CHARTER

OF THE

City Of Richmond, California

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

NO. 11

Adopted in Assembly, February 17, 1909

Adopted in Senate, February 25, 1909

CHAPTER 18, STATUTES OF 1909

Assembly concurrent resolution No. 11, approving the Charter of the City of Richmond, State of California, voted for and ratified by the qualified voters of said City at a special municipal election held therein for that purpose on the 9th day of February, 1909.

Whereas, the City of Richmond, a municipal corporation of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, now is and was at all times herein referred to a City containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred (3,500) but less than ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants; and

Whereas, at a special election duly held in said City on the 12th day of October, 1908, under and in accordance with law and the provisions of Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California, a board of fifteen freeholders, duly qualified, was elected in and by said City and by the qualified electors thereof to prepare and propose a charter for the government of said City; and

Whereas, said board of freeholders did, within ninety (90) days after said election, prepare and propose a charter for the government of said City of Richmond; and

Whereas, said charter was on the 23rd day of December, 1908, signed in duplicate by the members of said board of freeholders and was thereupon duly returned and filed, one copy with the president of the board of trustees of said City of Richmond, and the other copy with the county recorder of said County of Contra Costa and filed in the office of said county recorder; and

Whereas, said proposed charter was thereafter published in the "Richmond Record," being a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in said City of Richmond, and the said charter being published as aforesaid for a period of more than twenty (20) days, the first publication thereof being made within twenty (20) days after the completion of said charter; and

Whereas, said proposed charter was within thirty (30) days after the completion of said publication submitted by the board of trustees of the City of Richmond to the qualified electors of said City of Richmond at a special election, previously duly called and therein held on the 9th day of February, 1909; and

Whereas, at said last mentioned special election a majority of said qualified electors of said City of Richmond voting at said special election, voted in favor of and duly ratified said charter as proposed as a whole; and

Whereas, said board of trustees after canvassing said returns, duly found and declared that the majority of said qualified electors voting at said special election had voted for and ratified said charter as above specified; and

Whereas, the same is now submitted to the legislature of the State of California for its approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration or amendment, in accordance with the provisions of Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the State of California; and

Whereas, said charter so ratified is in the words and figures following, to wit:

CHARTER

of the

CITY OF RICHMOND

Prepared and proposed by the board of freeholders, elected October 12, 1908, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 8, Article XI of the constitution of the State of California.

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