ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

House: GE DPA 7-6-0-0

HB 2339: municipal notices and ordinances; posting

Sponsor: Representative Payne, LD 21

Caucus & COW

Overview

Requires publication of notices and ordinances to be posted in a newspaper or on the city or town's website.

History

Current statute requires a municipality to publish notices of election, invitations for bids, notices of letting contracts, laws and ordinances and other notices of a public character in either a newspaper that is printed within the city or town or in a newspaper that is printed and published within the county in which the city or town is located and has a greater circulation to residents of the municipality (A.R.S. § 9-812).

Provisions

1.   Directs a city or town to post notices of election, invitations for bids, notices of letting contracts, laws and ordinances and other notices of a public character on the city or town's website or publish in a newspaper. (Sec. 1)

2.   Stipulates that a city or town that posts notices on their website must provide a link to a listing of all current notices and ordinances on the website's home page. (Sec. 1)

3.   ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteMakes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)

Amendments

Committee on Government & Elections

1.   Applies the website posting of city or town notices and ordinances to counties with a population of four million people or greater.

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