Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-23
ORDINANCE NO. 1888.
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Charter Amendment Submitted to the Voters by the
Common COunci-NO. One.
An Ordinance providing for the amendment of Section
52 of the Charter of the City of Salem, Oregon as
adopted by vote of the people under the initiative
December 2, 1872 by modifying said Section 81 to en-
able the Common Council to construct public sewers
and drains to create a construction, manten-
ance and redemption fund.- and to authorize milage
tax to provide the same to prohibit the Common Coun-
Gil from mourning Indebtedness for public
strucon and defining the procedure for construction
OF sewers to authorize the issuance of general obiga
tion bonds to define public sewers to provide for the
payment OF all Indebtedness for the cost of constructing
all public sewers; to provide for refunds account
of paid assessments and the method of making the
same; to limit payments and refunds to public
construction and to City assessments of the cost thereof
to provide for the sale of said bond to authorize the
question of issuing bonds to be submitted to an election
and to authorize the Common Council pass ordinances
to carry into effect the provisions of Section So of the
Charter as modified by this ordnance to provide that
the bonds authorized hereunder shall be redeemed by
special and limited tax levy in addition to the limitation
Of Indebtedness provided by Section 6, Subdivision
of the City Charter
Be ordained By the Common Council of the City of Sale
OREGON:
Be ordained By the Legal Voters of the City of Salem,
Oregon
Section l. Section So of the Charter of the City of
Salem Oregon as amended under the initiative by vote
Of the people December g. 1912 is hereby amended and
modified so that the same shall read follows, tow:
Section 81. (a) The City Council shall have power
TO build construct and lay down all necessary and
drains within the limits of the City of Salem, and to such
point or points beyond may be necessary for the pur
TO safe and convenient point of discharge and in the
construction Of any drain the City shall have
the right to use and divert from their natural courses
any and all creeks streams running through the City
and cause the same to flow into and through such
and drains for the purpose of cleansing and flushing the
"same
"(b) The Common Council under the power vested in
1T by paragraph (a of this section may levy special
sewer and drainage tax not to exceed five (5 mills
the dollar on the taxable property within the corporate
limits of the City at the time of making out the annual
budget provided for by this charter and as part of
the total City levy Said tax levy shall be special and in
addition to the ten O) mill tax limitation contained in
Section g. Subdivision of this Charter and the money
from said special levy shall be kept in separate fund
and be used for constructing public and drains
and maintaining public and drains which are now
or may hereafter be constructed and for no other purpose
except repayment of public drainage assessments
heretofore paid under assessment ordinances of the City
as hereafter provided. The Common Council shall not
construct any public drains unless the money
pay for the same is either hand tax levy has been
made to provide the any shortage of money
"essary to meet construction expenses they mature
Before undertaking any public drainage con-
"sructon project the Common Council shall declare by
resolution its intention to construct the particular
cor drainage system district and therein shall direct the
CITY Engineer to file report with the City Recorder
Showing the plans, profies, specifications and estimates
for said system district and such plans shall show the
boundaries of the proposed to be served by such sys
tem district in sufficient detail for prospective bidders
"and for accurate information to the public. The City
Recorder shall present said report to the Common Council
a its first regular meeting thereafter for its consdera
tion AT any time within six 6) months after said report
lis presented whenever the shall be made to meet
the approval Of the Common Council il shall be adopted
by resolution in which the drains to be con-
structed shall be particularly described Thereafter the
Common Council may proceed to construct such public
sewers or drains either by contract under competitive bids
or with City employees through the engineering depart
ment of the City under the direct control of the Common
Council.
"(c) All sewers and drains heretofore laid and con-
structed by the City of Salem whether by special assess
ment otherwise particularly those known and described
as the North Salem Sewer, the South Salem Sewer the
extension of the Marion Street Sewer the Union Street
Sewer and those certain public installed under the
designation Of lateral sewer districts and numbered from
zone ID to thirteen 3) both inclusive and sixteen lO)