and take possession of any premises or property where such nuisance may exist or be produced.

SEC. 4. The style of ordinances passed in pursuance of this charter shall be "BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY." Ordinances may originate in either house, and may be amended or rejected by either house.

SEC. 5. No ordinance shall be deemed passed by either house until it is signed by the presiding officer thereof, and he shall immediately sign it in open session, and the clerk shall, as soon as possible, transmit the same to the other house; and if the ordinance shall be passed by such other house without amendment, it shall be immediately signed in open session by the presiding officer thereof and be thereafter presented to the mayor. If it be amended in such other house, it shall be immediately signed by the presiding officer thereof in open session and returned to the house from which it came, and if the amendment is there concurred in, it shall be immediately signed by the presiding officer of the house so concurring and be thereafter presented to the mayor. If the mayor approve any ordinance, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it to the city clerk with his objections, and the city clerk shall, at the next session of the house in which it originated, return it to such house. If in either house any member shall object that any substitution, omission or insertion has occurred, so that the ordinance proposed to be signed is not the same in substance and form as when considered and passed by the house, such objection shall be passed upon by the house, and, if sustained, the presiding officer shall withhold his signature until the proper correction is made.

SEC. 6. If any ordinance presented to the mayor contains several items of appropriation, he may object to one or more items while approving the other portions of the ordinance. In such case he shall append to the ordinance at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and his reasons therefor, and return the same to the city clerk within the same time and manner, with the same effect, as to the items so objected to, and for the purpose of taking the same action in relation to each item of appropriation so objected to, as provided for ordinances returned without the approval of the mayor. But the portions of the ordinance not so objected to shall take effect upon the approval thereof.

SEC. 7. Every ordinance presented as aforesaid, but returned without the approval of the mayor, and with his objec

tions thereto, shall stand as reconsidered in the house to which it is returned. Such house shall cause the objections of the mayor to be entered at large upon the journal, and proceed at its convenience to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form: "Shall the ordinance pass, the objections of the mayor thereto notwithstanding?" The vote upon this question shall be taken by yeas and nays, and the names entered upon the journal; and if two-thirds of all the members elected to such house vote in the affirmative, except when in this charter a larger vote is required, the presiding officer of such house shall certify that fact upon the ordinance, attesting the same by his signature, and send the ordinance with the objections of the mayor, to the other house, in which like proceedings shall be had in relation thereto, and if the ordinance receive a like majority of the votes of all members elected to such other house, except when in this charter a larger vote is required, the vote being taken by yeas and nays, the presiding officer thereof shall in like manner certify the fact upon the ordinance; and said ordinance shall then be and become a law, and shall be further authenticated as having become a law by certificate signed by the city clerk, indorsed thereon as follows: "This ordinance having been returned by the mayor, with his objections thereto, and, after reconsideration, having passed both houses of the common council by a vote of two-thirds of the members elect of each house, has become a law this.

City Clerk"; and such ordinance shall be filed, recorded and preserved in the office of the city clerk as other ordinances.

SEC. 8. If any ordinance shall not be returned by the mayor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him for his approval, the same shall become a law in the same manner as if he had approved and signed it; and said ordinance shall be authenticated as having become a law by certificate signed by the city clerk, indorsed thereon as follows: "This ordinance having remained with the mayor ten days (Sundays excepted), has become a law this...

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Clerk"; and said ordinance shall be filed, recorded and preserved in the office of the city clerk as other ordinances.

SEC. 9. No ordinance shall be revived or re-enacted by mere reference to the title thereof, but the same shall be set forth at length as if it were an original ordinance.

SEC. 10. No ordinance shall be amended by providing that designated words thereof be stricken out and others inserted in

lieu thereof; but the ordinance or section amended shall be set forth in full as amended.

SEC. II. When an ordinance is put upon its final passage in either house, and, failing to pass, a motion is made to reconsider the vote by which it was defeated, the vote upon such motion to reconsider shall be immediately taken and the subject finally disposed of before the house proceeds to other business.

SEC. 12. All ordinances of the city may be proved by the seal of the city. When printed or published by authority of the city, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

SEC. 13. The city clerk shall cause a correct abstract of the proceedings of the common council to be made out and published in at least one newspaper of the city. This abstract shall present in brief the substance of all petitions, memorials and remonstrances, of all motions and propositions, and all ordinances, resolutions and orders, so as to exhibit their nature and import; and shall also present a brief and accurate statement of all proceedings in relation thereto. The communications of the mayor and other city officers shall be published in full when the common council shall so direct; but it shall be so ordered that the expense of publishing the same document the second time shall not be incurred.

SEC. 14. Immediately after the adjourment of any session of either house, the city clerk shall file in his office all the original ordinances and all resolutions which may have become laws thereat, and shall record the same in well-bound books provided for that purpose by the city: provided, that no ordinance shall be recorded until it shall have become a law. He shall also make a written index of the subject of each ordinance and resolution, its number and the date of becoming a law, together with the record and page where found, and shall preserve the file and

records in his office.

SEC. 15. At fires the fire chief shall have the powers of the chief of police and all subordinates shall have the same police powers as policemen.

SEC. 16. No person or property shall be exempted or released from any burden imposed by or according to law. No general or special tax or assessment, or interest or penalty thereon,

shall be remitted or abated, or the right to enforce payment thereon be released, except in correction of clerical errors. After the levy of any tax neither the amount thereof nor the valuation of any property for the levy shall be reduced except only in the correction of clerical errors.

SEC. 17. The owners of real property may be required, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by ordinance, to make repairs of sidewalks, curbing and guttering, or any of them, in front of their property, and on the adjoining side of the street or avenue, and of alleys in the rear or on the adjoining side thereof, and owners, occupants or tenants, may be required to keep sidewalks clean and free from ice, snow, earth, or other substances, and sprinkle the street in front of property owned or occupied by them and on the adjoining side of the street or avenue, and also to clean the alleys in the rear of such property, or adjoining the same, and to keep such streets, avenues and alleys free from filth, dirt and rubbish. Such rules and regulations shall be deemed police regulations and violations thereof. may be punished accordingly by fine or imprisonment or both.

ARTICLE IV.

Municipal Officers.

SECTION 1. The chief executive officer of the city shall be the Mayor, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city, and shall hold his office for a term of two years and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. The executive and administrative authority of the city shall be vested in him, excepting only the authority by this charter vested in or allowed by ordinance to be conferred upon other officers or the various departments. He shall receive a salary of Five Thousand Dollars per year as full compensation for his services.

SEC. 2. No person shall be mayor who has not resided in the territory embraced within the city limits for the five years next preceding the date of his election, and who does not possess the qualifications of a member of the Upper House of the Common Council as hereinbefore defined; nor shall any person continue in the office of mayor who shall have ceased to possess any of said qualifications.

SEC. 3. When two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes, and more than any other person, for the office of mayor, the contestants shall decide the same by lot, in the presence of the lower house of the common council, the result of which shall be recorded by the city clerk.

SEC. 4. The mayor may be removed from office for any misdemeanor or other offense by a concurrent vote of two-thirds of both houses of the common council elect, and the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal of each house.

SEC. 5. The mayor shall take care that the laws of the state, the provisions of this charter and the ordinances of the city are duly enforced. He shall, from time to time, give the council information relative to the state of the city and shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall deem expedient and for the advantage of the city. He shall have power to appoint all city officers not designated by this charter to be