The record-union., 1892-10-29
Amendment Number Five.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. IL
ARTrCTE. VI

SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. 14.A
ARTICLE XI.
Section s. Any city containing a 1,opula.
sion of more than three thousand five nun
dred Inhabitants, may frame charter for its
own government. consistent With and subject
10 the Constitution and laws OF this State by
causing q board of fifteen freeholderS Who
shall have been for at least We years Qualified
qualified voters OF said city at any general
or special election, whose duty il shall
De WITHIN ninety days after such cleo
Jon, 70 prepare ana propose a charter
Tor such city, which shall be signed, in dupii-
cate, by the members of such Board or a ina
10rty of them, anu returned, one copy to the
Mas or thereof. or other chief executive officer
Of such city, and the o her TO the Recorder OF
the county such proposed charter shall then
be published in Two daily newspapers of gen
eral circulation in such city, fOl lea ST twenty
days, ana the first publication snail he lna,.e
within twenty days after the completion OF
the caarlef; provided, that In ciiieS containing
d population or not mere tnau ten thousand
Inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published IN one such daily newspaper: and
within not less than thirty days aIter suca
publication 1t snail be submitted to the quail
aled electors OF such city at u general or
special election, and if q majority OF such
qualified electors voting thereat snail raliIy
the same il shall thereafter be submitted TO
the Legislature for its approval or rejecton
as a whole, without power o. alteration or
amendment. such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and If approved IN
n majority vote of the members Z ected 10
each house, il snail become the charter of such
citv or ii such city be consolidated with n
county, then OF such city and county and
shall become the organic law thereof and sll-
Darsede any existing cnarIer ana all amend
ii,,ents thereof. ana ali laws inconsistent with
s1rh charter. 4 copy OF such charter certi-
fed bv the Mayor, or chief executive officer.
and authenticated by the seal OF such citv
SETTING forth the submission of such Charter
Ia tie electors, and its ratification by them
shall after the approval Of such charter bv
the arjSIsture be made in duplicate
ana deposited, one in the once OF
fbe Secretary OF state, and the other
after being recorded in SAID Re-
corCer,s Office, shall be deposited in the arch
ives Of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
charter. SO ratified, may be amended at inter
walls OF not less than two years Dy proposals
therefor. submitted by the legislative author
tty of the city 10 the qualified electors thereof
at q general or special election, held al least
forty days after the publication OF such pro-
posals for twenty days in daily newspaper
ofgeneral circulation in such city, ana rGtI-
FED by at least three-ifihs OF the quallled
electors voting thereat, and approved by 0le
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap-
proval of the charter. In submitting any
such charter. Or amendments thereto, any al
Tentative article or proposition maS be pre-
Bented for the choice of the voters, and may
be voted on separately without prejudice to
Others.
NOW, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
Of the constitution. and an Act of the Eegisla-
lurc emitted An Act to provide for the 81 b.
mission OF &c tain proposed amendments 10
the constitution OF the State of California to
the Qualleu electors for their pnroYal.f' ap-
proved Nafch Z. a. D. 1883. viz: stSecti on i.
Whenever the Legislature shah propose any
amendment or amendments TO the Constitu-