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Accounts
Of Public Utilities..........24
Special Audits..........16
Payment of Claims..........38
Warrants issued by Comptroller..........29
Alleys, See Streets.
Amusements and Entertainments
Supervision of..........27
Advertisements for Supplies
..........35
Aldermen See Board of Aldermen.
Amendments to Charter by Initiative
..........11-12
Appointments
..........17
See Mayor..........17
Appropriations
Board of Estimate and Apportionment..........36
Assessment Bonds
..........82
Interest on..........82
For local improvements..........82
Assessments, Special.
Streets..........74
Sewers..........76
Sidewalks..........74
Parkways..........74
Method of Assessing..........74
Preliminary procedure..........72
When payable.......... 7
On lands not subject to assessment..........74
City’s portion of cost..........76
Division into Installments..........71
Supplementary Assessments and Rebates..........78
Removing snow and ice..........83
Assessor
Appointed by Mayor..........17
Qualifications..........31
Salary..........31
Oath..........31
Bond..........31
Deputies..........31
Appoints Deputy Assessor..........32
Board of Equalization..........16
Audit of City Records
..........87
Auditor
..........87
Ballots
In recall elections.......... 6
In initiative and referendum elections..........12
Board of Aldermen
.......... 7
Clerk–Duties in
Initiative petitions..........12
Referendum petitions..........13-14
Qualifications.......... 7
Salary.......... 7
Number.......... 7
Elected when.......... 4
To fix salaries..........18
Ward election when Constitution permits.......... 4
May establish Divisions..........83
Wards-Division into and redivision.......... 3
Vacancies–how filled.......... 7
Meetings to be public.......... 9
Rules and Journal.......... 8
President........... 7
Vice-President.......... 7
Clerk and other employes.......... 7
Judge of qualifications of members.......... 8
Ordinance enactment.................. 8
Emergency measures.......... 9
Appropriation ordinances..........18
Certify ordinances establishing tax rates........36
Committee report.......... 8
Divide city into judicial districts,.............12
Ineligible to other office during term..........18
Limitation on appropriations..........10
Action on budget..........36
Investigation by.......... 8
Ordinances filed..........10
Action on initiative petitions...........11
Action on referendum petitions,..........13
Subject to recall.......... 5
Term.......... 4
Change of residence......... 7
Forfeiture of office.......... 7
Expulsion.......... 8
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
..........36
Budget submitted to Board of Aldermen..........36
Hearing to citizens..........36
Action by Board of Aldermen..........36
Unexpended balances..........37
May recommend transfer of funds..........37
Board of Parole and Probation
..........29
Board of Standardization
..........35
Board of Public Service
..........22
President..........17
Streets and Sewers..........25
Public Utilities..........17
Public Welfare..........25
Public Safety..........27
Rules and regulations..........22
Transfer of employes..........24
Board of Children’s Guardians
..........29
Board of Election Commissioners
..........84
Board of Equalization
..........32
Meets..........32
Qualifications..........32
Compensation...........32
Bonds
Of city officials..........18
Kept by Register..........19
Premiums paid by city..........17
Authority to issue..........37
Purposes for which city may issue..........37
Based on public utilities..........37
Local improvements..........81
Books,
open to inspection..........84
Bridges,
under street division..........25
Budget, see Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
Buildings and Inspection
Commissioner of..........28
Correction
Commissioner of..........26
Chief of Police
..........28
City Art Museum
..........29
City Counselor,
see Law Department..........20
City Marshal
..........21
City Courts
..........21
Claims against the city,
payment of..........30
Civil Service Commission
..........40
Terms defined..........40
Personnel administration..........41
Civil Service Rules..........42
Classification..........42
Compensation..........42
Filling vacancies..........43
Ordinances..........46
Temporary appointments..........43
Service rating..........43
Transfers..........44
Reinstatement and reemployment..........44
Removals, demotion, decrease in pay..........44
Regulating hours and duty, holidays, leaves of absence..........44
Fines and suspensions..........45
Department of Personnel..........46
Civil Service Commission
..........46
Qualifications..........47
Appointed by Mayor..........47
Comprehensive Compensation Plan..........46
Powers and duties of the Commission..........47
Collector
..........17
Appointed by Mayor..........17
Qualifications..........33
Salary..........33
Bond..........34
Comptroller
Qualifications..........29
Term.......... 4
Forfeiture of office..........29
Member Board of Estimate and Apportionment..........36
Member Board of Standardization..........35
Bond..........29
Salary..........29
Appoints deputies..........29
Rights in Board of Aldermen..........29
Transfer employes..........30
Approves bonds..........83
Supervision of Department of Finance..........29
Complaint Board
..........28
Condemnation
..........61
Commissioners appointed by court..........62
Notice to be served..........62
Exceptions..........66
Waive trial by jury..........65
Ordinances appropriating damages..........68
Contracts
..........84
Officers and employee not interested in..........18
Signed by..........84
Certification of Comptroller required..........84
Mayor shall see contracts are performed..........15
Public improvements by contract or direct labor..........74
Damages,
Assessment of in condemnation,..........66
Departments
Streets and Sewers..........25
Public Utilities..........24
Public Welfare..........25
Public Safety..........27
Finance..........29
Law..........20
Divisions
(see Health, Hospitals, Parks and Recreation,Correction, Research and Publicity, Legal Aid, Municipal Lodging House, Employment, Police, Excise, Fire and Fire Prevention, Weights and Measures, Building and Inspection).
