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TITLE I. GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 100: GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE I. CITY INCORPORATION AND SEAL
SECTION 100.010: MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION
A. The inhabitants of the City of Crystal Lake Park, as its limits now are or may hereafter be defined by law, shall be and continue a body corporate by the name of "The City of Crystal Lake Park" and as such shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity and in all actions whatever; may receive and hold property, both real and personal, within such City and may purchase, receive and hold real estate within or without such City for the burial of the dead; and may purchase, hold, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of any property, real or personal, it now owns or may hereafter acquire; may receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds of property; and may have and hold one (1) common Seal and may break, change or alter the same at pleasure; and may do any act, exercise any power and render any service which contributes to the general welfare, and all courts of this State shall take judicial notice thereof.
B. Fourth Class City. On the twenty-fourth (24th) day of July 1957, the City of Crystal Lake Park became, and is now, a City of the Fourth Class under the laws of the State of Missouri. (CC 1995 §100.010)
SECTION 100.015: CORPORATE LIMITS
The corporate limits of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall comprise all the territory situated in the County of St. Louis and State of Missouri embraced within the following boundaries, to wit:
Beginning at the northwest corner of Crystal Springs Lake Park Subdivision, a subdivision in the southwest ¼ of Section 23, Township 45 North Range 5 East as per plat of said subdivision filed for record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Plat Book 18, Page 3, where said point intersects with the east right-of-way line of the Bopp Road; running thence South 89 degrees 32'East 1335.50 feet more or less to the northeast corner of said subdivision; thence South 0 degrees 12'West along east line of said subdivision 1890.38 feet to the southeast corner of said subdivision; thence North 89 degrees 29'West 1342 feet more or less to the southwest corner of said subdivision; thence northwardly along the east right-of-way line of the Bopp Road 0 degrees 46'East 1988.80 feet more or less to the point of beginning containing sixty (60) acres more or less. (CC 1995 §100.020; Ord. No. 1 Art. 1, 6-30-38)
SECTION 100.020: CITY SEAL
A. The Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be circular in form, one and seven-eighths (17/8) inches in diameter, with the words "St. Louis County, Missouri" engraved across the face thereof, and the words "Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park" engraved on the face thereof and near the outer edge of said Seal, and the same is hereby declared to be adopted as the Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park.
§ 100.020 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 100.070
B. The City Clerk shall be the keeper of the common Seal of the City of Crystal Lake Park, and any impression of said Seal to any contract or other writing shall have no validity or binding obligation upon the City unless such impression be accompanied by the attestation and signature of the City Clerk, and then only in cases authorized by law or the ordinances of this City.
ARTICLE II. GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS
SECTION 100.030: CONTENTS OF CODE
This Code contains all ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri, and includes ordinances dealing with municipal administration, municipal elections, building and property regulation, business and occupations, health and sanitation, public order and similar objects.
SECTION 100.040: CITATION OF CODE
This Code may be known and cited as the "Municipal Code of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri".
SECTION 100.050: OFFICIAL COPY OF CODE
The Official Copy of this Code, bearing the signature of the Mayor and attestation of the City Clerk as to its adoption, shall be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk. Two (2) additional copies of this Code shall be kept in the City Clerk's office available for public inspection.
SECTION 100.060: ALTERING OR AMENDING CODE
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to change or amend by additions or deletions any part or portion of this Code, or to insert or delete pages or portions thereof, or to alter or tamper with such Official Copy of the Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the City to be misrepresented thereby. Any person, firm or corporation violating this Section shall be punished as provided in Section 100.220 of this Code.
B. This provision shall not apply to amendments, additions or deletions to this Code, duly passed by the Board of Aldermen, which may be prepared by the City Clerk for insertion in this Code.
SECTION 100.070: NUMBERING OF CODE
Each Section number of this Code shall consist of two (2) parts separated by a period; the figure before the period referring to the Chapter number, and the figure after the period referring to the position of the Section in the Chapter. Both figures shall consist of three (3) digits.
§ 100.080 General Provisions § 100.080
SECTION 100.080: DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
A. In the construction of this Code and of all other ordinances of the City, the following definitions shall be observed, unless it shall be otherwise expressly provided in any Section or ordinance, or unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Board of Aldermen, or unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
BOARD OF ALDERMEN: The Board of Aldermen of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri.
