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ORDI NANCE No. �
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(An Ordinance establishing salaries and providing for certain benefits for certain
employees of the City of Canton, Illinois for the fiscal year commencing Ma 1
Y, 977.)
Whereas, it is thought by the corporate authorities of the City of Canton, Illinois
that an Ordinance setting forth not only rates of pay for certain employees of said City
but which also outlines and defines certa�n other benefits for such employees and which,
as well, enunciates the policy and outlook of said City with respect to such employees
would be of benefit to all concerned; and,
Whereas, further, it is the intent of said corporate authorities, hereby promulgated,
that there shall be dignity and reasonable stability in relation and attitude towards
all employees of said City,
NOW, TfiEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CANTON, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That this Ordinance may be referred to as the "Employment Ordinance" of
the City of Canton, Illinois.
Section 2. That the following words or phrases, as used herein, shall have the
following meanings, to-wit:
a. "E�ployer" shall mean the City of Canton, Ill�nois.
b. "Employee" shall mean a person, other than one who is appointed to a position
wirth the City, other than an elected official, and other than one who is a department
head, who does work for or renders services to the employer and who is paid therefor at
weekly intervals.
c. "Department Head" shall mean either the Fire Chief, the Police Chief, the
Superintendent of the City Water Works, the Superintendent of the Waste Water Treatment
Plant, the Superintendent of Streets and Alleys, or the Plumbing Inspector, as the context
requires and shall also have reference to several or all of them when used in the plural,
as the context requires.
d. "Full Time Employee" shall mean and have reference to an employee of the
employer who regularly works a minimum of 40 hours per week in a particular work category
established by the employer and which has subsisted as such a work category utilizing the
services of an employee for a minimum of 40 hours•per week for each week of the preceding �
fiscal year of the employer and wherein the need for rnntin,,.,,.� ,�,... __�_, . _ _
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e. "Part-time Employee" shall mean and have reference to an employee of the
employer who regularly works a minimum of 34 hours (but not as many as 40 hours) per
week in a particular work category established by the employer and which has subsisted
as such a work category utilizing the services of an employee for a minimum of 34 hours
(but not as many as 40 hours) per week for each week of the preceding fiscal year of the
employer and wherein the need for continuous like services is anticipated in the fore-
seeable future.
f. "Temporary Employee" shall mean an employee whose services in any work
category established by the employer are expected to be of short duration and wherein
the need therefor is casual or intermittent.
g. "Appointed Positions", "Appointed Employee", or variations thereof, shall mean
and have reference to a person employed by the City who is appointed to his position by the
Mayor with concurrence of the City Council.
h. "Full-time Appointed Employee" shall mean and have reference to an appointed
employee who regularly works 40 hours per week. -
' i. "Seniority" or variations thereof shall have reference to the continuous
service of a full time employee within the Department of his employment unless otherwise
specifically defined. �
�. "Service" or variations thereof shall have reference to the continuous service
of a full time employee, whether within the Department of his current employment or not,
unleas otherwise specifically defined.
k. "Probation Period" or variations thereof shall mean and have reference to that
6-month period of employment immediately following the initial employment of any employee
of the employer excepting of temporary employees or employees who are members of either
the Fire or Police Department of the City; with respect to any employee who is a member of
either the Fire or Police Department of the City (and who is under the jurisdiction of the
Fire and Police Commission of the City) they shall mean and have reference to that one-
year period of employment immediately following the initial employment of such employee
as a member of either of these Departments (as a Fireman or Policeman, as the case may
be.) Any applicable probation period shall have, as its incident, and shall be considered
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employer during which time such employee may be discharged by the em lo
reason or cause.
P yer without stated
1• "Regular Pay" or variations thereof shall mean the basic
all money additives thereto which shall be applicable to an full Weekly salary plus
context requires, it shall mean the basic weekly salary of 8 D time employee; or, if the
ePBrtment Head or the weekly
Pay provided for a particular appointive position.
