INTERNATIONAL fALLS PRESS. mination that said ordinance shall have failed of final adoption, shall fail to qualify within ten days after receiving notice of other person, or otherwise disposed of except i:i accordance the council shall proceed to call a special election at which said his election the office shall be deemed vacant. with law. ordinance, without alteration, shall be submitted to a vote of If the incumbent receives the highest number of votes he Any violation of the provisions of this section shail, unless shall continue in office. the people, or: otherwise punishable by the criminal laws of the state, (b) Forthwith, after the Clerk shall attach to the petition Provided that no special election shall be held under this constitute a misdemeanor. accompanying svich ordinance his certificate of sufficiency, the section within ninety days of a general City election. Bond of Treasurer. Section 7. The Treasurer, before council shall proceed to call a special election at which said That any elector of said City may carry on and maintain entering upon the duties of his office, shall give a surety company ordinance, without alteration, shall be submitted to a vote of any appropriate action, in his own name, to enforce any of bond in an amount not less than the largest estimated the provisions of sections 22, 23, 24 and 25 of this Chapter, or the people. amount of money he will have in his hands at any one time If the petition be signed by electors equal in number to at to enforce the performance of his duties by any officer of the according to the estimates made by the City Council and the least five per cent, but less than fifteen per cent, of the entire City under said sections. amount of which bond shall be fixed by the council,' and the vote cast for all candidates for Mayor at the last preceding premium on said bond to be paid out of the City Treasury. CHAPTER III. election at which a Mayor was elected, then such ordinance, CHAPTER V. without alteration, shall be submitted by the council to a THE MAYOR. vote of the electors at the next general City election that shall CITY FINANCE. Powers.—Section 1. The Mayor shall be the chief executive occur at any time after thirty days from the date of the officer of the City. Clerk's certificate of sufficiency attached to the petition accompanying Fiscal Year.—Section 1. The fiscal year of the City shall He^ shall take care that the laws of the state, the provisions such ordinance. begin on the first Tuesday after the first Mondav in April of of this charter, and the ordinances of the City, are duly observed (Provided, That ih all cases, a copy of such proposed ordinance each year. and enforced within the City, and that all other officers shall be attached to and accompahy such petition, and Property Subject to Taxation.—Section 2. All property in discharge their respective duties, and to that end may maintain Provided, such proposed ordinance shall riot be inconsistent the City of International Falls, taxable under the laws of an action of mandamus or other appropriate action or with the Constitution of the State of Minnesota, nor the laws the State, shall be subject to taxation for the support of the proceeding against any delinquent officer. thereof, nor with any provision of this Charter.) City government and the payment of its debts and liabilities, He shall, from time to time, give the council such information The ballots used when voting upon said proposed ordinance and the same shall be assessed as provided for bv law and in and recommend such .pleasures as he shall deem advantageous shall contain the words "For the Ordinatice" (stating the this Charter. to the City. nature of the proposed ordinance) and "Against the Ordinance" There shall be maintained in the City Treasury the respective He shall be the chief magistrate of the city and shall have (stating the nature of the proposed ordinance). funds hereinafter in this chapter provided, and the City command and control of its entire force of police. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on said proposed Council, by a majority vote of the authorized membership Acting Maybr.—Section 2. During the absence of the Mayor ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, said ordinance thereof, may levy an annual tax upon all taxable property in from the City, or in case of his disability for any reason to shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of said said City for the support of such funds and purposes. discharge the duties of his office, the President of the City city ,, "?ral„Funds-—Section 3. There shall be maintained in Council, or in case of his absence or disability, the Vice-President And any ordinance proposed by petition, or which shall be the City Treasury a fund to be designated as the General thereof, shall, for the time being, exercise all the powers adopted by a vote of the people cannot be repealed or amended rund, into which shall be paid all moneys not specificallv designated and discharge all the duties of the Mayor. except by a vote of the people. as belonging to any other particular fund, and from The President or Vice-President so performing the duties Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at which fund the City Council may replenish any other fund of the Mayor shall be styled "Acting Mayor," and his acts the same election, in accordance with the provisions of this Permanent Improvement Fund.—Section 4. There shall be while so acting as Mayor, shall have the same force and section, provided that there shall not be held under this section created, when not already existing and maintained in the City validity as if performed by the Mayor. of this charter, more than one special election in a period Treasury, a fund to be designated as the Permanent Improvement Mayor to Sign Contracts.