CITY: The words "the City" or "this City" or "City" shall mean the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri.
COUNTY: The words "the County" or "this County" or "County" shall mean the County of St. Louis, Missouri.
DAY: A day of twenty-four (24) hours beginning at 12:00 Midnight.
MAY: Is permissive.
MAYOR: An officer of the City known as the Mayor of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri.
MONTH: A calendar month.
OATH: Includes an affirmation in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in such cases the words "swear" and "sworn" shall be equivalent to the words "affirm" and "affirmed".
OWNER: The word "owner", as applied to a building or land, shall include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of such building or land.
PERSON: May extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
PRECEDING, FOLLOWING: When used by way of reference to any Section of this Code, shall mean the Section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other Section is expressly designated in the reference.
PROPERTY: Includes real and personal property.
PUBLIC WAY: Includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway, sidewalk or other public thoroughfare.
REAL PROPERTY: The terms "real property", "premises", "real estate" or "lands" shall be deemed to be co-extensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.
SHALL: Is mandatory.
§ 100.080 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 100.120
SIDEWALK: That portion of the street between the curb line and the adjacent property line which is intended for the use of pedestrians.
STATE: The words "the State" or "this State" or "State" shall mean the State of Missouri.
STREET: Includes any public way, highway, street, avenue, boulevard, parkway, alley or other public thoroughfare, and each of such words shall include all of them.
TENANT, OCCUPANT: The words "tenant" or "occupant", applied to a building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
WRITING, WRITTEN, IN WRITING AND WRITING WORD FOR WORD: Includes printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters, but in all cases where the signature of any person is required, the proper handwriting of the person, or his/her mark, is intended.
YEAR: A calendar year, unless otherwise expressed, and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord".
B. Newspaper. Whenever in this Code or other ordinance of the City it is required that notice be published in the "official newspaper" or a "newspaper of general circulation published in the City", and if there is no newspaper published within the City, the said notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, regardless of its place of publication. Such newspaper shall not include an advertising circular or other medium for which no subscription list is maintained.
SECTION 100.090: WORDS AND PHRASES─HOW CONSTRUED
Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain or ordinary and usual sense, but technical words and phrases having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law shall be understood according to their technical import.
SECTION 100.100: HEADINGS
The headings of the Chapters and Sections of this Code are intended as guides and not as part of this Code for purposes of interpretation or construction.
SECTION 100.110: CONTINUATION OF PRIOR ORDINANCES
The provisions appearing in this Code, so far as they are in substance the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the adoption of this Code, shall be considered as a continuation thereof and not as new enactments.
SECTION 100.120: EFFECT OF REPEAL OF ORDINANCE
No offense committed and no fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred, or prosecution commenced or pending previous to or at the time when any ordinance provision is repealed or amended, shall be affected by the repeal or amendment, but the trial and punishment of all such offenses and the
§ 100.120 General Provisions § 100.160
recovery of the fines, penalties or forfeitures shall be had, in all respects, as if the provision had not been repealed or amended, except that all such proceedings shall be conducted according to existing procedural laws.
SECTION 100.130: REPEALING ORDINANCE REPEALED─FORMER ORDINANCE NOT REVIVED─WHEN
When an ordinance repealing a former ordinance, clause or provision is itself repealed, it does not revive the former ordinance, clause or provision, unless it is otherwise expressly provided; nor shall any ordinance repealing any former ordinance, clause or provision abate, annul or in anywise affect any proceedings had or commenced under or by virtue of the ordinance so repealed, but the same is as effectual and shall be proceeded on to final judgment and termination as if the repealing ordinance had not passed, unless it is otherwise expressly provided.
SECTION 100.140: SEVERABILITY
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Aldermen that the Chapters, Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, Section or Chapter of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, Sections and Chapters of this Code since the same would have been enacted by the Board of Aldermen without the incorporation in this Code of any such unconstitutional or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or Section.
SECTION 100.150: TENSE
Except as otherwise specifically provided or indicated by the context, all words used in this Code indicating the present tense shall not be limited to the time of adoption of this Code but shall extend to and include the time of the happening of any act, event or requirement for which provision is made herein, either as a power, immunity, requirement or prohibition.
