(a) Whenever any officer in the administrative service other than the Mayor is for any reason unable to attend to the performance of his or her official duties, or whenever he or she expects for any reason to be absent from the City on any day when his or her office is required to be kept open, he or she shall at once notify his or her immediate superior of such disability or absence. Such superior, if the nature of the office or its duties so requires, shall designate another officer or employee in the same department to perform the duties of such office, under the supervision of such superior officer, or such superior officer may himself or herself perform such duties during such time as the absence or disability of the officer continues.
(b) In the case of a director who may be performing the duties of Mayor as Acting Mayor, he or she shall have power to designate one (1) of the officers or employees of his or her department as acting director thereof. Such person so duly designated as an acting official shall have, while so acting, all the rights, privileges and powers which appertain to the office so filled by the acting official. When any person so designated to perform the duties of an officer who is absent or unable to perform his or her duties is required to sign any official document pertaining to such office, he or she shall sign it as acting director, acting commissioner or otherwise, using the word “acting” before the title of the officer whose duties he or she is for the time performing.
(c) In all cases covered by this section designations of acting officials may be made either for specified periods or occasions, or in such more general or continuing terms, conforming to the limitations of this section, as may be desired by the designating official.
(d) Whenever a director of a department shall be Acting Mayor or disabled, absent from the City or otherwise temporarily prevented from performing the duties of his or her office, the person in his or her department who has been designated as acting director thereof shall attend and vote at the meetings of the Board of Control and shall have such rights, privileges and powers at such meetings as the director would have if he or she were present in person.
(Ord. No. 96416. Passed 11-9-31)