Court always open. SEC. 113. The police court shall always be open for the court transaction of business except on Sundays and other non- always judicial days. Disqualification of police judge. open. cation of SEC. 114. In all cases in which the police judge is a party Disqualifi or in which he is interested, or when he is related to any police party to an action or proceeding by consanguinity or affinity judge. within the third degree, or is otherwise disqualified, or in case of sickness or inability to act, the police judge shall call a justice of the peace residing in the county of Solano to act in his place and stead, and while so acting said justice shall be vested with all powers, authority and jurisdiction of the duly qualified judge of the police court. Fines the property of the city. property SEC. 115. All fines, penalties, forfeitures and other moneys Fines the received or collected by the police judge, for or on account of of the city. the city of Vallejo, shall be immediately paid into the city treasury for the use of the city. Rules. SEC. 116. The police judge shall adopt all necessary rules Rules. and regulations for conducting the business of the court. Organization. ARTICLE XVI. tion. SEC. 117. The police department, which shall be under the Organizasupervision of the commissioner of public health and safety, shall consist of a chief of police, and such sergeants, patrolmen, and other officers and employees as in the judgment of the council the needs of the service may require. Appointments. SEC. 118. The chief of police shall be appointed by the Appointcommissioner of public health and safety, subject to confirma- ments. tion by the council; sergeants shall be appointed or disrated by the chief of police; patrolmen and other officers and members of the police department shall be appointed by the commissioner of public health and safety; provided (1) that sergeants be appointed only from patrolmen who have served as such not less than two (2) years; and provided, (2) that the chief of police, sergeants, patrolmen and other officers of the police department appointed prior to the first day of December, 1910, who are in good standing at the time this charter goes into effect, and all who may be hereafter appointed, shall be retained in their respective positions except as otherwise provided in this charter. Number of patrolmen. SEC. 119. Patrolmen shall be appointed in such numbers as not to exceed one patrolman for every fifteen hundred (1,500) Number of inhabitants of the city of Vallejo. In determining the popupatrolmen. lation for the purposes of this section, said population is hereby Salaries. The board of educa tion. Meetings to be public. Superin declared and established to be on the basis of five (5) inhabitants for every registered voter as the same shall at any time appear on the great register of the county of Solano. Salaries. SEC. 120. The chief of police, sergeants and patrolmen shall receive annual compensation as follows: Chief of police, for the first year of service after date of appointment, $1,500; for the second year of such service, $1,620; for the third year of such service and thereafter, $1,800. Sergeants, for the first year of service after date of appointment, $1,320; for the second year of such service, $1,440; for the third year of such service and thereafter $1,500. Patrolmen, for the first year of service after date of appointment, $1,020; for the second year of such service, $1,140; for the third years of such service and thereafter $1,500. ARTICLE XVII. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The board of education. SEC. 121. The board of education shall have entire control and management of the public schools in the city in accordance with the constitution and general laws of the state, and is hereby vested with all the powers and charged with all the duties provided by this charter and by the general laws of the state for city boards of education. Meetings to be public. SEC. 122. All meetings of the board of education shall be public. Superintendent of schools. SEC. 123. The board of education shall appoint a superintendent of tendent of schools, who shall be the holder of a high school certificate or a secondary school certificate under the general law of the state, and shall fix his compensation. schools. Powers and duties of the superin tendent. Powers and duties of the superintendent. SEC. 124. The superintendent of schools shall be the secretary and executive officer of the board of education and he shall give his full time to the duties of his office. He shall be subject only to the board of education and all orders of the board relating to the direction of the principals, teachers and janitors shall be given through him. He must examine all plans for the construction and reconstruction of school buildings and report in writing to the board any objection he may find thereto. He shall have supervision of the course of instruction, of the discipline and conduct of the schools. Powers of superintendent with reference to teachers. SEC. 125. The superintendent of schools shall nominate and tendent recommend all teachers and principals for election by the board Powers of of education. He shall assign all teachers and principals and superin make all transfers necessary to the successful operation of the with referschools. Election of teachers. ence to teachers. teachers. SEC. 126. The board of education shall elect all teachers, Election of but only from a list of candidates nominated and recommended by the superintendent of schools. The board of education may make rules in accordance with which the superintendent must make such nominations and recommendations. Tenure of teachers. teachers. SEC. 127. Every person employed as a regular teacher by Tenure of the school department shall be considered re-elected for the ensuing fiscal year unless at least two months before the beginning of such fiscal year he or she is notified in writing, by authority of the board of education, that it is expected that his or her services will not be required for the ensuing fiscal year. Such notice shall be deemed given when placed in a sealed