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CHARTER FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. his custody and safely keep all books, records, ma and papers deposited in 1is office. Upon demand and payment of the fees prescribed therefor by law or by ordinance, he must furnish to any one applying therefor a copy of any such book, record, map or paper, certjfied under the hand and seal of his office. When any pape e presented for he his depu- ite on the margin of each presented the number of folios, the amount pa.u for recording the same, and sha. number consecutively™ rcuments filed in s also perform all < at the time and in the scribed by the general laws ARTICLE V. LEGAL DEPARTMENT. CHAPTER I The Superior Court Judges. ges of the Su- vy an. County xceed five inter- n languag who shall in criminal ac- all the courts in exam- stenographers n ments of the Superior h receive an annual exceeding twenty-four hun- which shall be in full ion for all services including ion and all stationery used CHAPTER IL The City Attorney. TION 1. There shall be an Attar- d Counselor of the City and and \...o shall re ary of five thousand dollars. be elected by the people and office for the period of two be t the time of his *tor of the City and :alified to practice in all tate, and he must ualified for at least ten ceding his election, dur- s of which he must have ient of the City and devote his entire time County and at Sec. He must prosecute and de- fend for the City and County all ac- tions at law or in equi and all spe- cial p inst the City T any cause n equity or by spe- s in favor of the when within his knowledge, t within his knowledge, when v resolution of the all give legal ad- 1 officers, boards T med in this Char- equ-sted so to do by them, them, in writing, upon rising in their arate de- s involving the rights or lia- the Cit 1.d County. He 15t the Clty and County unless upon his writ- and Supervisors. written communications and n by him to any officer, tment; the briefs and sed in causes wherein he nd bound books of record f all actions or proceed- which the City d ver all books documents, eport ption in his Jiil « ity r in office, duplicate receipts which he shall file may ap- of whom nnual salary. of dollars: the second thousand three N of and the of eighteen also appoint salarv of nine hundred typewriter annual salary of and a messen- 1 T an annual salary ired dollars. An officer of » Department shall be perma- nine ht ger wh dollars; work pre who doing the detective in preparing tion of the office, erve on such de- of the City At- and the chief at the time of his ap- lified to practice in this State, and must qualified at least two vears next preceding his appointment. The erks, typewriter and appointed by the shall hold ure, and the specific 21l be prescribed by h, CHAPTER III The District Attorney. TION The District Attorney " by the people and shail ars. He shall be lector of the City and County and t the time of his election be ) practice in all the courts , and must have been so .t least five years next s election. He °“shall r nual salary of five thou- ice for two y powers conferred, and upon ties hy the gereral laws of this State, and in addition thereto shall attend, in- | | receive an annual salary of thirty-six the District Attorneys of coun- stitute and conduct on behalf of the peo 1o, all prosecutions cognizable in he' Police Court of the City and County. and He ¢hall draw all complaints warrants in said Police Court, proseeute all forfeited recognizances therein, and all actions for the recovery of fines, penalties, and forfeftures ac- ng to the City and County: deliver r money or property received il capacity, and file dupli- -for with the County Treas re¢ in his cates the file with 11 » Auditor on the first offic s of January. April, July and r in emch year, an itemized ment under oath showing all d by him in his official u the preceding three s: keep a register of his official business in which must be entered a note of every action, whether eriminal or civil, nrosecuted officially by him, and of the proceedings therein; and ve, when required, without fee, ad- to the Board of Police Commis- sfoners. the Chief of Police, the Board of Health and the Coroner, upon mat- ating to the duties of their re- e offices, He may appoint seven Assist- trict Attorneys to aid him in the ree of his officlal duties, three of <hall act as prosecutors in the r Court, and shall each receive 1 salary of thirty-six hundred and four of whom shall,act as rosecuting attornevs of the Police t. and shall each receive an annual ralary of twenty-four hundred dollars. When any of the assistants of the Dis- trict Attornev acting as such prosecut- Inz attorneys in the Police Court are . nroeecutions therein. they shall he t the c 11 of the District Attornev for | any service conrected with his depart- | ment. The assistants muct each. at the time of his anpointment. be gualified to practice in all the courts of this State, and must have been so qualified for at least two years next preceding his ap- pointment. The District Attorney mav also appoint one chief clerk, who shall | the | who shall be styled City At- | “ive an an- | 1 to the duties of his office. | > shall commence | ss any litiga- | he is ordered to ep on file in his | s 1 receive an an- | eighteen hundred dol- tant clerk who shall re- ! by the Chief of Police | and | their | discharge all the duties fmposed | “tually engaged in work connected | ecelve an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; one assistant clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of | twelve hundred dollars; and one sten- | ographer and typewriter who shall re- | ceive an annual salary of nine hundred | dollars. | . Sec. 4 The District Attorney may, in | the name of the City and County, bid | for and purchase property at execution ; sales under judgments for the recovery of fines, penalties or forfeitures accru- ! ing to the Citv and County. | CHAPTER IV. | The Public Administrator. | SECTION 1. The Public Administra- tor shall be elected by the people, and he shall hold office for two years. He { shall have all the powers conferred, and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon, the Public Administrators of counties by the general laws of this State, except as in this Charter other- wise specifically provided. He shall be entitled to all such fees as may be al- | lowed by law to the Public Administra- | tors