15-1603. Removal of officers.
15-1603
15-1603. Removal of officers.
The board of commissioners shall have power to remove the city attorney,
city clerk, city treasurer, police judge, city engineer or city assessor
for incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, upon charges
preferred, after due notice in writing and opportunity to be heard in their
defense. When such charges are sustained any such officers shall be removed
by resolution of the board of commissioners, passed by a vote of at least
two of the members of said board, declaring that the charges preferred have
been proven and that such office is vacant. But said board may in its
discretion, by a majority vote of all the members thereof, remove with or
without cause the incumbent of any other appointive city office or
employment whatever, and may by ordinance prescribe, limit or change the
salary of all appointive officers or employees, except that the salary of
all appointive officers shall not be increased or diminished during the
term for which they are appointed.
History: L. 1913, ch. 128, § 22; March 19; R.S. 1923, § 15-1603.