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 De/ 
 
 Proposed Charter 
 
 for the 
 
 County of Napa 
 
 To be Submitted to the Electors of the County of 
 
 Napa, State of California, at a Special 
 
 Election to be held on 
 
 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1917, 
 
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 LIDRARY 
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 WKI.KLY PHOTOGRAM. PRINTERS 
 ST. HELENA, CAL.

 
 Proposed Charter for ibo Coaaty of Napa 
 
 We, the people of the County of 
 Napa, in the State of California, do 
 ordain and establish this Charter for 
 its government. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Section One: The County of Napa, 
 as it now exists, is a body politic and 
 as such has all the power specified 
 by the Constitution, the laws of the 
 State of California, and by this Char- 
 ter. 
 
 Section Two: The official name of 
 the County shall be County of Napa. 
 It must be thus designated in all ac- 
 tions and proceedings touching its 
 rights, property and duties. 
 
 Section Three: The boundaries of 
 said County shall remain the same as 
 they are now, until otherwise chang- 
 ed in the manner provided by law. 
 
 Section Four: The powers mention- 
 ed in Section One shall be exercised 
 by a Board of Supervisors, by Agents 
 and Officers. 
 
 ARTICLE H. 
 Boa i-d of Supervisors. 
 
 Section One: The County of Napa 
 Is hereby divided into five Supervis- 
 orial districts, the boundaries of 
 which shall be and remain as they 
 now are until otherwise changed in 
 the manner provided by law. 
 
 Section Two: The County of Napa 
 shall have a Board of Supervisors 
 consisting of five members, each of 
 whom shall be an elector of the Su- 
 pervisorial district which he repre- 
 sents, must reside therein during his 
 term of office, must have been a resi- 
 dent of the County for five years im- 
 mediately preceding his election, and 
 shall be nominated by the electors of 
 the district which he is to represent 
 and elected at large by the electors of 
 the County of Napa. At the primary 
 election in the Supervisorial district, 
 the electors of the district shall vote 
 for two candidates to be placed on 
 the general election ballot, and only 
 two candidates from each Supervisor- 
 ial district shall be nominated at the 
 primary election. The electors of the 
 County, at such general election, shall 
 make a choice of one candidate from 
 each district. 
 
 Each Supervisor shall hold office 
 for a term of four years and until the 
 election and qualification of his suc- 
 or. 
 
 Section Three: At the general 
 election to be held In November, 1918, 
 Supervisors shall be elected for the 
 First and Third Supervisorial Dis- 
 tricts, whose terms of office shall be- 
 gin at noon on the first Monday after 
 the first day of January, 1919. 
 
 Section Four: At the general elec- 
 tion to be held in November, 1920, 
 rvisors shall be elected for the 
 :<1, Fourth, and Fifth Supervis- 
 ricts, whose terms of office 
 : begin at noon on the first Mon- 
 after the first day of January, 
 
 Section Five: The Board of Super- 
 shall, at its first mooting In 
 January of each year, elect a Chair- 
 in:! n, v.'ho shall preside at all meet- 
 In case of his absence, or inabil- 
 
 ity to act, the members present must, 
 by an order entered on its records, se- 
 lect one of their number to act- as 
 chairman pro tempore. A majoi ty 
 shall constitute a quorum, and no act 
 of the Board shall be valid or bindir 
 unless three members concur therein^ 
 Any member of the Board of Super- 
 visors may administer oaths when 
 necessary in the performance of his 
 official duties. 
 
 ARTICLE HI. 
 
 Powers and Duties of the Board of 
 Supervisors. 
 
 Section One: The Board of Super- 
 visors and each Supervisor shall 
 have all the jurisdiction, and power 
 which is now, or which may hereaf- 
 ter be granted by the Constitution and 
 laws of the State of California, or by 
 this Charter, except as limited in this 
 Charter, and not in conflict here- 
 with. 
 
 Section Two: It shall be the duty 
 of the Board of Supervisors: 
 
 (a) At its first regular meeting, 
 after noon of the first Monday after 
 the first day of January, 1919, to ap- 
 point a Business Manager, and dur- 
 ing the month of February following 
 said first day of January, to appoint 
 all the County Officers provided to be 
 appointed by this Charter, or the 
 general laws of the State of Califor- 
 nia, provided, that all other officers to 
 be appointed by the Board of Super- 
 visors shall be so appointed with the 
 advice and approval of the Business 
 Manager. Every four years thereaf- 
 ter, said Board of Supervisors shall 
 appoint said Manager and other 
 County Officers in the months of 
 January and February, as herein 
 provided. 
 
 (b) Before any officer elected or 
 appointed hereunder qualifies, to fix 
 the amount of bond required of such 
 officer, and the manner of the ap- 
 proval thereof. The bond of any of- 
 ficer holding ex-officio offices must be 
 made to cover liability for the faith- 
 ful performance of the duties of all 
 offices and must be one bond. 
 
 (c) To fix and regulate by Or- 
 dinance, the appointment and num- 
 ber of assistants, deputies, clerks, at- 
 taches, and other persons to be em- 
 ployed from time to time in the sev- 
 eral offices of the County, and to pre- 
 scribe the powers, duties, qualifica- 
 tions and compensation of such per- 
 sons, the times at which and the 
 terms for which they shall be ap- 
 pointed and the manner of their ap- 
 pointment and removal, except as 
 herein otherwise provided; provided 
 that one Deputy Sheriff shall reside 
 at or near Yountville, and one at or 
 near Monticello. 
 
 (d) To fix the compensation of 
 County and Township Officers, which 
 are now, or may hereafter be provid- 
 ed for by the Constitution, the general 
 law, or this Charter, whose compen- 
 sations are not fixed and provided for 
 by this Charter. 
 
