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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY,.JUNE 24, 1911.
THE TEXT OF THE CHARTER IN FULL
Continuad from Pago Two.
to promptly, effectively and economically discharge the duttea of aald de
partment.
BBC. It. No department shall pay out, or contract to pay out. In any
year,- any sum fn excess of the appro
priations allotted to said department
during said year.
SEC. >6. An artisans and mechanics employed by the city shall be re
quired to work eight hours a day; they shall not be required-to work more
than that time: Provl'
ided this section shall not apply to the department of
• public safety and. lights, nor to em-
Hours of Labor. ployees edgaged In clerical work. Pro
vided, further. In esse of emergency an
employee subject to this provision may be required to do more work but
shall be paid for such extra hours at the rate of one and one-ha)f time the
rate for regular hours. Nothing herein’ contained shall be construed to
prevent the commissioner of public safety and lights from continuing the
. present hours of service. - ,,
SEC. *7. The commission shall each month cause copies of the detailed
statements of receipts and disbursements of said city, of die In the office
of the clerk, to be furnished the press
Publicity For Reports on Receipts of- said city. Quarterly statements
and Expenditures. showing In detail the receipts and dis
bursements shall be published In the
'paper carrying the city advertisements. c
CITY OFFICERS.
BEC. 38. An expert accountant shall be biennially selected by the com
mission He shall semi-annually audit the books and accounts of. the city;
the result of said examinations to be
Expert 8hall Audit Semi- filed In the office of the clerk of-said
Annually. city, and to be open, tot the Inspection
of the public. His compensation shall
be fixed by the commission and paid by the city.
BEC 19. A 1 comptroller for the city of Atlanta shall, be elected by a
majority vote of the registered voters of the city. The first election- shall
take place at the regular election In December. 1911, and each foijr years
thereafter. la the event of a vacancy
Comptroller To Be Elected By
People,
In such office, the commissioners shall
select a successor who shall hold until
the next regular election, when a suc
cessor shall be elected for the unexplred term. He shall also be subject
to the recall provisions of this act. He
Comptroller’s Salary $3,800. shall give bond In the sum of 150,00ft
_ He shall receive an annual salary of
$1,800, payable monthly. *
BEC. 80. The commissioners shall elect a city paymaster, at a reason
able salary, whose duty It shall be to discharge the pay rolls of each de
partment of the city at-stated Intervals. Copies of pay rolls In each de
partment shall be furnished him and be kept of file In his office. The
money shall be furnished him, upon
8hall Name a City Paymaster, proper voucher. He shall Investigate
the pay rolls and ascertain that the
persons named thereon exist, and have worked at the wages designated for
the time stated. He shall take receipts from the employees, showing the
number of days and parts of days of service performed, the wages re
ceived, and street address. These vouchers shall be nt once returned by
him to and remain of file In the department of public affairs and finance.
He shall give bond In a gum to be fixed by the commission.
BBC. 4i, The commission shall elect a city clerk who shall attend each
session, keep correct minutes'of aald meetings, and a book In which all or
dinances, resolutions and measures
Dutias of the City Clark. shall be correctly copied, and which
‘shall be open to the Inspection of the
public. He shall keep such books and documents as will properly disclose
all petitions and matters to be acted upon by the commission. All appli
cations and communications of every kind and character to be acted upon
by the commission shall be filed with him. He shall keep such other books
and records and discharge such other duties as may be required by. the
commission.
BEC. 48. The commission shall elect a recorder, who shall try and dis
pose of all cases brought to hla attention and who shall have authority to
Impose penalties for the violations of such ordlnancts as are now of force
or may be hereafter enacted, which aald penalties shall not exceed a fine of
$500. nor Imprisonment for more than 80 days, either or both. In the discre
tion of said recorder. He ahall take an
oath to discharge faithfully and Im
partially the duties of hla nfflea. .The
commtssloh shall-have the right. In tho evunt of n vacancy, absence hr dis
ability of the recorder, to designate'any di$y qualified elector of sold city
to temporarily preside and discharge the duties of aald recorder. Other
dutlee may hr Imposed upon said recorder by the,commission. His.salary
and term of office shall*e fixed by the commission; Hla removal shal| -occur
only by a majority votfj: of the Comh|lsalon.- ,
BEC. 48. The cnmralMlfh shall elect a city engineer, marshal, treasurer
and attorney, and prescribe The eom-
Other City Officers. pensatlon and duties of each office.
