Boonville Special meetings ordinance (§ 2-107)

The mayor, or person acting as mayor, or any three members of the city council, shall have the power, and are hereby authorized to call a special meeting of the council by serving a notice in writing on each member of the council and the mayor, or person acting as mayor, by delivering to each of them a copy of such notice, or by leaving such copy at his usual place of abode with some inhabitant thereof over the age of 15 years. Such notice shall state the object of such meeting and the time of holding the same, and shall be written out at length and copied upon the journal of the council proceedings. No business other than that specified in such written notice shall be transacted at such special meeting.