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CHAPTER VII EIectiops

Section 1 There shall be a general municipal election held in the City of Phoenix every year, on the first Tuesday in April. beginning in the year 1914. and the manner of giving notice and the holding and conduct ing of such election, the counting of the ballots, the canvassing of the votes cast and the method of an- nouncing and declaring the results of such election, shall, as far as ap- plicable. be the same as is or may hereafter be provided for holding state or county elections, subject however to the provisions of this charter The form of ballot shall be that prescribed in Chapter V, Section 9, of this charter
 The mayor and commissioners shall be the canvassing board, which shall meet on the first Tuesday after the election and canvass the votes and announce and declare the results of such election; and
 Provided further that the first pri- mary and general elections held after
 the adoption of this charter shall be
 held within one hundred and twenty
 days after the official notification ot
 it's approval by the Governor has
 been received by the City Council and the manner of giving notice and holding and conducting said cleo tions. the canvassing of the votes and declaring the results. shall be as pro vfded for in Chapter XXI of this charter.
 Section , After the said first gen eral election under this charter, ant prior to the holding of any subse- quent city elections as herein pro vided for. the mayor and commis- sioners shall designate the necessary polling places and appoint the neceS- sary judges and inspectors of electlor and provide for the making up anc printing and distribution of the bal lots and provide the necessary booths and paraphernalia for the holding oi such elections.
 Section 8 There shall be at leas' two polling places designated in the City of Phoenix, for the casting oi votes. and such polling places shal be kept open, on the day of election from a. m until o'clock p. m. oi said day.
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CNW 1) of said Section five (5) to it's intersection with prolonga- tion of the West line of Simms Addi- tion to the City of Phoenix, a plat of which is Of record in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County. Arizona, in book of Maps. page 27: thence South on straight line to the Northwest corner of said Simms Addition; thence East along the North line of said Simm's Addi- tion to it's intersection with the West line of the Northeast Quarter (NIG 14) of said Section five (5); thence North along the West line of the Northeast Quarter (NE A) of said Section five C5): to the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter tNE A) of said Section five C5); thence East along the North line of said Section five (5 to the North west corner of Section four (4; Township one CD North, Range three (3) East of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian; thence East along the North line of said Section four t4) to the Northeast corner of the Northwest Quarter (NW A) of said Section four (D; thence South along the East line of the West half (W 15) of said Section four C4) to the North west corner of the Northeast Quar- ter (NE 14) of Section nine (9), Township one CD North, Range three (3) East of tn Gna and Salt River Base and Meridian; thence East along the North line of said Section nine (9) to the point of beginning, all situate. lying and being within the County of Maricopa. State of Ari- ZOna
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Section g. The ballots shall in all respects comply with the provisions of law respecting ballots to be used at general county or state elections, so far as applicable, except tha the name of the mayor shall be endorsed thereon in place of the name of any other officer designated for ballots used in such county or state elec- tions A column may be provided on the right hand side or at the bot tom of the ballot for charter amend ments or other questions to be voted upon at the municipal elections, as provided for under this charter. The names of the candidates for each of flee shall be arranged as provided by law and nothing on the ballot shall be indicative of the source of the candidacy or of the support of any candidate.
 Section 10. The name oI no candi- date who has been duly and regular ly nominated, and who has not with drawn his name as herein provided, shall be omitted from the ballot. A half inch square shall be provided at the right of the name of each candi- date, and at the right of each propo- sition to be voted for two squares shall be provided, wherein to mark the cross.
 Section II. Half-inch spaces shall be left below the printed names of candidates for each office equal in number to the number to be voted for, wherein the voter may write the name of any person or persons for whom he may wish to vote.
 Section 12. The provisions of law as the same exist or as the same may hereafter be amended or chang ed relating to the printing and dis tribution of sample ballots in con nection with general municipal elec- tions, shall apply to all primary and 1 special municipal elections
 1 Section 13. After the holding of such primary election it shall be the
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CHAPTER VIII. The Initiative