Section 3. Full time employees.
a• The following provisions are applicable to all full time
"hiring-in" weekly salary, based on 40 hours actually worked, shall �ployees; A
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newly-hired full time employee in the basic amount of $200.00 e be paid to each
P r week. Merit increases
may from time to time be recommended for such a newly hired employee by his De
Head for disposition by the City Council Partment
, provided, however, such an employee shall be
paid the basic weekly salary, hereinafter provided, following two years of c
service by him. _ ontinuous
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A basic weekly salary, based on 40 hours actuall work �
other full time employee in the amount of 24p. y ed' shall be paid to every �
$ �2 rer week. The sum of $2,00 per week I
shall be added to the basic weekly salary of each such employee commencin w
40 hours worked by such an employee followin com letion of an a g ith the first
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bation for service within the department of his em lo Period of pro-
, P yment. A further sum of $2.00 per
week shall be added to the basic weekly salary of such an employee commencin
first 40 hours worked by such employee following completion of four ear's g With the
the department. y service within
b• The following provisions shall be applicable to particularized
employees and in addition to the provisions of the precedin full time
g paragraph:
I• Police Department:
A. Addition To Basid Weekly Salary: To the basic weekly salary of each
Corporal shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $14.53. To the basic weekly
salary of each Police Sergeant shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $24.06.
To the basic weekly salary of each full time employee who is a member of the Police
Department and sub�ect to the ruled and regulations of the Fire and Police Commissi�„ .,f
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_ fiscal year of the City or as near thereto as practicable.
II. Fire Department.
A. Addition To Basic Weekly Salary: To the basic weekly salary of each
Fire Truck Driver (each of 'whom is to be the senior employee on any particular shift)
shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $4.00. To the basic weekly salary of
each Assistant Fire Chief shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $24.06. To
the basic weekly salary of each full time employee who is a member of the Fire Department
and sub�ect to the rules and regulations of the Fire and Police Commission of this City
shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $5.00. To the basic weekly salary of
each Lieutenant shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $14.53. To the basic
weekly salary of each Fire Truck Driver (each of whom is to be the senior employee on an
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particular shift) who is regularly. stationed at any sub-fire station of this City shall
be added and paid the further weekly sum of $4.00.
B. Clothing Allowance: Each Fireman, including the Fire Chief, shall be
allowed and paid a Clothing Allowance in the yearly amount of $180.00. This amount shall
be paid in advance at the �ommencement of the fiscal year of the City or as near thereto
as practicable.
III. Assistant To Department Heads: Department Heads, excepting of the Fire and
Police Departments and the Plumbing Inspectior, may designate a full-time employee as
an Assistant. Such an Assistant, in addition to his basic weekly salary, shall receive
and be paid an additional $5.00 per week, provided, however, in the event the Department
Head is unavailable and off duty for a continuous period of five calendar days, such
Assistant, upon certification by the Department Head, shall thereafter and during the
subsequent absence of the Department Head be paid the salary of the Department Head and
in lieu of the sala r
ry and money benef its he otherwise would have been paid as hereinabove
provided.
Section 4. Part-time Employees: The following provisions are applicable to all
part-time employees: A weekly salary, from time to time based on the total number of
hours actually worked in a particular week, shall be computed and paid at the rate of
$6.16 per hour to each part-time employee. For the purposes of computing vacation �av_
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Part-time employees who qualify as provided hereinaftar with respect to others
shall receive a vacation period as hereinafter provided. In such instance they shall
receive their re ular a ' p )
g p y (as above rovided for each week thereof. �
Part-time employees shall receive and be paid a holiday pay, as hereinafter pro- �
vided, provided, however, the pay therefor shall consist of 6.8 hours of regular pay
(i.e. , 6.8 hours computed at the hourly rate above provided) .
Part-time employees shall be entitled to and shall receive a sick pay as hereinafter
provided, provided, however, the maximum sick pay to be paid any such employee on account
of any single fiscal year of the City shall be six 6.8 hour days computed at the hourly �
rate above provided. After utilization of these six days such an employee shall be �
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entitled to one additional sick day which shall be with'pay. �
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Section 5. Temporary Employees: A temporary employee shall be paid and receive
an hourly wage of not less than $2.50 per hour nor more than $4.50 per hour for each
hour actually worked in any applicable week. The hourly rate to be paid such an employee
shall be as from time to time determined by the applimble Department Head, Committee
Chairman and the Mayor. �
Section 6. Department Heads: The basic weekly salary to be paid to each Department
Head shall be the sum of $312.80. This City recognizes, however, that Department Heads,
by reason of managerial responsibilities and duties which transcend those of other
employees, may sometimes be required not only to perform services over continuous periods
of time considerably in excess of 40 hours in any one week, but may sometimes be required :
or expected to perform services on holidays, at odd times, on days off, during vacation
periods, or at various other and unexpected times under emergency or unusual conditions.
