A measure that Oakland, Calif., voters approved to fund the municipal zoo through a flat tax on property will stand with modifications after a California appeals court rejected a taxpayer group\u2019s attempt to invalidate it.<\/p>\n
The initiative\u2019s language assigning duties to the Conservation Society of California Inc.\u2014a private corporation that manages the zoo\u2014violates a state constitutional provision that bars conferring special privileges on specific organizations, the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District ruled<\/a> Monday. But any mention of the society can be severed from the measure without invalidating the remainder, Justice Jon B. Streeter wrote for the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A measure that Oakland, Calif., voters approved to fund the municipal zoo through a flat tax on property…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12875,12876,23387,143,145,144,98422],"class_list":["post-214603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ballot-initiatives","tag-constitutional-law","tag-election-results","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}