INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. JSii and there hear such evidence and proof as interested parties Not Liable for Injuries Caused by Railway Cars.—Section fire, of all persons, organizations or associations engaged in 44. The city shall be exempt from all liability or damages preserving such property. may offer. And such commissioners shall meet and view the premises caused by railroads either to person or property, when said Rules and Regulations.—Section 4. The mayor and chief pursuant to such notice and may adjourn from time railroads or engine or cars are passing along, across, under, of the fire depaitment are authorized and required to make all to time, and after having viewed the premises, may, for the over or upon any street, lane, alley or any public way within needful rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws 01 the limits of the city. hearing of evidence and preparation of their award assessment,adjourn, of the state, the provisions of this charter, or the ordinances OS or go to any other convenient place in said CHAPTER VIII. of the city, for the government and control of the fire department, city, and may have the aid and advice of the City Engineer POLICE DEPARTMENT. I and for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. All and of any other officer of the city. Organization.—Section 1. There shall be maintained in the rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be in After viewing the premises and hearing the evidence offered, city a police department of which the mayor shall have control writing signed by the aforesaid officers, and shall be filed in such commissioners shall prepare and make a true and supervision and shall be the chief executive officer the office of the city clerk, and shall be binding upon all persons and impartial appraisement and award of the compensation and head, and shall consist of a Chief of Police and such other connected with said department. 9 and damages to be paid to each person whose property may officers of police, patrolmen and employees as may from time Authority at Fires.—Section 5. The city council may, by be injured by reason of such contemplated vacation. to time be authorized by the city council.. Such Chief of ordinance provide for the removal and keeping away of any In eaoh case they shall award only the excess of the compensation Police and all other officers of police, patrolmen and employees and all persons from fires, and may confer powers for that and damages over and above such benefits. so authorized shall be appointed and may be removed by the purpose upon the mayor, the chief and assistant chief and S The said commissioners shall then report to the city council mayor of the city. other officers of the fire department and the police officers of an assessment list containing the appraisement of such Eligibility.—Section 2. No person shall be eligible to appointment I the city. The mayor shall have authority, under such provisions compensation and damages, or such charges thereon as shall as Chief of Police or other officer of police, or as the city council may enact, to send apparatus of not exceed the actual benefits to the property so assessed, patrolman, who is not a citizen of the United States and able the department, with complete force of employees, to the relief which list shall contain a brief description of each tract or to read and write the English language, and all officers, patrolmen of any other community, or for the preservation of property parcel of property so assessed, the name or names of the and chief of police shall have been for at least one Z13 endangered by fire, outside the limits of the city. owners thereof, if known, the amount assessed, and of the (1) year residents of the city before they are eligible to Fire Alarm and Other Property.—Section 6. The city council a excess of such compensation and damages as aforesaid such appointments. may provide for the establishment and maintenance of an which they shall return unassessed. Extra Police.—Section 3. On occasions of large public gatherings efficient fire alarm telegraph and telephone system for the purposes Such report shall lie over until the next regular meeting or in case of riot, unlawful assemblages or disturbances of the fire department and may provide for the purchase of the council, which shall occur at least one week from the requiring additional police force the mayor may appoint such of such apparatus as may be necessary. The city council shall S3 reception thereof, at which time or at any other meeting the number of special or temporary police officers at a compensation also provide for the sale, or disposal, of any property no longer (fi city council may act on such report and hear any complaint not exceeding three (3) dollars a day, as he may deem necessary for the use of the department, and the proceeds touching such award or assessment, or it may refer the necessary but such special or temporary appointment shall thereof shall be paid over to the city treasurer. matter to a committee of the council to hear such complaint not continue in force for more than one (1) week, without Destruction of Buildings.—Section 7. Whenever any building ai -i and report thereon. consent of the city council. in the city shall be afire, it shall be lawful for, and shall The council may confirm such award and assessment, or Rules—By Whom Made.