Charter of the City of Dallas Page: 77
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of Commissioners of the City of Dallas," but such caption may be
omitted when said ordinances are published in book form or are revised ,
and digested under the order of the Board.
3. The Board of Commissioners shall have power to cause the ordin-
ances of the city to be printed in code form, and shall have the same re-
arranged and digested as often as to the Board may seem advisable.
4. In all judicial proceedings it shall be sufficient to plead any or-
dinance by caption, or by the number of the sections thereof wanted,
and it shall not be necessary to plead the entire ordinance or section.
All printed ordinances or codes of ordinances published by authority
of the Board of Commissioners, shall be admitted in evidence and shall
have the same force and effect as would the original ordinances.
5. All ordinances of a general nature shall be published at least once
in some newspaper in the City of Dallas.
6. All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations now in force, in
the City of Dallas, and not in conflict herewith, shall remain in force
under this act until altered, amended or repealed by the Board of Com-
missioners, after this act shall take effect.
7. All ordinances of the City of Dallas which may be invalid or de-
fective, but which if passed under the provisions of this act would be
valid, are hereby validated as if passed under the provisions of this act.
ARTICLE XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
1. The City of Dallas, acting through the Board of Commissioners,
shall have power to do by day labor under municipal direction, any work
which may become advisable, or necessary to be (lone.
2. In all work done by or for the city, either by day work or by
contract, eight hours shall constitute a lay's work; and no employee of
the city on work for the city, or employee of any. contractor or sub-con-
tractor of such work, shall he required to work longer than eight hours
in any one calendar day; provided that this section shall not apply
to the fire or police department or to employes engaged in clerical
work for the city; and provided, further, that this section shall not be
construed to apply to any contract entered into by the city prior to the
passage of this act; provided, that in case of emergency, an employee may
be required to work longer than eight hours, but when so required t'I
work longer than eight hours. such employee shall be paid for such over-
time at the rate of one and one-half timeS the rate such employee i
paid for his labor during time eight hours.
:1. All persons or corporations owning or lolding personal property or
real estate in the City of Dallas on the first day of Janumary of each year
shall be liable for all municipal taxes levied thereon for the fiscal - year
beginning the next following May.
4. The personal property of all persons owing any taxes to the City
of Dallas is hereby made liable for all of said taxes, whether the same
be clue upon personal or real property, or upon both.
5. The Board of Commissioners shall have power to provide for tak-
ing an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city. And it shall be the
duty of the Governor of the State whenever the Board of Commission-
ers shall by resolution so request to appoint a commissioner who shall
supervise sul enummeration, whose compensation, together with all theUM-7
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Texas. Legislature. Charter of the City of Dallas, legislative document, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth610709/m1/83/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.