Only citizens possessing the qualifications hereinbefore prescribed for Councilmen shall be eligible to be elected to the office of Mayor or City Clerk, and the Mayor and City Clerk, respectively, when elected, shall continue to be residents of the City of Dunbar during their entire term of office.
The Mayor's salary shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum, except as herein provided.
The Mayor may appoint the Police Judge, City Solicitor, the Chief of Police and all policemen, humane officer or officers, Building Inspector, Engineer, Health Commissioner, Lockup Keeper, and the Chief of the Fire Department; and these appointments shall require confirmation by the Council. The Mayor shall have the full and complete power of the removal thereof subject to the appeal to the Council. The Mayor may appoint the Manager by and with the advice and consent of the Council.
The Mayor shall appoint or employ such persons as the ordinances of the City shall require or the Council may authorize by proper resolution. All such officers shall be appointed for a term of two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless they are removed in the way and manner in this Charter provided.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to attend all meetings of the Council and preside over that body.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to see that all of the laws and ordinances of the City are enforced and he shall have a general oversight of the peace, health and good order of the City. He shall discharge the functions assigned by this Charter to the Police Judge and City Manager until these officers are appointed, for which services in discharging the functions of either Police Judge or City Manager, or of both of them, he shall be compensated in addition to the salary hereinbefore provided in such sum as shall be fixed by Council, not to exceed the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum.
The duties of the City Solicitor shall be to attend the sessions of the Council, and to prosecute all suits in behalf of the City, and to defend all suits against the City, to advise the Council and all of the departments of the City, and in general to look after the interest of the City when it shall need legal advice, for which he shall receive a salary to be fixed by Council.
All fees of every kind collected by an officer or employee, including the Police Judge, when acting as a justice, shall be paid to the City Clerk.
The duties of the City Clerk, in addition to those provided by this Charter, shall be to perform all the duties now required of the City Treasurer and City Collector and these offices are hereby abolished. He shall maintain an office in the business section of the City, open at all reasonable business hours, with some competent person in charge. His salary shall be twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum.
The Mayor and City Clerk shall be elected each for a term of two years or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified, and the councilmen shall be elected in the manner and method, and for the terms as provided in chapter thirteen, acts of the legislature of West Virginia (municipal charters), regular session one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine, all to serve until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.