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20 CHARTER FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. propositions shall not exceed ¢ne-halt the total number of votes cast thereen, both propositions shall be deemed re~ d. jeggfllhing in this section shall be so construed as to prohibit the Supervis- ors from responding to the aforesaid petition of the electors requesting the acquisition of any public utility by pro- ceeding at once, without the submission of propositions to the electors as afore- Jaid. to pass an ordinance declaring its determination to acquire the same as provided in section six of this Article and from proceeding thereafter to ac- Quire the same in the manner herein- provided. flfé:’n I~L In case the cost of any public utility sought to be acquired under the provisions of this Article, can be paid out of the annual revenues of the City and County, and Coty expenditures thereof, it shall be lawful to acquire the same by a ma- y vote of the electors voting there- rial electic submit- on at any special election. In sul ting propositions to the electors for such aequisition the Supervisors shall proposition the cost of ks ulm proposed method ayment therefor, and the question be acquired gpecify in suck the public utility, and manner of Di submit to the electors Whether the same shall » such terms. U fase, however, the cost of such \blic utility sought to be acquired - the provisions of this Article xceed the annual revenues nd County, in addition to the other necessary expenditures there- of. as to render it necessary to incur & municipal bonded indebtedness for such purpose, then the Supervisors, in sub- Mitting propositions to the electors for the acquisition thereof, shall specify therein the amount of the proposed bonded indebtedness, the rate of inter- | est thereon, and whether such bonded indebtedness shall be incurred. At Jeast two-thirds of the electors voting thereon at such election shall be neces- sary to secure such acquisition and to warrant the issuance of municipal bonds therefor, as hereinafter set forth. Sec. 5. When the electors by vote shall have determined, as hereinbefore set forth, to acquire any public utility, such action on the part of the electors shall be equivalent to the passing of the ordinance by the Supervisors de- claring such determination as set forth in section six of this Article, and the Supervisors shall proceed without de- lay to pass an ordinance calling a special election as required by section seven of this Article. Sec. 6. When the Supervisors shall de- termine that the public interest or ne- cessity demands tle acquisition, con- stru utility, the cost of which will be too great to bepaid out of the ordinary an- nual income andrevenue of theCityand County, the Supervisors shall, by or- dinance, specifically declare such de- termination, and shall publish the same for at least two weeks in the official newspaper. Sec. 7. At the next regular meeting of the Supervisors after the publication of the ordinance declaring said deter- mination as above set forth, or at an adjourned meeting thereof, or not less than two weeks nor more than four weeks after the electors by vote shall have determined to acquire any public utility, the Supervisors by ordinance shall call a special elggtion, at which shall be submitted to the electors the proposition of acquiring such public utility, and of incurring a debt for the acquisition of the same as set forth in such ordinance. 0 question other than the acquisit of .such utility and the incurring of the indebtedness therefor shall be submitted at such election. Sec. 8. The ordinance calling such special “tion shall recite the objects | for which the indebted- posed to be incurred, the es- the proposed public the necessity for the acquisition of the same, and that bonds of the City | and County shall issue for the payment | of the cost of the same as in such or- dinance set forth (if the proposition be | SUENE, SEC BT hdidates 1n the | as | accepted by the electors), and shall fix a day on which such special election shall be held, the manner of holding such election, and the mannar of voting for or against incurring such indebted- ness. Such election shall provided by law for holding elections in the City and County. Sec. 9. Such ordinance shall be pub- lished daily for at least ten days in the officlal newspaper. At the expiration of said ten days the Supervisors shall | cause to be published daily for not less than two weeks in the official newspa- | per a notice of such special election. Such notice shall specify the purpose for which the indebtedness is to be in- curred, the number and character of the bonds to be issued, the rate of in- terest to be paid. and the amount of tax levy to be made for the payment thereof. Sec. 10. No indebtedness shall be in- curred for the acquisition of any public utility under the provisions of this Ar- ticle, which, together with the existing bonded indebtedness of the City and County, shall exceed at any one time fifteen per centum of the assessed value of all real and personal property in the City and County. Sec. 11. The bonds issued under the provisions of this Article shall be of the character of bonds known as serials, and shall be payable in lawful money of the United States. The Supervisors shall decide at the times of the issue of the bonds in what lawful money of the United States said bonds shall be payable. Not less than one-fortieth part of the whole amount of indebted- ness shall be paid each and every year, on a day and at a place to be fixed by the Supervisors, together with the in- terest on all sums unpaid at such date. The bonds ‘so issued shall be exempt from all taxation for municipal pur- | poses, and shall be issued in denomina- tions of not less than ten dollars nor greater than one thousand dollars, and preference in the sale and allotment thereof shall be given to subscribers for the smallest amounts and lowest de- nominations. Said bonds must be payable on the day and at the place fixed therein, and with interest at the rate specified there- in, but such interest shall not exceed four per centum per annum, payable annually, semi-annually or quarterly, as the Supervisors may determine. Such bonds, when issued, may be sold by the Supervisors from time to time as required, and in such quantities as they may determine, but the samemust | be sold for cash in lawful money of the TUnited States as aforesaid to the high- est bidder at not less than par, after having been advertised in the official newspaper. They shall be sold under sealed proposals, and the Supervisors shall have the right to reject any or all bids made for the purchase thereof. The proceeds of such sales shall be placed in the treasury to the credit of the proper fund and shall be applied exclusively to the purposes and objects mentioned in the ordinance