INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. (1) Per assessed valuation of all taxable property in whole or in part by the City Council, except the salary or CHAPTER VII. yty'.^ich shall be made by the City Council at the wages of an employee or officer of the city, until five days 'tt, levying taxes for other purposes. POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY COUNCIL. after the allowance thereof, within which time any five taxpayers ere shall also be placed in such fund any and all amounts of the city may appeal from such allowance to the District Legislative Power Vested in City Council.—Section 1. The taxes collected to pay the interest on the bonds of the City Court of the County. legislative power and authority of the City shall be vested in TMLCeSS amount of such interest, if any there be. To effect such appeal they shall pay to the Clerk a fee of ln the City Council, composed of the Aldermen of such City as ere may also be placed in said fund moneys set aside in fifty cents, and serve upon him a notice setting forth the fact herein provided. of the appeal, the claim referred to, and the amount and date rnf01yan£e t*le fifth and final provision of Section 18, Organization.—Section 2. The City Council shall, on the Chapter 7 of this Charter. of its allowance, and thereafter no order shall issue until the first Monday of the month next following the first election Sinking Fund Commissioners.—3rd. The Mayor, Clerk and appeal is determined. under this charter, and thereafter, biennially, on the second reasurer shall constitute a board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, The Clerk shall forthwith file the copy of notice served, Tuesday after the first Monday in April next succeeding the and the City Council shall define such of their duties and transmit to the Clerk of said Court the original affidavit regular municipal election, organize and proceed to elect from as are not herein enumerated. and claim, with a certified copy of the minutes of all Council their own number a Vice-President for the ensuing two years, Such commissioners shall have charge of such sinking fund, proceedings relating thereto. and such other officers as may be necessary for the transaction and by and with the consent of the City Council may invest Upon proof being filed with said Clerk of the service of said of its business. Such election shall be by ballot, and the same in the bonds and certificates of the City and such notice, the Court shall have jurisdiction of said claim, and of the affirmative vote of the majority of all the members elect other bonds as are permitted for the investment of the permanent the parties thereto. Such appeal shall be tried and determined shall be necessary to elect. school fund of the State of Minnesota, and in the bonds of in the same manner as appeals from a decision of the Duties of President.—Section 3. The President, and in any City in the State of Minnesota, and in such County, school County Board. case of the absence of the President, the Vice-President, shall and village bonds in the State of Minnesota as may be approved Provided, That whenever the City Council of the City shall preside over the meetings of the City Council, and shall sign by the City Council, and not otherwise. refuse to pay the claim of any person against the City for all ordinances passed by the City Council, and during the 4th. In case of investment in the bonds or certificates of anything except the salary or wages of an employee or officer absence of the Mayor from the city, or his inability for any the city such bonds or certificates shall not be cancelled before thereof, such person may appeal from such decision to the reason to discharge the duties of his office, shall have and the maturity thereof, but shall be held by said commissioners, District Court of Koochiching County, Minnesota, by causing exe^c*se.Powers an^ duties of Mayor, under the style and the interest thereon paid over and applied to the increase a written notice of such appeal to be filed in the office of the of Acting Mayor." The acts of such Acting Mayor shall of such sinking fund. Clerk of said Court, after having served such notice upon the have the same force and effect as if performed by the Mayor. 5th. Whenever the principal of any bonds or certificates of City Attorney of said City such service and filing to be made Rules and Special Meetings.—Section 4. The City Council the city shall become due such commissioners shall, by and within fifteen days after the City Council has rejected or refused shall prescribe rules for its own guidance and the time for its with the consent of the city council, dispose of such of the to pay such claim, and like proceedings shall be had regular meetings, and provide for the calling of special meetings. bonds or certificates belonging to such funds as, with the therein as are herein provided for in case of an appeal from No business shall be transacted at a special meeting money on hand belonging to the same, shall be necessary to the allowance of a bill by the City Council, except that in this unless the same shall have been specified in the call therefor. pay such bonds or certificates. instance the person aggrieved and not the taxpayers mentioned Quorum.—Section 5. A majority of the members shall constitute 6th. Whenever the amount of such sinking fund shall, with in this section shall take the initial steps and cause said notice a quorum, but less than a majority may adjourn from the interest or revenue thereof computed to the time of the of appeal to be served upon the City Attorney. time to time, and a minority as well as a majority may compel maturity of the bonds of the city, be sufficient to pay all of the attendance of absent members. said bonds at the maturity thereof, the levy of the one (1) mill CHAPTER VI. Canvassing Votes.