Accordingly, and within reason, it shall be the policy of this City that such demands for
services by Department Heads shall be recognized by the corporate authorities of this
City and that reasonable ad�ustments and concessions therefor, both in money payments and
as otherwise may be fair and suitable in particularized instances, shall from time to
time be considered and made, provided, however, that any such ad�ustments shall be in the
sole discretion of the corporate authorities of this City and, further, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as an inducement, promise or obligation running from
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y In the interpretation of the paragraph immediately preceding it is hereby declared
that the spirit and principles of all provisions of this City having to do with vacation
pay, holiday pay, night time bonus and sick pay, together with the concept of reasonable
and periodic time off from the demands of duty and employment, applies to Department fleads.
Accordingly, in the implementation and application of the provisions of the two
paragraphs hereto preceding it shall be the DUTY of each Department Head to make weekly
report of the circumstances of his employment (whether by him deemed unusual or not) to
the Chairman of the appropriate Committee of this City, charged with immediate concern for
and over the Department of his employment, who is hereby authorized and directed to make
such immediate ad�ustments of salary and conditions of employment as may be consonant
with the intention and spirit of said paragraphs, provided, however, all such ad�ustments
of salary shall be reported on a monthly basis for approval by the corporate authorities. �
Section 7. Appointive Positions:
a. The following positions shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor with
concurrence of the City Council, and the weekly basic salary to be paid to the appointee
for each such positions, based on 40 yours actually worked, shall be as follows, to-wit:
Three Radio Operators and one Radio-Operator-File-Clerk shall be appointed,
each to be paid a basic weekly salary, based on 40 hours actually worked, of $224.55 per
week.
b. The following positions shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor with
concurrence of the City Council, and the annual salary to be paid to the appointee for
each such position (to be paid in 52 equal weekly installments) shall be as indicated:
(Comfort Station & ) $3120.00;
One Part-time Radio Operator, $1788.80; One Care-Taker (Police Department) ,/�l.�c�X
One City Attorney (part time) , $9891.44; One Deputy City Clerk, not to exceed $4500.00;
One Secretary to the Mayor, $10400.00; One Maintenance Supervisor, $15544.88; Qne
Buildings Custodian, $10484.24; One Traffic Control Officer, $12676.04; One Water Depart-
ment Cashier, $12175.28; One Supervisor of Community Development Program, $17748.64; One
Assistant to the Supervisor of Community Development Program, $13456.03; One Public Works
Draftsman, $12160.72; and, One City Engineer and Coordinator, $20598.76.
To the weeklv salarv of each of the three Radio Onerators [other than nart time
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Each of the three Radio Operators (other than part time Radio Operator) and the
Radio Operator-File Clerk shall be allowed and paid a clothing allowance in yearly
amount of $125.00. This amount shall be paid in advance at the commencement of the
fiscal year of the City or as near thereto as practicable.
To the weekly salary of each employee filling an appointive position who regularly
works 40 hours each week shall be added and paid the further weekly sum of $2.00 co�nencing
with the first 40 hours worked by such an employee following completion of his probation
period. A further sum of $2.00 shall be added to the weekly salary and paid to such an
employee co�encing with the first 40 hours worked following completion of four years of
continuous sefvice as such an employee.
Section 8. Vacation Pay: Each full time employee, official, officer, Department
Head (including persons filling a full-time appointive position) of the City of Canton,
Illinois, who qualifies therefor as hereinafter provided, shall receive a vacation period,
consisting of one or more weeks, as hereinafter provided, with 40 hours regular pay for
each such week and 'as may be applicable to any such person, provided, however, that such �
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person shall not perform his regular work or render his regular services to and for the
Dity during any such vacation period or part thereof. The vacation period or periods, '
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hereinafter set forth, shall accrue by way of entitlement only after continuous service ;
to the employer for the entire lesser period in each instance named. Further, for the
purpose of computing vacation entitlement, continuous service with the employer (as
distinguished from service within a Department) shall be counted. The vacation period 4
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hereby provided for such service of not less than one nor more than three calendar years, �
shall be two weeks; for not less than three years, nor more than ten years, three weeks;
for not less than ten years, nor more than fifteen years, four weeks; and, for any period
in excess of fifteen years, five weeks. Vacation periods may not be accumulated and must
be used during the fiscal year of the City during which the entitlement therefor arises
unless otherwise expressly provided by the corporate authorities at a regular meeting and
upon request of the employee concerned.
