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ORDINANCE NO. 113
PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES IN THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, AND PRESCRIBING THEIR
DUTIES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
REXBURG, COUNTY OF MADISON, STATE OF IDAHO:
SECTION I: That there shall be six standing committees of the Council, viz:
1. A Committee of Judiciary.
2. A Committee on Law, Order and Sanitary Regulations.
3. A Committee on Finance and Printing.
4. A Committee on Irrigation
5. A Committee on Streets, Public Grounds, Cemetery and Improvements.
6. A Committee on Water -Works and Fire Departments.
SECTION II: The Committee on Judiciary shall examine and report upon any and every
rule, regulation, by -law and ordinance presented or proposed for consideration of the Council, and
shall examine and report upon all resolutions, protests, and memorials presented for consideration
of the Council, and to perform any such other and further duties as devolves upon them by order of
the Council.
SECTION III: The Committee on Law, Order and Sanitary Regulations shall have general
supervisions of the Police Force, and shall make such reports thereon as they deem necessary and
expedient; to abate nuisance, to have general supervision of all sanitary matters; to co- operate with
the City Quarantine Physician in all matters regulating the control of contagious or infectious
diseases; to inspect any building, structure or premises in order to make thorough examination of
their sanitary condition; to enter upon all lots and grounds, and cause all stagnant water to be
drained off; and to cause all noisome or decayed substances and rubbish to be removed from any
part of the City.
SECTION IV: It shall be the duty of Committee on Finance and Printing to examine and
report upon all propositions for taxations and license, and to make an apportionment of taxes; to
examine the accounts of the Clerk and Treasurer, and to adjust the same; to examine and admit all
bills, accounts and claims that may be presented to the Council for payment, and to report upon all
such bills, accounts and claims at the first meeting of the Council following their presentation; to
examine all ordinances or any matter deemed necessary for publication to see that same is in proper
order for the publishers and to make arrangements for the publication or printing of same.
SECTION V: It shall be the duty of the Committee on Irrigation to have general
supervision of all matters connected with irrigation ditches and the control and distribution of the
water therein, and to direct the labors of the City Water- Master, and to examine and audit his
accounts and the accounts kept by the City Clerk, connected with Irrigations and water rights of the
City and its inhabitants; and shall make a full report of their labors to the City Council at any
meeting when so requested.
SECTION VI: It shall be the duty of the Committee on Streets, Public Grounds, Cemetery
and Improvements to have general supervision of all streets, sidewalks, gutters, alleys, and bridges
within the limits of the corporation to examine and report upon all applications for opening or
closing of any street, and for the building of sidewalks and bridges; to make additions to the City
limits as now laid out and defined, and to direct the labors of the Supervisor of Streets, and to audit
and pass upon his accounts, and to report on same whenever so requested by the Council; to
examine and report upon all propositions and requests for public improvements requiring the
expenditure of money; to recommend to the Council from time to time such changes and
improvements as in their judgment shall be for the best public welfare; to see that all public grounds
are kept in good condition and in a state of cultivation, and that all public buildings are kept clean
and in proper order; to survey, plat, map, grade, fence, ornament and otherwise improve all burial
and cemetery grounds and avenues leading thereto owned by the City; to construct walks within, and
to plant and protect ornamental trees, and shrubs; to prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning and
erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots, and to furnish water in proper season to the
owner of cemetery lots for the beautifying and proper care of such lots, when requested so to do.
SECTION VII: It shall be the duty of the Committee and Water -Works and Fire
Department to have general supervisions, of the City Water System, to examine and report upon all
application for the use of water, to oversee and direct the laying of any and all extensions to the
system; to oversee and have access to any and all private laterals of the system; to direct the labors of
the water superintendent, and city plumber; to audit and pass upon expenditures and accounts of the
water system and to report on same whenever so requested by the Councils to have general
supervision of the equipment and organization of the Fire Department; to audit and pass upon
accounts connected with the fire department; to pass upon all applications for permits for buildings
within the fire limits; and to do and perform such other and further duties as may be imposed upon
them by action of the Council.
SECTION VIII: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this the 18s' day of
April, 1907.
J.W. Webster, Mayor
ATTEST:
A.L. Blackburn, City Clerk
STATE OF IDAHO)
)ss.
County of Madison )
I, A.L. BLACKBURN, City Clerk of the city of Rexburg, Idaho, do hereby certify: That the
above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the Ordinance Entitled:
PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES IN THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, AND PRESCRIBING THEIR
DUTIES.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this the 18" day of
April, 1907.
A.L. Blackburn, City Clerk