifty dollars
($150) per month for each commission, committee, board, authority, or similar body.
   (d) Any amounts paid by a city for retirement, health and welfare, and federal social security benefits shall not be included for purposes of determining salary under this section, provided that the same benefits are available and paid by the city for its employees.
   (e) Any amounts paid by a city to reimburse a council member for actual and necessary expenses pursuant to Section 36514.5 shall not be included for purposes of determining salary pursuant to this section.
   (f) A city council member may waive any or all of the compensation permitted by this section.
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(a) A person is not eligible to hold office as councilmember, city clerk, or city treasurer unless he or she is at the time of assuming the office an elector of the city, and was a registered voter of the city at the time nomination papers are issued
to the candidate as provided for in Section 10227 of the Elections Code.
If, during his or her term of office, he or she moves his or her place of residence outside of the city limits or ceases to be an
elector of the city, his or her office shall immediately become vacant.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city council of a general law or charter city may adopt or the residents of the city may propose, by initiative, a proposal to limit or repeal a limit on the number of terms a member of the city council may serve on the city council, or the number of terms an elected mayor may serve. Any proposal to limit the number of terms a member of the city council may serve on the city council, or the number of terms an elected mayor may serve, shall apply prospectively only and shall not become operative unless it is submitted to the electors of the city at a regularly scheduled election and a majority of the votes cast on the question favor the adoption of the proposal. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this subdivision, the provisions of any city charter that, on January 1, 1996, impose limitations on the number of terms a member of the city council may serve on the city council, or the number of terms an elected mayor may serve, shall remain in effect. Unless otherwise prohibited by a city charter, any city charter may be amended pursuant to this section or pursuant to the procedures specified in the charter, to include the limitation authorized in this subdivision.

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If a majority of the voters voting on a proposed ordinance vote in its favor, the ordinance shall become a valid and binding
ordinance of the city. The ordinance shall be considered as adopted upon the date that the vote is declared by the legislative body, and shall go into effect 10 days after that date. No ordinance that is either proposed by initiative petition and adopted by the vote of the legislative body of the city without submission to the voters, or adopted by the voters, shall be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people, unless provision is otherwise made in the original ordinance.

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34851 . An ordinance establishing a city manager form of government may be:
   (a) Enacted by the legislative body; or
   (b) Submitted to the electors by the legislative body at any municipal or special election; or
   (c) Submitted by the people as an initiative measure.

34852. The ordinance shall define the powers and duties of the city manager and may fix his compensation or the minimum amount he is to receive."
34854: If a majority of the votes cast at the election is in favor of the ordinance, it shall go into effect on the tenth day after the canvass of votes.
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