HomeMy WebLinkAboutAMENDMENTS to 1910 City Charter through 1947a
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
/ IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
yLl��,I7 affix the Great Seal of the State of California
this 3st day of May, 1947
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Secretary of State
B'
uty
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35
Adopted in Senate April 21, 1947
J. A. Beek
f Secretary of the b'enate
Adopted in Assembly April 25, 1947
Arthur A.Ohnimus
Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Secretary of State this
1st ---day of --__Hay__----_; 1947, at ---10 -o'clock-At-:,z.
------- Chas. J. Hagerty -----------
Deputy Secretary of Statc
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35—Relative to approving
certain amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San: Luis
Obispo, State of California, voted for and ratified by the
qualified electors of said city at the general municipal elec-
tion held therein on the seventh day of April, 1947.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
proposal, adoption and ratification of certain amendments
hereinafter set forth to the charter �of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, as set out in the certificate of the
mayor and city clerk of said city, as follows, to wit:
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CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS OF THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
We, Ralph C. Kennedy, Mayor of the City of Sail Luis
Obispo and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis
Obispo, do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County. of San
d Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at
all of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under
a freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, of Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia' -which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the
electors of said city at a special election held therein on the
12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature
of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution, filed with
the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes of 1911,
Page 1698) ; and,
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That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of
Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of Cali- e
fornia, the Legislative body of said city, namely; the City Coun-
cil of said city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution
of the State of California, duly propose to the electors of said
City of San Luis Obispo three amendments to the charter of
said city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to
said electors at the general municipal election to be held in said
city on the 7th day of April, 1947; and,
That said proposed amendments were, .and each of them
was, on the 19th day of February, 1947, duly published in the
Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation
published in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper
designated by said City Council for that purpose, and in each
and every edition thereof published on said day, as appears
from the affidavit of publication now on file; and '
That said proposed amendments were printed in con-
venient pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and
from the 19th day of February, 1947, to the 7th day of April,
1947, both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now in file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation
and resolution which was duly adopted on the 19th day of
March, 1947, order the holding of the general municipal elec-
tion and consolidated charter amendment election in said City
of San Luis Obispo, on the 7th day of April, 1947, which date
was not less than forty days and not more than sixty days after
the completion of the publication of said proposals of amend-
ment to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as afore-
said, and which election proclamation and resolution was pub-
lished at least once a week for two successive weeks prior to
said election, in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated
charter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on said 7th day of April, 1947, and that at such election,
held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said City
of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of said three
proposals of amendment, to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment
No. 1, Charter Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment
No. 3 ; and,
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That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo.
after duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election,
at the time and in the manner and form prescribed by law,
duly found, determined and declared that a majority of the
qualified voters voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified
said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo known as Charter Amendment No. 1, Charter
Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment No. 3; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city,
as aforesaid, are in the words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. I
That Section 122 of Article XIX of the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be
and read as follows:
Sec. 122. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-
tained in Section 54 of this charter, and in addition to the tax
levies therein provided, the council may in any year levy a tax
in the same manner as other taxes are levied, of not to exceed
twenty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property in said city which shall be collected at the same time
and in the same manner as other taxes levied by said city, the
proceeds of which tax shall belong to and be paid to the Park,
Playground and Recreation Fund, which fund is hereby
created, and shall be expended only for park, playground and
recreation purposes.
CHARTED AMENDMENT No. 2
That Section 61 of Article X of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and read
as follows:
Sec. 61. PUBLIC WORK TO BE DONE BY CON-
TRACT. _ In the erection, improvement and repair of all pub-
lic buildings and public works; in all street and sewer work, and
in furnishing any supplies and materials for the same, or for
any other use by the city, when the expenditure required for
the same exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, the same
shall be done by contract, and shall be let, to the lowest
responsible bidder, after advertising for sealed proposals for
the work contemplated for one day in the official newspaper.
Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state the work con-
templated to be done. Provided, however, the council may
reject any and all bids, if deemed excessive, and re -advertise
for bids, or may require the commissioner of public works to
submit a detailed estimate of what the work may be done for
by the department of public works, and if such estimate is
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lower than the lowest bid, the council may order the work to
be done by.the department of public works, but the department
of public works must not be allowed a larger sum to complete
such work than called for by the aforesaid estimate. In case
no bid is received, the council may provide for.the work to be
done by the department of public works.
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 3
That Section 72 of Article XIV of the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 72. MODE OF PROTESTING AGAINST ORDI-
NANCES. No ordinance passed by the council shall go into
effect before thirty days from the time of its final passage except
when otherwise required by the general laws of the State or
by the provisions of this charter respecting street improve- ;
meats, and except the ordinance making the annual tax levy,
and except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety, which contains a • statement
of its urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the coun-
cil; provided, that no grant of any franchise shall be con-
structed to be an urgency measure, but all franchises shall be
subject to the referendum vote herein provided. If during said
thirty days a petition signed by qualified electors of the city
equal in number to at least twenty per centum of the entire t
vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding
general municipal election at which a mayor was elected, pro-
testing against the passage of such ordinance, be presented
to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from
going into operation and it shall be the duty of the council
to reconsider such ordinance, and if the same be not entirely
repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance; as is provided t
in Article XIII of this charter, to the vote of the electors of
the city, either at the next general municipal election or at a
special election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance
shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority
of the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor
thereof. The provisions of Section sixty-eight of Article XI
respecting the forms and conditions of the petition and the
mode of verification and certification and filing shall be sub-
stantially followed, with such modifications as the nature of
the case requires.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on
file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis
Obispo,
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IN WITNESS WHEREor, We have hereunto set our hands
s and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be here-
unto affixed, on this 14th day of April, 1947.
RALPH C. KENNEDY
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment as ratified as
hereinabove set forth has been and is now duly presented and
` submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for
approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration
in accordance with Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly concurring, A majority of all the members elected
to each house voting therefor and concurring therein, that said
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo as
proposed to, and adopted and ratified by the electors of the said
city as hereinbefore fully set forth, be and the same is hereby
approved as a whole, without amendment or alteration, for
and as amendments to and as parts of the charter of the said
City, of San Luis Obispo.
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ENDoRSED
FILED
In the office c4 the Secretary Caliof State
MAY 1;z1947
FRANK M, JORDAN, Secretaryef State
P., CHAS. J. HAGERTY, Dep::Ey
Attest:
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Goodwin J.Knight
President of the Senate
Sam L.Collins
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Speaker of the Assemble
Frank M.Jordan
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Secretary of State
By Chas.J.Hagerty
(Seal) Deputy Secretary of State
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35
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Adopted in Senate April 21, 1947
J.A. L eek
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Secretary of the b'enate
Adopted in Assembly April 25, 1947
Arthur A.Ohnimus
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Secretary of State this
1st --- day of---- May ------- 1947, at --- l0 -o'clock -At -TIL
-------Cha s. J.Ha.pert-y-----------
DeputJ Secretary of State
aecretari ""Of State
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
11- 1 St day of May,1947
Secretary of State
By �r
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Senate Concurrent Re/mQnNo35
Adopted in Se&eApril 21, 1947
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Secretary R the Senate
Acl.opted i Assembly April 25, 19 47
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Chid Clerk of Rr3»&m&y
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CHAPTER__. - D__
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35—Relative to approving
certain amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, voted for and ratified by the
qualified electors of said city at the general municipal elec-
tion held therein on the seventh day of April, 1947.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
proposal, adoption and ratification of certain amendments
hereinafter set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispoi a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, as set out in the certificate of the
mayor and city clerk of said city, as follows, to wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS OF THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
We, Ralph C. KennedyMayor of the City of San Luis
Obispo and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis
Obispo, do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at
all of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under
a freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, of Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the
electors of said city at a special election held therein on the
12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature
of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution, filed with
the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes of 1911,
Page 1698) ; and,
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That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of
Article Eleven of . the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, the Legislative body of said city, namely; the City Coun-
cil of said city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution
of the State of California, duly propose to the electors of said
City of San Luis Obispo three amendments to the charter of
said city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to
said electors at the general municipal election to beheld in said
city on the 7th day of April, 1947; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them
was, on the 19th day of February, 1947, duly published in the
Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation
published in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper
designated by said City Council for that purpose, and in each
and every edition thereof published on said day, as appears
from the affidavit of publication now on file; and
That said proposed amendments were printed in con-
venient pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and
from the 19th day of February, 1947, to the 7th day of April,
1947, both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now in file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation
and resolution which was duly adopted on the 19th day of
March, 1947, order the holding of the general municipal elec-
tion and consolidated charter amendment election in said City
of San Luis Obispo, on the 7th day of April, 1947, which date
was not less than forty days and not more than sixty days after
the completion of the publication of said proposals of amend-
ment to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as afore-
said, and which election proclamation and resolution was pub- , ti
lished at least once a week for two successive weeks prior to
said election, in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated
charter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on said 7th day of April, 1947, and that at such election,
held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said City
of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of said three
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified. as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment
No. 1, Charter Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment
No. 3; and,
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That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo.
after duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election,
at the time and in the manner and form prescribed by law,
duly found, determined and declared that a majority of the
qualified voters voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified
said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo known as Charter Amendment No. 1, Charter
Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment No. 3; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city,
as aforesaid, are in the words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 1
That Section 122 of Article XIX of the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be
and read as follows:
Sec. 122. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-
tained in Section 54 of this charter, and in addition to the tax
levies therein provided, the council may in any year levy a tax
in the same manner as other taxes are levied, of not to exceed
twenty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property in said city which shall be collected at the same time
and in the same manner as other taxes levied by said city, the
proceeds of which tax shall belong to and be paid to the Park,
Playground and Recreation Fund, which fund is hereby
created, and shall be expended only for park, playground and
recreation purposes.
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 2
That Section 61 of Article X of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and read
as follows:
Sec. 61. PUBLIC WORK TO BE DONE BY CON-
TRACT. In the erection, improvement and repair of all pub-
lic buildings and public works, in all street and sewer work, and
in furnishing any supplies and materials for the same, or for
any other use by the city, when the expenditure required for
the same exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, the same
shall be done by contract, and shall be let, to the lowest
responsible bidder,.after advertising for sealed proposals for
the work contemplated for one day in the official newspaper.
Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state the work con-
templated to be done. Provided, however, the council may
reject any and all bids,- if -deemed excessive, and re -advertise
for bids, or may require the commissioner of public works to
submit a detailed estimate of what the work may be done for
by the department of public works, and if such estimate is
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lower than the lowest bid, the council may order the work to
be done by the department of public works, but the department
of public works must not be allowed a larger sum to complete
such work than called for by the aforesaid estimate. Incase
no bid is received, the council may provide for the work to be
done by the department of public works.
CHARTER AMENDDZENT No. 3
That Section 72 of Article XIV of the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 72. MODE OF PROTESTING AGAINST ORDI-
NANCES. No ordinance passed by the council shall go into
effect before thirty days from the time of its final passage except
when otherwise required by the general laws of the State or
by the provisions of this charter respecting street improve-
ments;_and except the ordinance making the annual tax levy,
and except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement
of its urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the coun-
cil; provided, that no grant of any franchise shall be con-
structed to be an urgency measure, but all franchises shall be
subject to the referendum vote herein provided. If during said
thirty days a petition signed by qualified electors of the city
equal in number to at least twenty per centum of the entire
vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding
general municipal election at which a mayor was elected, pro-
testing against the passage of such ordinance, be presented
to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from
going into operation and it shall be the duty of the council
to reconsider such ordinance, and if the same be not entirely
repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance, as is provided
in Article XIII of this charter, to the vote of the electors of
the city, either at the next general municipal election or at a
special election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance
shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority
of the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor
thereof. The provisions of Section sixty-eight of Article XI
respecting the forms and conditions of the petition and the
mode of verification and certification and filing shall be sub-
stantially followed, with such modifications as the nature of
the case requires.
That the foregoing is a_ full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on
file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San -Luis
Obispo.
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IN WITNESS W HEREor, We have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be here-
unto affixed, on this 14th day of April, 1947.
RALPH C. KENNEDY
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAs, The said proposed amendment as ratified as
hereinabove set forth has been and is now duly presented and
submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for
approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration
in accordance with Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly concurring, A majority of all the members elected
to each house voting therefor and concurring therein, that said
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo as
proposed to, and adopted and ratified by the electors of the said
city as hereinbefore fully set forth, be and the same is hereby
approved as a whole, without amendment or alteration, for
and as amendments to and as parts of the charter of the said
City of San Luis Obispo.
