A. 
City officers under this Charter shall mean all of the elected and appointed officers, including the members of the various boards and commissions of the city established by law, this Charter, local law or ordinance.
B. 
The provision of the law requiring a person to be a resident of the municipality for which he shall be chosen or within which his official functions are required to be exercised shall not apply to the appointment of officers of the City of Rye by the City Manager, provided that such appointed officers are residents of the County of Westchester or an adjoining county within the State of New York.
[Added 11-5-1980 by L.L. No. 8-1980]
[Amended 3-18-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
There shall be a Mayor and six Councilmen, all of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city at large.
[Amended 3-1-1989 by L.L. No. 3-1989]
A. 
No person shall be eligible to hold an elective office in the city unless at the time of his election he is qualified to vote therein and shall have resided in the city for at least one year prior to his or her election.
B. 
Such elective office shall be vacant if and when the incumbent ceases to continue to qualify pursuant to the above provision.
A. 
The terms of office of the Mayor, Councilmen, City Judge and Acting City Judge shall be four years.
[Amended 3-18-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
B. 
All officers appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Council may be removed from office for cause by the Mayor after a public hearing, subject to the approval of the Council, except as otherwise provided by law or this Charter.
C. 
All officers and employees appointed by the City Manager shall hold office as provided herein.
D. 
The term of office of each elected officer shall commence on the first day of January next succeeding his election; and the term of office of each appointed officer shall commence on the date specified by the appointing authority.
A. 
If a vacancy shall occur in the office of Mayor or Councilman, the Council shall, by a vote of a majority of the members of the Council remaining in office, appoint a person to fill such vacancy. The person appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold office by virtue of such appointment until the first day of January following the first general election after the happening of the vacancy. A vacancy occurring before September 20 of any year in any elective office of the city shall be filled at the general election held next thereafter, unless otherwise provided by law, or unless previously filled at a special election.
[Amended 3-18-1981 by L.L. No. 1-1981]
B. 
If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of the term in an appointive office having a term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.
The Mayor and other members of the Council shall serve without compensation. If a local law should provide that compensation be paid to the Mayor or other members of the Council, or that such compensation be increased or that this provision be amended or repealed, it shall be subject to a mandatory referendum. All members of boards and commissions shall serve without compensation, but such members and the members of the Council shall be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. Unless the compensation of officers and employees is otherwise fixed by law, the Council shall fix the salaries or compensation of all paid officers of the city appointed by the Mayor or the Council; and the City Manager shall, within budgetary limitations, fix the salaries or compensation of all other city officers and employees.