authorizing their issue until such objects are fully accomplished, after which, if any sur- plus remains, such surplus shall be tragnsfelrred to the General Fund. Sec. 12. Such bonds shall be signed by the Mayor and the Treuurer.g:nd shall be countersigned by the Auditor. The coupons shall be numbered con- secutively and signed by the Treasurer, and the bonds and coupons shall be payable at the office of the Treasurer. Sec. 13. At the time of levying the municipal tax and in the manner pro- vided for such tax levy, the Super- visors shall levy and coilect annually a tax sufficient to pay the ‘annual in- terest on such bonds, and also the proper aliquot part of the aggregate amount of such indebtedness so in- curred. Such taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall be coilected at the same time and in the same manner as other municipal taxes are collected. Sec. 14. A neglect or refusal on the part of the Supervisors to comply with stitutq_cause for the remoyal fro in addition to the other | n or ccmpletion of any public | be held as | office of any member or members of the Board gullty of such neglect or refusal. e ARTICLE XIII. CIVIL SERVICE. SECTION 1. Immediately upon the | taking effect of this Charter the Mayor shall appoint three persons, known by him to be devoted to the principles of Civil Service reform, who shall consti- tute the Civil Service Commission, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Each year thereafter the Mayor shall in like manner ap- point one person as the successor of the Commissioner whose term of office ex- pires in that year, to serve as such Commissioner for three years. All ap- pointments shall be so made that not more than one Commissioner shall at any time belong to the same political party. Each of such Commissioners shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars. Sec, ‘2. " ‘The | classify all the places of employment in or under the offices and departments of the City and County mentioned in sec- tion eleven of this Article, with refer- ence to the examinations hereinafter provided for. The places so classified | by the Commissioners shall constitute | the classified civil service of the City {and County, and no appointment to any such place shall be made except ac- | cording to the rules hereinafter men- | tioned. Sec. 3. The Commissioners shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Article, and for examinations, | appointments, promotions and re- | movals, and in accordance with its pro- | visions may from time to time, make | changes in the existing rules. All rules | and all changes therein shall be forth- | with printed for distribution by the | Commissioners. Sec. 4. All applicants for places in the classified civil service shall be sub- jected to examination, which shall be public, competitive and free. Such ex- | aminations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those | matters only which will fairly test the | relative capacity of the persons ex- | amined to discharge the duties of the | positions to which they seek to be ap- pointed, and shall include, when ap- | propriate, tests of physical qualifica- tions, health, and of manual or pro- | fessional skill. Sec. 6. The selection of laborers hall be governed by priority of appli- ation only. No question in any ex- | amination shall relate to political or re- | ligious opinions or affiliations. The | Commissioners shall control all ex- | aminations, and may, whenever an ex- amination is to take place, designate a | suitable number of persons, either in or not in the official service of the City and County, to be examiners; and, if | in the official service, it shall be a part | of their official duty, without extra compensation, to conduct such ex- | aminations as the Commissioners may | | direct, and to make return and report | thereof to Commissioners. The Commissioners may substitute any other person, whether in or not in such service, in the place of any one so se- lected, or may themselves act as such examiners. Sec. 6. Notice of the time, place and general scope of every examination shall be given by the Commissioners by publication for two weeks preceding such examination in the official news- | paper, and such notice shall also be posted by the Commissioners in a con- | spicuous place in their office for two | weeks before such examination. Sucl further notice of examination shall be given as they may prescribe. Sec. 7. From the returns of the ex- | aminers, or from the examinations | made by the Commissioners, the Com- missioners shall prepare a register for ach grade or class of positions in the classified service of the City County of the persons whose general average standing upon examination for such grade or class is not less than the minimum fixed by the rules of the | Commissioners, and who are otherwise | eligible. Such persons shall take rank the order of their relative excellence, determined by examination, without | reference to priority of time of ex- | amination. Sec. 8. The Commissioners shall pro- | vide for promotion in the classified ser- | vice on the basis of ascertained merit | and_seniority in service and standing | upon examination, and shall provide, in 1 cases where practicable, that vacan- es shall be filled by promotion. All examinations for promotion shall be competitive among such members of the next lower rank established by the | Commissioners for each department as desire to submit themselves to such ex- | aminations. The Commissioners shall | submit to the appointing power the | names of not more than three appli | cants having the highest rating foi each promotion. The method of exam- ning, and the rules governing the same, and the method of certifying, shall be | the same, as near as may be, as pro- vided for applicants for original ap- pointments. Sec. 9. The head of the department | or office, in which a position classified under this Article is to be filled, shall notify the Commissioners af that fact, | and the Commissioners shall then certi- | %y to the appointing officer the name and address of one or more candidates, not exceeding three, standing highest | upon the register for the class or grade | to which the position belongs; but la- @ | priority of application. In making such | certification, sex shall be disregarded, | except when some statute, the rules of | the Commissioners, or the appointing | power specifies sex. |~ Sec. 10. The appointing officer shall notify the Commissioners of each posi- tion to be filled separately, and shall fill such place by the appointment of one of the persons certified to him by the Commissioners therefor. | pointment shall be on probation for a period to be fixed by the rules of the Commissioners; but such rules shall not fix such period at exceeding six months. The Commissioners may strike | off names of candidates from the regis- ter after they have