Sec. 1015. Wards of cities; how changed; map of wards
to be recorded, and description, etc., published.
The wards of the several cities shall be as now established,
except that the council of any city, in addition to the powers
conferred upon them by section one hundred and fourteen, shall
have power, from time to time, to alter boundaries and the names
or numbers of the wards of said city, or any of them, and rearrange,
increase, or diminish the number thereof, as they may deem
proper, subject, however, to the provisions of sections ten hundred
and fifteen (b) and tend hundred and fifteen (c) of this
chapter. When any such change is made, the council shall cause
a map or diagram to be made of the wards as changed, showing
distinctly the boundaries and name or number of each, and lodge
the same with the clerk of the Corporation or Hustings Court of
the city, who shall record the same in his office and furnish an
attested copy thereof to the keeper of the rolls. The council shall,
moreover, as soon as the change has been made, cause a description
of the boundaries and the names or numbers of the wards, as
changed, to be published for ten days in some newspaper of general
circulation published in the said city: provided, that no such
change shall be made within thirty days next preceding any general
election in said city. The council of any such city shall, in
making any such change, so provide that each ward shall contain
as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants, and for the
transfer of all registered voters to the proper precincts and
wards without re-registration by them on account of such change.
