Cleveland v. City of Watertown
New York Supreme Court
Taxpayers’ action to restrain the officers of the city of Watertown from organizing the city government under and pursuant to the provisions of chapter 444, Laws of 1914, known as the Optional City Government Law.
1Opinion of the CourtEmerson, J.
The city of Watertown now exists by virtue of an amended charter passed in 1897, being chapter 760 of the laws of that year. In the year 1914 the legislature enacted chapter 444, Laws of 1914, *68known as “ The Optional City Government Law,” by the terms of which the electors of cities of the second and third class were permitted to vote on the adoption of any one of several forms of city government, known respectively as plans A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
The statute further provided that, upon filing with the common council a petition therefor, the city clerk was required to transmit a certified…
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