SEC. 16.114. POWERS OF INQUIRY AND REVIEW.
§ 16.114
The Mayor, City Administrator, Controller, and mayoral boards or commissions may demand reports, examine records, hold hearings, and subpoena witnesses regarding their respective departments. The Board of Supervisors has the same investigative and subpoena powers over all city departments and offices.
City leaders—including the Mayor, City Administrator, Controller, and certain boards—can ask city departments for reports about their spending and operations, look at their records and accounts, and hold hearings where they can require people to testify under oath and provide documents. The Board of Supervisors has these same powers to investigate any city department or office.
- Complex:The section uses multiple overlapping phrases ("relative solely to," "for that purpose") and parallel structure across two sentences that could be streamlined for clarity.
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Official text
The Mayor, the City Administrator, the Controller, or any board or commission appointed by the Mayor, relative solely to the affairs under its control, may require such periodic or special reports of departmental costs, operations and expenditures, examine the books, papers, records and accounts of, and inquire into matters affecting the conduct of any department or office of the City and County, and for that purpose may hold hearings, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and compel the production of books, papers, testimony and other evidence. The Board of Supervisors shall have the same powers of inquiry and review, including the power to issue subpoenas and compel the production of evidence, with respect to matters affecting the conduct of any department or office of the City and County.