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 Code of Ordinances
 Part I. CHARTER AND ENABLING ACT OF THE CITY OF CLARKSDALE

  § 5. Meetings.  

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  • Regular public meetings of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners of the City shall be held on the first Monday in July in regularly scheduled Mississippi election years as set forth in MISS. CODE ANN. §§ 23-15-171 and 23-15-173 (Rev. 2001) after the election of the Mayor and the Commissioners, and thereafter, at least twice each month, on such days and at such times as the Board of Mayor and Commissioners may, by resolution duly adopted, provide. When a regular meeting of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners shall fall upon a holiday, the Board of Mayor and Commissioners shall meet on the following day.

    Special meetings may be called at any time by the Mayor or by any two (2) Commissioners, by written notice, for the transaction of business. The notice must state the time of the meeting and specify the subject matters of business to be acted upon. Such written notice must be signed by the official or officials calling the meeting, and may be transmitted by mail or personally served upon the members of the Board, including the Mayor, who have not signed it. Said notice shall be given at least three (3) hours before the time fixed for the meeting. Said notice with the endorsements of its service shall be entered upon the minutes of the special meeting.

    At any and all meetings of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, three members thereof, which constitutes a majority of all of the members of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, shall constitute a quorum. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members present constituting a quorum of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or to pass any measure whatever, unless a greater number is otherwise required by law. Upon every vote taken by the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded. Every ordinance shall be reduced to writing before any vote is taken thereon. Upon request of one or more members of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, any motion, resolution or ordinance shall be read by the clerk before the vote is taken.

    All accounts and bills for work, labor and supplies shall be reviewed, and, if found correct, allowed.

    The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, and, in case of a tie vote on any question, the Mayor shall cast the deciding vote.

    The Board of Mayor and Commissioners shall have the power to require the attendance of any officer or employee of the City at any meeting if it so desires, and every officer elected by the municipality shall be and is required hereby to attend all regular meetings of the Board of Mayor and Commissioners, unless excused by the Mayor for good cause.

(Amend. of 11-5-1968; Res. of 3-20-2003, § 1)

Editor's note

Prior to the amendment of Nov. 5, 1968, § 5 had provided that the government be divided into departments headed by commissioners and that the commissioners meet once a week to decide upon matters pertaining to their respective departments. The previous § 5 also provided that commissioners hold a regular meeting on the first Tuesday in each month at which the minutes of the previous month's meeting was to be read, adopted and approved and at which reports of all officers and employees was read and acted upon.