B 775,314 CHARTER OF THE City of Ann Arbor JANUARY 1924 :A6 A4 192 CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ANN ARBOR PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMON COUNCIL COMPILERS: ISAAC G. REYNOLI)S WILLIS BLAKESLEE ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 1923 THE ANN ARBOR PRESS ANN ARBOR, MICH. OFFICERS OF THE CITY GOVERN- MENT OF ANN ARBOR For the Year 1923-1924 ....... Mayor...... ..GEORGE E. LEWIS President of Council.... ..MARK B. SUGDEN City Clerk.. ISAAC G. REYNOLDS City Assessor. .HERBERT W. CRIPPEN City Treasurer... ..ROSS GRANGER City Attorney.......... .......ROSCOE O. BONISTEEL City Marshal.. THOMAS O'BRIEN Chief of Fire Dept... .CHAS. J. ANDREWS Health Officer......... . DR. JOHN A. WESSINGER City Physician. .DR. EDWIN GANZHORN Poor Commissioner... ........ JOHN H. SHADFORD City Engineer......... GEO. H. SANDENBURG Asst. Engineer.......... .H. R. SCOVILL Street Commission... .........ALFRED J. PAUL Supt. of Parks............. .E. A. GALLUP Mgr. Water Works Dept...... ...GEO. J. VANDAWARKER Supt. of Water Works.... ..LESLIE A. BUSH Deputy City Clerk..................FRED C. PERRY Deputy City Clerk........ . MARCIA M. MINNIS ................. THE COMMON COUNCIL Mark B. Sugden, President First Ward. Second Ward. ....... Third Ward. ........ ...... Fourth Ward........ WILLIS G. JOHNSON HERBERT M. SLAUSON BENJAMIN H. GRAF GEORGE L. HAARER .E. EDWARD LUCAS WM. L. HENDERSON JEROME W. MARKEY CHRIS T. DONNELLY .GEORGE SPATHELF WALTER S. MOORE CHAS. C. FREEMAN ALFRED H. WHITE ROBERT NORRIS LEWIS M. GRAM Fifth Ward. ................... Sixth Ward......... Seventh Ward.......... ..... BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 269 MAYORS OF THE CITY OF ANN ARBOR 1859 1861 IN ..... .......... ....... 1871 1875 .......... .............. 1878 .............. ......... GEORGE SEDGWICK EDWIN R. TREMAIN JAMES KINGSLEY WILLIAM S. MAYNARD PHILIP BACH ...... ROBERT J. BARRY .. JOHN F. MILLER .. CHARLES SPOOR EBENEZER WELLS WILLIAM S. MAYNARD OLIVER M. MARTIN CHRISTIAN EBERBACH ALFRED H. PARTRIDGE . WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN SILAS H. DOUGLASS HIRAM J. BEAKES EDWARD D. KINNE : DENSMORE CRAMER WILLARD B. SMITH JOHN KAPP .. WILLIAM D. HARRIMAN JOHN KAPP JOHN J. ROBISON ....... WILLARD B. SMITH .... SAMUEL W. BEAKES CHARLES H. MANLY. WILLIAM G. DOTY .. BRADLEY M. THOMPSON CYRENUS G. DARLING WARREN E. WALKER .. CHARLES E. HISCOCK GOTTLOB LUICK ROYAL S. COPELAND ARTHUR BROWN . FRANCIS M. HAMILTON JAMES C. HENDERSON WILLIAM L. WALZ WILLIAM L. WALZ . DR. R. G. McKENZIE .... #CHARLES A. SAUER. ERNST M. WURSTER... ERNST M. WURSTER ... GEORGE E. LEWIS ...... From To April April 1851 1853 1853 1855 1856 1858 1861 1862 1863 1863 1865 1866 1866 1868 1868 1869 1870 1870 1871 1873 1873 1877 1880 1883 1885 1886 1886 1887 1888 1890 1891 1891 1893 1893 1894 1895 1895* 1897 1897 1899 1901 1901 1903 1903 1905 1905 1907 1907 1909 1909 1911 1911 1913 1913 1915 1915 1917 1917 1919 1919 1921 1921 1923 .......... 1890 1894 .............. ......... 1899 ........... ...... . *In March, 1895, the term of office of Mayor and President of the Council was extended to two years. †Died Dec. 6th, 1915. Succeeded by Ernst M. Wurster as Acting Mayor from Dec. 6, 1915, to April, 1917. PRESIDENTS OF THE COUNCIL : (This position was established as an elective city office by the charter of 1889.) From To April April FRED H. BELSER .... 1889 1891 MORTIMER E. COOLEY .. 1891 1893 WILLIAM W. WATTS 1893 1894 LEVI D. WINES ......... 1894 1895 CHARLES E. HISCOCK 1895* 1897 GOTTLOB LUICK ..... 1897 1899 WALTER T. SEABOLT 1899 1901 JOHN W. HAARER 1901 1903 JOHN C. WALZ, JR. .... 1903 1905 EUGENE S. GILMORE 1905 1907 WILLIAM L. WALZ . 1907 I 909 DR. WM. S. MILLS ..... 1909 1911 DR. WM. S. MILLS 1911 1913 E. E. SCHMID 1913 1915 ERNST M. WURSTER 1915 1917 RUDOLPH E. REICHERT 1917 1919 GEORGE E. LEWIS .... 1919 1921 FRUDOLPH E. REICHERT. 1921 1923 MARK B. SUGDEN .. .. .. ... . ... .. ... ... .. . . ... .. . ... .. ... .. .. .. ... .. ... 1923 *In March, 1895, the term of office of Mayor and President of the Council was extended to two years. † President of Council till April 3rd, 1922, then resigned. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE .......... 34 IS .. .. .. .. .. . ... . .. ... . .. .. ..... . .. .. 40 40 AT ACT OF INCORPORATION BOUNDARIES ELECTORS AND RESIGNATION .... ELECTIONS ....... OFFICERS ......... QUALIFICATIONS, OATH AND OFFICIAL BOND.. VACANCIES IN OFFICE DUTIES OF OFFICERS Mayor ......... Aldermen ............. City Clerk Justice of the Peace . Assessor Supervisors Constable Police Commissioners .. City Treasurer ... City Attorney ........ COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS, COMMON COUNCIL ... POWERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL ORDINANCES ....... ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES .. POLICE .. SEWERS, DRAINS AND WATER COURSES.. STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC IMPROVE- MENTS .. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS....... FIRE DEPARTMENT ... PUBLIC HEALTH FINANCES AND TAXATION.... MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS LOCAL ACT TO CONSTRUCT SEWERS. LOCAL ACT TO CONTRACT FOR GAS OR ELECTRIC LIGHT ........ ......... LOCAL ACT TO RAISE MONEY FOR UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LOCAL ACT TO BUILD CITY HALL.. LOCAL ACT TO PURCHASE WATER WORKS......... LOCAL ACT TO CONSTRUCT GARBAGE CREMATORY INDEX ......... A7 ........... 100 ΙΙΟ 112 115 115 .......... 116 118 120 123 IO CHARTER OF THE line of said section thirty, six hundred thirty seven feet, thence north parallel with the east line of said section thirty; eleven hundred 'thirteen feet to a point one hundred ninety eight feet south of the southerly line of West Liberty Street; thence west- erly on a line parallel with Liberty Street to the east line of the west half of the southeast quar- ter of section thirty, thence north to the east and west center line of said section thirty, thence west on said center line to the center of section thirty, thence north on the center line of section thirty to a point one hundred ninety eight feet south of the south line of Jackson Avenue; thence west parallel with and one hundred ninety eight feet south of the south line of Jackson Avenue to the intersection of the west line fo Grand View plat, projected southerly; thence north along the west boundary of said plat extended to the center line of Jackson Avenue; thence westerly along the center line of Jackson Avenue, four hundred and sixty eight one hundredths feet; thence deflecting 820-41'-30" to the left eight hundred forty seven and fourteen one hundredths feet to the east and west quarter line of Section thirty, township two south, range six east; thence west along the east and west quarter line of section thirty, township two south, range six east, nine hundred four and fifty six one hundredths feet; thence deflecting 900-00²-00" to the right seven hundred forty nine and eighty nine one hundredths feet to the center line of Jackson Avenue; thence deflecting 860-08²-30" to the right eighty two and three one hundredths feet to the point of curve; thence along the arc of a circular curve to the left of radius six thousand four hundred seventy five and fifteen one hundredths feet through a central angle of 3°-08²-00" to the point of tangency of said curve; thence deflecting 1°-34²-00%, to the left from the chord of the last mentioned curve one hundred twenty three and nineteen one hundredths feet; thence deflecting CITY OF ANN ARBOR II 820-57'-30" to the left one thousand two hundred twenty three and thirteen one hundredths feet to the center line of Dexter Avenue; thence deflecting 111°- 27'-30" to the right ninety six and twenty two one hundredths feet along the center line of Dexter Ave- nue; then deflecting 40-00'-00% to the left six hundreri ninety seven and eighty two one hundredths feet along the center line of Dexter Avenue to the west line of Grand View Plat; thence deflecting 1070-04'- 00" to the left along the west line of Grand View Plat extended to a point one hundred ninety eight feet north of Dexter Avenue; thence southeasterly parallel to and one hundred ninety eight feet from Dexter Avenue to a point nine and thirteen one hun- dredths chains northwesterly from the east line of the west one half of the north east one quarter of section thirty, township two south, range six east; thence de- flecting 910-00²-00" to the left three hundred sixty three and no one hundredths feet; thence deflecting 890-00'-00% to the left three hundred ten and twenty one hundredths feet; thence deflecting 740-00²-00% to the right six hundred eighty five and eight one hun- dredths feet to the north line of section thirty, town- ship two south, range six east; thence east on the north line of Section thirty, township two south, range six east to the east line of lot twenty three of the plat of the southeast one quarter of Section nine- teen, township two south, range six east; thence north along the east line of said lot twenty three to the cen. ter line of Miller Avenue; thence southeasterly along the center line of Miller Avenue to the east line of Section nineteen, township two south, range six east; thence north along the east line of said Section nine- teen to a point nine hundred forty five feet north of the east quarter post of section nineteen, thence west at right angles to the east line of section nineteen, three hundred fifty feet; thence north parallel with said section line five hundred feet to the east and west 12 CHARTER OF THE center line of the northeast quarter of section nine- teen, thence east along the center lines of the north halves of sections nineteen, twenty and twenty one, to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty one, thence south parallel with the east line of section twenty one to the river bank; thence southerly along the east- erly bank of the Huron river to the east line of sec- tion twenty eight; thence south along the east line of section twenty eight to the northerly line of Geddes Avenue; thence southeasterly along the north line of Geddes Avenue, one thousand seventy feet to the in- tersection of the said line with the extension of the easterly line of lot number six in Grove Block in J. D. Baldwin's Eastern Addition to the City of Ann Arbor, according to the recorded plat thereof; thence south. erly six hundred eighty three feet along the easterly line of the said lot six and the extension of this line to its intersection with the south line of section twenty seven; thence east along the north line of section thirty four, township two south, range six east five hundred eighty four and six tenths feet; thence south. 0°-21-00" east one thousand seven hundred thirty five and five tenths feet to a point on the north line of lot five, C. L. Tuomy Washtenaw Hills Subdivision, one hundred twenty one and six tenths feet from the northeast corner of said lot five; thence southerly along the east and south line of C. L. Tuomy Washte- naw Hills Subdivision to the east line of Washtenaw Avenue; thence south 490-59²-00" west fifteen and forty two one hundredths feet; thence south 00º-10'- 00" east twenty one and seven tenths feet to an iron pipe monument on the center line of Washtenaw Avenue; thence continuing south 00°-10-00” east one thousand three hundred fifty three and three tenths feet; thence south 88°-15²-00' west five hundred thirty three and four tenths feet to the southwest corner of the northwest one quarter of the southwest one CITY OF ANN ARBOR 13 quarter of section thirty four, township two south, range six east; thence parallel to the south line of section thirty three, township two south, range six east, to the west line of section thirty three, township two south, range six east; thence north along the west line of section thirty three; to the west quarter post of section thirty three thence west along the center line of section thir- ty two to the west line of section thirty two; thence north along the west line of section thirty two to the place of beginning, be and the same is here- by set off from said township and declared to be a city, by the name of Ann Arbor; and the freemen of said city from time to time being inhabitants thereof shall be and continue to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “The City of Ann Arbor," and by that name it shall be known in law, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, and of prosecuting and defending all suits; they may have a common seal, which the common council may alter at pleasure, and shall be capable of purchasing, hold- ing, conveying and disposing of real and personal estate for the use of said corporation. SEC. 2.* The city shall be divided into seven wards, as follows: The first ward shall embrace all that part of the city lying south of Huron street, cast of Main street, west of State street and north of Mad- ison street; the second ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying south of Huron street and Jackson avenue and west of Main street and the Ann Arbor and Lodi plank road; the third ward shall em- brace all that portion of the city lying north of Huron street and Jackson avenue, and south of the Huron river, and west of Fourth avenue, extending to the River Huron; the Fourth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying north of Huron street and of the line of Huron street as extended easterly to the city limits south of the River Huron and east of * As amended March 15, 1895. 14 CHARTER OF THE Fourth avenue; the fifth ward shall embrace all that : portion of the city lying northeast of the Huron river; the sixth ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying south of Huron street and of the line of Huron street as extended easterly to the city limits, and east of State street from its intersection with Huron street to its intersection with Monroe street, and north of Monroe street from its intersection with State street to its intersection with East Univer- sity avenue, and east of East University avenue from its intersection with Monroe street to its inter- section with Hill street, and north of Hill street from its intersection with East University avenue to its intersection with Washtenaw avenue and northeast- erly of Washtenaw avenue from its intersection with Hill street to the city limits; the seventh ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying east of Main street and the Ann Arbor and Lodi plank road, and south of Madison street from its intersection with Main street to its intersection with State street, and west of State street from its intersection with Madi- son street to its intersection with Monroe street, and south of Monroe street from its intersection with State street to its intersection with East University avenue and west of East University avenue from its intersection with Monroe street to its intersection with Hill street and south of Hill street from its in- tersection with East University avenue to its inter- section with Washtenaw avenue and southwesterly of Washtenaw avenue from its intersection with Hill street to the city limits. The aforesaid divisions are made by the actual or supposed continuation of the center line of each of the said division streets in the present direction thereof: Provided, That at least ten days before the first election in and for the addi.. tional ward created by this act, the common council shall appoint three electors, residing in the territory formed into the seventh ward, by this act, as inspect- CITY OF ANN ARBOR 15 ors of the first election therein, and cause notice to be given by the city clerk at least eight days previous to said election, in manner prescribed by section eight of the charter of the City of Ann Arbor. Such notice shall state the time and place in the said seventh ward of holding said first election, and of the city and ward officers to be elected, and of the time and place in said ward where the said inspectors of elec- tion will meet on the Wednesday next preceding said first election to make a registration of the electors in said seventh ward, and that no person unless reg- istered in the registry book of said ward will be per- mitted to vote at such election. The inspectors of election, appointed as herein provided, shall consti- tute a board of registration for said seventh ward, for the purpose of making the first registry of the electors therein. They shall take and file with the city clerk the constitutional oath of office and shall meet in the said seventh ward on the days and times and at the place appointed in the notice of the said first election and there make a registry of all persons in said ward who are qualified electors, in accordance with the general laws of the State of Michigan and the provisions of the charter of said city in force at the time of said registration. Such registry when completed shall be the registry of the electors of said seventh ward. Said inspectors of such first election in said seventh ward shall have the same powers, per- form the same duties at, and conduct such election as nearly as may be in accordance with the provisions of the charter of said city, except as herein otherwise provided. SEC. 3. The common council shall have power, by ordinance duly passed, to divide any ward which shall have polled more than six hundred votes at the last preceding general election, into polling precincts, which precincts shall be as nearly equal as possible in point of population, and the common council shall 16 CHARTER OF THE have the power to provide for separate re-registration for each polling precinct when any such precinct shall be created, and the registration of electors for all elections shall be conducted in each precinct as nearly as possible as the elections are conducted in the several wards, and no voter shall vote in other than the precinct in which he shall reside. The com- mon council shall also provide registration books for, any ward that shall be so divided—one for each pre- cinct—and the board of registration shall be as con- stituted by this act, but each voter's name shall be registered in the book provided for the precinct in which he resides. The returns of the elections in pre- cincts shall be made and canvassed in the same man- ner as in wards, and the word precinct in elections shall, to all intents and purposes, be synonymous . with the word ward. Electors and Registration SEC. 4. The inhabitants of said City of Ann Ar- bor, having the qualifications of electors under the constitution and laws of the State, and no others, shall be electors therein. SEC. 5.* At all elections in said city every elector shall vote in the ward where he shall have resided during twenty days next preceding the day of elec- tion. The residence of any elector, not being a house- holder, shall be deemed to be in the ward in which he rooms and lodges. SEC. 6. Any person offering to vote at any elec- tion held in said city, shall, if challenged by an elec- tor of the ward in which he offers to vote, take, before his vote shall be received, one of the oaths or affirma- tions provided by the laws of the State for electors at general elections, which oath may be administered by *As amended March 15, 1895. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 17 either of the inspectors of election. Upon taking such oath or affirmation, if duly registered in said ward, he shall be permitted to vote. SEC. 7. The supervisor and aldermen of each ward shall constitute the board of registration there- in, except as in this act otherwise provided. If by any reason there shall not be a full board of registra- tion, the common council shall supply any vacancy or appoint a board of registration for the ward. SEC. 8. A new and complete registration of elec- tors shall be made in the several wards on Tuesday and Wednesday preceding the general election to be held in the year 1890, and on the Tuesday and Wed. nesday preceding the general election to be held every eighth year thereafter, for which purpose the several ward boards shall be and remain in session at such places as the common council shall direct, from eight o'clock in the forenoon to eight o'clock in the after. noon of the days before named. Notice of such ses- sions and registration shall be given as provided in section two of "An act to further preserve the purity of elections and guard against the abuse of the elec- tion franchise by a registration of electors," approved February 14, 1859, and registration books of the form prescribed by statute and now in use in said city shall be provided under the direction of the common coun: cil. The rules and regulations prescribed in the act before cited, shall be observed and carried out in making the registration hereby ordered, and when any new registration shall have been completed under the provisions of this act the registry books prior thereto in use in said city shall be deemed invalid, and no person shall vote at any election in any ward of said city whose name shall not be entered in the new register made under the provisions of this act, or be afterwards properly entered in such new register, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid and this act. CHARTER OF THE SEC. 9. Sessions of the board of registration shall be held in the several wards on the Tuesday preceding each general election of state and county officers at which a new and complete registration is not ordered for the purpose of registering new electors in said ward registration books in the manner prescribed in the aforesaid act, like notice to be given as pro- vided by section six of said act, which session shall commence at 8 o'clock in the forenoon and close at 8 o'clock in the afternoon, and on the Wednesday preceding such general election the said board of registration shall hold a session at the common coun. cil room, in said city, from nine o'clock in the fore- noon until four o'clock in the afternoon for the pur. pose of comparing, revising, correcting and complet- ing the several ward registration lists. At such ses- sion the presence of two members of each ward board of registration shall be necessary to constitute a quo- rum. Applicants for registration, being duly quali- fied electors, may register at such session, and the names of electors who have removed or died since the preceding election shall be erased with red ink, with the remark "dead" or "removed,” with the date of erasure. If the name of any elector shall be erased by mistake such elector may be re-registered on the day of election as provided by section eighteen of the act hereinbefore cited. SEC. 10. Sessions of the boards of registration shall be held in the several wards on the Wednesday preceding each charter or special election for new reg- istration, and correction of the registry books, such sessions to be noticed and conducted as provided for by the act before cited, except that the erasure of the names of electors who have removed or died shall be made as provided in the preceding section. Such sessions shall commence at eight o'clock in the fore- noon and close at eight o'clock in the afternoon; Pro- vided, That in giving notice of registration for a spec- CITY OF ANN ARBOR ial election, it shall not be necessary to print the names of the electors then duly registered. SEC. 11. Two members shall at all times be pres- ent during the session of each ward board of regis- tration. Elections SEC. 12. An annual city charter election shall be held on the first Monday in April in each year, at such place in each of the several wards of the city as the common council shall designate. SEC. 13. Special elections may be appointed by resolution of the common council, to be held in and for the city, or in and for any ward thereof, at such time and place, or places, as the common council shall designate; the purpose and object of which shall be fully set forth in the resolution appointing such elec- tion. SEC. 14. Whenever a special election is to be held the common council shall cause to be delivered to · the inspectors of election in the ward or wards where. the same is to be held, a notice signed by the city clerk, specifying the officer or officers to be chosen, and the question or proposition, if any, to be submitted to the vote of the electors, and the day and place at which such election is to be held, and such election shall be conducted in the same manner as the annual charter elections. SEC. 15. Notice of the time and place or places of holding any election, and of the officers to be elected, and the question to be voted upon, shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be given by the city clerk at least ten days before such election, by posting such notices in three public places in each ward in which the election is to be held, and by publishing a copy thereof in a newspaper published in the city, the same length of time before the election; and in case of a 22 CHARTER OF THE Sec. 24. Immediately after closing the polls, the inspertors of election shall without adjourning, pub- licly canvass the votes received by them, and declare the result; and shall, on the same day or on the next day, make a statement in writing, setting forth in words at full length the whole number of votes given for each office, the names of persons for whom such votes for each office were given, and the number of votes so given for each person; the whole number of votes given upon each question voted upon, and the number of votes given for and against the same, which statement shall be certified under the hands of the in- spectors to be correct; and they shall deposit such statement and certificate on the day of election, or on the next day, together with such poll lists, the register of electors and the boxes containing said ballots, in the office of the city clerk. SEC. 25. The manner of canvassing said votes shall be the same as prescribed by law for canvassing votes at the general elections held in this state, and the inspectors shall in all other respects, except as herein otherwise provided, conform as nearly as may be to the duties required of inspectors of election at such general elections. SEC. 26. The common council shall convene on the Thursday next succeding each election, at their usual place of meeting, and determine the result of the elec- tion upon each question and proposition voted upon, and what persons are duly elected at said election to the several offices respectively; and thereupon the city clerk shall make duplicate certificates, under the cor- porate seal of the city, of such determination, showing the result of the election upon any question or propo- sition voted upon, and what persons are declared elect- ed to the several offices respectively, one of which certificates he shall file in the office of the clerk of the county of Washtenaw and the other shall be filed in the office of the city clerk. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 23 SEC. 27. The person receiving the greatest num- ber of votes for any city or ward office shall be deemed to have been duly elected to such office, and if there shall be no choice for any office by reason of two or more candidates having received an equal number of votes, the common council shall at the meeting men- tioned in the preceding section determine by lot be- tween such persons, which shall be considered election to such office. SEC. 28. It shall be the duty of the city clerk, within five days after the meeting and determination of the common council, as provided in section 27 [26], to notify each person elected, in writing, of his elec- tion, and he shall also, within five days after the com- mon council shall appoint any person to any office, in like manner notify such person of such appoint- ment. SEC. 29. Within one week after the expiration oť the time in which any official bond or oath of office is required to be filed, the city clerk shall report in writing to the common council the names of the per- sons elected or appointed to any office who shall have neglected to file such oath and bond or security for the performance of the duties of the office. Officers SEC. 30. The following city officers, viz: A mayor, president of the common council, city clerk, two jus- tices of the peace and an assessor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the whole city, and a supervis- or, two aldermen and a constable shall be elected in each ward. SEC. 31.* The following officers shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members-elect from the common council, viz.: * As amended March 15, 1895. 24 CHARTER OF THE A city treasurer, a city attorney, members of the board of public works, members of the board of fire commis- sioners and members of the board of health. The com- mon council may also, from time to time provide by ordinance for the appointment, and appoint for such term as may be provided in any such ordinance, such other officers whose election or appointment is not herein specially provided for, as the common council shall deem necessary for the execution of the powers granted by this act, and may remove the same at pleas- ure. The powers and duties of all such officers shall be prescribed by ordinance. SEC. 32. Appointments to office by the mayor, ex- cept appointments to fill vacancies, shall, unless oth- erwise provided, be made on the first Monday in May in each year; but appointments which for any cause shall not be made on this day may be made at any subsequent regular meeting of the common council. SEC. 33.* The mayor, president of the common council, city clerk, assessor and aldermen shall hold their offices for the term of two years from the second Monday in April in the year when elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified : Provided, That in said seventh ward created by this act, there shall be elected at the first charter election held after the passage of this act, two aldermen, one for the term of one year and one for the term of two years from the second Monday in April of the year when elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The term of each shall be designated by the ballots cast for him, and each year thereafter one alderman shall be elected in said ward. " SEC. 34.* The supervisors and constable shall hold their offices for the term of one year from the second Monday in April of the year when elected, and until their successors qualify and enter upon the duties of their offices. The justices of the peace shall be elected * As amended March 15, 1895. CITY OF ANN ARBOR for the term of four years from the fourth day of July next after their election, one to be elected each alternate year. SEC. 35. All other officers, except as hereinafter provided, appointed by the mayor and common coun- cil or boards of the city, except officers appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices, shall hold their re- spective offices until the first Monday in May next after such appointment and until their successors are qualified and enter upon the duties of their office, un- less a different term of office shall be provided in this act or by an ordinance duly enacted. Qualifications, Oath, Official Bond SEC. 36. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office, unless he be an elector of said city, and if elected or appointed for a ward, he must be an elector thereof; and no person shall be elected or ap- pointed to any office in the city who has been or is a defaulter to the city or any board of officers thereof, or to any school district, county or other municipal corporation of the state. All votes for, or any ap- pointment of, any such defaulter shall be void. SEC. 37. Justices of the peace elected in said city shall take and file an oath of office with the county clerk, of the county of Washtenaw, within the same time and in the same manner as in the cases of jus- tices of the peace elected in townships. All other offi- cers elected or appointed in the city, shall, within ten days after receiving notice of their election or ap- pointment, take and subscribe the oath of office pre- scribed by the constitution of the state, and file the same with the city clerk. SEC. 38. Officers elected or appointed, except jus- tices of the peace, before entering upon the duties of their offices and within the time prescribed for the filing of their official oaths, shall file with the city 26 CHARTER OF THE clerk such a bond or security as may be required by law or by any ordinance or requirement of the com- mon council, and with such sureties, who shall justify in writing and under oath, as required by the laws of this state, as shall be approved by the common council for the due performance of the duties of their office, except that the bond or security of the city clerk shall be deposited with the city treasurer. SEC. 39. The common council may also, at any time, require any officer, whether elected, or appoint- ed, to execute and file with the city clerk new official bonds in the same or in such further sums, and with new or with such further sureties as said common council may deem requisite for the interest of the cor- poration. Any failure to comply with such require- ments shall subject the officer to immediate removal by the common council. V Vacancies in Office SEC. 40. Resignation of officers shall be made to the council, subject to their approval and acceptance. SEC. 41. If any officer shall cease to be a resident of the city, or if elected in and for a ward, shall re- move therefrom during his term of office, the office shall thereby be vacated. If any officer shall be a de- faulter, the office shall thereby be vacated. SEC. 42. If any person elected or appointed to office shall fail to take and file the oath of office, or shall fail to give the bond or security required for the due performance of the duties of his office within the time herein limited therefor, the common council may declare the office vacant, unless previous thereto he shall file the oath and give the requisite bond or security. SEC. 43. A vacancy in the office of mayor, presi- dent of the council, justice of the peace or aldermen, CITY OF ANN ARBOR 27 occurring more than ninety days preceding annual election, may be filled at a special election on the or- der of the common council. A vacancy in the office of justice of the peace or alderman, occurring within ninety days preceding an annual election, shall be filled at such annual election. A vacancy occurring in the office of the city clerk may be filled by appoint- ment by the mayor, confirmed by a majority of the members elect of the common council, unless said offi- cer has more than one year to serve at the time such vacancy shall occur, in which case it shall be filled at the next ensuing election, and the mayor, with the consent of the council, shall appoint a city clerk to act until such election: Provided, That vacancies oc- curring within ninety days preceding any state elec- tion may be filled thereat; vacancies in other offices shall be filled by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members elect of the common coun- cil. SEC. 44. The resignation or removal of any officer shall not, nor shall the appointment or election of an- other to the office, exonerate such officer or his sure- ties from any liabilities incurred by him or them. . SEC. 45. Whenever an officer shall resign or be removed from office, or the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed shall expire, he shall, on demand, deliver over to his successor in office all the books, papers, moneys and effects in his custody as such officer, and in any way appertaining to his office; and every person violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be pro- ceeded against in the same manner as public officers generally, for a like offense, under the general laws of the state, now or hereafter in force and applicable thereto; and every officer appointed or elected under this act shall be deemed an officer within the meaning and provision of such general laws of the state. 