received, or expect to receive any presents or compensation from any contractor, or other person interested in said work or improvement, and said report shall be duly sworn to by each member of said board. SEC. 19. Said board shall keep a full and complete record Record. and copies of all contracts, plans, maps, specifications, plats, and record of every kind whatsoever, growing out of any work or improvement made or superintended by said board, and the number of all building permits issued, and the location and cost of such buildings and improvements, and shall keep a full account of all expenditures made by it since its last report. No member of said board shall purchase any material of any kind whatsoever, without giving a written order therefor, signed by at least one member of said board. members of SEC. 20. Any member of such board may at any time be re- Removal of moved from office by a vote of two thirds of the city council for board. sufficient cause, and the proceedings in that behalf shall be entered in the records of the council; provided that the council sball previously cause a copy of the charges against such member or members sought to be removed to be served upon him or them, together with a notice of the time and place of hearing the same at least ten days previous to the time assigned and op. portunity to be given him or them to make his or their defense. SEC. 21. Said board shall be provided with a suitable office Office. with fuel, lights, stationary, (stationery) apparatus, utensils, etc., at the expense of the city. SEC. 22. Said board shall have such further powers and per- Further form such duties as the city council may lawfully from time to powers. time prescribe by ordinance not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Approved April 9, 1888. CHAPTER 2. POWERS AND DUTIES OF MAYORS EXTENDED. AN ACT Extending to Cities Organized Under Special Charters, the H. F. 332. Provisions of Chapter 192 of the Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly. cities under Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the provisions of chapter one hundred and Applicable to ninety-two (192) of the acts of the Twentieth General Assem- special charter bly relating to the powers and duties of mayors of cities of the first and second class, shall be and are hereby made applicable to cities organized under special charters. Approved March 12, 1888. H. F. 6. Warrants drawn only on vote of council. Descriptive payment. CHAPTER 3. ISSUING OR PAYING CITY WARRANTS. AN ACT to Regulate the Manner of Issuing or Paying City Warrants in Cities of the First and Second Class and Cities Organized Under Special Charters. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. The city auditor or city clerk or other officer of such cities whose duty it is to draw warrants of any city of the first or second class or any city organized under special charter shall not draw any warrant, except upon the vote of the city council, and he shall on the first Monday of each month furnish the council a sworn and complete list of all warrants, and the amount thereof drawn by him during the preceding month, and such list shall state on whose account, and the ob ject and purposes for which the same were drawn, and the auditor or other proper officer of such city shall publish such report monthly in the official newspaper of such city. SECTION 2. The city treasurer of such cities shall keep a list presented for of all warrants presented for payment, and the date of presentation and of the particular fund upon which they are drawn. Warrants so presented where there are no monies (moneys) in the funds on which they are drawn to pay the same, shall be endorsed as follows: "Presented and not paid for want of funds," and thereafter such warrants shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. (6%) per annum, except warrants issued by a resolution of the city council, or contract with the city in which it is provided that they shall not bear interest. Warrants shall be paid in the order of their presentation from the particular fund upon which they are drawn, and whenever there is an accumulation in the city treasury of any city of the first class or city organ. ized under a special charter the sum of two thousand, five hun dred dollars ($2500) or in the city treasury of any city of the second class the sum of five hundred ($500), in any fund or sufficient to pay all warrants drawn on that fund, he shall call in warrants to the amount of such fund for payment in the order of their presentation or the city council may at any time direct a call. The notice of such call shall be published in two of the daily newspapers of the cities of the first class or cities organ ized under special charters for one week, and in one daily or weekly newspaper in cities of second class or cities organized under special charters, and shall state that after a certain date, no interest will be paid on warrants therein described. He shall set out in such notice the several numbers of warrants to Warrants called. be paid. Warrants issued by any such cities shall not be tendered or received by the county treasurer in payment of city taxes. SEC. 3. The city auditor or other proper officer shall draw no single warrant for an amount in excess of five hundred dol lars, ($500.) Approved April 12, 1888. CHAPTER 4. APPROPRIATION OF MONEY IN CERTAIN CITIES. AN ACT To regulate the Appropriation of Money in certain Cities H. F. 387. of the first class. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: made year. SECTION 1. All cities of the first class shall make their appropriation for all the different expenditures of the city govern Appropria ment for each fiscal year at or before the beginning thereof, tone before and it shall be unlawful for the city council or any officer, agent beginning of or employe of the city, to issue any warrant, enter into any contract, or appropriate any money in excess of the amount thus appropriated, for the different expenses of the city, during the year for which said appropriation shall be made, and any such city shall not appropriate in the aggregate, an amount in excess of its annual legally authorized revenue, but nothing herein shall prevent such cities from anticipating their revenues for the year for which such appropriation was made, or from bonding or refunding their outstanding indebtedness, Provided, that this section shall not apply to cities of the first class organized since 1881. SEC. 2. Such cities shall advertise in at least two newspa- Advertisepers published in said cities for three weeks, two insertions ments for bids for supplies. each week for bids for furnishing all supplies of every kind, for the several departments of [the] city, not required to be ad vertised for by the board of public works; said advertisements to be published two weeks before the beginning of each fiscal year. Each officer or board in charge of any department in said cities, shall furnish and file in the city clerk's office thirty days before the beginning of each fiscal year, a sworn, detailed statement of the supplies necessary for his or their department during the next fiscal year. This bill having remained with the Governor three days (Sunday excepted), the General Assembly being in session, has become a law this 12th day of April, A. D. 1888 FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. H. F. 517. Board of public works to make contracts for materials. Contract to be made in name of city. Duty of city engineers. CHAPTER 5. RELATIVE TO CONTRACTS BY CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS. AN ACT To Repeal Sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, and 12 of Chapter 168, Acts of the Twenty-first General Assembly and enacting a substitute therefor relative to making contracts by Cities of the first class containing a population of over thirty thousand for Paving and Curbing streets and Construction of Sewers and the making and Collection of Assessments and issuance of Bonds or Certificates to pay for the same. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That section 2 of chapter 168, laws of the Twenty-first General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 2. When the council of any such city shall direct the paving, curbing or sewering of any street or streets the board of public works of such city shall make and enter into contracts for furnishing materials and for curbing and paving or sewering, as the case may be, of any such street or streets either for the entire work in one contract or parts thereof in separate and specified sections as to them may seem best; provided that no work shall be done under any such contract until a certified copy shall have been filed in the office of the city clerk. SEC. 2. That section 3 of chapter 168, laws of the Twentyfirst General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 3. All such contracts shall be made by the board of public works in the name of the city upon such terms of payment as shall be fixed by the council and shall be made with the lowest bidder or bidders upon sealed proposals after public notice for not less than three weeks in at least two newspapers of said city which notice shall state the kind and amount of work to be done and specify the different kinds of material for which bids shall be received. SEC. 3. That section 5 of chapter 168, laws of the Twentyfirst General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 5. It shall be the duty' of the city engineer to furnish the Board of Public Works with proper grades and lines and see that the work is done in accordance with the ordinances and regulations of the city with respect to such grades and lines. SEC. 4. That section 6 of chapter 168, laws of the Twentyfirst General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacting [enacted] in lieu thereof: Sec. 6. For the purpose of providing for the payment of the cost and expense of any such improvement or improvements, the council shall be authorized from time to time, as the work progresses, upon estimates to be furnished by the Board of Public Works, to make requisitions upon the mayor of the city for the issue of bonds of the city in such sums as shall be deemed best, and it shall be the duty of the mayor to make and execute bonds accordingly in the name of the city to an amount not exceeding the amount of the contract price of any such improvement, and the incidentals attending the same. Said bonds to bear the name of the street or streets improved, to be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk, and sealed with the corporate seal of the city, and shall all bear the same date, and be payable seven years after date, and redeemable at any time at the option of the city, and shall bear interest at the rate of not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. SEC. 5. That section 10 of chapter 168, laws of the Twentyfirst General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 10. When any such improvement shall have been completed it shall be the duty of the council to ascertain the entire amount of the bonds sold and the interest thereon to the date of completion which shall be taken to be the costs of such improvement and the entire amount of such cost, including the intersection of streets and alleys shall then be assessed by the Board of Public Works and City Engineer, constituting the Board of Assessors, upon the property fronting or abutting upon said improvement, provided that nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing the council to assess a greater amount than three dollars, per lineal foot on account of the construction of sewers: and provided further that the cost of any such improvement shall not be assessed on property belong. ing to the State. SEC. 6. That section 11 of chapter 168, laws of the Twentyfirst General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: Sec. 11. The Board of Public Works shall cause a plat of the street or streets on which any improvement shall be made showing the separate lots of ground and the name of all such owners and the amount assessed Bonds to be issued in payment as work progresses. Street improved to be named in bond. Cost of Improvement to be assessed against abutting property. Plat of streets improved. |