San Francisco County Municipal Code Art. XVII Definitions

For all purposes of this Charter, the following terms shall have the meanings specified below: "Business day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday on which governmental agencies are authorized by law to close. "Confirm" or "confirmation" shall mean the approval by a majority of the members of the Board of Supervisors. "Discrimination" shall mean violations of civil rights on account of race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or medical condition, political affiliation, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or domestic partners status, gender identity, parental status, other non-merit factors, or any category provided for by ordinance. "Domestic partners" shall mean persons who register their partnerships pursuant to the voter-approved Domestic Partnership Ordinance. "Elector" shall mean a person registered to vote in the City and County. "For cause" shall mean the issuance of a written public statement by the Mayor describing those actions taken by an individual as a member of a board or commission which are the reasons for removal, provided such reasons constitute official misconduct in office. “General municipal election” shall mean the election for local officials or measures to be held in the City and County on the Tuesday immediately following the first Monday in November in every year until and including 2022. Thereafter, “general municipal election” shall mean the election for local officials or measures to be held in the City and County on the Tuesday immediately following the first Monday in November in all even-numbered years. "Initiative" shall mean (1) a proposal by the voters with respect to any ordinance, act or other measure which is within the powers conferred upon the Board of Supervisors to enact, any legislative act which is within the power conferred upon any other official, board, commission or other unit of government to adopt, or any declaration of policy; or (2) any measure submitted to the voters by the Mayor or by the Board of Supervisors, or four or more members of the Board. "Notice" shall mean publication (as defined by ordinance), and a contemporaneous filing with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors or other appropriate office. "One-third," "a majority" or "two-thirds" of the Board of Supervisors or any other board or commission of the City and County shall mean one-third, a majority or two-thirds of all members of such board or commission. "Published" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term by the Board of Supervisors by ordinance. The Board of Supervisors shall seek a recommendation from the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors before adopting such an ordinance. "Referendum" shall mean the power of the voters to nullify ordinances involving legislative matters except that the referendum power shall not extend to any portion of the annual budget or appropriations, annual salary ordinances, ordinances authorizing the City Attorney to compromise litigation, ordinances levying taxes, ordinances relative to purely administrative matters, ordinances necessary to enable the Mayor to carry out the Mayor's emergency powers, or ordinances adopted pursuant to Section 9.106 of this Charter. "Special municipal election" shall mean, in addition to special elections otherwise required by law, the election called by (1) the Director of Elections with respect to an initiative, referendum or recall, and (2) the Board of Supervisors with respect to bond issues, election of an official not required to be elected at the general municipal election, or an initiative or referendum. "Statewide election" shall mean an election held throughout the state. "Voter" shall mean an elector who is registered in accordance with the provisions of state law. (Amended November 2003; Proposition A, Approved 11/5/2009; Proposition D, Approved 11/6/2012; Proposition H, Approved 11/8/2022) ARTICLE XVIII:

TRANSITION PROVISIONS Sec. 18.100. Effective Date of this Article XVIII. Sec. 18.101. Operative Date of this Charter; Effect of Enactment on Existing Law. Sec. 18.102. Obligations of Contract Not Impaired. Sec. 18.103. Transfer of 1932 Charter Sections to Ordinance and Initiative Ordinances. Sec. 18.104. Transfer of Functions, Powers and Duties. Sec. 18.105. Changes in Offices and Positions. Sec. 18.106. Official Fidelity Bonds. Sec. 18.107. Rules, Regulations and Administrative Code. Sec. 18.108. Status of Incumbent Officer and Employees. Sec. 18.109. Exempt Positions. Sec. 18.110. Provisional Appointments. Sec. 18.111. Asian Art Museum Status. Sec. 18.112. Preparation and Indexing of this Charter. Sec. 18.113. Mission-Driven Budget Phase-In. Sec. 18.114. Commission Terms. Sec. 18.115. Deletion of Ordinances Regulating Conflicts of Interest and Transfer of Charter Sections Regulating Conflicts of Interest into the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code.

