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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinances and Municipal Laws, Page 390r 390 REVISED ORDINANC> S OF PADUCAH. Loss of Time by Officers. City Hospital Bonds. be fined in any amount not less than $5 nor more than $zs for each offense. Sec. 4. That all didinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are, to the - extent of such confliction, hereby. repealed and this ordi- nance shall take effect from and after its passage and ap- proval. Adopted, Sept: 4th,. tgdo. J. Wei. FISHER, C. C: P. ,Approved Sept. 5th, rgoo. JAS. M. LANG, Mayor. City Hospital Bonds. An Ordinance Authorizing and providing fo'r the issuai of twenty-five thousand do!lars of bonds of the City of Pa- ducah, Kentucky, for the Purpose of Erecting a City Hos- r pita) in Said City and Submitting the same to the voters of Paducah. Be it ordained by the General Council of the City of Paducah, Kentucky. Form of Sec. r. That the City of Paducah, Kentucky shall issue bonds bonds to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, in de- monination of $5oo each, bonds to be payable at the end of ' thirty (30) years; said bonds to be serially numbered from I' one (t) to fifty (50) in-itisive, and shall bear the seal of the city when issued; shall be issued under the signature of the i} mayor; shall be countersigned by the city treasurer, and shall bear interest at the rate of four (4) per cent per an- 't 1merTMss num, payable semi-annually, and shall have interest coupons coutumx eWNZ attached thereto,� , signed by the mayor of the city and coon- tersigned•by the city treasurer. Said bonds shall not be sold Price of for less than par and accrued interest and the proceeds shall boat@a=i4 be used exclusively for the purpose of establishing a •city Lnapitcl' in the city of Paducah, by buying a site and build : , REVISED ORDRAANCES OF PADUCAH. 391 City Hospital Bonds, ing thereon or in such manner as the General Council may deem expedient.' Said bonds shall be'made payable at + some bank, or trust company in the city of New York, and where DaYaL1e shall . be issued under the authority granted the city of Paducah, by section 157 of the Constitution of the state of Kentucky, and section 3097 of the Kentucky Statutes. Sec. 2. The bonds above . provided for shall be issued only upon the conditions hereinafter set forth. Sec. 3. The issual of bonds above mentioned shall not Bonds must be valid, or binding upon the city of Paducah, until same be voted upw shall have been submitted to and voted affirmatively upon by.two-thirds (2-3) of the qualified voters of the city of Pa- ducah, Kentucky, voting at an election hereinafter provided for and for the purpose of taking the sense of the qualified voters of the City of Paducah upon the question of issuing said bonds, an election is hereby called to be held in, Padu- cah, Kentucky, on the regular election day in November 1903, being Tuesday, November 3rd, and between the same hours in which said regular election is 'held, and 'shall be ' conducted by the same officers who hold the elections for aldermen and other city officers at said election; and votes cast at said election shall be counted and certified in the Bow votes' same manner as provided by law, that votes for said officials counted . ,hall be counted, and certilied and shall be returned to the same ollicials, and the results shall' be annmmced in the same manner as is provided for by law for elections of mu- nicipal officers in cities of the secofld class. The qualifications of the voters at the said election shall Wattflcatles be determined and ascertained by section one, (t) article (7) of voture seven of the Charter, act of March 19th, 1894; at said elec- tion all votes cast shall be by secret ballot for the purpose BecrstLallM of determining the sense of the voters of this city upon this . question; there shall be certified to the Clerk of McCracken County, by the Clerk of the City of Paducah, the fact of the passage of this ordinance, and all the questions to be voted upon, and said Clerk of McCracken County, shall be. Duty of 0140 I .1 REVISED ORDINANCES OF PADUCAH. __- --- Ilk City Hospital Bonds. requested and required to have placed upon said ballots to j, be voted at the regular election in November, at a specified place on said ballot, the following words: yneetlon "For the issual of twenty-five thousand dollar bonds by q, bajjoe O° the city of Paducah, Kentucky, for the purpose of erecting a new city hospital" and that there be left on the right hand side of said words two spaces above and below each other—the first the upper space for voters favoring the is - seal of said bonds, which shall be designated by the word "Yes", and the other or lower space for voters .opposing the issuance of said bonds, to be designated by the word "No" and the voter shall designate his vote by the cross . mark: these words, submitting the question herein before referred to, to the' voters of the City of Paducah, to be printed on the official ballot furnished by the clerk of Mc- Cracken County, for the regular election November t9o3, to the various precincts which lie, in the city of Paducah, Kentucky. when bonds may be 1 Wsued H Sec. q. The said clerk'shall cause notice of the election herein called to be given by publication of these ordinances in the official newspaper-. of the said city for two weeks con- tinuously next before the day of holding the election, and said clerk shall post a printed copy of the said ordinance in , two public places, in each of the voting precincts of the city,' of Paducah, at least ten days (to) before the date of the said election. See. s. In the event that two thirds (2-3) of all the qualified voters of the city of Paducah voting upon said pro- position shall vote for the issual of said bonds, then the city of Paducah shall issue said bonds, as provided by law, subject to, the conditions contained in this ordinance: but in case thv proposition to issue said bonds' docs not receive the votes of two thirds (2-3) of the qualified voters of said City of Pa• duenh, voting upon the anid proposition, then this ordinance shall be ndil and void, and of no effect. �J i F u i F u City Hospital Bonds. Street Improvement Bond*. See. 6. And it is hereby further ordained and agreed, for Tel lepra ps, that if the bands herein mentioned are voted. at the election of Wride herein provided, that the said City of Paducah, by its gen- eral council, shall cause to be levied a tax sufficient to pay off the interest on said bonds as the same falls due, and provide a fund sufficient to pay off said bonds when they be- come due. Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage, publication and approval. 'Adopted by the Council Sep. 29, 1903. CHAS. REED, Pres. Adopted by Aldermen Oct. .1. 1903. L. E. DURRETT. Pres. Approved Oct. 2 Itw3. i D. A. YEISER, Mayor, Street Improvement Bonds. An Ordinance Authorizing and providing for the issue[ of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bonds of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, for the purpose of street Im- provements, and submitting the same to the voters of'Pa- ducah. Be it ordained by the general council of the City of Paducah, Ky. Section I. That the City of Paducah, Kentucky shall FosmofbooM issue bonds to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in denominations of $1,00o each, bonds to be payable at the end of thirty years (30) 'said bonds to be serially numbered from one (1) to one hundred and fifty (15o), in - elusive, and shall bear the seal of the city when issued: shall be issued under the signature of the Mayor; shall be coun- tersigned by the city treasurer and shall bear interest at the rate of per cent per annum payable semi-annual) 4 P I p Y Y, Interest coupons and shall have interest coupons attached thereto signed by atcwhed i 1