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City of Richmond Heights, MO
St. Louis County
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[CC 1984 §2-14; Rev. M.C. 1963 §3.29; Ord. No. 3140 §2-14; Ord. No. 4218 §1, 7-5-1988; Ord. No. 5009 §1, 2-5-2007]
A. 
United States standard time for the zone in which the City is located shall be the official time of the City, but if that time is not later than the mean astronomical time of the ninetieth degree (90°) of longitude west from Greenwich, the official time for the City shall be advanced one (1) hour from 2:00 A.M. on the second (2nd) Sunday in March until 2:00 A.M. on the first (1st) Sunday in November in each year.
B. 
When reference is made to any time without qualification in any ordinance, resolution or order heretofore passed or which may be passed hereafter by the Council or in any official notice, advertisement or document of the City or in any contract to which the City is a party, it shall be understood to refer to the official time of the City. When the words "daylight-saving time" are used, the reference shall be to the advanced time herein prescribed as the official time from the last Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October.
C. 
In all ordinances, resolutions or orders of the Council and in all official notices, advertisements or documents of the City and in all contracts to which the City is a party relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the City or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person, it shall be understood that the time shall be the official time of the City.
D. 
All clocks or other timepieces in or upon public buildings or other premises maintained at the expense of the City shall be set and run according to the official time as provided herein. The officer or other person having control and charge of such buildings and premises shall see that such clocks or other timepieces are set and run in accordance with official time.