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CHAPTER 110: MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN - City of Stockton Missouri
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
SECTION 110.030: BOARD TO SELECT AN ACTING PRESIDENT─TERM
SECTION 110.040: ACTING PRESIDENT TO PERFORM DUTIES OF MAYOR─WHEN
SECTION 110.050: MAYOR AND BOARD─DUTIES
SECTION 110.060: MAYOR MAY SIT IN BOARD
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 Stockton, 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
SECTION 110.090: BOARD TO KEEP JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
SECTION 110.100: BOARD SHALL PUBLISH SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENTS
SECTION 110.110: NO MONEY OF CITY TO BE DISBURSED UNTIL STATEMENT IS PUBLISHED─PENALTY
SECTION 110.120: BOARD MAY COMPEL ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES─MAYOR TO ADMINISTER OATHS
SECTION 110.130: MAYOR TO SIGN COMMISSIONS
SECTION 110.140: MAYOR SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENFORCE LAWS
SECTION 110.150: MAYOR─COMMUNICATIONS TO BOARD
SECTION 110.160: MAYOR MAY REMIT FINE─GRANT PARDON
SECTION 110.161: STANDING COMMITTEES APPOINTED
The Mayor shall, at the first (1st) meeting of the Board of Aldermen after each annual election, name the members of such standing committees as he/she deems necessary, which may consist of two (2) or more members of the Board of Aldermen. (CC 1979 §21.210)
SECTION 110.162: PROCLAMATIONS, MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS
The Mayor shall have the power to issue proclamations, call mass meetings in such a manner as this Code or other ordinances or State law may provide. (CC 1979 §21.220)
SECTION 110.163: APPOINT CERTAIN OFFICERS─CONTROL POLICE
The Mayor, with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen, shall have the power to appoint all appointive officers of the City. He/she shall have authority to give such orders to the Chief of Police and Policemen of the City as in his/her judgment the public good may require, and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police and Police Officers to obey such orders. (CC 1979 §21.240)
ARTICLE II. BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETINGS
SECTION 110.170: REGULAR MEETINGS
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Stockton, Missouri, shall meet in regular session in the Board Room of the City Hall at 6:00 P.M. on the second (2nd) and fourth (4th) Monday of each month.
.1. When any such meeting day is a holiday, the regular meeting shall be held at such time as may be provided by the Board of Aldermen.
.2. The Board of Aldermen may, by motion, dispense with any regular meeting, but at least one (1) meeting, regular or special, must be held in each calendar month. (CC 1979 §24.010)
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.
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 of 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.
SECTION 110.200: EFFECT OF ADJOURNED MEETINGS
All adjourned meetings of the Board shall, to all intents and purposes, be continuations of the meetings of which they are adjournments, and the same proceedings may be had at such adjourned meetings as at the meeting of which they are adjournments. (CC 1979 §24.045)
SECTION 110.210: RULES OF ORDER
Except as otherwise provided by law or ordinance, the proceedings of the Board of Aldermen shall be controlled by Robert's Rules of Order, as revised. (CC 1979 §24.065)
SECTION 110.220: DECORUM
The Presiding Officer of the Board of Aldermen shall preserve decorum and shall decide all questions of order subject to appeal to the Board of Aldermen. Any member may appeal to the Board from a ruling of the Presiding Officer upon a question of order. If the motion for an appeal is seconded, the member making the appeal may briefly state his/her reason for the same and the Presiding Officer may briefly express his/her ruling, but there shall be no debate on the appeal and no other member shall par­ticipate in the discussion. The Presiding Officer shall then put the question to vote as to whether the decision of the Chair shall be sus­tained. If a majority of the members present vote "aye", the ruling of the Chair is sustained; otherwise, it is overruled. (CC 1979 §24.070)
SECTION 110.230: PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR MEMBERS TO LEAVE CHAMBER
No member of the Board of Aldermen may leave the Board Chamber while in regular session without permission from the Presiding Officer. (CC 1979 §24.080)
SECTION 110.240: ORDER OF BUSINESS
At the meetings of the Board of Aldermen, the order of business shall be as follows:
.3. Petitions, remonstrances, complaints and requests and the hearing of any person or group desiring to address the Board of Aldermen. All petitions, remonstrances, complaints and requests shall be presented to the Board of Aldermen. However, the Board of Aldermen may decide to act on oral discussions of any petitions, remonstrances, complaints or requests presented by the interested parties appearing in open meeting. In this case such discussion by the interested parties shall be limited to five (5) minutes per speaker, except where an extension of time for oral discussion is granted by the Board of Aldermen.
.4. Reports of special boards, committees and City Officers.
.5. Opening of bids.
§ 110.240 Stockton City Code § 110.280
.6. Public hearing as required by law or ordinance.
.7. Reading and acting upon unapproved minutes of previous meetings.
.8. Acting on unfinished business. The unfinished business from the last preceding meeting shall take precedence over any new business.
.9. Reading of communications. All communications which in any manner whatever pertain to the business or functions of the City or any of its elected or appointed employees shall be read.
.10. Resolutions which require action by the Board of Aldermen.
.11. Introduction and reading of bills.
.12. Miscellaneous business.
.13. Adjournment. (CC 1979 §24.090)
SECTION 110.250: EXPRESSION OF DISSENT OR PROTEST BY MEMBER
Any member of the Board of Aldermen shall have the right to express dis­sent from or protest against any ordinance or resolution of the Board of Aldermen and to have the reason therefor entered upon the journal. Such dissent or protest must be filed in writing and presented to the Board of Aldermen not later than the next regular meeting following the date of the passage of the ordinance or resolution to which objection is taken. (CC 1979 §24.100)
SECTION 110.260: SPECIAL COMMITTEES
All special committees shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City un­less otherwise ordered by a majority of the Board. By consent of a majority of the Board, a special committee may be appointed at any time to hold public hearings for the Board upon any matter pending before it. A special committee is a committee composed of members of the Board of Aldermen; the concurrence of the Board shall not be required as to the membership of the special committee, unless the Board shall order other­wise. (CC 1979 §24.160)
SECTION 110.270: RULES OF PROCEDURE
The Board of Aldermen may by resolution prescribe and enforce such rules as it may find necessary for the expeditious transaction of its business, but such rules shall not contravene the requirements of this Code or other ordinance. (CC 1979 §24.180)
SECTION 110.280: AMENDMENT OR SUSPENSION OF RULES
Any rule of the Board of Aldermen may be repealed, altered or amended by a majority vote of the members. Every amendment offered shall lie on the table until the next meeting of the Board of Aldermen before being voted upon except by the unanimous consent of all elected members of the Board of Aldermen (including the Mayor). Any rule may be suspended by a majority vote of the members of the Board, a quorum being present by unanimous consent.