This Article XVIII shall take effect upon the filing of this Charter with the Secretary of State of the State of California. This Article, and each individual section, shall expire and go out of existence when the last act, required to be done in this Article, or individual section, has been completed; and, thereafter, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall secure its removal from the next printing of this Charter.

EFFECT OF ENACTMENT ON EXISTING LAW. This Charter shall be operative July 1, 1996, and on that date shall supersede the Charter of 1932. Any authority vested in the Mayor to remove commissioners and department heads not granted in the Charter of 1932 shall be effective July 1, 1997. All references in this Article to the "Charter of 1932" shall be to the Charter of 1932, as recodified in 1971, and as amended as of December 31, 1995. To the extent the provisions of this Charter are the same in terms or in effect as provisions of the Charter of 1932, they shall be construed and applied as a continuation of those provisions. All provisions of local law relating to or affecting the City and County in force when this Charter becomes operative are hereby repealed and superseded only to the extent they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter. Any amendments to the Charter of 1932 adopted at the November 7 1995, election shall be incorporated into this Charter and shall supersede any conflicting provisions, even if the amendments receive fewer votes than this Charter. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, in consultation with the City Attorney, shall conform the format and terminology of the amendments to this Charter. In adopting this revised Charter, the voters do not intend to amend or otherwise affect the provisions of any initiative ordinance in effect on the date this revision is adopted, including the Initiative Refuse Collection and Disposal Ordinance, adopted November 8, 1932, as amended, except that the City Administrator and the General Manager of Public Utilities shall succeed to the functions of the Chief Administrative Officer and the Manager of Utilities, respectively, as specified in that Initiative Ordinance. The Retirement Board shall continue to exercise powers of management and control of workers' compensation programs until those functions are transferred pursuant to previously adopted ordinances to the Department of Human Resources.

IMPAIRED. All rights, claims, actions, orders, obligations, proceedings, bond authorizations and contracts existing on the operative date of this Charter shall not be affected by the adoption of this Charter, except that where functions, powers and duties have been reassigned, the office, agency or department to which the assignment is made shall have charge of the matter.

TO ORDINANCE AND INITIATIVE ORDINANCES. The following sections of the Charter of 1932 shall be deemed enacted into ordinance and may be amended by the Board of Supervisors on the operative date of this Charter; provided, however, that in the instance of conflict or inconsistency between the ordinance or a portion of the ordinance and this Charter, this Charter shall prevail: 1.103 2.101 2.203 2.203-3 3.100, paragraph 8, sentences 5 – 6 3.201 3.301 – 3.303, inclusive 3.402 3.501 3.502 3.523 3.529 3.531

3.601 3.621 – 3.624, inclusive 3.631, 3.632, and 3.634

3.642, second sentence only 3.680, third paragraph only

7.304 7.306 7.308 7.400 – 7.405, inclusive

8.104 8.106 8.311 8.410 – 8.411 9.104, fifth paragraph only

Ordinances and policy declarations adopted by the voters shall not be published as part of this Charter, in an appendix or otherwise, but shall be published as provided in this Charter for other ordinances, and shall be included in any codification of ordinances as provided in this Charter and be designated as initiative ordinances.

DUTIES. On the operative date of this Charter, all offices, agencies and departments of the City and County then in existence under the Charter of 1932 shall continue to perform their functions, exercise their authority and fulfill their responsibilities, as they existed immediately before this Charter's becoming operative subject to the provisions of this Article. Not later than 90 days after the operative date of this Charter, each such office, agency and department for which this Charter does not provide shall cease to exist, and its functions, powers and duties shall be transferred to the appropriate governmental unit created by this Charter or under the authority of this Charter. The Board of Supervisors and the Mayor shall take all action necessary to provide for the orderly transfer of functions, authority and responsibility on or before the date of such transfer.

