The government of the city and the general management and control of all of its affairs shall be vested in a city council, which shall be elected and shall exercise its powers in the manner hereinafter set forth; except that the general management and control of the public schools of the city and of the property pertaining thereto shall be vested in the school committee.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, § 66
City council; powers and duties
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