Cline v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 13 Wash. 444
• 43 P. 367
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 66

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS — COUNCILMAN AS ACTING MAYOR — RIGHT TO VOTE ON ORDINANCES—PUBLIC .IMPROVEMENTS — REASSESSMENTS.</p> <p>A member of the common council is not entitled to vote upon an ordinance at a meeting over which he is presiding by virtue of his selection as acting mayor in the absence of the mayor from the city, under a char.ter provision authorizing such selection and vesting the one selected with all the powers of the mayor until the return of such officer, in view of a further provision for the selection of a member to preside at any meeting from which the mayor is absent.</p> <p>A reassessment for local improvements, even though the original assessment was void for want of proper steps to give the council jurisdiction of the subject matter, is authorized by the provision of a freeholders’ charter that in all cases where special assessments for local improvements have failed to be valid because of want of form, insufficiency, informality, irregularity, or non-compliance with the charter provisions governing such assessments, the city council is authorized to reassess such special taxes in accordance with the provisions of laws or ordinances existing at the time of such reassessment.</p> <p>Where a reassessment for a local improvement has been made owing to the invalidity of the original assessment, the assessment district is not required to be the same as originally, but should be established according to the law in force at the time of the assessment.</p>