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 SITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 
 Proposed Charter 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 City of St. Louis 
 
 Prepared by the 
 
 Board of Freeholders 
 
 Elected by the People, April 1, 1913 
 
 May, 1914 
 
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 STATEMENT TO THE VOTERS ^ ^ ^'V 
 
 The Board of Freeholders was elected b\ the i;euple April 
 1, 1913. 
 
 They at once rece)gni/.e(l thai liie Charter to be drafted was 
 the people's Charter, that the peuple should be consulted as to 
 what the Charter should contain, and that the voters were 
 entitled to full publicity of every action of the Board. Conse- 
 quently, through the press by general in\itation to every citi- 
 zen, and by personal invitation to the present and former City 
 officers, to each member of the Municipal Assembly and to the 
 various business, civic, labor, professional, religicms, social, 
 political and other organizations throughout the entire City, 
 the Board earnestly sought suggestions and urged their sub- 
 mission, either orally or in writing, to the Board. It also 
 sought and received advice from recognized students and ex- 
 perts on municipal government throughout the United States. 
 In consequence, from Ai)ril to November, twice a week at each 
 '^ meeting representati\e citizens and expert students addressed 
 r) the Board. 
 
 In response to a City-wide demand for a correct statement 
 of Charter progress, the Secretary, on February 7, 1914, sent 
 such a statement to the proper officer of every organization, 
 civic, business, labor, etc., listed in the City Directory. On 
 March 5th a tentative draft was published and submitted 
 personally to the head of each administrative branch of the 
 City, asking for criticism and suggestions. Another re-print 
 was published March 30th, and the final draft was adopted 
 April 29th. Pursuant to Ordinance No. 27094, each article 
 as adopted was published as advertising in the "New St. Loui.s 
 Star" and the "Westliche-Post" and published in the other 
 papers as news. 
 
 Criticism of the tentative work was freely asked and freely 
 given. In many cases the criticism was merited and conse- 
 quently changes were made. As a result the Charter is essen- 
 tially the draft of the people ; everyone in the City has had an 
 opportunity to aid in formulating the Charter provisions and 
 many have so done. The important provisions include: 
 
 1. The right of municipal ownership of public utilities of 
 any kind whatsoever in the City — a right absolutely denied at 
 
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 present. Tlu- C'ily will have tlif greatest powers possiMe, in- 
 c-liuliiig the rij^lit lo proviilc I'm- any desired huinanitariaii, 
 educational, charitable and recreative service. 
 
 2. One house of lej^islatioii known as the lioard of Alder- 
 men. One house and strict ward representati(jn is at present 
 impossible under the Constitution of Missouri (Article IX, Sec. 
 22). As soon as the Constitution is changed, each ward will 
 elect its own Alderman, ])ut until then it is provided that each 
 ward shall have an alderman who must reside in the ward from 
 which elected, but he will be nominated and elected at large. 
 This legislative body will perform legislative duties only. Such 
 administrative matters as granting permits for awnings, drink- 
 nig fountains, loading platforms, etc., now granted by the 
 Municipal Assembly by ordinance, will be handled by the Ad- 
 ministrative Body, the Board (jf l*ublic Service, who will be 
 competent administrators and liaxe the time to consider each 
 application. 
 
 3. The Initiative on a workable basis — 5 per cent of the 
 registertid voters for a general election and 7 per cent for a 
 special. The Board of Aldermen will have an opportunity to 
 pass initiated ordinances. If not so passed, the proposed ordi- 
 nance shall be submitted to the voters. 
 
 4. Referendum on ordinances. No ordinance (except strict 
 emergency measures) will take effect for thirty days after 
 adoption, and if within tliat time a petition signed by 2 
 per cent of the registered voters is filed with the Board 
 of Election Commissioners the taking effect of such ordi- 
 nance is postponed. Forty days more are allowed to secure 
 an additional 5 per cent for submission at a general elec- 
 tion or an additional 10 per cent for a special election. After 
 the petition is filed the Board of Aldermen have an op- 
 portunity to repeal such ordinance. If they do not repeal it, 
 then its adoi-tion shall be submitted to the voters. 
 
 5. All elective officers may be recalled. The petition must 
 be signed by 20 per cent of the registered voters, with 20 per 
 cent of such voters in at least two-thirds of the wards of the 
 city. No recall petition may be filed within six months after 
 one takes office. This will prevent such petition being filed 
 immediately after a close election and before the incumbent 
 lias had an oj^portunit}- to show his worth. 
 
 Objection to the recall found in certain Western cities
 
 where the successor may be elected at the same time at which 
 the question of the incumbent's recall is determined is obviat- 
 ed. Such an election confuses the issues. Under the proposed 
 Charter the sole question will be as to whether the incumbent 
 shall be recalled. 
 
 6. The eflficiency provisions will require applicants for ap- 
 pointment or promotion to show their qualifications only by 
 such fair and practical tests as will secure and retain in the 
 employ of the City efficient service. All City officers and 
 emlpoyes at the time the Charter takes effect will retain their 
 offices and not be required to take an examination therefor. 
 Under the proposed plan, the Efficiency Board may delegate 
 to practical men the authority to test applicants and certify 
 back results in order to insure the best qualified men from a. 
 practical standpoint. The appointing officer selects one of the 
 three highest on the eligible list. Elective officers, heads of 
 departments, heads of divisions, and their personal assistants 
 or secretaries, are not subject to the efficiency provisions. 
 
 7. The administration of the City will be organized on 
 business lines. The State Constitution provides that the 
 voters of the City shall elect a Chief Executive. Under the 
 proposed Charter the Mayor will be the chief executive. He 
 will have power to accomplish results and will be responsible 
 for results being also always under the control of the people 
 through the Recall. Under the present system of checks and 
 balances responsibility is beclouded and cannot be fixed. 
 
 The present large number of independent departments and 
 offices is combined according to their functions, so as to insure 
 efficiency and economy in operation. The Mayor, Comptroller 
 and President of the Board of Aldermen, constituting the 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment, control the City's 
 purse strings. A separate ordinance for salaries of employes 
 may be submitted separate from the general appropriation 
 bill to prevent the annual tie-up of salaries. 
 
 8. Provision is made so that in the largest measure the 
 individual may be kept informed of what is being done in 
 every department — and may have the right to suggest or criti- 
 cise — and a Complaint Board is established whose duty it 
 shall be to promptly investigate the complaint of any citizen 
 either with regard to the conduct of the City government or 
 of any public service corporation. 
 
 The foregoing is necessarily brief. Many other excellent 
 provisions will be found by a detailed examination of the 
 Charter. 
 
 WILBUR B. JOXKS, 
 
 May 6, 1914. Secretary.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Art 
 
 Page 
 
 clc 1 Corporate Name iind I'nwers — Wards 1 
 
 I I Elections 4 
 
 I I I Recall - 5 
 
 1 \ Board of Aldermen 7 
 
 \ Initiative ■ 12 
 
 \ I Referendum 14 
 
 VI I Mayor 1 7 
 
 \ 1 1 1 Officers ........: 19 
 
 I X Register _.. 22 
 
 X Law Department 23 
 
 XI City Marshal 23 
 
 XII City Courts 24 
 
 XI II Board of Public Service 25 
 
 XI \' Public Welfare Boards 32 
 
 XV Department of Finance _ 33 
 
 X\'l Board of Estimate and Apportionment 41 
 
 XV 1 1 City Bonds .42 
 
 XVIII Efficiency Board 45 
 
 XIX Franchises _ _ 49 
 
 XX License Taxes 51 
 
 XXI Condemnation - 52 
 
 XX I I Public Worlc , 58 
 
 XXIII Special Tax Bills 65 
 
 XXIV Improvement Bonds and Funds 68 
 
 XXV General and Miscellaneous „ 70 
 
 Schedule — _ 72
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Corporate Name and Powers — Wards. 
 
 Section 1. The inhabitants of tlie City of St. Louis, as its 
 limits now are or may hereafter be, shall be and continue a body 
 corporate by name "The City of St. Louis," and as such shall 
 have perpetual succession, may have a corporate seal, and sue 
 and be sued. It shall have power : 
 
 (1) To assess, levy and collect taxes for all general and 
 special purposes on all subjects or objects of taxation. 
 
 (2) To adopt such classifications of the subjects and objects 
 of taxation as may not be contrary to law. 
 
 (3) To make special assessments for local improvements. 
 
 (4) To contract and be contracted with. 
 
 (5) To incur debts by borrowing- money or otherwise, and 
 to give any appropriate evidence thereof. 
 
 (6) To issue and give, sell, pledge or in any manner dispose 
 of, negotiable or non-negotiable, interest-bearing or non-interest- 
 bearing bonds or notes of the city, upon the credit of the city, 
 or solely upon the credit of specific property owned by the 
 city, or solely upon the credit of income derived from and prop- 
 erty used in connection with any public utility owned or oper- 
 ated by the city, or solely upon the credit of the proceeds of 
 special assessments for local improvements, or upon any two 
 or more of such credit":. 
 
 (7) To expend the money of the' city for all lawful purposes. 
 
 (8) To acquire or receive and hold, maintain, improve, sell, 
 lease, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of property, real 
 or personal, and any estate or interest therein, within or with- 
 out the city or State. 
 
 (9) To condemn private property, real or personal, or any 
 easement or use (herein for public use within or without the 
 city or State. 
 
 (10) To take and hold [)roperty within or without the city 
 or State upon trust ; and to administer trusts. 
 
 (11) To acquire, construct, own, operate and maintain or 
 sell, lease, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of public 
 utilities or any estate or interest therein, or any other utility 
 of service to the city, its inhabitants or anv part thereof.
 
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 (12) To grant franchises for public utilities. 
 
 CIS) To regulate the construction, maintenance, equipment, 
 operation, service, rates and charges of public utilities, and 
 compel, from time to time, reasonable extensions of facilities 
 for such service. 
 
 (14) To establish, open, re-locate, vacate, alter, widen, ex- 
 tend, grade, improve, repair, construct, reconstruct, maintain, 
 light, sprinkle and clean public highways, streets, boulevards, 
 parkways, sidewalks, alleys, parks, public grounds and squares, 
 wharves, bridges, viaducts, subways, tunnels, sewers and 
 drains and regulate the use thereof. 
 
 (15) To acquire, provide for, construct, regulate and main- 
 tain and do all things relating to all kinds of public buildings, 
 structures, markets, places, works and improvements. 
 
 (16) To provide and maintain a harbor and wharves and 
 regulate the use thereof, and impose wharfage and other charges 
 therefor ; license and regulate ferries and other boats ; grant ferry 
 privileges and regulate ferry charges ; rent or lease for not 
 exceeding twenty-five years portions of the wharf for any 
 purpose tending to facilitate the trade of the city. 
 
 (17) To improve water courses and regulate the use thereof. 
 
 (18) To establish, impose and enforce water rates and rates 
 and charges for public utilities or other service, products or 
 conveniences operated, rendered or furnished by the city. 
 
 (19) To provide and maintain a sanitary system. 
 
 (20) To provide and maintain a fire department. 
 
 (21) To provide and maintain police and excise depart- 
 ments when permitted by law. 
 
 (22) To collect and dispose of sewage, offal, ashes, garbage 
 and refuse, or to license and regulate such collection and dis- 
 posal. 
 
 (23) To license and regulate all persons, firms, corpora- 
 tions, companies and associations engaged in any business, 
 occupation, calling, profession or trade. 
 
 (24) To impose a license tax upon any business, vocation, 
 pursuit, calling, animal or thing. 
 
 (25) To define and prohibit, abate, suppress and prevent or 
 license and regulate, all acts, practices, conduct, business, oc- 
 cupations, callings, trades, uses of property, and all other 
 things whatsoever detrimental or liable to be detrimental to
 
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 the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience or welfare of 
 the inhabitants of the city, and all nuisances and causes 
 thereof. 
 
 (26) To prescribe limits within which business, occupations 
 and practices liable to be nuisances or detrimental to the health, 
 morals, security or general welfare of the people may lawfully 
 be established, conducted or maintained. 
 
 (27) To inspect, test, measure and weigh any article of con- 
 sumption or use within the city. 
 
 (28) To establish, regulate, license and inspect weights and 
 measures. , ■. ; 
 
 (29) To regulate the construction and materials of all build- 
 ings and structures; and to inspect all buildings, lands and 
 places as to their condition for health, cleanliness and safety, 
 and when necessary prevent the use thereof and require any 
 alterations or changes necessary to make them healthful, 
 clean or safe. 
 
 (30) To abolish or prevent grade crossings and provide for 
 safe crossings and compel any street, steam, electric railroad 
 or other transportation company or companies affected thereby 
 to pay all or a part of the cost thereof. 
 
 (31) To provide for the support, maintenance and care of 
 children and sick, aged or insane, poor persons and paupers. 
 
 (32) To provide and maintain charitable, educational, recre- 
 ative, curative, corrective, detentive or penal institutions, de- 
 partments, functions, facilities, instrumentalities, conveniences 
 and services. 
 
 (33) To do all things wliatsoever expedient for promoting 
 or maintaining the comfort, education, morals, peace, govern- 
 ment, health, welfare, trade, commerce or manufactures of 
 the city or its inhabitants. 
 
 (34) To enforce any ordinance, rule or regulation by means 
 of fines, forfeitures, penalties and imprisonment or by action 
 or proceeding in its own courts or in any other court of com- 
 petent jurisdiction or by any one or more of such means, and 
 to impose costs as a part thereof. 
 
 (35) To exercise all powers granted or not prohibited to it 
 by law or which it would be competent for this charter to 
 enumerate.
 
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 Sec. 2. The enunieration of particular powers in this charter 
 is not exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or 
 phrases granting powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant 
 power in this article impair a power granted in any other part 
 of this charter ; and whether powers, objects or purf>oses are ex- 
 pressed conjunctively or disjunctively they shall be construed so 
 as to permit the city to exercise freely any one or more such 
 powers as to any one or more such objects for any one or more 
 such purposes. 
 
 Sec. 3. The City is hereby divided into twenty-eight wards, 
 bounded and numbered as the wards of the city now are; pro- 
 vided, that from time to time corrected ward boundaries may 
 be established by ordinance which shall comprise, as nearly 
 as practicable, compact and contiguous territory within 
 straight lines, and contain as nearly as may be the same num- 
 ber of registered voters. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Elections. 
 
 Section 1. A general city election shall be held on the tirst 
 Tuesday in April, 1915, and every two years thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 2. At the general city election in 1917, and every four 
 years thereafter, a Mayor and a Comptroller shall be elected 
 each for a term of four years and until his successor qualifies. 
 
 Sec. 3. At the general city election in 1915 one Alderman 
 from each odd-numbered ward shall be elected for a term of 
 two years, and at the same election, and every four years there- 
 after, one Alderman from each even-numbered ward, and a 
 President of the Board of Aldermen, shall be elected, each for a 
 term of four years. At the general city election in 1917, and 
 every four years thereafter, one Alderman from each odd- 
 numbered ward shall be elected, each for a term of four years. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every elective City officer, including the President 
 and members of the Board of Aldermen, shall be elected by a 
 general ticket; proznded, that whenever the constitution and 
 laws of the State permit, each Alderman shall be elected only 
 by the voters of the ward from which he is elected.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 5. The Board of Election Commissioners shall desig- 
 nate the day for holding any special election under the Initia- 
 tive, Referendum or Recall provisions of this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Board of Election Commissioners shall cause 
 a notice to be published at least three times in at least two 
 daily newspapers in the City, the first insertion to be at least 
 twenty days prior to the holding of any election under the 
 Initiative, Referendum or Recall provisions of this Charter, 
 such notice to state the time and place of holding such elec- 
 tion and the general nature of each proposition or ordinance 
 to be voted upon. 
 
 Sec. 7. Except as in this Charter otherwise provided, all 
 elections shall be held and proceedings had in relation thereto 
 as may be provided by law or ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. All necessary expenses incurred in preparing for 
 and conducting any election under the Initiative, Referendum 
 or Recall provisions of this Charter shall be paid as fol- 
 lows: The Board of Election Commissioners shall prepare its 
 estimate of such expenses and submit same to the 
 Board of Aldermen. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen must 
 then appropriate the amount so estimated. The Board of Elec- 
 tion Commissioners shall audit and approve all such expenses 
 so incurred and certify them to the Comptroller, who must 
 draw his warrant therefor on the Treasurer, who must pay the 
 same. If no appropriation has been made for such payment 
 the Treasurer shall charge the same to any fund not otherwise 
 appropriated or to any fund available therefor, anything in this 
 charter to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 Sec. 9. Whenever it may be done in harmony with the 
 State Constitution and laws, the Board of Aldermen shall by 
 ordinance provide for and regulate municipal elections and 
 registration of voters and may provide by ordinance for non- 
 partisan nominations, preferential voting, or proportional rep- 
 resentation. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Recall. 
 
 Section 1. Any elective officer may he recalled by the 
 voters of the City, or if he shall have been elected by the voters
 
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 of a ward or district, then by the voters of such ward or dis 
 trict, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec 2. A petition for such recall .shall be signed by regis- 
 tered voters equal in number to twenty per cent of all the 
 registered voters of the City at the time of the last preceding 
 regular mayoralty election ; provided, that in such number 
 shall be included twenty per cent of the registered voters at 
 said time in each of at least two-thirds of the wards of the 
 City; provided further, that if the officer shall have been 
 elected by the voters of a ward or district, the petition need 
 be signed by only twenty per cent of all the registered voters 
 therein at the time of said mayoralty election. 
 
 Sec. 3. The signatures need not all be appended to one 
 paper, but all papers comprising the petition shall be uniform 
 in character and shall each be verified by affidavit stating that 
 each signature thereto was made in affiant's presence by, as 
 affiant verily ■believes, the person whose name it purports to 
 be. Each signer shall state, opposite his signature, his resi- 
 dence address. Any person shall be deemed a registered voter 
 whose name is unerased on the registration books. 
 
 Sec. 4. Each of the papers comprising the petition shall 
 state the name and office of the officer whose recall is sought 
 and ask for his recall before any signature is appended thereto. 
 
 Sec. 5. All .papers comprising the petition shall be assem- 
 bled by the petitioners and filed with the Board of Election 
 Commissioners as one instrument, and within ten days 
 thereafter said Board shall find and certify as to the suffi- 
 ciency of the petition, stating the number of registered voters 
 signing. If the petition is certified to be insufficiently signed, 
 supplemental papers conforming to the requirements for the 
 orig-inals may be filed within twenty days thereafter, and said 
 Board, within ten days after such supplements are filed, shall 
 find and certify as to the. sufficiency of the petition, so supple- 
 mented. If found still insufficiently signed, no further supple- 
 ment shall be allowed, but a new petition may be filed. 
 
 Sec. 6. If such recall petition, with supplements, if any, be 
 found sufficient, a certificate to that effect shall be mailed by 
 said Board to the officer, and if he does not resign within t^n
 
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 days after such mailing, said Board shall provide for submit- 
 ting the question of his recall at the first election, at which it 
 may lawfully be submitted, not less than thirty nor more than 
 ninety days after such mailing, and if there is no such election, 
 ihen at a special election to Ijc held within such ninety days 
 if legally possible, otherwise at the earliest day at which said 
 question may be submitted at either a general or special elec- 
 tion. Any such election, at any stage thereof, shall at once 
 be discontinued upon the death, resignation or removal of the 
 officer whose recall is in question. 
 
 Sec. 7. The ballot shall state the proposition, "Shall (name 
 of officer) be removed from the office of (name of office) ?" and 
 to the right thereof, in bold type, the words "yes" and "no," 
 one above the other. To vote for the recall of said officer tlie 
 voter shall s.trike out the w^ord "no," and to vote against such 
 recall, the word "yes." If the majority of the votes cast 
 thereon at said election shall be in favor of such recall, the 
 office shall be vacant five clays thereafter. 
 
 Sec. 8. No petition shall seek the recall of more than one 
 officer, but several propositions for recall may be separately 
 submitted at the same election on the same ballot. 
 
 Sec. 9. No recall petition shall be filed against any officer 
 within the first six months or the last six months of his term 
 nor within six months after a proposition for his recall has 
 been defeated at an election. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Section 1. The legislative power of the City shall, subject 
 to the limitations of this Charter, be vested in a Board of 
 Aldermen, consisting of a President, elected as such bv gen- 
 eral ticket from the City at large, and twenty-eight mem- 
 bers, one from each ward, to be known and elected bv sjen- 
 eral ticket as Alderman from the ward from which elected. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall become an Alderman except he be 
 a voter and at least twenty-five years of age and shall have 
 been next before his election five years a citizen of the United 
 States, three years a rp*^if1?'ii' f^f tlie Citv, two vears an a.^-
 
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 messed taxpayer of the City, and one year a resident of the 
 Avard from which elected, nor who shall have been convicted 
 of malfeasance in ofifice, bribery or other corrupt practice or 
 crime; and if any Alderman shall be so convicted or shall at 
 any time not be a resident of such ward he shall thereby 
 forfeit his ofifice. The salary of each Alderman shall be eighteen 
 hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 3. The President of the Board of Aldermen shall pre- 
 side at all its meetings and have the qualifications and forfeit 
 his ofifice for the causes provided with regard to the Mayor. 
 TTis salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever a member of said Board, other than the 
 President, is absent from a meeting, he shall forfeit ten dol- 
 lars of his salary and such forfeiture shall not be remitted ; 
 provided that forfeitures by one member shall not exceed 
 eight hundred dollars in any one year. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any vacancy in said Board shall be filled for the un- 
 expired term at the next general City or State election held 
 fifty days or more after such vacancy occurs; provided, that 
 whenever three or more vacancies exist in said Board such 
 vacancies shall be filled at a special election ; but no such spe- 
 cial election shall be held within three months prior to any 
 general City or State election. 
 