FILED
in the office of the Secretary of State
of t.e State of California
MAY 1 9947
FRANVI M, JORDAN,SecretarycfStata
r., CHAS. 1. HAGERTY, Dcp--: j
Attest:
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Gooawin J.Knight a
President of the Senate
Sam L.Collins
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Speaker of the Assembly
Frank M.Jordan
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Secretar9 of Stag
By Chas.J.Hagerty
(Seal) Deputy Secretary of State
Secretah {Of State
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
77 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
this 1st day of May, 1947
Secretary of State
By
D, uty
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q Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35
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Adopted in Senate April 21, 1947
J. A. Reek
Secretary of the Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 25, 1947
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Arthur A.Ohnimus
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
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This resolution was received by the Secretary of State this
1St ---day of ----- Yfm--------- 1947, at_ ZQ_-o'clock&.-m.
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Depidy Secretary of Stale
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CHAPTER-
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 35—Relative to approving
certain amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
- Obispo, State of California, voted for and ratified by the
qualified electors of said city at the general municipal elec-
tion held therein on the seventh day of April, 1947.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
proposal, adoption and ratification of certain amendments
hereinafter set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, as set out in the certificate of the
mayor and city clerk of said city, as follows, to wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS OF THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
} , COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
We, Ralph C. Kennedy, Mayor of the City of San Luis
Obispo and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis
Obispo, do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
{ three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at
.all of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under
a freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, of Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the
electors of said city at a special election held therein on the
12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature
of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution, filed with
the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes of 1911,
Page 1698) ; and,
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That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of
Article Eleven of - the . Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, the Legislative body of said city, namely; the City Coun-
cil of said city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution
of the State of California, duly propose to the electors of said
City of San Luis Obispo three amendments to the charter of
said city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to
said electors at the general municipal election to be held in said
city on the 7th day of April, 1947; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them
was, on the 19th day of February, 1947, duly published in the
Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation
published in said City -of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper
designated by said City Council for that purpose, and in each
and every edition thereof published on said day, as appears
from the affidavit of publication now on file; and
That said proposed amendments were printed in con-
venient pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and
from the 19th day of February, 1942, to the 7th day of April,
1947, both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now in file; and,
That said City Council did, by, an election proclamation
and resolution which was duly adopted on the 19th day of
March, 1947, order the holding of the general municipal elec-
tion and consolidated charter amendment election in said City
of San Luis Obispo, on the 7th day of April, 1947, which date
was not less than forty days and not more than sixty days after
the completion of the publication of said proposals of amend-
ment to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as afore-
said, and which election proclamation and resolution was pub-
lished at least once a week for two successive weeks prior to
said election, in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated
charter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on said 7th day of April, 1947, and that at such election,
held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said City.
of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of said three
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and, '
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment
No. 1, Charter Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment
No. 3; and,
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That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo.
after duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election,
at the time and in the manner, and form prescribed by law,
duly found, determined and declared that a majority of the
qualified voters voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified
said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo known as Charter Amendment No. 1, Charter
Amendment No. 2 and Charter Amendment No. 3; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city,
as aforesaid, are in the words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER A31ENDMENT No. 1
That Section 122 of Article XIX of the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be
and read as follows:
Sec. 122. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-
tained in Section 54 of this charter, and in addition to the tag
levies therein provided, the council may in any year levy a tag
in the same manner as other taxes are levied, of not to exceed
twenty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable.
property in said city which shall be collected at the same time
and in the same manner as other taxes levied by said city, the
proceeds of which tax shall belong to and be paid to the Park,
Playground and Recreation Fund, which fund is hereby
created, and shall be expended only for park, playground and
recreation purposes.
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 2
That Section 61 of Article X of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and read
as follows:
Sec. 61. PUBLIC WORK TO BE DONE BY CON-
TRACT. In the erection, improvement and repair of all pub-
lic buildings and public works, in all street and sewer work, and
in furnishing any supplies and materials for the same, or for
any other use by the city, when the expenditure required for
the same exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, the same
shall be done by contract, and shall be let, to the lowest
responsible bidder, after advertising for sealed proposals for
the work contemplated for one day in the official newspaper.
Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state the work con-
templated to be done. Provided, however, the council may
reject any and all bids, if deemed excessive, and re -advertise
for bids, or may require the commissioner of public works to
submit a detailed estimate of what the work may be done for
by the department of public works, and if such estimate is
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lower than the lowest bid, the council may order the work to
be done by the department of public works, but the department
of public works must not be allowed a larger sum to complete
such work than called for by the aforesaid estimate. In case
no bid is received, the council may provide for the work to be
done by the department of public works.
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 3
That Section 72 of Article XIV of the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 72. MODE OF PROTESTING AGAINST ORDI-
NANCES. No ordinance passed by the council shall go into
effect before thirty days from the time of its final passage except
when otherwise required by the general laws of the State or
by the provisions of this charter respecting street improve-
ments, and except the ordinance making the annual tax levy,
and except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement
of its urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the coun-
cil; provided, that no grant of any franchise shall be con-
structed to be an urgency measure, but all franchises shall be
subject to the referendum vote herein provided. If during said
thirty days a petition signed by qualified electors of the city
equal in number to at least twenty per centum of the entire
vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last precedin.-
general municipal election at which a 'mayor was elected, pro-
testing against the passage of such ordinance, be presented
to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from
going into operation and it shall be the duty of the council
to reconsider such ordinance, and if the same be not entirely
repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance, as is provided
in Article XIII of this charter, to the vote of the electors of
the city, either at the next general municipal election or at a
special election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance
shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority
of the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor
thereof. The provisions of Section sixty-eight of Article XI
respecting the forms and conditions of the petition and the
mode of verification and certification and filing shall be sub-
stantially followed; with such modifications as the nature of
the case requires.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as 'aforesaid, on
file in the office of the City Clerk*of.said City of San Luis
Obispo:
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IN WITNESS WHEREor, We have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be here-
unto affixed, on this 14th day of April, 1947.
RALPH C. KENNEDY
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
J. E. DROWN
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment as ratified as
hereinabove set forth has been and is now duly presented and
submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for
approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration
in accordance with Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly coneurring, A majority of all the members elected
to each house voting therefor and concurring therein, that said
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo as
proposed to, and adopted and ratified by the electors of the said
city as hereinbefore fully set forth, be and the same is hereby
approved as a Whole, without amendment or alteration, for
and as amendments to and as parts of the charter of the said
City of San Luis Obispo.
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of tz State of California
MAY 1"-994a
FRANK M, JORDAN, Secretary cf State
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Goodwin J.Knight ,
President of the Senate
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Sara -L. Collins
Speaker of the Assembl:ry „
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Attest:
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Seeretary of State
By ChaG.J.Hagerty
(Seal) Deputy Secretary of State
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
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Se ret y of State
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f Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 45
Adopted in Senate April 19, 1945
J. A. Be ek
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Seeretary of the Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 23, 1945
Arthur A,C�hnimus
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Secretary of State this
26th_day of -April -------, 1945, at --____o'clock
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Deputy Secretary of State
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CHAPTER- _1_T___
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 45—Approving certain
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo,
a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis Obispo,
State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified
electors of said city at the general municipal election held
therein on the second day of April, 1945.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the pro-
posal, adoption and ratification of certain amendments herein-
after set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, a
municipal corporation in the County of San Luis Obispo, State
of California, as set out in the certificate of the mayor and the
city clerk of said city as follows, to wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO OF
CERTAIN AMENDMENTS OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALI-
FORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo and
J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo, do
hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times herein
mentioned a city containing a population of more than three
thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty thousand
inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding census taken
under authority of the Congress of the United States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all of
the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the
electors of said city at a special election held therein on the 12th
day of September; approved1910, and approved by the Legislature of the
State of California, by Concurrent Resolution, filed with the
Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes of 1911, Page
1698) ; and,
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the Le ---is-
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lative body of said city, namely: the City Council of said city
did, on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of Section
Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, duly propose to the electors of said City of San Luis
Obispo two amendments to the charter of said city and ordered
that said amendments be submitted to said electors at the gen-
eral municipal election to be held in said city on the 2nd. day
of April, 1945; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them was,
on the 20th. day of February, 1945, duly published in the Tele-
gram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation pub-
lished in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper des-
ignated by said City Council for that purpose, and in each and
every edition thereof published on said day, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now on file; and
That said proposed amendments were printed in convenient
pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and from the
20th. day,of February, 1945, to the 2nd. day of April, 1945,
both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -Tribune
that such copies could be had upon application therefor at the
office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from the affidavit
of publication now on file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the 12th., day of March,
1945, order the holding of the general municipal election and
consolidated charter amendment election in said City of San
Luis Obispo, on the 2nd. day of April, 1945, which date was not
less than forty days and not more than sixty days after the com-
pletion of the publication of said proposals of amendment to the
charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as aforesaid, and which'
election proclamation and resolution was published at least once
a week for two successive weeks prior to said election, in the
Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation printed
and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated char-
ter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis Obispo
on said 2nd. day of April, 1945, and that at such election, held
as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said City of
San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of said two pro-
posals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are amend-
ments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment No. 1 and
Charter Amendment No. 2; and,
That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election, at the
time and in the manner and form prescribed by law, duly found,
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determined and declared that a majority of the qualified voters
voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified said proposals of
amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo known
as charter amendment No. 1 and charter amendment No. 2; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as afore-
said, are in words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1
That a new article be added to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo, to be known as Article XX, containing Section
No. 123, which said new article. shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE XX
STATE Ei1TPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ACT
Sec. 123 As the legislative body of the City of San Luis
Obispo, the City Council shall have power to adopt the State
Employees' Retirement Act, hereinafter referred to as the
"-`Retirement Act", for the City of San Luis Obispo. The
City Council, by ordinance duly adopted, may enter into a
contract with the Board of Administration of the State
Employees' Retirement System, as provided in said. Retire-
ment Act, making the employees of the City members of said
Retirement System. Plenary authority and power is hereby
vested in the City of San Luis Obispo, its City Council, and
its several officers, agents and employees to do and perform
any act, or exercise any authority granted, permitted or
required, whereby said City, under the provisions of said
Retirement Act, may become a contracting City fully par-
ticipating in the State Employees' Retirement System, on
the same basis as State employees, wherever and whenever
said Retirement Act permits; provided, however, that the
City Council, by ordinance duly adopted, may terminate any
contract entered into with the Board of Administration of the
State Employees' Retirement System.
The Retirement Act herein referred to is that certain act of
the Legislature of the State of California (Statutes of 1931,
Chapter 700), cited as the State Employees' Retirement Act,
as now amended, or as the same may hereafter be amended.
The employees of the Public Library, the Judge of the
Police Court and the Chief Officials of the City named in Sec-
tion 26 of this Charter, except Library Trustees, shall be con-
sidered and held to be employees of the City of San Luis
Obispo for the purpose of the establishment and maintenance
of the retirement system hereby authorized.
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The City Council, in any year, by ordinance adopted not
later than the first Tuesday in September, may levy a tax
sufficient to pay all costs and expenses to be paid by the City
during the fiscal year then current, to enable said City to par-
ticipate in the State Employees' Retirement System, and,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary therein contained,
the limitations of Article IX, Section 54, of the Charter of
the City of San Luis Obispo, with respect to the levy and col-
lection of municipal taxes, shall not apply to any tax author-
ized by this Article. "
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2
That Section 54 of Article IX of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and read
as follows:
Sec. 54 LIMIT OF TAX LEVY. The tax levy aithor-
ized by the council for any one year for all municipal pur-
poses, other than for the payment of principal or interest on
any bonds of the city, or for school purposes, or for public
library purposes, shall not exceed eighty-five cents on each one
hundred dollars worth of taxable property in said city, except
as in this charter otherwise provided. The council may, how-
ever, in any year, by ordinance adopted not later than the
first Tuesday in September, levy in addition to the rate in
this section above authorized, a tax of not to exceed thirty
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city, which shall be collected at the same time and man-
ner as other taxes levied by said city, the proceeds of which
said tax shall belong and be paid to a fund designated as the
Improvement Fund of said City and shall be expended only
for public improvements and betterments in said city.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said pro-
posals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on file
in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be here-
unto affixed, on this 12 clay of April, 1945.
