10 – Officers.

§ 10. Officers. City officers, within the meaning of this chapter, include all persons elected or appointed to any office of the city created or authorized by this chapter or otherwise by law.

13 – Terms of Office.

§ 13. Terms of office. The term of office of each elective officer, unless elected to fill a vacancy then existing, shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding his election. The term of office of each appointive officer shall commence on the day succeeding his appointment unless a different date is specified […]

14 – Elections.

§ 14. Elections. All elections of city officers, including supervisors and judicial officers of a city court or inferior local court, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, and, except to fill vacancies, in an odd-numbered year. All such elections shall be held at the same time and places as […]

15 – Vacancies.

§ 15. Vacancies. If a vacancy shall occur, otherwise than by expiration of term, in an elective office of the city, including that of supervisor, the mayor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy. The person so appointed to such vacancy shall hold office until the commencement of the political year next succeeding the […]

17 – Additional Fees or Compensation Not to Be Paid.

§ 17. Additional fees or compensation not to be paid. No officer of the city, except corporation counsel, a justice of a city court, acting as clerk of said court, city marshal, marshal of a city or municipal court, commissioners of deeds and city officers acting as commissioners of deeds, shall have or receive to […]

18 – Official Undertakings.

§ 18. Official undertakings. No person elected or appointed to a city office shall enter upon or continue in the discharge of the duties of his office until he shall have executed and filed with the city clerk the official undertaking, if any, required to be given and the same shall have been approved as […]

19 – Holding More Than One Office.

§ 19. Holding more than one office. No person shall, at the same time, hold more than one city office. Upon the acceptance by a city officer of a second office the office first held by him shall thereupon become vacant. The term “city officer” as used herein, however, shall not be deemed to include […]

20 – Charges Against City Officers.

§ 20. Charges against city officers. Whenever it is provided herein, or otherwise by law, that an officer of the city shall hold office during good behavior or shall be removed only upon charges, such charges shall be for disability for service or neglect or dereliction of official duty or incompetency or incapacity to perform […]

21 – Office Hours.

§ 21. Office hours. Unless otherwise provided by law, the city offices shall be kept open for the transaction of business each day in the year, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from ten o’clock in the forenoon until four o’clock in the afternoon, except that the offices of comptroller, city treasurer and the office for […]

22 – Officers, Trustees of Public Property.

§ 22. Officers, trustees of public property. The common council and the several members thereof, and all officers and employees of the city are hereby declared trustees of the property, funds and effects of said city respectively, so far as such property, funds and effects are or may be committed to their management or control, […]

23 – Annual Reports of Departments.

§ 23. Annual reports of departments. The several heads of departments shall present to the mayor annually, on or before the first Monday of December, a report of their proceedings during the preceding year. The mayor shall transmit the same to the common council with any recommendation he may think proper to make, but nothing […]