City Government by CommissionClinton Rogers Woodruff Appleton, 1911 - 381 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 339 - ... free ticket or free service, or accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any such person, firm or corporation, any other service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public generally. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor, and every such contract or agreement shall be void. Such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform; nor shall any free service to city officials heretofore provided by any franchise...
Σελίδα 346 - The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time by the electors qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows : A petition signed by...
Σελίδα 320 - Upon petition of electors equal in number to twenty-five per centum of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding city election of any such city, the mayor shall, by proclamation, submit the question of organizing as a city under this act at a special election to be held at a time specified therein, and within two months after said petition is filed.
Σελίδα 204 - The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Σελίδα 348 - primary" in such statement and petition, and stating therein that such person is a candidate for election instead of nomination. The ballot for such special election shall be in substantially the following form : (Official ballot.) Special election for the balance of the unexpired term of a* For . (Vote for one only.) (Names of candidates.) Name of present incumbent.
Σελίδα 331 - State for six months next preceding said election, or who is not twenty-one years of age, or is not a citizen of the United States ; or knowing himself not to be a qualified elector of such precinct where he offers to vote...
Σελίδα 353 - If a majority of the votes cast at such special election be in favor of such proposition, the officers elected at the next succeeding biennial election shall be those then prescribed in the general law of the state for cities of like population...
Σελίδα 351 - Ordinance" (stating the nature of the proposed ordinance), and "Against the Ordinance" (stating the nature of the proposed ordinance). If a majority of the qualified electors voting on...
Σελίδα 347 - ... need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number.
Σελίδα 333 - ... had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, board of public works, park commissioners, board of police and fire commissioners, board of water works trustees, board of library trustees, solicitor, assessor, treasurer, auditor, city engineer, and other executive and administrative officers in cities of the first class and cities acting under special charter.