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THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BOSTON
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER II: FORM OF GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER III: ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
CHAPTER IV: CONTRACTS
CHAPTER V: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER VI: GENERAL SERVICES
CHAPTER VII: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
CHAPTER VIII: DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER IX: BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER X: HOUSING SERVICES
CHAPTER XI: PUBLIC SERVICES
CHAPTER XII: PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER XIII: NATURAL GAS
CHAPTER XIV: LICENSING AND CONSUMER BOARDS, COMMITTEES AND OFFICERS
CHAPTER XV: DIVISIONS OF THE MAYOR’S OFFICE
CHAPTER XVI: PROHIBITIONS, PENALTIES AND PERMITS
CHAPTER XVII: LICENSES AND REGULATIONS AFFECTING CERTAIN TRADES
CHAPTER XVIII: FEES AND CHARGES
CHAPTER XIX: SCHOOLS
CHAPTER XX: CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER XXI: MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC BUILDINGS
CHAPTER XXII: SUFFOLK COUNTY
CHAPTER XXIII: TRASH AND REFUSE DISPOSAL
CHAPTER XXIV: BOSTON JOBS, LIVING WAGE AND PREVAILING WAGE ORDINANCE
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Section 17H.   Restrictions on City Employment.
   No city councillor nor any person elected city councillor shall, during the term for which he is elected or chosen, be appointed to, or hold, any office or position which is under the city government or the salary of which is payable out of the city treasury except the office of city councillor and any office held ex officio by virtue of being a member, or president, of the city council; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent a city councillor or any person elected city councillor from, during the term for which he is elected or chosen, being appointed by the governor, with or without the advice and consent of the council, to, and holding, any such office or position if before entering upon the duties of such office or position he resigns as city councillor or city councillor elect.
[Acts of 1951, c. 376, s. 1.17H]
Section 17I.   Power to Summons and Subpoena.
   Witnesses may be summoned to attend and testify and to produce books and papers at a hearing before a city council, ... a licensing board or licensing authorities, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight [of the General Laws], ... the police commissioner or election commissioners of Boston, ... as to matters within their authority; and such witnesses shall be summoned in the same manner, be paid the same fees and be subject to the same penalties for default, as witnesses in civil cases before the courts. The presiding officer of such council ... or a member of any such committee, board or commission, or any such commissioner, may administer oaths to witnesses who appear before such council, branch thereof, committee, board, commission or commissioner, respectively.
[General Laws c. 233, s. 8]
CITY DISTRICTS.
Section 18.   District Boundaries.
   [T]he respective district lines shall be the same for the city council and the school committee. Each such district shall be compact and shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants as determined by the most recent state decennial census, shall be composed of contiguous existing precincts, and shall be drawn with a view toward preserving the integrity of existing neighborhoods.
[Acts of 1982, c. 605, s. 3]
[The ordinance containing the definition and boundaries of the districts is found at CBC 2-9.2.]
   Said districts shall continue in force until redrawn by the city council as provided herein. The council shall redraw the districts for the purpose of city council and school committee representation as specified in this section on or before (a) ninety days from the date that the nineteen hundred and eighty-five state census, including census figures for the city of Boston, is properly certified by the state secretary; and (b) on or before August first, nineteen hundred and ninety-six and on or before said August first every subsequent tenth year.
[Acts of 1986, c. 343, s. 1]
Section 19.   District Requirements.
   In the year nineteen hundred and eighty-five, and each subsequent year, the city of Boston shall not be required to make a new division of its territory into wards as required by section one of chapter fifty-four of the General Laws.
[Acts of 1982, c. 605, s. 3]
Section 20.   Habitation Requirements for Representation.
   Every city councillor ... who is elected to represent an individual district shall have been an inhabitant of a place within the district for which he is chosen for at least one year immediately preceding his election, and he shall cease to represent such district when he shall cease to be an inhabitant thereof.
[Acts of 1982, c. 605, s. 6]
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