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Show 9 AX ORDINANCE Rfgulating Elections and Providing for ihe Registration of Voters, 8ECTI05 1 Be it ordained by the City Council of Sali Lake City, That the municipal election of said city shall be held on the Becood Monday oi February, 1SS0, and biaonialiy thereafter, ior the election of tbe following fol-lowing officers lor said city, tiz : One mayor, five aldermen, nine councilors, coun-cilors, one recorder, one treaiurer, one marshal, and one assessor and collector, col-lector, who shall hold their offices for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified to office. Sec 2 o person shall be elected I or appointed to any office of eaid cily unless he is a citizen of the United Stales, and has ben a constant con-stant resident of said city for one year next precedioe such tlection or appointment. Neither shall any person be eligible to veto at any election unle&s possessing the qualifications of a voter, as prescribed pre-scribed by the laws of the Terr.tory o( Utah, and haa been a count aot resident resi-dent in eaid city during the six months next preceding eaid election. No Officer or soldier of the United Slatw army, or other person Bubject to il? military authoritv, Bhall be eligible to office or entitled to vote at any municipal election in B8id city, uuiess bis home or place of residence was therein at toe time of engaging io Buch service Stc. S It shall be the duty of the recorder of said city, within three days from tbe first publication ol this ordinance, and before tbe first day of November, biennially, therealter, to apply to the clerk of the county court of Salt Lake County for a certified copy of the registry liste of voters, as last returned, of all the precincts, or parta thereof, '. within the corporate limits of Salt Lake City. The proper fees for I which lists shall hp tpnilprwl anrf riitiri out of the city treasury. Sec. 4 Upon the receipt of said lists the recorder shall deliver tbe same to the city assessor, who io hereby constituted the registration officer for said city. Said assessor shall appoint a resident deputy in each municipal ward to assist in carrying car-rying out the provisions of this ordinance, or-dinance, who shall qualify as provided pro-vided by section 11 of "an ordinauce to provide for assessing and collecting city taxes," passed March 12th, 1878, and before the third Monday in December De-cember preceding any municipal election, in person or by deputy, shall visit every dwelling bouse in eacn municipal ward, and make careful inquiry if any person, whose name is o. an id registration list, has died, or removed from the ward, or is otherwise other-wise disqualified as a voter, and if si, to erase the Bame theretrom, or whether auy qualified voter resides therein, whose name is not on said registration fiat, and if so, be ahall ascertain upon , what ground such person claims' to be a voter, and shall require any 1 such person entitled to vote and desiring de-siring to be registered, to take and subscribe in substauce the following oath or affirmation: TRTtRvrnx-r n TItah, 1 Salt Lake City. I, , being Crst duly sworn, depose ar.d say tbsllamover twenty-, one years of age and have resided id Salt Lnke City lor six mjiuhs next pre- ; ceding tbe date hereof, and (if a male) am a ("native born," or "naturalizBd," as the case may be) citizen of the United States, (or, if a female,) I am "native bore" or "naturalized," or the "wife," "widow," or "daunhter," (as tho ca5e trav be) of a native born or naturalized citizen of the United Statc3. Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of . A.D.1S-. Assessor. Upon the receipt of such affidavit, the assessor s aloresaid shaLl place the name of such voter upon the registry list of tbe voters of said municipal muni-cipal ward. Sec 5. It Bhall also be the duty of the assessor, in person or by deputy, during the week commencing tbo fourtn Monday in December, preceding pre-ceding each elecl'Ou, at his office, to enter on bie registry list the name of any voter that may have been omitted, on such voter appearing and complying comply-ing with the provision of the preceding pre-ceding section of this ordinance required of voters (or registration purposes. Sec. 6. Voters removing from one municipal ward to another, may ap. , pear before tbe assessor at any time : previous to the delivering of the 1 registry list to the cily recorder, and I hiiA thpir names erased therefrom, aod they may thereupon have their names registered in the ward to which they may remove. Sec. 7. Upon the completion of the registration it Bhall be tbe duly of the assessor to proceed to make out a list in alDhflhMical order for each municipal ward, containing tho names of