The San Francisco call., 1898-04-05

Sec. 8. Any officer of the City and County who shall, while in ofnce, ac- cept any donation or gratuity Tn money, or other valuable thing, either directly or indirectly, from any subordinate or employee, or from any candidate or ap- plicant for any position as employee or subordinate under him, shall forfeit his office, and be forever debarred and disQualified from holding any position in the service of the City and County, Sec g. Every department. board and commission provided for in this Char ter except the Supervisors, shall ren- der to the Mayor within one month af- ter the end of each fiscal year full re-. port of all the operations of such de- partment or board or commission for such year.
 Sec 1O An office becomes vacant when the incumbent thereof dies, re- signs, is adjudged insane. convicted of felony, or of an offense involving vio- lation of his official duties, or is re- moved from office, or ceases to be a resident of the City and County, or neg lects to qualify within the time pre- scribed by law, or within twenty days after his election or appointment, or shall have been absent from the State without leave for more than sixty con- secutive days.
 Sec. Il. Every officer who shall ap- prove. allow or pay any demand on the treasury not authorized by law. ordl- nance or this Charter, shall be liable to the City and County individually and on his official bond for the amount of the demand so illegally approved. al- lowed or paid.
 Sec. 12. The departments. boards, commissioners and officers provided for in this Charter shall be entitled to the possession of all papers, books, docu- ments. maps. plats. records and ar ch1veS in the possession or under the control of those respectively who are superseded in office under this Charter by such departments, boards, commits sioners and officers.
 Sec. 13. All books and records of every office and department shall be open to the inspection of any citizen at any time during business hours. Ger t1fied copies or extracts from said books and records shall be given by the off, cer having the same in custody to any person demanding the same, and pay ing or rendering ten cents folio of one hundred words for such copies or ex- tracts; but the records of the Polics Department shall not be s subject to such inspection except permission be given by the Police Commissioners or by the Chief of Police.
 Sec. IA. The Treasurer shall keep his office open for business every day, ex- cept legal holidays, from nine o'clock in the forenoon until four o'clock in the afternoon. Except where other wise provided for by law or by this Charter, all other public offices shall be Kept open for business every day, ex- cept legal holidays, from half past eight o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon; and, in ad- dition thereto, from the first day of November until the last Monday of De- cember in each year the office of the | Hox -I.o nine o'clock in the evening.
 Sec. 15. No person shall be eligible to or hold any office, or be clerk or dep- uty in any office or department, who has been found guilty of malfeasance in office, bribery or other infamous crime or who in any capacity has em- bezzled public funds.
 Sec. 16. The fiscal year mentioned in this Charter shall commence on the first day of July and end on the thirti- eth day of June following.
 Sec. IT, All moneys, assessments and taxes belonging to or collected for the use of the City and County, coming into the hands of any officer of the City and County, shall immediately be deposited with the Treasurer for the benefit of the funds to which they respectively belong. If such officer for twenty-four hours after receiving the same shall delay or neglect to make such deposit, he shall be deemed guilty of misconduct in office and may be removed.
 Sec. IS. Any elected officer, except Supervisor, may be suspended by the Mayor and removed by the Supervisors for cause; and any appointed officer may be removed by the Mayor for cause. The Mayor shall appoint some person to discharge the duties of the office during the period of such sus- pension.
 ch pend any elected officer he shall inn mediately notify the Supervisors of such suspension and the cause there for. If the Board is not in session he shall immediately call session of the | same in such manner as shall be pro- vided by ordinance. The Mayor shall present written charges against such suspended officer to the Board and fur nish a copy of the same to said officer, who shall have the right to appear with counsel before the Board in his defense. If by an affirmative vote of not less than fourteen members of the Board of Supervisors, taken by ayes and noes and entered on its record, the action of the Mayor Is approved, then the suspended officer shall thereby be removed from office; but If the action of the Mayor is not so approved such suspended officer shall be immediately reinstated.
 Sec. 20. When the Mayor shall re- move an appointed officer from office, he shall immediately notify the Board of Supervisors of such removal, and furnish it a statement of, the cause therefor, which statement shall be en- tered in the record of its proceedings. Sec. 21. Unless otherwise provided by law or by this Charter, any officer, board or department authorized to ap- point any deputy. clerk, assistant or 1 employee, shall have the right to re- move any Jerson so appointed.
 Sec p. All appointments of officers, | deputies and clerks to be made under any provision of this Charter must be made in writing and in duplicate, au- 1 thenticated by the person or person, board or officer making the same. One of such duplicates must be filed with | the Secretary of the Civil Service Com mission and the other with the Auditor
 Sec. 23. Wherever 1t Is provided in this Charter that the members of any board, department or commission shall so classify themselves by lot that their 1 terms of office shall expire at different times, such members shall, on the day of making such classification, cause the same to be entered in the records of their proceedings, and copy thereof, certified by the Secretary thereof and signed by all of said members, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Supervisors.