373.9  Metropolitan council.

1.  A consolidated metropolitan corporation shall be governed by a metropolitan council. The council shall consist of an odd number of members, not less than eleven and not more than seventeen. If a vacancy on the metropolitan council occurs more than sixty days before the next general election, the council shall direct the county commissioner of elections to conduct a special election to fill the vacancy until the next general election.

2.  Unless otherwise specified in the consolidation charter, the council shall act by a majority vote of the members on the council.

Section History: Recent form

  91 Acts, ch 256, §48

Internal References

  Referred to in § 373.5


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