of the counties of the State in full | compensation for all his services. CHAPTER V. The County Clerk. SECTION 1. The County Clerk shall | be elected by the people and shall hold office for two years. He shall have all the powers conferred, and shall dis- charge all the duties imposed upon, the County Clerks of counties by the gen- eral laws of this State, and in addition thereto shall attend and act as Clerk of the Police Court, keep the dockets and registers thereof, and take charge of and safely keep all books, papers and records which may be filed or deposited | in his office pertaining to the Police | | Court. He shall receive an annual sal- ary of four thousand dollars. Sec. 2. To aid him in the discharge of his official duties, the County Clerk | may appoint a Chief Register Clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars; a Cash- fer, who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars; twelve | Courtroom Clerks for the Superior who shall each receive an an- | ry of fifteen hundred dol- | lars; five Register Clerks, who shall | each receive an annual salary of| eighteen hundred dollars; ten As- sistant Register Clerks, who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollar: xteen Copy- ists, who shall each receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; and | four Clerks for the Police Court, who shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. Sec. 3. For copies of papers furnish- ed and certified by him, he shall charge not more than eight cents for each one hundred words. For certifying copies, which are not prepared by him, he shall be entitled to charge twenty-five | cents, and also forty cents an hour for the time exceeding one hour necessarily occupied in comparing such copies. He | must certify all papers presented to him which are copies of any document, | paper or record, or portions thereof, in | his custody. [ CHAPTER VL The Sheriff. SECTION 1. The Sheriff shall be elected by the people, and he shall hold | office for two years. He shail receive | an annual salary of eight thousand dol- | lars, which shall be in full compensa- tion for all official services required of him by law; but said salary shall be exclusive of the compensation received by him from the State for the delivery of prisoners to the State prisons, and insane persons to the State asylums for the insane. He shall have all the pow- ers conferred, and shall discharge all| the duties imposed upcn, the Sheriffs | of counties by the general laws of this State. Sec. 2. He may appoint the follow- | ing deputies and employees, who slmll‘ each respectively receive the following annual salaries: One Under Sheriff, twenty-four hun- dred dollars; ome Attorney, eighteen hundred dollars; one Chief Bookkeeper, | eighteen hundred dollars; two Assistant | Beokkeepers, fifteen hundred dollars; | ten Office Deputies, fifteen hundred dol- lars; fourteen Bailiffs, twelve hundred | dollars; one Chief Jailer at Branch Jail | Number One, eighteen hundred dollars; ten Jailers at Branch Jail Number One, | twelve hundred dollars; one Superi tendent of Branch Jails Numbers Two and Three, eighteen hundred dollars; sixteen Guards at Branch Jail Number Two, six hundred dollars; one Matron at Branch Jail Number Three, nine hundred dollars: six Guards at Branch | Jail Number Three, six Lundred dol- | lars; one Commissary to act for all| Jails, fifteen hundred dollars; one | Driver of Van, nine hundred dollars; |and one Bookkeeper, for all said Branch Jails, fifteen hundred dollars. | Sec. 3. The Sheriff may designate the services to be performed by his depu- ties. CHAPTER VIL The Jusiices’ Courts. SECTION 1. The Justices of the Peace shall each recelve an annual sal- ary of twenty-four hundred dollars, except the Presiding Justice, who shall receive an annual salary of twenty- seven hundred dollars. They shall ap- point a Chief Clerk who shall hold office for two years and receive an an- nual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars. The Chief Clerk may appoint five Deputies, each of whom shall re- | ceive an annual salary of twelve hun- | dred dollars. | CHAPTER VIIL The Police Court. SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established in and for the City and !} County of San Francisco a Court to be known as the Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Said | Court shall consist of four Judges, who shall be elected by the people and hold office for four years. They slall each hundreq dollars. They shall be electors | of the City and County at the time of | their election, and must have been such | for at least five years next preceding such time. No person shall be eligible | to the office of Judge of the Police | Court who is not at the time of his elec- | ticn qualified to practice in all the | Courts of this State, and who has not | been so qualified for at least five years | next preceding his election. The Court | shall be divided into departments |known as Department Number One, | Department Number Two, Depart- | ment Number Three and Department | Number Four. The Judges of such | Court may hold as many sessions of the | Court at the same time as there are Judges thereof. The Judges who shall | be elected at the first election under | this Charter shall so classify them- selves by lot that two of them shall go out of office In two years and two of them in four years. They shall choose from theirnumbera Presiding Judge who shall serve for one year. .The Presiding Judgé shall as- | sign the Judges to their respective de. partments; but any of the Judges may | preside in any’ of the departments in | the absence or inability of the Judge regularly assigned thereto. The judgments, orders and proceed- ings of any session of the Court held by any one or more of the Judges shall be equaliy effectual as if all the Judges | had presided at such session. | Sec. 2. The Police Court of the City and County of San Francisco shail have: First—Exclusive jurisdiction of all prosecutions for the violation of or- | dinances of the Board of Supervisors. Second—Corncurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court of all other misde- | meanors and of the examination of all | felonies committed in the City and County. Third—Sald Court, or any Judge thereof, shall have the same powers in all criminal actions, cases, examina- tions and proceedings as are now or | herein de: may hereafter be conferred by law upon Justices of the Peace. Sec. 