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Salaries.

Official bonds.

Oath of office.

Amount of bonds.

School trustees and trustees of the free public library shall receive no compensation whatever for their services as such trustees; provided, that the secretary of the board of education may receive a compensation for his services as such secretary, to be fixed by said board, at not exceeding twenty dollars per month.

SEC. 20. The salaries of all other officers, and compensation of all employés other than those herein named, except where otherwise expressly provided in this charter, shall be fixed by ordinance by the council.

SEC. 21. All salaries shall be payable in equal monthly installments, except as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 22. Every officer provided for in this charter shall, within ten days after receiving his certificate of election or appointment, qualify by filing a bond as hereinafter provided, and by taking and subscribing to the following oath or affirmation:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the state of California, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of (insert name of office) according to the best of my ability."

SEC. 23. The following-named officers shall execute to the city of Santa Barbara bonds in the following sums, respectively, conditioned for the faithful discharge by them of the duties of their respective offices, and the following sums, respectively, to wit:

City clerk (ex officio auditor and assessor), five thousand dollars.

Treasurer and tax collector, forty thousand dollars.
City attorney, five thousand dollars.,
City engineer, five thousand dollars.
Chief of police, five thousand dollars.
Police judge, five hundred dollars.

The bonds of all officials, after approval by the city attorney as to form, shall be approved by the mayor and council.

All such bonds shall be executed by at least two sureties for the full amount of the bond; provided, that any corporation authorized by the laws of this state to become surety on official bonds shall be accepted as sole and sufficient surety upon such bonds; and provided further, that when the penal sum of any bond herein required to be given amounts to more than one thousand dollars, the sureties may become severally liable for portions of not less than five hundred dollars thereof, making in the aggregate at least two sureties for the whole penal

sum.

The bond of the city clerk shall be filed with the mayor, and all other bonds shall be filed with the city clerk.

SEC. 24. The council may, by ordinance, increase the amount of the bond hereby required from any officer, but may not decrease the same, and may require a bond to be given by any officer not herein required to give a bond, and may fix its amount.

ARTICLE IV.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

council.

SEC. 25. The legislative power of the city of Santa Barbara City shall be vested in a council of seven members, whose term of office shall be two years; provided, that such legislative power shall be exercised subject to the veto power of the mayor, and to his right to the casting vote in case of a tie vote.

SEC. 26. One member of the council shall be elected from Members. each of the several wards of the city by the electors thereof; and no person shall be eligible to the office of councilman who has not resided in said city for three years prior to his election and is not twenty-five years of age.

SEC. 27. Any vacancy occurring in the office of councilman Vacancies. shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, and the person so appointed by him shall possess the qualifications hereinbefore prescribed for members of the council, and shall hold office until the election and qualification of his successor, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general municipal election.

SEC. 28. The council shall meet in the city hall of the city Meetings. on the first Monday in January succeeding their election, and at such other times as may be designated by ordinance. If at any time a regular meeting falls on a holiday, such regular meeting shall be held on the following day. Special meetings may be called by the mayor or four members of the council. Four members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of four members shall be necessary for the passage of an ordinance or the final transaction of any business, but a less number than four may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the council may by ordinance prescribe.

SEC. 29. The council shall elect one of its members, who President shall be styled the president of the council, and who shall of council. preside at all meetings of the council during the absence of the mayor, and shall, in case of the sickness or inability of the mayor, or his absence from the city, act as mayor of the city. The president of the council shall be ex officio chairman of the finance committee, and shall, together with two other members of the council, to be appointed by the mayor, constitute the finance committee of the council.

The council shall establish rules for its proceedings. It Rules and shall have power to punish its members for disorderly conduct powers. committed in its presence, and may expel any member for malfeasance in office by an affirmative vote of five of its members. It shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of all papers relating to any business before that body, and may punish disobedience of its subpoena, or contemptuous or disorderly conduct committed in its presence, by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Oaths, etc.

Journal of proceedings.

Ordinances.

Mayor's approval.

Mayor's veto.

SEC. 30. The president of the council, the chairman of each committee, and each and every elective officer shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations relative to any business brought before the council, or under consideration by its committees or their respective departments.

SEC. 31. The meetings of the council shall be held at the city hall of the city; they shall be public, and a journal of its proceedings shall be kept by the city clerk under its direction, and the ayes and noes shall be taken and entered in the journal in the final action upon the granting of franchises, making of contracts, ordering work to be done or supplies furnished, the ordering of assessments for street improvements or building of sewers, the passage of any ordinance, and in all other cases upon the call of any member.

SEC. 32. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be in these words: "The council of the city of Santa Barbara do ordain as follows."

SEC. 33. No ordinances shall be amended by reference only to its title, but when any ordinance is amended, the section or sections thereof shall be reenacted at length as amended.

SEC. 34. Every ordinance shall embrace but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title. In all cases where the subject is not so expressed in the title, the ordinance shall be void as to the matter not expressed in the title.

SEC. 35. When any bill is put upon its final passage and fails to pass, if a motion is made to reconsider, the vote upon such motion shall not be taken until the next regular meeting of the council. No bill for the grant of any franchise shall be put on its final passage within thirty days after its introduction.

