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istration of the municipal government, whether such powers be expressly enumerated or not; for any act to advance the interests of the city, the good government and prosperity of the municipality and its inhabitants and through its regularly constituted authority to pass all laws and ordinances relating to its municipal concerns subject to the constitution and general laws of this State;

water bonds.

(u) For the issuance of bonds of said city for the purpose Sewer and of providing first cost of installation and connection of sewers and water works on and to property in said cities used solely for dwelling house purposes, when such installation and connection shall be ordered by the proper health authorities; and to provide a lien on such property for, and manner of payment of, moneys so used.

SEC. 5. No city shall have power:

(a) To increase the rate of taxation now fixed by law, unless the authority to do so shall be given by a majority of the electors of said city voting at the election at which said proposition shall be submitted, but the increase in any case shall not be such as to cause such rate to exceed two per centum of the assessed value of the real and personal property in such city.

Restrictions.

amendments.

viso, resub

(b) To submit to the electors a charter or to resubmit any Charters and amendment thereto oftener than once in every two years, nor unless it shall be filed with the city clerk ninety days before the election: Provided, however, That this provision shall Proviso. not apply to the submission and resubmission of charters of cities which may be incorporated under this act until they shall have first adopted a charter: Provided further, That Further prowhere a city shall have submitted to the electors a charter or mission of any amendment thereto, and said charter or amendment has charter, etc. been adopted by the electors, and said city has operated under said charter or amendment, and which said charter or amendment had not, at the time said charter or amendment was adopted been on file with the city clerk ninety days, as provided herein, then in such case the legislative body of such city, operating under said charter or amendment, may, upon its giving such notice of election provided in said charter or amendment, resubmit to the electors, at any special or general election, such charter or amendment, and which if adopted by the electors shall be deemed operative and effective as of the date of the first submission and adoption: Provided, That Proviso, such charter or amendment shall not be resubmitted unless be resubninety days shall have elapsed between the date of the filing of said charter or amendment and the date of the election at which said charter or amendment shall be resubmitted.

when not to

mitted.

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(c) To call more than two special elections within one year: Provided, however, That this prohibition shall not ap- Proviso, ply to elections which may be held in the submission and re- tions. submission of charters of cities which may be incorporated under this act until they shall have first adopted a charter;

Salary changes.

Adopt

charter, etc.,

and shall not apply to elections which may be held in the resubmission of a charter or amendment once adopted, as provided in subdivision (b) of this section.

(d) To change the salary or emoluments of any public official after his election or appointment or during his term of office nor shall the term of any public official be shortened or extended beyond the period for which he was elected or appointed, unless he resign or be removed for cause, where such office is held for a fixed term.

(e) To adopt a charter or any amendment thereto, unless vote required, approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon; to sell any property of a value in excess of ten cents per capita according to the last preceding United States census, or any park, cemetery, or any real estate used in carrying on a public utility, or any part thereof, or any property bordering on a water front, or vacate any street or public place leading to a water front, or engage in any business enterprise requiring an investment of money in excess of ten cents per capita, or authorize any issue of bonds except special assessment bonds, refunding bonds, and emergency bonds as defined by this act and bonds that it is annually authorized to issue, unless approved by three-fifths of the electors voting thereon at any general or special election;

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pudiation of.

Franchises,

submission of.

Charter revision, manner of.

Commission, election of.

(f) To make any contract with, or give any official position to one who is in default to the city;

(g) To issue any bonds without providing a sinking fund, to pay them at maturity, but no sinking fund shall be required in case of serial bonds which fall due annually;

(h) To repudiate any debt by any change in its charter or by consolidation with any other municipality;

(i) To submit a franchise to the electors at a special election, unless the expense of holding the election, as determined by the legislative body, shall be paid in advance by the grantee in said franchise to the city treasury.

SEC. 18. Any city desiring to revise its charter shall do so in the following manner, unless otherwise provided by charter; when its legislative body shall by a three-fifths vote of the members-elect declare for a general revision of the charter, or when an initiatory petition shall be presented therefor as provided in section twenty-five of this act, the question of having a general charter revision shall be submitted to the electors for adoption or rejection at the next general or municipal election, or at a special election. In case the electors shall, by a majority vote, declare in favor of such revision, a charter commission shall be elected within sixty days consisting of nine electors of such city having a resi dence of at least three years in the municipality, or the legislative body by a three-fifths vote of the members-elect or the initiatory petition may provide that the charter commission be selected at the same election at which the proposition to revise is submitted; the selection shall be void if the propo

eligible.

no provision

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election.

