Section 1. Designation of Jurymen. The selection and certifying to the proper County officials of persons in said City of Grand Blanc to be eligible for jury service, as required by general law, shall be made by the Mayor and justice of the peace whose term soonest expires.
Section 2. Term of Office Until Successor Qualifies. All officers and appointees shall serve until their successor is elected or appointed and qualifies as required.
Section 3. Liability for Damages. The liability of the City of Grand Blanc for damages sustained by reason of any defective bridge, street or highway, or by reason of any obstruction, snow, ice or other encumbrance upon any street, sidewalk, crosswalk, bridge or highway shall be limited to and subject to like conditions as in case of cities of the fourth class.
Section 4. Authority Over Streets. In addition to the specific authorities of this Charter, but subject to any specific limitations of it, the Council may open, extend, alter and discontinue streets and alleys and establish grades therefor and regulate the use thereof, in like manner as cities of the fourth class.
Section 5. Fire Dept. and Protection. The City of Grand Blanc shall have like power and authority to legislate and make regulations relative to fire departments and fire protection as applicable to cities of the fourth class, and particularly as authorized by Chapter XXIX of said Fourth Class City Act.
Section 6. General Statutory Amendments. Whenever in this Charter general reference or general adoption is made to or of any general statutory provision, same shall be deemed to include all future amendments thereto, provided no repeal of such statutory provision by the Legislature shall operate to repeal the same as to the City of Grand Blanc unless it shall clearly appear that such effect was intended by such legislative repeal or unless such repealed statutes be replaced and superseded by other statutes covering the same subject matter, in which event such new legislation shall be deemed applicable thereto.
Section 7. General Powers. Said Council and several officers and appointees are hereby declared vested with full power and authority to do all things necessary to effectuate the declared and implied purposes of this Charter, whether such power and authority is herein specifically enumerated and conferred or not, and if in any such case adequate provision is not made in this Charter, then such powers and authority shall be measured, limited and exercised by said City of Grand Blanc in like manner as provided in the so called “Fourth Class City Act,” known as Act No. 215, P.A. of Michigan of 1895, and any amendments thereto.
Section 8. Void Sections Not Invalidate Whole. The holding or determination by any court of any particular section or sections of this Charter to be illegal or void, shall not have the effect of invalidating or rendering void the other sections hereof not dependent upon such void section or sections.
SCHEDULE
In order to carry this Charter into complete operation and effect, it is hereby declared:
Section 1. Publication and Submission of Charter: This Charter shall be submitted to the electors of the City of Grand Blanc, in the State of Michigan, for their approval or rejection on March 4, 1930.
Said Charter shall be published on February 6, 1930, in the Grand Blanc Press, a newspaper published and circulating in said City of Grand Blanc.
Section 2. Manner of Nominating First Elective Officers: The manner of nominating the first elective officers herein provided for to become officers of the City of Grand Blanc in the event of the adoption of this Charter shall be as follows: A general caucus of the qualified electors of the City of Grand Blanc shall be held at the Township Hall of the Township of Grand Blanc, situated in said City, on February 13, 1930, at 7:30 o’clock p.m., at which time the electors present shall select a chairman and secretary of the meeting and shall appoint tellers, who shall take the constitutional oath of office, and within twenty-four hours after such caucus the chairman and secretary thereof shall file with the Clerk of this Charter Commission a list of persons nominated as candidates for the several offices to be filled at the ensuing election herein called to vote on the question of adopting this Charter, to which list shall be attached the certificate of such chairman and secretary showing the correctness of such list; and at any time within five days after the time herein fixed for said general nominating caucus a petition or petitions may be filed with the Clerk of this Charter Commission signed by not less than twenty qualified electors of the City of Grand Blanc asking said Clerk to call an additional caucus or caucuses of the qualified electors of the City of Grand Blanc for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices to be filled at such election, and said Clerk shall thereupon forthwith give notice of the time and place of holding such additional nominating caucus or caucuses in the manner herein specified, and such additional nominating caucus or caucuses shall be organized and conducted in like manner and lists of persons nominated for the several offices to be filled, signed by the chairman and secretary, shall be filed with said Clerk within twenty-four hours after the date fixed for holding such additional nominating caucus or caucuses in like manner as specified herein. And said Clerk shall cause to be printed and submitted at said ensuing election a sufficient number of ballots for use at said election containing the names of said candidates in the form prescribed in Section 6 of Chapter 5 of this Charter. The said clerk shall give notice of the time and place of holding such nominating caucus at least seven days before the date thereof by publishing such notice in the Grand Blanc Press, a newspaper published and circulating in the City of Grand Blanc.
