City of Buffalo, NY
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2023-11-15
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The Charter
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Chapter C The Charter
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Article 4 The Mayor
- The Charter
- Ch C The Charter
- Ch C Art 4 The Mayor
- § C-4-1 Duties and Powers.
- § C-4-2 Present Mayor Continues in Office.
- § C-4-3 Eligibility.
- § C-4-4 Designation In the Event of Temporary Disability or Absence from the State.
- § C-4-5 Vacancy.
- § C-4-6 Election; Term; Residence Requirement.
- § C-4-7 Appointments.
- § C-4-8 Public Hearing on Local Laws.
- § C-4-9 Investigation by Mayor.
- Ch CDL Disposition of Charter Legislation
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Boards, Committees, Agencies and Commissions
- Ch 12 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16 Finance
- Ch 24 Libraries
- Ch 27 Notice, Publication of
- Ch 30 Office Hours and Holidays
- Ch 35 Personnel Policies
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 44 Seal
- Ch 46 Telecommunications, Office of
- Ch 48 Time, Official
- Ch 53 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 63 Aircraft
- Ch 66 Air Pollution
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 72 Ambulances and Ambulance Drivers
- Ch 75 Amusements
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 85 Bait Dippers
- Ch 88 Bakers and Confectioners
- Ch 91 Bicycle Paths
- Ch 92 Billiard and Pool Rooms and Bowling Alleys
- Ch 94 Boilers and Engines; Engineers
- Ch 96 Bonds and Contracts
- Ch 98 (Reserved)
- Ch 101 Buildings, Cleaning of
- Ch 103 Building Construction and Demolition; Fire Prevention
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 109 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 111 Buildings, Public
- Ch 113 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 116 Burials
- Ch 119 Burning, Open
- Ch 120 Bureau of Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 122 Business Identification and Registration
- Ch 129 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 130 Sales of Cannabis and Products Containing Cannabis
- Ch 131 Certificate of Operation
- Ch 132 Tobacco/Hookah/Vaping Establishments
- Ch 133 City Property
- Ch 137 Code Enforcement
- Ch 140 Collection Agencies
- Ch 141 Collection of Arrears
- Ch 142 Collection Boxes
- Ch 143 Consumer Electronics Installation and Repair
- Ch 144 Contractors
- Ch 150 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 154 Discrimination
- Ch 158 Diseases, Infectious
- Ch 159 Dentistry
- Ch 160 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 161 Drugs
- Ch 165 Electricity
- Ch 167 Elevators and Conveyances
- Ch 168 Environmental Review
- Ch 169 Excavations and Quarries
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 180 Firearms, Arrows and Other Weapons
- Ch 183 Flags
- Ch 186 Flammable Liquids
- Ch 189 (Reserved)
- Ch 193 Food and Drugs
- Ch 194 Food Stores
- Ch 196 (Reserved)
- Ch 199 Fruits and Vegetables
- Ch 203 Fumigation
- Ch 209 Gambling
- Ch 213 Games of Chance
- Ch 216 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 219 Gasoline
- Ch 222 (Reserved)
- Ch 226 Grain
- Ch 232 Handbills and Other Publications
- Ch 235 Hazardous Materials and Wastes
- Ch 238 Heating
- Ch 242 Housing Standards
- Ch 249 Inspections
- Ch 254 Junk Dealers and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 259 Laundries and Clothes Cleaners
- Ch 261 Lead-Based Paint Abatement
- Ch 263 Licenses
- Ch 264 Rental Dwelling Unit Registration
- Ch 265 Property Managers
- Ch 266 Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- Ch 269 Lodging Houses
- Ch 270 Eviction for Illegal Drug Use and Possession
- Ch 275 Markets
- Ch 277 Mortgage in Default Property Registry
- Ch 278 Motion Pictures
- Ch 281 Multiple Housing
- Ch 286 Naming of Streets, Parks and Public Buildings
- Ch 288 Natural Gas Extraction
- Ch 289 Newsstands
- Ch 293 Noise
- Ch 294 Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 295 Nuisance Party
- Ch 299 Obscenity
- Ch 302 Oil and Gas Wells
- Ch 307 Parking and Parking Lots
- Ch 309 Parks and Other Open Spaces
- Ch 313 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 316 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 317 Aggressive Panhandling
- Ch 319 Performers, Outdoor
- Ch 322 (Reserved)
- Ch 326 Plumbing
- Ch 330 Poles and Wires
- Ch 333 Police Shields, Use of
- Ch 337 Preservation Standards
- Ch 341 Property Maintenance
- Ch 343 Promoting General Welfare of Minors in Public Places
- Ch 345 Public Safety, Obstruction of
- Ch 352 Railroads
- Ch 356 Rat Control
- Ch 361 Records
- Ch 365 Refrigerators
- Ch 370 Restaurants
- Ch 372 Bouncers
- Ch 378 Sanitation
- Ch 383 Shortwave Broadcasts
- Ch 387 (Reserved)
- Ch 391 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 395 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 399 Smoking
- Ch 404 (Reserved)
- Ch 409 Statues and Monuments; Public Art