3. Proceedings in - safd Court shall be conducted in accerdance with the laws of this State regulating pro- ceedings in Justices’ and Police Courts and appeals to the Superior Court; and sald Court or any Judge thereof shall have the same power in all criminal actlons, cases and proceedings as are now or may be hereafter conferred by the general law of this State upon Jus- tices of the Peace; provided, that: First—No case shall be dismissed or fine imposed untlil the testimony for the prosecution shall be taken. Second—Any defendant who neglects to file his statement on appeal within ten days after sentence shall lose his right to appeal, unless good cause for the delay be shown by affidavit. Press of business on the part of defendant’s attorney shall not be deemed good cause for delay. Unless the District Attorney shall file amendments to the proposed statement on appeal within five days after the same shall have been filed and served, the proposed statement on anpeal shall be the state- ment on appeal. The Judge -~before whom the case was tried shall settle the statement on appeal within five days after the District Attorney shall have filed his amendments to the pro- posed statement. Third—Any person who shall solicit or importune any of said Judges, ‘either before or after judgment, to dismiss a case, or mitigate a sentence, unless the same be done in open court, shall be guilty of a contempt of court. Fourth—A complaint may be demur- red to on the ground that it does not set forth the offense charged with such particularities of time. place, person and property as to enable the defend- ant to understand distinctly the char- acter of the offense complained of, and the complaint may be amended by per- mission of the Court after a demurrer is sustained. Fifth—A defendant in custody shall have the right to be tried before a de- fendant on bail, and felonies shall be heard before misdemeanors. Sixth-—The Judges of said Court shall try all cases as speedily as possible, and must refuse continuances after the first calling of a case for trial except upon affidavit showing good cause therefor. Seventh—Other than lawfully author- ized surety companies, no person shall be eligible to be a bondsman for any defendant on trial in the Police Court, or on appeal from a judgment therein, except he take an oath that the prop- erty specified in the undertaking is in the City and County of San Francisco, and that he is worth the amount spe- cified exclusive of property exempt from execution, and exclusive of all de- mands for which he may become liable by reason of the forfeiture of any ap- peal or bail bonds for which he is surety. Sec. 4. The District Attorney, either in person or by his Assistants, must be present at the sessions of the Court and attend to the prosecution of all cases coming before it, and make out all complaints and warrants for the arrest of persons charged with crime to be prosecuted in said court. Sec. 5. The District Attorney shall appoint a Warrant and Bond Clerk who shall receive a salary of twenty- four hundred dollars a year, and three Assistant Warrant and Bond Clerk: each of whom shall receive a salary fifteen hundred dollars a year. No person shall be appointed a “Warrant and Bond Clerk who is not at the time of his appointment qualified to practice in all the Courts of this State. The Warrant and Bond Clerk shall keep his offce open continuously night and day tor the transaction of business: shall draw complaints in actions in the Po- lice Court, and aporove the same with | annual salary of four thousand dollars. | his written signature: shall have the custody of all bail bonds anc examine the sufficiency of every bail bond and appeal bond taken in the Po- lice Court and make a return thereon, within forty-eight hours after bond shall have come into his posses- sion, in the following form: s S Warrant and Bond Clerk vy and County of San Francisco, have examined the within bond and find it good in law. examined the records of the City and County of San Francisco, and find the property, its owners and incumbrances cribed, to be correct accord- ing to said records. (Signed Warrant and Bond Clerk.)” The Warrant and Bond Clerk shall endorse upon the bond the time when it was issued by him, or when it came into his possession. He may issue bail bonds and appeal bonds when the lia- | bility thereof does not exceedtwo thou- sand dollars, and order the discharge from custody of the persons for whom | ‘the bonds are issued; and he may take cash bail to the extent in any one case of one thousand dollars. count for and pay to the Treasurer all moneys received as bail in the manner that the County Clerk is required by law to account for and pay moneys re- ceived as fees. No clerk of the Police Court shall ever take bail or order the release of any one charged with an of- fense. Sec. 6. In the matter of fixing bail and ordering the release of prisoners the Warrant and Bond Clerk shall be subject to the Judges of the Police Court, and any violation of a valid order of any of said Judges shall be a contempt of Court. Sec. 7. For any fallure to keep the office of the Warrant ahd Bond Clerk open continuously he shall be imme- diately removed from office by the Dis- trict Attorngy or by the Mayor. Sec. 8. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person other than a Judge of some Court in the City and County, or other than said*Warrant and Bond Clerk, to receive bail money for defendants or to order their discharge. Sec. 9. All demurrers to complaints, notices of motion, statements and bilis of exception on appeal to the Superior Court, must be served upon the Assist- ant District Attorney acting in the De- partment of the Court in which the case is set for hearing, or heard or tried. Sec. 10. The County Clerk shall be the Clerk of the Police Court, and he must be present either in person or by deputy at all sessions of the Court in the de- partments thereof: call the daily calen- dar of the departments, and keep full and complete records of all cases in the Court and the disposition made thereof by the Court. Sec. 11. The Police Judges may ap- point not more than two competent stenographers who shall attend the sessions of the Court and take notes of all preliminary examinations made at the sessions, and transcribe into type-written long hand alt evidence taken by either of them where the par- ties charged have been held for trial, and deliver one copy of the same to the