The Mayor shall have and perform the following powers and duties:
(A) Preside at meetings. Preside at meetings of the City Council, and shall have a casting vote when the Council is equally divided. He or she shall have the superintending control of all administrative officers and administrative affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city are enforced and complied with;
(B) Sign commissions; approve bonds. Sign the commissions and appointments of all officers appointed by the Mayor with the consent and confirmation of the Council, and endorse the approval of all official bonds approved by the Mayor and Council;
(C) Sign warrants. Sign all orders and warrants drawn upon the City Clerk for money. He or she shall require the City Clerk to attest the same, and to affix thereto the seal of the city. The City Clerk shall keep an accurate record thereof in a book to be provided for that purpose;
(D) Veto power. Have the power to sign or veto any city ordinance passed by the Council, provided that any ordinance vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over his or her veto by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the Council, notwithstanding the veto. Should the Mayor neglect or refuse to sign any ordinance or return the same with his or her objections in writing at the next regular meeting of the Council, the same shall become a law without his or her signature;
(E) Messages to Council. From time to time, communicate to the City Council such information and recommend such measures as in his or her opinion may tend to the well-being of the city;
(F) Require report of officers. When he or she deems it necessary, require any officer of the city to exhibit his or her accounts or other official papers and to make a report to the City Council in writing, touching any subject matter pertaining to his or her office;
(G) Enforce ordinances; jurisdiction. Have power to enforce all laws and ordinances and shall cause all officers to be dealt with promptly for any neglect or violation of their duty. He or she shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance over all places within five miles of the corporate limits of the city, for the enforcement of any health, quarantine, cemetery, waterworks or other ordinance and regulation thereof; and
(H) Pardons; suspension of city officers.
(1) Have power to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses arising under the ordinances of the city, by and with the consent of the Council; but no such fine or forfeiture shall be remitted or pardon granted except at a session of the Council, nor unless the reasons therefor, together with the order or remission or pardon be entered upon the journal by the City Clerk; and
(2) Have power to suspend all city officers against whom charges of incompetency or dereliction of duty are preferred, until the Mayor and City Council can act thereon.
(Prior Code, § 1-7-3)