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CHAPTER II
General Powers, Rights and LiabiIite

General Powers, Rights and Liabilities
 Section 1. The said corporation, the City of Phoenix,
 (a) Shall succeed to. OWn possess and control all of the books, records, documents and all of the property, real. personal and mixed, and all of the rights, privileges, franchises. pow CTS and immunities, now belonging to- possessed or enjoyed by the municipal corporation known as the Common Council of the City of Phoenix" and is hereby declared to be tie successor of the same;
 Cb) It shall be subject to and H- able for all of the legal debts, liabili- ties. judgments, bonds and all other legal obligations for which the present corporation is now or may hereafter become legally bound;
 Cc) It may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law or equity, in all actions whatsoever; contract and be contracted with, ac- ouire and hold real, personal or mixed property for the purposes for which it is incorporated and do all such acts and things necessary or proper for a municipal corporation to do to carry out the purposes for which it is incorporated, subject to the Con stitution and the general laws of the state of Arizona and to the provisions of this charter.
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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 by 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 IA 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 a majority of all the votes cast at 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 tC 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 muni cipal election shall be held to fil such office. The candidates not elect ed at such first election, equal iT number to twice the number to bt elected to any given office, or less il so there be, and who received the highest number of votes for the re-
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CHAPTER NIL
Elections

Section l. 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 g, 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 of 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- vided for in Chapter XXI of this charter.
 Section 2 After the said first gen eral election under this charter, and prior to the holding of any subse- ouent city election 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 election and provide for the making up ana printing and distribution of the bal lots and provide the necessary booths and paraphernalia for the holding of such elections
 Section 9. There shall be at least two polling places designated in the City of Phoenix, for the casting of votes, and such polling places shall be kept open, on the day of election, from s a. m. until , o'clock p. m. of said day.
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and the submission of proposed or- dinance.
 Section f. 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 elec- tion, 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 &C., companying petition Subject to ref erendary vote, under the provisions of Chapter TX. of this Charter), or
 (b) Within twenty-five days after the city clerk shall have attached to the petition accompanying such ordi- nance his certificate of sufficiency, the commission shall proceed to call a 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 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 the city clerk to enclose printed copy thereof in an envelope with a sample 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 proposition to be printed in the of ficial newspaper of the city and pub lished in like manner as ordinances adopted by the commission are re- quired to be published, and may order 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- vided
 Section G. The ballots used in vot
 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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CHAPTER VIII.
 
said day

Section | Any proposed ordnance 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 commissioner last elected
 Section 2 Any proposed ordinance, desired to be submitted to the com mission, shall be presented upon a petition substantially in the following form:
 Phoenix, Arizona, .......... To the Commission of the City of
 Phoenix:
 We the undersigned, residents of the City of Phoenix. Arizona. and duly qualified electors therein, do hereby submit and propose to you, for adoption by you, the following or dinance and request that action be taken by you relative to the adoption or rejection of such proposed ordi- nance, at the earliest possible mo- ment, and that the same be forth with submitted to a vote of the peo- pie, to-wit
 (here insert proposed ordinance in
 fulD
 Name of Signer Address .................-.. r......-.-..'.'-. .................... ........'-' ..'''. ....,.............. State of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa: ss.
 ............... De1nS 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 no tified of all proceedings and action taken in reference to such petition, are (here insert the names of three persons and their addresses).
  Subscribed and sworn to before me l this ...... day of ............, 19.... l
 Notary Public, Maricopa County Arizona.
 My commission expires .......... l 19......
 Section 8 The provisions of Chap 1 ter K of this Charter in so far as 1 they relate to the method of filing with, examination and certification by the City Clerk, reference of petition to the commission and notification o1 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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Section 9. 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 that 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 cleo 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 of no cand- 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 IL 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 i ed, relating to the printing and dis | tribution of sample ballots in con- nection with general municipal cleo l tions, shall apply to all primary and special municipal elections.
 Section 13. After the holding of
 such primary election it shall be the
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CHAPTER V. Nominations of Officers and Primary Etecti0nS

