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<br />ATTY/CHARTER AMENDMENTS/2018/2018 FINAL CHARTER AMENDMENTS
<br />REV: 07-18-18 VR
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<br />(2) To make provision for the needs of commerce, shipping and navigation of the Port, to promote,
<br />develop, construct, reconstruct, alter, repair, maintain, equip and operate all waterfront
<br />properties including piers, wharves, sea walls, docks, basins, channels, slips, landings,
<br />warehouses, floating and other plants or works, to dredge, and reclaim land, construct, equip and
<br />operate terminal trackage with sidings and turnouts and railroad connections between docks,
<br />piers, and other Port structures, and connect the same with mainline tracks, and to establish,
<br />equip and operate all other facilities or aids incident to the development, protection and
<br />operation of the Port, as may be deemed proper and desirable in its judgment, and it may modify
<br />its plans from time to time as the requirements of commerce, shipping and navigation may
<br />demand, and as part of such development and operation to provide for tugs, dredges, fireboats,
<br />barges, cold storage plants, and all other publicly-owned facilities or appliances, incident to the
<br />operation of the Port, and of such number and character, and in such places as the Board may
<br />deem feasible and proper.
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<br />(3) To take charge of, control and supervise the Port of Redwood City, including all the waterfront
<br />properties, and land adjacent thereto, or under water, structures thereon, and approaches thereto,
<br />storage facilities and other facilities, and all rights and interest belonging thereto, which are now
<br />or may hereafter be owned or possessed by the City of Redwood City.
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<br />(4) To have control and jurisdiction of the area hereinafter defined as the "Port Area," and to make
<br />and enforce therein general rules and regulations, to the extent that may be necessary or requisite
<br />for Port purposes or harbor development and in carrying out the powers elsewhere vested in the
<br />Board; provided, however, that with the approval of the cCouncil, the Board may relinquish to
<br />the cCouncil control of portions of the said area and likewise, upon request of the Board, the
<br />cCouncil may, by ordinance, enlarge the Port Area.
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<br />(5) To require owners of the water terminal properties and facilities within the Port to keep the
<br />same in proper condition and repair and to maintain them with especial reference to the safety
<br />of persons and property and the reduction of fire hazard or nuisance, and it shall have the right
<br />to inspect such terminal facilities at reasonable times.
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<br />(6) To regulate and control all public service and public utilities operated in connection with, or
<br />for the promotion and accommodation of commerce, navigation or fishery in the Port Area; to
<br />fix the proper license fees to be paid to the cCity by any person, firm or corporation operating
<br />any such public service or utility; and to fix and regulate the rates or tolls to be charged or
<br />collected for services furnished by any such public service or utility. The Board shall have the
<br />right, at all reasonable times, to have access to, and in person, or by its duly authorized
<br />representatives, to examine the books, papers, maps and records showing the affairs,
<br />transactions, property and financial condition of such persons, firms or corporations, and to
<br />require reports respecting said matters from such persons, firms or corporations at such times
<br />and in such form as the Board may prescribe. The amounts of the license fees to be paid to the
<br />cCity by any such person, firm or corporation, operating any such public service or utility, and
<br />the rates or tolls to be charged and collected for service furnished or supplied by such public
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