 Sec. 6. Said Board shall choose from its membership a 
 Vice-President to act in case of the absence, disability or fail- 
 ure to act of the President; shall choose a Clerk, and may 
 select any other ofificers and employes. 
 
 Sec. 7. Said Board shall be the judge of the qualifications 
 of its members, except of its President, and a majoritv of all 
 its members shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number 
 may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance 
 of absentees in such manner and under such penalties as the 
 Board may provide. 
 
 Sec. 8. Said Board may determine the rules of its pro- 
 ceedings, subject to this Charter; arrest and punish by fine 
 or imprisonment or both, any member or other person guil- 
 ty of disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence ; and 
 with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its members, expel
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 a member for cause, after notice and upon a hearing^. It shall 
 have power, and may delegate it to any committee, to subpoena 
 witnesses and order the production of books and papers relat- 
 ing to any subject within its jurisdiction ; to call upon its own 
 officer or the City Marslial to execute its process ; and to arrest 
 and punish by fine or imprisonment or both any person refus- 
 ing to obey such subpoena or order. No fine for any one of- 
 fense under this section shall exceed three hundred dollars 
 nor shall any imprisonment for any one ottense exceed ten 
 days; but each day's continuance in any refusal as aforesaid 
 shall be a separate offense. ]ts presiding- officer or the chair- 
 man of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses. It 
 shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and the yeas and nays 
 on any question shall at the desire of any member present be 
 entered thereon. The proceedings of each meeting of said 
 Board shall be published within five days in the paper or 
 papers doing the City publishing. 
 
 Sec. 9. One session of said Board shall be held annually, 
 beginning on the third Tuesday of April, and the Mayor may 
 by three days' proclamation convene it in special session. All 
 sessions shall be public and in the City Hall, subject lo change 
 of place in case of emergency. 
 
 Sec. 10. The style of ordinance shall be: "Be it ordained 
 by the City of St. Louis, as follows:" 
 
 Sec. 11. No ordinance shall be passed except by bill and 
 no bill shall be so amended in its passage as to change its 
 original purpose. 
 
 Sec. 12. No ordinance shall be revived or re-enacted ex- 
 cept by bill setting it forth in full, nor amended except by bill 
 setting forth the ordinance or section amended in full, as 
 amended. 
 
 Sec. 13. No bill, except a general appropriation bill 
 which shall only embrace matters on account uf which 
 moneys are appropriated, shall contain more than one sub- 
 ject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. 
 
 Sec. 14. The Board of Aldermen at any mee'ing iield 
 thirty days or more after any bill shall have been referred to 
 a committee, shall, on motion of any member, determine by
 
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 the yeas and nays entered on the Journal, whether such com- 
 mittee shall be discharged from further consideration thereof. 
 
 Sec. 15. All amendments adopted shall he incorporated 
 with the bill by engrossment under the supervision of a com- 
 mittee which shall report in writing such engrossment not 
 later than the first meeting of said Board held more than three 
 days after the order to engross. 
 
 Sec. 16. Every bill shall be read on three different days 
 in open session before its adoption, and no bill shall become 
 an ordinance unless a majority of all the members vote in 
 favor of its adoption and the presiding officer signs the same 
 in open session. 
 
 Sec. 17. Each bill shall be presented to the Mayor im- 
 mediately after its adoption, but shall not be acted upon by 
 him (except it be an emergency measure) within ten days 
 after its adoption. He shall within twenty days after its 
 presentation to him return it with his approval or disapproval 
 endorsed thereon to the Board of Aldermen, or, if said Board 
 shall have finally adjourned, to the Register. Failure so to re- 
 turn any bill within said time shall constitute approval there- 
 of by the Mayor. If the Mayor approves the bill, or fails to re- 
 turn it as and when above provided, it shall become an ordi- 
 nance, subject to the Referendum provisions of this Charter. If 
 he returns it to the Register, with his disapproval endorsed 
 thereon, after said Board shall have finally adjourned, but 
 within said twenty days, it shall not become an ordinance. 
 If he returns it to said Board, with his disapproval endorsed 
 thereon, within said twenty days and before said Board shall 
 have finally adjourned, said Board shall reconsider it. If, 
 on such reconsideration, two-thirds of all the mem])ers vote 
 to pass the bill, the presiding ofiicer shall certify that fact 
 thereon over his signature and thereupon the bill shall be- 
 come an ordinance, subject to the Referendum provisions of 
 this Charter; otherwise it shall not become an ordinance. 
 If a bill contains several items of appropriation, the Mayor 
 may disapprove one or more items while approving the others, 
 and the items approved shall become an ordinance in like 
 manner as a bill approved, and the items disapproved shall 
 be proceeded with in like manner as a bill disapproved.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis U 
 
 Sec. 18. In all cases under the two next preceding sec- 
 tions the vote shall be determined by yeas and nays and the 
 names of the members voting for and against the bill shall 
 be entered on the Journal. 
 
 Sec. 19. No ordinance, unless it be an emergency mea- 
 sure, shall take effect until thirty days after its approval by 
 the Mayor, or thirty days after adoption over his veto. 
 
 Sec. 20. An emergency measure is any ordinance neces- 
 sary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, 
 health or safety and declared to be an emergency measure; 
 any ordinance calling or providing for any election or vote by 
 or submission to the people; any ordinance making an appro- 
 priation for the payment of principal or interest of the public 
 debt, or for current expenses of the City government; any 
 general appropriation ordinance ; or any ordinance fixing any 
 tax rate ; but no ordinance granting, enlarging or affecting any 
 franchise or amending or repealing any ordinance adopted by 
 the people under the Initiative shall be an emergency measure. 
 
 Sec. 21. Every ordinance shall be immediately sent to 
 the Register, and by him numbered, filed and preserved in his 
 office. Every ordinance shall be published within ten days 
 after its approval by the Mayor or adoption over his veto in 
 the paper or papers doing the city publishing. 
 
 Sec. 22. There shall be a revision of the general ordi- 
 nances every five years. 
 
 Sec. 23. The Board of Aldermen shall have power by or- 
 dinance not inconsistent with this Charter to exercise all 
 the powers of the City, and provide all means necessary or 
 proper therefor; also to do all things needful within or with- 
 out the City or State to protect the rights of the City. 
 
 Sec. 24. No fine shall exceed (i\c hundrctl dollars. Any 
 one against whom any fine shall have been assessed, failing 
 to pay the same and costs, shall be committed to the work- 
 house or other place provided therefor, and to such labor as 
 miay be provided by ordinance, until such fine and costs shall 
 be fully paid, at the rate of one day's imprisonment for each 
 three dollars of fine ; provided, that no such imprisonment
 
 12 Charter qi- the City of St. Louis 
 
 shall exceed one hundred days for any one offense, and pro- 
 vided further, that fines may be paid in installments in such 
 manner as may be provided by ordinance, and provision may 
 be made by ordinance for the detention, with the view to 
 reform and cure, of habitual drunkards or other habitual de- 
 linquents, as may be defined l>y ordinance, for an indeter- 
 minate sentence not exceeding one year. 
 
 Sec. 25. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this 
 Charter no money shall be expended except in consequence of 
 appropriations made by ordinance, and no improvement in- 
 volving any expenditure of money shall be ordered except b}- 
 ordinance. No ordinance making-, changing or transferring 
 an appropriation or contemplating or involving the payment 
 of any money shall be adopted unless the Board of Estimate 
 and Apportionment shall have recommended or joined in recom- 
 mending the same. 
 
 Sec. 26. The Board of Aldermen shall not have power to 
 relieve or exempt any person from the payment of any tax, 
 or from any burden imposed by law ; nor to authorize the 
 compromise of any disputed contractual dem.and, or any allow- 
 ance on account thereof not provided for in the contract, except 
 on recommendation of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
 ment ; nor to authorize the payment of any damages claimed 
 for alleged injuries to persons or property, except upon recom- 
 mendation by the City Counselor ; nor to appropriate any 
 money for charitable purposes, except such as shall be subject 
 to the administration or supervision of the City; nor to sell, 
 lease or otherwise dispose of the water works ; nor to sell anv 
 of the City's real estate except by ordinance adopted by a 
 vote of two-thirds of all the members; nor to acquire real 
 estate by private purchase except by ordinance recommended 
 bv the Board of Public Service. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Initiative. 
 
 Section 1. The i)cople shall have power, at their option, to 
 propose ordinances, including ordinances proposing amendments 
 to this Charter, and to adopt the same at the polls, with the same
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 13 
 
 effect as if adopted by the Board of Aldermen and approved by 
 the Mayor, such power being known as the Initiative. It shall 
 be exercised as hereinafter provided, subject to the provisions of 
 this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such an ordinance shall be proposed by petition signed 
 by registered voters equal in number to five per cent, or, in case 
 the proposed ordinance is for the submission of an amendment 
 to the Charter, ten per cent, of all the registered voters of the 
 City at the time of the last preceding regular mayoralty election. 
 Each of the papers comprising the petition shall contain the 
 proposed ordinance in full and designate by names and addresses 
 five persons as the committee of the petitioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. Each such petition and the papers comprising same 
 shall be governed by, and proceedings shall be had thereon in 
 accordance with, the provisions of Sections 3 and 5 of Article 
 III concerning the Recall, but construing said sections with 
 reference to the petition and the sufficiency thereof required 
 by this article. 
 
 Sec. 4. If the Board of Election Commissioners find that the 
 petition, with supplements, if any, is suflficient, it shall forthwith 
 certify that fact, together with a copy of the petition, omitting 
 signatures, to the Board of Aldermen. Unless the proposed ordi- 
 nance is, without amendment, adopted and approved by the 
 Mayor, or adopted, without amendment, over his veto, within 
 sixty days after the regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen 
 next after said certification, or unless four meml>crs of the com- 
 mittee of the petitioners shall, within fifteen days after the 
 expiration of said sixty days, state in writing to tiie Clerk of 
 the Board of Aldermen that there is no necessity for 
 submitting the proposed ordinance to the voters, said 
 Clerk shall forthwith certify the failure to adopt same to 
 the Board of Election Commissioners. Said Board of Elec- 
 tion Commissioners shall thereupon provide for submitting 
 said proposed ordinance, in its original form, to the voters 
 at the first election, at which such submission may law- 
 fully be had, not less than thirty days after such certification to 
 it by said Clerk, and if there is no such election within ninety 
 days after such certification, and the petition shall be signed by 
 registered voters equal in number to seven per cent, or in case
 
 14 Charter op the City oe St. Louis 
 
 the jjroposed ordinance is for the submission of an anienchiient 
 to the Charter, fifteen per cent, of all the registered voters of 
 the City at the time of the last preceding regular mayoralty 
 election, then such submission shall be at a special election to 
 be held within such ninety days if legally possible, otherwise at 
 the earliest day on which such submission may be had at either 
 a general or special election. 
 
 Sec. 5. The ballots shall state the nature of the proposed ordi- 
 nance, and to the right thereof in bold type the words "Yes" and 
 "No", one above the other. To vote for such ordinance the 
 voter shall strike out the word "No" and to vote against it, the 
 word "Yes". If a majority voting on the proposed ordinance vote 
 in favor thereof, it shall be an ordinance of the City, in eflfect 
 ten days thereafter, and the Board of Election Commissioners 
 shall certify a copy thereof and the fact of its adoption to the 
 Register, who shall number said ordinance and file and preserve 
 said copy and certificate in his office. Such ordinance shall be 
 published and printed copies thereof made for distribution as 
 provided for other ordinances. 
 
 Sec. 6. No ordinance adopted at the polls under the Initiative 
 shall be amended or repealed by the Board of Aldermen except 
 by vole of two-thirds of all the members, nor within one year 
 after its adoption. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 The Referendum. 
 
 Section 1. The people shall have power, at their option, to 
 approve or reject at the polls any ordinance (except it be an 
 emergency measure as defined in Section 20 of Article IV), such 
 power being known as the Referendum and to be invoked and 
 exercised as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. If within thirty days after the approval by the Mayor 
 of any ordinance (not an emergency measure) or its adoption 
 over his veto, there is filed with the Board of Election Commis- 
 sioners a petition purporting to be signed by registered voters 
 equal in number to two per cent of all the registered voters of 
 the City at the time of the last preceding regular mayoralty 
 election, requesting that said ordinance be reconsidered and 
 rejected or referred, then said Board shall certify that fact to
 
 Charter of The City of St. Louis 15 
 
 the Register and said ordinance shall not take eflFect except as 
 hereinafter provided. Within ten days after such filing the said 
 Board shall find and certify the number of registered voters sign- 
 ing said petition and what percentage said number equals of 
 the entire number of said registered voters at the time of said 
 election. If the percentage so found is less than the two per 
 cent aforesaid, said Board shall certify that fact to the Regis- 
 ter, the said petition shall not be supplemented, and said ordi- 
 nance shall take effect. If the percentage so found is not less 
 than two per cent but is less than seven per cent of all of said 
 registered voters at the time of said election, then within thirty 
 days after the certification of such finding there may be filed with 
 said Board a supplemental petition, shown, by the affidavits 
 appended thereto, to be signed by registered voters to a number 
 which, with the number of registered voters who signed the 
 original petition, equals in number said seven per cent. If such 
 supplemental petition is filed, said Board shall within ten days 
 thereafter find and certify the number of registered voters sign- 
 ing same and whether !-uch signers, added to registered voters 
 who signed the original petition, equal in number said seven 
 per cent. If it finds that the aggregate number of such signers 
 does not equal said seven per cent, or if the committee of the peti- 
 tioners make the statement in writing as hereinafter mentioned, 
 said Board shall certify the fact to the Register, no further 
 supplementing shall be permitted, and said ordinance shall take 
 effect. If said Board finds the original petition, or the original 
 and supplemental petitions together, to be signed by registered 
 voters equal in number to said seven per cent, it shall, forthwith 
 after either such finding, certify that fact, together with a copy 
 of the petition (omitting the signatures), to the Register and 
 to the Board of Aldermen, and the latter Board shall reconsider 
 said ordinance. If on such reconsideration the Board of Alder- 
 men by a majority vote rejects said ordinance, it shall not take 
 effect. If the Board of Aldermen fails to finally and wholly 
 reject said ordinance wJthin thirty days after such certification 
 to it, then, unless four members of the committee of the peti- 
 tioners, within fifteen days after said thirty days expire, state 
 in writing to the clerk of the Board of Aldermen that there is 
 no necessity for submitting said ordinance to the voters, such 
 Clerk shall forthwith certifv said failure to the lioard of Election
 
 16 Charter of the City oe St. Louis 
 
 Commissioners, which shall thereupon make provision for sub- 
 mitting such ordinance, in such form as it then shall be, to the 
 voters; proi-ided, that the final percenta^^e of signers required 
 to compel submission to the voters of an ordinance amending or 
 repealing an ordinance adopted at the i)olls under the Initiative 
 shall be three per cent instead of seven per cent as required in 
 case of other ordinances. Such submission shall l)e at the first 
 election, at which it may lawfully be had, not less than thirty 
 days after the last mentioned certification, and if there is no 
 such election within ninety days after such certification, and 
 the original petition or the original and supplemental peti- 
 tions together shall be signed by registered voters equal in 
 number to twelve per cent of all the registered voters of the 
 City at the time of the aforesaid mayoralty election, or if the 
 Board of Aldermen shall by resolution so request, such sub- 
 mission shall be at a special election to be held within such 
 ninety days if legally possible, otherwise at the earliest day 
 on which such submission may be had at either a general or 
 special election. If the majority of the votes cast thereon 
 at the election shall be for such ordinance, it shall take effect 
 within ten days after such election. 
 
 Sec. 3. The provisions of Section 5 of Article V concerning 
 the ballots and manner of voting, the duties of the Board of 
 Election Commissioners and the Register, and the publishing of 
 ordinances and printing of copies thereof, shall govern like mat- 
 ters under this Article. 
 
 Sec. 4. The signatures need not all be appended to one paper, 
 but all papers comprising any original or supplemental petition 
 under this Article shall be uniform in character and shall each 
 set forth the ordinance in full and contain the request men- 
 tioned in Section 2, and designate by names and addresses five 
 persons as the committee of the petitioners, and each such paper 
 shall be verified by an affidavit stating the number of signatures 
 thereto and that each signature was made in affiant's presence, 
 by, as affiant verily believes, the person whose name it pur- 
 ports to be ; and all papers comprising an original or supplemen- 
 tal petition shall be assembled by the petitioners, and filed with the 
 Board of Election Commissioners as one instrument. Each 
 signer shall state opposite his signature his residence address. 
 Any person shall be deemed a registered voter within the mean-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 17 
 
 ing of this Article whose name is unerased on the registration 
 books. 
 
 Sec. 5. If the provisions of two or more initiated or referre^i 
 ordinances adopted or approved at the same election conflict, 
 the one receiving the highest affirmative vote shall prevail in 
 so far as such provisions conflict. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person may present to the City Counselor at least 
 twenty days prior to any election a written statement, not exceed- 
 ing one thousand words, concerning any ordinance or recall propo- 
 sition to be voted on at such election. The City Counselor shall 
 at least ten days before such election prepare and cause to be 
 published in the paper or papers doing the City publishing a 
 fair summary of all such statements. 
 
 ARTICLE VIL 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 Section \. The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of 
 the City and, except as by law or in this Charter otherwise pro- 
 vided, have and exercise all the executive power of the City. He 
 shall exercise a general .supervision over all the executive afifairs 
 of the City and see that each officer and employe performs his 
 duty and that all laws, ordinances and charter provisions arc 
 enforced within the City. His salary shall be ten thousand dol- 
 lars per annum. .Ml process against the City shall be served upon 
 him. He shall appoint and may remove all non-elective officers 
 and all employes, except as otherwise in this Charter provided, 
 but shall not remove any office, department or division head 
 apixiinted by him, except for cause. He shall execute all deeds 
 and conditional bonds made in (he name of the City and see 
 that all contracts with the City are performed and that all legal 
 proceedings necessary to enforce or protect the rights or inter- 
 ests of the City are brought and tlili.!.,'ently prosecuted. He shall 
 have a seat and a voice and may introduce ordinances, but not 
 vote, in the Board of Aldermen, and shall make reconniien<lations 
 and give information to said Board as to City affairs. He may 
 remit, with or without c<»nilitions, fines, costs, forfeitures and 
 penalties imposed for vinlriti(Mi of aiiy ordinance or charter pro- 
 vision, and shall annually make a report thereof to the Board v\
 
 18 Charter of the City of St, Louis 
 
 Aldemicn. He may examine the a^fail•^ aiul conduct of any 
 department, board or office and require all officers to exhibit 
 tlieir accounts and papers and make rci)orls to him. He shall 
 annually appoint a certified public accountant to thoroughly audit 
 all books, accounts and records relating to the fiscal affairs of the 
 City and to report the result to him. A copy of said report shall 
 be filed with the Register. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person shall become Mayor unless he be at least 
 thirtv rears of age, and shall have been, next before his election, 
 both a citizen of the United States and a resident of the City 
 for five years and an assessed taxpayer of the City for two years, 
 nor if he shall have been convicted of malfeasance in office, bri- 
 bery or other corrupt practice or crime. If the Mayor be so 
 convicted or become a non-resident of the City he shall thereby 
 forfeit his office. 
 
 Sec. 3. During the Mayor's temporary disability or absence 
 from the Citv his powers and duties shall devolve upon the Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Aldermen, or if said President be also 
 absent or disabled, upon the Vice-President of said Board. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Mayor may be removed from office by the Board 
 of Aldermen for crime or misdemeanor in office, for grave mis- 
 conduct showing unfitness for public duty, or for permanent dis- 
 ability, three-fourths of all the members of said Board voting for 
 such removal. The proceedings for such removal shall be upon 
 specific charges in writing, which, with a notice stating the time 
 and place of the hearing, shall be served on the Mayor or pub- 
 lished at least three times in a daily newspaper. The hearing 
 shall be public, and the Mayor shall have the right to appear and 
 defend in person and by counsel, and have process of the Board 
 to compel the attendance of witnesses in his behalf. Such vote 
 shall be determined by yeas and nays and the names of the 
 members voting for or against such removal shall be entered on 
 the Journal. 
 
 Sec. 5, Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of Mayor, 
 the President of the Board of Aldermen shall become INTayor, 
 and shall hold such office until a successor is elected and quali- 
 fies. Such election, if for an unexpired term, shall be at the first 
 general City or State election held fifty days or more after such 
 vacancy occurs. While so holding the office of Mayor a tempo-
 
 ■ Charter of the City of St. Louis 19 
 
 rary vacancy shall exist in the office of the President of the Board 
 of Aldermen. The Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen shall 
 hold the office of President of said Board during any vacancy 
 therein with the right of succession to the office of Mayor. 
 
 ARTICLE VIIL 
 
 « 
 
 Officers. 
 
 Section 1. The Mayor shall appoint the following officers at 
 his convenience, to hold for the term for which he was elected 
 and until their successors qualify: Assessor, Collector, Treas- 
 urer, Supply Commissioner, Register, City Counselor, City Mar- 
 shal, City Court Judges, Clerk of City Courts, President Board 
 of Public Service, Director of Public Utilities, Director of Streets 
 and Sewers, Director of Public Welfare and Director of Public 
 Safety. 
 
