(A) Members of the Appeals Board shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to approval by the Murray City Council, to serve a three (3) year term. A member of the Appeals Board may be reappointed subject to the re-appointment by the Mayor and approval of the City Council.
(B) Members of the Appeals Board must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
(C) Any vacancy on the Appeals Board shall be filled by the Mayor, subject to approval of the City Council, within sixty (60) days of the vacancy.
(D) Appeals Board members are expected to attend all Municipal Appeals Board meetings. An Appeals Board member may be removed from office by the Mayor for misconduct, inefficiency, or willful neglect of duty. Any Municipal Appeals Board member who is absent for three (3) consecutive meetings or twenty (20) percent of the meetings in a calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned his or her appointment. For any other reason, the Mayor must submit a written statement to the member and the City Council setting forth the reasons for removal. The member so removed shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court of Calloway County.
(E) All members of the Appeals Board must, before entering upon the duties of the office, take the oath of office prescribed by Section 228 of the Kentucky Constitution.
(F) Members of the Appeals Board shall be reimbursed for preapproved expenses and compensated fifty ($50) dollars per meeting attended.
(G) No member of the Appeals Board nor his or her spouse or partner may hold any elected or nonelected office, paid or unpaid, or any position of employment with the city that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Appeals Board.
(H) The City Attorney cannot be the attorney for the Appeals Board.
(Ord. 2019-1788, passed 10-10-19)