Clerk and one copy to the District At- torney. Bach of such stenographers shall be paid for all his services, in- cluding transcription and all sta- tionery used by him, an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars. Sec. 12. The Mayor may in writing ap- point any Justice of the Peace to act ag Judge cf the Police Court, or any de- partment thereof, during the tempor- ary absence or inability of the Judge to act. Sec. 13. The Chief of Police shall cause to be made out and delivered to each of the Clerks of the Court at or bhefore nine o'clock in the forenoon of each day a calendar of .arrests in which the cases shall have heen as- signed to the departments of the Court in accordance with the rules and regu- lations establisked by the Police Judges. The calendar shall state “the offense charged;” whether the defend- ant is “in custody” or “on bail;” “the amount of bail;” *“whether cash or bond,” and ‘“‘the name of the arresting officer.” I have | He must ac- | Sec. 15. The ' Police Judges shall adopt all necessary rules and regula- tions for conducting the business of the Court. Sec. 16. No attorney shall appear in said Court to prosecute or defend per- sons charged with offenses unless at the time of his appearance he be quali- fied to practice law in all the courts of this State. ¢ Sec 17. The term of office of the Po- lice Judges elected at the general elec- tion held in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall terminate at the hour of noon on the first Monday after the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred, and they shall at sald time be succeeded by the Police Judges provided for in this Chapter; and all proceedingspendinginsaid Court shalil be transferred to the Police Court Judges elected as herein provided shall have and obtain Jjurisdiction of the same. ~ CHAPTER IX. The San Francisco Law Library. SECTION 1. The Supervisors must provide, fit up and furnish, with fuel, | lights, stationery, and all necessary conveniences, attendants and care, rooms convenient and accessible to the judges and officers of the courts and of the municipal government sufficient for the use and accommodation of the. San Francisco Law Library, established under an Act of the Legislature of this State entitled: “An Act to provide for Increasing the Law Library of the cor- poration known as the San Francisco Law Library, and to secure the use of | the same to the Courts held at San | Francisco, the Bar, the City and Coun- ty Government and the People of the | City and County of San Francisco,” ap- | proved March 9th, 1870. The Supervis- | ors must appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the proper fund such sums as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid; and all sums lawfully ap- propriated and expended pursuant hereto shall be paid out of the proper mode prescribed by this Charter for auditing other demands upon the treas- | ury. The County Clerk must pay | monthly to the Treasurer of the San | Francisco Law Library such moneys as he shall collect under the Act referred to for the benefit of said Law Library. ARTICLE VI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. CHAPTER I, The Board of Public Works. SECTION 1. There shall be a Depart- ment of Public Works under the man- agement of three Commissioners who | shall constitute the Board of Public ‘Works, and who shall give all their time during official business hours to the duties of their office. The members of said Board shall be appointed by the Mayor. Of those first appointed he shall appoint one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. | Bach year thereafter he shall appoint | for three years one person as the suc- | cessor of the Commissioner whose term | of office expires in that year. All such ! appointments shall be so made that not | more than one member shall at any | one time belong to the same political | party. No person shall be eligible for a_pointment as such Commissioner un- s he is, and has been for at least five vears next preceding his appointment, | an elector of the City and County. Each | of said Commissioners shall receive an | Sec. 2. Of the Commissioners first ppeal | appointed under this Charter, one shall bonds taken in the Police Court; shall | be designated by the Mayor to serve | | as President for one year. All subse- | quent Presidents of the Board shall be | elected by the members thereof for such | terms to be fixed by said board. The | President of the Board shall In each case hold office until his successor has been elected or until his membership on the Board expires. Sec. 3. The Board may appoint a | Secretary who shall receive an annual | salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The Board may employ such clerks, super- intendents, inspectors, engineers, sur- veyors, deputles, architects and work- men as shall be necessary to a proper discharge of their duties under this Ar- ticle, and fix their compensation; but | no compensation to any of said persons | shall be greater than is paid in the case of similar employments. Sec. 4. The Board shall establish all necessary rules and regulations for its government, and for the performance of its duties, and for the regulation and | conduct of its officers and employes; and shall require adequate bonds from ii(s officers and employes, except labor- their duties in such sums as may be fixed by the Supervisors. Said bonds shall be approved by the Mayor and shall be filed in the office of the Audi- tor. Sec. 5. The Board shall hold regular meetings at least once each week at a entered on its minutes. No changes in be made without a resolution passed at least two weeks before the time the change is to go into effect. Such spe- cial meetings may be held as the Com- missioners may deem necessary after notice of the same has been posted ten hours before the time of holding any | such meeting. All meetings shall be | public. No business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting except such as may have been under, or proposed for, consideration at the meeting from business shall be transacted at a spe- | cial meeting except that which is named meetings may be called by any member of the Board. In every case where a taken by ayes and noes. Sec. 6. The Board shall keep and preserve a record of all its proceedings, | and copies of all plans, specifications, reports,’ contracts, estimates, certifi- cates, receipts, surveys, field notes, maps, plats, profiles, and