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Virginia, 1945 : the charter of the city and the general ordinances of the city ; enacted as a whole April 16, 1945, effective May 1, 1945 |
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Article III. City Manager.
Sec. 74. Election; term; compensation; removal.
The council shall elect on September 1st, or as soon thereafter
as is practicable, for a term of one year, a business manager, to be
known as city manager, at a salary to be fixed by the council. Said
city manager may be removed from office by said council at its
discretion. (Code 1932, § 51.)
Sec. 75. Powers and duties generally.
Subject to the supervision, direction and control of the council
and mayor, the city manager shall:
(1) See that the laws, ordinances, resolutions and by-laws of
the council are satisfactorily executed, except as hereinafter provided.
(2) Keep the council fully advised of the city's financial condition
and of its future financial needs, and make such reports
upon the affairs of the city as may be required of him by the
council.
(3) On or before the 31st day of March in each year the city
manager shall prepare and submit to the council a tentative budget
for the next fiscal year. Such budget shall contain a complete
itemized and classified plan of all proposed expenditures and all
estimated revenues and borrowings for the ensuing appropriation
year, and shall indicate thereon which expense items are fixed expenditures.
Opposite each item of the proposed expenditures, the
budget shall show in separate parallel columns the amount appropriated
for the preceding appropriation year, the amount expended
during that year, the amount appropriated for the current appropriation
year, and the increases and decreases in the proposed expenditures
for the ensuing year as compared to the appropriation
for the current year. This budget shall be accompanied by an
itemized and complete financial balance sheet at the close of the
last preceding appropriation year, and a copy of the last director
of finance's monthly report as provided in section 118 of this chapter.
(4) Have full power to employ and discharge city employees,
but not officers or members of the police force, and except as may
be otherwise provided for by the council. He shall fix the salaries
of all persons employed by him whose yearly compensation is not
more than $2,000.00. Where the compensation exceeds $2,000.00
per year it shall be fixed by the council before such person is employed.
(5) The city manager, under the direction of the mayor and
council shall be the executive officer for supervising all the business
affairs of the city including the building, maintenance and
operation of all public works; necessary purchases for the various
departments; the work of the heads of the various departments
and city employees.
He shall give general supervision to all streets, grounds, buildings,
water and gas work, sewers, and all other property belonging
to the city and cause to be made such surveys and estimates
as the council or mayor may direct. (Id., § 52.)
For provisions of the charter in regard to city manager, see char., § 4,
subdivisions (e) and (f); for provisions of the charter in regard to
preparation, etc., of city budget, see char., § 17; as to filing claims for
injury to person or property with city manager, see char., § 40½; as
to signing contracts by city manager, see ch. 1, § 9 of this volume; as
to preparation of the annual budget by city manager, see § 19 of this
chapter; as to giving notice of hearings on budget and publishing synopsis
thereof by clerk of council, see § 68 of this volume; as to heads
of departments furnishing city manager with reports and information,
see § 180 of this chapter; as to city manager's giving consent to superintendent
of department to absent themselves from the city, see § 11
of this chapter; as to bond required of the city manager, see § 173 of
this chapter; as to officers appointed by the city manager, see § 178 of
this chapter; as to city manager's powers and duties in regard to buildings
and building requirements generally, see ch. 7; as to appointment
of building inspector by city manager, see ch. 7, § 3; as to city manager's
being member of city planning commission, see ch. 8, § 2; as to
duties in regard to electricity generally, see ch. 10; as to appointment
of city electrician, see ch. 10, § 1; as to city manager's powers and duties
in respect to inflammable liquids generally, see ch. 11, §§ 14-19; as
to causing appropriate traffic signs to be erected and maintained, see
ch. 18, § 11; as to determining and declaring maximum speed of vehicles
on bridges, see ch. 18, § 19; as to powers and duties in regard to
parking meters and parking meter regulations generally, ch. 18, §§ 7287;
as to appointment of superintendent of parks and cemeteries, see
ch. 20, § 1; as to city manager's powers and duties in regard to registration
of plumbers and plumbing generally, see ch. 21, §§ 16-35; as to
granting applications for connection with city sewage system, see ch.
21, § 37; as to city manager's having the direction and control of the
prisoner work force, see ch. 23, §§ 10 et seq.; as to city manager's being
director of public welfare, see ch. 24, § 1; as to city manager's duties
and powers in regard to signs and awnings generally, see ch. 27; as to
city's manager's powers and duties in regard to streets and sidewalks
generally, see ch. 29; as to city manager's powers and duties in regard
to laying of sidewalks, see ch. 29, § 10; as to city manager's establishing
and furnishing information in regard to house numbering, see ch.
29, § 4; as to city manager's powers and duties in regard to grading
streets and sidewalks, see ch. 29, §§ 8, 9; as to powers and duties in regard
to removal of obstructions from streets and sidewalks, etc., see ch.
29, §§ 35, 36; as to city manager's powers and duties generally as to
water, see ch. 31.
Sec. 76. Creation, consolidation and abolition of departments.
The city manager may, in order to promote the efficient operation
create new departments, and consolidate or abolish existing departments.
(Id., § 127; Ord. Feb. 16, 1942.)
Sec. 77. Custody of city property.
Except as otherwise provided, the city manager shall have
charge of and be custodian of all real and tangible personal property
of the city. (Code 1932, § 54.)
Sec. 78. Insuring city buildings.
The city manager shall keep all city buildings insured for such
amounts as may be approved by the finance committee. (Id.)
Sec. 79. Preparing and keeping maps and records.
The city manager shall cause to be kept on file as property of the
city all maps showing: (1) The location of all public streets and
the extent to which they have been paved, macadamized or graded,
and the grades of the same when established; (2) Location and
dimensions of all culverts and sewers, water and gas mains.
He shall cause to be prepared and kept on file maps and records
of such improvements as may be made in the future. He shall
cause to be made and kept a record of the location and dimensions
of all sewers, water and gas mains not shown on the existing maps
and records as the same may be discovered. (Code 1932, § 55.)
Sec. 80. Inspection of poles carrying wire; defective and
dangerous poles.
The city manager shall cause to be made such inspections as he
may deem necessary of all telegraph, telephone and other poles
carrying wire, erected within the corporate limits of the city and
if any pole be found to be defective or dangerous from any cause,
he shall notify the person owning such pole and he shall forthwith
replace the same with a sound pole; and if such owner neglects or
refuses to replace such defective pole within twenty-four hours
after receiving such notice, the person so offending shall be fined
five dollars for each and every day during which said neglect or
refusal shall continue. (Id., § 56.)
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