Popper v. Broderick

Citations

• 123 Cal. 456
• 56 P. 53
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 1097

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law—Municipal Affairs in San Francisco—Acts Increasing Pay of Firemen and Policemen.—The people, in adopting the constitutional amendment of 1896, amending section 6 of article XI of the constitution, so as to except municipal affairs from being subject to and controlled by the operation of general laws, are deemed to have done so in view of the decision of this court distinguishing and classifying the municipal officers of San Francisco, including the officers of the police and fire departments. The pay of those officers clearly falls within the term “municipal affairs”; and the acts of the legislature of 1897 increasing the pay of officers in each of those departments, in municipalities of the first class, are unconstitutional and void.</p>