The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-09
And Clean Your Sidewalks of
Weeds and Rubbish.
AND SEE TO YOUR GATES
That They do Not Swing Over the Side
walk-The Marshal Will be After You
ifYou Don't-The Limits of the City for
All Purposes stand as They Were.

The city council met in special ses-
sion last night and passed substitute
ordinance fixing the boundaries of the
five municipal wards.
1t will be remembered that on April
10th of this year an ordinance was
passed which ordinance rep aled the
ordinance defining municipal bound
aries then in force and reduced tie
limits of the various wards so that Ger
tain property outside of municipal ben
efts should not fall within the area of
city property assessed for city taxes to
comply with the decision of the dis
trict court in the York and other cases.
Later another decision made a further
! Limitation of the extent of the city
seen necessary and substitute Ordin-
ance was drafted which passed two
readings.
The intent of the council was all
right, but they did not realize that
/ they had been doing something they
had no authority to do until their at
tention and the attention OF the city
attorney was called to the matter by
the question arising and being asked
whether or no the voters residing in
the detached PORTIONS had right to
vote at municipal elections, being as
! the restriction was made for purposes
of taxation. The matter was referred
to the judiciary committee. An inves-
! tigatiOn resulted in ascertaining that
the legislature fixed the outside limits
of the city tivIng the council the priv
| Ilege of fixing the lines of the wards
within the city, but giving it no right
to alter the outside boundaries. This
can be done, that is portion of the
city can be detached by petition from
thIee-tourths of the residents in the
portion proposed to be detached and q
vote being taken on the matter by the
whole people.
The council had run across a snag;
they were obliged to undo what they
! had done, and the pending ordinance
was killed, the substitute ordinance re-
pealed and old ordinance re-enacted
with the following section added.
"All that ordinance entitla AN
| Ordinance Tor Chapter 81 of the Re
vised Ordinances of Provo City passed
the 10th day of April A. D. 1894 ia
hereby repealed, and the above bill
shall be in force in lieu thereof from
and after the approval thereof by the
mayor of Provo city. Said repeal shall
not affect any ACT done or any suit or
proceeding had or commenced prior to
| the date thereof, but all such rights
and liabilities under such ordinance
shall continue and be prosecuted to a
final termination, in the same manner
as if said repeal had not been made"
FURTHER BUSINESS.
Councillor Ward called attention to
the sections of ordinances prohibiting
the hanging or maintaining of fence
gates which swing out over the side
walk, except self closing gates in good
repair, and commanding that shade
trees on the side walks be trimmed SO
that the lowest branches shall be at
least eight feet from the ground, and
that the sidewalks shall be kept clean
from weeds, rubbish etc., and moved
that the marshal be Instructed to en-
force these provisions rigidly, The
motion was carried.