23 CHARTER OF THE Į Duties of Officers—The Mayor SEC. 46. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the city, and shall from time to time give to the common council information, in writing con- cerning the affairs of the corporation, and recommend such measures as he may deem expedient. It shall be his duty to exercise supervision over the several departments of the city government, and to see that the laws relating to the city and the ordinance and regulations of the common council are enforced. SEC. 47. The mayor shall be a conservator of the peace, and may exercise within the city the powers conferred upon sheriffs to suppress disorder, and shall have authority to command the assistance of all able- bodied citizens to aid in the enforcement of city ordi- nances or laws of the state, and to suppress riot and disorderly conduct. SEC. 48. The mayor shall have authority at all times to examine and inspect the books, records and papers of any agent, employer or officer of the city, and shall perform generally all such duties as are or may be prescribed by the ordinances of the city. SEC. 49. In the absence or disability of the mayor, or in case of any vacancy in his office, the president of the common council shall perform the duties of the mayor. Aldermen SEC. 50. The aldermen of the city shall be mem- bers of the city council, attend all the meetings thereof, and act upon committees when thereunto ap- pointed by the president of the council. As conserva- tors of the peace they shall aid in maintaining quiet and good order in the city, and in securing the faith- ful performance of duty by all officers of the city. CITY OF ANN ARBOR City Clerk SEC. 51.* The City Clerk shall keep the corporate seal and all the documents, official bonds, papers, files and records of the city, not by this act or by the ordin- ances of the city entrusted to some other officer; he shall be clerk of the Common Council, shall attend its meetings, record all its proceedings, ordinances and resolutions, and shall countersign and register all licenses granted and report the same with the amount thereof to the Common Council monthly; he shall, when required, make and certify, under seal of the city, copies of the papers and records filed and kept in his office, and such copies shall be evidence in all places of the matters therein contained to the same extent as the original would be. He shall pos- sess and exercise the powers and duties of township clerk so far as the same are required to be performed within the city, and shall have authority to adminis- ter oaths and affirmations. The City Clerk may, sub- ject to the approval of the Common Council, appoint a deputy and such deputy may perform any and all the duties of such clerk. SEC. 52.* The city clerk shall, in addition to his duties as clerk, exercise the powers and functions of a city comptroller. He shall sign all cemetery deeds and orders upon the treasury. He shall countersign all bonds and all evidences of debt and transfer of property which the common council is authorized to make, pledging the faith of said city. He shall re- ceive all accounts and demands against the city, shall examine them in detail, audit or allow them or such part thereof as to the correctness of which he has no doubt and which the claimant is willing to accept in full discharge thereof, file and number them as vouchers with the date thereof, and report his find- ings to the finance committee of the common council, * As amended March 5, 1919. * As amended June 19, 1907. 30 CHARTER OF THE who shall review such report and transmit the same to the common council with its recommendation as to the allowance or disallowance of such claims or any of them, and no claim so audited shall be binding against the city until approved by a vote of the com- mon council, and when such claim is allowed by the common council, the city clerk shall draw his war- rant upon the city treasurer for the payment thereof, designating thereon the fund from which the payment is to be made, but no warrant shall be drawn on any fund after the same has been exhausted and any warrant so drawn shall be void. When any tax or money shall be levied, raised or appropriated, he shall report the amount thereof to the city treasurer, stat. ing the object and fund for which it is levied, raised or appropriated and the amount thereof to be credited to each fund. The city clerk shall sign all contracts and agreements on behalf of the city except as other- wise in this act provided and subject to the orders of the common council. He shall make all purchases of materials, tools, books, stationery, apparatus and property for the city or its officers not otherwise provided for herein or ordered by the common coun- cil. He shall keep a record of all officers and em- ployes of the city and certify to the pay rolls and wages of all such officers and persons to the common council. He shall be charged, under the supervision of the common council, with the leasing, repairs, in- surance and general supervision of the property of the city, and for his information may require re- ports from all officers and persons having any city property in charge or possession or having supervision of city employes, and make report of the same when required by the common council. He shall keep a complete set of books exhibiting the condition of the city in its various departments and funds, its re- sources and liabilities, with proper classification there- of of each fund or appropriation for any distinct ob- CITY OF ANN ARBOR 31 ject of expenditure or class of expenditures. When- ever any such fund or appropriation has been exhaust- ed by warrants already drawn thereon or by appro- priations, liabilities, debts or expenses actually incur- red or contracted for, no further warrants shall be drawn by the city clerk against such fund or appro- priation until another appropriation shall be made. Whenever any appropriation is made from any fund in excess of the balance remaining in such fund after previous appropriations have been deducted therefrom and after the fixed salaries or charges thereon to be paid from said fund are deducted therefrom, he shall notify the official or officials charged with the ex- penditure of such appropriation of the amount of money available for such appropriation or of the fact that no money remains in the fund available for the appropriation, and after such notification no expend- itures shall be made under such appropriation in ex- cess of the amount so reported by the city clerk as available. The city clerk shall report in writing to the common council at its first meeting thereafter the reasons for such notification together with such rec- ommendations as he sees fit. The council may pro- vide funds for the appropriation if it sees fit, in any manner permitted by the charter or by cutting down any unexpended appropriation and returning the same to the credit of the fund from which it is drawn. If the comptroller shall attempt to cut down or render nugatory any appropriation which does not violate any provision of the charter, he may be man- damused by order of the council on application to the circuit court. He shall, when required, or when he sees fit, make report to the council as to the liabil- ities and resources of the city with estimates of funds needed for current expenses and recommendations re- lating thereto, and he shall make an annual report showing in detail the financial transactions of the city for the fiscal year. CHARTER OF THE SEC. 53. The city clerk shall keep himself thor- oughly acquainted, and make himself conversant with the doings of all officers charged in any manner with the receipt, collection and disbursement of the city revenues, and shall have general supervision over all the property and assets of the city; he shall have charge of all books, vouchers and documents relating to the accounts, contracts, debts and revenues of the corporation; he shall countersign and register all bonds issued, and keep a list of all property and ef- fects belonging to the city, and of all its debts and liabilities; he shall keep a complete set of books, ex- hibiting the financial condition of the corporation in all its departments, funds, resources and liabilities, with a proper classification thereof, and showing the purpose for which each fund was raised; he shall also keep an account with the treasurer, in which he shall charge him with all moneys received for each of the several funds of the city, and credit him with all the warrants drawn thereon, keeping a separate account with each fund; when any fund has been exhausted, he shall immediately advise the common council there- of; the city clerk shall be the clerk of the board of public works and all other boards, the clerks of all standing and special committees of the common coun- cil, and the clerk of all the boards of the city that may from this time be established. He shall render to the common council on the first Monday of every month, and oftener if required, a report of the amount of all orders drawn since the last preceding report, what orders remain outstanding and unpaid, and the balance remaining of the credit of each fund. SEC. 54. The city clerk shall report to the com- mon council whenever required a detailed statement of the receipts, expenditures and financial condition of the city, of the debts to be paid and moneys required to meet the estimated expenses of the corporation, and shall perform such other duties pertaining to his 34 CHARTER OF THE committed within said city against any of the by-laws or ordinances which shall be made by the common council in pursuance of the powers granted by this act, and to punish the offenders as by said by-laws or ordinances shall be prescribed or directed, to award all process, and take recognizance for the keeping of the peace, for the appearance of the person charged, and upon appeal, and to commit to prison as occasion may require. In case there shall be at any time in said city, from any cause, no qualified justice of the peace, suits for violation of any of the city ordinances may be brought before one of the justices of the peace of the township of Ann Arbor. The Assessor SEC. 58. The assessor shall annually estimate the value of all the taxable real and personal property in the city, and make the several ward assessment rolls at the time and in the manner as hereinafter in this act provided; he shall spread upon said rolls any and all taxes duly certified to him by order of the common council, by the board of supervisors of the county of Washtenaw, or by other proper authority; and his warrant attached to said rolls, directing the collection of the taxes so levied and spread thereon, shall have the same power and effect as the warrant of a supervisor made in accordance with the state law. Supervisors SEC. 59. The supervisors of the several wards shall have the like powers and perform the like duties as supervisors of townships, except as herein other- wise provided; they shall represent their several wards in the board of supervisors of the county or Washtenaw, and shall have all the rights, privileges and powers of the several members of such board. CITY OF ANN ARBOR T 35 Constables SEC. 60. The constables shall have the like powers and authority in matters of civil and criminal nature, and in relation to the service of all manner of civil and criminal process, as are conferred by law upon constables in townships, and shall receive the like fees for their services, and be subject to like liabilities for any neglect of duty imposed by general law upon constables in townships. They shall have power also to serve all process issued for breaches of the ordi- nances of the city. They shall obey all lawful orders of the mayor, aldermen, and chief of police, and of any court or justice of the peace exercising jurisdic- tion in causes for breaches of the ordinances of the city; and shall discharge all duties required of them by any ordinance, resolution or regulation of the com- mon council, and for any neglect or refusal to perform any duty required of him, every constable shall be subject to removal from office by a vote of the com- mon council. SEC. 61.* There shall be a Board of Police Com- 1 missioners in said city which shall consist of three good and competent men who are electors therein. They shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to the approval of the majority of all the aldermen elect. The full term of a member shall be three years, but the members first appointed shall be subject to classifica- tion in such a manner that one term shall expire in each year. The said Commission shall make a month- ly report of the work of the Commission to the Com- mon Council, which shall contain a detailed state- ment of the arrests, the amount of the fines and costs collected and such other information as the Common Council shall prescribe. Any member of the com- mission may be removed by a three-fourths vote of the members-elect of the Common Council for mal- *As amended April 2nd, 1923. 36 CHARTER OF THE feasance of duties of the office or for any other cause wherein elective or appointive officers may be removed under the terms of this charter or state law, for fail- ure to perform their duties. The members of the said Board of Police Commissioners shall receive such compensation as the Common Council may allow. The Board of Police Commissioners shall have and possess all the powers given by the charter and ordin- ances of the city and other governmental laws, to es- tablish and enforce such police regulations as they shall deem necessary to prevent vice and immorality, to preserve public peace and good order, to prevent and quell riots and disturbances and disorderly as- semblages, to prevent the violation of the Sabbath and disturbances of any religious congregations or any other public meetings assembled for any lawful purpose and shall possess such other powers as shall be incident to the public welfare and usually confer- red upon such commissions. The Board of Police Commissioners shall appoint a City Marshal as Chief of Police of the city, who shall be subject to the direction of the said Board of Police Commissioners. It shall be his duty to see that all the ordinances and regulations of the Common Council made for the preservation of quiet and good order, and for the safety and protection of the inhabi- tants of the city, are promptly enforced, and when he shall know or learn of the violation of any ordi- nance of the city or penal statute of the state, it shall be his duty to enter complaint before one of the jus. tices of the peace of the said city and to do whatever shall be necessary to bring the offender to justice. He shall have the same power to serve and execute all process issued by any justice of the peace of said city, in behalf of said city, or of the people of the state, for offences committed within said city as sher- iffs or constables have by law to serve and execute similar process, and shall suppress all riots, disturb- CHARTER OF THE dences of value belonging to the city. He shall receive all moneys belonging to and receivable by the corpor- ation, and keep an account of all receipts and expen- ditures thereof. He shall pay no money out of the treasury except in pursuance of and by the authority of law, and upon warrants signed by the city clerk and countersigned by the mayor, or for school pur- poses by the proper officers, which shall specify the purpose for which the amounts thereof are to be paid. He shall keep an accurate account of, and be charged with all taxes and moneys appropriated, raised, or received for each fund of the city, and shall keep a separate account of each fund and credit thereto all moneys raised, paid in or appropriated therefor, and shall pay every warrant out of the particu- lar fund constituted or raised for the purpose for which the warrant is issued, and having the name of such fund, the name of the payee, and the time of maturity indorsed thereon by the city clerk. He shall cancel such warrants when paid, and shall collect all taxes levied or assessed in the city. For the purpose of the collection and return of all taxes, and the re- turn of property delinquent for the non-payment of taxes, and for the purpose of suits for the collection of taxes, the said treasurer, on giving the bonds or surety so required by the charter or any law of the state, shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of the several township treasurers of this state, as prescribed by law, and shall also perform such other duties, respecting the collection and return of taxes, as this act imposes. SEC. 65. The treasurer shall render to the city clerk on the first Monday of every month, and oftener if required, a report of the amounts received and cred- ited by him to each fund, and on what account re- ceived; the amounts paid out by him from each fund during the preceding month, and the amount of mon- ey remaining in each fund on the day of his report; CITY OF ANN ARBOR 39 such report shall be accompanied with a certificate from the cashier of the bank in which the moneys of the city may be deposited, showing the amount of money in the bank to the credit of the city on the day on which the treasurer's report is made. He shall also exhibit to the common council annually, on the first Monday in March, and as often and for such period as the common council shall require, a full and detailed account of the receipts and disbursements of the treasury since the date of his last annual re- port, classifying them by the funds to which receipts are credited and out of which such disbursements are made, and the balance remaining in each fund, which account shall be filed in the office of the city clerk, and shall be published in one or more of the newspa- pers of the city. He shall file all vouchers or warrants paid by him with the city clerk with his monthly re- port. SEC. 66. The city treasurer shall keep all moneys in his hands belonging to the city and to the public schools separate and distinct from his own moneys; and he is hereby prohibited from using, either direct- ly or indirectly, the corporation moneys, warrants, or evidences of debt, or any of the school or library funds in his custody or keeping, for his own use or benefit, or that of any other person. Any violation of this section shall subject him to immediate removal from office by the common council, who are hereby auth- orized to declare the office vacant, and to appoint his successor, on the nomination of the mayor, for the re- mainder of the term. SEC. 67. The common council may, in its discre- tion, contract with any bank or banks in said city, incorporated under any law of the State, or United States, for the safe keeping of any moneys belonging to said city, and for the payment by such bank or banks of interest thereon, at a rate not exceeding that established by law, which interest shall be credited 40 CHARTER OF THE by the treasurer to the contingent fund of said city. The common council may prescribe the conditions rel- ative to the making of such contract, and the securi- ties to be given by any bank or banks for the moneys so deposited: Provided, That neither the city treas- urer nor his bail shall be held responsible for any moneys deposited in any bank or banks pursuant to the terms of any contract made as in this section authorized. City Attorney SEC. 68. The city attorney shall be an attorney and counsellor at law, in good standing, and qualified to practice in all the courts of the state. He shall, on application of the common council or any officer of the city, furnish advice relative to all matters of law, relative to their duties, appear in behalf of the city and of all public boards thereof, in all suits, and per- form such other legal duties as may be required by the mayor or the common council. He shall attend all meetings of the common council. Compensation of Officers SEC. 69.* The officers and employees of said cor- poration shall be entitled to receive out of the city treasury such compensation as the Common Council shall allow. The Mayor, City Clerk, City Assessor, City Treasurer, City Attorney, Marshal and Health Officer may appoint, subject to the approval of the Common Council, such assistants under them as are required for the proper and prompt performance of the duties of the several offices. The Treasurer shall keep an exact account of all fees allowed by law, the collection of which is provided for in section 184 of this charter, and it shall be his duty to collect the same, and when so collected, he shall credit the same to the contingent funds, and he shall likewise account * As amended March 5, 1919. 42 CHARTER OF THE the president the council shall appoint one of their number to perform his duties, and for the time being shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the president. SEC. 72. The city clerk shall be clerk of the com- mon council, but shall have no vote therein. He shall keep a full record of all the proceedings of the com- mon council, and perform such other duties relating to his office as the common council may direct. In the absence of the clerk or his deputy from any ses- sion of the common council the common council shall appoint one of their number to act as clerk during said session. SEC. 73. The common council shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. It shall hold regular stated meetings for the transaction of business at such times and places within the city as it shall prescribe, not less than one of which shall be held in each month. The city clerk, by the direction of the mayor or the president of the common council, or on the written request of three aldermen, shall call special meetings of the council, notice of which, in writing, shall be given to each member, or be left at his place of residence, at least two hours before the meeting. SEC. 74. All meetings and sessions of the council shall be in public. A majority of the members elect shall make a quorum for the transaction of business; a less number may adjourn from time to time, and may compel the attendance of absent meinbers in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance; but no office shall be created or abolished, nor any tax or assessment be imposed, street, alley or public ground be vacated, real estate or any interest therein sold or disposed of, or private property be taken for public use, unless by a concurring vote of two thirds of all the members elect; nor shall any vote of the council 44 CHARTER OF THE duty imposed upon the corporation or council, the council may enact such appropriate ordinances as may be necessary for the execution and exercise of such power and authority and to regulate the per- formance of such duty. SEC. 80. The council may provide for the appoint- ment of standing committees of its members, who shall perform such duties, investigate, have charge of, and report upon such matters as may be properly referred to them. SEC. 81. The council shall cause all records of the corporation, proceedings of the council, and all books, documents, reports, contracts, receipts, vouchers and papers relating to the finances and affairs of the city, or to the official acts of any officer of the corporation (unless required by law to be kept elsewhere), to be deposited and kept in the office of the city clerk, and to be so arranged, filed and kept as to be convenient of access and inspection; and all such records, books and papers shall be subject to inspection by any inhabitant of the city or other person interested there- in, at all seasonable times, except such parts thereof as in the opinion of the council it may be necessary for the furtherance of justice to withhold for the time being. Any person who shall secrete, injure, deface, alter or destroy any such books, records, documents or papers, or expose the same to loss or destruction with intent to prevent the contents or true meaning or im- port of any thereof from being known, shall, on con- viction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, not longer than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 82. No member of the common council shall, during the period for which he was elected, be ap- pointed to or be .competent to hold any office, the emoluments of which are to be paid from the city CITY OF ANN ARBOR 45 treasury or be paid by fees under any act or ordinance of the common council, or be bondsmen or surety on any contract or bond given to said city; but this sec- tion shall not be construed to deprive any member of any emoluments or fees to which he may be entitled by virtue of his office. Any member of the council offending against the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit his office. SEC. 83.* The Chief of Police or any policeman or other officer appointed to office by the Board of Police Commissioners, may be suspended or removed by the said Board of Police Commissioners. Any per- son so suspended or removed shall have the right to a hearing before the said Board of Police Commissioners at a regular meeting of said board, provided that ap- plication therefore shall be made within ten days after said suspension or removal by the person so suspended or removed; and the said Board of Police Commis- sioners shall present to the Common Council at its next regular meeting, reasons for the suspension or removal, in writing, which shall become a part of the records of such meeting. Any officer appointed by the Mayor may be sus- pended or removed by him, by and with the consent of the majority of the members elect of the council, and the council may expel any alderman or remove from office any person elected thereto, except justices of the peace, by a concurring vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elect. In case of elective officers, provi- sion shall be made by ordinance for preferring charges and trying the same, and no removal of any elective officer shall be made unless a charge in writing is pre- * As amended April 2, 1923. 46 CHARTER OF THE ferred, and opportunity given him to make defense thereto. SEC. 84. To enable the council to investigate charges against any officer, or such other matter as it may deem proper to investigate, the mayor or any jus- tice of the peace is empowered, at the request of the council, to issue subpoenas or process by warrant to compel the attendance of persons and the production of books and papers before the council or any com- mittee. SEC. 85. Whenever the council, or any committee of the members thereof, are authorized to compel the attendance of witnesses for the investigation of mat- ters which may come before them, the presiding officer of the council or chairman of such committee for the time being, shall have power to administer the neces- sary oaths; and such council or committee shall have the same power to compel witnesses to testify as is conferred on courts of justice of the peace. SEC. 86. The council shall audit and allow all accounts chargeable against the city, but no claim not certified to by the city official ordering the work done or the purchase made shall be received for audit or allowance, unless it shall be accompanied by an affi- davit of the person presenting it that the services therein charged for have been actually performed, or the goods delivered to the city, that the sums charged are reasonable and just, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief no set-off exists, nor payment has been made on account thereof, except such as are endorsed or referred to in such account or claim. And every such account shall exhibit in detail all the items making up the amount claimed and the true date of each: Provided, That the claims of members of the board of registration, inspectors and clerks of election, and members of the board of review may be allowed on the certificate of the city clerk. CITY OF ANN ARBOR , 47 SEC. 87. Within twenty-four hours after any ses- sion of the common council, the clerk of said council shall present the proceedings of such session to the mayor, or other person performing the duties of may- or, for his approval, and he may approve the same in whole or in part, or may refuse to approve any order, resolution, paragraph or clause of said pro- ceedings, creating any office, appropriating any money, ordering any tax or assessment, transferring any money from one fund to another, or allowing any claim. He shall return his disapproval and reasons therefor, in writing, to the clerk of the council within three days, and no provision or order so disapproved shall be of any effect unless repassed by a two-thirds vote of the members elect of said council, within thirty days from the time such disapproval is filed with the clerk: Provided, That a unanimous vote of all the members elect shall be necessary to re-pass any dis- approved resolution or order for the transfer of any money from one fund to another. . General Power of the Common Council SEC. 88.* The Common Council, in addition to the powers and duties specially conferred upon them by this act, shall have the management and control of the finances, rights, interests, buildings and all prop- erty, real and personal, belonging to the city, and, make such orders and by-laws relating to the same as they shall deem proper and necessary; and further, they shall have power, within said city, to enact, make, continue, modify, establish, amend and repeal such ordinances, by-laws and regulations as they may deem desirable, within said city, for the following purposes: First, To prevent vice and immorality, to preserve public peace and good order, to prevent and quell riots, disturbances and disorderly assemblages, to prevent * As amended April 2, 1923. 