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.