15-209

Chapter 15.--CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS

Article 2.--ELECTION, APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF OFFICERS

     
15-209.   Qualifications of officers; how vacancies filled.
The officers elected or appointed under this act shall be qualified
electors of said city, except the city may appoint nonresidents as city
attorney, municipal judge and as law enforcement officers when deemed
necessary, including the appointment of nonresidents who also serve as
city attorney, municipal judge or law enforcement officers of another
municipality or public agency: Provided, That nothing herein shall
authorize the appointment of nonresidents of this state. The city attorney,
shall be a qualified elector of the county in which said city is located or
of an adjoining county. The removal from such city of any officer elected
or appointed under this act, who is required to be a qualified elector
thereof, shall occasion a vacancy in such office. All vacancies in office,
except in the offices of mayor and councilman, may be filled until the next
regular time for appointment by appointment by the governing body. Every
appointment to office, and the date thereof, shall be entered on the
journal of proceedings of the council.

     
History:   L. 1871, ch. 60, § 11; R.S. 1923, § 15-209; L. 1943, ch. 126, § 1;
L. 1967, ch. 90, § 13; July 1.