 Sec. 2. In addition to other qualifications required by this 
 Charter, all officers and employes, except day laborers, and ex- 
 cept in such cases requiring exceptional scientific, mechanical, 
 professional or educational qualifications as may be determined 
 by the Efficiency Board, must have resided in the City for at 
 least one year and failing or ceasing so to reside, shall forfeit 
 their office or employment. 
 
 Sec. 3. Kvery officer, and every employe holding a position 
 upon an annual salary, shall, before entering upon his duties and 
 within such time as may be provided by ordinance, take and sub- 
 scribe, and file with the Register, an oath or affirmation that he 
 has all tlie qualifications and is not subject to any of the dis- 
 qualifications named in this Charter for the office or employ- 
 ment he is about to assume ; that he will support the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States and of this State and the Charter and 
 ordinances of the City; that he will be intluenced only by the 
 consideration of fitne-s in the appointment, promotion, demo- 
 tion, suspension or discharge of officers or employes; that he 
 will not expend nor authorize the expenditure of money other- 
 wise than for adequate consideration and efficient service to the 
 City and will faithfully discharge the duties of his office or em- 
 ployment.
 
 20 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 4. The Hoard of Aldcrnicn shall (letcriniiie hy ordinance 
 whether and when any officer or employe shall give a bond and 
 the amount and character thereof, subject to the provisions of 
 this Charter. Premiums on all bonds of officers and employes 
 shall be paid by the City, subject to such regulations as may be 
 provided by ordinance. If any person elected or appointed to an 
 office shall fail to take, subscribe and file an oath or affirmation 
 as aforesaid, or to give bond as required by this Charter or by 
 law or ordinance, he shall forfeit his right to the office or em- 
 ployment. 
 
 Sec. 5. Each head of a department, office or division shall be 
 responsible for the acts or omissions of officers and employes 
 appointed by him, and may require bonds or other securities 
 from them to secure himself. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any vacancy in any elective office, except in the 
 Board of Aldermen, shall be filled by appointment by the 
 Mayor until a successor is elected and qualifies. Such election, 
 if for an unexpired term, shall be at the first general City 
 or State election held fifty days or more after such vacancy 
 occurs. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Board of Aldermen shall by ordinance fix or pro- 
 vide for the fixing of salaries or compensation of officers and 
 employes, jurors and witnesses, subject to the provisions of this 
 Charter. Payment for services of specialists or experts under 
 Article XIII, Section 8, may be made either with or without 
 an ordinance fixing the compensation for such services. AJl 
 salaries or compensation under the classified service shall be 
 uniform for like service. No salary in the unclassified service 
 of the City shall be changed during the term for wdiich the 
 recipient was elected or appointed. No city officer shall retain 
 any fees received by virtue of his office, but all fees shall be- 
 long to the City and be paid into the City Treasury daily, 
 unless some other time is provided by this Cliarter or by law 
 or ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. All salaries shall be paid at least monthly. Salaries 
 fixed in this Charter at a certain sum shall be construed to mean 
 not less than such sum, but no salary under the City shall ex- 
 ceed ten thousand dollars per annum, nor shall any officer or
 
 ' Charter of the City of St. Louis 21 
 
 employe receive any addiliuiial compensation for serving in any 
 other capacity under the City while in such office or employment ; 
 nor hold any office or employment under the State or United 
 States except in the militia or as notary public, nor have a 
 personal interest, (h'rectly or indirectly, in a contract with the 
 City; and no elective officer shall be a member of the general 
 city committee of any political party. Any person guilty of 
 any wilful violation of this section shall thereby forfeit his 
 office or employment. 
 
 Sec. 9. Any elective officer (except a member of the Board 
 of Aldermen), and any officer appointed by the i\layor to fill 
 I any elective office, may be suspended by the Mayor and 
 removed by the Board of Aldermen for cause, tliree-fourths of 
 all the members of said Board voting for such removal. Imme- 
 diately upon any such suspension the Mayor shall notify the 
 Board of Aldermen of same and within ten days shall file with 
 the Board charges in writing against such suspended officer, 
 which, with a notice of the time and place of the hearing, shall 
 be served on such officer or published at least three times in a 
 daily newspaper. The hearing shall he public, and such officer 
 shall have the right to appear and defend in person and by 
 counsel, and have process of the Board to compel the attend- 
 ance of witnesses in his behalf. If the Board be not in session, 
 the Mayor shall immediately call a special session to con- 
 vene in not less than three nor more than ten days thereafter. 
 If, upon a hearing, such officer be not removed, he shall be 
 immediately reinstated in his office. The vote on such ques- 
 tion shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of 
 the members voting for or against such removal shall be enterefl 
 on the journal. The clerk of the Board shall forthwith certify 
 the action of the Board to the Mayor. The Mayor may appoint 
 some suitable person to lill temporarily such office during the 
 period of any such suspension. 
 
 Sec. 10. Kach executive board and the head of each depart- 
 ment or office (except those under the Board of Public Service, 
 who shall report to said Board) shall at least annually on a day 
 or days fixed by ordinance make a full rejiort to the Mayor of 
 the transactions of such Board, department or office for the 
 year and shall furnish to the Board of Aldermen or Mayor at 
 any time such information as either may require.
 
 22 Charter of tije City of St. L oui s 
 
 vScc. 11. All questions between officers as to their relative 
 powers and duties shall he detcrmincfl by the Mayor except as 
 in this Charter otherwise provided. 
 
 Sec. 12. All City officers and employes except the Mayor, 
 ni.cniliers of the Board of Aldermen, members of the MiiHanphy 
 Board, I^fficiency Board, Complaint Board, City Plan Com- 
 mission, Board of Engineers, Board of Examiners of Plumb- 
 ers, Board of Children's Guardians, the Board in charge of 
 the Zoological Park and such others as may be excepted by 
 ordinance, shall devote their entire time to the duties of their 
 office. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 Register. 
 Section 1. The Register shall have custody of the City 
 Seal, original rolls of ordinances, contracts, conditional bonds, 
 title deeds, certificates and papers, and all other records, pa- 
 pers and documents not required by this Charter or by ordi- 
 nance to be deposited elsewhere, and register them by num- 
 bers, dates and contents, and keep such index thereof as may by 
 ordinance be provided. He shall by his signature and the 
 City Seal attest all instruments signed in the name of the 
 City and all official acts of the Mayor; provide, and when re- 
 quired certify, as may be provided by ordinance, under his 
 hand and the City Seal, copies of ordinances, records, papers 
 and documents in his office; cause copies of all ordinances to 
 be printed through the Supply Division and kept in his of- 
 fice for distribution ; register and preserve in his office all 
 oaths or affirmations by city officers or employes ; may ad- 
 minister such oaths and affirmations ; shall give such bond 
 and appoint such deputies and employes as may be provided 
 by ordinance. He shall receive a salary of four thousand 
 dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 2. All blank licenses, tickets, receipts, permits, certifi- 
 cates or other blank forms as may be provided by ordinance 
 shall be attested and issued by the Register, and delivered 
 and charged to the Comptroller, who shall countersign and 
 deliver them to the proper officers and take receipts therefor. 
 All such blanks not used shall be returned to the Comptroller, 
 who shall cancel and return them to the Register.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 23 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Law Department. 
 
 Section \. The Law Department shall consist of a City 
 Counselor, five associate and two assistant Citv Counselors, 
 and such other associates, assistants and employes as may 
 be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The City Counselor shall be the head of the T<aw 
 Department; appoint all associates, assistants and employes 
 in his department ; shall, through said department, direct the 
 management of all the litigation in which the City is a party, 
 including service in the City Courts; represent the Citv in 
 all legal matters and proceedings in which the City is a party 
 or interested, or in which any of its officers are officially inter- 
 ested ; advise the Board of Aldermen or any committee or 
 member thereof and the IVTayor and the heads of all depart- 
 ments, and through the Mayor and heads of departments all 
 other officers of the City, as to all legal questions aflPecting 
 the City's interest ; and approve as to form all contracts, deeds, 
 bonds and other documents to be signed in the name of. or 
 made to or with the City. ITc shall render the Police Depart- 
 ment all legal advice and services required bv it. Tic sliall 
 receive a salary of eight thousand dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 3. The City Counselor and associate and assistant City 
 Counselors shall be attorncys-at-law entitled to practice in all 
 the courts in the State for at least three years previous to 
 their appointment. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 City Marshal. 
 
 Section L The City Marshal shall receive a salary of three 
 thousand dollars per annum ; execute and return all proces.s, 
 notices and orders of the Mayor, I^w Department. Health 
 Commissioner and City Court Judges, and all other process, 
 notices and orders as in this Charter or by ordinance may 
 be provided. Tie shall appoint such deputies and employes as 
 may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. In case the Police Department shall become a 
 department of the City, the Marshal's functions shall devolve
 
 24 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 upon it and be exercised in such manner as may be provided 
 by ordinance, in which event the office of Marshal shall be 
 abolished. 
 
 ARTICLE XIL 
 ' City Courts. 
 
 Section L There shall be two City Court Judges, who shall 
 have been for at least five years licensed attorneys, one to be 
 known as Judge of City Court One, and the other as Judge 
 of City Court Two, each of whom shall receive a salary of 
 three thousand dollars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen may by ordinance adopted 
 by the vote of two-thirds of all the members, increase the 
 number of City Courts and Judges. It may, by ordinance, 
 divide the City into judicial districts and regulate the juris- 
 diction thereof, and may from time to time alter same. When- 
 ever any such Judge is absent or unable to hold court, the 
 Mayor shall appoint an eligible person to act during such 
 absence or inability, who shall receive such compensation as 
 may be provided by ordinance. Such courts shall be held 
 in places provided for by ordinance, and, in the absence of 
 such ordinance provision, in such places as the Mayor mav 
 direct. 
 
 Sec. 3. The City Courts shall have jurisdiction of all 
 cases arising under this Charter or any ordinance, subject to 
 appeal by the City or the defendant to the St. Louis Court 
 of Criminal Correction in like manner as provided by law for 
 appeals from Justices of the Peace in criminal cases to their 
 appellate courts; may punish contempts of court by fine not 
 exceeding fifty dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ten 
 days, or both; enforce its orders and judgments as a court 
 of record may, and render final judgment on any forfeited 
 bond or recognizance returnable to such court, subject to 
 an appeal, as in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 4. There shall be one Clerk for all the City Courts, 
 who shall receive a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars per 
 annum, and appoint such deputies and employes as may be pro- 
 vided by ordinance.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 25 
 
 ARTICLE XIIL 
 
 Board of Public Service. 
 
 . Section \. There shall be a Board of Public Service, con- 
 sisting of the President of said Board, and four Directors, 
 who shall be known as Director of Public Utilities, Director 
 of Streets and Sewers, Director of Public Welfare and Di- 
 rector of Public Safety. They shall be the heads of and 
 exercise super\ision over their respective departments hereby 
 created, as follows: Department of the President, Dei)art- 
 ment of Public Utilities, Department of Streets and Sewers, 
 Department of Public Welfare and Department of Public 
 Safety. They shall each receive a salary of eight thousand dol- 
 lars per annum. 
 
 Sec. 2. The President of the Board and the Directors of 
 Public Utilities and of Streets and Sewers shall be engineers 
 of technical training, of at least ten years' e.xperience, and 
 qualified to design as well as to direct engineering work. 
 
 Sec. 3. .^ny member of the Board of Public Service may 
 designate any officer in any department under said Board to 
 act as his deputy, but such deputy shall have no vote on the 
 Board. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Public Service shall meet at least 
 once each week at its office. The President of the Board 
 shall preside at its meetings. .A. majority of said Board shall 
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but no 
 final action shall be taken in any matter concerning the de- 
 partment of any absent member unless such matter has been 
 made the special order of the day. Said Board shall fur- 
 nish through its President to the Mayor and the Board of 
 Aldermen such data and information as may be required, or 
 which it may from time to time deem necessary; prescribe 
 rules and regulations necessary and proper to carry out its 
 functions ; appoint a secretary and such other employes as 
 may be provided by ordinance; and keep a record of its pro- 
 ceedings which shall be open to the public. Final action 
 on any matter shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered 
 on its record. An abstract of its proceeding.s shall be pub- 
 lished in the paper or papers doing the City publishing.
 
 26 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 5. The J'oard of IHiblic vScrvice shall have jxjvver: 
 
 (a) To exercise supervision and control over the aforesaid 
 departments and the heads thereof. 
 
 (b) To grant permits to occupy or use portions of any pub- 
 lic ground, highways, streets, alleys, or other public places, 
 consistent with the public use thereof and not inconsistent 
 with anv law or general ordinance, including permits for 
 switch connections, and any such permit may be revoked by 
 said Board at will ; but this power shall never be deemed to 
 vest in said Board the right to grant franchises. 
 
 (c) To grant permits, according to such general rules and 
 regulations as may be provided by general ordinance, in rela- 
 tion to any private business required by ordinance to have 
 a permit as a condition of or in connection with its conduct 
 or operation. 
 
 (d) To accept or reject grants or dedications, absolute or 
 conditional, of highways, streets, boulevards, parkways, alleys 
 or other property for any public use. No plat of any addi- 
 tion or subdi\-ision, or any plat or map attached to any deed, 
 shall be filed or recorded in the Recorder's office unless the 
 same shall first be approved by the Board as to public high- 
 ways, streets, boulevards, parkways, alleys or other public 
 places represented thereon, and the grades thereof, except 
 plats accompanying judgments or orders of court in partition 
 and other suits where such plats form a part of such proceed- 
 ings. 
 
 (e) To establish the grades of the center line of all public 
 highways, streets, boulevards, parkways and alleys. Upon 
 demand of the owner of the property abutting on any public 
 highway, street, boulevard, parkway or alley, the Board shall 
 determine the grade of the line of said public highway, street, 
 boulevard, parkway or alley forming the boundary line of 
 such property. 
 
 (f) To control and conduct any and all engineering, con- 
 struction and reconstruction work undertaken by the City, 
 and to supervise all such work in which the City is interested. 
 All plans and specifications for such work shall be prepared 
 under the direction of the Board and be subject to its ap- 
 proval.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 27 
 
 (g) To make such recommendations, exercise such powers 
 and perform such duties as may be required of it l)y this 
 Charter or by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. Said Departments shall have divisions as herein 
 established. The head of each department shall appoint all 
 heads of divisions in his department and all officers and em- 
 ployes in his department not assigned to a division. The 
 head of each division shall manage his division and appoint 
 all officers and employes therein. 
 
 Sec. 7. All departments under the Board of Public Serv- 
 ice shall co-operate, and the employes or assistants in any 
 one department or division may, under the order of the Board, 
 be temporarily utilized by any other department or division. 
 All questions as to the distribution of powers or duties be- 
 tween such departments shall be determined by the Board. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Board may at any time, with the approval of 
 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, appoint specialists 
 or experts in connection with any public work or improve- 
 ment for which an appropriation has been made and pay for 
 their services out of such appropriation. 
 
 Sec. 9. DEPARTMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. The 
 Department of the President shall have charge and supervi- 
 sion of all public work and improvements undertaken by the 
 City or in which the City is interested and prepare all plans 
 and specifications therefor, except where such supervision, 
 work or preparation is herein or by the Board of Public 
 Service otherwise assigned or provided. 
 
 Sec. 10. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITII-S. The 
 Department of Public L^tilities shall have general supervision 
 over the maintenance, equipment, operation and service, and 
 the assessment of rates and charges, of all public utilities owned 
 or operated by the City. It shall execute or cause to be exe- 
 cuted all ordinances regulating the construction, reconstruc- 
 tion, extension, maintenance, equipment, operation, service or 
 rates of public utilities operating under franchises, licenses 
 or permits, or compelling extensions of facilities for such serv- 
 ice. The Director of said department shall make investigations
 
 28 CilARTER OF THE CiTY OF ST. LoUIS 
 
 and reports in rrlati'Mi lo any f)f the foregoing: matters as 
 may be provided by ordinance or required liy the Board of 
 Public Service, and in connection therewith shall have power 
 to subpoena witnesses and order the production of books 
 and papers relating thereto. He shall have charge of the su- 
 pervision of City lighting", and of the municipal electric light- 
 ing plants and electrical equipment in City buildings. 
 
 Sec. 11. There sliall be a Water Division in this depart- 
 ment and the head thereof shall be known as the Water Com- 
 missioner. It shall have under its special charge the opera- 
 tion and maintenance of the water works and of all facilities 
 for the acquisition and distribution of water. It shall assess 
 water rates as may be provided by ordinance and make out 
 the bills therefor and deliver same to the Comptroller who 
 shall deliver them to the Collector, take his receipt therefor 
 and charge him therewith on the Comptroller's books. 
 
 As long as any of the "vSt. Louis Water Bonds" or renewals 
 thereof or bonds issued on the special credit of the water works 
 or facilities remain unpaid the water rates shall be fixed at 
 prices that will produce revenue sufficient at least to pay the 
 running expenses of the water division and the interest on all 
 such bonds and renewals. 
 
 Sec. 12. The accounts of all public utilities owned and op- 
 erated by the City and dependent for their revenues upon the 
 sale of their products or services shall be kept separate and 
 distinct from all other accounts of the City, and shall con- 
 tain proportionate charges for all services performed for such 
 utilities by other departments, as well as proportionate credits 
 for all services rendered. 
 
 Sec. 13. DEPARTMENT OF STREETS AND SEWERS. 
 The Department of Streets and Sew'ers shall include street 
 and sewer divisions. 
 
 (a) The Street Division shall ha\'c charge of the repairing, 
 cleaning and maintenance of all public highways, streets, 
 boulevards, alleys, bridges, wdiarves and levees ; the sr)rinkling 
 of streets and the collection and disposal of garbage, ashes 
 and refuse, and except as otherwise provided by law or ordi- 
 nance shall have charge of the enforcement and execution
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 29 
 
 of all ordinances relating to any of the matters referred to in 
 this section or to the harbor. 
 
 (b) The Sewer Division shall have cliartje of the repairing, 
 cleaning and maintenance of all sewers and drains and the 
 disposal of sewage. 
 
 Sec. 14. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE. The 
 Department of Public Welfare shall include divisions of 
 health, of hospitals, of parks and recreation, and of correc- 
 tion. 
 
 (a) The head of the division of health shall be known 
 as the Health Commissioner. Said division shall have general 
 supervision over the public health and shall see that the 
 laws and ordinances in relation thereto are observed and en- 
 forced, and for that purpose the Health Commissioner is 
 authorized and empowered, with the apjiroval of the Director 
 of Public Welfare, to make such rules and regulations, not 
 inconsistent with this Charter or any law or ordinance, as 
 will tend to preserve or promote the health of the City; to 
 enter into, or to authorize and require any employe or police 
 oflficer to enter into, and examine any building, lot or place 
 within the City, and to ascertain the condition thereof so 
 far as the public health may be affected by it ; and to declare 
 and abate nuisances as herein or by law or ordinance provided. 
 Where, in the judgment of said Commissioner, the existence 
 of a nuisance is plain and its continuance a danger to public 
 health, he may declare such nuisance and danger, and enter 
 such declaration in the records of his office. He shall then 
 immediately abate such nuisance without notice, in all cllu-r 
 cases before abating a nuisance on ])rivate pro])crty he shall 
 give a hearing, after notice thereof given either personally to 
 the owner or his agent or by posting on or near the premi.ses. 
 whereupon he may declare the nuisance and order its abate- 
 ment. In case such nuisance is not abated as ordered, he 
 shall abate the same. In case of abatement of nuisance on 
 private property, the cost thereof may be assessed and col- 
 lected as a special tax and be a lien on such property as may Ix? 
 provided by ordinance. .Any person causing or maintainmg 
 any nuisance shall lie lial)lc to the City in a civil action for 
 the expense incurred in abating such nui>-ance. I'ailnrc to
 
 30 Charter ok the City oi-" St. Louis 
 
 abate a nuisance after an order so to do as aforesaid shall 
 constitute a misdemeanor, punishalile as may be provided 
 by ordinance. 
 
 Whenever any malignant infectious or contagious disease 
 is prevalent in the City, or will probably become so, the Mayor 
 may ])roclaim such fact to the inhabitants, and thereupon any- 
 thing in this Charter or any ordinance to the contrary not- 
 withstanding, the Health Commissioner, with the approval of 
 the Director of Public Welfare and the Mayor, shall have 
 power, until the Mayor shall proclaim that the occasion there- 
 for is past, to take such steps, use such measures and incur 
 such expense as may in the opinion of the Commissioner be 
 necessary to avoid, suppress or mitigate such disease. 
 
 Said Commissioner shall keep a record of his acts and orders 
 and shall file in his office all petitions, documents and papers 
 belonging thereto. Copies of such records, petitions, docu- 
 ments and papers when certified by him or as may be pro- 
 vided by ordinance shall be prima facia evidence in any court 
 of the facts therein contained. 
 
 All police officers shall observe the sanitary conditions in 
 their districts and, through the Chief of Police, shall report 
 to the Health Commissioner promptly, any disease or nuisance 
 in the City. 
 
 The health division shall have charge of the registration of 
 all births and deaths within the City. It shall have charge of the 
 markets, the quarantine and the morgue, and the Health Com- 
 missioner, with the approval of the Director of Public Welfare, 
 shall make all necessary rules for the government thereof. 
 
 (b) There shall be a Division of Hospitals which shall in- 
 clude, and have under its special charge and supervision the 
 operation and maintenance of all the hospitals, infirmaries, 
 medical laboratories, dispensaries and other charitable insti- 
 tutions of the city. The head of said division shall be known 
 as the Hospital Commissioner. 
 