SECTION 100.160: NOTICE
Whenever notice may be required under the provisions of this Code or other City ordinance, the same shall be served in the following manner:
.1. By delivering the notice to the person to be served personally or by leaving the same at his/her residence, office or place of business with some person of his/her family over the age of fifteen (15) years;
.2. By mailing said notice by certified or registered mail to such person to be served at his/her last known address; or
.3. If the person to be served is unknown or may not be notified under the requirements of this Section, then by posting said notice in some conspicuous place at least five (5) days before the act or action concerning which the notice is given is to take place. No person shall interfere
§ 100.160 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 100.220
with, obstruct, mutilate, conceal or tear down any official notice or placard posted by any City Officer, unless permission is given by said officer.
SECTION 100.170: NOTICE─EXCEPTIONS
The provisions of the preceding Section shall not apply to those Chapters of this Code wherein there is a separate definition of notice.
SECTION 100.180: COMPUTATION OF TIME
In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by this Code or by a notice or order issued pursuant thereto, the day of the act, event or default after which the designated period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the period so computed is to be included unless it is a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday nor a legal holiday. When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than seven (7) days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.
SECTION 100.190: GENDER
When any subject matter, party or person is described or referred to by words importing the masculine, females as well as males, and associations and bodies corporate as well as individuals, shall be deemed to be included.
SECTION 100.200: JOINT AUTHORITY
Words importing joint authority to three (3) or more persons shall be construed as authority to a majority of such persons unless otherwise declared in the law giving the authority.
SECTION 100.210: NUMBER
When any subject matter, party or person is described or referred to by words importing the singular number, the plural and separate matters and persons and bodies corporate shall be deemed to be included; and when words importing the plural number are used, the singular shall be included.
ARTICLE III. PENALTY
SECTION 100.220: GENERAL PENALTY
A. Whenever in this Code or any other ordinance of the City, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority duly vested in him/her or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or ordinance violation or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or ordinance violation, and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, upon conviction of a violation of any such provision of this Code or of any such ordinance,
§ 100.220 General Provisions § 100.230
rule, regulation, notice or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such offense, except that imprisonments may be in the City prison or workhouse instead of the County Jail.
B. Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or any such rule, regulation, notice or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
C. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing, securing, aiding or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.
SECTION 100.230: WORK/CONSTRUCTION ZONE─FINE
Any person who is convicted or pleads guilty to a speeding violation or passing/overtaking a vehicle in a work/construction zone when there was any person present performing duties in the work/construction zone and appropriate signs were posted stating "Warning: $250 fine for speeding or passing in this work zone" shall be assessed a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) in addition to any other fine assessed; except that any person assessed the two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) fine shall not also be assessed the thirty-five dollar ($35.00) fine for any of the following offenses in a construction or work zone: any moving violation or violation of speeding, leaving the scene, careless and imprudent driving, operating without a valid license, operating with a suspended or revoked license, obtaining a license by misrepresentation, driving while intoxicated, under the influence or BAC, any felony offense involving the use of a vehicle, or failure to maintain financial responsibility.
CHAPTER 105: ELECTIONS
SECTION 105.010: CONFORMANCE OF CITY ELECTIONS WITH STATE LAW
All City elections shall be conducted and held in conformance with the provisions of Chapter 115, RSMo.
SECTION 105.020: DATE OF MUNICIPAL ELECTION
A. A municipal election for the qualified voters of this City shall be held on the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April of each year.
B. On the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April of even-numbered years, a municipal election of the qualified voters of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be held for the purpose of electing a Mayor who shall hold his/her office for a term of two (2) years and until his/her successor is elected and qualified.
C. On the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April of odd-numbered years, a municipal election of the qualified voters of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be held for the purpose of electing one (1) Alderman from each ward who shall hold his/her office for a term of two (2) years and until his/her successor is elected and qualified.
D. On the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April of even-numbered years, a municipal election of the qualified voters of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be held for the purpose of electing one (1) Alderman from each ward who shall hold his/her office for a term of two (2) years and until his/her successor is elected and qualified.