Part-time employees, within the meaning of that term as defined herein, shall be
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Section 9. Holiday Pay: Each full time employee, official, officer, Department �
Head (including persons filling a full-time appointive position) of the City of Canton,
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Illinois, shall receive and be paid a "Holiday Pay" consisting of, in each instance, eight
hours regular pay applicable to each such person, for each of the following seven
holidays, to-wit: New Year's Day; Memorial Day; Fourth of July; Labor Day; Veterans Day;
Thanksgiving Day; and, Christmas Day, provided, however, that such employee, official,
officer, or appointed person shall be and remain employed by and with the City both
before and after the applicable holiday for which payment is herein provided.
In the event any such person actually works an eight-hour period on any of the
holidays herein named as a part of his regular work week, such person shall receive and
be paid a yet additional pay therefor consisting, in each instance, of eight hours .regular
pay applicable to each such person.
The calendar day on which each such holiday falls and for which payment is to be
made, as herein provided, shall be as provided by law, or in the absence thereof, by
custom.
For the purpose of clarification, the intent of the foregoing is that each such
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employee shall receive his regular pay for each named holiday if not worked; triple if j
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Department Heads shall not work on any of the holidays named except in emergency or i
necessitous circumstances which cannot be circumvented.
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Section 10. Night-time Bonus: Each full time employee, official, officer, or
Department Head of this City, excepting of inembers of the Fire Department, who works a
regular eight-hour night shift as a part of his regular work week, shall receive and be
paid an additional increase in his basic weekly salary in the amount of one-fifth of three
per centum thereof for each such eight-hour night shift actually worked. For the purpose
of this Section the term "night shift" shall mean any regular eight-hour period actually
worked between the hours of three o'clock in the afternoon of any day and seven o'clock
in the morning of the day thereafter immediately succeeding.
Section 11. Sick Pay: Each full tizne employee, official, officer, Department
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for personal reasons shall be construed to be within the meaning of and encompassed by
the term "sick pay"• The maximum sick pay to be paid by the employer to any employee on
account of any fiscal year of the employer shall be: Six 8-hour days of regular pay �
(i.e. , six-fifths of the basic weekly salary, based on 40 hours actually worked, plus i
additives, in the case of full-time employees; six-fifths of the basic weekly salary of
Department Heads; or, six-fifths the weekly salary of full time appointive persons
(together with applicable additives) . �
In the event this sick pay is not paid to the individual entitled during the current �
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fiscal year on account of actual illness or actual personal time off for personal reasons, �
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the same shall be paid at the commencement of the ensuing fiscal year of the employer, or
as near thereto as practicable.
An employee entitled to sick pay, as hereinabove provided, shall also be entitled to
two additional sick days off with eight hours of regular pay therefor during the fiscal
year of the City under the following conditions: Subject to a right of election, as
hereinafter set forth, these additional days may be utilized only after the sick days to
which such employee is entitled, as hereinabove set forth, have actually been used as time
off during the fiscal year; and, in the event the employee is called for emergency duty
with the City on any such day, he shall be paid for such emergency duty at his straight
time rate, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary any place set forth. Notwithstanding
the provisions of the preceding sentence, any employee, who is a member of the Fire or
Police Department and also subject to the �urisdiction of the Fire and Police Commission
of this City, may, at his election, timely made known in writing prior to the end of any
fiscal year, accumulate one or both such days to which he may have become entitled to
during such fiscal year and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter ensuing until a
maximum of fifteen of such days have been accumulated. These days, so accumulated, may
be used by such employee as time-off days without pay therefor above or in addition to
his regular salary.
Computation of sick pay for any employee newly hired as a full time employee,
whether for the first time or after a break in service with the City, shall be computed
�.�tth reference to the fiscal vear of the City. Thus, the sick pay entitlement of such
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of such fiscal year. Such a newly hired employee shall not be ent �
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right to extra time off as a sick day,
The sick pay hereinabove provided shall be paid only after presentment to the Cle
and Treasurer of this City of a voucher or certificate of verification si ed b rk
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applicable Department Head and Countersigned by the applicable Comanittee Chairman ma _
festing the entitlement of the particular employee to the sick a ni
p y claimed. A Department
Head shall sign his own voucher and on his own behalf and this, as to him, shall be
sufficient when countersigned by the applicable Committee Chairman.
