(A) General rule. Every appointed employee of the city shall automatically be retired upon reaching the age of 70 years, except as provided in division (B) below.
(B) Retention after age 70. If the Council finds that the interests of the city will best be served by allowing a person to remain in the employ of the city after reaching 70 years of age because his or her services are especially needed or his or her replacement would be especially difficult, the employee may be retained after his or her seventieth birthday for one year. Any such employee may be retained for successive one-year periods upon approval of the Council.
(1978 Code, § 208.18)