Charter of the City of San Bernardino, as amended1908Statutes of California, 1905, Pages 940-979. [Original] Changes from 1908 underlined, deletions(original from 1905 in strikeout); Amendments found in Journal of the Senate of the State of California, 1908, Page 364, February 1, 1909[Begin]W
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The City of San Bernardino, a municipal corporation of the County of SanBernardino, State of California, now is and was at all time herein referred to, a city containing apopulation of more than three thousand five hundred inhabitants and less than ten thousandinhabitants; andW
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At a special municipal election, duly held in said city on the 30th day of July,1904, under and in accordance with the law and provision of Section eight of Article eleven of the Constitution of said State of California, a board of fifteen freeholders, duly qualified, waselected in and by said city, by the qualified electors thereof, to prepare and propose a charter forthe government of said city; andW
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Said board of freeholders did, within ninety days after said election, prepareand propose a charter for the government of the said City of San Bernardino; andW
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The said charter was on the 27th day of October, in the year 1904, signed induplicate by the members of said board of freeholders and was thereupon duly returned andCharter of filed with the president of the board of trustees of said City of San Bernardino, and theother copy thereof was filed with and in the office of the county recorder of the County of SanBernardino; andW
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Such proposed charter was thereafter published in the San Bernardino DailyTimes-Index and in the San Bernardino Daily Sun, each being daily newspapers of generalcirculation in said City of San Bernardino. The said charter being published for a period of twenty days and more, the first publication thereof was made within twenty days after thecompletion of said charter; andW
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Said proposed charter was, within not less than thirty days after thecompletion of said publication, submitted by the board of trustees of the City of San Bernardinoto the qualified voters of the City of San Bernardino at the special election previously duly calledand therein held on the 6th day of January, 1905; andW
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At said last mentioned special election, a majority of said qualified electors of said city voting at such special election, voted in favor of the ratification of such charter asproposed as a whole; andW
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Said board of trustees after canvassing said returns, duly found and declaredthat the majority of said qualified electors, voting at special election, had voted for ratifying saidcharter; and
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The same is now submitted to the legislature of the State of California for itsapproval and ratification as a whole without power of alteration or amendment, in accordancewith Section eight of Article 11 of the Constitution of the State of California; andW
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Said charter so ratified is in words and figures following, to wit:
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO.
ARTICLE I.BOUNDARIES, RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES.S
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1. The municipal corporation now existing, known as the City of SanBernardino, shall remain and continue a body politic and corporate in name and in fact, by thename of the City of San Bernardino, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and maysue and defend in all court and places and in all matters and proceedings whatever, and allproperty, rights and interests of the said city shall continue and vest in and belong to said cityunder this charter. It may have and use a common seal and alter it at pleasure; may purchase,receive and hold real and personal property within and without the city limits; may sell anddispose of the same for the common benefit; receive bequests and donations of all kinds of property in trust for charitable or other purposes and do all acts necessary to carry out thepurposes of such bequests and donations, with power to manage, sell or otherwise dispose of thesame in accordance with the terms of bequest or donation.S
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2. The boundaries of the City of San Bernardino shall be as follows: Commencing atthe southeast corner of block seven of the Rancho San Bernardino, at the intersection of thecenter lines of Mill street and Waterman avenue, and running thence north along said center lineof Waterman avenue, and along the east boundary of said block seven, and of blocks six, five,four, three, two, one and thirty-two of said rancho, to the northeast corner of lot one of said block thirty-two; thence west along the north boundary of said lot one and of lot fourteen of said block thirty-two, and the north line of lots one and fourteen of block thirty-three, lots one and fourteenof block thirty-four, lots one and fourteen of block thirty-five, lots one and fourteen of block thirty-six, lots three and six of block fifty-three, lots three and six of block fifty-nine, to thenorthwest corner of said lot six of block fifty-nine: thence south along the west line of lots sixand five of said block fifty-nine to the southwest corner of said lot five of block fifty-nine;thence east along the south line of said lot five to the intersection of the west line of lot twenty-four of block twenty-one with the north line of Base Line street; thence south along the west lineof lots twenty-four and seven in said block twenty-one, lots twenty-four and seven of block twenty-two, lots twenty-four and seven of block twenty-three, lots twenty-four and seven of block twenty-four, and lots twenty-four and seven in block twenty-five, to the southwest cornerof said lot seven of block twenty-five, at the intersection of said west line with the north line of First street; thence east along the south line of said block twenty-five and along said north line of First street to the northwest corner of lot eight in block sixty-six, at the intersection of the westline of said lot eight with the said north line of First street; thence south along the west line of lots eight and one of block sixty-six, to the southwest corner of said lot one of block sixty-six, atthe intersection of said west line with the center line of Mill street; thence east along the center
line of said Mill street, and along the south line of blocks sixty-six, fourteen, thirteen, twelve,eleven, ten, nine, eight and seven, to the southeast corner of said block seven at the place of beginning; all being in and of the Rancho San Bernardino, according to the plan of survey of saidrancho, of record in the office of the county recorder of said San Bernardino county.The jurisdiction of said city, for all purposes of ownership, control, protection, management andmaintenance, shall extend to and embrace all that parcel of land about two and one-half milesnorthwest of the court house in the City of San Bernardino, consisting of ten acres, more or less,and known as the "City Reservoir Tract," and that other parcel of land of about twenty-two acresabout one-half mile east of the city limits known as the "Job Antil Tract," and such jurisdictionshall also extend to any other real property that may hereafter be acquired by said City of SanBernardino.S
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3. The city shall be divided into five wards and the five several wards of said city,with boundaries as they now exist, are hereby recognized and established as the wards under thischarter. The boundaries of the said wards may at any time hereafter be changed by ordinancepassed by the mayor and common council;
provided,
that such change shall not be made morethan once in every two years and shall be made at least ninety days before any general municipalelection;
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that the boundaries shall always be made so that all the wardsshall be in compact form and equal in population as near as may be.ARTICLE II.
ELECTIONS AND OFFICERS.
Elections.
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10. The provisions of all general laws governing elections for state and countyofficers, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, are hereby adopted as the lawsgoverning city elections for city officers, and the provisions of all laws governing general orspecial elections in municipalities applicable to all municipalities of the state, or to municipalitiesof the fifth class, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, are hereby adopted asthe laws governing all general or special elections held within the city, and in all elections themayor and common council and the city clerk respectively shall exercise the powers and performthe duties conferred or imposed by law on boards of supervisors and county clerks concerningelections.S
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11. The mayor and common council shall provide for the holding of all cityelections. The boundaries of the precincts shall remain as fixed for the election of state andofficers at the last general election, preceding a city election, unless changed by ordinance. Eachinspector, judge and clerk of election shall receive four dollars for his services. The electionreturns from each precinct shall be filed with the city clerk within twelve hours after completionof canvass, who shall immediately place the same in the vaults of the city clerk's office, or insome safe place of deposit under his control, and no person shall be permitted to handle, inspect,examine or in any manner interfere with the same until canvassed by the common council.
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Charter of the City of San Bernardino, as amended1908 Statutes of California, 1905, Pages 940-979. Changes from 1908 election and adoption by the California Legislature underlined, deletions (original from 1905 in strikeout); Amendments found in Journal of the Senate of the State of California, 1908, Page 364, February 1, 1909.
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