Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-23

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man at the last preceding annual city
election at which mayor or alderman
| was, elected, and requesting the city
council to pass an ordinance therein set
forth or referred to. shall be filed in the
office of the city clerk, the city council
shall. provided that the said ordinance
| become which the city council SHAH,
after this act takes effect, have a
! legal right to pass, ta) pass the
| said ordinance without alteration.
! within twenty days after the city
| clerk has attached his certificate
Of slficicncy to such petition. or
OBJ forthwith after the expiration of the
twenty days aforesaid appoint n
| special election. unless an cleo
ton is fixed Tor a date with
| in ninety days after the city clerk
has attached the aforesaid certificate Of
! sufilciency, and at such special or regu-
l lar election submit such ordinance with
out alteration to the voters of the city
qualified as aforesaid.
If, however, petition otherwise like
the above described petition, but signed
| by a number of such qualified voters
| equal to at least ten per cent.
| but less than twenty-five per cent.
| OF the aggregate number OF votes
east as aforesaid for candidates
| fer mayor or aldermen, shall be
| filed as aforesaid, the city council shali
| ,eD pass the ordinance therein set forth
| or referred to, without alteration, WITHIN
| twenty DAYS after the city clerk
| has attached the aforesaid certificate
| OF SufIieieney. or Cd shall submit the
! said ordinance To the qualified voters
81 the city at the next annuel city
| election.
| The votes upon such ordinance, sub
| nitted as aforesaid, shall be taken by
| Hot in answer to the question: "Shal
| the ordinance (stating the nature of the
same) be passed." which shah be printed
| or the ballots after the list of candi-
| dates, If there be any. If n majority of
| the qualified voters voting on the pro-
pased ordinance shall vote in favor
| thereof it shall thereupon become q
| valid and binding ordinance OF the city.
| subject Ia any provision of statute law
relative TO approval. publication or no.
! tee. and no such ordinance passed as
aforesaid by the city council. upon petit
| ton as aforesaid, or which shall be
| adopted as aforesaid at any such regular
| amended except by the qualified voters
| OF the city voting at any election not
specially called for the purpose.
Any number of ordinances requested
| by petition as aforesaid may he voted
| upon at the same election in accordance
with the provisions OF this section, but
there shall not be more than one spec
| ial election in any period OF six months
| Tor that purpose.
The city council may submit a propo-
| sition for the repeal of any such ordi-
| nance, or for amendments thereof, to be
voted upon at any succeeding annual
| eity election; and should such PROPOSE
| ton so submitted receive a majority of
| the votes cast thereon at such election.
the ordinance shall thereby be repealed
| or amended accordingly.
| The votes upon such repeal or
amendment nj an annual city election
snail be taken by ballot in answer 10
| the question: shah the ordinance.
| tstating the nature OF The same) be re-
| pealed, or amended (stating The IA.
tnre OF the amendmenD - which small
| be printed on the ballots after the list
of candidates if there be any.
| The city council may also submit
any ordinance proposed by them to
the qualified voters at any annual or
| special city election; to be voted on By
| ballot at such election: and the man
ner in which such an ordinance shall he
submitted to the voters, and the form
| III which the question shah be printed
| on the official ballots shall be as pre-.
| scrih"d for ordinances submitted by
petition. and amendments or repeats
submitted by the city council as afore-
| said.
| Whenever any such ordinance or
| proposition is required by this act to
| he submitted at any election as afore-
| said. the city clerk shall cause it 10 be
| published twice in one daily newspaper
! published in the said city, if there be
! any, and in the nearest daily newspa-
| per published in Kennebec county:
| such publication to be not more than
| twenty nor less than five days before
| the submission of the ordinance or
| proposition to be voted on.
| Petitions under the provisions of this
| section may consist of one or more
| distinct papers. In each of such pa
| pers the ordinance, the passage Of
| which is requested, shall be set forth
| or referred to, and all such papers
| filed in any one day in the office of the
| city clerk shall be considered parts
| of tie same petition. Such petitions
shall be signed sworn to as to sigma
| lures, examined, re-eXamined. pre-
| scented to the city council. shall have
the city clerks certificate of sufficiency
| or insufficit ncy attached thereto, and
| may be supplemented in the same
| manner as petitions filed under section
| twenty -four.
| Sec. 20. If during the fourteen
days next following the day on
which the monthly summary Of
proceedings is filed with the city
| clerk as provided in section thir-
| ty-fve.- petition, signed by
| number of the voters of the said
| city, qualified to vote at city elections,
| equal to at least twenty-five per cent
| of the aggregate number of votes cast
| for candidates for mayor or aldermen
| at the last preceding annual city cleo
! ton at which "A mayor or alderman
was elected, and protesting against
the massage of any ordinance, snail