 Section Three: The Bnard of Su- 
 
 inust, upon application of 
 
 the Business Manager, and when noc- 
 
 thercfor appears to it, author- 
 
 ttanta 
 
 tunty onici- r;.s may be re- 
 the necessary work 
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 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 ity Officers Other Than Super- 
 visors. 
 
 Section One: County officers other 
 tr!an members of the Board of Super- 
 risors shall be. a Business Manager, a 
 Purchasing Agent, a Sheriff, a Coun- 
 ty Clerk, a Treasurer, a Recorder, a 
 Tax Collector, a License Collector, a 
 Public Administrator, a Coroner, a 
 Surveyor, a Road Engineer, an Audi- 
 tor, an Assessor, a District Attorney, 
 a Superintendent of Schools, a Proba- 
 tion Officer, a Superintendent of Char- 
 ities, a Health Officer, a Horticultural 
 Commissioner, a Medical Superinten- 
 dent of the County Hospital, and 
 such other officers as are now, or may 
 hereafter be provided for by the 
 Constitution, by the general laws, or 
 by this Charter. 
 
 Section Two: The following offi- 
 ces are hereby consolidated: 
 
 (a) The Business Manager shall 
 be ex-officio Purchasing Agent and 
 Public Administrator. 
 
 (b) The Sheriff shall be ex-offlcio 
 Coroner. 
 
 (c) The Assessor shall be ex-offi- 
 cio Treasurer, Tax Collector and Li- 
 cense Collector. 
 
 (d) The Probation Officer shall be 
 ex-offlcio Superintendent of Chari- 
 ties. 
 
 (e) The Road Engineer shall be 
 ex-officio Surveyor. 
 
 Section Three: The District Attor- 
 ney, County Clerk, Sheriff, Assessor 
 and Recorder shall be elected in the 
 manner provided by law. 
 
 Section Four: All other County 
 officers shall be appointed as in this 
 Charter provided. 
 
 Section Five: The term of office of 
 each County Officer shall be four 
 years; the term of office of all elec- 
 tive officers shall begin at noon on 
 the first Monday following the first 
 day of January, following their elec- 
 tion; the term of office of the Busi- 
 ness Manager shall begin on the first 
 Monday after the first day of Febru- 
 ary following his appointment; the 
 term of office of all officers appointed 
 by the Board of Supervisors, under 
 the provisions of this Charter, shall 
 begin on the first Monday after the 
 first day of March following their ap- 
 pointment. All officers subject to the 
 provisions of this Charter, shall con- 
 tinue to discharge the duties of their 
 offices after the expiration of their 
 terms until their successors have 
 been elected, or appointed and quali- 
 fied. 
 
 Section Six: The monthly salaries 
 of the County Officers shall be as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 (a) Members of the Board of Su- 
 pervisors, the sum of Fifty Dollars. 
 
 (b) The Business Manager and 
 ex-officio Purchasing Agent and Pub- 
 lic Administrator, the sum of Two 
 Hundred and Fifty Dollars. 
 
 (c) The Sheriff and ex-officio Cor- 
 oner, the sum of Two Hundred and 
 Twenty-five Dollars. 
 
 (d) The County Clerk, the sum of 
 Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 (e) The Recorder, the sum of 
 Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 (f) The Assessor and ex-offlcio 
 Tax Collector, License Collector and 
 
 Treasurer, the sum of Two Hundred 
 Dollars. 
 
 (g) The Road Engineer and ex- 
 officio Surveyor, the sum of Two Hun- 
 dred and Fifty Dollars. 
 
 (h) The Auditor, the sum of Two 
 Hundred Dollars. 
 
 (i) The District Attorney, the sum 
 of Two Hundred and Twenty-five 
 Dollars. 
 
 (j) The Superintendent of Schools, 
 the sum of One Hundred and Thirty- 
 five Dollars. The Superintendent of 
 Schools shall be allowed one Deputy 
 at a salary of Seventy-five Dollars per 
 month. 
 
 (k) The Probation Officer and ex- 
 officio Superintendent of Charities, 
 the sum of One Hundred Dollars. 
 
 (1) The Health Officer shall be al- 
 lowed such compensation as may be 
 fixed by the Board of Supervisors. 
 
 (m) The Medical Superintendent 
 of the County Hospital, the sum of 
 One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. 
 
 (n) The Horticultural Commis- 
 sioner shall be allowed such compen- 
 sation as may be fixed by the Board 
 of Supervisors. 
 
 Section Seven: The salaries of all 
 County officers, deputies, assistants, 
 and stenographers, shall be paid to 
 them on the first Monday in each 
 month, except as otherwise provided 
 in this Charter. 
 
 Section Eight: All fees, fines, and 
 commissions of every kind or nature, 
 collected by any County or Township 
 Officer, Board, Commission, or em- 
 ployee, shall be paid into the County 
 Treasury on the first Monday of each 
 month, except as herein otherwise 
 provided. The payment shall be ac- 
 companied by a detailed statement of 
 the same in writing, a duplicate of 
 which shall be filed with the Auditor 
 at the same time. 
 
 Section Nine: Each County Officer 
 shall be allowed, in addition to the 
 salaries herein set forth, such actual 
 and necessary expenses as are now 
 payable to him under the provisions 
 of the general law, or this Charter, 
 except as in this Charter otherwise 
 provided. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 Township Officers. 
 
 Section One: The Board of Super- 
 visors shall, by ordinance to be en- 
 acted during the year 1918, divide the 
 County of Napa into two judicial 
 Townships: The City of Napa and the 
 Towns of Yountville and Monticello 
 to be in one Township and the Towns 
 of St. Helena, Calistoga, Rutherford 
 and Oakville, to be in the other jud- 
 icial Township. The balance of the 
 County to be placed in each Township 
 according to the convenience of the 
 population. Said Ordinance to take 
 effect at noon on the first Monday fol- 
 lowing the first day of January, 1919. 
 