Issloa shall have the right-to create such other of-
>>0 T fW« rhorse of me pabHr bualneltf
the incumbent and fix the salary there-
May Create Other Offices. for. 8uch office may be declared va
cant at anytljne by a majority vote of
the commission, In which event a successor shall-be at ’orice elected by aald
commission, unless the office la abolished.
FRANCHISES. x
SEC. 45. Every applicant for a now pahllp franchise, or for changes,
alterations or additions In exlatlng franchises, to go upon, along, thru, over
or under any of the streets of said city, shall file aald application, contain
ing the terms and stipulations desired. In the office of the clerk of aald city,
which application ahall be published Immediately after filing, at the expense
of said applicant, In the newspaper In
15 Par cant of Votars Can Call For said city then publishing the city tax
Submission of Franchise to Psoplo. sales. Bald commission, after the lapse
of one week from date of filing. If It
favors the grant, shall frame Its terma and conditions, which shall then be
published once a week for two weeks In said paper, and the commission
ahall then have the power to grant the same. Bald grant shall not become
operative for the period of one month after Its final pasMge, within which
time, upon petition signed by fifteen per cent of the registered-voters at the
list general municipal election, aald application and grant shall be submit
ted to the duly qqallfled electors of sshl city, |n the way and manner pre
scribed for holding general city elections, at which election the question shall
be submitted to said electors whether
Duties of the Recorder,
BEC. 44. The cdrtlmlsap
fleas as pmy.be necessary >jh
Expsnset of Election Boms by
Applicant.
they approve or disapprove of said
L In the event a majority of the
grant.
registered voters shall disapprove said
grant. It ahall then become null ami void; the expense of aald election to
be borne by the applicant. This section ahall not apply to switch connec
tions or privileges between street or steam railways and the owners or
users of any Industrial plant, which,when granted by the commission, shall
at once become operative. Nor ahaU It apply to water, sewer, light or heat
connections.
EXPENDITURES. v . .
BEC. 48. Immediately after the 1st of January and the lat of June In
- each year ths-commlaetonera ahall meet and prepare a budget. Each com
missioner shall present. In writing, bis Itemised estimate of the money need
ed In hla department. The antlrl- ■
All Budgets Shall Be Filed. paled Income of the city ahall be then
divided, ao far oa la legal and prartl-
cable, between the different departments by vole of the commission. Bhould
the money allotted any department be less than that requested, the com
missioner shall, within two weeks thereafter, revise hla estimate and ap
portion the money ao allotted him among such of the Items of hla first
estimate as he may deem wise and prudent. No money ahall be spent by
him upon anything which la not Included In bath the original estimate sub
mitted to tbs board and hla second estimate, unk-ss authorized by the com
mission.
Both the first and second estimate shall bo filed In the clerk's ofilrc,
subject to tbs Inspection of the public, and copies thereof shall be fur
nished the press; In order that the pub.
Second Eatimatsa Shall Be Filed, lie may know upon what Items the
money allotted aald department la to
be spent, and tbs commissioner’* estimate of the cost of each Item.
TAXES.
BEC. 4T. Any taxpayer dissatisfied with hla aasaeatment may, within
twenty days after hla return Is made, file a petition addressed to the de
partment of public affairs and finance, specifying tha ground* of his objec
tion, and It ahall then be the duty of-
Taxpayer Mey Object to Hie said department to re-examine the as-
' Assessment. aessment. It th* assessment I* af
firmed, the taxpayer shall have tha
right within live day* thereafter to appoint an arbitrator, giving hla name
In writing to tha department. The commissioner of the department ahall
have th# right within five day* thereafter to appoint an arbitrator. Th* two
lira wKIlin live days, and if unable to agree, any Judge of the .