SECTION 105.030: DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY─DATES FOR FILING
Any person who desires to become a candidate for an elective City office at the general City election shall file with the City Clerk, not prior to the hour of 8:00 A.M. on the sixteenth (16th) Tuesday prior to nor later than 5:00 P.M. on the eleventh (11th) Tuesday prior to the next City municipal election, a written declaration of his/her intent to become a candidate at said election. The City Clerk shall keep a permanent record of the names of the candidates, the offices for which they seek election, and the date of their filing, and their names shall appear on the ballots in that order.
SECTION 105.035: CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICE─NO ARREARAGE FOR MUNICIPAL TAXES OR USER FEES PERMITTED
No person shall be a candidate for municipal office unless such person complies with the provisions of Section 115.346, RSMo., regarding payment of municipal taxes or user fees.
SECTION 105.040: DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY─NOTICE TO PUBLIC
The City Clerk shall, on or before the sixteenth (16th) Tuesday prior to any election at which City offices are to be filled by said election, notify the general public of the opening filing date, the office or offices to be filled, the proper place for filing, and the closing filing date of the election. Such
§ 105.040 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 105.060
notification may be accomplished by legal notice published in at least one (1) newspaper of general circulation in the City.
SECTION 105.050: DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY─FORM
The form of said written declaration of candidacy shall be substantially as follows:
DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY
STATE OF MISSOURI ) ) SS COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS )
I, , being first duly sworn, state that I reside at , City of Crystal Lake Park, County of St. Louis, Missouri; that I am a qualified voter; that I do hereby declare myself a candidate for the office of to be voted upon at the municipal election to be held on the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in April, , and I meet all the qualifications required of a candidate for said office, and I hereby request that my name be printed upon the official ballot for said election for said office and state that I will serve as such officer, if elected.
Signed:
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , .
City Clerk City of Crystal Lake Park (S E A L)
SECTION 105.060: NOTICE OF ELECTIONS
In City elections, the City Clerk shall notify the County Board of Election Commissioners prior to 5:00 P.M. on the tenth (10th) Tuesday prior to any City election except as noted in Section 115.125.1, RSMo. The notice shall be in writing, shall specify that the Board of Aldermen is calling the election, the purpose of the election, the date of the election, and shall include a certified copy of the legal notice to be published including the sample ballot. The notice and any other information required by this Section may, with the prior notification to the election authority receiving the notice, be accepted by facsimile transmission prior to 5:00 P.M. on the tenth (10th) Tuesday prior to the election, provided that the original copy of the notice and a certified copy of the legal notice to be published shall be received in the office of the election authority within three (3) business days from the date of the facsimile transmission.
§ 105.070 Elections § 105.070
SECTION 105.070: WARDS
A. As required by Section 79.060, RSMo., the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri, shall be and the same is hereby divided into two (2) wards to be known and designated, respectively, as the "First Ward" and the "Second Ward".
B. The First Ward of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri, shall include the following territory: All properties included in the area bounded on the south by the south boundary of the City, on the west by the west boundary of the City, on the east by the eastern boundary of the City, and on the north by a line running from west to east in the center of Country Club Drive until it intersects with a line running north and south along the common boundary of lots on the east side of Lake View Drive and the west side of Oak Drive, thence south along this line to the center of South Drive and then turning east along the center of South Drive to the eastern boundary of the City.
C. The Second Ward of the City of Crystal Lake Park, Missouri, shall include the following territory: All territory not included in Ward I. Specifically, all properties included in the area bounded on the north by the north boundary of the City, on the east by the eastern boundary of the City, on the west by the western boundary of the City, and on the south by a line running from west to east from the intersection of Country Club Drive and Bopp Road in the center of Country Club Drive until it intersects with a line running north and south along the common boundary of lots on the east side of Lake View Drive and the west side of Oak Drive, thence south along this line to the center of South Drive and then turning east along the center of South Drive to the eastern boundary of the City. (CC 1995 §105.010; Ord. No. 61 §§1─3, 7-29-57)
CHAPTER 110: MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN
ARTICLE I. MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN─GENERALLY
SECTION 110.010: ALDERMEN─QUALIFICATIONS
No person shall be an Alderman unless he/she be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant and resident of the City for one (1) year next preceding his/her election, and a resident, at the time he/she files and during the time he/she serves, of the ward from which he/she is elected.
