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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 20

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 20

The Legislature may provide maximum property tax rates and bonding limits for local governments.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 21

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 21

To meet the needs resulting from war-caused or enemy-caused disaster in California, the Legislature may provide for: (a) Filling the offices of members of the Legislature should at least one fifth of the membership of either house be killed, missing, or disabled, until they are a

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 22

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 22

Not more than 25 percent of the total appropriations from all funds of the State shall be raised by means of taxes on real and personal property according to the value thereof.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 23

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 23

If state boundaries change, the Legislature shall determine how property affected shall be taxed.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 24

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 24

(a) The Legislature may not impose taxes for local purposes but may authorize local governments to impose them. (b) The Legislature may not reallocate, transfer, borrow, appropriate, restrict the use of, or otherwise use the proceeds of any tax imposed or levied by a local govern

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 25

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 25

The Legislature shall provide, in the same fiscal year, reimbursements to each local government for revenue lost because of Section 3(k).

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 25.5

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 25.5

(a) On or after November 3, 2004, the Legislature shall not enact a statute to do any of the following: (1) (A) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (B), modify the manner in which ad valorem property tax revenues are allocated in accordance with subdivision (a) of Sectio

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 26

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 26

(a) Taxes on or measured by income may be imposed on persons, corporations, or other entities as prescribed by law. (b) Interest on bonds issued by the State or a local government in the State is exempt from taxes on income. (c) Income of a nonprofit educational institution of co

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 27

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 27

The Legislature, a majority of the membership of each house concurring, may tax corporations, including state and national banks, and their franchises by any method not prohibited by this Constitution or the Constitution or laws of the United States. Unless otherwise provided by

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 28

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 28

(a) “Insurer,” as used in this section, includes insurance companies or associations and reciprocal or interinsurance exchanges together with their corporate or other attorneys in fact considered as a single unit, and the State Compensation Insurance Fund. As used in this paragra

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 29

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 29

(a) The Legislature may authorize counties, cities and counties, and cities to enter into contracts to apportion between them the revenue derived from any sales or use tax imposed by them that is collected for them by the State. Before the contract becomes operative, it shall be

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3

The appropriations limit for any fiscal year pursuant to Sec. 1 shall be adjusted as follows: (a) In the event that the financial responsibility of providing services is transferred, in whole or in part, whether by annexation, incorporation or otherwise, from one entity of govern

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.1

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.1

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution to the contrary, the Legislature shall prescribe the qualifications required of county superintendents of schools, and for these purposes shall classify the several counties in the State. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.2

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.2

Notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution to the contrary, any two or more chartered counties, or nonchartered counties, or any combination thereof, may, by a majority vote of the electors of each such county voting on the proposition at an election called for that purpo

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.3

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.3

Except as provided in Section 3.2 of this article, it shall be competent to provide in any charter framed for a county under any provision of this Constitution, or by the amendment of any such charter, for the election of the members of the county board of education of such count

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.5

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 3.5

In any year in which the assessment ratio is changed, the Legislature shall adjust the valuation of assessable property described in subdivisions (o), (p) and (q) of Section 3 of this article to maintain the same proportionate values of such property.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 30

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 30

Every tax shall be conclusively presumed to have been paid after 30 years from the time it became a lien unless the property subject to the lien has been sold in the manner provided by the Legislature for the payment of the tax.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 31

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 31

The power to tax may not be surrendered or suspended by grant or contract.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 32

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 32

No legal or equitable process shall issue in any proceeding in any court against this State or any officer thereof to prevent or enjoin the collection of any tax. After payment of a tax claimed to be illegal, an action may be maintained to recover the tax paid, with interest, in

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 33

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 33

The Legislature shall pass all laws necessary to carry out the provisions of this article.

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 34

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 34

Neither the State of California nor any of its political subdivisions shall levy or collect a sales or use tax on the sale of, or the storage, use or other consumption in this State of food products for human consumption except as provided by statute as of the effective date of t

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 35

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 35

(a) The people of the State of California find and declare all of the following: (1) Public safety services are critically important to the security and well-being of the State’s citizens and to the growth and revitalization of the State’s economic base. (2) The protection of the

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 36

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 36

(a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Public Safety Services” includes the following: (A) Employing and training public safety officials, including law enforcement personnel, attorneys assigned to criminal proceedings, and court security staff. (B) Managing local jails and provi

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 4

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 4

County charters shall provide for: (a) A governing body of 5 or more members, elected (1) by district or, (2) at large, or (3) at large, with a requirement that they reside in a district. Charter counties are subject to statutes that relate to apportioning population of governing

* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 4.5

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* California Constitution - CONS - CONS § SEC. 4.5

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution or existing law, a person elected to or serving in the Legislature on or after November 1, 1990, shall participate in the Federal Social Security (Retirement, Disability, Health Insurance) Program and the State shall pay on