remained thereon more than two years. At or before the expiration of the period of probation, the head of the department or office in | which a candidate is employed, may, | by and with the consent of the Com- missioners, discharge him upon assign- | ing in writing his reason therefor to the Commissioners. If he is not then discharged, his appointmeént shall be deemed complete. To prevent the stop- page of public business, or to meet ex- traordinary exigencies, the head of any department or office may, with the ap- proval of the Commissioners, make temporary appointments, to remain in force not exceeding sixty days,and only until regular appointments, under the provisions of this Article, can be made. Bec. 11. The provisions of this Article shall apply to the following offices ana departments of the City and County: the County Clerk, the Assessor, the Tax Collector, the Sheriff, the Auditor, the Recorder, the Coroner, the Clerks and Stenographers of the Justices' and Po- lice Courts, the Board of Public Works, the Police Department, the Fire De- partment, the Board of Election Com- missioners, the Board of Health and alt boards or departments controlling public utilities; but the following dep- utles, clerks and employees in said ot- fices and departments shall be exempt- ed therefrom: the Cashier of the Coun-~ ty Clerk, the Chief Deputy and the Cashier of the Assessor, the Chief Dep- uty and the Cashier of the Tax Collec. tor, the Under Sheriff and the Chieg Bookkeeper of the Sheriff, the Deputy Auditor, the Chief Deputy of the Re- corder, the Chief Deputy Coroner, the City Engineer, the Secretary and the Architect of the Board of Public Works, the Registrar of the Board of.Election Commissioners, the Chief of Police, the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, | and_all physicians appointed by or on the Board of Health. All officers, courts, boards and heads of departments vest. T employees in any of the offices o Commissioners shall | and | borers shall be taken according to their | Such ap- | appoint deputies, clerks, stenographers | their passage, be published departments of the City and County mentioned in this section shall maks such appointments in conformity with the rules and provisions prescribed by this Article, and any appointment not so_made shall be void. Sec. 12. No deputy, clerk or employee in the classified civil service of the City and County, who shall have been ap- | pointed under said rules, shall be re~ | moved or discharged except for cause, | upon written charges and after an op- portunity to be heard in his own de- fense. Such charges shall be investi- gated by or before the Clvil Service Commission, or by or before some offi- cer or board appointed by the Commis- sioners to condu%& such investigation. The finding and decision of the Com-~ missioners, or such investigating offices, or board, when approved by the Com= missioners, shall be certified to the ap- pointing officer or board, and shall be forthwith enforced by such officer. Nothing in this Article shall limit the power of any officer or board to sus- pend a subordinate for a reasonable pe- riod, not exceeding thirty days. Sec. 13. Immediate notice in writing shall be given by the appointing power to the Commissioners of all appoint- ments, permanent or temporary, made in such classified civil service, and of all transfers, promotions, resignations, | suspensions or vacancies from any | cause in such service, and of the date | thereof; and a record of the same shall be kept by the Commissioners. When any place of employment is created or | abolished, or the compensation at- | tached thereto altered, the officer or | board making such change shall imme- diately report in writing to the Com- missioners. Sec. 14. The Commissioners shall in- vestigate the enforcement of the pro- visions of this Article, and of its rules, and the action of the examiners herein provided for, and the conduct and action of the appointees in the classified service in the City and | County, and may inquire as to the nature, tenurc and compensation of all places in the public service there- of. | “"Sec. 15. The Commissioners shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January | in each year, make to the Supervisors a report showing their acts, the rules in force, the practical effects thereof, and suggestions for the more ef- fectual accomplishment of the purposes | of this Article. The Mayor may re- | quire a report from the Commissioners | at any time. | Sec. 16. The Commissioners shall em- ploy a Chief Examiner who shall, under | their direction, superintend any exam- | ination held In the City and County under this Article, and who shall per- form such duties as the Commissioners | may prescribe. The Chief Examiner shall be Secretary of the Commission by virtue of his office. He shall keep | minutes of its proceedings, preserve all | reports made to it, and keep a record of all examinations held under its direc- tion. He shall receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars. Sec. 17. The Supervisors shall fur- | nish the Commission with suitable of- fices, office furniture, books, stationery, | blanks, heat and light, and shall pro- | vide for the payment of such other ex- | penses as may be necessarily incurred | | in carrying out the provisions of this | | Article. Sec. 18. No person or officer shall by | himself, or in co-overation with other | persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any ‘ person in respect to his or her right of | examination; or falsely mark, grade, stimate or report upon the examina- tion or proper standing of any person | examined hereunder, or aid in so doing; | or make any false represeritations con- cerning the same, or concerning the person examinxd; or furnish to any person any special or secret infor- mation for the purpose of either | improving or injuring the prospects or | chances of any person of being ap- | pointed, employed or promoted. | Sec. 19. The Commissioners shall cer- | tify to the Auditor all appointments to | places of employment in the classified | civil service, a: 1 all vacanciesoccurring therein, whether by dismissal, resigna- tion or death, and all findings made or approved by the Commission under the provisions of Section twelve of this Ar- | ticle. | Sec. 20. The Commissioners shall have | power to institute and prosecute legal | proceedings for violation of any of the | provisions of this Article. —— | ARTICLE XIV. PARK COMMISSIONERS, SECTION 1. The lands designated upon the map of the Outside Lands of the City and County, made pursuant to Order Number One Hundred, by the word “Park,” extending from Stanyan | fronting on Haight street, designated | upon said map by the word “Park, | and known as “Buena Vista Park”; | also the land designated upon said map | by the word “Avenue,” extending from Baker street westward until