 Section Two: There shall be one 
 Justice of the Peace and one Consta- 
 ble for each judicial Township. The 
 Justice of the Peace and Constable 
 appointed for the Township in which 
 the City of Napa is located, shall 
 have and maintain their offices in the 
 City of Napa. The Justice of the 
 Peace and Constable appointed for 
 the Township in which the Towns of 
 St. Helena and Calistoga are located, 
 shall have and maintain their offices
 
 in either the Town of St. Helena or 
 the Town of Calistoga, provided, how- 
 ever, that such Justice of the Peace 
 shall sit and try cases in any part of 
 his Township when convenience of 
 witnesses and justice may require; 
 provided further, however, that 
 where both the plaintiff and defend- 
 ant reside in, or within five miles of 
 any of the Towns in the County of 
 Napa, it shall be the duty of the Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, upon demand of 
 any of the parties litigant in the ac- 
 tion to hold court in and try the pend- 
 ing cause in such Town, unless the 
 convenience of a majority of the wit- 
 nesses will be best subserved by hold- 
 ing the court and trying the case else- 
 where. 
 
 Section Three: Justices of the 
 Peace and Constables shall be ap- 
 pointed by the Board of Supervisors 
 at the time and in the manner other 
 County Officers, other than Business 
 Manager, are appointed. 
 
 Section Four: Justices of the 
 Peace and Constables shall hold office 
 for a term of four years from and af- 
 ter the first Monday following the 
 first day of March follwing their ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 Section Five: The salary of the 
 Justice of the Peace of the Township 
 in which the City of Napa is located, 
 shall be the sum of One Hundred and 
 Twenty-five Dollars per month, and 
 of the Justice of the Peace located in 
 the other Township, the sum of Sixty 
 Dollars per month. 
 
 Section Six: The salary of the Con- 
 stable in each Township shall be the 
 sum of Seventy-five Dollars per 
 month. 
 
 Section Seven: The salaries so fix- 
 ed shall bf l n full compensation for 
 all services of said Justices of the 
 Peace and Constables; provided, that 
 each Constable shall be allowed to re- 
 tain for his personal use all fees col- 
 lected by him in Civil cases pending 
 in Justices' Courts, and be paid the 
 actual and necessary expenses of 
 transferring prisoners after convic- 
 tion, to the County Jail, which shall 
 be paid out of the County General 
 Fund. 
 
 Section Eight: Each Township of- 
 ficer shall be allowed, in addition to 
 his salary, such expenses as are now 
 payable to him under the provisions 
 of the general law, or this Charter, 
 provided that all such expenses shall 
 be limited to actual and necessary 
 expenses. 
 
 Section Nine: The salaries of 
 Township Officers shall be paid at the 
 same time, in the same manner, and 
 out of the same fund as the salaries 
 of County Officers. 
 
 Section Ten: Each Township Offi- 
 cer shall have the powers and per- 
 form the duties now or hereafter pre- 
 scribed by general law, except as In 
 this Charter otherwise provided. 
 
 Section Eleven: The Constable of 
 each judicial Township shall be ex- 
 offlcio Deputy Sheriff. Each Consta- 
 ble shall be subject to the orders of 
 the Sheriff in all matters, and In ad- 
 dition to the duties required of Con- 
 stables by law, the Constables shall 
 serve civil processes within their re- 
 spective Townships, or elsewhere, 
 when required by the Sheriff so to do. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 County Schools. 
 
 Section One: There is hereby cre- 
 ated a County Board of Educati jn, 
 which shall consist of five members, 
 who shall be appointed by the Board 
 of Supervisors at the same time oth&r 
 County Officers are appointed, but 
 who shall hold office for a term of 
 four years from and after the first 
 Monday following the first day of 
 March following their appointment; 
 provided, however, that the five mem- 
 bers of the County Board of Educa- 
 tion, who shall be appointed in Feb- 
 ruary, 1919, shall so classify them- 
 selves by lot, that two of them shall 
 hold office for a term of two years 
 only, and their successors shall be ap- 
 pointed in February 1921. 
 
 Section Two: It shall be the duty 
 of the County Board of Education to 
 meet in the office of the County Su- 
 perintendent of Schools on the writ- 
 ten call of the said Superintendent or 
 of a majority of said members of the 
 Board of Education. The first meet- 
 ing shall be held on the first Mon- 
 day following the first day of March, 
 and a meeting shall be held on said 
 day in March every four years there- 
 after. The County Superintendent of 
 Schools shall be executive officer and 
 ex-officio Secretary of the said Board. 
 
 Section Three: The members of 
 the Board of Education, other than 
 the Superintendent of Schools and the 
 Deputy, shall receive as compensation 
 for their services Five Dollars per 
 day, not exceeding the sum of One 
 Hundred and Twenty Dollars per 
 year, and in addition thereto, their 
 actual and necessary traveling ex- 
 penses while attending to the duties 
 of their offices. 
 
 Section Four: It shall be the duty 
 of the County Board of Education: 
 
 (a) To appoint a County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. This officer must 
 be a certified teacher, having a regu- 
 lar Elementary or High School certi- 
 ficate of the State of California, and 
 who has had not less than five years' 
 experience as a teacher or educational 
 administrator, two years of which 
 have been in the five years immed- 
 iately preceding his appointment. He 
 must reside in the County during his 
 term of office. 
 
 (b) To appoint a Deputy Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. The Deputy must 
 be a certified teacher, having a regu- 
 lar Elementary or High School certi- 
 ficate of the State of California, who 
 must have not less than three years' 
 experience as a teacher or educational 
 administrator, one year of which 
 shall have been in the three years im- 
 mediately preceding his appointment. 
 He must reside in the County during 
 his term of office. 
 
 (c) To remove any of its appoin- 
 tees for cause. 
 
 (d) The Board of Education shall 
 have such powers and perform such 
 duties as are now, or may hereafter 
 be prescribed for it or granted to it 
 by law, except as herein otherwise 
 provided. 
 
