CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 133

Chairman of meeting.

5th Sched.

(3) Three clear days at least before a meeting of

the Council

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(a) notice of the time and place of the intended

meeting shall be published at the offices of the

Council, and where the meeting is called by

members of the Council the notice shall be signed

by those members and shall specify the business

proposed to be transacted thereat; and

(b) a summons to attend the meeting, specifying the

business proposed to be transacted thereat, and

signed by the clerk of the Council, shall be left

at or sent by post to the usual place of residence

of every member of the Council:

Provided that want of service of the summons

on any member of the Council shall not affect the

validity of a meeting.

(4) The notice of a meeting of the Council at which

resolution for the payment of a sum out of any fund under the control of the Council (otherwise than for ordinary periodical

payments), or a resolution for incurring any costs, debt or

liability exceeding one thousand dollars, will be proposed,

shall state the amount of the said sum, costs, debt or liability,

and the purposes for which they are to be paid or incurred.

(5) Except in the case of business required by this

Ordinance to be transacted at the annual meeting of the Council,

no business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Council

other than that specified in the summons relating thereto.

3.- (1) At a meeting of the Council the Chairman of the

Council, if present, shall preside.

(2) If the Chairman of the Council is absent from a

meeting of the Council, the vice-chairman of the Council, if

present, shall preside.

(3) If both the Chairman and vice-chairman of the Council

are absent from a meeting of the Council, such councillor as

the members of the Council present shall choose, shall preside.

(2)