This law allows city department heads to destroy city records if they are no longer needed, but they must have approval from the city council and written consent from the city attorney. However, certain records are protected and cannot be destroyed. These are records related to property titles or liens, court records, legally required records, records less than two years old, and official meeting minutes or resolutions.

Additionally, this section does not affect other rules about record destruction laid out in a related law.

This law allows city officers to destroy original public records without needing approval, as long as they make an accurate and permanent copy of the records first. These records must be reproduced using a method like photography or digital recording that prevents changes to the original. The reproductions must be as easy to access as the originals and an archival-quality copy must be stored safely. Records that can't be fully reproduced must be kept intact and easily accessible.

The reproductions are considered as valid as the original records, and certified copies of these reproductions are accepted as originals.

This section of the law explains when certain recordings made by city departments can be destroyed. If a department has video recordings from regular monitoring, they can be destroyed after a year. Recordings of phone and radio communications can be destroyed after 100 days. However, destruction of these recordings requires approval from the city council and written consent from the city attorney. They also need to be kept if they are part of any evidence in a legal claim or ongoing court case. The law also defines what types of recordings are covered, such as in-car video systems or routine daily communication recordings made by city departments.

This law allows a city's legislative body to create a procedure to destroy duplicate city records that are less than two years old, as long as they are no longer needed. This includes video recordings, which are considered duplicates if there is another record of the same event, like written minutes or an audio recording. However, video recordings cannot be erased or destroyed until at least 90 days have passed since the event was recorded.

This law requires that when a city-operated transit agency in California installs new security systems, the equipment must store recorded images for at least one year. However, if the agency cannot find technology capable of one-year storage that's both economically and technologically feasible, they should buy the best available option.

Additionally, video recordings by transit security systems need to be kept for one year, unless they are part of ongoing legal cases or incident reports, in which case, they should be kept until those situations are resolved. If the security system was installed before 2004, or it meets the exceptions mentioned, recordings should be kept for as long as the technology supports.

This law allows a city's legislative body to authorize payment for the necessary expenses involved in creating a new city charter. These expenses are considered city charges, and the legislative body can allocate funds for them.

This law allows a city's legislative body to decide on adopting or changing the name of a city street by passing a resolution. If they believe a street's name should be chosen or altered, they have the authority to officially make the change.

When a city or authority decides to change the name of any street, boulevard, park, or place, or if they change the house numbers, the city clerk must quickly send a copy of the change to the county's board of supervisors.

This section explains what is meant by a 'petition' in the context of city governance. It includes various types of petitions required for starting legal proceedings, like those for new city initiatives, city mergers, or city dissolutions.

A person who misrepresents or lies about what's in a petition to someone signing it, or about to sign it, can face fines up to $500 or up to six months in jail, or both. The same punishment applies to anyone who circulates a petition with fake or forged names.

This law states that a city cannot give credit for service to an elected official if they haven't actually performed that service, nor can a city pay into retirement funds for such unperformed service. However, an elected official can still choose to earn credit for service by paying their own contributions to the retirement system, as long as it's allowed by the system's rules.