 (c) There shall be a Division of Parks and Recreation, 
 which, except as may be otherwise herein or by law pro- 
 vided, shall have supervision and control of all public parks 
 and places and of all facilities provided by the City for recre- 
 ation, amusement or instruction, and execute all ordinances
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 31 
 
 of the City relating to the management or use thereof. It 
 shall also exercise such supervision and control as may be 
 provided by ordinance over public recreative functions, amuse- 
 ments and entertainments not conducted by the City. The 
 head of said division shall be known as the Commissioner of 
 Parks and Recreation. He shall appoint and contrtjl the 
 City Forester. 
 
 (d) There shall be a Division of Correction, which shall in- 
 clude and have under its special charge and supervision the 
 operation and maintenance of all detentixe, penal and correc- 
 tive institutions of the City. The head of said division shall 
 be known as the Commissioner of Correction. 
 
 (e) The Board of Aldermen mav by ordinance inchule in 
 the Department of Public Welfare and make provision : for 
 research and publicity concerning the causes of poverty, de- 
 linquency, crime and disease, or concerning other problems re- 
 lating to the public health, morals and welfare, and to promote the 
 education of the City with regard tliereto; for free legal aid ; for a 
 municipal lodging house ; for a City free employment bureau ; 
 and provide for such of^cer or oflficers in charge thereof as 
 may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 15. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The 
 Department of Public Safety shall include the following divi- 
 sions : 
 
 (a) When the City is permitted l)y law to establish and 
 maintain a police department, such department shall be a 
 division hereunder. The head of said division shall be known 
 as Police Commissioner. He may be removed, with or with- 
 out cause, by the Director of Public Safety or by the Governor 
 of the State. 
 
 (b) When the City is permitted by law to establish and 
 maintain an excise department, such department shall be a 
 division hereunder. The head of said division shall be known 
 as Excise C(Mnmissioner. He may be removed, with or with- 
 out cause, by the Director of Pul)lic Safety or by the Cov- 
 ernor of the State. 
 
 (c) There shall be a division of Fire and Fire Prcventioii 
 which shall manage, control and cotiduct the fire department, 
 and take all proper steps for fire preventioii or suppression.
 
 32 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 1'lie head of said division shall he known as Chief of the 
 l-'ire Department. In case of emergency, with the approval 
 of the Director of Puhlic Safety, he may purchase or hire 
 whatever may he required for the emergency, with or with- 
 out authority or appropriation by ordinance therefor. He or 
 any assistant in charge at any fire shall have the same police 
 powers at such fire as the Chief of Police, under such regula- 
 tions as may be prescribed by ordinance. He may appoint a 
 Fire Marshal, whose duty it shall be, subject to the Chief of 
 the Fire Department, to investigate the cause, origin and cir- 
 cumstances of fires and the loss occasioned thereby and assist 
 in the prevention of arson. The Chief of the Fire Department 
 shall have charge of the fire and police telegraph and telephone 
 systems. 
 
 (d) There shall be a division of Weights and Measures 
 which shall execute all ordinances regulating or relating to 
 weights and measures or the inspection thereof. The head of said 
 division shall be known as the Commissioner of Weights and 
 Measures. 
 
 (e) There shall be a division of Building and Inspection. It 
 shall superintend all buildings belonging to or under the con- 
 trol of the City and have charge of the condemnation of un- 
 safe buildings and the prevention of the use of buildings while 
 imsafe, the granting of building permits, the inspection of all 
 buildings in course of construction, the enforcement of all 
 building ordinances; the supervision of all plumbing; the 
 abatement of the smoke nuisance; and the inspection of all 
 boilers, elevators and mechanical plants. The head of said 
 division shall be known as the Building Commissioner. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 Public Welfare Boards. 
 
 Section 1. The Mullanphy Fund shall be administered by 
 a Board of three members to be appointed by the Mayor for 
 terms of one, two and three years, respectively. Each year 
 thereafter the Mayor shall appoint one member for a term 
 of three years. Members shall hold of^ce until their succes- 
 sors qualify. The Board may appoint such employes as may 
 be provided by ordinance.
 
 Ciiartp:r (if tup: City of St. Lotns 33 
 
 Sec. 2. There is herel)y established a Complaint Board to 
 consist of three members to serve without compensation. 
 Said members shall be appointed by the Mayor for terms of 
 one, two and three years, respectively. Each year thereafter 
 the Mayor shall appoint one member for a term of three 
 years. Members shall hold office until their successors quali- 
 fy. Said Board shall employ a secretary, and may appoint 
 such other employes as may be provided by ordinance. It 
 shall receive complaints against any department, board, divi- 
 sion, officer or employe of the City, or against any public util- 
 ity corporation, and examine the same. It shall recommend 
 to the proper City or State authorities any action deemed ad- 
 visable. 
 
 Sec. 3. Provision may be made in accordance with law or 
 ordinance for: (a) a Board of Parole and Probation; (b) a 
 Board of Children's Guardians; (c) a City Art Museum, and 
 (d) a Zoological Park. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 Department of Finance. 
 
 Section 1. The Depa/tnient of Finance shall include the office 
 of the Comptroller and the Assessment, Collection, Treasury 
 and Supply Divisions. 
 
 Sec. 2. THECOMPI'ROLLER. The Comptroller shall have 
 the qualifications and forfeit his office for the causes provided 
 with regard to the Mayor; receive a salary of eight thousand 
 dollars per annum ; give bond to the City for not less than three 
 hundred thousand dollars, and appoint one deputy comptroller 
 and such other deputies and employes as may be provided by 
 ordinance. The Comptroller shall be the head of the Department 
 of Finance and exercise a general supervision over its divisions, 
 over all the fiscal affairs of the City and over all its property, 
 assets and claims and the disposition thereof. He shall preserve 
 the credit of the City, and for that purpose, or in case of any 
 extraordinary emergency of any kind, he may, with the approval 
 of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and with or with- 
 out any ordinance or other autliority dt approjiriation therefor, 
 draw warrants on the treasurer or effect temi)orary loans to pay
 
 34 CiiAKJiCR OF THE City or St. Louis 
 
 debts and judgments and other liabilities of the City, or to meet 
 any such emergency, charging such warrants to any excess bal- 
 ances in appropriations made by the general annual appropriation 
 bill and specifically reporting his action to the Board of Aldermen 
 at its first meeting thereafter. He shall have a seat and a voice 
 but no vote in the Board of Aldermen. He shall be the general 
 accountant and auditor of the City and the records in his office 
 shall show the financial operations and condition, property, assets, 
 claims and liabilities of the City, all expenditures authorized and 
 all contracts in which the City is interested. He shall require 
 proper fiscal accounts, records, settlements and reports to be kept, 
 made and rendered to him by the several departments and offices 
 of the City, including the license collector's office so far as 
 consistent with law, and shall control and continually audit the 
 same, and prescribe forms, rules and regulations therefor and 
 require their observance. He shall regulate the making of all 
 requisitions for supplies. ' Except as by this Charter or by law 
 or ordinance otherwise provided he shall prescribe and regulate 
 the manner of paying creditors, officers and employes of the City. 
 He shall audit all pay-rolls, accounts and claims against the City, 
 and certify thereon the balance as stated by him and draw his 
 warrant on the Treasurer therefor, but no pay-roll, account or 
 claim, or any part thereof, except for the preservation of the 
 credit of the City, or in case of extraordinary emergency as 
 hereinbefore provided, shall be audited against the City unless 
 certified by the officer having knowledge of the facts, and author- 
 ized by law or ordinance, and the amount required for payment 
 of the same appropriated for that purpose by ordinance and 
 in the Treasury. He shall see that no contract liability is 
 incurred except for the preservation of the City's credit, or in case 
 of emergency, as hereinbefore provided, without previous author- 
 ity of law or ordinance. He shall, at least monthly, adjust the set- 
 tlements of all officers engaged in the collection of the revenue. 
 Tie may temporarily transfer employes from one division of the 
 department of finance to any other division thereof. He shall 
 have power to administer oaths- He shall receive and preserve 
 in his office all books, vouchers and papers relating to the fiscal 
 affairs of the City. He may destroy any documents, books, 
 vouchers, papers or cancelled blank forms pertaining to any 
 department, board or office if he, the City Counselor and the head
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 35 
 
 of such department, board or office certify tliat they are useless 
 and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment so directs. He shall 
 keep a register of all delinquent and special tax bills or other 
 claims of the City in the nature of liens on property and shall 
 release any such bill or claim thereon on proof of pavnient 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any officer or employe in the Comptroller's office mav 
 be designated by him to draw warrants upon the Treasurer vvitii 
 the same effect as if signed by the Comptroller, such designation 
 to be in writing, in duplicate, filed with the Mayor and in the 
 treasury division ; provided, that the Mayor may make such desig- 
 nation if the Comptroller be absent or disabled and there be no 
 one in his office designated to act. Any such designation may 
 be revoked by the Comptroller while acting as such by filing the 
 revocation in duplicate with the Mayor and in the Treasury 
 Division. 
 
 Sec. 4. ASSESSMENT DIVISION. The Assessment Divi- 
 sion shall consist of the Assessor and such deputy assessors and 
 employes as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Assessor shall have the qualifications provided with 
 regard to the Mayor; receive a salary of five thousand dollar^ 
 per annum, and before entering upon the duties of his office, take 
 an oath similar to that required by law of county assessors. Ik- 
 shall be the head of the Assessment Division ; appoint the deputy 
 assessors and employes in his division ; preserve all maps, plats, 
 books and papers belonging to said division ; cause all plats to be 
 prepared, altered and corrected as required by law ; receive lists, 
 statements or returns of property; and furnish blanks and infor- 
 mation to those desiring to appeal to the Board of Equalization. 
 
 Sec. 6. Each deputy assessor shall take the same oath as the 
 Assessor and have the same powers, subject to his control, and 
 shall have been a resident of the City for five years next be- 
 fore appointment. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Assessor and his deputies before entering upon 
 their duties shall give bond to the State ; the Assessor for twenty 
 thousand dollars and the deputies each for five thousand dol- 
 lars, or such other sums as may be fixed by ordinance. Each 
 bond shall be executed in duplicate and one forwarded to the 
 State Auditor, the other deposited with the Comptroller.
 
 36 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 8. The Assessor, or his deputies under his direction, shall 
 severally assess all the taxable property, real or personal, within 
 the City in the manner provided by law, and for that purpose the 
 Assessor may divide and assign the work or any of it among them. 
 They shall commence their assessment on the first day of June in 
 each year, and complete the same, and the deputies make their 
 final reports thereof to the Assessor, on or before the first day of 
 January next following. The Assessor shall see that the assess- 
 ment is made uniform and equal throughout the City. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Assessor shall make up the assessment books in 
 proper alphabetical order from the reports made by the deputy 
 assessors, the lists or statements made of property, his own view, 
 or the best information he can otherwise obtain, and complete 
 said books on or before the third Monday in March of each year. 
 
 Sec. 10. There shall be a Board of Equalization consisting of 
 the Assessor, who shall be its president, and four taxpaying, prop- 
 erty-owning citizens resident in the City for ten years next before 
 their appointment, who shall be appointed annually by the Mayor 
 on or before the second Monday in March. Each member shall 
 take an oath similar to that required by law of members of 
 County Boards of Equalization. Their compensation shall be 
 fixed by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 11. Said Board shall have the power and duty to hear 
 complaints and appeals, and to adjust, correct and equalize the 
 valuations and assessments of any taxable property, real or per- 
 sonal, within the City and to assess and equalize the value of any 
 taxable property, real or personal, within the City and to assess 
 and equalize the value of any taxable property, real or personal, 
 omitted from the assessment books then under examination 
 by them, and to adjust and correct the assessment books accord- 
 ingly; provided, that if said Board proposes to increase any 
 assessment or to assess any such omitted property, it shall give 
 notice of the fact to the person owning or controlling the prop- 
 erty affected, his agent or representative, by personal notice, by 
 mail, or by advertisement, specifying when and where a h.earing 
 shall be granted. 
 
 Sec. 12. When the assessment books are completed the .Asses- 
 sor shall give two weeks' notice in at least two daily newspapers
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 37 
 
 that said books are open for inspection, and stating when the 
 Board of Equalization will be in session. 
 
 Sec. 13. The said Board shall meet on or before the third 
 Monday in March, annually, and remain in continuous session for 
 at least three hours in the forenoon and at least three hours in 
 the afternoon of each day, except Sunday, for four weeks and 
 no longer. It shall have power to subpoena witnesses and order 
 the production of books and papers, and any member may ad- 
 minister oaths, in relation to any matter within its jurisdic- 
 tion. It shall hear and determine all appeals summarily, and 
 keep a record of .its proceedings which shall remain in the as- 
 sessment division. 
 
 Sec. 14. Any person may appeal in writing to the Board of 
 Equalization from the assessment of his property, specifying the 
 matter of which he complains. 
 
 Sec. 15. After the assessment books have been corrected the 
 Assessor shall make an abstract thereof showing the amount of 
 the several kinds of property assessed and specifying the amount 
 of value of all taxable property within the City, and certify 
 thereon that the same is a true and correct abstract of all such 
 property in the City so far as he lias been able to ascertain. One 
 copy of the abstract, verified by his oath, shall be delivered on 
 or before the fourth Mondav in May to the Mayor, and another 
 to the State Auditor. The Assessor shall extend in said assess- 
 ment books the State, school and city taxes and include in said 
 books such matter as the law shall provide or the Comptroller 
 require. The Assessor shall then cause tax bills to be made out 
 for such taxes in such form as the law shall provide or the Comp- 
 troller prescribe, and deliver them with a duplicate schedule there- 
 of to the Comptroller, who shall compare said bills with said books 
 and schedule and test the footings, and then officially stamp said 
 bills and deliver them with one schedule to the collector, and 
 take his separate receipts : one for the aggregate of said bills, and 
 another for the State taxes, which last receipt the Comptroller 
 shall transmit to the State Auditor. 
 
 Sec. 16. The Comptroller shall hear and determine all com- 
 plaints of manifest error in the assessment of property for taxes, 
 and in all cases when it shall appear that any property, real or per- 
 sonal, has been erroneously assessed, cause the same to be cpf- 
 
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 38 CirARTRR or t he City of St, Louis 
 
 rected on the assessment books, and certify to the State Auditor 
 all such corrections for credit to the Collector. The Comptroller 
 shall perform all duties and acts within the City, in regard to the 
 "land delinquent list," the "sale of land for taxes," and the assess- 
 ment books and tax bills that are imposed on county courts by 
 general law ; and make out the "back tax books" and the back 
 tax bills required by law. 
 
 Sec. 17. The costs and expenses of the assessment for each 
 year shall be paid by the City. The Comptroller shall, as soon 
 as the amount is ascertained, certify the same to the State 
 Auditor and obtain his warrant in favor of the City for one- 
 half thereof as provided by law. 
 
 Sec. 18. The day after any instrument affecting the title to 
 real estate is filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, the 
 Recorder shall deliver to the Assessor an abstract thereof and 
 to the Board of Public Service a copy of such abstract. The 
 Assessor shall promptly change the plats in his division ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Sec. 19. COLLECTION DIVISION. The Collection Divi- 
 sion shall consist of the Collector and such deputies and em- 
 ployes as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 20. The Collector shall have the qualifications provided 
 with regard to the Mayor and be the head of the Collection Divi- 
 sion. He shall receive such compensation as may be provided 
 by law or ordinance. He shall collect all State, City and school 
 taxes, wharfage, water rates and dramshop licenses, and may 
 collect special assessments, and, unless otherwise provided by 
 ordinance, all indebtedness and claims due the City, and daily 
 pay the same to the City Treasurer, except the State taxes 
 which shall be paid by him as provided by law, and except the 
 school taxes which shall be paid by him to the Board of Educa- 
 tion of the City monthly, or oftener when required in writing 
 by the Treasurer of said Board. He shall collect license taxes 
 as permitted by law. He shall appoint the deputies and em- 
 ployes in his division. Each deputy shall have all the powers 
 of the Collector, subject to his control. 
 
 Sec. 21. The Collector, before entering upon the duties of 
 his oflfice, shall give bond to the State, as required by law, and
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 39 
 
 to the City, as may be required b}- ordinance. Said bond to the 
 State shall be executed in duplicate and one filed with the 
 Comptroller and the other with the State Auditor. 
 
 Sec. 22. The payment of all city and school taxes may be 
 enforced in like manner as may be provided by law for enforc- 
 ing- the payment of State taxes. 
 
 Sec. 23. TRE.ASURY DIVISION. The Treasury Division 
 shall consist of the Treasurer, and such deputies and employes 
 as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 24. The Treasurer shall have the qualifications provided 
 with regard to the Mayor and be the head of the treasury divi- 
 sion. He shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars per 
 annum ; before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond 
 to the City for at least one hundred thousand dollars ; and appoint 
 the deputies and employes in his division. He shall receive and 
 keep the money of the City, and pay out the same on warrants 
 drawn by the Comptroller and not otherwise. All money belong- 
 ing to the City received by any officer or agent thereof shall be 
 deposited daily in the Treasury Division unless otherwise pro- 
 vided by law or ordinance, and any delinquency in this respect 
 shall be reported promptly by the Treasurer to the Mayor and 
 to the Comptroller. The Treasurer shall deliver duplicate re- 
 ceipts for all money received, one to the party paying, the other 
 to the Comtroller, stating the source, the amount, and to what 
 account credited. The Treasurer shall daily rep<^rt the balance 
 in the treasury to the Comptroller and to the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 25. Depositaries of the City funds shall be selected and 
 deposits made therein as provided by law or by ordinance rec- 
 ommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 
 
 Sec 26. SUPPLY DIVISION. The Supply Division shall 
 consist of the Supply Commissioner and such deputies and em- 
 ployes as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 27. The Supply Commissioner shall be the iicad of the 
 Supply Division, receive a salary of five thousand dollars per 
 annum; give bond as required by ordinance; and appoint the 
 deputies and employes in his division. 
 
 Sec. 28. The Comptroller, Supply Commissioner and Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Public Service shall personally or by deputy
 
 40 ClIARTKR OF THE CiTY OF ST. LouIS 
 
 constitute the Dnard of vStaiidardizalion, vvliosc duty it shall be 
 to classify and standardize all supplies and materials purchased 
 by the City or used for municipal purposes, and prepare precise 
 specifications for all supplies to be purchased through the Supply 
 Division. The Board may maintain such laboratories or other 
 methods of testing as may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 29. Supplies for all departments, boards or offices, exclu- 
 sive of material for public work or improvements, shall be pur- 
 chased only through the Supply Division, according to such stand- 
 ards and specifications, if any, adopted or prepared by the Board 
 of Standardization, and by advertising for proposals therefor. 
 Bids may be for one or more, or all the articles advertised for, but 
 there shall be a specific bid on each article. The award may be 
 made to the lowest bidder for any article or to the lowest bidder 
 for the entire requisition or any part thereof; but the Board of 
 Standardization may reject any or all bids or any part of any 
 bid. The Supply Commissioner may contract for supplies in 
 any amounts or for any periods as may be approved by the 
 Board of Standardization, and subject to the ])rovisions of this 
 Charter. In cases of emergency^ to be determined by said 
 Board, purchases may be made without advertising. Pur- 
 chases in amounts not exceeding five hundred dollars under 
 any one contract may also be made, with the written approval 
 of the Comptroller, without advertising, after securing com- 
 petitive bids, but there shall be no division of requisitions or 
 contracts for the purpose of securing this privilege. The 
 Supply Commissioner shall inspect and receipt for all supplies. 
 
 Supplies shall not be ordered or contracted for by the Supply 
 Division unless the Comptroller shall certify that a fund is appli- 
 cable for payment thereof. 
 
 Sec. 30. The Supply Commissioner shall have general super- 
 vision of the public printing and publishing and shall see that it 
 is executed as may be provided by ordinance, letting the contract 
 or contracts to the lowest bidder in conformity with the provi- 
 sions of this article so far as they may be applicable. Until other- 
 wise provided by ordinance, and except in condemnation pro- 
 ceedings, all newspaper publishing shall be in at least two daily 
 newspapers, one in the English and one in the German lang- 
 uage. Provision may be made by ordinance for the City doing 
 its own printing and publishing.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 41 
 
 ARTICLE XVL 
 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be a Board of Estimate and Appor- 
 tionment which shall consist of the Mayor, Comptroller and 
 President of the Board of Aldermen. It shall keep a record 
 of its proceedings and appoint an employe of the Comptroller's 
 office to act as secretary without additional compensation. 
 
 Sec. 2. The head of every department, board or office shall 
 furnish to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment such 
 statements of receipts and expenses and estimates of receipts 
 and requirements, of such department, board or office, as said 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment may require. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment shall sub- 
 mit to the Board of Aldermen, at the beginning of its annual 
 session or as soon thereafter as possible, a statement showing 
 the estimated receipts and requirements of each department, 
 board or office for the current fiscal year and a comparative 
 statement of receipts and expenses during the previous year, 
 first however, affording taxpayers an opportunity to be heard 
 thereon as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 It shall also annually submit and recommend to the Board of 
 Aldermen a bill appropriating the amounts deemed necessary for 
 the use of each department, board and office for the current fiscal 
 year and a bill establishing the City tax rates for the current year ; 
 provided, that the apjjropriations for payment of salaries and 
 compensation of officers and employes may, in the discretion of 
 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, be embodied in a 
 separate bill. The Board of Aldermen shall immediately pro- 
 ceed to the consideration of said bills and shall meet from day 
 to day until they are finally acted uixjn. If such tax rates be 
 not established by ordinance on or before the fourth Monday 
 in May of any year, the rates last previously established shall 
 be the rates for the current year. The Board of Aldermen may 
 reduce the amount of any item in such appropriation bill, except 
 amounts fixed by statute or for the payment of principal or 
 interest of the City del)t or for meeting any ordinance obliga- 
 tions, but it may not increase such amount imr insert new 
 items.
 
