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Act ORDIL'.;:' CREATINS A L'OARD TO lis .:170.;11 ti.; T iE
11Co!7I:ISSIONER3 Qin' 1,"+ATER1i0RKS" TO BE COMPOSED OF T:'R3E P.,EP.,BERS
tYHO SHALL SLRVE INITHOUT COI MITSATI0;1 TO SUCCEED M,E 1.:E1.LLR3 NO'.7
SERVI`:G A3 3UCH C01.i_23fiI0 i3RS, AND PRESCR_IL=ING THEIR QUALIFICATIOI:
TERLIS OF OFFICE, PO',' A.,D DUTIES
BE IT ORDAIKSD BY TEE I:OARD OF C01':,1sI33IOVER3 01' 'ME CITY
OF PADUCAY, KEI TL Y.
SEC TION 1.
There is hereby created a board to be styled "Commissioners
of ''laterworks" composed of three members to be appointed by the
1'ayor with the a.proval of the Board of Commissioners. They shall
be legal voters and residents of the City of Paducah, shall be
appointed at the expiration of the terms of office of the mem$ors
of the Commissioners of "::aterworks noir serving, and shall serve
without compensation for indefinite terms, subject to removal by
the legislative body of the city for cause.
In order that said commission may be nonpartisan and non-
political, no person shall be appointed a member to succeed those
persons now serving 1:rho7is related within the third degree to the
L:ayov or any member of the legislative body of the city. The
Commissioners now in office and those who will hereafter be appoint
for indefinite terms shall not appoint to any subordinate office
or -:osition of employment created by them any person who is related
to any member of the legislative body or to the mayor or Chief
executive of the city, or to any member of the commission. If
at any time during his term of office any member of the commission
becomes a candidate for any public office, he shall automatically
vacate his office on the commission and another person shall be
appointed.
SECTIO11 2.
Iach member of the Commissioners of 'i.'atere:orks now serving
rhall continue to receive until the expiration of his respective
term of office the sui of i'hroe ?!undrod (;300.00) Dollars per
year as compensation for his services, pa;.rable out of the :income
of said ':'aterworics :v!.ich may be assigned to operstinm expense,
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the same to be paid in equal monthly installments until the expirai
ion of his term. Each commissioner shall e:cecute a bond in the
sum of Five Thousand (,5,000.00) Dollars for the folthful perfor-
mance of his duties, the premium on such bond to Le paid as other
operating expenses of the waterworks. 'P:.o members of the board
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
SECTION 3.
5n id Commissioners of "Yater :forks shall control and manage
the water works and water system of the city subject to the limit-
ations and recuirements of this ordinance and of the laws of the
State of Kentucky. They shall is ve full power and authority to
appoint and remove all employees of said water works and to fix
and allo+ the compensation for such employees. Said commissioners
of '::aterworks shall have the right and are hereby given power
and authority to do any and all acts necessary or proper in the
administration of said water works, except that in the lowering
or raising Wates for service said Commissioners of '..ater arks
shall matte their recommendations to the Board of Comm=ssioners of
said City, or other legislative body of said City, and such rates
so recommended shall not become effective until same have been
ratified b./ the legislative authority of said city. Said Commissic
of :datervior'.{s shall cause all of the income and revenues of said
water works to be segregated into the proper funds, provided in an
ordinance heretofore adopted by the ioard of Commissioners and
providin^ for the issuance of bonds 'mown as 'nater 'r:orks Revenue
Bonds for the purpose of purchasin; and acquiring said water works
In the City of Paducah; and shall make and deliver to the Tlayor
monthly reports in detail of all expenditures and of all collect-
ions, and of the amount a; -:portioned to each fund aforesaid , and
they shall have power and authority to select depositories and
to require such depositories to execute bonds to secure the City
and said Commissioners of :;aterworks and the holders of any bonds
issued for the purpose of purchasing said water works against any
loss or damage on account of loss, defalcation or misapplication
of said funds. All of the funds collected and received in the
operation,of said :rater works shall be deposited in said separate
funds as herein provided, and as provided in said ordinance oro-
vidin., for said water works bonds aforesaid.
::;:C TI011 4.
The accounts of said water worka and the records of said
Commissioners of '..'aterwor':s shall be audited and inspected once on
ir.onth by the jiuditor of the City of Paducah and a report thereof
made to the F.ayor, and all of the accounts, records and transactic
of said Cormaiasioners of ':aterwor%s, and all of the records and
accounts in connection with the -peration of said water wor,.s shal_
be audited by a certified public occ•untant once each year and a
rerort hereof filed with the ;ayor of said City. The expense of
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making said annual audit shall be charged to the Operation and ;,aii
tenance Recount of said water works.
SECTION 5.
Said Commissioners of Waterworks shall have power and
authority to do any and all acts necessary and proper in the manag
and operation of said water works, and to purchase all supplies an
cause all work necessary in connection therewith to be done and na
out of the funds available .for that purpose; they shall select all
employees that may be necessary, includinZ a secretary or treasure:
who shall be the employee charged with receivinC and accounting £o
the funds and revenues of said water works. Said secretary or
treasurer shall not be a member of said Commission, but he shall
be required to execute a bond in the sum of Twenty &usand (;,20,0
Dollars to secure the faithful accountin- of all funds entrusted
to him, which bond shall be continued in force and effect, and
the premium thereon to be paid as other operating expenses and upo
the cancellation or termination of any such bond the accounts of
said secretar.� or treasurer shall be closed and an accountinG made
thereof. Payments of all accounts of five (.;5.00) Dollars or more
shall be by check, and all checks shall be drawn upon the proper
account and sined by said secretary or treasurer.
SECTION G.
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed.
SEC TION 7.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption.
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Introduced, July 31, 1946�7.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners, Auust 6, 1946
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, August 6, 1946.
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