it crosses Stanyan street; also that certain high- way bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and designated upon said map | as “Great Highway’ also “Mountain Lake Park”; also eal Rocks,” as ceded to the City and County of San Francisco by Act of Congress; and all the other parks and squares in the City |and County, and all the grounds | surrounding public buildings in the City and County, and all parks and | squares and public pleasure grounds | hereafter acquired by the City and | County shall be under the exclusive | control and mangement of a Board of | Commissioners, who shall be known and designated as Park Commissioners. | Sec. 2. The Commissioners shall be | successors in office of the Park Com- | missioners holding office in the City | and County at the time this Charter shall go into effect by virtue of ap- | pointment under any statute of this State. | _Sec. 3. The Commissioners shall be | five in number, one of whom must be | an artist. They shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term of four years and shall receive no compensation for their | services. They shall so classify them- | selves by lot that one of them shall go | out of office at the end of one year, one | at the end of two years, one at the end | of three years, and two at the end of four years. 8ec. 4. The Commissioners shall or- ganize by electing one of their number | President, and they may elect a Secrs- tary who is not a member of the Board. The Board shall establish rules and regulations for its government and for the performance of its duties, and for | the conduct of its officers and em- ployees, and shall require adequate bonds from all of them, except labor- ers, for the falthful performance of their duties In such sums as may be fixed by it. Such bonds shall be ap- | proved by the Mayor and flled in the office of the Auditor. The person elected President shall hold his office for one year, or until his successor is elected. The Board must hold regular meetings at least once in two weeks, and as many special meetings as it may deem proper. Three of the Commissioners shall con- stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. No contract shall be sntered into authorizing the expenditure of money without the approval of four of the Commissioners. Every ~ontract exceeding five hundred dollars in amount shall be open to public com- petition, unless the Board shall deter- mine in any given case to have the work done by day’s labor. All the pro- visions of the Article in this Charter cn the Department of Public Works relat- ing to contracts shall be applicable to all contract work ordered by the Com- missioners. Sec. 5. The Commissioners may adopt ordinances for the regulation, use and government of the aforesaid parke, squares, avenues and grounds not in- consistent with the laws of the State of California or with this Charter. Such ed in this Charter with th rdinances shall, within five da; the provisions of this Article shall con- . o e G ot tyo!r“t" dayp, Supdays excepted, in the 9@9"‘? newspaper. Any person violating any of such ordinances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished therefor, on conviction, ‘n any court of competent jurisdiction. Noneof such ordinances shall be valid unless it receives the vote of four members of the Board. No ordinance shall be passed at the same meeting at which it is introduced, or at any other than a regular meeting. Such ordinances shall take effect in not less than ten days af- ter their adoption. Sec. 6. The Commissioners shall have the complete and exclusive control, management and directionof the afore- said parks, squares, avenues and grounds, and the exclusive right to erect, and to superintend the erection of, buildings and structures thereon; and to that end may employ and ap- point superintendents, laborers, sur- veyors, engineers, and other officers and assistants, and_prescribe and fix their duties, authority and compensation. They shall have the exclusive manage- ment and disbursement of all funds le- gally appropriated or received from any source for the support of said parks, squares, avenues and grounds. The Board may accept from donors suitable articles for the Museum and Art Gallery situate in the aforesaid Golden Gate Park and shall manage ;md control said Museum and Art Gal- ery. Except as provided in section nine of this Chapter, nothing in this section shall be so construed as to authorizethe Commissioners to lease any part ofany of sald parks, squares, avenues and grounds to any person, COmMpany or cor- poration for any purpose; or to permit any person, company or corporation to build or maintain any structure on any part of said parks, squares. avenues or grounds; but this sha:l not inhibit the Board from leasing, for a period not greater than one year, such buildings as may be constructed by itself for the use of the public to such person, coms pany or corporation who shall under< take to serve such use; and in 2very such lease the Board shali reserve the right to enter at all times into and upon the premises so leased, and shall make the condition that the bhuilding so leased shall be used for park-pleasvre purposes only. No such building shall be constructed by the Board except it ve within the objects and purposas for which said parks, squares, ave 1ues and grornds were dedicated to the public. Necthing, howaver, in this seztion con- tained shall inhibit the Board from rermitting the use of a limited portion ot any one of the aforesaid parks or squares for the purpose of conducting thereon a Fair or Expositien, under such conditions and restrictions as may be nocessary to conserve the integrity of said parks and squares, and for a pe- ricd not greater than six months, anad S0 as not to interfere wilth the use ot any of the same by the public for park- pleasure purposes; but no such permis- sion shall.ever be granted except such Fair er Exposition be of Naitonal, State «r Municipal .mportance. Non2 of the | moneys in, or apportionea to, the Park Fund shall te used for th> purposes cr any mueh Fair or Expostion. Scc. 7. The Chief of Police shall, en quest of the Commissicners, de- tzil svch memters of the Folice Force of the City and County for service in said - parks, squares, averuss and groundsas may be necessaryfor theen- forcement of the law and forthe proper observance of the ordinances of the Cemmissioners; and the Ccmmissioners may provide a place of det-ntion with- in either of said public pla 'es In which tke persons arrested for violating any of ihe ordinznces of the Board may be detained tempcriarily. Sec. 8. The Board may receive dona- tions from persons and corporations and legacies and bequests for the im- provement of said park, squares, ave- nues and grounds. All moneys that may be derived from such donations, legacies and bequests, shall, unless otherwise provided by the