May be changed by Board of Aldermen..........83
Directors
Streets and Sewers..........22
Public Utilities..........22
Public Welfare..........22
Public Safety..........22
Salaries fixed by Board of Aldermen..........22
Director of Personnel
..........49
Appointed by the Mayor............49
Powers and duties of the Director..........49
May be removed-reasons..........51
Details from other departments..........52
Offices and facilities..........52
Status of employes..........52
Remedies..........53
Examinations for licenses..........53
Obstructing right of examinations - false representation..........53
Discrimination - Political and religious..........54
Political contributions forbidden..........54
Official influence-forbidden..........55
Political activity..........55
Employes entitled to vote..........55
False statement..........56
Penalties for violations..........56
Compliance with laws, rules and orders..........56
Legal actions..........56
Administer oaths - Compel attendance of witnesses..........57
Titles and rates of pay..........57
Invalidity of any provision..........57
Repeal of inconsistent provisions..........58
Preservation of powers and duties..........58
Time of effect..........58
Clerk of Board of Aldermen - see Board of Aldermen
Eight-hour day
..........85
Elections
.......... 4
Emergency measures
..........10
Employment Bureau
..........27
Epidemics
..........26
Estimate and Apportionment,
see Board of..........36
Excise Commissioner
..........27
Expenditures
Pursuant to appropriation by Board of Aldermen..........11
Supervision by Board of Estimate and Apportionment..........11
Finance Department
(See Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Comptroller, Assessor, Collector, Treasurer, Supply Commissioner, Bonds).
Fire and Police Telegraph
..........28
Fines
..........10
Fire and Fire Prevention
Commissioner of..........28
Police power at fires..........28
Fire Marshal..........28
Fiscal Year
..........37
Forester,
city..........27
Franchises
..........58
Not to be passed as emergency measure..........59
City may take over property..........10
Limitation to fifty years..........59
Board of Aldermen may impose tax on street railways..........59
Not assignable without consent of city..........59
Charges regulated by Board of Aldermen..........59
Street railways to keep street in repair..........59
Free Employment Bureau
..........27
Grade Crossings,
power to abolish.......... 3
Harbors,
city may provide and maintain.......... 2
Health Commissioner
..........25
May abate nuisances..........26
Avoid epidemics..........26
Highways,
see streets..........25
Hospital Commissioner
..........85
Hours of Labor
..........81
Improvement bond and funds
..........81
Initiative petitions
Signatures..........12
Percentage requires..........12
Affidavit of circulator.......... 6
Filing of petition.......... 6
Supplementary petitions.......... 6
Certification of sufficiency..........12
Action of Board of Aldermen..........12
Election, when..........12
Ballots, form of..........12
Committee of petitioner..........14
Publication of arguments..........15
Inspection of Buildings
Board of Aldermen.......... 7
Mayor..........15
Civil Service Commission..........40
Director of Public Utilities..........24
Labor,
hours of..........85
Law Department
..........20
City Counselor..........20
Qualifications..........20
Mayor appoints counselor..........17
Approves bonds, as to form..........20
Salary..........20
Associate City Counselors..........20
Legal aid
..........27
License taxes
..........60
Lodging House,
Municipal..........27
Markets,
in charge of Health Commissioner..........26
Marshal
..........21
Mayor
..........15
Member Board of Estimate and Apportionment..........36
Veto.......... 9
Signing of Ordinances.......... 9
Term.......... 4
Qualifications..........16
Salary..........15
Appoints..........15
Power to appoint and remove..........15
Powers and duties,..........15
Investigation by..........16
Recall of.......... 5
Removal of by Board of Aldermen..........16
Forfeiture of office..........16
Succession to..........16
Absence..........16
Right in Board of Aldermen..........15
Require audit..........16
May remit fines..........15
May suspend elective officers..........18
Epidemics, pay prevent..........26
Mullanphy Board
..........28
Municipal ownership
City may own, acquire, purchase, etc., public utilities.......... 1
See also Department of Public Utilities..........24
Morgue
..........26
Name
.......... 1
Newspaper,
Board of Aldermen may establish..........36
Nonpartisan nominations
.......... 5
Notices, special elections
.......... 4
Condemnation..........61
Marshal execute..........21
To officer whose recall is sought.......... 6
Nuisances
..........26
Oath of office
..........17
Office,
definition of..........85
Officers
..........17
Residence..........17
Salaries and fees..........18
Official bond..........17
Continuance of present officers..........87
Interest in contracts and supplies..........18
Notice of recall petition.......... 6
When not subject to recall.......... 6
Ordinances
Majority of votes necessary for enactment.......... 9
Enacting clause.......... 8
Reading of.......... 9
Amending of.......... 9
Action by committees in what time.......... 9
When takes effect..........36
Appropriation and tax rate bills.......... 9
Approval and veto of.......... 9
Filed with Register..........10
Emergency measure, what constitutes..........10
Appropriation ordinance..........10
Ordinances may be submitted by initiative..........11
Subject to referendum..........13
Conflicting..........15
Ratification of existing..........86
Revision of..........10
Parole and Probation,
Board of..........29
Parks and Recreation,
Commissioner of..........27
Parkways
see Article XXII..........71
Penalties
..........10
Petitions
See initiative, referendum, recall
Process, power to issue.
