§ 2-35. Charges against elective officers.

All charges against an elected officer shall be made in writing and shall be preferred only by the mayor or some member of the city council. If the council shall deem it expedient to take action upon the charges preferred, it shall make an order suspending the officer so charged from further exercising the functions of his office. Such charges and order shall be filed with the city clerk who shall make a copy thereof and deliver the same, together with the original charge and order, to the city marshal or assistant or deputy marshal who shall serve such copies at once on the accused by delivering them to him or by leaving them at his usual place of abode and shall return the original charge and order to the clerk with his report in writing of the time, place and manner of such service endorsed thereon. After such service, the officer so charged shall stand suspended from office until duly acquitted of such charge or otherwise ordered by the city council.

(Ord. No. 22, § 3, 4-20-11)