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Repairs to thereof shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars; otherwise the board of public works shall submit plans, specifications and estimates of cost to the board of education for its approval, and if approved as provided in section one of this chapter, the board of public works shall cause the same to be done, and if done in accordance with the plans and specifications, and within such estimate, the same shall be accepted and shall be paid for out of the common school fund.

Purchase of lots.

Public

SEC. 3. When it is necessary to purchase a lot for the use of the school department, the price paid for such lot shall not exceed the market value of adjacent property of equal size and similarly situated. Any school building hereafter constructed shall have a clear space of at least ten feet around the same.

Chapter VII.-Public Library and Reading-Rooms.

SECTION 1. The public library and reading-rooms of the city library,etc. and county shall be under the management of a board of twelve trustees, one of whom shall be the mayor of the city and county, who shall be a member of the board by virtue of his office. The board of trustees of said library and reading-rooms in office at the time this charter shall take effect shall continue to constitute the board of trustees of said public library and reading-rooms; and all vacancies therein shall be filled by said. board. None of said trustees shall receive any compensation for his services.

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SEC. 2. The supervisors shall, for the purpose of maintaining such library and reading-rooms and such branches thereof as the board of library trustees may from time to time establish, and for purchasing books, journals and periodicals, and for purchasing or leasing real and personal property, and for constructing such buildings as may be necessary, annually levy a tax on all property in the city and county not exempt from taxation which shall not be less than one and one half cents nor more than two and one half cents upon each one hundred dollars assessed valuation of said property. The proceeds of said tax shall be credited to the library fund.

SEC. 3. All revenue from such tax, together with all money or property derived by gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, for the purposes of the library, shall be paid into the treasury and be designated as the library fund and be applied to the purposes herein authorized. If such payment into the treasury should be inconsistent with the conditions or terms of any such gift, devise or bequest, the board shall provide for the safety and preservation of the same and the application thereof to the use of the library and reading-rooms, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such gift, devise or bequest.

SEC. 4. The title to all property, real and personal, now vest in city owned or hereafter acquired by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, for the purpose of the library and reading-rooms, when not inconsistent with the terms of its acquisition, shall vest in the city and county, and in the name of the city and

county.

county may be sued for and defended by action at law or otherwise.

library

SEC. 5. The board shall take charge of the public library Board to and reading-rooms, and the branches thereof, and of all real control all and personal property thereunto belonging, or that may be property. acquired by loan, purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, when not inconsistent with the terms and conditions of the gift, devise or bequest. It shall meet for business purposes at least once a month, and at such other times as it may appoint in a place to be provided for the purpose. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. It shall elect one of its number president, who shall serve for one year and until his successor is elected, and shall elect a librarian and secretary and such assistants as may be necessary. The secretary shall keep a full account of all property, money, receipts and expenditures and a record of all its proceedings. SEC. 6. The board, by a majority vote of all its members to Powers of be recorded in its minutes with the ayes and noes, shall have library power:

1. To make and enforce all rules, regulations and by-laws necessary for the administration, government and protection of the library and reading-rooms and branches thereof, and all property belonging thereto, or that may be loaned thereto.

2. To administer any trust declared or created for such library and reading-rooms and branches thereof, and provide memorial tablets and niches to perpetuate the memory of those persons who may make valuable donations thereto.

3. To define the powers and prescribe the duties of all officers; determine the number of and elect all necessary subordinate officers and assistants, and for good and sufficient cause to remove any officer or assistant.

4. To purchase books, journals, publications and other personal property.

5. To order the drawing and payment upon vouchers, certified by the president and secretary, of money from the library fund for any liability or authorized expenditure.

6. To fix the salaries of the librarian and secretary and their assistants; and, with the approval of the supervisors, expressed by ordinance, to erect and equip such building or buildings, room or rooms, as may be necessary for the library and reading-rooms and branches thereof.

7. To establish such branches of the library and readingrooms as the growth of the city and county may from time to time demand.

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SEC. 7. The supervisors shall have power to appropriate and Supervisauthorize the use, either in whole or in part, of any real estate authorize belonging to the city and county, for the purpose of erecting use of real and maintaining a building or buildings thereon to be used for library the library and reading-rooms, or branches thereof, and may appropriate the whole or any portion of any public building belonging to the city and county for such use.

purposes.

ARTICLE VIII.

Police de

Term of members.

Qualifications.

Police commissioners.

Salary.

Political affiliations.

Term of office.

Organization.

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Chapter I.-Organization.

SECTION 1. The police department shall consist of a board of police commissioners, a chief of police, a police force, and of such clerks and employés as shall be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this article.

SEC. 2. All members of the police department shall hold office during good behavior, subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth relating to promotions, suspensions, dismissals and disratements.

SEC. 3. No person shall become a member of the department unless he shall be a citizen of the United States, of good character for honesty and sobriety, able to read and write the English language, and a resident of the city and county for at least five years next preceding his appointment. Every appointee to the department shall not be less than twenty-one nor more than thirty-five years of age, must possess the physical qualifications required for recruits of the United States army, and before his appointment must pass a satisfactory medical examination under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the board of police commissioners. In making appointments of members of the department, the board shall never regard the political or religious preferences or affiliations of any candidate.

