(A) The newly elected City Council shall convene in the Council chambers on the first regular meeting in December of each year in which a city election is held, immediately after the prior Council adjourns, and proceed to organize the body 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 city to see that each has been duly and properly elected and to see that such 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 members to be President. The Mayor shall nominate his or her candidates for appointive offices and then proceed with the regular order of business.
(B) It is hereby made the duty of each and every member of the Council or his or her successor in office, and of each officer elected to any office, to qualify prior to the first regular meeting in December following his or her election. All appointive officers shall qualify within two weeks following their appointments. Qualification for each officer who is not required to give bond shall consist in his or her subscribing and taking an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the state and the laws of the city and to perform faithfully and impartially the duties of his or her office. Each officer who is required to give a bond shall file the required bond in the office of the City Clerk with sufficient sureties, conditioned on the faithful discharge of the duties of his or her office, with the oath endorsed thereon.
(Prior Code, § 1-309)