Watch districts.

§2. The compact part of the village shall constitute the Lamp and lamp and watch district, and the limits thereof shall be declared by the board of trustees, by resolution entered on the minutes of the boerd, and which shall be published in two of the village papers for three successive weeks.

OFFICERS AND THEIR ELECTION.

§3. The officers of the village shall be five trustees, one officers. treasurer, one clerk, one police constable, three assessors, one collector, one street commissioner, one chief engineer and two assistant engineers of the fire department, one or more fire wardens not exceeding three, a pound master and such swine drivers as the trustees shall from time to time appoint. The trustees, treasurer, assessors, collector and street commissioner shall be elected by ballot, by the electors of said village.

§4. No person shall be eligible or apppointed to any Eligibility.

office unless he shall be at the time a resident and elector in said village; and whenever any officer of said village shall cease to be a resident of the village, his office shall thereby become vacant.

ters.

§ 5. Every inhabitant residing in said village who shall Qualificaat the time and place of offering his vote be qualified to tions of vovote for members of the assembly, shall be entitled to vote for all officers to be elected by virtue of this act.

§ 6. The first election under this act shall be held on Time of the first Monday in June, 1851; and thereafter the elec- elections. tions under this act shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first day of January in each year, at such place as shall. be designated by the trustees, and ten days' notice of such election shall be given by publishing the same in all the newspapers of the village.

7. The trustees, or any three of. them, shall preside Inspectors. at and be inspectors of elections, and in case three trustees be not present, the electors assembled may choose from among themselves so many as shall be necessary to make three together with such trustee or trustees as may be present, and in case no trustee be present, then three electors may be chosen, and the persons so chosen together with the trustees or trustee present, if any, shall preside at and be inspectors of said election. Such inspectors at all such elections, shall preserve order, judge of the qualifications of electors and receive and deposit in a box provided for that purpose, all legal ballots offered by legal voters. All elective officers shall be voted for on a single ballot. The clerk of the village shall be clerk of elections. If he be not present at any election, the inspectors

polls and

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thereof shall appoint a clerk from among the electors. The clerk shall keep a poll list and record the proceeding and result of the election.

Opening of 8. The polls of said election shall be opened at nine o'clock in the morning, and shall be kept open without intermission or adjournment until two o'clock in the afternoon, when they shall be finally closed, and the inspectors shall forthwith, without adjourning, canvass the votes received by them, and declare and certify the persons elected by the greatest number of votes. They shall make two certificates of the result of the election, one of which they shall forthwith file with the clerk of the village, and the other they shall, within two days, file with the clerk of Tioga county. In case of failure to elect, by reason of the same number of votes being cast for two electors, a new election shall be ordered as in case of a vacancy.

Persons elected to

§ 9. The clerk of the village, immediately upon filing be notified. With him of said certificate, shall notify in writing every person so certified to have been elected of his election; every person so elected to office under this act, before entering upon the same, shall take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of the state, and file the same with the clerk of the village; and every person so elected, who shall refuse or neglect to take and file the said oath of office, for ten days after personal notice in writing from the clerk of his election, shall be deemed to have declined the office, and his place shall be filled as in case of a vacancy.

Vacancies.

Terms of office.

Appointment of officers.

Eligibilify

§ 10. If any vacancy shall happen in any elective office, the board of trustees shall direct a special election to supply the same, and such election shall be notified, conducted and held in the same manner as the annual election of the village.

11. The officers elected under this act shall be elected annually; their terms of office shall commence forthwith upon their election, subject to the 9th and 13th sections of this act, and shall continue until the next annual election, and until others are elected and qualified in their places.

12. The board of trustees shall, at its first meeting in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and as often as vacancies may occur, appoint by ballot all officers of said village not by law elective by the electors thereof, and prescribe their duties, and may at pleasure remove any officer appointed by them.

§ 13. All persons appointed to office shall be electors of appoin- and residents of the village. The persons appointed

tees.

thereto shall be notified of their appointment by the village clerk. The treasurer, collector, and such other officers as may be required by the board of trustees, shall severally, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, execute and file with the village clerk a Bonds. bond to the village of Owego, to be approved by the board of trustees, conditioned that they will faithfully execute the duties of their respective offices, and account for and pay over all moneys received by them respectively.

file bonds.

§14. The village clerk shall report to the board of Neglect to trustees the names of all persons elected or appointed to any office, who shall have neglected to file their bond or other security and oath of office, according to the requirements of this act, at the next meeting of the trustees after such default.

election.

15. The provisions of the "act concerning elections Mode of other than for militia and town officers," passed April 5, 1842, and the amendments and additions thereto, are hereby declared applicable to elections held under this act, except so far as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

16. No member of the board of trustees shall be in- Prohibition terested in any contract to which the village shall be a party.

not deliver

ing up

books and

property.

