Under and pursuant to the power and authority provided by that certain act of the Legislature of the state of California adopted by the Thirty-first Session of the Legislature of the state of California as Chapter CLXXXII, Statutes of 1895, page 219, and subsequent statutes adopted by said Legislature amending said act, the city does elect 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, a political subdivision of the state, and being the county in which the city is situated, commencing December 15, 1947, and continuing until the city shall by ordinance elect not to have such duties performed by the assessor and tax collector of the county for any longer time.
(Prior code § 1-5.09)