SEC. 36. No ordinance shall be passed except by bill. Every bill, after it has passed the council, shall be duly authenticated by the clerk, and shall then be presented to the mayor for his approval. The mayor shall return such bill to the council within ten days (Sundays excepted) after receiving it. If he approves it, he must sign it, and the same shall then become an ordinance; but if he shall disapprove of it, he shall return it, with his objections in writing, to the council. If the bill is not returned with such approval or disapproval within the time specified, it shall take effect as if he had approved the same.

SEC. 37. When a bill is returned without the approval of the mayor, the council must cause the objections of the mayor to be entered upon its journals and proceed to reconsider and vote on the same. If, after such consideration, the bill is again passed by an affirmative vote of not less than five members, it shall take effect as if the mayor had approved the same. If the bill shall fail, on being so considered, to receive five affirmative votes, it shall then be finally lost. The vote shall be taken by ayes and noes, and the result shall be entered in the journal of the council.

SEC. 38. All ordinances must be published in some daily Publicanewspaper published in Santa Barbara at least once before tion of orgoing into effect.

SEC. 39. No ordinance passed by the council shall take effect until ten days after its passage and approval, unless otherwise provided in the enactment.

dinances.

contracts.

SEC. 40. No contract for supplies, printing, advertising, Term of stationery, maintenance of prisoners, fuel, street sprinkling, street repairs, street sweeping, or for lighting streets, public buildings, places or offices, or the supplying of water for the use of the municipality, in any of its departments, shall be made for a longer period than one year, nor shall any contract be made to pay for gas, electric lights, or any other illuminating material, nor for the supplying of water for the use of the municipality, in any of its departments, at a higher rate or rates than is charged to any other consumer. The erection, improvement, and repair of all public buildings and works, street and sewer work, and the furnishing of supplies or material for the same, and all purchases of other supplies used by the city, when the expenditure therefor exceeds one hundred dollars, shall be by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder, after notice in a daily newspaper, printed and published in the city for at least one week. Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state the work contemplated or the supplies required; provided, that the council may reject any and all bids presented, and readvertise, in its discretion.

nances to

book form.

lished in

SEC 41. The council shall, during the first year after its ordiorganization under this charter, cause all ordinances then in he pubforce to be classified under appropriate heads, and shall provide for the publication of the same in book form. Every officer of the city shall be entitled to one copy of such ordinances, without charge, and every citizen applying for a copy shall be entitled to the same at the cost of publication. The council shall, every four years after the publication as herein provided, cause all the subsequent ordinances at that time in force to be compiled, and shall publish the same subject to the terms and conditions herein expressed.

SEC. 42. All contracts must be in writing, executed in the Contracts. name of the city and by an officer authorized to execute the same. The form and legality of all contracts must be submitted to and passed upon by the city attorney. Every contract must be countersigned by the finance committee, numbered and filed.

Council,

SEC. 43. The council shall have power by ordinance: 1. To establish or alter the widths and grades of, and to powers of. open, lay out, alter, extend, close, straighten, and otherwise. regulate streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, and sidewalks and crosswalks upon the same, and in or over any plaza, park, or grounds belonging to or under the control of the city, and to provide for acceptance of the streets when constructed and completed in accordance with such regulations as the council may adopt.

Council, powers of.

2. To regulate or prohibit traffic and sales in streets, highways and public places, and to regulate the use thereof by persons, associations, and corporations; to prevent encroachment upon or obstructions to the same, and to require the removal of such obstructions, and to regulate the construction of entrances to cellars and basements from sidewalks.

3. To establish and maintain a pole-line system or system of underground conduits in the city; to compel all telegraph, telephones, electric light, and other companies, corporations, firms, associations, or persons using wires to place and maintain their wires thereon, or therein, and to regulate the use and to fix the rental thereof, and to provide for the collection of the same from all corporations, companies, firms, associations, or persons using the same.

4. To regulate the naming of streets, avenues, public places, and thoroughfares, and the numbering of houses thereon.

5. To establish a general system of sewers in the city, and to regulate the building and repairing thereof.

6. To provide for and regulate street pavements, crosswalks, curbstones, grades, gutters, sewers, and cleaning and watering of the streets.

7. To regulate dispensaries, hospitals, markets, and other public institutions.

8. To provide for the construction, maintenance, regulation, and repair of bridges, and public places.

9. To fix and regulate tolls and wharfage.

10. To make regulations for preventing and extinguishing fires, establishing fire districts, and determining the character of buildings that may be erected therein, and the nature of the materials to be used in the construction, alteration or repair of such buildings, or in the repair or alteration of existing buildings within such limits, and for restricting the height of buildings or structures.

11. To abate and remove nuisances.

12. To provide and maintain a morgue.

13. To provide for conducting elections, establishing or changing election precincts, and appointing the necessary officers.

14. To try and for cause remove from office appointees against whom charges have been preferred.

15. To regulate or prohibit the sale, keeping, storage, and use of powder, fireworks, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, and other explosive materials and substances, the places of their manufacture, or storage, and their transportation; and to regulate the storage of hay, straw, and other inflammable materials, and the use of steam boilers.

16. To regulate, restrict, and supervise, and for the purpose of such regulation, restriction and supervision, to specially tax the storage, manufacture and sale of explosives, acids, poisons, or inflammable materials; the manufacture of products giving rise to noxious odors or gases; the sale of intoxicating liquors; the keeping or slaughtering of animals.

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