SECTION 23. TERM AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MAYOR.

   (a)   The Mayor shall be elected for a term of four (4) years commencing on the first day of January following the election. Candidates for Mayor shall be qualified electors of the City and shall have been residents of the City for three years immediately prior to the regular municipal election at which they seek election. The Mayor shall remain a qualified elector and resident of the City throughout their term of office and shall not hold any other elective or appointive public office or other full-time employment, public or private, except that of notary public, or member of the National Guard or Reserve Forces of the United States, member or officer of any political party or committee thereof, or delegate to any state or national political party convention, and shall not be interested in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work, or service for the City, other than their compensation as Mayor.

   (b)   No person may occupy the office of Mayor for more than three (3) consecutive terms of four years. A former Mayor may seek election or appointment to the office only after the expiration of the full term next following their departure from the former position for which the disqualification set forth by this subsection shall apply.

(Amended 11-2-93; 11-6-18.)