File No. 10

IN CONVENTION.

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Introduced by Dennis C. Eichnor.

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A PROPOSITION TO ENABLE CITIES TO FORM THEIR OWN CHARTERS.

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The Delegates of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Utah, in convention assembled, do propose as follows:

Section 1. Any City containing a population of more than 10000 inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the constitution and the laws of this State, by causing a Board of fifteen freeholders who shall have been for at least three years qualified electors thereof, to be elected by the qualified voters of said City. at a general or special election whose duty it shall be within sixty days after such election to prepare and propose a charter for such City. Such proposed charter shall be published daily or weekly in one or more newspapers, published in said City, for at least thirty days prior to the day of submitting the same Said proposed charter shall then be submitted to the qualified electors of said City at a general or special election, and, if a majority of such qualified electors voting there on shall ratify the same, It shall thereafter be presented to the Legislature of the State for its approval or rejection as a whole without power of alteration or amendment. Such approval may be made by concurrent resolution and if approved by a majority of the members elected to each house, it shall become the charter of said City and shall become the organic law thereof and supersede any existing charter and all amendments thereof and all laws inconsistent with such charter Such charter may be amended by proposals therefor submitted by the Legislative authority thereof at a general election after notice of said submission, published as above specified and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, and thereafter submitted to the Legislature for its approval of the charter.

All elections in this section authorized shall only be had upon notice, which notice shall specify the object of calling such election and shall be given for at least en days before the day of election, in all election districts of said City.

In submitting any such charter or amendments thereto, an alternate article or proposition may be presented for choice of the voters and may be voted upon separately without prejudice to others.

A copy of such charter or amendment, certified by the Mayor or chief executive officer, and authenticated by the seal of such City, setting forth the submission of such charter or amendment to the electors and its ratification by them shall, after the approval of such charter or amendment by the Legislature be made in duplicate and deposited, one in the office of the Secretary of State, and the other, after being recorded in the Recorder's office of the County, shall be deposited in the archives of said City; and therefore all Courts shall take Judicial notice of said Charter

(From Washington and California)

• Proposition on City Charters [File No. 10] (introduced on 1895-03-12 02:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697458) [This document]

• Proposition on City Charters [File No. 10] (introduced on 1895-03-12 02:30:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697458) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]