Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-08-15
FOUR YEARS FOR
COMMISSIONERS
Revised Charter Provides For
Five Members, Including the
City's Mayor.
TO Be ELECTED At LARGE
Same Boundaries for the City and the
Wards are Provided Under
the Revision.

In order that everyone may be
charter which will come up before
the voters in November, The Alma
Record has decided to print the
charter, portions of which will ap-
pear each week 1t is far too ex-
haustive work to be published at
one time. The first three chapters
appear this week
Charter of the City of Alma, Mich
igan.
We, the inhabitants of the City of
Alma Michigan, in order to obtain
the benefits and advantages afforded
by the so-called Home Rule" statute
of this state, which provides for To-
cal government on the part of
the inhabitants Of said municipality.
and thereby to obtain and establish a
more direct and businesslike admin
istration of all its municipal affairs
and procedure, the application of
modern and improved methods of
municipal government in all depart
ments of the city, and practical and
efficient agencies to enforce the same,
and generally to otherwise promote
our welfare do hereby adopt for our
government, guidance and control,
the following charter:
Chapter 1.-General Powers of the
City.
Cd Sec ! The people of the
city of Alma, Michigan, as it's limits
are now or hereafter may be estab-
lished, shall continue to be and re-
main a body polite and corporate,
and shall be known as the "City of
Alma; and by that name may con-
tract, sue and be sued, have a COM
mon seal, and may purchase, hold
appropriate, lease, sell, convey and
dispose of any real and personal pro-
perty within its power and authority
and shall have, exercise and enjoy
such corporate powers, both express
and implied, as are conferred upon
cities by Act number 279 of the Pub
lie Acts Of Michigan for the year
1909 and the amendments thereto,
commonly known as Home Rule for
Cities" and as may be from time to
llIlt pIONlhtu by llt Stlltla ihWS VI
the state, subject at all times to the
constitution of the state. All Of the
powers thus conferred upon the City
of Alma shall be exercised, enforced
and established in the time and man
ner provided in this charter, and as
may be from time TO time otherwise
prescribed by the legislative body of
the city.
(2) Sec. 2. The city shall not
have the power TO sell any property
of a value in excess of ten cents per
capita according to the last preced-
ing United States census, u any
park, cemetery, or any real estate
used in carrying on public utility,
or any part thereof, or any property
bordering on water front, or vacate
any street or public place leading to
water front, or engage in any bus
mess enterprise requiring an invest
ment of money in excess of ten cents
per capita, or authorize any issue of
bonds, except special assessment
bonds, refunding bonds, or any
emergency bonds, unless approved by
three-ffths of the electors voting
thereon at any general or special
election.
Chapter 2.-Boundaries of City and
Wards.
(3) Sec. /. The lands embraced
within the corporate limits Of the
city and its territorial boundaries
shall be and remain the same as now
constituted and over which the city
of Alma is now exercising its power
and authority, until territory is de-
tached therefrom or added thereto in
the manner provided by law therefor.
The territory so embraced and in
cluded in the city Of Alma is particu-
larly described as follows, namely:
The east one-half ~ of section
number thirty-three (33), section
number thirty-four (34) and section
number thirty-five (35), all in town
ship number twelve G2) north of
range number three g west, Michi-
gan meridian, and the northeast one
quarter 4 and the west one-half
(19) of section number two (2), all
of section number three (3), and the
east one-half (l2) Of section number
four (4), all in township eleven G1)
north Of range number three (3)
west, Michigan meridian. The bound
aries Of said city of Alma are the
outward divisional lines Of the said
several subdivisions as established
by the government survey thereof,
and to be determined therefrom, and
the jurisdiction, power, and authority
of said city is limited and defined
thereby, except as to such matters
and things as apply to power, juris-
diction and authority of the city out
side Of the corporate limits. where
its power shall be coordinate with
the power, jurisdiction and authority
conferred upon il by the general laws
of this state.
(D Sec. 2. The city is hereby
divided into four wards, known and
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