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CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW

The City of Mountain View was incorporated in 1917 with a Municipality Classification of fourth class which is permitted to have either the mayor/board of aldermen form or the mayor/city administrator/aldermen form. The board of aldermen may adopt the city administrator form by ordinance, without a vote of the people. Once a community is incorporated under a given classification, the municipality does not automatically change classification with a gain or loss of population. A municipality may change classification only when the change is approved by a majority vote of the people. With this classification, the Department of Public Safety director shall establish various classes of Peace Officer License and may provide that certain classes are not valid for commission within counties of certain classifications, by certain state agencies, or for commission as other than a reserve peace officer with police powers restricted to the commissioning political subdivision.