The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-21
LEGAL.
tFuDllshed in the Topeka Daily State
Journal March q, 19OS.l
LEGAL.
ORDINANCE MO. 2842.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2842.
AN ORDINANCE Creating an executive
/ Lighting Department of the City of To-
! peka, Kansas, and providing for the ap-
| pointment of a board of three trustees
Lighting Trustees, and prescribing their
duties and providing for the control, op-
Grafton. maintenance, repair and exten-
s,on SION OF the electric lighting plant of the
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council
men acne OF the City of Topeka:
executive department. to be known
The Electric Lighting Department of the
City of Topeka, Kansas.
Sec. 2. The control and management of
the electric lighting plant of the city of
| Iopeka, with all the lands. houses, poles.
wires, lamps and all distributing lines ami
electric lighting plant, shall be vested in
a board of three trustees. to be known as
The said trustees shall be appointed by the
mayor, by and with the consent of the
council. and shall be selected from among
the best known and most responsible bus
mess men of the City of Topeka, each of
whom must be freeholder and one of
whom must be versed in the science of
mechanics. and for their services they
shall each receive the sum of sixty dol
lars per annum, payable monthly. The
terms of office of the trustees shall begin
on the first Monday in April, 1908, and
one of said trustees shall be appointed for
eight months, one for sixteen months and
one Tor two years, and their successors
years; Provided. however, that if any
trustee shall be appointed to fill any va
cancy in office of any trustee first ap-
| pointed, he shall be appointed only to fill
| out the unexpired term of such first trus-
tee; Provided. however, no appointment
| of any trustee OF trustees shall ever be
made and become effective more than thir-
| ty days prior to the expiration of the term
OF his predecessor. Such trustees shall not
be removed during their respective terms
| of office, except for malfeasance in office.
which shall include incompetency, dis
honesty and the use of their positions for
political purposes. upon charges preferred ID
| declared a sufficient cause for removal by
resolution of the mayor and council
passed pass & by majority vote OF an the s,ga,, mem,
| such trustee or trustees shall stand re-
moved.
| Sec 8. Within one week after the ap-
pointment of trustees and within one
week after the appointment of new trus-
| tee or trustees thereafter, the said trus-
and the trustee whose term of office first
! expires shall thereupon become president
/ of the board, and shall thereupon con-
| tinue to hold such position until the ex-
piration of his term of office as trustee.
| The president of said board shall preside
| at such meeting and at all subsequent
| meetings of the board held prior to the ex-
piration of his said term of office, and
shall perform such other duties as are. or
| hereafter may be, assigned to such presi-
dent by city ordinances. In case of alb
sence, resignation or removal from office
of the president of the board, at any time
during his term of office, the trustee
| whose term of office next expires shall
thereupon become and act as such presi--
| dent during such absence or unexpired
| term.
Sec L. The board shall meet as often
as once each month, at such time as they
may determine upon, and as much oftener
| as a proper management of the interests
committed to them shall require.
| Sec. 5. In accordance with the provis-
| ions of state laws and city ordinances the
board shall maintain. manage. conduct
and control and may improve and extend
/ the electric lighting plant of the City Of
| Topeka, and shall light the streets and
public grounds and public buildings Of the
| officers and agents for such purposes;
| Provided, that no improvements or ex-
tensions shah be made which shall create
| a city Indebtedness, until after the money
| needed for such improvement or extension
| shall have been appropriated therefor by
| the mayor and council of the City of To-
peka.
See. 6. All other officials in The Elec-
/ trio Lighting Department, except the
meTnbers of rhe Board Of Electric Light
| exist by ordinances Of the City of To-
peka.
/ by the mayor and confirmed by the coun-
| Gil, upon the recommendation of the said
Board of Electric Lighting Trustees. And
| Inc BOarQ or E6CIrlC LfSQllnR trustees
is hereby authorized to hire such other
| employees and servants from time to time
as said board shall deem actually neces-
sary for the pro proper erection 91 repair and
said board shall pay such wages to such
| employees and servants as are reasonable
for the kind OF work and labor perforned
| peka for like services. All employees, SER
wants and agents, shall be under the i'm
M th of afd sad pan
| In making all appointments and hiring of
officers, agents and servants of the city
Board Of Electric Lighting Trustees shall
have regard alone to relative capacity Of
applicants. their moral. physical and
priate, Irnt their quaiifications % for for MANUAL
| labor. No attention shall at any time be
\ given to questions concerning religious
| opinions or political affiliations. Whenever
vacancies occur in the service the place
| so vacated shall be filled, If it can be done
| suitably, by promotions of employees in
the lower grades OF service, ana no such
| pointed and hired by said board, shall be
removed from service except for inca
| or cases where their employment is only
| temporary and their services no longer
| needed. The superintendent of said plant
| shall give bond to the City of Topeka in
the sum of One Thousand Dollars (s1, 600 OO)
| to be approved by the mayor and council,
conditioned for the faithful performance
| of his duties.
| Sec. g. The Board of Electric Lighting
| Trustees is hereby authorized to make
| such bylaws, rules and regulations as it
| may deem proper for the safe, economical
| and efficient management of the electric
| lighting plant and all appuftenancest thcre-
to. subject to the approval of the mayor
| and council.
Sec g. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's publi-
cation in the official city paper
| Passed the council March goth, 1905.
/ Approved March 21st, 1905
| VIM. GREEN, Mayor.
Attest; c. B. BURGE, City Clerk.
TFfrst published In The Topeka State
1 Iourpaf March q 1903