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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
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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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11-2.10   Regulations and Enforcement.
   The Commissioner may promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to implement this Section.
(CBC 1985 11-2.10; Ord. 1992 c. 11 § 1)
11-2.11   Deposit in the General Fund.
   All fines assessed herein shall be payable to the city for deposit in the General Fund.
(CBC 1985 11-2.11; Ord. 1992 c. 11 § 1)
11-2.12   Severability.
   The provisions of this Section shall be deemed to be severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions.
(CBC 1985 11-2.12; Ord. 1992 c. 11 § 1)
11-3   NEIGHBORHOOD AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
11-3.1   Department, Commissioner, Term.
   There shall be in the city a Department known as the Neighborhood and Human Services Department (hereinafter called “the Department”) which shall be under the charge of an Officer known as the Commissioner of Neighborhood and Human Services (hereafter called “the Commissioner”) who shall be appointed by the Mayor for a term expiring on the first Monday of the January following the next biennial election at which a Mayor is elected.
(Ord. 1979 c. 22; Ord. 1980 c. 6; CBC 1985 11-3.1)
11-3.2   Duties of Commissioner.
   The Commissioner shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the Department, and the Agencies included within the Department, and shall receive such salary as may be fixed, from time to time, by ordinance. The Commissioner may, in accordance with applicable law, and within the limits of the funds appropriated therefor, appoint and remove such subordinates as the work of the Department may require and may make such expenditure, within the limits of the funds appropriated therefor, as may be necessary to execute effectively the purposes of the Department and the Agencies included within the Department.
(Ord. 1979 c. 22; Ord. 1980 c. 6; CBC 1985 11-3.2)
11-3.3   Purpose of the Department.
   It shall be the purpose of the Department to administer the Agencies included within it and to conduct continuing observation, study, an evaluation of such Agencies with a view to making specific annual recommendations to the Mayor and Boston City Council as to whether such Agencies are meeting the needs of the people within the city neighborhoods, and as to any changes in the number of organizations of such Agencies so as to better serve the people of such neighborhoods.
(Ord. 1979 c. 22; Ord. 1980 c. 6; CBC 1985 11-3.3)
11-3.4   Agencies Within the Department.
   Any Agency, purporting to exist as a City Agency on July 1, 1978, which was funded by a Council appropriation order as a City Agency separate and apart from the Mayor’s Office, even though such Agency might bear the words “Mayor’s Office of” in its title, except the Office of Fiscal Affairs, which is hereby created and placed within and made a part of the Administrative Services Department, and the Office of Property Equalization, which is hereby created and placed in and made a part of the Assessing Department, and except the so called “Mayor’s Office of Communications”, which is hereby abolished, which is funded to an extent of less than 50% of funds received by the city from the United States of America, which was not created by law or ordinance, and which continues to exist on the date on which this Section is in force, is hereby created and shall be on the date on which this Section is in force, is hereby created and shall be in and subject to the administrative control of the Department. All such Agencies in the future shall not bear the words “Mayor’s Office of” in their title.
(Ord. 1979 c. 22; Ord. 1980 c. 6; CBC 1985 11-3.4)
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