Laws Concerning Gas and Electricity, General and Local Within the State of California: Being a Compilation of Statutory and Charter Provisions Affecting Gas and Electricity and Companies Dealing in Or Supplying the Same for Purposes of Light, Heat Or Power; Annotated by Reference to Decisions of the Supreme Court of California to February 1, 1904

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Enquirer Publishing Company, 1904 - Electric utilities - 158 pages

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Page 16 - Education, or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 16 - ... of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor unless before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also provision to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same...
Page 1 - In any city where there are no public works owned and controlled by the municipality for supplying the same with water or artificial light, any individual, or any company duly incorporated for such purpose, under and by authority of the laws of this State, shall, under the direction of the Superintendent of Streets, or other officer in control thereof, and under such general regulations as the municipality may prescribe, for damages and indemnity for damages, have the privilege of using the public...
Page 93 - State for the use of water supplied to any city and county, or city or town, or the inhabitants thereof...
Page 105 - Said bonds shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk...
Page 78 - Allowed," with the name of the fund out of which It is payable, with the date of such allowance, and sign his name thereto...
Page 38 - The boards of supervisors, in their respective counties, shall have jurisdiction and power, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law: 1.
Page 49 - No payment can be made from the city treasury, or out of the public funds of said city, unless the same be specially authorized by law or this Charter, nor unless the demand which is paid be duly audited as in this Charter provided. The term "audited...
Page 101 - Whenever the Board of Supervisors by ordinance, as hereinafter provided, shall determine that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction or completion of any public utility or utilities by the City and County...
Page 51 - ... or the sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is payable from the city treasury, or by any assessment levied by any act or ordinance of the common council ; nor in the purchase or lease of any real estate or other property belonging...

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