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AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE COMPENSATION TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE ABSENT FROM REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETINGS DUE TO SICKNESS, ILLNESS AND/OR DEATH OF COUNCIL MEMBERS FAMILIES OR ARE ABSENT DUE TO OTHER CITY BUSINESS
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
Section 1: Any Council member shall be entitled to be absent from two regularly scheduled council meetings per year with pay beginning January 1 of each calendar year for the following reasons:
a) Sickness or illness of the Council Members, who is confined to his or her bed or a hospital and is under the care of a medical doctor.
b) Death of an immediate member of a council member’s family. Immediate family is defined as to include: Husband, wife, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandmother and/or grandfather.
c) Absence due to being on other official city business, which requires said council member’s presence on the same night that the City of Jonesboro has scheduled its regular session.
Section 2: All ordinances and/or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby specifically repealed.
Section 3: It is found and declared by the City Council that this ordinance being necessary for the welfare and well being of the City Council members and their families, that therefore, an emergency exists and this ordinance being necessary for the preservation of public peace, health, safety and welfare it shall take effects from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 4th day of August, 1975.