CHAPTER 30: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section

   30.01   Corporate seal

   30.02   Fiscal year

   30.03   Datum and bench marks

   30.04   Injury to public property

   30.05   Elections

   30.06   Surety bonds

   30.07   Daylight savings time

   30.08   Rules and regulations

   30.09   Right of entry

   30.10   Receipts for money

§ 30.01 CORPORATE SEAL.

   The corporate seal of the city shall be and is hereby established as a circular disc with the words “City of Quincy, Illinois - Incorporated A.D. 1840" of the periphery thereof and frontal elevation of a portico with four pillars surmounted by a flag in the center.

(1980 Code, § 13.901)

§ 30.02 FISCAL YEAR.

   The fiscal year of the city shall begin on May 1 of each year and end on April 30 of the following year.

(1980 Code, § 13.902)

§ 30.03 DATUM AND BENCH MARKS.

   (A)   The base, or datum plane, for the city shall be sea level datum as established by the United States Geological Survey being a level plane 601.32 feet below the line on a copper marker of the United States Geological Survey bench mark on the south entrance to the Adams County Courthouse.

   (B)   The grades of all streets between the point at which the grade has been heretofore or may be hereafter specifically fixed and established and the elevation above the datum plane specifically fixed shall be a straight line drawn from one fixed point to the nearest fixed point, unless the Director of Utilities and Engineering deems it expedient to make use of a vertical curve instead of the straight line above specified.

(1980 Code, § 13.903)