 42 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 4. All approprialion.s shall be specific and in detail and 
 be segregated according to the functions or kinds of work for 
 which the money is appropriated. 
 
 Sec. 5. Except in the general appropriation bill and bills 
 providing for the payment of the principal or interest of the pub- 
 lic debt, no appropriation shall be made from any revenue fund 
 in excess of the amount standing to the credit of such fund, and 
 no appropriation shall be made from any fund for any purpose 
 to which the money therein is not lawfully applicable. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any accruing, unappropriated City revenue may be 
 appropriated from time to time by ordinance recommended by 
 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment ; and whenever an 
 appropriation exceeds the amount required for the purpose for 
 which it has been made, the excess or any portion or portions 
 thereof may by ordinance recommended by the Board of Esti- 
 mate and Apportionment be appropriated to any other purpose 
 or purposes. 
 
 Sec. 7. All unexpended appropriated money, not appro- 
 priated by special ordinance for a specific purpose, shall at the 
 end of the current fiscal year revert to the fund or funds from 
 which the appropriation was made. 
 
 Sec. 8. A fiscal year as mentioned in this Charter shall com- 
 mence on the second Tuesday in April of each year, or at such 
 other time as may be provided by ordinance recommended by the 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 City Bonds. 
 
 Section 1. Some of the purposes, hereby specifically author- 
 ized, for which bonds of the City may be issued and given, sold, 
 pledged or disposed of on the credit of the City or solely upon 
 the credit of specific property owned by the City or solely upon 
 the credit of income derived from and property used in connec- 
 tion with any public utility owned or operated by the City or 
 upon any two or more of such credits, are the following: 
 
 For the acquiring of land ; for the purchase, construction, re- 
 construction or extension of water works, public sewers, build- 
 ings for the fire department, bridges and viaducts, subways, tun-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 43 
 
 nels, railroads, street railroads, terminals, ferries, docks, wharves, 
 warehouses, gas or electric light works, power plants, telephone 
 and telegraph systems, or any other public utility ; for hos- 
 pitals, insane asylums, orphan asylums, poorhouses, indus- 
 trial schools, jails, workhouses, and other charitable, correc- 
 tive and penal institutions; for court houses, and other public 
 buildings, public parks, parkways, boulevards, grounds, 
 squares, river and other public improvements which the City 
 may be authorized or permitted to make; and for paying, 
 refunding or renewing any bonded indebtedness of the City. 
 The foregoing enumeration shall not be construed to limit any 
 general provisions of this Charter authorizing the City to bor- 
 row money, or issue and dispose of bonds, and such general pro- 
 visions shall be construed according to the lull force and effect 
 of their language as if no specific purposes had been mentioned ; 
 and the authority to issue bonds for any of the purposes afore- 
 said is cumulative and shall not be construed to impair any 
 authority to make any public improvements under any provisions 
 of this Charter or of any law. 
 
 Sec. 2. Bonds may be so issued as to be payable serially or 
 subject to call. 
 
 Sec. 3. No bonds of the City, except bonds for paying, refund- 
 ing or renewing bonded indebtedness, and except bonds payable 
 only from proceeds of special assessments for local improvements, 
 shall be issued without the assent of two-thirds of the voters of 
 the City voting at an election to be held for that purpose. All 
 forms, proceedings and other matters with respect to any such 
 election and the amounts, purposes, issue and disposition of bonds 
 may be prescribed by ordinance recommended by the Board of 
 Estimate and Apportionment. 
 
 It shall not be necessary in the ordinance calling the election, 
 in the notice of election, in the question submitted, or on the bal- 
 lot, or in any of the matters preceding the said election, to state 
 the amount of bonds proposed to be issued for each purpose, but 
 it shall be sufficient if tlie ordinance and notice of election state 
 the total amount of the bonds proposed to be voted upon at the 
 said election and in general language the purpose or purposes 
 for which such total amount of bonds is to be issued, and if two- 
 thirds of the voters of the City voting at such election assent
 
 44 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 to the issuance of such amount of bonds, then such amount may 
 be issued and such bonds or the proceeds thereof may from 
 time to time, by ordinance recommended by the Board of Esti- 
 mate and Apportionment, be appropriated in any amount or 
 amounts to the purpose or purposes for which such total amount 
 was voted. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board of Aldermen shall annually levy a tax which 
 will yield not less than one million two hundred thousand dollars 
 to be used exclusively for the payment of the bonded indebtedness 
 of the City existing on the seventh day of April, 1890, and re- 
 newals thereof and interest thereon. That portion of each such 
 annual tax levy not required for the payment of the interest ma- 
 turing during the year on said bonded indebtedness and renew- 
 als, shall be credited to and shall constitute a sinking fund to 
 be used exclusively for the payment of said bonded indebted- 
 ness and renewals. Such levy need not be made except for such 
 interest after the amount in such sinking fund is sufficient to pay 
 all such bonded indebtedness and renewals at maturity. The 
 Board of Aldermen shall annually levy taxes sufficient to meet 
 the sinking fund and interest requirements of each bond issue. 
 
 Sec. 5. In addition to the foregoing, until there is a sufficient 
 sum in a sinking fund or funds to pay the "St. Louis Water 
 Bonds" and renewals thereof and applicable thereto, the whole net 
 income from the water works in excess of what may be necessary 
 for (1) the ordinary construction, reconstruction, extension, oper- 
 ation and repair of the water works and facilities, (2) the inter- 
 est on said water bonds, and (3) the running expenses of the 
 water division, shall be credited to, and with the sinking funds 
 heretofore created therefor constitute, a sinking fund to be 
 used exclusively for the payment of said "St. Louis Water 
 Bonds" and renewals. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment sliall ad- 
 minister all sinking funds and in the course thereof may pur- 
 chase with any sinking fund, as an investment therefor, bonds 
 of the City, State or United States, preferably City bonds, and 
 may provide for the payment of maturing bonds out of the sink- 
 ing fund created therefor, and to that end sell bonds held in 
 such sinking fund; provided, that all bonds purchased with the 
 particular sinking fund created therefor shall not be regarded
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 45 
 
 as an investment or be reissued, but shall be canceled. Bonds 
 forming part of any sinking fund and not required to be can- 
 celed shall be deposited in a safe deposit vault in the City to 
 which access can be had only by at least two members of the 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment jointly, one of whom 
 shall be the Comptroller. All interest earned on investments or 
 deposits belonging to any sinking fund shall belong to such fund. 
 Whenever the amount in any sinking fund exceeds an amount 
 sufficient to pay all the bonds for which such fund is created, 
 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment may transfer the 
 excess to other sinking funds. 
 
 Sec. 7. All warrants for the payment of bonded indebtedness 
 or for disbursements out of any sinking fund shall be approved 
 bv the Mavor and President of the Board of Aldermen. 
 
 ARTICLE XVIIL 
 
 Efficiency Board. 
 
 Section 1. J here is hereby established an i\fficicncy Board, 
 consisting of three members who shall be appointed by the 
 Mayor for terms of one, two and three years respectively. 
 Each year thereafter the Mayor shall appoint one member 
 to serve for three years and until his successor shall qualify. 
 No more than two members shall be adherents of the same 
 political party, and no person holding any salaried public 
 office shall be eligible to appointment as a member. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board shall designate one of its meml)crs as 
 chairman, shall appoint a secretary and may appoint such 
 other officers and employes as may be necessary. The sal- 
 ary of the secretary and other officers and employes shall 
 be fixed by the Board. 
 
 Sec. 3. The service of the City is hereby divided into the 
 unclassified (not subject to the examination herein provided) 
 and the classified service. 
 
 (1) The unclassified service shall include: 
 
 (a) All officers elected by the peoi)le ; 
 
 (b) All heads of departments, offices and divisions;
 
 46 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 (c) The members of all boards appointed by the Mayor, 
 
 or serving without compensation, however ap- 
 pointed ; 
 
 (d) One secretary, deputy or assistant and one stenog- 
 
 rapher for each officer or Board in the unclassi- 
 fied service, who are or may be provided by ordi- 
 nance with such subordinates; 
 
 (e) All officers of the Board of Aldermen; 
 
 (f) Surgeons, physicians or other experts serving in a 
 
 consulting or other capacity without compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 (g) In addition to the above, on the unanimous vote of 
 
 the Board, there may be included in the unclas- 
 sified service such other offices or positions re- 
 quiring exceptional scientific, mechanical, profes- 
 sional or educational qualifications as may be 
 ordered by rule of the Board. 
 
 (2) The classified service shall comprise all not specifically 
 included by this Charter in the unclassified service. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Board shall prescribe, amend and enforce rules 
 for the classified service, shall keep minutes of its proceed- 
 ings and records of its examinations, and shall make investi- 
 gations concerning the enforcement and effect of these efifi- 
 ciency provisions and of the rules thereunder. It shall make 
 an annual report to the Mayor. 
 
 The rules shall provide among other things : 
 
 (a) For the classification and standardization of all positions 
 in the classified service. 
 
 (b) For open competitive examinations and tests, with pub- 
 lic notice thereof, to test the relative fitness of applicants for 
 positions in the classified seivice and for reasonable regula- 
 tions concerning promotion, w^hich shall include the recogni- 
 tion of efficient prior service. 
 
 (c) For the rejection of candidate:^ who fail to comply with 
 reasonable requirements as to age, residence, sex, phy.sical 
 condition and moral character. 
 
 (d) For the certification, as occasion may require, to the 
 appointing authority, from the appropriate eligible list (com-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Lou is 47 
 
 posed of the names of successful applicants in the order of 
 their standing- in examinations or tests) of the three persons 
 standing- highest on such list, or of the person or persons on 
 such list when it contains three names or less. 
 
 (e) For temporary employment for not exceeding sixty 
 days, without examination, in the absence of an eligible list. 
 
 Cf) For transfer from a position to a similar position in the 
 same class and grade, and for reinstatement on the eligible 
 list of persons who, without fault or delinquency on their 
 part, are separated from the service or reduced in rank. 
 
 (g) For the appointment of unskilled laborers in the prior- 
 ity of application after such tests of fitness as the Board may 
 prescribe. 
 
 (h) For investigating and keeping a record of the efficiency 
 of officers and employes in the classified service, and for re- 
 quiring reports relative thereto from appointing officers. 
 
 (i) For the publication of the rules of the Board. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Board shall maintain a list of all persons in the 
 City service, showing in connection with each name the posi- 
 tion held, the date and character of appointment, and of 
 every subsequent change in status. Each appointing officer 
 shall promptly transmit to the Board all information required 
 by it for the establishment and maintenance of said list. 
 
 Sec. 6. -Ml examinations shall be practical and impartial 
 and relate solely to matters .which will reasonably test, in a 
 practical way, the ability of the persons examined to perform 
 the duties of the position for which appointment is sought. 
 The Board may call on other persons to fratrie questions 
 and conduct any examinations or tests and report the result 
 thereof to it. 
 
 Sec. 7. The appointing officer may suspend or discharge or 
 reduce in rank or compensation any officer or employe under 
 him, with or without cause, except as in this Charter is other- 
 wise provided. Should the officer or employe thus aflfected 
 request it, the employing officer shall furnish him with a writ- 
 ten statement of the reason or reasons therefor, and file a 
 copy thereof with the Efficiency Board.
 
 48 CiiAin'KK <)!■ Tiiiv City oi' St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 8. No appointment or promotion in the classified serv- 
 ice shall be made except from names certified I)y the Board as 
 herein provided, or as herein provided for temporary service. 
 
 Sec. 9. All persons in the City service holding positions in 
 the classified service, as established by this article, at the time 
 this Charter takes efifect, shall be entitled to retain their posi- 
 tion until discharged, reduced, promoted or transferred in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of this Charter. Employes of 
 any public utility which may at any time in the future be 
 taken over by the City, who are in the service of said utility 
 at the time of such acquisition, shall come under the provi- 
 sions of this efficiency system without examination, but va- 
 cancies thereafter occurring in said public utility service shall 
 be filled as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for the treasurer or other pub- 
 lic disbursing officer to pay any salary or compensation for 
 service to any person holding a position in the classified serv- 
 ice unless such person is holding such position in conformity 
 with the provisions of this article. 
 
 Sec. 11. In any investigation conducted by the Board it 
 shall have the power to subpoena witnesses and order the pro- 
 duction of books and papers pertinent to the investigation and 
 to administer oaths. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person in the classified service or seeking ad- 
 mission thereto shall be appointed, reduced, suspended, dis- 
 charged or in any way favored or discriminated against be- 
 cause of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any person who shall wilfully, by himself or in 
 co-operation with any other person or persons, defeat, de- 
 ceive or obstruct any person in respect of his right of examina- 
 tion according to any of the rules prescribed by the Efficiency 
 Board under this Article, or who shall wilfully and falsely 
 mark, grade, estimate or report upon the examination or prop- 
 er standing of any person examined hereunder or aid in so 
 doing, or who shall wilfully make any false representations 
 concerning the same or concerning the person examined, or 
 who shall wilfully furnish to any person any secret informa-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 49 
 
 tion for the purpose of either improving or injuring the pros- 
 pects or chances of any person so examined, or to be examined, 
 being appointed, employed or promoted, or who shall solicit 
 directly or indirectly any assessment or contribution for any 
 political party from any person in the classified service, shall 
 for each such offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not 
 less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment for not more than one hundred days, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 Franchises, 
 
 Section L All grants or renewals of franchises shall be sub- 
 ject to the right to amend, alter or repeal the same in whole or 
 in part, and to forfeit the same at any time for misuse or nonuse ; 
 and subject always to the City's power of taxation and its 
 authority to regulate rates, quality of use, service and products, 
 and methods of conduct and operation; subject also to the right 
 of the City at the end of ten years after the beginning of opera- 
 tion and at the end of every five year period thereafter, at its 
 option to be exercised by ordinance, to acquire the plant and 
 property used in the operation of the franchise, upon terms and 
 conditions to be ascertained in the manner provided in the grant- 
 ing or renewing ordinance, but in no event is the franchise itself 
 to enter as an element into such compensation. Upon such ac- 
 quisition the franchise shall cease. Every such grant shall cease 
 unless construction thereunder is begun within the time speci- 
 fied in the ordinance and completed with reasonable speed, and 
 no grant shall be exclusive or for a longer term than fifty years. 
 Any ordinance granting ov renewing a franchise may also provide 
 for regulating, from time t(^ time, the amount of capitalization, in- 
 debtedness and expendituri's of the grantee or assignee in operat- 
 ing thereunder. Such ordinance may also provide that the franchise 
 shall be sold at public sale, and nothing in any sucii ordinance 
 shall prevent the City from acquiring the property of any such 
 utility by condenniation ]jroceeflings or in any other lawful way 
 subject to the limitation of time herein provided. 
 
 Every grantee of a franchise for any public utility shall kecji
 
 50 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 such reports of its finances and operations as may be prescribed 
 by ordinance, and the City may, at any time, examine its rec- 
 ords and accounts. No ordinance granting or renewing a fran- 
 chise shall be adopted until a report thereon in the form in which 
 it is put upon Its adoption has been made to the Board of Alder- 
 men by the Board of Public Service with its recommendations 
 as to the action that should be had thereon, nor until the bill 
 and the j-eport of the Board of Public Service, or a fair sum- 
 mary thereof, shall have been published as provided by ordi- 
 nance. No franchise shall be assignable except with the City's 
 approval expressed by ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen shall at all times have full 
 })Ower, to be exercised by ordinance, over all public utilities 
 now or hereafter existing in the City, and may regulate the 
 charges for the use, service or product thereof and establish 
 whatever requirements may be necessary to secure efficient 
 use, service or products, and no terms or conditions contained 
 in any grant shall limit or impair this power. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Board of Aldermen shall, in the granting or 
 renewal of any franchise as herein provided, prescribe or pro- 
 vide for the character of construction and equipment, the kind 
 and quality of use, service or product to be furnished ; the rate to 
 be charged therefor ; manner in which the streets, public grounds, 
 or other public property shall be used or occupied; and any 
 other terms and conditions in the interest of the public, including, 
 among others, provision for compensation to the City for the 
 use of such streets, public grounds or property, based on a share 
 in the gross or net receipts, or on the number of passengers trans- 
 ported, or number of cars owned or operated, or on any one or 
 more of such bases, or on any other basis or bases. 
 
 Sec. 4. Street railroad companies shall keep the street between 
 the rails and between the tracks and to the extent of at least 
 twelve inches outside of each rail in perfect repair, and as 
 nearly on a level with such rails as practicable, and that por- 
 tion outside the rails shall be of the same material as the 
 street itself or such other material as may be approved by the 
 Board of Public Service, and give such bond or other security 
 for compliance with the provisions of this section as may be 
 provided by ordinance.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Loufs 51 
 
 vSec. 5. Any street railroad company shall have the right to 
 run its cars over the track of any other street railroarl company 
 in whole or in part, upon the payment of just compensation for 
 the use thereof, under such rules and regulations as may be pro- 
 vided by ordinance. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 License Taxes. 
 
 License taxes may be imposed by ordinance upon mer- 
 chants, commission merchants, manufacturers, professions, 
 auctioneers, hotels, restaurants, assembly buildings, halls and 
 gardens, theaters, moving pictures, exhibitions, circuses, slot 
 machines, dance halls, billiard and pool rooms, museums, 
 shooting galleries, bowling alleys, retailers of beer, wine gar- 
 dens, beer gardens, saloons, dramshops, brewers, distillers, 
 agents, real estate agents, mercantile agents, second-hand deal- 
 ers, junk dealers, junk peddlers, photographers, contractors, 
 insurance companies, telephone companies, telegraph compa- 
 nies, steam railroad companies, electric and all other kinds of 
 railroad companies, gas companies, electric companies, cold- 
 storage companies, pipe lines, public utilities, pipes, poles, 
 wires or conduits of public utility companies, livery stables, 
 sales stables, public garages, aerial transportation vehicles, 
 public vehicles, private vehicles, bicycles, street raihvav cars, 
 public automobiles. [)ri\atc automobiles, automobile dealers, 
 ferry and other boats, peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, billboards, 
 publishers, newspapers, railroad ticket brokers, pawnbrokers 
 and those engaged in loaning money, lenders on chattel mort- 
 gages, intelligence offices, agencies, rectifiers, undertakers, 
 laundries, dye houses, dry cleaners, engravers, bankers and 
 banking corporation.s, safe deposit establishments, trust com- 
 panies, bonding companies, brokers, bond and stock brokers, 
 express companies, transfer companies, towel supply compa- 
 nies, trading stamp companies, slaughter houses, storage 
 houses and barber shops ; and a separate license tax may be 
 imposed for each place of business conducted or maintained 
 by the same person, firm or corporation.
 
 52 Charter oi<" thk City or St. Louis 
 
 The foregoing ciuinicration shall not be taken to affect or 
 impair the general power of the City to impose license taxes 
 upon any business, vocation, pursuit or calling or any class or 
 classes thereof now or hereafter not prohibited by law. 
 
 ARTICLE XXL 
 Condemnation. 
 
 Section I. Condemnation of or damage to private property, 
 real or personal, or any easement or use therein, for public 
 use, shall be effected as herein provided and as may be fur- 
 ther provided by ordinance not inconsistent with this Char- 
 ter. Upon the Board of Aldermen providing by ordinance, 
 recommended by the Board of Public Service, (1) for the 
 appropriation of any private property or any easement or use 
 therein for any public use, or (2) for any public improvement 
 or work wdiich will damage private property, the City Coun- 
 selor, in the name of the City, shall apply promptly, and in 
 no event later than six months after such ordinance is effect- 
 ive, to the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, or to 
 any judge thereof in vacation, by petition setting forth the 
 general nature of the public use for which the property is to 
 be appropriated or damaged, a description of the property and 
 the estate or interest therein in each instance which the City 
 seeks to appropriate or damage, and praying the appointment 
 of three disinterested commissioners to assess damages and 
 benefits as hereinafter provided, to which petition the owners 
 shall be made defendants by name, if known, and if unknown, 
 by describing their claims and interests in such property and 
 how derived by them. If the action affects the property of 
 persons under guardianship, the guardians shall be made de- 
 fendants; if the property of married women, their husbands 
 shall be made defendants ; if an estate or interest less than a 
 fee, the persons having the next vested estate in remainder or 
 reversion shall be made defendants or their interests will not be 
 bound ; but only persons in actual possession of and claiming 
 title or who have record title appearing upon the proper rec- 
 ords of the City to property affected, need be made defend- 
 ants. Notice of the filing of the petition, describing the prop- 
 erty to be taken or damaged, shall be filed and recorded in
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 53 
 
 the ofiTice of the Recorder of Deeds, otherwise purchasers of 
 such property shall not be bound by the jiroceedins^s under the 
 petition. 
 
 Sec. 2. Upon the llliiig of the petition, summons shall 
 be issued, giving the defendants at least ten days' notice of 
 the hearing on the petition ; and the City Marshal shall serve 
 such summons and make return as required by law for service 
 and return of writs of summons. If the name or residence of 
 any owner be unknown, or if any owner does not reside in 
 the State, a notice giving the general nature of the petition, 
 with a description of the property of such unknown or non- 
 resident owners, and the day fixed for the hearing, shall be 
 published once each week for four consecutive weeks, the last 
 publication to be at least ten days before tlie hearing, in the 
 newspaper publishing at the time the notices (jf said court. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Coilrt, or a judge thereof in vacation, when 
 notice has been given as herein provided, shall appoint three 
 disinterested commissioners, freeholders resident in the City 
 for five years next before their appointment, to assess the dam- 
 ages which the owners may severally sustain by such taking 
 or damaging, and to assess benefits as hereinafter mentioned ; 
 provided, that the court or judge in appointing commissioners 
 shall exclude from their consideration the assessment of all 
 damages for the trial of which a jury has been duly demanded. 
 
