The record-union., 1898-09-11
Amendment Number Two.
Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10l

(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)
A resolution proposing to the people of
the State of California an amendment TO
new section, to be known and designated
as Section Seven and one-half, Article
Eleven thereof. providing for the framlng n{
by the inhabitants of counties OF local ,i
county government Acts for their own
government The said proposed new sec
Section ~. The inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
Act for their own government, relating TO
sistent with, and subject to, the Constltu-
ton and laws of this State, by causing
board of fifteen freeholders, who nave
been, for at least five years, quallnea
electors of such county, to be elected py
the qualified electors of such county, dt
any general or special election g vs wh9ss affss
such election to prepare and propose d
county government Act for such county,
which shall be signed in duplicate by the
members of such board, or majority OF
them, and returned, one copy Thereon TO
the Board of Supervisors or other legiSia-
tive body of such county, and the other
copy to be sent to the recorder or DEEDS
of the county. Such proposed county gov
ernment Act shall then be published IN
two papers of general circulation in such
county, or if there be not two such pa
pers, then in one only, for at least twenty
days, and within not less than thirty Gays
after such publication it shall be submit
| ted to the qualified electors of such coun-
| ty, at a general or special election, ana IL
| a majority of such qualified electors Vot,
| ing thereon shall ratify the same 1t shall
| thereafter be submitted to- the Legislature
| for its rejection or approval, as a whole
without power of alteration or amend
| ment, and if approved by a majority OF
| the members elected to each house, II
| shall be the county government Act OF
| such county, and shall in such case be-
| come the organic law thereof and super
sede any existing county government Act,
| and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
| cial laws inconsistent with such county
| government Act.
A copy of such county government Act.
| certified by the President of the Board of
| Supervisors or other legislative body of
such county, and authenticated by the
seal OF such county. setting forth the sub
mission of such county government Act to
the electors, and it's ratification by them,
shall be made in duplicate and deposited,
one in the Office of the Secretary of State,
the other, after being recorded in the Of
flee of the recorder of deeds in the coun-
ty, among the, archives of the county.
thereof The county government Act so
ratified may be amended, at intervals of
not less than two W = years ears by by, proposals
thority of the county, to the qualified
electors thereof, at a. general or special
| election held at least forty days after the
| publication of such proposals for twenty
| days in newspaper of general circula-
| tion in such county, and ratified by at
| voting thereon, and approved by the
| Legislature as herein provided for the ap
| prOVal OF the county government Act In
| submitting any such county government
| Act any alternative article or proposition
| may be presented. for the choice of the
| voters, and may be voted on separately
| without prejudice to others.
1t shall be competent in all county gov
ernment Acts framed under the authority
| given by this section to provide for the
manner in which, the times at which. and
| the terms for which the several township
| and county officers, other than Judges of
| the Superior Court shall be elected or
| arpointed for their compensation; for
| the number of such offlcers Tor the con
| number of deputies that each officer shall
| have and for the compensation payable
| to each of such deputies, for the manner
| in which the times in which, and the
| terms for which the members of all
| boards of election shall be elected or op-
pointed: and for the constitution. regula-
| ton, compensation and government of
| taches also. to precribe the manner and
method by which all elections by the peo-
| ple shall be conducted and may in addi-
upon which electors, political parties and
| organizations may participate in any pri-
whenever any county has. in the man
ner and method herein pointed out, adopt
| ed any county government Act, and the
same shall have been approved by the
legislature as aforesaid, the directions of
Sections Four and Five of this article,
nroviding for the uniformity of a system
Of county governments throughout the
State, and likewise providing for the cleo
tion and appointment of officers. and the
regulation of their compensation, shall
not apply Said county government Act
shall as to any of the matters herein
above provided for and declared by such
county government Act, not be subject to
and law or amendment enacted by the
LEGISLATURE except by amendment first
submitted 10 the electors and ratified in
| the manner hereinabove set forth.