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Appointments and promotions in the service of the city shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness, and removals and demotions shall be made solely for the good of the service. Better to achieve these ends, the council may establish a merit system and provide for its proper organization and functioning and for the proper personnel administration.
Officers and employees of the city shall have the qualifications prescribed by this charter and such additional qualifications as the council may prescribe by ordinance; but the council shall not prescribe additional qualifications for mayor and councilmen.
1. Neither the city manager, the council nor any other authority of the city government, may appoint or elect any person related to any councilman, the city manager, or to himself, or, in the case of a plural authority, to one if its members, by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any office or position of profit in the city government; and
2. Except as may be otherwise provided by this charter or by ordinance, the same person may hold more than one office or position in the city government. The city manager may hold more than one such office or position, through appointment by himself, by the council or by other city authority having power to fill the particular office or position, subject to any regulations which the council may make by ordinance; but he may not receive compensation for service in such other offices and positions. Also the council by ordinance may provide that the city manager shall hold ex officio designated administrative offices subordinate to the city manager as well as other designated compatible city offices.
The mayor and other councilmen, the city manager, the city treasurer and such other officers and employees as the council by ordinance may designate, before entering upon their duties, shall provide bonds for the faithful performance of their respective duties, payable to the city, in such form and in such amounts as the council may prescribe by ordinance, with a surety company authorized to operate within the state; provided that the bonds for mayor and other councilmen shall be for $1,000 each unless the council by ordinance prescribes a greater amount. The city shall pay the premiums on such bonds.
Except as otherwise provided by this charter, the power to suspend, demote and remove accompanies the power to appoint or elect; and the city manager or other appointing or electing authority at any time may suspend, demote or remove any officer or employee to whom he or the other appointing or electing authority respectively may appoint or elect a successor.
The appointing or electing authority who may appoint or elect the successor of an officer or employee, may appoint or elect a person to act during the temporary absence, disability or suspension of such officer or employee, or, in case of a vacancy, until a successor is appointed or elected and qualifies, unless the council ordains that a particular superior or subordinate of such officer or employee shall act. The council by ordinance may provide for a deputy to act in such cases.
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