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 assessorfor incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, upon chargespreferred, after due notice in writing and opportunity to be heard in theirdefense. When such charges are sustained any such officers shall be removedby resolution of the board of commissioners, passed by a vote of at leasttwo of the members of said board, declaring that the charges preferred havebeen proven and that such office is vacant. But said board may in itsdiscretion, by a majority vote of all the members thereof, remove with orwithout cause the incumbent of any other appointive city office oremployment whatever, and may by ordinance prescribe, limit or change thesalary of all appointive officers or employees, except that the salary ofall appointive officers shall not be increased or diminished during theterm for which they are appointed.

      History:   L. 1913, ch. 128, § 22; March 19; R.S. 1923, § 15-1603.