(A) The presiding officer of the Commission shall be the Mayor.
(B) In case the Mayor is unable to perform the duties of his or her office by reason of absence or sickness, the Board shall appoint by a majority vote of all members thereof one of its members to act in his or her stead, whose official designation shall be "acting President of the Lead City Commission". The Commissioner so appointed shall be invested with all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the Mayor during that absence or sickness. In case of a vacancy in the Office of Mayor, the Lead City Commission shall appoint by a majority vote of all the members thereof one of its number as acting Mayor, who shall be invested with all the powers and shall perform all the duties of the Mayor, until the election of a Mayor.
(Prior Code, § 2-206)