Salinas Municipal Code Art. 1 Preliminary Provisions

(a) The City of Salinas is a charter city organized under the constitution of the State of California and shall exercise all powers not inconsistent therewith or with the restrictions imposed by the Charter.

(b) The City hereby reserves to itself all constitutional powers over municipal affairs, except to the extent the provisions of general law are expressly adopted in the Charter.

(c) The Council may, in its sole discretion, avail itself of provisions of the general law. The Council's action to do so in any instance, or with respect to any subject matter, shall not be construed as a waiver of this Charter's express reservation of all constitutional powers of charter cities not in conflict with state law or as to subjects constituting municipal affairs under California Constitution Article XI, section 5.