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AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND PROVIDIIIG
FOR THE APPOINTWI 11T OF A DIRECTOR THEREOF WHO SHALT, BE STYLED
CORPORATION COUNSEL, AND FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF AN AS ISTAidT
CORPORATION COUNSEL, AND PRESCRIBING THEIR DUTIES: AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERF'7ITH.
BE IT :ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CWl ISSIONERS OF TIME CITY`
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.
SECTION 1.
There is hereby created and established a department to
be known as the T,egal Department of the City of Paducah. The
director of said department shall be styled Corporation Counsel,
who shall be in charge of said Legal Department. There shall
also be appointed an Assistant Corporation Counsel. Both the
Corporation Counsel and the Assistant Corporation Counsel shall
be regularly admitted and practicing Attorneys -at -Law.
The Corporation Counsel shall appear for the City
arV attend all cues in the Circuit Court:, the Court of Appeals
of Kentucky, and the Federal Courts, wherein the City of Paducah
may be a party complainant or defendant, or a party in interest;
and he shall give advice to any and all city officials, and when
requested by the City Manager or by any member of the Board of
Commissioners, he shall attend the meetings of the Board of
Commissioners, and he shall supervise and rmepare all contracts
to which the City may be a party.
The Assistant Corporation Counsel shall appear for the
City in all cases in the Police Court, and shall prosecute or
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defend on behalf of the City all appeals from the decisions of
said court, in which the City may be a party, or is in any way
interested. He shall have charge of all actions for the
collection of delinquent taxes, and shall give all notices and
make all demands required in the enforcement of delinquent
tax claims, and shall promptly., as and when collected, immediately
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turn into the treasury all funds and collections coming into
his hands as such delinquent tax collector.
The City Manager is authorized to appoint a Corporation
Counsel and an Assistant Corporation Counsel, and to Drovide for
such clerical assistance in the performance of the duties of
said employees as may be found to be nece:,�-,ary to the efficient
handling of said department.
SECTION 2.
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with
the provisions of this ordinance hre hereby repealed. It is
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the purpose of this ordinance to establish a department in
which all legal matters and all legal services, for and on
behalf of the City of Paducah, may be handled and controlled;
and all legal services for and on behalf of said City shall be
handled through said department, and by the director and
assistant hereby established.
SrCTIOSI 3.
1This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and a.after its adoption.
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Mayor
Passed by the Boerd of Commissioners January 8th, 1934.
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, Clerk January R 1934.
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