48 CHARTER OF THE the violation of the Sabbath and the disturbance of any religious congregation, or any other public meet- ing assembled for any lawful purpose. To license newsboys, prohibit the sale of indecent and obscene newspapers, or other indecent or obscene publications, and authorize the seizure and destruction of the same; Second, To restrain and prevent disorderly and gaming houses and houses of ill-fame, and to seize and destroy all instruments and devices used for gaming, and to prohibit all mock auctions, gaming and fraudu- lent practices and devices and to regulate and restrain billiard tables and bowling alleys; Third, To forbid and prevent the vending or other disposition of liquors and intoxicating drinks in viola- tion of the laws of this State, and to forbid the selling or giving to be drank any intoxicating or fermented liquors to any common drunkard, or to any child or young person, and to prohibit, restrain and regulate the sale of all goods, wares, and personal property at auction, except in cases of sales authorized by law, and to fix the fees to be paid by and to auctioneers : Provided, That no person shall keep a saloon or other place except a drug store, where any spirituous, malt, brewed, fermented, vinous or intoxicating liquors are sold, or kept for sale, at wholesale, or at retail, in all that part of the City of Ann Arbor lying south and east of the following described line: Beginning on Fuller street at the city limits of said city and running thence westerly along Fuller street to Detroit street; thence southwesterly along Detroit street to Division street, thence south on Division street and Division street as extended south to the city limits south of said city of Ann Arbor; Fourth, To prohibit, restrain and regulate all sports, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans of animals, theatrical exhibitions, circuses, or other public performances and exhibitions for money, except exhibitions of agricultural, educational 50 CHARTER OF THE said city, and to restrain and regulate the use of loco- motives, engines and cars upon any railroad within the city; Eleventh, To prohibit or regulate bathing in any public water, or in any open or conspicuous place, or any indecent exposure of the person in the city; Twelfth, To arrest and punish drunkards and per- sons found drunk in the streets, lanes, alleys or public places of said city, disorderly persons, vagrants, com- mon prostitutes, street walkers, mendicants, street beggars and persons soliciting alms and subscriptions for any purposes whatever; Thirteenth, To establish and regulate one or more pounds, and to restrain and regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine and other animals, geese and poultry, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of keeping and impounding; Fourteenth, To prevent and regulate the running at large of dogs, and to impose taxes on the owners of dogs, and to prevent dog fights in the city; Fifteenth, To prohibit any person from bringing or depositing within the limits of said city any dead carcasses or other unwholesome or offensive sub- stances, and to require the removal or destruction thereof; and if any person shall have on his premises such substances or any putrid meats, fish, hides or skins of any kind, and shall neglect or refuse to re- move the same when ordered, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof, as a public nuisance, by some officer of the city; Sixteenth, To compel all persons to keep sidewalks in front of premises owned or occupied by them, clear from snow, ice, dirt, wood or other obstruction; Seventeenth, To regulate the ringing of bells and crying of goods and other commodities for sale at auction or otherwise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets; CITY OF ANN ARBOR 51 Eighteenth, To appoint and prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen, and the fines and penalties for their delinquencies; Nineteenth, To prohibit, restrain or regulate with- in such parts of the city as they may deem expedient, and prescribe the building, rebuilding, enlarging, re- pairing or placing of wooden buildings therein; to regulate and establish the line upon which buildings may be erected upon any street, lane or alley in said city, and to compel such buildings to be erected upon such line, by fine upon the owner or builder thereof, not to exceed five hundred dollars; Twentieth, To provide for obtaining, holding, regulating and managing burial grounds, within or without the city, when established for the benefit thereof; and to regulate the burial of the dead, and to compel the keeping and return of bills of mortality; Twenty-first, To establish order and regulate mar- ket places, to regulate the vending of wood, hay, meat, vegetables, fruits, fish and provisions of all kinds, and prescribe the time and place of selling the same, and the fees to be paid by butchers for license; to prohibit the sale of unwholesome meat, poultry, fish, vegetables or other articles of food or provisions; impure, spur- ious or adulterated wine, spirituous liquors or beer, or knowingly keeping or offering the same for sale; and to provide for and regulate the inspection of ani- mals used for food and the slaughter of the same: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall author- ize the common council to restrict in any way the sale of fresh and wholesome meats by the quarter within the limits of the city; Twenty-second, To build or purchase water works plant for supplying the inhabitants with water for do- mestic use and for other purposes, and to borrow money and issue bonds for the payment thereof, and to pass ordinances for the management, regulation and protection of the same. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 53 Twenty-fourth, To regulate, license, and control hackmen, omnibusmen, porters, runners and all other soliciting passengers and others to ride in any hack, omnibus or carriage, or upon any railway, or to go to any hotel or other place, and to prevent said hack- men omnibusmen, porters and runners from entering within any railroad station, at such times as the com- mon council may determine; Twenty-fifth, To make regulations for the lighting of the streets and alleys and the protection and safety of public lamps; Twenty-sixth, To provide for and regulate the numbering of buildings upon the streets or alleys, and to compel the owners or occupants of buildings to affix numbers on the same; Twenty-seventh, To prescribe the duties of all offi- cers appointed by the common council, and their com- pensation, and the penalty or penalties for failing to perform such duties, and to prescribe the bonds and sureties to be given by the officers of the city for the discharge of their duties, and the time and executing the same in cases not otherwise provided for by law; Twenty-eighth, To provide for the cleansing and preserving of the salubrity of the waters of the Huron river, or other streams within the limits of the city; to fill up all low ground or lots covered or partially covered with water, or to drain the same, as they may deem expedient; Twenty-ninth, To prescribe and designate the stands for carriages of all kinds, which carry persons for hire, and carts and carters, and to prescribe the rates of fare and charges, and the stand or stands for wood, hay, and produce exposed for sale in said city; Thirtieth, To provide for taking a census of the inhabitants of said city, whenever they may see fit, and to direct and regulate the same; 54 CHARTER OF THE Thirty-fiest, To establish a grade for streets and sidewalks aud cause the sidewalks to be constructed in accordance with the same; Thirty-second, To prescribe the duties of sealer of weights and measures and the penalty for using false weights and measures, and all the laws of this State in relation to the sealing of weights and measures shall apply to said city, except as herein otherwise provided; Thirty-third, To direct and regulate the construc- tion of cellars, barns, private drains, sinks and priv- ies; to compel the owner or occupant to fill up, drain, cleanse, alter, relay or repair the same, or to cause the same to be done by some proper officer of the corporation, and to assess the expenses thereof on the lot or premises having such cellar, barn, drain, sink or privy thereon; Thirty-fourth, To provide for the protection and care of poor persons and of paupers, and to prohibit and prevent all persons from bringing or sending to the city from any other place any pauper or any other person likely to become a charge upon said city, and to punish therefor; to provide by ordinance for the election or appointment of an overseer of the poor for the city, and to prescribe his duties and vest him with such authority as may be proper for the exercise of his duties, and to provide for the organization of a board of poor commissioners, who shall serve without compensation; Thirty-fifth, To provide for and change the loca- tion and grade of street crossing of any railroad track, and to compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower their railroad track to con- form to street grades, which may be established by the city from time to time, and to construct street cross- ings in such a manner as the council may require, and to keep them in repair; also to require and compel rail- road companies to keep flagmen or watchmen at all 56 CHARTER OF THE imprisonment may be in the common jail of the County of Washtenaw, in the city lock-up or in the Detroit House of Correction. The fine, penalty or imprisonment, for the violation of any ordinance, shall be prescribed therein, and during such imprisonment all such offenders may be kept at hard labor. And they may also be kept at hard labor during all that time they are imprisoned in default of the payment of any fine imposed for the violation of such ordinance. SEC. 91. On the day next after the passage of any ordinance, the clerk of the common council shall pre- sent the same to the mayor or other person perform- ing the duties of the mayor, for his approval. No ordinance shall be of any force without the written approval of the mayor or other person performing for the time being the duties of his office unless he omit to return it to the clerk of the common council with his objections thereto within ten days after its pre- sentation to him, in which case it shall be deemed regularly enacted. If after the return of the ordi- nance with the objections thereto, as aforesaid, the same shall be passed or re-enacted by a vote of two- thirds of all the members elect of the common council, the ordinance shall be deemed regularly enacted, and the time of its re-enactment shall be deemed to be the time of its passage. SEC. 92. At the time of presenting any ordinance to the mayor for his approval, the clerk of the com- mon council shall certify thereon, and also in the journal or record of the proceedings of the council, the time when the same was presented, and shall also certify thereon, and in such journal, or record the time of the return of such ordinance, whether ap- proved or with objections, and shall at the next meet- ing of the common council report any ordinance re- turned with the [objections! objection thereto. SEC. 93. No repealed ordinance shall be revived unless the whole or so much as is intended to be re- CITY OF ANN ARBOR 57 vived shall be re-enacted. When any section of an ordinance is amended, the whole section as amended shall be re-enacted. SEC. 94. All ordinances when approved by the mayor, or when regularly enacted, shall be imme- diately recorded by the clerk of the common council in a book to be called “the record of ordinances" and it shall be the duty of the mayor and clerk to authen- ticate the same by their official signatures upon such record. SEC. 95. Within one week after the approval of final passage of any ordinance the same shall be pub- lished in one or more newspapers printed and circu- lated within the city, and the clerk shall, immediately after such publication, enter on the record of ordi- nances in a blank space to be left for such purpose under the recorded ordinance, a certificate stating in what newspaper and of what date such publication was made and sign the same officially, and such cer- tificate shall be prima facie evidence that legal publi- cation of such ordinance has been made. SEC. 96. In all courts having authority to hear, try, or determine any matter or cause arising under the ordinances of said city, and in all proceedings in said city relating to or arising under the ordinances, or any ordinance thereof, judicial notice shall be taken of the enactment, existence, provisions and continu- ing force of the ordinance of the city; and whenever it shall be necessary to prove any of the laws, regula- tions or ordinances of said city, or any resolution adopted by the common council, the same may be read in all courts of justice and in all the proceedings: First, from a record thereof kept by the city clerk in the record of ordinances; Second, from a copy thereof, or of such record thereof, certified by the city clerk under the seal of the city; Third, from any volume of ordinances purporting to have been written or printed by the authority of the council. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 59 and all proceedings upon the trial of such cause, and the rendition of judgment and the execution thereof shall, except as otherwise provided by this act, be gov- erned by and conform as nearly as may be to the pro- visions of law relating to proceedings in criminal causes cognizable by [a] justice of the peace under the general laws of this state. SEC. 99. The expenses of apprehending, examin- ing and committing offenders against any law of this state, in the said city and of their confinement, shall be audited and allowed and paid by the supervisors of the County of Washtenaw, in the same manner as if such expenses had been incurred in any town of said county. SEC. 100.* All actions against the city of Ann Arbor shall be commenced by summons, which shall be served upon the city clerk at least six days before the return thereof, by giving him a copy of said sum- mons with the name of the officer serving the same endorsed thereon; or in case of the absence of the said city clerk from the city, then by leaving such copy with the mayor, endorsed as aforesaid; Pro- vided, That no suit shall be maintained against the city until the claim whereon the same is founded shall have been presented to the common council of said city, duly verified, at a regular meeting of the same, for allowance, and until after one regular meet- ing of the common council shall intervene; And, pro- vided further, that all claims for damages against the city growing out of the negligence or default of said city, or of any officer, or employe thereof, shall be pre- sented to the common council of said city, in the man- ner above provided, within 60 days after such claim shall arise, and in default thereof shall thereafter be forever barred; and in any action in any court on any such claim, the claimant shall be required to show * As amended Sept. 29, 1913. 60 CHARTER OF THE that such claim has been duly presented in the manner in this act specified, to the common council of said city: And provided further, that no civil action shall be maintained against the city for damages or injur- ies to persons or property sustained in consequence of any street, highway, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk being defective, out of repair, unsafe, dan- gerous or obstructive, unless that it appear that writ- ten notice of the particular defective, unsafe, dan- gerous or obstructed condition of such street, high- way, bridge, culvert, sidewalk or crosswalk was ac- tually given to the Board of Public Works; and that there was a failure or neglect within a reasonable time after the giving of such notice to repair or re- move the defect, danger or obstruction complained of. SEC. 101. In all suits in which the city of Ann Arbor shall be a party, or shall be interested, no in- habitant of said city shall be deemed incompetent as an officer, witness or juror, on account of his interest in the event of such suit or action; Provided, Such interest be such only as he has in common with the other inhabitants of said city; And provided further, That it shall not be necessary to pay or tender any fees to any witness subpænaed on the part of the city, but such witness shall be bound to attend, and shall be liable to attachment the same as if fees had been tendered or duly paid to him. The fees of witnesses shall be allowed by the common council on the certifi- cate of the justice or court before whom they ap- peared. SEC. 102. In all trials before any justice of the peace of any person charged with a violation of any ordinance of the said city, either party shall be en- titled to a jury of six persons; and all the proceedings for the summoning of such jury and in the trial of the CITY OF ANN ARBOR 61 cause shall be in conformity, as near as may be, with the mode of proceeding in similar cases before justices of the peace; and in all cases, civil and criminal, the right of appeal from the justice's court to the circuit court of Washtenaw county shall be allowed, and the person appealing shall enter into a recognizance, con- ditioned to prosecute the appeal in the circuit court, and abide the order of the court therein, or such other recognizance as is or may be required by law in ap- peals from justices' courts in similar cases: Provided, If any judgment in any action shall be rendered against the city by any justice of the peace, such judg- ment may be removed by appeal to the circuit court in the same manner and with the same effect as though the city were a natural person, except that no bond or recognizance to the adverse party shall be necessary to be executed on behalf of the said city. SEC. 103.* All fines, forfeitures and penalties im- posed for the violation of any ordinance of said city, may, at the election of the city attorney, be sued for in the name of the said corporation, before any court of competent jurisdiction, in an action of assumpsit for money had and received, and in declaring in such action it shall be deemed sufficient to refer to the ordi- nance, claimed to have been violated, by its proper title and date of its passage. Whenever any such ordi. nance shall impose a fine without imprisonment, or a fine or imprisonment, or both a fine and imprison- ment, action may be brought for the enforcement thereof, either under this section or under section number ninety-eight; but if under this section the said city shall be deemed to have waived all imprison- ment of the defendant. The form of the action, writ, time of return and manner of service thereof, the pleadings and all proceedings in the cause, including final writ of execution and discharge thereof, shall be, * As amended March 28, 1891. 62 CHARTER OF THE and conform as near as may be to the action of as- sumpsit now in common use for the collection of debts and the enforcement of contracts between party and party. SEC. 104. All fines, penalties or forfeitures recov- ered before any of said justices for a violation of the ordinances of said city shall, when collected, be paid into the city treasury; and each of said justices shall report, on oath, to the common council, on the first Mondays of January, April, July and September, dur- ing the term for which he shall perform the duties of such justice, the number and name of every person against whom judgment shall have been rendered for such fine, penalty or forfeiture, and all moneys so re- ceived, or which may be in his hands, collected on such fine, penalty or forfeiture shall be paid into the city treasury on the first Monday of the months above named, during the time such justice shall exercise the duties of said office, and for any neglect in this par- ticular he may be suspended or removed, as herein- before provided. SEC. 105. All persons being habitual drunkards, destitute, and without any visible means of support, and who, being such habitual drunkards, shall aban- don, neglect, or refuse to aid in the support of their families, being complained of by such families, all able-bodied and sturdy beggars who may apply for alms or solicit charity, all persons wandering abroad, lodging in watch-houses, out-houses, market-places sheds, stables, or uninhabited dwellings, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves, all common brawlers and disturbers of the public quiet, and all persons who beg from door to door or in the streets of said city, shall be deemed vagrants, and may, upon conviction before any justice of the peace in said city, be sentenced to confinement in the county jail of said county, the city lock-up, or [in] the House of Correction in the City of Detroit, for such time, not CITY OF ANN ARBOR 63 exceeding sixty days, as the common council shall by ordinance prescribe. SEC. 106. All persons who shall have actually abandoned their wives or children in said city, or may neglect to provide, according to their means, for their wives or children, are hereby declared to be disorderly persons, within the meaning of chapter fifty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended, and may be proceeded against in the man- ner directed by said title; and it shall be the duty of the magistrate before whom any such person may be brought for examination, to judge and determine from the facts and circumstances of the case whether the conduct of said person amounts to such desertion, or neglect to provide for his wife or children. Police SEC. 107.* The Common Council of the said city may provide for the appointment by the Board of Po- lice Commissioners for such numbers of policemen or employees as they may deem necessary for the good government of the city, and for the protection of the persons and property of the inhabitants; and may authorize the Board of Police Commissioners to ap- point special policemen from time to time when, in the judgment of the Board of Police Commissioners, the emergency or necessity may so require, and may pro- vide for and appoint subordinate officers for police and night watchmen. SEC. 108.* The Board of Police Commissioners ? may make and establish rules for the regulation and government of the police, prescribing and defining the powers and duties of policemen and employees, and shall prescribe and enforce such police regulations as will most effectually preserve the peace and order of the city, preserve the inhabitants from personal vio- * As amended April 2, 1923. 64 CHARTER OF THE lence, and protect public and private property from destruction by fire and unlawful depredation. And the Board of Police Commissioners may, whenever it shall deem it necessary for the preservation of peace and good order in the city, appoint and place on duty such number of temporary policemen as in its judg- ment the emergencies of the case may require; but such appointments, unless made in accordance with some ordinance or resolution of the Common Council, shall not continue longer than five days. SEC. 109.* The Chief of Police, under the direction of the Board of Police Commissioners, shall have the superintendence and direction of the policemen and employees, subject to such regulations as may be pre- scribed by the Board of Police Commissioners. SEC. 110.* It shall be the duty of the police and night watchmen and officers of the force, under the direction of the Board of Police Commissioners and the Chief of Police, and in conformity with the ordin- ance of the city, to suppress all riots, disturbances and breaches of the peace, to apprehend any and all per- sons in the act of committing any offense against the laws of the state or any ordinance of the city, and to take the offender forthwith before the proper court or magistrate to be dealt with for the offense; to make complaint to the proper officers and magistrates of any person believed to be guilty of the violation of the ordinances of the city or the penal laws of the state, and at all times diligently and faithfully to enforce all such laws, ordinances and regulations for the preser- vation of good order and the public welfare as the council may ordain, and to serve all process issued under any city ordinance and directed to them for service, and for such purposes the chief of police and every policeman and night watchman shall have all the powers of constables and may arrest upon view * As amended April 2, 1923. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 65 and without process any person in the act of violating any ordinance of the city, or in the commission of any offense against the laws of the state. SEC. 111.* The Board of Police Commissioners may suspend or remove from office the chief of police, policeman or night watchman or any employee for mis- conduct or other cause at any time, as provided in sec- tion eighty-three of this act, as amended. When em- ployed in the performance of duty the policeman shall receive such compensation therefor from the city as the common council shall prescribe. Cemeteries SEC. 112. Said city may acquire, hold, and own such cemetery or public burial place or places, either within or without the limits of the corporation as in the opinion of the common council shall be necessary for the public welfare and suitable for the convenience of the inhabitants. The common council may prohib- it the interment of the dead within the city, or may - limit such interments therein to such cemetery or bur- ial place as they may prescribe; and may cause any bodies buried within the city in violation of any rule or ordinance made in respect to such burials, or when public policy shall demand, to be taken up and buried elsewhere. SEC. 113. The common council may, within the limitations in this act contained, raise and appropri- ate such sums as may be necessary for the purchase of cemetery grounds, and for the improvement, adorn- ment, protection, and care thereof. SEC. 114. The common council may pass and en- force all ordinances necessary to carry into effect the provisions herein contained, and to control and regu- late such cemetery or burial place or improvement thereof, and to protect the same and the appurte- *As amended April 2nd, 1923. 66 CHARTER OF THE nances thereof from injury, and to punish violations of any lawful orders and regulations. SEC. 115. The common council shall have power also to pass all ordinances deemed necessary for the preservation and protection of any cemetery or burial place within the city, belonging or under the control of any church, religious society, corporation, company or association, and for the protection and preserva- tion of the tombs, monuments, and improvements therein and the appurtenances thereof. Pounds SEC. 116. The common council may provide and maintain one or more pounds within the city, and may appoint pound-masters, prescribe their powers and duties and fix their compensation, and may authorize the impounding of all animals, geese and other fowls found in the streets or otherwise at large or tied or staked in such streets for the purpose of grazing, con- trary to any ordinance of the city; and if there shall be no pound or pound-master, they may provide for the impounding of such animals, geese and fowls, by the city marshal in some suitable place under his im- mediate care and inspection, and may confer on him the powers and duties of pound-master. SEC. 117. The common council may prescribe the fees for impounding, and the amount or rate of ex- penses for keeping, and the charges to be paid by the owner or keeper of the animals, geese and fowls, for the payment of such fees, expenses and charges, and for the penalties incurred, and may impose penalties for rescuing any animals or thing impounded. Public Buildings, Grounds and Parks SEC. 118. Said city may acquire, purchase and erect all such public buildings as may be required for CITY OF ANN ARBOR 67 the use of the corporation, and may purchase, acquire, appropriate and own such real estate as may be neces- sary for public grounds, parks, markets, public build- ings, and all other purposes necessary or convenient for the public good, and the execution of the powers conferred by this act; and such buildings and grounds or any part thereof may be sold, leased, mortgaged and disposed of as occasion may require. SEC. 118a.* All real estate now owned by the City of Ann Arbor and dedicated to park purposes, includ- ing all properties, buildings and improvements of every kind connected therewith, together with all property that may hereafter be acquired for park pur- poses, and all lawn extensions and shade trees, shall be under the exclusive control of five commissioners who shall be electors and actual residents of the said city and shall be known and designated as “The Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Ann Arbor.” SEC. 118b. The members of said board shall be appointed by the mayor of said city on the first Mon- day of May of each year, or within a reasonable time thereafter, and in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the charter of said city, relative to appointments by the mayor; the full term of each member shall be five years, from the first Monday in May of the year in which he may be appointed and until his successor is appointed and qualified, except as hereinafter specially provided. Whenever the term of office of any member shall expire, his successor shall be appointed by the mayor, as herein provided and his term of office shall date from the expiration of the term of office of the member whom he succeeds. The members of the said board shall devote all the time necessary to a proper discharge of the duties of their offices, and shall serve without pay. At the first meet- * Sections 118a to 118k inclusive were added to the Charter, May 11, 1905. 68 CHARTER OF THE ing of the said board after the first Monday in May of each year the member whose term of office shall soon- est expire shall be president of the board for that year. SEC. 118c. Immediately after this act shall take effect the mayor of said city shall appoint five mem- bers of said board who shall serve as follows: One until the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred and six, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, one until the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred seven, and until his successor is appointed and quali. fied, one until the first Monday in May, nineteen hun. dred eight, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, one until the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred nine, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and one until the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred ten, and until his successor is ap- pointed and qualified. SEC. 118d. The common council shall provide an appropriation in its annual budget for the year nine- teen hundred five, for the care, maintenance, improve- ments, or extensions of parks. It shall be the duty of said board to prepare and submit to the common coun- cil for its ratification or amendment, on or before the first Monday in June, each year, estimates for the care, maintenance, improvements or extensions of the said parks. Such estimates shall specify in detail the objects of the expenditures, the sum desired for each and any special reasons the board may have for desir- ing the same. The amount of money which the com- mon council shall determine by resolution to be neces- sary shall be certified by the city clerk to the city assessor with the other amounts determined to be raised by tax for the city streets, sewers or other pur- poses in accordance with the provisions of the char- ter of the City of Ann Arbor. SEC. 118e. The said board shall pay to the city treasurer all moneys received from any source relating CITY OF ANN ARBOR 69 to said parks, who shall receive such money and place the same in a fund to be called the park fund. All expenses incurred by the board on account of the parks shall be passed upon by it, certified to by the president thereof, and filed with the city clerk who shall certify the same to the common council for payment, and in case the matter of expense involved is included in the annual budget, herein provided for, the common coun- cil shall order the payment of the same. In case the matter of expense is not therein included the common council shall take such action in relation thereto as it may deem proper. SEC. 118f. No debt or liability of any kind shall be created by said board on account of parks in excess of the annual budget and money in said park fund unless specially authorized so to do by a majority elect of the common council. The said board may ac- cept donations or bequests of money or property which shall be used for the maintenance and improvements of said parks as contemplated by such donation or bequest. SEC. 118g. Said board shall have power to engage , or appoint all employees on the parks and fix their compensation. It shall have power to appoint a super- intendent of parks, who shall not be a member of said board, and fix his salary. Such superintendent shall hold his position during the pleasure of said board. SEC. 118h. Said board shall have exclusive con- trol over all improvements in any of the said parks; also the construction of all buildings and the mainte- nance thereof within said parks, and the care and trimming of all shade trees within the said city. SEC. 118i. The said board may make all needful rules and regulations for the management, mainte- nance and care of parks and regulate their use; and the common council of said city may provide ordi- nances for the observation of the same; and may also, 70 CHARTER OF THE in like manner, provide for the observation and en- forcement of any other rules and regulations duly made by the said board, under any provisions of this act; and said common council may by ordinance pro- vide for the preservation and protection of the parks and any of the property in charge of said board against any destruction or injury and prevent the destruction or injury to, or taking of any trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, or other things set out, planted or used by the said board in benefiting, improving or ornamenting the said parks and prevent any dis- order or disturbance on or about said parks or any encroachment thereon or any interference with the quiet and peaceful use and enjoyment of the same, for the purposes for which the same are established and maintained. The said ordinances may provide for the punishment of any breach or violation of any of their provisions by like penalty provided for viola- tions of ordinances of the said city. SEC. 118j. The said board shall classify the vari- ous works under its control, and keep an accurate account of the cost of each, and of the amounts ex- pended for construction, repairs, superintendence and salaries of employees, and, also, detailed accounts of all other matters under its charge and control, and upon the second Monday in May, in the year nineteen hundred six, and on the second Monday in May in every year thereafter, and oftener if required by the common council, shall submit to it a statement, show- ing in detail, the progress and condition of all the pub- lic improvements commenced or carried forward by said board; the character and amounts of all contracts made by the board; the moneys earned and paid thereon, and all other information necessary to the full understanding of the business conducted by said board. SEC. 118k. The city engineer shall perform such services as may be required by him by the said board; 72 CHARTER OF THE private drains are not constructed and maintained according to such requirements, the common council may cause the work to be done at the expense of such owner or occupant, and the amount of such expense shall be a lien upon the premises drained, and may be collected by special assessment to be levied thereon; the common council shall have the power to compel the use of dry earth closets by the owners and occu- pants of lots and premises, enforce the use of the same by ordinance, and provide by ordinance for the re- moval of the contents thereof. SEC. 122. The owners or occupants of lots and premises shall have the right to connect the same at their own expense, by means of private drains, with the public sewers and drains, under such rules and regulations as the common council shall by ordinance prescribe. SEC. 123. The common council may charge and collect annually from persons whose premises are connected by private drains with the public sewers such reasonable sum, not exceeding two dollars per year, as they may deem just, in proportion to the amount of drainage through such private drains, and such charges shall be a lien upon the premises, and may be collected by special assessment thereon, or otherwise. SEC. 124. Such part of the expenses of building sewers, providing ditches and improving water cours- es as the council shall determine, may be defrayed by special assessment upon the lands benefited thereby in proportion to such benefits. SEC. 124a.