[Ord. No. 72-4, § 6, 3-7-1972]
Each of the wards of the City shall be entitled to two (2) representatives
in the City Council.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 2, 10-21-1912; Ord. No. 72-4, § 6, 3-7-1972; RSMo. 77.060]
No person shall be eligible to the office of Councilman who
is not twenty-one (21) years of age, a citizen of the United States,
a qualified voter and an inhabitant of the City for one (1) year,
and a resident of the ward from which he is elected six (6) months
preceding his election, nor shall any person be elected a Councilman
who is in arrears for any tax lien, any City fees, forfeiture or defalcation
in office.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 2, 10-21-1912]
Members of the City Council shall hold their office for two
(2) years ensuing their election.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 3, 10-21-1912]
Before entering upon the duties of their office, each Councilman
shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the City Clerk
or the Municipal Judge, that he possesses all the qualifications prescribed
for his office by law; that he will support the Constitution of the
United States and of the State; the provisions of all laws of the
State affecting Cities of the Third Class and the ordinances of the
City; and faithfully demean himself in office.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 12, 10-21-1912]
Resignations of Councilmen shall be in writing and addressed
to the President of the City Council.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 6, 10-21-1912]
The City Council shall, whenever required by law, publish a
full and detailed statement of the condition of the City Treasury.
Said statement shall show the balance in the Treasury at the beginning
of each period, the receipts and disbursements during said period,
and the balance in the Treasury on the day such statement is made,
and if shall, in like manner, show the condition of each fund and
the condition of bonded indebtedness of the City. Such statement shall
be published in some newspaper of the City.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 7, 10-21-1912]
The City Council may compel the attendance of witnesses and
the production of papers relating to any subject under consideration
in which the interest of the City is involved, and to that end may
authorize subpoenas to be issued by the City Clerk and require the
City Marshal of Police or any Policemen to serve the same. The Presiding
Officer of the Council is hereby authorized to administer oath or
affirmation to such witnesses.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 14, 10-21-1912]
The City Marshal shall be ex officio sergeant-at-arms of the
City Council and shall attend its meetings and execute all of its
orders. He shall keep the Council Chamber in order, and provide lights,
fuel and other necessary articles therefor at the City's expense.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 17, 10-21-1912]
At the hour designated for City Council meeting the Mayor shall
call the Council to order and after roll call, if a quorum is present,
he shall cause the minutes of the last preceding meeting to be read
for correction and approval. He shall preserve order and decorum and
decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Council.
He shall appoint all committees, the appointment or election of which
is not otherwise provided by ordinance. He shall have the right to
name any member to perform the duties of the President, but such substitution
shall not extend beyond adjournment.
The City Council may make regulations and pass ordinances for
the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases into the
City, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws
and enforce the same within five (5) miles of the City. The Council
may purchase or condemn and hold for the City, within or without the
City limits, within ten (10) miles therefrom, all necessary lands
for hospital purposes, waterworks, sewer carriage and outfall, and
erect, establish and regulate hospitals, workhouses, poorhouses, and
provide for the government and support of the same, and make regulations
to secure the general health of the City, and to prevent and remove
nuisances; provided however, that the condemnation of any property
outside of the City limits shall be regulated in all respects as the
condemnation of property for railroad purposes is regulated by law;
and provided further, that the Police jurisdiction of the City shall
extend over such lands and property to the same extent as over public
cemeteries, as provided by the State law.
[1]
State Law References — For similar provisions,
see RSMo § 77.530.
[Ord. No. 92-13, 6-8-1992; Ord. No. 95-11 § 1, 6-27-1995]
A.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to appoint the members of the following
standing committees of the City Council:
B.
All rules and regulations and City ordinances shall be drafted by
the committee implementing the task.
C.
The duties of the standing committees of the City Council shall be
established by the Mayor.
[Ord. No. 92-25 § 1, 12-8-1992; Ord. No. 98-16 § 1, 5-12-1998; Ord.
No. 2005-42 § 1, 11-8-2005; Ord. No. 2006-23 § 1, 4-25-2006; Ord.
No. 2008-21 § 1, 5-27-2008]
The Lexington City Council shall meet in regular session on
the second (2nd) and fourth (4th) Tuesdays of each month, commencing
at 7:00 P.M.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 5, 10-21-1912]
The Mayor, or person acting as Mayor, or any three (3) members
of the City Council, shall have the power, and are hereby authorized
to call a special meeting of the Council, by serving a notice in writing
on each member of the Council and the Mayor, or person acting as Mayor,
by delivering to each of them a copy of such notice, or by leaving
such copy at his usual place of abode with some inhabitant thereof
over the age of fifteen (15) years. Such notice shall state the object
of the special meeting and the time for holding the same, and such
notice shall be written out at length and copied upon the journal
of the Council proceedings. No business other than that specified
in the written notice shall be transacted at the special meeting.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 9, 10-21-1912]
No member of the City Council shall be permitted to vote for
or against any ordinance appropriating money or the allowance of any
account or claim, or for the award or approval of any contract in
which such member is directly or indirectly interested; and any ordinance,
resolution or motion having passed by the vote of such interested
member shall be deemed illegal and of no effect.
No member of the City Council shall absent himself from any
regular meeting thereof, nor from any adjourned or special meeting
after due notice thereon, unless he has leave, or is sick and unable
to attend, or is otherwise prevented by circumstances beyond his control.
[Rev. Ord.
No. 6, § 15, 10-21-1912]
A majority of the members elected to the City Council shall
constitute a quorum to do business, but any two (2) members including
the Mayor, may have a roll call of the Council, send for and compel
the attendance of absent members and make an order for their censure.
The City Council shall prescribe by resolution its own rules
or procedure for conducting its business at its regular meetings.
