[Adopted 1-5-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-006 as Art. II, Sec. 2, of the General Ordinances]
[Amended 4-30-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-025]
A. 
The appointment, term of office and general duties of the City Clerk are prescribed in Article II, § 8(b), of the Framingham Home Rule Charter.
B. 
The City Clerk shall permanently keep one or more copies of the City reports. The City Clerk shall notify, or cause to be notified, all persons chosen or elected by the City or appointed on committees of their election, choice or appointment. The City Clerk shall not allow original papers or documents of the City to be taken from the City Clerk's office, except as they remain in the City Clerk's custody, or by authority of law.
The City Clerk shall make available forms, with appropriate headings, upon which petitions, reports and other papers in the ordinary course of City proceedings may be prepared.
The City Clerk shall furnish the various City officers, boards, and committees a copy of such actions of the Council as affect them respectively, immediately after the Council action is taken.
The City Clerk shall have the authority to establish the format of City ordinances and require that the format of proposed additions or amendments be altered to make the format of the additions or amendments consistent with the City ordinance format. Such formatting as required should be accomplished prior to presentation of a proposed ordinance to the Council. Further, the City Clerk shall be responsible for reviewing the format of all existing and proposed City ordinances (exclusive of zoning ordinances) or amendments thereto and shall make appropriate formatting changes. Such change may include changes to spacing, capitalization, font size, or the use of underlining or italics. The City Clerk is also authorized to renumber sections or subsections of the ordinances where such renumbering may include reordering of ordinance sections or subsections and may include changing from numeric numbering to alphabetic numbering or the reverse.