F. C. KIMBALL
Mayor of the City of
San Luis Obispo
J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the
City of San Luis
Obispo
SEAL
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WHET.mAS, The said proposed amendments as ratified as here-
inbefore set forth, have been and now are duly presented and
submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for
approval, or rejection, as a whole without power of alteration
in accordance with Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Serate of the State of California, the Assem-
bly thereof coneurring, A majority of all members elected to
each house voting therefor and concurring therein, that said
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo as
presented to, and adopted, and ratified by the electors of said
city and as hereinbefore fully set forth, be and the same are
hereby approved as a whole, without amendment or alteration,
for and as amendments to and as parts of the charter of said
City of San Luis Obispo.
ILED
in the office of the Secretary of State
of the State of California 1
APR 2 G 1945
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FRANK M, "ORDAN, Secretary Of Ststo
r-,-, CHAS. I HAGERTY, Depwt-
Jerrold -L.Seawell
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President of the Senate
Pro tempore
Charles W,Lyon
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Speaker of the Assembly—
Attest
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(Seal' Secretary of State
By Chas.J.Hagerty
Depaty
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I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California; hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
Sec Po f State
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CHAPTER___
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 45—Approuing certai,z
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo,
a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis Obispo,
State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified
electors of said city at the general municipal election held
therein on the second day of April, 1945.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the pro-
posal, adoption and ratification of certain amendments herein-
after set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, a
municipal corporation in the County of San Luis Obispo, State
of California, as set out in the certificate of the mayor and the
city clerk of said city as follows, to wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY TIIE (QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO OF
CERTAIN AMENDMENTS OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF CALI-
FORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, + SS
> CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO. J
We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo and
J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo, do
hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times herein
mentioned a city containing a population of more than three
thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty thousand
inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding census taken
under authority of the Congress of the United States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all of
the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the
electors of said city at a special election held therein on the 12th
day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature of the
State of California, by Concurrent Resolution, filed with the
Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes of 1911, Page
1698) ; and,
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the Legis-
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lative body of said city, namely: the City Council of said city
did, on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of Section
Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the State of Cali-
fornia, duly propose to the electors of said City of San Luis
Obispo two amendments to the charter of said city and ordered
that said amendments be submitted to said electors at the gen-
eral municipal election to be held in said city on the 2nd. day
of April, 1945; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them was,
on the 20th. day of February, 1945, duly published in the Tele-
gram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation pub-
lished in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper des-
ignated by said City Council for that purpose, and in each and
every edition thereof published on said day, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now on file; and
That said proposed amendments were printed in convenient
pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and from the
20th. day of February, 1945, to the 2nd. day of April, 1945,
both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -Tribune
that such copies could be had upon application therefor at the
office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from the affidavit
of publication now on file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the 12th. day of March,
1945, order the holding of the general municipal election and
consolidated charter amendment election in said City of San
Luis Obispo, on the 2nd. day of April, 1945, which date was not
less than forty days and not more than sixty days after the com-
pletion of the publication of said proposals of amendment to the
charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as aforesaid, and which
election proclamation and resolution was published at least once
a week for two successive weeks prior to said election, in the
Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation printed
and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated char-
ter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis Obispo
on said 2nd. day of April, 1945, and that at such election, held
as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said City of
San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of said t%vo pro-
posals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, we're and are amend-
ments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment No. 1 and
Charter Amendment No. 2; and,
That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election, at the
time and in the manner and form prescribed by law, duly found,
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determined and declared that a majority of the qualified voters
voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified said proposals of
` amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo known
{ as charter amendment No. 1 and charter amendment No. 2; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as afore-
said, are in words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1
That a new article be added to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo, to be known as Article XX, containing Section
No. 123, which said new article shall read as follows:
"ARTICLE XX
STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT ACT
Sec. 123 As the legislative body of the City of San Luis
Obispo, the City Council shall have power to adopt the State
Employees' Retirement Act, hereinafter referred to as the
"Retirement Act", for the City of San Luis Obispo. The
City Council, by ordinance duly adopted, may enter into a
contract with the Board of Administration of the State
Employees' Retirement System, as provided in said Retire-
ment Act, making the employees of the City,members of said
Retirement System. Plenary authority and power is hereby
vested in the City of San Luis Obispo, its City Council, and
its several officers, agents and employees to do and perform
any act, or exercise any authority granted, permitted or
required, whereby said City, under the provisions of said
Retirement Act, may become a contracting City fully par-
ticipating in the State Employees' Retirement System, on
the same basis as State employees, wherever and whenever
said Retirement Act permits; provided, however, that the
City Council, by ordinance duly adopted, may terminate any
contract entered into with the Board of Administration of the
State Employees' Retirement System.
The Retirement Act herein referred to is that certain act of
the Legislature of the State of California (Statutes of 1931,
Chapter 700), cited as the State Employees' Retirement Act,
as now amended, or as the same may hereafter be amended.
The employees of the Public 'Library, the Judge of the
Police Court and the Chief Officials of the City named in Sec-
tion 26 of this Charter, except Library 'Trustees, shall be con-
sidered and held to be employees of the City of San Luis
Obispo for the purpose of the establishment and maintenance
of the retirement system hereby authorized.
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The City Council, in any year, by ordinance adopted not
later than the first Tuesday in September, may levy a tax
sufficient to pay all costs and expenses to be paid by the City
during the fiscal ,year then current, to enable said City to par-
ticipate in the State Employees' Retirement System, and,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary therein contained,
the limitations of Article IX, Section 54, of the Charter of
the. City of San Luis Obispo, with respect to the levy and col-
lection of municipal taxes, shall not apply to any tax author-
ized by this Article."
CHARTER AMEND21ENT NO. 2
That Section 54 of Article IX of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and read
as follows:
Sec. 54 LIMIT OF TAX LEFTY. , The tax levy author-
ized by the council for any one year for all municipal pur-
poses, other than for the payment of principal or interest on
any bonds of the city, or for school purposes, or for public
library purposes, shall not exceed eighty-five cents on each one
hundred dollars worth of taxable property in said city, except
as in this charter otherwise provided. The council may, how-
ever, in any year, by ordinance adopted not later than the
first Tuesday in September, levy in addition to the rate in
this section above authorized, a tax of not to exceed thirty
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city which shall be collected at the same time and man-
ner as other taxes levied by said city, the proceeds of which
said tax shall belong and be paid to a fund designated as the
Improvement Fund of said City and shall be expended only
for public improvements and betterments in said city.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said pro-
posals of amendment to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on file
in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be here-
unto affixed, on this 12 day of April, 1945..
F. C: KIMBALL
Mayor of the City of
San Luis Obispo
J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the
City of San Luis
Obispo
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WH REAS, The said proposed amendments as ratified as here-
inbefore set forth, have been and now are duly presented and
submitted to the Legislature of the State of California for
approval, or rejection, as a whole without power of alteration
in accordance with Section 8 of Article YI of the Constitution
of the State of California; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assem-
bly thereof concurring, A majority of all members elected to
each house voting therefor and concurring therein, that said
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo as
presented to, and adopted, and ratified by the electors of said
city and as herein>jefore fully set forth, be and the same are
hereby approved as a fvbole, without amendment or alteration,
for and as amendments to and as parts of the charter of said
City of San Luis Obispo.
t;11DORSED-1-
FILED
in the office
the State of California f State
of
APR 2 61945
AL--,,-?o'cIock �• M.
FRANK M, 'ORDAN, Secretary of State
r-- CHAS. J. HAGERTY, Depe':
President of the Senate
Pro tempore
Marl e s W. Lyon
Speaker of the Assembly
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, do hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,1 hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
27th,'-- AT)ril, IN3.
mig SPO
UA
Sec a of State
Deputy
s
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 39
Adopted in Senate April 21, 1943
J.A. Beek
Secretary of the Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 22, 1943
Arthur A. G laius
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Governor this_ 26th
day of -----April--------, 1943, at--2----o'clock-P;M.
------------ Qlea-R.MaeCr-OgO-P--
Private Secretary of the Governor
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CHAPTER___ _
Senate Concurrent Resoliftion Aro. 39—Relative to approving
certain amendinents to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of Cali-
fornia, voted for and ratified by the electors of said city
at the general municipal election held therein on the fifth
clay of April, 1943.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
purpose of adoption and ratification of certain amendments
hereinafter set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, `as 'set forth in the certificate of the
mayor and city clerk of said city, as follows, to wit :
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS-OBISPO.
y We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all
of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of
California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of
the electors of said city at a special election held therein on
the 12th day of September; 1910, and approved by the Legis-
lature of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution,
filed with the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes
of 1911, Page 1698) ; and,
5
—4—
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the Leg-
islative body of said city, namely: the City Council of said
city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of
Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the
State of California, duly propose to the electors of said City
of San Luis Obispo two amendments to the charter of said
city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to said
electors at the general municipal election to be held in said
city on the 5th day of April, 1943; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them
was, on the 18th day of February, 1943, _duly published in
the Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circu-
lation published in said City. of San Luis Obispo, and the
newspaper designated by said City Council for that purpose,
and in each and every addition thereof published on said
day, as appears from the affidavit of publication now on
file; and
That said proposed amendments were printed in convenient
pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and from
the 18th day of February, 1943, to the 5th day of April, 1943,
both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now on file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the 15th day of March,
1943, order the holding of the general municipal election and
consolidated charter amendment election in said City of San
Luis Obispo, on the 5th day of April, 1943, which date was not
less than forty days and not more than sixty days after the
completion of the publication of said proposals of amend-
ments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as afore-
said, and which election proclamation and resolution was pub
lished at_least once a week for two successive weeks prior to
said election, in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in said city; and,
. That said general municipal election and consolidated char-
ter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on said 5th day of April, 1943, and that at such elec-
tion, held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of
said City of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted' in favor
of said two proposals of amendment to the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered, Charter Amendment
No. 1 and Charter Amendment No. 2; and,
C
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That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election, at
the time and in the manner and form prescribed by law, duly
found, determined and declared that a majority of the quali-
fied voters voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo known as charter amendment No. 1 and charter
amendment No. 2; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as
aforesaid, are in words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1
That Section 15 of Article III of the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec..15 SALARIES. The mayor shall receive .an annual
salary of sig 'hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly
installments.
Each councilman shall receive an annual salary of five hun-
dred dollars, payable in equal monthly installments.
The city .council shall regulate the compensation of the city
clerk and shall regulate the number, method of appointment,
terms of office or employment, and compensation of any
deputy or assistant city -clerk and all employees in the office
of the city clerk.
Each` school director shall receive two and one-half dollars
for each regular meeting of the board of education which he
shall attend, provided that he shall not receive more than
10 dollars in'any one month.
The provisions of this section in reference to the compensa-
tion of the city clerk shall apply- to the person elected as city
clerk at the election at which this amended section is adopted.
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2
That Section 52 of Article IX of the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 52 BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The Council
shall meet at their usual place of holding meetings on the first
Monday in July of each year, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of said day, and sit as a board of equalization and shall con-
tinue in session for that purpose, from time to time, until
the business of equalization is disposed of, but not later than
the third Monday in July.
C
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That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid,
on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis
Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be
hereunto affixed, on this 16th day of
pril,943.
1 LL
Mayor of the City of
San Luis Obispo
[SEAL] J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the City of
San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed charter amendments as rati-
fied, as hereinbefore set forth, have been, and are now, duly
presented and submitted to the Legislature of the State of
California for approval or rejection as a whole, without power
of alteration or amendment, in accordance with the provisions
of Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of
California; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly thereof concurring, a majority of all members Y
elected to each House voting thereon and concurring therein,
That the aforementioned amendments to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo as proposed to, and adopted and rati-
fied by, the electors of said city as hereinbefore set forth, be,
and the same hereby are, approved as a whole, without amend-
ment or alteration, for and as amendments to and as parts of,
the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo.
10)
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LigDORSED 8
FILED
in the offthe State of California State
ia
APR 2 G 1343
A{�o'clock___j?___ M.
FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State
Py CW S. J. HAGERTY, DepLty
____Frederic_ F,Houser_______-
President of the Senate
-- ChA.rles _W, -Lawn_______________
Speaker of the Assembly
Attest:
__---Frank M. Jordan ------------
Sear Secretary of State
1*1
E
I, FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, do hereby certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on
file in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is
a full, true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and
affix the Great Seal of the State of California
olig SPO
Airil,1943.