SECTION 110.020: MAYOR─QUALIFICATIONS
No person shall be Mayor unless he/she be at least twenty-five (25) years of age, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the City at the time of and for at least one (1) year next preceding his/her election.
SECTION 110.030: BOARD TO SELECT AN ACTING PRESIDENT─TERM
The Board shall elect one (1) of their own number who shall be styled "Acting President of the Board of Aldermen" and who shall serve for a term of one (1) year.
SECTION 110.040: ACTING PRESIDENT TO PERFORM DUTIES OF MAYOR─WHEN
When any vacancy shall happen in the office of Mayor by death, resignation, removal from the City, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or from any other cause whatever, the Acting President of the Board of Aldermen shall, for the time being, perform the duties of Mayor, with all the rights, privileges, powers and jurisdiction of the Mayor, until such vacancy be filled or such disability be removed or, in case of temporary absence, until the Mayor's return.
SECTION 110.050: MAYOR AND BOARD─DUTIES
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of each City governed by this Chapter shall have the care, management and control of the City and its finances and shall have power to enact and ordain any and all ordinances not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and such as they shall deem expedient for the good government of the City, the preservation of peace and good order, the benefit of trade and commerce, and the health of the inhabitants thereof, and such other ordinances, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry such powers into effect and to alter, modify or repeal the same.
SECTION 110.060: MAYOR MAY SIT IN BOARD
The Mayor shall have a seat in and preside over the Board of Aldermen but shall not vote on any question except in case of a tie, nor shall he/she preside or vote in cases when he/she is an interested party. He/she shall exercise a general supervision over all the officers and affairs of the City and
§ 110.060 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 110.100
shall take care that the ordinances of the City, and the State laws relating to such City, are complied with.
SECTION 110.070: ORDINANCES─PROCEDURE TO ENACT
The style of the ordinances of the City shall be: "Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Crystal Lake Park, as follows:" No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of the members elected to the Board of Aldermen shall vote for it, and the "ayes" and "nays" be entered on the journal. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the Board of Aldermen in writing and shall be read by title or in full two (2) times prior to passage, both readings may occur at a single meeting of the Board of Aldermen. If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time the bill is under consideration by the Board of Aldermen. No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the Mayor, or person exercising the duties of the Mayor's office, or shall have been passed over the Mayor's veto as herein provided.
SECTION 110.080: BILLS MUST BE SIGNED─MAYOR'S VETO
Every bill duly passed by the Board of Aldermen and presented to the Mayor and by him/her approved shall become an ordinance, and every bill presented as aforesaid, but returned with the Mayor's objections thereto, shall stand reconsidered. The Board of Aldermen shall cause the objections of the Mayor to be entered at large upon the journal and proceed at its convenience to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form: "Shall the bill pass, the objections of the Mayor thereto notwithstanding?" The vote on this question shall be taken by "ayes" and "nays" and the names entered upon the journal, and if two-thirds (2/3) of all the members-elect shall vote in the affirmative, the City Clerk shall certify the fact on the roll, and the bill thus certified shall be deposited with the proper officer and shall become an ordinance in the same manner and with like effect as if it had received the approval of the Mayor. The Mayor shall have power to sign or veto any ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen; provided, that should he/she neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance and return the same with his/her objections, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen, the same shall become a law without his/her signature.
SECTION 110.090: BOARD TO KEEP JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
The Board of Aldermen shall cause to be kept a journal of its proceedings, and the "ayes" and "nays" shall be entered on any question at the request of any two (2) members. The Board of Aldermen may prescribe and enforce such rules as it may find necessary for the expeditious transaction of its business.
SECTION 110.100: BOARD SHALL PUBLISH SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENTS
The Board of Aldermen shall semi-annually each year, at times to be set by the Board of Aldermen, make out and spread upon their records a full and detailed account and statement of the receipts and expenditures and indebtedness of the City for the half year ending with the last day of the month immediately preceding the date of such report, which account and statement shall be published in some newspaper in the City.
