The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-10
LEGAL.

to be sufficient the commission shall or
ger ana LEX ot cate aor + hhGIdng the SAID
more than forty days from the date of the
clerks certificate to the commission that
sufficient petition is filed. The COM
mission shall make or cause to be made,
publication of notice and all arrangements
for holding such election, and the same
shall be conducted, returned and the re-
suit thereof declared in all respects as are
officer SO removed shall hold office during
the uneXpired term. of his predecessor.
Any person sought to be removed may be
a candidate to succeed himself, and unless
he requests otherwise in writing the clerk
shall place his name on the official ballot
without nomination. In any removal cleo
ton, the candidate receiving the highest
number of votes shall be declared elected.
At such election if some other person than
the incumbent receives the highest mum
Der of votes, the incumbent shall there
upon be deemed removed from office upon
qualification of his successor. In case the
party who receives the highest number of
votes shall fail to qualify within ten days
after receiving notification of election,
the office shall be deemed vacant. If the
incumbent receives the highest number of
method Of removal shall be cumulative
and additional to the m ethods heretofore
Sec 6. Any proposed ordinance may be
submitted to the commission by petition
signed by electors of the city equal in
number to the percentage hereinafter re-
quired. The signatures. verifcation, au-
Identification, inspection, certifcation,
amendment and submission of such petit
ton shall be the same as provided for
petitions under Section hereof. If the
petition accompanying the proposed ordi-
nance be signed by electors equal in num-
Der to twenty-five per cent of the votes
cast for all candidates for mayor at the
tains request that the said ordinance
be submitted to a vote of the people if
not passed by the commission, such com
mission shall either
(a) Pass said ordinance without altera-
ton within twenty days after attach
ment of the clerks certificate to the ac-
companying petition or
tb) Forthwith after the clerk shall at
tach to the petition accompanying such
ordinance his certificate of sufficiency, the
commission shall call a special election.
unless a general municipal election is
fixed within ninety days thereafter, and
at such special or general municipal cleo
ton. If one is so fixed, such ordinance
shall be submitted without alteration to
the vote of the electors of said city. But
if the petition is signed by not less than
ten ar more than tWe11tv1five per centun
Commission shall within twenty DAYS, pass
said ordinance without change, or submit
the same at the next general city cleo
ton occurring not more than thirty days
after the clerks certificate of sufficiency
is attached to said petition. The ballots
used when voting upon said ordinance
nance" Stating the nature of the pro
posed ordnance and Against the Ordi-
nance" Stating the nature of the pro
qualified electors voting on the proposed
ordinance shall vote in favor thereof,
valid and binding ordinance of the city;
and any ordinance proposed by petition,
or which shall be adopted by vote of the
people, cannot be repealed or amended ex
cept by a vote of the people. Any number
of PROPOSED ordinances may be voted upon
at the same election, in accordance with
the provisions of this section; but there
shall not be more than one special cleo
ton in any period of six months for such
purpose. The commission may submit a
proposition for the. repeal of any ordi-
voted upon at any succeeding general
election; and should such proposition so
submitted receive majority of the votes
cast thereon at such election, such ordi-
nance shall thereby be repealed or
amended accordingly. Whenever any or
dinance or proposition is required by this
act to be submitted 20 the voters of the
city at any election, the city clerk shall
cause such ordinance or proposition to be
published once in each of the daily papers
published in said city. such publication to
be not more than twenty or less than
five DAYS before the submission of such
proposition or ordinance to be voted on I;
provided, nothing in this section shall
sas Of i9G7 N
Grated for more than four years
under the provisions of this act
m theyeunde aD""a and accept the proVs-
ions of the general law Of II, the state
ton, or if now organized under special
charter, may resume said special charter
ton of not less than twenty-five per
centum of the electors of such city. a
special election shall be called at Which
the following proposition only shall be
submitted: ''Shall the city. of (name the
city, abandon its organization under
Chapter ia of the General Session Laws
of 1907, and the acts amendatory thereto,
and become a city under the general law
governing cities of like population Cor II
| now organized under special charter shall
| resume said special charter?) If ma
jority of the votes cast at such special
election be in, favor Of such proposition,
| ing biennial election shall be those then
prescribed by the general law of the state
! for cities of like population, and upon the
| qualification of such officers such city
shall become city under such general
| law of the state; but such change shall
property rights or liabilities of any
nature of such city, but shall merely ex-
tend to such chanfgH In its dor EI1c Of goy
| ton shall be determined, the election or
dered and conducted, and the result de-
| clared, generally as provided by Section
| 3 of this act, in so far as the provisions
thereof are applicable
Sec. s. In all cities adopting the pro
visions of this act and the act of which
this is amendatory, having a park board
or other department of said city, the
coed to all powers and duties of said
board or department..
| Sec 9. That original Sections II, IA, 16
and 20 of Chapter ia of the Session Laws
| of Kansas of 1907 and all act and parts of
acts in conflict with this act are hereby
Sec. 10. This act shall take effect and be
| in force from and after its publication in
| the official state paper
! I hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
w. ]. FITZGERALD.
eS'' z. e. w WYaN lTte'
| Secretary of the Senate.
| Passed the House February 2 1909;
Speaker Of It the Hoy House,
|