There shall be the following administrative
officers, who shall be appointed by the Mayor and who shall perform
the duties by law and hereinafter prescribed for them respectively,
and such further duties, not inconsistent with the nature of their
respective offices, as the City Council may from time to time prescribe.
A City Solicitor; a Chief of Police; a Superintendent of Streets;
a City Engineer; an Inspector of Wires; a Board of Public Welfare,
to consist of three persons; a Board of Public Welfare under the Whiting
Street Will, to consist of three persons; a Board of Water Commissioners,
to consist of three persons; a Board of Commissioners of Fairview
Cemetery, to consist of three persons. The City Solicitor and Chief
of Police shall be appointed annually in the month of January, and
each shall hold his office for the term of one year beginning with
the first Monday in January in the year of his appointment, unless
sooner removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
The Superintendent of Streets, the City Engineer and the Inspector
of Wires shall be appointed annually in the month of January, and
each shall hold office for the term of one year beginning with the
first Monday in February in the year of his appointment, unless sooner
removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Each
of the present members of the Board of Public Welfare, and of the
Public Welfare under the Whiting Street Will, and of the Water Commissioners,
and of the Commissioners of Fairview Cemetery, shall continue to hold
office for the term for which he was elected or appointed, unless
sooner removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
In the month of January in each year one member of each of said Boards
shall be appointed, who shall hold office for the term of three years
beginning with the first Monday in February in the year of such appointment,
unless sooner removed, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
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Editor's Note: Chapter 468, Acts of 1911,
placed the City Marshal under civil services; Chapter 38, Acts of
1918, placed the Superintendent of Streets under civil service; Chapter
26, Acts of 1923, changed the Overseers of the Poor to the Board of
Public Welfare; Chapter 59, Acts of 1923, changed the City Marshal
to Chief of Police; and Chapter 512, Acts of 2008, changed "City Marshal"
to "Chief of Police," "Overseers of the Poor" to "Public Welfare"
and "Almoners" to "Public Welfare."