Se etar of State
Deputy
r
4
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 39
Adopted in Senate April 21, 1943
J.A._Be_e_k_
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Secretary of the. Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 22, 1943
Arthur A.Ohnimus
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Governor this- 2Oth-
da.y of ---- A?or-11----------- 1943, at --2 -----
Helen-R.Ma.caregor
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Private Secretary of the Governor
141
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CHAPTER___7
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 39—Relative to approving
certain amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of Cali-
fornia, voted for and ratified by the electors of said city
at the general municipal election held therein on the fifth
day of April, 1943.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
purpose of adoption and ratification of certain amendments
hereinafter set forth to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, a`s set forth,in the certificate of the
mayor and city clerk of said city, as follows, to wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the' City of San Luis Obispo
and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San ' Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but .less than fifty
thousand inhabitants, as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said. City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all
of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Section
Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of
California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of
the electors of said city at a special election held therein on
the 12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legis-
lature of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution,
filed with the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes
of 1911, Page 1698) ; and,
-4
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the Leg-
islative body of said city, namely: the City Council of said
city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of
Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution of the
State of California, duly propose to the electors of said City
of San Luis Obispo two amendments to the charter of said
city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to said
electors at the general municipal election to be held in said
city on the 5th day of April, 1943; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them
was, on the 18th day of February, 1943, duly published in
the Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circu-
lation published in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the
newspaper designated by said City Council for that purpose,
and in each and every addition thereof published on said
day, as appears from the affidavit of publication now on
file; and
.That said proposed. amendments were printed in convenient
pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and from
the 18th day of February, 1943, to the 5th day of April, 1943,
both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears from
the affidavit of publication now on file; and,
That said City Council did; by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly, adopted on the 15th day of March,
1943, order the holding of the general municipal election and
consolidated charter amendment election in said City of San
Luis Obispo, on the 5th day of April, 1943, which date was not
less than forty days and not more than sixty days after the
completion of the publication of said proposals of amend-
ments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as afore-
said, and which election proclamation and resolution was pub-
lished at least once a week for two successive weeks prior to
said election, in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated char-
ter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on said 5th day of April, 1943, and that at such elec-
tion, held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of
said City of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor
of said two proposals of amendment to the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered,' Charter Amendment
No. 1 and Charter Amendment No. 2; and,
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That the City Council of said City of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the return of said election, at
the time and in the manner and form prescribed by law, duly
found, determined and declared that a majority of the quali-
fied voters voting thereon voted in favor of and ratified said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo known as charter amendment No. 1 and charter
amendment No. 2; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as
aforesaid, are in words and figures as follows, to -wit:
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1
That Section 15 of Article III of the charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 15 SALARIES. The mayor shall receive an annual
salary of sig hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly
installments:
Each councilman shall receive an annual salary of five hun-
dred dollars, payable in equal monthly installments.
The city council shall regulate the compensation of the city
clerk and shall regulate the number, method of appointment,
terms of office or . employment, and compensation of any
deputy or assistant city clerk and all employees in the office
of the city clerk.
Each school director shall receive two and one-half dollars
for each regular meeting of the board of education which he
shall attend,. provided that he shall not receive more than
10 dollars in any one month.
The provisions of this section in reference to the compensa-
tion of the city clerk shall apply to the person' elected as city
clerk at the election at which this amended section is adopted.
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2
That Section 52 of Article IX of the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 52 BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The Council
shall meet at their usual place of holding meetings on the first
Monday in July of each year, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of said day, and sit as a board of equalization and shall con-
tinue in session for that purpose, from time to time, until
the business of equalization is disposed of, but not later than
the third Monday in July.
— 6 — r
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San b
Luis Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid,
on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis
Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands
and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to be
hereunto affixed, on this 16th day of April,. 1943.
F. C. KIMBALL
Mayor of the City of
[SEAL] San Luis Obispo
J. E. BROWN
City Clerk of the City of
San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed charter amendments as rati-
fied, as hereinbefore set forth, have been, and are now, duly
presented and submitted to the Legislature of the State of
California for approval or rejection as a whole, without power
of alteration or amendment, in accordance with the provisions
of Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of
California; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly thereof concurring, a majority of all members
elected to each House voting thereon and concurring therein,
That the aforementioned amendments to the charter of the 1
City of San Luis Obispo as proposed to, and adopted and rati-
fied by, the electors of said city as hereinbefore set forth, be,
and the same hereby are, approved as a whole, without amend-
ment or alteration, for and as amendments to and as parts of,
the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo.
LigDOIRS ED_s_
FILED
in the office of the Secretary of State
of the State of California
APR 2 61943
A o'clock --- &—M.
FRANK M. JORDAN, Secretary of,('
Rv CHt' S. J. HAGERTY, Dep- ,y
President of the Senate
Charles W.Lyon
--------------------------------------
Speaker-of the Assembly
Attest:
Sreeretary of State
(Seal)
1
PAUL PEEK
SECRETARY OF STATE
E* -
liz
F I L e -n
I, PAUL PEEK, Secretary of State of the State of California, do hereby
certify:
That I have compared the annexed transcript with the RECORD on file
in nay office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is a full,
true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the State of California
7 th day of Minn 1941.
this----------------------------------------=----------------------------
Secretary of State
,.,��^-^z,. 97821 SPO
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31
Adopted in Senate April 28, 1941
---- J. A. BEEK ----------------------
Secretary of the Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 30, 1941
ARTHUR A.OHNIMUS
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Governor this -511th --
day of ----- MaY------------, 1941, at --3 ----- o'clock-P,m.
FRANK C. SULLIVAN
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Private_Seeretary pf the -Governor
u
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CHAPTER__ .-- `-
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31-1pproving five certain
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo,
in the County of Salt Luis Obispo, State of California,
voted for and ratified by the electors of said city at an
election held therein on the seventh day of April, 1941.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
proposal, adoption and ratification of five amendments, here-
inafter set forth, to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, as set out in the certificate of the
mayor and the city clerk 'of `said city, as follows, to wit:
X CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
fOF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE CHAR'I'ER OF
THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO J
We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
j That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all
of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under
a freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of Sec-
tion Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of.
California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of
the electors of said city at a special election held therein on
the 12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legis-
lature of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution,
filed with the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes
of 1911, Page 1698) ; and,
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the
0
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sai(l did��(oil ol. s'(id (•it,v" namel" the City Council of
city
01' it of �((tiutl I:i� Lt� tt motion :ut'l. pursuant to the pro�•i-
o{' 1Le �t;itc,
said Ciir of ""l Cnlifot tt17" '1tuly�� lm-op(�ecdEleven t toltile elector,
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said el(,(,t(�ts ti1''t'('((1 tls )o t
:u11endntents be snbnlitted to
in s;ai<1 city oIt�tthe�iflt tt`�t''I ni(tnicipal election to 1,(, hell!
llut t �:
tt:ts, ott t!t(t(1 1'rohosecl !I:ty of _April, 1941; and,
Teles :.:'tlt ''tneudillonts were. and each of them
t'ihtip���� (` 1�'el,t tt;u v, 1`111, duly- 11ubiislt('d in the
pubh"luo(1 a
(lesil"((;ltc,(1'tt sai(1 y�l(�t�l`' 11ett•spaper of �cneral circnl:;tloll
end e�(�tI)} said Cite I S:in Lttis Obispo, and the
from the ''ditiott ther(,t�ouncil for thatpttrpoae, and ill eaelt
t'ti'l t�'it off' ctl published on said days, as nmpe:)r
That �ni(1 1 -Wo t t't'ltIicntion.110w on file; and,
pam,,-)tpil t tnrill illi`((! atttc,n(lments Ntere printed in eon�-eni��nt
tic 25t1t cl;i y.�((h h�t'1tn1t!i (If not les, Own test -point, attd fi-mn
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fr0n1 the tCnffic(' of jtt(,� could he Ilml 1111011 :(pplientien thou
'!'hat sni(1 (da�'it 0(' lit City Clerk of said cite, as aT)jI0:trs
rs11110t a (tt t))Iieition now on filo
; mals
�t'1ti �' C(,(tttc�il dill, by nn election procl:ltn:+tien and
1911, OrcZc,t•in !!!Issas (I did,
edopted 011 the lint clay 0f ALtrelt,
mal �onsoli(lato'1 chl:�t(t�(ltutr of ilio r'eneral municipal election
fan ..nus
(1i'i;;?,,� t"t' :(mcndmcnt decti0n in said City- of
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in the Telc,�t 1(,'tst ten el,' otiolt prochilintion and resolution -n-,
n(intedtl,tttlttli,th(t��ttlttra(Ilow."phh(i.nys lotft0l. to-ollond.neirchtlati n
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h(ld asnt'cit,(.,•,`(i�l da, t` tfic`ltriltsheld ill , nd thltt at .ncli election
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of said pt•c�l,,t,,;tll f
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uendntent� 1 let (il't`1of �1) so(r,ttifildt(astafol.( lidc,l�rtrer of and nlre
Intcndntot�t t(���tt p
s. 11111(1nuntbcrcd I?t•o os(d ('barter
Propnsecl (itrt�'to1, Proposed Chorter Antelll
Intendmrnt V`c, ; �)tondment No.
\o. G; and, 1, Proposed Charter
and Proposed Charter 1lntendme11t
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PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 3
That Section 45 (38) of Article VII of the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be
and read as follows:
Sec. 45 (38). To provide for the sale at public auction,
after advertising for one day, of personal property unfit or
unnecessary for the use of the city; provided that no such
sale shall be held less than five (5) days after such advertising.
PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 4
That Section 61 of Article X of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 61. PUBLIC WORK TO BE DONE BY CON-
TRACT. In the erection, improvement and repair of all pub-
lic buildings and public works, in all street and sewer work,
and in furnishing any supplies and materials for the same,
or for any other use by the city, when the expenditure
required for the same exceeds the sum of three hundred
dollars, the same shall be done by contract, and shall be let
to the lowest responsible bidder, after advertising for sealed
proposals for the - work contemplated for one day in the official
newspaper. Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state
the work contemplated to be done. Provided, however, the
council may reject any and all bids, if deemed excessive, and
re -advertise for bids, or may require the commissioner of
public works to submit a detailed estimate of what the work
may be done for by the department of public works, and if
such estimate is lower than the lowest bid, the council may
order the work to be done by the department of public works,
but the department of public works must not be allowed a
larger sum to complete such work than called for by the afore-
said estimate. In case no bid is received, the council may
provide for the work to be done by the department of public
works.
PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 5.
That Section 62 of Article X of the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 62. CONTRACTS FOR ADVERTISING. The
Council shall let annually contracts for the official advertising
for the ensuing fiscal year. For this purpose the council shall
advertise for one day, setting forth distinctly and specifically
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the work contemplated to be done, and asking for sealed pro-
posals therefor. The proposals shall specify the type and spac-
ing to be used at the rate or rates named in the bids. The
council shall let the contract for such official advertising to the
lowest responsible bidder publishing a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in the city and which has
been in existence at the time of the awarding of the contract
for at least one year; provided, that the council may reject
any or all bids if found excessive, and advertise for new bids.
The newspaper to which the award of such advertising is
made shall be known and designated as the "official news-
paper ".
PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 6
That Section 68 (13) of Article XI of the charter of the
y City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall
be and read as follows:
Sec. 68 (13). Immediately after such petitions are filed,
the clerk shall enter the names of the candidates in a list,
with the offices to be filled, and shall not later than twenty
(20) days before the election certify such list as being the list
of candidates nominated as required by the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo, and the council shall cause said cer-
tified list of names and the offices to be filled, designating
whether for a full term or unexpired term to be published in
• the proclamation calling the election at least once a week for
two successive weeks before the election in not more than two
newspapers of general circulation printed and published in
the City of San Luis Obispo. Said proclamation shall con-
form in all respects to the general state law governing the
conduct of municipal elections, now or hereafter in force,
except as above required.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid,
on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis
Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our
hands and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to
be hereunto affixed, on this 14 day of April, 1941.