—Section 4. The mayor and chief be the duty of, the mayor and the chief of the fire department either, or annul the same or send the same back to the same of police are authorized and required to make all needful rules to order and direct the destruction, and removal of, and to commission for further consideration, and the commissioners, and regulations not inconsistent with this charter, the laws destroy, pull down and remove such building or any other may, in such case, again, upon giving alike notice as of the state, or the ordinances of the city, for the government building in the vicinity, or any part thereof, that they may herein provided, meet at a time and place to be designated and control of the police department, and with a view of making a: deem hazardous or likely to communicate fire and no action in said notice, which shall be at least two (2) weeks after the said department and all the officers and agents appointed shall be maintained against any person, or the city, therefor, publication of such notice, meet and hear any further evidence fl under it, efficient, vigilant, prompt and useful to the city. All or on account thereof. that may be adduced by interested parties and may rules and regulations made in pursuance hereof shall be in Penalties.—Section 8. If any person shall, at a fire, refuse adjourn from time to time, and may correct any mistakes in writing, signed by the aforesaid officers, and. shall be filed to obey the orders of the Chief of the Fire Department, or such award and assessment and alter and revise the same as in the office of the city clerk, and shall be binding upon all other officer vested'with authority at such fire, such person they may deem just, and again report the same to the city persons connected with this department. A book containing QJ shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as council, who may thereupon confirm or annul the same. this chapter, and such provisions of this charter, ordinances prescribed by the ordinances of the city, or, in case the offense Whenever the city council shall confirm any such award and regulations relating to the police department as may be is not punishable under the ordinances of the city, then and assessment, such confirmatiou shall make such award adopted, shall be printed in legible type, and securely bound as such misdemeanors are punished under the laws of the and assessment final and conclusive upon all parties interested, the Chief of Police shall deliver one of said books to each member state. a except as herein provided, and the city council shall of the department, who shall always have the same in his CHAPTER X. proceed at the same or at any subsequent meeting to levy possession. CITY ASSESSOR AND BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. such assessment upon the several parcels of land described Gratuities and Rewards Prohibited.—Section 5. Any member Duties.—Section 1. The city assessor shall qualify in the in the assessment list presented by the commissioners in of the police department who shall accept from any person manner And form prescribed by the general law. The city assessor accordance with the assessment so confirmed and cause to while in his custody, or after he shall have been discharged, shall perform all the duties required by the general be made and adopted an assessment roll of the same, which or from any of his friends, or any other person, any gratuify or laws of the state, respecting the listing of property for taxation, may be in such form as the council may adopt. reward, or any description of intoxicating drink, or who shall and shall commence his duties on the first tlay of May When damages are awarded to any person or persons, receive from any person, without the written permission of of each year. as provided in this section, in excess of benefits, the city the mayor, any reward for the arrest of any thief, or recovery 0 Deputy Assessors and Clerks.—Section 2. The city assessor council shall order the same to be paid out of the city treasury of any goods or money, or compensation for damages sustained shall, each year, appoint such number of deputies as may be on warrants to be drawn and attested by the city clerk in the discharge of his duties, shall be deemed guilty of required to enable him to properly perform the duties of his and signed by the mayor said warrants to be issued to the a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed office, who shall serve during the time of the making of the person or persons entitled thereto at the expiration of the one hundred ($100.00) dollars or imprisonment not to exceed list of property for taxation, but only so long as their services time for appeal as hereinafter provided. ninety (90) days. may be needed. The city assessor shall discharge such deputies The city council upon the confirmation of such award Police Officers to be Conservators of the Peace.—Section 6. from time to time as he can spare, and the city council and assessment, and upon payment into the city treasury of The mayor, or acting mayor, the chief of police, the captains may order said deputies, or any of them, to be discharged at such assessment, may, by an order passed by a two-thirds of police, the sheriff of the county, and all police officers shall any time. The city assessor shall present to the city council vote of all the members elect, declare such public grounds, be conservators of the peace, and may command the peace at the second regular meeting thereof in April in each year streets, alleys or highways vacated, and a transcript of such and suppress in a summary manner all riotous or disorderly the names of such persons as he shall desire to have for deputies, order, duly certified by the city clerk, shall be filed for record behavior or proceedings within the city limits, and for such designating in each case the time when the appointees and duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds purpose may require the assistance of all bystanders, and if shall, with the approval of the city council, commence to for the County of Koochiching. 