Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 68
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other business of a public or quasi public nature, without obtaining author-
ity therefor under a franchise granted by the Board of Cunnissioners, in
accordance with the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of the
Board of Commissioners and the City Attorney to bring suit to enforce
this provision against any person, firm or corporation violating the
terns thereof, for the purpose of ejecting the offender from the occu-
pancy of such property, and to recover damages for the illegal use thereof.
2. The City of Dallas shall have the exclusive right to erect, (wn,
ma intain and operate water works for the ue of said citv and its in-
htbitants, and to regulate the same, but shall not have the power or
right to sell said water-works system. It shall have power to pre-
scribe rates for water furnished to said inhabitants, and to make such
rules and regulations as the Board of Commissioners mawy decm expedient;
to acquire by purchase or donation suitable grounds on which to erect
such works, and necessary right of way and to do anythiing whatsoever
necessary to operate and maintain said works, and to compel the owners of
all property and the agents of such owners to pay all charges for water
furnished upon such property.
All receipts and revenues from the water works shall constitute a
separate and sacred fund, which shall never be diverted or drawn upon
for any other purposes than the extension, improvement, operation, main-
tenance, repair and betterment of the water works and water supply;
and sewer system of the city and for the purpose of constructing and
extending lateral sewers in the sanitary sewer system of the city; but
the Board of Commissioners may appropriate or pledge such receipts and
revenues for the purpose of extending, improving, operating, maintain-
ing and bettering the water-works plant and mains and supply, and for
constructing and extending lateral sewers, and also for the purpose of
discharging or retiring the indebtedness of the city that may he in-
curred or accrued for water works' purposes.
3. At the first general election to be held under this act, for the
election of a Board of Commissioners, there shall be submitted to a vote
of the qualified electors who are taxpayers in said city the questions
whether or not the Board of Commissioners shall be empowered to issue
bonds of said city in the amount of five hundred thousand dollars ($500.-
000), the proceeds of which shall be used for the betterment and exten-
sion of the water-works system belonging to the city and bonds of the
city in the -amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the pro-
ieels of which shall be used for street improvements. in accordance
with the 'provisions of Article 10 hereof, and bonds of the city in the
amount of $50,000, the proceeds of which shall be used for the erection
of public school buildings; also whether a special tax of twenty-five
cents on the one hundred dollars ($100) of taxable property shall be
levied for street improvement purposes. A separate ballot shall be used
at said election which shall contain the following words:
"Special Bond and Tax Election."
"For the issue of bonds in the sum of five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) for the improvement of the water works."
"Against the issue of bonds in the sum of five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) for the improvement of the water works."
"For the issue of bonds in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000) for street improvements."
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/74/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.