ORD NO 01-1963 ORDINANCE NO. 1 -1963
AN ORDINANCE CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION IN THE CITY CF VAN BUREN,
ARKANSAS, TO SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS OF SAID CITY THE fUESTION OF
A P?O'VING ORDINANCE NC. 11 -1962 ESTABLISHING SEWER SERVICE CHARGES:
Rte AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the Van Buren municipnl sanitary sewer system has
become obsolete nd entirely inadequate, and the City is planning
to make extensions and improvements thereto, for which it will
raceivd a very substantial Government grant of 5171,700. but in order
to secure this grant and to pay the revenue bonds which must be issued
to secure necessary funds to make the improvements it was necessary to
establish new rates for services of the sewer system, which the City
Council did by Ordinance No. 11 -1962, passed November 12, 1962; and
WHEREAS, there has been filed in the office of the City Clerk
n petition requesting a referendum election on this ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has examined said petition and finds
that it,is in the form required by law and is signed by a sufficient
number of legal voters; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Van Buren,
Arkansas':.
SECTION 1. That a special election is hereby called to bu
held in said city on the 22nd day of January, 1963, for the purpose
of submitting to the electthrsr of the City the question of the approval
of said ordinance No. 11 -1962.
SECTION 2. That thu ballot for said special election shall be in
substantially the following form:
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BALLOT
Special Election
City of Van Buren, Arkansas
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Vote on measure by placing an "X" in the square above the measure
either. -for or against.
For Drdinance No. 11 -1962 L/
Against Ordinance No. 11 -1962 L/
Ordinance No. 11 -1962 establishes the charges for 211 sewer
services to be rendered by the Van Buren sewer system, said charges
to be affective either on thu first day of the nineteenth month -after
the data of thu sale of the City's proposed revenue honds, or the
first dy of the mcnth immediately after the completion of the
improvements, whichever is earlier.
LIST OF VOTERS NUMBER
SECTION 3. Said election shall be held under the laws of the
state of Arkansas governing elections in municipalities insofar as the
same are applicable. The City Clerk is hereby directed to deliver c
certified copy of this ordinance to the Crawford County Board of
Election commissioners so that it may provide the officials and
aupplies for holding the election, and to the Sherriff of Crawford
County.-so that he may publish his proclamation of the election one time
and post it at each polling place and in two other public places' in each
ward.
SECTION 4. The City Council finds that there is an urgent.
need fot the improvements which are to be constructed with the
proceeds of the proposed bond issue, in order to preserve the public
place, health and safety; therefore, an emergency exists and this
ordinance shall take effect and be in force form and after its passage.
Pa January 7, 1963
Allen R. Toothaker (s)
Mayor
Attest:
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Gdo. L. Crofton (s)
City Clerk