1968 Recommendations to Change Fiscal Year

Browse Search

-16-38LA FORTE, Texas Charter 10-7-69 OG _-__-_- nance; therwise it shall provide for the .submission of tbg amendment at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. Not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election, the city clerk shall mail a copy of the proposed ;.amendment or amendments to each qualified votes in said city as appears from the latest rolls of the tax collector. If a pro - .posed amendment•.be approved by majority "(if the'electors voting thereon, it shall become a part. of the. a t$rter at the time fixed therein. Each amendment shall be confined'to one subject; and when more than one amendment shall be sub- mitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as- to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. Section 133. Separability clause. If any section or part of section of this charter shall be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this charter nor the context in which such section or part of section so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably connected in meaning and ef- fect with the section or part of section to which such holding shall directly apply. Section 134. Submission of charter to electors. The charter commission in preparing this charter 'finds and decides that it is impracticable to segregate each subject so as to permit a vote of `'yes" or "no" on the same, for the reason that the charter is so constructed that in order to . nable it to work and• function it is necessary that it should be adopted in its entirety. For these reasons the charter com- mission directs that said charter be voted upon as a whole and that it shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City. of La Porte at an election to be held for that purpose on the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1949. If a majority of the qualified voters voting in such election shall vote in favor of the adoption of this charter, it shall become the charter of the •City of La Porte, and after the returns have been canvassed, the same shall be declared adopted and the city clerk shall file an official copy of the charter with the records of the city. The clerk shall furnish the mayor a copy of said charter, which copy of the charter so adopted, authenticated and certi- fied by his signature and the seal of the city, shall be for- warded by the mayor to the secretary of state of the State of Texas and shall show the approval of such charter by majority vote of the qualified voters voting at such election. In not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election the commission shall cause the city clerk to mail a copy • of this charter to ' each qualified voter of the City of La Porte as appears from the tax collectors roll for the year ending January thirty-first preceding said election. It being impracticable to submit this charter bk sections it is hereby prescribed that the form of ballot to be -used in such election shall be as follows, to wit: FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE CHARTER.' AGAINST THE ADOPTION OF THE CHARTER. CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE Date Disposition 3-22-49 1- 184 4-22-58 3 4-22-58 12 4-22-58 16 8-23-69 10 8-23-69 12- 14 8-28-69 21 8-28-69 33 8-23-69 49- 66 8-23-69 83, 119