The mayor shall have the power:
A. To nominate and, with the consent of the council, to appoint all nonelective officers of the city provided for by the council.
B. To suspend and, with the consent of the council, to remove any nonelective officer, stating in the suspension or removal the cause thereof.
C. To cause the ordinances of the city to be executed and to supervise the discharge of official duty by all subordinate officers.
D. To communicate to the council at the beginning of every session and more often if deemed necessary, a statement of the affairs of the city with such recommendations as he may deem proper.
E. To recommend to the council such measures connected with the public health, cleanliness and ornamentation of the city and the improvement of the government and finances as he deems expedient.
F. To approve all ordinances and resolutions of the council adopted by it and, in case the same do not meet his approval, to return the same to the next regular meeting of the council with his objections in writing, and no ordinance or resolution so vetoed by the mayor must go into effect unless the same be thereafter passed by a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the entire membership of the council.
G. To veto any objectionable part of a resolution or ordinance, and approve the other parts. If the mayor fails to return any resolution or ordinance as aforesaid, the same shall take effect without further action.
H. To call special meetings of the council and when so called, he must state by message the object of the meeting, and the business of the meeting must be restricted to the object so stated.
I. To cause to be presented once in every three (3) months a full and complete statement of the financial condition of the city.
J. To bid for the city on any property sold at a tax or judicial sale where the city is a party or is interested therein.
K. To take and administer oaths.
L. To call on every male citizen of the city over the age of eighteen (18) years to aid in the enforcement of the laws and ordinances in case of riots; to call out the militia to aid him in suppressing the same or other disorderly conduct, preventing and extinguishing fires, for securing the peace and safety of the city or for carrying into effect any law or ordinance; and any person who does not obey such call shall forfeit to the city a fine not exceeding twenty five dollars ($25.00).
M. To require any of the officers of the city to exhibit his books and papers.
N. To grant pardons and remit fines and forfeitures for offenses against the provisions of this code when in his judgment public justice requires; but he must report all pardons granted with the reasons therefor, to the next meeting of the council.
O. To perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law or by resolution or ordinance of the council.
The mayor shall have such power as may be vested in him by ordinance of the city in and over all places within five (5) miles of the boundaries of said city for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof 1
. (Ord. 129, 4-2-1973)
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