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Show ww I MAYOR AND FIVE I COMMISSIONERS The new commission form of government gov-ernment bill, a consolidation of the Burnes bill in the house and the Craig I bill in the senate, was presented In the house yesterday by the committee on municipal corporations at the re-j re-j quest of Barnes of Salt Lake The provisions ot" the bill affect j jonly cities of tbe first class and cities I 'of the second class having a popula-1 ; tion of more than 20.000 Thus the ) measure takes account of nl Salt i Lake and Ogden, leaving Logan, j I Provo and Murray operating under 1 ! the existing law The bill introduced yesterday pro-rides pro-rides for the form of government only Today a companion bill w ill be j presented, w hich will provide for the I manner of conducting elections. The I elections bill w ill eliminate the prl- I I mar required under the present law I and Willi as a matter of fact, put the candidates before the icople ol party UIIN The bill presented yesterday pro- ides that the municipal covernnien'. shall consist i live commissioners and a mayor. The mayor and commissioners com-missioners to be the successors of the present mayor and commissioners. The new bill makes the city attorney, attor-ney, city treasuier and city recorder elective officers It provides that the mayor, city auditor and city attorney , treasurer and recorder be elected from the city at large and each of the five commissioners from the wards Removal from the ward of any commissioner com-missioner vacates his office automati cally. In case of a vacancj In the office of-fice of mayor, the commissioners may elect a mayor to fill the olflce until the next municipal election. The commissioners may also fill vacancies caused by the retirement for any reason of the commissioner elected. The mayor is given the power of veto, which may be overiidden by a four-fifths vote. All officials under the new act are , to be elected for two years only, beginning be-ginning with the election of next November, No-vember, and the terms of the present officials are to expire on the first i Monday of next January The official bond of the treasurer I is fixed at the amount of the taxes ; for the current y ear, but in no case is j it to exceed $250,000. May ors and commissioners are to give bouds of fn. 000 each Division of Powers The administrative- powers arc divided di-vided Into live departments, eacli with a commissioner at Its head j It is specified thnt no ordinance granting a franchfse shall he effective until sixty days nfter its passaie and approval. If at any time during those, sixty days 10 per cent of the voters Die with the olty recorder a protest against the ordinance the ordinance must be submitted t the voters of the citv for their approval or rejection, at I an election to be held not less than 1 twenty days nor more than thirty-days thirty-days after the filing of the protest. |