* Whenever the parties owning a ma- jority of the area of land in any proposed storm sewer district shall petition the common council to construct storm sewers in said district, it may order the im- provement made and assess the whole or any part of * Sec. 1242 was added to the charter May 11, 1905. 74 CHARTER OF THE SEC. 127.* Whenever the common council shall be applied to in writing by ten or more freeholders of said city to lay out, establish, open, widen, alter, straighten, or discontinue any way, street, common, lane, alley, highway or water course, or to build, es- tablish, or vacate any bridge, said common council, if they determine the proposed improvement advisable, shall give notice of the pendency of the question of ordering such proposed improvement to the owners, occupants, or persons interested, or his, her or their agent, or representative, by personal service, if they reside within said city; if they shall reside without said city, then said service shall be made by posting up notices in five or more public places in said city, which notice shall state the time and place when and where the common council will meet to consider the same, and shall designate to a common certainty the street, lane, common, alley, water course, or bridge proposed to be laid out, altered, opened, widened, es- tablished, discontinued, vacated, built or erected, which notice shall be posted at least ten days before the time of meeting. If, after hearing the persons in- terested, the common council shall determine to lay out, alter, widen or discontinue any such street, lane, alley, water course, or build, erect or vacate any such bridge, or other improvement, they shall proceed to obtain a release of the right of way for such proposed street, lane, way or alley, and of the damages accru- ing, if any, to any and all persons injuriously affected by such proposed improvement, by gift, compromise or purchase. If the common council shall be unable to agree with the persons interested and thus acquire the right of way and release of damages, they shall so declare by resolution, whereupon the said City of Ann Arbor may by right proceed under the general laws of this state and acquire such right of way and settle such question of damages by condemnation. * As amended March 28, 1891. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 75 SEC. 128. When the damages or compensation aforesaid shall have been paid or tendered to the per. son entitled thereto, or an order on the city treasury for the amount of such damages shall have been exe- cuted and delivered or tendered to such person or persons, if known, and residents of said city, said com- mon council shall then give notice to the owner or occupant of the land through or over which any such highway, street, lane, alley or common, sidewalk, wat- ercourse or bridge shall have been laid out, altered, established or built, or if such owner or occupant shall not be known, or be non-resident, then by post- ing such notices in three public places in the ward or wards in which said property shall be situated, and require him, within such time as they shall deem rea- sonable, not less than thirty days after giving such notice, to remove his fence or fences; and in case the owner shall neglect or refuse to remove his fence or fences within the time specified in such notice, the said common council shall have full power and it shall be their duty to enter, with such aid and assist- ance as shall be necessary, upon the premises and re- move such fence or fences and open the above high- way, street, lane, alley, sidewalk or watercourse with- out delay after the time specified in such notice shall have expired : Provided, That in the rural districts of said city no person shall be required to remove his fence or fences between the first day of May and the first day of November. SEC. 129. No person shall be deemed to have gain- ed any title as against the city by lapse of time, to any street, lane, alley, common or public square here. tofore laid out or platted by the proprietors of said city, or any part thereof, by reason of encroachment or inclosure of the same. SEC. 130.* The common council shall have power to assess and levy a tax to pay the expense of making, * As amended March 28, 1901. CHARTER OF THE SEC. 130f. That after the common council sitting as such board of review shall have completed the re- view of any such special assessment roll, they shall so declare by resolution, whereupon at the next meeting of the common council the city clerk shall report the proceedings of the said board of review to the com- mon council, when the question shall be, "Shall the special assessment roll be confirmed ?” which shall de- termine in the affirmative only by a majority vote of all the aldermen elect. When any such special as- sessment roll shall have been thus confirmed by the common council, it shall be final and conclusive, and shall from the date of such confirmation be and con- tinue a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land assessed and set down therein, and shall be a charge against [the] person or persons to whom assessed un- til paid. SEC. 130g. After the confirmation of any such special assessment roll, it shall be the duty of the city clerk to certify the said assessment roll, together with the resolution of confirmation, to the city assessor, who shall forthwith attach thereto his warrant direct- ed to the city treasurer commanding him to collect from all, each and every of the persons assessed in said special assessment roll, the sum and amount of money assessed to and set opposite his name therein, and in case any person named in said special assess- ment roll shall neglect or refuse to pay his assessment on demand, then to levy and collect the same by dis- tress and sale of goods and chattels of such person, and return such roll and warrant, together with his doings thereon, within sixty days from and after the date of such warrant. And within ten days after the expiration of the time above named for the collection of such taxes the treasurer shall return a list of such unpaid taxes to the common council, and the common council shall direct the city assessor to carry into his next assessment roll for state, county and school pur- CITY OF ANN ARBOR 79 poses all such delinquent taxes so returned, with a penalty of ten cents on each dollar of the sum total of taxes assessed to each particular description of land, and which special assessment, together with the penalty, shall be carried out opposite to each such particular description of land in a column provided for that purpose, and all pro- visions of the law respecting the return and sale of property for the non-payment of taxes for state, coun- ty and township purposes shall apply to the return and sale of property for the next non-payment of any such special assessment: Provided, That at any time after a special assessment has become payable, the same may be collected by suit in the name of the city, against the person assessed, in an action of assumpsit, in any court having jurisdiction of the amount. In every such action a declaration upon the common counts for money paid shall be sufficient. The special assessment roll and a certified order or resolution con. firming the same shall be prima facie evidence of the regularity of all the proceedings in making the as. sessment, and of the right of the city to recover judg- ment therefor. SEC. 130h. The common council shall have power to assess and levy a tax to pay the expense of sprink- ling streets, lanes and alleys upon the lots, premises, lands and tenements of said city, which, in the opin- ion of the common council, are benefited by such sprinkling: Provided, That no such sprinkling shall be done otherwise than by general tax, unless upon a petition signed by the owners of a majority of the front feet, of the property benefited by such sprink- ling. The common council shall have the power to pass all ordinances necessary for the carrying out of this provision: Provided, That the procedure for the levy and collection of said tax or taxes shall conform as near as may be, to the provisions of the charter of the City of Ann Arbor, relative to the levy and collec- 82 CHARTER OF THE assessor and other officers from the valuation of such lot or premises to the date of the deed, inclusive, and of title in fee in the purchaser. SEC. 133.* Whenever any action shall have been maintained and judgment recovered against said city by any person on account of damages sustained by reason of any defective sidewalk, or opening in the same, occasioned by the wrong or negligence of the owner or occupant of the premises in front of which said sidewalk shall be, or by reason of said owner or occupant suffering any such sidewalk to become and be out of repair, so that the same shall not be in a condition reasonably safe and fit for travel, or on account of any excavation in the street by any gas, hydraulic or railroad company, and such owner, oc- cupant or company shall have been reasonably noti- fied of the pendency of any suit brought against said city to recover such damages, and shall have been re. quested to appear and defend such suit, the judg- ment, if any, recovered against said city on account of any such sidewalk being defective or out of re. pair, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of such owner or occupant, or company, to such city, and as to the amount of damages, and the same may be recovered by the said city in an action for money paid for the use of said owner, occupant or company, or in any other form of action. Board of Public Works SEC. 134.* There shall be a board of public works, consisting of seven good and competent men who are electors, no two of whom shall be residents of the same ward. The members of such board shall be ar- pointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of il majority of the members elect of the common council, * As amended March 15, 1895. † As amended May 11, 1905. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 83 and shall hold office for the term of five years and until their successors are appointed and qualify, the said term to commence on the fifteenth day of May: Provided, That the three members of said board now in office shall continue in office for the term for which they were appointed, and until the members of said board provided for by this act shall have been appointed, qualified and shall enter upon their duties as members of said board. SEC. 135.* The members of said board in addition to the three members now composing said board shall be appointed, one for the term of two years, one for the term of four years, and two for the term of five years from the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hun- dred five; and said mayor shall annually nominate to the common council on the first Monday in May of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, to suc: ceed the member or members of said board whose term of office shall expire upon the fifteenth day of May of such year, a member or members of such board for the term of five years. The members of said board shall at their first meeting after the fifteenth day of May of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, elect one of the members thereof as president of said board, whose duties shall be to call meetings of said board whenever he deems it expedient so to do, or whenever requested in writing by two or more of the other members of said board, and to preside over the deliberations of said board. And the com- mon council shall at all times provide the said board with a suitable office room for its meetings and busi- ness uses, and supply record books, stationery and other things necessary for the transaction of the busi- ness in charge of said board, and provide for the pay- ment, in like manner, as other accounts against the city, of all necessary and lawful expenses incurred by said board. * As amended May 11, 1905. 86 CHARTER OF THE SEC. 138. All contracts made by said board shall be in the name of the City of Ann Arbor, shall first be approved, as to form, by the city attorney, shall be executed by the president and clerk of said board; and said board shall have direction of the perform- ance thereof. The board shall reserve the right in all contracts to determine all questions as to the proper performance of such contracts and as to the completion of the work specified therein; and in caso of the improper, dilatory, or imperfect performance thereof, to suspend work at any time and to order the partial reconstruction of the same if improperly done; to relet the work covered by said contract, or any unfinished portion thereof; or, by its employes, to take possession and complete the same, at the ex- pense of the contractor. It shall also have the right by proper provisions in all contracts, to retain a suf- ficient sum from the contract price to pay and dis- charge all debts incurred by the contractor for labor performed upon any public work, and upon the fail. ure of the contractor to pay the same, to make pay- ment thereof to the parties entitled thereto, and charge the amount so expended against the contract price. Said board of public works is hereby author. ized to commence and prosecute, in the name of the city, any suits or proceedings for the recovery of damages for the breach of any such contract entered into by said board, or to enforce the performance of any such contract. SEC. 139. Said board shall have the power to ap- point, subject to the approval of the common council, a city engineer, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the said board, shall make all surveys re- quired for the laying out, construction, alteration, re- pair and improvement of streets, sewers, water-mains, cemeteries, parks, public grounds and buildings, and prepare all necessary plans, profiles and specifications therefor, and perform the civil engineering work of CITY OF ANN ARBOR 87 said city of every description, as required by the com- mon council, the said board of public works, or any other lawful authority of said city. Said engineer may, subject to the approval of the board of public works, appoint such assistants under him as are re- quired for the proper and prompt performance of his duties, and discharge such assistants at pleasure. Said board shall also have the power to appoint suit- able persons who shall have personal supervision of the construction and repair of public buildings; and the said board shall appoint a street commissioner, who shall have charge of the grading, paving, im- proving, cleaning and care of the streets, sidewalks, alley's and public grounds, the construction of side- walks, and the cleaning and deepening [of] the ditch- es, drains and gutters, under the direction of said board of public works, who may remove the said street commissioner at pleasure, and may appoint such oth- er suborilinates is may be necessary to enable tho board to properly perform the duties devolving upon it. Said board shall determine the compensation of said engineer and other appointees of said board, sub- ject to a change by a majority vote of all the members elect of the common council; and all other claims for the same, when certified by the board, shall be sub- mitted to the common council for allowance and pay- ment, in the same manner as other claims against the city. SEC. 140. The said board shall classify the var. ious works under its control, and keep an accurate account of the cost of each, and of the amounts ex- pended for construction, repairs, superintendence, and salaries of employes, and, also, detailed accounts of all other matters under its charge and control, and upon the first Monday of January of each year, and oftener if required by the common council, shall sub- mit to it a statement, showing in detail, the progress and condition of all the public improvements com- 88 CHARTER OF THE menced or carried forward by said board; the char- acter and amounts of all contracts made by the board; the moneys earned and paid thereon; and all other information necessary to the full understanding of the business conducted by said board. The board shall from time to time make estimates of the amounts earned and payable upon any contract for work done and materials furnished, and report the same to the common council; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the common council, without unreasonable delay, to order payment from the proper funds, of the amount so reported. SEC. 141. The city engineer shall act as legal ad- viser of said board; and the city clerk shall be the clerk thereof; and shall keep a full record of its pro- ceedings, showing the vote of ayes and nays, of each member upon all orders, resolutions or recommenda- tions, which records shall be deemed to be public rec- ords, and shall at all times be open to the public in- spection; and a copy thereof published within five days after each session, in the official newspaper of the city, and the marshal with his deputies and police- men shall be at the service of the board in serving the sidewalk notices, and enforcing the ordinances relative to the repair of sidewalks. A majority of the board shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, but a majority of all members constituting said board shall be necessary to decide any questions before the same. The board shall have the power to make all such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary or expedient for the conduct of its busi- ness, not inconsistent with the provisions of the char- ter and ordinances of the city. It shall have the power to fix the duties, and at any time, to suspend or discharge any of its appointees or employees, and appoint or employ others in their places (as to the said board the public interest may seem to require) except as otherwise provided in this act. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 93 newed, enlarged, or kept in violation of any ordinance or regulation made for the prevention of fires, is here- by declared to be a nuisance, and may be removed by the direction of the board of fire commissioners. SEC. 155. The officers, firemen, and employes of the department shall receive such compensation as the common council may prescribe; and during their term of service shall be exempt from serving on juries. The common council may provide suitable compensa- tion for an injury which any fireman may receive to his person or property in consequence of the perform- ance of his duty at any fire. SEC. 156. The engineer in charge of the depart- ment at any fire, with the concurrence of the mayor or any two fire commissioners, may cause any build- ing to be pulled down or destroyed when deemed necessary, in order to arrest the progress of the fire, and no action shall be maintained against any person or against the city therefor; but if any person having an interest in the building shall apply to the common council within three months after the fire, for dam- ages or compensation for such building the common council shall pay him such compensation as may be just. They may ascertain such damage by agreement with the owner, or by the appraisal of the jury, to be selected in the same manner as in the case of juries to appraise damages for taking private property for public use; and the common council may cause the amount of any damages determined upon to be de- frayed by a special assessment upon the property which in their opinion was protected or benefited by the destruction of such building; but no damages shall be paid for the amount of any loss which would have probably occurred to such if it had not been pulled down or destroyed. SEC. 157. The said fire department, its officers and men, with their engines and apparatus of all 94 CHARTER OF THE kinds, shall have the right of way going to any fire or in any highway, street or alley, over any and all vehicles of every kind, except those carrying the United States mail; and any person who shall refuse the right of way, or in any manner obstruct any fire apparatus, or any of said officers and men while in the performance of their duties, or shall drive over or cut any hose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to punishment for the same. It shall be lawful for said board to send an engine, with hose and appa- ratus, to the relief of any community in the vicinity of Ann Arbor. SEC. 158. Whenever a person or corporation shall be desirous of erecting or altering any building within the fire limits of said city, he, she or they shall make application at the office of the chief of the fire depart- ment for a permit for that purpose, and shall furnish for the examination of said chief a written statement of the proposed location, the dimensions, the manner of constructing the proposed building or alteration, the material to be used, the estimated cost, and the contract for completion. It shall be the duty of the chief, on receiving such application to inspect the location, and to fully examine the question of grant- ing such permit, and if he shall be satisfied that the building or alteration proposed will comply with the ordinances of the city; and the erection of the same will in any other respect be proper, he shall, subject to the approval of the board of fire commissioners, give such applicant a permit therefor, and such appli- cant shall pay to the chief the sum of one dollar, if the estimated cost of said building or alteration shall be less than one thousand dollars; two dollars if it shall be more than one thousand dollars and less than five thousand dollars, and for every additional one thousand dollars over five thousand dollars, the fur- ther sum of fifty cents. All money so received by the chief shall be paid by him into the city treasury at CITY OF ANN ARBOR 95 least once a month, and a detailed statement thereof, giving the date when, and the name of the person from whom received, shall be filed in the office of the city clerk. SEC. 159. It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to visit and inspect each building which may be in the course of erection, construction or alteration within the fire limits of said city, and to see that such house or building is being erected, con- structed or altered according to the provisions of the city ordinances and the permit so granted, and in a manner adapted for the security thereof against fires, and the safety of the occupants. His visits and in- spection may be repeated from time to time until sucli house or building is completed, when he shall, if re- quested, furnish the owner or [contractor] construc- tor with a certificate that said house or building is in all respects conformable to law and properly con- structed. SEC. 160. It shall be the duty of the board of fire commissioners to cause the chief of the department to examine into the cause, circumstances and origin of all fires occurring in said city, by which any building, erection or valuable personal property shall be acci- dentally or unlawfully burned, destroyed or damaged, and to especially inquire and examine whether such fire was the result of carelessness or the act of [an] incendiary. The chief of the fire department may take the testimony of all persons supposed to be cogni- zant of any facts connected with such fire; said testi- mony shall be reduced to writing and shall be trans- mitted to the board of fire commissioners, together with a report by the chief of the fire department em- bodying his opinion in regard thereto. The chief oi the fire department shall also report to the chief of police, to the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw county and to the owners of property or other persons interested in the subject matter of such investigation, 96 CHARTER OF THE any facts or circumstances which he may have ascer- tained which shall in his opinion require attention from or by said officers or persons. The Public Health SEC. 161.* There shall be a board of health in said city which shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a competent physician; they shall be appointed by the Mayor, by and with the consent of the common council, for the full term of three years; but the members shall be subject to classification in such manner that one term shall expire each year; one of the members of said board, in addition to the powers and duties incumbent upon him as a member of said board, shall be city health officer and shall exercise such powers and duties as shall be from time to time conferred upon him by said board of health and the common council of said city. Said city health officer shall in all cases be a competent physician and the mayor shall designate which of the members of said board shall be city health officer, and such mem- ber of the board of health shall continue to discharge the duties of city health officer during the term for which he was appointed as a member of said board. Such city health officer shall be executive officer of the board of health, shall perform such duties of in- spection as may be necessary for the information and guidance of said board and shall do the work of fumi- gating in all cases where it is necessary for it to be done within said city. The members of the said board of health shall receive such compensation as the com- mon council may allow. SEC. 162. The said board shall have and possess all the powers given by the general statutes of this state to boards of health in townships, in addition to those herein particularly enumerated, except when * As amended March 5, 1919. 98 CHARTER OF THE on board any person sick of malignant fever or pesti- lence or infectious disease, shall, within two hours after the arrival of such sick person, report the fact in writing, with the name of such person and the house or place where he was put down in the city, to the mayor or some member or officer of the board of health. SEC. 164. Any person who shall knowingly bring or procure, or cause to be brought into the city any property of any kind tainted or infected with any malignant fever or pestilential or infectious disease, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. SEC. 165. Every keeper of an inn, boarding house or lodging house in the city, who shall have in his house at any time any sick traveler or stranger, shall report the fact and name of the person in writing. within six hours after his sickness becomes known, to the mayor or some other officer or member of the board of health; and every physician in the city shall report, under this head to one of the officers above named, the name, residence and disease of every pa- tient whom he shall have sick of any infectious or pestilential disease, within six hours after he shall have first visited such patient or discovered the infec- tious nature or the disease. The common council may provide by ordinance for the punishment of per- sons violating any of the provisions of this or the two preceding sections. SEC. 166. All fines imposed under any ordinance passed under this title shall belong to the city, and when collected shall be paid into the treasury, and be devoted to the maintenance and support of the pest- house, or of any hospital hereafter established by the city. SEC. 167. The common council shall have power to pass and enact such by-laws and ordinances as 100 CHARTER OF THE down the same or any part thereof within a reason.. able time, to be fixed by said order, or immediately, as the case may require, or may immediately, in case the order is not complied with, cause the same to be taken down at the expense of the city, on account of the owner of the premises, and assess the same on the land on which it stood. The order, if not immediate in its terms, may be served on any occupant of the premises or be published in the city papers, as the common council shall direct. SEC. 169. The members of the board of health and the health officers shall receive such compensation for their services as may be allowed by the common council. Finance and Taxation SEC. 170. The common council shall examine, settle and allow all accounts and demands properly, chargeable against the said city, as well of its officers as of other persons, and shall have authority to pro- vide means for the payment of the same, and for de- fraying the contingent expenses of the said city, sub- ject only to the limitation and restrictions in this act contained. The fiscal [year] shall commence on the first day of February in each year. SEC. 171.* The common council shall have author- ity to assess, levy and collect taxes on all the real and personal estate taxable in said city, which tax shall be and remain a lien upon the property so assessed until the same shall be paid; provided, that the ag- gregate amount which the council may raise by gen- eral tax upon the taxable real and personal property for the purposes for which the several general funds are hereinafter constituted shall not, except as here- in otherwise provided, exceed in any one year THREE FOURTHS of one per cent. on the assessed value * As amended October 2, 1913. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 101 of all the real and personal property in the city made taxable by law; and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prohibit the common council of said city from regulating by tax or otherwise the business of dealing in malt, spiritous or intoxicating liquors. Sec. 172.* The common council shall designate by ordinance the general funds into which the general tax upon all the property of the city shall be divided and the amount to be raised by tax for each of the general funds shall be determined by the common council prior to the tax levy and no transfer shall be made from one fund to another except by a three- fourths vote of all the members of the common coun- cil elect. SEC. 173. It shall be the duty of the city assessor, as soon as possible after entering upon the duties of his office, to ascertain the taxable property of the city, and the persons to whom it should be assessed and their residence, and on or before the second Mon- day in June each year he shall make and complete an assessment roll for each and every ward in said city, upon which he shall set down the names of persons liable to be taxed for personal property in the city, and also a full description of the real property liable to be taxed therein. In making such rolls he shall be governed by the general laws of the state provid- ing for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and shall have all the powers conferred upon the supervisors of townships. SEC. 174. On the Tuesday next following the second Monday in June in each year, the board of review, consisting of the assessor and the supervisors of the several wards, shall meet at the cemmon coun- cil room in said city, at which time the assessor shall submit to said board the several ward assessment rolls * As amended June 19, 1907. IO2 CHARTER OF THE for the current year, as prepared by him, and the said board shall proceed to examine the same during such week, during at least six hours of each day thercof, in the same manner, and with the same powers as provided by general law. A majority of the meni. bers of said board shall constitute a quorum. The assessor shall be chairman of said board and the city clerk shall act as clerk thereof. Whenever said board shall raise the valuation of personal property above that set forth in the written statement furnished by any person to the supervisor or assessor it shall be the duty of said board of review, on the request of the person whose valuation is so raised, to make and deliver to such person a written statement signed by the chairman of said board, setting forth the kinds with the value thereof of such personal property is has been added by said board to such valuation. SEC. 175. The said board of review shall also meet at the common council room on the third Mon- day in June, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and con- tinue in open and public session during the day and the day following, and as much longer as may be necessary to complete the review of said assessment rolls, not to exceed four days in all, and not less than six hours each day, and at the request of any person whose property is assessed on said rolls, or of his agent, and on sufficient cause being shown, shall cor- rect the assessment in such manner as in their judg- ment will make the valuation thereof just and equal. To that end said board may examine on oath the per- son making such application, or any other person touching the matter. Any member of said board may administer such oath. After said board shall com- plete the review of said rolls, a certificate to the effect that the same is the assessment roll for the ward therein named, for the year in which it has been pre- pared and approved by the board of review, shall be endorsed thereon, signed by the chairman and clerk CITY OF ANN ARBOR 103 of said board, which certificate may be in the form as follows: "The Board of Review of the City of Ann Arbor certify that the within or annexed roll is the assessment roll of the...... ward of the City of Ann Arbor for the year 18— , as approved by said board. Chairman... Clerk........................ Upon the completion of said rolls and their indorse- ment in the manner aforesaid, the same shall be con- clusively presumed by all courts and tribunals to be valid, and shall not be set aside except for causes pre- scribed by the general state law. The omission of such endorsement shall not affect the validity of such roll. SEC. 176. For the purpose of equalization by the board of supervisors of the County of Washtenaw the said ward assessment rolls shall be deemed as id single roll; the valuation fixed and determined by said board shall be the valuation of the taxable prop- erty of the City of Ann Arbor as a unit, and the state, county and other taxes apportioned by said board shall be apportioned by said city and not to any ward thereof. SEC. 177. Whenever the common council shall deem it necessary to raise a greater sum in one year than provided for in section one hundred and seventy- one (171) they shall give at least five days' notice in writing to be posted up in at least five public places in each ward in said city, which notice shall state the time and place of such meeting, and shall specify the objects and purposes for which the moneys proposed to be raised are to be expended, and when such meet- ing shall be assembled in pursuance of such notice the electors qualified to vote thereat by a ballot vote shall determine the amounts of money which shall be raised for the objects specified in the notice: Pro- 104 CHARTER OF THE vided, that the aggregate amount of city taxes levied shall not in any one year exceed one per cent. of the valuation of the real and personal estate taxable within the limits of the city: [And] provided also. That no more than two such meetings shall be held in any calendar year. The polls at any such meeting shall be kept open at least six hours, and the common council shall appoint three of its members to act as inspectors. The city clerk shall be the clerk of such meeting and shall keep a poll list of the electors voting SEC. 178. All state, county and school taxes in said city, and all city taxes which shall be raised by a general tax, shall be levied and collected, as near as may be, in the same manner as provided by the law for the assessment and collection of taxes by town- ship officers; and all proceedings for the return, sale and redemption of real estate for non-payment of taxes, shall be in conformity with the proceedings for the return sale and redemption of real estate as re- quired by the laws of this state. SEC. 179. Whenever the common council shall, authorize a tax to be levied for any special purpose, and which cannot be included in the assessment roll and collected and returned for non-payment, as pro- vided in the preceding section of this act, it shall be lawful for the common council to apportion such tax upon the property taxable for such purpose, accord- ing to the valuation contained in the then last assess- ment roll, and shall place the tax in a columin oppo- site the valuation of the property; and where such roll is completed, the city clerk shall make and deliver a copy thereof to the treasurer of said city, together with a warrant or warrants, signed by the mayor and city clerk, commanding such treasurer to collect from the several persons named in said roll, opposite their respective names, within a time in said warrant speci. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 105 fied, not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days from the date thereof, together with a collection fee of one per cent, which said treasurer may add to each person's tax and collect therewith; and such warrant shall authorize the treasurer, in case any person named in said roll shall neglect or refuse to pay his tax, with the collection fee above provided, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person; and it shall be the duty of such treasurer to collect such taxes within the time specified in such warrant, or within such further time as the common council may by resolution direct, and deliver such roll and warrant to the city clerk; and if any person shall neglect or refuse to pay the tax imposed upon him, the treasurer may levy the same by distress and sale of goods and chattels of such per- son in the same manner as township treasurers, and if any of the taxes mentioned in said roll shall remain unpaid, and the treasurer shall be unable to collect the same from the person taxed, he shall make oui and deliver to the city clerk a full and perfect cops: from said roll of the description of the premises so taxed, and of the taxes thereon unpaid, and shall add thereto an affidavit, sworn to before an officer author- ized to administer oaths for general purposes, that the sums mentioned in such statement remain unpaid, and that he has not, upon diligent search and inquiry, been able to discover any goods or chattels belonging to the person taxed, whereupon he could levy the same. SEC. 180. The common council may by ordinance provide for the collection of all taxes necessary to be raised, other than such as may be raised as provided in section one hundred and seventy-four (seventy- one (171)], and for the sale of any real estate for the non-payment of such tax, and for the redemption thereof: Provided, That all the proceedings relative to the notice of sale, the manner of conducting the 106 CHARTER OF THE same and the time to redeem, shall be in conformity as near as may be to the provisions of law regulating the sale of lands delinquent [at] for state, county and township taxes. SEC. 181.* On or before the first Monday in June in each year the city clerk shall certify to the assessor of said city the aggregate of all sums of money which the common council require to be raised for the year for all city purposes by general taxation, upon all the taxable property of the whole city and it shall no longer be necessary to certify the appropriations made by the common council to the board of supervisors of the County of Washtenaw. The assessor of said city shall levy upon all the taxable property of the city the aggregate amount of all such sums of money so certified by him, by the city clerk, to be raised for city purposes, placing the taxes in a column next adjoin- ing the column of valuation of property fixed by the board of review, and on or before the fifteenth day of July, the assessor shall deliver a certified copy of said assessment roll of the several wards, with the taxes entered therein as aforesaid, to the city treasurer, with his warrant for the collection of the tax thereon, annexed thereto. The warrant annexed to said tax rolls shall command the city treasurer to collect from the several persons named in said rolls the several sums set down in the column of city taxes, and such warrant shall authorize the city treasurer in case any person named in such rolls shall neglect or refuse to pay his, her or their tax with the fees for collec- tion to be added by said treasurer as hereinafter pro- vided, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person, as provided in the general tax laws of the state. The city treasurer shall immediately after the receipt of the several tax rolls, post up in the post-office in said city and * As amended April 27, 1893. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 107 in as many as ten of the most conspicuous places in each ward of said city, conspicuous hand-bills giving notice where the tax rolls can be seen, the taxes paid and receipt obtained therefor, at any time between nine o'clock in the forenoon and twelve o'clock noon, and from one o'clock until four o'clock in the after- noon, from the fifteenth day of July until the fifteenth day of August (Sunday excepted) and the tax rolls shall be kept at the place mentioned in such hand- bills during the days and hours specified so that any person or persons can pay the tax or taxes assessed against him or them and obtain the treasur- er's receipt therefor. Within one week after the fif- teenth day of August the treasurer shall return to the city assessor the rolls received from him for the collection of the city taxes with the several taxes paid plainly stamped or marked paid in the column next adjoining the column for such city taxes. The city assessor shall carry out in another column the city taxes remaining unpaid with five per cent. there- of added thereto, and shall include such taxes so carried out with such percentage added in the aggre- gate of taxes to be collected from the several persons on the said tax rolls. The assessor of said city shall on or before the first day of December, deliver to the city treasurer a copy of the corrected assessment rolls of the several wards with the taxes annexed to each valuation and aggregated in the last column thereof, the unpaid city taxes in one column, the school, li- brary and schoolhouse taxes in another column, the county taxes in another and the state taxes in an- other column and the warrant for the collection shall specify particularly the several amounts and pur- poses for which said taxes are to be paid into the city, county and school treasury respectively. SEC. 182. To such assessment roll or tax list the assessor shall annex a warrant, under his hand, directed to the city treasurer, commanding him to 108 CHARTER OF THE collect from the several persons named in said roll the several sums mentioned in the last column of such roll opposite their respective names; and such warrant shall authorize the treasurer, in case any person named in such roll shall neglect or refuse to pay his tax, with the fees for collection to be added by said treasurer, as hereinafter provided, to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such person. SEC. 183. The city treasurer shall, immediately after the receipt of the several tax rolls, post up in the post-office in said city, and in as many as ten of the most public places in each ward of said city, con- spicuous hand-bills, giving notice where the tax rolls can be seen, the taxes paid, and a receipt obtained therefor, at any time between nine o'clock in the fore- noon and twelve o'clock, noon, and from one o'clock until four o'clock in the afternoon, during the month of December (Sundays and Christmas excepted); and the tax rolls shall be kept in the place mentioned in such hand-bills during the days and hours above specified, so that any person or persons can pay the tax or taxes assessed against him or them, and obtain the treasurer's receipt therefor. SEC. 184.* Upon all taxes paid to the treasurer between the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of August, he shall add one-half of one per cent. for collection fees; upon all taxes paid to the treas- urer during the month of December he shall add one- half of one per cent. for collection fees; upon all taxes collected by him during January he shall add one and a half per cent. for such collection fees; and upon ali taxes collected by him after January thirty-first he shall add two and a half per cent, for such collection fees, and collect such percentage with such tax in the same manner as he is authorized to collect the tax, * As amended April 27, 1893. I10 CHARTER OF THE ceed the aggregate taxes levied in such year for the payment of the same. All moneys collected for the use of the city shall be paid into the city treasury, and no moneys shall be paid from the treasury un- less it shall have been previously appropriated by the Common Council to the purpose for which it shall be drawn. The Treasurer shall pay out no money except upon the written warrant of the Mayor and City Clerk, which warrant shall specify the fund from which the money is to be paid; provided, that school moneys shall be paid to the treasury of school district number one of the City of Ann Arbor upon the warrant of the President and Secretary of said board. The Common Council may, at any regular meeting thereof, by resolution duly adopted by a ma- jority of all the members elect, authorize the issuing of bonds to the amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars outstanding at any one time, for the purpose of paving any alley, street or streets in such city, such bonds to run for a period not exceeding ten years from the date of their issue, and at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum, and the Common Council for the purpose of carrying out this provision may pass such ordinance or ordi- nances as may be deemed necessary. Miscellaneous SEC. 187. The assessor and supervisor of each ward and city clerk shall at the time appointed in each year for the return of the several ward assess- ment rolls, make a list of persons to serve as petit jurors, and a list to serve as grand jurors for the ensuing year, of the qualifications and in the manner prescribed by law. SEC. 188. Any person who may be required to take any oath or affirmation, under or by virtue of any provision of this act, who shall, under such oathi CITY OF ANN ARBOR INI or affirmation, in any statement or affidavit, or other- wise, willfully swear falsely as to any material fact or matter, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. SEC. 189. If any suit should be commenced against any person elected or appointed under this act to any office, for any act done or omitted to be done under such election or appointment, or against any person having done any thing or act by the com- mand of any such officer, and if final judgment be rendered in such suit whereby any such defendant shall be entitled to costs, he shall recover double costs in the manner defined by law. SEC. 190. The common council of said city is hereby authorized and required to perform the same duties in and for said city as are by law imposed upon the township boards of the several townships of this state, in relation to school, school taxes, county and state taxes and state, district and county elec- tions; and the supervisors and assessors, justices of the peace and city clerk, and all other officers of said city, who are required to perform the duties of town- ship officers of this state, shall take the oath, give the bond, perform like duties, and receive the same pay and in the same manner and be subject to the same liabilities, as provided for the corresponding town- ship_officers, excepting as is otherwise provided in this act, or as may be provided by the ordinances of the common council. SEC. 191. The ordinances now in force in the city of Ann Arbor shall remain in force until repealed altered or amended by the common council; and all property, rights, credits and effects of every kind, belonging to the City of Ann Arbor, shall be and re- main the property of the said city of Ann Arbor. SEC. 192. All acts heretofore enacted in regard to the village of Ann Arbor, or the city of Ann Arbor, coming within the purview of this act, are hereby 116 ORDINANCES OF THE shall be levied or loan made for such purpose until the same shall have been authorized by a vote of the electors of said city, at a meeting to be convened pur- suant to notice given as in such cases by the charter of said city provided : And provided further, That no tax shall be levied or bonds issued until the legisla- ture now in session shall have appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars for said hospital. SEC. 2. Any loan negotiated for the purpose authorized in the preceding section, may be made pay- able in such installments and within such time not exceeding ten years from date thereof as the common council shall determine, and shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent per annum; and annually the common council may raise by tax as hereinbefore pro- vided, a sufficient sum to pay the next installment of said loan to become due, with the interest on all of said loan unpaid, which sum may be in addition to the tax said common council may levy without a vote of the electors of said city. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 21, 1889. LOCAL ACTS, 1901.--No. 293. AN ACT to authorize and enable the city of Ann Arbor to build and construct a suitable building for a city hall, to purchase land therefor and to raise the money for such purpose by a tax and loan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The City of Ann Arbor is hereby authorized and empowered to build, construct and maintain a suitable building for a city hall, to pur. chase land therefor and to raise by tax or loan on the taxable property of the said city a sum of money CITY OF ANN ARBOR 117 not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for such pur- pose. SEC. 2. Whenever the common council shall pro- pose to cause any such city hall building to be con- structed they shall so declare by resolution, specify- ing the sum of money purposed to be expended for that purpose, to be passed by at least a two-thirds vote of all the aldermen elect and shall cause such resolution to be entered in the record of their pro. ceedings, whereupon the common council may at the then or next regular meeting have power and author- ity to call a special meeting of the qualified electors of the city pursuant to the provisions of the charter, and shall submit to the said electors the questions of raising the money for such purpose by loan or other. wise. The vote of the said electors on such question shall be by ballot. The ballot shall be printed on white paper of equal length and width. The affirma. tive ballot shall have printed thereon the words "For the city hall loan-Yes.” The negative ballots shal: have printed thereon the words “For the city hall loan-No.” The canvass of the vote and the deter- mination of the result of such election shall be in accordance with the provisions of the city charter: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained or in the city charter shall be construed to prevent the common council in its discretion to order the vote at such election and the question submitted to be voted on and determined by the use of the Abbott voting machine. In the event of the use of the Abbott voting machine all “no choice” votes shall be disre- garded and not counted. SEC. 3. If the electors at said election shall vote to authorize the construction of such city hall build. ing then the common council shall have power and authority to issue and dispose of the bonds of the city of Ann Arbor in a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for such purpose. The said bonds to be issued 118 ORDINANCES OF THE in such denominations and payable at such times and in such installments not exceeding thirty years and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum as the common council shall determine: Pro- vided. That none of said bonds shall be sold or dis- posed of for less than par value. SEC. 4. After the sale and disposition of the said bonds or any part thereof the common council shall have power and authority and it shall be the duty of the common council to include in each annual tax bill or budget a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge any sum either of interest or principal which shall be due or become due on account of the said bonds during the year in which any such tax is raised and all such sums of money so to be levied and assessed shall be in addition to and in excess of the money authorized by law to be levied and raised for all other city purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1901. LOCAL ACTS, 1901.—No. 294. AN ACT to authorize the city of Ann Arbor to pur- chase the water-works plant, property, rights and franchises of the Ann Arbor Water Company and issue the bonds of the said city in payment there- for. The People of the State of Michigan enact : SECTION 1. The City of Ann Arbor may borrow money and issue the bonds of the said city therefor in any sum not exceeding four hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars for the purpose of purchasing the water- works plant, property, rights, business and franchises, and all appurtenances thereto, of the Ann Arbor Water Company. The common council of the said CITY OF ANN ARBOR 119 city shall have power to fix the time and place of the payment of the principal and interest of the debt authorized by this act, and may authorize the issue of the bonds of the said city therefor in any sum not exceeding four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and in such denominations as the said common coun- cil shall determine: Provided, That the bonds auth- orized by this act shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof and the rate of interest thereon shall not exceed four per cent. per annum. SEC. 2. Before any money shall be borrowed, appropriated, raised or expended for the purchase of the said water-works plant, property, business, rights and franchises, the common council of the said city shall determine and agree with the Ann Arbor Water Company upon the sum to be paid the said Water Company by the said city, for the said water-works plant, property, business, rights and franchises, and all appurtenances thereto, as the fair value thereof, and the question of purchasing the said water-works plant at the sum so determined and agreed upon as the fair value thereof shall be submitted to the elec- tors of the said city at the next annual city election, or at a special election called for that purpose, and if a majority of the electors voting upon the said question shall vote to purchase the said water-works plant at the sum determined and agreed upon, then it shall be the duty of the said common council to authorize the issue of the bonds of the said city in the sum so determined, as the same shall be necessary, and to do all things necessary to consummate the purchase and transfer of the water-works plant, prop- erty, business, rights and franchises, and all appur- tenances thereto, of the Ann Arbor Water Company to the said city of Ann Arbor: Provided, That should the said question be submitted to the electors of the said city at a special election, such election shall be conducted under the provisions of the charter of the I 20 ORDINANCES OF THE city of Ann Arbor relating to elections, except that nothing therein contained shall prevent the common council of the said city from authorizing the votes cast upon the said question, whether at an annual or special election, to be voted, registered and counted upon the Abbott voting machine, and in the event of the use of the Abbott voting machine no “no choice” votes shall be counted, but shall be regarded as not cast. SEC. 3. The common council of the said city shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to raise by tax upon the taxable property of the said city, such sum or sums as shall be sufficient, together with the surplus revenues from the operation of the said water-works, to pay the principal and interest upon the said bonds as the same shall become due and pay- able; and all taxes levied for this purpose shall be in excess and in addition to any sum or sums authorized to be levied under and by virtue of the charter of the said city for general purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1901. LOCAL ACTS, 1905.—No. 539. AN ACT to authorize and enable the City of Ann Ar- bor to build, construct and install a garbage cre- matory or plant, to purchase land, machinery and appurtenances therefor and to raise the money for such purpose by tax or loan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SEC. 1. The City of Ann Arbor is hereby author- ized and empowered to build, construct and install a garbage crematory or plant, to purchase land, ma- chinery and appurtenances therefor and to raise by tax or loan on the taxable property of the said city a I 22 ORDINANCES OF THE stallation of such .garbage crematory or plant, then the common council shall have power and authority to issue and dispose of the bonds of the City of Ann Arbor in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose; the said bonds to be issued in such denominations and payable at such times and in such installments, not exceeding thirty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per an- num, as the common council shall determine: Pro- vided, That none of the said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par value. SEC. 4. After the sale and disposition of said bonds, or any part thereof, the common council shall have power and authority, and it shall be the duty of the common council to include in each annual tax bill or budget a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge any sum either of interest or principal, which shall be due or become due on account of the said bonds during the year in which any such tax is raised; and all such sums of money so to be levied and assessed shall be in addition to and in excess of the money authorized by law to be levied and raised for all other city purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 10, 1905. INDEX TO CHARTER 37 ................ 20 100 130g 156 Ι 100 82 103 120 ABSENCE PAGE Chief of police................ mayor .. president of the council. ....... .............. 41 ACCOUNTS (See Claims) ACTION against city, how commenced........ assessments, special, recovered by..... buildings, destroyed by fire commissioners, city not liable to....... ............ 93 city, by what name to bring ....... claims, to be presented to council before bringing damages, from defective sidewalk, who liable to.. double costs, when may be recovered by.......... III fines, city may recover by....................... 61 officers, damages when subjected to............... III ACTS OF LEGISLATURE city hall, construction of..... 116 garbage crematory, construction of......... hospital, aid bonds, authorizing........ 115 lighting, contract for street, relative to.... 115 repeal, of former acts ............. sewers, construction of .......................... waterworks, purchase of ........................ 118 ADDITIONS TO CITY plats, approval of....... AFFIDAVIT claims, to be accompanied by........ ......... ALDERMEN (See also Common Council) bondsmen or surety, cannot be......... compensation of ............ conservator of peace, as..... constables, under orders of.... council, member of ......... duties of ......................... election of ......... of, first in seventh ward..... eligibility to hold appointive office expulsion of .. inspector of elections oath of office................. personnel of year 1923-1924. . 192 III 112 ........... 124 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 130€ 88–126 .........47- . .. . ... .. . ... . ... .. . . ....................... ......... "ERR* ***8222 98*** ---- SEIS H16 ALDERMEN-Continued PAGE registration, member of board of... review, when members of board of..... special meetings, may request calling of. notice to, of calling of......... vacancy, in office of...................... ALLEYS control over, by council......... by board of public works...... encumbering, may be prevented... lighting, regulations for ..... opening, of ....... paving, expense of .... vacating of ....... vote necessary for... ANIMALS impounding of ...... fees for .... .................... rescuing of inspection of ........ running at large, prevention of..... slaughter of, regulation of......... ANN ARBOR boundaries of incorporation of ...... name of legal...... suits, by, in what name.... ANNUAL REPORTS city clerk, of....... park commissioners, of.... public works, board of........ treasurer, of ..., APPEALS justice court, from .... ....................33-60 APPROPRIATIONS exhausted, when .......... clerk's duty concerning ............. council's action concerning. notice concerning ... excess of funds, when in... precede payment, must... vote, necessary on ...... AQUEDUCTS encumbering of ................................. ARRESTS chief of police, powers of, in making ........ .... fires, at, for disobedience of orders...... general provisions relating to........ president of council, may order......... report of, by chief of police.......... ............ upon view, power to......... .........35-64 117 117 ....................... 140 56–102 ........ ...... 100 ISO 62 61-110 126 INDEX TO CHARTER ................... 100 76 ................ IOI ......... 34 58 23 ASSESSOR—Continued PAGE SEC. appropriations to be certified to... 106 181 for parks certified to....... ............... 68 118d benefits, when to assess......... 13ob board of review, chairman of... 174 to submit rolls to........ IOI 174 certification of special rolls...... • 77 130C delivery of rolls to treasurer, when. 181 duties of .... ................................. election of ..................... 30 oath of .................. ... ............... III petit jurors, to make list of.... poll, to make list for taxes... 131 powers of ... salary of ...... ... 40 sewers, duties in assessing ...... ........ II2 term of ... warrant, force and effect of.. for general rolls 107 181–182 for special rolls.. 130g 187 .................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETEKENIS PEEPS Tay Yoe aapkepa28* * ** ΙΔΙ 118k S ATTORNEY, CITY advisor of board of public works...... of board of park commissioners... of city officers ... of common council.......... appointment by mayor ............ when made ........ attendance at council meetings... contracts, to approve forms for. duties and qualifications of.... fines, to be sued for when....... oath of office......... removal of ..... salary of .. term of ..... ............................. 68 m2 136 68 ...... ................................... AUCTIONEERS regulation of by council...... ........ AUCTIONS mock ....... regulation of by council.. ............. 48 ........47-55 BALLOT BOXES council to provide..... ......... 2016 .. 21 21 21 21 BALLOTS candidates' names to be on...... separate boxes, when to put in...... term, of office designated on, when... votes to be given by, at elections... to be put in proper box........... ........... 21 21 22 21 • 21 120 ORDINANCES OF THE city of Ann Arbor relating to elections, except that nothing therein contained shall prevent the common council of the said city from authorizing the votes cast upon the said question, whether at an annual or special election, to be voted, registered and counted upon the Abbott voting machine, and in the event of the use of the Abbott voting machine no “no choice” votes shall be counted, but shall be regarded as not cast. SEC. 3. The common council of the said city shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to raise by tax upon the taxable property of the said city, such sum or sums as shall be sufficient, together with the surplus revenues from the operation of the said water-works, to pay the principal and interest upon the said bonds as the same shall become due and pay- able; and all taxes levied for this purpose shall be in excess and in addition to any sum or sums authorized to be levied under and by virtue of the charter of the said city for general purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 25, 1901. LOCAL ACTS, 1905.