all the registered voters of auoh ward, and Bhall on or before the second Monday of January preceJiug 1 each election, deliver ail of said lists and affidavits to the recorder, who ahall file and carefully preserve all aaid affidavits and registry lists, and ahall make a copy of each ward reg-ifltry reg-ifltry list, and cause the same to be posted up at least fifteen days before any election, at or near the pUce of election, and shall make and transmit trans-mit another copy to the judges of election. Sec. 8. The city recorder shall cuuse a notice of the lime and places nf votine and the number and kind of officers to be elected, to be posted up in each municipal ward, or advertised in some newspaper published wilhio aaid city, at least fifteen days previous to the time ot holding said election, and setting forth therein that the polls will open at one hour after suorise and contioue open until sunset. Sec. 9 Toe city council at its Becoud regular session io Jaunary preceding each municipal election shall appoint three capable and dia -creel persons, in eaffl municipal ward, one at least of whom shall be of tbe political party that was in tbe minority at tbe last previoJB municipal munici-pal election, if any such party there be io such ward, to act as judgt of plpotuio. and Ihev shall designate one of the persons appointed to preside, and the other two to act as clerks of said election. And tbe recorder shail make out certificates of eaid appoint-1 mente and transmit the same by maii or ether safe conveyance to the persons per-sons so appointed, who, previous to entering upon taid office, shall appear ap-pear be lore said recorder, take and sub scribe an oaih tn ihe f fleet that they nili well bd1 failhfuliy perform aii ' the duties there-if to tue bvet of thir " ability and that l hey wiil ! tidily endeavor to prevent any fraud, derail or abuse at the election over wmrn I they may prf-i.le. U. in ny w H ' 1 anv of eticn ju d-T :up t: --prve it - ; fail to appear the v,.ir- rl -i1 wr I i firt a-.-eaihV-d on tne d-r of f.ect:r ; ' to tne nuniiT ol six, at or immedi ately ai':er the time designated for opening the polls, may e;ecl a juJgr or judges to fi,i the vacancy, and auy person so elected shall quality as here-;nbeore here-;nbeore provided before any person autnonzt-d lo administer oathe. Sec. 10 Tbe city council shaii provide the necessary book?, blank?, stationery &ni ballot boxes, which bftiiot boxes shall be madeot calvan ixed iron of suitable size, wilh Yale or other safe lock and two keys, one 01 the keys to be kept by tbe judjee oi election aod one by the city recorder. Ihereehall be an opening through the lid of each ballot box oi suffiiie-jl rize to admit a single ballot. Sec 11 The city council shall furnish fur-nish the judges of election in rarh ward with a sufficient number oi plain envelopes, lor election purposes; said envelopes shall he uniform in color and size, without any mark?, writing, printing, or device up n them, and no other kind shall be ueed ai any election. Before opening tne Dolls, the ballot box shall be carefully and publicly examined by the judges of election, who shall satisfy themselves that nothing istberein. It shall then be locked aod the key thereof delivered de-livered to the presiding judge, and said ballot box shall not be opened ; during the electinrj. Sec. 12 At the opening of the polls at all elections, the judges of election, ior their respective wards, shall designate one of tbe judges acting as olerk, who Bhall have in custody tbe registry list of voters, and shall make the entries therein required by law; tbe other of said judges acting as cieik Bhall write the name of each person voting, and opposite to it tbe number (if the vote. Sec. 13 Every votershall designate on a single ballot written or printed tbe name ot the person or person voted for, with a pertinent designation designa-tion of the office to be filled, and when any question is to be decided in the affirmative or negative he 6hall slate the proposition at the bottom bot-tom of the ballot, and write thereunder "Yes," or "No," as be may desire to vote thereon, which ballot shall be neatly folded aod placed in one of the envelopes hereinbefore provided lor and delivered to the presiding judge of election, who eha!l, in the presence of the voter, on the Dflme of the proposed voter being found on the registry list, deposit it in the ballot bal-lot box, without any mark whatever what-ever being placed on eui'h envelope, otherwise the ballot ahall be rejected. Sec. 14 Whenever any ballot shall be deposited in the ballot box, . ths judge having the registry list shall 1 write the word "voted" opposite the ! name of the person casting the vote, ! and ihe other judge acting as