Section 3. Machinery for First Election: For the purpose of registering the qualified electors of the City of Grand Blanc and to provide for a Board of Registration for the special election to be held on March 4, 1930, for the adoption of this Charter for the City of Grand Blanc, and for the election of the first City officers, Arnold E. Nelson, Clerk of this Charter Commission, shall perform all the acts and duties which are required by the City Clerk and Board of Registration in connection with said election and the submission of this Charter, and he shall sit as such Board of Registration at the said Township Hall, in said City of Grand Blanc, on March 1, 1930, from nine o’clock in the forenoon to eight o’clock in the afternoon. Notice of the time and place shall be given with the notice of said election.
Section 4. Notice of First Election: Said Arnold E. Nelson, said Clerk shall give notice of said election and the submission of this Charter to the electors of said City by posting in ten public place in said City of Grand Blanc and by publishing the same once in the Grand Blanc Press at least two weeks before the date of said election day specifying therein the place of holding said election and the hours when said polls will be open, and shall give like notice that at said election there will be elected the officers specified in Section 6 of Chapter 4 of this Charter.
Section 5. Polling place: The polling place for such election on March 4, 1930 is hereby designated as the Township Hall of the Township of Grand Blanc, in said City of Grand Blanc.
Section 6. First Election Inspectors: Frank Hill, Earl Brown, Essie Cook and Arnold E. Nelson are hereby designated as the Board of Election Inspectors for said election to be held on March 4, 1930, in said City of Grand Blanc, and Frank Hill is hereby designated as chairman thereof. Should any of said persons become ineligible or fail to qualify and act as members of such Board such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by vote of the electors present at the polls at the time of such vacancy.
Section 7. Special Board of Canvassers and Commissioners. W.H. Walker, George H. Chapel and Leslie K. Davis are hereby designated as a Board of Election Commissioners and as Board of Canvassers to canvass and declare the result of said election to be held in said City of Grand Blanc, March 4, 1930, upon the submission to the electors of said City of the question of adoption or rejection of this Charter, in manner as provided by Section 11 of Chapter 4 of this Charter.
Section 8. Charter, When Effective. If adopted, this Charter shall take effect forthwith upon completion by the aforesaid special Board of Canvassers of their canvass of said election and the filing of said Board of Canvassers of their report declaring the said Charter adopted, which report and declaration shall be filed with the secretary of this Charter Commission, Arnold E. Nelson.
Section 9. First Meeting of Council. The first meeting of the Council of said City of Grand Blanc shall be held on Monday, March 10, 1930, at seven thirty o’clock in the evening, at which time the Council shall set the regular date and time of meetings of said Council, and shall perform such other duties as may be required by the general statutes of this State, or as may properly come before said Council.
Section 10. All legitimate and proper expenses incurred in the matter of the incorporation of the City of Grand Blanc, including the drafting of this Charter, the cost of publication thereof, the expense of the several special elections and for services of attorneys in connection therewith, shall be and the same is hereby assumed by the City of Grand Blanc, and is hereby declared to be a debt thereof.
Resolution of Adoption. Resolved, That the Charter Commission of the City of Grand Blanc, Michigan, does hereby adopt the foregoing proposed City Charter and the Clerk of this Commission is hereby instructed to transmit the same to the Governor of the State of Michigan, in accordance with the provisions of the statute, for his approval.
The vote on the adoption of said resolution was as follows:
Ayes: Nine
Nays: None
ARNOLD E. NELSON
Clerk of the Grand Blanc Charter Commission
Countersigned by the following commissioners, Sept. 10, 1930.
ALEX D. GUNDRY
E. SUMNER RUST
RAY D. GUNDRY
GEO. H. CHAPEL
ROY A. BABCOCK
ERNEST B. CLARK
CHARLES STONE
H.W. DAY
Approved: Sept. 26, 1929
FRED W. GREEN, Governor
Grand Blanc, Michigan, March 5th, 1930
STATE OF MICHIGAN
County of Genesee, ss.
I, Arnold E. Nelson, Clerk of the Charter Commission of the City of Grand Blanc, State of Michigan, do hereby certify that this is the said Charter of the City of Grand Blanc as was drafted by the Charter Commission of the City of Grand Blanc, of the State of Michigan; and the same was, at a special election held in the said City of Grand Blanc on Tuesday, March 4, 1930, adopted by a three-fifths vote of the electors voting thereon.
The vote of such electors being as follows:
Whole number of votes cast, Three Hundred and Two.
For said Charter Adoption, Two Hundred and Fifty-Five.
Against said Charter Adoption, Thirty-Seven.
Cast Out, Ten.
ARNOLD E. NELSON
Clerk of the Charter Commission