D. C. KIMBALL,
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
[SEAL]
J. E. BROWN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendments as ratified as
hereinbefore set forth have been, and are now, duly presented
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fol.- approval or rejection as a whole, without Lower of altera-
tiott ill accortlattec with Section 5 of .Article \l of the ('ottsti-
tutinu t.f the ~tate of Cnlifnrui;t; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Smote, of the State of (!alifornia, the: t
:l.+srntbtrt conctu•t•int/, :A majority of all the uu+mbers elected
to each hou:;e voting therefor anti therein, utat ,
said im,n(ltnents to the eimrt,r or the Cit}- or san Luis oi)ispo,
as proposed to and ratified by the electors of said eity as
hereinbefore fully set forth, be, au(i the same etre het•eby,
approved as it whole without .unentlnient or alteration for anti t'
as :ttuentlmrnts to anti as pat•t or the eitavtt, of the Cite of
San Iritis Obispo.
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ELLIS E. PATTERSON--____
PAUL PEEK, Sccretaty of s6tc
President of the Senate
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31
Adopted in Senate April 28, 1941
J. A.BEEK
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Secretary of the Senate
Adopted in Assembly April 30, 1941
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
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certify:
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in my office, of which it purports to be a copy, and that the same is a full,
true and correct copy thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the State of California
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Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31
Adopted in Senate April 28, 1941
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Adopted in Assembly April 30, 1941
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
This resolution was received by the Governor this -5th --
day of ---- aY-------------- 1941, at-_-�-_-o'clock-P.-m.
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CHAPTER___:
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 31—approving fivecertain
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo,
t in the County of San Lues Obispo, State of California,
voted for and ratified by the electors of said city at an
election ?zeld therein on the seventh dais of April, 1941.
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been taken and had for the
proposal, adoption and ratification of five amendments, here-
inafter set forth, to the charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation in the County of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, as set out in the certificate of the
mayor and the city clerk of said ' city, as follows, to Wit:
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION BY THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS OF THE C.ITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF
' THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA I
COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO } SS
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO J
We, F. C. Kimball, Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
and J. E. Brown, City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
That said City of San Luis Obispo, in the County of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned a city containing a population of more than
three thousand five hundred inhabitants, but less than fifty
thousand inhabitants as ascertained by the last preceding
census taken under authority of the Congress of the United
States; and,
That said City of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all
of the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under
a freeholder's charter adopted under the provisions of 'Sec-
tion Eight, Article Eleven, of the Constitution of the State of
California, which charter was duly ratified by a majority of
the electors of said city at a special election held therein on
the 12th day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legis-
lature of the State of California, by Concurrent Resolution,
filed with the Secretary of State, February 23, 1911 (Statutes
of 1911, Page 1698) ; and,
That, pursuant to the provisions of Section Eight of Article
Eleven of the Constitution of the State of California, the
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Legislative body of said city, namely: the City Council of
said city did, on its own motion and pursuant to the provi-
sions of Section Eight of Article Eleven of the Constitution
of the State of California, duly proposed to the electors of
said City of. San Luis Obispo Sig amendments to the charter of
said city and ordered that said amendments be submitted to
said electors at the general municipal election to be held
in said city on the 7th day of April, 1941; and,
That said proposed amendments were, and each of them
was, on the 25th day of February, 1941, duly published in the
Telegram -Tribune, a daily newspaper of general circulation
publisbed in said City of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper
designated by said City Council. for that purpose, and in each
and every edition thereof published on said day, as appears
from the affidavit of publication now on file; and,
That said proposed amendments were printed in convenient
pamphlet form in type of not less than ten -point, and from
the 25th day of February, 1941, to the 7th day of Anril, 1941,
both inclusive, a notice was published in said Telegram -
Tribune that such copies could be had upon application there-
for at the office of the City Clerk of said city, as appears
from the affidavit of publication now on file; and,
That said City Council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the 17th day of March.
1941, ordering the holding of the general municipal election
and consolidated charter amendment election in said City of
San Luis Obispo, on the 7th da-�- of April, 19^-1, which date
was not less than forty days and not more than sixty days
after the completion of the publication of said proposals of
amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as
aforesaid. and which election proclamation and resolution was
published at least ten successive days prior to said election,
in the Telegram -Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation
printed and published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election and consolidated
charter amendment election was held in said City of San Luis
Obispo on the 7th day of April, 1941., and that at such election,
held as aforesaid, a majority of the qualified voters of said
City of San Luis Obispo voting thereon voted in favor of five
of said proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo, and duly ratified the same; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo so ratified as aforesaid, were and are
amendments known as and numbered, Proposed Charter
Amendment No. 1, Proposed Charter Amendment No. 3,
Proposed Charter Amendment No. 4, Proposed Charter
Amendment No. 5, and Proposed Charter Amendment
No. 6; and,
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That tiro City Council of sant City of San I:uis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassinPl• the return of said election, at
the time and in the mauler and form preseribe:i by law, duly
found, determined and declared that a majority of the quali-
fiers voters %-Ofi ls• mere M voted ill favor of mud rats feed said
proposals of amendment to the ch .r ter of the City of San Luis
Obispo known as proposed eharter amendments Ngo. 1, No. ,
No. 1 No. rpd No. 6; and t1wt a majority of the qualified
votes got -l.. ther.^ou votcEi a�;•ainst and failed to ratify the
propoaal of amendment known as Proposed Charter Amend-
ment No. 2 ; and,
That said proposals of amendment to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as
aforesaid, are in words and figures as follows, to -wit:
PROPOSED CHARTER AMEND1IIENT NO. 1
That a new -rticle be added to the Charter of the City
of San Luis Obispo, to be known as Article XVIX, containing
Sections 120 to 122 inclusive, which said new article shall
read as follows
ARTICLE XVIX
Park, Playground and Recreation Department
Sec. 120. There is hereby created in the City of San Luis
Obispo a commission, to be known as the Park, Playground
and Recreation Commission. Such commission shall consist
of five members, to be known as commissioners. The com-
missioners shall be appointed by the Itlayor, subject to the
confirmation of the City Council, and may be removed by
a majority of the City Council. The members of said com-
mission shall serve without compensation.
Sec. 11.21. The Park, Playground and Recreation Commis-
sion shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as
may be fixed by ordinance or resolution of the City Council.
Sec. 122. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary con-
tained in Section 5�j of this Charter, and in addition to the
tax levies therein provided, the Council may in any year levy
a tax in the same manner as other taxes are levied, of not to
exceed five cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property in said city which shall be collected at the same time
and in the same manner as other taxes levied by said city,
the proceeds of which tax shall belong to and be paid to the
Park, Playground and Recreation fund, which fund is hereby
created, and shall be expended only for park, playground and
recreation purposes.
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PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 3
That Section 45 (38) of Article VII of the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be
and read as follows:
Sec. 45 (38). To provide for the sale at public auction,
after advertising for one day, of personal property unfit or
unnecessary for the use of the city; provided that no such
sale shall be held less than five (5) days after such advertising.
PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 4
That Section 61 of Article X of the Charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
See. 61. PUBLIC WORK TO BE DONE BY CON-
TRACT. In the erection, improvement and repair of all pub-
lic buildings and public works, in all street and sewer work,
and in furnishing any supplies and materials for the same,
or for any other use by the city, when the expenditure
required for the same exceeds the sum of three hundred
dollars, the same shall be done by contract, and shall be let
to the lowest responsible bidder, after advertising for sealed
Proposals for the work contemplated for one day in the official
newspaper. Such notice shall distinctly and specifically state
the work contemplated to be done. Provided, however, the °
council may reject any and all bids, if deemed excessive, and
re -advertise for bids, or may require the commissioner of A
public works to submit a detailed estimate of what the work
may be done for by the department of public works, and if
such estimate is lower than the lowest bid, the council may i
order the work to be done by the department of public works,
but the department of public works must not be allowed a t '
larger sum to complete such work than called for by the afore-
said estimate. In case no bid is received, the council may
Provide for the work to be done by the department of public
works.
PROPOSED C11ARTER AMENDMENT NO. 5.
That Section 62 of Article X of the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
Sec. 62. CONTRACTS FOR ADVERTISING. The
Council shall let annually contracts for the official advertising
for the ensuing fiscal year. For this purpose the council shall
advertise for one day, setting forth distinctly and specifically
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the work contemplated to be done, and asking for sealed pro-
posals therefor. The proposals shall specify the type and spac-
ing to be used at the rate or rates named in the bids. The
council shall let the contract for such official advertising to the
lowest responsible bidder publishing a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in the city and which has
been in existence at the time of the awarding of the contract
for at least one year; provided, that the council may reject
any or all bids if found excessive, and advertise for new bids.
The newspaper to which the award of such advertising is
made shall be known and designated as the "official news-
paper ".
PROPOSED CHARTER AiNIEND1VIENT NO. 6
That Section 68 (13) of Article XI of the charter of the
` City of San Luis Obispo be amended so that the same shall
be and read as follows:
Sec. 68 (13). Immediately after such petitions are filed,
the clerk shall enter the names of the candidates in a list,
with the offices to be filled, and shall not later than twenty
(20) days before the election certify such list as being the list
of candidates nominated as required by the charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo, and the council shall cause said cer-
tified list of names and the offices to be filled, designating
whether for a full term or unexpired term to be published in
the proclamation calling the election at least once a week for
two successive weeks before the election in not more than two
newspapers of general circulation printed and published in
the City of San Luis Obispo. Said proclamation shall con-
form in all respects to the general state law governing the
i conduct of municipal elections, now or hereafter in force,
except as above required.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposals of amendment to the charter of the City of San
Luis Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid,
on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of San Luis
Obispo.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our
hands and caused the seal of the City of San Luis Obispo to
be hereunto affixed. on this 14 day of April, 1941.
D. C. KIMBALL,
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo
SEAL
J. E. BROWN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo
and
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendments as ratified as
hereinbefore set forth have been, and are now, duly presented
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and submitted to the Legislature of the State of California
for approval or rejection as a whole, without power of altera-
tion in accordance with Section 8 of Article XI of the Consti-
tution of the State of California; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly concurring, A majority of all the members elected
to each house voting therefor and concurring therein, That
said amendments to the charter of the City of San Luis Obispo,
as proposed to and ratified by the electors of said city as
hereinbefore fully set forth, be, and the same are hereby,
approved as a whole without be,
or alteration for and
i as amendments to and as part of the charter of the City of
San Luis Obispo.
ENDORSED
j FILED
In the oKice of the Secretary of State
of the State of Cj!fornia
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[AAY 6a'c!ock�Lti1. 1941--------ELLIS E. PATTERSON _
President, of the Senate :President,
PAUL PEEK, Secretary or State w
By CHAS. J. HAGER Y, Deputy
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speaker of .tire Assembly
Attest:
------PAUL PEEK
(Seal) Secretary of State
FRANK C. JORDAN
SECRETARY OF STATE
ROBERT V. JORDAN
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
FRANK H. CORY
CHARLES J. HAGERTY
DEPUTIES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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I, FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of Calif ornia,
do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the transcript, to which this
certificate is attached, with the record on file in my office of which it purports
to be a copy, and that the same is a full, trate and correct copy thereof. I further
certify that this authentication is in due form and by the proper officer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set any hand and have caused
the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed heret�
this 1 9th da of Ila 1
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Senate Concurrent Resolution leo. 35.
Adopted in Senate May 12, 1933.
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Adopted in Assembly May 12, 1933.
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
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' Senate Concurrent Resolzttion No. 35—Relative to approving
certain amendments to the charter of the city of San Luis
Obispo, a municipal corporation, in the county of San
I .1 Luis Obispo, State of California.
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WHEREAS, The city of San Luis Obispo in the county of
San Luis Obispo, State of California, contains a population
of over three thousand five hundred inhabitants, and is now
`{ organized and acting under a freeholder's charter, adopted
under and by virtue of section 8, Article XI of the Constitu-
tion of the State of California; and
WHEREAS, A petition was submitted to the legislative body
of said city, namely the city council thereof, as evidenced by
Exhibits I, II and III and the certification of A. V. Muller,
a notary public in and for the county of San Luis Obispo,
1 State of California, as follows:
EXHIBIT I.
In the Matter of the Verification of the
Signatures on the Petition to Amend
the Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo.
State of California
County of San Luis Obispo. � Ss.
Homer E. Palmer, Cecil Evans, Mary C. Lynch, Joseph
Leary, Howard Kirtland, A. H. Sager, Cecil M. Carpenter,
Maude C. Gallup, Erna P. Marsh, William Fletcher, Amelia
Bradbury, Ray L. Lohrberg, Mrs. R. Z. Beardsley, Peter
Schwafel and E. J. Runston, being first duly sworn say;
That they are the persons, and all of the persons, who circu-
lated the various sections of that certain petition to amend
the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, filed with the city
4 clerk of the said city of San Luis Obispo on the first day of
`r •� February, 1933, and are the persons who secured the signa-
tures of the respective signers thereto.
f That none of said signatures were signed to or affixed to
said petition or the various sections thereof prior to the six-
teenth day of January, 1933, and that none of said signatures
w -re signed to or affixed to said petition or the various sections
thereof subsequent to the first day of February, 1933.
