Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-17
[Sepate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.]
ARTICLE XII.

ARTICLE XI.
section g. Any city containing population
of more than three thOus M five hundred in
babitants, may frame charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject to the
Co stitution and laws of this state, by causing
a Board of fifteen FIeeholders, who shall have
been for at le st five year qua ided electors
thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of
said city at any general or special election,
whose duty shali be, within ninety days after
such election to prepare and propose a charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such board, or ma
jority of them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
of such city, and the other to the Recorder of
the county. Such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers of gener-
al circulation in such city, for at least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be made
within twenty days after the completion Of the
population of not " ore than ten thousand IN
habitants, such proposed charter shall be pub
lished in one such daily newspaper; and within
it shall be submitted to the qualified electors Of
said city at general or special election, and If
thereat shall ratify the same. it shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legis ature for it's approval
or rejection as a whole, without power of alter
alton or amendment snch approval may be
made by concurrentresOlution, and If approved
by majority vote of the members elected to
each house, 1t shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with
county, then OF such city and county and shall
become the organic law thereof, and supersede
any existing charter and all amendments
thereof, and all laws inconsistent with such
chartrr copy of such charter, certified by
the Mayor, or chief executive officer, and au-
thenticated by the seal of such city, setting
forth the submis ion of such charter to the
electors, and its ratification by them, shall,
after the approval of such charter by the Leg
islature, be made, in duplicate, and deposited,
one in the Office of the Secretpry of state, and
the other, af'er being recorded in said Record.
er's Office, shall be deposited in the archives OF
the city and thereafter all Courts shall take
judicial notice of taid charter. The charter,
SO ratified, may be amended at intervals of not
less than two years by proposals herefor, sub
mitted by the legislative authority of the city
to the qualified electors thereof, at general or
special election, held at least forty days after
days in daily newspaper Of general circula
tion In such city, aud ratified by at least three
ifths of the qualified electors voting thereat,
and approved by the Legislature, a. herein pro-
vided for the approval of the charter. In sub.
mittiug any such charter, or amendments
thereto, any alternative article or proposition
may be presented for the choice of the voters,
and may be voted on separately without preju-
dice to others.
NOW, THEREFORE, Pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Constitution, and an Act of the
LEGISLATURE entitled "An A ct to provide for the
submission of certain proposed amendments TO
the Cor stItutioD of the State OF California to
the qualified electors for their spproval," ap-
proved March z, A d. 1883, viz. "Section 1.
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amendments to the Constii ution
of this Sta g, which amendment or amend
ments shall have been passed in the manner
and form required By section one OF article
eighteen OF the Constitution, and no other