Provision For Arbitration.
shall select a thli _ _
superior court -of Fulton county shall
anpolnt tbo umpire. The board thus
constituted ahall Investigate tha -mat
ter and make a report either affirming the assessment, reducing or raising
It This report may be made by a majority of the board, and ahall b* final.
Upon aald hearing before the board both the taxpayer and the city ahall
bav* tha right to compel the production of any pertinent document*, by •
notice to produce or aubpena duces tecum.
Th* trial herein provided fdr shall take place within five days after the
selection or appointment of the umpire, unleae postponed for Providential
Any taxpayer In said city ahall have the right to file written objections
to th* tax return or assessment of any other taxpayer In said city; there
upon It shall be th* duty of aald da-
Any Taxpayer May Object to Any partment to re-examine tbs taxpayer’s
Assessment. returns or assessments to which ob
jections have been lodged. Upon aald
re-examination the return or assessment shall be affirmed, reduced or
raised, and the action of the department shall be final and without appeal
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, PUBLIC CONTRACTS.
SEC..50. All.calls for bids for contracts for labor, supplies or materials
to be furnished said city, or for work to be done In the Interest of said city,
which shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars In amount, shall be ad
vertised by the department In which
Advertise For Bid* in Exeats said work, labor,'supplies nr materials
of $500, properly belong. In the newspaper car
rying the city advertisements, once a
week for not less than two weeks, and aald contracts shall be awarded to
the lowest and bAH bidder.-unless nil bids are rejected. Thla section shair
not Abridge tho power of the city to do any work by Its own employee!
whenever the same can ba done more effectively or economically In tho
Judgment of the department.doing .the work.
BOND ISSUES.
SEC. 61. All proposed bond Issues shall be submitted to the people for
approval,-ab now provided by law.
CLAIMS AGAIN8T CITY.
. SEC. tt. No suit for ifimages to person or property shall be Instituted In
any court of la»- until after a claim therefor has remained of file In the office
of the city clerk for at least thirty days. Unfavorable action upon said claim
by the commission shall In no wise affect the claimant'# rights.
INITIATIVE.
SEC. 58. Any measure, resolution or ordinance which shall be favored by
a petition signed by one-fourth of the registered voters, shall be submitted
for adoption to the people at an election to be called therefor within thirty
days, unless a regular municipal elec-
25 t**r Cent, of Voter* May Call tlon la to be held within ninety day*.
> . . .ifelectioil. In which event It shall be submitted at
such regular election. If, at said elec
tion. sjlri measure, resolution or ordinance receives a majority of the votes
cast. It shqll become operative, and ran not be thereafter repealed, except by
an election similarly called.
- .The signatures, authentication. Inspection, certification ,and submission
shall be as provided for In section 55 of Ibis act. Any number of measures.
resolutions or ordinances may be voted
Not Mors Thsn One Spaelal Elec- upon at one election. But there ahall
tlon In Any One Period of 6 Mos. not be called for this purpose and under
’ , ■ > ; this suction, more than one special elec
tion trftHIn dny one. period of six months.
If mure than ore measure, resolution or ordinance be submitted they
ahall be separately voted upon.
' REFERENDUM.
. i SEC. 54. The commission ahall be authorised tp submit to the duly quail,
fled electors, at'anV regular election, any measure, resolution or ordinance
which they may dram proper, and In tha event a majority of the vote*
, cast Is for such measure, resolution or
May 8ubmit Questions to th* ordinance, the tame shall be adopted,
Pe, pit. and If the majority la against aald
measure, resolution or ordinance, the
tame shall be defeatod, and eball not be thereafter adopted by aald commis
sion until resubmitted to the duly qualified electors. If adopted, euch meat,
ure. resolution or ordinance can only be repealed by a majority vote of tbe
duly qualified voters at a regular or specially called municipal election.
