No action providing for levying any tax or assessment; granting any franchise; for establishing or changing fire limits or districts, or for imposing any penalty, shall be taken except by ordinance, except in cases where the council takes action in pursuance of a general law of the state.
Editor's note: This section was amended by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 72, which was approved by the voters of the city at an election held June 7, 1966.
For case holding that a resolution authorizing a contract relating to real estate was insufficient and that the method of authorizing such contracts by ordinance is exclusive, see Milligan v. City of Alhambra, 110 Cal. App. 525, 294 P.404.