03 need be, of all citizens and in suppressing any riotous and serve as such deputies, which time shall be long enough before Appeal From Vacation.—Section 40. Any person aggrieved disorderly behavior or proceedings, the supreme authority to May 1st, so that each may, for that day, be assigned to his by any such vacation or discontinuance, or by any command or direct shall reside in the senior or superior officer portion of the work and be properly prepared and instructed such assessment of damages or benefits therefor as hereinbefore present, in the order in this section above named. to do the same. The city assessor may also employ such provided, shall have the right at any time within ten Penalty for Refusing to Assist in Preserving the Peace.— clerks as may be necessary, their number to be reduced or increased (10) days after the publication of the order vacating such Section 7. If any bystander or citizen shall refuse to aid in as occasion may require or the city council may direct, street,alley or highway, to appeal to the district court of the preserving the peace, or in suppressing riotous or disorderly and all deputy assessors shall qualify in accordance with and County of Koochiching and from such confirmation of behavior or proceedings, when thereto requested as provided perform all the duties required by the general laws of the such assessment or from such order declaring such vacation. in the preceding section, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor state respecting the listing of property for taxation. It shall be the duty of the city clerk, as soon as any such and be punished by a fine of not more than fifty ($50.00) dollars Compensation.—Section 3. The compensation of the city appeal is taken, to transmit to the proper court a certified or imprisonment of not more than thirty (30) days. assessor shall be three ($3.00) dollars per day for all time actually copy of the record of all proceedings in the case. Penalty for Falsely Assuming to Act as Police Officer.— employed as such assessor, provided that said city assessor Such appeal shall be entered and brought on for trial and Section 8. If any person shall, without lawful authority, assume shall not receive to exceed two hundred ($200.00) dollars be governed by the same rules in all respects as appeals to act as a police officer of the city, or falsely pretend in any one year for services as such city assessor deputy to be authorized so to act, or wear a badge of a police officer from justice of the peace in civil actions, except that no assessors and clerks shall receive as compensation three ($3.00) within the city, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one dollars per day for the time actually employed, provided that pleadings shall be required. hundred ($100.00) dollars or to imprisonment for a term not no greater sum than one hundred ($100.00) dollars shall be Prohibiting Relief From Assessment, Etc.—Section 41. The exceeding ninety (90) days. expended for the services of deputy assessors and clerks in city council shall not have the power to relieve any citizen Penalty for Failing to Assist in, or Obstruction of, Arrest.— any one year. from the payment of any lawful tax, assessment, judgment, Section 9. If any person shall wilfully refuse or neglect to Board of Equalization.—Section 4. The Board of Equalization assist the chief of police or any policeman in making a lawful shall consist of a city clerk and one alderman from each fine or license, bond or security, nor to exempt him from any arrest, when requested by such chief or policeman so to do, ward to be chosen by the city council, who shall be sworn burden imposed upon him by law or ordinance or to ordain or shall wilfully resist, impede or obstruct such chief of police according to law as such board, shall select one of their number the payment of any demand not authorized and audited according or policeman in making or attempting to make a lawful arrest, to act as chairman, and shall meet at the city council Qi to law. The city council shall not have power to or in the performance of any other official duty, such person chamber on the fourth Monday in June of each year, and shall ordain or authorize any compromise of any disputed demand so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred continue in session until the Friday next preceding the first ($100.00) dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding Monday in July, to review, amend and equalize the work of arising under contracts, or any allowance therefor or therein, ninety (90) days. the city assessor, pursuant to the general laws of the state. except as provided in the contract therefor. The city council Compensation to be Fixed by City Council.—Section 10. Such board of equalization shall receive as compensation for shall not have authority nor power to authorize or ordain Exeept as otherwise herein provided, the compensation of the their services the sum of three ($3.00) dollars per day for the payment of any damages or claim for alleged injuries to Chief of Police, the officers, patrolmen, detectives and other each member for the actual time employed. It shall be the persons or property except by resolution, adopted by. vote of employees of the police department shall be fixed for the ensuing duty of the city assessor to attend all meetings of the board I year by the city council, by resolution passed on the of equalization, and the city: clerk shall keep the minutes of two-thirds of all the members elect. second Tuesday after the first Monday in April of each year, their proceedings. Compilation of Laws and Ordinances.—Section 42. The or as soon thereafter as may be. Powers of the Board.