SECTION 44.5. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND

   There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the Capital Improvement Fund. Money paid into the Capital Improvement Fund shall be used only for:

   (a)   Payment of the costs of constructing or acquiring (whether by outright purchase, lease, or lease-purchase and irrespective of whether payment is made in installments or in a lump sum) of capital improvements; or

   (b)   Payment of debt service on any bonds or notes issued by the City to finance the construction, purchase or acquisition of capital improvements.

   As used in this section, "capital improvement" means any property, assets or improvement having an estimated life or period of usefulness of one year or more, and includes, but is not limited to, real estate, buildings, personal property, and interests in real estate, buildings, personal property, equipment, furnishings, site improvements, and reconstruction rehabilitation, renovation, installation, improvement, enlargement and extension of property, assets or improvements having an estimated life or period of usefulness of one year or more. (Enacted 11-8-94)

SECTION 45. INVESTIGATIONS BY COUNCIL OR MAYOR

   The Council, the Mayor, or any person or committee authorized by either of them, shall have power to inquire into the conduct of any department, office, officer or employee of the City and to make investigation as to City affairs, and for that purpose may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and compel testimony, the production of books, papers, and other evidence. It shall be the duty of the Mayor to designate a police officer to serve such subpoenas. The Council shall provide by ordinance the penalty or penalties for contempt in refusing to obey any such subpoena, or to produce such books, papers and other evidence, and shall have the power to punish any such contempt in the manner provided by ordinance.

SECTION 46. ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES - FILING AND PUBLICATION

   (A)   Every ordinance or resolution passed or adopted by the City Council upon its final passage shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer and Clerk of the Council.

   (B)   Every ordinance and resolution of a general or permanent nature so passed or adopted by the Council shall be published in a manner prescribed by Council.

   (C)   Publication of legal notices, advertisements, proclamations, ordinances, and resolutions required to be published by any Municipal body, board, commission, or officer, may be made in the manner provided above for the publication of ordinances and resolutions passed and adopted by the City Council, or as otherwise prescribed by council ordinance, and no other publication of the same shall be required. (Amended 11-5-46; 5-7-13)

INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM

SECTION 47. THE INITIATIVE GENERALLY - WHEN PROPOSED ORDINANCE MAY BE SUBMITTED; REQUIREMENTS AS TO PETITIONS

   Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the Council by petition signed by electors equal in number to ten (10) percent of the total vote cast in the last preceding regular Municipal election of the City. All petition papers, circulated with respect to any proposed ordinance, shall be uniform in character and shall contain the proposed ordinance in full, and have printed thereon the names and addresses of at least five (5) electors who shall be officially regarded as filing the petition and constitute a committee of the petitioners for the purposes hereinafter named. (Amended 11-6-62)