Chap. 0343 An Act to enable the city of newton to establish a boakd of public wokks.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The city of Newton is hereby authorized by ordinance to establish a board of public works and provide for the number of the members thereof not exceeding live, and the length of their respective terms of office not exceeding five years, but the members thereof may be reappointed. Such members shall be appointed and may be removed by the mayor and aldermen as provided by the sixth section of the charter of said city, being chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to revise the charter of the city of Xewton.
Section 2. Said city of Newton may by ordinance provide that said board shall have any or all of the following powers and duties : First. The construction, maintenance, alteration, repair, care and lighting of highways, streets, ways, sidewalks, bridges and public parks and squares ; and that said board may be highway surveyors.
Second. The construction, maintenance, alteration, repair and care of public drains and sewers. Third. The construction, maintenance, alteration, repair and care of public buildings and property, except that the control of the school buildings shall remain with the school committee. Fourth. The construction, maintenance, alteration, repair and care of the water works and the supply and distribution of water.
Section 3. Said city of Newton may from time to time amend or repeal any ordinances made under this act and may make new ordinances in any of the respects in which they may make original ordinances under this act, and may amend or repeal the same.
Section 4. This act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the city of Newton for its acceptance, at the next election for state, district and county officers, and shall be void unless such voters voting in their respective wards or precincts at said election shall determine to adopt the same. The vote shall be taken by ballot in accordance with the provisions of the election laws of the Commonwealth then in force, so far as the same shall be applicable, in answer to the question, " Shall an act passed by the general court in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled 'An act to enable the city of Newton to establish a board of public works', be accepted?"; and the affirmative votes of a majority of the voters present and voting thereon shall be required for its acceptance. If so adopted this act shall take effect at the beginning of the municipal year in the following January, except as hereinafter provided.'
Section 5. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall, on the ballots printed for use in the city of Newton at the next election for state, district and county officers, also print the question to he submitted to the legal voters of said city by the provisions of and as stated in section four of this act.
Section 6. So much of this act as authorizes the submission of the question of its acceptance to the legal voters of said city shall take effect upon its passage, but it shall not further take effect unless accepted by the legal voters of said city as herein prescribed.
Approved May 28, 1890.