(A) Ordinances. The City Clerk shall cause all ordinances passed by the City Council, and approved by the Mayor, imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture or making any appropriation to be published or printed in book or pamphlet form, published by authority of the corporate authorities or be published at least once within 30 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the city.
(B) Minutes; records.
(1) The City Clerk shall attend all meetings of the City Council and shall keep in a suitable book to be styled the “Journal of the City Council”, a full and faithful record of its proceedings.
(2) The record of those proceedings shall be made available for public inspection within seven days after being approved and accepted by the corporate authorities as the official minutes of their proceedings.
(3) The City Clerk shall record and properly index in a book kept for that purpose, all ordinances passed by the City Council and at the foot of the record of each ordinance so recorded, the Clerk shall make a memorandum of the date of the passage, when published and a memorandum of the publication of such ordinance.
(C) Bonds. The Clerk shall also record in proper books for the purpose all official bonds and note upon each bond so recorded when the same was entered of record and the book and pages where recorded.
(D) Issue notices. The Clerk shall issue and cause to be served upon all Aldermen, notices of all special meetings of the City Council; also, notices to the members of the different committees of that body and all persons whose attendance may be required before any such committee, when so directed by the Chair thereof.
(Prior Code, § 1-2-58)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 65 ILCS 5/1-2-4, 65 ILCS 5/1-2-5, 65 ILCS 5/3.1-35-90 and 65 ILCS 5/3.1-35-110