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Title 1 : General Administration
Chapter 4 : City Attorney

1-401 : Office created; appointment; qualifications.

There is hereby created the office of city attorney. The board of mayor and aldermen shall, at its first regular meeting following its election and induction into office, elect an attorney at law who is regularly engaged in and duly licensed to practice the profession of law in all the courts of the state, to the office of city attorney. However, a failure of the board of mayor and aldermen to elect a city attorney at its first regular meeting shall not deprive it of the power to make such election at any subsequent regular meeting. (1973 Code, § 2-74)