The powers and duties of the Mayor shall include the following:
(A) Be the chief executive officer of the city;
(B) Be the Chairperson of the Council and preside over its meetings during which the making and seconding motions and having a voice and vote in all its proceedings;
(C) Execute and authenticate by signature such instruments as the Council, or any statutes, ordinances, resolutions or this Vol. I shall require;
(D) By proclamation, declaring a local emergency to exist due to fire, conflagration, flood, earthquake, explosion, war, bombing or any other natural or human-made calamity or disaster or in the event of the threat or occurrence of riot, rout or affray or other acts of civil disobedience which endanger life or property within the city. After declaration of the emergency, the Mayor shall govern by proclamation and impose all necessary regulations to preserve the peace and order of the city, including but not limited to:
(1) Imposition of a curfew in all or any portion of the city;
(2) Ordering the closing of any business;
(3) Closing to public access any public building, street or other public place; and/or
(4) Calling upon regular or auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within or without the political subdivision for assistance.
(E) Performing other duties required by state statute and this Vol. I as well as those duties required as chief executive officer of the city.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-4)