 Any party entitled to and desiring trial by jury of his rights 
 to compensation, shall file in the cause, before the appointment 
 of the commissioners, written demand therefor, including 
 therein a description of his property to be taken or damaged, 
 and failure so to do shall be a waiver of the right of trial by 
 jury. Upon such demand being filed the Court shall award a 
 jury trial and ])roceed therewith as in trials of civil actions; 
 but before final judgment shall be rendered on the verdict of 
 the jury and before the commissioners shall make their report, 
 the Court shall certif}- the verdict of the jury to the commis- 
 sioners and they shall include in their report, with their sep- 
 arate findings, assessments and awards, the damages as as- 
 sessed by the jury, reciting the fact. The claims for dainages 
 of all parties denianding jury trial in any action under this 
 article shall be heard at the same time before one jury. The
 
 54 Charter of the City ov St. Louis 
 
 commissioners shall assess damages for property appropriated 
 or damaged for the trial of which a jury is not demanded as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, except as 
 herein otherwise provided, in the condemnation or the dam- 
 aging of property for highways, streets, boulevards, parkways, 
 alleys, wharves, sewers, markets, public squares and parks, or 
 widening or enlarging the same, or in the changing of grade 
 of streets or other public ways or the making of other public 
 work or improvements, to ascertain the value of the property 
 proposed to be taken and the actual damage done to private 
 property, but no allowance shall be made for improvements 
 begun on property after service of summons on or notice by 
 publication to the owner thereof as herein provided ; and the 
 public work, improvement or use contemplated shall not be 
 considered in determining the value of property taken. For 
 the payment of all such damages the commissioners shall as- 
 sess against all the lots or parcels of property or interests 
 therein especially benefited by the proposed public work or 
 improvement, separately, and in the name of the several own- 
 ers thereof, the amount that each such lot or parcel of prop- 
 erty or interest therein so assessed shall be especially bene- 
 fited by the proposed public work or improvement, and against 
 the City the balance of the damages over and above the afore- 
 said special benefits assessed; provided, that in the opening 
 of an alley there shall be assessed against the lots or parcels 
 in the blocks in which the alley is opened benefits sufficient to 
 pay all damages. 
 
 Sec. 5. The commissioners shall view the property to be 
 taken, damaged or assessed ; fix the benefit or taxing district ; 
 publish in said newspaper for ten days before beginning their 
 assessment a notice of the boundaries of the benefit or taxing dis- 
 trict and of the time and place at which they will assess such dam- 
 ages and benefits ; hear the evidence submitted by the parties 
 interested ; assess the damages and benefits as of the date 
 said ordinance became effective ; and make report, in which at 
 least two commissioners shall concur, of such assessment in 
 writing and under oath to the Circuit Court. In such report 
 the compensation allowed to and the benefits assessed against
 
 Charter of the City or St. Louis 55 
 
 each owner shall be separately stated. When the commission- 
 ers both assess benefits and allow damages against any one 
 property owner they shall deduct the lesser from the greater. 
 
 Sec. 6. At any time after the commissioners file their re- 
 port the City may pay into court the amount of damages as- 
 sessed, less benefits, if any, and thereupon it shall be entitled 
 to take possession of or damage the property, assuming the 
 lien of all general taxes not then payable on property actually 
 appropriated. 
 
 Sec. 7. Within twenty days from the filing of the commis- 
 sioner's report, exceptions in writing thereto may be filed by 
 any party interested, and upon such exceptions the Court shall 
 review the report and may order, on cause shown, a new as- 
 sessment by other commissioners, or make such other orders 
 thereon as justice may require. The Court shall hear and dis- 
 pose of such exceptions with all reasonable speed ; and may 
 itself assess benefits anew. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Court upon approving the commissioners' re- 
 port shall render final judgment thereon reciting the report 
 and adjudging that the City have and hold the property peti- 
 tioned for, describing the same, for the purposes specified, upon 
 payment of the damages less the benefits assessed in each in- 
 stance; that so much of the report as is a judgment for bene- 
 fits against specific property be a lien on such property for ten 
 years from entry of the judgment, and prior to all other liens 
 thereon ; and that the City recover the respective benefits in 
 excess of damages assessed in each instance against private 
 property with interest from date of judgment and have execu- 
 tion therefor. The Clerk shall forthwith make and deliver a cer- 
 tified copy of such judgment to the Comptroller, who shall record 
 the same in a book kept and conveniently indexed for that pur- 
 pose. The Comptroller may, forthwith, and if no appeal be 
 taken from such final judgment, he shall, at the expiration of 
 the time for such appeal, forward a copy of the judgment to 
 the Board of Aldermen ; and within sixty days after the receipt 
 of such copy, unless an appeal is peiuling, and, in no event later 
 than sixty days after disposition of all appeals, the Roard of 
 Aldermen shall make an appropriation for the payment out of 
 the City Treasury of the damages assessed in favor of each
 
 56 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 l)arty entitled less his benefits as determined by such final judg- 
 nient, and the City Treasurer, on warrant of the Comptroller, 
 shall cause payment to be made to the several parties entitled 
 or into court for their use, as the case may require. 
 
 Should the Board of Aldermen fail to make such an appro- 
 priation the judgment for damages shall be collected by the 
 owners concerned as other judgments against the City are col- 
 lected ; and if any part of such assessment of benefits be not 
 paid when due, special execution shall issue on request of the 
 Comptroller against the property charged with the lien, and 
 proceedings thereunder shall conform, as near as may be, to 
 the proceedings under special executions on ordinary judg- 
 ments foreclosing liens on lands. 
 
 Should any such final judgment be reversed on appeal and 
 a new assessment be ordered, the City or any defendant shall 
 have judgment for any excess due by reason of payment hav- 
 ing been made by such party under a prior final judgment in 
 the cause. 
 
 Sec. 9. The losing party shall pay the costs caused by litiga- 
 tion subsequent to the filing of the Commissioners' report and 
 the City shall pay all other costs, including the compensation of 
 the Commissioners, which shall be five dollars per day for 
 each Commissioner for not exceeding five days in any one action 
 unless the Court makes an order allowing further time at like 
 compensation. 
 
 Sec. 10. If the City dismisses any action for condemnation 
 for any reason other than defect in the proceedings, it shall not 
 begin a like action within ten years after such dismissal, unless 
 upon the petition of the owners of three-fifths of the property 
 to be taken or upon condition that the City shall pay all the 
 damages assessed therein. 
 
 Sec. 11. In establishing, opening and widening boulevards 
 and converting streets into boulevards or parkways, compensa- 
 tion shall be allowed to owners of property abutting thereon for 
 damages occasioned by any limitation that may be put upon the 
 owner's use of such property; and the City may regulate by 
 ordinance the character of trailfic and vehicles that shall be per- 
 mitted on boulevards or parkways, prohibit the erection of any 
 structure on property abutting on a boulevard or parkway out-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 57 
 
 side a specified building line, and forbid tbe use of any prop- 
 erty so abutting for all or any business purposes. An ordinance 
 establishing a boulevaid or parkway may be repealed, upon 
 recommendation of the Roard of Public Service, and thereupon 
 the boulevard or parkway shall become a street, which, together 
 with the property abutting thereon, shall be free from all restric- 
 tions imposed by the repealed ordinance. Damages and bene- 
 fits resulting from such repeal after the boulevard or parkway 
 has been opened shall be ascertained and paid as herein provided 
 for establishing boulevards or parkways. 
 
 Sec. 12. When the City takes or damages private property 
 for a public use other than those enumerated in Section 4 of 
 this Article, all damages shall be ascertained as hereinbefore pro- 
 vided and shall be paid by the City. 
 
 Sec. 13. The vacation of highways, streets, boulevards, 
 parkways, and alleys shall be provided for by ordinance recom- 
 mended by the Board of Public Service, and easements and 
 rights therein shall be condemned and the special damage and 
 benefits caused thereby shall be ascertained and assessed, in the 
 manner, by the proceedings and according to the rules herein- 
 before prescribed as to other appropriating or damaging; pro- 
 vided, that benefits sufficient to pay all damages shall be assessed 
 against the lots or parcels of land abutting the highway, street, 
 boulevard, parkway or alley to be vacated. 
 
 Sec. 14. Nothing herein shall limit the power of tbe City, 
 by ordinance, recommended by the P.oard of Public Service, 
 to acquire property by private purchase, or to- \acate any high- 
 way, street, boulevard, parkway or alley without proceeding here- 
 under when the owners of all property specially damaged peti- 
 tion therefor and waive all damages. 
 
 Sec. 15. Ordinances for approi)riating or damaging property 
 for markets, public squares, public parks, and other like public 
 uses and improvements may provide for payment of the special 
 assessments made on lahds specially benefited by such uses and 
 improvements in one installment or in equal annual installments 
 not to exceed seven in number, in which event the judgments shall 
 so recite; such judgments shall bear interest payable annually 
 at the rate of six per centum per annum on any unj)aid part 
 thereof from entry until paid, but any part thereof not paid when
 
 58 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 due shall thereafter hear interest at the rate of eight per centum 
 per anntun ; and for the purpose of anticipating the collection 
 of such judg'ments the City may issue and sell local improvement 
 bonds, following the procedure, as far as the same is applicable, 
 provided in Article XXTV for bonds issued in anticipation of the 
 collection of special assessments to pay for local improvements ; 
 provided, that the City shall not be liable to pay bonds herein 
 provided for, but the same shall be payable solely out of the 
 collections of the particular judgments. 
 
 Sec. 16. Whenever it may lavvfull}- be done, the Board of 
 .A.ldermen, in the ordinance providing for the appropriation of 
 private property or any easement or use therein for any high- 
 way, street, boulevard, parkway, park, wharf, bridge, viaduct, 
 subway, tunnel or sewer, or providing for any public work or 
 improvement which will damage or benefit private property, may 
 provide for the appropriation in fee by the city of private prop- 
 erty or any easement or use therein in excess of that actually 
 required for such specific purpose, and in the same or a different 
 ordinance may authorize the sale of such excess for value with 
 or without restrictions. 
 
 Such excess shall be condemned and compensation therefor 
 ascertained amd rendered in the same proceeding, and in the same 
 manner as near as may be, as the property, easement or use 
 actually needed as aforesaid ; provided, that the value of such 
 excess shall be pai?l for by the City. 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 Public Work. 
 
 Section 1. No ordinance for public w^ork or improvements oi 
 any kind, or repairs thereof, shall be adopted, unless prepared 
 and recommended by the Board of Public Service with an 
 estimate of the cost endorsed thereon. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such ordinances shall authorize the particular work 
 or improvement ; specify the general character and extent there- 
 of, the material to be used therein and in the alternative if 
 desirable; the manner and regulations under which it shall be 
 executed; the term for which it shall be guaranteed, if at all; 
 the fund or source from which payment shall be made ; that it
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 59 
 
 shall be done in accordance with detailed plans and specifications 
 finally adopted and approved by the Board of Public Service 
 before bids are advertised therefor; and shall contain a specific 
 appropriation of an amount sufficient to pay the City's part of 
 the estimated cost; provided that emergency work and re- 
 pairs requiring prompt attention may be done under super- 
 vision of the Board of Public Service as provided by general 
 ordinance. 
 
 Ordinances may provide for a greater work or improvement 
 than can be paid for nt the time out of an available fund in the 
 City Treasury, in which event they shall provide that the work 
 be let and done in parts as appropriations are made therefor. 
 
 Sec. 3. Before the Board of Public Service shall recommend 
 an ordinance for any public w^ork or improvement, including the 
 construction or other improvement of any public highway, street, 
 boulevard, parkway, alley, sidewalk, or sewer, or any part there- 
 of, to be paid for by special assessments, the Board of Aldermen, 
 on recommendation of the Board of Public Service, shall estab- 
 lish a benefit or taxing district, and as to a sewer shall establish 
 or shall have established a sewer district or joint-sewer district, 
 against the property in which it is proposed to assess benefits 
 for the payment in whole or in part of the cost and expense of 
 such work or improvement ; and the Board of Public Service shall 
 thereupon designate a day on which it will consider the projected 
 work or improvement and shall give two weeks' public notice in 
 the paper or papers doing the City publi>hing. of the time, place 
 and matter to be considered, and of the estimated cost of the work 
 or improvement, which estimate may cover several classes of ma- 
 terial. 
 
 Within three days after such hearing is concluded, the Board 
 shall file in its office its decision, stating the class or classes of 
 material and the work or improvement determined upon, if any. 
 If within eighteen days after such decision the owners of the 
 greater area of the latid in such district shall file in the office of 
 the Board of Public Service their written remonstrance against 
 the proposed work f>r improvement, the Board, at its next meet- 
 ing, shall reconsider and either reverse its action or transmit to 
 the Board of Aldermen the ordinance authorizing the proposed 
 work or improvement, together with said remonstrance.
 
 60 CiiAR'jivR oi'" THE City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 4. All ])ul)lic \vf)rk, except emergency work or repairs 
 reqiiirinj^ prompt attention, shall be let by the Board of Public 
 vServicc in pursuance of the ordinance authorizing the same. It 
 shall advertise for bids in the paper or papers doing the City 
 publishing, three times, the last publication to be at least ten days 
 before the day appointed for opening the bids (unless a different 
 time and medium of advertising are prescribed in the ordinance), 
 stating the general nature of the work and the time and place 
 of receiving bids therefor. Bids submitted shall be sealed and 
 accompanied by a cashier's or treasurer's check of a bank or trust 
 company in the City, payable to the City Treasurer in the amount 
 of the deposit required. Said Board shall let the work by con- 
 tract to the lowest responsible bidder on the plans and speci- 
 fications finally adopted, except as herein otherwise provided, 
 first requiring a bond to be approved by it and the Comptroller. 
 Said Board may reject any or all bids submitted and readvertise 
 the work. Provided, that any ordinance for any public work or 
 improvement to be paid for by special assessment or otherwise 
 may authorize the Board of Public Service to do the same in a 
 manner prescribed in such ordinance without letting a con- 
 tract therefor. 
 
 Sec. 5. All contracts shall recite that they are subject to 
 the Charter and that payments thereon of the City's portion 
 shall be limited to the amount of the particular appropriation. 
 
 Sec. 6. All contracts for the construction of sewers shall 
 provide that owners of property, with approval of the Direc- 
 tor of Streets and Sewers, may make a connection during con- 
 struction with the sewer or any temporary drain made by the 
 contractor, payment to be made to him for such connection 
 equal to the extra cost caused to him thereby. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Board of Public Service shall investigate writ- 
 ten complaints that any public work or improvement is not 
 being done according to contract and if well founded the 
 Board shall immediately require the contractor to comply with 
 the contract and pay the costs of such investigation. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Board of Public Service may let contracts for 
 ihe grading and for the improvement of any public highway, 
 street, boulevard, parkway, alley or sidewalk or portions 
 thereof, separately, in which event the City may either im-
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 61 
 
 pose one special assessment to pay for the grading and 
 another to pay for tlie improvement, or it may pay the cost of 
 the grading and add the same to the cost of such improvement 
 and include the cost of both the grading and improvement in 
 one special assessment, the contractor reimbursing the City 
 for the grading. 
 
 Sec. 9. If any property in a benefit or assessment district 
 other than public highways, is not liable to any special assess- 
 ment herein provided for, the City shall pay the part of the 
 cost of the work or improvement which would otherwise 
 have been assessed against such property. 
 
 Sec. 10. Ordinances for grading, regrading, preparing road- 
 bed, placing foundation, building of superstructure, including 
 curb, gutters, roadway, paving and cross-walks, and intersec- 
 tions of public highways streets, boulevards and parkways, 
 or for reconstruction of any such work, shall provide for 
 payment therefor bv special assessment, as follows : one- 
 third of the entire cost shall be levied and assessed against the 
 lots or parcels of ground abutting on the work or improvement 
 ratably by lineal feet so abutting, and the remainder of the cost 
 shall be levied and assessed ratably by area against all the lof; 
 or parcels of ground within the benefit or taxing district, ex- 
 clusive of public highways. The improvement of thirty feet 
 of any wharf farthest from the stream may be paid for in like 
 manner or at the City's expense. 
 
 Sec. 11. Ordinances for grading, regrading, preparing road- 
 bed, ])lacing foundations, and building of superstructure of all 
 alleys, and all reconstruction and repairs thereof, including in- 
 tersections of alleys and the crossing of sidewalks in the con- 
 tinuation of alleys, shall provide for payment therefor by 
 special assessment as follows: one-third of the entire cost shall 
 be levied and assessed against the lots or parcels of ground 
 abutting on the work or improvement ratably by lineal feet so 
 abutting, and the remainder of the cost shall be levied and as- 
 sessed ratably by area against all the lots or parcels of ground 
 abutting such alleys or having access thereto. 
 
 Sec. 12. Ordinances for the grading and preparing for and 
 placing the superstructure, of sidewalks, or for the regrading 
 and reconstruction thereof, with necessary intersections, shall
 
 62 Charter of Ti-ig City of St. Louis 
 
 provide for payment tlierefor l)y special assessment levied and 
 assessed against the property abutting thereon; provided that 
 ordinances for grading or regrading of streets and boulevards 
 may include as a part thereof the grading and regrading of 
 the sidewalks thereon. 
 
 Sec. 13. At least one-fourth of the cost of reconstruction of 
 any public highway, street, boulevard, parkway, sidewalk or 
 alley done within ten years after the same has been fully paved 
 shall be paid by the City. 
 
 Sec. 14. There shall be four classes of sewers, viz: Public, 
 District, Joint-District and Private Sewers, as hereinafter de- 
 fined, but otherwise without regard to the area drained, the 
 size, character or purpose of the sewer. 
 
 Public sewers are those which have been or may be con- 
 structed or acquired and paid for wholly out of general reve- 
 nue. 
 
 District Sewers are those which have been or may be con- 
 structed or acquired, under authority of ordinance, within 
 the limits of an established sewer district, and paid for by 
 special assessments upon the property in the district. 
 
 Joint-District Sewers are those which have been or may 
 be constructed or acquired under the authority of ordinances 
 uniting one or more districts and unorganized territory, or 
 uniting districts or unorganized territory, into a joint sewer 
 district, for the purpose of providing main, outlet, or inter- 
 cepting sewers, for the benefit of such joint sewer district, 
 and paid for by special assessment upon the property in such 
 joint sewer district. 
 
 Private Sewers are those paid for by private parties con- 
 structing the same. 
 
 Sec. 15. All public, district and joint-district sewers shall 
 be constructed along streets, alleys and other public ways 
 whenever practicable; and no such sewer shall be built or 
 acquired by the City except it be on a public way or a right- 
 of-way owned by the City. Such sewers may be connected 
 with any other sewer of any class or with a natural course of 
 drainage. 
 
 Sec. 16. All ordinances for constructing, reconstructing or 
 acquiring district and joint-district sewers shall provide for 
 payment thereof by special assessment as follows: the en-
 
 ___^ Charter of the City of St. Louis 63 
 
 tire cost and expense shall he levied and assessed as a special 
 tax ratahly hy area on all the lots or parcels of ground with- 
 in the district or joint district, excluding jmblic highways 
 only. 
 
 Ordinances creating a joint-sewer district may provide for 
 the construction of the sewer or sewers therein in one or 
 more sections and for the levy and assessment of the cost of 
 any section upon the completion thereof as a special tax in 
 the manner herein provided. 
 
 If any district or joint-district sewer shall drain territory 
 lying outside the City limits an<l not included in the 
 district or joint district, the City shall pay so much of the 
 cost of such sewer as would have heen assessed ratably 
 against such territory, if it were included in the district or 
 joint district. 
 
 Sec. 17. The City may hy ordinance recDUimended hy the 
 Roard of Pulilic Service acquire any private sewer hy gift, con- 
 demnation or purchase and i)ro\idc for reinihursement by 
 special assessment in the manner hercinl)efore provided to he 
 levied against the property in the district or juint-district for 
 whicli such private sewer is acquired; and an ordinance mak- 
 ing a private sewer or any part thereof a part of a pmposed 
 district or joint-district sewer may provide that the contractor 
 shall pay for sucli private sewer at the price fixed in such 
 ordinance and the cost thereof shall he included in the total 
 cost of constructing such district or joint-district sewer. 
 
 Sec. 18. When any puldic work or iiuprovement, to he jiaid 
 for in whole or in part by special assessment, is completed, 
 the Board of Public Service shall cause the entire cost and 
 expense thereof to be computed, and shall levy and assess 
 such cost and expense or the part to be paid by special as- 
 sessment, as a special tax, in accordance with the require- 
 ments of this article, and shall cause to be issued a special tax 
 bill against each lot or parcel of ground liable in the manner 
 provided by Article XXIII, or by ordinance not inconsistent 
 therewith. 
 
 Sec. 19. Should it be necessary for any reason to recon- 
 struct any district or joint-district sewer, the Board of Alder- 
 men, by ordinance recommended by the Board of Public Serv-
 
 64 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 ice, may estal)lish the same or a different district for sucli 
 reconstruction. It may also alter any district or joint district 
 at any time before the construction of the sewers therein is 
 completed. 
 