The Chief Administrative Officer and the Controller serving on November 7, 1995, shall be appointed to the offices, respectively, of City Administrator and Controller. These offices shall have the functions, powers and duties assigned by this Charter, and their initial terms of office in effect immediately prior to the date of this Charter shall remain unchanged, except that the term of office of the City Administrator shall be five years from the incumbent's appointment as Chief Administrative Officer.

The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors serving on November 7, 1995, shall be appointed as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. This position shall remain a classified position as long as the person holding the position on November 7, 1995, remains in this position. The Secretary-General Manager of the Retirement System serving on November 7, 1995, shall succeed to the position of executive director. This position shall remain a classified position as long as the person holding the position on November 7, 1995, remains in this position. The General Manager of the Department of Social Services shall succeed to the position of executive director of the Department of Human Services. The offices of Assessor and Recorder shall be consolidated no earlier than July 1, 1997. Prior to that date, the functions, powers and duties of the Recorder shall continue to be performed by the Recorder-County Clerk, as that office is established in the Charter of 1932. After July 1, 1997, the functions, powers and duties of the County Clerk shall be transferred to the City Administrator and the functions, powers and duties of the Recorder shall be transferred to the Assessor-Recorder. The person holding office as Recorder-County Clerk at the time of the transfer shall become a deputy department head to the Assessor-Recorder, and shall maintain his or her classified status. The Social Services Commission shall succeed to the Human Services Commission. On the operative date of this Charter, the City Administrator shall be responsible for the following functions until they are reassigned by the Mayor, with approval by the Board of Supervisors, or by operation of this Charter: Department of Public Works, Government Services, Purchasing, Real Estate, Electricity and Telecommunication, Public Guardian, Convention Facilities, Animal Control, County Clerk/Recorder, County Agriculture, Weights and Measures and Registrar of Voters/Department of Elections; Medical Examiner; and all projects previously assigned by ordinance to the Chief Administrative Office, including but not limited to: George R. Moscone Center Project, Clean Water program, Publicity and Advertising Fund, Risk Management, Beautification project, EIPSC, Waterfront project and Solid Waste Management.

The Board of Supervisors shall determine the initial fidelity bond requirements under this Charter within 90 days after the operative date of this Charter. Until the Board of Supervisors determines such requirements for officials of the City and County, the bonds existing on the operative date of this Charter shall be maintained.

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. Each officer, department, agency, board and commission responsible for rules and regulations of the City and County under this Charter shall, within 90 days of the operative date of this Charter, review all rules and regulations for which it is responsible and amend and adopt rules and regulations consistent with this Charter.

EMPLOYEES. The changes in and transfers of functions, powers and duties which occur at the time this Charter becomes operative shall not affect or impair the rights or privileges of permanent civil service officers or employees of the City and County relating to appointment, rank, grade, compensation, tenure of office, promotion, discipline, removal, pensions and retirement, except as provided in this Charter. Whenever a position previously within the classified municipal civil service is, pursuant to this Charter, designated exempt from the civil service provisions of this Charter, the permanent civil service incumbent in such position at the time this Charter becomes operative shall continue to have civil service status in that position under the civil service provisions of this Charter. If by the terms of this Charter, or action taken by authority of this Charter: 1. All or substantially all of the duties of any position exempt from the civil service provisions of the Charter of 1932 are transferred to another office, agency or department, that position shall be transferred to that office, agency or department and the person holding the position on the operative date of this Charter shall be transferred with the position.

2. All or substantially all of the duties of any civil service position are transferred to another office, agency or department, that position shall be transferred to that office, agency or department and the permanent civil service appointee holding the position on the operative date of this Charter shall be transferred with the position.

The Board of Supervisors and the Mayor, through the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, shall designate the positions exempt from civil service, within the categories provided in Article X of this Charter.

Unless their appointments are renewed pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.105, the employment of all provisional employees, appointed under the Charter of 1932, whose appointment does not meet the provisions of this Charter, shall be terminated within three years of the operative date of this Charter in accordance with the rules and regulations governing layoffs. Such provisional employees may qualify for certification as eligibles under rules and regulations expressly authorized by civil service rules approved by the Board of Supervisors. Such rules may establish special credit for civil service examinations for years of service or, through other methods, recognize the service of such employees who have held such employment for more than six months at the operative date of this Charter.

