§ 7. Powers and privileges; quorum; deeds and contracts.

The legislature, contracting and corporate powers of Yazoo City are hereby vested in a council to be composed of said mayor and aldermen, with full power to make and establish rules for its own government, to appoint and regulate the time of its regular meetings, and the manner of being convened in special meetings, and to alter the same at pleasure, to elect a clerk and a marshal of said city, who shall hold their offices for one year from the date of their election, and until their successors in office are qualified, unless sooner removed or elected to fill a vacancy; also such other subordinate officers as such council may from time to time deem necessary. A majority of the city council, consisting of the mayor and aldermen, shall constitute a quorum, and the mayor shall be the presiding officer of the council and may vote on all ordinances, resolutions, issues and matters before the council. Said council may delegate the supervision of the various affairs of the city to committees of its own members and to its subordinate officers with prescribed powers, but all public work and contracts, and materials therefor, shall only be authorized by the council; and all deeds and contracts necessary to be made by said corporation in writing shall be authorized by resolutions of said council, signed by the mayor, attested by the clerk, and be under the seal of the corporation.

(Ord. of 8-23-54, § 1; Ord. of 8-4-70, § 1)

Editor's note

Ord. enacted on Aug. 4, 1970, is recorded in Photostat Book 184, page 371, in the office of the Secretary of State.