The Mayor shall exercise the powers and perform the duties expressly conferred and enjoined upon mayors of cities by the Illinois Revised Statutes. The Mayor shall also exercise the following powers and perform the following duties:
(A) (1) He or she shall appoint by and with the advice and consent of the City Council, except as otherwise provided in the Illinois Revised Statutes, all officers of the city. The City Council, by ordinance not inconsistent with the statutes of the state, may prescribe the duties, define the powers and fix the term of office of all such officers, but the term of office of any appointed officer shall not exceed that of the Mayor.
(2) Any officer of the city may resign from his or her office. If such officer resigns, he or she shall continue in office until his or her successor has been chosen and has qualified. If there is a failure to appoint a city officer, or the person appointed fails to qualify, the person filling the office shall continue in office until his or her successor has been chosen and has qualified. If such officer ceases to perform the duties of, or to hold his or her office by reason of death, permanent physical or mental disability, conviction of a disqualifying crime or dismissal from or abandonment of office, the Mayor may appoint a temporary successor to the office.
(B) The Mayor shall supervise the conduct of all city officials and employees, to the end that they faithfully and efficiently discharge the duties of their respective offices or employment.
(C) The Mayor shall inquire into all reasonable complaints made against officials and employees, and cause them to be corrected.
(D) The Mayor shall sign all commissions, licenses, permits and warrants issued or drawn by order of the Mayor and Council, or authorized by the ordinances of the city and all contracts to which the city is a party.
(E) The Mayor shall inspect all ordinances passed by the City Council, and affix his or her signature to such as he or she may approve, and return them to the City Clerk; and such as he or she shall not approve, he or she shall return to the City Council with his or her objections thereto in writing, at the next regular meeting of the City Council, occurring not less than five days after the passage thereof. Such veto may extend to any one or more items of any appropriation ordinance, or to the entire ordinance; and in case the veto extends to a part of such ordinance, the remainder shall take effect and be in force, but in case the Mayor fails to return any ordinance with his or her written objections thereto within the designated time, it shall become effective without his or her signature.
(F) The Mayor shall have the power at all times, to examine and inspect (or cause the same to be done) all books, records and papers of any official or employee of the city.
(G) The Mayor shall devote to the duties of his or her office whatever time the faithful discharge thereof may require.
(Prior Code, § 31.016)