Chapter 1-12
OFFICIAL CITY TIME

Sections:

1-12-010    Official city time designated.

1-12-020    City clocks to show official time.

1-12-010 Official city time designated.

A.    Central standard time shall be the official time within the city for the transaction of all city business, except that from two am. on the first Sunday in April to two a.m. on the last Sunday in October in each year the official time of the city shall be one hour in advance of central standard time.

B.    When reference is made to any time without qualification in any ordinance, resolution or order heretofore passed or which may be passed hereafter by the city council or any official notice, advertisement or document of the city or in any contract to which the city is a party, it shall be understood to refer to the official time of the city as herein prescribed. When the words “daylight saving time” are used, the reference shall be to the advanced time herein prescribed as the official time from the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October.

C.    In all ordinances, resolutions or orders of the city council and in all official notices, advertisements or documents of the city and in all contracts to which the city is a party relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the city or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the official time of the city as herein prescribed. (Ord. 2910 § 1 (part), 1995)

1-12-020 City clocks to show official time.

All clocks or other timepieces in or upon public buildings or other premises maintained at the expense of the city shall be set and run according to the official time as provided in Section 1-12-010. It is made the duty of the officer or other person having control and charge of such building or buildings and premises to see that said clocks or other timepieces are set and run in accordance with official time. (Ord. 2910 § 1 (part), 1995)