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ENID DAILY EAGLE, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1000.
PROPOSED NEW CITY CHARTER FUR
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First published in The Enid Eagle
July 30, 1909.
PREAMBLE.
We the people of the City of Enid,
Garfield County, Oklahoma, under
the authority or the Constitution of
the State of Oklahoma, do ordain
and establish this Charter for the
City of Enid.
Article I.
Section 1. Organization and
Name.—That the inhabitants of the
City of Enid, Garfield County, Okla-
homa, within the boundries herein-
after described and such additional
territory as may be hereafter added
thereto, and their successor be and
are hereby created and organized a
Municipal Corporation, with perpet-
ual succession, under the style and
miqa of the "The City of Enid," and
it. \ they and their successors
' ' . these presents organized and
Q ed a body politic and corporate,
hall succeed to, own, possess
aiv ontrol all the books, records,
docV vents, and all the property,
real, personal or mixed, and all the
rights, privileges, franchises, powers
and immunities now belonging to
and possessed or enjoyed by the
municipal corporation known as The
City of Enid; that it shall be sub-
ject to and liable for all legal debts,
liabilities, judgments, bonds, notes
and other legal obligations for which
the present corporation is now or
may hereafter become legally
bound; that the corporation hereby
created and its successors, in said
corporate name of "The City of
Enid," shall have power to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded,
complain, intervene, prosecute and
defend in all courts; it shall have
power to make contracts, to take
and acquire property, by purchase or
otherwise, necessary for the public
good, and to own, hold, sell, lease,
convey or otherwise dispose of any
real or personal property within or
outside of the city limits; that It
shall have, exercise and enjoy other
and additional powers, rights, privil-
eges, franchises and Immunities as
are granted by exisiting laws or may
be granted and conferred by any
other provision hereinafter adopted;
that it shall use a corporate seal oi
such design as the elective officers
hereinafter provided may designate.
Section 2. Boundaries. The
boundaries and limits of the City of
Enid are hereby established, and
are the same as are now prescribed
and defined in Ordinance Number
603, as passed by the Mayor and
City Council, together with such ad-
ditional territory as may be hereaf-
ter annexed.
OFFICERS.
Article II.
Section 1. All powers conferred
on the City of Enid shall, unless oth-
erwise provided in this charter, be
exercised by the Mayor and Three
Commissioners, who shall be bona
fide electors and shall have beefl
bona tide residents of the City of
Enid for the last two years next pre-
ceding their election; they shall be
both nominated and elected by the
qualified voters of the City of Enid
at large; they shall have and possess
such general powers as are now con-
ferred by existing state law upon the
Mayor and City Council, not incon-
sistent with the provisions of t^iis
charter, and all the additional pow-
ers hereinafter conferred by thU
charter, and shall receive such com-
pensation as elsewhere provided in
this charter.
Section 2. The Mayor shall be
the President of the Hoard of Com-
missioners, and ex-officio a commis-
sioner, and shall have all the power
and authority and perforin all the
duties of a member of said Board
of Commissioners, except that when
acting as Chairman of said Hoard,
he shall have no vote on matters
before the board for consideration,
save in continuation of appointment
and in case of a tie voto, when, in
the latter case, he shall cast the de-
ciding vote; he shall be the Chief
Executive of the City, shall sign on
behalf of the city all contracts, or-
dinances, bonds, documents, ap-
pointments, or other papers of offic-
ial character, passed and approved
by the Hoard of Commissioners, and
all city warrants drawn on city
funds, when properly passed and ap-
proved by the Hoard of Commis-
sioners in regular sessions He shall
perform such other duties as are
now performed by Mayors of cities
of the first class, not lnconsisteni
with the provisions of this charter.
Section I. The Hoard of Com-
missioners, at their first meeting af-
ter their election, or as soon therer
after as may be practicable, shall by
a majority vote designate from
among their number, one commis-
sioner who shall be known as the
"Police and Fire Commissioner,"
and who shall have under his special
charge the enforcement of all Police
Regulations of the City, and the
general supervision over the Fire
Department thereof, and perform
such other duties as may be required
of him by the Hoard of Commission-
ers; and said Police and Fire Com-
missioner is hereby authorized and
einpowored to appoint the following
officers and appointees: Judge of
the Police Court; Chief of Police;
all City Policemen; City Attorney;
Chief of Fire Department and all
Firemen, and such other appointees
as tho Hoard of Commissioners may
deem necessary. And all of his ap-
pointments Bhall be subject to con-
firmation by a majority vote of the
other three commissioners.