 Sec. 20. Private sewers shall be constructed, repaired and 
 maintained and connected with other sewers at private ex- 
 pense under such restrictions and regulations as the Board 
 of Public Service may prescribe, the City reserving the right 
 to connect with, utilize and acquire such sewers 
 
 Sec. 21. The Board of Public Service may grant permits 
 for the improvement of public highways, streets, boulevards, 
 parkways, alleys and sidewalks by property owners, but such 
 improvement shall conform to the established or proposed 
 grades and to specifications appro\'ed by the Board. 
 
 Sec. 22. If any part of the work or material put into the 
 improvement of a public highway, street, boulevard, park- 
 way, alley or sidewalk can be utilized by the City in its im- 
 provement thereof, the Board of Public Service shall de- 
 termine the amount that shall be credited to the owner of 
 the abutting property for such work or material and adjust 
 it in issuing special tax bills. 
 
 Sec. 23. The ordinance for any public work or improve- 
 ment may require the Board of Public Ser\ice to levy the spe- 
 cial assessment therefor immediately upon such ordinance' 
 becoming effective, such assessment to be based on ^-he esti- 
 mated cost and expenses of such work or improvement ; and 
 should any assessment so levied be insufficient to pay the 
 entire cost and expenses of the work or improvement re- 
 quired to be paid for by special assessment, the Board of Pub- 
 lic Service shall, on the completion of the work or improve- 
 ment, levy a supplemental special assessment to pay the de- 
 ficiency, in the same manner as nearly as may be as in the 
 first special assessment ; and should the whole of the original 
 special assessment not be required to pay the cost and ex- 
 penses of the work or improvement, the excess shall be cred- 
 ited ratably on the special tax bills or refunded to the par-^ 
 ties who paid them.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 65 
 
 ARTICLE XXin. 
 Special Tax Bills. 
 
 Section 1. For all special assessments for public work or 
 improvements under this Charter and ordinances adopted in 
 pursuance thereof, special tax bills shall be prepared and 
 signed by a person designated by the Board of Public Serv- 
 ice by resolution entered on its records ; and shall be made 
 payable to the parties entitled, either at the Collector's office 
 or at some bank or trust company in the City, at the option 
 of the party so entitled. They shall be promptly registered 
 and certified both in the office of said Board and of the 
 Comptroller by persons designated by said Board and by tlie 
 Comptroller respectively to make such registration and cer- 
 tificate, and then delivered by the Comptroller to the parties 
 entitled and their receipts taken therefor; and the City shall 
 not be liable in any manner for any work or imprcn'ement to 
 be paid for in special tax bills. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any special tax bills may be divided, if the ordi- 
 nance authorizing the particular work or improvement so 
 provides, into any number of equal annual installments, not 
 to exceed ten, whereof the first shall be due upon service of 
 the notice hereinafter provided for or upon a ''not found" re- 
 turn by the Marshal as hereinafter mentioned, and the other 
 installments successively on the corresponding day of each 
 subsequent year, with interest payable annually on each install- 
 ment at the rate of six per centum per annum from such no- 
 tice or "not found" return until maturity or prior payment 
 and at the rate of eight per centum per annum after maturity. 
 
 All such special tax bills not payable in installments shall 
 mature upon notice or "not found" return as aforesaid and 
 draw interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum after 
 maturity; provided, that the entire bill or any number of in- 
 stallments may be paid within thirty days after ^ucb notice 
 or "not found" return without any interest. 
 
 Sec. 3. The owner of any special tax bill shall serve a writ- 
 ten notice of the issuance thereof on the parties named therein, 
 or the City Marshal at such owners' request shall serve such 
 notice and make return of such service in the manner pro- 
 vided as to writs of summons in civil causes ; and he shall
 
 66 CiiAUTER OF Tiiic City of St. Louis 
 
 receive therefor the fees then allowed for serving such writs. 
 Such Marshal's return shall be conclusive of the facts therein 
 stated, and any person injured by a false return on any such 
 notice shall have his right of action for damages resulting 
 therefrom against the Marshal on his official bond. 
 
 Sec. 4. All special tax bills shall be prima facie evidence of 
 what they contain and of their own validity, and no mere in- 
 formality or clerical mistake in any of the proceedings lead- 
 ing to the issuance of or in any special tax bill shall be a 
 defense thereto; provided, that if the work was not done in a 
 good and workmanlike manner according to the class of work 
 mentioned in the contract the property charged with the pay- 
 ment of said bill shall be liable only for the value of such 
 work done, and the recovery on the special tax bill shall be 
 reduced accordingly. 
 
 Sec. 5. All special tax bills shall be a first lien on the prop- 
 erty charged therewith from the day of issuance thereof; pro- 
 vided, there shall be no priority between special tax bills issued 
 under this Charter, regardless of the date of such bills. The 
 entire bill or any installment thereof, together with interest, 
 may be collected by action in any court of competent juris- 
 diction ; and such action may be brought by attachment when 
 the owner of the land affected is a non-resident of the State 
 or after a "not found" return is made by the City Marshal 
 on any such notice, in either which event the suit shall be 
 equivalent to notice and a demand of payment. 
 
 Sec. 6. If any installment of any special tax bill or any in- 
 terest thereon be not paid when due, then all remaining install- 
 ments, together with interest thereon as aforesaid, shall, at 
 the option of the holder if exercised by suit thereon, imme- 
 diately become due; and a judgment on such bill shall bear 
 interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum. 
 
 Sec. 7. Special tax bills and the lien thereof may be assigned 
 and the place of payment thereof changed to the office of the 
 Collector or to any bank or trust company in the City. But 
 any such assignment or change of place of payment to be 
 valid must be in writing, countersigned by the Comptroller 
 or by one of his deputies, acknowledged before an officer au- 
 thorized to take acknowledgments, and registered in the of- 
 fice of the Comptroller.
 
 Charter or the City of St. Louis 67 
 
 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Collector to receive pay- 
 ment of all special tax bills made jiayable at his office ami 
 thereupon deliver the same receipted; and he shall, upon war- 
 rants of the Comptroller, pay over all such collections to the 
 parties entitled. The persons payings any such bill shall l)e en- 
 titled to have the same satisfied on the register in the Comp- 
 troller's oflfice, in whole or in part, as the case may be. imme- 
 diately on presentation to the Com]itrollcr of eitlier the re- 
 ceipted tax bill or a receipt from the Collector or the proper 
 bank or trust company showing such payment thereof; and 
 the Hen of any bill shall cease and be of no effect against the 
 land charged therewith at the end of two years after the ma- 
 turity of the 1")ill or the last installment thereof, unless proceed- 
 ings at law shall then be pending to collect the same, and writ- 
 ten notice of the institution thereof setting forth when and in 
 what court such proceedings were brought shall have been 
 filed in the office of the Comptroller within ten days after the 
 institution of such suit. 
 
 Sec. 9. If any ordinance authorizing a piil^lic work or im- 
 provement, or fixing a benefit or taxing district, shall be ir- 
 regular, defective or invalid by reason of any omission, error 
 or irregularity therein or in the proceedings leading to its adop- 
 tion, or if for any reason it shall be necessary to the validity 
 of any special assessment, the Board of Aldermen may, on 
 recommendation of the Board of Public Service, adopt an 
 ordinance ratifying all things done under or in pursuance of 
 the original ordinance, and suiijilying. correcting anfl curing 
 all such omissions, errors, defects and irregularities, and mak- 
 ing such special assessment valid. 
 
 Sec. 10. Where public work or improvement has been done 
 under an ordinance providing that it should be paid for by 
 special assessment and the whole or part of such special as- 
 sessment has been adjudged invalid for any reason other than 
 the failure of the contractor to perform his contract, the P.oarrl 
 of Public Service shall levy a new assessment and evidence 
 the same by tax bills in the same manner and with like effect 
 as if validly done hereunder in the first instance. 
 
 Sec. 11. Special assessments or tax bills evidencing the 
 same may be amended by the officer or officers authorized at 
 the time to prepare special tax bills or by the courts in proceed-
 
 68 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 injTs to enforce the same, to correct or supply descriptions, 
 names and other errors, omissions and irregularities on the 
 ]iart of the city, and may he divided by said officer or officers 
 at the request of any of the parties concerned according to divi- 
 sions of the property made subsequent to the bills being pre- 
 pared, and without afifecting the interest on such amended or 
 divided bill. 
 
 Sec. 12. The City by ordinance recommended l)y the Board 
 of Public Service may, from time to time, make further pro- 
 vision by ordinance, not inconsistent with this Charter, for 
 special assessments, the issuance of special tax bills therefor, 
 the collection thereof, and all matters incidental thereto. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIV. 
 Improvement Bonds and Funds. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of Aldermen, by ordinance recom- 
 mended by the Board of Public Service, in anticipation of the 
 collection of a special assessment for any public work or im- 
 provement, may provide for the issuance of improvement 
 bonds to be delivered to the contractor in payment for so 
 much of the work or improvement as is payable by such 
 special assessment, or to be sold by the Cii}' and the pro- 
 ceeds paid to the contractor in full for such work and improve- 
 ment; provided, the City shall not be liable either to pay such 
 bonds or to pay for such part of the work or improvement. 
 l)ut the bonds shall be paid only out of the particular special 
 assessment in anticipation of which they were issued, and no 
 such issue shall be in excess of the cost and expenses or esti- 
 mated cost and expenses of the work and improvement and 
 the interest on the bonds, which may be treated as a part of 
 such cost, and all proceeds of said bonds shall be applied in 
 payment of the cost and expenses of such work and improve- 
 ment. 
 
 If the special assessment in anticipation of which such 
 I)onds are issued shall be payable in equal annual installments 
 the particular bonds shall be payable serially, each series 
 maturing with approximate regard to the several maturities 
 of such installments ; and all such special assessments shall 
 be collected promptly by the City at its expense and applied.
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 69 
 
 whenever sufficient lliereto after paying accrued interest on 
 all such issue nf bonds, tfi the redemption of one or more of 
 such bonds in numerical <>rder at maturity. 
 
 The form and denomination of such bonds ; the date of 
 maturity or maturities thereof not to exceed eleven years in 
 any instance; the rate of interest thereon and date and place 
 of its payment; the price at which they shall be sold, if to be 
 sold; by what officers and in what manner they shall be exe- 
 cuted and attested ; and the place and method of payment, 
 save only the fund out of which payment shall be made, to- 
 t^ether with other provisions and regulations concerning such 
 bonds and not inconsistent herewith, shall be prescribed by the 
 ordinance authorizing the particular issue. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen, by ordinance recom- 
 mended by the Board of Public Service, may appropriate out 
 of the general revenue sufficient money to pay, or to provide 
 a fund in advance to pay, such part of any improvement bond 
 issue as the proceeds of special assessments securing same may 
 prove insufficient to pay as they become due, not exceeding 
 ten per centum of the amount of such bond issue, and provide 
 for reimbursement, if possible, out of the proceeds of such 
 special assessments after all such bonds and interest have 
 l.een fully paid. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Board of Aldermen may, by ordinance recom- 
 mended by the Board of Public Service, provide for the crea- 
 tion of a local improvement fund out of which the City shall 
 pay in cash, to contractors or otherwise, the cost and expense 
 of local improvements, and for the levy, assessment and col- 
 lection of special assessments to cover such costs and ex- 
 ])enses, the proceeds of which assessments shall be paid into 
 such fund or funds. 
 
 Sec. 4. For the purpose of anticipating the levy and col- 
 lection of any special assessment for any public work or im- 
 provement, the Board of Aldermen may, by ordinance recom- 
 mended by the Board of Public Service, appropriate a fund 
 to pay for the work or improvement as it progresses, and re- 
 imburse the City either by the. issue and sale of local im- 
 provement bonds as in this Article provided, or by the collec- 
 tion of such special assessments.
 
 70 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 Sec. 5. All special assessments contemplated by this Ar- 
 ticle shall be evidenced by special tax bills in accordance with 
 the provisions of Article XXIII, so far as applicable, such 
 bills to be made payable to the City, which shall be deemed 
 the owner thereof, at the office of the Collector, to whom the 
 Comptroller shall deliver the same and take his receipts 
 therefor. The .Marshal shall serve the notice of the issuance 
 of such bills and make return of such service without re- 
 ceiving- any fees therefor. 
 
 ARTICLE XXV. 
 General and Miscellaneous. 
 
 Section 1, The Board of Aldermen may by ordinance 
 adopted by vote of two-thirds of all the members, on the 
 recommendation of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
 ment, discontinue any division established by this Charter, 
 create new or additional divisions, and determine, combine 
 and distribute the functions and duties of divisions, officers 
 and employes. 
 
 Sec. 2. The raw material and finished products of manu- 
 facturers in the City, as well as all the tools, machinery and 
 appliances used by them and the stock in trade and appliances 
 of merchants in the City, may be taxed as a separate class 
 under the laws of the State and a lower rate may be levied 
 by the City on such property so classified than on real estate 
 and other property, and the City may by ordinance levy a 
 tax upon the sales made by manufacturers and merchants in 
 the City. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Board of Aldermen may provide by ordinance 
 for assessing- against the abutting property the cost of plant- 
 ing shade trees and of removing from sidewalks accumula- 
 tions of snow, ice and earth and for assessing against prop- 
 erty the cost of cutting and removing therefrom noxious weeds 
 and rubbish. 
 
 Sec. 4. Unless otherwise provided in this Charter all bonds 
 shall be approved as to their sufficiency by the Comptroller. 
 The bond of the Comptroller as to its sufficiency shall be ap- 
 proved by the Mayor. All official bonds shall, among other
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 71 
 
 things, be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties 
 of the office. For any breach of the condition of any bond, suit 
 may be instituted thereon by the City, or by any person or 
 persons in the name of the City, for the use of such person 
 or persons. 
 
 Sec. 5. If at any time it appears to the Mayor or Comp- 
 troller that the surety or sureties on any official bond are in- 
 sufficient, he shall require the officer or employe to give addi- 
 tional bond and if such officer or employe fails to give such 
 additional bond within ten days after he shall have been noti- 
 fied, his office shall be vacant. 
 
 Sec. 6. A contingent fund sliall be provided l)y ordinance 
 for the Mayor, to be used by him at his discretion, and at the 
 end of his term he shall make a report in general terms to 
 the Board of Aldermen of the disposition thereof. 
 
 Sec. 7. Any reference in this Charter to tiie Board of 
 Election Commissioners shall be taken to include any Board 
 or person having charge of elections in the City. 
 
 Sec. 8. The City in taking an appeal in any judicial pro- 
 ceeding shall give bond as required by law, but need not fur- 
 nish security therefor. 
 
 Sec. 9. All contracts relating to City affairs shall be in 
 writing, signed and executed in the name of the City, in 
 cases not otherwise provided by law or ordinance, they shall 
 be made by the Comptroller, and in no case by the Board of 
 Aldermen or any committee thereof. Ci.intracts not made by 
 the Com])lrollcr shall be countersigned l;y him, and all con- 
 tracts shall be hied and registered by number, date and con- 
 tents with the Register. 
 
 Sec. 10. All books, records and papers in any department, 
 office, or division shall be oi)en to the Mayor, Comptroller 
 or any committee of the Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Sec. 11. The Mayor may appoint any number of civil 
 engineers as City Surveyors for a term of four years, whose 
 duties and powers shall be as provided by law in regard to 
 County Surveyors. Each City Surveyor shall when appointed 
 give bond to the City for fifteen thousand dollars, conditioned 
 for the faithful perforniatice of hi'^ duties. Such bond may
 
 72 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 be sued upon by any person injured by the official acts f>{ such 
 surveyor. 
 
 Sec. 12. All publications not otherwise herein pnwided 
 for shall be published in the paper or papers having the con- 
 tract to do the City publishing at the time. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any board or officer authorized by this Charter 
 to subpoena witnesses and order the production of books 
 and papers shall have the services of the City Marshal to 
 execute process, and provision shall be made by ordinance 
 for punishing failure to obey any such subpoena or order. 
 
 Sec. 14. Except in case of emergency not to exceed eight 
 hours shall constitute a day's work for all mechanics and 
 laborers employed by the City, and not less than the prevail- 
 ing rate of wages shall be paid. 
 
 Sec. 15. Where the word "office" is used in this Charter to 
 indicate a branch of the city government, it shall be construed 
 to refer to any branch not in or under any department, and 
 shall include the office of the IMayor, Register, Marshal, City 
 Court Judges and Clerk of the City Courts. 
 
 Sec. 16. Unless the context indicates a different intent and 
 except when referring to a person holding an office or employ- 
 ment under the City the words "person" or "persons" in this 
 Charter will be construed to include person, firm, corporation, 
 company or association and the plurals thereof. 
 
 Sec. 17. The Board of Aldermen may by ordinance make 
 any provision necessary to carry into execution the laws of 
 the State relating to State, school. City and other revenue ; 
 and any power, duty or trust under the laws of the State, 
 vested in or imposed upon any body or officer of any county 
 or of this city by the laws of the State may be exercised by 
 such body or officer of the City as may be provided by ordi- 
 nance consistent with the provisions of this Charter. 
 
 SCHEDULE 
 
 Section 1. All ordinances or parts thereof in force when 
 this Charter takes eflfect and not inconsistent therewith shall 
 continue in force until amended or repealed ; and all rights, 
 actions, prosecutions and contracts of the City, or for its
 
 Cha rter of the City or St. Louis 72> 
 
 benefit, all recogriizances, bonds, oblic^ations and instruments 
 entered into or executed to the City, all fines, taxes, penalties 
 and forfeitures due or owing to the City, and all writs, i)rose- 
 cutions, actions and causes of action, shall be valid and con- 
 tinue unaflFected by this Charter taking effect. 
 
 Sec. 2. All ordinances authorizing or contemplating the 
 appropriation or damaging of private property for public use 
 or authorizing public work or improvements in force when 
 this Charter takes eflfect, and all things done thereunder, shall 
 remain valid, and subsequent proceedings thereunder, includ- 
 ing those in pending condemnation proceedings, shall be con- 
 ducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provi- 
 sions of this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any assessment for taxation commenced before this 
 Charter takes effect shall be availed of and completed by the 
 assessor and his deputies under this Charter, and the same 
 and any taxes based thereon shall be valid notwithstanding 
 any change eflfected by this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 4. Ordinances, or parts there* »f, not inconsistent with 
 this Charter, referring to any present body, board, officer or 
 employe, shall be construed to refer to the body, board, officer 
 or employe having the same or similar powers or duties under 
 this Charter or ordinances consistent therewith. 
 
 Sec. 5. Ordinances authorizing a fine or punishment greater 
 than is permitted by this Charter shall continue valid so far as 
 to authorize a fine or punishment not exceeding the limitations 
 of this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 6. \\'henever any ai)i)roval, order or action l)v any 
 board or officer, discontinued l)y this Charter, is required by 
 any law or present ordinance as a condition precedent to any 
 payment, commitment to any institution or other action by 
 any city officer, it shall ])e sufficient to obtain such approval, 
 order or action from the body, board or officer having tlie 
 same or similar power in the premises under tliis Charter, 
 and if there be no such board or officer, such apprmal, order 
 or action may be secinc<l fr<>m the mayor until otiiorwise pro- 
 vided bv ordinance.
 
 74 Charter of the City of St. Louis 
 
 vSec. 7. It shall he the duty of all hoards, commissions and 
 ofticers whose powers or duties are vested in others hy this 
 Charter, to turn over all hooks, records, pro])crty and funds 
 to such others, and if any hoard, commission or ofifice be abol- 
 ished without the duties thereof being vested in others the 
 incumbents thereof shall turn over all books, records, property 
 and funds to the Comptroller. 
 
 Sec. 8. The present Municipal Assembly, with its present 
 officers or such as the respective houses may lawfully choose 
 under the present Charter, shall continue until the first .Mon- 
 day in April, 1915, with all the powders and duties given to the 
 Board of Aldermen by this Charter, and subject to its provi- 
 sions ; and until said date the provisions of the present Char- 
 ter with regard to the filling of vacancies in the office of Mayor 
 or the temporary performance of the duties of the Mayor shall 
 remain in force. 
 
 Sec. 9. All terms of office of present officers and employes, 
 except those terms expressly saved or continued by this Char- 
 ter, are abolished. 
 
 Sec. 10. The present city officers mentioned in this section 
 shall hold office under this Charter and subject to its provi- 
 sions, as follows : the present Mayor, Comptroller and City 
 Counselor shall hold the like offices ; the present Police Justices 
 and District Assessors shall hold office as City Court Judges 
 and Deputy Assessors, respectively; the present Street, Sewer, 
 Water, Park, Health and Hospital Commissioners, Commis- 
 sioner of Supplies and Commissioner of Public Buildings and 
 Chief of Fire Department, shall hold office, respectively, as 
 heads of the appropriate divisions created by this Charter; 
 the present President of the Board of Assessors. President of 
 the Board of Public Improvements and Inspector of Weights 
 and Measures shall hold office as Assessor, President of the 
 Board of Public Service and Commissioner of Weights and 
 Measures, respectively ; and all other present incumbents of 
 elective offices made appointive shall hold such appointive 
 offices. Each such present city officer shall continue in the 
 office above provided for him to hold until the end of the term 
 for which he was elected or appointed and until his successor
 
 Charter of the City of St. Louis 75 
 
 qualifies, with all the powers and duties given by this Charter 
 to such office. 
 
 Sec. 11. The present jailer and all superintendents of insti- 
 tutions and the superintendent of fire and police telegraph, 
 shall continue in office subordinate to the head of the appro- 
 priate division and subject to the provisions of this Charter. 
 
 Sec. 12. The present City Surveyors shall continue in office 
 until the end of the terms for which they were respectively 
 appointed. 
 
