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ORDINANCE N0. 219
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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR REGULAR BEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, PROVIDING
FOR SPECIAL MEETINGS AND OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF yPEST MEMPHIS,
ARKANSASs
SECTION 1. BdEETING OF ALIXERMEN -ORGANIZATION OF CITY COUNCIL:
The Council shall annually, on the first Tuesday in January after each
annual election, assemble and orgai~ize the City Council; a majority of the
xhole number of aldermen elected shall be necessary to constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business. They shall be judges of the election re-
turns and qualifications of their own members. They shall determine the
rules of their proceedings and keep a journal thereof, xhich shall be open
to the inspection and examination of any citizen, and may compel the
attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as
they shall think fit to prescribe. The Mayor shall be ex-officio Presi-
dent of the Council and shall preside at its meetings during the term
for which he shall have been elected, and in case of a tie he shall have
the casting vote. In the absence of the Mayor the Council shall elect a
President pro tempore.
SECTION 2. P0INERS OF CITY COUNCIL -SPECIAL MEETINGS: The
City Council shall possess all the legislative powers granted by the
Statutes of the State and other corporate powers of a city not other-
xise prohibited, by the General law; sha].1 have the management and con-
trol of finances, and of all the property, real and personal, belonging
to the corporation; they shall provide the times and places of holding
their meetings, which shall at all times be open
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to the public; and the Mayor, or any t2~ree (3) aldermen, may call special
meetings i.n such manner as may be provided by ordinance; they sha11
provide by ordinance that the qualified voters of the city, of the wards
or districts, as the case may require, shall elect all such d ty
officers as shall be necessary for the good government of the city and
for the due exercise of its corporate powers, and which shall have been
provided by ordinance or statute, and appoint those whose election is aot
herein made and provided for by arst general lair of the State in reference
to cities of the first class. All city officers moose tare of office is
not prescribed, and whose powers and duties are not defined by law ar
ordinance, shall. perform such duties, exercise such powers, and continue
in office two (2) years, unless sooner removed for cause; but all officers
to be elected shall be electQd at the regular annual election for
municipal corporations.
SECTION 3. SPECIAL MEETINGSs When a special meeting has
been called by the Mayor or three (3) aldermen and all members are present
or waive notice and consent in writing to the holding of said mseting~
said meeting shall be open for all purposes and the transaction of am
business that may legally come before the Council,
- PASSER AND APPROVED THTS ~_DAY OF ~,r,,,,,~,~,~nP ~
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