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Session Laws, 1916
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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 301

may deem best; and provided further that said committee may
make contracts after due advertisement for lighting or supply-
ing said Section 3 of said village with water for periods of five
years, but no longer period at a time; and provided further,
that no member of said Citizens' Committee shall furnish any
supplies! of any kind or contract in any manner with said
Citizens' Committee.

Section 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Citizens'
Committee subject to the approval of the said Board of County
Commissioners may adopt such regulations with respect to
dumping of garbage, sanitation, erection of buildings, tearing
up of streets, speed regulations, care of property, removal of
snow, ice or other police or health regulations, and to provide
penalties for the violation thereof, as said committee may. deem
proper.

Any Justice of the Peace in Montgomery County shall have
jurisdiction to try and determine any violation of any of said
regulations and to impose the penalties thereby provided. The
sheriff of said county and his deputies and any constable in
said county shall have authority to arrest for any violation of
such regulations and to execute all writs issued by any such
Justice of the Peace in connection, with such regulations or
with the punishments of the persons violating any of them.
The procedure shall be in accordance with that now provided
for the trial of misdemeanors by said Justices of the Peace
and appeals shall be allowed as in cases of misdemeanor. All
proceedings with respect to the violation of any such regulation
shall be conducted by or through and in the name of said Citi-
zens' Committee on behalf of said Section Three. Costs of any
such proceedings may in the discretion of the presiding Justice
of the Peace be assessed against any person convicted of any
violation of said regulations and if not so assessed shall be paid
by said Citizens' Committee.

Section 7. And be it further enacted, That for the pur-
pose of making the improvements provided for in Section 4
of this Act or for making improvements from time to time
other than maintenance and repairs, the said Citizens' Com-
mittee are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money
and otherwise contract indebtedness and obligate said Section
3 in amounts not exceeding in total at any time ten per cent,
of the assessed valuation of the real property within said Sec-
tion 3, and for these purposes said Section 3 shall be and here-
by is constituted a corporation, and the said Citizens' Commit-
tee is empowered to act for said corporation.

 

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