The record-union., 1892-10-20
Amendment Number Five.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 14.7
ARTICLE XT.


Section s. Any city containing pOpula-
tion of more than three thousand five nun
dred inhabitants, may frame a charter for its
own government, consistent with ana SUBJECT
to the Constitution and laws of this State by
causing board OF fifteen freeholders, VINO
snail have been for at least We years qualified
electors Thereon, To be elected by the
uuaIified voters of said city at any general
be, within ninety days after such elec-
ton, 10 prepare and propose Il charter
1or such city, which shall be signed, in dupli-
cate, by the members of such Boaru, or a ina
jority of them, and returned, one copy TO the
Mayor 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
cral circulation in such city, tor at least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be maue
WITHIN twenty days after the completion of
the cnarter; proylued, that i'll cities containing
pOpuiatlOn OF not more than ten thousand
inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published in one such daily newspaper; and
within not less than thirty days after such
publication it shall be submitted to the quail
ned electors of such city at general or
special elecHOn, ana II q majority OF such
qualified electors voting thereat snail ratiIy
the same it shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature Tor its approval or rejection
as whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and if approved by
a majority vote OF the members eected to
each mouse, IL snail become the charter Of such
city, or if such city be consolidated with a
county, then of such city and county. ana
shall become the organic law thereof, and SUI
persede any existing cnarter ana all amend
ments thereof. and all laws inconsistent with
such charter. a copy OF such charter, certi-
fed by the Mayor, or chief executive officer
and authenticated by the seal of such city
setting forth the submission of such charter
10 the electors, and its ratification by them,
shall, after the approval OF such charter by
the Legislature, be made, in duplicate,
and deposited, one in the Office OF
the Secretary of State and the other,
after being recorded in said Re
corder's once, shall be deposited in the arch
ives of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
take judicial notice of said charter. The
charter, so ratified. may be amended at inter-
walls OF not less than two years by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative author
ity of the city TO the qualified electors thereof,
at a general or special election. held at least
forty days after the publication of such pro-
pOSalS for twenty DAYS in a daily newspaper
of general circulation in such city, and rati-
fed by at least three-1fthS of the qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
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 may be pre-
sented 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 Legisla-
ture entitled AN Act TO provide for the sub
mission Of certain proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State of California to
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 Constitu-
tion of this state, which amendment or
amendments shall have been passed in the
manner and form required by section one of
article eighteen of the Constitution. and no
other mode is provided by law for the sub
mission OF such amendment or amendments