The Mayor is the chief executive officer of the city and has the power to:
(A) (1) Nominate and, with the consent of the City Council, appoint all nonelective officers of the city provided for by the City Council, except as provided for in MCA Title 7; and
(2) Suspend and, with the consent of the City Council, remove any nonelective officer, stating in the suspension or removal the cause thereof.
(B) Supervise the discharge of official duty by all subordinate officers;
(C) Require of any of the officers of the city an exhibit of such officer’s books and papers;
(D) Grant pardons and remit fines and forfeitures for offenses against city ordinances when, in the Mayor’s judgment, public justice would be thereby subserved. The Mayor must report all pardons granted, with the reasons therefor, to the next City Council;
(E) Exercise such power as may be vested in the Mayor by ordinance of the city, in and over all places within five miles of the boundaries of the city for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations of the city;
(F) Sign his or her name officially for and in behalf of the city on all contracts, including deeds, bills, notes, obligations, and other agreements, documents, and papers, to which the city is a party, and to require that the conditions in the said instruments are faithfully performed;
(G) Approve all ordinances and resolutions of the City Council adopted by it and, in case the same do not meet his or her approbation, to return the same to the next regular meeting of the City Council with his or her objections in writing. No ordinance or resolution so vetoed by the Mayor shall go into effect unless the same be afterwards passed by two-thirds’ vote of the whole number of Council members;
(H) Prepare the budget in consultation with the City Council and department heads;
(I) Exercise control and supervision of all departments and boards to the degree authorized by ordinance of the City Council;
(J) Call special meetings of the City Council. The Mayor must state, by message, the object of the meeting, and the business of the meeting must be restricted to the object stated;
(K) Preside at meetings and decide all tie votes of the City Council but shall have no other vote;
(L) Enforce the gaming laws of the state; and
(M) Exercise any other powers granted to a Mayor under state law.
(MCA §§ 7-3-4101, 7-3-4102, 7-4-4303, 7-4-4305, 7-4-4306, 7-5-4122, 7-5-4205, and 7-5-4206) (2015 Code, § 1-5-3)