The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-30

| teltNfhpU OF AelSpNoHH hNHlfHSs hI
| ether public service utilities within
said city shall be subject to approval
or disapprovai by the electors of said
city whenever % per centum of the
electors of said city as appears from
the number of electors who voted for
mayor at the past preceding general
| city election, shall file within thirty
| days after the grant of the franchise,
with the board or city clerk, a petition
| therefor, it shall be the duty of the
| board to submit the question Of APP
prevail or disapproval OF the franchises
| to the electors at speciat election, or
AT regular city election, if one is
held within thirty days; and If ma
sue vote asainst such franchise, the
same shall not he granted, and the
ordinance granting it shall be void
and of no effect Notice of such elec-
ton shall be given for twenty days by
publication in daily newspaper, II
one is published in such city, and, e
none, than in any paper published
therein, stating the particular quss-
tion to be voted on at such election
The person or corporation seeking to
obtain the franchise provided and vot-
ed upon, shall pay all the expenses Of
such election before the same is held,
and shall deposit with the city clerk
such amount as the clerk may esti-
mate as necessary to cover the ex
penses of holding such election, IN
Guiding the publication of notice here
in required, and If such deposit is not
made, no election shall be held, and
the ordinance granting franchise shall
be void and of no effect.
Section XVII. No officer or en-
ploye e.ected or appointed in any such
city. shall be interested directly or il
directly in any contract or job for
work or material, or the profits there
Of or service to the furnished or per-
formed for the city, or for any i'm
poyement district in the city; and ne
such officer or empoye shall be in
tsrested directly or indirectly in any
contract or job for work or materials,
or the profits thereof, or service TO
be furnished or performed for any per
son, firm or corporation operating in
terurban railways, street railways, gas
works, water works, electric light or
power plants. telegraph lines, tele-
phone exchange or other public util-
ity within the territorial limits of said
city. No such officer or employee shall
accept or receive directly or indirectly
from any person, firm or corporation
operating within the territorial limits
OF said city any such interurban rail-
way, street railway, gas works, water
works, electric light or power plalt
heating plant, teicgraph line or tele-
phone exchange or other business act
ing or operating under a public fran
chise of the city. any frank. pass,
free ticket, or free service, or accept
or receive directly or indirectly from
any such person, firm or corporation
or its agents any other service upon
| terms more favorable than is granted
to the public generally. Any person
violating the provisions of this see
ton shall be guilty OF misdemeanor
and every such contract or agreement
shall be void
Such prohibition of free transporta-
ton shall not apply to policemen, or
firemen in uniform; nor shall any free
service toe city officials heretofore
| ,.rO,,fI,1 fnr no frapobieo mr. ordinance
be affected by this section.
Section XVHI Any proposed ordi
nance may be submitted to the Board
of Commissioners by petition signed
by electors of the city equal in NUM-
Der to the percentage hereinafter re-
qured. The signatures to the petit
ton need not all be appended to one
paper, but each siened shall add 10
his signature the place of his resi-
donce. giving street and number. One
of the signers of each paper shall
make oath before an officer competent
10 administer oaths that the state
ments therein made are true, and that
| each signature to the paper appended
is the genuine signature of the per
son whose name purports to be there
| under subscribed. Within ten days
from the date OF filing such petsioa
| the city clerk shall examine and ascer-
tain whether or not said petition Is
signed by the requisite number of
qualified electors. and he shall attach
to said petition his certificate showing
the result of such examination. If bY
the clerks certificate the petition is
shown TO be insufficient it may be
amended within ten days from the
date OF said certificate. The olerk
shall, within ten days after such
amendment, make ike examination
Of the amended petition, and If his Ger
tificate shall show the same to be in
sufficient ii shall he returned to the
person filing the same. without preju
dice, however, to the filing of a new
petition to the same effect If the
petition shall be found to be sufficient,
the clerk shall submit the same to the
Board of Commissioners without de-
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