Pursuant to that certain act of the legislature of the state of California 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, 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,” approved March 27, 1895, and the acts amendatory thereof, the city council elects, and in and by the ordinance codified in this chapter, that the duties of assessing property and collecting taxes provided by law to be performed by the assessor and the tax collector shall be performed by the county assessor and the county tax collector; and the taxes shall be so collected by the county assessor and the county tax collector at the same time and in the manner county taxes are collected. (Ord. 417 § 4, 1985; Ord. 329 § 12, 1974; Ord. 30 § 1, 1924)