—Section 6. The City Council shall have above provided for shall be omitted, but in case, by reason of power to, and it shall, canvass the returns of votes cast at decrease of interest or depreciation of investment or other all city elections and declare the results thereof, and shall be CITY CLERK—DUTIES. cause, such fund shall become insufficient, said levy shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. resumed. Election, Qualification and Duties.—Section 1. The City 7th. In case the sinking fund commissioners, or other city Ordinances and Resolutions.—Section 7. Every legislative Clerk shall keep the corporate seal and all the papers and officers, shall violate or neglect to perform any of the provisions act of the City Council shall be by ordinance. The style of records of the city, and keep a record of the proceedings of of this section, any taxpayer of the city or any owner all ordinances shall be: "The City Council of the City of the City Council, at whose meetings it shall be his duty to of any of its bonds shall have the right to maintain, in any International Falls do ordain as follows." No ordinance, be present, and of all boards of which he is a member. The court of competent jurisdiction, any proper action to enforce except for general appropriations, shall contain more than City Clerk shall have power to take acknowledgments, administer compliance therewith. one subject, which shall be expressed in its title, nor shall any oaths and affirmations, and copies of all papers filed in The substantial maintenance of the provisions of this and ordinance be amended after its introduction so as to change his office and transcripts of any records in his office certified the preceding section for the payment of the principal and its original purpose. to by him under the corporate seal shall be evidence in all interest of the bonds of the city is hereby declared to be part Readings of an Ordinance.—Section 8. No ordinance shall courts in like manner as if the originals were produced by of the contract with the holder of any bonds or certificates of be introduced except at a regular meeting, at which meeting the Clerk at the trial. He shall perform all other services by indebtedness of the city that may hereafter be issued, and it shall have its first reading. Its second reading shall be law required of clerks of cities and townships in this state, and shall be kept inviolate. had at subsequent regular or adjourned regular meetings when services are required of him by public law for which 8th. Whenever such sinking fund shall be insufficient to occurring not less than one (1) week after its first reading, and compensation is provided, such services shall not be regarded pay all the bonds of the city that may at any time become such ordinance shall not be amended after the meeting at as services for the city, and he may retain such compensation due, or when it shall by the city council be deemed advisable which it receives its second reading. It shall receive its third in addition to the salary paid to him by the City. and for the interest of the city to take up any outstanding reading and be passed only at a regular or adjourned regular Warrant Accounts.—Section 2. He shall keep accounts of bonds of the city not due, which may be offered for sale by meeting occurring at least one (1) week subsequent to the warrants drawn on the Treasurer in separate books, and shall the holders thereof, the city council may issue the bonds of time at which the second reading was had. note thereon the cancellation thereof whenever the same the city, to run not to exceed thirty (30) years, on such terms Passage of Ordinances and Resolutions.—Section 9. Every shall be cancelled, and shall keep such other books and records as to place of payment and rate of interest as may be deemed ordinance, except as in this charter otherwise provided, shall as shall be necessary for the preservation of the accounts of advisable, to such an amount as may be necessary to meet be passed by a majority vote of the members of the City the transactions and business of the city, and all books, lists such deficiency, or to take up and refund such bonds not due: Council, taken by yeas and nays, which shall be entered upon and records heretofore kept, or which shall be kept in the Provided, That the refunding bonds shall in no case draw a its journal. It shall then forthwith, before it takes effect, City Clerk's office, and copies thereof by him certified shall higher rate of interest than the bonds so taken up. be presented to the Mayor for his approval as herein provided. be competent evidence of all matters shown by them. Board of Tax Levy.—Section 9. There shall be a Board of Every ordinance shall be published once in the official Tax Levy in and for the City of International Falls which shall Keep Accounts.—Section 3. He shall keep accounts with newspaper of the City before it takes effect. No vote of consist of the Mayor, Clerk and President of the City Council. the City Treasurer and all other receiving or disbursing officers the City Council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a subsequent Should any of said board be absent or for any reason unable of said city in such accounts he shall charge such officers meeting unless at a such a meeting there are present to act the City Council shall name from among their members with all amounts received by them from all sources of revenue as large a number of its members as were present when said a member to act on such board during such absence or disability. and with all City property in their hands or control, as vote was taken. such officers, and credit them with all amounts disbursed, or The proof of such publication of ordinances by the affidavit Said Board of Tax Levy shall meet at the office of the property disposed of on proper authority, and with all money of the foreman of or one of the publishers of such newspaper, Mayor on the second Tuesday of September of each year, and or property turned over to the City or to their successors in with the printed copy of the ordinances annexed thereto', or may adjourn from time to time as may be necessary, but not office. any other competent proof of such publication, shall be prima later than the first Tuesday in October. A majority vote of Countersigned Bonds, Etc.