Sec. 1015f. Presiding officers of city councils; their
duties.
The council of a city having one branch, and each branch of
the council of a city having two branches, shall elect one of its
members to act as president, who shall preside at its meetings
and continue in office two years, unless elected to fill a vacancy,
when the election shall be for the unexpired term. The council,
or each branch, as the case may be, shall also 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 from the city 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 such president under any provision
of this chapter. When, for any cause, both the president
and the vice-president shall be absent from any meeting, a president
pro tempore shall be elected by the council or by that branch
in which such absence may occur, who shall preside during the
absence of the president and vice-president. The president, vice-president,
or president pro tempore, who shall preside when the
proceedings of a previous meeting are read, shall sign the same.
The president of the council, or of either branch, or the vice-president,
when authorized as above stated to act for the president,
shall have power at any time to call a meeting of the council,
or of his branch of the council, as the case may be; and,
in case of absence, sickness, disability, or refusal to act of both
the president and the vice-president of the council, or branch of
the council, it may be convened by the order in writing of any
three members of said council or branch.
