PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS
15-111.Election to determine status of city; city as part of
township; payment of debts.
On the petition of a majority of the legal voters of any town or village
which became a city of the third class or may hereafter become a city of
the third class by virtue of section one [*] of the act to which this
section is supplementary, it shall be the duty of the council of such city,
within ten days after the filing of such petition, to order an election by
the legal voters of such city, to determine whether such city shall remain
a city under the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, or be
dissolved as a corporate body, and remitted to the conditions of being part
of the township in which such city shall be.
The election shall be conducted like other elections, and the ballots
shall have written or printed thereon: "For a city," or "Against a city,"
and within three days after the election said ballots shall be counted by
the city council, and the result recorded; and if a two-thirds majority of
the legal votes shall be against the city, then the city shall thenceforth
cease to exist, and the territory embraced within the city limits shall
thenceforth be a part of the township in which said city was located, and
governed in every respect under the general township laws; and the records
of such city shall be delivered to the township clerk, and if there be any
debts unpaid of such city at the time it ceased to exist under the
provisions of this act, then the township trustee shall, at the next annual
levy of taxes, provide for a levy on the property within the limits of such
city, sufficient to pay such debt according to its terms in the same manner
as taxes are now levied for township purposes.
History: L. 1872, ch. 102, § 4; March 6; R.S. 1923, § 15-111.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS
15-111.Election to determine status of city; city as part of
township; payment of debts.
On the petition of a majority of the legal voters of any town or village
which became a city of the third class or may hereafter become a city of
the third class by virtue of section one [*] of the act to which this
section is supplementary, it shall be the duty of the council of such city,
within ten days after the filing of such petition, to order an election by
the legal voters of such city, to determine whether such city shall remain
a city under the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, or be
dissolved as a corporate body, and remitted to the conditions of being part
of the township in which such city shall be.
The election shall be conducted like other elections, and the ballots
shall have written or printed thereon: "For a city," or "Against a city,"
and within three days after the election said ballots shall be counted by
the city council, and the result recorded; and if a two-thirds majority of
the legal votes shall be against the city, then the city shall thenceforth
cease to exist, and the territory embraced within the city limits shall
thenceforth be a part of the township in which said city was located, and
governed in every respect under the general township laws; and the records
of such city shall be delivered to the township clerk, and if there be any
debts unpaid of such city at the time it ceased to exist under the
provisions of this act, then the township trustee shall, at the next annual
levy of taxes, provide for a levy on the property within the limits of such
city, sufficient to pay such debt according to its terms in the same manner
as taxes are now levied for township purposes.
History: L. 1872, ch. 102, § 4; March 6; R.S. 1923, § 15-111.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS
15-111.Election to determine status of city; city as part of
township; payment of debts.
On the petition of a majority of the legal voters of any town or village
which became a city of the third class or may hereafter become a city of
the third class by virtue of section one [*] of the act to which this
section is supplementary, it shall be the duty of the council of such city,
within ten days after the filing of such petition, to order an election by
the legal voters of such city, to determine whether such city shall remain
a city under the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, or be
dissolved as a corporate body, and remitted to the conditions of being part
of the township in which such city shall be.
The election shall be conducted like other elections, and the ballots
shall have written or printed thereon: "For a city," or "Against a city,"
and within three days after the election said ballots shall be counted by
the city council, and the result recorded; and if a two-thirds majority of
the legal votes shall be against the city, then the city shall thenceforth
cease to exist, and the territory embraced within the city limits shall
thenceforth be a part of the township in which said city was located, and
governed in every respect under the general township laws; and the records
of such city shall be delivered to the township clerk, and if there be any
debts unpaid of such city at the time it ceased to exist under the
provisions of this act, then the township trustee shall, at the next annual
levy of taxes, provide for a levy on the property within the limits of such
city, sufficient to pay such debt according to its terms in the same manner
as taxes are now levied for township purposes.
History: L. 1872, ch. 102, § 4; March 6; R.S. 1923, § 15-111.