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SUBSTITUTE - Amending and repealing various sections of the Madison General Ordinances to correct inconsistencies and improper references in the Madison General Ordinances, constituting the 2008 City Attorney Reviser's Ordinance.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This is the annual City Attorney's Reviser's ordinance, correcting certain parts of the Madison General Ordinances (MGO), the City's code of ordinances. The proposed changes are as follows:
1. Sec. 1.01(8), MGO, is amended to formally adopt the rule that authority granted to a public official may be accomplished by the official’s designee. This will avoid having to add “or designee” in the MGO’s.
2. Sec. 3.53(11)(c), MGO, is corrected to refer to the Common Council office and to allow emailing to alders notices of vacancies.
3. Sec. 2.05(4), MGO, is amended to clarify that appointments of Common Council members to committees or boards are acted upon without referral.
4. Sec. 3.54(6)(c)3.c., MGO, is amended to be consistent with prior amendments of the Council providing for 90 days notice of the end date of a manager’s contract.
5. Sec. 4.09(13), MGO, is amended to include repairs of sidewalks, curbs and gutters, which was inadvertently removed.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subsection (8) entitled “Acts by Agents” of Section 1.01 entitled “Construction of Ordinances” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
“(8) Acts By Agents. When an ordinance requires an act to be done which may by law as well be done by an agent as by the principal such requisition shall be construed to include all such acts when done by an authorized agent. Wherever these ordinances direct or allow a public official to take action, that action may be taken by the official’s designee.”
2. Subdivision (c) of Subsection (11) entitled “N...
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