—No. 539. AN ACT to authorize and enable the City of Ann Ar- bor to build, construct and install a garbage cre- matory or plant, to purchase land, machinery and appurtenances therefor and to raise the money for such purpose by tax or loan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SEC. 1. The City of Ann Arbor is hereby author- ized and empowered to build, construct and install a garbage crematory or plant, to purchase land, ma- chinery and appurtenances therefor and to raise by tax or loan on the taxable property of the said city a CITY OF ANN ARBOR I21 sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose. SEC. 2. Whenever the common council shall pro- pose to cause any such garbage crematory or plant to be built, constructed and installed they shall so de- clare by resolution, specifying the sum of money pro- posed to be expended for that purpose, to be passed by at least a two-thirds vote of all the aldermen elect and shall cause such resolution to be entered in the record of their proceedings, whereupon the common council may, at the then or the next regular meeting, have power and authority to call a special meeting of the qualified electors of the city pursuant to the pro- visions of the charter, and shall submit to the said electors the question of raising the money for such purpose by loan or otherwise; and the common coun- cil may submit said question to said electors at any annual city or general election. The vote of said elec- tors on such question shall be by ballot. The ballot shall be printed on white paper of equal length and width. The affirmative ballott shall have printed thereon the words, “For the garbage crematory or plant loan-Yes.” The negative ballots shall have printed thereon the words, “For the garbage crema- tory or plant loan-No.” The canvass of the vote and the determination of the result of such election shall be in accordance with the provisions of the city charter: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained, or in the city charter, shall be con- strued to prevent the common council, in its discre- tion, to order the vote at such election, and the ques- tion submitted to be voted on and determined by the use of the Abbott voting machine. In the event of the use of the Abbott voting machine all “no choice" votes shall be disregarded and not counted. SEC. 3. If the electors at the said election shall vote to authorize the building, construction and in- I 22 ORDINANCES OF THE stallation of such garbage crematory or plant, then the common council shall have power and authority to issue and dispose of the bonds of the City of Ann Arbor in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose; the said bonds to be issued in such denominations and payable at such times and in such installments, not exceeding thirty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per an- num, as the common council shall determine: Pro- vided, That none of the said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par value. SEC. 4. After the sale and disposition of said bonds, or any part thereof, the common council shall have power and authority, and it shall be the duty of the common council to include in each annual tax bill or budget a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge any sum either of interest or principal, which shall be due or become due on account of the said bonds during the year in which any such tax is raised; and all such sums of money so to be levied and assessed shall be in addition to and in excess of the money authorized by law to be levied and raised for all other city purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 10, 1905. INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. ............................ 28 41 ...... 100 130g . ....... 156 I 100 133 ........... .......... 120 .......... I15 ABSENCE PAGE Chief of police............ ......... 37 mayor ..... president of the council......... ACCOUNTS (See Claims) ACTION against city, how commenced....... assessments, special, recovered by.......... buildings, destroyed by fire commissioners, city not liable to...... not able to................................. city, by what name to bring ........ claims, to be presented to council before bringing damages, from defective sidewalk, who liable to.. 82 double costs, when may be recovered by.......... fines, city may recover by ....... ...... officers, damages when subjected to............... ACTS OF LEGISLATURE city hall, construction of........ ............. 116 garbage crematory, construction of... hospital, aid bonds, authorizing... lighting, contract for street, relative to. .......... 115 repeal, of former acts .... sewers, construction of.... waterworks, purchase of... ADDITIONS TO CITY plats, approval of... AFFIDAVIT claims, to be accompanied by......... .......... ALDERMEN (See also Common Council) bondsmen or surety, cannot be.... compensation of ........... conservator of peace, as....... constables, under orders of.... council, member of ....... duties of ...... election of ................. of, first in seventh ward. eligibility to hold appointive office.... expulsion of ....... inspector of elections ..... oath of office.......... personnel of year 1923-1924.... 192 ................ I IS ............... ................ .................. ....connes ................ 124 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. PAGE 17 130e 8左右y . . 136 88–126 ..........47- . 126 . 130 . ........................... 126 . . 116 ALDERMEN—Continued registration, member of board of.. review, when members of board of........ special meetings, may request calling of.. notice to, of calling of...... vacancy, in office of......................... ALLEYS control over, by council........ by board of public works... encumbering, may be prevented.. lighting, regulations for .. opening, of .... paving, expense of ...... vacating of ........ vote necessary for.............. ANIMALS . impounding of .. fees for ................ rescuing of inspection of ...... running at large, prevention of slaughter of, regulation of.. ANN ARBOR boundaries of incorporation of ........... name of legal....... suits, by, in what name..... ANNUAL REPORTS city clerk, of..................... park commissioners, of.. public works, board of.. treasurer, of ........ APPEALS justice court, from .... 117 117 ..... 73% so o Ha S 888, 64332 Ons 118; 140 65 56–102 APPROPRIATIONS exhausted, when ..... clerk's duty concerning .. council's action concerning notice concerning . excess of funds, when in... precede payment, must........ vote, necessary on ........ AQUEDUCTS encumbering of .. ARRESTS chief of police, powers of, in making ......... fires, at, for disobedience of orders....... general provisions relating to..... president of council, may order...... report of, by chief of police..... upon view, power to.... ............35-64 37 61–110 126 INDEX TO CHARTER ......... 100 SEC. 181 118d 130b 174 174 130C 181 ASSESSOR-Continued PAGE appropriations to be certified to.. 106 for parks certified to........ 68 ....... benefits, when to assess.... board of review, chairman of... .. IOI to submit rolls to........ .. IOI certification of special rolls...... . 77 delivery of rolls to treasurer, when.. ............... 106 duties of .... 34 election of ................. ......... 23 oath of ......... ......... III petit jurors, to make list of.... • I10 poll, to make list for taxes....... powers of ... salary of ..... sewers, duties in assessing. .... I12 term of ....... ........ 24 warrant, force and effect of.. for general rolls ... for special rolls..... 58 30 23 190 ................................... 101 .............................. 40 107 181-182 130g .......... 141 118k ................ ATTORNEY, CITY advisor of board of public works ....... of board of park commissioners .......... of city officers .... of common council....... appointment by mayor ........ when made .............. attendance at council meetings. contracts, to approve forms for. duties and qualifications of...... fines, to be sued for when....... oath of office.... removal of .. salary of ...... term of 68–77 136 AUCTIONEERS regulation of by council.......... ....... AUCTIONS mock ..... regulation of by council........ ........ 48 .........47-55 В BALLOT BOXES council to provide.... ........ ....... 20 BALLOTS candidates' names to be on........ separate boxes, when to put in..... term, of office designated on, when.... votes to be given by, at elections........ to be put in proper box... 21 21 21 ***** 21 21 INDEX TO CHARTER 127 PAGE SEC. 67 65 ..... BANKS bond, required of....... certificate of cashier of... depository, of city funds.............. interest to be paid by..... treasurer, not responsible for money in.... BARNS regulation of by council.......... BATHING prohibition of in public. ....... BEGGARS regulation of, by ordinance.. ........... vagrants, are deemed as.... 3 105 118f BEQUESTS acceptance of by park commissioners............. BIDS advertisements for . report of to council., .... required when security, when required with... 137 137 to COUNCII.................... 137 ................... 137 ....... 31 32 150 BILLIARD TABLES license and regulation of ........ BOARD OF BUILDING INSPECTORS 1923-1924.. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924 ....... ...... BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924.. apparatus, purchase of by... appointment of members of......... of members when made........ assistance to be commanded at fires.... building permits, to be approved by........ chief of fire department, nomination of. reports to ............. under direction of..... cisterns, construction of...... clerk of .... compensation of ......... fire companies, power to organize.. fire department, power to establish.. fire wardens, appointment of..... investigation into origin of fires.... oath of office................ organization of ....... relief to adjoining towns, may send ......... removal of buildings, boilers, etc. as nuisances.. of buildings at fires...... of members of...... rules and regulations by.... 147 160 149 .................... . . 53–147 145 . . . ..... .... 146 151 160 37 145 157 154 128 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 162 162 162 162 ......... 165 ..................... 165 ...... .......... ............. PAGE BOARD OF HEALTH 1923-1924... appointment of members of...... when made ................... cellars, unhealthy, abatement of.. ....... clerk of ......... compensation of .............. general powers of ........... hospital, establishment of...... infectious diseases, prevention of... infected property, destruction of. nuisances, abatement of.... number of members of ........... oath of office..................... removal of dangerous structures... removal of members of....... report by railroads, drivers, etc., to.. of inkeepers to........... of physicians to... term and qualifications of ........ BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924.. account of expenses by..... appointment of members of....... attorney, city, legal advisor of... audit of all park expenses by....... bills certified by president of... when to be paid................. clerk of ................... debts or liabilities, not to be created by. donations or bequests to..... employees to be engaged by...... to fix compensation of... engineer, at disposal of....... estimates to be made to council by.. exclusive control of parks, shade trees, etc... over improvements and work......... president of ......... qualification of members of........... receipts of, payable into city treasury. removal of members of...... report of to council... annual to council.... rules and regulations by...... superintendent of parks appointed by. term of members of... of first members of.... BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS 1923-1924... account of cost of each improvement.. additional duties imposed by council........... amount can expend, without council's consent. appointment of members by mayor.. confirmation of by council...... made when ...... attorney, city, legal advisor of...... 118j 118b 118k 118e 118 118e 118k 118f 118f 118g 118g 118k 118d 118a 118a 118b 118a 118 83 118j 118 I'I8i 118g 118b 118C 140 136 137 31-134 134 32 141 INDEX TO CHARTER 129 *8800 SEC. 137 137 137 I41 139 139 139 140 53–141 ............... 138 .... 138 137 8089 143 144 138 143 139 141 136 136 137 137 O O O O ........... 37 137 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS—Continued PAGE bids, advertisement for.... bond furnished with............ reported to council. ..... chief of police at service of...... city engineer, appointed by..... assistants of, approved by... claims audited and certified to.. classification of work by..... clerk of ............... contracts, authority to sue on. made by. ...... must be authorized by council... members cannot be interested in.... old, carried out............. rights to be reserved in....... elegibility of members for elective office.. employees, appointment and compensation of discharge of ...... general powers and duties of.... grades, changes in, recommended by..... improvements referred by council to....... estimated cost of reported..... oath of office of members of ............. organization of .............. plans and specifications prepared by.. plats of additions approved by.. proceedings to be recorded.... to be published........ qualifications of members of... quorum of ....... record of estimates to be kept...... regulations of ....... removal of members of.... repairs of streets and sidewalks reports to council, annual........ itemized of work done by board...... on progress of work.......... sidewalks, built or repaired by..... street commissioner, appointment of....... removal of .......................... superintendent of buildings, appointment... supplies, etc., provided by council....... surveys, records, etc., to be delivered to... term of office of members of....... vacancies, how filled....... work done by, when bids rejected......... when contractors fail......... BOARD OF REGISTRATION books for, provided by council...... ........... charter elections, session preceding............ compensation of ....... certified by clerk ..... erasure of names made when............. correction of mistakes in...................... general elections, sessions preceding............... 136 141 141 134 141 137 141 143 137 O O O O 60 8888 8 0 STS FOOD 140 137 140 132 139 139 139 135 144 13+ 143 137 138 10 0 I 22 ORDINANCES OF THE stallation of such .garbage crematory or plant, then the common council shall have power and authority to issue and dispose of the bonds of the City of Ann Arbor in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose; the said bonds to be issued in such denominations and payable at such times and in such installments, not exceeding thirty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per an. num, as the common council shall determine: Pro- vided, That none of the said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par value. SEC. 4. After the sale and disposition of said bonds, or any part thereof, the common council shall have power and authority, and it shall be the duty of the common council to include in each annual tax bill or budget a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge any sum either of interest or principal, which shall be due or become due on account of the said bonds during the year in which any such tax is raised; and all such sums of money so to be levied and assessed shall be in addition to and in excess of the money authorized by law to be levied and raised for all other city purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 10, 1905. INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 37 28 ...... ..... ........................ 100 130g 156 I 100 133 189 103 189 116 A ABSENCE PAGE Chief of police......... mayor ..... .................. president of the council........ ACCOUNTS (See Claims) ACTION against city, how commenced.......... assessments, special, recovered by ............. buildings, destroyed by fire commissioners, city not liable to................................. city, by what name to bring ........ ......... claims, to be presented to council before bringing damages, from defective sidewalk, who liable to.. 82 double costs, when niay be recovered by .......... III fines, city may recover by............. ........ 61 officers, damages when subjected to...... ACTS OF LEGISLATURE city hall, construction of.... garbage crematory, construction of....... ....... 120 hospital, aid bonds, authorizing....... ....... ... 115 lighting, contract for street, relative to... repeal, of former acts . .............. III sewers, construction of....... 112 waterworks, purchase of....... ADDITIONS TO CITY plats, approval of........ ........ AFFIDAVIT claims, to be accompanied by........ ALDERMEN (See also Common Council) bondsmen or surety, cannot be... compensation of ........ conservator of peace, as....... constables, under orders of..... council, member of ...... ...................... duties of .... election of ........ of, first in seventh ward... eligibility to hold appointive office expulsion of .. inspector of elections .............. oath of office....................... personnel of year 1923-1924.... I92 ...................... II8 ........................... ................... INDEX TO CHARTER 125 .......... ............. 101 102 SEC. 173 175 168 173 174 131 98 174-175 34 175 ....... 10 181 173 173 ....... 106 V .......... ....... 103 181 176 181 173 ................. 104 é 5& se. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . 130 130a 156 88 ASSESSMENTS PAGE completion of, by assessor................. confirmation of by board of review... dangerous buildings, removal of... .. 99 manner, of making ...... IOI notice, of increase of personal....... ΙΟΙ poll, levying of....... 80 public health, expense of preservation of.... review of ........ -102 rolls for, assessor makes certificate attached to......... 102 columns divided how..... completed when ..... ....... IOI contain what ........ delivery and return of.. equalization of by county five per cent added how. 106 one for each ward.... special taxes. warrant attached to ..... ................ .....34-100 sidewalks for .. vote, necessary to impose.. ASSESSMENTS-SPECIAL alleys, opening, or improving.. amount of, how determined.. buildings, destroyed at fires.. cellars, drains, privies, etc. ... collection of ...... .... confirmation of ........ districts for, how determined.. drains, private, building of...... use of ............. gutters, on property benefited.... local improvements, on property benefited.. manner of making of.... pavements on streets or alleys........ review of, by council....... rolls, certified to by city clerk...... confirmation of ...... preparation of ........... review of ....... 77 special taxes ........ 104 warrant attached to... 78 sewers, general charter powers for... special act relating to.......... 112 storm sewers, for........ 72 streets, for improving..... tax roll, when put on general......... warrant, for ... ASSESSOR assessment rolls, preparation of July........ preparation of December...... preparation of special........... ........... preparation of street sprinkling rolls... when to be made.... ...... 130g 130f 130a 121 123 130 130 130b 130 130d-e 130g 130f 130b 130d-e 179 130g 124-130 ............... ................ 75 I24a 130 130g 130g 181 181 1300 130h 173 ........ IOI 126 INDEX TO CHARTER .................. PAGE 106 68 100 . .. .. .. . .... IOI ........... IOI SEC. 181 118d 130h 174 174 130C 181 ........... 77 . 34 ASSESSOR-Continued appropriations to be certified to... for parks certified to...... benefits, when to assess....... board of review, chairman of.... to submit rolls to.. certification of special rolls.... delivery of rolls to treasurer, when. duties of ...... election of ............. oath of ...............-.i.it petit jurors, to make list of... poll, to make list for taxes.. powers of ..... salary of ... sewers, duties in assessing. term of .... warrant, force and effect of... for general rolls .. for special rolls.. ........... 30 ........ ........... 23 III IIO ...................... .... ......... IOI 40 112 ......... ..... 181-182 130g 141 118k 68 ................ .................. 68 ATTORNEY, CITY advisor of board of public works. of board of park commissioners...... of city officers .... of common council........ appointment by mayor ........ when made ................ attendance at council meetings... contracts, to approve forms for... duties and qualifications of.. fines, to be sued for when........ oath of office........... removal of .. salary of ....... term of .... ....... AUCTIONEERS regulation of by council. ........ AUCTIONS mock ...... regulation of by council. ...... ...................................... .........47-55 BALLOT BOXES council to provide..... . 21 21 BALLOTS candidates' names to be on....... separate boxes, when to put in...... term, of office designated on, when... votes to be given by, at elections..... to be put in proper box........... ..... 21 21 22 21 21 21 21 23 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC . . . . . . . . . 3 BANKS PAGE bond, required of.. certificate of cashier of.. depository, of city funds.... interest to be paid by....... treasurer, not responsible for money in...... BARNS regulation of by council... ......... BATHING prohibition of in public....... BEGGARS regulation of, by ordinance..... vagrants, are deemed as......................... BEQUESTS acceptance of by park commissioners............. BIDS advertisements for ...... report of to council............ required when ...................... security, when required with....... 88 105 8 If J .................. com o 137 137 137 137 of .......... ........ 148 31 32 4 . 91 BILLIARD TABLES license and regulation of......... .......... BOARD OF BUILDING INSPECTORS 1923-1924.. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924.. apparatus, purchase of by....... appointment of members of........ of members when made........... assistance to be commanded at fires... building permits, to be approved by.... chief of fire department, nomination of reports to ......... under direction of... cisterns, construction of .......... clerk of ..... compensation of ............ fire companies, power to organize... fire department, power to establish.. fire wardens, appointment of ... investigation into origin of fires...... oath of office...... organization of ................ relief to adjoining towns, may send... removal of buildings, boilers, etc. as nuisances of buildings at fires......... of members of....... rules and regulations by........... .......... .................. 150 158 147 160 149 148 53–147 91 .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. 145 146 146 157 154 156 83 y...................... ................. CITY OF ANN ARBOR 121 sum of money not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose. SEC. 2. Whenever the common council shall pro- pose to cause any such garbage crematory or plant to be built, constructed and installed they shall so de- clare by resolution, specifying the sum of money pro- posed to be expended for that purpose, to be passed by at least a two-thirds vote of all the aldermen elect and shall cause such resolution to be entered in the record of their proceedings, whereupon the common council may, at the then or the next regular meeting, have power and authority to call a special meeting of the qualified electors of the city pursuant to the pro- visions of the charter, and shall submit to the said electors the question of raising the money for such purpose by loan or otherwise; and the common coun- cil may submit said question to said electors at any annual city or general election. The vote of said elec- tors on such question shall be by ballot. The ballot shall be printed on white paper of equal length and width. The affirmative ballott shall have printed thereon the words, “For the garbage crematory or plant loan-Yes.” The negative ballots shall have printed thereon the words, “For the garbage crema- tory or plant loan-No." The canvass of the vote and the determination of the result of such election shall be in accordance with the provisions of the city charter: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained, or in the city charter, shall be con- strued to prevent the common council, in its discre- tion, to order the vote at such election, and the ques- tion submitted to be voted on and determined by the use of the Abbott voting machine. In the event of the use of the Abbott voting machine all “no choice” votes shall be disregarded and not counted. SEC. 3. If the electors at the said election shall vote to authorize the building, construction and in- I 22 ORDINANCES OF THE stallation of such .garbage crematory or plant, then the common council shall have power and authority to issue and dispose of the bonds of the City of Ann Arbor in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for such purpose; the said bonds to be issued in such denominations and payable at such times and in such installments, not exceeding thirty years, and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per an- num, as the common council shall determine: Pro- vided, That none of the said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par value. SEC. 4. After the sale and disposition of said bonds, or any part thereof, the common council shall have power and authority, and it shall be the duty of the common council to include in each annual tax bill or budget a sum of money sufficient to pay and discharge any sum either of interest or principal, which shall be due or become due on account of the said bonds during the year in which any such tax is raised; and all such sums of money so to be levied and assessed shall be in addition to and in excess of the money authorized by law to be levied and raised for all other city purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 10, 1905. INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 100 130g 156 100 133 . III 189 103 189 ABSENCE PAGE Chief of police........ mayor ....... president of the council........ ACCOUNTS (See Claims) ACTION against city, how commenced..................... assessments, special, recovered by....... buildings, destroyed by fire commissioners, city not liable to... ....... 93 city, by what name to bring .............. claims, to be presented to council before bringing 59 damages, from defective sidewalk, who liable to.. 82 double costs, when may be recovered by..... fines, city may recover by............ ............... 61 officers, damages when subjected to............... III ACTS OF LEGISLATURE city hall, construction of....., 116 garbage crematory, construction of... I20 hospital, aid bonds, authorizing....... 115 lighting, contract for street, relative to to...... 115 repeal, of former acts ... ............ III sewers, construction of... .......... II2 waterworks, purchase of... ADDITIONS TO CITY plats, approval of..... ........ AFFIDAVIT claims, to be accompanied by......... ALDERMEN (See also Common Council) bondsmen or surety, cannot be...... compensation of ..................... conservator of peace, as..... constables, under orders of... council, member of ....... duties of ......... election of ................ of, first in seventh ward........ eligibility to hold appointive office..... expulsion of ...... inspector of elections ..................... oath of office............................ personnel of year 1923-1924................ ............. 118 ........ 124 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. ........... 17 130e 73 136 126 88 .................... 126 ............ U16 117 II7 ................... . ... . .. .. .. .. .. . ... . .. .. .. .. ALDERMEN—Continued PAGE registration, member of board of....... review, when members of board of....... special meetings, may request calling of... notice to, of calling of........ vacancy, in office of..... ALLEYS control over, by council.... by board of public works ....... encumbering, may be prevented. ....... lighting, regulations for opening, of ....... paving, expense of .......... vacating of ........... vote necessary for....... ANIMALS impounding of ...... fees for ...... rescuing of ..... inspection of ........ running at large, prevention of.... slaughter of, regulation of....... ANN ARBOR boundaries of ....... incorporation of ............... name of legal.......... suits, by, in what name..... ANNUAL REPORTS city clerk, of......... park commissioners, of.... public works, board of treasurer, of ....... APPEALS justice court, from ......... .............33-60 APPROPRIATIONS exhausted, when ...... clerk's duty concerning. council's action concerning. notice concerning excess of funds, when in... precede payment, must......... vote, necessary on ........... AQUEDUCTS encumbering of . ARRESTS chief of police, powers of, in making....... fires, at, for disobedience of orders........ general provisions relating to........ president of council, may order....... report of, by chief of police............. upon view, power to. ..........35-64 1111 I UUTIS, UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118; 140 65 56-102 CI . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . 61-110 INDEX TO CHARTER 125 SEC. 173 175 ... 80 173 174 131 167 174-175 98 34 53 175 181 173 173 106 181 ............. 103 181 173 179 58–181 1-IO 132 130 130a ASSESSMENTS PAGE completion of, by assessor..................... .... IOC confirmation of by board of review.. .. 102 dangerous buildings, removal of ..... .. 99 manner, of making ............ ... IOI notice, of increase of personal.. ... IOI poll, levying of......... public health, expense of preservation of. review of ........... .........IOI-102 rolls for, assessor makes ... certificate attached to... · 102 columns divided how... .... I06 completed when ..... ... IOI contain what ..... ... IOI delivery and return of....... equalization of by county. five per cent added how... 106 one for each ward.... ... IOI special taxes ........ ......... ..... ..... 104 warrant attached to .. sidewalks for .......... vote, necessary to impose.. ASSESSMENTS-SPECIAL alleys, opening, or improving........... amount of, how determined..... buildings, destroyed at fires..... cellars, drains, privies, etc. ....... collection of ...... confirmation of ...... districts for, how determined... drains, private, building of......... use of .................. gutters, on property benefited.... local improvements, on property benefited manner of making of.... pavements on streets or alleys...... review of, by council..... rolls, certified to by city clerk confirmation of ............. preparation of ........ review of ......... special taxes ....... 104 warrant attached to...... 78 sewers, general charter powers for. special act relating to.......... storm sewers, for............... streets, for improving.... tax roll, when put on general....... warrant, for .............................. ASSESSOR assessment rolls, preparation of July........ 106 preparation of December...... 106 preparation of special..... preparation of street sprinkling rolls.... when to be made..... IOI 156 88 130g 130f 130a I21 123 130 130 130b 130 130d-e 130g 130f 77 130b 13od-e 179 130g 124-130 .... II2 I24a 130 130g 130g 181 181 130b 76 79 130h 173 126 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 181 118d 130b 174 174 130C 181 ................ IOI . . 7 . . . UULICS UT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ASSESSOR-Continued PAGE appropriations to be certified to.... 106 for parks certified to...... 68 benefits, when to assess...... 76 board of review, chairman of.... to submit rolls to.......... ... IOI certification of special rolls.... delivery of rolls to treasurer, when duties of ....... election of .................... ....... 23 oath of ............... ..... petit jurors, to make list of... ........ IIO poll, to make list for taxes.. powers of .. ...... IOI salary of ..... .................... ...... 40 sewers, duties in assessing..... ....................... II2 term of ...... warrant, force and effect of.. for general rolls for special rolls... 30 ................. III ........ 187 ...... 80 131 181-182 130g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 118k ................ 68 68 ATTORNEY, CITY advisor of board of public works...... of board of park commissioners ......... of city officers ....... of common council..... appointment by mayor ........ when made ....... attendance at council meetings... contracts, to approve forms for.. duties and qualifications of...... fines, to be sued for when....... oath of office.................... removal of ... salary of .... term of ...... 68_77 136 68 ........ AUCTIONEERS regulation of by council....... AUCTIONS mock regulation of by council..... ........47-55 BALLOT BOXES council to provide..... 20 BALLOTS candidates' names to be on..... separate boxes, when to put in......... term, of office designated on, when.... votes to be given by, at elections.... to be put in proper box........ 21 21 21 21 21 21 ***** 22 21 21 128 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. ........... 53 161-169 62 162 162 161 ............ 161 ........ ............. PAGE BOARD OF HEALTH 1923-1924... appointment of members of........ when made ........ cellars, unhealthy, abatement of... clerk of ....... compensation of ..... general powers of..., hospital, establishment of ..... infectious diseases, prevention of infected property, destruction of. nuisances, abatement of... number of members of.... oath of office........................ removal of dangerous structures..... removal of members of........ report by railroads, drivers, etc., to.... of inkeepers to.... .................. of physicians to........ term and qualifications of ...... BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924.. account of expenses by... appointment of members of...... attorney, city, legal advisor of... audit of all park expenses by.. bills certified by president of ........ when to be paid........ clerk of ........................ debts or liabilities, not to be created by donations or bequests to..... .................. employees to be engaged by....... to fix compensation of..... engineer, at disposal of ....... estimates to be made to council by........ exclusive control of parks, shade trees, etc..... over improvements and work. president of ........... qualification of members of......... receipts of, payable into city treasury. removal of members of.... report of to council....... annual to council.... rules and regulations by..... superintendent of parks appointed by term of members of..... of first members of........ BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS 1923-1924... account of cost of each improvement.. additional duties imposed by council.............. amount can expend, without council's consent appointment of members by mayor.. confirmation of by council... made when ...... attorney, city, legal advisor of.... 118j 118b 118k 118e I 18e 118e 118k 118f 118f 118g 118g 118k 118d 118a 118a 1186 118a 118e 83 rk............ 1187 . I18j I'18i 118g 118b 1180 . . . . . 