Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-22
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
[coNrINuED FROM FIRST PAcEl

al ttciiiiIcu Sedtchicnt VI all TeCelptS
and expenditures of the city during
the month.
At the termination of each fiscal
year, the board of commissioners
shall cause one or more competent
accountants to make a complete ex-
animation Of the books and accounts
of the city, and shall cause the re-
suit of such examination to be pub
lished in pamphlet form to be given
to each voter who may apply for
same at the proper office.
A vacancy shall exist>when any
elective officer fails to qualify with
in ten days after notice of his elec-
ton, or dies, Tor resigns,) or moves
his domicile outside of the city, or
remains outside of the city for a
period of six months, or is convicted
of felony, or is judicially declared in
sane, or is removed from office in
any manner.
|. In case of misconduct, inability,
or wilful neglect in the performance
of the duties of his office, the mayor
or any commissioner may be re-
moved from office by an unanimous
vote of the other two members of
the board of commissioners. But no
such officer shall be so removed with.
out having been given the right to
have full public hearing with rep
resentation by counsel, and with
witnesses summoned in his behalf
and required to testify. The find
ings of fact at such hearing, and the
reason for any such removal, shall
be stated in writing and filed as a
matter of public record. But the
officer, if removed. shall have the
right of appeal to the circuit court
of the county. and be tried de novo.
If during the ten days next follow
ing the passage of any such ordi-
nance as cannot within said ten days
become eff. ctive, a petition signed
by number of voters equal to at
least rs per centum of the total num-
Der of votes cast for both candidates
for mayor at the last preceding regu-
lar election for mayor, stating the
residence of each signer, and veri-
fled as to signatures and residences
by the affidavits of some one or more
persons, shall be presented to the
board of commissioners, protesting
1 against the passage of such ordi-
nance, such ordinance shall be sus-
pended from going into effect, and
shall be reconsidered by the board of
commissioners. If such ordinance
be not then repealed, the board shall
submit to the voters Of the whole
city, at either a special or reg Jlar
election according to law, the fol-
lowing question: Shall the ordi-
nance (briefly describing it, go into
effect?" and if majority of the
votes cast upon such question be in
the negative, the ordinance shall not
go into effect. But if a majority of
the votes cast upon such question be
in the affirmative, the ordinance
shall go into effect es soon as the re-
suit is officially ascertained and de-
clared.
If a petition signed by number
of voters equal to at least twenty
five per centum of the total number
of votes cast for both candidates for
mayor, at the last preceding regular
election for mayor, stating the resi-
dence of each signer, and verified by
affidavits of some one or more per-
sons as to the signatures and resi-
dences. requesting the board of COM
missioners to pass an ordinance
therein set forth-if such petition be
presented to the board of commits.
sioners, and if the ordinance therein
requested to be passed be one that
the board has a legal right to pass.
then the board shall either pass such
proposed ordinance without altera-
ton, within ten days after such petit
ton is filed, or submit the question
of its passage to the voters of the
city at the next regular election. At
such election the question submitted
shall be: "Shal the proposed ordi-
nance (briefly describing it, be pass
ed?" If the majority of the votes