(Fifteen signatures added here.)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this seventh day of
February, 1933.
M. R. VANWORMER, Notary Public.
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EXHIBIT II.
In the Matter of the Verification of the
Signatures on the Petition to Amend
the Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo.
State of California, ss.
County of San Luis Obispo.
M. R. VanAVormer being first duly sworn says:
That he personally prepared the petition to amend the char-
ter of the city of San Luis Obispo, filed in the office of the city
clerk, of the said city of San Luis Obispo, on the first day of
February, 1933.
That he prepared that petition in his office in the said city
of San Luis Obispo, on the fifteenth day of January, 1933,
and delivered the same to Mrs. Erna P. Marsh, on the after-
noon of said day, and at that time there were no signatures on
said petition nor any of the sections thereof.
�I. R. VANWORAIER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this eighth day of
February, 1933.
A. E. MALLAGH, Notary Public.
EXHIBIT III.
To the honorable mayor and city council of the city of
San Luis Obispo, State of California:
The undersigned registered electors of the city of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, hereby submit the following pro-
posals for the amendment of the city charter of said city of
San Luis Obispo, State of California, and request that such
proposals be submitted to the electors of said city at the
general municipal election to be held on the third day of
April, 1933, to wit:
CHARTER AAIENDAIENT No. 1.
That section 4 of said charter be amended to read as follows:
See. 4. TIE ELECTIVE OFFICERS. The elective
officers of the city shall be a mayor, a city clerk, four council-
men and five school directors.
The council shall consist of the mayor and four council-
men, each of whom shall, including the mayor, have the right
to vote on all questions coming before the council.
The board of education shall consist of five school directors,
each of whom shall have -the right to vote on all questions
coming before the board.
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CHARTER A.NIENDAIENT No. 2.
That subdivision 9 of section 40 of said charter be amended
to read as follows:
(9) Every resolution or ordinance which may have been
passed by the city council shall, before it becomes a law or
effective as a resolution, be presented to the mayor. If he
approves it, he shall sign it; but, if not, he shall return it,
with his objections, to the city council by filing the same with
the city clerk, who shall enter such objections upon the minute
book of the council, and thereupon the city council at its
next regular meeting shall proceed to reconsider such resoln-
tion or ordinance, and, if after such reconsideration the coun-
cil again passes such resolution or ordinance, by yeas and
nays, three members of the council voting therefor, it shall
become a law or become effective, notwithstanding the mayor's
objections. If any resolution or ordinance shall not be
returned to the city clerk within ten days after it shall have
been presented to him, (Sundays excepted), the same shall
become a law or become effective in like manner as if he
had signed it.
CHARTER AMENDAIENT No. 3.
That a new section, to be known as section 56-a be added to
said charter, as follows:
See. 56-a. CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY. CLERK'S
AVARR•ANT. All demands against the city shall be presented
to and audited by the city council; and upon the allowance
of such demand by the affirmative vote of three members of
the council, the city clerk shall draw a warrant on the treas-
ury for the same, which warrant shall not require any counter-
signature, and the same shall specify for what purpose the
same is drawn and out of what fund it is to be paid. All
provisions of this charter in conflict herewith are hereby
s repealed. Names. Addresses.
EXHIBIT III.
Filed Feb. 1st, 1933.
4.40 o'clock p.m.
CALLIE M. JOHN, City Clerk.
State of California, ss.
County of San Luis Obispo. I
This is to certify that I, A. V. Muller, a notary public in
and for the county of San Luis Obispo, State of California,
have compared the foregoing instruments marked Exhibit I,
Exhibit II, and Exhibit III, with the originals on file in the
office of the clerk of the city of San Luis Obispo, in the City
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Hall, city of San Luis Obispo, State of California, and have
found said three exhibits to be full, true and complete copies
of said originals, excepting signatures to these instruments
which have been omitted.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
on this eleventh day of May, 1933, as a notary public aforesaid.
A. V. MULLER,
Notary Public in and for the County of
San Luis Obispo, State of California.
and
WHEREAS, Said petition was signed, a resolution concerning
said petition and submitting the amendments proposed by
said petition to the electors of the city was passed by the city
council thereof, and notice that copies in pamphlet form of
the proposed amendments could be had upon application there-
for to the city clerk of said city was published, as evidenced by
Exhibits A to D inclusive, and the certification of A. V. Muller,
notary public in and for the county of San Luis Obispo, all
as follows:
EXHIBIT A.
In the Matter of the Verification of the
Signatures on the Petition to Amend
the Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo.
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo I ss.
I, J. G. Driscoll, county clerk, of the county of San Luis
Obispo, State of California, do hereby certify:
That I, as such county clerk, am now and at the time herein
mentioned, have been in charge of the registration records of
the county of San Luis Obispo, State of California.
That I have examined the signatures attached to that said
petition of Geo. H. Andrews and others for the submission of
said amendments to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo,
filed in the office of the city clerk of said city, on the first day
of February, 1933, and have compared and verified the said
signatures with the said registration records in my possession,
And I do further certify that from an examination of the
said petition and other evidence that 865 persons have signed
the said petition and that 763 thereof were duly qualified
electors of the said city at the time of signing the same.
And I further certify that the total vote cast in the said
city of San Luis Obispo at the last preceding general State
election is 4199.
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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of said superior court this fourteenth day of February, 1933.
J. G. DRISCOLL, County Clerk.
By GWENDOLYN MARSHALL,
Deputy Clerk.
EXHIBIT B.
RESOLUTION No. 379 (New Series).
A resolution determining that a peti-
tion proposing certain amendments
to the charter of the city of San
Luis Obispo contains sufficient signa-
tures and submitting said amend-
ments to the electors of said city.
Whereas, there was filed with the City Council of the
City of San Luis Obispo, on the 1st day of February, 1933,
a petition signed by numerous individuals, proposing certain
amendments to the Charter of the City of San Luis Obispo:
And whereas, said petition was referred to Mr. J. G. Dris-
coll, County Clerk of the County of San Luis Obispo, State
of California, for verification of the signatures on said
petition:
And whereas, said J. G. Driscoll has attached to said petition
his certificate showing that said petition is signed by 763
registered electors of the City of San Luis Obispo and that
the total vote cast in the City of San Luis Obispo at the last
preceding General State Election was 4199.
And whereas, Section g of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California. requires any such petition to be
signed by fifteen per cent (15%) of the rcroistered electors
of the City, and that the percentage rcquire(, shall be calcu-
lated upon the total vote cast in the City at the last preceding
General State Election,
Now therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the City of
San Luis Obispo that said City Council hereby finds that said
petition has a sufficient number of signatures,
And be it further resolved, That the amendments to the
Charter of the City of San Luis Obispo, as set forth in said
petition, be, and the same are hereby submitted to the electors
of the City of San Luis Obispo to be voted upon at the Gen-
eral Municipal Election to be held in the said City on the
3rd day of April, 1933.
The City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo is hereby
directed to advertise said proposed amendments in the manner
and for the time required by law.
Introduced and adopted this 14th day of February, 1933,
by the following vote:
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, L. J. Defosset, L. F. Sinsheimer.
Noes: None.
Absent: John Chapek, H. E. Cox.
L. F. SINSHEI3IER, Mayor. 4
Attest: Callie 2,f. John, City Clerk.
EXHIBIT C.
PROOF OF PUBLICATION. {
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo � ss.
Vareene Langenbeck, of this county, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says:
That she is the principal clerk of the printer of the Daily
Telegram, a newspaper printed and published daily, Sundays
and holidays excepted, at San Luis Obispo, in the county
of San Luis Obispo, State of California, and that the notice
of which a true copy is hereto attached, was first published
in its issue dated the seventeenth day of February, 1933, the
last publication thereof being in the issue dated the seven-
teenth day of February, 1933. That said notice was pub-
lished in regular and entire issue of every number of said
newspaper during the period and time of publication afore-
said, that is to say, on the seventeenth day of February, 1933,
and that the said notice was published in the said newspaper
proper, and not in a supplement thereto.
VAREENE LANGENBECK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this eighteenth day of
February, 1933.
MARGARET YAGER,
Notary Public.
EXHIBIT D.
Notice of proposed amendments to the
Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, California.
Notice is hereby given that copies in pamphlet form of the
proposed amendments to the Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo, California, which will be submitted to the electors of
said City at the general municipal election to be held on the
third day of April, 1933, may be had upon application there-
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for to the City Clerk of said City at the Office of said City
Clerk, in the City Hall of said City.
Dated, February, 17th, 1933.
CALLIE Al. JOHN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo.
Published each and every day and in all editions, to and
including the day of election.
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo i ss.
This is to certify that I, A. V. Muller, a Notary Public, in
and for the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California,
have compared the foregoing instruments, marked "Ii1xhibit.
A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C, and Exhibit D ", for purposes of iden-
tification and find that the same and each of them are a full,
true, correct and exact copy of the originals thereof, as
found filed in the office of Callie M. John, City Clerk of the
City of San Luis Obispo, State of California.
In witness thereof I have hereunto set my{ hand and sea)
this eighth day of May, 1933.
A. V. TMULLER,
Notary Public, In and for the
[SEAL] County of San Luis Obispo.
AND WHEREAS, Proposed amendments to the charter of said
city were published and notice was given that said amend-
ments would be submitted to the electors of said city as set
forth in the following instrument:
NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED AAIEND-
MENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAN
LUIS OBISPO.
a NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition bearing the
signatures of a sufficient number of registered electors of the
City of San Luis Obispo has been filed with the City Council
I of said City proposing certain amendments to the charter of
the City of San Luis Obispo, which said amendments reVd as
follows:
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 1
That Section 4 of said Charter be amended to read as fol-
lows:
"Sec. 4. THE ELECTIVE OFFICERS. The elective
officers of the city sliall be a mayor, a city clerk, four council-
men and five school directors.
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"The council shall consist of the mayor and four council-
men, each of whom shall, including the mayor, have the right
to vote on all questions coming before the council.
"The board of education shall consist of five school direc-
tors, each of whom shall have the right to vote on all questions
coming before the board."
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 2
That subdivision 9 of Section 40 of said Charter be amended
to read as follows:
" (9) Every resolution or ordinance which may have been
passed by the City Council shall, before it becomes a law or
effective as a resolution, be presented to the mayor. If he
approve it, he shall sign it; but, if not, lie shall return it, with
his objections, to the city council by filing the same with the
City Clerk, who shall enter such objections upon the minute
book of the council; and thereupon the city council at its nest
regular meeting shall proceed to reconsider such resolution or
ordinance, and, if after such reconsideration the council again
passes such resolution or ordinance, by yeas and nays, three
members of the city council voting therefor, it shall become
a law or become effective, notwithstanding the mayor's objec-
tions. If any resolution or ordinance shall not be returned to
the City Clerk within ten days after it shall have been pre-
sented to him (Sundays excepted) the same shall become a
law or become effective in like manner as if he had signed it."
CHARTER AMENDMENT No. 3
That a new section, to be known as Section 56-a be added to
said Charter, as follows:
"'Sec. 56-a. CLAITMS AGAINST THE CITY. CLERK'S
WARRANT. All demands against the city shall be presented
to and audited by the city council; and upon the allowance of
such demand by the affirmative vote of three members of the
council, the City Clerk shall draw a warrant on the Treasury
for the same, which warrant shall not require any counter-
signature, and the same shall specify for what purpose the
same is drawn and out of what fund it is to be paid. All
provisions of this charter in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed."
AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that said proposed
amendments will be submitted to the electors of the City of
San Luis Obispo at the General Municipal Election to be held
in said City on the third day of April, 1933.
By order of the City Council.
Dated, February 17th, 1933.
CALLIE M. JOHN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo.
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PROOF OF PUBLICATION
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo S ss.