of all papers pertaining to the transactions of the Board. The Secretary of the Board shall keep a record of all its transac- tions, specifying therein the names of the Commissioners’ present at all the meetings, and giving the ayes andnoes upon all votes. The Secretary shall post and publish all orders, resolu- tions and notices as required in this Chapter or which the Board shall order to be posted or published. He shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board. Sec. 7. The Board shall be the suc- cessor in office and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of the Superintendent of Streets, High- ways' and Squares, of the New City Hall Commissioners, and of the Com- missions in existence at the time this Charter goes into effect for the open- ing, extending, widening, narrowing, straightening, closing or changing the grades of streets in the City and Coun- ty. Sec. 8. The Board shall immediately after its organization take possession and have the custody and control of ali maps, plats, surveys, field notes, rec- ords, plans, specifications, reports, con- tracts, models, machinery, instruments, tools, appliances, contract rights, priv- {leges, books, documents and archives and other property belonging to the City and County, or which may be of value and importance to the City and the offices of the City and County Sur- veyor, the Superintendent of Streets, Highways and Squares, the Sec. 14. The Chlef of Police shall ap- | Board of Nev: City Hall Commission- created under this Charter, and the | fund on demands duly audited, in the | ers, for the faithful performance of all | place and time to be fixed by resolution | place or time of regular meetings shall | which the adjournment was had. No | | in the notice of said meeting. Special | power is exercised under this Article | by the Board the vote thereon shall be | County, and heretofore kept by or in| Public | point one or more Police Officers to at- | ers, and all commissions in existence ai tend the sessions of the Police Court |the time this Charter goes into effect in each department thereof to pre-|for the opening, extending, widening. serve order and execute the orders of | narrowing, straightening, closing or the Court. changing the-grades of streets, and all other business and works pertaining to any of said offices or commissions. Sec. 9. The Board of Public Works shall have charge, superinterdence and control, under such ordinances as may from time to time be adopted by the Supervisors: 1. Of all public ways, streets, ave- nues, lanes, alleys, places, courts, roads, highways and boulevards now opened or which may hereafter be opened in the City and County; of the manner of their use; and of all work done upon, over or under the same;and herein particularly the Board shall have exclusive authority to prescribe rules and grant permits, in conformity with the ordinances of the Supervisors, for the moving of buildings through ths streets thereof, and the building or placing of cellars or vaults under the streets or sidewalks, and of temporary fences enclosing areas upon the side- walks; the laying down and construc- tion of rallroad tracks in the streets; the erection of telegraph and telephone poles, and poles for electric lighting, and the laying under the surface of the streets or sidewalks of telegraphor tele- phone wires, and wires forelectric light- ing and power; the construction of | drains and sewers; the laying down and | taking up of gas, steamand water pipes, pneumatic or other tubes or pipes, ana | sewers and drains, and determining the | location thereof; the wusing of the | street or any portion thereof for the deposit of building material in front ot | a building during its construction or irepalr. or for any purpose other than | such as ordinarily and properly belongs | to the public from thededication there- | of to public use; and without such per- { mission in writing from said Toard no person shall do any of the acts in this section enumerated; but nothing in this section shall be so construed as to give said Board the power to: grans permits for or allow the permanent en. croachment upon any sidewalk of any structure. 2. Of all sewers, drains and cess- | pools, and of the work pertaining thereto or to the drainage of the City and County; 3. Of the cleaning and sprinkling of all public streets, avenues, alleys, | places, courts, roads, highways and | boulevards, and the lighting of ths same and the lighting of the parks, squares and other public places and | public buildings; | " 4. Of the cleaning of all the public buildings of the City and County ana of the appointment of such janitorsana lemployees as are needed for such pur- ose; I 5. Of the supervision of any and all | building construction in the City and } County; | 6. Of the construction of any and all public buildings and structures, under | plans duly approved by the various de- | partments, including all school houses | and fire-department buildings, and the repair and maintenance of any and all | buildings and structures owned by the City and County; 7. Of any and all wires and conduits, the collection and disposal of street | refuse, garbage and sewage, and the | designing, construction and mainten- ance of the sewerage and drainage sys- {tems of the City and Countyy | 8. Of any and all public utilities | owned, controlled or operated by the | City and County, or which may here- | after be so owned, controlled or ope- | rated. | 9. When at any time any person, company or corporation desires to have | opened or torn up the roadway of any | street, lane, alley, place or court in the City and County for any purpose, a written application shall be made to the Board of Public Works for permis- sion to do so. The 3oard shall there- upon make an estimate o- thc expense of opening or tearing up such street, lane, alley, place or court and of re- storing the same to as good a condition as it was in before said opening or tear- ing up. Such person, company or cor- "pomuon must thereupon deposit the | amount of such estimate with the | Board of Public Works which shall thereupon pay the same into the Gene- ral Fund. | The Board shall thereupon proceed to open or tear ur sa.d street, lane, alley, | place or court as in said application re- quested, and shall ct the proper time | restore such street, lane, alley, place or | court to as good a condition as it was | in before said opening or tearing up. | Contracts