envelope and sent by registered mail to the teacher affected at his or her last known place of residence, as it appears from the records of the department. ARTICLE XVIII. MISCELLANEOUS. When this charter takes effect. charter SEC. 128. For the purpose of nominating candidates and when this electing the mayor, auditor, commissioners and school directors takes in accordance with this charter, this charter shall take effect effect. from the time of the approval of the same by the legislature; for all other purposes it shall take effect on the first day of July, 1911. First election under this charter. tion under SEC. 129. The board of trustees of the city of Vallejo in First elec office at the time this charter is approved by the legislature this shall provide for the holding of the first election of officers charter. under this charter, shall canvass the votes, declare the result and approve the bonds of all officers elected at such election. Terms of incumbents in office. in office. SEC. 130. The members of the board of trustees, the Terms of auditor, and the members of the board of education in office incumbents at the time of the approval of this charter by the legislature shall continue to hold office and discharge their duties until the election and qualification of the mayor, auditor, commissioners and school directors, respectively, first elected under this charter. The term of each of all the other officers in office at the time this charter takes effect shall cease and terminate when the council first elected hereunder shall by resolution so declare. Existing continued Existing ordinances continued in force. SEC. 131. All lawful city ordinances, resolutions and reguordinances lations in force at the time this charter takes effect and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof are hereby continued in force until the same shall be duly amended or repealed. in force. Claims against the city. Illegal approval of demands. Annual vacations. Mare Island Straits; meaning thereof. Women Claims against the city. SEC. 132. All claims for damages against the city must be presented to the council and filed with the city clerk within six months after the occurrence from which the damages are claimed to have arisen; otherwise, there shall be no recovery on any such claim. Illegal approval of demands. SEC. 133. Every officer who shall approve, allow, or pay any demand on the treasury not authorized by law, ordinance, or this charter, shall be liable to the city, individually, and on his official bonds, for the amount of the demand so illegally approved, allowed, or paid. Annual vacations. SEC. 134. Every officer and employee, after having served continuously for one year in the employ of the city shall be entitled to fifteen (15) days' vacation with full pay. Mare island straits; meaning thereof. SEC. 135. By the designation Mare Island straits wherever occurring in this charter is meant that body of water lying between the mainland of the city of Vallejo and Mare Island, whether known as Napa creek, Napa river, Napa slough, Vallejo bay, or otherwise. Women eligible to appointive offices. SEC. 136. Nothing in this charter shall be construed as proeligible to hibiting the appointment of women to any appointive office. appointive offices. Violation of charter provisions. Misdemeanor. Violation provisions; SEC. 137. The violation of any provision of this charter of charter shall be deemed a misdemeanor. Any act or omission declared by this charter to be a misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500) dollars, or by both. misde meanor. CERTIFICATE. WHEREAS, The city of Vallejo, a city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred inhabitants, on the eleventh day of October, nineteen hundred and ten, at a special election, and under and in accordance with the provisions of section eight, article eleven of the constitution of the State of California, did elect W. J. Carlin, John Davidson, Robert B. Dempsey, B. F. Griffin, G. S. Hale, E. B. Hussey, W. A. Jones, J. B. McCauley, Grant McLaughlin, Donald Munro, Conrad Rump, John Sullivan, W. H. Taylor, J. R. Ward and E. V. Williams a board of fifteen freeholders to prepare and propose a charter for said city; BE IT KNOWN, That in pursuance of said provision of the constitution and within a period of ninety days after said election, said board of freeholders has prepared and does propose the foregoing as and for the charter of the city of Vallejo. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands in duplicate this 3d day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. B. F. GRIFFIN, President. ROBT. B. DEMPSEY. G. S. HALE. WM. A. JONES. J. B. MCCAULEY. GRANT MCLAUGHLIN. E. V. WILLIAMS. Attest: E. B. HUSSEY, Secretary. I, W. J. TORMEY, city clerk of the city of Vallejo, do hereby certify that the foregoing proposed charter of the city of Vallejo is a full, true and correct copy of the charter of the city of Vallejo as prepared and proposed by the board of fifteen freeholders elected on October eleventh, 1910, which said charter was delivered and submitted to the mayor of said city on January fourth, 1911, and filed in the office of the city clerk on said January fourth, 1911, and is now in my custody as city clerk of said city. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of the city of Vallejo this ninth day of January, 1911. [SEAL] STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SOLANO, CITY OF VALLEJO, W. J. TORMEY, City Clerk. SS. I, J. F. Chappell, mayor of the city of Vallejo, State of California, do hereby certify that the board of freeholders, whose names appear signed to the foregoing proposed charter, were on the 11th day of October, 1910, at a special municipal election held in said city of Vallejo on said day, duly elected by the qualified electors of said city to prepare and propose a charter for said city; that each of said freeholders had been a qualified elector and freeholder in said city for more than five (5) years previous to said election; that the foregoing is a true copy of said charter prepared and returned to me as mayor of said city of Vallejo within ninety (90) days after |