140 136 137 31-134 134 . ............... 32 141 INDEX TO CHARTER 129 PAGE SEC. 137 137 137 141 139 139 139 ......... .................. 140 ...3 53–141 ...... SC ...... ...... 137 143 144 138 143 139 141 136 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS—Continued bids, advertisement for.... bond furnished with..... reported to council........ chief of police at service of.. city engineer, appointed by.. assistants of, approved by.. claims audited and certified to.... classification of work by...... clerk of ....... contracts, authority to sue on.... made by ......... must be authorized by council. members cannot be interested in. old, carried out...... rights to be reserved in.... elegibility of members for elective office. employees, appointment and compensation o discharge of ............. general powers and duties of ........ grades, changes in, recommended by.. improvements referred by council to. estimated cost of reported..... oath of office of members of ........ organization of ..... plans and specifications prepared by...... plats of additions approved by..... proceedings to be recorded........ to be published...... qualifications of members of...... quorum of ........... record of estimates to be kept..... regulations of ......... removal of members of........ repairs of streets and sidewalks.. reports to council, annual...... itemized of work done by board.. on progress of work....... sidewalks, built or repaired by..... street commissioner, appointment of......... removal of ....................... superintendent of buildings, appointment. supplies, etc., provided by council.... surveys, records, etc., to be delivered to term of office of members of..... vacancies, how filled.. work done by, when bids rejected. when contractors fail.......... SO 880 of oo oo oo of SON 136 137 137 37 135 SOOO OO OD 8.00 141 141 134 141 137 141 143 137 140 137 140 132 139 139 139 135 144 134 143 .... : . 8.0 S TO . • 137 BOARD OF REGISTRATION books for, provided by council.... charter elections, session preceding....... compensation of ... certified by clerk .... erasure of names made when............ correction of mistakes in...... general elections, sessions preceding ....... O 9009 9-10 130 INDEX TO CHARTER ................. ................. BOARD OF REGISTRATION-Continued PAGE members of, who are........... .... 17 first, in seventh ward......... in precincts ....... notice of meeting of..... when unnecessary to print names in.... quorum in city board of.... ......... ......... in ward board of...... re-registration, when made.. sessions of board for..... rules and regulations governing... .................. vacancies filled by council..... vooooooooow NVO .......... ................... IOI 174 175 175 175 174 102 ............... .......... IOI 69 *** SELLISY EIREREN ELEI 86 174 ... IOI BOARD OF REVIEW assessment rolls submitted to... certificate attached to.... ..... 102 corrected by .... ....... 102 presumption of validity.o chairman and clerk of...... compensation of ..... certified to by clerk........ members of ........ notice of raise of personal valuation... . IOI oaths administered by...... · 102 powers of ..... IOI public hearing by .... 102 quorum of ......... sessions of, time when held......... I01-103 special assessments, council meets as council confirms action of.... notice of meeting of........ time fixed for meeting of...... BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924 6 174 ... ............... PUDIIC Nical 18 DY ................... ........... ΙΟΙ IOI 175 174 175 174 174-175 1300 130f 130d 130d BOILERS nuisance, when declared a........ .................... regulations concerning .... . ......................... 92. BOND ..... 38_88 42 ... ...... 26 III 190 approval of, by council............ bank, as city depository........... city officers prescribed by council... neglect to give vacates office. same as township officers..... filing of, with city clerk......... report of failure of......... with city treasurer.... new, required when ...... treasurer's, for collecting taxes... 22 889*32 REAL *** 109 ... 100 ........ BONDS OF CITY authorization of legislature necessary............. of electors necessary ..... city hall, for construction of.................. 116-118 countersigned by city clerk...... garbage crematory, for construction of........120-122 29 ......... 134 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. . 42 ............... 29 TO2 .................. 175 130b 130c-g . ..LAH I04 ..... 52–53 o Rico CITY CLERK PAGE absence from council meeting of... accounts, audits all.... books of ....... filed with ..... report of to finance committee.. with treasurer ......... annual report of............ assessment rolls, certifies to general... certifies special district. duties relating to special.. ...77–79 makes copy of when.... ballot boxes to be kept by... to be returned to ........ bond of, filed with treasurer.. bonds, countersigns .. registers ........ of city officers filed with.. books, complete set of to be kept. have charge of city's.......... of ordinances ....... of proceedings of council.. of proceedings of board of public works. to be deposited with.... to be open to inspection..... calls, special meetings of council...... cemetery deeds, signed by...... ......... certificates by, amount to be raised by tax. to assessment rolls........ to special assessment rolls. to claims of certain officers...... to election returns........ to ordinances, passage of...... to ordinances, publication of to park appropriations ....... to pay rolls..... certified copies of ordinances........ of records ................. clerk of all boards and committees ....... of board of fire commissioners... of board of public works.. of board of park commissioners..... of board of review.. .... IOI of common council....... of special elections.... clerk hire, amount of... comptroller, duties of... contracts, deposited with.. signs ................... council proceedings, to present to mayor... countersigns, bonds and deeds. ................. deputy, may appoint..... ............. documents to be kept by.... duties of ............. .29–33 additional prescribed by council..., .... 32 same as township clerk...... ......29-11I 175 130g TXO & ......... ............. 147 141 118k 174 51–72 177 ................ .......... 51-54 54 51-190 INDEX TO CHARTER 135 SEC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 30 . 54 51 . . 158 51-81 . . . . 81 I18e . 62 87-91 44 ΙΙΟ 18 130d 9-10 . CITY CLERK—Continued PAGE election of ....... 23 estimates of expenses ... 32 fees for licenses......... for building permits... files, all records of city..... new official bonds, when... oaths of officers..... official bonds ....... open to inspection. park bills. receipts for fees and fines.... veto messages ............. vouchers of treasurer. vouchers of city. ...... jurors, to make list of....... licenses registered with.......... fees for ................ mandamus, when lies against...... notice of elections................. of first election in seventh ward.. of meeting of board of review... of registration ..... of special elections.... of special council meetings... that funds are exhausted... te officials, of appointment or election .... oath of office .. administered by office hours of..... provided with .. officials to report to.... ordinances, certified copies presented to mayor ... publication certified recorded in book.... pay rolls, made by....... poll lists, deposited with.. powers of (See duties) purchasing agent, of city records all, filed with..... arrangement of .... certified copies of.... registers licenses ....... report of, annual........ ................ appropriations to treasurer..... ..... bills audited to finance committee..... council proceedings ........ council proceedings to contain what detailed statement to council........ estimated expenses to council...... exhausted funds to council......... fees on building permits........... liabilities and resources to council. monthly, to council........ procecdings of board of review....... ..... ....................... . . . 130f 136 INDEX TO CHARTER 92 $8946853 ...................... ........................ 32 59 CITY CLERK—Continued PAGE SEC. veto to council..... report, neglect of officers failing to post bond. reports to from other officers.... from treasurer ............... salary of ......... seal of city kept by..... 29 sealer of weights and measures..... .. summons served on......... ............ .. 100 supervision over city property.. ......29-32 52-53 taxes, amount to be raised certified. 52–181 may bid off lands sold for... ..... 80 return of unpaid special....... ...... 104 179 vacancy, in office of .............. ...... 26 vouchers kept by ................ ........32-44 treasurer's filed with.... ......... 38 warrant for special assessments. ......... 104 warrants drawn on treasurer...... ........29–37–109 52–64-186 when to refuse to draw......... ........ 29 when void .............. ..... 29 52 132 89 53–81 65 179 CITY HALL local act relating to.... construction of ........ . .. . .. .. .. ... ..... ... ...... 11 ............................ 84 CITY LOCKUP imprisonment in vagrants sent to.. ..........55-58 ....... 62 90-97 105 CITY TREASURER (See Treasurer) ................ CLAIMS allowed by council. ...... ...........29–46–100-109 52–86–170-186 audited by city clerk.... certified to under oath....... examined by finance committee.. filed with clerk...........: for buildings destroyed.. 150 itemized before presentation..... 86 must be presented before suit. 100 reported to council............. 52 warrants for payment of...... 52 .............. ********* ............... 52 CLERK (See City Clerk) CLERK HIRE allowance for clerk and treasurer.... 20 19 CLERKS OF ELECTION appointment by whom.... duties of oath and qualifications of... paid how ..... ...................... 21 23 10 INDEX TO CHARTER 137 SEC. 100 COLLECTION OF TAXES city taxes ........ state, county and school taxes.......... special taxes. ....... ....... 108 181 183 179 S .. ...... .......................... 104 4728 6 COMBUSTIBLES inspection of places where kept.. regulation of storage of.. .. .. . .. . .. . .. . 151 153 126 COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS council are ...... ........ 73 COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE (See Police Commission) COMMITTEES appointment of ........ clerk of .................... duties of standing ...... president of council member of all....... 5 Tab E ............ 41 118d 52 ...... 130 130f ............ 130a 13og 167 130a 74 68 68 86 COMMON COUNCIL appointments, made by ........ appropriations, made how..... approval, by mayor of proceedings from overdrawn funds... for parks ....... how may provide for........ assessments local ..... confirm roll for ...... determine districts for ........ direct spreading on general rolls.. expense of health regulation proportion cost of ..... attendance attorney, city, legal advisor of... to attend all meetings of....... audit and acounts chargeable against city by. ballot boxes, to provide.......... board of review, when meet as.... procedure as ...... bonding, action necessary for ..... bonds, official, approval of ....... to require ................. when to require new....... bridges, building or vacating .... buildings, to buy, sell or erect... dangerous, to tear down..... may own outside city limits.. cemeteries, cared for by...... established by ...... protected by ....... regulations concerning ....... claims, audit ....... authority to settle all.....................100-109 certified to by board of public works.......... 86 certified to by park commission.............. 68 16 ........ 130e 130e 186 39 127 118 168 119 113 II2-119 II4-115 114 86 170-186 139 118€ 138 INDEX TO CHARTER . . . . . . . ....... SEC. 101 100 170 52 I00 51-72 80 ..... 156 I39 155 155 . .............. 31 134 145 147 43 51 161 134 ....... 118b ......... 66 60 118f COMMON COUNCIL-Continued PAGE for witness fees..... 60 must be presented to, before suit... provide funds for payment of... reported by clerk...... clerk of council....... may impose further duties on... pro tem, when appointed........ committees, aldermen appointed on.. standing to be provided for ........ compensation for buildings destroyed. change that fixed by public works.. for firemen .. for injuries to firemen................... for services .... confirmation of appointed city officers........ appointments of board of public works appointments of fire commissioners.... chief of fire department.... city clerk to fill vacancy..... deputy clerk ......... members of board of health.... members of board of public works... members of park commission..... treasurer's successor, constables, may impose duties on... control over records, etc..... over park expenses............. depository for city funds, to designate........ to approve sureties of........ to prescribe conditions of contract....... dry earth closets, may provide for.. .... 71 duties, same as imposed on township boards.... ..... III elections, ballot boxes provided for.. .. 20 polling places designated... results of, determined..... special, may order...... 19-27 special, notice of ...... .. 19 special, to vote money... tie vote, how settled..... finances, control over ... fire commissioners, consent to purchases by...... .. 91 funds, appropriations for prior to tax levy..... ΙΟΙ established by ordinance....... transfer of ........ ΙΟΙ garbage crematory, erection of.. general powers of.... 47-55 include those of township boards. highways, commissioners of..... investigations by ............. judge of election returns and qualifications of members ...... legislative authority vested in.... liquor dealers, power to tax... members of ............ compel attendance of..... 67 67 I21 I 90 .......... 22 26 13 39 8850655789489** TELAS *98* RRERT 27 IOI 172 172 172 ......... .. III .......... ........... 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 126 INDEX TO CHARTER PAGE 106 SEC. 181 ................... 68 118d ............. .... IOI 130h 174 174 1300 ... 181 ................................ . 30 . .... ....... ASSESSOR-Continued appropriations to be certified to.... for parks certified to....... benefits, when to assess......... board of review, chairman of... to submit rolls to......... certification of special rolls....... delivery of rolls to treasurer, when. duties of .... election of ...................... oath of .................ii.iii.. petit jurors, to make list of..... poll, to make list for taxes.... powers of ...... salary of ....... sewers, duties in assessing..... term of ...... warrant, force and effect of.. for general rolls . for special rolls ... 2 3 III III IIO ................. .... 190 80 131 . .. .. . ... .. . .. ... .... . ... . .. .. .. ... 10 1 173 ......... ......... 40 II2 • 24 -8 181–182 130g 141 118k .......................... 24 ATTORNEY, CITY advisor of board of public works... of board of park commissioners..... of city officers .... of common council...... appointment by mayor ........ when made .............. attendance at council meetings.. contracts, to approve forms for. duties and qualifications of... fines, to be sued for when......... oath of office........ removal of .... salary of ........ term of ........ .................... ........... 68–77 ...... 136 ......... ................................... 40 AUCTIONEERS regulation of by council...... AUCTIONS mock regulation of by council....... ......... 48 .......47-55 BALLOT BOXES council to provide...... ........ 20 • 21 BALLOTS candidates' names to be on....... separate boxes, when to put in...... term, of office designated on, when.. votes to be given by, at elections...... to be put in proper box... 21 21 21 21 22 21 21 21 INDEX TO CHARTER 129 SEC. 137 137 137 141 139 139 139 140 53–141 138 138 B66 ............. . 137 8 8 8 o o o o o 143 144 138 143 139 141 136 136 137 137 37 135 137 I30 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS—Continued PAGE bids, advertisement for... bond furnished with. reported to council...... chief of police at service of... city engineer, appointed by...... assistants of, approved by... claims audited and certified to... classification of work by......... clerk of ....... contracts, authority to sue on........ made by ........ must be authorized by council. members cannot be interested in old, carried out...., rights to be reserved in.... elegibility of members for elective office... employees, appointment and compensation of discharge of ....... general powers and duties of....... grades, changes in, recommended by.. improvements referred by council to... estimated cost of reported.. oath of office of members of...... organization of ............... plans and specifications prepared by.... plats of additions approved by.. proceedings to be recorded... to be published........ qualifications of members of.. quorum of .......... record of estimates to be kept..... regulations of .... removal of members of....... repairs of streets and sidewalks........ reports to council, annual..... itemized of work done by board. on progress of work........... sidewalks, built or repaired by..... street commissioner, appointment of...... removal of .......................... superintendent of buildings, appointment. supplies, etc., provided by council... surveys, records, etc., to be delivered to. term of office of members of......... vacancies, how filled.............. work done by, when bids rejected..... when contractors fail.. BOARD OF REGISTRATION books for, provided by council... charter elections, session preceding............. compensation of ...... certified by clerk ....... erasure of names made when...... .............18–19 correction of mistakes in......... general elections, sessions preceding .............. 18 141 141 134 141 137 141 143 ................... 137 140 137 o o o 608 88 & Scott 140 132 139 139 1 39 135 144 13+ 143 137 138 ...... -10 134 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 72 e............. easure .................... 53 ..... 02 52 175 130b 130c-g .. .. ................... 20 ......................... ::: ........ ks.... 141 81 CITY CLERK PAGE absence from council meeting of accounts, audits all.... books of .......... filed with ...... report of to finance committee with treasurer ..... annual report of......... assessment rolls, certifies to general... certifies special district...... 76 duties relating to special.. -79 makes copy of when..... ballot boxes to be kept by....... to be returned to ..... ................... bond of, filed with treasurer..... bonds, countersigns .. registers ....... of city officers filed with. books, complete set of to be kept. ...............29-32 have charge of city's..... of ordinances ...................... of proceedings of council..... of proceedings of board of public works to be deposited with.... to be open to inspection..... calls, special meetings of council. ............. cemetery deeds, signed by.... ........ certificates by, amount to be raised by tax to assessment rolls......... to special assessment rolls... to claims of certain officers.... to election returns..... to ordinances, passage of...... to ordinances, publication of... to park appropriations to pay rolls........ ...................... certified copies of ordinances. of records .............. clerk of all boards and committees.. of board of fire commissioners.... of board of public works........... of board of park commissioners of board of review...... of common council.. .....29-42 of special elections...... clerk hire, amount of.... comptroller, duties of.... contracts, deposited with......... signs ...... council proceedings, to present to mayor.. countersigns, bonds and deeds......... deputy, may appoint.... documents to be kept by..... ............... duties of ........ ..........29-33 additional prescribed by council....... ..... 32 same as township clerk....... ...........29-III 175 I30g 26 ............. 118d es............. 53 147 141 118k 174 51–72 70 ....................... IOI ....... ........................ 2 51-54 54 51–190 INDEX TO CHARTER 135 SEC. ....... 23 30 54 .. 20 51 158 51-81 37 38 81 118 62 .......... ......... IIO 13od ................. 9-10 ................. CITY CLERK—Continued PAGE election of ..... estimates of expenses i.. ...... 32 fees for licenses..... for building permits.... files, all records of city... new official bonds, when.... oaths of officers... official bonds ...... open to inspection....... park bills ......... receipts for fees and fines.. veto messages ..... vouchers of treasurer... vouchers of city... jurors, to make list of.. licenses registered with.. fees for ....... .............. mandamus, when lies against. notice of elections..... ..... of first election in seventh ward.... of meeting of board of review..... of registration ........... of special elections .......... of special council meetings.. that funds are exhausted.... to officials, of appointment or election. oath of office ..., administered by ...... office hours of... provided with .... officials to report to..... ordinances, certified copies of. presented to mayor..... publication certified .... recorded in book....... pay rolls, made by..... poll lists, deposited with... powers of (See duties) purchasing agent, of city. records all, filed with..... arrangement of ............... certified copies of............. registers licenses ................... report of, annual.......... appropriations to treasurer....... bills audited to finance committee. council proceedings ......... council proceedings to contain what. detailed statement to council estimated expenses to council.. exhausted funds to council........ fees on building permits.. liabilities and resources to council.. monthly, to council...... procecdings of board of review....... ...... 130f 136 INDEX TO CHARTER ...................... . . .. ... . .. . 51 . 54 ....... . ............ CITY CLERK—Continued PAGE SEC. veto to council...... report, neglect of officers failing to post bond. reports to from other officers.. from treasurer ..... salary of .......... seal of city kept by...... sealer of weights and measures..... summons served on........... 100 supervision over city property...... ...29–32 52-53 taxes, amount to be raised certified.. ......29-106 52–181 may bid off lands sold for... ....... 80 132 return of unpaid special....... ...... 104 179 vacancy, in office of..... 43 vouchers kept by ..... ................32–44 53-81 treasurer's filed with. 1................ .......... 38 warrant for special assessments. ............ 104 179 warrants drawn on treasurer................29–37–109 52–64–186 when to refuse to draw.. . 29 when void ... 26 ......... 099 m2 MA388 38**09"** Graders 338233 *** permettent en 65 CITY HALL local act relating to..... construction of ..... . .. . . ... .. . .. .. .. . ... . ....... 116 ... . .. ......... 84 136 CITY LOCKUP imprisonment in ........ ..........55-58 vagrants sent to................................. 62 90-97 105 CITY TREASURER (See Treasurer) ............ CLAIMS allowed by council. ..... .............. 29–46–100–109 52–86–170-186 audited by city clerk..... certified to under oath... examined by finance committee.. filed with clerk........ for buildings destroyed. ....... itemized before presentation.... must be presented before suit.... reported to council............. warrants for payment of...... ................. 48 48.389 2. CLERK (See City Clerk) CLERK HIRE allowance for clerk and treasurer... ........ 40 CLERKS OF ELECTION appointment by whom.... duties of .. oath and qualifications of ........ paid how .. ................... ........................ INDEX TO CHARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 9 .............................. ............................ 106 90-97 C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 .......................... II8i DEBT contracted only after vote of electors............. 109 DEEDS signed by clerk........ DEFAULTER ineligible to office.... votes for void..... · vacates office ........ DELINQUENT TAXES collected how ...... DEPUTY CLERK clerk appoints ........ DESERTION ? wives and children..... ........ 63 DETROIT HOUSE OF CORRECTION sentences to .. .............55-58 DISORDERLY HOUSES restrained by ordinance.. DISORDERLY PERSONS arrest by chief of police.. power to . parks, found in .. who is deemed. DISTURBANCES meetings ....... streets .... DITCHES encumbering of .. DOGS fights, power to prevent.. running at large...................... taxes on DONATIONS parks, for use of....... DRAINS assessments for ....... 1.72 connecting with sewer...... fees for ......... construction of, ordered... expense of a lien.... encumbering .............. establishment of ...... low lands, council to provide for....... special tax for.... ordinance for control of. provisions for ................................... regulation of .. 106 Streets ......................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 118f 72 ............................. 124-130 122 123 I21 I 20 88 I20 88-167 .. 71 ............................ .................... 125 130 INDEX TO CHARTER 17 ........... .......... BS少BBS四四四四 ​VOOOOOOo Ö COW NVO .... .................. IOI 174 175 175 175 174 .......... ......... IOI ...... .................... ........... IOI ...................... BOARD OF REGISTRATION–Continued PAGE members of, who are..... first, in seventh ward.... in precincts ........ notice of meeting of....... when unnecessary to print names in.. quorum in city board of..... in ward board of.... re-registration, when made....... sessions of board for........... rules and regulations governing .. vacancies filled by council.......... BOARD OF REVIEW assessment rolls submitted to.. IOI certificate attached to....... 102 corrected by .... 102 presumption of validity.of.. ...... 102 chairman and clerk of....... compensation of ..... certified to by clerk...... members of ........ ......... IOI notice of raise of personal valua .... IOI oaths administered by..... ..... 102 powers of ............. public hearing by ..., 102 quorum of ....... ............ IOI sessions of, time when held........ ...IOI-103 special assessments, council meets as... council confirms action of... notice of meeting of........ time fixed for meeting of... BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS 1923-1924 6 BOILERS nuisance, when declared a........ ........ regulations concerning ..... ........................ BOND approval of, by council........ bank, as city depository......... city officers prescribed by council.. neglect to give vacates office.. same as township officers..... filing of, with city clerk..... report of failure of....... with city treasurer..... new, required when ........ treasurer's, for collecting taxes.... BONDS OF CITY authorization of legislature necessary... .. 109 of electors necessary ....... .. 109 city hall, for construction of..................IIÓ-118 countersigned by city clerk...................... 29 garbage crematory, for construction of ........120-122 174 174 175 174 175 174 174-175 130e 130f 1300 130d ...... 26 ............ ................... INDEX TO CHARTER 131 SEC. 186 PAGE ........109 .... 32 .. 112 .. ... ...... ....... 115 I I ..................118-120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 9 BONDS OF CITY—Continued pavements, for construction of... registered by city clerk... sewers, for construction of.. university hospital, in aid of... waterworks, purchase of .... BONFIRES regulation of ......... BOOKS AND PAPERS alteration of, or destruction punished.... delivery of to successors in office.. by city engineer.... deposited with city clerk.......... inspection, open to, by mayor.... open to, by any citizen...... BOUNDARIES City ................ wards 14 136 .................... ......... 126 88 127 127 68 171 172–181 118d 177 181 103 BOWLING ALLEYS regulation and licensing of......... BRIDGES construction of by board of public works. control of, by council....... encumbering or fast driving over.... new, opening of...... vacating, by council. BUDGET, ANNUAL appropriations for, limit of..., ....... 10 made when ...... 101-107 for parks to be included....... when made by electors... certified to assessor by clerk.. 106 city hall bonds due included in.. 116 garbage crematory bonds due, included in. I 20 paving bonds due included in.. 109 waterworks bonds due included in.............. 118 BUILDINGS certificate that they are properly built ............. 95 dangerous, council's power over.. destruction of, to check fires......... erection or purchase of by city... .65–7. fire limits, power to establish. .... -92 inspection of, by fire wardens....... while being built.. line of, provisions for ........ nuisance when declared a...... numbering of ............ ...... park buildings, control over..... permits for erection of..... BURIAL GROUNDS (See Cemeteries) ......... 109 186 159 168 .......... .... 99 93 .. 156 ........ 92 118-119 88–154 151 159 88 154 88 ......... 118h 158 134 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. ............. 42 72 ............. 175 130b 130c-g ..... ....... 20 T 52–53 72 141 81 . . 81 . . . . . . CITY CLERK PAGE absence from council meeting of........ accounts, audits all... books of ..................... filed with ........... report of to finance committee. ...... with treasurer ..., annual report of....... ............ ........ assessment rolls, certifies to general. certifies special district. 76 duties relating to special ..77-79 makes copy of when.. .... 104 ballot boxes to be kept by..... to be returned to .......... bond of, filed with treasurer.. bonds, countersigns ........... registers ...... of city officers filed with.... ................ books, complete set of to be kept. have charge of city's... of ordinances .... of proceedings of council.... of proceedings of board of public works to be deposited with.... to be open to inspection.... calls, special meetings of council. cemetery deeds, signed by......... certificates by, amount to be raised by ta tax......... to assessment rolls......... to special assessment rolls... to claims of certain officers.... ............. to election returns...... to ordinances, passage of..... to ordinances, publication of.. to park appropriations ........ to pay rolls.................... certified copies of ordinances...... of records ....... clerk of all boards and committees es.... of board of fire commissioners.... of board of public works. ....... of board of park commissioners... of board of review..... ........ IOI of common council... of special elections... 103 clerk hire, amount of....., comptroller, duties of.... ...... contracts, deposited with.... signs ................ council proceedings, to present to mayor... countersigns, bonds and deeds ....... deputy, may appoint........ documents to be kept by..... duties of ...........:;:;.. .....29–33 additional prescribed by council. ......... ........ 32 same as township clerk....................29-11I I81 175 130g 118d .................. 51 53 147 141 118k 174 51-72 177 ................ 103 : : : . 51-54 54 51-190 INDEX TO CHARTER 135 PAGE ..... 23 32 SEC. 30 54 51 158 29 51-81 ............ 81 118e 87–91 ... 44 ... I10 187 51 51 52 19 15 13od 18-19 9-10 CITY CLERK—Continued election of ....... estimates of expenses ......... fees for licenses.......... for building permits.. files, all records of city....... new official bonds, when....... oaths of officers.... official bonds ...... open to inspection..... park bills ....... receipts for fees and fines.. ........ veto messages ............... vouchers of treasurer.. vouchers of city......... jurors, to make list of. licenses registered with.... fees for ................ mandamus, when lies against.......... notice of elections...... of first election in seventh ward........ of meeting of board of review. .... of registration ......... of special elections....... of special council meetings... that. funds are exhausted..... to officials, of appointment or election. oath of office ..... administered by ... office hours of........ provided with .... officials to report to.... ordinances, certified copies of. presented to mayor.... publication certified . recorded in book.... pay rolls, made by.......... poll lists, deposited with... powers of (See duties ) purchasing agent, of city. records all, filed with.. arrangement of .. certified copies of... registers licenses ..... report of, annual...... appropriations to treasurer......... bills audited to finance committee..... council proceedings ....... council proceedings to contain what..... detailed statement to council.. estimated expenses to council... exhausted funds to council.. fees on building permits......... liabilities and resources to council. monthly, to council.................. procecdings of board of review.. ..... 130f 136 INDEX TO CHARTER ............... ........................... CITY CLERK—Continued PAGE SEC. veto to council..... 92 report, neglect of officers failing to post bond. 29 reports to from other officers.... from treasurer ............. salary of seal of city kept by..... sealer of weights and measures... summons served on............. ......... 59 100 supervision over city property.... 52–53 taxes, amount to be raised certified.. 29–106 52–181 may bid off lands sold for return of unpaid special..... 104 179 vacancy, in office of.... vouchers kept by .................... .....32-44 53–81 treasurer's filed with.... ....... 38 65 warrant for special assessments. ...... 104 179 warrants drawn on treasurer.............. .29–37–109 52-64-186 when to refuse to draw. ........... 