Chapter 43C - MAYOR-COUNCIL FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN CLASS 5 MUNICIPALITIES
- Section 11-43C-1 - Applicability of chapter
- Section 11-43C-2 - Special election as to adoption of mayor-council form of government
- Section 11-43C-3 - Form of ballot; marking of ballot; use of voting machines
- Section 11-43C-4 - Conduct of election; election expenses
- Section 11-43C-5 - Provisions applicable if mayor-council form of government chosen
- Section 11-43C-6 - Election of mayor and council members; time of taking office; election expenses
- Section 11-43C-7 - Qualification of council candidates; votes cast by each voter; majority vote requirements; runoff elections; elections held quadrennially; when elected councilmen take office; term of office; councilman may succeed himself
- Section 11-43C-8 - Mayor - Majority vote requirements; runoff election
- Section 11-43C-9 - Mayor - Elections held quadrennially; oath; may succeed himself
- Section 11-43C-10 - City continued as municipal corporation
- Section 11-43C-11 - Government known as "mayor-council form of government"; powers of city vested in council; manner in which powers exercised
- Section 11-43C-12 - Powers of city generally
- Section 11-43C-13 - Council to consist of five district council members; division of municipality into districts; changing district boundaries where population varies by over five percent
- Section 11-43C-14 - District council members - Filing as candidate; qualifying fee
- Section 11-43C-15 - District council members - No primary elections; filing of pauper's oath or petition to become candidate
- Section 11-43C-16 - District council members - Oath of office
- Section 11-43C-17 - District council members - Qualifications; holding other offices; effect of conviction or loss of any qualification
- Section 11-43C-18 - District council members - Compensation; additional stipend for president of council
- Section 11-43C-19 - President of council
- Section 11-43C-20 - Vice-president of council
- Section 11-43C-21 - Powers of council; dealings with officers and employees in administrative service
- Section 11-43C-22 - Vacancies in council
- Section 11-43C-23 - Creating, changing, abolishing, or assigning additional functions to offices, departments, or agencies
- Section 11-43C-24 - City clerk continued in office; applicability of merit system; appointment of successor; duties
- Section 11-43C-25 - First meeting of council; council to meet regularly; meetings open to public
- Section 11-43C-26 - Council to judge election and qualifications of members
- Section 11-43C-27 - Rules and order of business of council; journal of proceedings
- Section 11-43C-28 - Meetings of council; quorum; majority vote requirement; procedure; record of proceedings; procedure as to ordinances or resolutions of permanent operation; publication; no veto as to council actions relating to an investigation
- Section 11-43C-29 - Grant of franchise, lease, or right to use streets, etc., by ordinance or resolution
- Section 11-43C-30 - Revision and codification of ordinances, bylaws, and resolutions; comprehensive zone map
- Section 11-43C-31 - Monthly statement of receipts and expenses; annual examination of books and accounts
- Section 11-43C-32 - Mayor - Filing as candidate; qualifying fee
- Section 11-43C-33 - Mayor - No primary election; filing of pauper's oath or petition to become candidate
- Section 11-43C-34 - Mayor - Qualifications
- Section 11-43C-35 - Mayor - Compensation; expense allowance
- Section 11-43C-36 - Mayor - Vacancies; acting mayor; special election to fill vacancy; term of office
- Section 11-43C-37 - Mayor - Powers and duties
- Section 11-43C-38 - Divisions of city government; executive directors of divisions; city attorney; outside counsel
- Section 11-43C-39 - Distribution of work among departmental divisions
- Section 11-43C-40 - Mayor - Employment of additional personnel; amount available for salaries; not subject to merit system
- Section 11-43C-41 - Fiscal, budget, and accounting years
- Section 11-43C-42 - Mayor to submit budget to council
- Section 11-43C-43 - Estimates of revenue and expenditures for each department, etc.; compilation of budget information by director of finance; review and revision of estimates
- Section 11-43C-44 - General fund budget
- Section 11-43C-45 - Recommended expenditures not to exceed estimated receipts unless additional revenue measures adopted; recommendations where receipts estimated to exceed expenditures; public utility budgets
- Section 11-43C-46 - Contents of budget message
- Section 11-43C-47 - Printing and distribution of budget message and general fund, public utility, and capital budgets
- Section 11-43C-48 - Public hearing on budget
