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SEC. 15. If the expense of such improvements or removing such dirt and filth after the com- pletion thereof be not paid to the contractor so employed, or his agent or assignee on demand, the said contractor or his assigns shall have the right to sue the owner, tenant, or occupant, or railroad corporation or company, under the provisions of this Act, for the amount contracted to be paid, and the certificate of the Superintendent that the work has been properly done, and that the charges for the same are reasonable and just, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount claimed for said work and of the right of the contractor to recover for the same in such action. -[ Amendment March 26, 1868.]
SEC. 16. In addition, and as cumulative to the remedies above given, the Board of Supervisors shall have power by resolution or ordinance, to prescribe the penalties that shall be incurred by
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any owner, tenant, or occupant, or railroad corporation or company, neglecting or refusing to make improvements or remove dirt and filth as provided for in section fourteen of this Act, which fines and penalties shall be recovered for the use of the city and county by prosecution in the name of the People of the State of California, as in other cases provided for in subdivision eleven, of section fifteen, chapter four hundred and ninety-three, on page five hundred and forty-four of the Statutes of said State, approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and may be applied, if deemed expedient by said Board, in payment of the expenses of any such improvements when not otherwise provided for .- [ Amendment March 26, 1868.]
SEC. 17. The person owning the fee, or the person in possession, of lands, lots, or portions of lots, or buildings, under claim, or exercising acts of ownership over the same, shall be regarded, treated, and deemed, to be the " owner," (for the purposes of this law) according to the intent and meaning of that word as used in this Act ; and in case of property leased, the possession of the tenant or lessee, holding and occupying under such person, shall be deemed to be in the pos- session of such owner ; and the person so defined to be such owner shall be personally liable for the payment of any charge or assessment lawfully made or assessed upon said lands, lots, or por- tions of lots, by said Superintendent, or contracted to be paid to the contractor for improvements to cover the expenses of any work done under and authorized by the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 18. Any tenant or lessee of the lands or lots liable, may pay the amount assessed against the property of which he is the tenant or lessee, under the provisions of this Act, or he may pay the price agreed to be paid under the provisions of section fourteen of this Act, either before or after suit brought, together with costs to the contractor, or his agent or assigns; or he may redeem the property, if sold on execution or decree, for the benefit of the owner, within the time prescribed by law, and deduct the amounts so paid from the rents due and to become due from him ; and for any sum so paid beyond the rents due from him, he shall have a lien upon, and may retain possession of, the said lands and lots, until the amount so paid and ad- vanced be satisfied, with legal interest, from accruing rents or by payment by the owner.
SEC. 19. The records kept by the Superintendent of Publie Streets and Highways in con- formity with the provisions of this Act and signed by him, shall have the same force and effect as other public records, and such records or copies thereof duly certified by said Superintendent may be used in evidence with the force and effect as the original assessments, diagrams, and war- rants. The said records shall, during all office hours, be open to the inspection of any citizen wishing to examine them, free of charge .- [ Amendment March 26, 1868.]
SEC. 20. Notices in writing, which are required to be given by the Superintendent, under the provisions of this Act, may be served by any Police Officer, with the permission of the Chief of Police, and the fact of such service shall be verified by the oath of the person making it, taken before the Superintendent, (who is hereby authorized to administer oaths) Police Judge, or any Judge, or Justice of the Peace ; or such notices, whether verbal or written, may be delivered by the Superintendent himself. The Superintendent shall keep a record of the fact of giving such notices, when delivered by himself personally, and also of the notices and proof of services, when delivered by any other person.
SEC. 21. When any street or portion of a street has been or shall hereafter be constructed to the satisfaction of the Committee on Streets, Wharves, Grades, and Public Squares, of the Board of Supervisors, and the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, and shall have a brick sewer constructed therein, under such regulations as said Board shall adopt, the same shall be accepted by the Board of Supervisors, and thereafter shall be kept open and improved by the said city and county, the expense thereof, together with all work done in front of city property, to be paid out of the Street Department Fund : provided, that the Board of Super- visors shall not accept of any portion of the street less than the entire width of the roadway (including the curbing, and one block in length, or one entire crossing) : and provided, further. when the contract shall be awarded and the work performed by and under the authority of said city and county, and the street, or portion thereof so constructed and sewered, if done in a workmanlike manner, should be accepted by the Board of Supervisors, the owners of property thereon shall not be compelled to pay for such work until the same shall be accepted. The Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways shall keep in his office a register of all accepted streets, the same to be indexed, so that reference may be easily had thereto .- [Amendment March 31, 1866.]
