Charter and General Ordinances of the City of Tacoma, Washington, in Force June 1, 1913: With Index Digest of Obsolete and Repealed Ordinances Since the Revision of 1905. Printed Pursuant to Ordinance No. 5200, Passed January 22, 19131913 - 579 pages |
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alley application appointed approved assessment Avenue Board boiler bond boundary of section building center line cents certificate charge Charter City Clerk City Council City Jail City of Tacoma City Treasurer Commencement Bay Commissioner of Public conflict herewith construction Controller dinance District duties election employes feet filed Fire Department firm or corporation franchise Fund Green River Harbor Health Officer hereby repealed hundred dollars improvement inch inspection Inspector issued line of South Local Improvement District lot or parcel manner Mayor ment Northern Pacific Railway notice nuisance operation ordinances in conflict outer harbor line owner paid parcel of land park payment permit person or persons Pierce County pipe Precinct.-All that portion premises prescribed prohibited providing a penalty purpose Puyallup Indian Reservation Railway Company regulations remove repealing Ordinance salary sewer sidewalk street railway Superintendent Tacoma lying thence south thereto tion unlawful vehicle violation thereof vote Ward warrants
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Page 148 - A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet in length, when at anchor, shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Page 82 - The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number.
Page 82 - ... is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters...
Page 279 - ... with the provisions of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the...
Page 41 - States, the former in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and the latter in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties...
Page 6 - In submitting any such charter, or amendment thereto, any alternative article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others.
Page 8 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 28 - Twenty-fourth—To restrain and regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, mules, swine, sheep, goats and geese, and. to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of the proceedings, and also to impose penalties on the owners of any such animals for a violation of any ordinance in relation thereto.
Page 122 - ... violated in any particular building or place, such magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause...
Page 85 - ... election; and should such proposition so submitted receive a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election, such ordinance shall thereby be repealed or amended accordingly.