- Section 11-43C-49 - Revision of budget after hearing; increase in expenditures over mayor's recommendation; expenditures not to exceed receipts and surplus unless additional revenue measures adopted
- Section 11-43C-50 - Summary of budget
- Section 11-43C-51 - Adoption of general fund budget and any necessary revenue measure; failure to adopt budget
- Section 11-43C-52 - Disapproval by mayor of expenditure line item; adherence by council to expenditure
- Section 11-43C-53 - Budget effective upon final adoption; certification; printing and distribution
- Section 11-43C-54 - Budget estimates for public utilities; presentation of budget to council
- Section 11-43C-55 - Monthly or quarterly allotments for each department, etc.; revision of allotments
- Section 11-43C-56 - Transfer of unencumbered balance from one department, etc., to another or from one classification of expenditure to another
- Section 11-43C-57 - Additional appropriations
- Section 11-43C-58 - Emergency appropriations
- Section 11-43C-59 - Lapse of unexpended and unencumbered appropriation
- Section 11-43C-60 - Capital improvement program
- Section 11-43C-61 - Capital budget; lapse of appropriations for capital improvement projects; reserve fund for permanent public improvements
- Section 11-43C-62 - Payments and obligations must be in accord with appropriations; certification by director of finance; void payments and obligations; penalty for knowing violations
- Section 11-43C-63 - Existing budget continued in force
- Section 11-43C-64 - Division of finance; head of division
- Section 11-43C-65 - Head of division of finance - Qualifications; bond
- Section 11-43C-66 - Head of division of finance - Powers and duties
- Section 11-43C-67 - Expenditures not to exceed appropriation for that general classification of expenditures; expenditures financed by bonds; leases or contracts for period exceeding budget year
- Section 11-43C-68 - Disposition of fees received by officers and employees
- Section 11-43C-69 - Division of division of finance to be responsible for purchases; powers and duties of division head
- Section 11-43C-70 - Competitive bidding on contracts for supplies, materials, or equipment
- Section 11-43C-71 - City improvements costing more than $3,000.00 to be executed by contract; bidding on contract; alteration of contract
- Section 11-43C-72 - Purchases and contracts shall be pursuant to written requisition; certification of balance sufficient to pay for contract or order
- Section 11-43C-73 - Revenue notes
- Section 11-43C-74 - Emergency notes
- Section 11-43C-75 - Notes not payable on demand; redemption prior to maturity; private sale
- Section 11-43C-76 - Existing rights and privileges of officers and employees; existing laws not inconsistent with personnel, etc., provisions of chapter
- Section 11-43C-77 - Personnel holding administrative office continued in office; transfer of powers and duties of office, etc., abolished by this chapter
- Section 11-43C-78 - Transfer of records, property, and equipment of office, etc., where powers and duties reassigned
- Section 11-43C-79 - Office, etc., with name or powers and duties the same or substantially same as existing office deemed a continuation of such office
- Section 11-43C-80 - Existing contracts continued in force; public improvements for which legislative steps taken
- Section 11-43C-81 - Pending legal actions and proceedings
- Section 11-43C-82 - Laws relating to pensions or retirement and relief funds continued in force
- Section 11-43C-83 - Laws relating to authority for fairgrounds, etc., continued in force
- Section 11-43C-84 - Ordinances and resolutions continued in effect
- Section 11-43C-85 - Removal of merit system officers and employees; appeal of decision
- Section 11-43C-86 - Participation in meetings of council by mayor, department heads, etc
- Section 11-43C-87 - Inquiry into conduct of office, department, agency, or officer; investigations as to municipal affairs; subpoena power
- Section 11-43C-88 - Interest of official or employee in contracts with city or public utility prohibited; acceptance of gifts, etc.; free transportation of officials, policemen, and firemen in discharge of duties
- Section 11-43C-89 - Oath taken by city officers
- Section 11-43C-90 - Reapportionment of council districts because of population change
- Section 11-43C-91 - Procedure for changing form of government; change from mayor-council form prohibited for four years
- Section 11-43C-92 - Appointments to city positions to fairly reflect make-up of total community; participation in contracts by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; capital improvements to be based on need and fairly and equitably made; allocation to agencies serving poor and needy