The San Francisco call., 1898-04-04
ARTICLE I.
Boundaries, Rights and Liabilities

Boundaries, Rights and Liabilities. SECTION 1. The municipal corpora ton known as the City and County of San Francisco shall remain and con- tinue body polite and corporate, in name and in fact, by the name of the City and County of San Francisco, and by that name shall have perpetual suc- cession; may sue and defend in all courts and places and in all matters and proceedings; may have and use a
 common seal and alter the same at pleasure; may purchase, receive, hold . and enjoy real and personal property; receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds of property, in fee simple, or in. trust for charitable and other pur- poses, and do all acts necessary to carry out the purposes of such gifts, :: bequests and donations, with power to manage, sell, lease or otherwise dispose
 of. the same in accordance with the terms of the gift, bequest or trust.
 : Sec. 2. The boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco are here by declared to be those set forth in Section Thirty-nine Hundred and Fifty of the Political Code of California. :: Sec, 3. The City and County of San Francisco shall continue, under this Charter, to have, hold and enjoy all jproperty, rights of property, rights of
 action of every nature and description of the existing municipality and is
 hereby declared to be the successor of
 the same.
 Sec 4. Suits, actions and proceedings
 may be brought in the name of the City
 and County for the recovery of any
 property, money or thinr belong
 ing thereto, in law or eQuit..-, or dedi-
 cated to public use therein, or for the enforcement of any rights of, or con-
 tracts with, the City and County, whether made or arising or accruing
 before or after the adoption of this
 Charter. All existing suits, actions and proceedings in the courts or elsewhere. to which the City and Countyis a party.
 shall continue to be carried on by or
 against the City and County.
 . Sec. 5. No recourse shall be had against the City and County for dam
 age or loss to person or property suf-
 fered or sustained by reason of the de- street. avenue, lane, alley, court or place. or by reason of the defective : condition of any sewer, or by reason of
 any defective drainage, whether any of said defects originally existed, or . whether they were occasioned by con- struction. excavation or embankment
 nor shall there be any recourse against . the City and County for want of re-
 pair of any sidewalk, street, avenue, . lane, alley, court or place or by want : of repair of any sewer; TOT shall there
 be any recourse against the City and 60 County for damage to person or prop
 erty suffered or sustained by reason of
 accident on any sidewalk, street, avenue, lane, alley, court or place. or by falling from any embankment thereon or into
 any excavation therein; but in any such case the person or persons on whom the law may have imposed the obli-
 gation to repair such defect in the *sidewalk, street or public highway, or in. the sewer. and also the officer or
 officers through whose official negi.
 Gence such defect remains unrepaired
 Shall be jointly and severally liable to
 the party injured for the damage sus- :tained.