alter the same at pleasure; may purchase, receive, hold and enjoy real and personal property; receive bequests, gifts and donations. of all kinds of property, in fee simple, or in trust for charitable and other purposes, and do all acts necessary to carry out the purposes. of such gifts, bequests and donations, with power to manage, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same in accordance with the terms of the gift, bequest or trust.

Boundaries.

Sec. 2. The boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby declared to be those set forth in Section ThirtyNine Hundred and Fifty of the Political Code of California.

Rights.

Sec. 3. The City and County of San Francisco shall continue, under this Charter, to have, hold and enjoy all property, rights of property, rights of action of every nature and description of the existing municipality and is hereby declared to be the successor of the same.

Actions by or Against the City and County.

Sec. 4. Suits, actions and proceedings may be brought in the name of the City and County for the recovery of any property, money or thing belonging thereto, in law or equity, or dedicated to public use therein, or for the enforcement of any rights of, or contracts with, the City and County, whether made or arising or accruing before or after the adoption of this Charter. All existing suits, actions and proceedings in the courts or elsewhere, to which the City and County is a party, shall continue to be carried on by or against the City and County.

Liability for Damages by Reason of Defective Sidewalks, Etc.

Sec. 5. No recourse shall be had against the City and County, or any board of officers thereof, for damage or loss to person or property suffered or sustained by reason of the defective condition of any sidewalk, street, avenue, lane, alley, court or place, none of which has been finally accepted by the Supervisors of the city and county as by law, or as in this charter provided, nor shall there be any recourse against the City and County, or any board or officer thereof, for damage to person or property suffered or sustained by reason of accident on any such sidewalk, street, avenue, lane, alley, court or place; but in any such case the person or persons on whom the law may have imposed the obligation to repair such defect in any such sidewalk, street or public highway, shall be liable to the party injured for the damage suffered or sustained.

When any portion of the roadway of a public street in the City and County which has been accepted by the Supervisors as provided by law, shall be in such defective condition as to endanger persons or property in the use thereof; or when any public sewer is defective or in want of repair, it shall be the duty of the

Board of Public Works to cause any such defect in such roadway or in such sewer to be remedied or repaired. And, if through the official negligence of the said Board such defect remains unremedied or unprotected, and in consequence thereof damage or loss to person or property is sustained or suffered, the said Board shall be liable to the party injured for the damage sustained; provided that a notice in writing directing attention to the existence of such defect, and specifying the particular street and block thereof whereon or wherein such defect exists, shall have been served upon the said Board at least five days before such damage shall have been sustained; and provided further that there are at such time funds available to the said Board for repairing or remedying such defects.-As amended November 15, 1910; approved by the Legislature February 17, 1911 (Statutes, 1911, page 1661).

ARTICLE II.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Legislative Power.

CHAPTER I.

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Section 1. The legislative power of the City and County of San Francisco shall be vested in a legislative body, which shall be designated the Board of Supervisors. Such body is also designated in this Charter, the Supervisors.

Supervisors: Term. Qualifications.

Sec. 2. The Board of Supervisors shall consist of eighteen members, all of whom shall hold office for two years and be elected from the City and County at large. Each one must be at the time of his election an elector of the city and county, and must have been such for at least five years next preceding his election. Each Supervisor shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars a month.

Every person who has served as Mayor of the City and County, so long as he remains a resident thereof, shall be entitled to a seat in the Board of Supervisors and to participate in its debates, but shall not be entitled to a vote nor to any compensation.As amended November 15, 1910; approved by the Legislature February 17, 1911 (Statutes, 1911, page 1661).

Quorum.

Sec. 3. A majority of all the members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, but a less number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the Board may prescribe.

Powers of the Board of Supervisors.

Sec. 4. The Board shall:

Appointments.

1. Appoint a Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms and, when authorized to do so by ordinance, such additional clerks and other assistants as may be deemed necessary.

Rules.

Establish rules for its proceedings.

Journal.

