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unique feature of the law is the provision given the department of recreation 

 supervision over commercial recreation. 



St. Louis, Missouri. Charter of the City of St. Louis, 

 1914. Extract from Section 14. Department of Public 

 Welfare. "The Department of Public Welfare shall 

 include divisions of health, of hospitals, of parks and 

 recreation, and of correction. There shall be a division 

 of parks and recreation, which, except as may be other- 

 wise herein or by law provided, shall have supervision 

 and control of all public parks and places and of all 

 facilities provided by the city for recreation, amusement 



or instruction, and execute all ordinances of the city 

 relating to the management or use thereof. It shall also 

 exercise such supervision and control as may be pro- 

 vided by ordinance over recreative functions, amuse- 

 ments and entertainments not conducted by the city. 

 The head of said division shall be known as the com- 

 missioner of parks and recreation. He shall appoint and 

 control the city forester." 



Legal Provisions Illustrating General Administrative Control under 

 City Manager Form of Government 



St. Augustine, Florida. "The city manager shall 

 manage and control the use, construction, improve- 

 ment, repair and maintenance of all recreation facilities 

 of the city, including parks, playgrounds, public gymna- 

 siums, bathhouses and social centers." Charter of 

 St. Augustine, Florida, Section 57. 



New London, Connecticut. "The division of streets 

 shall be in charge of a superintendent of streets, whose 

 appointment shall be made by the city manager, sub- 

 ject to the approval of the council. Said superintendent 

 of streets shall have the care of all trees in the public 

 ways, parks and other public places, he shall have charge of 

 the repair and maintenance of the public ways, bridges, 

 public grounds and parks. He may engage such assist- 

 ants and employees to assist him in the performance of 

 his duties as may be necessary, to such number and 

 at such rates of compensation as he may determine, 

 subject to the approval of the city manager and the 

 council, and may at his pleasure remove the same." 

 Ordinance Establishing Department of Public Works, 

 Section 4, 1921. 



Long Beach, California. "There is hereby created a 

 Department of Public Parks, which shall consist of one 

 superintendent of parks, and such landscape gardeners, 

 landscape architects, stenographers, clerks and other 

 employees, whether of the kind mentioned herein or 

 not, as the city council may prescribe and authorize by 

 ordinance. The city manager shall appoint the super- 

 intendent of parks to serve during his pleasure. All 

 other officers and employees of this department shall 

 be appointed by the superintendent thereof, subject to 

 the approval of the city manager, and shall serve during 

 the pleasure of said city manager."- Charter of the 

 City of Long Beach, Article XII, Sections 295 and 296, 

 respectively. 



"There is hereby created a Department of Play- 

 grounds and Recreation, which shall consist of one 

 superintendent of playgrounds and recreation, and such 

 assistants, deputies, engineers, playground directors, 

 special and part time playground directors, janitors, 

 stenographers, clerks and other employees, whether of 



the kind mentioned herein or not, as the city council 

 may prescribe and authorize by ordinance. The city 

 manager shall appoint the superintendent of play- 

 grounds and recreation to serve during his pleasure. 

 All other officers and employees of this department shall 

 be appointed by the superintendent thereof, subject to 

 the approval of the city manager, and shall serve during 

 the pleasure of said city manager." Charter of the 

 City of Long Beach, Article XXII, Sections 301 and 

 302. 



Cleveland, Ohio. The city code of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 Division 6, Department of Parks and Public Properties, 

 provides for a department of parks and public property 

 to be controlled and administered by a director of parks 

 and public property subject to the provisions of the 

 charter and ordinances of the City of Cleveland and to 

 be under the direction of the city manager. The 

 director of parks and public property may appoint and 

 employ a secretary and such other officers and em- 

 ployees as may be necessary for the operation of his 

 office. The code further provides for the establishment 

 in the department of a division of parks and forestry 

 to be "administered and controlled by a commissioner 

 of parks and forestry subject to the provisions of the 

 charter and ordinances of the City of Cleveland and 

 to the supervision and direction of the director of parks 

 and public properties. Said commissioner to have 

 charge of, maintain and operate all parks, park trees, 

 gardens, nurseries, green houses and zoological gardens 

 belonging to the city. " The code further provides under 

 the same conditions for a division of recreation, with a 

 commissioner of recreation to manage, supervise and 

 control the municipal playgrounds, ball grounds, tennis 

 courts, dance halls, bathhouses, golf links and other 

 recreational activities conducted by the city. 



St. Louis, Missouri. The powers and duties of the 

 commissioner of parks and recreation are specifically 

 set forth in a series of municipal ordinances comprising 

 Article LXVIII, Sections 1867-1932 inclusive, of the 

 revised code or general ordinances of the City of St. 

 Louis. 