- Ch 413 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 414 Special Events
- Ch 417 Strikebreakers
- Ch 421 (Reserved)
- Ch 425 (Reserved)
- Ch 430 Swimming Pools
- Ch 431 Tax Preparers, Regulation of
- Ch 437 Taxicabs, Liveries and Sightseeing Buses
- Ch 440 Telecommunications
- Ch 441 Telephone Facilities
- Ch 442 Wireless Facilities in Public Right-Of-Way
- Ch 444 (Reserved)
- Ch 449 Tires
- Ch 452 Alcohol Advertising
- Ch 454 Tow Trucks and Motor Vehicle Booting
- Ch 459 Trailers
- Ch 463 Transient Businesses; Trade Shows and Festivals
- Ch 467 Trees, Shrubs and Plants
- Ch 475 (Reserved)
- Ch 479 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 483 Vending Machines
- Ch 491 Water and Water Pollution
- Ch 495 Wharves, Harbors and Bridges
- Ch 496 Unified Development Ordinance
- Ch 501 Wood and Coal
- Ch 511 (Reserved)
- Distribution Table
- Ch DT Distribution Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the city and
shall maintain peace and good order and enforce the laws therein and
shall supervise and direct all department heads and see to it that
the duties of all other city officers, departments, boards, commissions
and other city agencies are faithfully performed and shall have authority
at all times to examine their books, papers, records and accounts
and the moneys, securities and property of the city in their possession
and may in his or her discretion exercise such authority through the
director of the budget or otherwise. The mayor shall have the right
to appear before and address the council at any meeting. He or she
shall have the custody of the seal of the city and shall, except as
herein otherwise provided, authenticate all accounts of the council
and all instruments and papers authorized to be so authenticated.
The mayor shall also exercise such powers and perform such duties
as are imposed by this act and by any local law or ordinance and by
any provision of general law.
The mayor in office when this act takes effect shall continue
to be mayor until the expiration of the term for which the mayor was
elected at the general election held in 1997 and shall have all of
the powers and duties and no other of a mayor elected under this act,
except as otherwise expressly provided in this act.
Any mayor heretofore or hereafter elected as such under this
act shall be eligible for re-election.
The mayor shall designate an officer whose appointment has been
confirmed by the common council, other than the police or fire commissioner,
as the acting mayor to perform the mayor's duties in the event the
mayor is temporarily disabled or absent from the state. The designation
shall be made in a writing filed with the city clerk at the commencement
of the mayor's term of office and at such other time as the mayor
desires to change the designation. If no such designation is made,
the president of the common council shall perform the mayor's duties
in the event of the mayor's temporary disability or absence from the
state.
In the case of a vacancy in the office of mayor caused by the
mayor's resignation, removal, death or permanent inability to discharge
the powers and duties of the office of mayor, such powers and duties
shall devolve upon the president of the common council who shall fill
the vacancy in the office of the mayor until the first day of January
following the next general election at which a mayor may, pursuant
to law, be elected for the balance of the term. Upon commencement
of the term of office of the mayor so elected, the president of the
common council then acting as mayor, shall complete the term of his
or her office, if any remains.
[Amended 12-26-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2002, effective 1-8-2002]
At the general election in the year 2001 and each fourth year
thereafter a mayor shall be elected by the electors of the city for
a term of four years.
No person shall be eligible for election or appointment as successor
to the office of the mayor who has not been a resident as defined
in section 24-4 of this charter of the city for a period of at least
one year immediately preceding the date of his or her election or
appointment.
The mayor may appoint and at pleasure remove an executive assistant
and such other subordinates as may be authorized by law or ordinance.
No local law shall be approved by the mayor until a public hearing
has been had thereon before the mayor after the publishing of a notice
of such hearing once in one or more daily newspapers published in
the city designated by the mayor. The mayor shall fix the time and
place of the hearing, and the notice shall specify such time and place
and shall contain a copy of such local law and shall be prepared and
published by the city clerk at least five days before the hearing.
The mayor is hereby granted all the powers of investigation conferred on the council by section 3-7 of this act, and all the provisions of said section shall apply to such investigations by the mayor.