clerk, sball write the name of tbe voter and the number of the vote upon a list to ba made by such judge. Sec. 15. Ab soon as the polla shall be closed, the judges of election shall immediately proceed to canvass the votes cast at such election, and con tinue without adjournment until completed, com-pleted, and &U candidates voted for may be present, either in person or by representative, to witness said canvass. If any envelope contain two or more ballots of the same kind folded together to-gether one only shall be counted. Sko. 16 The canvasB shall commence com-mence by ihe judges who have acted as clerks of the election comparing their respective lists and ascertaining from said lists the Dumber of votes oast. The box shall then be opened and the ballota toTein takeu out, aud counted by the judges, aod the judges aotiog as clerks, shall each make a list of all the offices voted for. The presiding judge shall then proceed to open the ballota and call ofl therefrom the names of the persons voted for, and the offices they are intended to fill, and tbe judges acting as clerks Bhall take an account of the same upon their lists, and all the ballots shall be immediately returned to the ballot box, and the ballot box Bhall be locked and Becurely Bealed. Sec, 17. After the canvass shall have been completed, the judges of election Bhall add up and determine tbe number of votes caat for each person for the several offices, which result Bhall be placed on tbe lists made hy tbe judges acting as clerks of the election, and the judges shall thereupon oertify to the Bame, aod forward all the lists, securely sealed, together with the ballot box, to the oily recorder, by a qual'fied voter, who shall, before taking the Bime, take and subscribe an oath to the eflect that he will deliver the same lo said recorder, without unnecessary delay, and that be will use his utmost ability to provent any interference '.whatever therewith, by any person whomsoever. Sec. IS Ou receipt of the ballot boxes and returns of election, the recorder in the presence of at IcaM five reputable citizens, selected by the mayor for that purpose, Rod who are not piiblicly known as candidates voted lor at 6uch election, who after being sworn to faithfully perform the duties assigned them, srhall break the seal of tbe returns, and nil candidates may be present as provided in section fifteen of this ordinance, and the recorder and the citizens aforesaid shall carefully examine the returns, aod if no irregularity or discrepancy appear therein, a Heeling the result ot . the election of any candidate, they Bhall accept said returns as correct; but if the right of any person voted for, for any office, is in aoy way afledetl, then the recorder and citizens citi-zens aforesaid shall open the ballots and canvass the eame, so far as to determine the rights of the person whose otfioe may be aflected. They may also cause to appear before them any persons whom ihey may deem proper, and take tbeir testimony in relation to eaid election. Sec. ID -After the completion of the canvass, the recorder aud the said citizens shall declare the result thereof, and the recorder shall immediately im-mediately make cut and transmit a certificate of election to each persoD elected to any office, attested by the corporate Beal of the city. Proruh-.l, That when two or more candidates for an elective office shall have an equal number of voles for the same office, the election shall he determined deter-mined by tbe city council, who shall give notice to the parties of the time and piace at wnicti the tie shall be flnr-dwl. Sec. 20 Immediately after the insDcclion of the ballots, io any bailut box, the ballots shall be ret imed iutu the box, which shall be h-ciiKi ai.d fpcurely sealed, and the bax" umii be so preserved tor ten days after tne result of tbe election has ben declared, de-clared, and immedia:ely alter the expiration of the ten d-iya. tr-.i no nntice of a conte-t rwu.a fi.l, r-q;iiring f:irt'-,pr delay. lh refrrVr nail. in thr pre"ncp of t lrt r(ri nf tne cii z?r)3 wno n---td t t: "inv?, ani-uch raii.i :'!("' v )-r ! rr v bn p-'ni, ''iti r.i ' ' htii t h .!- d- -ir7 I b-;, .- tec Li i. nc.-ri'T sh-.il fi.1-, as sooo as possible alter tne result 0; the f!tct u b- b f " ro d" trnr.ineJ, ni'ks OJt a icr.ii liwreo. in dupiioa'.e. std o-r;::y i; itie ccr-rectne.-'s t I, one o! wbik-a :? rbali ne, a:ii ihe otr he --r.A.I p. .-t up iu ni? c:e, ad ev:ry person e levied ir appoint;: J 10 an t.ec.:ve. ju.ioihl or 1 ministraiive e.ffici. ehall, before he eLL-rs upon tne d;:i:e tutreoi. appear bti'ore tue rtivrsUr and uki? aiid 1 subscribe mi o.q or affi:mat:;u th.at 1 tie wiii jupp-rt the C.T.stitut: of :ue United S'-.-.tt-s. lha i.ws of t.