Bill Text: MS HB1430 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: City Councils; authorize to hire certain staff.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-03-02 - Died In Committee [HB1430 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2016-HB1430-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Municipalities
By: Representative Barker
House Bill 1430
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 21-8-13, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE CITY COUNCILS TO HIRE LEGAL COUNSEL AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS TO ASSIST IN THE CARRYING OUT OF COUNCIL DUTIES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 21-8-13, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
21-8-13. (1) (a) The council shall appoint a clerk of the council and deputy clerks, as necessary, who shall compile the minutes and records of its proceedings, its ordinances and resolutions as this chapter requires, and perform such duties as may be required by law.
(b) Any council may hire legal counsel and/or financial advisors as necessary to carry out the duties of the council. Any such counsel and/or advisors hired by a council may maintain offices at city hall or at any reasonable location within the municipality's boundaries.
(2) At the end of each
fiscal year, the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the
books, accounts and vouchers of the municipality to be made by a competent,
independent accountant or accountants who shall be appointed by the council,
and the report of * * *
the examination shall be typed or printed in pamphlet form. The council
shall make available a copy of * * * such pamphlet to all persons who
shall apply therefor at the office of the municipal clerk and shall cause three
(3) of the printed copies of * * * the pamphlet for each fiscal year
to be substantially bound in three (3) volumes which shall be kept and
preserved as a record of the clerk's office. * * * The pamphlets shall be published as
now provided by law.
(3) If, at the beginning of
the first term of office of the first city council elected by any municipality
under the provisions of this chapter, the appropriations for the expenditures
for the municipal government for the current fiscal year shall have been made,
the council shall have power by ordinance, to revise, repeal or change * * * such appropriations and to make additional
appropriations.
(4) The authority of the council is otherwise legislative and is executed by a vote within a legally called meeting. No member of the council shall give orders to any employee or subordinate of a municipality other than the council member's personal staff. The council shall deal with the municipal departments and personnel solely through the mayor.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.
