The Mayor shall be elected to serve a 4-year term of office. The Mayor shall be a registered voter of the city. The Mayor’s term of office shall commence on the first regular meeting of the Council in December following the Mayor’s election. The Mayor shall preside at all the meetings of the City Council and shall have the right to vote on any such matter when his or her vote will provide the additional vote required to create a number of votes equal to a majority of the number of members elected to the Council. He or she shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the city and shall take care that the state and city law are complied with. He or she may administer oaths, and shall sign the commissions and appointments of all the officers appointed in the city. The Mayor shall have the power to approve or veto any ordinance passed by the City Council, and to approve or veto any order, bylaw, resolution, award of or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim; provided that, any ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, award or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim, vetoed by the Mayor may be passed over his or her veto by a vote of 2/3 of all the members elected to the City Council. If the Mayor neglects or refuses to sign any ordinance, order, bylaw, resolution, award or vote to enter into any contract, or the allowance of any claim, and returns it with his or her objection in writing at the next regular meeting of the Council, it shall become law without his or her signature. The Mayor may veto any items of any appropriation bill, and approve the remainder thereof. The items so vetoed may be passed by the Council over his or her veto as in other cases. The Mayor shall communicate to the Council such information and recommend such measures, as, in his or her opinion, may tend to improve the city, and may have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him or her by ordinance over all places within 2 miles of the corporate limits of the city for the enforcement of health or quarantine laws and the regulation thereof. The Mayor shall have the power after the conviction of any person to remit fines and forfeitures, and to grant reprieves and pardons for all offenses arising under the laws of the city. If there is a vacancy in the office of Mayor, or if the Mayor is absent or unable to fulfill the duties and obligations of his or her office, the President of the Council shall exercise the powers and duties of the office until the vacancy shall be filled, or until such disability is removed, or, in the case of temporary absence, until the Mayor returns.
(Prior Code, § 2-33)
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Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 16-312—16-316