267. Section 1. Any public work or improvement costing more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) shall be executed by contract, except where a specific work or improvement is authorized by the council, based on detailed estimates submitted by the department authorized to execute such work or improvement. Contracts shall be awarded to a responsible bidder after one week's notice by publication in one or more of the newspapers of the city that sealed proposals for performance of the work are required. The city shall have the right to reject any and all bids and to advertise again, and all advertisements shall contain a reservation of this right. (Res. of 1-7-91, § 1)

268. Section 2. No public improvement costing more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) shall be contracted for or commenced until drawings, profiles and estimates for the same shall have been submitted to the council, or the proper administrative department, and approved by it. Such drawings, profiles and estimates, or copies thereof, shall thereafter remain on file in the office of the city clerk for public inspection. (Res. of 1-7-91, § 1)

269. Section 3. The council may by ordinance, provide for pensioning persons injured by violence, accident or exposure while employed by the city in the fire or police departments, when such injuries arise out of or in the course of such employment; also for the dependents of the person killed while so employed, subject to such rules and regulations as the council may prescribe.

Workmen's compensation.

269-A. Section 3-A. The council shall, by ordinance, establish and maintain a system of compensation for the employees of the city coming under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Laws of the State of Michigan and their dependents, in the case of the disability, injury or death of such employee, which system of compensation shall include the maintenance of a fund to defray the expenses thereof; out of which no monies shall be expended or disbursed except for the administration of such system of compensation. The minimum standards for such system of compensation shall comply with the standards set by the Workmen's Compensation Act of the State of Michigan. Such ordinance, whether existing at the time of the adopting of this section or thereafter enacted, may be amended or revised from time to time, or a new ordinance may be substituted therefor, as the best interests of the city and the requirements of such system of compensation demand, but no such amendment, revision or substitution shall destroy the existence of such plan of compensation or alter it or the fund established so that it will not meet the minimum requirements which are established herein. In case that the annual earnings of the accumulated funds shall equal the average cost of operation of the prior three (3) years' experience, then the workmen's compensation board of the city shall be empowered to cancel the annual contribution requirements to the said fund during that eriod and in case the earnings of the accumulated funds shall equal sixty-five (65) per cent of the average cost of operation of the prior three (3) years' experience, the workmen's compensation board of the city may reduce the annual requirement to the said fund during that period by an amount equal to the earnings of said fund. Editor's note—The above paragraph was added by an amendment approved by the electorate on April 6, 1942 by a vote of 2757 to 794.

272. Section 6. The city shall not be liable for un-liquidated damages for personal or other injuries, unless the person suffering the injury or sustaining the damage, or someone in his behalf, shall serve a notice in writing upon the city, within sixty (60) days after such injury shall have occurred, which notice shall specify the location and the nature of the defect, the injury sustained and the names of the witnesses, as to the fact of the happening of the accident complained of, which are known at that time by said claimant. The failure to so notify the city within the time and hi the manner specified herein shall exonerate, excuse and exempt the city from any and all liability on account of any such injury. Service of all process and notice of claims for un-liquidated damages against the city shall be made on the mayor or clerk.

273. Section 7. The city shall not become the owner or holder of stock or shares in any incorporated or unincorporated company.

274. Section 8. When, by the provisions of this charter, notice of any matter or proceeding is required to be published or posted, an affidavit of the publication or posting of the same, made by the printer of the newspaper in which the same was inserted, or by some person in his employ knowing the facts if such notice was required to be made by publication, or by the person posting the same, when required to be by posting, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained, provided, the same shall be filed with the city clerk within six (6) months from the date of the last publication thereof, or of posting the same.

275. Section 9. In cases where a special assessment has been made by authority of and confirmed by the city commission of the City of Wyandotte, and the same or some part thereof shall not have been collected when this charter shall take effect, the city, as hereby reincorporated shall have authority to enforce the payment thereof, and the same proceedings may be had therefor as are provided in this charter.

276. Section 10. All licenses granted by the city under its former act of incorporation shall be and remain in full force and virtue until the expiration of the time for which they are granted.

277. Section 11. The word "freeholder" is, for the purpose of this charter, hereby defined to mean any person holding an inheritable interest in lands situated in the City of Wyandotte under a deed, either individually or jointly or by the entireties or under land contract by which such person is purchasing land situate in said city, either individually or jointly with another or others or by the entireties. Any person possessing the qualifications of a freeholder as herein defined shall be deemed to be an owner of property for the purpose of complying with any provisions of this charter.

278. Section 12. No lands or premises shall hereafter be laid out, divided and platted into lots, streets and alleys, within the city, except by permission and approval of the council by resolution passed for that purpose; nor until the proprietor shall file with the city clerk a correct survey, plan and map of such grounds and the subdivisions thereof platted and subdivided as approved by the council, and made to their satisfaction; showing also the relative position and location of such lots, streets and alleys with respect to the adjacent lots and streets of the city; nor shall any such plat and dedication of the streets and public grounds thereon be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the city is located until a certificate has been endorsed thereon by the city clerk, under the seal of the city, showing that such plat and dedication has been approved by the council; nor shall the city by reason of such approval, be responsible for the improvement, care and repairs of such streets and alleys excepting such as the council shall accept and confirm by ordinance or resolution as in this charter provided.

279. Section 13. This charter shall be submitted to the electors of the City of Wyandotte for their approval or rejection on the second day of March, A.D. 1926. Prior to such submission this charter shall be published once in the Wyandotte Herald, a newspaper published and circulated in said city, at least thirty (30) days before the second day of March, A.D. 1926. If adopted, this charter shall take effect on the fifth day of March, A.D. 1926, provided that all officers and boards now existing shall continue their official duties and retain all their official powers until the second Monday of April, 1926, at 12:00 noon Central Standard time, except as herein, otherwise specified, and in case of appointive officers until their successors, if any, to whom their respective duties are committed under this charter shall have been selected and shall qualify according to this charter, whereupon their respective duties, powers and compensation shall cease an determine. The term of office of all appointive officers for whom no successors have been provided for in this charter or whose duties have not been retained and provided for in this charter shall terminate and cease upon the third Monday of April, 1926.

280. Section 14. It shall be the duty of the mayor, the city commission and the city clerk in office when this charter takes effect to comply with all the requirements of this charter relating to nominations and election to the end that all things may be done necessary to the nomination and election of the officers first to be elected under this charter according to the provisions hereof.