and it shall require a majority of those voting to carry the said election. 1911 form of government. Sec. 70. The City of Lakeland is hereby authorized at Commission any future time to establish a commission form of government and to elect its commissioners by popular vote as it may determine. Such commission form of government shall be established in the following manner, to-wit: Upon a two-thirds vote of the City Council to adopt such commission form of government, the City Council shall make a code of laws governing the city which may be enforced by three commissioners. The said code shall be published for a period of thirty days in a newspaper published in the city. An election shall be called by the Mayor and the City Council for the purpose of submitting the question of ratification of such commission form of government to the voters of the city, which election shall be held not less than thirty days from the adoption by the City Council. If a majority of the qualified electors voting at the said election shall vote in favor of the said commission the same shall become operative and of full force and effect as a method of government for the city. The code of laws so adopted and published shall thereupon become operative and be a portion of this Act. ments to Sec. 71. This charter may be amended, changed Amendor added to in the following manner: Any proposed charter. amendment thereto may be read before the City Council at its first regular meeting in any month, and if as many as five members of the City Council vote in favor of such proposed amendment, it shall lie over for consideration of the City Council until their first regular meeting in the following month, at which meeting such proposed amendment shall again be read before the City Council, and if as many as five members again vote in favor of such amendment, the City Council shall cause the same to be published for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the city and shall call an election to be held on a fixed day after the period of such publication, for the ratification or rejection of the proposed amendment by the city. If two-thirds of the qualified electors of the city voting in such election cast their votes for the proposed amendment, the City Council after canvass 1911 ing the said vote shall at their next regular monthly meeting declare the said charter amendment to be ratified and effective. Sec. 72. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 73. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. (Became a law without the approval of the Governor.) Governmental authorities. Powers of CHAPTER 6364-(No. 245). AN ACT to Amend Sections Three and Five of An Act Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That Section three of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 3. That the Government of said town shall be vested in a Mayor and five Councilmen, to be called a Town Council, who shall be elected from the town at large; a Town Clerk who shall also be the Tax Assessor: a Town Marshal, who shall also be the Tax Collector, and a Treasurer, all of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters of the said town at the first general election as hereinafter provided for, and shall hold their offices for two years, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Except that the Marshal shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council. Sec. 2. That Section five of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 5. That the said Town Council shall have power to make, ordain, establish or execute, for the government of said Town Council and the officers of said town, such ordinances, resolutions and by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Florida, or the United States; Provided, A majority of the Council at the meeting shall assent thereto,as they may deem neces sary. They shall also have the power to pass all such ordinances as may be necessary to define, abate or prevent nuisances, to restrain and punish gambling or all other disorderly conduct; to regulate the speed at which horses may be driven or ridden and automobiles may be ridden or driven through the streets; to regulate the speed at which bicycles may be ridden through the streets; to regulate the speed at which street or other railway cars, trains or engines shall be run within the town limits; to prevent the running at large of all animals in the streets of the town, or in the town limits; to license public shows, restaurants, hotels, saloons, billiard or pool tables except for private use, bowling alleys, hawkers of peddlers and merchants within the town, or any other occupation not herein mentioned, and the amount of such license may be fixed by ordinance without regard to the amount of license prescribed by law for the State upon the same business or businesses; to have charge and control of public buildings when erected; to provide for the establishment of waterworks; to organize, establish and control the fire departments; to provide for lighting the town by gas or other illuminating material, or in any other manner; to establish, keep open and repair streets, alleys, commons, parks, groves, and grounds, and to close the same when necessary; to prescribe and maintain a system of sewerage; to construct and keep in repair sidewalks and paving, requiring owners of adjacent property to pay such proportion of the expense of such drainage, sewerage, sidewalks and paving not to exceed two-thirds thereof; except that the owners of adjacent property may be required to pay the entire expense of construction of sidewalks, as may be prescribed by ordinance; to establish quarantine and health regulations for the town; to establish, regulate and control the town police; to license drays and fix the number thereof and the rates of drayage; to provide for the punishment of persons who may at any time disturb the peace of the town, or violate any of its ordinances; to fix and regulate the salaries and compensation of the officers and employees of the town except as herein otherwise provided; and to do and regulate any other matter or thing that may tend to promote the peace, welfare, prosperity and morals of the town, and for Ibid. 1911 1911 carrying into effect the aforesaid powers. The Council shall have power to impose penalties for breaches of its ordinances by fine and imprisonment in the town jail, and enforce the same by attachment summarily against the person and property of the delinquent, if the same can be found; Provided, That the penalty enforced shall in no case exceed imprisonment for sixty days or fine of two hundred dollars, or both, and in addition to the powers herein enumerated the Town Council shall have all the powers and perform all the duties granted to them or imposed upon them by the general laws of Florida, now in force for the government of cities and towns, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter. Sec. 3. This Act shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved June 3, 1911. Territorial area. CHAPTER 6365-(No. 246). AN ACT to Abolish the Present Municipal Government Sec. 2. That a municipality to be known and designated as Lawtey is hereby established, organized and constituted in the County of Bradford, and State of Florida, the territorial area of which shall be as follows: All of the southeast quarter and south half of the northeast quarter and southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and east half of the southwest quarter · in section twenty-three, and the west half of the southwest quarter and southwest quarter of the northwest quarter in section twenty-four, and the north west quarter of the northwest quarter in section twentyfive, and the north half of the northeast quarter and northeast quarter of the northwest quarter in section twentysix, all in township five, south of range twenty-two east. 1911 Sec. 3. That no obligation or contract of said town obligations, debts, etc. shall be impaired by this change, but all debts, contracts and obligations shall be obligations upon and enforceable against the new municipality. Sec. 4. That the title, right and ownership of property. Succession. uncollected taxes, dues, claims, judgments, decrees and choses in action, held or owned by the said municipality of the Town of Lawtey, shall pass and be vested in the municipal corporation hereby organized to succeed such municipality. Sec. 5. That said corporation shall have perpetual suc- Succession. cession, shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have a common seal which may be changed by the Town Council at pleasure. Sec. 6. rights. That said corporation may own, purchase, Property lease, receive, acquire and hold property, real and personal, within the territorial boundaries of said corporation, and may own, purchase, lease, receive, acquire and hold property, real and personal, beyond the limits of said corporation to be used for any and all such public purposes as the Mayor and Town Council may deem necessary or proper. Sec. 7. That said corporation is hereby fully empowered to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any and all property, real or personal, which may belong to said corporation, to the same extent as natural persons may do. That the Town Council may prescribe, by ordinance, the manner of making such conveyances. Authority to dispose of property. Sec. 8. That the corporate authority of said Lawtey Corporate authority. shall be vested in a Mayor, Town Council, Clerk, Assessor and Treasurer (one person), Marshal and Collector (one person), and such other officers as may be appointed and constituted according to ordinance. No person shall be eligible to any of said offices who shall not be a citizen of the State of Florida, and who shall not be a resident and legal voter of said corporation; Provided, That this sec |