Section 1. (a) The mode of nom- ination 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 q peti- tion for the nomination of ........
 ................. whose residence is at No. ...................
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(NW A) of said Section five (5) to it's intersection with a prolonga- ton of the West line of Simm's Addi- ton 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 a straight line to the Northwest corner of said Simm's Addition; thence East along the North line of said Simm's Addi-
 ton to it's intersection with the West line of the Northeast Quarter (NII A)
 of said Section five (5); thence North along the West line of the Northeast Quarter (NE A) of said Section five (5): to the Northwest corner of the Northeast Quarter (NE A) of
 said Section five (): 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
 (4 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 CW 15) of said Section four (4) to the North west corner of the Northeast Guar ter CNE IA of Section nine (9), Township one CD North, Range three
 (3) East of tn Gila 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-
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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 mak- ing the annual tax levy, and excepting an ordinance for the immediate pres ervation of the public peace, health 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 by qualified electors of the city equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor or commissioner at the last
 preceding general municipal election
 at which a mayor or commissioner
 was elected, protesting against the
 passage of such ordinance, be pre-
 sented to the commission, the same
 shall thereupon be suspended from
 going into operation; and it shall be
 the duty of the commission to recon
 slider such ordinance and if the same
 be not entirely repealed, the com
 mission shall submit the ordinance, as is provided in Chapter x. of this Charter, to the vote of the electors
 of the city, either at the next general election or at a special election to be called for that purpose; and such or dinance shall not go into effect or be- come operative unless a majority of the qualified electors voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof The provisions of Chapter x. of this Char 1 ter respecting the form, the filing. certification, rejection and action on recall petitions shall apply to peti- tions of the kind referred to in this
 chapter, with such notifications as the nature of the case may require. i Section 2. Any ordinance or mea-
 sure that the commission or the quali-
 fled electors of the city shall have | the authority to enact, the commits sion may of it's own motion submit to the electors for adoption or re- jection at a general or special mum icipal election, in the same manner
 and with the same force and effect as is provided in this chapter for ! ordinances or measures submitted on | petition. At any special election
 called under the provisions of this l (Continued on Next Page.)
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For the ordinance
Against the ordinance

If a majority of the qualified elec- 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 g. 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 any such ordinance, or for amend ments thereto, to be voted upon at any succeeding general municipal election, and should such proposition, so submitted, receive a majority of the vote cast thereon at such cleo tiOn, such ordinance shall be repealed or amended accordingly; an ordinance proposed by petition and adopted by a vote of the people cannot be re- peaIed or amended except by vote of the people.
 Section 10. Tn commission mayS by ordinance, make such further regu- lations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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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 num- Der of votes at said second election shall be declared elected to such of flee.
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OHHT EH VI EIectiNe Officers

Section 1. The elective officers of the City of Phoenix shall be a 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 sue .cessOrs are elected and qualified.
 Provided however, that of the two commissioners first elected under tl1s Charter, the term of the one receiV- 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 cOrnence 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. Tn. the first secular day of May, 1915.
 Section g. The mayor and each of the commissioners and the city magistrate hereinabove provided for shall each be an electOr of the Clty 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 have been duly admitted to practice law in the Territory of Arizona or State of Arizona for at least three years
 prior to his nomination as such City l Magistrate.
 l Section f. 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 the recall provisions of this charter, when
 an elective officer fails to qualify
 within thirty days after commence
 ment of his term dies, resigns, re
 moves from the city, absents himself continuously without reasonable eX- cuse for tWentY-one days from the 1 duties of his office, is convicted for
 violating any provision of this char ter, or of a felony, or is 1udiCia!ly
 declared a lunatic as defined by
 statute. If at any municipal cleo tion held under the provisions of this charter a mayor or the required num-
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CHAPTER III.
Form Of Government

Section 1. The City of Phoenix shall hereafter be governed by a com mission, consisting of 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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- - . Notary Public, Maricopa
 County, Arizona.

My commission expires. es........,
 .Cd) It shall be the duty of the city clerk to furnish upon application a reasonable number of forms of said petition.
 (e) 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 round insufficient be returned to .............-....-... at No ................... Phoenix. Arizona"
 Q) Each of such petitions must be of uniform size as determined by the city clerk; it shall contain the name of one candidate and no more; and each slgner 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 2 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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CHAPTER VI Special Elections

Section l. 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 cluding the qualifications of electors. and the nomination of candidates.
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in the City of Phoenix, Arizona, for the office of INSTRUMENTATION. to be voted for at the municipal election to be held in the City of Phoenix on the
 ................ day of ........., 19...., and We each do hereby fur ther certify, for ourselves individually, and not one for the other that I am a 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 have not 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
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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.
PR-AMB 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 population of over three thousand five hundred inhabitants, do ordain and establish this Charter for the City of Phoenix