1869ORDINANCE NO. ~g
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 2.51 OF THE WEST MEMPHIS
MUNICIPAL CODE MAKING THE CITY ATTORNEY'S POSITION FOR
THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS FULL TIME AND ESTABLISHING A
SALARY THEREFORE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS,
ARKANSAS, THAT Chapter 2.51 of the West Memphis Municipal Code be amended as follows:
Section 2.51.020(A) be amended to read as follows:
The city attorney shall be a regularly licensed attorney of the state and shall
perform all duties now required of and performed by the city attorney save such as
may be inconsistent with the statutes applicable to a city of the first class. Any fees
earned by the city attorney and taxed as costs in the prosecution for the city by
information or otherwise of misdemeanors or violations in any court shall be paid over
by the collecting officer to and be for the full use and benefit of the city. The city
attorney shall represent the City of West Memphis on a full time basis in all matters
pertaining to questions of a legal nature, and shall be the attorney for all boards,
commissions and local improvement districts of the city. Provided however that
nothing set forth herein shall prevent the Mayor and the City Council from referring
matters to outside attorneys or counsel, as circumstances permit or require. Further,
no outside practice of law shall be allowed for the city attorney except in matters
concerning family or uncompensated legal representation.
The annual salary for the city attorney is hereby established at Seventy-Five Thousand
($75,000) Dollars.
3. Section 2.51.070 of the West Memphis Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
A. The West Memphis city attorney shall have the power to appoint one or more
deputies for whose official acts the city attorney shall be responsible.
B. Any deputy city attorney appointed pursuant to the provisions of this section
shall serve at the will of the city attorney.
4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the
of such conflict.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 6-tk day of I - ~ Ar`~/ , 1999.
WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, MAYOR
SPONSORED BY:
ATTEST:
PHILL ,CITY CLERK
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