Twenty-eighth. To fix the rates of wharfage and Wharfage. dockage, and to provide for the collection thereof, and to provide for the imposition and collection of such har bor fees as may be consistent with the laws of the Harbor fees. United States; Twenty-ninth. To license, regulate, control or License tugs, restrain wharf-boats, tugs, and other boats used about etc. the harbor or within such jurisdiction; Thirtieth. To require the owners of public halls or Exit from pubother buildings to provide suitable means of exit; to lic buildings. provide for the prevention and abatement of nuis- Nuisances. ances, for the cleaning and purification of water- Water courses. courses and canals, for the drainage and filling up of ponds on private property within its limits, when the Ponds. same shall be offensive to the senses or dangerous to health; to regulate and control and to prevent and punish the defilement or pollution of all streams running Streams. through or into its corporate limits, and for the distance of five miles beyond its corporate limits, and on any stream or lake from which the water supply of said City is taken, for a distance of five miles beyond its source of supply; to provide for the cleaning of areas, Cleaning vaults and other places within its corporate limits vaults, etc. which may be so kept as to become offensive to the senses or dangerous to health. and to make all such quarantine or other regulations as may be necessary Quarantine. for the preservation of the public health, and to remove all persons afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease to some suitable place to be provided for that purpose; Thirty-first. To declare what shall be a nuisance Nuisance. and to abate the same, and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist; Thirty-second. To regulate the selling or giving Liquor. away of intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquors: Paovided, That no license shall be granted to any person or persons who shall not first comply with the general laws of the State in force at the time the same is granted; Thirty-third. To grant licenses for any lawful pur- Licenses. pose, and to fix by ordinance the amount to be to be paid therefor, and to provide for revoking the same: Provided, That no license shall be granted to continue for longer than one year from the date thereof; Occupations affecting health Thirty-fourth. To regulate the carrying on within and good order. its corporate limits of occupations which are of such a nature as to affect the public health or the good order of said City, or to disturb the public peace, and which are not prohibited by law, and to provide for the punishment of all persons violating such regulations, and of all persons who knowingly permit the same to be violated in any building or upon any premises owned or controlled by them; Disorderly per sons. Disorderly conduct. Public morality. Thirty-fifth. To restrain and provide for the punishment of vagrants, mendicants, prostitutes, and other disorderly persons; Thirty-sixth. To provide for the punishment of all disorderly conduct and of all practices dangerous to public health or safety, and to make all regulations necessary for the preservation of public morality,, health, peace and good order within its limits, and to provide for the arrest, trial and punishment of all perViolation of or- sons charged with violating any of the ordinances of said ity; but such punishment shall in no case exceed the punishment provided by the laws of the State for misdemeanors; dinances. Extend streets over tide lands. Amendments, Legislative power. Thirty-seventh. To project or extend its streets over and across any tide-lands within its corporate limits, and along or across the harbor areas of such City, in such manner as will best promote the interests of com merce; Thirty-eighth. To provide in their respective Charters for a method to propose and adopt amendments thereto. NOTE-For notes of decisions relating to the various subdivisions of Section 5 see Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Vol. 1, Title 7, Chapter 4, Section 739. SEC. 6. The legislative powers of any City organized under the provisions of this act shall be vested in a Mayor and a City Council, to consist of such number of members and to have such powers as may be provided for in its Charter, who, together with such other elective officers as may be provided for in such Charter shall be elected at the times in such manner and for such terms, and shall perform such duties and receive such compensation as may be preFirst election. Scribed in such Charter: provided. That the first elec turns. tion of officers to serve under the provisions of said Charter shall be held at the time of the submission of such proposed Charter to the legal voters of such City. Said election shall be held and the returns made and canvassed according to the general provisions of the Canvass reelection laws of said City; but any division of the City into wards, and any division of wards into precincts, made in said proposed Charter shall be in force at said election. Immediately after the vote of such election shall have been canvassed, and the result thereof declared, if it shall appear that a majority of the votes cast at such election were cast in favor of the ratification of such proposed Charter, tne Mayor and City Clerk of said City shall thereupon issue notice to each Notice of elecofficer elected at such election, notifying him of his election, and within ten days after the issuance of such notice the officers so elected shall qualify as provided in such Charter, and on the tenth day after the issuance of such notice, at 12 o'clock M., of said day, the officers so elected and qualified shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of the offices to which they have been elected, and at such time said Charter shall be attested as recorded and go into effect. tion. SEC. 7. Any City adopting a Charter under the Powers. provisions of this Act shall have all the powers which are now or may hereafter be conferred upon incorporated towns and cities by the laws of this State, and all such powers as are usually exercised by municipal corporations of like character and degree, whether the same shall be specifically enumerated in this Act or not. SEC. 8. The rule that statutes in derogation of the Construction of Common Law are to be strictly construed shall have no statutes. application to this Act, but the same shall be liberally construed for the purpose of carrying out the objects for which this Act is intended. SEC. 9. Whereas, the statutes now in force in this Emergency State are inadequate to the present wants and necessi-clause. ties of the Cities herein provided for, an emergency is declared to exist: This Act shall, therefore, take effect from and after its approval by the governor. Approved March 24, 1890. See Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Vol. 1. Title 7, Chapter 4, Sections 735 to 742. AFFIDAVIT OF BOARD OF FREE HOLDERS. I, W. J. Meade, Thomas Carroll, L. D. Campbell, J. D. Caughran, H. O. Geiger, C. A. Hasbrouck, J. H. Houghton, Theodore Huggins, George O. Kelly, F. T. Olds, J. M. Steele, W. H. Snell, W. C. Sharpstein, M. M. Taylor and J. C. Weatherred, do solemnly swear that I am a freeholder of the City of Tacoma, that I have resided in said City for more than two years prior to the 10th day of June 1890, and that I am a qualified elector, and that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of Washington and perform the duties devolving upon me to the best of my ability, and will proceed to frame a Charter for the City of Tacoma, and report the same as provided by law. Thomas Carroll. C. A. Hasbrouck. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of June, 1890. The original Charter was framed and submitted by the Board of Fifteen Freeholders elected June 10, 1890, in pursuance of the provisions of Section 10, Article 11, of the Constitution of the State of Washington, the Acts of the Legislature, and Ordinance No. 316 of the City of Tacoma. ARTICLE I. INCORPORATION, BOUNDARIES AND WARD DIVISIONS. SECTION 1. We, the people of Tacoma, a City of the State of Washington, having a population of more than 20,000 inhabitants and being permitted by the con- Declaration of stitution and laws of said State of Washington to frame Charter. a Charter do hereby publish and declare this to be our City Charter: and the inhabitants of Pierce County, State of Washington, and their successors within the boundaries hereinafter described, are hereby constituted and declared to be a municipal corporation of the name of "City of Tacoma," and by such name shall have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all Courts of justice and in all actions, suits or proceedings whatsoever; and shall have and use a common Seal and alter the same at Seal. pleasure; may purchase, receive, take, hold, lease, use and enjoy property of every nature and description and control and dispose of the same; and said municipal corporation is hereby declared to be a separate highway Name. Powers. |