§17. If any person, having been an officer in said vil- Penalty for lage, shall not within ten days after notification and request, deliver to his successor in office all the property, papers and effects of every description in his possession or under his control, belonging to said village or appertaining to his office, he shall forfeit and pay for the use of the village, fifty dollars, besides all damages caused by his neglect or refusal so to deliver.

OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

of board.

18. The board of trustees shall meet within fifteen Meetings days after each annual election, and by plurality of votes elect by ballot one of their number to be president of the board, who shall also be president of the corporation. They shall hold stated meetings at such times and places as they shall by resolution direct. Special meetings of the board may be called at any time by the president or by any two trustees, of which every other trustee shall be notified by the clerk personally, or by written notice, expressing the object of the meeting, left at his residence. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

officer.

Presiding §19. The president, when present, shall preside at the meetings of the board of trustees, and shall have on all questions a casting vote or ballot only. In his absence any one of the trustees may be appointed president for the time.

Pay of

trustees.

Powers of

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20. The amount paid to the trustees for services shall remain the same as the preceding year, until otherwise ordered by the electors at the annual election.

21. The board of trustees shall have the management and control of the finances, and of all the property real and personal belonging to the corporation, and shall examine, settle, and audit all accounts chargeable against the village, of its officers and others. They are authorized within the limits of said village:

1. To prevent vice and immorality; to suppress disorderly assemblages; to preserve peace and good order; to establish and maintain a competent police; to cause vagrants, idlers, disorderly persous and imposters to be apprehended and punished; to protect the citizens and their property; and to promote the welfare and good government of the corporation:

2. To prohibit all descriptions of gambling:

3. To prohibit, control, or regulate by license, the selling or giving of any ardent spirits or intoxicating drinks by any innkeeper, storekeeper, trader, grocer, or keeper of any place of public resort, or by any person in their employ, or on their premises; and they shall be, and shall have and exercise the powers of, commissioners of excise within the village:

4. To prohibit billiard tables, nine or ten pin alleys, bowling saloons, gaming tables, or other instruments or devices for gaming:

5. To suppress disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame or licentiousness:

6. To direct the location of all slaughter houses, markets, and houses for storing gunpowder and other combustible and explosive substances, and to regulate the keeping, selling, or conveying of gunpowder or other dangerous and inflammable material:

7. To prohibit the depositing and prevent the keeping of any unwholesome or noxious substance, and to compel the cleaning of any filthy place or building, and to take such measures as they shall deem effectual to prevent the entrance of any pestilential or infectious disease into the village, or the spread of such disease therein, and to prevent and remove nuisances:

8. To prohibit horse-racing and immoderate driving in

the streets; to prevent the incumbering of the streets, crosswalks and sidewalks; and to compel every person to keep snow and dirt from and off the sidewalk in front of the premises owned or occupied by such person; to prevent the playing of ball and throwing of snowballs or other substances in the streets :

9. To prevent or regulate the ringing or tolling of bells, except those upon railroad cars or engines, blowing of horns, or crying of goods or wares, firing of guns, fireworks, gunpowder or other explosive compounds, and the making of any improper noise which may disturb the peace of the village:

10. To prevent or regulate bathing in the river within or opposite said village:

11. To establish, maintain and regulate a public pound, and define the duties of a pound keeper, and to provide for and regulate the impounding of animals taken, doing damage or running at large:

12. To regulate the burial of the dead and to protect the public cemeteries:

13. To establish, keep in repair, and regulate public wells, pumps, cisterns, aqueducts and reservoirs :

14. To prohibit or regulate by license, the exhibition for money, of any circus, caravan, theatre, curiosities, tricks of legerdemain or other shows:

15. To prevent the use of any unsafe fire-places, hearths, stoves, chimneys, stove-pipe, smoke-house, ash-house or place for depositing ashes, and to authorize and require the fire wardens to enter all buildings and enclosures, to ascertain whether the arrangements therein for fires, or their disposition or preservation of ashes are safe, and to cause such as are dangerous to be put into a safe condition:

16. To regulate the use of locomotive engines, and of steam or any other motive power, or cars and the speed thereof, on every railroad within the village:

17. To provide for lighting the streets and for night watches within the lamp and watch district, and for erecting and maintaining a watch house, and to appoint watchmen and prescribe their duties, discipline and authority; and for the purposes aforesaid or any of them, or of executing any other powers conferred upon them by this act, to make, establish and publish, modify, amend and repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws, and to prescribe such penalties or fines as they may deem proper, for the violation of them, not exceeding fifty dollars for any one offence, except as herein otherwise provided, and to col