(a) The City Clerk may appoint a Deputy Clerk who shall have the power and duty to execute all documents required by any law to be executed by the Clerk and may affix the seal of the city thereto whenever required. In signing any documents, the Deputy Clerk shall sign the name of the City Clerk followed with the word, “By” and the Deputy Clerk’s own name and the words, “Deputy Clerk.”
(b) The powers and duties herein described shall be executed by such Deputy Clerk only in the absence of the City Clerk from the City Clerk’s office in the City Hall, and only when either written direction has been given by the City Clerk to such Deputy Clerk to exercise such power or the City Council has determined by resolution that the City Clerk is temporarily or permanently incapacitated to perform that function.
(c) When the Deputy Clerk’s signature is duly authorized as provided in this section and is affixed by the Deputy Clerk in the manner prescribed in this section on any document (including but not limited to contracts, bonds, or other obligations of city), the document shall have the same effect as if the document had been signed by the City Clerk in person.
(65 ILCS 5/3.1-30-10; 65 ILCS 5/3.1-35-95) (Ord. 2010-6-1. Passed 6-9-10.)