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The strong New York influence on early California law started with the California Practice Act of 1851 (drafted with the help of Stephen Field), which was directly based upon the New York Code of Civil Procedure of 1850 (the Field Code). In turn, it was the California Practice Act that served as the foundation of the California Code of Civil ...
The Penal Code enacted by the California State Legislature in February 1872 was derived from a penal code proposed by the New York code commission in 1865 which is frequently called the Field Penal Code after the most prominent of the code commissioners, David Dudley Field II (who did draft the commission's other proposed codes). [1]
The California three strikes law (codified in the Penal Code) has resulted in severe penalties in some cases and has been somewhat controversial in its application. Proposition 13 , passed by California voters in 1978, created one of the strongest limits on property tax in the country.
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A municipal code is usually a type of statutory instrument or delegated legislation. A municipal legal code is similar in concept, though different in nature, to " codes " enacted by sovereign government authorities, such as a national government or a federal state or province within a federation .
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Municipal code may refer to: Community Identification Number, a number sequence for the identification of politically independent municipalities or unincorporated areas; Legal code (municipal) Municipal ordinances, laws that are enacted and enforced by a village, town, city or county government; Gemeindeordnung, the municipal code in German law
In all states, a city or county may enact a local ordinance as a criminal law [3] that covers the same crime or violation as a state law but only if the penalty provided by the local ordinance is higher than the state statute. A local ordinance cannot be used to create a lesser penalty for a crime or traffic offense than state law.