One commissioner who shall be
known as "The Commissioner of
Streets, Alleys and Public Prop-
erty," who, except as herein other-
wise provided shall have under his
special charge, the supervision of
streets, alleys, public grounds, and
other property of the City, and be
charged with the duty of lighting
the same, and keeping the streets
and alleys, public grounds and prop-
erty in a clean and sanitary condi-
tion, and with the enforcement of
all ordinances, rules and regulations
necessary to these ends, and shall
have under his special charge, the I
supervision of all public improve-
ments, except as herein otherwise
provided, and shall see that all con-
tracts therefor are faithfully com-
plied with, and such other duties as
may be required of him by the
Hoard of Commissioners; and said
Commissioner of streets, alleys and
public property is hereby author-
ized and empowered to appoint the
following officers and appointees:
City Civil Engineer; City Streot
Commissioner; City Inspector of
Public Works; City Board of
Health; City Hoard of Park Commis-
sioners; City Inspector of Weights
and Measures; Inspector of Milk and
Dairies, and such other appointees
as the Hoard of Commissioners may
deem necessnry. And all of his ap-
pointments shall be subject to the
confirmation by a majority vote of
the other 'three commissioners.
One Commissioner who shall be
known as the Commissioner of
Water-works and Sewage," who
shall have under his special charge
the construction, maintenance and
operation of the Water-works and
sewer system departments of the
City, and shall see to the enforce-
ment of all regulations with respect
to all the revenues pertaining
thereto, and shall perform such oth-
er duties as may be required of
him by the Hoard of Commission-
ers; and said Commissioner of
Water-works and Sewage is hereby
authorized and empowered to ap-
point the following officers and ap-
pointees: The City Clerk; the City
Superintendent of Water-works;
Engineer and Assistant Engineer of
the Water-works; Police Matron;
and such other appointees as the
Hoard of Commissioners may deem
necessary. And all of his appoint-
ments shnll be subject to confirma-
tion by majority vote of the other
three commissioners.
One commissioner who shall be
known as the "Commissioner of
Finance and Revenue," who shall
have under his special charge, the
enforcement of all laws for the as-
sessment and collection of taxes, of
nil and every kind, and the collec-
tion of all revenues belonging to t lie
City, from whatever source the
same may be derived and shall also
examine into and keep informed as
to the finances of said city, and per-
form such other duties as may be re-
quired by the Hoard of Commis-
sioners. And said commissioner of
Finance and Revenue is hereby
authorized and empowered to ap-
point the following officers and ap-
pointees: City Engineer; City As-
sessor; City Enumerator; City
Library Board; Humane Agent and
such other appointees as the Hoard
of Commissioners may deem neces-
sary. And all of his appointments
shall be subject to confirmation by a
majority vote of the other three
commissioners.
The commissioner making the ap-
pointment of a City Officer shall
have no vote on the confirmation of
the same, and such selection of
i leads of Departments and Assign-
ment of Duties, as hereinbefore set
forth, shall be made at the first
meeting of said Hoard of Commis-
sioners, or as soon thereafter as the
same may be conveniently done and
after any election held for the pur-
pose of electing a Mayor, or one or
more members of said Hoard of
Commissioners.
Section 4. The Mayor and each
Commissioner shall receive a salary
of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,-
500.00) per annum, payable in
monthly installments at the end of
each month; and provided further,
that said amount of compensation
as salary shall continue until the
city has attained a population of
20,000, then such salary shall be
Increased to $2,000.00 per annum,
and when the population has in-
creased to 25,000. such salary shall
be increased to 12,500.00 per an-
num, and when increased to 30,000
such salary shall be increased to
13,000.00 per annum, and when in-
creased to 4 0,000 population, such
salary shall be $3,500.00 per annum,
and shall not thereafter be increas-
ed. The population to be determ-
ined as shown by the last census
taken by the City Enumerator; the
compensation for the services of tho
appoointive officers and the terms of
their appointment shall be fixed by
the Hoard of Commissioners and the
/mount of bond required to be given
by such appointive officers and the
conditions thereof shall be fixed by
the Hoard of Commissioners and
shull run to the city of Enid, obligee.
Section 3. The Mayor and Com-
missioners shall each make bond in
(he sum of Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000.00) to the City of Enid
for the faithful performance of
their respective duties, which bond
*hall be approved by the County
Clerk of Garfield County and shall
be by him filed in the office of the
County Clerk of Garfield County.
