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Show Proposed Constitutional Amendment Amend-ment No. 1. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6. A Joint resolution proposing nn amendment amend-ment to Sortlon B of Artlel il of tho Conutltutlon of tho State of Utah, re-litlng re-litlng to municipal corporation. R- It enacted by the Letfslalure of the State of I'tah two thirds vote of nil the members elected In the two Houses concurring con-curring therein- ertlon I. That It Is proporert to amend Section 5 of Article xi of the Constltu-Men Constltu-Men of the State of Utah, o that thi same will read as follows: Sec. 5 Corporation for municipal pur poses shall not be created by special laws. The legislature by general laws ohall provide pro-vide for the Incorporation, organization end -ins.lfeotion of cities nnd towns In proportion to population, whieh laws may be altered, amended or repealed Any ol t may frame and adopt a charter char-ter for Its own goernment In the following fol-lowing manner: The legislative authority of the eltv may. by two thirds vote of Its members, j and upon petition of ojinllficd elertors to the number of 10 per cent of all votes cast ' ,t the next preceding elertlon for Ihe of 1 fire nf tliA nmvnr ol.nll rnrllin ilh Tirol-Me by ordlnanee for the pubmlsslon to the r-lertors of the question. "Shall a Com-' mission he rhosen to frame a charter"" The ordlnarn e shall require, that the cues- tlon be submitted to the electors at the next regular municipal elertlon. The bill lot containing BUCh question ahall also contain the names of candidates for mern- , bers of the proposed Commission, but without party doRlpmatlon. Such candidates candi-dates shall be nominated In the same' manner as required by law for nomination 1 of city officers. If a majority of the elec-tOFS elec-tOFS voting on the question of choo.-un;: i Commission shall vote In the affirmative; then the flft rn candidates receiving a , majority o( the vote cast nt such election, elec-tion, shall constitute the charter Commls- , slon and shall proceed to frame a char- 1 tcr. Any charter so framed shll be submitted sub-mitted to the qualified electors of the city I at an election to bo held at a time to i be determined b the charter Commission. ; Which shall be not less than thirty riavs, subsequent to Its completion and dlstrl-, bntlon amoiiK the electors and not more than one year from such date. Alterns five provisions may also l submitted to be voted upon separately. The Commission Commis-sion shall make provisions for the dlstrl- , butlon of copies of the proposed charter, and of any alternative provisions to the I qualified electors of the city, net less than Sixty days before the election ot which It is VOtfd upon Such proposed charier and such alternative provisions ns are approved ap-proved by a majority of the electors voting vot-ing thereon, shall become nn organic law, of such city at such time as may be fixed therein nnd shall supersede any existing charter ond all laws affecting the organ liatlon 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 authentlcat . .1 hv the seal of such city, shall be nude in dupllcdte and deposited, one In Ihe of fice of the Secretary of State and the ' ..ih.. In iVm nfflc. nf Mir. fill- Prrnrrlf r l anil thereafter all courts shall take Judl I Clal notice of such charter. Amendments to ar.y such charter may; h frismed and submitted by the charter Commission In the same manner as pro- ; vldcd for making of charters, or may be proposed by the legislative authority of the citv upon a two thirds vote thereof, . or by petition of qualified electors to a 1 number equal to one tenth of the total vote cnsl foi iiiJer on the next preceding election, and any such amendment may he submitted nt ihe next regular election, end having been Approved by the majority i of the electors voting thereon, shall be- ' come a part of the charter at the lime fixed in such amendment and shall be cer-j tt led and filed as provided in case of charters Each city forming Its charter wnd'r this! Section shnl! have, and Is hereby granted, the authority to exeicire all powers re'-.t-Ine to municipal affairs, and to adopt ' and enforce within its limits, local police sanitary and similar regulation not to con-' fllct with the general law. and no enumer- j ation of powers In this constitution or any ' law shall be deemed to limit or restrict ' the geneinl grant of ruthorltv hereby con fned. but this giant of authority shall' not include the power to regulate the scrv- . Ice or charges ot public utilities so long os such regulation Is rrovlded for by general gen-eral law, nor be deemed to limit or restrict re-strict the power of the Legislature In mat I tors of public or general Interest, nor those relating to State affairs. The power to be cenferred upon the clt-lee clt-lee by this Section shall include the fol- I low Ing: (a) To levy, assess and collect taxes and borrow money, within the limit pie-scribed pie-scribed by general law. and lo levy and collect special assessments for benefits conferred. (b) To furnish all local public services: to purchase, hire, construct own. maintain main-tain und operate, or lease, public utilities, local In et-nt and use; to acquire by , nHuninatlnn n r nlhpru l-lP l llhin nr ! without the corporate limits, property necessar for any such purpose, subject to restrictions imposed b general law for the protection of other communities, and to gront local public utility franchises nnd regulate the exercise thereof subject to the continuing power of regulation of pub lie utilities, their ratea and service, by tho State, as is now or may hereafter be, pio-vided pio-vided by general law. (cf To make local public lmpro emcnts and lo aCQUire by condemnation or otherwise other-wise property within Its corporate llm Its necessary for such Improvements ond olso to acquire an excess over that needed jfor any such Improvement and to sell or leas such excess property with restrlc Hons. In order to protect and preserve the Improvement. (d) To issue and sell bonds on the se-cuilty se-cuilty of any such excess property, or of anv public utility owned by the city, or of the revenues thereof, or both, including, includ-ing, In the case of a public utility, a Iran- j Chlse statinc the terms upon which. In case of foreclosure, the purchaser may i operate such utility. Sec. J The Se i .-tat; of State Id hereby here-by directed to submit the proiosed amend- ment to ihe electors of the State at tho next gencrul election in tho munnc-r pro lded by law-Sec. law-Sec. 3 If adopted by the electors of this State, this amendment shall take effect ef-fect on Januarj 1st. 1921. Approved March 18, 1919. |