Sacramento Municipal Code Art. XVI Provisions Miscellaneous

(a) The city council shall adopt ordinances to continue in effect, without substantial modification, the following provisions of the Charter of the City of Sacramento as the same existed on the date immediately preceding the adoption of this article:

Section 264. E. B. Crocker Art Gallery.

Section 265. Ann Land Memorial Fund.

Section 266. William Land Park Fund.

(b) Ordinances required to be adopted under this section shall be adopted as soon as possible on or immediately following the effective date of this article.

(c) Ordinances required to be adopted under this section may be amended from time to time to conform same to any order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(d) Except as otherwise provided herein, ordinances adopted under this section shall continue in full

force and effect unless repealed or amended by ordinance submitted to and approved by the electorate of the city.

The city council by ordinance shall adopt regulations as the council, in its sole discretion determines to be appropriate, governing conflicts of interest applicable to city officers and employees, members of boards and commissions, and elected officials and candidates for elective office of the city. The council shall not be required to negotiate or meet and confer with officers, employees or employee organizations regarding the adoption of such regulations.

If any provision of this Charter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this Charter, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.

Except as hereinafter provided, any city employee who is disabled, whether temporarily or permanently, by injury or illness arising out of and in the course of his duties, shall be entitled to such medical, surgical, and hospital treatment, including nursing, medicines and medical and surgical supplies and apparatus as may be required on account of such injury or illness, the same to be provided by the city. Such employee shall become entitled during the period of such temporary disability, regardless of his period of service with the city, to leave of absence while so disabled without loss of salary, in lieu of temporary disability payments, if any, which would be payable under Division 4 of the Labor Code of the State of California, for the period of such disability, but not exceeding one year, or until such earlier date as he is retired upon a retirement allowance. Compensation and benefits payable to or on behalf of the employee under this section, shall be reduced, in the manner fixed by the city council, by the amount of any compensation and benefits payable to or on behalf of said employee under Division 4 of the Labor Code of the State of California. Compensation and benefits paid under this section shall be considered as in lieu of compensation and benefits payable to or on account of said employee under said state law and shall be in satisfaction and discharge of the obligation of the city to pay such compensation and benefits under such state law. The benefits provided in this section shall be limited to full-time officers and employees of the city and, except as provided herein, shall not be extended to persons employed by the city on a seasonal limited-term, part-time or substitute basis, or elective officers or appointive members of city boards and commissions. The city council, by ordinance enacted by two-thirds of all members thereof, may permit employees of the city, other than full-time officers and employees of the city, to receive all or a portion of the compensation and benefits provided to full-time officers and employees by the provisions of this section.

All amendments to this Charter contained within the ballot proposition which approved the enactment of this article shall take effect on January 1, 1978, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Charter. The term "effective date" as used in this article shall mean January 1, 1978, and the term "this Charter" as used in this article shall mean the City Charter, as amended on the effective date.