Riverside Municipal Code Part I City Charter

PREAMBLE

We, the people of the City of Riverside believe in promoting an inclusive community with shared economic, environmental and cultural prosperity, equal civil and political rights, social harmony and cohesion, and opportunities for all governed by responsible and responsive public officials who promote citizen participation, as well as just and equitable tax and financial policies; and these beliefs are rooted in our desire to enhance the uniqueness of the City of Riverside.

We, the people of the City of Riverside, to obtain and retain for ourselves the benefits of local government, do hereby exercise the express right granted by the Constitution and the statutes of the State of California and enact this Charter for the City of Riverside.

(Effective 10/23/2012)