f.r the doing cf sucn work | by the Board may be let by it in the manner provided in this Chapter, or the work may, at the option of the | Board, be done by days’ labor. | If the expense of such work has been | more than the aforesaid estimate, the | person, company or corporation shall | be indebted to the City and County for such balance; and the same shall con- stitute a lien upon the property of | such person, company or corporation. Said lien shall remain in force until | such balance has been paid, or until the lien shall be legally discharged. Said lien may be enforced by sult brought by the City and County in ac- | cordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of | California. If the expense of such work has been 1. s than the aforesaid estimate, then the surplus snall con- stitute a claim in favor of such person, company or corporation, against the City and County, and as such shall be presented, approved and pald as other claims. . Sec. 10. All examinations, plans and estimates required by the Supervisors in connection with any public improve- ments or utilities, shall be made by the Board of Public Works and It shall, when requested to do so, furnish infor- mation and data for the use of the Su- pervisors. Sec. 11. Said Board shall appoint a civil Engineer of not less than five years' practical experience as such, who shall be designated the City En- | gineer. He shall hold his office at the pleasure of the Board. He shall perform all the civil engin- eering and surveying required in the prosecution of the public works and improvements dore under the direction | and supervision of said Board, and shall certify to the progress and com- pletion of the same, and do such other | surveying or other work as he may be directed to do by said Board or by the Supervisors. He shall possess the same power in the City and County in mak- ing surveys, plats and certificates as is or may from time to time be given | by law to City Engineers and to Coun- ty Surveyors, and his official acts and all plats, surveys and certificates made by him shall have the same validity and be of the same force and effect as are or may be given by law to those of City Engineers and County Survey- ors. No street assessment shall be val- id without his certificate as to the quantities and unless it be to the effect that the work has been done to the of- ficial lines, elevations and grades. Sec. 12. He shall serve the Board ex- clusively and shall not be engaged in any other business while he is in its service. He shell recelve no com- pensation except his salary. The Board shall by resolution establish fees and charges for the services to be performed by the City En- gineer for persons, companies and cor- porations, and may from time to time change and adjust the same. Sald En- gineer shall require such fees or charges to be paid in advance for any official act or service demanded of him, and such moneys thus paid shall be paid to the Treasurer and credited by him to such fund or funds assaid Board may direct. Sec. 13. The Board shall appoint the necessary heads of departments under its charge. Each such head shall have the sole executive control in his own department, subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the Board. Sec. 14. All public work authorized by the Supervisors to be done under the supervision of the Board of Public ‘Works shall, unless otherwise determin- ed by the Board of Public Works, be done under written contract, except in case of urgent necessity as hereinafter provided; and except as otherwise specifically provided in_this Charter, the following proceedings shall be taken in all cases in the matter of the letting of contracts by said Board. Before the award of any con- tract for doing any work authorized by this Article, the Board shall cause no- tice to be posted conspicuously in its office for not less than five days, and published for the same time, inviting sealed proposals for the work contem- plated; except,however, that when any repairs or improvement, not exceeding an estimated cost of five hundred dol- lars, shall be deemed of urgent neces- sity by the Board, such repairs or im- provement may be made by the Board under written contract or otherwise, wxlthout advertising for sealed propo- sals. Sec. 15. Said advertisement and no- tice shall invite sealed proposals to be delivered at a certaln day and hour at the office of the Board for furnishing the materials for the proposed work, or for doing said work, or for both, as may be deemed best by the Board, and shall contain a general description of the work to be done, the materials to be furnished, the time in which the work is to be commenced, and when to be completed, and the amount of bond to be given for the faithful performance of the contract, and shall refer to plans and specifications on file in the office of the Board for full details and descrip- tion of said work and materials. Sec. 16. All proposals shall be made upon printed forms to be prepared by the Board, and furnished gratuitously upon application, with a form for the affidavit hereinafter provided for print- ed thereon. Each bid shall have there- on the affidavit of the bidder that such bid is genuine, and not collusive or sham; that he has not colluded, con- spired, connived or agreed, directly or indirectly, with any other bidder or person to put in a sham bid, or that such other person shall refrain from bidding; and has not in any manner sought by collusion to secure any ad- vantage against the City and County, or any person interested in said im- provement, for himself or any other person. All bids shall be clearly and distinctly written, without any erasure | or interlineation, and if any bid_shall have an erasure or interlineation it shall not be received or considered by the Board. Any contract made in vio- lation of any of the foregoing provi- sions, and in the case of improvement of streets, any assessment for the work done under such contract, shall be ab- solutely void. All proposals offered shall be accom- panied by a check, certified by a re- sponsible bank, pavable to the order of the Clerk of the Supervisors, for an amount not less than ten per centum of the aggregate of the proposal, and no proposal shall be considered unless accompanied by such check. No person, corporation or firm shall be allowed to make, file, or be interest- ed in, more than one bid for the same work. If on the opening of said bids more than one