Board of Equalization..........31
Public Utilities..........24
Board of Aldermen.......... 7
Plat of Subdivision,
must be recorded..........23
Police Commissioner
..........27
Chief of Police..........27
Police power at fires, also with Fire Commissioner..........28
Take over functions of Marshal..........21
Political belief,
no discrimination because of.......52
Powers of City
.......... 1
Preferential ballot
.......... 4
President Board of Aldermen,
elected, etc.,.......... 7
Member of Board of Estimate and Apportionment..........36
Succession to.......... 7
Proclamation by Mayor,
epidemics..........26
Proportional representation
.......... 5
Public Safety
Department of..........27
(See Police, Excise, Fire Prevention, Weights and Measures, Building and Inspection).
Public Utilities, Department of
Director..............17
City may own, operate, etc........... 1
Director may investigate..........24
Accounts..........24
Public Welfare,
Department of..........25
(See Division of Health, Hospitals, Parks and Recreation, Correction, Research and Publicity, Legal Aid, Municipal, Lodging House, Employment).
Public Welfare Boards
..........27
Publications
Advertising..........35
Rules of Civil Service Commission..........42
Board of Equalization to be in session..........32
Ordinances published..........10
Arguments under initiative, referendum, recall..........14
Record of Board of Public Service..........22
Notice of special elections.......... 4
Report of B.P.S. on franchises..........59
Permits
Granted by Board of Public Service..........23
Never to be considered as franchises..........23
Absolute power of revocation..........23
Printing, City
City may do all..........35
Recall.......... 5
Recreation, Parks and;
Commissioner of..........27
Rules and Regulations,
Health..........25
Complaint Board..........29
Civil Service Commission..........40
Recorder of Deeds,
abstracts to Assessor..........33
Referendum
..........13
Regular Municipal Elections
.......... 4
Register
..........19
Reports of Departments made by Directors
..........19
Made by B.P.S...........23
Civil Service Commission..........40
Made by Comptroller..........30
Research and Publicity
..........27
Revisions of Assessments by Board of Equalization
..........32
Sale of City Real Estate forbidden..........11
Salaries
President of Board of Aldermen.......... 7
Board of Aldermen.......... 7
Mayor..........15
Comptroller..........29
Collector..........34
Supply Commissioner..........34
City Counselor..........20
Marshal..........21
City Court Judges..........21
Clerk Police Courts..........22
Directors..........22
Employes, Fixed by Board of Aldermen..........18
Construed to mean not less than..........18
Payable monthly..........18
Sanitary Inspection by Police
..........26
Seal–Kept by Register
..........19
Sewers
(See Streets)..........25
Sidewalks
Construction and repair..........74
Signatures
(See Initiative, Referendum, Recall.)
Sinking Fund
..........39
Disbursements on account Sinking Fund approved by..........39
Special Tax Bills
..........78
Divided into installments..........79
Streets
Department of Streets and Sewers..........25
Repair and Maintenance..........25
Platting of..........23
Dedication of..........23
Subdivisions, Plats of
May not be recorded when..........23
Supply Commissioner
..........35
Supply Commissioner
Appointed by Mayor..........17
Salary..........35
Bond..........17
Charge of City Printing..........36
Transfer of Funds
..........37
Tax,
City has power to.......... 1
Treasurer
..........17
Salary..........34
Veto, Mayor
.......... 9
Vice-President, Board of Aldermen
.......... 7
Vital Statistics
..........26
Wards, Boundaries
.......... 3
Waste, Disposal of
..........25
Water Commissioner
..........24
Water Rates,
assured by Water Commissioner..........25
Weights and Measures
..........28
Wharves
..........25
Zoological Park
..........29

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