The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-15
THE NEW CHARTER.
An Act To Incorporate Dalles City
and to Define its Powers.
Be it enacted by the Legislative assembly
OF the State Of Oregon:
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CHAPTER V.

OF THE OFFICERS OF THE CoRPoRATIoN.
Sec. Al. The mayor shall preside over
the deliberations of the council when in
session; he is not entitled to vote, ex-
cept in case of tie vote of the council
men, and in no case shall he be entitled
to vote for an officer to fill vacancy or
otherwise; he has authority to preserve
order, enforce the rules of the council
and determine the order of business, sub
ject to such rules and to appeal 10 the
council.
Sec. AZ. In case of the absence or in
ability of the mayor to act, for any
reason, or in case of vacancy in the
Office of mayor, the president OF the
council shall preside, and he shall ex-
ercise the same privileges, rights, power
and authority of the mayor, and he may
exercise his right as councilman to vote
upon an ordinance or the election of an
officer, if necessary. If for any reason
both the mayor and president of the
council be absent from a meeting of the
council, the councilmen must appoint
one of their own number to preside dur
ing the meeting, or until the mayor or
president of the council attends.
Sec. 43. The mayor, or the president
of the council while acting in the capac-
ity of mayor, is the executive OF the mu-
nicipal corporation, and must exercise a
fairs and subordinate officers. 1t is his
duty, annually, at the regular meeting
of the council, appointed by this act, to
communicate by message to the council
a general statement of the condition and
affairs of said municipal corporation,
and to recommend the adoption of such
measures as he may deem expedient and
proper, and to make such special com
munications to the council from time to
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Sec A. He shall take and approve
the official undertakings which the ordi-
nances of the city may require an officer
to give as security for the faithful per-
formance of bis duty, or any undertaking
which may be required of any contractor
for the faithful performance of his con-
tract, subject always to the approval OF
the council, and when he approves such
undertaking he must Immediately file
the same with the recorder.
Sec. 45. He shall perform such other
duties and exercise such other authority
as shall be prescribed by this act, or by
any law of the United States or of this
state.
Sec. 46. No ordininance passed by
the council shall go into force, nor be Of
any effect until approved by the mayor
except as otherwise provided by this act
Sec. AZ. Upon the passage of an or
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attested by the recorder, shall be sub
mitted to the mayor, or the president oi
the council when acting as mayor, by
the recorder, and if the mayor, or the
president of the council when acting as
mayor, approve the same, he shall write
upon it "Approved," with the date
thereof, and sign it with his name o.
office and thereupon, unless otherwise
provided therein, such ordinance shal
become law and be of full force and eff
! feet.
Sec. 49,. If, the mayor, or the presi-
dent of the council when acting al
mayor, do not approve of the ordinance
SO submitted, he must within five days
from the receipt thereof return the same
to the recorder with his reasons for mo-
approving it, and if the mayor do not 81
/, return it such ordinance shall. become /:
law the same as if he had approved it.
! Sec. 40. At the first meeting of tn,
council at which quorum is present
after the return of an ordinance from tn,
mayer not approved, the recorder mus
deliver the same to the council with th,
message of the mayor, which must b.
read, and such ordinance must be pu
upon its passage again (unless postponed
by the counciD, and if six councilmel
vote in the affirmative it shall become
law without the approval of the mayor
and not otherwise.