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Said City may receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds of property in fee simple or in trust for charitable or public purposes and perform all acts necessary to carry out the purposes of such benefits, gifts, donations or trusts, with power to manage, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of same in accordance with the terms of the bequest, gift, donation or trust.
The legislative, executive and judicial powers of the City shall extend to all matters of local and municipal government, it being the intent hereof that the specification of particular powers by any other provision of this charter shall never be construed as limiting or impairing the effect of the general grant of powers hereby made.
All existing ordinances of the City not inconsistent with this charter or inapplicable under the municipal government provided by this charter shall be and continue in full force and effect until amended or repealed or until they expire by their own limitations, and no existing right, action (civil or penal), suit, proceeding, or contract, shall be affected by the change in the form of government of the City; but all shall continue as though no such change had taken place; and all debts, penalties and forfeitures which have accrued, or which may hereafter accrue by virtue of anything heretofore done or existing, shall inure to the benefit of the City of Guthrie and may be sued for and recovered by the City as though this charter had not been amended. Nothing herein, however, shall legalize or make legal any invalid indebtedness of the City heretofore contracted or incurred or impair any defense against the payment of the same, nor shall the amendment of this charter in any wise interfere with any proceedings heretofore instituted relating to the levy and collection of taxes, special assessments, or levies of any nature, or with any proceedings to enforce the payment of the same, and all contracts heretofore entered into by the City shall remain in full force and effect and be completed under the ordinances existing at the time of the amendment of this charter.
Said City shall have power, within and without its territorial limits, to construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, lease, improve, add to, maintain and conduct and operate in whole or in part, water works, water pipelines and pump stations, light plants, telephone systems, power plants, transportation systems, heating plants, incinerating plants and disposal plants, sanitary sewers, storm sewers and drains, and any other public utility or works or ways, and everything required therefore. And any such systems, plants, works, or ways or any contracts in relation or connection therewith that may exist and which said City may desire to purchase in whole or in part maybe purchased or acquired, in whole or in part, by said City which may enforce said purchase by proceeding at law or in equity or by right of eminent domain, said City shall have the power to issue bonds upon the vote of the tax paying electors at any special or general election in any amount necessary to carry out any of said powers or purposes, said amount being alone limited by the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma. Provided, however, that the power to condemn shall not be exercised for the purpose of acquiring such utilities now existing and operating under franchise granted by a vote of the people except under the terms of said franchise. Provided, further, that the same exemption from the power to condemn may be embodied in any franchise for any other public service or public utility corporation that may be hereafter submitted to a vote of the people.
The elective officers of the City of Guthrie shall be a Mayor to be nominated and elected from the City at large, and six (6) Councilmen, two (2) from each of the three wards, to be nominated and elected from the wards in which they reside. When used hereafter, the words “Council” or “The City Council” shall be understood to mean the Mayor and Councilmen. The term “Mayor” or “Councilmen” shall be understood to be either masculine or feminine.
Any qualified citizen (see Article VI, Section 16, for qualifications) may become a candidate for Mayor or Councilman by filing with the Logan County Election Board at the times and dates as set forth in Article VI, Section 16, a Certificate or Declaration of Candidacy containing the information and in the form as provided by State law (currently 26 O.S., 1981, Section 5-111), except that no political party affiliation shall be declared; a filing fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) shall be submitted with the Certificate or Declaration of Candidacy; in lieu of such filing fee a Certificate or Declaration of Candidacy may be accompanied by a petition supporting a candidate's filing* signed by at least twenty-five (25) registered voters eligible to vote for the candidate in the first election wherein the candidate's name could appear on the ballot.
The boundary lines for the three (3) wards referred to in Section One (1) of this Article shall be established by the City Council within sixty (60) days of the adoption of this amendment and shall be from time to time changed as required by law; the ward boundary lines shall be reviewed for change within one (1) year after release of the final Federal Census figures each decade, and shall be reviewed for change after each annexation and deannexation.
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