The newly elected Council shall convene at the regular place of meeting on the first Tuesday in December in each year at 8:30 p.m. and proceed to organize themselves for the ensuing year. The Mayor elected for the new municipal year shall call the meeting to order. The Council shall then proceed to examine the credentials of its members and other elective officers of the municipality to see that each has been duly and properly elected, and to see that the oaths and bonds have been given as are required. After ascertaining that all members are duly qualified, the Council shall then elect one of its own body who shall be styled as “President of the Council.” The Mayor shall then nominate his or her candidates for appointive offices and the officers shall hold office until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. He or she shall then proceed with the regular order of business. It is hereby made the duty of each and every member of the Council, or of its successors in office and of each officer hereafter elected to any office, to qualify prior to the first Tuesday in December following his or her election, and at 8:30 p.m. upon the first Tuesday in December following his or her election, each officer elected at the regular municipal election shall take possession of his or her office. All appointive officers shall qualify within two weeks following their appointment. The outgoing officers and the outgoing members of the Council shall present their reports, and upon the old Council having completed its
business up to the time, the outgoing members of the Council shall surrender their offices to the incoming members, and the outgoing officers shall thereupon each surrender to his or her successor in office all property, records, papers and moneys belonging to the same; after which the outgoing Council shall adjourn sine die.
(1972 Code, § 1-704) (Ord. 541, passed 5-4-1976; Ord. 558, passed 11-16-1976)