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Show Constiliilion.il Amendment UK! ATl'(; TO MUNICIPAL OIKl'OKATIONH A Joint rmnhition proposing nit nmendmeni to Sft-tion i. of Arllolo XI of the runstl-tnttnn runstl-tnttnn of the Suit of I'liih, ro In tutu to imtiiK'iptil corporation!. Be It ronolvi'it hy Ihc l.stRlnttirp of th Stsitc of Utcih. two-lhird-i of nil mi'in-bi'tn mi'in-bi'tn t'liotod to rnrh of the two houuon v;'tintr In fnvor thonofi 8KOION 1. Section proposprf to be amonrii'ri. Thnt It it proposed to nmtMul ntvttnn S of ArtU-la XI of the constitution of the St:ite of Utah, no tbnt the uni will rv.tcl p1 follows : SECTION 5. Munlrlpnl corporntioni Croat rd by R-onrrnl Inw of If iriilnture in-corporatod in-corporatod ritle or towns mav frame and adopt chnrter manner prescribed chart f r to be auhmittrd to elector cop leu to be dint ri hut oil city recorder to file with cere ce-re t a ry of State amendments powers conferred con-ferred upon cities. Corporations for municipal mu-nicipal purposes shall not b created by pecinl laws. The lctiislnture by ttenoral laws shall provide for the incorporation, orffHtiitntion and classification of cities and towns in proportion to population, which laws may be altered, amended or repealed. Any incorporated city or town may frame nd adopt a charter for its own government in the following manner: The legislative authority of the city may, by two-thirds vote of its members, and upon petition of qualified electors to the number of fifteen per cent of all votes c:tst nt the next preceding election for the office of the mayor, shall forthwith provide pro-vide by ordinance for the submission to the electors of the question : "Shall a commiti- ion he chosen to frame a charter?" The ordinance shall require that the question be submitted to the electors at the next rcRular municipal election. The ballot containing con-taining such question shall also contain the names of candidates for members of the proposed commission, hut without party desienntion. Such candidates ihall be nominated nom-inated in the same manner as required by law for nomination of city officers. If a majority of the electors voting on the question of choosinfr a commission shall vote in the affirmative, then the fifteen candidates receiving a majority of the votes cast at such election, shall constitute the charter commission, and shall proceed to frame a charter. Any charter so framed shall be eubmit-ted eubmit-ted to the qualified electors of the city at an election to be held at a time 'to be determined by the charter commission, which shall be not less than Bixty days subsequent sub-sequent to its completion and distribution amonjr the electors and not more than one year from such date. Alternative provisions provi-sions may also be submitted to be voted upon separately. The commission shall make provisions for the distribution of copies of the proposed charter and of any alternative provisions to the qualified electors elec-tors of the city, not less than sixty days before be-fore the election at which it is voted upon. , Such proposed charter and such alternative provisions as are approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, shall become an organic law of such city at such time as may be fixed therein, and shall supersede any existing charter and all laws affectine; the organization and government of such city which are now in conflict therewith Vithin thirty days after its approval a copy cf such charter as adopted, certified by the mayor and city recorder and authenticated by the seal of such city, shall be made in duplicate and deposited, one in the of fire of the secretary of State and the oth?r in the office of the city recorder, and thereafter all court shall take judicial notice of such charter. Amendments to any such charter may be framed and submitted by a charter commission com-mission in the same manner as provide! far making: of charters, or may be proposed pro-posed by the legislative authority of the city upon a two-thirds vote thereof, or by petition of qualified electors to a number num-ber equal to fifteen per cent of the total votes cast for mayor on the next pmced-insr pmced-insr election, and any such amendment may be submitted at the next regular municipal mu-nicipal election, and having been approved by the majority of the electors voting thereon, there-on, shall beccme part of the charter at the time fixed in such amendment and shall be certified and filed as provided in case of charters. Each city forming its charter under this section shall have, and is hereby granted, the authority to exercise all powers rel&ting ta municipal affairs, and to adopt and enforce en-force within its limits, local police, sanitary and similar regulations not in conflict with the general law, and no enumeration of powers in this constitution or any law shall be deemed to limit or restrict the gancral grant of authority hereby conferred confer-red : but this grant of authority shall not include the power to regulate public utilities, util-ities, not municipally owned, if any such regulation of public utilities is provided for by peneral law, nor be deemed to limit or restrict the wower of the legislature in mat-tei-s relating to State affairs, to enact general laws applicable alike to all cities of the State. The power to be conferred upon the cities by this section shall include the following: (a) To levy, assess and collect taxee and borrow money, within the limits prescribed by genera law, and to levy and collect special spe-cial assessments for benefits conferred. b) To furnish all local public services; to purchase, hire, construct, own. main- ! tain or operate, or lease, public utilities local in extent and use; to acquire by condemnation, con-demnation, or otherwise, within or without with-out the corporate limits, property necessary neces-sary for any such purposes, subject to restrictions re-strictions imposed by general law for th-protection th-protection of other communities; and to grant local public utility franchises and within its powers regulate the exercise thereof. (c) To make local public improvements and to acquire by condemnation, or other-wise, other-wise, property within its corporate limits necesr.ary for such improvements; and also to acquire an excess over than that needed need-ed for any such improvement and to sell or lease such excess property with restrictions, in order to protect and preserve the improvement. im-provement. (d) To issue and sell bonds on the e-curity e-curity of any such excess property, or of any public utility owned by the city, or of th revenues thereof, or both, including, in the case of public utility, a franchise stat-inir stat-inir the terms upon which, in case of foreclosure, fore-closure, the purchaser may operate such utility. SECTION 2. Duty of Secretary of State. The secretary of State is hereby directed to submit the proposed amendment to the electors of the State nt the next general election in the manner provided by law. SECTION 3. To Take Effect. If adopted by the electors of this SLate, this amendment amend-ment shall take effect on January 1st, I. M. H. Welling, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that tho foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the Constitutional Amendment proposed pro-posed by the regular session of the legislature legisla-ture of 1931 as the same appears of record in my office. In witness whereof, I have hereunto aet my hand and affixed the Great Seal of th State of Utah, this 5th day of September, Septem-ber, 1930. SEAL) Secretary of State. ( |