7-6-4266. Hearing on proposed municipal budget. (1) Prior to the adoption of the final municipal budget, the governing body shall meet at the time and place designated in the notice provided in 7-6-4265, at which time any taxpayer or resident may appear and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The governing body may call in the official in charge of an office, department, service, or institution at the time the estimates for the official's office, department, service, or institution are under consideration for examination concerning the estimates. The official must be called in by the governing body, upon the request of a taxpayer or resident, for questioning upon the estimates by the governing body, taxpayer, or resident.
     (2) The hearing may be continued from day to day and must be concluded and the budget finally approved and adopted by resolution on or before the second Monday in August.
     (3) This section does not apply to a municipality that has adopted the alternative accounting method provided for in Title 7, chapter 6, part 6.

     History: En. Sec. 21, Ch. 458, L. 1997.