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An Act to change the name of the "Town of Cumming" to the "City of Cumming", and to
incorporate the municipality heretofore known as the "Town of Cumming" in Forsyth
County under the name of the "City of Cumming" in the County of Forsyth, and to repeal
the Act approved October 10, 1885, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, and to
provide a new Charter for said municipality; to consolidate into and supersede by
this Act to incorporate the "City of Cumming" in lieu of said "Town of Cumming; "
to substitute the "City of Cumming" for the "Town of Cumming" wherever said municipality
is mentioned in the Constitution of the laws of Georgia; to define the territorial
limits of the City of Cumming, and to confer extraterritorial jurisdiction upon said
city within certain adjacent territory; to provide for the execution, service, and
return of certain writs, warrants, or executions of said city beyond the limits of
said city and within the state; to provide for a mayor and council, and other officers
of the City of Cumming; to prescribe and provide their powers, duties, qualifications,
terms of office, and the manner of their election; to provide for all valid contracts
heretofore entered into by the Town of Cumming or the mayor and council of the Town
of Cumming as heretofore incorporated, shall be binding and effective upon the City
of Cumming hereby incorporated; to provide that all ordinances of the Town of Cumming
or the Mayor and Council of the Town of Cumming heretofore incorporated, not in conflict
with this Charter and incorporated, shall be valid and enforceable as ordinances of
the City of Cumming hereby incorporated; to provide that all property new and heretofore
held and owned by the Town of Cumming, or the mayor and council of the Town of Cumming
as heretofore incorporated, shall be and become the rights of the property of the
City of Cumming hereby incorporated; to confer any necessary authority upon said City
of Cumming hereby incorporated enable it to establish equip, maintain, modify, extend,
and improve a system of sewerage and drains in said city, and for the assessment and
collection of the expenses and costs thereof, and the issuance of sewerage and drainage
certificates; to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain in and by
said city; to provide a system of taxation for said city; to provide for the enacting
of all necessary ordinances, and to provide penalties for the violation of same; to
provide for a board of health; to declare and define certain police powers of said
city; to provide for the condemnation of private, public, or semi-public property
for the use of said city, either within or without the corporate limits thereof, and
compensation to the owners thereof; to provide for taxation and the granting of licenses
for all kinds of business, trades, callings and professions, shows, exhibitions or
entertainments; to provide for the retention in office of the present officers of
the Town of Cumming hereby abolished and repealed, as officers of the City of Cumming
hereby incorporated and established; to provide for the qualification and registration
of voters in the City of Cumming; to provide for a municipal judge and a municipal
court, and the trial and punishment therein of all offenders against the laws of said
city and the manner of appeal therefrom; to grant and regulate franchises; to provide
rules and regulations governing public service corporations; to provide for opening
and laying out, establishing, maintaining, improving, and paving streets, avenues,
lanes, alleys, sidewalks, and crossings in said city; to assess and collect from the
owners of properties fronting on said streets and sidewalks, equally and ratably according
to their respective frontals, the cost of such paving and improvement, and in addition
thereto to assess and collect from any railroad company the cost of paving and improving
so much of said streets and sidewalks as is occupied by their rights-of-way; to provide
when and how all assessments are to be made, and when and how they may be paid and
collected, and for the issuance of bonds therefor; to abate nuisances; to provide
for the assessment, levy and collection of an allowance tax on all property, real
and personal, for general purposes; to authorize the assessment and collection of
a tax for street work and improvements to grant encroachments on the streets; to declare
and constitute the rights and powers of the City of Cumming hereby established; to
provide for a city chain-gang and guard-house and the work of prisoners therein, and
the regulation and management of the same; to provide for a fire department; to authorize
the mayor and council of said city to maintain and operate a system of water works,
sanitary and/or storm sewers and an electric light plant either to produce or distribute
current; to authorize said city to borrow money; to provide for parks, public buildings,
and other municipal improvements; to create and maintain on the part of said city
a Chamber of Commerce or Commercial Club; to declare and define the public powers
of said city, and provide for all matters of municipal concern and cognizance; to
confer power upon said city to acquire and own property beyond its corporate limits
for certain purposes; to provide for a city depository; to provide for a general policing
and all police laws for the general welfare of the municipality; to confer power to
establish police limits of said city beyond the corporate tax limits thereof; to provide
for all matters and things necessary and proper, or incident to a municipal corporation;
to provide for primaries and wards in the discretion of the mayor and council of said
city; and for other purposes.
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