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Tit XIII, Ch. 39. GOVERNMENT OP CITIES BY COMMISSION. II 4219-al-4224.
204 elections in such city, the election precinct, voting places, method of
205 conducting election, canvassing the vote and announcing the results
206 shall be the same as by law provided for election of officers in such
207 cities, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the
208 provisions of this chapter.
[S., '13, § 1056-a21 ; 39 G. A., ch. 109, § 1.]
SEC. 4219-al. Arrangement of names on ballot.
1 The names of the candidates for offices to be filled under the pre-
2 ceding section shall be arranged and printed upon the primary election
3 ballots and upon the general municipal election ballots in the following
4 manner, to wit : The city clerk shall prepare a list of the election pre-
5 cincts of his city, by arranging the various wards or precincts of such
6 city in numerical order. He shall then arrange the surnames of all
7 candidates for such offices alphabetically for the respective offices for
8 the first precinct in the list; thereafter, for each succeeding precinct,
9 the name or names appearing first for the respective offices in the last
10 precinct should be placed last, so that the names that were second bell
fore the change be first after the change.
[S., '13, § 1056-a21; 39 G. A., ch. 109, § 2.]
SEC. 4S19-a2. Act declared optional—submission to electors.
1 This act [39 G. A., ch, 109] shall not apply to cities now operating
2 under the commission form of government heretofore adopted and
3 approved by a vote of their electors, unless the same shall have been
4 submitted to a vote of the electors of said city in the manner provided
5 by title five, chapter fourteen-C of the supplement to the code, 1913,
6 and amendments thereto. [Compiled code, chapter 39, title XIII.]
[39 G. A., ch. 109, § 4.]
NOTE: The above section apparently preserves section 4219 of the compiled
code, as it was before the enactment of 39 G. A., ch. 109, for every commission
governed city organized prior to said enactment which does not adopt the new
plan provided in said chapter, notwithstanding the flat repeal of practically all of
said section 4219 and the enactment of a substitute for the repealed matter. The
word "act" and the reference to the supplement to the code, 1913, have been
retained because of the peculiar character of the above section.
SEC. 4224. Department superintendents—officers and assistants.
1 The mayor shall be superintendent of the department of public
2 affairs and each councilman shall be superintendent of the particular
3 department to which he was elected. The council shall, at the first
4 regular meeting after election, or as soon as practicable thereafter,
5 elect by majority vote the following officers : city clerk, solicitor, as-
6 sessor, treasurer, auditor, civil engineer, city physician, marshal, mar-
7 ket master, street commissioner, and such other officers and assistants
8 as shall be provided for by ordinance and necessary to the proper and
9 efficient conduct of the affairs of the city ; provided, however, that in
10 cities having a population of less than twenty-five thousand such only
11 of the above named officers shall be appointed as may, in the judgment
12 of the mayor and councilmen, be-necessary for the proper and efficient
13 transaction of the affairs of the city. In those cities of the first class
14 not having a superior court, the council shall appoint a police judge
15 or in any city of the second class under the commission form of govern-
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