Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-06-17
The New Municipal Code.

Code-an act for the regulation and
government of cities and incorporated
villages. As itmakes many and some
material changes in the government
of cities of the second class, we have
thought it important to refer to them
The law is enormously long. containing
732 sections, thus rendering its publ
cation in full an impossibility in our
columns; but we will attempt to give
the gist of it in the present and a sub
sequent number of our issue. 1t does
not take effect until July. We extract
as follows. to-wit:
| SEC 60. The officers of cities of the
second class shall consist of mayor,
clerk. treasurer. marshal and solicitor,
all of whom shall be elected, and the
council shall have power, whenever
deemed expedient, to create, by ordi-
nance, the Office of auditor, civil engin-
eer, fire engineer, and superintendent
of markets, and provide for their cleo
tion in the same manner the other of
6cers of the corporation are elected.
SEC sc. All officers who are elect
ed shall serve for two years and until
their successors are elected and quail
fed, and all officers who are appointed
shall serve for one year and until their
successors are appointed and quail
fed.
SEC. ga. All appointments of Off
GERS of municipal corporations created
by law or ordinance, shall be made by
the mayor, by and with the advice and
consent of the council, and the concur
renee of a majority of all the members.
elected shall be required to confirm any
such appointment, and the names of
those voting, and for whom they voted
= ke vote resulting in an appoint
me1f, snail be recorded.
SEC. SO. The city auditor, the city
civil engineer, and the city solicitor
shall have seats in the council, and be
entitled to take part in its proceedings
and deliberations on all questions re-
lating to their respective departments,
subject to such rules as the council
may from time to time prescribe, but
without the right to vote Said officers
may be compelled to attend meetings of
the council in the same manner as the
members are.
SEC. 80. The council shall not be re-
quired to hold more than one meeting
in each week; and the meetings of such
council may be held at such time and
place as may be by ordinance prescrib-
ed, and shall, at all times, be open to
the public. The mayor, or any three
members may call special meetings by
notice to each member served person
ally, or left at his usual place of abode.
SEC. 81. The members of the couu-
Gil shall not receive any compensation
for their services, except when acting
as judges of election, when they shall
receive such compensation as is pro-
vided by law for judges of election.
SEC. 81. All ordinances and resoIu-
tons, and all bylaws for the govern
meut of the council, shall require for
their passage or adoption the concur
renee of a majority of all the members
elected, aud the vote on their passage
or adoption shall be taken by yeas ard
nays and recorded on the journal, aud
no money shall be appropriated except
by ordinance.
SEC. 100. All bylaws, resolutions
and ordinances, shall, as soon as may
be after their passage, be recorded in
book kept for that purpose and be au-
thenticated by the signature of the
presiding officer and clerk of the coun-
ell, and all ordinances shall be publish
ed in some newspaper of general circu-
lation in the corporation; if daily, six
times, and if weekly twice, before GO
ing into operation.
SEC. 122 The mayor shall, at the
first regular meeting of the council in
April of each year, and at such other
times as he may deem expedient, re-
port to the council concerning the af-
fairs OF the corporation, and recon-
mend such measures as to him may
seem proper.
SEC 123. All fines, penalties and
forfeitures which may be collected by
the mayor, or which may in any man
ner come into his hands, and all monies
which may be received by him in his
official capacity, other than his fees of
Office, shall be by him weekly paid over
to the treasurer of the corporation, and
at the first regular meeting of the coun-
Gil i'll each and every month he shall
submit full statement of all such
monies received, and from whom and
for what purposes received, and when
paid over.
Sections 129 and 130, make it the
duty of the City Clerk to record on or
before the first Monday in March each
year, receipts and expenditures of the
city, the sources whence money was
received, and the objects for which it
was expended. Also, that he shall
cause such account to be posted at all
the polls, on the morning of The first
Monday of April at the municipal cleo
ton.
GENERAL POWERS OF MUNICIPAL CoRPo-
RATIoNs.
SEC. 1879. All cities and incorporat-
ed villages shall have the general pow
as hereinafter mentioned, and may
provide by ordinance for the exercise
of the same.
/. To prevent riots, gambling, noise
and disturbance, indecent or disorderly
conduct or assemblages; preserve
peace and good order, and to protect
the property of the municipal corpora
ton and its inhabitants.
2. To prevent injury or annoyance
from anything dangerous, offensive or
unhealthy, and to cause any nuisance
to be abated.
3. To suppress billiard tables, nine