The San Francisco call., 1898-03-29
CHAPTER II.
Powers of the Supervisors.

Powers of the Supervisors. SECTION 1. Subject to the pro- visions, limitations and restrictions 1n this Charter contained, the Board of Supervisors shall have power:
 l. To ordain, make and enforce within the limits of the City and County all nec> ssary local, police, sani- tary and other laws and regulations. ?. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, or in the Constitution of the State of California, to regulate and control for any and every purpose, the use of the streets, highways, public thoroughfares, public places, alleys, and sidewalks of the City and County.
 3. To permit the laying down of rail- road tracks and running cars thereon. along any street or portion of street, for the sole purpose of eXcavating and filling in a street or portion of street or the adjoining land, for such limited time as may be necessary for such purpose and no longer. Such tracks must be laid level with the street and must be operated under such restric- tions as not to interfere with the use of such streets by the public.
 4. To empower street railway com panies, under such conditions as the Board may see fit to impose, to convey street sweepings and offal to the public parks.
 5. To fix the limits within which wooden buildings or structures shall not be erected, placed or maintained, and to prohibit the same within such limits. Such limits when once estab lished shall not be changed except by extension.
 $. To prov. 4e for the abatement or summary removal of any nuisance and to condemn and to prevent the occu- pancy of unsafe structures.
 '. To regulate the use of hackney car riages and public passenger vehicles, and to fix the rates to be charged for the transportation of persons or per Sonal baggage.
 S. To provide a public pound and to make all necessary rules and regula-. tions in the matter of animals running at large and for the custody and de- struction of the same.
 g. To provide and maintain a morgue.
 10. To provide places for the deten- tion of witnesses and persons charged with insanity, separate and apart from places where criminals or persons ac- cused of public offenses are imprisoned.
 II. To establish, maintain and regu- late, and change, discontinue and re-establish City and County jails, prisons and houses of detention, pun ishment, confinement and reformation, hospitals and almShOuSeS.
 12. To purchase or acquire by con- demnation such property as may be needed for public use.
 13. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, to regulate and control the location and quality of all appli- ances necessary to the furnishing Of water, heat, light, power, telephonic and telegraphic service to the City and County, and to acquire, regulate and control any and all appliances for the sprinkling and cleaning of the streets of the City and County, and for flush ing the sewers therein.
 14. To fix and determine by ordin- ance in the month of February of each year, to take effect on the first day of July thereafter, the rates or compensa- tion to be collected by any person, com- pany or corporation in the City and County, for the use of water, heat, light or power, supplied to the City and County, or to the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe the quality of the ser vice.
 15. To impose license taxes and to provide for the collection thereof; but no license taxes shall be imposed upon any person who, at any fixed place of business in the City and County, sells or manufactures goods, wares or mer- chandise, except such as require per mits from the Board of Police Com missioners as provided in this Charter.
 16. To prescribe fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordin- ance; but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months Imprisonment, or both.
 IT. To fix the fees and charges for all official services not otherwise pro- vided for In this Charter.
 IS. To allow not to exceed two thou sand five hundred dollars in any year for the celebration of the anniversary of our National Independence, and not to exceed five hundred dollars in any year for the observance of Memorial Day.
 19. To appropriate such sums as may be paid into the treasury from fines col lected on conviction of persons charged with cruelty to animals. and to author ize the payment of the same or some part thereof to any society that shall efficiently aid in such convictions.
 20. To provide for the payment of compensation to the interpreters ap- pointed by the Judges of the Superior Court, to interpret testimony in crim- inal cases in said Court or the Police Court, or upon inquests and examina- tions. Such compensation shall not ex- ceed one hundred dollars month for each interpreter.
 21. To offer rewards not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one in stance for the apprehension and convic- tion of any person who may have com- mitted felony in the City and County, and to authorize the payment thereof.
 P. To provide in the annual tax levy for special fund to be used in the construction of a general system of drainage and sewerage.
 23 To provide a Seal for the City and County, and Seals for the several departments, boards and officers there of, and Seal for the Police Court.
 24. To fix the hours of labor or serv- ice required of all 1aborers in the serv- ice of the City and County, and to fix their compensation; provided that eight hours shall be the maximum hours of labor in any calendar day, and that tt minimum wages of laborers shall be two dollars a day.
 25. To set apart as boulevard or boulevardS any street or streets. or DOT lions of a street or streets, over which