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i asked the city council what their bylaws were and they did not know what bylaws are? what exactly are they and how are they formed?

Bylaws are the rules that most organizations adopt in order to determine who is a member, who the officers are, when the meetings are, etc.

Your city probably has a charter and a municipal code (not bylaws) but they serve essentially the same purpose.

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i asked the city council what their bylaws were and they did not know what bylaws are? what exactly are they and how are they formed?

"In general, the constitution or the bylaws - or both - of a society are the documents that contain its own basic rules relating principally to itself as an organization, rather than to the parliamentary procedure that it follows." RONR, p. 12, ll. 306. They generally are adopted when a society is formed, and may be ameded from time to time. That said, it is quite likely that a city council does not have bylaws as such. Rather, its structure and organization most liklely are defined by statute or ordinance.

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