—Section 4. He shall countersign facie evidence of the legal passage, enactment, publication and said board shall decide all questions coming before said board. all bonds, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness of promulgation of such ordinance, in any court in this state. The said board shall consider, determine and fix a maximum the City and no such bond, order, certificate or other evidence All ordinances shall be recorded, by the City Clerk, in books rate of taxation for the various purposes for which the city of indebtedness shall be valid until so countersigned. to be provided for that purpose. council of said city is authorized to levy taxes for such year, To Examine Accounts of Other Officers.—Section 5. He In all actions, prosecutions and proceedings of every kind and it shall be the duty of said board to reduce the maximum shall examine the reports, books, papers and vouchers of the before the Municipal Court in this City, such Court shall take rate of taxation for the various purposes to the lowest practical Treasurer and of other receiving and disbursing officers, and judicial notice of all ordinances of the City, and it shall not limit. perform such other duties pertaining to his office as the City be necessary to plead or prove such ordinances in such Court. The City Clerk shall, on or before the first Tuesday in October Council may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the City Contracts Awarded—Warrants Drawn.—Section 10. In all in each year certify and transmit to the City Council the Clerk to make a report of the financial conditions of the City matters, except those provided for in Section 27 of this chapter maximum rate of taxation for the various purposes for which to the City Council at any time the same may be required by and any other cases mentioned in this Charter in which action said council is authorized to levy taxes, as fixed and determined the City Council. is required to be by ordinance, the City Council may act by by said board of tax levy, and no taxes shall bg levied To Report Financial Condition to the City Council.—Section resolution in writing, or in cases in which it is not otherwise for said year by said council in excess of the maximum rate so 6. He shall, within two weeks before the close of each fiscal provided in this Charter the City Council may act by mere fixed and determined by said board. year, report to the City Council the financial condition of the motion to be entered on the minutes provided, however, that Report of Estimates.—Section 10. The City Clerk shall, at City, and shall at the end of each fiscal year, or within two every appropriation to the amount of five hundred ($500.00) the time of the certifying of the report of the board of tax levy, weeks thereafter, make out and cause to be published in the dollars or more to be paid to any one person, firm or corporation as above provided, report to the City Council' an estimate of official paper of the city, a summary and detailed statement (exclusive of salaries and compensation of officers and the current expenses of the city for the fiscal year commencing showing the financial condition of the City, the amount of employees of said city, and bond interest and other fixed on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of April next moneys received for the year, and from what sources, and charges, or sums heretofore authorized or contracted to be ensuing, together with a statement of the amount of all revenues also the amount disbursed and for what purpose. paid, which sums, including the pay-roll of City officers or received by the city for the then current year. To Countersign All Contracts.—Section 7. He shall countersign employees whose salaries or compensation have been fixed by Annual Tax Levy.—Section 11. The City Council shall, on all contracts made in behalf of said City, and no such law or resolution, may be passed and warrants ordered hereunder, or before the 10th day of October of each year, upon the coming contract shall be valid for any purpose until so countersigned, by motion as provided in section fourteen (14) of chapter in of the said reports of the board of tax levy, and the City and he shall be the custodian of all such contracts. He shall five (5) of this charter), and the letting of any job of work, Clerk, levy an annual tax upon all property in such city, taxable or the authorizing of any contract or purchase, involving an keep a book in which he shall record all contracts, which shall under the laws of this state, for the purpose of defraying expenditure from the City Treasurer of five hundred ($500.00) be open to the inspection of all parties interested. and paying all the expenses, obligations and liabilities existing dollars or more, and any provision for the sale of any real Auditing and Adjusting Claims.