Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-29
Amendment No. 3.
Senate Constitutional AmendmentNo. 14l
ARTICLE XI


ARTICLE XI.
Section 8. Any city containing population
OF more than three thousand five hundred In
habitants, may frame charter for its own
government, consistent with and subject to the
Co stitution and laws of this state by causing
Board of fifteen Freeholders, who shall have
been for at least five years qualified electors
thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of
said city at any general or special election,
whose duty IL shall be, within ninety days after
such election, to prepare and propose charter
for such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such board, or a ma
jority of them, and returned, ono copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
of such city, and the other to the Recorder of
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
s--y .ays u1rer the corplrslSs.
charter; provided, that In cities cofltEittns
population of not d ore than ten thousand in
habitants. such proposed charter shall be pub
lished in nesuch daily newspaper; and within
not less than thirty days after such publication
1t shalt be submitted to the qualified electors of
said city at a general or special election and if
q majority of such qualified electors voting
thereat shall ratify the same, it shall thereafter
be submitted to the Legislature for its approval
or rejection as q whole, without power of alter
alton or amendment. Such approval may be
made by concurrentresolution and if approved
by majority vote of the members elected to
ca h house, 1T shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with
county, tueu OF Sucu CITY ana county ana snail
become the organic law thereof and supsrsede
any existing charter and all amendments
thereof and all laws inconsistent with such
charter. copy of such charter, certified by
the Mayor, or chief executive officer, and au-
thenticated by the seal of such city, setting
forth the submisi ion OF such charter to the
electors, and its ratification by them, shall,
after the approval of such charter by the Leg
islaiure. be made, in duplicate and deposited,
one in the Office of the Secretary of state, and
the other, after being recorded in said Record
ers Office shall te deposited in the archives of
the city. and thereafter all Courts shall take
Judicial notice of said charter. The charter.
80 ratified, may be amended at intervals of not
less than two years by proposals therefor, SUBJ
nlitted by the legislative authority of the city
to the qualified electors thereof, at general or
special election. held at least forty days after
the publication OF such proposals for twenty
days in daily newspaper OF general circula-
tion in such city, aud ratified by at least three
fifths of the qualified electors voting thereat
and approved by the Legislature, as herein pro-
vided for the approval of the charter. In sub
mitting any such charier, 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 can Act to provide for the
submission of certain proposed amendments 10
the qualified electors for their approval" ap
proved March z, A. D. 1883, viz. "Section l.
Whenever the Legislature shall propose any
amendment or amendments to the Consti ution
of this Stale, 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