 (e) It shall be the duty of the 
 said Board of Education to fix the 
 date upon which requisitions for fur- 
 niture or supplies shall be submitted 
 to the County Superintendent of
 
 Schools by the Boards of Trustees of 
 thf/ several school districts. 
 
 Section Five: The general law shall 
 ai/ply to and govern the conduct of 
 thfe schools of the County of Napa and 
 the officers provided for the superin- 
 tendence thereof, except as otherwise 
 provided in this Charter. 
 
 Section Six: In addition to fhe du- 
 ties prescribed by law, the County 
 Superintendent of Schools shall: 
 
 (a) In person or by his Deputy, 
 make a visit to each teacher in every 
 school in the county at least twice 
 each year, each visit to be of not less 
 than three hours. 
 
 (b) To report twice each year to 
 the Clerk of each School District, the 
 condition of the school of that dis- 
 trict. 
 
 (c) To print not to exceed five 
 hundred copies of an annual report of 
 the condition and standing of the 
 schools of the County, the cost of 
 which shall not exceed One Hundred 
 Dollars per annum, and distribute 
 them, one to each teacher and one to 
 each School Trustee in the County. 
 
 (d) To act as Secretary and Ex- 
 ecutive Officer of the County Board of 
 Education. 
 
 (e) To certify to the County Pur- 
 chasing Agent, all school supplies and 
 furniture needed In the County 
 Schools for the ensuing year and to 
 request said Purchasing Agent to 
 purchase and supply the School Trus- 
 tees of the several School Districts 
 such supplies and furniture as shall 
 be necessary for the use of said 
 School Districts as determined from 
 requisitions made by the Board of 
 Trustees thereof. All requisitions for 
 supplies and furniture so purchased 
 and furnished must, before being fill- 
 ed, have endorsed thereon the ap- 
 proval of the Superintendent of 
 Schools as to the necessity for such 
 supplies and furniture, and the quan- 
 tity thereof. 
 
 Section Seven: The Board of 
 Trustees of the several School 
 Districts of the County shall, 
 at such time as may be fix- 
 ed by the Board of Education, 
 make requisitions upon the Purchas- 
 ing Agent, through the County Super- 
 intendent of Schools for such sup- 
 plies as in the judgment of the mem- 
 bers thereof shall be needed for the 
 ensuing year, and no supplies for a 
 School District shall be furnished or 
 paid for by the County except upon 
 requisition made as in this Charter 
 provided. 
 
 ARTICLE VH. 
 
 Auditing and Accounting. 
 
 Section One: If not already pro- 
 vided, the Auditor shall on or before 
 July first, 1919, inaugurate and in- 
 stall in each County and Township 
 office, an up-to-date and modern sys- 
 tem of accounting, so that the books 
 of all County officers shall be of a 
 uniform system. 
 
 Section Two: Each County and 
 Township officer or employee who 
 collects fees, fines or any money due 
 the County, shall file with the Audi- 
 tor, on or before the first Mon- 
 day of each month, an itemized 
 statement showing from what 
 source the fees, fines, or other mon- 
 
 eys were received during the preced- 
 ing month; and shall also include in 
 his report an itemized statement of 
 all expenses incurred by the said of- 
 ficer during the preceding month, in- 
 cluding his salary and that of his 
 deputies; and the Auditor shall not 
 deliver to any officer, his warrant for 
 his salary until he files said monthly 
 report and pays all fees, fines and 
 other money collected into the Coun- 
 ty Treasury. 
 
 Section Three: Each County officer 
 shall file with the Auditor on or be- 
 fore July tenth of each year, an es- 
 timate of the amount that he will 
 need to run his office for the fiscal 
 year; and in no case shall he be per- 
 mitted to expend more than is allow- 
 ed his office in the budget, unless by 
 a four-fifths vote, the Board of Su- 
 pervisors shall permit him to exceed 
 the amount estimated therein and 
 said excess shall be drawn only from 
 the County Officers' Emergency Fund. 
 
 Section Four: All reports of Coun- 
 ty and Township officers shall be 
 made under a uniform system pre- 
 scribed by the Auditor, and this re- 
 port must be subscribed and sworn to 
 before an officer authorized to admin- 
 ister oaths, and verified by the Audi- 
 tor. 
 
 Section Five: The Auditor, annual- 
 ly after July tenth and before Aug- 
 ust first, shall make a report show- 
 ing in total the monthly receipts of 
 each officer, and an itemized state- 
 ment of each officer's monthly ex- 
 penses for the preceding fiscal year, 
 together with all other expenses of 
 the County government for the year. 
 
 In this report he shall also include 
 the amount of the estimated expenses 
 as submitted by each officer. He must 
 also show therein the expenses of 
 each officer for the two preceding fis- 
 cal years. He must also include 
 therein the tabulated statement set- 
 ting forth the sources and amount of 
 all revenues received by the County. 
 
 Section Six: The Auditor must set 
 forth in the annual report all indebt- 
 edness existing and outstanding 
 against the County on the thirtieth 
 day of June of each year. 
 
 Section Seven: The Auditor's an- 
 nual report shall be accompanied by 
 an estimate to be made by the Audi- 
 tor and Business Manager of the 
 probable expenditures of the County 
 government for the current fiscal 
 year, and shall set forth therein, in 
 detail all the amounts and require- 
 ments of the several departments of 
 the County government, showing 
 specifically the amount necessary to 
 be provided for each fund and de- 
 partment; also an estimate of the 
 amount of income from fines, licenses, 
 and other sources of revenue, ex- 
 clusive of taxes upon property, and 
 the probable amount required to be 
 levied and raised by taxation. 
 
 Section Eight: The Auditor must 
 set forth in his annual report, in ad- 
 dition to the matters hereinbefore 
 set forth, the total assessed value of 
 all property in the County, as shown 
 by the last assessment roll, the tax 
 rate as levied by the Board of Super- 
 visors, the actual amount of taxes 
 paid into the County, the total 
 amount of delinquent taxes remaining
 
 unpaid on the thirtieth day of April 
 of that year, and the total amount of 
 taxes proposed to be raised. 
 
