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a general municipal election shall be held within the time hereinbefore prescribed.

If a majority of the legally qualified voters of the city voting thereon shall ratify the same, it shall become the charter and frame of government of such city and the organic law thereof, and supersede and repeal all laws inconsistent therewith and any existing charter and all amendments thereof. A copy of such charter and frame of government duly certified by the proper authorities of such city, setting forth its submission to the legally qualified voters of the city and its ratification by them, shall be made in duplicate, and deposited, one in the office of the Secretary of State, and the other among the archives of the city. All courts shall take judicial notice thereof. The charter and frame of government so adopted may be amended at intervals of not less than two years by proposals therefor which the legislative authority of the city may, and, when requested by a petition signed by per cent. of the qualified voters of said. city, must, submit at the next municipal election held at least sixty days after the adoption of the ordinance or filing in the office of the Mayor of the petition making such proposals, ratified by a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon, as herein provided for the adoption of the charter and frame of government. In submitting any such proposal any alternative article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others.

After the filing of a petition in accordance with the provisions of this article, if the legislative authority of the city neglects or fails to provide by ordinance for an election as hereinbefore directed, then it shall be the duty of the Mayor to order such election, and his order for such purpose, duly signed by him and filed in the archives of the city, shall have the same force and effect as an ordinance for the same purpose.

ARTICLE FIFTH.

The petitions mentioned in the foregoing articles need not be one paper, and may be printed or written, but the signatures thereto must be the autograph signatures of the persons whose names purport to be signed. To each signature the house address of the signer must be added, and the signature must be made and acknowledged or proved before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgment and proof

of deeds. The certificate of such officer under his official seal that a signature was so made and acknowledged or proved shall be sufficient proof of the genuineness of the signature for the purposes of these articles.

The signing of another's name to a petition and a certificate falsely stating either that a signature was made in the presence of the officer or acknowledged or proved before him, shall be punishable as a felony.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.

ART. I.

PROCEDURE FOR ORGANIZATION OF EXISTING CITIES UNDER THIS ACT AND FOR ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY.

SECTION I. Cities, villages, towns, and boroughs heretofore incorporated may organize under this act.

SEC. 2. How a city organized under this act may annex territory.

ART. II.

POWERS OF CITIES.

SECTION 1. Corporate Powers.

SEC. 2. Powers of Ordinance.

SEC. 3. Street Powers, Water-works, Buildings, and Sewers.
SEC. 4. Wharves, Docks, Harbor, and Ferries.

SEC. 5. Markets, Market Places, and Abattoirs.

SEC. 6. Charities and Corrections.

SEC. 7. Fines, Penalties, and Imprisonment.

SEC. 8. Schools, Museums, Libraries, and other Institutions.
SEC. 9. Minor Courts.

SEC. 10. Franchises.

SEC. 11. Contracts for labor or materials limited to five years.
SEC. 12. Taxes.

SEC. 13. Local Assessments.

SEC. 14. Indebtedness and Tax Rate.

SEC. 15. City Accounts.

SEC. 16. City the Local Authority for execution of General Laws of the State.

SEC. 17, State supervision of the City's exercise of its powers.

ART. III.

OF THE MAYOR.

SECTION 1. The Mayor's Term of Office.

SEC. 2. Filling of Vacancy.

SEC. 3. Disability of the Mayor.

SEC. 4. Removal of Mayor.

SEC. 5. Presence of Mayor and Heads of Departments at Council

Meetings.

SEC. 6. Veto Power of Mayor.

SEC. 7. City Budget.

SEC. 8. Compensation of Mayor.

ART. IV.

THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE OF THE CITY.

SECTION 1. Appointive Officers.

SEC. 2. Civil-service Commissioners.

SEC. 3. Civil-service Regulations.

SEC. 4. Reports of Civil-service Commissioners.

SEC. 5. Duty of Public Officials to Obey Civil-service Regulations.

SEC. 6. Civil-service Commissioners to keep a Roster of the Administrative Service. Payment of Public Employees. Action to restrain or recover illegal payment of salaries.

SEC. 7. Records of Civil-service Commissioners. Their duty to enforce Regulations.

SEC. 8. Power of Civil-service Commissioners to Investigate. SECS. 9-15. Specific Prohibitions and Penalties under the Civilservice Provisions of this Act.

SEC. 16. Power of Removal.

SEC. 17. Power of Mayor to Investigate.

ART. V.

THE COUNCIL.

SECTION 1. Composition of Council. Members of Council shall serve without pay.

SEC. 2. Council judge of the elections and qualifications of its own members.

SEC. 3. Ineligibility of Councilors.

SEC. 4. Council determines its own rules of procedure.

SEC. 5. Quorum of Council.

SEC. 6. Meetings of Council. Proceedings of Council and Sessions of its Committees to be Public. Special requirements as to publication of ordinances granting franchises.

SEC. 7. Council to exercise Municipal Powers.

SEC. 8. Council may establish Municipal Offices.
SEC. 9. Council's Powers of Investigation.

SEC. 10. Council's Powers of Appropriation.

SEC. 11. Council elects City Comptroller. Powers and Duties of Comptroller.

SEC. 12. Taxpayer's Action.

SEC. 13. Council may by ordinance provide for Minority or Proportional or other form of Representation in Municipal Elections. SEC. 14. Municipal Elections to take place at a separate date from State or National Elections.

SEC. 15. Nominations for Elective Municipal Office to be made by petition at least thirty days before Election.

SEC. 16. Petitions.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE INCORPORATION OF CITIES.

SECTION I. When City may be incorporated.

Any city, village, incorporated town, or borough of

inhabitants heretofore incorporated under the Laws of the State may organize under this Act in the following manner:

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On the petition of per cent. of the qualified voters of such corporation duly filed in the office of,1 or on the two-thirds vote of the legislative body of such corporation, there shall be submitted at the next local election, occurring at least thirty days after such filing or vote, the question whether or not the form of organization provided in this act shall be the form of organization of said corporation, and in case a majority of the qualified voters thereof voting on said question, vote in favor thereof, said city, village, incorporated town, or borough shall thereupon be and become a body. politic and corporate under the provisions of this act, provided, however, that the official terms of the officers elected at the next ensuing local election, held in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall commence, and the terms of all offices and all officers existing under such prior organization shall cease and determine3 on the first Monday of the month succeeding such local election held under the

1. I.e., The office where the public records of such corporation are required to be kept, e.g., city clerk's or village clerk's office.

2. The method of submission must be set forth and should be adapted to the election laws of the particular State.

3. If this should shorten the term of office contrary to constitutional provisions a different plan would be necessary.