Sec. 9. Council—President and vice-president.
At its first meeting in July, nineteen hundred and seventy-two,
and biennially thereafter, the council shall elect one of
its members to act as president, who shall preside at its meetings
and continue in office two years. Or if a vacancy occur
in the office before the end of his term, such vacancy shall be
filled as provided in section eight.
At the same time the council shall elect one of its members
to be a vice-president, who shall preside at such meetings in
the absence of the president, and who, when the president
shall be absent or unable to perform the duties of his office,
by reason of sickness, or other cause, shall perform any and
all duties required of, or entrusted to, the president. The
president, or the vice-president, when authorized, as above
stated, to act, shall have power at any time to call a meeting.
(1972, c. 184.)
Effect of amendment.—The 1972 amendment changed "September" to
"July" and "1922" to "1972" in the first sentence and "section seven"
to "section eight" at the end of the second sentence.
