(A) The Mayor shall make the appointments prescribed by law. If an emergency requires additional employees for a city office, board, commission, department, institution, or utility, the executive may also appoint those employees.
(B) The Mayor may not make an appointment between midnight December 31 and noon January 1 of the last year of the Mayor's final term of office. This division does not apply to appointments made under IC 20.
(C) The Mayor may remove from office a board or commission member appointed by a prior Mayor if the appointment was made on or after the date of the general election and:
(1) The prior Mayor was a candidate for nomination as a party's candidate for election to the office of mayor at the primary election held during the last year of the prior Mayor's term of office and the prior Mayor was not nominated at that election; or
(2) The prior Mayor was a candidate for another term of office as Mayor at the general election held during the last year of the prior Mayor's term of office and the prior Mayor was not elected to another term of office at that election; and
(3) If the Mayor notifies the appointee of the removal and sends a written statement of the reasons for the removal to the Common Council.
(4) This division does not apply to appointment made under IC 20.
(D) The Mayor may suspend or remover from office any officers, deputies, or other employees of the city appointed by the Mayor or a prior Mayor, by notifying them to that effect and sending a written statement of the reasons for the suspension or removal to the Common Council.
(E) A person appointed by the Mayor to fill a vacancy caused by a removal under division (C) of this section serves the remainder of the unexpired term of the appointee removed from office under division (C) of this section.
(F) Notwithstanding any other law, if the term of a member of a board who was appointed by the Mayor expires and the Mayor does not make an appointment to fill the vacancy, the member may continue to serve on the board for only 60 days after the expiration date of the member’s term.
(IC 36-4-11-2)