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 Code of Ordinances
 Title 2. Administration And Personnel
 Chapter 2.04. Mayor And City Council

  § 2.04.030. Duties of officers

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  • A. Mayor. The duties of the mayor shall be as follows:

    1. To preside at all meetings of the common council but the mayor shall have no vote except in the case of a tie;

    2. The mayor shall see that the ordinances of the city are faithfully executed;

    3. The mayor shall annually, and from time to time, give the council information relative to the affairs of the city and shall recommend for their consideration such measures as he or she may deem expedient;

    4. The mayor shall have power to sign or veto any ordinance or resolution passed by the common council and the power to veto any part or item of any ordinance or resolution appropriating money;

    5. The mayor shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the laws of this state or ordinance of this city.

    B. Power of Council. The council shall be judge of the election and qualifications of its own members. It shall determine its own rules of procedure, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and by a vote of two-thirds of the alderman elected, may expel a member for cause.

    C. President and Vice-President. At the first regular meeting after the annual election in each year, and after the qualification of the newly elected alderman, the common council shall elect from among its own members, a president and vice-president who shall hold their respective offices for the municipal year. The president, in the absence of the mayor, shall be the presiding officer of the council and during the absence of the mayor from the city or his or her temporary disability, shall be acting mayor and possess all the powers of the mayor. In the absence or disability of both mayor and council president, the vice-president shall perform the duties of the mayor and president of the council.

    D. Voting. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions and upon any proposal to create a liability against the city for the expenditure or appropriation of its money, and in all other cases at the request of any member, and a record of the vote of each alderman when required, shall be entered in the journal of its proceedings. The concurrence of the majority of all the aldermen shall be necessary to the passage of any such ordinance, resolution or proposal to create a liability against the city for the expenditure or appropriation of its money. It shall require a two-thirds vote of all the aldermen to sell any property.

    E. Reconsideration. No vote of the common council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meeting unless at such special meeting there be present as large a number of aldermen as were present when such vote was taken.

(Prior code §§ I-4-20—I-4-24)