There is created the office of Village Attorney, an executive office of the Village. The Village Attorney shall be appointed by the President.
The President may from time to time retain an attorney to represent or advise the Village on legal matters if no Village Attorney has been appointed. He or she may likewise retain special counsel to advise or represent the Village on special matters or to assist the Village Attorney.
The Village Attorney shall prosecute or defend any and all suits or actions at law or equity to which the Village may be a party, in which it may be interested, or which may be brought against or by any officer of the Village or in the capacity of such persons as an officer of the Village.
It shall be the duty of the Village Attorney to see to the full enforcement of all judgments or decrees rendered or entered in favor of the Village and of all similar interlocutory orders.
The Village Attorney shall be the legal adviser of the Village and shall render advice on all legal questions affecting the Village whenever requested to do so by any Village official. Upon request by the President or by the Village Board, he or she shall reduce any such opinion to writing.
It shall be the duty of the Village Attorney to see to the completion of all special assessment proceedings and condemnation proceedings.