The San Francisco call., 1898-04-09
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The Chief of Police.

SECTION 1. The Chief of Police shall be appointed by the Board of Police Commissio- CTS and hold office for the term of four years. He shall re- { ceive an annual salary Of four thou sand dollars. He shall have control, management and direction of all mem bers of the Department in the lawful exercise of his functions, with full power to detail any of them to such public service as he may direct, ana with like power to suspend temporarily any member of the Department. In all cases of such suspension, he shall inn mediately report the same to the Board with the reasons therefor in writing. He shall maintain and enforce law ana rigid discipline so as to secure com plete efficiency of the Department He shall, subject to the directions and or ders of the Commissioners. have con- trol of such of the prisons of the City and County as are not by the general law under the control Of the Sheriff.
 Sec. 2. In the suppression Of any riot, public tumult, disturbance of the public peace, or organized resistance against the laws or public authority, the Chief of Police shall, in the lawful exercise of his functions, have all the powers that are now or may be con- ferred on Sheriffs by the laws Of the State.
 Sec. 3. The Chief of Police shall be the chief executive officer of the De- partment He shall be chargeable with and responsible for the execution of all laws and ordinances and the rules and regulations of the Department. He shall see that the orders and process issued by the Police Court and such other orders and process as may be placed in his hands are promptly exc cuted, and shall exercise such other powers connected with his office as may be provided for in the general rules and regulations of the Commits sioners.
 Sec. 4. The Chief of Police shall keep a public office in which he shall have the Statutes of this State and of the United States, and all necessary works on criminal law. In case Of his tempo rary absence some competent member of the Department, by him designated for that purpose. shall be in attendance at all hours of the day and night; and in such case he shall make known to l such member of the Department where he can be found.
 Sec. 5. The Chief of Police shall de- tail one or more of the members or the Danartment to attend constantly on the Police Court and to execute its orders and process. He shall detail at his pleasure members of the Department to act as his Chief Clerk. Assistant clerks, Prison Keepers and Property ClerK- Said Chief Clerk and said Property CIark shall each receive an annual sal- arv of twenty-four hundred dollars. Sac The Chief of Police may from t,ma n time disburse such sums for contingent expenses of the Department. Q e Tn his judgment shall be for the best interest of the City and County, to be naid out of the contingent fund allowed the Department. The aggregate of all such sums shall not In any one fiscal wear exceed the sum Of ten thousand dollars. Provision shall be made by the Supervisors for such contingent fund in the annual tax levy. The Commission CTS shall allow and order paid out of such contingent fund as contingent ex- penses of the Police Department, upon orders signed by the Chief of Police, such amounts as may be required.
 Sec. T. The Chief of Police shall pos- supervision and control, over all pawn, brokers, peddlers. junk-shop keepers, dealers in secondhand merchandise. auctioneers and intelligence office keep- CTS. All persons engaged in said call ings must first procure permits from the Commissioners. In the exercise of such power the Chief may by authority in writing from time to time empower members of the Police Department when in search of property feloniouslv obtained or in search of suspected of lenders, or in search of evidence to con vict any person charged with crime to examine the books and the premises of any such person. Any such member of the Police Department, when thereunto empowered in writing by the Chief of Police, may examine property alleged to have been pawned. pledged, deposit- ed, lost, strayed or stolen.
 CHAPTER V.