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Show ORDINANCE INVALID IN-VALID FOR FILING IN CITY ELECTION In a report made to the city council Wednesday evening by Eugene Morris, city recorder, following his visit to Attorney Ceneral Grovei Giles, it WU discovered that the Bingham city ordinance and Utah state law do not agree on the time requirements require-ments for filing for a municipal election, namely that the city ordinance is invalid. Also present pres-ent at the council meeting were the city attorney, and members of the Chicago Charlie party. The city ordinance states that a candidate must file no sooner than 40 days or later than 30 days prior election, while the state law requires filing no sooner soon-er than 30 days or later than 15 days before the election. Otherwise Other-wise the requirements agree. In order to comply with the state law, the three parties who have already filed have been advised ad-vised to wait and refile. Under the state law the last day for filing fil-ing is Sunday, October 19. Also discussed and approved at the meeting were miscellaneous miscellan-eous bills and payroll amounting to $3134.47 and Mrs. Bertha Nichols Nich-ols was granted $5.00 a month for cleaning the museum at the library. It was also reported that a number of cars have been following fol-lowing fire trucks at the time of a fire and causing traffic jams, and if not stopped they will be prosecuted. |