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the question of personal liability of commissioners for official acts. The City Attorney has held that there is a
legal necessity for boards to read and approve the minutes
of the previous meeting since there is the possibility of
personal liability for their acts as commissioners should
they fail to comply with all the legal requirements of their
office. He pointed out that they should be acquainted with
the recorded statement of their actions since almost all of
their work is accomplished through resolutions incorporated
in the minutes.
Personal liability is a matter that has rather deep
ramifications and certain commissioners have been awed at
the amounts they might have made themselves liable for.
This is especially true in the Department of Water and Power
where echoes of the Del Valle decision are still remembered.
In this instance the court held that:
Provisions of the charter authorizing expenditures from the power revenue fund for the purpose
of extending said public utilities referred to the
physical management of the same and cannot be enlarged to include the power of expending said fund
for publicity to obtain a favorable vote for a bond
issue, even though the expenditure is made in good
faith. Members of said board of commissioners are
personally liable for such expenditures.
A result of the sharp eye kept on the Water and Power
Department has led some commissioners to fear that they ran
1Ibid., Jan. 24, 1939.
2Mines v. Del Valle (1927), 201 Cal. 273.
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 |
Description
| Title | Functioning of boards & commissions in LA, p. 85 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | 83 the question of personal liability of commissioners for official acts. The City Attorney has held that there is a legal necessity for boards to read and approve the minutes of the previous meeting since there is the possibility of personal liability for their acts as commissioners should they fail to comply with all the legal requirements of their office. He pointed out that they should be acquainted with the recorded statement of their actions since almost all of their work is accomplished through resolutions incorporated in the minutes. Personal liability is a matter that has rather deep ramifications and certain commissioners have been awed at the amounts they might have made themselves liable for. This is especially true in the Department of Water and Power where echoes of the Del Valle decision are still remembered. In this instance the court held that: Provisions of the charter authorizing expenditures from the power revenue fund for the purpose of extending said public utilities referred to the physical management of the same and cannot be enlarged to include the power of expending said fund for publicity to obtain a favorable vote for a bond issue, even though the expenditure is made in good faith. Members of said board of commissioners are personally liable for such expenditures. A result of the sharp eye kept on the Water and Power Department has led some commissioners to fear that they ran 1Ibid., Jan. 24, 1939. 2Mines v. Del Valle (1927), 201 Cal. 273. |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02~085.tif |
| Archival file | Volume67/indep-box21-05-02~085.tif |