Section 12. Insurance: The employer shall
pay for and on behalf of its participating
employees, including elected and appointed officers and employees, all applicable r� .
under the group insurance program presently in force between the employer and the e i�s
group insurer while such persons are employed by the employer, xisting
The employer shall also pay applicable premiums under the group insurance pro ram
presently in force in amount and for g
participating employees who are or may become retired
as follows:
a. In the case of such employees who have become and now are retired and who
entitled to monthly benefits under a are
pension plan of the employer, and who have reached f
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their respective ages of 55 years or more, the employer shall pay the a licable f
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for and on behalf of such retired employee in so far as the same does not exceed $40.00 i
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b. In the case of such employees who have 25 years of service and who, regardless `
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of age, have become entitled to a pension under the provisions of the Police and Firemen's '
Pension Fund, the employer shall pay the entire amount of the applicable premium of such
insurance.
c. In the case of such employees who have 20 years of service and who have reached
their respective age of 50 years and who have become entitled to a pension under the
provisions of the Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, the employer shall pay the entire
amount of the applicable premium of such insurance.
d. In the case of such employees who hereafter retire and are eligible to receive
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insurance; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, in the event such employee chooses to retire under such
conditions that his retirement benefits are reduced on account of the early retirement
provisions of the Illinois Municipal Employees Retirement program, then, and in that event,
the amount of insurance premium paid on his behalf by the employer shall be likewise
proportionately reduced (and such employee, if he chooses to continue such insurance, must
then himself pay the difference in the premium amount, EXCEPTING HOWEVER, the employer
shall pay the entire amount of the applicab�e premium of such insurance on account of any
employee who has reached his age of 55 years, has 20 years of service, and who retires �
eligible to receive retirement benefits under the provisions of the Illinois Municipal
Employees Retirement provisions.
Section 13. New Employees-Physical Examination: All persons seeking employment
with the City, other than elected or appointive personnel, not otherwise required to take
a physical examination, who, by reason of their anticipated employment, would be qualified
to participate in the insurance program of this City, shall, prior to and as a condition
of employment, at their own expense, take and pass such physical examination as may from
time to time be prescribed by the insurance carrier of this City or, if none, as shall
be prescribed by the corporate authorities of this City.
Section 14. Cost of Living Allowance: Each employee of this City, excepting of
elected officials and temporary employees, shall receive and be paid a cost of living
allowance computed on and with respect to the weekly salary of each such employee and
the satne shall be taken in account in the computation of vacation pay, holiday pay, sick
pay, or any specialty payment right, including overtime. The amount of the cost of
living allowance shall be determined and re-determined on the basis of the Consumer Price
Index For Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (Including Single Workers) published
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor (referred to herein
as "the Index") . Continuance of the cost of living allowance shall be contingent upon
the availability of the Index in its present form. Determination and application of the
cost of living allowance shall be made in the following manner, at the following times,
and for application in the following way:
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three-tenths of one percent ri�se in the cost of living index which occurs over the
status of the index as it now exists.
b. Time of Determination: The cost of living allowance shall be determined by
the corporate authorities at the beginning of each quarter (or as near thereto as practicable)
of the fiscal year of the City.
c. Time of Payment of Cost of Living Allowance: The cost of living allowance,
as determined, shall be paid for at the quarters of the fiscal year of the City, in each
instance commencing as early in the applicable quarter as practicable.
Section 15. Other Benefits: The employer recognizes that there are and may yet be
other benefits which ought to enure from the employer to the employee on account of
peculiar conditions or requirements of employment. Among these are:
a. Basic Telephone Bills to Be Paid For Certain Employees: Certain employees of
this City, as a condition of employment, are required to have installed and maintained,
in their homes, a telephone. As to these, the employer shall pay each such BASIC phone
bill as the same may from time to time exist. The employees entitled to such payment on
account of such bill shall be identified in the Minutes of a Regular meeting of the
corporate suthorities as early in the fiscal year as may be �racticable.
b. The policy of this City is that a minimum pay of $200.00 per week of 40 hours
worked shall be paid all new employees excepting of part-time and appointed employees
(and, as to them, their beginning salary shall be as from time to time determined by the
corporate suthorities.)
Section 16. Interpretation: This Ordinance represents the legislative determination
of the corporate authorities of this City and is not contractual in its impact and the
interpretation hereof, in the event of ambiguities or questions of application, accordingly,
shall be in the sole discretion of such authorities.
Section 17. Effective Date: The provisions hereby shall be and become effective
May 1, 1977.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Canton, Illinois and APPROVED by the Mayor
thereof this ��(o � day of April 1977. � .
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