VAREENE LANGENBE CN of said County, being first
duly sworn, deposes and says; That she is the Principal Clerk
of the printer of the DAILY TELEGRA11l, a. newspaper
pri-.ted and published daily, Suild=.ys and holidays excepted,
at San Luis Obispo, in the County of San Luis Obispo, State
of California, thF_t the ro'Liee 01 whi'2h < tPn" 1'.ereto
attached, was first published in its issue dated the 17th day
of February, 1933, the last publication thereof being in the
issue dated the 17th day of February, 1933, that said notice
was published in regular and entire issue of ei-ery number of
said newspaper during the period and time of publication
aforesai,j, that is to say, on the 1 i tl_ day of Februa: y, 1933,
and that the said notice was published in the said nevc:pa,,er
proper, and not in a supplement thereto.
VAREENE LANGEN?ZECK.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 11th day of May,
1933.
[SEAL] MARGARET YACER,
Notary Public.
Alio WHERrAS, Proof of publication that copies in pamphlet
form of the proposed amendments could be bad upon applica-
tion therefor to the city clerk is inade as follows:
NOTICE OF PROPOSED .^iIND IENTS 1-0 TIIE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAN L 1`3 Oi ISPO,
CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies, i_a pain;phlet
forrl,i, of the proposed amet2dme: is to the charter of file City
of San Luis Obispo; California, which will be stilet-lit"eci to
the electors of said City at the general municipal election to
lnc bell on the third day- of April, 1_933, may 1� tied upoii
application therefor to the City Clerk of said C,iiy-, at fl -
office of said City Clerk, in the City Hall of said City.
Dated, February, 17th, 1933.
CALLIE M. JOI N,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obi:p-,).
F17toA3ine.
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PROOF OF PUBLICATION
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo ss.
Vareene Langenbeck of said County, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says; That she is the Principal Clerk of the printer
of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper printed and published
daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, at San Luis Obispo,
in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, that
the notice of which a true copy is hereto attached, was first
published in its issue dated the 17th day of February, 1933,
the last publication thereof being in the issue dated the third
day of April, 1933; that said notice was published in regular
and entire issue of every number of said newspaper during
the period and time of publication aforesaid, that is to say,
on the 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 27th, 28th days
of February, and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th,
10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st, 22nd,
23rd, 24th, 25th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st days of March,
and the 1st and 3rd days of April, 1933, and that the said
notice was published in the said newspaper proper, and not
in a supplement thereto.
VAREENE LANGENBECK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 11th day of -May,
1933.
M ARGARET YAGER,
[SEAL] Notary Public.
AND WHEREAS, Minute Book "H" of the city clerk of said
city contains the following in relation to the proposal and
adoption of amendments to the charter of said city as certi-
fied by A. V. Muller, notary public in and for the county of
San Luis Obispo, State of California, all as follows:
Minutes of City Clerk. Book H. City of San Luis Obispo.
City- Hall, Monday, Feb. 6th, 1933. 7:30 p.m.
City Council met in regular session, Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer
presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cog, L. J.
Defosset.
Absent: None.
Petition of Geo. H. Andrews and others requesting that
certain amendments to the Charter of the City of San Luis
Obispo be submitted to the qualified electors at the General
Municipal Election to be held in the City of San Luis Obispo
on the 3rd day of April, 1933, was received.
Resolution No. 378 (New Series). A Resolution refer-
ring a petition proposing certain amendments to the Charter
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of the City of San Luis Obispo to the County Clerk for
verification was introduced and adopted on the motion of
L. J. Defosset, seconded by J. B. Berkemeyer by the following
vote :
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. J.
Defosset, L. F. Sinsheimer.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
City Hall, Tuesday, Mar. 14th, 1933.
City Council met in adjourned session, Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer
presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. F.
Sinsheimer.
Absent: L. J. Defosset.
ha re General Municipal Election, April 3rd, 1933. The
matter of designating Precinct Polling places, appointment of
election officers for the various precincts, etc., was taken up.
The City Attorney presented a draft of the Election Proclama-
tion and after discussion in re proposed Charter Amendments
it was decided to continue the meeting to Wednesday, Mar.
15th, 1933, for the further discussion of same and the adoption
of an Election Proclamation.
On the motion of H. E. Cox, seconded by J. B. Berhemeyer,
the meeting adjourned to Wednesday, Mar. 15th, 1933 at
7.30 p.m.
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. F. Sin-
sheimer.
Noes: None.
Absent: L. J. Defosset.
City Hall, Wednesday, Mar. 15th, 1933.
City Council met in adjourned session—Vice President of
the Council, John Chapek, Presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox.
Absent: L. J. Defosset, Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer.
The matter of further discussion on proposed Charter
Amendments to be submitted to the Electors at the General
Municipal Election to be held in the City of San Luis Obispo,
April 3rd, 1933 and the adoption of the Election Proclama-
tion was continued to Thursday, Mar. 16th, 1933 at 7.30 p.m.
On motion of J. B. Berkemeyer seconded by H. E. Cox
the meeting adjourned to Thursday, Mar. 16th, 1933 at
7.30 p.m.
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cog.
Noes: None.
Absent: L. J. Defosset, Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer.
City Hall, Thursday Mar. 17th, 1933, 7.30 p.m.
City Council met in adjourned session—Vice President of the
Council, John Chapek, presiding.
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Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox,
L. J. Defosset.
Absent: Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer.
The matter of further considering proposed Charter Amend-
ments to be submitted to the Electors at the General Municipal
Election to be held in the City of San Luis Obispo, April 3rd,
1933, and the adoption of the Election Proclamation was
continued.
On motion of L. J. Defosset seconded by J: B. Berkemeyer
the meeting adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. J.
Defosset.
Noes: None.
Absent: Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer.
City Hall Monday Mar. 20th, 1933.
City Council met in regular session—'Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer
presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. F.
Sinsheimer.
Absent: None.
There was discussion relative to certain proposed Charter
Amendments. The City Attorney presented and read the
Election Proclamation for the General Municipal Election and
consolidated Charter Amendment Election to be held in the
City of San Luis Obispo on the 3rd day of April 1933, and
on motion of H. E. Cox seconded by L. J. Defosset the said
Election Proclamation was adopted by the following vote.
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. J.
Defosset, L. F. Sinsheimer.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
City Hall Monday April 3rd, 1933, 7.30 p.m.
City Council met in regular session—Vice President of the
Council John Chapek presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. J.
Defosset.
Absent: Mayor L. F. Sinsheimer.
On motion of L. J. Defosset seconded by H. E. Cox the meet-
ing adjourned to Thursday, April 6th, 1933 at 7.30 p.m. for
the purpose of canvassing the returns of the General Munic-
ipal and consolidated Charter Amendment election held on
the 3rd day of April, 1933, and to consider such other busi-
ness as might come before it.
Ayes: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cog, L. J.
Defosset. .
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Absent: Mayor Sinsheimer.
City Hall, Thursday, Apr. 6th, 1933. 7.30 p.m.
City Council met in adjourned session—Mayor L. F. Sin-
sheimer, presiding.
Present: J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, L. J. Defosset, L. F.
Sinsheimer.
Absent: H. E. Cox.
The Council now proceeded to canvas the returns of the
General Municipal and Consolidated Charter Amendment
Election held on April 3rd, 1933. Tabulation following
shows result of vote cast at such Election and as canvassed
by the City Council. The number of votes cast at such elec-
tion being 2924 within the City of San Luis Obispo and 33 in
the consolidated precincts outside the City voting on School
Directors only.
Charter
Yes: 286 246 185 240 182 206 239
1584
Amend. No. 1
No : 123 156 95 100 93 72 85
724
Charter
Yes: 286 249 180 224 180 209 254
1582
Amend. No. 2
No : 121 138 94 82 98 69 71
673
Charter
Yes: 280 242 182 222 171 199 236
1532
Amend. No. 3
No : 122 149 96 81 98 75 86
707
Due to the fact that it is impossible to count and canvas
absentee vote the matter of completing the canvass was con-
tinued to lZonday; Apr. 10th, 1933, at 7.30 p.m., on motion of
John Chapek, seconded by L. J. Defosset.
City Hall. Monday Apr. 10th, 1933. 7.30 p.m.
City Council met in adjourned session—Mayor L. F. Sin-
sheimer, Presiding.
Present J. B. Berkemeyer, John Chapek, H. E. Cox, L. J.
Defosset, L. F. Sinsheimer.
Absent None.
The Council now proceeded to canvass the Absentee Vote
for the General Municipal Election of Apr. 3rd, 1933. On
motion of L. J. Defosset seconded by H. E. Cox it was
ordered that the ballot of Dominique Chandre be cast. Fol-
lowing is the result of the Official Canvass of the 21 Absentee
Votes for the respective candidates for the respective offices:
Charter
Yes
12
Amendment No. 1
No.
7
Charter
Yes
12
Amendment No. 2
No.
7
Charter
Yes
10
Amendment No. 3
No.
10
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Recapitulation of Canvass of Votes.
Charter Amendment No. 1.
Yes: Vote as previously canvassed 1584
Absentee vote 12 1596
No : Vote as previously canvassed 724
Absentee vote 7 731
Charter Amendment No. 2.
Yes: Vote as previously canvassed 1582
Absentee vote 12 1594
No : Vote as previously canvassed 673
Absentee vote 7 680
Charter Amendment No. 3.
Yes: Vote as previously canvassed 1532
Absentee vote 10 1542
No : Vote as previously canvassed 707
Absentee vote 10 717
It was then moved by L. J. Defosset and seconded by J. B.
Berkemeyer and carried that ------- ------- ------- Char-
ter Amendment No. 1, Charter Amendment No. 2 and Charter
Amendment No. 3, each having received a majority of all votes
cast, were, and of them was declared ratified..
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo � ss.
This is to certify that I, A. V. Muller, a Notary Public in
and for the County of San Luis Obispo, State of California,
have compared the foregoing extracts from the minutes of
the City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo, as to be found
contained in her Minute Book "H", and find that the same
and each of them are a full, true, correct and exact copy of
said minutes as found in said Volume "H" at the following
pages to wit:
425, 426, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 439 and 440, and I further
certify that the hereinabove contained copies embrace the
entire procedure of the Board of City Trustees of the City of
San Luis Obispo, as revealed by said Minutes Book of said
Clerk of said City of San Luis Obispo, relative to the adoption
of Amendments No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, to the Charter of the
City of San Luis Obispo.
[SEAL] A. V. MULLER,
Notary Public in and for the County of
San Luis Obispo, State of California.
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Arra WHEREAS, The amendments referred to in the docu-
ments hereinbefore set forth were the amendments passed by
a majority vote on April 3; 1933, as indicated in said docu-
ments and as evidenced by the following telegram:
Western Union
San Luis Obispo, Dlay 13, 1933.
Chris N. Jespersen, Senator,
State Capitol, Sacramento, Calif.
Am mailing affidavit to you stating that the three city
charter amendments passed by a large majority vote on
April 3, 1933 are the same amendments referred to in my
previous certificates as a notary public and which were adver-
tised by our City Council on February 17, 1933, to appear on
our ballot on said April 3rd and such was advertised by our
city clerk in the Daily Telegram. There were no other amend-
ments at our last election.
A. V. MULLER.
AND WHEREAS, Said proposed amendments have been and
are now submitted to the Legislature of the State of California
for approval or rejection as. a whole without power of altera-
tion or amendment,. in accordance with section 8 of Article XI
of the Constitution of the State of California; now, therefore,
be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the
Assembly thereof concurring, a majority of all the members
elected to each house voting therefor and concurring therein,
That said amendments to said charter herein set forth, as sub-
mitted to and ratified by the qualified electors of said city,
be and the same are hereby approved as a whole without
alteration or amendment for and as amendments to and as
part of the charter of said city of San Luis Obispo.
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I, FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of California,
do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the transcript, to which this
certificate is attached, with the record on file in my office of which it purports
to be a copy, and that the same is a f ull, trace and correct copy thereof. I f urther
certify that this authentication is in due form and by the proper officer.
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Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 37—Approving a certain
amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo,
ratified by the qualified electors of said city at a general
municipal election held on the first day of April, 1929.
WHEREAS, The city of San Luis Obispo in the county of
San Luis Obispo, State of California, is now and was at all
times herein mentioned a city containing a population of more
than three thousand five hundred inhabitants ascertained by
the last census taken under authority of the congress of the
United States, and is now organized and acting under a free-
holders' charter adopted under and by virtue of section 8 of
article eleven of the constitution, which charter was duly
ratified on the twelfth day of September, 1910, approved and
ratified by the Legislature of the State of California by con-
current resolution filed with the secretary of state February
23, .1911, and
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been duly had and taken for
the proposal, submission, adoption and ratification of a cer-
tain amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo
as set out in the certificate of the mayor and city clerk of
said city of San Luis Obispo, to wit:
Certificate of adoption by the qualified electors of the city of
San Luis Obispo at the general municipal election held
therein on the first day of April, 1929, of an amendment to
the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, State of Cali-
fornia.