Section L Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the commission bv a petition signed by fifteen per cent of the qualified electors of the city. computed on the vote for the candidates for mayor or commissioners last elected.
 Section ? Any proposed ordinant e, desired to be submitted to the com mission. shall be presented upon q petition substantially in the following form:
 Phoenix Arizona, .......... Tn the Commission of the City of
 Phoenix:
 We, the undersigned, residents ot the City of Phoenix. Arizona. and duly qualified electors therein, do hereby submit and propose to you. Tor adoption by you, the following or dinance and request that action be taken by you relative to the adoption or rejection of such proposed ord'- nance. at the earliest possible mo- ment, and that the same be forth with submitted to d vote of the peo- pie. tO-Wit:
 here insert proposed ordinance in
 fulD
 Name of Signer Address ............ ...''... '''''''''' v '' = ''' ~' State of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa: ss.
 ..............--.. -..-.-'-.' ''elilS first duly sworn on oath deposes and says that he is a resident and duly qualified elector of the City of Phoe- nix. Arizona that the signatures appearing hereinabove are the genuine signatures of the per sons whose names they bear and that each and all of them are residents and duly qualified cleo tors of the City of Phoenix. that the names of the persons procuring the said petition and who should be mo- tified of all proceedings and acton taken in reference to such petition are (here insert the names of three persons and their addresses). ..... Subscribed and sworn to before me this ...... day of ............. l9.... ...............
 Notary Public, Maricopa County Arizona
 My commission expires .......... 19.
 Section 3 The provisions of Chap l ter K of this Charter, in so far as they relate to the method of filing with, examination and certification by the City Clerk, reference of petition to the commission and notification of presenters of said petition. by the city clerk. as therein set out relative {! to petitions for the recall of officers shall apply to petitions for initiative
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Elective Officers

Section | The elective officers of the City of Phoenix shall be q mayor and two commissioners and at least one city magistrate, each of whom shall be elected at large by the quail fled electors of the city.
 Section 2 The term of all elective officers, except as otherwise provided herein, shall commence at 10 o'clock a. m., on the first secular day of May following their election, and except as otherwise provided herein shall be for two years and until their suc- cessors are elected and qualified.
 Provided, however, that of the two commissioners first elected under this Charter the term of the one -eceiT- ing the highest number of votes shall expire on the first secular day of May. 1915, and the term of the other commissioner and the city magistrate shall expire on the first secular day of May. 1914; and
 Provided further, that the term of the elective officers first elected under this charter shall commence at 12 o'clock noon on the third Tuesday following the first general municipal election after the adoption of this charter and except as. otherwise pro- vided shall end at 10 o'clock a. m. the first secular day of May, 1915.
 Section Q The mayor and each of the commissioners and the city magistrate hereinabove provided for shall each be an elector of the Cltv of Phoenix and a resident and tax payer therein for at least three years prior to the date of his nomination for office; the city magistrate shall be elected from the taxpayers, and shall be a resident of the said city for at least three years, shall nave been duly admitted to practice law in the Territory of Arizona or Stafe of Arizona for at least three years prior to his nomination as such CltH Magistrate.
 Section 4. If a vacancy shall occur , in the office of mayor or commission CT, the remaining members of the commission shall appoint an eligible person to fill such vacancy. A Va cancy shall exist, except under tEf recall provisions of this charter, WheI | an elective officer fails to qua'ifS within thirty days after commence
 ment of his term, dies, resigns. re moves from the city, absents himself continuously without reasonable eN' cuse for twenty-one days from the duties of his office is convicted fol violating any provision of this char
 ter, or of a felony, or is judiCiailN
 declared a lunatic as defined bN
 statute. If at any municipal e'ec- tion held under the provisions of thi: i charter a mayor or the required mum
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For the ordinance
Against the ordinance