 Section Nine: When the Auditor and 
 Business Manager have completed 
 their annual budget they shall sub- 
 mit it to the Board of Supervisors at 
 its meeting in August for approval. 
 In passing upon the estimate, the 
 Board of Supervisors may eliminate 
 or reduce the amount of any item, 
 but in no case may it increase the 
 estimates made by the Auditor and 
 Business Manager, or provide for 
 other expenditures, except as herein 
 otherwise provided, though it may re- 
 quest those officers to reconsider 
 their estimate on any particular item 
 thereof. If the Auditor or Business 
 Manager for good reason raise the es- 
 timate, then the Board may adopt the 
 raised estimate. 
 
 Section Ten: In making up the 
 budget, a County Officers' Emergency 
 Fund, not to exceed Five Thousand 
 Dollars, shall be maintained. This 
 fund may be drawn upon in emer- 
 gencies, but only after a resolution 
 of approval by four-fifths vote of the 
 Board of Supervisors. The fund must 
 be maintained solely for the use of 
 County officers other than the Board 
 of Supervisors. 
 
 Section Eleven: In making up the 
 budget, a Supervisors' Emergency 
 Fund, not to exceed Ten Thousand 
 Dollars shall be maintained. This 
 fund may be drawn upon in emer- 
 gencies only upon a resolution of ap- 
 proval by a four-fifths vote of the 
 Board of Supervisors. 
 
 Section Twelve: The Board of Su- 
 pervisors may provide a Bridge and 
 Permanent Road Fund not to exceed 
 Twenty-five Thousand Dollars in any 
 one year, out of the general County 
 revenues, for the construction of 
 bridges and permanent roads. 
 
 Section Thirteen: The Auditor 
 shall have his annual report printed 
 in pamphlet form, in a number to be 
 designated by the Board of Supervis- 
 ors. One copy of said report must be 
 filed with the Board of Supervisors, 
 one with the Grand Jury, one with 
 the Judge of the Superior Court, and 
 the balance shall be for general dis- 
 tribution. 
 
 Section Fourteen: No claims 
 against the County shall be allowed 
 by the Board of Supervisors, or paid 
 unless they have been checked by the 
 Auditor and until they have his ap- 
 proval endorsed thereon in writing. 
 
 ARTICLE Vm. 
 
 Business Manager, ex-Officio Purchas- 
 ing Agent and Public Adminis- 
 trator. 
 
 Section One: It Is hereby made 
 the duty of the Business Manager, 
 subject to regulation and control by 
 the Board of Supervisors, to exercise 
 general supervision over the official 
 conduct of all County officers, and of- 
 ficers of all districts and other sub- 
 divisions of the County charged with 
 assessing, collecting, safe-keeping, 
 managing or disbursing of public 
 revenues; also over County Institu- 
 tions, buildings and property, and to 
 make a report to the Board from 
 time to time with such recommenda- 
 tions as he shall deem proper. He 
 
 shall be ex-officio County Pure! asing 
 Agent and shall perform the duties of 
 the office as prescribed in this Char- 
 ter. He shall devote his entire time 
 during usual office hours to the du- 
 ties of his office. He shall have an 
 office in the Court House and shall ve 
 in attendance at such oiflce during 
 usual office hours, except when else- 
 where engaged in the performance of 
 his official duties. 
 
 Section Two: Subject to regulation 
 and direction of the Board of Super- 
 visors, it shall be the duty of the Pur- 
 chasing Agent to purchase from time 
 to time, all supplies, materials, or 
 property of every kind for use in or 
 by every department, or office of the 
 County. 
 
 Section Three: He shall furnish 
 and supply to all County, Township 
 or District officers, supplies, mater- 
 ials, or other property on the requis- 
 ition of the officer desiring to use the 
 same and in such quantity as such 
 Purchasing Agent shall deem neces- 
 sary; said requisition to be endorsed 
 by the Auditor as herein required, or 
 as otherwise provided in this Charter. 
 
 Section Four: No County, Town- 
 ship, or District officer shall contract 
 for, or purchase any supplies, mater- 
 ials, or other property of any kind for 
 his use as such officer, or for use in, 
 or pertaining to his office, except by 
 and through the Purchasing Agent, 
 and in the manner hereinprovided. 
 
 Section Five: Whenever any such 
 officer shall require any supplies, ma- 
 terials, or other property of any kind 
 for his use as such officer, or for use 
 in or pertaining to his office, he shall 
 make and present to the Auditor, a 
 written requisition for the same. The 
 Auditor shall thereupon examine 
 such requisition and endorse thereon 
 his approval or disapproval in whole 
 or in part and charge the same 
 against the budget allowance of such 
 officer and deliver the same to the 
 Purchasing Agent. If such officer 
 has exhausted his budget allowance, 
 the said requisition shall be present- 
 ed to the Board of Supervisors for al- 
 lowance out of the proper Emergency 
 Fund. If such requisition be allow- 
 ed in whole or in part, the Purchasing 
 Agent shall, thereupon make such 
 purchases as may be necessary to fill 
 the same and shall deliver the article 
 so allowed, together with an invoice 
 of the same, to the officer making the 
 requisition, and deliver a duplicate of 
 such invoice to the Auditor. 
 
 Section Six: The Business Manager 
 and Purchasing Agent, acting In con- 
 junction with the Auditor, must have 
 prepared, on the first day of July 
 of each year, a complete inventory of 
 all property owned by the County. All 
 property of every kind and descrip- 
 tion purchased for the County during 
 the year, and not consumed, must be 
 listed and included in the inventory. 
 Each year this inventory shall be 
 checked by the Auditor to see if all 
 property shown in the inventory of 
 the preceding year is on hand. If 
 there is any property missing, the 
 Auditor must report the same to the 
 Board of Supervisors to have an in- 
 vestigation made by the Sheriff and 
 District Attorney to locate said prop- 
 erty or to see what disposition has
 
 been fcnade of the same, and to fake 
 prop/r action in regard thereto. 
 
