State ex rel. Atkinson v. Ross

Citations

• 46 Wash. 28
• 89 P. 158
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 551

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Ordinance — Passage — Meetings op City Council. An ordinance is not void on the ground that it was passed at the meeting at which it was introduced, contrary to a clause in a city charter, which further provided that the council shall meet on the first Monday of each month and shall not adjourn to any other place than its regular place of meeting, where it appears that the ordinance was introduced at a meeting of the city council on January 22, and passed at a meeting held on January 29, that the council had held a meeting on Monday evening of each week since the adoption of the charter, adjourning at each session until the next Monday evening, at which the regular order of business was followed, and where the council had a right to call special meetings, and adjourned sine die only on the last meeting of each two-year term; since its practice relating to adjournments was in effect the calling of special meetings, which were treated as regular meetings, under the liberal construction of the provisions required by statute.</p> <p>Same — Bonds—Issuance—Submission to Voters — Notice. Charter provisions with respect to the passage of an ordinance providing for the submission to the electors of a proposition to issue bonds are not mandatory when not of the essence of the thing to be done; and where the essential step in the proceedings — notice of the election — is duly taken and the rights of taxpayers are not prejudiced, bonds authorized by the election will not be invalidated by regarding adjourned meetings of the council as a continued meeting when the same were not so intended.</p>