§ 10. Registration of voters.

Be it further enacted, that the mayor and city council shall have full power and authority to provide for the registration of all qualified voters of said city, and of the respective wards thereof. They may appoint the city marshal as registrar of said city, and pay him such compensation therefor as they may consider just and proper. Said registrar shall have power to administer oaths, and shall register on the registration book of the city provided him for that purpose, any one appearing before him, and being, upon examination, by him adjudged entitled to be registered as an elector in said city, upon such person taking and subscribing the oath required by section two hundred and forty-two of the Constitution of this state; but persons who may be entitled to register under the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-one of the Constitution, who would be otherwise disqualified by reason of age, may take the oath as modified by that circumstance, and the subscription of the oath shall be by the elector writing his name or making his mark in the proper column in the registration book. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election who has not been duly registered four (4) months before offering to vote, and who has not paid all taxes which have been legally required of him, and which he has had an opportunity of paying according to law, for the two (2) preceding years, on or before the first day of February of the year in which he offers to vote.

(Amendment No. 3, 7-21-1898; Amendment No. 8, 3-21-05)