Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-02
COUNCIL PASSES
MAYOR ORDINANCE
Incoming Getty Fathers" Are
Given Power To Elect Mayor
For Next Four Term

Richmond's new city council
which goes into office in January
will elect the next Mayor.
This was formally. finally and
officially settled at the regular
meeting of the old city council
Thursday night when an ordin-
ance was passed giving the new
council the power to elect a
Mayor.
This action. it is believed. will
meet with the approval OF a .grea
majority of the people inasmuch
as it will remove the election OF
mayor from election day jscram-
bles in which many men who are
splendidly qualified to make .
good mayor will not participate
in order to win the honor The
new council all of whom are men
OF the highest citizenship and III
tegrity. can be we'll depended
upon to pick a man who viii
serve the city for its best inter
ests since the death of Mayor L.
p. Evans who was shown by tn
primary to have been the choice
OF the people for the next fou
years.
The old council passed this Or
dinance under a section of the
Kentucky Statutes which gives it
the right to do so if the ordin
ance is passed 90 days before ;
November election at which {
Mayor is to be chosen.
Councilman Terrill offered the
ordinance which was seconded
by Councilman Mershon and pass
ed by vote of three to one.
Councilman Golden alone voting
in the negative. The ordinance
in full reads as follows:
An Ordinance
Providing for the appointment
of the Mayor of the city Of Rich
mond. Ky, by the Board of Coun-
Gil, changing the office of Mayor
of the city of Richmond from an
elective to an appointive office; ;
fixing the term of office and quail
ifications of the Mayor.
Be it ordained by the Board Of
Council of the City of RichWond.
Ky. that the office Of Mayor of
the City of Richmond, KY, be.
and the same is hereby declared
to and made an appointive office.
and removed from the list of cleo
tive offices of the city; said
change to take effect and become
operative from and after the first
Monday in January, 1922, the
date of the expiration of the term
of Office of the present Mayor OF
the city of Richmond. Beginning
with the term which commences
on the first Monday in January
1922, and ends on the first Mon
day in January, 1926, the office
of Mayor of the City of Rich
mond shall be filled by appoint
ment by the majority vote of the
members of the Board of Council
OF the City, the members of which
were elected at the general cleo
ton in the year next preceding
the year in which the term of Of
fee Of such Mayor is to begin.
Such Mayor shall be appointed
for and hold his office for a term
of four years at the same time
and in the same manner that the
other appointive officers of the
City of Richmond are selected
and appointed. and shall have the
same qualifications as are requir
cd by law of members of the
Board of Council.
All ordinances or parts of or
dinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed as fully and to
the same extent as if they had
been specifically mentioned and
referred to herein.
Adopted a regular meeting of
the Board Of Council, this Sep
tember 1, 1921.
! VIM. O'NEIL, Mayor
, Attest: w. Z. Blanton. Clerk. 1t