State of California, 1
County of San Luis Obispo, } ss.
City of San Luis Obispo.
We, L. F. Sinsheimer, mayor of the city of San Luis Obispo,
and Callie M. John, city clerk of the city of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
That said city of San Luis Obispo, in the county of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned, a city containing a population of more
than three thousand five hundred inhabitants as ascertained
by the last preceding census taken under the authority of the
congress of the United States; and,
That said city of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all of
the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholders' charter adopted under the provisions of section
8, article eleven, of the constitution of the State of California,
which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the electors
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of said city at a special election held therein on the twelfth
day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature of
the State of California, by concurrent resolution, filed with
the secretary of state, February 23, 1911 (statutes 1911, page
1698) ; and,
That, pursuant to the provisions of section 8 of article eleven
of the constitution of the State of California, the legislative
body of said city, namely: The city council of said city did,
on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of section 8
of article eleven of the constitution of the State of California,
duly propose to the electors of said city of San Luis Obispo an
amendment to the charter of said city and ordered that said
amendment be submitted to said electors of said city at the
general municipal election to be held in said city on the first
day of April, 1929; and,
That said proposed amendment was, on the nineteenth day
of February, 1929, duly published in the Daily Telegram, a
daily newspaper of general circulation published in said city
of San Luis Obispo, and the newspaper designated by said city
council for that purpose;
That said proposed amendment was printed in convenient
pamphlet form, and from the nineteenth day of February,
1929, to the first day of April, 1929, both inclusive, a notice
was published in said Daily Telegram that such copies could
be had upon application therefor at the office of the city clerk
of said city; and,
That said city council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the twelfth day of
March, 1929, order the holding of the general municipal elec-
tion and consolidated charter amendment election in said city
of San Luis Obispo, on the first day of April, 1929, which date
was more than forty days and less than sixty days after the
completion of the publication of said proposal of amendment
to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, as aforesaid, and
which election proclamation and resolution was published at
least ten successive days prior to said election, in the Daily
Telegram, a newspaper of general circulation printed and
published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election was held in said city
of San Luis Obispo on said first day of April, 1929, which
election was held after the six months next preceding a regu-
lar session of the Legislature of the State of California and
before the adjournment of that session;
That at such general municipal election, held as aforesaid,
a majority of the qualified voters of said city of San Luis
Obispo, voting thereon, voted in favor of said proposal of
amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, and
duly ratified the same;
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That said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city
of San Luis Obispo so ratified, as aforesaid, was and is
amendment numbered five; and
That the city council of said city of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the returns of said general
municipal election at the time and in the manner and form
prescribed by law, duly found, determined and declared that
a majority of the qualified voters, voted in favor of and rati-
fied said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city of
San Luis Obispo known as charter amendment numbered
five; and,
That said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city
of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as
aforesaid, is in words and figures as follows, to wit.
Charter Amendment No. 5.
Section 54 of article nine of the charter of the city of San
Luis Obispo is hereby amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
See. 54. LIMIT or TAx LEvY. The tax levy authorized by
the council for any one year for all municipal purposes, other
than for the payment of principal or interest on any bonds of
the city, or for school purposes, shall not exceed eighty-five
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city, except as herein provided. The council may,
however, in any year, by ordinance adopted not later than the
first Tuesday in September, levy in addition to the rate in
this section above authorized, a tax of not to exceed fifteen
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city which shall be collected at the same time and
manner as other taxes levied by said city, the proceeds of
which said tax shall belong and be paid to a fund designated
as the improvement fund of said city and shall be expended
only for public improvements and betterments in said city.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposal of amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on
file in the office of the city clerk of said city of San Luis
Obispo.
In witness whereof, L. F. Sinsheimer, mayor, and Callie M.
John, city clerk, respectively of said city of San Luis Obispo,
have hereunto set their hands and caused the corporate seal
of the city of San Luis Obispo to be thereunto duly affixed,
on the second day of April, 1929.
( Signed) L. F. SrNSHEIMER,
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo.
! (Signed) CALLIE M. JOHN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo.
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And,
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment so ratified as
hereinabove set forth is now duly presented and submitted to
the Legislature of the State of California for approval or rejec-
tion without power of alteration, in accordance with section 8,
article eleven of the constitution of the State of California;
now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, a majority
of all of the members elected to each house voting therefor and
concurring therein, That said amendment to the said charter
of the city of San Luis Obispo herein set forth as presented to
and ratified by the qualified electors of said city be, and the
same is hereby approved as a whole, without amendment or y
alteration, for and as an amendment to, and as part of the
charter of said city of San Luis Obispo. ;
Edgar -C.1evey
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Speaker of the Assembly
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In the office of tiie Secretary of State
of the state of California
MAY r -1929
FRANK C. JvlClir:r, Secretary of State
BY CHAS• J. HAGERTY, Aeptsty
At 8 otclock 'D.I:
FRANK C. JORDAry
SECRETARY OF STATE
FRANK H. CORY
CHARLES J. HAGERTY
ROBERT V. JORDAN
DEPUTIES
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
V qac tmrnt of 5,faft
I, FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of California,
do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the transcript, to which this
certificate is attached, with the record on file in nay office of which it purports
to be a copy, and that the same is a full, trate and correct copy thereof. I f urther
certify that this authentication is in due form and by the proper officer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set 9ny hand and have caused
the Great Seal of the State of California to be a ff txed hereto
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Secretary of State
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Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 37.
Adopted in Assembly May 1, 1929.
Arthur A.Chnimus
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Chief Clerk of the Assembly
Adopted in Senate May 1, 1929.
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Secretary of the Senate
This resolution was received by the Governor, this --- 7th_
day of ----.May --------- A. D. 1929, at__ _:OOo,clock_RM.
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Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 37—Approving a certain
amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo,
ratified by the qualified electors of said city at a general
municipal election held on the first day of April, 1929.
WHEREAS, The city of San Luis Obispo in the county of
San Luis Obispo, State of California, is now and was at all
times herein mentioned a city containing a population of more
than three thousand five hundred inhabitants ascertained by
the last census taken under authority of the congress of the
United States, and is now organized and acting under afree-
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holders' charter adopted under and by virtue of section 8 of
article eleven of the constitution, which charter was duly
ratified on the twelfth day of September, 1910, approved and
ratified by the Legislature of the State of California by con-
current resolution filed with the secretary of state February
23, 1911, and
WHEREAS, Proceedings have been duly had and taken for
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the proposal, submission, adoption and ratification of a cer-
tain amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo
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as set out in the certificate of the mayor and city clerk of
said city of San Luis Obispo, to -wit:
Certificate of adoption by the qualified electors of the city of
San Luis Obispo at the general municipal election held
therein on the first day of April, 1929, of an amendment to
the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, State of Cali -
forma.
State of California,
County of San Luis Obispo, ss.
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City of San Luis Obispo.
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We, L. F. Sinsheimer, mayor of the city of San Luis Obispo,
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and Callie M. John, city clerk of the city of San Luis Obispo,
do hereby certify as follows:
That said city of San Luis Obispo, in the county of San
Luis Obispo, State of California, is now, and was at all times
herein mentioned, a city containing a population of more
than three thousand five hundred inhabitants as ascertained
by the last preceding census taken under the authority of the
congress of the United States; and,
That said city of San Luis Obispo is now, and was at all of
the times herein mentioned, organized and existing under a
freeholders' charter adopted under the provisions of section
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8, article eleven, of the constitution of the State of California,
which charter was duly ratified by a majority of the electors
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of said city at a special election held therein on the twelfth
day of September, 1910, and approved by the Legislature of
the State of California, by concurrent resolution, filed with
the secretary of state, -February 23, 1911 (statutes 19X, page
1.698) ; and;
That, pursuant to the provisions of section 8 of article eleven
of the constitution of the State of California, the legislative
body of said city, namely: The city council of said city did,
on its own motion and pursuant to the provisions of section 8
of article eleven of the constitution of the State of California,
duly propose to the electors of said city of San Luis Obispo an
amendment to the charter of said city and ordered that said
amendment be submitted to said electors of said city at the
general municipal election to be bold in said city on the first
day of April, 1929 ; and,
That said proposed amendment was, on the nineteenth day
of February, 1929, duly published in the Daily Telegram, a,
daily newspaper of general circulation published in said city
Of San .Luis Obispo, and the newspaper designated by said city
council for that purpose;
That said proposed amendment was printed in convenient
pamphlet form, and from the nineteenth day of February,
1929, to the first day of April, 1929, both inclusive, a notice
was published in said DailyTelegram that such copies could
be had upon application therefor at the office of the city clerk
of said city; and,
That said city council did, by an election proclamation and
resolution which was duly adopted on the twelfth day of
March, 1929, order the holding of the general municipal elec-
tion and consolidated charter amendment election in said city
of San Luis Obispo, on the first day of April, 1929, which date
was more than forty days and less than sixty days after the
completion of the publication of said proposal of amendment
to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, as aforesaid, and
which election proclamation and resolution was published at
least ten successive days prior to said election, in the Daily
Telegram, a newspaper of general circulation printed and
published in said city; and,
That said general municipal election was held in said city
of San Luis Obispo on said first day of April, 1929, which
election was held after the six months next preceding a regu-
lar session of the Legislature of the State of California and
before the adjournment of that session;
That at such general municipal election, held as aforesaid,
a majority of the qualified voters of said city of San Luis
Obispo, voting thereon, voted in favor of said proposal of
amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis Obispo, and
duly ratified the same;
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That said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city
of San Luis Obispo so ratified, as aforesaid, was and is
amendment numbered five; and
That the city council of said city of San Luis Obispo, after
duly and regularly canvassing the returns of said general
municipal election at the time and in the manner and form
prescribed by law, duly found, determined and declared that
a majority of the qualified voters, voted in favor of and rati-
fied said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city of
San Luis Obispo known as charter amendment numbered
five; and,
That said proposal of amendment to the charter of the city
of San Luis Obispo ratified by the electors of said city, as
aforesaid, is in words and figures as follows, to wit:
Charter Amendment No. 5.
Section 54 of article nine of the charter of the city of San
Luis Obispo is hereby amended so that the same shall be and
read as follows:
See. 54. LIMIT OF Tag LEvr. The tag levy authorized by
the council for any one year for all municipal purposes, other
than for the payment of principal or interest on any bonds of
the city, or for school purposes, shall not exceed eighty-five
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city, except as herein provided. The council may,
however, in any year, by ordinance adopted not later than the
first Tuesday in September, levy in addition to the rate in
this section above authorized, a tag of not to exceed fifteen
cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property
in said city which shall be collected at the same time and
manner as other taxes levied by said city, the proceeds of
which said tax shall belong and be paid to a fiend designated
as the improvement fund of said city and shall be expended
t only for public improvements and betterments in said city.
That the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of said
proposal of amendment to the charter of the city of San Luis
Obispo, ratified by the electors of said city, as aforesaid, on
file in the office of the city clerk of said city of San Luis
Obispo.
In witness whereof, L. F. Sinsheimer, mayor, and Callie M.
John, city clerk, respectively of said city of San Luis Obispo,
have hereunto set their hands and caused the corporate seal
of the city of San Luis Obispo to be thereunto duly affixed,
on the second day of April, 1929.
(Signed) L. F. SINSHEIMM,
Mayor of the City of San Luis Obispo.
(Signed) CALLiE Al. JOHN,
City Clerk of the City of San Luis Obispo.
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And,
WHEREAS, The said proposed amendment so ratified as
hereinabove set forth is now duly presented and submitted to
the Legislature of the State of California for approval or rejec-
tion without power of alteration, in accordance with section 8,
article eleven of the constitution of the State of California;
now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, a majority
of all of the members elected to each house voting therefor and
concurring therein, That said amendment to the said charter
of the city of San Luis Obispo herein set forth as presented to
and ratified by the qualified electors of said city be, and the
same is hereby approved as a whole, without amendment or
alteration, for and as an amendment to, and as part of the
charter of said city of San Luis Obispo.
udgar C.Levey
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Speaker of the Assembly
A.H.Breed
Pro lem
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President of the Senate
Attest:
Frank: C.Tordan
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(Seal) Secretary of State
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