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A RESOLUTION DECLPIII-T': TO 3Uu1:IIT TO TiL VOTEI ; 0.1" T -s CIT'I 0'
PADUCA::, iiEIITUCK1, AT UIE tiEXT REGULAP ELECTION UIE ";UESTIO ; C. ` M PA,1.3AGE
OF A_1 OrRDINANCE ENTITLM: "Ali ORDINAIiCE REDUCING TI -2 ?JATC',' :.5::'C: ,.,D IQII:II.?U,:?
'—A]I'iGES FOR ';TATER SERVICE TO ALL CU3TOi.IERS OF Th FADUC.,': .:r: :0 _`:S E.'iCEPT
LONE OAR WATER DISTRICT, FIXING SAID RATES A,;D CIIARGEU AT Z;E ';ATES
PREVAILED 01' MOVEN-Ul 1, 1549, AND PROVIDIITG ME TER_'.::; AIM CONDITIONS UPO_"
ICE SAID RATES A --:D CITARGES i::AY LE CHAidGED", WHICH ORDI\A:iC3 T:IE BOARD
CO_-::.=SIONERS :'AS REQUESTED TO PASS UPOI'T A PETITION? FILZD ';;IT,'-: SAID i OA -:D
AT THE REGULAR ;',: sETIPiG I?ELD OIT ;.IARCUI 28, 1950
WhMEAS, on the 20th day of ;:arch, 1950, the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Paducah received and filed a petition requestinG the adoption
or an ordinance containing the title quotes: above; and.
W_7 20, under the provisions of KRS 96.320, the Commissioners of
.tater ';forks are given the right to manage and control the mater works system
of the city which includes the rirht to fix the salaries of those employed :in
the maintenance and operation of said system; and
7.'!$EPiEA3, it is questionable as to whether or not the matter of fixin--
rates for water service, the fi;cinU of salaries of personnel employed by the
Commissioners of Water ilorks, and the placinZ of such employees under the rules
of civil service can be submitted to a vote of the people under the Statutes
and the Constitution of the State of Kentucky; and
Tau EAS, under ':RS 39.610 the Board of Connnissioners has no right
to submit the o_uestion of the passage of the aforesaid ordinance to the voters
of the city if said ordinance is oen which the board irself does not have the
legal right to pass; and
,7 jBR1AS, by reason of the public is interest in said le„islation and
the manner in which such interest will be affected if the ordinance sho,.ld
be passed, it is deemed advisable that the validity of the ordinance be
approved before it is passed or the city incurs the expense of an elect -on;
YOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED B'C THE BOARD OF CO?.i::iIS iIO.'TEnS OF
CITY OF PADUCA_T-I, KEITTUCR'i':
SEC TIO1T 1.
That the Board of Commissioners decline to submit to the voters
of the City of Paducah, Kentuchy, at the ne%t regular election the question
of the passage of an ordinance entitled: "A T ORDIXA-'110E REDUCI:dG TL
—7) '.iINIMU;S CIIARG23 FOR .!AT2SERVICE TO ALL CU3TO ,?tea OF T;
.C;,'S EXCEPT TILE WIN' s OAR :!AT ER DISTRICT, = L`:2:1;a SAID i ATE'3 A::D
AT 7' :. ;;ATE3 :'TIICH PREVAILED ON ITOMIDEI, 1, 195:9, Ai'.D P;,O TDII;'d m:-3 TS?:;;a
CO7;"�IT'IOIT5 UPOIT,T!ICI! SAID aATE:3 A:.D CHARuE3 ;IAY BE CIIAi.'GDD",
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requested to be passed by the uoard of Connnissionors upon a
petition _^filed e�ith
said board at the ROU .eeting hold on the 28th day of Marcia, 1950.
SECTION 2.
This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its
adoption.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners April 4, 1950
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 4, 1950.