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SUBJECTs "Official Standard Time"
RMUESTED BY: J. R. Castner, City Manager
OPINION BY: Henry L. Holst, City Solicitor
QUESTION: Does the present Section 25-1. 19 of the
Ames ' Municipal Code conflict with the
provisions of Chapter 140 of the Laws of
the Sixty-first- General. Asse.mbly?
CONCLUSION: Yes.
DATE: May 12, 1966.
M&WIS
Section 25-1.19 of the Ames Municipal Code is as follows :
11,;�njenevex certain hours axe named herein they
shall mean central standard time. "
Chapter 140, Sixty-first GeneralY Assembl, , Section 1, p. 220,
provides that the standard time of the State of Iowa is central
standard time, except from Memiorlial Day to Labor Day, dhen it
shall be "daylight savings time. "
Section 2, thereof, provides in part as follows :
"In all laws, statutes, relatins to the time
of Performance of anv act, relating to the
time within which any act shall or shall not be
performed by, aDy- 2erson subject to the Jurisdiction
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of this state or of any city
the tiM shall be the time establisbed in Sec-
t ion one U) of _th.is Act, "
Section 25-1. 19 should be amended to read:
Whenever certain hours are named herein thev
shall mean th.e standard time established in
the Sixty-first General Assembly Chapter 140,
Section one (1) .
I liave p�epared the attached ordimi.nce for the Council to consider.
Respectfully submitted,
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Heh,r-. L. Holat
City Solicitor
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