CHAPTER 32: OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section

   32.01   Mayor's duties generally

   32.02   Appointive officers

   32.03   Oath of officer

   32.04   Bonds

   32.05   (Reserved)

   32.06   Approval of Lead City Commission

   32.07   Administrative policy and procedures

   32.08   Personnel policy and procedures

   32.09   City Finance Officer's report

   32.10   Extraterritorial assistance

   32.11   City Administrator

   32.12   Public Works Administrator

   32.13   Public Safety Administrator/Chief of Police

§ 32.01 MAYOR'S DUTIES GENERALLY.

   The Mayor shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the city government, shall enforce the laws of the city and require the faithful performance of all administrative duties.

   (A)   Duties:

      (1)   Appoint, dismiss and the like. Appoint competent, qualified officers and employees to the administrative service and shall have the power to dismiss, suspend and discipline, in accordance with the personnel system under his or her control. He or she shall also have the power to authorize a department head or officer responsible to him or her to appoint and remove subordinates serving under that department head or officer;

      (2)   Appoint to acting capacity. Designate himself or herself or some other officer or employee to perform the service under his or her control which is vacant or which lacks administration due to the absence or disability of the incumbent;

      (3)   Annual report. Prepare and present to the Lead City Commission an annual report of the city's affairs, including a summary of reports of department heads, and other reports as the Lead City Commission shall require; and

      (4)   Budget report. Assemble estimates of the financial needs and resources of the city for each ensuing year, and shall prepare a program of activities within the financial power of the city, embodying in it a budget document with proper supporting schedules and analyses.

   (B)   Powers:

      (1)   Assign according to classification. Have the power to assign any employee or the city to any department or branch thereof requiring services appropriate to the personnel system classification of the employee so assigned;

      (2)   Approval. All appointments and dismissals should be subject to Lead City Commission approval;

      (3)   Overrule officials. Have the power to set aside any action taken by a department head and may supersede him or her in the functions of his or her office;

      (4)   Delegate duties. Have the power to direct any department, division or bureau to perform the work for any other department, division or bureau;

      (5)   Appoint administrative committees. Have the power to designate from the administrative service the committees and the officers thereof as he or she shall find necessary for the proper consideration of administrative problems. The committees shall meet at the request of the Chief Administrator and shall make recommendation on matters referred to them as they shall find necessary for the best interests of the city; and

      (6)   Appear before Lead City Commission. Have the power to appear before and address the Lead City Commission at any meeting.

(Prior Code, § 2-300)

§ 32.02 APPOINTIVE OFFICERS.

   The appointive officers of the city shall be a City Administrator, Public Works Administrator, Public Safety Administrator/Chief of Police, Building Official, City Finance Officer, City Librarian, City Attorney, City Engineer, City Newspaper, City Depositories and other officers as may be necessary for the administration of city business and affairs. All the appointments shall be made as provided for by state law and this code of ordinances and unless otherwise provided for by ordinance shall be made at the first meeting in May of each year and shall be for a term of one year, or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified.

(Prior Code, § 2-301) (Ord. 1009-12, passed 7-2-2012; Ord. 1033-15, passed 4-6-2015)

§ 32.03 OATH OF OFFICER.

   (A)   Persons required to take oath of office. Each of the following officers and department heads and other officers as may be appointed shall be required to take an oath of office before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, which oath shall be subscribed by the person taking it and shall be filed in the City Finance office:

      (1)   Officers. The Mayor, Commissioners, officers and department heads;

      (2)   Police officers. Every member of the Department of Police (including any private, special, temporary or substitute police officers which a city might find it necessary to appoint); and

   (B)   Form of oath for the chief administrator and officers.

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA   )

COUNTY OF LAWRENCE      ) ss

CITY OF LEAD            )

   I, _______________________, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, and the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Lead; that I will faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge my duties as _______________, during my continuance therein; that I am not directly or indirectly pecuniarily interested in any public service corporation engaged in business in the City of Lead, or in any person or corporation having contracts with said city, so help me God.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this ________ day of _____________________, 20_____.

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City Finance Officer

   (C)   Form of oath for members of Police Department.

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA   )

COUNTY OF LAWRENCE      ) ss

CITY OF LEAD            )

   I,______, do solemnly swear that: I will support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, and the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Lead; and that I will to the best of my ability, faithfully perform the duties of the office of ___________________ during my continuance therein, so help me God.

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(Prior Code, § 2-302) (Ord. 1009-12, passed 7-2-2012)