City of Redondo Beach v. Barkley

Municipal Corporations—Incurring Bonded Indebtedness—Calling Special Election at Adjourned Meeting.—Under section 2 of the act of 1901, page 27, authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by municipal corporations for municipal improvements, which provides that “Whenever the legislative branch of any city, town or municipal corporation shall, by resolution, passed by vote of two thirds of all its members, and approved by the executive of said, municipality, determine that the public interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction or completion of any municipal improvement, ... it may at any subsequent meeting of such board, by the vote of two thirds of all its members, and also approved by the said executive, call a special election and submit to the qualified voters . . . the question of incurring a debt for the purpose set forth in said resolution,” the ordinance calling the special election may be adopted at an adjournment of the meeting at which the resolution of public interest and necessity was passed.

Id.—Approval by Executive—President op Trustees Is Executive in Cities op Sixth Class.—The requirement of the act of 1901, that the resolution of public interest and necessity and the ordinance calling the special election shall be approved by the “executive of the municipality,” is complied with as to cities which have no mayor by the approval of the officer whose duties approximate most closely to those of the mayor or executive in cities which have such officer. In cities of the sixth class that officer is the president of the board of trustees.