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Section 7.   Other Requirements for a New Plan.
   The mayor, the city council, the board of election commissioners and the city clerk in office when any plan set forth in this act has been adopted, or is proposed for adoption, shall comply with all the requirements of this act relating to such proposed adoption and to the election of the officers specified in said plan, in order that all things necessary for the nomination and election of the officers first to be elected under the provisions of this act and of the plan so adopted may be done.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 7]
Section 8.   Terms of Office.
   Whenever one of the plans provided in this act shall be adopted, the terms of office of all elective officers in office, and the position of city manager if there be one, shall terminate at ten o’clock in the forenoon on the first Monday of January following the first municipal election held in accordance with the provisions of the plan so adopted.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 8]
Section 9.   Fiscal and Municipal Year.
   The fiscal year of the city shall begin on July first and shall end on June thirtieth next following; and the municipal year thereof shall begin on the first Monday in January and shall continue until the first Monday of the January next following.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 9 as amended by Acts of 1969, c. 849]
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: MODIFIED PLAN
   A.
   Government by Mayor, City Council, and School
   Committee, Elected at-large with
   Preliminary Elections
   Practitioners and scholars should take care when using nomenclature associated with Boston’s charter. Although the charter is commonly referred to as a “Plan A” form of government, the City of Boston does not operate under the provisions of Plan A contained in General Laws Chapter 43; the City of Boston’s form of government pre- dates the several plans in the General Laws, and this confusion has been an unfortunate by-product of the publication of plans of government in M.G.L.
Section 10.    Plan A.
   The form of government provided in [these] sections ... shall constitute and be known as Plan A under this act.
[Acts of 1948, c. 452, s. 10 as amended by Acts of 1951, c. 376, s. 1.10]
Section 11.   Three Branches of City Government.
   There shall be in the city a mayor who shall be the chief executive officer of the city, a city council of nine members which shall be the legislative body of the city, and a school committee ... which shall have the powers and duties conferred and imposed by law. [Acts of 1951, c. 376, s. 1.11]
[Without amending this specific section, the number of city council members was increased to thirteen (nine district councillors and four at-large councillors) by Acts of 1982, c. 605, s. 1. The school committee was reorganized by Acts of 1991, c. 108.]
Section 11A.   Oaths of Office.
   Every person elected mayor and every person elected or chosen city councillor or school committeemember shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take, and subscribe in a book to be kept by the city clerk for the purpose, the oath of allegiance and oath of office prescribed in the constitution of this commonwealth and an oath to support the constitution of the United States. Such oaths shall be administered, to a person elected mayor, by a justice of the supreme judicial court, a judge of a court of record commissioned to hold such court within the city or a justice of the peace, and to a person elected or chosen city councillor or school committeemember, by the mayor or any of the persons authorized to administer said oaths to a person elected mayor.
[Acts of 1951, c. 376, s. 1.11A as amended by Acts of 1983, c. 342, s. 1]
[See Appendix J]
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