terms of such gift, legacy, or bequest, be de- posited in the treasury of the City and County to the credit of the Park Fund. The same may be withdrawn therefrom and pald out in the same manner as is provided for the payment of moneys le- gally. appropriated for the support and improvement of such parks, squares, avenues- and grounds. If the moneys derived from such gifts, bequests or legacies, shall at any time exceed in amount the sum necessary for imme- diate expenditures on said parks, squares, avenues and grounds, the Board shall invest all or a part of the same in interest bearing bonds of the United States, or of the State of Cali- fornia or of any municipality thereof. Sec. 9. The Board may lease to the State of California, on such terms as it may deem proper, a plot of ground in Golden Gate Park not more than seven hundred feet square, on which said State may erect and maintain an ex- position building, in which may be ex- hibited the products of the several countles of the State and in which the collection made by the State Mining Bureau may be maintained and ex- hibited; but said lease shall be upon the express condition that no fee shall ever be charged for admission to said build- ing. Sec. 10. Hereafter no work of art shall become the property of the City and County by purchase, gift or other- wise, unless such work of art or design of the same, together with a statement of the proposed location of such work of art, shall first have been submitted to and approved by the Commissioners; nor shall such work of art, until so ap- proved, be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon any street, avenue, square, park, muni- cipal building or other public place be- longing to the City and County. The Board may require a complete model of the proposed work of art to be sub- mitted. The term “work of art” as used in this section shall apply to and in- clude all paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, bas-geliefs or other sculptures, monuments, foun- tains, arches or other structures of a permanent charagter, intended for ornament or commemoration. No ex- isting work of art in the possession of the City and County shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way with- out the similar approval of the Board. ‘When so requested by the Mayor, or the Supervisors, or the Board of Public Works, or the Board of Educa- tion, the Board of Park Commissioners shall act in a similar capacity, with similar powers, in respect of the de- signs of municipal buildings, bridges, approaches, gates, fences, lamps or other structures erected or to be erect- ed upon land belonging to the City and County, and in respect of the lines, grades and plotting of public ways and grounds, and in respect of arches, bridges, structures and approaches which are the property of any corpora- tion or private individual and which shall extend over or upon any street, avenue, highway, park or public place belonging to the City and County. This section shall not be so construed as to impair the power of the Park Commis- sioners to refuse their consent to the erection or acceptance of public monu- ments or memorials or other works of art of any sort within any park, square or public place in the City and County. Sec..11. The Supervisors shall pro- vide all necessary money for the main- tenance, preservation and improve- ment of said parks, squares, avenues and grounds, and to that end shall an- nually levy a tax on all property in the City and County not exempt from taxa- tion, which shall not 1y less than five cents nor more than seven cents upon each one hundred dpllars assessed valuation of sald property. ARTICLE XV. REAT ) BONDS OF OFFICIALS. SECTION 1. Offi of the City and County, before entering upon the dis- charge of their offi¢ial duties, shali respectively giverand/execute to the City and County such| official bonds as uired by may be req , ordinance or this Charter. When amount of any bond is not fixed T it shall be fixed by ~ 3 ! an nance of the Supervisors. All bonds, excepting those of the Mayor and Au- ditor, must be approved by the Mayor and Auditor; the bond of the Mayor must be approved by the Auditor, and the bond of the Auditor must be ap- proved by the Mayor. The approval of every official bond must be indorsed thereon, and signed by the officers ap- proving the same, after examination of the sureties, as hereinafter pro- vided. Upon the approval of a bond it must be recorded, at the expense of the party giving the bond, in the office of the Recorder, in a book kept for that purpose, entitled Record of Official Bonds. The bond of the Auditor shall be filed and kept in the office of the County Clerk. "he bonds of all other officers shall be filed and kept in the office of the Auditor. Sec. 2. The following officers shall respectively execute official bonds to the City and County, with sureties, in the following sums: Mayor, twenty-five thousand dollars; | Auditor, fifty thousand dollars; Treas- urer, one hundred thousand dollars; Tax Collector, one hundred thousand dollars; Assessor, fifty thousand dol- lars; County Clerk, fifty thousand dol lars; Recorder, ten thousand dollars; Sheriff, fifty thousand dollars; Coroner, ten thousand dollars; City Attorney, ten thousand dollars: District Attor- ney, ten thousand dollars; Public Ad ministrator, fiftty thousand dollars; Su- perintendent of Public Schools, five thousand dollars; each Commissioner of Public Works, twenty-five thousand dollars; Clerk of the Supervisors, ten thousand dollars; each Supervisor, five thousand dollars; each School Director, five thousand dollars; each Fire Com- missioner, ten thousand dollars; each Police Commissioner, five thousand dol- lars; each Election Commissioner, ten thousand dollars; Property Clerk of Police Department, ten thousand dol- | lars; the Warrant and Bond Clerk, ten | thousand dollars. Sec. 3. City and County officers shall not be accepted as surety for each| other on official bonds. Every bond | shall contain a condition that the prin- cipal will faithfully perform all official | duties then, or that may thereafter be, imposed upon or required of him by law, ordinance, or this Charter, and that at the expiration of his term of | office he will surrender to his successor all property, books, papers, and docu- ments that may come into his posses- | sion as such officer. Such bond must also be executed by two or more sure- tles who shall each justify in the amount required for said bond; but being elected, appointed or employed In the service of the City and County. Sec. 8. Any officer of ‘the City and County who shall, while in office, ac- cept any donation or gratuity in money, or other valuable thing, either directly or indirectly, from any subordinate or employee, or from any candidate or ap- plicant for any position as employee or subordinate under him, shall forfeit | his