CHAPTER 12

CITY STANDARDS

 

12.01   Official time

12.02   Corporate seal; custodian

 

 § 12.01  OFFICIAL TIME.

  1. Central Standard Time shall be the official time within the city for the transaction of all city business; provided, that from 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in April of each year, official time for the city shall be advanced one hour. At 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October in each year such official time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be returned to Central Standard Time.

  2. All legal or official proceedings of the City Council and all official business of the city shall be regulated as to time in accordance with the provisions of this section. When by ordinance, resolution, or action of any municipal officer or body, an act must be performed at or within a prescribed time, it shall be performed according to the official time as herein prescribed. When the words “Daylight Savings” or “Daylight Savings Time” are used in any official document or contract, it shall be understood to have reference to the time herein fixed for the period from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October.

 

§ 12.02  CORPORATE SEAL; CUSTODIAN.

  1. A seal in a circular form, with the words "City of Washington, Illinois," on the outer circle, and in the interior and center of the circle a small oval portrait of George Washington shall be the seal of the City of Washington, to be used in all cases that have been or shall hereafter be provided by the laws of the United States, the laws of the several respective states of the United States, and the ordinances of the City of Washington; and in all the cases in which, by the laws and customs of nations, it is necessary to use a seal by a corporation.

  2. The city seal shall be and remain in the custody of the City Clerk, to be used by the City Clerk as is provided in division (A) above.