(a) Whenever the Mayor has reason to believe that any member of the Civil Service Commission of the City is willfully or negligently violating the provisions of the law with respect to civil service, or is failing to perform his duties as a member of the Civil Service Commission, he shall cause an investigation to be instituted by a committee composed of not less than three members of Council to be appointed by the Mayor, by and with the approval of Council. Such commissioner shall be given an opportunity to be publicly heard in person before such committee, and if in the judgment of the committee it finds any such violation or failure to perform the duties imposed by law or the Charter and ordinances of the City, it shall make a report of such violation in writing to the Mayor, which report shall be a public record.
(b) Upon receipt of such report from the committee charging a member of the Toledo Civil Service Commission with violating or failing to perform the duties imposed by law, or willfully and negligently violating the provisions of the law by failure to perform his duties as a member of the Civil Service Commission, the Mayor shall forthwith remove such civil service commissioner.
(1952 Code § 17-7-112)