office, and be forever debarred and disqualified from holding any position in the service of the City and County. Sec. 9. Every department, board and commission provided for in this Char- ter, except the Supervisors, shall ren- der to the Mayor within one month af- ter the end of each fiscal year a full re- port of all the operations of such de- partment or board or commission for such year. Sec. 10. An office becomes vacant when the incumbent thereof dies, re- signs, is adjudged insane, convicted of felony, or of an offense involving a vio- lation of his official duties, or is re~ moved from office, or ceases to be a resident of the City and County, or neg- lects to qualify within the time pre- scribed by law, or within twenty days | after his election er appointment, or shall have been absent from the State | without leave for more than sixty con- | secutive days. ¢ Sec. 11. Every officer who shall ap- | prove, allow or pay any demand on the | treasury not authorized by law, ordi- | nance or this Charter, shall be liable to the City and County individually and on his official bond for the amount of the demand so illegally approved, al- lowed or paid. Sec. 12. The departments, boards, commissioners and officers provided for ! in this Charter shall be entitled to the | possession of all papers, books, docu- ments, maps, plats, records and ar- chives in the possession or under the control of those respectively who are superseded in office under this Charter by such departments, boards, commis- sioners and officers. Sec. 13. All books and records of every office and department shall be open to the inspection of any citizen at any time during business hours. Cer- tified coples or extracts from said books and records shall be given by the offi- cer having the same in custody to any person demanding the same, and pay- ing or tendering ten cents a folio of one hundred words for such copies or ex- tracts; but the records of the Polics Department shall not be subject to such inspection except permission be given by the Police Commissioners or by the Chief of Police. Sec. 14. The Treasurer shall keep his when the amount of the bond is more than five thousand dollars, the sureties may become severally liable for por- | tions of not less than twenty-five hun- dred dollars. When there are more | gregate shall equal double the amount | of said bond. | Sec. 4. Every surety upon an official | bond, other than lawfully authorized | surety companies, must make an affi- | davit, which shall be endorsed upon | such bond, that he is a resident and | freeholder in the City and County, and | worth in property situated in the City and County, exclusive of incumbrances thereon, double the amount of his un- dertaking over and above all sums for which he is already llable or in any manner bound, whether as principal, | indorser or surety, and whether such prior obligation or liability be condi- | or absolute, liquidated, or un- | tional liquidated, due or to become due. All persons offered as sureties on official bonds may be examined on oath as to their qualifications by the officers whose duty it is to approve the bond. Sec. 5. When under any of the pro- visions of this Charter, or of any grdi- nance, an official bond shall be required from an officer, the Supervisors may, by resolution, require an additional bond, whenever, in the opinion of such board, such bond or any surety thereto becomes insufficient; and such additional bond shall also be required when a surety to a bond shall die or cease to be a resident of the City and County. Sec. 6. Every officer shall be liable on his official bond for the acts and omis- sions of his deputies, assistants, clerks, | and employees, appointed by him, and | of any and each of them, and every of- ficial bond shall contain such a condi- tion. Sec. 7. Every board, department or officer may require of their deputies, clerks or employees bonds of indemnity with sufficient sureties for the faithful performance of their duties. ARTICLE XVI. MISCELLANEOTUS. SECTION 1. The words “City and County” wherever they occur in this Charter mean the City and County of San Francisco; and every department, board and officer, wherever either one of them is mentioned in this Charter, means a department, board or officer, as the case may be, of the City and County of San Francisco. Sec. 2. All deputies, clerks, assistants and other employees of the City and County must be citizens of the United States, and must, during their respect- ive terms of office or employment, ac- tually reside in the City and County and must have so resided for one year next preceding their appointment. Sec. 3. No officer of the City and County, except members of the Police Department acting under orders of the Chiet thereof, shall absent himself from the State; but he may, once only during his term of office, so absent him- self for a period of not more than sixty days upon the written permission of the Mayor so to do. Violation of this section shall be sufficient cause for the removal of any officer violating ' the same. Sec. 4. Any person holding a salaried office under the City and County, whether by election or appointment, who shall, during his term of office, hold or retain any other salaried office under the government of the United States, or of this State, or who shall hold any other salaried office connected with the government of the City and County, or who shall become a member of the Legislature, shall be deemed to have thereby vacated the office held by him under the City and County. Sec. 5. No department, board or offi- cer shall, under any circumstances, em- ploy more gubordinates than are spe- cifically provided for in this Charter or buy supplies beyond the sum furnished therefor by the Supervisors. Sec. 6. No Supervisor and no officer or employee of the City and County, shall be or become, directly or indirect- ly. interested in, or in the performance of, any contract, work, or business, or in the sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paya- ble from the treasury; or in the pur- chase or lease of any real estate or other property belonging to, or taken by, the City and County, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or by virtue of legal process at the suit of the City and County. If any person in this section designated shall, during the time for which he was elected or ap- pointed, acquire an interest in any con- tract with, or work done for, the City and County, or any department or offi- cer thereof, or in any franchise, right or privilege granted by the City and Coun- ty, unless the same shall be devolved upon him by law, he shall forfeit his of- fice, and be forever after debarred and disqualified from « being elected, ap- pointed or employed in the service of the City and County; and all such con- tracts shall be void, and shall not be enforceable against the City and