 Sefction Seven: He shall sell all 
 County property condemned by the 
 Boafrd of Supervisors, either at pub- 
 lic 'auction or private sale, as directed 
 by the Board of Supervisors. 
 
 Section Eight: He shall account 
 for all County property to his succes- 
 sor. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 Road Department. 
 
 Section One: All laws of the State 
 of California now in force or to be 
 hereafter enacted, relating to the for- 
 mation of Road Districts for the care, 
 maintenance and repair of roads, 
 highways, and bridges, for the incur- 
 ring of a bonded indebtedness for 
 such work and the payment of such 
 indebtedness by the levy and collec- 
 tion of taxes in such Districts, shall 
 be in full force and effect in the 
 County of Napa, except in so far as 
 the same shall be otherwise provided 
 hi this Charter. 
 
 Section Two: The Road Engineer 
 and ex-officfo Surveyor shall be a Ci- 
 vil Engineer and shall have had, 
 prior to his appointment, at least two 
 years practical experience in road 
 construction. 
 
 Section Three: The Road Engi- 
 neer and ex-officio Surveyor shall, 
 under the direction and supervision 
 of the Board of Supervisors, have 
 complete direction and control over 
 all construction, improvement, main- 
 tenance and repair of County roads, 
 highways and bridges. 
 
 Section Four: The Road Engineer 
 and ex-officio Surveyor shall: 
 
 (a) Devote his entire time to the 
 performance of his duties, to the ex- 
 clusion of all other business occupa- 
 tions; he shall not be directly or indi- 
 rectly interested in any contract or 
 works, nor shall he be so interested 
 in the purchase of any supplies, 
 tools, or materials of any kind used 
 in carrying out any of his duties un- 
 der the provisions of this Charter. 
 
 (b) Prepare annually a proper 
 budget showing in detail the needs of 
 the County for construction, improve- 
 ment, maintenance or repair of Coun- 
 ty roads, highways and bridges for the 
 ensuing fiscal year, and submit the 
 same to the Auditor and Business 
 Manager on or before July tenth. 
 
 (c) Make all surveys, maps, plans, 
 specifications and estimates necessary 
 or required for the construction, im- 
 provement, maintenance and repair of 
 the County highways and bridges. 
 
 (d) Examine and inspect the 
 work performed on such roads, high- 
 ways and bridges, and report to the 
 Board of Supervisors as to whether or 
 not the work has been done in ac- 
 cordance with the plans and specifi- 
 cations and contracts therefor. 
 
 (e) Approve and certify to the 
 progress, estimates and allowance for 
 work performed under all contracts 
 for the construction, improvement, 
 maintenance or repair of County 
 roads, highways, and bridges. 
 
 (f) Inspect or cause to be in- 
 spected, all County roads, highways 
 and bridges within the County, and 
 under the general direction of the 
 Board of Supervisors, keep such 
 
 roads, highways, land bridges clear of 
 obstructions and in good repair; em- 
 ploy all men, teams, sprinkling wag- 
 ons and all help necessary therefor, 
 when the same is not Jet by contract, 
 and report to the Board of Supervis- 
 ors with respect to such inspection 
 and such work from time to time as 
 required by said Board; certify to the 
 correctness of all pay rolls for work 
 done by day labor on County roads, 
 highways, and bridges. 
 
 (g) Have control and manage- 
 ment ander the general supervision 
 of the Board of Supervisors of all 
 County rock quarries, oil pits and 
 depo-ts, gravel pits and- other mater- 
 ials, property, implements, instru- 
 ments, tools, machinery and other 
 appurtenances necessary for the con- 
 struction, improvement, maintenance 
 and repair of County roads. high- 
 ways, and bridges, and the plans 
 therefor. 
 
 (h) Make a written report to the 
 Board of Supervisors at their regu- 
 lar meeting each month, in which he 
 shall state the amount and character 
 of work done during the preceding 
 month, the progress of any contracts 
 under way, approximate cost of the 
 work, and matters of interest per- 
 taining to the same. In this report 
 he shall call the attention of the 
 Board of Supervisors to any repairs 
 or construction work he deems im- 
 portant to have maae or done, and 
 make recommendations therefor, and 
 inform and advise the Boardof Super- 
 visors of all matters pertaining to the 
 public roads, highways, streets, 
 bridges or other public work, which 
 in his judgment should be brought to 
 their attention. This report shall 
 contain the recommendation of ac- 
 ceptance or rejection of any publiu 
 work completed, and all official an- 
 nouncements or statements which the 
 Engineer is required to make to the 
 Board. 
 
 (i) During the calendar year 1919, 
 to classify impartially the public 
 highways of the County as "Main 
 County Roads," "Secondary County 
 Roads," and "County-by-roads." He 
 shall compute the total mileage con- 
 tained in the respective classes. The 
 Main County Roads shall be called 
 "Class A" roads and shall be named. 
 The Secondary County Roads shall 
 be called "Class B" roads, and shall 
 be numbered. The County-by-roads 
 shall be called "Class C" roads; keep 
 a road register properly indexed, in 
 which shall be entered the names, 
 numbers, class, length, and a brief 
 description of each and every public 
 road and bridge in the County. 
 
 (j) Perform such other duties 
 pertaining to the construction, im- 
 provement, maintenance or repair of 
 County roads, highways and bridges as 
 the Board of Supervisors shall pre- 
 scribe. 
 
 (k) He shall have supervision, 
 charge and control of all rivers and 
 streams within the County, and the 
 clearing of obstructions therefrom 
 to prevent overflow of the waters 
 thereof. 
 
