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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 32.   Ballots Must Be Free of References to Political Parties. 
   No ballot used at any preliminary or regular election shall have printed thereon any party or political designation or mark, and there shall not be appended to the name of any candidate any such party or political designation or mark or anything showing how he was nominated or indicating his views or opinions.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 63, amended by Acts of 1951, s. 376, s. 2.63]
Section 33.   Blank Spaces for Write-in Votes.
   On every ballot to be used at a preliminary or regular election, there shall be left, at the end of the list of candidates for each office, blank spaces equal to the number for which a voter may vote for such office, in which blank spaces the voter may insert the name of any person not printed on the ballot for whom he desires to vote for such office.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 64, amended by Acts of 1951, c. 376, s. 2.64]
ORGANIZATION OF CITY DEPARTMENTS.
Section 34.   Organization of Departments and Agencies.
   The city council with the approval of the mayor may from time to time make by-laws or ordinances for any or all of the following purposes:
      (a) to create a new department or agency;
      (b) to abolish, in whole or in part, any department or agency;
      (c) to reorganize, in whole or in part, any department or department head or any agency or agency head;
      (d) to confer or impose on any department or agency any power or duty of the city not appertaining at the time of the making of the by-law or ordinance to any department or agency;
      (e) to transfer any or all of the powers, duties and appropriations of any division of any department or agency to another division of the same department or agency;
      (f) to transfer any or all of the powers, duties and appropriations of any department or division thereof or of any agency or division thereof either to another department or division thereof or to another agency or division thereof; and
      (g) to increase, reduce, establish or abolish the salary of any department or agency head. Every department or agency head created by, or resulting from a reorganization effected by, a by-law or ordinance made under this section shall, unless ex officio, be appointed by the mayor without confirmation by the city council for a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial municipal election at which a mayor is elected or, in the case of a person serving without compensation or of a person serving on the board of appeal, the board of examiners, the board of examiners of gasfitters or other like board, for such other term as the by-law or ordinance may prescribe. Every person holding an office or position subject to the civil service laws and rules shall, if the office or position is abolished by a by-law or ordinance made under this section and the by-law or ordinance so provides, be reappointed without civil service examination or registration to a similar office or position with similar status in any new department or agency, or division of either, thereby created or in any department or agency, or division of either, not thereby abolished; and every such person shall upon such reappointment, retain all rights to retirement with pension that shall have accrued or would thereafter accrue to him; and his services shall be deemed to have been continuous to the same extent as if such abolition had not taken place. As used in this section, the term “agency” shall be construed to mean any office in charge of a board or officer not subject to the direction of a department head. Nothing in this section shall authorize any action in conflict with the civil service laws or rules except as expressly provided herein; nor shall any by-law or ordinance made under this section affect in any way the school committee or any board or officer of the school committee or school department, or the board of commissioners of school buildings or the superintendent of construction, or the board of trustees of the teachers’ retirement fund or the board of trustees of the permanent school pension fund, or the Boston retirement board, or the city clerk, or the board of election commissioners, or the Boston traffic commission, or any board or officer appointed by the governor.
[Acts of 1909, c.486, s.5, amended by Acts of 1936, c. 152, s. 1, and further amended by Acts of 1953, c.473, s.1]
Section 35.   Appointment of Heads of Departments.
   All heads of departments and members of municipal boards, including the board of street commissioners, as their present terms of office expire (but excluding the school committee and those officials by law appointed by the governor), shall be appointed by the mayor without confirmation by the city council. They shall be recognized experts in such work as may devolve upon the incumbents of said offices, or persons specially fitted by education, training or experience to perform the same, and (except the election commissioners, who shall remain subject to the provisions of existing laws) shall be appointed without regard to party affiliation or to residence at the time of appointment except as hereinafter provided. [Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 9]
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