Chapter II.-Police Commissioners.

SECTION 1. The police department shall be under the management of a board of police commissioners consisting of four members who shall be appointed by the mayor, and each of whom shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars. No person shall be appointed such commissioner who shall not have been an elector of the city and county for at least five years next preceding his appointment.

SEC. 2. The board shall never be so constituted as to consist of more than two members of the same political party. The term of office of the commissioners shall be four years. Those first appointed shall so classify themselves by lot that they shall respectively go out of office at the expiration of one, two, three and four years.

SEC. 3. The commissioners shall be successors in office of the police commissioners holding office in the city and county at the time this charter shall go into effect by virtue of appointment under any statute or law of this state.

SEC. 4. The police commissioners shall organize by electing one of their number president, who shall hold such office for one year. The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. The sessions of the board shall be public, except that executive ses

sions may be held whenever deemed proper by the board. The board shall meet at least once a week in the rooms of the police department, or in case of public emergency at such place as the board may select. The secretary must keep minutes of its proceedings; and in every case where a power is exercised by the board under this article the ayes and noes thereon shall be entered therein.

Chapter III.-Powers of the Board.

SECTION 1. The board of police commissioners shall have Powers of power:

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1. To appoint, promote, suspend, disrate or dismiss any sioners. member of the department in the manner hereinafter provided. 2. To prescribe rules and regulations for the government, discipline, equipment and uniform of the department, and from time to time to alter or repeal the same, and to prescribe penalties for the violations of any of such rules and regulations. All such rules and regulations must be reasonable.

3. To grant permits to any person desiring to engage in the sale of liquor in less quantity than one quart, and to grant permits to any person engaged in the business of selling liquor to be drunk on the premises, and to revoke any such permit when it shall appear to the board that the business of the person to whom such permit was given is conducted in a disorderly or improper manner. Without such permit none of such persons shall engage in the business of selling liquor. If the board refuse to grant such permit, or propose to revoke any permit that has been granted, the person who is refused such permit or whose permit it is proposed to revoke, shall be entitled to be heard before the board in person, or through counsel, and to have, free of charge, all reasonable facilities at the hearing. Such permits shall not be granted for more than three months at one time, and they shall distinctly state the name of the person to whom the same is given, and the description of the premises where such business is to be carried on. Such permits shall at all times be subject to inspection by any member of the department. Complaints to revoke permits granted by the board must be in writing, signed by the person making the same and filed with the secretary of the board; and a copy thereof certified by the secretary must be served upon the party complained against at least five days before the time set for the hearing of the complaint.

4. At its discretion, upon the petition of any person, firm or corporation, to appoint, and at pleasure to remove, special police officers. Such officers shall be subject to all the rules and regulations of the board.

5. To provide for the care, restitution or sale at annual public auction of all unclaimed property that may come into the possession of the property clerk, and to direct the destruction of such property as shall consist of implements, weapons, property or any other article, matter or thing used in the commission of crime.

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6. To appoint police matrons for the care of female prisoners, and to provide rules and regulations for the government of the

same.

7. To appoint a police surgeon, who shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. The president may convene the board for special meetings. meetings. The secretary of the board shall be the official custodian of all records and official documents of the board.

Chief of

police.

Salary.

Duties.

Chapter IV.-The Chief of Police.

SECTION 1. The chief of police shall be appointed by the board of police commissioners and hold office for the term of four years. He shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars. He shall have control, management and direction of all members of the department in the lawful exercise of his functions, with full power to detail any of them to such public service as he may direct, and with like power to suspend temporarily any member of the department. In all cases of such suspension, he shall immediately report the same to the board, with the reasons therefor in writing. He shall maintain and enforce law and rigid discipline so as to secure complete efficiency of the department. He shall, subject to the directions and orders of the commissioners, have control of such of the prisons of the city and county as are not by the general law under the control of the sheriff.

SEC. 2. In the suppression of any riot, public tumult, disturbance of the public peace, or organized resistance against the laws or public authority, the chief of police shall, in the lawful exercise of his functions, have all the powers that are now or may be conferred on sheriffs by the laws of the state.

SEC. 3. The chief of police shall be the chief executive officer of the department. He shall be chargeable with and responsible for the execution of all laws and ordinances, and the rules and regulations of the department. He shall see that the orders and process issued by the police court and such other orders and process as may be placed in his hands are promptly executed, and shall exercise such other powers connected with his office as may be provided for in the general rules and regulations of the commissioners.

Src. 4. The chief of police shall keep a public office, in which he shall have the statutes of this state, and of the United States, and all necessary works on criminal law. In case of his temporary absence some competent member of the department, by him designated for that purpose, shall be in attendance at all hours of the day and night; and in such case he shall make known to such member of the department where he can be found.

SEC. 5. The chief of police shall detail one or more of the members of the department to attend constantly on the police court and to execute its orders and process. He shall detail at his pleasure members of the department to act as his chief clerk, assistant clerks, prison keepers and property clerk. Said