 Section Five: The Board of Su- 
 pervisors shall appoint and employ 
 such district foremen and assistants 
 to the Road Engineer as may he
 
 needed from time to time, and fix 
 their compensation. Such appoint- 
 ments shall be made only upon th^ 
 recommendation of the Road Engi- 
 neer. The compensation of such dis- 
 trict foremen shall be paid from the 
 road funds of the district or districts 
 in which said foremen are employed. 
 The compensation of assistants to the 
 Hoad Engineer shall be paid out of 
 the Salary Fund. 
 
 Section Six: The Road Engineer 
 shall make requisition upon the Pur- 
 chasing Agent for all tools, imple- 
 ments, machinery, materials and sup- 
 plies required to carry out the pro- 
 visions of this Charter and his work 
 thereunder, and said requisition 
 shall state plainly the estimated cost 
 of the article or articles to be pur- 
 chased. He shall approve all claims 
 for the same before such claims are 
 audited and passed by the Board of 
 Supervisors. He shall be the custod- 
 ian and be responsible for all equip- 
 ment under his control. All such 
 property shall be stored and protect- 
 ed from the weather when not in use. 
 An inventory of all property in his 
 custody shall be made annually and 
 kept on file in the office of the Road 
 Engineer. 
 
 Section Seven: No claims against 
 the County for work done on its 
 roads, highways, streets, bridges, 
 aqueducts or in connection with the 
 same, or for materials, supplies, im- 
 plements, or machinery used for or in 
 connection therewith, shall be passed 
 by the Board of Supervisors or paid 
 for by the Treasurer of the County 
 unless they shall have endorsed there- 
 on the written approval of the Road 
 Engineer and the Auditor. 
 
 Section Eight: The Board of Su- 
 pervisors shall provide for and as- 
 sign to the Road Engineer and his 
 assistants, a suitable office or offices 
 in the Court House or some place 
 conveniently located with reference 
 thereto, together with all office tools, 
 implements and other equipment nec- 
 essary for the performance of the 
 duties herein prescribed. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 Board of Appraisers. 
 
 Section One: There is hereby cre- 
 ated a County Board of Appraisers. 
 It shall consist of five members, to be 
 appointed by the Board of Supervis- 
 ors at the time other officers are ap- 
 pointed, one from each Supervisorial 
 District. Each member thereof shall 
 be a qualified elector of the district in 
 which he resides, shall be a freehold- 
 er thereof, and shall hold office for a 
 term of four years. 
 
 Section Two: It shall be the duty 
 of the Board of Appraisers to ap- 
 praise the real property of the Coun- 
 ty of Napa at its full cash value, once 
 every four years; to make a full and 
 complete written report thereof to the 
 Assessor and the Board of Supervis- 
 ors. In doing said work of appraise- 
 ment, the Board of Appraisers shall 
 work in conjunction with the Asses- 
 sor, but said Assessor must adopt all 
 appraisements made by the Board. 
 
 Section Three: The compensation 
 of each of said Appraisers shall be 
 Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents per 
 day, not exceeding sixty days for each 
 
 appraisement period logetneT wltn 
 all actual and necessary traveling ex- 
 penses. In addition thereto, the 
 Board of Appraisers shall be allowed 
 such supplies as shall be necessdry 
 for the performance of its work, ai^S 
 shall be provided with an office in the 
 County Court House, when needed. 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 Charities. 
 
 Section One: There is hereby cre~ 
 ated the office of Superintendent of 
 Charities. 
 
 Section Two: It shall be the duty 
 of the Superintendent of Charities to 
 receive all petitions for County and 
 State aid, to investigate and report on 
 same to the Board of Supervisors, and 
 no petition for County or State aid 
 shall be granted by the Board of Su- 
 pervisors until it has considered and 
 acted upon the report of the Super- 
 intendent of Charities accompanying 
 said petition. 
 
 Section Three: The Superintend- 
 ent of Charities shall receive, in ad- 
 dition to the salary hereinbefore pro- 
 vided for, his actual and necessary 
 traveling expenses while performing 
 the duties of his office. 
 
 ARTICLE XH. 
 Miscella neons. 
 
 Section One: Any officer may b 
 removed by a four-fifths vote of the 
 Board of Supervisors, whenever th 
 Business Manager or any of the 
 Board of Supervisors shall file writ- 
 ten charges against such officer. Such 
 charges shall be in detail and must 
 relate to his lack of qualifications to 
 fill the office, his manner of caring for 
 the duties of his office, or his integ- 
 rity, provided, that a Supervisor may 
 be removed only by the electors of 
 the County. 
 
 Section Two: The compensation 
 of any elective or appointive County 
 or Township officer shall 'not be in- 
 creased or decreased during the term 
 for which he was elected or appoint- 
 ed, nor within six months preceding 
 his election or appointment. 
 
 Section Three: All officers of the 
 County of Napa except the Auditor, 
 Business Manager, Road Engineer 
 and Medical Superintendent of the 
 County Hospital, must be electors 
 and residents therein; the Auditor, 
 Business Manager, Road Engineer 
 and Medical Superintendent of the 
 County Hospital must reside in the 
 County of Napa during their terms of 
 office. 
 
 Section Four: The District Attor- 
 ney shall act as the legal advisor and 
 perform all le?o: services for the 
 proper administration of the office of 
 the Public Administrator. 
 
 Section Five: The Probation Offi- 
 cer shall be appointed in the manner 
 now or hereafter provided by law. 
 
 Section Six: Should the system of 
 voting known as the "Preferential 
 System of Voting" be adopted by the 
 Legislature of the State for the pur- 
 pose of electing officers of the several 
 counties, then the members of the 
 Board of Supervisors, and other elec- 
 tive officers hereunder shall be elect- 
 ed by the electors of the County at 
 large under that system as so adopted. 
 
