A.
The Mayor,
with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen shall appoint
a suitable person as City Attorney who shall hold office until his/her
successor is appointed and qualified.
B.
Qualifications. No person shall be appointed to the office
of City Attorney unless he/she be a licensed and practicing attorney
at law in this State.
[Ord. No. 056 §§2 —
3, 8-1-1949]
A.
The City
Attorney shall be required to attend to all such legal duties as may
be required of him/her by the Mayor or Aldermen of the City, to give
advice when called upon, to attend and prosecute in all cases in behalf
of the City, to attend to all cases, appeals, and writs of error in
the City, Circuit, Magistrate, Appellate and Supreme Courts, and by
and with the advice and consent of the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor
to bring suits and to collect all monies to be collected by suits
at law, to take appeal in such cases as he/she shall deem the interests
of the City require, and to prosecute and defend the same in the Appellate
Court to final determination and decision; to report to the Board
of Aldermen any defect in any City ordinance, to prescribe the form
of all deeds, contracts, or other legal instruments executed by or
to the City, to draft ordinances when requested by the Board of Aldermen,
and on the expiration of his/her term of office, he/she shall deliver
to his/her successor in office, or to the City Clerk, all books, records
and property belonging to his/her office.
B.
When
the City Attorney shall deem it proper to take an appeal or order
a writ of error in any case, when the City is interested in the decision
of the court, he/she shall for that purpose be authorized to make
for and on behalf of the City the proper affidavits, and make and
execute in the name of the City of Appleton City, Missouri, the necessary
papers. When an appeal is thus taken, he/she shall report the same
to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the first (1st) meeting thereafter.
