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In 2002, a California appellate court held that an in-lieu franchise fee for water, sewer, and refuse collection services was a "property-related" fee subject to Article XIII D. [141] Also in 2002, another California appellate court held that a stormwater drainage fee imposed on developed parcels was a "property-related" fee subject Article ...
Such local levies include property-related fees and charges exempt from a mandatory election under Proposition 218 (property-related fees and charges for domestic water, sanitary sewer, or refuse collection services) [60] as well as local government fees and charges that are not property-related under Proposition 218 and would not be deemed a ...
A Due Process Clause is found in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which prohibit the deprivation of "life, liberty, or property" by the federal and state governments, respectively, without due process of law. [1] [2] [3]
Starting in the 1970s, California began to slowly phase out the use of justice courts (in which non-lawyers were authorized by statute to preside as judges) after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of due process to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which ...
[1] [2] [3] The county governments were originally molded around property recording and assessment, law enforcement, judicial administration, and tax collection, but more recently other functions have been added by the state such as public welfare, public health, water conservation, and flood protection. [1]
Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires an evidentiary hearing before a recipient of certain government welfare benefits can be deprived of such benefits.
Lake County was partitioned from Napa and Mendocino counties in 1861. [2]Lakeport was selected as county seat in the first election in June 1861, and a two-storey wooden court house with a footprint of approximately 30 ft × 50 ft (9.1 m × 15.2 m) was erected; a history states it was not "pretentious or showy ... but it answered the purposes for which it was designed very well indeed."
California counties are general law counties by default. Still, they may be chartered as provided in Article XI, Section 3 of the California Constitution. [5] A charter county is granted limited home rule powers. Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter.