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<br />Page 22 of 45 <br />ATTY/CHARTER AMENDMENTS/2018/2018 DRAFT CHARTER AMENDMENTS <br />REV: 06-25-18 VR <br />cClerk, and the cCity cClerk shall keep a record and index thereof which shall at all times be open <br />to public inspection. (As amended April 9, 1940, ratified by Legislature May 16, 1940, Stats. 1941, <br />p. 241.) <br /> <br />Section 47e. PROPERTIES, TARIFFS AND REGULATIONS: <br /> <br />All proceedings for the acquisition of real property by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, or <br />the granting of any lease longer than one (1) year, the fixing, regulating, and altering schedules of <br />rates, dockage, wharfage, tolls, and charges for all publicly-owned docks, piers, wharves, slips <br />and other facilities, and for services rendered by the Port Department, and the adoption of all <br />general rules and regulations of the Port Commission excepting administrative regulations of a <br />temporary nature shall be done by ordinance or resolution as determined by the Port <br />Commission. (As amended April 9, 1940, ratified by Legislature May 16, 1940, Stats. 1941, p. 241.) <br /> <br />Section 47f. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD: <br /> <br />The Board of Port Commissioners shall have the complete and exclusive power, and it shall be its <br />duty for and on behalf of the City of Redwood City: <br /> <br />(1) To sue and defend in the name of the City of Redwood City in all actions and proceedings <br />wherein there is involved any matter within the jurisdiction of the Board. <br /> <br />(2) To make provision for the needs of commerce, shipping and navigation of the Port, to <br />promote, develop, construct, reconstruct, alter, repair, maintain, equip and operate all <br />waterfront properties including piers, wharves, sea walls, docks, basins, channels, slips, <br />landings, warehouses, floating and other plants or works, to dredge, and reclaim land, construct, <br />equip and operate terminal trackage with sidings and turnouts and railroad connections between <br />docks, piers, and other Port structures, and connect the same with mainline tracks, and to <br />establish, equip and operate all other facilities or aids incident to the development, protection <br />and operation of the Port, as may be deemed proper and desirable in its judgment, and it may <br />modify its plans from time to time as the requirements of commerce, shipping and navigation <br />may demand, and as part of such development and operation to provide for tugs, dredges, <br />fireboats, barges, cold storage plants, and all other publicly-owned facilities or appliances, <br />incident to the operation of the Port, and of such number and character, and in such places as <br />the Board may deem feasible and proper. <br /> <br />(3) To take charge of, control and supervise the Port of Redwood City, including all the <br />waterfront properties, and land adjacent thereto, or under water, structures thereon, and <br />approaches thereto, storage facilities and other facilities, and all rights and interest belonging <br />thereto, which are now or may hereafter be owned or possessed by the City of Redwood City. <br /> <br />(4) To have control and jurisdiction of the area hereinafter defined as the "Port Area," and to <br />make and enforce therein general rules and regulations, to the extent that may be necessary or <br />requisite for Port purposes or harbor development and in carrying out the powers elsewhere <br />8.A. - Page 30