SEC. 5.101. CHARITABLE TRUST DEPARTMENTS.
§ 5.101
This section designates three San Francisco museums as 'charitable trust departments' and confirms that their governing boards retain their powers to administer charitable trusts, gifts, and contracts. It grants these departments exclusive charge of their assets and authority to maintain, operate, manage, and construct buildings, subject to the City's budget and fiscal rules.
The Asian Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums, and the War Memorial and Performing Arts Center are called 'charitable trust departments.' Their boards keep all their normal powers to run the charitable trusts and donations they're responsible for. These museums have sole control over their money and property (whether received as gifts, loans, or purchases) and can maintain, repair, build, and manage their buildings—as long as any City money they use follows the City's budget rules.
- Complex:The section cross-references 'this Article' and 'this Charter' without defining the full scope of those documents, making it unclear to a reader what specific budgetary and fiscal rules apply.
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Official text
For the purposes of this Article, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the War Memorial and Performing Arts Center are referred to as the "charitable trust departments."
Nothing in this Article shall be construed to limit or change the powers and responsibilities of the governing boards of the charitable trust departments insofar as they involve administration of the charitable trusts, gifts and contracts for which they are responsible.
The charitable trust departments shall have exclusive charge of the trusts and all other assets under their jurisdiction, which may be acquired by loan, purchase, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, including any land or buildings set aside for their use. They shall have authority to maintain, operate, manage, repair or reconstruct existing buildings and construct new buildings, and to make and enter into contracts relating thereto, subject, insofar as City funds are to be used, to the budgetary and fiscal provisions of this Charter.