The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-10-28
Ordinance NO. q

the appointment of the members of
said Board and a secretary thereof,
licensing plumbers, pipe-fitters, cleo
tricians and linemen, and establishing
rules, regulations and penalties for the
government, care, protection, preserya-
tion and control of the Electric Light
and Waterworks system of the village
of Yale.
THE VILLAGE OF YALE ORDAINs:
Section |. The village of Yale or
dams that there shall be Board of
Light and Water Commissioners con-
sisting of three members.
Section 2. That the president of the
village, by and with the consent of the
Common Council, shall appoint three
commissioners who shall be qualified
electors of said village, and who, with
their successors, shall constitute said
Board of Light and Water Commission
ers and who shall serve without COM
pensation. And the persons compos-
ing such board shall take the oath of
office prescribed for village officers
within ten days from the day of their
appointment. Term of office of one of
SAID commissioners shall terminate on
the first Monday of April, 1899, and one
thereof on the first Monday of April,
1900, and 1901, respectively.
Section 3. At the first meeting Of
the Common Council after the adoption
of this Ordinance the president, by and
with the consent of the Common Coun-
Gil, shall appoint said Board of Light
and Water Commissioners, and said
president may appoint said Light and
Water Commissioners at the next meet
ing of said Council after the adoption
of this Ordinance, be the same special
or regular meeting. At meeting of
the Common Council held the first
Monday in April, 1899, and in each year
thereafter, the president of the village,
by and with the consent of the Common
Council, shall appoint Commissioner,
to serve for the period of three years,
or until his successor is appointed and
qualified in the place of the one whose
term of office shall expire. Vacancies
occurring in said Board by removal
from said village, resignation or other
wise, shall be filled for the uneXpred
term by the president, by and with the
consent Of the Common Council. The
president of the village shall be chair
man of said Board.
Section 4. Said Board of Light and
Water Commissioners shall have the
care and control of the Electric Light
and Waterworks systems of the village
and shall enforce such rules and regu-
lations as the village council or said
Board may prescribe in relation. there
to, and the said Board may, by and
with the consent of the Common Coun-
Gil, employ such persons and purchase
such materials as it shall deem neces-
sary for the operation and maintenance
of said systems.
Section 5. Said Board shall meet at
the Council Rooms of said village on
the second Monday of each month. The
president of the village may appoint
special meetings of said board, notice
of which in writing shall be given to
each commissioner at least six hours
before the meeting. All meetings of
said Board shall be public
Section &. Said Board shall, by and
with the consent of the Common Coun-
Gil, appoint qualified elector of said
village, who is not a member of said
Board, as secretary of said Board. Said
secretary shall be appointed annually
on the first Monday in May for the term
of one year. Upon the organization of
Board, the said Board shall, by and with
the consent of common council appoint
a qualified elector of said village as
secretary of said Board to act as such
secretary until the first Monday in May,
1899 Said secretary shall take the
requisite oath of office and execute a
bond running to village of Yale in the
penal sum of one thousand dollars with
two sureties to be approved by the vii
lage council, conditioned to pay over at
the end of each month to the treasurer
of the Village of Yale all moneys that
may come into his hands, and that he
will faithfully discharge all the duties
of his office. Such secretary shall re-
ceive such compensation as the Viii
lage Council may prescribe.
Section Z. The secretary shall attend
the meetings of said Board and shall
keep record of the proceedings there
of; he shall by and with the consent of
the Board issue and cancel permits for
using electric lights and water and
shall keep record thereof in seperate
books to be provided for that purpose
and at the end of each week he shall
pay over all moneys collected by him
to the treasurer of the village, who shall
issue TO the secretary duplicate receipts
therefor and said secretary shall, on or
before the first Monday of each month,
make and file with the village clerk
verified written report of all light and
water permits issued and cancelled
with the dates thereof by said Board,
and Of all moneys received and paid
over DN MIN, Will lHe udleo Oh SuCn re-
ceipts and payments, together with one
of the duplicate receipts of the treasur-
er therefor; and of all expenses incur
red by said Board in operating said
systems, but no money shall be paid
out Of the treasury on such account UNI
til the Common Council shall have in
structed the clerk of said village to
draw the proper order therefor.
Section 8. All moneys received by
the treasurer from said secretary shall
be kept by said treasurer in seperate
fund TO be known and designated as
"The Light and Water Fund" and shall
be devoted, first, to the payment of the
expenses Of operating and maintaining
the said electric light and waterworl
system, and, second, to the pay
ment OF the interest and principal of
the bonded indebtedness of said village
incurred in the construction and main
tainance of said system.
Section 8. That the rules and regula-