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SECTION 1. The Board of Education of the City of Oakland shall consist of seven School Directors, who shall be elected as follows, namely : Four at the next ensuing charter election for city officers for said city, for the term of two years, and three at the next charter election thereafter, for two years ; and at every subsequent charter election for city officers of said city there shall be alternately four and three School Directors elected, to take the place of those whose term of office has expired ; said term of office, in each and every case, to be for two years and until a successor is duly elected and qualified ; provided, that the present Board of Education of said city shall exercise, and are hereby authorized and enjoined to exercise, all the powers and duties hereinafter provided as appertaining to the Board of Edu- cation created by this Act ; and provided further, that whenever said city shall have been divided into wards, all subsequent elections of School Directors shall be so arranged as finally to secure and thereafter to maintain in said Board of Education one Director from each ward in said city, the whole number, however, being at no time more than seven, as heretofore pro- vided in this section. Said Board of Education shall meet within ten days after their election, and after qualifying, as pro- vided in section one hundred and eight, Revised School Law, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall elect one of their number President, and shall hold meetings monthly thereafter, and at such other times as the Board may determine. A majority of all the members elect shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time. The Board may determine the rules of its proceedings. Its sessions shall be public and its record shall be open to public inspection. The Board shall also have power to fill all vacancies occurring in the Board until the next regular charter election.
SEC. 2. The Board of Education shall have sole power :
First-To establish and maintain public schools, and to estab- lish school districts, and to fix and alter the boundaries thereof.
Second-To employ and dismiss teachers, janitors, and school census marshals, and to fix, alter, allow, and order paid their salaries or compensation, and to employ and pay such mechanics and laborers as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties of the Board, and to withhold, for good and sufficient cause the whole or any part of the salary or wages of any person or persons employed as aforesaid.
Third-To make, establish, and enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations, not contrary to law, for the gov-
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ernment and progress of public schools within said city, the teachers thereof and the pupils therein, and for carrying into effect the laws relating to education ; also, to establish and regu- late the grade of schools, and determine what text-books, courses of study, and mode of instruction shall be used in said schools.
Fourth-To provide for the School Department of said city fuel and lights, water, blanks, blank books, printing and stationery, and to iucur such other incidental expenses as may be deemed necessary by said Board.
Fifth-To build, alter, repair, rent, and provide school-houses, and furnish them with proper school furniture, apparatus, and school appliances, and to insure any and all such school prop- erty.
Sixth-To receive, purchase, lease, and hold in fee, in trust for the city of Oakland, any and all real estate, and to hold in trust any personal property that may have been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired, for the use and the benefit of the public schools of said city; provided, that no real estate shall be bought, sold, or exchanged, or expenditures incurred for the construction of new school-houses, without the consent of four members of the Board of Education, and four members of the City Council of said city: and probided further, that the proceeds of any such sale or exchange of real estate shall be exclusively applied to the purchase of other lots, or the erection of school-houses. And the City Council of said city are hereby authorized and required to make over to said Board of Education, upon application in writing by said Board, through its President and Secretary, by good and sufficient deeds of conveyance, all property, both real and personal, now held by said City Council in trust for said city, for the use and benefit of the public schools; and the said Board is hereby authorized to defray all expenses attending the same.
Seventh-To grade, fence, and improve all school lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer, plank, or pave and repair streets, and to construct and repair sidewalks.
Eighth-To sue for any and all lots, lands, and property be- longing to or claimed by the said School Department, and to prosecute and defend all actions at law or in equity necessary to recover and maintain the full enjoyment and possession of said lots, lands, and property, and to employ and pay counsel in such cases : provided, the amount of fees paid to such counsel shall not exceed five hundred dollars in any one year ; and further, to do any and all [lawful] acts necessary thereto.
Ninth-To determine annually the amount of money required for the support of the public schools, and for carrying into effect all the provisions of law in reference thereto. And in pursuance of this provision the Board shall on or before the first Monday of February of each year, submit in writing to the City Council a careful estimate of the whole amount of money to be received from the State and County, and the amount required from the city for the above purposes ; and the amount so found to be re- quired from the city shall, by the City Council, be added to the
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other amounts to be assessed and collected for city purposes : provided, that the amount to be thus assessed for school purposes shall not exceed forty cents on each one hundred dollars valua- tion upon the assessment roll, and that when collected it shall be immediately paid into the School Fund, to be drawn out only upon the order of the Board of Education.
