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65
their successors are elected, unless their
membership on the board sooner expires. The
election of such succeeding President and
Vice-President shall be at the meetings of
the respective boards during the last week
in July of each year. The board may fill
for the unexpired terms any vacancy occurring
in the office of President or Vice-President.
Each board shall hold a regular meeting at
least twice a month. All meetings shall be
in a public office of the board, with reasonable provision for attendance by the public.1
Section 75 of the charter provides for the position
of a secretary of the board for each department. In the
original wording of the charter this position could be combined with that of chief accounting employee if the department so desired, For several small departments even this
arrangement resulted in a waste of manpower. A ruling by
the City Attorney held that these two assignments were the
only ones allowed by the charter. This situation was
changed by a charter amendment, approved by the voters on
April 3, 1951. A department may now assign the position of
secretary to any employee it chooses.
Power to act and carry out the authority given is the
most significant portion of any organic act. Section 76
specifies the manner in which the boards may act.
The powers conferred by this charter upon each
of the boards shall be exercised by order or resolution adopted by a majority of its members and
recorded in the minutes with the ayes and noes at
1Ibid., sec. 74.
2Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1951.
3
Charter, sec. 75 as amended.
Object Description
| Title | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter, 1830-1966 (2b of 3) |
| Description | Marvin Abrahams. Functioning of boards and commissions in the Los Angeles city government. Los Angeles, California: University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., Political science), 1967. PART OF A SERIES: A critical component of the Commission's investigation centered on the idea that governance of the LAPD was shared between the Office of the Chief of Police, an administrative body, and the Board of Police Commissioners, a citizen body. To better understand the dynamic between these two entities, the staff of Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe researched the history of the Los Angeles City Charter, focusing primarily on its provisions regarding the distribution of power and the structure and organization of the LAPD. Included in the series are reproductions of reports, dissertations, article clippings, excerpts from city documents, and charter amendments related to the charter's conception and development over time. The series also includes several summaries of expert witness interviews regarding the effectiveness of this structure. |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1830; 1835; 1844; 1850/1863; 1869; 1870/1890; 1898; 1900/1908; 1910/1934; 1937/1966 |
| Creator | Abrahams, Marvin |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1967 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 146 p. |
| Format (aat) | doctoral dissertations |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe |
| File | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 5, item 2 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02 |
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| Title | Functioning of boards & commissions in LA, p. 67 |
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| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | pp - 65 their successors are elected, unless their membership on the board sooner expires. The election of such succeeding President and Vice-President shall be at the meetings of the respective boards during the last week in July of each year. The board may fill for the unexpired terms any vacancy occurring in the office of President or Vice-President. Each board shall hold a regular meeting at least twice a month. All meetings shall be in a public office of the board, with reasonable provision for attendance by the public.1 Section 75 of the charter provides for the position of a secretary of the board for each department. In the original wording of the charter this position could be combined with that of chief accounting employee if the department so desired, For several small departments even this arrangement resulted in a waste of manpower. A ruling by the City Attorney held that these two assignments were the only ones allowed by the charter. This situation was changed by a charter amendment, approved by the voters on April 3, 1951. A department may now assign the position of secretary to any employee it chooses. Power to act and carry out the authority given is the most significant portion of any organic act. Section 76 specifies the manner in which the boards may act. The powers conferred by this charter upon each of the boards shall be exercised by order or resolution adopted by a majority of its members and recorded in the minutes with the ayes and noes at 1Ibid., sec. 74. 2Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1951. 3 Charter, sec. 75 as amended. |
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