The herald., 1898-10-31
THE PROPOSED CITY CHARTER

cant by the Council or the Mayor. and
tie the vacancy shall thereupon be filled. in
Council. and in the case of an appointive
officer not included in the classified civil
service, by the Mayor; unless otherwise
provided for in this charter
Sec. So. All officers subject to the pro-
VISIONS OF this charter shall hold office un-
TIL removed, suspend or until their sue
cessors have qualified.
Sec. 81. The Council shall have power
to suspend any officer of the city pending
trial against whom any criminal proceed
ings or civil action for the recovery of
money due the city has been commenced,
and the Mayor shall appoint a substitute
Tor such office during suspension. In vOt-
me- lnE upon the suspension and remoyal OF
pending or removing the same, shall vote
by ayes and noes and the same shall be
taken and entered upon the journal.
Sec. 50. 1t shall have power. by ordi
nance, to adopt and enforce all such
measures and to establish all such regu-
lations. in cases for which no EXPIRE IS
provision IS in this charter made. as the
city Council may from time to time deem
Necessary i,on and expedient. for the promo
fort. safety. life, limb and property OF
inc inhabitants of said city. the preser-
motion of public morals, the suppression
or vice and the enhancement of the pub
lie welfare in said city.
Sec. SO. The Council shall have power.
ny ordinance. to regulate and provide for
lighting of streets. laying down gas pipes
and erection of lamp posts, electric tow
ers and other apparatus and to regulate
the sale and use of gas. electric light and
power, and fix and determine the price
of gas, electric light and power, ana the
rent of gas meters within the. city, and
regulate the inspection thereof: and to
resulats telephone service and the use Of
telephones within the city, ana iiX ana
determine the charges for telephones ana
telephone service and connections
Sec. 81: The Council shall have power
| to provide by ordinance that all rates to
be charged by the city for the use OF
water for domestic purposes shall be a
water is supplied. and shall constitute
lien thereon: and the Council shall have
power to establish rules for the deter
mnation. of tho area OF the land in cacn
case to be subject to such lien, and to
provide for the assessment of the land on
which water is 50 supplied, for the col
| lection of such water rates and for the
sale of the land so assessed in case of the
non-paymont of such rates, in the same
manner substantially and at the same
time as in the case of general municipal
| taxes.
Sec S. The Council shall also have
| power to pass ordinances upon any Other
subject of municipal control, or to carry
into effect any other powers of the NUM-
| cipality.
Sec Sc. The Council may. by ordinance.
provide for the erection and Maintenance
| OF barracks and work-houscs in Eysan
| Park Griffith Park, for the safe-keep-
| ing and employment in either of sail
parks of such persons as are confined in
the city prison under judgment OF con-
viction.
Sec. 81. II at any time provision is
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the collection of the city taxes by and
through the officers OF the county the
Council may. by ordinance. adopt such
| method of collection and provide that the
assessment and amount Of the levy and
rate of taxation for city purposes. be GER
titled in detail TO the proper county Of
| ficer or officers.
Sec. SO. Every ordinance which shall
have been passed by the Council shall.
before II becomes effective. be signed by
the City Clerk or other person authorized
by the Council to sign the same on its be-
half. and be presented to the Mayor for
his approval and signature, II he ap-
proves it; il not. he shall indorse thereon
the date OF Its pres to him and re-
writing. The City Clerk shall indorse
thereon the date of its return to him, and
shall. nt the first meeting of the Council
| thereafter. present the same, with the OBJ
jections Of the Mayor. to that body.
Thereupon the Council shall proceed to
reconsider the passage of the ordinance.
and shall within thirty days after such
| ordinance or resolution shall have been
| so returned, take final action thereon.
Upon such rcconside tion. in all cases
where the vote of six members OF the
Council were required to pass the ord-
nance in the first instance 1t shall require
| the votes of seven members to pass the
| ordinance over the Mayors veto. In oil
other cases i, shall require the votes of
six members to pass the ordinance over
| the veto. The vote in oil cases of recon-
| sideration shall be by ayes and noes. ard
| the names of the members voting for or
against shall be entered upon the journal.
! Sec. 50. II any ordinance shall not be
returned to the City Clerk by the Mayor
| within ten days after 1t shall have been
| tach a certificate to that effect to the or
dinance, and such ordinance shall. after
publica tion. become effective and be as
valid as If the Mayor had approved and
| signed 1t.
Sec. 80. Whenever there shall be pro-
sented to the Council petition signed by
| q number Of city electors equal to fifteen
per centum of the votes cast in the city
at the last preceding State or City cleo
ton. asking that an ordinance, to be set
forth in such petition. be submitted to
vote of the electors of the city, such pro-
posed ordinance must be submitted to the
vote of the electors at the next general
city election. unless the said ordinance
shall have been adopted more than thirty
days prior to such election.
The Council may submit an alterna tie
ordinance for the choice Of the voters and
any number of proposed ordinances may
be voted on at the same election. in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this sec
tiOn
The signatures to the petition need pot
all be appended to one paper; but eacn
signer shall add to his signature his placS
OF residence. giving the street and num-
ber. One of the signerS of each paper
shall make oath before an officer com
petent to administer oaths, that the state
ments therein made are tue, and that
each signature to the paper appended Is
the genuine signature of the pt,s"n
whose name purports to be thereto SUBJ
scribed.
The tickets used in such election shall
contain the words FOR THE ORpI.
NANCE" (stating the nature of the rro-
posed ordnance) and AGAINST THE
ORDINANCE" (stating the nature of the
proposed ordinance.)
If majority of the votes cast upon
such ordinance shall be in favor of .he
adoption thereof the Council shall. wlth-
in thirty days from the time of such cleo
ticn. proclaim such fec; and upon sucn
proclama ton such ordinance shall have
passed by the Council and approved hy
the Mayor. and the same shall not be re-
pealcd py the Council. The Council may
submit proposition for the repeal of such
ordinance, or for amendments thereto. for
vote at any succeeding general city cleo