(A) City Councilmembers shall take office and commence their duties on the first regular meeting of the Council in December following their election.
(B) The newly elected Council shall convene at the regular place of meeting in the city on the first regular meeting of the Council in December of each even-numbered year in which a city election is held immediately after the prior Council adjourns and proceed to organize themselves for the ensuing year. The Mayor elected for the new municipal term shall call the meeting to order. The Council shall then proceed to examine the credentials of its members and other elective officers of the city to see that each has been duly and properly elected, and to see that such oaths and bonds have been given as are required.
(C) After ascertaining that all members are duly qualified, the Council shall then elect one of its own body who shall be styled as President of the Council. The Mayor shall then nominate his or her candidates for appointive offices. He or she shall then proceed with the regular order of business.
(D) (1) It is hereby made the duty of each and every member of the Council, or his or her successor in office, and to each officer elected to any office, to qualify prior to the first regular meeting in December following his or her election. All appointive officers shall qualify within two weeks following their appointments.
(2) Qualifications for each officer who is not required to give bond shall consist in his or her subscribing and taking an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the state, the laws of the city, and to perform faithfully and impartially the duties of his or her office, the oath to be filed in the office of the City Clerk.
(3) Each officer who is required to give bond shall file the required bond in the office of the City Clerk with sufficient sureties, conditioned on the faithful discharge of the duties of his or her office, with the oath endorsed thereon.
(Prior Code, § 30.22) (Ord. 980, passed 11-22-1976; Ord. 1489, passed 12-14-1992; Ord. 1931, passed 1-10-2011)