The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09

intention so to do. The City Man
wager shall cause notice of such resolu.
ton to be served in the manner that
service Of summons IS required to be
made in circuit court civil actions
upon all persons whose property
Adults upon the portion of the street
AFFECTED by the proposed vacation OF
narrowing, and by publication once
in one newspaper of general clrcula-
zion published in the city as TO all the
persons who cannot be personally
Served. Said notice shall state the
time and place at which objections to
said proposed Improvement may be
heard before the commission. The
Commission may by ordinance de-
clare such vacation or narrowing and
such order of the Commission vacat-
ing or narrowing a street or alley
which has been dedicated to public
use by the proprietor snail, to tie ex-
tent to which it is vacated or narrow
ed, operate as revocation OF the ac-
lceptance thereof by the Commission;
but the right of way and easement
therein Of any lot owner shall not be
impaired thereby. ).
Section %. The Commission shall
determine its own rules of procedure,
may punish its members FOR disorder
ly conduct, and may compel the at
tendance of it's members.
Section %. The Commission shall
prescribe the time of it's meetings
which shall be held at the City Hall,
| provided that one regular meeting be
held semi monthly, and shall prescribe
the manner in which special meetings
lHbaraof NAV ho called
Section "a. The Commission shall,
in addition to, all the powers herein
expressly granted, have and possess
all the powers heretofore granted or
which may be hereafter granted by
the general laws of this State to city
councils. or that may belong to such
bodies by reason of their being the
Legislative body within the city.
ORDINANCES
Section l.. The enacting clause
of all ordinances shall read, "The City
iof Belding Ordains," but such caption
may be omitted when said ordinances
iare published in book form or are re-
vised and digested by authority of
the Commission.
Section 2. The adoption of an or
dinance by the Commission shall re-
quire for its passage the concurrence
cf majority Of the members of the
Commission.
Section 8. The time when an or
dinance shall take effect shall be pre-
scribed therein. No ordinance, ex-
cept emergency measures and the an
nual appropriation bill, shall go into
effect until twenty days after its pas
sage. nor shall any resolution or or
dinance for a bond issue, franchise,
L.. pcr
for the expenditure of money from
the general funds of the city, go into
effect for a like period of twenty days
after being passed by the Commission.
If, at any time within the said twenty
days, a petition signed by twenty-five
per cent of the highest vote cast for
commissioner at the last municipal
election be filed with the city clerk
requesting that any such ordinance
or resolution be repealed. amended,
rescinded, or submitted to a vote of
the electors, it shall not become oper-
ative until the steps indicated herein
shall have been taken, and said petit
lltion shall have been printed or writ
ten thereon the names and addresses
of at least five electors who shall be
officially regarded as filing such petit
tion.
Section 4. All ordinances shall be
published once within one week after
their passage, in one CIR more news
papers of general circulation printed
within the city, and the city clerk
shall certify on the record of ordin--
ances the date Of publication and
newspaper in which any ordinance was
$50 published; and such certificate shall
be prima facie evidence that legal
publication of such ordinance has been
made.
Section 5. No ordinance shall be
finally passed on the day it is intro
duced, except in case of public emery
ency, and then only on request of the
Mayor in writing, and except also
che annual appropriation bills.
Section 6. All ordinances shall be
recorded in an indexed book marked
Ordinance Record" and the record
of each ordinance shall be authenti-
Gated by the signature of the Mayor
and City Clerk. Such record and
Standardization shall be done within
one week after the final passage of
any ordinance, but failure to so re-
cord and authenticate any ordinance
shall not invalidate it or suspend its
operation.
Section z. Immediately upon the
final passage of any ordinance, the
Mayor ano City Clerk shall sign the
same under certificate of the day
and date of its passage.
Section g. No repealed ordinance
shall be revived unless the whole or
so much as is intended to be revived
shall be re-enacted. When any section
or part of section of any ordin-
ance is amended, the whole section as
amended shall be re-enectd.
Section 9. Prosecutions of the viol-
ations of the ordinances of the city
shall be commenced within two years
after the commission of the offense:
Provided, That the limitations herein
imposed shall only apply to violations
penal in their nature, and shall not
be construed as limitation of the
city's right to forfeit any franchise,
grant or license for violation Of the
terms and conditions thereof, after
said two-year period.
Section 10. Prosecutions for the