Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 34
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section shall ipso facto render vacant the position held by the person
so violating it, and shall be punished as bribery.
No member of the Board of Commissioners or Board of Education or
any other officer of the city shall be directly or indirectly interested
in any work, business or contract, the expense, price or consideration
of which is paid from the City Treasury, or by any assessment levied
by ordinance or resolution of the Board of Commissioners; nor be the
surety of any person having any contract work or business with said
city for the performance of which security may be required, nor be the
surety on the official bond of any officer of the city. Contracts in vio-
lation of said provision shall be void and no member of the Board of
Education shall be at any time during his term of office directly or in-
directly interested in or in the employ of any school book publishing
or furnishing company or concern or school furniture company or con-
cern.
22. The Board of Commissioners shall by ordinance adopt such rules
and regulations for its government and order of business as its members
may deem best. It shall be the judge of the qualifications and elec-
tion of its members, including the Mayor, and shall have authority to
recount the votes cast for either of its members, and to correct the
result which may have been theretofore declared, in the event notice
of a contest of any such election shall be given within thirty days
after such election shall have been held. It shall also be the judge of
the election and qualification of all other city officers subject to the
provisions of this act applying thereto. It may punish -members, or
other persons, during its sittings by fine for disorderly conduct.
23. Each Comnmissi'oner and the secretary of the Board of Com-
missioners shall be, and they are hereby authorized to administer oaths
in the municipal affairs and government of the city.
24. If a vacancy shall occur in the Board of Commissioners (except-
ing the Mayor) or the office of City Attorney or Corporation Judge,
the mayor shall nominate a person to fill the unexpired term of such
office, and submit his name to the Board of Commissioners. If such
nomination shall receive the approval of three members. of the board,
not including the Mayor, said appointment shall take effect from the date
of such confirmation. In the event said board shall fail or refuse to con-
firm such nomination, the Mayor shall submit another nomination of
a different person for said office, and shall continue so to (1o until a
nomination so made by him shall be confirmed by the Board of Com-
missioners. In the event of a vacancy in the office of City Attorney.
or Judge of the corporation court, which shall not be promptly filled
as above provided, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to appoint an
officer pro ten to perform the duties of such vacated office, which said
pro tern officer shall be entitled to receive the regular salary for said
services for the time he shall perform them, and shall serve in
said capacity, until said otfiee shall be filled in accordance with this
act.
aIn the event a vacancy shall occur in- the office of Auditor it shall
be the duty of the nominating board created under the provisions of
this act to convene and make a nomination or nominations for said
office until the same shall be filled in accordance with said provisions.
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/40/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.