The record-union., 1892-10-17
Amendment Number Five.
Senate constitutional Amendment No. l.

lSenate Constitutional Amendment No. 141
ARTICLE XI.
Section 6. Any city containing q popula.
tion OF more than three thousand i've hun
dred inhabitants, may frame charter for it's
own government, consistent with and subject
to the Constitution and laws OF this state. by
causing board of fifteen freehoIders who
SHALL have been for at least We years qualified
eieciGfs !f,so thereof, to be elected by the
or special election, whose duty 1t shall
De, within ninety days after such cleo
lion, no a,cS 70 cl prepsre and and, propose charter
cate, by the members Of such Board, or q ma
lority OF them, and returned, one copy to the
Mayor thereof, or other chief executive officer
OF such city, and the other to the Recorder OF
the county. such proposed charter shall then
be published in two daily newspapers of gem
eral circulation In such city for at least twenty
days, and the first publication shall be made
wsthtn twenty days after the completion OF
the charter; provided, that In cities Containing
a population OF not more than ten thousand
inhabitants such proposed charter shall be
published in one such daily newspaper: and
within not Less than thirty DAYS after such
publication IT shall be submitted to the quail
fed electors OF such city at q general or
special election, and II a majority or such
qualified electors voting thereat shall ratify
the same, il shall thereafter be submitted to
the Legislature for its approval or rejection
as a whole, without power OF alteration or
amendment. Such approval may be made
by concurrent resolution, and If approved by
each house, IL shall become the charter of such
city, or If such city be consolidated with a
county, then Of such city and county. and
shall become the organic law thereof, and su-
persede any existing charter and all amend
mepts thereof and all laws inconsistent with
such charter. A copy OF such charter, certi-
fed by the Mayor, or chief executive officer.
and authenticated by the seal of such city
setting forth the submission of such charter
to the electors, and its ratification by them,
shall, after the approval Of such charter bv
the Legislature, be made, In duplicate,
and deposited, one in the Office OF
the Secretary of State, and the other,
after being recorded In said Re-
corder's office, shall be deposited in the arch
ives of the city, and thereafter all Courts shall
take judicial notice OF said charter. The
charter, SO ratified, may be amended at inter-
walls OF not less than two years by proposals
therefor, submitted by the legislative author
ity of the city TO the qualified electors thereof
at q general or special election, held at least
forty days after the publication of such pro-
posals for twenty days IN daily newspaper
of general circulation in such city and rati-
fed by at least three-tifths OF the Qualified
electors voting thereat, and approved by the
Legislature, as herein provided for the ap-
proval of the charter. In submitting any
such charter, or amendments thereto, any al
Tentative article or proposition maj be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters and NAV
be voted on separately without prejudice to
others.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions
Of the Constttuttons Ind sn-Act OF ktha EeGizlar