(A) At the regular municipal election held in 1981, and each four years thereafter, a person shall be elected to serve as President of Council elected to a four-year term of office commencing on the first day of January following the person's election.
(Amended 11-6-01; 11-2-21)
(B) The President of Council shall preside at all meetings of the Council but shall have no vote, except that the President of Council may vote on any matter before the Council where the votes of the members of Council are evenly divided.
(C) In the event that the Mayor is to be temporarily absent from the City or otherwise unable to perform the powers, duties and functions of the office, the Mayor may formally designate the President of Council, and no other person, to serve as Acting Mayor during that period of absence or disability by delivering a written notice of that designation to the Council. In the absence of such a designation by the Mayor and after the Mayor has been absent or otherwise unable to perform the powers, duties and functions of the office of Mayor for a period of five days, the Council may formally designate the President of Council, and no other person, to serve as Acting Mayor during the remainder of the Mayor's period of absence or disability. While serving as Acting Mayor, the President of Council shall have all powers, duties and functions of the Mayor and shall not have the other powers, duties and functions of the President of Council. At the end of any such temporary period of absence or disability during which the President of Council serves as Acting Mayor, the Mayor shall deliver to the Council a written notice that he has returned and is able to reassume the powers, duties and functions of the office of Mayor. Upon giving that notice, the Mayor shall reassume all powers, duties and functions of the office of Mayor, and the President of Council shall reassume all powers, duties and functions of the office of President of Council.
(Amended 11-5-91)