Oklahoma, with the other oath of
office attached, and the same to be
recorded; and each appointive of-
ficer, before entering upon the dut-
ies of his office, shall each take the
oath of office and make bond to the
City of Enid, for the faithful dis-
charge of his respective duties and
the same shall be approved, filed
and recorded by the City Clerk.
Section 6. The Mayor and Com-
missioners shall make and file in the
ofTice of the City Clerk, a verified
quarter.y report, showing all the
business had and done for the past
quarter, and the condition in every
department of the city at the time of
making said report and *uch reporf
shnll be recorded by the City Clerl
In a book kept for that purpose.
Section 7. Each commissioner
shall have the power to remove any
appointee in the department, under
his special charge, except as herein-
after provided, when In his judg-
ment It is for the best interest of the
department and upon such removal,
he shall imnidiltlly appoint anoth-
er person to fill the vacancy, thus
caused, provided however, that In
no instance shall the following of
fleers; Tho City Treasurer, The
Chief of Police, The City Clerk, The
City Attorney, Judge of Police
Court, The City Civil Engineer, Tho
Chief of Fire Department and all
Firemen, be removed except by a
majority vote of the Hoard of Com-
missioners in regular session after
due hearing, before the board.
Section 8. The Commissioner se-
lected as the head of each of said
departments shall, within fifteen
days after his qualification, submit
to the Hoard of Commissioners,
nominations for each of the officers
under his department, by submit-
ting the name or names of persons
to be appointed, and should the oth-
er members of the Hoard refuse to
confirm such nominations by major-
ity vote, then other names shall be
submitted until a selection has been
determined and an appointment con-
firmed.
Section 9. All appointive officers
hereinbefore provided for shnll per-
forin the duties prescribed by this
charter and as may be provided by
ordinance duly passed by the Com-
missioners, and where such duties
are not specifically provided for
herein, then such appointitve officer
shall perform such duties as are now
required under the existing state
law.
POLICE AND OTHER POWERS.
Article 111.
Section 1. The City of Enid shall
have power, by ordinance duly
passed, to establish and maintain a
city police department, prescribe the
duties of policemen, and regulate
their conduct.
Section 2. To permit, forbid or
regulate theaters, balls, dance houses
and other public amusements, and to
suppress the same whenever the
preservation of order, tranquility,
public safety or good morals may
demand.
Section .3 To prohibit dram
shops, drinking saloons and other
places where intoxicating liquors
are sold, and to close variety thea-
ters when necessary, expedient or
advisable.
Section 4. To prohibit and punish
keepers and inmates of bawdy houses
and variety shows; to prevent and
suppress assignation houses and
houses of ill fame, to determine
such inmates and keepers to be va-
grants and to provide for the pun-
ish rnent of such persons.
Section 6. To inspect weights
and measures, and to fix the penal-
ties for not using or conforming to
the same, and to provide that inspec-
tion fees may be fixed by ordinance.
Section 6. To make all needful
and proper regulations concerning
keepers of taverns and other public
houses, draymen, horse drivers, om-
nibus drivers, hack drivers, and dri-
vers of baggage wagons and ve-
hicles; to estatblish maximum rates
for all kinds of transportation within
the city limits, to prevent extortion,
and to preserve order and prevent
noises and confusion in and about
the several depots on the arrival and
departure of railway trains, and to
provide how and where hacks and
other, carriers shall stand or take
their positions upon the streets adja-
cent or near to said depots, and
where they shall stand when receiv-
ing or discharging passengers.
Section 7. To suppress gambling
houses, and to punish keepers of
gambling houses and pool rooms,
and all persons who play cards or
games of chance of any kind, and
to punish persons who sell lottery
tickets or who advertise lottery
drawings or schemes and results of
drawing of lotteries.
Section 8. To provide for the in-
spection of milk, cream, butter and
all dairy products offered for sale,
in the city of Enid, and to prescribe
the fees to be charged therefor.
Section 9. To establish and reg-
ulate public grounds and regulate
and restrain and prohibit the run-
ning at large of horses, mules, asses,
cattle, sheep, goats, swine, geese,
ducks, chickens, and pigeons, and
the distraining, impounding and sale
of the same for the cost of the pro-
ceedings and the penalty incurred,
and to order their destruction when
they cannot be sold, and to impose
penalties upon the owners thereof
for the violation of any ordinance
regulating or prohibiting the same.