sition to revise is not adopted. No city officer or employe, Who not whether elected or appointed, shall be eligible to a place on said commission. In the cities where provision is made by the city charter for the non-partisan elections of city officers the method prescribed for such elections shall apply in the election of charter commissioners. Where no such provision is How nominmade by the charter of such city candidates shall be nomi- ated, where nated by petition without reference to or designation of party made. affiliation, signed by a number of qualified electors of such city equal to not less than two per centum and not more than four per centum of the total vote cast for the chief executive office, or the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government, of such city at the last preceding election asking that the name of the candidate designated be placed upon the ballot. The names of Separate all candidates so nominated shall be placed upon a separate ballot at the election designated to be held for the election of a charter commission and without their party affiliations designated; the nine candidates having the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected; the election of the members Conduct of of such commission, except as herein specified, shall be conducted as near as may be as now provided by law for the election of city and ward officers in the respective cities of this State unless special methods shall be otherwise provided in the charter of such city. If upon the rejection by the elec- If charter tors of a proposed charter, whether submitted heretofore or rejected. hereafter, or prepared or submitted under, and pursuant to this act, or to any of the provisions of the law of which this act is amendatory or supplemental, a petition shall be filed with the legislative body, signed by a number of electors equal to ten per centum of the number voting for executive officer or the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government, at the last preceding election, the legislative body shall thereupon submit Resubmission. such charter at the next general or municipal election with only such changes therein as shall be necessitated therein by postponement in taking effect. The foregoing provisions shall not be limited, restricted or subject to any provision limiting the time when the question of adopting a revised charter may be submitted to the electors. When the question of having Advisory a general revision of the charter shall be submitted to the vote. electors of any city the legislative body of such city or the initiative petitions may provide for the submission with such question for an advisory vote the question of a change in the form of government of such city. When such advisory vote is requested in an initiatory petition such question shall be submitted as herein before provided.

amendments,

SEC. 21. Any existing city charter, whether passed pur- Charter suant to the provisions of this act or heretofore granted or method prepassed by the State Legislature for the government of a city may, from time to time be amended in the manner following:

scribed.

Form of ballot.

Initiatory

petition, how addressed, verified, etc.

False verification.

City clerk, duty of.

Other proposals.

When sufficiency of petition not to be questioned.

An amendment may be proposed by the legislative body of the city on a three-fifths vote of the members-elect or by an initiatory petition as herein provided, and shall be submitted to the electors of such city as herein provided at the next primary, regular or special election held in such city which shall occur not less than twenty days after the proposal of such amendment by the legislative body or following the filing of such petitions. The form in which any proposed amendment to a city charter shall be submitted on the ballot, unless provided for in the initiatory petition shall be determined by resolution by the legislative body.

SEC. 25. The initiatory petition herein referred to shall be addressed to and filed with the city clerk. Such petition shall be verified by the affidavit or affidavits of the person or persons who obtain the signatures, and shall be signed by a number of electors equal to ten per centum of the total vote cast for the executive office or the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government, at the last preceding election. Such verification shall state that such signatures were obtained by the person so verifying said petition, that such signatures are the signatures of the persons purporting to sign the same, and that the person verifying such petition verily believes that the signers obtained thereto are duly qualified electors. Any person who shall subscribe and swear to a verification false in any material particular shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury. When such petitions shall contain a number of sig natures equal to fifteen per centum of the total vote cast for the chief executive office or the highest vote cast for any commissioner in cities having the commission form of government, of such city at the last preceding election, and when such petition shall request that the proposal petitioned for shall be submitted at a special election to be called for the purpose of submitting the same, it shall be the duty of the city clerk of such city to call such special election within sixty days of the date of the filing of such petitions unless a regular election shall occur or a special election shall have been called for other purposes to be held within ninety days of the date of the filing of such petitions. In that event, the proposal shall be submitted at such regular or special election and no special election shall be so called within sixty days. Other proposals whether initiated by a ten per centum petition as hereinbefore provided, or proposed by the legislative body may be submitted at such special election. No proposal submitted to the electors by the initiative and receiving an affirmative majority of the votes cast thereon shall be held unconstitutional, invalid or void on account of the insufficiency of the petition by which submission of the same was procured.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved March 9, 1917.

[No. 7.]

AN ACT to amend section seventeen of chapter two of act number one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, the same being "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," the same being section five thousand six hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section seventeen of chapter two of act num- Section ber one hundred sixty-four of the Public Acts of eighteen amended. hundred eighty-one, the same being "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," the same being section five thousand six hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

school taxes.

SEC. 17. In all school elections including school elections who qualified held in districts organized and governed in whole or in part voter. by a local act or acts, and including cities of the fourth class, any provisions in such local act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding, every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in the district, or who is the parent or legal guardian of any child of school age included in the school census of said district, and who has resided in said district three months next preceding such election, shall be a qualified voter. On the question of voting school taxes, on voting every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, male or female, who owns property which is assessed for school taxes in the district, and who has resided in the district as above stated, shall be a qualified voter: Provided, Proviso, land That the purchaser of land upon a land contract, who actually pays the taxes upon such land and resides thereon, may vote upon all questions; and where a husband and wife own property jointly and same is assessed for school taxes in the school district, each may, if otherwise qualified, vote upon all questions including the question of raising money: Provided how- Proviso, in ever, That this act shall not be applicable in any city having a 250,000 or population of two hundred fifty thousand or over which com- over. prises a single school district, but in such city all male electors who shall possess the qualifications specified in section one, article three of the constitution of this State, and all females, who, if they were males, would be qualified electors, shall be qualified voters in all school elections in such city, and on questions of voting school taxes therein, and such electors, male and female, shall be registered in the manner provided by

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