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Title 1 : General Administration
Chapter 4 : City Attorney

1-403 : Specific duties; general compensation.

  1. The city attorney shall have the following specific duties:

    1. To regularly attend the meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen;
    2. To advise the board of mayor and aldermen and the other officials of the city in connection with all legal matters and questions that shall arise pertaining to the affairs of the city;
    3. To prepare all ordinances and resolutions of the board of mayor and aldermen for passage;
    4. To supervise the keeping of the minutes of board of mayor and aldermen meetings;
    5. To appear for and represent the city in all cases appealed from the recorder's court;
    6. To render such miscellaneous legal services out of court as the affairs of the city may require.
  2. For those services enumerated in subsection (1), the city attorney shall receive and be paid a salary as established from time to time by the board of mayor and aldermen, payable in monthly installments. (1973 Code, § 2-76)