2016 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 8. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
ARTICLE 9. PROCEEDINGS OF GOVERNING BODIES.
§8-9-3. Governing body to keep records; minutes of proceedings; voting.
The governing body of a municipality shall keep an accurate record of all of its proceedings, ordinances, orders, bylaws, acts, resolutions and rules which shall be indexed and open to inspection.
At each meeting of the governing body, a journal of the proceedings of the last meeting shall be read, and corrected, if erroneous, and signed by the presiding officer: Provided, That the reading of the journal of the proceedings of the last meeting may be dispensed with by majority vote of the governing body if the members have received and examined a copy or synopsis of the journal prior to the meeting at which the journal is signed. Any member may request the yeas and nays be taken on any question and recorded in the journal.
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