Morris tribune., 1912-10-18

the corporate limits, or expiration
of term Of Office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner az
the original board was created, and
said board shall always contain it's
full complement of members,
Any such charter or any amend
ment or revision thereof may pro-
vide for the commission form of
administrative powers, or 1t may
provide for mayor or chief magls.
trate, and legislative body OF
either one or two houses and, ii
shall be elected by a general vote
of the electors, or it may provide
for any other plan or system OF
municipal government; provided
ment SO adopted shall not violate
the constitution of the state as
hereby amended.
In submitting any such charter
or amendment thereto, or revision
thereof to the qualified voters OF
such city OR village, any alternative
section or article may be presented
for the choice Of the voters and may
be voted on separately without
prejudice to other articles or sec.
tons of the charter, or any ameno-
mentS thereto or revision thereof.
The legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to analrs OL
cities, the application Of which may
thousand inhabitants, or to cities OF
fifty thousand and not less than
twenty thousand Inhabitants, or 70
cities of twenty thousand ana not
less than ten thousand inhabitants,
or to cities of ten thousand IN
habitants or less, which shall ap-
ply equally to all cities Of either
class, or if so specified in the law,
to all cities in either such class not
having charters adopted pursuanI
to this amendment, but no genera
law limited to one or more OF salo
classes of cities shall apply to any
city existing under charter framed
under this section of the cOnsti-
tuition unless such general law shall
be made applicable to such city by
a declaration, therein, naming the
city. Such laws shall be paramount
while in force to the provisions re.
lating to the same matter included
in the local charter herein PROVIDED
for.
and all laws necessary or proper
to carry into effect the PROVISIONS
of this amendment, and shall pre-
scribe by law the general limits
framed. No local charter, provision
or ordinance passed thereunder
shall supersede any general law OF
the state defining or Furnishing
crimes or mfsdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The puI
pose and object of this amendment
to permit cities already incorporate
and villages desiring to be incorporate
as cTIfes to include i'm their charter
or by amendment or revision thereO
a commission form of government hay
ing legislative and administrative pow
ers. The amendment sought enlarge
the power of such municipalities
framing their own charters, reservtn
to the legislature, however, the author
Ity to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall h
framed.
A commission form of city govern
ment is generally understood to incIud
the following characteristic feature
4. A small governing board; 2. TT
exercise of both legislative and admir-
istrative duties by this board; 3. I'll
division among the members of til
board of the administrative work of I'll
city by departments over which a sing
member of the governing board of I'll
city has control; 4. The election of Il
members of the governing board by q
of the voters of the city and not
wards, precincts or districts. 5. I'll
adoption OF methods of direct pOpuli
control over the action and the col
tinuance I'm office of the members of I'll
governing board.