 Section Seven: The Medical Su- 
 perintendent of the County Hospital
 
 shall be a regularly licensed physician 
 and shall, during his term of office 
 e at the County Hospital, and 
 shall have Immediate charge, super- 
 vis:on and inanatu-ment of the Hospi- 
 tal shall c;tre i'or all patients 
 therein and in the County Jail. He 
 shall be furnished an adequate resi- 
 dence for himself and family and 
 shall be provided with necessary 
 food for their ordinary daily life and 
 sustenance. 
 
 Section Eight: Nothing in this 
 Charter shall be construed to affect 
 the tenure of office of any of the 
 elective officers of the County or 
 Townships thereof in office at the 
 time this Charter goes into effect, 
 and such officers shall continue to 
 hold their respective offices until the 
 expiration of the term for which they 
 were elected, unless sooner removed 
 in the manner provided by law. But 
 the successors of each and all of such 
 officers shall be elected or appointed 
 as in this Charter provided, and not 
 otherwise. 
 
 Section Nine: Beginning with the 
 fiscal year 1917-1918, the total 
 amount that may be raised by the 
 lioard of Supervisors by assessment 
 and taxation of the property on the 
 assessment roll of the County shall 
 not exceed the sum of Two Hundred 
 and Sixty Thousand Dollars in that 
 fiscal year, and each fiscal year there- 
 after the amount raised by assess- 
 ment and taxation shall not exceed 
 three per cent, above the amount 
 raised during the previous fiscal year. 
 provided that if it Is not necessary to 
 raise said amount above named In 
 said fiscal year, said amount may be 
 raised in any .. .bsequent fiscal year, 
 and provided, that in case of an em- 
 ergency, the Board of Supervisors, by 
 unanimous vote, may exceed the 
 amount so fixed. The term "emer- 
 gency" as used in this Section shall 
 be limited to an act of God, such as 
 flood, fire, earthquake, or of the pub- 
 lic enemy, which necessitates the re- 
 placement of County property de- 
 stroyed; and provided further, that 
 nothing herein shall be construed to 
 affect the right of the Board of Su- 
 pervisors to levy all necessary special 
 taxes for school purposes in the sev- 
 eral school districts of the County. 
 
 Section Ten: The Board of Super- 
 visors shall have power to levy and 
 collect taxes, in addition to the taxes 
 herein authorized to be levied and 
 collected, sufficient to pay the inter- 
 est and maintain the sinking fund of 
 any bonded indebtedness of the Coun- 
 ty, or any district therein, and to levy 
 and collect special taxes whenever 
 authorized by the people of the County 
 at any general County election, by a 
 majority vote of the electors voting 
 thereon. At .any such election the 
 Board of Supervisors may be author- 
 ized to levy a special tax each year 
 for a period not exceeding five years, 
 :n all, for any permanent County im- 
 provement. 
 
 Section Eleven: All Ordinances of 
 the County of Napa in force at the 
 time this Charter takes effect, and not 
 in conflict with the provisions hereof, 
 shall continue to remain in full force 
 and effect until amended or repeal- 
 ed. 
 
 Section Twelve: TTie provisions of 
 the general laws of the State of Cali- 
 fornia relating to the initiative, refer- 
 endum and recall, as they now exist, 
 or may hereafter be amended, are 
 hereby made a part of this Charter. 
 
 Section Thirteen: Words used in 
 this Charter in the masculine gender 
 include the feminine, and words used 
 in the singular include the plural. 
 
 Section Fourteen: The Constitu- 
 tion and general law of the State of 
 California shall apply to all matters 
 not provided for in this Charter. 
 
 Section Fifteen: If any Article, 
 Section, or part of this Charter shall 
 be for any reason judicially determin- 
 ed to be invalid, such invalidity shall 
 not affect the remaining portions 
 hereof. 
 
 Section Sixteen: This Charter 
 shall take affect and be in force at 
 noon, on the first Monday after the 
 first day of January, 1919, after its 
 approval by the Legislature of the 
 State of California, except as herein 
 otherwise provided. The first elec- 
 tion of officers hereunder shall be in 
 1918, 
 
 We, the undersigned, members of 
 the Board of Freeholders of the Coun- 
 ty of Napa, State of California, elect- 
 ed at a special election held in said 
 County on the eighth day of Septem- 
 ber, 1916, to prepare and propose a 
 Charter for said County in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of Section 
 TVs of Article XI, of the Constitution 
 of the State of California, have pre- 
 pared, and we do hereby propose the 
 foregoing as a Charter for said Coun- 
 ty. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have here- 
 unto affixed our names this 4th day of 
 January, 1917. 
 
 WALLACE RUTHERFORD, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 FRANK L. HUNT, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 FRANK L. GORDON. 
 
 M. H. SIMONS. 
 
 B. F. STETSON. 
 
 JOHN G. REDFIELD. 
 
 CHAS. A. DAVIS. 
 
 H. H. SAWYER. 
 
 CHAS. W. ARMSTRONG. 
 
 H. L. BELL. 
 
 State of California, ss. 
 
 County of Napa. 
 
 I, N. W. Collins, County Clerk In 
 and for the County of Napa, State of 
 California, and ex-officio Clerk of the 
 Superior Court in and for said Coun- 
 ty, do hereby certify the foregoing to 
 be a full, true and correct copy of 
 Proposed Charter, of Napa County, 
 as the same appears of record in my 
 office, with the original of which said 
 copy has been compared by me, and 
 is a true transcript therefrom. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto 
 set my hand and affixed the Seal of 
 said Court, at my office in the City of 
 Xapa, this 12th day of January A. D., 
 1917. 
 
 [Seal.] N. W. COLLINS. 
 
 County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of 
 
 the Superior Court. 
 Endorsed. Filed January 4, 1917. 
 N. W. COLLINS, Clerk. 
 
 By JAMES A. DALY, 
 
 Deputy Clerk.
 
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