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The City Council may, in addition to the appointment and removal of officers herein provided, appoint or elect and remove members of Commissions and Boards and other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial officers, as provided by law or may from time to time be established by the City Council, and prescribe the method of appointing and electing and removing them.
The City Council of the City of Guthrie shall have the power to purchase and acquire any real property, the acquisition of which it deems to be in the best interest of the City, and shall have the power to sell and dispose of any real property now or hereafter owned by said City, provided that the sale of any real property must be authorized by Ordinance passed by the City Council in the same manner as any other Ordinance. No such Ordinance approving the sale of any real property shall become effective for thirty (30) days after the passage and approval of the Ordinance; provided that no contrary provision for emergency passage of an Ordinance shall apply to this Article. Within the thirty (30) day period, the question of the sale of the real property involved may be put to a vote of the people upon the filing with the Clerk of the City of Guthrie of a petition calling for such vote. Said petition shall contain signatures of qualified voters residing within the territorial limits of the City of Guthrie of a number equal to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total electors voting at the last preceding City general election. Where the value of the real property sought to be sold exceeds the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), the question of its sale shall first be submitted to the electors of said City at an election called for that purpose; and the question submitted thereat shall be substantially as follows:
“Shall the City Council of the City of Guthrie sell (the property to be sold, accurately describing the same), for (the value to be received by the City of Guthrie, precisely stated).”
If the majority of the votes cast in said election shall be in the affirmative, then the City Council shall have the power hereby conferred, but not otherwise.
No real property may be disposed of by gift unless such gift is valid within the constraints of the Oklahoma State Constitution and unless such gift is submitted to a vote of the electors of the City in the same manner as provided for herein for property exceeding the value of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00). “Value,” as used herein, shall mean market value as defined by law.
The City Council has the power to enact municipal legislation subject to limitations as may now or hereinafter be imposed by the Oklahoma Constitution; provided, that all ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations now in force in the City of Guthrie not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect until altered, amended or repealed by the City Council.
The general power of the City Council to enact legislation shall include, but not be limited to, the power to establish by ordinance land use regulations including, but not limited to, planning, zoning, subdivision regulations and all other regulations regarding land use management within the corporate limits, the power to establish by ordinance building codes and building regulations, the power to establish by ordinance collective bargaining procedure, rules and regulations, the power to establish by ordinance an Historical Preservation District, and the power to establish by ordinance rules and regulations governing the drilling of oil and gas wells, water wells and disposal wells, within the corporate limits of the City.
Except for the purposes of inquiry, the Council and its members shall deal with the administrative service of the City solely through the City Manager. The Council and its members may not:
1. Direct or request the City Manager or other authority to appoint or remove employees of the City.
2. Participate in any manner in the appointment or removal of employees of the City, except as provided by law.
3. Give orders on ordinary administrative matters to any subordinate of the City Manager, either publicly or privately.
The word “employee,” as used herein, shall not include appointive officers, either appointed by the Mayor or Council.
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