The council elects to avail itself of the provisions of an act
of the Legislature of the state approved March 27, 1895, and entitled,
"An Act to provide for the levy and collection of taxes by and for
the use of municipal corporations and cities incorporated under the
laws of the state of California, except municipal corporations of
the first class, and to provide for the consolidation and abolition
of certain municipal offices, and to provide that their duties may
be performed by certain officers of the county, and fixing the compensation
to be allowed for such county officers for the services so rendered
to such municipal corporations," and the amendments thereto.
All assessments and taxes in and for the city shall be made
and collected by the assessor and tax collector respectively of the
county until the city, by ordinance, elects not to avail itself of
the provisions of such act for any longer time.
(Prior code § 19.1)