Section 10. To tax, restrain or
regulate and prohibit the running at
large of dogs, and to authorize their
destruction when at large contrary
to ordinances, and to impose penal-
ties upon the owners or keepers
thereof.
Section 11. To prohibit or regu-
late the rolling of hoops, the flying
of kites and the firing of flro crack-
ers, and use of velocipedes and bicy-
cles, and the use of any other amuse-
ment or practices tending to annoy
person^ passing upon the Btreets or
sidewalks, or to frighten horses or
teams.
Section 12. To restrain and pro-
hibit the blowing of whistles, horns,
crying of goods, and all other prac-
tices and performances tending to
the collection of persons in the
streets or sidewalks by auctioneers
and others for the purpose of busi-
ness. amusement or otherwise.
Section 13. To regulate or pro-
hibit mendicants, beggars, or other
persons from soliciting alms, help or
other assistance upon the streets or
sidewalks of said city, and prescribe
a penalty by fine for a non-obserr-
ance thereof.
Section 14. To prohibit and reg-
ulate the speed of railroad engines
or locomotives within the city limits.
Section 15. To prevent all tres-
passes and breaches of tho peace and
good order, assault and batteries,
fighting, quarreling, using abusive,
profane or insulting language, mis-
demeanor and all dis-orderly con-
duct and to punish all persons thus
offending.
Section 16. To prevent and pun-
ish the keepers of houses in which
loud and immoral theatrical repre-
sentations are given, and to adopt
summary measures for the removal
or suppression of all such theatrical
representations.
8ection 17. To require all steam
or street railway companies owning
tracks within the city limits, upon
the public streets or highways of
said city, to keep their tracks in a
safe condition, and to provide
penalties for the non-performance
thereof.
Section 18. To prohibit, prevent
and suppress horse racing, immod-
erate riding or driving in the streets
of said city.
Section 19. To prevent cruel
treatment of animals and to punish
the abusers of animals.
Section 20. To compel person^ to
fasten their horses or other animals
attached to vehicles, or otherwise
hitched, or standing in the street.
Section 21. To restrain and pun-
ish vagrants, mendicants, beggars
and prostitutes.
Section 2 2. To regulate and con-
trol the sale, gift, barter or exchange
of cocaine, opium, morphine and the
salts thereof.
Section 25. To license, tax and
regulate merchants, commission mer-
chants, hotel and inn keepers, brok-
ers, money brokers, real estate
agents, insurance agents, insurance
brokers, auctioneers, and all other
trades, professions, occupations and
callings of every kind.
Section 24. To license, tax, reg-
ulate, prevent or suppress paupers,
peddlers, second hand dealers, pawn
brokers, and dealers in junks, and
keepers of theatrical or other shows
and amusements. To license, tax
and regulate theaters, circuses, mov-
ing picture shows and shows of any
kind, and the exhibition of natural
or artificial curiosities, menageries
and musical exhibitions, and per-
formances and to regulate and li-
cense or prohibit street parades, pool
tables, slot machines, striking ma-
chines, lung testers, doll racks, cane
racks and exhibitions, devices and
things for which a fee is charged.
Section 25. To prevent all box-
ing matches, sparring exhibitions,
cock fighting and dog fighting and
punish all persons thus offending.
Section 26. To regulate, control
and prohibit the carrying of fire-
arms and other weapons within the
city limits, and to provide and in-
flict the same punishment therefor
as is now or may hereafter be pro-
vided by state law against persons
unlawfully carrying weapons.
Section 27. To provide work-
houses for vagrants, vagabonds and
disorderly persons who are unable
or refuse to pay fines, or who have
been sentenced to fine and imprison-
ment or to compel them to work on
the streets, alleys and public works,
and make all necessary regulations
concerning the same, and to provide,
keep and regulate a city prison.
Section 28. To define what shall
be nuisances in the city, and within
3,000 feet of the corporation lines
outside of the city limits and to
abate such nuisances by summary
proceedings, and to punish the au-
thors thereof by penalties, fines and
imprisonment.
Section 29. To regulate and pre-
vent dangerous construction and
conditions of chimneys, fire places,
hearths, stoves, stove pipes, boilers
and other heating apparatus and to
cause the same to be removed or
made safe.
Section 30. To regulate the use
of automobiles, motorcars, motor
cycles or any motor vehicles, and
the speed thereof; to prescribe the
proper lighting of same when used
at night; to issue permits for the
use of such vehicles and to require
the numbering of such vehicles.
