# How do you incorporate a city in california?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 22, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-incorporate-a-city-in-california/345659 "2006-02-22T18:28:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![rfmerrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@rfmerrill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfmerrill)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-incorporate-a-city-in-california/345659/1 "2006-02-22T18:28:27Z")

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The state constitution doesn’t say how, and I can’t find it with google or in the state laws. Would anyone happen to know how exactly this occurs, and what are the requirements for incorporation?

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**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-incorporate-a-city-in-california/345659/2 "2006-02-22T19:06:42Z")

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This seems to have some information on city incorporation… [http://www.opr.ca.gov/planning/PDFs/Final\_Guidelines.pdf](http://www.opr.ca.gov/planning/PDFs/Final_Guidelines.pdf)