SEC. 22. The said Superintendent shall keep a public office in some convenient place, to be designated by the Board of Supervisors ; and his office shall be kept open as in this Act required. He shall not, during his continuance in office, follow any other profession or calling, but shall be required to devote himself exclusively to the duties of his office. He shall be allowed, at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors, not more than eight Deputies, to be by him appointed from time to time ; four of said Deputies shall receive a salary not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars each, and four, a salary not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars per monthı. It shall be lawful for said Deputies to perform all or any of the duties conferred
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by this Act upon the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, under the direction of the said Superintendent, except the acceptance or approval of work done. The Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, or his deputies, shall superintend and direct the cleaning of all sewers in the public streets, and the expenses of the same shall be paid out of the Street Depart- ment Fund, in the same manner as provided for the improvements of streets that have been finally accepted, as in this Act provided .- [Amendment March 26, 1868.]
SEC. 23. It shall be the duty of the said Superintendent to see that the laws, orders, and regulations, relating to the public streets and highways, are carried into execution, and that the penalties therefor are rigidly enforced. It is required that he shall keep himself informed of the condition of all public streets and highways, and also of all public buildings, parks, lots, and grounds, of the said city and county, as may be prescribed by the Board of Supervisors. He shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bonds to the city and county, in such sum as may be fixed by the Board of Supervisors, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office ; and should said Superintendent fail to see that the laws, orders, and regula- tions, relating to the public streets and highways, are carried into execution, after notice from any citizens of a violation thereof, the said Superintendent and his sureties shall be liable upon his official bond, to any person injured in his person or property in consequence of said official neglect.
SEC. 24. No recourse shall be had against said city and county for damages to person or property suffered or sustained by or by reason of the defective condition of any street or public highway of said city or county, whether originally existing, or occasioned by construction, excavation, embankment, or want of repair of such street or public highway, and whether such damage be occasioned by accident on said street or public highway, or by falling from or upon the same. But if any person, while carefully using any street or public highway of said city and county graded, or in course of being graded, or carefully using any other street or public highway leading into or crossing the same, be injured, killed, lost, or destroyed, or any horses, animals, or other property, be lost, injured, or destroyed, through any defect in said street or public highway, graded, or in course of being graded as aforesaid, or by reason of any excava- tion or embankment in or of the same, or by falling from or upon any such embankment or ex- cavation, then the person or persons upon whom the law may impose the duty either to repair such defect or to guard the public from the excavation, embankment, or grading aforesaid, and also the officer or officers through whose official neglect such defect remained unimpaired, or said excavation or embankment remained ungraded as aforesaid, shall be jointly and severally liable to the person or persons injured for the damage sustained .- [ Amendment April 25, 1863.]
SEC. 25. First. The City Surveyor shall be the proper officer to do the surveying and other work which may be necessary to be done under sections one and two of this Act, and to survey, measure, and estimate the work done under contracts for grading streets ; and every certificate of work done by him, signed in his official character, shall be prima facie [evidence] in all the Courts in this State of the truth of its contents ; he shall also keep a record of all surveys made under the provisions of section one of this Act, as in other cases ; the Superintendent shall measure and determine any other work which may be done under the provisions of this A.ct.
Second. The words " improve," " improved," and " improvements," as used in this Act, shall include all necessary repairs of all work mentioned in section three of this Act, and also the reconstruction of all or any portion of said work.
Third. The term " main street," as used in this Act, means such street or streets as bound a block ; the term " street " shall include crossings.
Fourth. The word " block" shall mean the blocks which are known or designated as such on the map and books of the Assessor of said city and county.
Fifth. The term " incidental expenses " shall mean the expense for work done by the City Surveyor, under the provisions of this Act; also, the expense of printing, measuring, and advertising the work done under contracts for grading, and the expense of superintendence of sewers, and of piling and capping, and repiling and recapping, paving and repaving, [and] macadamizing.
Sixth. The publication of notices, required by the provisions of this Act, shall be published daily, (Sundays excepted) in the newspaper doing the printing by contract for said city and county .- [Amendment March 31, 1866.]
SEC. 26. First. All assessments hereafter to be made, to cover the expense of work provided for by contracts awarded prior to the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and after George T. Bohen became the acting Superintendent, shall be assessed as provided by the law in relation thereto and in force at the time said work was awarded ; and all assessments heretofore made by George T. Bohen as Superintendent, under said laws, to cover the expense of such work, shall be deemed and held to have been assessed under the proper law.