bid appear in which the | same person, corporation or firm is in- | terested, all such bids shall be rejected. Sec. 17. On the day and at the hour specified in said notice inviting sealed proposals the Board shall assemble and remain in session for at least one hour, and all bids shall be delivered to the Board while it is so in session, and within the hour named in _the adver- tisement. No bid not so delivered to the Board shall be considered. Each bid as it shall be recelved shall be num- bered and marked “Filed” by the Pres- ident and authenticated by his signa- ture. At the expiration of the hour stated in the advertisement within which the bids will be received, the Board shall, in open session, open, ex- amine and publicly declare the same, and an abstract of each bid shall be re- corded in the minutes of the Board by the Secretary. Before adjourning, the Board shall compare the bids with the record made by theSecretary,and shall thereupon, at said time, or at such other time, not exceeding twenty days thereafter, as the Board may adjourn to, award the contract to the lowest bidder, except as otherwise herein pro- vided. Notice of such award shall forthwith be posted for five days by the Secretary of the Board in some conspicuous place in the office of the Board, %nd be published for the same period of time. The Board may reject any and all bids, and must reject the bid of any party who has been delinquent or un- faithful in any former contract with the City and County, and all bids oth- er than the lowest regular bid; and on accepting said lowest bid, shall there- upon return to the proper parties the checks corresponding to the bids so re- jected. If all the bids are rejected. the Board shall return all the checks to the proper parties and again Invite sealed proposals as in the first in- stance. The check accompanying the accept- | ed bid shall be held by the Secretary of the Board until the contract for doing said work, as hereinafter provided, has been entered into, whereupon said cer- tified check shall be returned to said bidder. If said bidder fails or refuses to en- ter into the contract to do said work, as hereinafter provided, then the certi- fied check accompanying his bid, and the amount therein mentioned, shall be forfeited to the City and County, and shall be collected and paid into the General Fund. Neither the Board of Public Works nor the Supervisors shall have power to relieve from or remit such forfeiture. Sec. 18. If at any time it shall be found that the person to whom a con- tract has been awarded has, in nre- senting any bid or bids, colluded with any other party or parties, for the pur- pose of preventing any other bid being made, then the contract so awarded shall be null and void, and the Board shall advertise for a new contract for said work. Sec. 19. In the case of improvement of streets, the owners of the major part of the frontage of lots and lands upon the street whereon the work is to be done, or which are liable to be assessed for said work, or, in the case of an assessment district, the owners of a major part of the superficial area em- braced in such district, or their agents, shall not be required to present sealed proposals, but may, upon making oath that they are such owners, or the agents of such owners, within ten days after the first posting of notice of said award, elect to take said work and en- ter into a_ written contract to do the whole work at the price at which the same has been awarded. Should such owners not enter into a_ written con- tract therefor within said ten days, or should they enter into such contract and fail to commence the work within the time stated therein, which time shall not be less than ten nor more than twenty days from the time of the execution of such contract, the Board shall enter into a contract with the original bidder to whom the contract was awarded at the price specified in his bid. If the original bidder shall fail or refuse for fifteen days after the first posting of notice of the award to enter into the contract, the Board shall again advertise for proposals as in the first instance. Sec. 20. If the owners or contractor who may have entered into any con- tract do not complete the same within the time limited in the contract, or within such further time as is here- inafter provided, the Board may relet the unfinished portion of said work in accordance with the provisions in this Chapter prescribed for the letting of the whole. Sec. 21. All contracts shall be drawn under the supervision of the City At- torney, and shall contain detailed spe- cifications of the work to be done, the manner in which it shall be executed, and the quality of the material to be used. Every contract entered into by the Board shall be signed by all the mem- bers thereof and by the other contract- ing party. All contracts shall be signed | in triplicate, one of which, with the apecifications and drawings. if any, of the work to be done, and the mate- rials to be furnished. shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supervisors; one thereof, with sald specifications and drawings, shall be kept in the office of the Board, and the other with sald -specifications and drawings shall be delivered to the contractor. At the same time with the execution of the contract the contractor shall ex- ecute to the City and County and de- liver to the Secretary of the Board a bond in the sum named in the notice for proposals, with two or more suffi- cient sureties to be approved by the Board, or shall deposit with the Secre- tary a certified check upon some sol- vent bank for said amount, for the faithful performance of the contract. No surety on any bond, other than law- fully authorized surety companies, shall be taken unless he shall be a payer of taXes on real property, the assessed value of which, over and above all incumbrances, is equal in amount to his liabilities on all bonds on which he may be security to the City and County; and each surety shall justify and make an affidavit (for which a form shall be printed upon said bond), signed by him, that he is assessed upon the last Assessment Book of the City and County in his own name for real property in an amount greater than his liability 4n all bonds on which he is surety to ti¥ City and County, and that the taxes on such property so assessed are not de- lirquent. The contract shall specify the time within which the work shall be com- menced, and when to be completed, as