Ordinance - 2005 - 525 - Amend Mayor Position To Full Time Status - 08/16/2005UF'R3INF
ORDINANCE NO. 525
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EAGLE, IDAHO, AMENDING SECTION 1-5-4,
EAGLE CITY CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE POWER AND DUTIES OF THE MAYOR,
AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EAGLE,
IDAHO, as follows:
Section 1:
follows:
That Section 1-5-4, Eagle City Code, be, and is hereby, amended to read as
A. Power and Duties:
1. Generally: The mayor shall devote oo rnu h of his/her time to the duties of his/her office as
an efficient and faithful discharge thereof may require. S/he **all, from tire -to time. give the
council such information and recommend such m sures as s/he may deem beneficial to the
city; s/he shall examine the grounds of all conp'aaints against any of the officers of the city to
determine existence of a violation or neglect of duty and report the evidence thereof, if
c- ial l : ew e -that -every
apparatus, machinery, tools and instruments and cppirt-
shall perform all other duties imposed by the laws of the state of Idaho.
1. Work Hours: The efficient and faithful discharge of the duties of the office of mayor shall
be a full time elected position.
2. Chief Administrator: The mayor shall be the chief administrative official of the city,
presiding over the meetings of the city council and determine the order of business subject to
such rules as the council may prescribe, have a vote only when the council is equally divided,
have the superintending control of all of the officers and affairs of the city, preserve order,
and take care that the ordinances of the city, and the provisions of the Idaho State Law
governing municipal corporations are complied with.
3. Special Meetings: The mayor shall have the power to call special meetings of the city
council: the call and object. as well as the disposition thereof, shall be entered upon the
journal by the city clerk. One-half (1/2) plus one of the members of the full council shall also
have the power to call special meetings of the city council: the call and object, as well as the
disposition thereof, shall be entered upon the journal by the city clerk.
4. Communication with City Council: The mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to
the city council such information and recommend such measures as, in the mayor's opinion,
may tend to the improvement of the finances, the protection, the health, the security, the
ornament, the comfort and the general welfare and prosperity of the city.
5. Membership on Committees and Commissions: The mayor shall be an ex -officio member
of all committees and commissions existing under the city code.
6. Complaints: The mayor shall examine the grounds of all complaints against any of the
officers of the city to determine existence of a violation or neglect of duty and report the
evidence thereof, if deemed sufficient for the removal of said officer, to the council.
7. Officer's Expiration of Term, Resignation or Removal: The mayor shall require that
every officer, on the expiration of his/her term of office or resignation or removal from the
same. deliver to his/her successor all monies. books. paper. maps, plats, furniture, fixtures,
apparatus, machinery, tools and instruments and appurtenances belonging to the city.
8. To Sign Contracts, Borrow Money: The mayor is authorized and empowered to sign
his/her name officially for and on behalf of the city on all contracts including deeds, bonds,
bills, notes, obligations and other agreements, documents and papers to which the city is a
party, and to require that the conditions in the said instruments are faithfully performed, and
to borrow money on the credit of the city when authorized by the council.
9. Accounts And Reports Of Officers: The mayor shall have the power, when s/he deems it
necessary, to require any officer of the city to exhibit his/her accounts or other papers and to
make reports to the council in writing, touching any subject or matter s/he may require
pertaining to his/her office.
10. May Require Aid: The mayor is hereby authorized to call on every male inhabitant in the
city over eighteen (18) years of age and under the age of fifty (50) years, to aid in enforcing
the laws.
11. Additional Powers: The s al l hay all other powers granted by tho lawo of the
state. (Ord. 7) The mayor shall perform all of the duties required of mayors under the
provisions of Chapters 3 and 6. Title 50. Idaho Code. and such other duties as may be
reasonably required by the city council of the citv.
B. Police Powers, Jurisdiction3: The mayor shall have such jurisdiction as may be vested in
him/her by ordinance over all places within five (5) miles of the corporate limits of the city,
for the enforcement of any health or quarantine ordinance and regulation thereof, and shall
have jurisdiction in all matters vested in him/her by ordinance, except taxation, within one
mile of the corporate limits of the city and over such properties as may be owned by the city
without the corporate limits. (1985 Code)
C. Term Of Office: The term of the mayor of the city shall be four (4) years. (Ord. 7)
Section 2: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage,
approval, and publication.
DATED THIS 4,,y2L day of August, 2005.
CITY OF EAGLE
Ada County, Idaho
N • CY C..MERRIL
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ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
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Valley Times
P.O. Box 1790
Eagle, Idaho 83616
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Frank Thomason, being duly sworn, deposes
and says: That he is the Principal Clerk of
Valley Times, a weekly newspaper published at
Eagle, Ada County, State of Idaho; that the said
newspaper is in general circulation in the said
County of Ada, and in the vicinity of Meridian,
ar, and Eagle, and has been uninterruptedly
published in said County during a period of
my -eight consecutive weeks prior to the first
O on of this notice, a copy of which is attached
hereto, and that the notice was published in
y Times, in conformity with Secion 60-108,
- daho Code, as amended, for I time(s)
regular and entire issue of said paper, and
rinted in the newspaper proper, and not in a
plement; and that said notice was published
on the following dates:
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STATE OF IDAHO )
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' day of�� • in the year of 2005
fe me, a Notary Publi , personally appeared
E known or identified to me to be the person
dame is subscribed to the within instrument,
:Eng by ' - first duly sworn, declared that the
rein - - » e, and acknowledged to me that
he executed the same.
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