Public Policy Concerning Rapid Transit

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National municipal league, 1900 - Local transit - 17 pages

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Page 98 - It may license, tax, and regulate all trades, occupations, and businesses, and shall be vested with power to acquire, hold, manage, and control property, perform and render all public services, and with all powers of government, subject to such limitations as may be contained in the constitution and laws of the state, applicable either to all the inhabitants of the state or to all the cities of the state, or in such special laws applicable to less than all the cities of the state, as may be enacted...
Page 184 - That all franchises or rights granted under this act shall forbid the issue of stock or bonds except in exchange for actual cash or for property at a fair valuation equal to the par value of the stock or bonds...
Page 115 - Such grant, and any contract in pursuance thereof, may provide that upon the termination of the grant the plant as well as the property, if any, of the grantee in the streets, avenues, and other public places shall thereupon, without...
Page 113 - ... remove any such officer or employe for other cause than his religious or political beliefs or opinions, subject only to the condition that he shall first give such official or employe a written statement setting forth in detail the reasons for his removal, and that a duplicate of such statement shall be filed in the office of the civil service commissioners, and, at the option of the person removed, shall with his reply thereto be made a matter of public record in the archives of the city. It...
Page 110 - Duties of mayor — to be the chief executive officer and head of the police. The mayor shall take care that the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city are duly observed and enforced, and that all other executive officers of the city discharge their respective duties.
Page 161 - ... competition, none really takes place, and practically they are found to be even more irresponsible, and unapproachable by individual complaints, than the government. There are the expenses without the advantages of plurality of agency; and the charge made for services which cannot be dispensed with, is, in substance, quite as much compulsory taxation as if imposed by law: there are few householders who make any distinction between their " water rate
Page 115 - Every such grant shall specify the mode of determining any valuation therein provided for, and shall make adequate provision by way of forfeiture of the grant, or otherwise, to secure efficiency of public service at reasonable rates, and the maintenance of the property in good order throughout the term of the grant.
Page 160 - Glasgow by night, he will meet with ample proof of these observations; he will no longer wonder at the disorderly habits and profligate enjoyments of the lower orders; his astonishment will be. not that there is so much, but that there is so little crime in the world. The great cause of human corruption in these crowded situations is the contagious nature of bad example and the extreme difficulty of avoiding the seductions of vice when they are brought into close and daily proximity with the younger...
Page 41 - Do you favor city ownership of tracks without city ownership of power plants or rolling stock and without city operation, the tracks to be leased by the city to an operating company? (6) Do you favor the policy of municipal operation of the street railways of Chicago, either in the near future or ultimately? (c) If in favor of city ownership of the tracks or of ownership and operation of the system, what plan for acquiring the property would you suggest? VII. PUBLICITY. What plan would you suggest...
Page 240 - ... the warrant issued, and also entered in the proper column of the expense register. Whether or not the officer conducted the affairs of his office in conformity with the statute is also made a subject of inquiry. "The examination made, a written report setting forth the results accompanied with criticisms, requirements and recommendations is prepared and filed with the governor and a copy thereof filed with the officer or officers whose accounts were the subject of investigation. Should it appear...

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