The San Francisco call., 1898-04-12

oHsJ OI d IHlSQemednOT, dLo 5AidAA ce punished therefor, on conviction. n any | court of competent Jurisdiction. None Of such ordinances shall be valid unless 1t receives the vote of four members or the Board. No ordinance shall be passed at the same meeting at which It IS introduced, or at any other than a regular meeting. Such ordinances snail take effect in not less than ten days af- ter their adoption.
 sec. b. The Commissioners shall have the complete and exclusive control. management and directionof the afore- sald parks, squares, avenues and grounds, and the exclusive right to erect ana to superintend the erection or, buildings and structures thereon; and to that end may employ and ap- point superintendents, laborers, sur Veyors, engineers, and other officers and assistants, and prescribe and fix their outles, authority and compensation. They shall have the exclusive manage ment and disbursement of all funds le- gaily appropriated or received from any source for the support of said parks, squares, avenues and grounds.
 me Board may accept from donors sultaDle articles for the Museum and Art Gallery situate in the aforesaid Golden Gate Park and shall manage ana control said Museum and Art Gal lery.
 
 thls Chapter, nothing in this section snail De so construed as to authorize the commissioners to lease any part ofany or sald parks, squares, avenues and grounds 10 any person, company or cor poratlon for any purpose; or to permit any person, company or corporation to pulld or maintain any structure on any part or said parks, squares. avenues or grounds; but this shall not inhibit the Board from leasing, for period not greater than one year, such buildings as may De constructed by itself for the use or the public to such person, com> pany or corporation who shall under- take 10 serve such use; and in every such lease the Board shall reserve the rignt to enter at all times into and upon the premises so leased, and shall make the condition that the building so leased shall be used for parK-pleasure purposes only. No such building shall De constructed by the Board except it ne within the objects and purposes for "hich said parks, squares, ave tues and grounds were dedicated to the public
 Nothing. however, in this section con- talned shall ;nhibit the Board from permitting the use of a limited portion ol any one Of the aforesaid parks or squares Tor the purpose o6 conducting thereon a Fair or Expositicn, under Such conditions and restrictions as may De necessary 10 conserve the integrity CT sald parks and squares, and for a pc. ricd not greater than six months. and so as hot to interfere with the use of any or the same by the public for park pleasure purposes; but no such permis- Slon shall ever be granted except such F air or Exposition be of National, State CT Municipal importance. None of the moneys In, or apportioned to, the Park Fund shall ce used for th1 purposes cp any such Fair or Exposition.
 sec. [. The Chief of Police shall. on tne request of the Comm;s siCnerc, de tall Srch members of the Police Force or the City and County for service in sad parks, squares, avenues and grounds as may be necessary for the en- fGrcement of the law and forthe proper observance Of the ordinances of the Commissioners; and the mmissioners may provide place of detention with m either of sad public pa ,es in which Ire persons arrested for violating any or the ordinances of the Board may be detained temper arily.
 Sec. S The Board may receive dona- tons from persons and corporations and legacies and bequests for the im- proVement of said park, squares. ave- nues and grounds. All moneys that may be derived from such donations, legacies and bequests, shall. unless otherwise provided by the terms of such glft, legacy, or bequest, be de- posted In the treasury of the City and County to the credit of the Park Fund. The same may be withdrawn therefrom and paid out in the same manner as is provided for the payment of moneys le- gally appropriated for the support and improvement of such parks, suuares avenues and grounds. If the moneys derlVed from such gifts, bequests or legacleS. shall at any time exceed in amount fn, dlate expenditures on said parks squares, avenues and grounds the Board shall invest all or a part of the same in interest bearing bonds of the united States, or of the State of Cali fornla or of any municipality thereof.
 Sec g. The Board may lease to the State of California, on such terms as it may deem proper, plot of ground in Golden Gate Park not more than seven hundred feet square, on which said state may erect and maintain an ex- position building, in which may be ex- hibited the products of the several counties of the State and in which the collection made by the State Mining Bureau may be maintained and ex- hibited; but said lease shall be upon the express condition that no fee shall ever be charged for admission to said build ing.
 Sec. 10. Hereafter no work of art snail become the property of the City and County by purchase. gift or other wise, unless such work of art or design or the same together with statement or the proposed location of such work Of art. shall first have been submitted to and approved by the Commissioners; nor shall such work of art, until so ap- proved, be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon any street, avenue, square, park muni- clpal building or other public place be- longing to the City and County The Board may require a complete model or the proposed work of art to be sub mltted. The term work of art" as used Tn this section shall apply to and in- clude all paintings, mural decorations. stained glass, statues, bas-reliefs or otner sculptures, monuments, foun-' talns, arches or other structures of a permanent character, intended for ornament or commemoration No ex- lstlng work of art in the possession of the City and County shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way with out the similar approval of the Board. when so requested by the Mayor, or the Supervisors, or the Board of Public Works, or the Board of Educa- ton, the Board of Park Commissioners snail act in similar capacity, with similar powers, in respect of the de-