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CHARTER 7.01 b. Ballots. Ballots used at recall elections shall conform to the following requirements: 1. With respect to each person whose removal is sought the question shall be submitted "Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of (name of office) by recall?" 2. Immediately below each such question there shall be printed the two (2) following propositions, one above the other, in the order indicated: "For the recall of (name of person)" "Against the recall of (name of person)." c. Results. If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election shall be against the recall of the officer named on the ballot, he shall continue in office for the remainder of his unexpired term, subject to recall as before. If a majority of the votes at such an election be for the recall of the officer named on the ballot, he shall, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition, be deemed removed from office and the vacancy shall be filled as in other vacancies. . 6.10. District judge may order election. Should city council fail or refuse to order any ofthe elections as provided for in this article, when ail the requirements for such election have been complied with by the petitioning electors in conformity-with this article ofthe Charter, then it shall be the duty of anyone of the district judges of Harris County, Texas, upon proper application being made therefor, to order such elections and to enforce the carrying into effect of the provisions of this article of the Charter. ~TICLE VII. FRANCmSES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES' 7.01. Enfranchisement. a. Power of council. City council shall have power by ordinance to grant, amend, renew and extend all franchises of all public utilities of every character operating within the city. All ordinances granting, amending, renewing or extending franchises for public utilities shall not be finally passed until thirty (30) days after the first reading; and no such ordinance shall take effect uritil sixty (60) days after its final passage; and pending such time, the notice and caption of such ordinance, noting the place where the full text may be examined by the public, shall be published once each week for four (4) consecutive weeks in the official newspaper !Jf the city, and the expense of such publication [is] to be borne by the proponent of the franchise. No public ~ - utility franchise shall be transferable except with the approval of council expressed by ordinance. b. Extensions. All extensions of public utilities within the city limits shall become a part of the aggregate property of the public utilities, shall be operated as such, and shall be subject to all the obligations and reserved rights contained in this Charter and in any original grant *State law references-Franchises, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 1175; franchise to use streets; V.T.C.A., Transportation Code ~ 311.071 et seq. CHT:27