3. Keep a journal of its proceedings, and allow the same to be published. The ayes and noes shall on demand of any member be taken and entered therein.

Decorum.

4. Have authority to punish its members for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence.

*Term made four years: Section 38a, Article XVI.

Presiding Officer.

Sec. 5. The Mayor shall be the presiding officer of the Board of Supervisors. In the absence of the Mayor the Board shall appoint a presiding officer pro tempore from its own members, who shall have the same right to vote as other members.

Sec. 6. The Board shall meet on Monday of each week, or if that day be a legal holiday, then on the next day. The Board shall not adjourn to any other place than to its regular place of meeting, except in case of great necessity or emergency. meetings of the Board shall be public.

Clerk of the Board: Duties and Powers.

The

Sec. 7. The Clerk of the Board, when requested to do so, shall administer oaths and affirmations, without charge, in all matters pertaining to the affairs of his office, and shall perform such services as may be prescribed by the Board. He shall have the custody of the seal, and of all leases, grants and other documents, records and papers of the City and County. His signature shall be necessary to all leases, grants and conveyances of the City and County.

Sec. 8. Every legislative act of the City and County shall be by ordinance. The enacting clause of every ordinance shall be in these words: "Be it ordained by the People of the City and County of San Francisco as follows." No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so amended as to change its original purpose.

Bills and Resolutions: Final Adoption.

Sec. 9. No bill shall become an ordinance, nor resolution be adopted, unless finally passed by a majority of all the members of the Board and the vote be taken by ayes and noes and the names of the members voting for and against the same be entered in the Journal.

Revision and Amendment.

Sec. 10. No ordinance shall be revised, re-enacted or amended by reference to its title; but the ordinance to be revised or re-enacted, or the section thereof amended, shall be re-enacted at length as revised and amended.

Subject and Title.

Sec. 11. An ordinance shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in its title. If any subject be embraced in an ordinance and not expressed in its title, such ordinance shall be void only as to so much thereof as is not expressed in its title,

Reconsideration: Franchises.

Sec. 12. When a bill is put upon its final passage in the Board and fails to pass, and a motion is made to reconsider, the vote upon such motion shall not be acted upon before the expiration of twenty-four hours after adjournment. No bill for the grant of any franchise shall be put upon its final passage within ninety days after its introduction, and no franchise shall be renewed before one year prior to its expiration. Every ordinance shall, after amendment, be laid over for one week before its final passage. Advertisement of Bills and Resolutions.

Sec. 13. Every bill or resolution providing for any specific improvement, or the granting of any franchise or privilege, or involving the lease, appropriation or disposition of public property, or the expenditure of public money, except sums less than two hundred dollars, or levying any tax or assessment, and every ordinance providing for the imposition of a new duty or penalty, shall, after its introduction, be published in the official newspaper with the ayes and noes, for at least five successive days (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) before final action upon the same. If such bill be amended, the bill as amended shall be advertised for a like period before final action thereon. But in cases of great necessity the officers and heads of departments may, with the consent of the Mayor, expend such sums of money, not to exceed two hundred dollars, as shall be necessary to meet the requirements of such necessity.

Veto of Separate Items by the Mayor.

Sec. 14. If any bill be presented to the Mayor containing several items appropriating money or fixing a tax levy, he may object to one or more items separately, while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill at the time of signing it a statement of the item or items to which he objects and the reasons therefor, and the item or items so objected to shall not take effect unless passed notwithstanding the Mayor's objection. Each item so objected to shall be separately reconsidered by the Board in the same manner as bills which have been disapproved by the Mayor.

When Ordinances Take Effect.

Sec. 15. No ordinance shall take effect until ten days after its passage unless otherwise provided in such ordinance.

Approval or Disapproval of Mayor.

Sec. 16. Every bill and every resolution as hereinbefore provided, which shall have passed the Board and shall have been duly authenticated, shall be presented to the Mayor for his approval. The Mayor shall return such bill or resolution to the Board within ten days after receiving it. If he approve it he shall sign it and it shall then become an ordinance. If he dis