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Each city of the first and second class must have its finances fully examined every fiscal year and publish the results.
A person who violates Section 10-3-603 or 10-3-604 without just cause is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
A municipal legislative body must adopt rules for public meetings, follow those rules in meetings, and make them available to the public.
A governing body generally may not expel or bar a member from an open public meeting, but may fine or expel a member for disorderly conduct, a financial conflict of interest, or a crime during the meeting after a two-thirds vote.
The governing body may, by a two-thirds vote, expel a person who is disorderly during its meeting.
On request of any two members, final action on a committee report must be deferred to the governing body’s next regular meeting; a qualifying council or town may instead call a special meeting to consider final action.
A municipal governing body may require people to attend and give testimony or produce records, documents, or things for inspection, copying, or examination when useful for municipal governance.
A municipality’s governing body must exercise its legislative powers by ordinance, unless another specific provision says otherwise.
Extent of power exercised by ordinance. Subject to Section 10-3-702.1 , the governing body of a municipality may pass any ordinance to regulate, require, prohibit, govern, control or supervise any activity, business, conduct or condition
Before passing most ordinances under Section 10-3-702, the governing body must consider family impacts.
A municipality may impose criminal or civil penalties for ordinance violations, but there are limits on amounts and on certain cases involving pets, residences, moving traffic ordinances, and misdemeanor citations.
A municipality may create an administrative proceeding for civil municipal ordinance violations, but it must provide due process and give written notice before imposing or collecting certain nonjudicial penalties for land use or nuisance violations.
The governing body must make sure ordinances follow a required form and include specified items, including a title, preamble, ordaining clause, body, penalty information when applicable, an indigent-defense statement when imprisonment is possible, an effective-date statement, signature and attestation lines, and, where
Ordinances passed by the governing body must be signed and recorded before they take effect.
The governing body may, by resolution, authorize the mayor to appoint one or more persons to prepare and submit a compilation, revision, or codification of municipal ordinances.
Any municipality may revise, codify, compile, and publish its general and permanent ordinances, and may make changes needed to produce a simplified code with errors, inconsistencies, repetitions, and ambiguities removed.
The governing body may decide the order of ordinances in a revision, codification, or compilation, and may leave out certain formal parts except the recorder’s attestation.
A revising ordinance repeals conflicting ordinances, while existing ordinances remain effective for certain accrued rights and liabilities. The ordinance’s only necessary title is a specified revising-codifying-compiling title.
Publication in book, pamphlet, or looseleaf form -- State statutes. Ordinances revised, codified, compiled and published in book, pamphlet or looseleaf form by authority of the governing body need not be printed or published in any other
Municipal ordinances generally cannot take effect until the city or town legislative body files a copy with the municipal recorder and publishes a short summary as a class A notice.
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