Number
151677
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A charter ordinance repealing an obsolete provision of the city charter relating to unclaimed orders.
Sections
18-09 rp
Analysis
This charter ordinance repeals an obsolete provision of the city charter relating to unclaimed orders.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 18-09 of the charter is repealed.
(Note: The section being repealed reads as follows:
18-09. Unclaimed Orders. At the first meeting of the common council for organization after the general city election, the city clerk shall prepare and present to the common council a descriptive list, giving the dates, amounts and names of payees of all city orders drawn, which shall have remained in the office 3 years uncalled for by such payees. The common council shall cause such orders to be compared with such list, and when found or made correct, such list shall be filed and preserved in the office of such clerk, and a copy thereof duly certified by said clerk shall be delivered by him to the comptroller, and all such orders shall be cancelled and destroyed. The person entitled to any such order may, upon application to the common council have a new order issued to him or her for the amount named in the original order so cancelled, without interest, at any time within 6 years from the date of such original order, and not afterwards.)
Part 2. This is a charter ordinance and shall take effect 60 days after its passage and publication, unless within such 60 days a referendum petition is filed as provided in s. 66.0101(5), Wis. Stats., in which event this ordinance shall not take effect until submitted to a referendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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Legislative Reference Bureau
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Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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