Tenth-To establish regulations for the just and equal dis- bursement of all moneys belonging to the Public School Fund.
Eleventh-To examine and allow, in whole or in part, every demand payable out of the School Fund, or to reject any such demand for good cause.
Twelfth-To discharge all legal incumbrances now existing, or which may hereafter exist, upon any school property.
Thirteenth-To prohibit any child under six years of age from attending the public schools.
Fourteenth-And generally to do and perform such other acts as may be necessary and proper to carry into force and effect the powers conferred on said Board .- [Amendment, March 1, 1872.]
SEC. 3. The President of the Board of Education shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations concerning any de- mand upon the Treasury, payable out of the School Fund, or other matters relating to his official duties.
SEC. 4. All contracts for building shall be given to the lowest bidder therefor offering adequate security, to be determined by the Board, after due public notice published for not less than ten days in one daily paper of said city.
SEC. 5. No School Director or Superintendent shall be inter- ested in any contract pertaining in any manner to the School Department of said city. All contracts in violation of this sec- tion are declared void ; and any Director or Superintendent vio- lating, or aiding in violating, the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
SEC. 6. No teacher shall be employed in any of the public schools without having a certificate issued under the provisions of this Act. For the purpose of granting the certificate re- quired, the Board of Education, either as a body or by commit- tee, or by the Superintendent, shall hold examinations of teachers. No certificate shall be issued except to a person who shall have passed a satisfactory examination in such branches as the Board may require, and shall have given evidence of good moral character, ability, and fitness to teach. The said certifi- cates shall be in force two years from the date thereof.
SEC. 7. The Board may, in its discretion, renew, without re- examination, the certificate of any person so employed ; it shall have power to revoke the certificate of any teacher upon evidence of immoral or unprofessional conduct ; and any School Director, with the consent and advice of the Superintendent, may, for good and sufficient cause, provisionally withdraw the certificate
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of any teacher employed in said schools, until the next regular meeting of the Board.
SEC. 8. At the next ensuing charter election for city officers of the City of Oakland, and at each alternate charter election thereafter, there shall be elected a Superintendent of Public Schools for said city, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. He shall be ex-officio a member of the Board of Edu- cation, without the right to vote, and shall be allowed, as com- pensation for his services, to be paid out of the School Fund, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, to be determined by the Board of Education at the first regular meet- ing of said Board after the election of said Superintendent. [Amendment March 1, 1872.]
SEC. 9. The said Board are hereby authorized to elect their own Secretary, who may be a member of the Board, and who shall be paid a salary not to exceed the sum of fifty dollars per month, to be fixed by the Board. The said Secretary shall be subject to removal at the pleasure of the Board, and shall per- form such duties as may be required of him by the Board or the Superintendent.
SEC. 10. The Superintendent shall report to the Board of Education annually, and at such other times as they may require, all matter pertaining to the expenditures, income, and condition and progress of the public schools of said city. during the pre- ceding year, with such recommendations as he may deem proper.
SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to visit and examine each school at least once a month, to observe, and cause to be observed, such general rules for the regulation and government and instruction of the schools, not inconsistent with the laws of the State, as may be established by the Board of Education ; to attend the sessions of the Board, and inform them, at each session, of the condition of the public schools, school houses, school funds, and other matters connected there- with, and to recommend such measures as he may deem neces- sary for the advancement of education in the city. He shall ac- quaint himself with all the laws, rules, and regulations govern- ing the public schools in said city, and the judicial decisions thereon ; and give advice on subjects connected with the public schools, gratuitously, to the officers, teachers, pupils, and their parents and guardians.
SEC. 12. In case of vacancy in the office of Superintendent, the Board of Education shall have power to fill the vacancy until the next ensuing charter election.
SEC. 13. The School Fund of the City of Oakland shall con- sist of all moneys received from the State School Fund ; of all moneys arising from taxes which shall be levied annually by the City Council of said city for school purposes ; of all moneys arising from the sales, rent, or exchange of any school property, and of such other moneys as may, from any source whatever, be paid into said School Fund ; which fund shall be kept separate
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and distinct from all other moneys, and shall only be used for school purposes under the provisions of this Act. And if, at the end of any fiscal year, any surplus remains in the School Fund, such surplus money shall be carried forward to the School Fund of the next fiscal year, and shall not be, for any purpose what- ever, diverted or withdrawn from said fund except under the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 14. The said School Fund shall be used and applied by the said Board of Education for the following purposes, to wit :
First-For the payment of the salaries or wages of teachers, janitors, school census marshals, and other persons who may be employed by said Board.
