(A) The Mayor shall be elected to serve a four-year term of office.
(B) The Mayor shall preside at all the meetings of the City Council and may vote when his or her vote shall be decisive and the City Council is equally divided on any pending matter, legislation or transaction and the Mayor shall, for the purpose of such vote, be deemed to be a member of the Council. He or she shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the municipality and shall take care that the state and municipal law are complied with. He or she may administer oaths and shall sign the commissions and appointments of all the officers appointed in the municipality. The Mayor shall have the power to approve or veto any ordinance passed by the City Council, and to approve or veto any order, by-law, resolution, award of or veto to enter into any contract or the allowance of any claim; provided that, any ordinance, order, by-law, resolution, award or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim vetoed by the Mayor, may be passed over his or her veto by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to the City Council. If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, order, by-law, resolution, award or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim, and returns the same with his or her objection in writing at the next regular meeting of the Council, the same shall become law without his or her signature. The Mayor may veto any item or items of any appropriation bill and approve the remainder thereof. The item or items so vetoed may be passed by the Council over his or her veto as in other cases. The Mayor shall communicate to the Council such information and recommend such measures as, in his or her opinion, may tend to improve the municipality, and may have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance over all places within two miles of the corporate limits of the municipality for the enforcement of health or quarantine laws and the regulation thereof. The Mayor shall have the power, after the conviction of any person, to remit fines and forfeitures and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the laws of the municipality.
(C) In the event that there is a vacancy in the office of Mayor or, in the event the Mayor is absent or unable to fulfill the duties and obligations of his or her office, the President of the Council shall exercise the powers and duties of the office until the vacancy shall be filled, such disability is removed or, in the case of temporary absence, until the Mayor returns.
(2005 Code, § 1-204)