Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-08
CHAPTER 81
AN ACT to provide for the Incorpo
poration of Towns and cities.

AN ACT to provide for the Incorpo-
poration Of Towns and cities.
SEC. 1st. Be i enacted 5y Lte Gen.
erdt assembly Of The State of Ioua,
That no town or city shall hereafter
be Incorporated I'm the State of Iowa
In any other manner than as herein
provided. None of the provisions of
this act shall apply to cities or towns
already incorporated.
SEC. 2. When the inhabitants of
any part OF any county not embraced
within the limits of any city or In.
corporated town, shall desire to be
organized into city or incorporated
town, they may apply by petition In
writing, signed by not less than thir-
ty OF the qualified voters of the terri
tory TO be embraced In the proposed
city or incorporated town, to the
county court of the proper county,
which petition shall describe .the ter
ritory proposed to be embraced I'm
such city or Incorporated town, and
shall have annexed thereto an accu-
rate map or plat thereof, aud state
the name proposed for such city or
Incorporated town, and shall be ac-
companied with satisfactory proofs
Of the number of inhabitants within
the territory embraced I'm said limits.
SEC. 3. When such petition shall
be presented the court shall forth
with appoint five commissioners, who
shall at once call an election OF all
the qualified electors residing within
the territory embraced within said
limits, as described and plated to be,
held at SOME convenient place with
In said limits, the notice for which
shall be given by publication I'm some
newspaper published within said
limits, (if any there be, and by post
ing notices in five public places With
In said limits, not less than three sue
cessive weeks preceding such elec-
ton. Such notices shall specify the
place and time of such election, and
q description OF the limits of said
proposed town or city, and that q
description and plat thereof are on
file In the Office or the county Judge.
Said commissioners shall act as
Judges and clerks OF election, and
shall qualify as required by law for
judges and clerks of township cleo
tions. and shall report the result of
the ballot to the county Judge afore-
said. The ballot used at such cleo
tion shall be, "For Incorporation, -
Against Incorporation.
SEC. 4. III atsaid election major
ity Of said ballots shall be cast for In
corporation, the county Judge shall
Immediately give notice OF the result
In a newspaper Tor III there be none,
by posting,) as aforesaid, and shall
state In such notice to which OF the
Glasses as named I'm section 107S, OF
the Revision Of 1850, said incorpo-
rated town or city belongs; and said
county Judge shall endorse on said
petition the substance Of the last
mentioned notice; and said petition,
30 endorsed, together with the des-
cription and plat, shall be filed and
recorded in the recorders Office OF
the proper county, and also a copy of
the same shall be deposited with the
Secretary OF State.
SEC. 5. So soon as said record shall
be made, and said copy deposited as
required In section 4, and the election
and qualification OF officers herein
after provided shall have taken place,
the Inhabitants within the limits des-
cribcd In said petition shall be deem
ed an incorporated town or city as
the case may be, and notice OF Its ex-
istence as such, shall be taken In all
judicial proceedings in the State.
SEC. o. When the record men,
toned In section four hereof shall
have been made, said commissioners
shall Immediately give public notice
by publication two consecutive weeks
In some newspaper 1f any there bel
published within the limits of such
town or city, and also by posting up
notices In i've public places in seid
town or city, of the time and place
OF holding the first election for off,
GERS thereof. Said commissioners
shall preside at said election I'm the
same manner as judges and clerks OF
township elections, and said election
shall be conducted, and the officers
elected and qualified In the manner
| prescribed by law for the election and
qualification Of township officers.
Provided, the officers to be elected
shall be the same required by chapter
hfty-One, OF the Revision of 1880, for
the class to which said town or city
shall belong, rs shown by the certifi-
cate and notices Of the county Judge
required by section four hereof, and
they shall continue In Office only un-
til the time of the regular election OF
said officers and until their successors
are elected and qualified.
Sec. Z. Sections 1880, 1881, 1882,
1883. 1904, 1895, l036 and 1037, Of the
Revision OF 1850, and all acts or parts
Of acts inconsistent with the pr0vi-
sions of this act, are hereby repealed.
Sec. s. This act being deemed OF
immediate importance shall be In
force from and after its publication
In the State Register and Iowa States-
man, published in Des Moines.
Approved April /, 1893.
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