29 when void ....... ********* 789* • 29-32 80 132 .................... 26 43 .............. 104 52 ................................ CITY HALL local act relating to.... construction of .... ......... 116 84 136 CITY LOCKUP imprisonment in vagrants sent to........ .. .. . .. .. . .. .. . . .. .. . .. .. . .. .........55-58 ........ 62 90-97 105 . ................. CITY TREASURER (See Treasurer) ce........ CLAIMS allowed by council. .....................29–46–100-109 52–86–170-186 audited by city clerk..... certified to under oath.... .................. examined by finance committee filed with clerk......... for buildings destroyed. ..... itemized before presentation.... 86 must be presented before suit.... 100 reported to council............. warrants for payment of..... 150 ............... 52 CLERK (See City Clerk) CLERK HIRE allowance for clerk and treasurer..... CLERKS OF ELECTION appointment by whom.... duties of ..... ...................... oath and qualifications of. paid how . 19 23 INDEX TO CHARTER 137 SEC. 181 183 179 151 153 COLLECTION OF TAXES PAGE city taxes ..... ............... ... 106 state, county and school taxes... 108 special taxes ..., .... 104 COMBUSTIBLES inspection of places where kept....... regulation of storage of......... COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS council are .... ......... 73 COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE (See Police Commission) COMMITTEES appointment of ... clerk of ....... duties of standing ...... president of council member of all....... 126 ............................... 118d ...................... 52 130 ....................... 130f ......... 130a 130g 167 130a ......................... 68 86 16 COMMON COUNCIL appointments, made by......... appropriations, made how...... approval, by mayor of proceedings of.. from overdrawn funds... for parks .....:::::' rni how may provide for... assessments local ......... confirm roll for ................ determine districts for ........ direct spreading on general rolls.. expense of health regulation.. proportion cost of ..... attendance ...... attorney, city, legal advisor of...... to attend all meetings of....., audit and acounts chargeable against city by. ballot boxes, to provide........ board of review, when meet as...... procedure as .............. bonding, action necessary for... bonds, official, approval of ...... to require ..... when to require new......... bridges, building or vacating ....... .......... buildings, to buy, sell or erect.. dangerous, to tear down..... may own outside city limits.. cemeteries, cared for by....... established by ...... protected by ... regulations concerning ........ claims, audit ....................... ......... authority to settle all........ certified to by board of public works.......... certified to by park commission.............. 130e 186 1300 ................... .................. 127 118 168 ........ .. 119 113 112-119 114-115 114 .............. ...... 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100-109 170-186 139 118 138 INDEX TO CHARTER 60 SEC. 101 100 170 TO 52 ................ 134 145 147 iбi 134 1181 118f COMMON COUNCIL-Continued PAGE for witness fees.... must be presented to, before suit.. provide funds for payment of... reported by clerk....... clerk of council.......... may impose further duties on... pro tem, when appointed....... committees, aldermen appointed on.. standing to be provided for....... compensation for buildings destroyed.... change that fixed by public works for firemen ......... for injuries to firemen....... for services .... confirmation of appointed city officers.. appointments of board of public works appointments of fire commissioners..... chief of fire department... city clerk to fill vacancy.......... deputy clerk ................ members of board of health... ........ members of board of public works. members of park commission. ........ treasurer's successor ........ constables, may impose duties on...... control over records, etc............. over park expenses.............. depository for city funds, to designate.. to approve sureties of ......, to prescribe conditions of contract.... dry earth closets, may provide for........ duties, same as imposed on township boards elections, ballot boxes provided for. polling places designated........ results of, determined..... special, may order...... -27 special, notice of ........ special, to vote money..... 100 tie vote, how settled..... finances, control over ....... fire commissioners, consent to purchases by. funds, appropriations for prior to tax levy.. ........ IOI established by ordinance. .... transfer of ........ .......... IOI garbage crematory, erection of...... i.... ..... 120 general powers of......... include those of township boards. highways, commissioners of.. investigations by ......... judge of election returns and qualifications of members ....... • 42 legislative authority vested in... .. 41 liquor dealers, power to tax.... . 100 members of ............ . 41 compel attendance of... le...... 67 I21 190 16 ............ I2 26 13-43 14 ............. 19 186 ........ IOI .......... ........... III . 42 140 INDEX TO CHARTER 51 of elem ............ & ESSE && ..... ................ ................. coutumes Cow COMMON COUNCIL-Continued PAGE SEC omnibuses, regulation of..... ..... 53 poor persons and paupers, provision of their care by....... ........ 54 railroad crossings and use of railroad engines. 49–54 reservoirs, regulation of..... sextons ........... ......... 51 sidewalks, streets, alleys, bridges, use of....49-50 slaughter houses, markets, stables, location of sports, regulation of........ street lighting, regulation of...... street numbers, regulation of...... taxi cabs, regulation of............ vice, prevention of............. watchmen, fines and duties of....... water supply, regulation of ...... weights and measures, regulation of... wells, regulation of...... precincts, divide wards into.... provide election inspectors for... provide registration books for.. president acting, appointed when.. ..... proceedings, to be published.. what to contain..... property, control over .......... public improvements, authorize contracts for.. 137 bids reported to...... 137 estimate of cost......... 137 plans to be approved... 137 referred to board of works 137 quorum of ..... real estate, may acquire. ........ 118 recommendations of mayor to.. of clerk to.................. registration to designate places for.. to fill vacancies on board.. removal of elective officers..... charges to be filed......... consent to removal appointive officers. investigation to be had.... 84-85 members board of public works... 143 officers not filing bonds..... 42 officers not filing new bonds....... their own appointees...... reports to, board of public works 140 claims against city.......... clerk's detailed statement.. clerk's monthly ..... estimates by park board.. fines by justices.... 104 liabilities by clerk... licenses granted ... marshal's ....... overdrawn funds .... treasurer's annual ....... treasurer's monthly ... the post od ST ............ .................. to................. .......... S . .. . .. . 39 .......... 31 52 ................ U18 O co 52 ........................ ......................... INDEX TO CHARTER 141 ........... I 123 0..................... 124 ............... COMMON COUNCIL-Continued PAGE SEC. resignations to be made to..... rules of proceedure, to make....... salaries, to allow......... may increase when.... members of board of health. police, fixed by.......... III seal of city, may alter ........... sewers and drains, certify to amount to be levied.. fees for connecting wit local act relating to......... may construct ........ 121 ordinance relating to... 125 power over ........ 120 special assessment for.... sidewalks, to repair or build. 132 spread tax for........ 132 streets, power over ..... 126 opening or vacating ... 127-128 sprinkling, to levy tax for storm sewers, to pass on.... 125a supervision of property by.... taxes, certify to assessor.. special, how levied...... 179 tax levy, action necessary to increase.. limit of ........ 171 veto of mayor ........................ passing over veto.............. .. 47 vote, necessary to pass resolution..... . 42 74 necessary to pass over veto......... 87-91 reconsidered at special meeting .......... transfer of funds.. ......... IOI 172 two-thirds required ... ..42–45–56 74-83–91 water courses, changing.........................74-75 127–128 ........ 130h 52 58 ................... ..... 103 77 47 87 ..47-56 ... 42 74 155 COMPENSATION firemen ........: ;'. officers designated in charter. appointed by council........ park employees .... policemen 118g III COMPLAINTS violation of ordinances.. COMPTROLLER clerk is for city. . . .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. . .. . CONDEMNATION land for public use... CONSTABLES duties of election of .... fees of ........ marshal may act as when....... oath of office..... .......... ...... 35 23 .........35-40 .................................. ........ 23 142 INDEX TO CHARTER PAGE SEC. ho CONSTABLES-Continued obey orders of mayor, etc..... powers of ..... removal of ............ may serve process under ordinances.. serve warrants .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... . CONTINGENT FUND fees paid into...... interest paid into.... ............................. ....... 137 144 138 CONTRACTS attorney to approve form of. ........ board of public works make when. clerk signs .............. keeps ....... council authorizes .... lighting of streets... old, carried out by board.. prosecution for breach of. water, may be made for.. work under, suspended....... CORPORATE NAME city's ......... COSTS double allowed city officers......... ......... III COUNCIL (See Common Council) COUNTERSIGNS clerk, shall bonds, debts and transfers............ 29 189 52 178 ............................. 104 COUNTY TAXES levied and collected ....... CROSSWALKS encumbering of ...... powers of board of works relative to........ CRYING OF GOODS ordinances may regulate............. ........ CULVERTS assessments for ..... board of works has charge of.................... 84 130 136 CURBSTONES assessments for ....... ............... 130 D DAMAGES buildings destroyed at fires........ sidewalks defective ................... street openings ... 146 INDEX TO CHARTER PAGE FENCES removal of ........ in street opening cases........ SEC. 168 128 . . . . . . 99 . . . y a 144 FIELD NOTES property of city..... FINANCE council supervision over.. FINANCE COMMITTEE examine clerk's audit of bills. ...... 100 170 .......... S I ...... ...... FINES buildings not erected on established line.... chief of police collects ......... defacing or mutilating records ........ member of council, misdemeanor of...... non-attendance at council meetings.. ordinances, health, breach of... violation of ... violation of, go into city treasury...... railroad employees ... report of, to city council.. suit for ...... treasurer, all to be paid to.. TOO 90 104 ........................... X 104 . .. . .. .. .. . .. . 103 104 FIREARMS regulation of .. . . .. . .. .. . ... .. . ....... . .. .. oo FIRE COMPANIES organization of ....... i.... 90 146 FIRE COMMISSIONERS (See Board of Fire Commissioners) FIRE DEPARTMENT (See Board of Fire Commissioners) FIRE ENGINES chief of fire department in charge of .............. 149 right of way, have. ............................. 93 157 rules for care of...... 146 FIRE LIMITS buildings in ........ 94 158 establishment of ........... ..........47-92 88–152 FIRES investigation into cause... removal of dangerous buildings...... buildings to check. FIREMEN appointment of .. compensation of ..... ........... exempt from jury duty..... 155 injuries to ..................................... 155 FIRE WARDENS appointment and duties of....... ....... 92 IA 155 y....................... IS1 INDEX TO CHARTER 147 FISCAL YEAR when terminates ....... PAGE .......... SEC. 170 ........ 100 ........................... 51 ......... 55 FISH putrid ................... regulation of sale of..... FLAGMEN required, when may be... FORFEITURES violation of ordinances.. FOUNTAINS construction of ........ FOWLS fees for impounding..... impounding of ... ces .. . .. . .. .. . .. ..... . .. . .. .. . 136 ............................ 117 ............................. 116 FRUITS regulation of sale of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 .......... 172 52 172 FUNDS amount in each determined when....... clerk reports credited to...... to show condition of on his books... estimates needed funds. condition of, report on... designated by ordinance..... exhausted, procedure when... ........... taxes, credited to....... ................. transfer of ...................... treasurer keeps account with all. warrants designate particular.. ..... drawn on particular........ void, drawn on exhausted. .... 29 52 52 72 . . ... .. . ... . FURNACES examination of ....... .......... ....... 92 1'51 . 9 88 GAMING regulation of ....... ............ ...... 48 GARBAGE CREMATORY authorization for building of..................120–122 GAS LIGHT authorization for city use (local act No. 376).... 115 II GEESE fees for impounding.... impounding of ..... running at large........ .......................... ................................ 116 ... 50 152 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 153 ........................ 92 ........ 9 I 88–171 LIGHTS regulations of use of....... LIMITS city LIQUORS regulation of sale of.... of impure or adulterated. ....... LOCKUP (See City Lockup) LOW GROUNDS drainage of ....... LUMBER YARDS location of ....., ..........47–100 ....... 51 ...... 53 M ........................ . . . . . . 145 161 . MANDAMUS city clerk, when lies against......... ........29 MARKETS location of ....... regulation of ............................. owned, may be by city.............. MARSHALL (See Chief of Police) MAYOR absence or disability of........ appointments by ...... made when ...... city clerk to fill vacancy....... health officer ..... inspectors of election in precincts...... marshal ........ members of board of fire commissioners members of board of health..... members of board of park commissioners members of board of public works new city treasurer when.... patrolmen ............................ temporary policemen .... vacancy board of public works.. vacancies in office..... approval of council proceedings...... of ordinances ...... attorney, city, require legal duties of.... authenticates record book of ordinances. calls special meetings of council....... chief of police, consents to leaving city..... designates acting ........ subject to direction of........... conservator of the peace, is a........ constable, to obey orders of.... duties of ...... by ordinance . election of ..... 118b 134 61-107 61-107 ................ ..... ....... .............. ............... INDEX TO CHARTER 155 SEC. ........................ . III ........................ 41 27 ....................... 25 37 190 ........... ............. 41 ............ 42 ....................... 44-45 · 43 OFFICERS—Continued PAGE compensation of • 40 how increased ...... 40 costs, double, when may recover.... defaulter, not eligible.... vacates office ............. elected, who deemed to be......... oath of office of....... powers of township officers have...... III qualifications required ... removal from city or ward vacates office..... appointive or elective...... officers created by ordinance for not filing new bonds ..... does not exonerate from liability.... salaries of ....... vacate, by being a defaulter... by neglecting to file oath or bond..... OFFICES creation of ... vacancy, by becoming a non-resident...... by not taking oath... by resignation ..... how filled ............................ OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER proceedings of council published in........ of board of public works in............ OILS regulation of storage of.......... OMNIBUSES regulation and licensing of......... ........ 53 OPENING streets and alleys............. .........74-75 ORDERS drawn on treasurer...... ......... 109 ORDINANCES actions against city under...... actions, choice of for enforcing.. amending, must re-enact whole section.... approval of ......... assessments, collecting special............ attendance at council meetings, to compel bonds may be required by....... paving, issue of........ burials, regulation or removal of bodies... cemeteries, regarding ..... preservation of ....... chief of police to enforce.......... closets, dry earth, relating to...... complaints under, made by police...... constables may serve papers........ prescribing duties of... 75 141 153 88 127–128 186 100 103 93 180 II2 114 115 I21 ΙΙΟ 60 156 INDEX TO CHARTER 08 165 ...................... ........... 103 ............ 153 150 40 .......... ...................... .... IOI ONN ................ ...... ............. ......................... ...... ......... ORDINANCES—Continued PAGE SEC. conviction under ..... 98 declaration in assumpsit for fines under. бI 103 diseases, reporting malignant............ drains, relating to.... .72–73 122-125 drunkards, habitual, relating to..... .. 62 105 duration of ......... .... III 191 effect, time of taking........ .. 55 enforcement of ...... ..58-64 97-110 expenses arising under ....... 99 fines imposed by, may be collected in assumpsit... for violation of, paid to city.. 104 fires, prevention of........ regarding disobedience of orders at... fire department, relating to........ fire limits, establishing .... funds, designating general..... general powers, to enact......... health, preservation of......... imprisonment under, expense of.. where, may be directed... jail, use of under.... judicial notice of..... jury trial under.... lighting streets ...... mayor, approval of... prescribing new duties for ........ necessary to carry out powers or duties offices, creating new... old, remain in force....... .......... III Ι9Ι parks, relating to ... ...69-71 1181–119 paving, relating to.......... 126 penalties for violation of. ......... 90 police, complaints for violation made by... IIO force, providing for...... proof of, what constitutes in court...... prosecutions before justices... under ...... publication of ... public buildings, relating to....... 119 punishment under ... records intrusted to custody of certain officers record, book of..... repealed, not revived without repassing.... revival of repeal. .... ..... style of ............. vagrants, relating to........ 105 veto of, by mayor... passage over veto...... vote on, by yeas and nays. required to pass.......... required to pass over veto.. work house, relating to... I19 ......... 43 ...... ....... 31 857B888N5383185 8 588%898753358756859 ....... ................... . . . .............. . ............. . . . . S................... . 91 . to.. . .. . .. . .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . .. INDEX TO CHARTER 157 .................... 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 ....... 109 ....... 73 Р PARKS PAGE SEC. acquired by city..... 118 appropriation for ... 118d bequests for ....... I18f board of park commissioners in charge of..... 118a control, board have exclusive over improvements 118h council, over ..... police, over ........................ 119 donations for ........ 118f expenses of 118 ordinances relating to.... 118i reports on ...... 118j rules for ...... 118i PARK COMMISSIONERS (See Board of Park Commissioners) PARK FUND establishment of ................. ...... 68 118e PATROLMEN (See Policemen) PAUPERS sent into city....... PAVING bonds for ........ streets .............. assessing expense of........ PAY ROLLS certified by clerk.. PAWNBROKERAGE regulation and licensing of... PEACE ordinance to preserve......... PEDDLERS regulation and licensing of. PENALTIES failure to perform duty...... neglect to turn over books .... to execute warrants.... ...... ordinances prescribe .... paid into city treasury........ 104 weights and measures, using false.. 88 PERJURY what deemed .......... 188 PERMITS building ......................... PERSONAL PROPERTY · power to use, hold or dispose of.................. PEST HOUSES established and maintained.......................71-96 119–162 fines to go to........ ........ 98 165 ...... ...... ......... 9 158 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 127 130a 130h 124 127 ...................... 74 14 107 119 108 .......................... ..... ..... ................................ . 61 ................................ PETITIONS PAGE opening streets and alleys... paving streets and alleys.. street sprinkling, for.......... storm sewers for .......... vacating streets and alleys..... PHYSICIANS infectious diseases, to certify to...... to report .............. PLATS engineers, belong to city...... submitted to board before recording ........ POLICE maintained and regulated....... provided for by council......... regulations beyond city limits.......... may be provided by council........ POLICE COMMISSION appointed by ...... chief of police, appointed by. compensation of . number powers of .... qualifications .. removal of ...... report of ................ term of office....................... POLICEMEN arrests upon view, when... appointment of, by mayor ...... compensation of ...... complaints, made by ........... duties of, at fires...... council may prescribe....... under charter ..... marshal to have direction of... when designated as acting... powers of ............. same as constable.................... removal of ........ special, appointed by mayor..... suspension of ....... .................. 65 temporary, appointed by mayor ................. POLICE STATIONS construction of ........... ......... POLL LISTS elections, kept at..... POLL TAX power to impose.. POLLING PLACES designated by council........ open when ....... 61 ......................... IIO 61-107 III 110 150 108 ................ 110 ......... .................... 109 63 108-110 110 83–111 61-107 III 108 ICINOval 01 ............................ ....45-65 ІЗІ S C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................... 12 ........................... 17 INDEX TO CHARTER ..... 127 181–183 88-116 88 88–116 .................. POOR PAGE commissioners, power to establish.. 54 overseer of, power to establish.... protection and care of.... PORTERS regulation and licensing of...................... POSTING notices of elections ...... of elections to increase taxes...... ......... 103 in street opening cases.......... 74 of tax collection.........................106-108 POULTRY running at large...............................47–66 sale of unwholesome............................ 45 POUNDS stablishment and regulation of..................47–66 POUND MASTERS appointment and duties of....... fees of, regulated by council....... PRECINCTS division of ward into................. inspectors of election in..... registration and election in...... PRESIDENT OF COMMON COUNCIL absence of .......... ........... 41 bondsman or surety, cannot be.. committees appoints .... member of all...... council, calls special meetings of.. presides over ... preserves order in... member of .................. election of ................... from 1889-1923 ...... ineligible to paid appointive office mayor, when acting.. oath of office..... vacancy in office......... votes on all questions.... PRIVIES ordinance relative to.... ......... 98 regulation of .............. .......49-54 PROPERTY control of council over... ............. 43 rights remain in city... PROSTITUTES punishment of PROVISIONS regulation of sale of.... ....... ....... .... 44 41 .. 41 42 41 ...................... 41 41 • .. 23 ........... 5 26 ....................... . 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S U бо INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 136 118 ......................... sale, etc............. 126 118 141 PUBLIC BUILDINGS construction of ... power of council over, sale, etc............ PUBLIC GROUNDS control of by council.... power of council over, sale, etc....... (See Parks) PUBLICATION board of public works proceedings... council, proceedings of ......... election notices ...... order to tear down buildings.. ordinances ....... treasurer's report ..... PUBLIC HEALTH (See Board of Public Health) PUMPS establishment of public............... ......... PURCHASES materials, etc., by clerk........ 75 ............ ..... ..... 52 ..... e ............................. n............................ QUALIFICATIONS electors ..... inspectors of election. officers .......................... QUORUM board of registration, city... in wards ...................... board of review .....: board of public works........... council ..................... ...................... D al 01 CVIEW ......................... 174 ............. 141 74 50 R RACING prevented in streets........... ....... RAILROADS flagmen may be required....... lights may be required at crossings........ regulation of by council. ......... of speed of trains................. of stations .................... reports infectious diseases...... routes and grades determined.... street crossing grades fixed... REAL ESTATE acquired by city.............. control of ........... held, purchased or conveyed... sale, vote necessary for........ taxation of B Girone C #tone ................................... INDEX TO CHARTER ....... ........... 14 • 124 121-130 .. 71 120 136 121 123 I 20 125 72 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 88 SEAL PAGE city, may have and alter.. corporate, city clerk to keep.. 29 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES city clerk to be.. ......... duties prescribed by council..... SEWERS act of legislature authorizing........ .... II2 assessment for .... ... 114 expense defrayed by special...... ............... 72 local, for ...........: .....71-75 construction of, under special act.... 112-114 council's power ... board of public works to direct... drains, private connected with... charges for connecting with.... private property taken for...... regulation and protection of...... SEXTONS regulations relating to ......... .............. SHADE TREES control over by council....... board of park commissioners has exclusive..... trimming and care of........ ...... SHERIFF custody of .... SHOPS location of ..................................... SIDEWALKS assessment expense of building or repairing ....... local for .... construction or repair of.... failure to ...... damages for defective. ....... encumbering of, to prevent.. grade to be established by council. obstructions removed .......... snow, to be kept clean of..... supervision of ........... SKINS prohibiting keeping of putrid.......... SLAUGHTER HOUSES location of ... ............49-52 regulation of ................................... 49 126 118a 118h 97 153 132 130 132 ................. 132 22 ....... 126 .................. 88–132 136 88 ..................... 88–132 SNOW removal of from sidewalk......... ......................51-81' SOAP FACTORIES regulation of ....... ses....... 49 .......................... ..... . 88 INDEX TO CHARTER 165 $....................... ............... 143 ....................... .... ... .... ..................... 50 . . .. . .. .. . .. . .. . ... . .. . .. . .. .. . I 33 K S .. . .. .. . .. . .. .. .. ........................... III ............... 17 ............ IOI STREET COMMISSIONER PAGE SEC. appointment of ...... 139 attends council meetings.... 77 bond of ...... 142 compensation of ....... 139 contract, not to be interested in city....... duties of ...... 139 office, not to hold when.... 143 removal of ................................... 139 STREET WALKERS punishment of .... SUITS city, against ........... 100 by, for damage judgments................. by board of public works... officers, against .. (See Actions) SUMMONS city, against, how and on whom served ............ 59 100 SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS appointment may be made..... .......... 69118g SUPERVISORS board of registration, on.. board of review, on.... 174 board of supervisors, on. compensation of ............. duties of ............... election of ...... inspector of elections... chairman of . members of board of 1923-1924 oath of office. ... petit jurors, makes list of. term of ... SUPERVISORS, BOARD OF audits criminal expenses under state laws... appropriations not to be certified to.......... 181 taxes, certify to..... equalized by .. 176 SUPPORT OF POOR regulations for ..... SURETIES aldermen cannot be when........ penalty for being ........ approved by council.... new, may be required..... resignation does not relieve. ....... treasurer's not responsible for money in bank...... SWINE running at large... ......... ........ . . .. . .. .. ... . .. . .. .. . . ... IIO ............................. 09 58 ... ... ........... ............. 10 166 INDEX TO CHARTER T SEC. 62 177 52 103 .... IOO 171 6-108 181-183 100 172 .................. ......... 44 171 171 171 130 100 ................. .......... 75 ......... 104 178 FACTS A380 #8882328 99K88% ISTRESSE ...... 10. 177 74 118d ............ 130 1300 171 183 .............. II2 XO TAXES PAGE account of, kept by treasurer........ 37 additional amount of... amount raised reported to treasurer...... ... 29 authority to levy them...... collection of by treasurer.. time when made. collection fee, part of. delinquent, return to..... .. 37 divided among general funds. dog, may be levied. lien on property ........... limit of .................... .. 100 liquor dealers .................... local improvements for ........ manner of levying and collecting ........ meetings to vote........... on garbage crematory... ordered by council by two-thirds vote.... parks for ....... paving for .. on petition of property owners..... power to assess and levy ................ publication of notices........ 108 sewers for ........ sidewalks for .............. special ........ special assessment districts ....... sprinkling streets voted by people....... 103 limit of ...... 103 warrant for collection of... ..106-107 TAX ROLLS delivered to treasurer... .... 106 notice of, to people........ 106–108 returned to assessor when..... sewers for .......... sidewalk taxes placed on............ special, how made ............. special assessments for ......... TERM OF OFFICE officers appointive ............................... elective ........... THEATRICAL EXHIBITIONS regulation of ..., THREE-FOURTHS VOTE necessary when ...... TIE VOTE election decided how.............................. TITLE streets, lanes and alleys, to....... adverse cannot be acquired against city........ 132 130g 130h 177 177 181–182 ..................I ..... . 181 181–183 181 . . 112 . 132 . 179 . 130b . ........................ 2 ONS 168 INDEX TO CHARTER SEC. 186 ............... 2 .......... TREASURER, CITY-Continued PAGE warrants paid by......... 109 void when fund exhausted. ....... 20 warrant for collecting taxes... 107 TRIAL ordinance cases in....... ......... 58 TWO-THIRDS VOTE necessary when ........ to remove officer ........ to pass over veto......... .47-56 to call city hall election..... ..... 116 to call garbage crematory election.... . . . ............ 120 UNDERTAKERS regulation of .... 22 ..... 49 41 127–128 . .. . .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. . . VACANCIES ballots, how designated on.. board of registration, filled how.... declaration of, by council...... elective offices, how and when filled.. inspectors of election filled how...... mayor ....... removal from city or ward creates.... VACTING streets or alleys........ .............74–75 VAGRANTS imprisoned may be.... punished may be... VEGETABLES regulation of sale of.... VEHICLES regulation of ......... VETO council proceedings of. ordinances of ............................. VICE ordinance to prevent... VOTES clerk to make certificates of results..... council to canvas...... to declare and certify......... inspectors to canvas.... to file statement of with clerk... precinct, where received .......... void for defaulter...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . 5 . . . INDEX TO CHARTER 169 Sec. .................... 15 98 ..... .......... ......... 130g 179 182 w WARDS PAGE boundaries of, in city of Ann Arbor .............. 13 division of, into precincts...... WARRANT justice in ordinance cases.... special assessment roll attached to..... made by clerk, when... taxes, for collection of... WARRANTS, CITY contain what ..... designate fund drawn on...... drawn by clerk on treasurer... filed with clerk when paid....... school moneys for...... total of, not to exceed taxes.. treasurer cancels ........ pays ... WATCHMEN night, appointment of.... powers and duties of... railroad crossings at.... WATER waste of ........ ......... WATER COURSES changing of ..... ... ... 74. WATER PIPES laying of ............ WATERWORKS built, may be ..... purchased, may be...... regulation of P ay s .. .. . .. .. ... . .. .. .. .. .. ... . .. ... . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. . .. . .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. .. . .. 127 88 .............. 71 119 ..................... WEIGHTS AND MEASURES clerk is sealer of....... ............... regulation of ......... ......... WELLS AND RESERVOIRS constructed by fire commissioners ......... regulation and establishment of... ............. WINE prohibition of adulterated........... WITNESSES investigations by common council. ..... subpoena of, for city... WOOD location of as to fires.... regulations for vending........................ sidewalks to be kept clear of...... IOI UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 02310 2752 RARESE THE ANN PRIN