Section
2-1 IN GENERAL
2-1.1 Concerning Ceremonies in Connection with Oaths of Office of Elected Officials
2-1.2 Absence of the Mayor
2-2 INCORPORATION OF CITY
2-3 ELECTION DEPARTMENT
2-3.1 Powers and Duties
2-3.2 Verification of Information Pertaining to Certain Voters
2-3.3 Notice Required of Change of Polling Place
2-3.4 Prepaid Envelopes for Mail-In Voting
2-4 LISTING BOARD
2-4.1 Duties of Board
2-4.2 Police assigned to Listing Board
2-5 CAMPAIGN SPENDING
2-5.1 Limitations on Campaign Spending in City Preliminary Elections and City Elections
2-6 RELATING TO POLICE OFFICERS IN ATTENDANCE AT POLLING PLACES
2-7 MAYOR
2-7.1 Appointments by Mayor
2-7.2 Appointment of Weighers, Measurers, Surveyors, Inspectors of Certain Articles
2-7.3 Transmission of Department Reports to Boston City Council
2-7.4 Execution of Instruments by Mayor
2-7.5 Discharge of Mortgages; Releases by Mayor
2-7.6 Release of Conditions
2-7.7 Cancellation of Bonds
2-7.8 Mayor as Officer to Grant Certain Licenses
2-7.9 Drafts, Checks and Orders
2-7.10 Power to Close Public Buildings
2-7.11 Salary
2-7.12 Office Expenses of Mayor
2-7.13 Defining “Presentation to the Mayor”
2-7.14 Limiting the Number of Certain Employees in Connection with the Mayor’s Office
2-7.15 Loaned Executive Program
2-8 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL
2-8.1 Salary of City Councillors
2-8.2 Approval for Certain Sums
2-8.3 Boston City Council Personnel; Salaries
2-8.4 Reserved
2-9 DISTRICT CITY COUNCILLORS AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
2-9.1 Signature Requirements for Candidates for District Elective Positions in Municipal Elections
2-9.2 Establishing Nine Electoral Districts
2-9.3 2023 Special Election Precincting for District Eight
2-10 CITY CLERK
2-10.1 General Duties of City Clerk
2-10.2 Records of Appointments
2-10.3 Minors’ Licenses
2-10.4 Assistant City Clerk
2-10.5 Registry Division
2-10.6 Notifying Boston City Council of Mayor’s Action
2-10.7 Archives and Records Management Division
2-11 CITY RECORD
2-12 ORDINANCES
2-12.1 Construction of Ordinance; Repeal
2-12.2 Enacting Style
2-12.3 Publication
2-12.4 Departments Created
2-12.5 Adoption and Promulgation of Forms and Regulations
2-13 REQUIRING THE ATTACHMENT OF A FISCAL NOTE TO CERTAIN LEGISLATION
2-13.1 When Required; Information to be Included
2-13.2 Form of Fiscal Note
2-13.3 Information and Procedures
2-14 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS
2-14.1 Title and Purpose
2-14.2 Definitions
2-14.3 Statement of Financial Interests
2-14.4 Penalties and Enforcement
2-15 LOBBYIST REGISTRATION AND REGULATION
2-15.1 Title and Purpose
2-15.2 Definitions
2-15.3 Registration and Reporting Requirements
2-15.4 Municipal Lobbying Compliance Commission; Penalties and Enforcement
2-15.5 Exemption from Regulations for Certain Public Employees
No city funds shall be expended in connection with any ceremony attending the taking of an oath of Office as provided for by CBC, St. 2 § 2 unless such funds are expressly appropriated by the Boston City Council for such purpose, nor unless the time and place for holding such ceremony is fixed by the Mayor with approval of the Boston City Council. In the event that city funds are expended for such purpose without such express appropriation, the Boston City Council may, under the provision of CBC, St. 4 § 4, on behalf of the city, proceed against any city official making or authorizing such expenditure.
(Ord. 1980 c. 2; CBC 1985 2-1.1)
The Mayor of the city shall be required to inform the Boston City Council President of any absence of the Mayor from the city. The Mayor shall provide the date of his or her departure from the city and the date of his or her return to the city to the Boston City Council President.
(CBC 1985 2-1.2; Ord. 1988 c. 2 § 1)
The Election Department shall be under the charge of a Board of four Commissioners, who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties provided by statute; and shall, in the annual report, include a statement of the number of male and female persons registered as voters in each voting precinct of the city, and the number of such persons voting at each election held during the preceding year for each person for whom votes were deposited for Governor and for Mayor.
(St. 1895 c. 449 §§ 2-8; St. 1913 c. 835 § 78; Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 13 § 1; CBC 1975 Ord. T2 § 200; CBC 1985 2-3.1)
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