The Daily Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 18??-189?, 1896-03-02
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
Notwithstanding

imam one year from the date thereof
Thirty-fourth-To regulate the carrying
on Within the corporate limits of the CITY
OF occupations which are of such nature
as to affect the public health or good order
OF the city, er to disturb the public peace.
and which are not prohibited by law and
to provide for the punishment of ali per
sons violating such regulations and of all
persons who knowingly permit the same to
be violated in any building or upon any
premises owned or controlled by them.
Thirty-fifth-To restrain and provide for
the punishment of Migrants, mendicants,
prostitutes and other disorderly persons.
Thirty sixth-To provide for the punish
ment OF all disorderly conduct and of all
practices dangerous to public safety or
nealth, and to make all regulations neces-
sary Tor the preservation of public moral
limits, and to provide for the arrest, trial
ana punishment of all persons violating
any ordnance of the city; but such punish
ment snail in no case exceed the punish
InenI provided by the laws of the state of
Washington for misdemeanors.
Thlrty-seventh-To project or extend or
eslaohsn streets over and across any tide
LANDS or other lands covered by water
WITHIN the corporate limits of the city, and
along or across the harbor areas of the
CITY, IN such manner as will best promote
the interests of commerce.
Thirty ighth-To restrain or prevent do
iuestIc OF other animals from running at
large; and to license, tax, regulate and re-
Straln the keeping of dogs within the city
lmpounding and sale of said domestic and
oIher ANIMALS for the penalty incurred and
costs OF proceeding, and to authorize the
obstruction of dogs impounded for want of
license.
Thirty-ninth-To regulate and prohibit
the location and use of any steam boiler
or Dollers or electric plant or steam pipes
OF electric wires or any kind of power gen.
orator or power reservoir or plant, or con-
QUITS now known or hereafter to be in
vented.
Fortieth-To ordain. establish. modify
and abrogate from time to time, as the
needs OF the city shall require, all proper
0iIlces ana bureaus, subordinate and aux
1l1ary to the departments and heads there
or constituted by this charter, and to pro-
VIDE for the conduct and government of
Sucn offlceS and bureaus, and the appoint
ment, removal, duties and compensation of
Officers to fill the same, except as in this
cnarter otherwise provided.
Forty-hrst-To alter, amend and repeal
any ordnance or ordinances or parts there
of of the city.
PROFESSIONALLY make all rules and reg
ulations necessary or proper to carry into
execution all powers vested. by this char
ter, or by law, in the city, or in any de-
partment or officer thereof, except as in
this charter otherwise provided.
Sec. 10. The city council shall, in addi-
tlon 10 the powers enumerated in the last
foregoing section, have all other powers
usually exercised by the legislative bodies
OF municipal corporations of like charact
ana degree with the city of Seattle, and all
conferred upon Incorporated towns and
cities by the laws of this state.
Sec. 70. Every grant of a franchise, right
or privilege shall be subject to the right Of
the city council at any time thereafter to
repeal, change or modify the said grant, if
the franchise granted thereby is not oper-
ated in accordance with the provisions
thereof or at all, and every ordinance max
ing such grant shall contain a reservation
OF the right Of the city council to so re-
peal, amend or modify said ordinance.
Vv7~frr1
been granted, and has been accepted, the
city council shall not extend the time for
Which such right, privilege or franchise is
granted until within three years of the ex-
piration of the time for which such right
privilege or franchise is granted.
Sec. q. The city council shall not grant
any franchise for the construction of any
wharf into any bay, lake or other body Of
water, except in the manner following, that
is to say: In addition to the requirements
under the general laws, each and every or
ceive the vote of at least two-thirds of all
the members elected, and shall provide
that work shall commence within six
months and be prosecuted continuously
and shall be completed within one year
thereafter. Said time shall not be ex-
tended for any cause, and unless so COM
pleted Tie franchise sha Il be forfeited
Sec. p. No exclusive franchise or privi-
lege shall be granted for the use of any
street, alley or highway or other public
place or any part thereof.
Sec. %. The city council shall not grant
authority to construct a street railway or
lay down street railroad tracks upon or
over any of the streets of said city, except
in manner and On the terms following, that
is to say: Upon the application being made
to the city council for authority to con-
struct and operate a street railway along
and upon any Of said streets, the city coun-
e Ihf pst fhaTe0 %he sbs
be granted, and after such determination
shall cause notice of such application and
resolution to be published for ten days in
the city official newspaper, at the expense
of the applicant, and shall in such notice
specify the route over and along which it
proposes to grant such franchise, and shall
offer to grant the same to the person, COM
pany or corporation who will pay for the
franchise the highest percentage annually
of gross receipts, but not less than two per
cent. per annum. Bidding for such fran
chiSe must be in accordance with the pro-
visions of this charter in relation to bids
made to the board of public works. so far
as such provisions may be applicable, and
the city council may reject any and all
bids, and may refuse to grant franchise
for any part of the route for which the ap-
plication was made. Each bid must be ac-
companied by certified check, payable to
the order of the city comptroller, for the
sum of one thousand dollars, and the
amount of the check shall be forfeited and
paid to the city in case the successful bid
der shall fail to accent the franchise. and
upon acceptance the sum so paid shall be
credited to the grantee on account of per-
centages. The same method of procedure
shall obtain IN case of the extension of such
franchise or any existing franchise. 1t
shall be the duty Of the city council to in
corporate in every such franchise or
amended franchise efficient provisions for
the compulsory arbitration of all disputes
arising between the grantee therein and
his or its successors or assigns, and his, it's
or their employees as to any matter of en-
sion to the electors of the city, majority
of the electors voting upon the question
submitted shall assent to the granting Of
such franchise without such provision.
Sec. "a. The city council shall make no
appropriation in aid of any corporation
person or society, unless expressly author
lied by this charter or the laws of the state
Sec. Is. The city council, after the taxes
have been levied in any year, shall have
power to make temporary loans in antici-
patton of the collection of such taxes, such
loans to be applied to the purposes for
which such taxes have been levied and to
no other purpose, and such taxes shall be
inviolably applied to pay such loans.
Sec. 26. When loans shall be created ex-
ceeding one ard half per centum of the
taxable property in the city, and bonds
therefor issued by the city under this char
ter, the city council in authorizing and pro-
viding for the same shall direct the times
and manner off payment and rates of in
test. but no such bonds shall be issued ex-
cept as provided by law, nor unless the
proposition for creating such Indebtedness
shall have been previously submitted to the
electors of the city at regular, general
or special election, of which thirty days
notice shall have been published in the city
official newspaper, and such proposition
shall have then reeeiI I'd the assent of
three-fifths OF the voters voting at such
election. The mode and manner of submit
ting such proposition to the voters shall be
prescribed by brdinance And in case such
three-fifths % the voters are in favor Of
such loan the city council may, after such
election, by ordnance confirm the loan; but
no bonds shall be issued therefor until af-
ter such confirmation, nor until the city
council shall lave made specific provision
for payment annually Of interest on such
bonds and foiSa fund to pay the interest on
such bonds a III a sinking fund to be raised
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