Coun- ty. Sec. 7. No officer or employee of the City and County shall give or promise to give to any other person, any por- tion of his compensation, or any money, or valuable thing; in consideration of having been, or of being, nominated, appointed, voted for, or eleéted to, any office or employment; and if any such promise or gift be made, the person making such gift or promise shall for- law or by this | feit his office and employment, and be forever debarred apd disqualified office open for business every day, ex- cept legal holidays, from nine o’clock in the forenoon until four o’clock in the afternoon. Except where other- wise provided for by law, or by this Charter, all other public offices shall be kept open fcr business every day, ex- cept legal holidays, from half-past eight o'clock: in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon; and, in ad- dition thereto, from the first day of November until the last Monday of De- cember in each year the office of the Tax Collector shall e kept open until nine o’clock in the evening. Sec. 15. No person shall be eligible to or hold any office, or be clerk or dep- uty in any office or department, who has been found guilty of malfeasance in office, bribery or other infamous crime or who in any capacity has em- bezzled public funds. Sec. 16. The fiscal year mentioned in this Charter shall commence on the | first day of July and end on the thirti- eth day of June folowing. Sec. 17. All moneys, assessments and | taxes belonging to or collected for the | use of the City and County, coming into the hands of any officer of the City and County, shall immediately be deposited with the Treasurer for the benefit of the funds to which they respectively belong. If such officer for twenty-four hours after receiving the same shall delay or neglect to make such deposit, he shall be deemed guilty of misconduct in office and may be removed. Sec. 18. Any elected officer, except Supervisor, may be suspended by the Mayor and removed by the Supervisors for cause; and any appointed officer may be removed by: the Mayor for cause. The Mayor shall appoint some person to discharge the duties of the office during the period of such sus- pension. s Sec. 19. When the Mayor shall sus- pend any elected officer he shall im- mediately notify the Supervisors of such suspension and the cause there- for. If the Board is not in session he shall immediately call a session of the same in such manner as shall be pro- vided by ordinance. The Mayor shall present written charges against such suspended officer to the Board and fur- | nish a copy of the same to said officer, { who- shall have the right to appear with counsel before the Board in his defense. If by an affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors, taken by ayes and noes and entered on its record, the | action of the Mayor is approved, then the suspended officer shall thereby be | removed from office; but if the action | of the Mayor is not so approved such suspended officer shall be immediately reinstated. Sec. 20. When the Mayor shall re- move an appointed officer from office, he shall immediately notify the Board of Supervisors of such removal, and furnish it a statement of, the cause therefor, which statement shall be en- tered in the record of its proceedings. Sec. 21. Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Charter, any officer, board or department authorized to ap- point any deputy, clerk, assistant or employee, shall have the right to re- move any ]erson so appointed. Sec. 22. All appointments of officers, deputies and clerks to be made under any provision of this Charter must be made in writing and in duplicate, au- thenticated by the person or person, board or officer making the same. One of such duplicates must be filled with the Secretary of the Civil Service Com- mission and the other with the Auditor. Sec. 23. Wherever it is provided in this Charter that the members of any board, department or commission shall so classify themselves by lot that their terms of office shall expire at different times, such members shall, on the day of making such classification, cause the same to be entered in the records of their proceedings, and a copy thereof, certified by the Secretary thereof and signed by all of said members, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supervisors. In every case such classification must be made at the first meeting of the Board. Sec. 24. Every officer and every mem- ber of any board or committee provided for in this Charter shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations, and every such board, officer or com- mittee shall have power to issue subpe- nas, to compel by subpena the produc- tion of books, papers and documents, and to takeandheartestimony concern- ing any matter or thing pending before any such board, officer or committee. If any person so subpenaed neglect or refuse to appear, or to produce any book, paper or document, as required by such subpena, or shall refuse to testify before any such board, officer or committee, or to answer,any question which any officer or a majority of such board or committee shall decide to be proper or pertinent, he shall be deemed in contempt, and any such board, officer or committee shall have power to take the proceedings in that behalf provided by the general laws of this State. The Chief of Police must, on request of such officer or of any member of any such or com- mittee, detail a Police Officer or Officers to serve such subpenas. Sec. 25. All publications provided for in this Charter must be made in the official newspaper only. Sec. 26. All franchises and privileges heretofore granted by the City and County which are not in actual use or enjoyment, or which the grantees thereof have not in good faith com- menced to exercise, are hereby de- clared forfeited and of no validity un- less sald grantees or their six months after this Charter m;’e.:neflect. in good faith commence the exercise and he.nloymenf- of such or franchise. pré\eri{egf Xll ordinances or resolutions for the improvement of any street for which no contract shall have bgen en- tered into at the time this Charter takes effect are hereby repealed. Sec. 28. All ordinances, orders and resolutions of the Supervisors of the City and County in force at the time this Charter takes effect, and not in- consistent therewith, shall continue in force until amended or repealed. Sec. 29. When the Supervisors shall determine that the public interest re- quires the conmstruction or acquisition of any permanent municipal building or improvement, the cost of which in ad- ditfon to the other expenses of the City and County will exceed the income and revenue provided for the City a:q County for any one year, they must by ordinancepassediy the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members ot the Board, submit a proposition to in- cur