Where the successor city is, or becomes, a chartered city, under a freeholder’s charter providing that boroughs may be established in territories or cities annexed to or consolidated with it, this division does not prevent a predecessor city, or any part of it, from becoming a borough.
(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 541, Sec. 3. Effective September 9, 1985. Operative January 1, 1986, by Sec. 5 of Ch. 541.)