If any section or part of any section of this Charter shall be found inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of the State of Oklahoma, relating to cities of the first class, said portion shall be held void, and shall not be considered a part of this Charter, and shall in no wise affect the validity of any other portion of this Charter.
This Charter shall take effect immediately on its approval by the governor, as provided by law.
Whenever in this Charter the word "city" may be used, it shall be understood to, and shall be construed to mean the City of Cushing, Oklahoma. Whenever in this Charter the word "board" appears, it shall be understood to, and shall be construed to mean the Board of Commissioners of the City of Cushing, Oklahoma. Whenever in the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma or in the laws thereof relating to cities of the first class, or any ordinances of the City of Cushing continued in force, reference shall be made to the city council, or to the mayor and councilmen or to the legislative body of the city, such reference shall be deemed to be and is made to mean the "board of commissioners."
The fiscal year of the city shall begin on the first day of July of each year and end with the last day of June of the succeeding year.
Section 1, Article XXIII of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma providing that "eight (8) hours shall constitute a day's work in all cases of employment by and on behalf of the state or any county or municipality," is hereby adopted insofar as the same relates to municipalities, and the same is hereby made a part of the Charter law of the City of Cushing.
No person who is related within the third degree by affinity or consanguinity to the commissioners or any of them, shall be appointed or employed in any service on behalf of the city, unless such person shall have been appointed or employed prior to the commencement of the term of the commissioner to whom he is related.
Any violation of the provisions of this Charter or of any of the ordinances or resolutions of the city which now exist or may hereafter be adopted, is hereby declared an offense and the person committing such offense shall be liable to such fine or imprisonment, or both fine and imprisonment as may be prescribed by ordinances, resolutions or the provisions of this Charter.
[Amended 4-5-1938]
The Board of Commissioners or the City Manager of the City of Cushing may appoint a temporary officer or officers to serve during the time one of the regularly appointed officers is incapacitated for any reason, absent, or is vacationing; such appointment to be with or without bond, and may be appointed with special powers, or with the same powers and authority as the regularly appointed, qualified and acting officer; said temporary officer or officers to be appointed only by the appointive powers as now provided in said Charter for said officers.
The board of education of any independent school district within the corporate limits of the City of Cushing may by resolution fix the number and regulate the time and manner of electing the members of such board of education:[;] provided that any change in the number and in the time and manner of electing the members of such board from that presently existing or hereafter established shall not be effective until approved by a majority of the school district electors voting at an election held for such purpose.
State of Oklahoma
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County of Payne
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Be it remembered, that the City of Cushing, Payne County, State of Oklahoma, did heretofore, to-wit: On the nineteenth day of March, Nineteen Twenty-nine, hold an election for the election of eight (8) freeholders of said city, to propose a charter for the government of said city; and at said election, there were elected as such freeholders, from each of the wards of said city, the following named persons:
Ward One — A.W. Little and Rex H. Winget
Ward Two — S.P. Alles and C.A. Rhoades
Ward Three — Fred Doye and H.J. Coleman
Ward Four — S.J. Berton and Joe Long
and said freeholders did thereupon take their oath of office, and duly qualified as a board of freeholders to prepare, suggest and propose a charter to be executed in duplicate and filed within ninety (90) days from the day and date of said election.
The freeholders so elected and qualified, did organize by the election of S.J. Berton as Chairman of the Board and Fred Doye as Secretary of the Board.
The board of freeholders has prepared, formulated, adopted and does hereby propose to the qualified electors of the City of Cushing, the above and foregoing Charter for adoption.
In testimony whereof, witness our hands at Cushing, Oklahoma, in duplicate on this thirty-first day of May, Nineteen Twenty-nine.
A.W. Little,
Rex Winglet,
First Ward
 
 
S.P. Alles,
C.A. Rhoades,
Second Ward
 
 
Fred Doyle,
H.J. Coleman,
Third Ward
 
Joe Long,
S.J. Berton,
Fourth Ward
 
 
One (1) copy filed with the Mayor of Cushing and one copy with the County Clerk, ex officio Register of Deeds, of Payne County, on the 31st day of May, 1929.
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EXECUTIVE CHAMBER
Oklahoma City
WILLIAM J. HOLLOWAY,
Governor
                   August 13, 1929.
The above and foregoing Charter, adopted by vote of the people of the City of Cushing, Oklahoma, July 16, 1929, is hereby approved.
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(Signed) C.S. Storms
Acting Governor
The original filed with Secretary of State on the 30th day of August, 1929.
S.J. Berton
City Attorney for Cushing, Oklahoma
Filed for record in County Clerk's office September 10, 1929, and recorded in Book 41, Miscellaneous, page 42.
Filed with City Clerk on the 23rd day of September, 1929.