—Section 8. It shall be the or authorized by this charter, and the levy so made as estate of the City, or of any of its personal property of the duty of the City Clerk to draw all warrants on the City Treasurer aforesaid, shall be reported by the City Clerk forthwith to the value of five hundred ($500.00) dollars or more, and every for all claims and accounts against the City audited and County Auditor of Koochiching county, and shall be entered determination to make any improvement the expense whereoi allowed by the City Council, and to designate and specify upon the tax duplicate of said County and collected annually is to be assessed upon abutting property or property found to upon each claim and account so audited and adjusted the in like manner as County and State taxes are collected. be benefited, or to take private property for public use, and particular fund out of which the same shall be paid. Limit of Debt or Liability.—Section 12. Neither the City every determination to issue bonds of the City or in any way Supervision of Official Publications.—Section 9. The City Council nor any officer thereof shall, except as in this charter to contract indebtedness exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars Clerk shall have the supervision of all printing and official provided, have authority to issue any bonds or create any debt (except as herein otherwise provided) shall be by ordinance. publications ordered by the City Council. He shall cause to or liability against said city in excess of the amount of revenue be published in the official paper the minutes of all proceedings actually levied and applicable to the payment of such Every ordinance whatever, such as is mentioned in the proviso of the City Council as soon after each meeting as practicable. liability. of this section, which may be passed by the Council, shall Money—How Paid Out—City Orders.—Section 13. All be signed by the President of the Council and attested by the Assistants.—Section 10. The City Clerk shall have power moneys belonging to the city, except as otherwise provided in Clerk. to appoint a Deputy City Clerk, who shall hold his office this Charter, shall be under the control of the City Council and Majority Vote Required—Section 11. Every ordinance during the pleasure of the City Clerk, and shall have authority shall be paid out only upon order of the Mayor, countersigned appropriating money or creating any liability (or for the under the direction of the City Clerk to perform all the duties by the Clerk, duly authorized by virtue of a resolution of the issuance of certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of tax of the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall be responsible for City Council, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the whole or assessment levies), awarding or approving any contract for the acts of his deputy and shall compensate such deputy for number of the City Council. the payment of money, except as provided in Section 14, his services jmd the City Clerk is hereby authorized to require Provided, That all sums of money due or to become due Chapter 5, hereof, ordering any condemnation of private property, his said deputy to give a bond to the said City Clerk conditioned upon monthly payrolls, or as salaries for compensation of city or the making of any local improvements, shall require for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. officers and employees regularly elected or appointed and a majority vote of all the members of the City Council. Additional Services.—Section 11. It shall be the duty of receiving a fixed salary or compensation, and all sums due or Issuance of Bonds, Etc.—Section 12. Any ordinance the City Clerk to perform such services, additional to those to become due for interest on bonds and other fixed charges, authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the City shall require above prescribed, as may be incidental to his office, or required may be allowed and ordered paid on mere motion duly carried the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the elsewhere in this charter, or by city ordinance, or by direction by an affirmative vote of a majority of all the members City Council. of the City Council,^ and to discharge such other duties in present. Provided, however, that before such bonds shall be issued connection with the 'finances of the City as are, or mav be, Every order drawn upon the Treasurer shall designate the the question shall be submitted for ratification to the electors required of him by this charter, by the City Council, or by specific purpose for which it is drawn, and the fund upon of the City at the next regular City election, or at a special the general laws of the State applicable to this City. which drawn, and shall be payable only out of such fund belonging election called for that purpose, the form of ballot to be used to the city as is named in the resolution providing for Bond.—Section 12. The City Clerk, before entering upon at which shall be prescribed by the City Council. If twothirds its payment, if same is authorized by resolution. the duties of his office, shall execute a surety company bond of all the electors voting upon such question shall vote Each order shall be payable to the order of the person in to the City in an amount to be determined by the City Council, in favor of the issuance of such bonds, then said ordinance whose favor it is drawn and may be transferred by endorsement. not less than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, conditioned for shall take effect and be in force, otherwise the same shall become the faithful performance of the duties of his office.! Such bond null and void. Taxpayers and Claimant's Appeal.—Section 14. No order shall be subject to the approval of the City Council, and the Provided, however, that upon the petition of twenty-five shall be issued-or signed the payment of any claim allowed premiu^i on said botid shall be paid put of the City Treasury. for per cent of all the electors voting at the last preceding elec-