Second-For the erection, alteration, repairs, rent, and furnish- ing of school houses.
Third-For the purchase money or rent of any real or personal property purchased or leased by said Board.
Fourth-For the insurance of all school property.
Fifth- For the discharge of all legal incumberances now exist- ing on any school property.
Sixth-For lighting school rooms and the office and rooms of the Superintendent and Board of Education.
Seventh-For supplying the schools with fuel, water, apparatus, blanks, blank books, and the necessary school appliances, to- gether with books for indigent children.
Eighth-For supplying books, printing, and stationery, for the use of the Superintendent and the Board of Education, and for the incidental expenses of the Board and Department.
Ninth-For the payment of the salaries of the Secretary of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Schools.
Tenth-For grading, fencing, and improving all school lots, and for grading, sewering, planking, or paving, and repairing streets, and constructing and repairing sidewalks in front there- of.
SEC. 15. All claims payable out of the School Fund shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board, and after they shall have been approved by a majority of all the members elect of said Board, upon a call of the ayes and noes, which shall be recorded, they shall be signed by the President of the Board and by the Superintendent, and be sent to the City Treasurer. Every de- mand shall have indorsed upon it a certificate of its approval. All demands for salary shall be paid monthly. [Amendment, March 1,1872.]
SEC. 16. All demands authorized by this Act shall be paid by the City Treasurer, from the School Fund, when the same shall be presented to him so ordered paid and approved by the Board ; provided, that the said Board shall not have power to contract any debt or liabilities, in any form whatsoever, against the said city, in contravention of this Act.
SEC. 17. It is hereby made the duty of the Auditor of the County of Alameda, upon the first Monday in each month, and at such other times as he may see proper, to certify in duplicate
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to the Superintendent of Schools of said county, the amount of common school moneys at that time in the county treasury, and the amount received luring the previous month. The County Superintendent shall, upon receipt of said certificates, indorse upon one of them the amount of said moneys to which the common schools in the City of Oakland are entitled. The certificate so indorsed shall at once be returned to said Auditor, who shall direct upon the same the County Treasurer to pay the sum designated upon said certificate, to the legal custodian of the School Fund of said city.
SEC. 18. The Treasurer of said County of Alameda is hereby required to pay the sum directed by the Auditor as above pro- vided ; and when said moneys are placed in said City School Fund, they shall be used in precisely the same manner as moneys raised by the city school taxes in said city.
SEC. 19. If the Superintendent of Public Schools, or any member of the Board of Education, shall remove from the city, or absent himself therefrom for more than thirty days, except by permission of the Board, or shall fail to qualify as prescribed by law, within ten days from the time his election is duly ascertained and declared, his office shall be thereby absolutely vacated, and the Board shall thereupon proceed to fill the vacancy until the time of the next ensuing charter election.
SEC. 20. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage ; and all laws and parts of laws, so far as they are inconsistent with or a repetition of this Act, are hereby re- pealed.
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AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A POLICE COURT'IN THE CITY OF OAKLAND, AND DEFINE ITS JURISDICTION, DUTIES, AND FEES OF COURT, AND ITS OFFICERS, APPROVED MARCH 10, 1866; AND THE AMEND- MENT THERETO, APPROVED MARCH 31, 1866.
The People of the State of California,
represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :
SECTION 1. A Police Court is hereby established in the City of Oakland.
SEC. 2. There shall be elected at the charter election of said city, held on the first Monday of March, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, a Police Judge in and for said city, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified; and the City Council of Oakland shall have power to elect a Police Judge, who shall hold his office until the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified as aforesaid.
SEC. 3. The Police Court of the City of Oakland shall have jurisdiction of the following public offenses committed in the City of Oakland:
First-Petit larceny.
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Second-Assault and battery, not charged to have been com- mitted upon a public officer in the discharge of his official duty, or with intent to kill.
Third-Breaches of the peace, riots, affrays, committing will- ful injury to property, and all misdemeanors punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not ex- ceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Fourth-Of proceedings respecting vagrants, lewd, or disor- derly persons.