Section 21. To control and reg-
ulate the location and the use of
all kinds of steam engines and steam
boilers in the city; and proscribe
the qualifications of persons operat-
ing and running same, and to adopt
such rules and regulations in rela-
tion thereto as may be seen best for
the public safety and comfort.
Section 32. To inspect the con-
struction of all buildings in the city
and to prescribe and enforce proper
regulations in regard thereto; to reg-
nlate and locate or prohibit the erec-
tion of all poles in the city, and
cause the same to be changed,
whether telegraph, telephone, elec-
tric light or otherwise.
Section 33. The city shall have
power to establish, maintain and
regulate a city prison, or city pris-
ons, workhouses, and other means of
punishment for vagrants, persons
convicted of mis-demeanors of the
city and disorderly persons, houses
of correction and reformatories for
youthful criminals.
Section 34. The city of Enid
shall have power to enforce the by-
laws and ordinances for the city, by
fine or imprisonment, or both; pro-
vided, that no ordinance or by-laws
sha'l provide a lesser penalty than
is prescribed for a like offense by
the laws of the state.
Section 35. The city of Enid may
provide by ordinance, for the com-
mutation of fines Imposed, or may
require labor in a workhouse or on
a rock pile, or upon the public
streets, and public highways of the
city of Enid, and for the collection
of any fine imposed, execution may
be enforced as other executions is-
sued in civil cases.
Section 36. Whenever the for-
feiture of a franchise, right or priv-
ilege granted to any person, firm or
corporation to be exercised as a pub-
lic utility, ar. provided in this car.r-
ter. the power to enforce such for
feiture shall not be construed to b"
in the Bnp.id of Commissioners, but
Uuch forfeiture shall Le final'v en-
forced only through rhe decree of a
court of ci mpetent jurisdiction.
Wanchise*.
Section 37. The city of Enid
shall have power, by ordinance duly
passed, to regulate, operate or con-
trol the streets and alleys of nald
city of Enid, or may confer by ordi-
nance upon any person or corpora-
tion. the franchise, or the right to
jfe the property of the city, for the
prjiose of furnishing to the public
any general public service.
Municipal Service.
| Section 88. The city of Enid
shall have power, by ordinance duly-
passed. to buy, or construct, own.
! maintain and operate a system of
waterworks, gas or electric plants,
telephones, street cars and sewers,
lor any other public service or pub-
| lie enterprise.
1 Fire and Fire Department.
I Section 89. The city of Enid
shall have power to provide meam
for the protection against and the
extinguishment of fires and shal'
provide for the regulation, main
tenance and support of a fire depart-
ment, may prescribe fire limits, reg-
ulate and prohibit the erection of
buildings in said limits, may direct
and prescribe that all buildings
within the fire limits shall be con-
structed of fire-proof material, the
kind, character, extent and quality
of which buildings and material,
may by ordinance, be prescribed and
fixed. And shall by ordinance duly
passed, adopt such rules and regula-
tions in relation thereto as may
seem best for the public safety, com-
fort and protection. And may by or-
dinance condemn, destroy, remove or
cause to be removed, any building or
thing that seems best for- the pub-
lic safety, comfort and protection.
Health.
Section 4 0. The city of Enid
shall have power, by ordinance duly
passed, to regulate and prescribe
such rules and regulations deemed
advisable or necessary to protect
the public health, public safety and
comfort.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE
HOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
Article IV.
Section 1. The Board of Commis-
sioners shall be vested with the
power, and charged with the duty
of adopting all laws and ordinances
not inconsistent with the Constitu-
tion of this state and the laws there-
of touching every subject-matter and
subject, within the purview of the
local government, instituted by this
charter.
Section 2. Every ordinance or
resolution of the Board of Commis-
sioners shall, before taking effect, be
presented to the Mayor for his ap-
proval and signature, if he approves
it, he shall sign it; if he disapproves
it, he shall specify his objections
thereto-in writing, within seven days
and return the same to the Board of
Commissioners with such disapprov-
al, when it shall again be submitted
to the vote of the commissioners,
and should it receive a unanimous
vote of the three commissioners, it
shall, after five days, be in full force
and effect the same as if approved
by the Mayor.
