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Council adopts two code-cleanup ordinances clarifying emergency government and presiding-officer rules
Summary
The Leawood City Council unanimously adopted two ordinances clarifying municipal code language: one amends Section 1-118 (Emergency Government) to expand triggering conditions and one amends Section 1-209 to define who presides when the mayor and presiding officer are both absent.
The council unanimously adopted two housekeeping ordinances during its Nov. 3 meeting that adjust municipal-code language on emergency succession and meeting presiding officers.
Emergency-government code change: City Attorney/Clerk Stephen Powell said the existing language triggered emergency government only in a catastrophe in which “all or majority of members…
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