During such time as the Asian Art Museum is located in a wing of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, the Commission shall control and manage the collections housed in that wing as provided for in the July 2, 1969 Management Agreement between the Committee of Asian Art and Culture and the Board of Trustees of the de Young Museum, a copy of which is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

CHARTER. The City Attorney shall correct typographical errors and prepare an index prior to the operative date and publication of this Charter.

The mission-driven budget process shall be phased in over a three-year period with the Mayor identifying for each of the three years approximately one-third of the City departments that shall thenceforth be required to comply with the requirements of Sections 9.114, 9.115 and 9.116.

Whenever a new board or commission is created in this Charter, or additional members are added to an existing board or commission, the Mayor shall appoint the initial members to staggered terms.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND TRANSFER OF CHARTER SECTIONS REGULATING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST INTO THE CAMPAIGN AND GOVERNMENTAL CONDUCT CODE. (a) On the effective date of this Charter Amendment, Section 1.50 of the Administrative Code and Section 1.200; Article III, Chapter 2 and Section 3.200; Article III, Chapter 3 and Section 3.300; Article III, Chapter 4 and Sections 3.400 and 3.405; Article III, Chapter 5 and Sections 3.500, 3.505, 3.510. 3.515, 3.520, 3.525, 3.530, 3.535, 3.540, 3.545; Article III, Chapter 6 and Section 3.600; and Article III, Chapter 7 and Sections 3.700, 3.705, 3.710, 3.715, 3.720, 3.725, 3.730, 3.735, and 3.740 of the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code shall be deemed repealed, and the City Attorney is authorized and directed to take appropriate steps to remove them from future editions of published codes. (b) On the effective date of this Charter Amendment, Charter Sections C9.101 - C9.127 shall be deemed enacted into ordinance, and the City Attorney is directed and authorized to codify Section C9.101 as Administrative Code Section 1.50; Section C9.102 as Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Section 1.200; Section C9.103 as Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code Section 3.1-102.5; Section C9.127 in a new Chapter 3 of the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code titled "Ethics Commission" as Section 3.300; and the remaining sections in a new Chapter 2 of the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code titled "Conflict of Interest and Other Prohibited Activities" as follows: Section C9.104 as Section 3.200; Section C9.105 as Section 3.202; Section C9.106 as Section 3.204; Section C9.107 as Section 3.206; Section C9.108 as Section 3.208; Section C9.109 as Section 3.210; Section C9.110 as Section 3.212; Section C9.111 as Section 3.214; Section C9.112 as Section 3.216; Section C9.113 as Section 3.218; Section C9.114 as Section 3.220; Section C9.115 as Section 3.222; Section C9.116 as Section 3.224; Section C9.117 as Section 3.226; Section C9.118 as Section 3.228; Section C9.119 as Section 3.230; Section C9.120 as Section 3.232; Section C9.121 as Section 3.234; Section C9.122 as Section 3.236; Section C9.123 as Section 3.238; Section C9.124 as Section 3.240; Section C9.125 as Section 3.242; and Section C9.126 as Section 3.244. These sections may be amended by the Board of Supervisors if (a) the amendment serves the purposes of the Ordinance; (b) the Ethics Commission approves the proposed amendment by at least a four-fifths vote of all its members; (c) the proposed amendment is available for public review at least 30 days before the amendment is considered by the Board of Supervisors; and (d) the Board of Supervisors approves the proposed amendment by at least a two-thirds vote of all its members. (Added November 2003) CHARTER APPENDICES

Appendix A. Employment Provisions Appendix B. Port Agreements Appendix C. Ethics Provisions Appendix D. Building Inspection Provisions Appendix E. Supervisorial District Boundaries Appendix F. Authority and Duties of City Services Auditor