| Show I I 1 r Voters Urged To Study New Amendment During the past week the adver adver- for the proposed constitutional constitution constitution- al amendment on which the voters will pass judgment in November appeared appeared appeared ap ap- in the newspapers over the state The amendment proposes that cities or towns of Utah may select charter commissions and provide for fo r their own charters Instead of depending dependIng depending depend depend- ing as they do now entirely on legislative legislative legislative legis legis- enactment It is commonly known as the home rule in Cities amendment its supporters supporters supporters sup sup- porters maintaining that the people cf of cities in one part of the state should be allowed to have complete say as to t o how they will be locally I with of course full state powers be beIng being being be- be ing reserved to the legislature without t having to ask advice of representatives tives or senators from other parts of the state where entirely different conI conditions con con- would undoubtedly prevail I The proposal provides that the city or town council or commission by a two thirds vote ote supplemented by a n petition signed by 15 per cent of the number of ot voters at the preceding election may have submitted to the L n people a at me use m U liS w. w u election the question Shall a commission be chosen to frame a charter If the vote is in the affirmative e a commission of 15 persons is chosen at atthe atthe atthe the same election ejection to frame a charter When the commission has completed ed its Us work it must submit to the voters voters voters vot vot- ers the proposed charter with alternative alternative tive tine sections if desired within from 60 days to a year after the report is completed In addition to specifying certain po powers ers which the charter is Continued on Page Eight VOTERS URGED TO STUDY NEW AMENDMENT T Continued from Page One to give to the city or town the amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment would give gl the cities or towns the authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal affairs and to adopt and enforce w thin Its limits local local lo 10 lo- lo cal police pollee sanitary and similar regulations regulations regulations regu regu- lations not In with l the general law but this grant of authority shall net not include the power to regulate public public public pub pub- lic utilities not municipally owned If such regulation of public utilities Is provided pro for by general law nor be deemed to limit or restrict the pow power r of the legislature In matters relating to state affairs to enact general laws applicable alike to all cities of the state All AU voters arc are urged to read the amendment amendment amendment a- a which appears in another column of this Issue of the Record and study it thoroughly before going to the polls to ot vote on the question |
