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A vacancy shall be deemed to exist when an elective officer of the City of Guthrie fails to qualify for office within twenty (20) days after notice of his election, dies, resigns, removes his legal residency from the City or ward from which he or she was elected, fails to attend four (4) successive regular meetings of the City Council, is convicted of a felony, becomes a habitual drunkard, or is otherwise legally disqualified.
The City Council shall hold their regular meetings on the first and third Tuesday of each month, and shall hold special meetings at other times as the Mayor or a majority of the Councilmen shall call the Council together. The City Council shall hold executive sessions at such times as they deem necessary for the purposes and in the manner provided by Oklahoma law.
Cross-reference:
Regular meetings, see § 1-1
At such times as a vacancy occurs, the City Council shall appoint by affirmative vote of at least four (4) Council members, a City Manager, a City Treasurer, a City Clerk, a City Attorney, a City Judge and/or an alternate City Judge; in the same manner the City Council may at their discretion appoint additional City Judges as necessary; if more than one (1) City Judge is appointed it shall not be necessary to appoint an alternate City Judge, but one of the City Judges so appointed shall be designated as the presiding City Judge. Any of the officers thus appointed may at any time, by an affirmative vote of at least four (4) members of the City Council, be removed and a successor be appointed in a- like manner. The Council, by an affirmative vote of at least four (4) members, may authorize the City Manager or the City Attorney to hire such deputies or assistants as necessary; such deputies or assistants shall serve at the discretion of the appointive officer by whom they are hired. At such times as the City Attorney cannot represent the City in a given matter or cause, because of a conflict of interest, the City Manager may retain an attorney, subject to the approval of the City Council, to represent the City's interest in such matter or cause.
The City Council may, in addition to the appointment and removal of officers herein provided, appoint or elect and remove members of Commissions and Boards and other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial officers, as provided by law or may from time to time be established by the City Council, and prescribe the method of appointing and electing and removing them.
The City Council of the City of Guthrie shall have the power to purchase and acquire any real property, the acquisition of which it deems to be in the best interest of the City, and shall have the power to sell and dispose of any real property now or hereafter owned by said City, provided that the sale of any real property must be authorized by Ordinance passed by the City Council in the same manner as any other Ordinance. No such Ordinance approving the sale of any real property shall become effective for thirty (30) days after the passage and approval of the Ordinance; provided that no contrary provision for emergency passage of an Ordinance shall apply to this Article. Within the thirty (30) day period, the question of the sale of the real property involved may be put to a vote of the people upon the filing with the Clerk of the City of Guthrie of a petition calling for such vote. Said petition shall contain signatures of qualified voters residing within the territorial limits of the City of Guthrie of a number equal to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total electors voting at the last preceding City general election. Where the value of the real property sought to be sold exceeds the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), the question of its sale shall first be submitted to the electors of said City at an election called for that purpose; and the question submitted thereat shall be substantially as follows:
“Shall the City Council of the City of Guthrie sell (the property to be sold, accurately describing the same), for (the value to be received by the City of Guthrie, precisely stated).”
If the majority of the votes cast in said election shall be in the affirmative, then the City Council shall have the power hereby conferred, but not otherwise.
No real property may be disposed of by gift unless such gift is valid within the constraints of the Oklahoma State Constitution and unless such gift is submitted to a vote of the electors of the City in the same manner as provided for herein for property exceeding the value of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00). “Value,” as used herein, shall mean market value as defined by law.
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