Second. All assessments hereafter to be made to cover the expense of work provided for by
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contracts awarded on and after the first of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be assessed according to the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 27. The Superintendent shall appoint a person or persons, suitable to take charge of and superintend the construction or improvement of each and every sewer, and of piling and capping, and repiling and recapping, paving and repaving, and macadamizing, whose duty it shall be to see that the contract made for the doing of said work is strictly fulfilled in every respect, and in case of any departure therefrom, to report the same to the said Superintendent. He shall be allowed, for his time actually employed in the discharge of his duties, such com- pensation as shall be just, but not to exceed five dollars per day. The sum to which the party so employed shall be entitled, shall be deemed to be incidental expenses within the meaning of those words, as defined in this Act : provided, that the owners of more than one-half of the frontage of the lots and lands fronting on the work proposed to be done under this section, may, within forty-eight hours after the work has been commenced, appoint their own Superintendent of the work, and provide for his compensation by private agreement .- [ Amendment March 31, 1866.]
The Board of Supervisors, upon receiving a petition for that purpose from the owners of a majority of the property on any one or more blocks, estimating the property by the front foot, in that portion of the City and County of San Francisco, lying west of Larkin Street, and south- west of Ninth Street, may order the grading or other improvement of such street or streets in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners, and without reference to the official width or grade of such street or streets, and in the same manner as other street improvements provided for in this Act : provided, that no street shall be raised above or cut below the official grade .- [ Amendment April 25, 1863, Sec. 10.]
SUPPLEMENTAL XI .- An Act to provide for Paving the Streets in the City and County of San Fran- cisco .- Approved April 2, 1866.
SECTION 1. Whenever a majority of the owners, or their agents, in frontage of any lot or block of land fronting on any street, lane, alley, place, court, or street crossing, in the City and County of San Francisco, petition the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, for the con- struction of the " Nicolson" pavement, the said Board of Supervisors shall order the same to be laid down and constructed under the same laws and regulations as other pavements are con- structed, and when the same is completed to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets, the Board of Supervisors may accept the same, in the same manner as other pavements are accepted, and be liable to the same restrictions, privileges, and rights, and be governed by the same laws and regulations as other pavements are, and no other. Said " Nicolson " pavement shall not cost to exceed twenty-eight cents in gold or silver coin per square foot.
SUPPLEMENTAL XII .- An Act to provide for Paving the Streets in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 14, 1868.
SECTION 1. Whenever a majority of the owners, or their agents, in frontage of any block of land fronting on any street, lane, place, alley, court, or street crossing, in the City and County of San Francisco, petition the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, for the construction of the " Stow Foundation " pavement, or any other wood pavement which shall be constructed with the grain of the wood in a vertical position, the said Board of Supervisors shall order the same to be laid down and constructed under the same laws and regulations as other pavements are constructed, and when the same is completed to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets, the Board of Supervisors may accept the same, in the same manner as other pavements are accepted, and be liable to the same laws and regulations as other pavements are, and no other. Said " Stow Foundation " pavement shall not cost to exceed twenty-five cents in gold or silver coin per square foot.
ARTICLE V. SUPERVISORS.
SEC. 65. The Supervisors, in their respective districts, shall vigilantly observe the conduct of all public officers, and take notice of the fidelity and exactitude, or the want thereof, with which they execute their duties and obligations, especially in the collection, custody, administra- tion, and disbursement of public funds and property ; for which purpose, the books, records, and official papers, of all officers and magistrates of such district shall, at all convenient times, be open to their inspection. They shall take care that the books and records of all officers in their district are kept in legal and proper form. They shall have power, and it shall be their duty, every month, to examine the accounts of any officer of their respective districts, having the col- lection and custody of the public funds, to examine and count over the moneys remaining in the hands of such officers, and shall note any discrepancy or defalcation that may be discovered, or reasonably suspected, and report the same forthwith, together with any willful official negligence or misconduct on the part of any such officer, to the President of the Board of Supervisors.
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SEC. 66. At every regular session of the Board of Supervisors, before proceeding to other business, each member shall be called upon to report, orally, upon the matters specified in the preceding section ; to give information of the condition of his district, in regard to public schools, streets, roads, and highways, health, police, industry, and population ; and to suggest any defects he may have noticed in the laws and regulations, or the administration thereof, and the means of remedying them.
