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Ordinance No. 93 Providing for the election of Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem and prescribing his powers and duties_passed on final reading July 6, 1920ORDINANCE NO. 93. AN ORDINANCE PROVIDED FOR THE ELECTION OF MAYOR AND MAYOR PRO TEM AND PRESCRIBING HIS POWERS AND DUTIES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUBUQUE: ELECTION OF MAYOR AND MAYOR PRO TEM. SECTION 1. The Council shall organize itself into a working body at the first meeting following the regular biennial election and at the first meeting at which newly elected members qualify and assume their positions in the Council. The Council shall elect one of their number as Chairman and Presiding Officer who shall be designated as Mayor of the City. If at any meeting, the presiding officer or Mayor be not present, the members of the Council present shall select one of their number to act as presiding officer pro tempore, and his act as presiding officer pro tempore shall have the same force and legality as theough performed by the regularly elected presiding officer of the Council. SECTION.-2. - POWERS AND DUTIES. The Mayor shall be recognized as the official head of the City, by the courts and officers of the State, upon whom service of Civil process may be made. He may take command of the police and govern the City by proclamation in times of public danger, or during any emergency, and shall be the judge as to what constitutes such public danger of emergency. He shall also perform such duties as the election laws of the State impose upon the Mayor of the City. He shall sign all bonds, deeds to real estate, mortgages and releases. He shall sign and execute all public improvements contracts, provided, however, that the Council may delegate the power to sign and execute such improvement contracts to the Manager, whose acts shall then be taken as the acts of the Mayor for and on behalf of the City. The election of a member of the Council as Mayor shall not give him or confer upon him any additional power or authority, except such as herein provided, and such as is ordinarily exercised by a Presiding Officer. Passed on final reading July 6, 1920.