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Penalty for violations.

SEC. 19. The commissioners shall certify to the auditor all appointments to places of employment in the classified civil service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation, or death, and all findings made or approved by the commission under the provisions of section twelve of this article.

SEC. 20. The commissioners shall have power to institute and prosecute legal proceedings for violations of any of the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE XIV.

Park commissioners, and parks.

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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 street to the Pacific ocean and known as Golden Gate Park; also the land fronting on Haight street, designated upon said map by the word "park" and known as "Buena Vista Park"; also the lands designated upon said map by the word "avenue," extending from Baker street westward until it crosses Stanyan street; also that certain highway bounded on the west by the Pacific ocean, and designated upon said map as "Great Highway"; also " Mountain Lake Park "; also" Seal 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 management 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 commissioners holding office in the city and county at the time this charter shall go into effect by virtue of appointment under any statute of this state.

SEC. 3. The commissioners shall be five in number, one of pointed by 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 themselves 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.

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Organization.

SEC. 4. The commissioners shall organize by electing one of their number president, and they may elect a secretary 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 employés, and shall require adequate bonds from all of them, except laborers, for the faithful performance of their duties in such sums as may be fixed by it. Such bonds shall be approved by the

mayor and filed 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 Meetings. in two weeks, and as many special meetings as it may deem proper.

Three of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for Quorum. the transaction of business. No contract shall be entered into authorizing the expenditure of money without the approval of four of the commissioners. Every contract exceeding five Contracts. hundred dollars in amount shall be open to public competition, unless the board shall determine in any given case to have the work done by day's labor. All the provisions of the article in this charter on the department of public works relating to contracts shall be applicable to all contract work ordered by the commissioners.

SEC. 5. The commissioners may adopt ordinances for the Park ordiregulation, use and government of the aforesaid parks, squares, nances. avenues and grounds not inconsistent with the laws of the state of California or with this charter. Such ordinances shall, within five days after their passage, be published for ten days, Sundays excepted, in the official newspaper. Any person violating any of such ordinances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished therefor, on conviction, in any court of competent jurisdiction. None of 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 after their adoption.

SEC. 6. The commissioners shall have the complete and exclusive control, management, and direction of the aforesaid 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 appoint superintendents, laborers, surveyors, engineers, and other officers and assistants, and prescribe and fix their duties, authority, and compensation. They shall have the exclusive management and disbursement of all funds legally appropriated or received from any source for the support of said parks, squares, avenues, and grounds.

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The board may accept from donors suitable articles for the Museum. museum and art gallery situate in the aforesaid Golden Gate Park, and shall manage and control said museum and art gallery.

lease.

Except as provided in section nine of this chapter, nothing may not in this section shall be so construed as to authorize the commissioners to lease any part of any of said parks, squares, avenues and grounds to any person, company or corporation 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 shall not inhibit Exception. the board from leasing, for a period not greater than one year, such buildings as may be constructed by itself for the use of

Park com- the public to such person, company or corporation who shall missioners undertake to serve such use; and in every such lease the board shall reserve the right to enter at all times into and upon the premises so leased, and shall make the condition that the building so leased shall be used for park-pleasure purposes only. No such building shall be constructed by the board except it be within the objects and purposes for which said parks, squares, avenues and grounds were dedicated to the public.

Expositions.

Police.

Legacies and bequests.

State exposition building.

Nothing, however, in this section contained shall inhibit the board from permitting the use of a limited portion of any one of the aforesaid parks or squares for the purpose of conducting thereon a fair or exposition, under such conditions and restrictions as may be necessary to conserve the integrity of said parks and squares, and for a period not greater than six months, and so as not to interfere with the use of any of the same by the public for park-pleasure purposes; but no such permission shall ever be granted except such fair or exposition be of national, state or municipal importance. None of the moneys in, or apportioned to, the park fund shall be used for the purposes of any such fair or exposition.

SEC. 7. The chief of police shall, on the request of the commissioners, detail such members of the police force of the city and county for service in said parks, squares, avenues and grounds as may be necessary for the enforcement of the law and for the proper observance of the ordinances of the commissioners; and the commissioners may provide a place of detention within either of said public places, in which the persons arrested for violating any of the ordinances of the board may be detained temporarily.

SEC. 8. The board may receive donations from persons and corporations and legacies and bequests for the improvement of said parks, squares, avenues 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 deposited in the treasury of the city and county to the credit of the park fund. The same may be withdrawn therefrom and paid out in the same manner as is provided for the payment of moneys legally 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 immediate 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 California, 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 exposition building, in which may be exhibited the products of the several counties of the state and in which the collection made by the state mining bureau may be maintained and exhibited; but said

lease shall be upon the express condition that no fee shall ever be charged for admission to said building.

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SEC. 10. Hereafter no work of art shall become the property "Works of of the city and county by purchase, gift or otherwise, unless art" must such work of art or design of the same, together with a state- proved by ment of the proposed location of such work of art, shall first sioners. have been submitted to and approved by the commissioners; nor shall such work of art, until so approved, be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon, any street, avenue, square, park, municipal building or other public place belonging to the city and county. The board may require a complete model of the proposed work of art to be submitted. The term "work of art" as used in this section shall apply to and include all paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, basreliefs or other sculptures, monuments, fountains, arches or other structures of a permanent character, intended for ornament or commemoration. No existing work of art in the possession of the city and county shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way without 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 education, the board of park commissioners shall act in a similar capacity, with similar powers, in respect of the designs of municipal buildings, bridges, approaches, gates, fences, lamps or other structures erected or to be erected 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 corporation 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 commissioners to refuse their consent to the erection or acceptance of public monuments 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 provide all necessary money Park fund for the maintenance, preservation and improvement of said tax levy. parks, squares, avenues, and grounds, and to that end shall annually levy a tax on all property in the city and county not exempt from taxation, which shall not be less than five cents nor more than seven cents upon each one hundred dollars assessed valuation of said property.

ARTICLE XV.

BONDS OF OFFICIALS.

Official

SECTION 1. Officers of the city and county, before entering bonds. upon the discharge of their official duties, shall respectively give and execute to the city and county such official bonds as may be required by law, ordinance, or this charter. When the

Official bonds.

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Qualifications of sureties.

amount of any bond is not fixed by law or by this charter, it shall be fixed by an ordinance of the supervisors. All bonds, excepting those of the mayor and auditor, 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 approved by the mayor. The approval of every official bond must be indorsed thereon, and signed by the officers approving the same, after examination of the sureties, as hereinafter provided. 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. The 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; treasurer, one hundred thousand dollars; tax collector, one hundred thousand dollars; assessor, fifty thousand dollars; county clerk, fifty thousand dollars; recorder, ten thousand dollars; sheriff, fifty thousand dollars; coroner, ten thousand dollars; city attorney, ten thousand dollars; district attorney, ten thousand dollars; public administrator, fifty thousand dollars; superintendent 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 commissioner, ten thousand dollars; each police commissioner, five thousand dollars; each election commissioner, ten thousand dollars; property clerk of police department, ten thousand dollars; 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 principal 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 documents that may come into his possession as such officer. Such bond must also be executed by two or more sureties who shall each justify in the amount required for said bond; but when the amount of the bond is more than five thousand dollars, the sureties may become severally liable for portions of not less than twenty-five hundred dollars. When there are more than two sureties, such sureties may justify in an amount which in the aggregate 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 affidavit, which shall be indorsed upon such bond, that he is a resident and freeholder in the city and county, and worth in property