Section 3. The Board of Commis-
sioners may meet daily at the City
Hall in said city or at stated inter-
vals, which shall be not less than
once a week, as shall be fixed by
said Board, to consider and take un-
der advisement and act upon such
bills as may come before them. A
majority of said Board, shall consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of
business, but no motion of said com-
missioners shall be effective unless
upon a vote of the majority of such
quorum. No final action shall be
taken in any matter concerning the
special department of any absent
commissioner, unless such business
has been made the special order of
the day by action at a previous
meeting of the Board. Special meet-
ings may be called by the Mayor or
by any two members of said Board,
at any time, to consider only such
matters as shall be mentioned in
the call for said meeting, and writ-
ten notice thereof shall be given to
each member of sajd Board. All
sessions of said Board, whether reg-
ular or called, shall be open to the
general public.
Section 4. The Board of Com-
missioners shall have the manage-
ment and control of the finances of
the city, except as otherwise herein
provided. They shall have the power
to appropriate money and provide
for the payment of debts and ex-
penses of the city; to provide by or-
dinance for special funds for special
purposes, and to make the same dis-
bursable only for such purposes.
Section 5. The Board of Commis-
sioners shall have the power to fund
or refund as provided by law, the
whole or any part of the existing
debts of the city, or any future debt,
by acquiring and cancelling the evi-
dence thereof, and to issue other
bonds in lieu thereof, bearing inter-
est at a rate not greater than the
original indebtedness, and to apply
the sinking 'fund belonging to said
series of bonds so refunded, and may
pay and retire any bond, by using
the sinking fund therefor.
Section 6. The commissioners
named at the head of each depart-
ment shall audit all accounts or
claims against it, unless he be ab-
sent or fail or refuse to do so, in
which case the Mayor shall appoint
another commissioner to act in his
stead during his absence, or to audit
all such claims and accounts that
the said commissioner shall fail or
refuse to act upon; but before pay-
ment, all accounts shall be examined
and approved by said Board of Com-
missioners, at a meeting of said
Board. Said Board shall require a
statement to be published quarterly,
in the official newspaper of said
city, .showing a full, clear and com-
plete statement of all taxes and oth-
er revenue collected and expended
during the preceding quarter, indi-
cating the respective sources from
which the money was derived, and
also indicating the disposition made
thereof, and showing all disburse-
ments during said period.
Section 7. The Mayor and each
Commissioner, tho Judge of Police
Court and the City Clerk shall be,
and they are hereby authorized to
administer oaths in all matters con-
cerning municipal affairs of the city.
Section 8. If a vacancy shall oc-
cur in the Board of Commissioners,
(excepting the Mayor), the Mayor
shall nominate a person to fill the
office, and shall submit his name to
the Board of Commissioners. If such
nomination shall receive the approv-
al of two of the other three com-
missioners, said appointment shall
take effect from the date of such
confirmation. In the event said
Board shall fail or refuse to confirm
such nomination, the Mayor shall
submit another nomination of a dif-
ferent person for said office, and
shall continue to do until a nomi-
nation, so made by him, shall be
confirmed by the other members, and
xuch appointee shall serve in said
office until the next city election, or
until his successor is elected and
qualified, unless sooner removed, and
ihall be entitled to receive the reg-
ilar salary for such office, for the
ime he shall perform the dutiese
thereof.
Section 9. At the regular meet-
ing of the Board of Commissioners,
after their installation into office,
the newly elected Mayor shall nomi-
nate, subject to confirmation by the
Board of Commissioners, one Com
missioner who shall be known and
designated as "Mayor Protempore."
who shall continue to hold the title
and office until the expiration of the
term of office for which he was
elected as commissioner, unless re-
moved therefrom, but shall receive
no extra pay by reason of being or
acting Mayor Protempore.
Section 10. Disability of the
Mayor. If, for any reason, the
Mayor is absent from the city or un-
able to perform the duties of his of-
fice, the Mayor Protempore shall act
as Mayor and during such absence
or disability, shall possess all the
powers and perform all of the duties
of the Mayor, except that he shall
not, independent of the Board of
Commissioners, appoint or remove
any officer or head of any depart-
ment of the city, from office, which
officer was appointed by the Mayor.
Section 11. Vacancies. In case
of death, resignation or permanent
disability of the Mayor, or when-
ever a vacancy in the office of the
Mayor shall occur for any reason,
the Mayor Protempore shall act as
Mayor, and shall possess all the
powers and perform all the duties of
the Mayor, under the official title,
however, of Mayor Protempore until
an election is ordered by the Board
of Commissioners, to fill the vacan-
cy in the office of Mayor, and until
such election has been held and the
successor to the office duly elected
and qualified. Such election shall
be ljeld within thirty (30) days
thereafter, and after notice by publi-
cation, given for at least twenty
days (20), as required by law.
