(A) The newly elected Board of Trustees shall convene at the regular place of meeting at the first regular meeting of the Board in each election year immediately after the prior Board adjourns and proceed to organize themselves for the ensuing year. The Chairperson pro tempore shall call the meeting to order. The Board shall then proceed to examine the credentials of its members and other elective officers of the municipality to see that each has been duly and properly elected and to see that such oaths and bonds have been given as are required. After ascertaining that all Trustees and officers are duly qualified, the Board shall then elect one of its own body who shall be styled as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. The Chairperson shall then nominate his or her candidates for appointive offices and said officers shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. The Chairperson shall then proceed with the regular order of business.
(B) It is hereby made the duty of each and every member of the Board or of its successors in office and of each officer hereafter elected to any office, to qualify prior to the first regular meeting of the Board in December following his or her election. Immediately upon the assembly of the newly elected Board upon the first regular meeting in December following the election, each officer elected at the general election shall take possession of his or her office.
(C) Each appointive officer who is required to give bond shall qualify by filing the required bond, approved by the Board of Trustees, in the office of the Village Clerk within two weeks from the date of his or her said appointment; provided, on said bond shall be endorsed the same oath as required of a Trustee. Failure to qualify by elective or appointive officers within the time and manner provided in this section shall and does in itself create a vacancy in the office to which said person failing to qualify shall have been elected or appointed.
(1997 Code, § 1-514) (Ord. 95-18, passed 12-12-1995)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-204