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Show Constitutional Amendment NKI.AT1NC TO Ml'NKU'AL 1 i'OUI'Olt Ai'lONS A Joint rcs'tlntioii luopotdnji nil iinwmlmcnt ' (it Sft-tiun 6. f Arlklc I of Ihr runlt-tulion runlt-tulion of thv Stuff of I (nil, rclultnti lu numU'ipitl corporations. Be U rcHolvod liv the I rllntiri of thr Htiit ol I'tnh. two-third of nil the mem- I br flirted to iu-h vt III two huim-e j vntlnir in fnvnr thereof: SKi'l ION I. Section proposed to be mended. That It It ropoed to amend nts-tion f ot ArtU-le M of the constitution , of the Stmt of Utah, so that the mum will read " follows! ; SK0T1ON 6. Municipal corporations i rented hr peneral law of legislature In- corportited cities or towns mnv frnmr nno i adopt chnrter mnnner prescribed charter to be submitted to electors copies tti he distributed city recorder to file with secretary sec-retary of States amendments powers con- I fcrred upon cities. Corporations for municipal mu-nicipal purposes shall not be created bv special laws. The lenislnture. hy per-eial laws shall proviile for the incorporation, onrnniriitmn ami classification of cities and towns in proportion to population, which laws may be altered, amended or repealed. Any incorporated city or town may frame ml adopt a charter for its own itovernmeiit tn the following manner: The legislative authority of the city may. by two-thirds vote of its members, nd upon petition of qualified electors to the number of fifteen per cent of all 'otes cast at the next preceding election for the office of the mayor, shall forthwith provide pro-vide by ordinance for the submission to the lectors of the question: "Shall a commission commis-sion be chosen to frame a charter?" The ordinance shall require that the question be submitted to the electors at the next mrulnr municipal election. The ballot containing con-taining such question shall also contain tne names of candidates for members of the proposed commission, but without party designation. Such candidates shall be nominated nom-inated sn the same manner as required hy law for nomination of city officers. If a majority of the electors voting on the Question of choosing a commission shall vote in the affirmative, then the fifteen candidates receiving majority of the Totes cast at such election, shall constitute the charter commission, and shall proceed to frame a charter. Any charter so framed shall be submitted submit-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 sixty days sub-equent sub-equent to its completion and distribution amonp 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 chartei and of anv 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 lnw of such city at such time as. may be fixed therein, and shall supersede any existing charter, and all laws affecting the organization and government of such city which are now in conflict therewith Within thirty days after its approval a copy of 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 f1c of the secretary of Stnte and the olhr in the office of the city recorder, and thereafter all courts shall take judicial otice of such charter. Amendments to any such charter may be framed and submitted by a charter commission com-mission in the same manner as provided' for 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 pr-'eeti-lhsT election, and any Buch 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 become part of the charter at the time fixed in such amendment and shall b certified and filed as provided in case wi charters. Each city forming its charter under this ection shall have, and is hereby granted, the authority to exercise all powers relating to 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 . general 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 reyulatioa of public utilities is provided for by general law, nor be deemed to limit or restrict the power of the legislature in matters mat-ters relating to State affairs, to enact reneral 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 taxes and borrow money, within the limits prescribed by general 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, maintain 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 bv general lnw fnr the protection of other communities : and to j grant local public utility franchises and within ita powers regulate the exercise ! thereof. I (c) To make local public improvements i and to acquire by condemnation, or otherwise, other-wise, property within its corporate limita necessary for such improvements; and also to acquire an excess over than that 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 Bell bonds on the ie-curity ie-curity of any such excess property, or of any public utility owned by the city, or of tha revenues thereof, or both, including, in th ease of public utility, a franchise Btat-insr Btat-insr 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 elector of the State at the next general election in the manner provided by law SECTION 3. To Take Effect. If adopted by the electors of this State, this amendment amend-ment shall take effect on January 1st. 1038. . I, M. H. Welling, Secretary of State of : the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the 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 appearB of record in my office. In witness whereof, I have hereunto eet my hRnd and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Utah, this 5th day of Septem-ber, Septem-ber, 1930. (SEAL) Scretary of State. ( I |