Section 12. All ordinances, reso-
lutions, rules and regulations now
in force in the City of Enid, not in
conflict herewith, shall remain in
full force and effect until altered,
amended or repealed by the Board
of Commissioners; and all questions
arising in administering said city
government, not provided for herein,
shall be governed by the State law
in such case made and provided.
Section 13. The publication of
all legal notices of the City shall be
made in some newspaper which is
of general circulation, and must
have been of a continuous publica-
tion for a period of at least one
year in the City of Enid, and be-
fore letting the contract for the city
printing, the Board of Commission-
ers shall cause an advertisement to
be published in a daily newspaper of
general circulation of the City of
Enid, inviting competitive bids from
daily newspapers published in the
City of Enid, for the work to be
done, said advertisement to be pub-
lished not less than five times, all
bids submitted shall be sealed, and
the same shall be opened by the
Mayor in the presence of the major-
ity of the Board of Commissioners
and shall remain on file in the office
of the City Clerk, and be open to
public inspection for at least forty-
eight hours (48). before any award
of said work is made to any competi-
tive bidder. The Board of Commis-
sioners shall,in determiningthemost
advantageous bid for the city, take
into consideration the true and ac-
tual circulation of said papers in the
ri«y and shall enter into contract
with the parly submitting the low-
est secure bid; and, if in the opinion
of the Board of Commissioners, none
of slid bit's are satisfactory, then
t;ie Commissioners may reject all
bids and immediately re-advertise
for bids, inviting competition from
both daily and weekly papers, j ub-
l.shed in the ( ity of Enid, and pro-
ceed as be;o -<
REVENUE.
Article V.
Section 1. The Board of Commis-
sioners shall, by ordinance or reso-
lution, on or before the first Tues-
day in August in each year, levy an
ad valorem tax for all purposes ex-
cept as herein otherwise provided,
not to exceed the limit provided, by
the Constitution of the State of Ok-
lahoma, which said levy shall in-
clude the levy for park and library
purposes. Said ordinance or resolu-
tion shall specify distinctly the pur-
pose for which said tax is levied, and
no tax levied and collected for one
purpose shall ever be diverted to any
other purpose. The tax so levied,
when collected, shall be kept in the
fund created.
Section 2. The Board of Com-
missioners shall, on or before the
first Tuesday in August of each year,
levy sufficient additional revenue to
create a sinking fund to be used
first, for the payment of interest
coupons as they fall due; second, for
the payment of bonds as they fall
due; third, for the payment of such
parts of judgments as such muni-
cipality may by law be required to
pay: provided that said city shall
not be required to pay to exceed
one-third of the original amount of
all judgments now outstanding in
any one year.
Section 3. For the purpose of
erecting public buildings in said
city, the rates of taxation herein
limited, may be increased and the
rate of such increase and the pur-
pose for which it is intended, shall
be submitted to a vote of the people
of such city and the majority of the
qualified voters of such city, voting
at such election, shall vote therefor,
provided, that such increase shall
not exceed five mills on the dollar
of the assessed valuation of the tax-
able property of such city.
Section 4. Said city shall not be
allowed to become Indebted in any
mnnner. for any purpose, to an
amount exceeding ifi any year, the
Income In revenue provided for such
year, without the assent of three-
fifths of the qualified voters thereof
voting at an election to be held for
that purpose nor in cases requiring
such assent, Hhall any indebtedness
be allowed to be incurred to any
amount, Including existing fndebted-
ness, in the aggregate, exceeding
five per cent of the value of the tax-
able property therein, to be ascer-
tained from the last assessment roll
for state and county purposes, previ-
ous to thq Incurring of such indebt-
edness; provided that said city, in
incurring any indebtedness, requir-
ing the assent of the voters as fore-
said, Bhall, before or at the time of
doing so, provide for the collection
of an annual tax, sufficient to pay
the interest on such indebtedness as
it falls due, and also to constitute *
sinking fund for the payment of the
principal thereof, within twenty-five
years (25) from the time of con-
tracting the same.
Section 5. Said city may, by a
majority vote of the qualified voters,
voting at an election to be held for
that purpose, be allowed to become
indebted in a larger amount than
that specified in section 4. for the
purpose of purchasing or conducting
public utilities or for the repairing
of the same, to be owned exclusively
by said city; provided, that in the
incurring of any such indebtedness,
requiring the assent of the voters
aforesaid, said city shall have the
power to provide for, and at or be-
fore the time for incurring such
indebtedness, shall provide for col-
lection of an annual tax, in addition
to other taxes provided for by this
charter, sufficient to pay the interest
ou such indebtedness as it falls due,
and also to constitute a sinking
fund for the payment of the prin-
cipal thereof, within, twenty-five
years (25) from the time of con-
tracting the same.
