(a) Duties. The President of Council shall have all the powers, duties, functions, obligations and rights of any other member of Council and, in addition thereto, he shall preside at all meetings of Council.
(b) Absence; Vacancy. Any vacancy in the office of the President of Council, whether occurring by death, disqualification, removal or resignation, or by succession to the office of Mayor, shall be filled by the remaining members of Council by electing the president pro tem to fill such vacancy. Such election shall occur within thirty days, and, in the absence of a special meeting called for such purpose, the president pro tem of Council shall place the question of electing the successor before Council at the first regular meeting following the vacancy.
During the temporary absence of the President of Council, the president pro tem of Council shall preside at all meetings of Council and shall perform and exercise any and all of the duties and powers of the President of Council.
(Ord. 1-74. Passed 1-3-74.)