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Show fnnstitutional Amendment lU !JITIN TO MUNICIl'AL v CORPORATIONS .niton nroposlne n amendment . Joint 'fK"lM"l Arllcl. XI of the coiistl-SK coiistl-SK "the State ( Uth "Inline, to SSSrfAj ;Z'tTt.on of the B It '.' ,h two-thirds of all the mem-8""l'ctecl mem-8""l'ctecl I to each of the two house. Tf ' i faTOr thereof: ""'llfinN 1 Section proposed to be BECT'U" )t s propoaed to amend i J Article XI of the constitution State of Utah, so that the same will ' rl;'T,oN0W: Municipal corporation. fi JbJ ""' 'w leislature-ln-irtitnt " or ,wns may frame and ttTV. ,h.rter-manner prescribed-charter s idopl n"T,t j ,0 electors copies to he "Scitr recorder to file with scc-Ut"t'"Jar-t)ln,rndment powers con-,. con-,. MtsrT " ... Corporations for mu- t "T C The legislature by irei-eral J. shall P""ine for the inc"TrBt,on; '"" .in and classification of cities and """t Proportion to population, which WIU be altered, amended or repealed. ".".Lroorated city or town may frame i7dwt0arPchartr for its own government ffl"SSrW the c,,T J two-thirds vote of its members. T'upon petition of qualified electors to ind apon v . fifleen per cent of all .rote ! "".Tthe Mt "recedin election for the ' o the mayor, shall forthwith pro- by ordinance for the submission to the JertoS o the Question : "Shall . eomrni.. STa be chosen to frame a charter ? The 7 .nw shall require that the question tf'Slted to the electors at the next - jS "SWP.1 election The ballot con-K, con-K, such question shall also contain t, " name, of candidates for members of Z proposed commission hut without part, taiSiatlon. Such candidates shall be nom- I T.ui in the same manner as required by i for nomination of city officers. If a wiority of the electors voting- on the Zition of choosinsr a commission shall S hi the affirmative, then the fifteen rdidatej receiving a majority of the Soto cast at such election, shall constitute thl chsrter commission, and shall proceed to frame a charter. ..... . Any charter so framed shall be submitted submit-ted to the qualified electors of the city it ,n election to be held at a time to be determined by the charter commission, which shall be not less than sixty dayB subsequent sub-sequent to its .completion and distribution among the electors and not more than one nar from such date. Alternative provisions provi-sions nay also be submitted to be voted apon 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 orjsnlo law of such city at such time as may be fixed therein, and shall supersede any existing charter and all laws affecting the organisation and government of such elty which are now in conflict therewith. Within thirty daya 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, aball be made In duplicate and deposited, one In the office of-fice of the secretary of State and the other in the office of the city recorder, ind thereafter all courts shall take judicial ' notice of such charter. Amendments to any such charter may be framed and submitted by a charter com-mission com-mission in the aame manner as providei ; for making of chartera, or may be pro posed by the legislative authority of the elty 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 east for mayor on the next preceding preced-ing election, and any auch 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 be certified and filed as provided in case tf charters. Each city forming its charter under this section 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 ths 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 auch regulation 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 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 taxes and borrow money, within the limita prescribed by general law, and to levy and collect ape-assessments ape-assessments for benefita conferred. (h) To furnish all local public services i 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 neces-,tT7 neces-,tT7 'r any such purposes, subject to restrictions re-strictions imposed by general law for the Protection of other communities ; and to rrsnt local public utility franchises and within its powers regulate the exercise thereof. (,c) To make local public improvements "id to acquire by condemnation, or other. lse, property within its corporate limits necessary for such improvements ; and also acquire an excess over than that need-so need-so lor any such improvement and to sell or ease such excess property witli restrictions, " order to protect and preserve the improvement im-provement W) To Issue and sell bonds on the ae-rity ae-rity of any auch excess property, or of y public utility owned by the city, or ot revenues thereof, or both, including, in In X" 0f public "tility, a franchise stating stat-ing the terms upon which, in case of fore-utility' fore-utility' Purchaser may operate such SECTION 2. Duty of Secretary of Slate. aifw!CrCiary of State hereby directed to vomit the propoaed amendment to the actors of the State at the next general SFrrmv,1!! mnner provided by law. b. .k ?" T Tk Effect. If adopted L. f Tf10 of tn'a State, this amend-IMS amend-IMS take cffect on January 1st, thc!?'.8' filing. Secretary of State of joe state of Utah, do hereby certify that con. "7lng a full, true and correct SoiXl I t Constitutional Amendment pro-tar? pro-tar? . ,. "ular session of the legialn- j ffir office th" app!ar of reconi rJkWlt.nK" thereof, I have hereunto set the g". .nd "'"d the Great Seal of J C j(M " thi" 8th dlT " 8eDtMn- (,lAL lecreUry of Stat.. (j |