Hermosa Beach Municipal Code Ch. 3.16 Transfer of Tax Assessment and Collection Duties to County

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3.16.010 Transfer under authority of state law.

The city elects that the duties of assessing property and collecting taxes provided by law to be performed by the assessor and the tax collector of the city shall be performed by the county assessor, and the county tax collector, respectively of the county of Los Angeles.

This election is made and the city does hereby elect to avail itself of the provisions of an act of the legislature of the state, entitled, "An Act to provide for the levy and collection of taxes, by and for the use of municipal corporations and cities incorporated under the laws of the State of California, except municipal corporations of the first class, and to provide for the consolidation and abolition of certain municipal offices, and to provide that their duties may be performed by certain officers of the county, and fixing the compensation to be allowed for such county officers for the services so rendered to such municipal corporations." Approved March 27, 1895, Statutes 1895, page 219, together with the amendments thereof and supplements thereto.

This election is made in relation to the assessing of property and collecting of taxes, but that the provisions of such act in relation to the duties of the treasurer of the city, are not elected by such city to be made use of. (Prior code § 30-1)