If majority of the qualified cleo tors vote in favor thereof such ordi- nance shall become a valid and bind ing ordinance of the city and take effect on the day following the day on which the result of such election shall have been legally declared.
 Section '. Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election. in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
 Section B. There shall not be held under this chapter more than one special election in any period of six months
 Section g. The commission may submit a proposition for the repeal of anv such ordinance, or for amend ments thereto, to be voted upon at any succeeding general municipal election. and should such proposition, so submitted, receive majority or the vote cast thereon at such cleo tion. such ordinance shall be repealed or amended accordingly; an ordinance proposed by petition and adopted by 4 vote of the people cannot be re- pealed or amended except by a vote of the people.
 Section 10. The commission may by ordinance, make such further regu- tions as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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and the submission of proposed or- dinance.
 Section 4 If the petition accom- panying the proposed ordinance be signed by electors equal in number to fifteen per cent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor or com missioner at the last preceding gen eral municipal election at which the mayor or commissioner was elected, and contain a request that said or
 dinance be submitted forthwith to the vote of the people at the special cleo ton, then the commission shall either: (a) Pass said ordinance without alteration within twenty days after the attachment of the city clerks cer- tificate to the sufficiency of the ac- companying petition Subject to a ref erendary vote, under the provisions of Chapter TX of this Charter), or (b) Within twenty-five days after 1 the city clerk shall have attached to the petition accompanying such ordi- nance his certificate of sufficiency. the commission shall proceed to call special election at which said or dinance without alteration shall be
 submitted to the vote of the people. Section 5 Whenever any ordi- nance or proposition is required by l this Charter to be submitted to the voters of the city at any election, either (a) the commission shall cause
 the ordinance or proposition to be printed, and it shall be the duty of l the city clerk to enclose a printed copy | thereof in an envelope with a sample 1 ballot and mail the same to every registered voter, at least five days prior to the election, or (b) the com mission may order such ordinance or i proposition to be printed in the of ] ficial newspaper of the city and pub l lished in like manner as ordinances adopted by the commission are re- quired to be published. and may order i that such publication shall take the
 place of the printing and mailing of the ordinance or proposition and of ! the sample ballots as first above pro- i vided
 Section 6. The ballots used in vot- i ing upon such proposed ordinance
 shall contain a complete copy of such proposed ordinance and shall
 further have below such copy the
 following:
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duty of the city clerk. after the re- suit thereof shall have been duly and legally declared, to cause the canvass and result of such election to be duly noted in his records, and there after and within the time provided bV law to cause the necessary ballots to be printed and distributed for use at the second or general election here matter referred to. The names of only such candidates who were not elected at such first election shall, if proper and necessary, be printed on the ballots to be used in said second election.
 Section 14 The aforesaid primary election shall be held not less than thirty days prior to the holding of the general election herein provided for, and the provisions for holding conducting and carrying on such gen. eral elections, and the qualifications of electors and voters thereat, shall apply so far as applicable, to the holding and conducting of said pri- mary elections and the qualifications of electors and voters thereat
 Section 15 At said primary cleo ton any candidate who shall receive majority of all the votes cast al such election shall be declared elect ed to the office for which he is a can- didate, and no further election shall be held as to said candidate.
 Section 16 If at any election held as above provided, there be any office to which the required number of per sons were not elected, then as tf such offices, the first election shall be considered to have been a primary election for the nomination of candi' dates and a second or general munl- cipal election shall be held to fiji such office The candidates not elect ed at such first election, equal 1T number to twice the number to bf elected to any given office, or less Ii so there be, and who received the highest number of votes for the re
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CHAPTER TX. The Referendum

Section 1 No ordinance passed by the commission shall go into effect
 before ten days from the time of It's final passage except when otherwise required by the general laws of the
 state, or by the provisions Of this
 chapter respecting street improve ments and except the ordinance max ing the annual tax levy, and excepting an ordinance for the immediate pres
 ervation of the public peace, heaitn or safety. which contains a statement
 of it's urgency; provided, that no grant of any franchise shall be construed to be an urgency measure. If during
 said ten days a, petition signed oy qualified electors of the city equal Ill number to at least fifteen per cent or tho entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor or commissioner at the last preceding general municipal election at which mayor or commissioner was elected, protesting against the
 massage of such ordinance be pre- sented to the commission, the same shall thereupon be suspended rom going into operation, and it shall be the duty of the commission to recon sider such ordinance and if the same be not entirely repealed the com mission shall submit the ordinance, as is provided in Chapter X. of thls l Charter. to the vote of the electors of the city, either at the next general election or at a special election 10 pe called for that purpose; and such or dinance shall not go into effect or pe- come operative unless a majority oL 1 the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. The ! provisions of Chapter K of this Char ter respecting the form, the fiiins' certification, rejection and acton oh recall petitions shall apply to petl lions of the kind referred to in thls chapter. with such notifications as ! the nature of the case may require l Section ? Any ordinance or mea sure that the commission or the quail fled electors of the city shall nave inc authority to enact, the comHis- sion may of it's own motion SupliliI to the electors for adoption or re- lection at general or speclal nun | icipal election, in the same hldhhei
 and with the same force and effect
 as is provided in this chapter for | ordinances or measures submitted on
 netition At any special election called under the provisions or thls
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CHAPTER V. Nominations of Officers and Primary Elections