§ 110.110 Mayor And Board Of Aldermen § 110.160
SECTION 110.110: NO MONEY OF CITY TO BE DISBURSED UNTIL STATEMENT IS PUBLISHED─PENALTY
In the event the financial statement of the City is not published as required by Section 110.100, the Treasurer of the City shall not pay out any money of the City on any warrant or order of the Board of Aldermen after the end of the month in which such financial statement should have been published until such time as such financial statement is published. Any Treasurer violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a ordinance violation.
SECTION 110.120: BOARD MAY COMPEL ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES─MAYOR TO ADMINISTER OATHS
The Board of Aldermen shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers and records relating to any subject under consideration in which the interest of the City is involved and shall have power to call on the proper officers of the City, or of the County in which such City is located, to execute such process. The officer making such service shall be allowed to receive therefor such fees as are allowed by law in the Circuit Court for similar services, to be paid by the City. The Mayor or Acting President of the Board of Aldermen shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses.
SECTION 110.130: MAYOR TO SIGN COMMISSIONS
The Mayor shall sign the commissions and appointments of all City Officers elected or appointed in the City and shall approve all official bonds unless otherwise prescribed by ordinance.
SECTION 110.140: MAYOR SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE LAWS
The Mayor shall be active and vigilant in enforcing all laws and ordinances for the government of the City, and he/she shall cause all subordinate officers to be dealt with promptly for any neglect or violation of duty; and he/she is hereby authorized to call on every male inhabitant of the City over eighteen (18) years of age and under fifty (50) to aid in enforcing the laws.
SECTION 110.150: MAYOR─COMMUNICATIONS TO BOARD
The Mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the Board of Aldermen such measures as may, in his/her opinion, tend to the improvement of the finances, the Police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the City.
SECTION 110.160: MAYOR MAY REMIT FINE─GRANT PARDON
The Mayor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures and to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses arising under the ordinances of the City; but this Section shall not be so construed as to authorize the Mayor to remit any costs which may have accrued to any officer of said City by reason of any prosecution under the laws or ordinances of such City.
§ 110.170 Crystal Lake Park City Code § 110.200
ARTICLE II. BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETINGS
SECTION 110.170: MEETINGS─ATTENDANCE
The regularly stated meetings of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall be held on the second (2nd) Monday of each month at Frontenac City Hall 10555 Clayton Road, or such other place as set by the Board of Aldermen. Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the proceeding of all meetings and any question arising thereunder shall be decided by the Mayor or Acting President subject to appeal to the Board by any member thereof. (CC 1995 §110.190; Ord. No. 140 §2, 6-3-74)
SECTION 110.175: ATTENDANCE
All elected and appointed officials are required to attend regular and special meetings unless granted leave of absence by the Board, or unless excused by the Mayor or Acting President of the Board for illness or other special reason. (CC 1995 §110.230)
SECTION 110.180: SPECIAL MEETINGS
Special meetings may be called by the Mayor or by any two (2) members of the Board by written request filed with the City Clerk who shall thereupon prepare a notice of such special meeting in conformance with Chapter 120, Open Meetings and Records Policy, of this Code. (CC 1995 §110.200; Ord. No. 42 Art. I §3, 2-28-55)
SECTION 110.190: QUORUM MUST BE PRESENT
At the hour appointed, the Mayor, or in his/her absence the Acting President of the Board of Aldermen, shall call the Board to order, the Clerk shall call the roll of members and announce whether or not a quorum is present. A majority of the members elected to the Board shall constitute a quorum. If a quorum not be present, a smaller number may lawfully adjourn the meeting from day to day until a quorum is present.
ARTICLE III. COMMITTEES
SECTION 110.200: COMMITTEES
A. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Crystal Lake Park shall form and be divided into the following committees. Each such committee will consist of one (1) Alderman or other City Official to be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Crystal Lake Park for the purpose of coordinating and assisting the appointed officers in the performance of their official duties:
A.1. Banking and Finance Committee.
A.2. Streets and Signage Committee.
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A.3. Parks, Recreation, Hospitality and Beautification Committee.
A.4. Legal, Health and Welfare Committee.
B. Additional committees of the Board of Aldermen may be established as necessary to carry out the functions of government in the City of Crystal Lake Park by action of the Board of Aldermen. (CC 1995 §110.180; Ord. No. 211, 12-5-84)
CHAPTER 115: CITY OFFICIALS
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 115.010: ELECTIVE OFFICERS─ |