a.
Activities Prohibited.
1.
As specified in city ordinances and state or federal law, no person
shall be appointed to or removed from, or in any way favored or discriminated
against with respect to any city position or appointive city administrative
office because of race, national origin, age, sex, disability, religion,
or political affiliations.
2.
No person shall willfully make any false statement, certificate,
mark, rating, or report in regard to any test, certification, or appointment
under the personnel provisions of this charter or the rules and regulations
made thereunder, or in any manner commit or attempt to commit any
fraud preventing the impartial execution of such provisions, rules,
and regulations.
3.
No person who seeks appointment or promotion with respect to any
city position or appointive city administrative office shall directly
or indirectly give, render, or pay any money, service, or other valuable
thing to any person for or in connection with his test, appointment,
proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion.
b.
Penalties. Any person who by himself or with others
willfully violates any of the provisions of paragraphs (1) through
(3) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punishable by a fine or by imprisonment or both as established
by law or ordinance.
No action shall be maintained against the city for or on account
of any injury growing out of alleged negligence of the city unless
notice shall first have been given in writing to the city manager
within ninety days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed,
stating the place, time, character, and circumstances of the injury,
and that the person so injured will claim damages therefore from the
city.
All officers and employees of the city who receive, disburse,
or are responsible for city funds and such other officers and employees
as the council by ordinance may designate, shall within such time
after election or appointment as may be fixed by ordinance, and before
entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond to the city
in such sums and with such sureties as shall be prescribed by ordinance,
and subject to approval by the council, conditioned upon the faithful
and proper performance of their duties and for the prompt accounting
for and paying over to the city of all moneys belonging to the city
that may come into their hands. The city shall pay the premiums on
all such bonds.
Amendments to this charter may be framed and submitted to the electors by a commission in the manner provided by law and the Constitution for framing and submitting a complete charter. Amendments also may be proposed by the council or by petition of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the registered qualified electors of the city, filed with the city clerk, setting forth the proposed amendment. The council shall at once provide by ordinance that any amendment so proposed shall be submitted to the electors at the next election held in the city not less than sixty (60) days after its passage, or at a special election held as provided by law and the Constitution for a charter. Any amendment approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon shall become a part of the charter at the time and under the conditions fixed in the amendment; sections or articles may be submitted separately or in the alternative and determined as provided by law and the Constitution for a complete charter. All petitions will follow the form and procedure for petitions detailed in Section 8.3 except for the percent of the registered qualified electors specified in this section on amending the charter.
a.
Improvements. The procedure for making, altering,
vacating, or abandoning a public improvement shall be governed by
general ordinance, consistent with applicable state law.
b.
Special Assessments. The procedure for levying,
collecting, and enforcing the payment of special assessments for public
improvements or special tax bills evidencing such assessments shall
be governed by general ordinance, consistent with applicable state
law.
Any ordinance may be proved by a copy thereof certified by the
city clerk under the seal of the city; or, when printed and published
by authority of the city, it shall be received in evidence in all
courts, or other places, without further proof of authenticity.
If any provision of this charter is held invalid, the other
provisions of the charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application
of the charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstances
is held invalid, the application of the charter and its provisions
to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Any use of a masculine pronoun in this charter shall not be
a reference to the masculine, but shall be a gender-neutral reference
to either male or female.
