Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-19
TEXT OF PROPOSED
NEW CITY CHARGER,
CONTINUED from Page Twol,. ).


OF aldermen and common council car
now do with such approval Any
notes, bonds or scrip which said city
is authorized to issue shall be signed
by its treasurer and countersigned by
a majority of its municipal council.
Section 25.-The mayor shall have
no power Of veto, and no order, ordl-
nance, resolution or vote which the
municipal council shall make or pass
shall be presented to him for or shall
require his approval in order to be eff
fective.
Section &c. When the municipal
council shall make or pass an ordi-
nance. or an amendment or repeal of
an ordinance, such ordinance, amend
ment or repeal so passed. shall, ex-
cept as otherwise provided in this act
take effect at the expiration of II
days from it's passage; provided, how
ever that, If there is a time therein
specified when it shall! take effect and
such time is more than 10 days after
its passage, such ordinance, amend
ment or repeal shall, except as other
wise provided in this act, take effect
at the time so specified therein.
Section u. When the voters make
or PASS an ordinance as provided in
this act, such ordinance shall take cf-
feet and be in force at the time therein
specified without presentation to or
approval by the mayor.
Section %. No ordinance made or
passed by the municipal council or by
the voters, as provided in this act,
shall require the approval of any court
or of the attorney general, or shall be
required to be published in order to
become effective.
Section q. Such powers of nomina-
ton, appointment, confirmation and
election for and to office or position. of
approval and consent to nominations
ard appointments. of removal or sus-
pension from Office as are now vested
in all or any, the mayor and alder
men, city council, board of aldermen
and common council, shall be exercis-
ed BY the municipal council by vote.
and the mayor shall no longer have
power to make nominations or APP
pOintmcnts for or to office, or remov-
ais or suspensions therefrom, but shall
have the same right to vote thereon
az any other member of the municipal
council
Section 30 The salary of the mayor
shall be twelve hundred dollars per
annum. and the salary of each alder
man six hundred dollars per annum.
Such salaries shall be payable in
equal monthly installments.
Section 81. No member of the mu-
nicipal council shall, during the term
for which he was chosen, be eligible.
either by appointment or by election
of the municipal council, to any 9TH
er Office the salary of which is payable
by the city. or shall, during such
terra, hold any such other office. No
member of the municipal council shall
be directly on indirectly Interested in
any contract made by the city or III
any franchise granted by the city.
Section 81. Upon the death, reSig-
nation or absence of the mayor. or up
on his inability to perform the duties
of Ids office. the president of the mu-
nicipal council shall perform them,
and if he also is absent. or unable from
any cause to perform said duties they
shall be performed by such member
OF the municipal council as 1t may
from time to time elect until the may
o. or president of the municipal coun-
ell is able to attend to said duties. or
until the vacancy is filled as herein
after provided. The person upon whom
such duties dcvolve shall be called
acting mayor and, except as other
wise provided in this act, shall pos
sess the powers of mayor but only in
matters not admitting of delay,
Section SO. The mayor shall be. ex-
otiicio chairman and Il member of the
board of ovcrscers of the poor.
Section a. The holder of any cleo
tive office may be removed at any an
NAL election by the voters qualified
&c vote at city elections. and the pro-
cedurc to effect his removal shall be
Us follows: A petition signed by Il
number Of such voters equal to at
least twenty-five per cent, of the az
grcEatc number of votes cast for cam
didateS for any mayor at the
last proceeding annual city
election at which a mayor was elect
ed. and demanding an election of a
successor of the person sought to be
removed. shall be filed in the office of
the city clerk at least 50 days before
an annual election. Such petition
Such petition shall contain Il general
statement of the grounds for which
the removal is sought. 1t need not be
on one paper. but may consist of sew
cral distinct papers each containing
such demand, and substantially upon
the same grounds; and all papers con-
tanning such demand and statement,
which in any one day shall be filed in
the office of the city clerk. shall be
deemed parts of the same petition,
Each signcrs shall add to his sigma
ture his place OF residence. giving the
street and street number. If any. One
signer of each paper shall make oath
upon his information and belief before
II notary public or a justice of the
peace that the statements therein made
are true. and that each signature to
such paper is the genuine signature
of the person whose name it purports