Langlade County, Wisconsin - Chapter 10: Miscellaneous Provisions, 1922

Section 1. All work for the city, including all printing and publishing, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder and due notice shall be given of time and place of letting such contract and the council shall have the right to reject any bid, when it is deemed for the interest of the city to do so.

Section 3. No real or personal property of any inhabitant of said city, or of any individual or corporation, shall be levied on and sold by virtue of any execution issued to satisfy or collect any debt, obligation or contract of said city.

Section 4. When the city of Antigo deeds or leases any real estate or any interest therein, owned by said city, the party of the first part shall be the city of Antigo, and the person or persons authorized to execute such deed or lease need not be named in the body thereof.

Section 5. The mayor of said city is hereby authorized, when the common council shall, by ordinance or resolution, for that purpose, (describing the real estate and interest to be conveyed) order and direct him so to do, to execute a deed or lease of such real estate, or interest therein belonging to said city; the said deed or lease shall be signed by the mayor of said city and countersigned by the city clerk, and sealed with the corporate seal of said city, and duly witnessed and acknowledged, as is provided by law for the execution of deeds and leases.

Section 6. When any such deed or lease is so executed, the city clerk shall attach to such deed or lease a true and attested copy of such ordinance or resolution, and the same shall be recorded by the register of deeds with the said deed or lease, and such copy, so attached and recorded, shall be, in all the courts of this state, prima facie evidence of the authority of such mayor to make and execute such deed or lease.

Section 7. When judgment is rendered against any person for the violation of any city ordinance, and such person shall be committed for the non-payment thereof, including his board, shall be added thereto, which he shall be required to pay in case of payment of said judgment.

Section 8. The keeper of the common jail of the county of Langlade is hereby required to receive and keep all persons who shall be arrested by the proper officers for the violation of any city ordinance, or committed for the non-payment of any judgment, fine or penalty.

Section 9. No member of the common council shall be eligible to any other office provided for by this act, during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed. No member of the common council shall vote upon any question, matter or resolution in which he may be directly or indirectly interested.

Section 10. No member of the common council shall be a party to or interested in any job or contract with the city, or any department thereof ; and any contract in which any such member may be so interested shall be null and void. No member of the common council shall sign any bond as surety for the performance of any contract or agreement with such city, or official bond to such city during his term of office.

of this act, or the ordinances of the city, shall be signed by the city clerk and sealed with the corporate seal, but no such license shall be issued by said clerk until the person applying for the same shall have deposited with the clerk the receipt of the city treasurer for the amount to be paid therefor.

Section 12. Every member of the common council of the city of Antigo who shall directly or indirectly vote to himself, or knowingly to any other person, any sum of money for any other purpose whatever in violation of the city charter or any amendment thereto, or shall ask or receive any compensation for doing any official act, except as inspectors of elections, members of the board of registry, and as members of the board of review; any member of the common council or other city officer who shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract made with or in behalf of the city, and any member of said council or other city officer who shall directly or indirectly purchase or be interested in the purchase of any city order or city indebtedness for less than the full amount thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and may be prosecuted by complaint before any justice of the peace in the city, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days nor less than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court.

Section 13. No action in tort shall lie or be maintained against the city of Antigo, unless a statement in writing, signed by the person injured or claiming to be injured, of the wrong and circumstances thereof, and amount of damages claimed, shall be presented to the common council within ninety days after the occurring or happening of the tort alleged.

Section 14. Whenever any grave or heinous crime shall have been committed in said city against life or property, the mayor, with the concurrence of the common council, may offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of either of the perpetraters of such offense, provided that such reward shall, in no case, exceed one hundred dollars.