3-140.   Same; notice by publication; petition for election; notice ofelection.The sale of a municipal airport or field for aviation purposes shall beby public auction, for cash. Said sale shall be conducted by the city clerkof the city, after having published the resolution of the governing bodyordering said sale once each week in the official city newspaper for threeconsecutive weeks, said sale to be held not less than forty days from thedate of the first publication of said resolution: Provided, That iftwenty-five percent of the qualified electors of any such city, based onthe total vote cast for secretary of state at the last general election,shall, on or before thirty days from the first publication of saidresolution, petition the governing body to submit to the electors of suchcity for their approval or rejection the question of selling said municipalairport or municipal field for aviation purposes, it shall be the duty ofthe governing body to forthwith submit to the qualified electors of suchcity such question of selling said municipal airport or municipal field foraviation purposes, for their approval or rejection.

      When such petition is filed with the city clerk no signer thereon shallbe permitted to withdraw his or her name therefrom. Fifteen days' notice ofsuch election shall be given by publication in the official newspaper ofsaid city, and such election shall be conducted in all respects as nowprovided for bond elections in such cities. In case a majority of theelectors of such city voting at such election shall vote in favor of thesale of said municipal airport or municipal field for aviation purposes,the governing body shall continue with the sale thereof and sell the same;but if a majority of the electors voting at such election vote against thesale thereof, then said governing body shall not sell said municipalairport or municipal field for aviation purposes.

      History:   L. 1943, ch. 7, § 2; March 13.