Section 6. The Village Commission shall at the time of organizing elect one of its members as president and another as vice-president for terms of two years, but no member of the commission appointed thereto to fill a vacancy therein shall be chosen as president thereof. In case the members of the commission within five days after the time herein fixed for their organization meeting, are unable to agree upon a president or a vice-president, then a president or a vice-president, or both, as the occasion may require, shall be selected from all the members of the commission by lot conducted by the village clerk who shall certify the result of such lot upon the journal of the commission.
The president shall preside at all meetings of the commission and perform such other duties consistent with his office as may be imposed by it. He may use the title of mayor in any case in which the execution of legal instruments of writing or other necessity arising from the general laws of the state so requires; but this shall not be construed as conferring upon him the administrative functions of a mayor under the general laws of the state, but he shall exercise the judicial functions of a mayor under the laws of Ohio until such time as such judicial functions, under authority of the constitution and general laws of the state, may be exercised by some other officer appointed for that purpose.
The president of the commission shall be recognized as the official head of the village by the courts for the purpose of serving civil process by the Governor for the purpose of military law, and for all ceremonial purposes. He may take command of the police and govern the village by proclamation during times of public danger or emergency, and he shall himself be the judge of what constitutes such public danger or emergency. The powers and duties of the president shall be such as are conferred upon him by this charter together with such others as are conferred by the Village Commission in pursuance of the provisions of this charter, and no others.
If the president be temporarily absent from the village or become temporarily disabled from any cause, his duties shall be performed during such absence or disability by the vice-president. In the absence of both president and vice-president the other member of the commission shall perform the duties of the president.