 Sec. 13. The office of City Auditor, as it at present exists, 
 is abolished, but the present City Auditor shall continue in 
 office until the end of the term for which he was elected. In 
 the meantime he and the deputies and clerks under him shall 
 be part of the Comptroller's office and under the control of 
 the Comptroller. 
 
 Sec. 14. The City Attorneys' offices as such are abolished, 
 but until the Law Department is organized in accordance with 
 this Charter the City Counselor's office and the City Attorneys' 
 offices shall constitute the Law Department and be under the 
 control of the City Counselor. 
 
 Sec. 15. All persons now occupying positions which are 
 created solely by ordinance not inconsistent with this Charter 
 and which are not exempted from the efficiency provisions of 
 this Charter, including those mentioned in Sec. 9 of Article 
 XVIII, and all persons occupying positions which are so cre- 
 ated and which are exempted from said efficiency provisions 
 by subdivisions d and f of Sec. 3 of Article XVIII, shall con- 
 tinue in such positions, each in the appropriate branch of the 
 city government and subordinate to the proper head officer. 
 Where transfers of duties are effected by this Charter the 
 Mayor may transfer any of said officers and employes to con- 
 form thereto. Tenure of office or employment under this sec- 
 tion shall be subject to this Charter and the ordinances of tiie 
 City. 
 
 Sec. 16. All present boards, commissions and officers cre- 
 ated by Charter or ordinance and not provided for or author- 
 ized or expressly continued by this Charter, arc hereby abol- 
 ished, iave only the City Plan Commission, Board of Engl-
 
 76 Charter oi' the City of St. Louis 
 
 neers and Board of Examiners of Plumbers, which said com- 
 mission and boards until abolished by ordinance shall here- 
 after be appointed by and under the control of the Board of 
 Public Service. 
 
 Sec. 17. The Mayor may, and on the written advice of the 
 City Counselor shall, require any renewal or substitution of 
 the official bond or security of any present officer or employe 
 as a condition precedent to such officer or employe continuing 
 in office; and any officer or employe failing to comply with 
 any such requirement within fifteen days after being notified 
 thereof shall thereby forfeit his office. It shall be the duty of 
 the City Counselor forthwith on this Charter being adopted 
 to examine all official bonds and securities and advise the 
 Mayor whether on account of any changes effected by this 
 Charter it will be necessary to require such bond or security 
 to be renewed or substituted. 
 
 Sec. 18. Every present city officer or employe who, if ap- 
 pointed or elected, would be required by this Charter to take 
 an official oath, shall take, subscribe and file such oath as pro- 
 vided in this Charter.
 
 INDEX 
 
 (The Numbers Refer to Pages.) 
 
 Pat;p 
 
 Abatement, see Xiiisances 29 
 
 Accounts 
 
 Of Public Utilities 28 
 
 Special Audits 18 
 
 Payment of Claims 34 
 
 Warrants issued by Comptroller 33 
 
 Alleys, see Streets. 
 
 Amusements and Entertainments 
 
 Supervision of 30 
 
 Advertisements for supplies 40 
 
 Aldermen, see Board of Aldermen 
 
 Amendments to Charter by Initiative 12-13 
 
 Appointments 19 
 
 See Mayor 17 
 
 Appropriations 
 
 Board of Estimate and .Apportionment 41 
 
 Assessment Bonds 68 
 
 Interest on '68 
 
 For local improvements 69 
 
 Assessments, Special 
 
 Streets 61 
 
 Sewers 62 
 
 Sidewalks 61 
 
 Parkways 61 
 
 Method of assessing 61 
 
 Preliminary resolution 59 
 
 When payable 65 
 
 On lands not subject to assessment 61 
 
 City's portion of cost 61-62 
 
 Division into installments 65 
 
 Supplementary assessments and rebates 64 
 
 Removing snow and ice 70 
 
 Assessor 35 
 
 Appointed by Mayor 19 
 
 Qualifications 35 
 
 Salary 35 
 
 Oath 35 
 
 Bond 35 
 
 Deputies 35 
 
 -Appoints Peputy .Assessors 35 
 
 Board of Equalization ^ 
 
 Audit of City Records 18 
 
 Auditor 75 
 
 Ballots 
 
 In recall cl^tions 7 
 
 In initiative' and referendum elections 14 
 
 Board of Aldermen 
 
 Clerk — Duties in 
 
 Initiative petitions 13 
 
 Referendum petitions .,. 1 5 
 
 Qualifications 7
 
 ii INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Salary 8 
 
 Numl)er 7 
 
 Elected when 4 
 
 To fix salaries .' 20 
 
 Ward election when Constitution permits 4 
 
 May establish divisions 70 
 
 Wards — Division into and redivision 4 
 
 Vacancies — How filled 8 
 
 • Meetings to be public 9 
 
 Rules and Journal 8 
 
 President 8 
 
 Vice-President 8 
 
 Clerk and other employes 8 
 
 Judge of qualifications of members 8 
 
 Ordinance enactment 9 
 
 Emergency measures 11 
 
 Appropriation ordinances 12 
 
 Certify ordinance establishing tax rates 41 
 
 Committee report 9 
 
 Divide city into judicial districts 24 
 
 Ineligible to other office during term 21 
 
 Limitation on appropriations 12 
 
 Action on budget 41 
 
 Investigation by ^ 8 
 
 Ordinances filed ; 11 
 
 Action on initiative petitions 13 
 
 Action on referendum petitions , 15 
 
 Subject to recall 5 
 
 Term 4 
 
 Change of residence 8 
 
 Forfeiture of office - 8 
 
 Expulsion 8 
 
 Board of Estimate and Apportionment 41 
 
 Budget submitted to Board of Aldermen 41 
 
 Hearing to citizens 41 
 
 Action by Board of Aldermen.. 41 
 
 Unexpended balances 42 
 
 May recommend transfer of funds 42 
 
 Board of Parole and Probation 33 
 
 Board of Standardization 39 
 
 Board of Public Service 25 
 
 President 27 
 
 Streets and Sewers 28 
 
 Public Utilities 21 
 
 Public Welfare 29 
 
 Public Safety 31 
 
 Rules and regulations 25 
 
 Transfer of employes .- 27 
 
 Board of Children's Guardians ZZ 
 
 Board of Election Commissioners : 71 
 
 Board of Equalization 36 
 
 Meets ...: : - 37 
 
 Qualifications - - 36 
 
 Compensation „ „„.,.,,„..,..„„,............,......, ,„„.;:««... 36
 
 INDEX iii 
 
 Page 
 Bonds 
 
 Of city officials 20 
 
 / Kept by Register 22 
 
 Premiums paid by city _ 20 
 
 Authority to issue 42 
 
 Purposes for which city may issue 42 
 
 Based on public utilities 42 
 
 Local improvements 68 
 
 Books, open to inspection 71 
 
 Bridges, under street division 28 
 
 Budget, see Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 
 Building and Inspection 
 
 Commissioner of 32 
 
 Correction 
 
 Commissioner of 31 
 
 Chief of Police 31 
 
 City Art Museum 33 
 
 City Counselor, see Law Department 23 
 
 City Marshal 23 
 
 City Courts 24 
 
 Claims against city, payment of 34 
 
 City (present) employes not subject to efficiency provisions 48 
 
 Civil Service, see Efficiency Board. 
 
 Clerk of Board of Aldermen, see Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Collector 38 
 
 Appointed by Mayor 19 
 
 Qualifications 3S. 
 
 Salary 3S 
 
 Bond 38 
 
 Comptroller 
 
 Qualifications 33 
 
 Term 4 
 
 Forfeiture of office 33 
 
 Member Board of Estimate and Apportionment 41 
 
 Member Board of Standardization 39 
 
 Bond 33 
 
 Salary 33 
 
 Appoints deputies 33 
 
 Rights in Board of Aldermen 34 
 
 Transfer employes 34 
 
 Approves bonds 70 
 
 Supervision of department of finance. 33 
 
 Complaint Board 33 
 
 Condemnation 52 
 
 Commissioners appointed by court 53 
 
 Notice to be served S3 
 
 Exceptions 55 
 
 Waive trial by jury 53 
 
 Ordinances appropriating damages 55 
 
 Contracts 71 
 
 Officers and employes not interested in 21 
 
 Signed by _.« 71 
 
 Certification of Comptroller required 71 
 
 Mayor shall see contracts are performed 17 
 
 Public improvements by contract or direct labor _... 6(
 
 iv 1 N D K X 
 
 PaRC 
 
 Damages, Assossniont of in condemiiHtinn 54 
 
 Departments 
 
 Streets and Sewers 28 
 
 Public Utilities 27 
 
 Public Welfare 29 
 
 Public Safety 29 
 
 Finance 33 
 
 Law 23 
 
 Divisions (see Health, Hospitals, Parks and Recreation, Correc- 
 tion, Research and Publicity, Legal Aid, Municipal Lodg- 
 ing House, Employment, Police, Excise, Fire and Fire Preven- 
 tion, Weights and Measures, Building and Inspection.) 
 
 May be changed by Board of Aldermen 70 
 
 Directors 
 
 Streets and Sewers 28 
 
 Public Utilities 27 
 
 Public Welfare 29 
 
 Public Safety 31 
 
 Salaries fixed by Board of Aldermen 20 
 
 Eight-hour day 72 
 
 Elections 
 
 When 4 
 
 Notice of 5 
 
 To be provided for by Board of Aldermen when statutes 
 
 permit 5 
 
 Regular 4 
 
 Special, provision for by Election Commissioners 5 
 
 Recall 7 
 
 Initiative 13 
 
 Referendum 16 
 
 Bonds 43 
 
 Election commissioners 71 
 
 Emergency measures 11 
 
 Employment Bureau 31 
 
 Epidemics 30 
 
 Estimate and Apportionment, see Board of 41 
 
 Excise Commissioner 31 
 
 Examinations by Efficiency Board 46-47 
 
 Expenditures 
 
 Pursuant to appropriation by Board of Aldermen 12 
 
 Supervision by Board of Estimate and Apportionment 12 
 
 Efficiency Board 45 
 
 Appointed by Mayor 45 
 
 Qualifications 45 
 
 Vacancies therein 45 
 
 Rules and regulations of 46 
 
 Choose own employes and fix their salaries 45 
 
 Eligible list 46 
 
 Temporary employment 47 
 
 Classification of service 46 
 
 Unskilled Labor 47 
 
 Examinations 47 
 
 Appointments _ 47 
 
 Promotions — 48
 
 INDEX V 
 
 Page 
 
 Discharge *7 
 
 Present city employes not subject to 48 
 
 Public utility employes, no examination for 48 
 
 Payrolls certified 48 
 
 Investigations 48 
 
 Political beliefs • 48 
 
 Political activity 48 
 
 Keep record - 47 
 
 Violations and penalties 48 
 
 Employes, present city, not subject to efficiency provisions 48 
 
 Finance Department 
 
 Sec Board of Estimate and Apportionment, Comptroller, 
 Assessor, Collector, Treasurer, Supply Commissioner, 
 Bonds. 
 
 Fire and Police Telegraph 32 
 
 Fines 1 1 
 
 Fire and Fire Prevention 
 
 Commissioner of 31 
 
 Police powers at fires 32 
 
 Fire marshal 32 
 
 Fiscal year „ 42 
 
 Forester, city 31 
 
 Franchises 49 
 
 Not to be passed as emergency measure 11 
 
 City may take over property 49 
 
 Limitation to fifty years 49 
 
 Board of Aldermen may impose tax on street railways 5U 
 
 Not assignable without consent of city 50 
 
 No exclusive grant 49 
 
 Charges regulated by Board of Aldermen 50 
 
 Street railways to keep street in repair 50 
 
 Free Employm^t Bureau 31 
 
 Grade crossings, power to abolisli 3 
 
 Harbors, city may provide and maintain 2 
 
 Health Commissioner 29 
 
 May abate nuisances - 29 
 
 Avoid epidemics -^ 30 
 
 Highways, see streets 28 
 
 Hospital Commissioner 30 
 
 Hours of labor 72 
 
 Improvement Bonds and Funds 68 
 
 Initiative petitions 
 
 Signatures 13 
 
 Percentage required 13 
 
 Affidavit of circulator 6 
 
 Filing of petition 6 
 
 Supplementary petitions 6 
 
 Certification of sufficiency 13 
 
 Adtion of Board of Aldermen 13 
 
 Election, when 13 
 
 Ballots, form of - 14 
 
 Committee of petitioners 13 
 
 Publication of arguments 17 
 
 Inspection of buildings 32
 
 vi INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Investigation by 
 
 Board of Aldermen 9 
 
 Mayor 18 
 
 Efficiency Board 48 
 
 Director Public Utilities 27 
 
 Labor, Hours of 72 
 
 Law Department...-. 23 
 
 City Counselor 23 
 
 Qualifications 23 
 
 Mayor appoints Counselor 19 
 
 Approves bonds, as to form 23 
 
 Salary 23 
 
 Associate City Counselors.- 23 
 
 Legal aid 31 
 
 License Taxes _ 51 
 
 Lodging House, Municipal 31 
 
 MuUanphy Board 32 
 
 Markets, in charge of Health Commissioner 30 
 
 Marshal 23 
 
 Mayor 17 
 
 Member Board of Estimate and Apportionment 41 
 
 Veto 10 
 
 Signing of ordinances 10 
 
 Term 4 
 
 Qualifications 18 
 
 Salary 17 
 
 Appoints 19 
 
 Power to appoint and remove 17 
 
 Pov^rers and duties 17 
 
 Investigation by 18 
 
 Recall of 5 
 
 Removal of by Board of Aldermen 18 
 
 Forfeiture of office - 18 
 
 Succession to 18 
 
 Absence 18 
 
 Right in Board of Aldermen 17 
 
 Require audit 18 
 
 May remit fines - 17 
 
 May suspend elective officers 21 
 
 Epidemics, may prevent 30 
 
 MuUanphy Board ~ 32 
 
 Municipal ownership 
 
 City may own, acquire, purchase, etc., public utilities 1 
 
 See also Department of Public Utilities 27 
 
 Morgue 30 
 
 Name - 1 
 
 Newspaper, Board of Aldermen may establish 40 
 
 Non-partisan nominations 5 
 
 Notices, special elections 5 
 
 Condemnation 53 
 
 Marshal execute 23 
 
 To officer whose recall is sought 6 
 
 Nuisances - 29 
 
 Oath of office 19 
 
 Office, definition of 72
 
 INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Officers 19 
 
 Residence 19 
 
 Salaries and fees 20 
 
 Official bond 20 
 
 Continuance of present officers 74 
 
 Interest in contracts and supplies 21 
 
 Notice of recall petition 6 
 
 When not subject to recall 7 
 
 Ordinances — 
 
 Majority of votes necessary for enactment 10 
 
 Enacting? clause 9 
 
 Reading: of If) 
 
 Amending of g 
 
 Action by committees in what time 9 
 
 When takes effect 1 1 
 
 Appropriation and tax rate bills 41 
 
 Approval and veto of 10 
 
 Filed with Register 1 1 
 
 Emergency measure, what constitutes 11 
 
 Appropriation ordinance 12 
 
 Ordinances may be submitted by initiative 12 
 
 Subject to referendum 14 
 
 Conflicting 17 
 
 Ratification of existing 72 
 
 Revision of 1 1 
 
 Parole and Probation, Board of 33 
 
 Parks and Recreation, Commissioner of 3C 
 
 Parkways, see Article XXII 59 
 
 Penalties 1 1 
 
 Petitions — 
 
 See initiative, referendum, recall. 
 Process, power to issue. 
 
 Board of Equalization 37 
 
 Public Utilities 27 
 
 Board of Aldermen 9 
 
 Efficiency Board 48 
 
 Plat of Subdivision, must be recorded 76 
 
 Police Commissioner ,^1 
 
 Chief of Police 31 
 
 Police power at fires, also with Fire Commissioner 32 
 
 Take over functions of Marshal 23 
 
 Political belief, no discrimination because of 48 
 
 Powers of City 1 
 
 Preferential ballot 5 
 
 President Board of Aldermen, elected, etc 8 
 
 Elected 4 
 
 Member of Board of Estimate and Apportionment 41 
 
 Succession to 8 
 
 Proclamation by Mayor, Epidemics 30 
 
 Proportional representation 5 
 
 Public Safety, Department of 31 
 
 Sec Police, Excise, Eire and Fire Prevention. Weights 
 and Measures, Building and Inspection.
 
 viii INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Public Utilities, Department of — , 
 
 Director 27 
 
 City may own, operate, etc 1 
 
 Director may investigate 27 
 
 Accounts • 28 
 
 Public Welfare, Department of 29 
 
 See Division of Health, Hospitals, Parks and Recreation, 
 Correction, Research and Publicity, Legal Aid, Muni- 
 cipal Lodging House, Employment. 
 
 Public Welfare Boards 32 
 
 Publications — 
 
 Advertising 40 
 
 Rules of Efficiency Board 47 
 
 Board of Equalization to be in session 36 
 
 Ordinances published 11 
 
 Arguments under initiative, referendum, recall 17 
 
 Record of Board of Public Service 25 
 
 Notice of special elections 5 
 
 Report of B. P. S. on franchises 50 
 
 Permits — 
 
 Granted by Board of Public Service 26 
 
 Never to be considered as franchises 26 
 
 Absolute power of revocation 26 
 
 Printing, City — 
 
 City maj' do all 40 
 
 Recall- 
 Special elections 5 
 
 Form of ballot 7 
 
 Incumbent's office vacant when 7 
 
 Original petitions 6 
 
 Supplementary petitions 6 
 
 Signatures 6 
 
 Percentage required 6 
 
 Affidavit of circulator 6 
 
 Filing of 6 
 
 Publication of arguments 17 
 
 Notification to officer 6 
 
 Forbidden when 7 
 
 Recreation, Parks and; Commissioner of 30 
 
 Rules and Regulations, Health 29 
 
 Complaint Board 33 
 
 Efficiency Board 46 
 
 Recorder of Deeds, abstracts to Assessor 38 
 
 Referendum 14 
 
 Percentages 14 
 
 Conflicting ordinances 17 
 
 Petitions 14 
 
 Supplementary petitions 15 
 
 Signatures 16 
 
 Sufficiency^ 15 
 
 Reconsideration of ordinance 15 
 
 Publication of arguments 17 
 
 Elections 16
 
 I N D E X ix 
 
 Page 
 
 Regular Municipal Elections 4 
 
 Register 22 
 
 Reports of Departments made by Directors 21 
 
 Made by B. P. S 25 
 
 Efficiency Board 47 
 
 Made by Comptroller 34 
 
 Research and Publicity 31 
 
 Revision of Assessments by Board of Equalization.: . 36 
 
 Sale of City Real Estate forbidden " 12 
 
 Salaries — 
 
 President Board of Aldermen 8 
 
 Board of Aldermen 8 
 
 Mayor 17 
 
 Comptroller .' 3^ 
 
 Assessor 35 
 
 Collector 38 
 
 Treasurer 39 
 
 Supply Commissioner 39 
 
 City Counselor 23 
 
 Marshal 23 
 
 City Court Judges 24 
 
 Clerk Police Courts 24 
 
 Directors 2h 
 
 Employes — Fixed by Board of Aldermen 20 
 
 Construed to mean not less than 20 
 
 Payable monthly 20 
 
 Sanitary Inspection by Police 29 
 
 Seal— Kept by Register 22 
 
 Sewers (see Streets) 28 
 
 Sidewalks — 
 
 Construction and repair 61 
 
 Signatures — 
 
 (see Initiative. Referendum, Recall) 
 
 Sinking Fund 44 
 
 Disbursements on account Sinking Fund approved by. . 45 
 
 Special Tax Bills 65 
 
 Divided into installments 65 
 
 Streets- 
 Department of Streets and Sewers 28 
 
 Repair and Maintenance 28 
 
 Platting of 26 
 
 Dedication of 26 
 
 Subdivisions, Plats of — 
 
 May not be recorded when 26 
 
 Spuply Commissioner 39 
 
 Supply Commissioner — 
 
 Appointed by Mayor 1*^ 
 
 Salary 39 
 
 Bond 39 
 
 Charge of City printing ™ 40 
 
 Transfer of funds 42 
 
 Tax, City has power to ' ~ 1
 
 X INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 Treasurer 39 
 
 Qualifications 39 
 
 Appointed by Mayor 19 
 
 Bond 39 
 
 Salary 39 
 
 Veto, Mayor 10 
 
 Vice-President, Board of Aldermen 8 
 
 Vital Statistics 30 
 
 Wards, Boundaries 4 
 
 Division and re-division 4 
 
 Waste, Disposal of 28 
 
 Water Commissioner — 28 
 
 Water rates, assessed by Water Commissioner 28 
 
 Weights and Measures 32 
 
 Wharves 28 
 
 Zoological Park 33
 
 Board ^ 1^ reeholders 
 
 CITY OF ST 
 
 . LOUIS 
 
 Suite 329 Municipal ( 
 
 Courts Building 
 
 Louis P. Aloe 
 
 Jesse McDonald 
 
 Thomas J. Dalton 
 
 Samuel Rosenfeld 
 
 Ed\rard Flad 
 
 Thomas J. Rowe 
 
 Frederick D. Gardner 
 
 Charles W. Rutledge 
 
 Charles Hertenstein 
 
 Selden P. Spencer 
 
 Frederick N. Jiidson 
 
 Clinton E. Udell 
 
 Charles Langeman 
 
 Henry S. Caulfield, 
 
 Wilbur B. Jones, 
 
 Counsel 
 
 Secretary
 
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 Form L-9-15m-7,'32 
 
 UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA 
 
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 charter for 
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