Section i (a) The mode of nom- fnation of elective officers of the city to be voted for at any municipal cleo tion shall be as follows, and not other wise
 b) The name of a candidate shall be printed upon the ballot when a petition of nomination shall have been filed in his behalf in the manner and form and under the conditions here matter set forth.
 co The petition of nomination shall consist of a printed or written statement or certificate, substantially in the following form, with the blanks properly filled in: PETITION FOR NOMINATION State of Arizona, County of Maricopa-ss City of Phoenix.
 We the undersigned, do hereby cer- tify that we do hereby join in a peti- tion for the nomination of ...
 ................. whose residence is at No ...................
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spective offices at such first election. shall be the only candidates at said second election; provided, that if there be any person, who under the provisions of this subdivision would have been entitled to become a candi- date for any office. except for the fact that some other candidate re- ceived an equal number of votes therefor, then all such persons re- ceiving said equal number of votes shall likewise become candidates for such office
 Section r. The candidates equal in number to the persons to be elect ed who shall receive the highest mum Der of votes at said second election shall be declared elected to such of flee.
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CHAPTER III.
Form Of Government

Section l. The City of Phoenix shall hereafter be governed by d com mission, consisting of a mayor and two commissioners, who shall have the qualifications hereinafter pre- scribed. and who shall be elected as hereinafter provided. There shall also be elected as hereinafter provided. at least one city magistrate, who shall have the qualifications and shall pos sess the powers. rights. duties and Jurisdiction as hereinafter prescribed,
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CHAPTER VI Special Elections

Section 1. All special elections herein provided for shall be conducted in the same manner and under the same provisions as are provided for the holding of general elections, in- cIuding the qualifications of electors. and the nomination of candidates.
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PREAM BILE

We the people of the city of Phoe
 nix, in the County of Maricopa, State of Arizona, under the authority of the Constitution of the State Of Arizona, and having a population of over three thousand five hundred inhabitants. do ordain and establish this Charter for -the City of Phoenix
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TWENTY THIRD YEAR

PROPOSED NEW CHARTER FOR
 THE CITY OF PHOENIX. TO BE
 VOTED UPON ON A DATE TO BE SET BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
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State of Arizona,
 County of MaricOpa-ss.

State of Arizona,
 County of MaricOpa-ss
 ................... being by me first duly sworn on oath, says, that he is qualified eIector in the City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona; that to the best of his knowledge and belief all the signers to the above mentioned paper are electors in the said City of Phoenix. Arizona; that he knows that they signed the same with knowledge of the contents thereof; that their re- spective residences are correctly sta ted therein; that each signed the same on the date set opposite his name and that affiant intends to support the candidate therein named.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of .................., l9.......
 ...........-...... ..............
 Notary Public, Maricopa
 County. Arizona. My commission expires. s............, 19......
 (d) It shall be the duty of the city clerk to furnish upon application a reasonable number of forms of said petition
 Ce) The signatures of such peti- tioners for such nominees need not be on one petition. but more than one petition may be filed for any nominee or candidate Each of said petitions shall also have printed thereon, at the end thereof the following:
 The petition of nomination of which this certificate forms a part shall. if found insufficient be returned to ..................... .........-....- at No. .................... Phoenix Arizona"
 OO Each of such petitions must b. of uniform size as determined by the city clerk: it shall contain the name of one candidate and no more; and each signer thereto shall possess the qualification and must not at the time of having signed his name thereto. have signed any other cer- tificate or petitions for any other candidate for the same office. nor in case there are several places to be filled in the same office. signed more petitions for candidates for that office than there are places to be filled in such office.
 Section ? The petition or peti- tions for nomination, consisting of signatures aggregating not less than five per cent of the number of votes cast for mayor or commissioner at the last preceding municipal election at which a mayor or commissioner was elected. may be presented to the city clerk not earlier than sixty days, nor later than twenty days before the date set for election. The city clerk shall endorse on such petition or peti- tions the date when the same was
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in the City of Phoenix, Arizona, for the office Of ....................t be voted for at the municipal election to be held in the City of Phoenix on the .....-.......... day of .... B., and We each do hereby fur ther certify, for ourselves Individuality. and not one for the other. that I am Ia qualified elector and am not at this time signer of any other petition nominating any other candidate for the above named office: or, in case there are several places to be filled in the above named office, that I have mot signed more petitions than there are places to be filled in the above named office; that my residence is as set opposite my name hereinbelow. and that my occupation is as set op- posite my name hereinbeloW
 Name City of Date
 of Phoenix of Signer Occupation Street No. Signing |. q.
 
 = ..- .. .-.- -... . State of Arizona
 County of Maricopa-ss
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ......day of .................., 19.......