-.is terr:-i terr:-i iury and tue crdiusncxs ol ibis city, i and that he will wul fli:d tui.y p: r- form aii toe d.nies ol :.s office to t-e I best of his know.tdcj and ab:i:'.y; ai-.d . sbail file Uie sanie wun s.d recorder. ! may 01 :u addition to V. c-! c-! usu.il oit, swear cr affirm that ho j wiii dev:te sj much ol trs t'.aic u ihe I duties cf his office as at. eiv.c.ent and :s:'-fui d:rL-ii.-ri;e ihereo! may n-,-: quire, aud a;jy pc-rsou tliotid or up I pointed to a;.v i"-ffi.- insid ci-.y. wi:o, ! for tti'rty (ia,-s aUer such tlertiou or appomtmcut, tails tn quAiify aod outer upon the duties ot suoh office as required re-quired by law, the city council may declare said office vacant and proceed to fill ihe same as other vacancies are fi.led.. Sec. 2'2 The mayor and aldermen, before euteriug upon ihe duties of their respective offices, shall give bonds with approved securities, each in the penal sum of five thousand dollars to tne people of S.-tlt Lake City, conditioned for the faithful performance perform-ance of the duties thereof, which bonds shall be approved by the recorder aud filed in bis office. Seo. 23 The assessor aud his deputies depu-ties shall receive such compensation for tbe services required of them hy this ordinance, as the city council shall determine, and the judges of election shall receive for their services ser-vices filty cents per hour for all services ser-vices rendered in con Juctiug elections and canvaeiug votes, and each of said officers is hereby authorized to administer oaths whenever necessary to carry into etket the provisions of this ordinauce. Sec. 24 xi.uy omission or irregularity irregu-larity of any asse;sor or other officer, pertaining to election matters, tball not invalidate any eitctiou or authorize author-ize the rejection oi any legal votes cast. Sec. 25 Any person who shali disturb dis-turb or be guilty of any riotous conduct con-duct at any municipal election, or who ehall disturb or iuterfere witn the canvassing of the votes, or interfere with tne making of the returns, or who shall interfere with any voter in the free exercise of the elective franchise, fran-chise, shall, on conviction, be fined ; in any sum not exceeding ninety-nine ninety-nine dollars, or be impiisoned not exceeding one hundred days, or both. Sec. 26 Any person who ehall give, or promise or otler to give to an elector, any money, reward or otner valuable consideration, for his or her vote at an election, or for withholding withhold-ing the same, or who shall give, or promise to give, such considerations to any other person or party, for such elector's vote, or for the withholding thertof. or any elector who snail receive re-ceive or agree to receive, fGr himstlf or for Another, any money, reward or other valuable consideration tor his vote at an election, or for withholding withhold-ing tiuiie, ebiiil, uu couvicuou, be fined in any sum not exceeding ninety-nine dr.llaij, or he imprisoned uot exceeding oue hundred days, or both, r.Dd shall also forfeit ihe right fc vote at so.ch elc-c'iou, end any elector whose rip tit io volo shall he challenged chal-lenged for such cause, before the election officers, &hnii he required to swear or affirm that the mutier oi the challenge is untrue, before his vole shall be received. Sec. 27 Any person who shall ofl.T any bribe, threat or intimidation to nuy elector for tne purpose of influencing bis or her vote, or shall examine any ballot offered or cast at the polls, or found in any ballot box, for any other purpose than to ascertain ascer-tain what candidate has been elected, or who votes more than once at any oue election, or knowingly offers lo vote two or more baiiots, 01 in any manner changes any bai lot after the same has been deposited in the ballot box, or adds, or atti mpts to add, auy ballot to those legally polled, shall on conviction be fined in any Bum not exceeding ninety-nine dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one hundred hun-dred days or both. Sec. 23 That chapter IV of the Revised Ordinances ol Salt Lake City, "Keculating Electi ms," he and the Bame is hi'reby repealed. Pawed November 18th, IS79. ' FERAMOKZ LITTLE. Mavor. Jons T. C.UNE, Kccordcr. Tekritouy of Utah, 1 City of Sail Lake. J I, John T. Caine, Recorder of Salt Lake City, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a toll, true and correct copy of An Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Re ulaliiig Elections nod Providing for the Registration of Voters," passed by the City Council of eaid city on the lSih day of No vember, A. D. 1S7'J, as appears of 1 record in my office. 1 In testimony whereof I bwn i ( I hereunto set my hand and L-3, J affixed the corporate fon of Salt Liie City, this ISlh day ol November, A. D. 1S79. Jons T. Oaink, Recorder. |