was specified in the notice inviting pro-, | posals therefor. Upon the recommen- dation of the Board, the Supervisors may extend said time; but in no event shall the time for the performance of said contract be extended by the Su- pervisors more than ninety days be- yond the time originally fixed for its completion; but, on the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Public Works, a further extension may ba granted by vote of fourteen memocrs of the Board of Supervisors. In case of failure on the part of the contractor to complete his contract within the time fixed in the contract, or within such extension of said time as is herein provided, his contract shall be void, and the Supervisors shall not pay or allow to him any compensation for any work done by hir. under said contract; and, in the case of the improvement of streets, no assessment shall be made for the work done under said contract. Sec. 22. The work in this Article pro- vided for must be done under the di- rection and to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Works; and the mater- ials used must be in accordance with the specifications and be to the satis- faction of said Board, and all contracts provided for in this Article must con- tain a_ provision to that effect, and also, that in no case, except where It is otherwise provided in this Charter, will the City and County, or any de- partment or officer thereof, be liable for any portion of the expense, or in the case of improvement of streets, for any delinquency of persons or property assessed. When said work shall have been completed to the satisfaction and ac- ceptance of the Board, it shall so de- clare by resolution, and thereupon the Board shall deliver to the contractor a certificate to that effect. CHAPTER IIL Improvement of Streets. SECTION 1. All streets, lanes, alleys, places or courts in the City and Coun- ty, now open or dedicated or which may hereafter be opened or dedicated to public use, chall be deemed and held to be open pubiic streets, lanes, alleys, places or courts, for the purposes of this Chapter; and tuc Supervisors are hereby empowered to fix the width and grade thereof, and to order to be done therein and thereon any and all street work and street improvement under the proceedings hereinafter de- scribed. Sec. 2. Application for the doing of any such work or improvement must in the first instance, except where otherwise provided in this Article, be made in writing to the Board of Pub- lic Works; and if the expense thereof is to be assessed upon private. property, the Board shall investigate the same; and if it determine that such improve- ment is expedient, it shall so report to the Supervisors; and the Supervisors shall not order any such improvement until the same has been recommended by said Board. When the construction of any sewer or drain shall involve a cost of more than five dollars per lineal foot for any block, it shall not be au- thorized except by an or: nance passed by the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Su- pervisors. If an application is made for any work or improvement of which the expense is to be paid by the City and County, and the Board of Public ‘Works shall not approv : of such appli- cation, it shall report to the Supervis- ors its reasons Zor such disapproval, and the Supervisors may then, after having obtained from the Board of Public Works an estimate of the ex- pense of said work or improvement, by ordinance passed by the affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors, order the doing of said work, or the making of said improvement. The Board of Public Works may also, except as herein prohibited, recommend any improvement, the expense of which is to be paid by the City and County, though no application may have been made therefor, and must make, with said recommendation to the Supervis- ors, an estimate of the expense, and in such case the Supervisors may order the same done. No street work or street improve- ments of any kind shall be ordered to be done by the Supervisors unless a written recommendation to do the same has been made to them by the Board of Public Works, and all such recommendations shall be made mat- ters of record in the office of said Board. ‘When the Board shall recommend any work to be done on a street intersec- tion or crossing, where the streets do not intersect each other at right angles, it shall in each such case determine what lots in the blocks adjacent tosuch intersection or cro: -ing will e benefit- ed by said work, and shall cause a map to be made on which shall be delineated the lots sn to e benefited. Such map shall be transmitted to the Siu;)ervisors with said recommenda- tion. Sec. 3. Before recommending to the Supervisors the ordering of any work or improvement, the expense of which, or any vpart thereof, is to be assessed upon private property, the Board of Public Works shall pass a resolution of its intention to recommend the same, specifying the work to be recommend- ed, and shall fix a day when it shall take final action upon said resolution. Upon the passage thereof the Secre- tary of the Board shall forthwith, with- out any further authority. cause a copy of said resolution to be posted conspic- uously for five days in the office of said Secretary, and to be published for a period of ten days (legal holidays ex- cepted) and cause a copy to be deposit- ed in the Post Office at the City and County, with postage prepaid, address- ed to each person represented on the Assessment Book of the City and County for the next*preceding fiscal year as being owner of land liable to be assessed for said improvement; but if said lot stand on sald book in the name of unknown owners, such notice need not be sent. 7 The Board shall also cause to be con- spicuously posted along the line of said contemplated. improvement, at points not more than one hundred feet in dis- tance apart, notices, not less than three in all, of the passage of said reso- lution. Each of said notices shall be headed ‘“Notice of Street Work” in let- ters of not less than two inches in length, and shall in legible characters state the fact of the passage of said resolution, its date, and. briefly, the work or improvement proposed, and re- fer to the resolution of intention for further particulars. 5 Sec. 4. The owners of a majority of the frontage of the pro; rty fronting on said proposed work or improvement, and, in case of a district, :hose owning 48+ I b &