—Section 3. He shall sign all of six months. Fund into which shall be paid all the moneys received bonds and obligations on behalf of the City, and all warrants The council may submit a proposition for the repeal of any irom the sale of any property or permanent improvements of and orders drawn on the City Treasurer, unless otherwise provided such ordinance, or for amendments thereto, to be voted upon the City not otherwise provided, and such amount from time by law. at any succeeding regular election, and should such proposition, to time as may be realized from the sale of any bonds or certificates He shall, also, sign all contracts on the part of the city, so submitted, receive a majority of the votes cast thereon of indebtedness, issued on account of such fund, and all except as otherwise provided in this charter. at such election, such ordinance shall be repealed or amounts collected on special assessments advanced in the first Mayor Shall Communicate Service of Process.—Section 4. amended accordingly. instance out of such fund, all excess of all assessments for He shall, upon service of notice, summons or process upon Whenever any ordinance or proposition is required by this water mains and sewers. him in any action or proceeding against the City, forthwith Charter to be submitted to the voters of the City at any election, It shall further be maintained by an annual tax levy to inform the City Attorney and the City Council thereof. the City Clerk shall cause the ordinance or proposition be made by the City Council for such payment as may be to be printed, in some paper published in said city. Such necessary. CHAPTER IV. printing and publication shall be not less than 5 nor more And out of such fund shall be paid the cost of acquiring all THE TREASURER. than 20 days before the submission of such ordinance or proposition real property and appurtenances, and the construction and improvement to be voted upon. of all buildings and permanent improvements which To Receive and Keep Moneys Belonging to the City.—Section The Referendum.—Section 24. No ordinance passed by the shall not be otherwise provided for out of other funds, and 1. The Treasurer shall receive and safely keep all moneys City Council, except when otherwise provided by the general also the cost of all local improvements, unless the City Council belonging or accruing to the City, including license money laws of the State, or by the provisions of this Charter, respecting maintains a permanent improvement revolving fund. And the and fines, and shall keep accurate and detailed accounts thereof, street improvements, and except an ordinance for the immediate City Council shall maintain such fund sufficient to meet the expenses and he shall be entitled to and shall demand and receive of preservation of the public health, peace or safety, of all such improvements as the same become payable the Treasurer of Koochiching County, at the times specified which contains a statement of its urgency, and is passed by a as in this Charter provided. by law, all moneys due the City for taxes, assessments, and two-thirds vote of the council, but no grant of any franchise Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund.—Section 5. interest and penalties thereon, on account of levies and assessments and no ordinance vacating any street or alley shall be considered There shall be created, if necessary, and maintained in the made by the City or its predecessor for any local improvement. an urgency measure, shall go into effect before thirty City Treasury, if the City Council so direct by ordinance, a He shall be the custodian of all bonds, certificates days from the time of its final passage and its approval by the fund to be designated as the "Permanent Improvement Revolving of indebtedness or other securities held by the City, or in Mayor, and if, during said thirty days, a petition signed by Fund" into which shall be paid all accounts realized the sinking funds of the City. electors of the City equal in number to at least seven per cent from the sale of certificates of indebtedness issued on account To Credit Moneys to Various Funds.—Section 2. The of the entire vote cast for all candidates for Mayor at the last of such fund, and the principal sum of all special assessments Treasurer shall, upon the receipt of any moneys, forthwith preceding City election at which a Mayor was elected, protesting and benefits assessed and levied on account of any local improvements, credit the same to the separate funds to which the same respectively against the passage of such ordinance, be presented to as well as taxes levied on account of such fund, belong or for which they are levied, and shall deposit the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going and there shall be paid out of such fund that portion of all the same daily, in the name of the City, to the order of into operation, and it shall be the duty of the council to local improvements for which special assessments are levied, the Treasurer, in the various depositories which shall have reconsider such ordinance, and if the same is not entirely repealed, and such amount of excess assessments as may in anv instance been designated by the City Council, but shall not deposit with the council shall submit the ordinance as required in EVERYTHING be refunded, and for no other purpose whatever. any such depository an amount in excess of one-half of the section 23 of this Chapter, to the vote of the electors of the And the City shall maintain such fund sufficient to meet the penalty of the bond furnished by such depository: in City, either at the next general City election or at a special expenses of all such improvements as the same become payable And all interest that may accrue upon any such moneys shall City election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance as in this Charter provided. Drugs be credited to the general fund. shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority And the City Council may from time to time by ordinance City Depositories.