City of San Francisco v. Hazen

Citations

• 5 Cal. 169

Syllabus

<p>The charter of the City of San Francisco provides, that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed except by a majority of all the members elected. The number of members elected being eight; held, that an ordinance passed by a vote of four in the affirmative to three in the negative, was not passed by a majority of all the members elected, and was therefore void.</p> <p>In construing statutes, force and effect should be given to every part of them.</p> <p>Where a law is capable of two constructions that one must be adopted which will preserve the sense as well of the several parts, as of the whole Act.</p>