—Section 5. Such board shall be city council may from time to time provide for the compilation Provided, that on the date of the organization of the city vested with all the powers which are or may be vested in council first elected under this charter, or as soon thereafter and publication, in book or pamphlet.form, of this charter, County Boards of Equalization so far as applicable, but shall as may be, the compensation of all officers referred to in this not be restricted in reducing the aggregate sum of the real the ordinances and regulations of the city, rules of the section shall be fixed by such council. or personal property as returned by the assessor, and when city council, police rules, regulations adopted by the board its work of revision is completed the same shall be certified CHAPTER IX. of health, and such resolutions of the city council, as it may to the County Auditor by the board of equalization. designate and may provide for the distribution by sale or Grievances.—Section 6. Any person deeming himself aggrieved FIRE DEPARTMENT. by any assessment may appear before such board personally otherwise of copies of such compilation and publication and Chief of the Fire Department.—Section 1. There shall be or by counsel and present his grievance for consideration, such books or pamphlets so issued, purporting on the title afire department in the city of International Falls, of which and the said board shall have power to compel the page to have been published by authority of the city council the mayor shall have control and supervision. The head of attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, and said department shall be known as the "Chief of the Fire and to contain the ordinances of the city or other matter in examine any person as to any taxable property in said city. 03 Department." The mayor shall appoint, by and with the this section above mentioned, shall be prima facie evidence consent of the city council, and by and with like consent, may CHAPTER XI. of their contents in all courts of this state and in absence remove, the Chief of the Fire Department. CITY ATTORNEY. of evidence to the contrary, all ordinances, rules, regulations Assistants and Employees.—Section 2. The Chief of the Appointment.—Section 1. At the time of the organization 03 and resolutions found therein shall be presumed to have been Fire Department shall appoint, and at his pleasure may remove, of the city council after each regular municipal election thereof, a First Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, who or as soon thereafter as may be, the city council may appoint duly legally passed, promulgated or adopted. Copies duly shall act as chief in case of his absence from the city or inability a city attorney, who shall be a person learned in the law certified by the city clerk of this city, of this charter, ordinances to act and shall appoint* and at his pleasure may discharge and duly admitted to practice in courts of record in this state, or rules, regulations or resolutions in writing or other or suspend, such other subordinates or employees as and who shall be a resident and qualified voter of the city, papers in his official custody, or any records kept by him a may be necessary for the purpose of said department whose and who shall serve for the term of one year and until his successor in his official capacity, shall also be received as prima facie aggregate salaries, together with other expenses of said department, is appointed and qualified, unless removed for cause as evidence of their contents in all courts of this state. The shall not in any fiscal year exceed the amount of in this charter provided. District Court of the County of Koochiching, Municipal Court the appropriation for said department for that year. Duties.—Section 2. He shall be the legal adviser of the city of the City of International Falls, and all Justice Courts of Powers and'Duties of the Chief.—Section 3. The Chief of and shall perform all the services incident to the office, and Koochiching County, shall take judicial notice of this charter 0 the Fire Department, under the direction of the mayor, shall shall appear in and conduct all civil suits, prosecutions and and all ordinances duly passed by the city council. have the general superintendency of the fire department and proceedings in which the city shall be directly or indirectly Care of Streets.—Section 43. The city council shall have the custody of all engines and engine house hooks, ladders, interested, except as otherwise provided in this, charter, and, and maintain an active care, supervision and control of all hose and horses and other property used for the purposes of when necessary, take charge of and conduct all prosecutions public highways, bridges, streets,, alleys, public squares and said department. He shall see that the same are kept in order, for violation of the city ordinances, and perform all such grounds, as in this charter provided, and all other public improvements and that all rules and regulations and all ordinances and provisions other duties as may be required by law. and public property within the limits of the city, of this charter, relative to the fire department and to Opinions.—Section 3. He shall, when so required, furnish and shall cause all streets which have been opened and graded the prevention and extinguishment of fires, are duly executed. opinions, in writing or otherwise as requested, upon any subject under the authority of the city or with its assent, to be kept He shall superintend the preservation of all property endangered submitted to hi'm by the city council or any of the committees open and in repair and free from nuisances. by fire, and shall have control and direction, in case of or boards thereof. He shall advise the city council