Section
1 [Powers of city vested in] the City Council [;composition, terms]
2 [Election, powers, duties, term of mayor]
3 Compensation of the members of the City Council
4 Vacancies in the City Council; how filled.
5 Meetings of council and committees open to public; quorum; regulations of proceedings; council to provide rules of procedure
6 Mayor pro tem; duties of
7 City secretary
8 Relating to City Councilpersons accepting different office and providing for forfeiture of offices and positions of aspirants for compensated office
The powers of the city government shall be vested in a body to be known as the City Council, composed of eleven (11) members, one of whom shall be the mayor. Their terms of office shall be for a period of two (2) years and until the election and qualification of their successors.
(Ord. 22081-02-2016, § 2(II), 2-2-2016, approved 5-7-2016)
Editor’s Note:
Proposition 2 of Ord. 22081-02-2016, adopted 5-7- 2016 increased the number of Councilmembers from nine (9) to eleven (11). This increase will not go into effect until after the 2020 census.
The City Council shall be composed of eleven (11) places. The person elected as councilperson, Place No. 1, shall be the presiding officer who shall be known as the mayor of the City of Fort Worth. He shall have a vote on all matters coming before the council, but no power of veto. He shall represent the city on all ceremonial occasions and be known as the official head of the city government. The mayor shall be elected at each biennial election and shall serve for a period of two (2) years, or until the election and qualification of his successor.
(Ord. 22081-02-2016, § 2(II), 2-2-2016, approved 5-7-2016)
Editor’s Note:
Proposition 2 of Ord. 22081-02-2016, adopted 5-7- 2016 increased the number of Councilmembers from nine (9) to eleven (11). This increase will not go into effect until after the 2020 census.
Commencing on October 1, 2006, each member of the City Council, except the mayor, shall receive as compensation for such member’s services the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) per annum and the mayor shall receive as compensation for the mayor’s service, the sum of twenty-nine thousand dollars ($29,000.00) per annum. In addition to the above, all necessary expenses incurred by the City Council in performance of their official duties shall be paid by the city. Nothing herein shall prohibit a council member from waiving the right to all or any part of such compensation or payment of expenses.
(Ord. 10272, § I(I), 3-16-1989, approved 5-6-1989; Ord. 16797, § 1(I), 1-24-2006, approved 5-13-2006)
Vacancies in the City Council shall be filled by special elections from the districts whose places have been vacated. Vacancies in the office of mayor shall be filled under the provisions applicable to other council members except that the district of the mayor shall be the city as a whole. These special elections shall be held on the first available election date specified in the Texas Election Code unless the council shall request, and receive, permission from the governor to call an emergency special election. If vacancies should occur within thirty (30) days of the special election date, the council may set the election for the next date following the impending special election date or it may request permission for an emergency special election from the governor.
In the event any candidate for a vacancy fails to receive a majority of all votes cast for all the candidates for such vacancy at such special election, the mayor shall on the first day following the completion of the official count of the ballots cast at said special election issue a call for a run-off election pursuant to Chapter IV, section 2, to be held in accordance with the Texas Election Code to determine who shall be elected. Such new council members, when duly qualified and elected, shall serve for the unexpired period of the terms of the council members whose offices are being filled. However, no such elections shall be held where said vacancy shall occur within a period of less than ninety (90) days prior to a general election as specified in Chapter IV, section 2. When a vacancy shall occur less than ninety (90) days prior to the general election as specified in Chapter IV, section 2, a majority of the remaining council members may appoint a qualified person from the district whose place has been vacated to serve the unexpired term.
Should a vacancy occur in the office of mayor, the mayor pro tem shall serve until a special election shall be called under the rules pertaining to filling vacancies among the other councilmembers. If members of the City Council seek the office of mayor in such a special election, they shall first resign from the City Council, and special elections, simultaneous to the mayoral election, shall be held in their districts under the terms specified above.
(Ord. 10272, § I(II), 3-16-1989, approved 5-6-1989; Ord. 16797, § 1(III), 1-24-2006, approved 5-13-2006)
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