SEC. 4. Said Court shall have jurisdiction :
First-Of all proceedings for violation of any ordinance of said city, both civil and criminal.
Second-Of any action for the collection of any and all taxes and assessments levied in said city for city purposes; or for the erection or improvement of any school-house or public buildings; for the laying out or opening or improving any public street, or sidewalk, lane, alley, bridge, wharf, pier, dock; or for the pur- chase of or the improvement of any public grounds; or for any and all public improvements made and ordered by said city with- in its limits, when the amount of said tax or assessment sought to be collected against the person, firm, or corporation assessed is less than three hundred dollars: provided, no lien upon the property taxed or assessed for the non-payment of the taxes or assessment is sought to be foreclosed by said suit.
Third-Of an action for the collection of money due to the City of Oakland, or from the city to any person, firm, or corpo- ration, when the amount sought to be collected, exclusive of in- terest and costs, is less than three hundred dollars.
Fourth-For the breach of any official bond given by any city officer, and for the breach of any contract, and any action for damages in which the city is a party, or is in any way interested; and all forfeited recognizances given to or for the benefit, or in behalf of said city; and upon all bonds given upon any appeal taken from the judgment of said Court in any action above named, where the amount claimed, exclusive of costs, is less than three hundred dollars.
Fifth-For the recovery of personal property belonging to the city, when the value of the property (exclusive of the damages for taking or detention) is less than three hundred dollars. ·
Sixth-Of an action for the collection of any license required by any ordinance of said city.
SEC. 5. The Police Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all proceedings mentioned in sections three and four of this Act (and no other Justices in said city shall have power to try and decide cases mentioned in said sections): provided, that in those cases in which the Judge is a party, or in which he is interested, or where the Judge is related to either party by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree, in which cases, and also in case of sickness or inability of the Police Judge, the said Judge may call in a Justice of the Peace residing in said city to act in his place and stead.
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SEC. 6. The Judge of said Court shall also have power to hear cases for examination, and may commit and hold the offender to bail for trial in the proper Court, and may try, condemn, or ac- quit, and carry his judgment into execution, as the case may re- quire, according to law, and punish persons guilty of contempt of Court; and shall have power to issue warrants of arrest in case of a criminal prosecution for a violation of a city ordinance, as well as in case of the violation of the criminal law of the State; also all subpenas, and all other processes necessary to the full and proper exercise of his powers and jurisdiction; and in such of the cases enumerated in this section in which trial by jury is not secured by the Constitution of the State, he may proceed to judgment in the first instance without a jury, but on appeal the defendent shall be entitled to trial by jury in the County Court .- [Amendment, March 31, 1866.]
SEC. 7. The Police Court shall have the same jurisdiction in civil cases as Justices of the Peace; and the Judge of said Court shall have the right to administer oaths, to take and certify ac- knowledgments to deeds and other instruments, to celebrate marriages, and do and perform any and all duties which by law may be performed by a Justice of the Peace.
SEC. 8. All fines and other moneys collected on behalf of the city in the Police Court shall be paid in to the city treasury on the first Tuesday of each month; and all bills for fees and costs due the officers of said Court, shall be submitted to the City Council at the same time the Police Judge makes his monthly report.
SEC. 9. The City Council shall furnish a suitable room for the holding of said Court, and shall also furnish the necessary dock- ets and blanks. One docket shall be styled " The City Criminal Docket," in which all the criminal business shall be recorded, and each case shall be alphabetically indexed ; another docket shall be styled " The City Civil Docket," and it shall contain each and every civil case in which the city is a party, or which is prosecuted or defended for her interest, and each case shall be properly indexed. A third docket shall contain all the other busi- ness appertaining to the office, and in all cases the docket shall contain all such entries as are required by law to be made in Jus- tices' dockets; and in any case tried before the Court, the docket must show what duties were performed by any officer of the Court, and the amount of the fees due to the officer for such serv- ices, and what amount of money, if any, collected.
SEC. 10. Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the office of Police Judge, the City Council shall appoint some suitable per- son to fill the same until the next charter election, at which elec- tion the person elected Judge of said Court shall hold his office for two years thereafter, and until his successor is elected and qualified.
SEC. 11. The Police Court shall be always open, except upon non-judicial days, and then for such purposes only as by law per- mitted or required of other Courts of this State.
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