—Section 3. Any bank, banking house a of the electors voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. by a three-fourths vote, issue, negotiate and sell certificates or trust company, having its principal place of business in the Said petition shall be in all respects in accordance with the of indebtedness for the creating or maintaining of such Medecines State of Minnesota, may be designated as a depository of the provisions of said section 23 of this Chapter, except as to the fund, and such certificates shall not be sold for less than par moneys in the City Treasury as hereinafter provided. Paints, Oils, percentage of signers, and be examined and certified by the and accrued interest, and shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed Such banks, banking houses or trust companies shall be Clerk in all respects as therein provided. six (6) per cent per annum, and shall be made payable Varnishes designated by the City Council of the City, by a resolution, The Recall.—Section 25. The holder of any elective office from said fund and at such times as the City Council may determine after advertising in the official paper of the City, once in each may be removed at any time by the electors qualified to vote and Provided, however, that the amount of certificates so week for two consecutive weeks, for proposals stating what for a successor of such incumbent. issued shall not exceed at any one time two-fifths of one security will be given to said City for such funds so deposited, Wall Paper The procedure to effect the removal of an elective officer (1) per cent of the total value of taxable property of such City, upon condition that such funds, with accrued interest, shall be shall be as follows: A petition signed by electors entitled to according to the last preceding assessment for purposes of White Sewing held subject to draft and payment at all times on demand, vote for a successor of the incumbent sought to be removed, taxation. and when so designated shall execute to the City a surety company Machines equal in number to at least twenty-five per cent of the entire Water and Light Plant Fund.—Section 6. A water and bond in double the amount it may desire or agree to receive vote cast for all candidates for the office, the incumbent of light plant fund, to provide for the support and maintenance of Pianos on deposit, which surety company executing said bond which is sought to be removed, at the last preceding general any plant owned or operated by the City for furnishing to the shall be duly authorized and licensed to act as sole surety on and City election demanding the election of a successor of the City or its inhabitants, water or light, and to provide for the bonds in the State of Minnesota, conditioned for the safe keeping person sought to be removed, shall be filed with the City Clerk payment of interest on any bonds which may be a lien upon and payment of the funds so deposited, and itnerest thereon, Organs and which petition shall contain a general statement of the such plants or either of them. all of which bonds shall be approved by the City Council. grounds for which such removal is sought. There shall also be paid into this fund all moneys derived Electrical Such bonds shall be filed and recorded in the office of the The signatures to such petition need not all be appended from the sale of any property acquired for or used in connection City Clerk, and whenever required so to do by the City Council Fixtures to one paper, but each signer shall add to his residence the with the water or light plant of the City, and the proceeds such depositories shall furnish new bonds and other sureties to number of the Ward in which he resides. of all special assessments levied on account of or in connection and be likewise approved, and the record of any such bond, as One of the signers to each of such papers shall make oath with such water and light plants, or either of them, and also well as the original, shall be evidence of the contents and execution Supplies before some officer authorized to administer oaths, that the such amounts as may from time to time be realized from the thereof, and when the moneys in the hands of the statements therein made are true, and that each signature to sale of bonds, issued on account of said water and light plants, Treasurer shall be deposited with any such depository, as Furnished and such paper appended is the genuine signature of the person or either of them, and also moneys received from the operation herein provided, the treasurer and his sureties upon his official whose name purports to be thereunto subscribed. Within ten of said plants, or either of them, including water rates, rentals Installed bond shall be exempt from all liability by reason of the and penalties. days from the filing of such petition the City Clerk shall examine loss of said money while so deposited. Phone 90 and from the poll lists of the last preceding general The City Treasurer shall keep a separate account of the proceeds When to Pay Out Money.