Section 0. Said city, ia addition
to the authority hereinbefore given,
shall have the authority to issue
bonds in lieu of any bond now out-
standing against the said city; pro-
vided that said bonds shall not
draw to exceed five per centum in-
terest, and shall be exchanged at not
less than par, and accrued interest
on the outstanding bonds, and when
so issued and exchanged, such out*
standing bonds, shall be taken up
and cancelled.
Section 7. The receiving directly,
or indirectly by any officer of said
city, of any interest, profit or per-
quisites, arising from the use or loan
of public funds in his hands, or to
be raised through his agency for city
purposes, shall be deemed sufficient
cause to forfeit his office and the
person so receiving, shall then and
there forfeit his office and be dis-
qualified to hold office.
Section 8. The various levies
provided by this article and all other
taxes and assessments provided in
I this charter, except license and poll
taxes, shall be certified by the City
Clerk to the County Clerk of Gar-
field County, to be by said County
Clerk placed on the tax rolls for col-
lec* ion, subject to the same penalty
and collected by the County Treas-
urer as other taxes are collected by
the County Treasurer, as is provided
by law for the cololectlon of taxes,
and paid by him to the City Treas-
urer, and such payment shall include
all penalties collected on such city
taxes. The entire amount of all city
levies shall be placed upon the tax
rolls as one levy, to be known as
"City Levy."
shall, on January 15th, May 15th,
Section 9. The County Treasurer
July 15th, and November 15th, of
each year, and oftener if required
by the Board of Commissioners, pay
over to the City Treasurer, all
moneys and evidence of indebted-
ness, collected and payable to said
city, which shall include all penal-,
ties collected on city tuxes and as- '
sessments, and render a full item-
ized statement thereof to the Board
of Commissioners, and the County
Treasurer shall duplicate receipts
from the City Treasurer for the
same, and file one of said receipts
with the County Clerk and the City
Clerk shall enter in a book for that
purpose, and under the proper head,
all amounts for which receipts are
given.
Section 10. The City Treasurer,
under the immediate direction of
the Mayor and Board of Commis-
sioners, shall require every bank
with which he makes a deposit of
the the city's funds, to pay not less
than two per cent interest on the
average daily or monthly balance*
of all money in said bank or banks,
belonging to said city, such Interest
to become a part of the fund on de-
posit and the said City Treasurer
shall not keep any money in any
bank that will not make such allow-
ance as aforesaid.
POLICE COURT.
Article VI.
Section 1. Tho judicial power of
the city shall be vested in a police
court.
Section 2. The police court shall
have exclusive jurisdiction of the
criminal proceedings for a violation
of any city ordinance, and of all
civil actions and proceedings arising
out of a violation of such ordinances
and for the collection of any license
required by any ordinance, except
such actions and proceedings as fall
within tho jurisdiction of other
coourts under the provisions of the
coonstitution of this state.
Section a. The police court shall
have exclusive Jurisdiction of the
following offences committed within
the city (except when prosecuted by
indictment or information): 1,
petty larceny; 2, assault and bat-
tery; 3, breaches of the peace, riot,
committing wilful injury to property
and all misdemeanors punishable by
fine or lmprisoonment in the county
Jail, or by both; 4, proceedings re-
specting vagrants, lewd or disord-
erly persons; and all other petty of-
fences and misdemeanors committed
within the city, embraced in its
ordinances or by the laws of the
State of which the police court has
Jurisdiction.
Section 4. All fines, penalties and
forfeitures collected by said police
court shall be the property of the
city, and shall be immediately de-
posited with the city treasurer for
the use of said city.
Section 5. The city shall furnish
the necessary dockets, and all blanks
and other books and papers and sta-
tionery in the transaction of the
business of the said police court. A
complete record of all cases shall be
entered in the docket of said court.
Section 6. The police court shall
always be open for the transaction
of business, except on Sunday.
ELECTIONS.
Article VII.
Section 1. On the 4th Tuesday
after this charter shall have been
adopted and approved by the Gov-
ernor, there shall be nominated, at a
primary election to be held in the
City of Enid, to be called as herein-
after provided, candidates for the
office of Mayor and three Commis-
sioners.
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