Annual Report

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Includes reports of Department of Parks; Board of Public Service, Division of Parks; etc.

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Página 86 - Corporations, it is provided that " the council shall have the care, supervision and control of all public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds and bridges within the corporation, and shall cause the same to be kept open and in repair, and free from nuisance.
Página 96 - If it be necessary in the location of any part of a railroad to occupy any public road, street, alley, way or ground of any kind, or any part thereof, the municipal or other corporation, or public officers or authorities, owning or having charge thereof, and the company may agree upon the manner, terms and conditions upon which the same may be used or occupied; and if the parties be unable to agree thereon, and it be necessary, in the Judgment of the directors of such company, to use...
Página 96 - ... company, to use or occupy such road, street, alley, way or ground, such company may appropriate so much of the same as may be necessary for the purposes of its road, in the manner and upon the same terms as is provided for the appropriation of the property of individuals...
Página 60 - ... the execution or performance of any contract made in behalf of the corporation in contravention of the laws or ordinances governing the same, or which was procured by fraud or corruption.
Página 98 - A railroad in a public park, constructed and managed as in the case at bar, may be a nuisance, calling for the intervention of the supreme power of the state to conserve the rights of the general public; or it may be a medium of ingress, egress, and transportation essential to the full enjoyment by the people of the privileges and blessings accorded them in the creation and dedication of such park. We deem the findings conclusive of the case, and are of opinion they are supported by the evidence....
Página 86 - Said trustees shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control and regulation of all public graveyards, burial grounds and cemeteries located in or belonging to the corporation, subject to its ordinances, and they shall direct, whenever they may deem it necessary, the laying out of such grounds and cemeteries, into lots, avenues, walks and paths, or other subdivisions, which lots shall be...
Página 84 - The Board of Education of the city and county of San Francisco has no authority to appropriate a public square in said city and county, or any portion thereof, as a...
Página 100 - ... or easily used or enjoyed by reason of its sandy nature and its natural conformation; and the construction, maintenance, and operation of said railroad, as the same is constructed, operated, and maintained in, upon, and over the same, in nowise affects or obstructs the free and comfortable use and enjoyment, in the customary manner, of said park, or any portion thereof, by all persons frequenting the same. That the people of the state of California have not been and are not prevented from going...
Página 91 - Any piece of public ground, generally in or near a large town, laid out and cultivated for the sole purpose of pleasure or recreation, without any regard to the size of the ground or the style of the arrangement.
Página 91 - A park is a piece of ground in a city or village set apart for ornament, or to afford the benefit of air, exercise, or amusement.

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