—Section 4. The Treasurer shall City election ascertain whether or not said petition is signed of the sale of bonds issued by the City for the construction, Next to pay no money out of the City Treasury except in the following extension or purchase of a water or light plant, or by the requisite number of electors, and he shall attach to said cases: First, In the payment of the principal and interest of Postoffice petition his certificate showing the result of such examination. both, and no part of the moneys in said separate account shall bonds or of certificates of indebtedness. If, by the Clerk's certificate, the petition is shown to be insufficient, be used in the maintenance, operation or repair of either of Second, Upon an order drawn and countersigned which has it may be amended within ten days from the date the said plants. been first duly authorized and allowed, and which shall specify of such certificate. The Clerk shall, within ten days after such There shall be paid out of this fund the cost of the purchase, the purpose for which it is drawn, and the fund out of amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, construction, extension, operation, maintenance and repair of which and the person to whom it is payable. Upon the payment said water plant and said light plant, and the interest upon and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient it and receipt by him of any such order the Treasurer shall UJ shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, all bonds which may be a lien upon such plants or either of cancel and file the same and it shall not be again issued. however, to the filing of a new petition to the same them. Should there be any accumulation of money in this And he shall keep separate orders drawn upon each particular effect. fund beyond the needs thereof, the City Council may, by resolution, fund. O direct such accumulation or any part thereof, to be If the petition, or amended petition, shall be found sufficient, Third, In the duly authorized payment of the employees of paid and transferred to the sinking fund or general fund of the Clerk shall submit the same to the City Council without any department of the City on pay-rolls, in which case he delay. the City. shall make such payment to each employee, taking his receipt Interest- Fund.—Section 7. There shall be maintained in If the petition shall be found to be sufficient the City Council 00 therefor. UJ shall order, and fix a date for holding the said election, not less the City Treasury a fund to be designated as the interest fund, Fourth, In the payment out of the money appropriated for than thirty days nor more than forty days from the date of which shall be maintained by an annual levy upon all of the fiQ the contingent expenses of the Mayor upon warrants drawn the Clerk's certificate to the coijncil that a sufficient petition is taxable property of the City of an amount which, in addition upon such appropriations, signed by the Mayor and countersigned filed. to any balance remaining in such fund, shall be sufficient to by the Clerk, not exceeding the amount appropriated Such election shall be held and conducted under the same pay the interest to become due during the next fiscal year, lU by the City Council for such purpose in any fiscal year. upon all the bonds or debts of the City. rules and regulations, and the same notice thereof shall be Treasurer to Make Monthly Statements.—Section 5. The E given as in other City elections. The successor of any officer There shall be maintained in the City Treasury such other Treasurer shall, at the first meeting of each month, make statements a so removed shall hold office during the unexpired term of funds, and the City Treasurer shall perform such other duties to the City Council of the amount received and distributed as are prescribed by law or ordinances of the City. his predecessor. on account of each fund controlled by the City Council, Sinking Fund.—Section 8. 1st. In order to provide for certain Any person sought to be removed may be a candidate to and a statement of the amount of money in the various payment of bonds of the City, the City Council shall provide succeed himself, and, unless he requests otherwise in writing, funds deposited with each depository and in his hands. At the UJ and maintain a sinking fund. the Clerk shall place his name on the official ballot without same time he shall report to the City Council the total amount 2: a It shall provide by ordinance for the care, investment, and nomination. of City funds and where placed or deposited. security of such fund, but shall have no authority to abolish In any such removal election, the candidate receiving the a He shall, whenever notified so to do by the City Council, the same until all the bonds of the City are fully paid, nor shall highest number of votes shall be declared elected. withdraw all funds from any depository designated as hereinbefore it divert such fund, nor any revenue nor increase thereof for If, at such election, some other person than the incumbent provided, and notify the City Council of such withdrawal, UJ any purpose unless and until all bonds of the City are fully receives the highest number of votes, the incumbent shall and shall thenceforth deposit no more therein until thereupon be deemed removed from office upon qualification of paid. authorized so to do by the City Council. his successor. How Sinking Fund is Maintained.—2nd. Such fund shall be Funds Not Loaned^ Etc.—Section 6. The funds of the City In case the party who receives the highest number of votes shall not be loaned by the Treasurer to any City officer or maintained by an annual tax levy of one-tenth (%0) of one