SEC. 67. The Supervisors shall meet within five days after each annual election, and also on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October, of each year, and at such other times as specially required by law ; or they may, for urgent reasons, be specially convoked by the Presi- dent of the Board of Supervisors. A majority of all the Supervisors to be elected in the several districts shall constitute a quorum to do business ;. and no regulation, resolution, ordinance, or order of the Board, can pass without the concurrence of a majority of all the members elected ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. All the sessions, acts, and resolutions, of the Board shall be public. The President of the Board of Supervisors, elected by the city and county at large, shall preside at all the sessions of the Board, without the right to vote. In his absence, during any session, the Board shall appoint a President pro tempore, who shall, how- ever, have the same vote as other members. The Board of Supervisors shall be the judge of election returns and qualifications of its own members, and shall order and provide for holding elections in the proper districts, to fill vacancies which may happen or exist more than six months previous to the next general election ; at which general election such office shall be filled by election for the full term of two years. The Board of Supervisors shall determine the rules of its proceedings, keep a record of its acts and resolutions, and allow the same to be published ; and the yeas and nays on any question shall, at the request of any member, be entered on its journals. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint a Clerk with a salary of twenty-one hundred dollars a year, [Amendment Act April 26, 1862] to hold office during the pleasure of the Board, who shall be ex officio Clerk of the Board of Equalization, without any additional salary as such, except as provided in section eleven,* and shall be required to take the constitutional oath of office, and give bond for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office .; He shall have power to administer such oaths and affirmations as may be required by law, or the regulations or the orders of the Board, relating to any demands upon the treasury or other business connected with the government of the city and county ; and shall also have power to certify and authen- ticate copies of all records, papers, and documents in his official custody. The powers of the Board of Supervisors are those granted in this Act, and they are prohibited to exercise any others .- [ Amendment April 18, 1857.]
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SEC. 68. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board of Supervisors vigilantly to observe the official conduct of each Supervisor in his district, and of all public officers of the city and county, and take note of the fidelity and exactitude, or the want thereof, with which they execute their duties and obligations, especially in the collection, custody, administration, and disbursement of the public funds and property ; for which purpose the books, records, and official papers of all officers and magistrates of said city and county shall, at all convenient times, be open to his inspection. He shall take especial care to see that the books and records of all such officers are kept in legal and proper form ; and any official defalcation, or willful neglect of duty, or official misconduct, which he may have discovered, or which shall have been reported to him by any Supervisor, shall, at the earliest opportunity, be laid before the Grand Jury, in order that the officer in default may be proceeded against according to law. Every ordinance or res- olution of the Board of Supervisors, providing for any specific improvement, the granting of any privilege, or involving the lease or other appropriation of public property, or the expenditure of public moneys, (except for sums less than five hundred dollars) or levying tax or assessment, and every ordinance or resolution imposing a new duty or penalty, shall, after its introduction in the Board, be published with the ayes and nays, in some city daily newspaper, at least five succes- sive days before final action of the Board upon the same ; and every such ordinance, after the same shall pass the Board, shall, before it takes effect, be presented to the President of the Board for his approval. If he approves, he shall sign it ; if not, he shall return it within ten days, to the Board, with his objections in writing. The Board shall then enter the objections on the journals and publish them in some city newspaper. If at any stated meeting thereafter, two- thirds of all the members elected to the Board vote for such ordinance or resolution, it shall then, despite the objections of the President, become valid. Should any such ordinance or reso- lution not be returned by the President within ten days after he receives it, it shall become valid, the same as if it had received his signature.
SEC. 69. All contracts for buildingį and printing, to be done for the said city and county,
* Act of Legislature, April 18, 1857. See Statutes, p. 209.
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and ordinary supplies for subsistence of prisoners, must be given by the Board of Supervisors to the lowest bidder offering adequate security, after due public notice published for not less than five days, in at least two newspapers in said city and county. All contracts for subsistence of prisoners must be given out annually, at a fixed price per day, not exceeding twenty-five cents per diem, for each person connected with the prison [Amendment Act April 26, 1862]; and the advertisement for proposals to be published as aforesaid by the Board of Supervisors, shall specify each article that will be required, the quantity thereof, the quantity for each person, and the existing and probable number of prisoners to be supplied, All'articles of food supplied for prisoners must be of a sound. and wholesome quality, and subject to the inspection and approval of the keeper of the prison, and also the President of the Board of Supervisors and Police Judge of said city and county, all of which must be expressed in the contract therefor to be entered into.
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