City of Springfield, MA Article I Election or Appointment of Officers

[Adopted as Title 2, Ch. 2.12, of the 1986 Code]

§ 5-1 Time of election or appointment.

All City officers whose election or appointment rests with the City Council, except those officers the time of whose election or appointment is otherwise prescribed by law or ordinance, shall be elected or appointed, as the case may be, on the first Monday of February in each year, or within 60 days thereafter.

§ 5-2 Term of office.

Every City officer elected or appointed under the provisions of § 5-1, and whose term of office is not otherwise fixed by law or ordinance, shall hold his office, if not sooner removed, for one year from the first Monday of April in the year in which he shall be elected or appointed, and until a successor shall be elected and qualified.