a bonded indebtedness for such purpose to the electors of the City and County at a special election to be held for that purpose only. All the provis- ions ‘of this Charter providing for the acquisition of public utilities, so far as the same are applicable, shall apply to the manner of submitting such propo- sition to the electors, to the limitations of sald bonded indebtedness, to the is- suance and character of the same, and to the time when and the kind of money in which said bonded in- debtedness shall be payable. The pro- ceeds of the sales of such bonds shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the Public Building Fund. Sec. 30. Every assistant deputy or other subordinate of any board, depart- ment or officer, shall discharge any of the duties pertaining to such depart- ment, board or office as his chief may assign him to. Sec. 31. No member of the Board of Police Commissioners and no member of the Board of Fire Commissioners shall be eligible to any elective office while he is a member of such Board, or for one year thereafter. Sec. 32. No member of the Board of Police Commissioners and no member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, and no officer, subordinate or employes of the Police Department or of the Firs Department, shall be a member of any partisan convention the purpose of which is to nominate candidates for office; nor shall either of them directly or indirectly electioneer, by soliciting votes or otherwise, for or against any candidate for office at any election, or for or against any candidate for nomi- nation before any political convention, or for or against any candidate for del. egate to such convention at any prie mary election; nor shall either of them be a member of any committee, club, or organization the purpose of which is to nominate or endorse candidates for office at any election; nor in any way attempt to influence or control such committee, club or organization, while nominating or endorsing said candi- dates; nor take any part in the control, management or distribution of the po- litical patronage of any public officer; nor shall any member of either of said Boards, or any officer, subordinate or employee of either of said departments directly or indirectly attempt to control or in any manner influence the action of any officer, subordinate or employee of either of said departments at any general, special or primary election. ‘And no officer, subordinate or emplovee of either of said departments shall levy, collect or pay any amount of money as an assessment or contri- bution for political purposes. Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this section shall be re- moved forthwith from his office or employment. If the viclation be by a member of either of said Boards the Mayor must remove such member; and if by an officer, employee or subordinate of either of said departments, then the Board whose officer, employee or sub- ordinate has been guilty of such viola- tion, must remove such officer, employee or subordinate; and if such Board fail or refuse to make such removal, then the Mayor must remove all members of the Board who have so failed or re- fused. Sec. 33. No deputy, clerk or other em- ployee of the City and County shall be paid for a greater time than that covered by his actual service. Sec. 34. The salaries provided in this Charter shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, and every of- ficer shall pay all moneys coming into his hands/ as such_officer, no matter from what source derived or received, into the treasury of the City and County within twenty-four hours af- ter receipt of the same. Sec. 35. When any officer, board or de- partment shall require additional depu- ties, clerks or employees, application shall be made to the Mayor therefor, and upon such application the Mayor shall make investigation as to the ne- cessity for such additional assistance; and if he find the same necessary he may recommend to the Supervisors to authorize the appointment of such ad- ditional deputies, clerks or employees; and thereupon the Supervisors, by an affirmative vote of not less than four- teen members, may authorize such ap- pointments, and provide for the com- pensation of such appointees, subject to the limitations contained in this Char- ter, and subject to the provisions of Article XIII thereof. Sec. 36. At any time between the first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- nine, and the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred, the person who, at the election held under this Charter in the month of November next preceding, has been elected the Mayor of the City and County, shall make.all the appointments provided by this Charter to be made by him, and all the persons so appointed shall there- upon qualify as in this Charter pro- vided, and shall take office at the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day of January in the year nine- teen hundred, and all boards, commis- sions and officers of the City and Coun- ty holding'by appointment under ex- isting laws shall hold office no longer than said last aforesaid time. Sec. 37. The balance remaining in the School Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be trans- ferred to the Common School Fund cre= ated by this Charter. The balance re- maining in the Library Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the Library Fund created by this Charter. The bal- ance remaining in the Park Iu:‘prove- ment Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be trans- ferred to the Park Fund created by this Charter. The balance remaining in the Unapportioned Fee Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the Unapportioned Fee Fund created by this Charter. The balance remaining in the Police Relief and Pension Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the Police Relief and Pension Fund created by this Charter. The balance remaining in the Surplus Fund at the time this Charter takes ef- fect shall forthwith be transferred to the Surplus Fund created by this Char- ter. The balance remaining in the Spe- cial Deposit Fund at the time this Charter takes effect shall forthwith be transferred to the Special Deposit Fund created by this Charter. The balance remaining in the Ceneral Fund at the time this Charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the Street Light Fund at the time this Charter takes ef- fect, the balance remaining in the Street Department Fund at the time this Charter takes effect, the balance remaining in the TPolice Contingent Fund at the time this Charter takes ef- fect, the balance remaining in the Pound Fee Fund at the time this Char- ter takes effect, and the balance re- maining in the Special Fee Fund at the time this Charter takes effect, shall each and every one of them be forth- with transferred to the General Fund created by this Charter. Out of th