RECALL.
SEC. 86. Any commissioner shall be subject to removal during his term
of office. In th# following manner: Whenever one-fourth In number of tho
quallflod registered voters, as. disclosed by the registration sheets of the
last preceding general municipal regie-
25 Per Cent of Voters May Re- tratlon. shall so request. In a petition
quire Recall Election. filed In the office of the clerk of aald
city, an election shall be called. Bald
petition ahall show In general, terms the ground* upon which a recall la
sought and each signer shall stats hi* residence, giving the street and num
ber. The petition may be In duplicates, but tho voter can sign but once.
Bhould the cominlasioher resign, no election shall b* had, and the re
maining commissioners shall fill the vacancy.
Bald petition shall be examined by th* clerk and the names thereon
checked against the registration Hat within ten days from Its filing with
him. If one-fourth of said registered electors have so petitioned, he shall
thereupon so certify and the election
shall take place not less than 3ft days
nor more than 40 days thereafter. Such
elections shall be hail and conducted
under the rules and regulations then existing In reference to regular city
elections. The commissioner whoso office shall he thui Involved may be a
candidate to succeed himself. All opposing candidates shall be duly entered,
and their name* placed upon the tickets to be submitted to the elector*. Th*
person receiving a mnjorlty of the
No Recall Within First Six votes cast at such election shall be au-
Months. thorlsed to assume th* duties of sold
office, after duly qualifying. Bueh elec
tion khall be onlv for the unexplred term of the then Incumbent. No com
missioner shall be subject to recall .within six months after qualifying.
SUBMISSION OF ACT.
SEC. 6«. Thla act shall be submitted to the registered voters of the city'
of Atlanta at a special election Id be called by the regular authorities, and
which election shall be held In the way, manner and be governed by the
forms that now control regular city elections. It shall not be held within
[ess than 3ft days from the date of the
Special Election Shall B* Called. approval or thla gel, and not more than
4ft days from Its - approval. At said
election but one question shall be submitted to said registered votars, that
being whether they approve or disapprove of the act. If a majority of the
votes cast at said election approves this act: It ahall become operative. If a
majority of the votes east disapproves the act It shall not become opera
tive.
The form of the ballot shall be in substance, "For the commission char
ter” and "Against the commission charter,” and the voter shall strike the
word “fori', or “against” as he may desire.
If th* act Is thus approved, the five commissioners and th* comptroller
shell b* selected at the regular city election to be held In December, 1811,
and the government herein provided for ahall assume control on January 1.
*At the special election thus called for, no other question or. measure
shall be aubmltted to the people, mjr ahall any primary of any party or or
ganisation be held on said day.
CONFLICTING LAWS.
BEC. 67. All laws and parts of laws In conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
Commlasioxar Under Fire May
Run In Recall Election.
An appeal shall lie, as above pro'
for, In behalf of tha taxpayer whose return or assessment may be raised.
BBC. It. Tbe tax rate, taxes aewssments for sewer, street, sidewalk or
curbing as now exlatlng shall remain unaffected by this act. The method of
collecting and legally restating such
Tax Rata th* Sams. taxes, licensee, assessments, etc.„ ahall
likewise remain unchanged, except as
affected by thla act t .
SEC.. 43. Except as otherwise provjded by thla act, all execution*,
levies, notices, summonses, He., shall be served by the cHJr marshal, as
bow required by law, and the collection of such executions, 11. fas.‘ and
claims In favor of th* city for taxes.
Handling of Executions, Etc. licenses, fees, assessments, etc., shall
* be had and made In the fnannerliow
provided for by law; and tbe right to contest by legal process the justness
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Chamber of Commerce that a deal had
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rhlnaware factories In the United
States will be removed here from
Akron. Ohio, at an early date, and es
tablished about four miles from the
city. It will give employment to above
300 skilled operators and will have a
monthly pay roll 6f more than I10JKH),
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And when you meet a car on
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