The office of the city clerk shall be appointive and the city
manager shall appoint the city clerk. The city clerk shall have the
custody of, and be responsible for all books and papers, records and
archives belonging to the city, not in actual use by other officers
or elsewhere, by special provision committed to their custody.
The city clerk shall be the clerk of the board of commissioners,
and shall attend all meetings and keep a record of the same, and shall,
with the chairman, sign and attest all ordinances, resolutions and
orders. He shall keep all books properly indexed and open to public
inspection when not in actual use. He shall keep separate books in
which he shall record all ordinances, resolutions, orders, official
bonds and contracts. He shall make out and sign all licenses and perform
such duties as are, or shall be imposed by this Charter, or by ordinance,
or resolution, or by direction of the city manager.
The city clerk shall receive any and all moneys due to the city
from any and all sources except as by city ordinances provided, or
by the provisions of this Charter, and shall issue his receipt for
the same. He shall make a daily report of all moneys received, in
duplicate form, one to the city treasurer, and retain one in the office
of the city clerk. He shall deposit with the city treasurer, daily,
all moneys received by him, and take the treasurer's receipt
for same.
The city clerk shall have power to administer oaths pertaining
to the conduct of the business of the city.
The city clerk shall give a surety company bond in such amount
to be fixed by the board of commissioners and subject to their approval,
and the board may require the city clerk to give an additional bond
or bonds whenever they may deem it necessary or advisable for the
protection of the city.
The city engineer shall be appointed by the city manager. He
may be required to execute a surety company bond to the city, if deemed
necessary or advisable by the board of commissioners, the amount of
such bond to be fixed by the board, and shall be subject to their
approval.
No person shall be eligible to the office of the city engineer
who is not a civil engineer of practical experience, and shall be
a graduate of some reputable engineering school, or shall have passed
an examination before the state board of civil engineers.
All maps, plans, profiles and field notes, estimates and other
memoranda of surveys, and other professional work made or done by
him, or under his direction or control during his term of office,
pertaining to the affairs of the city, shall be the property of the
city, and remain on file in his office.
The department of waterworks, plant and sewers, shall be under
the direct supervision and control of the city manager, who shall
appoint all assistants and employees necessary for the good and efficient
management and conduct of the duties and affairs of the department.
The Fire Department of the City of Cushing shall be under the
management and control of the city manager, who shall appoint a chief
of the fire department, and all members of such department as may
be necessary for the efficient working of the department. The board
of commissioners shall make and adopt all ordinances, rules and regulations
necessary for the efficient conduct of the department.
The board of commissioners shall provide by ordinance for a
health department. The department of public health shall consist of
a health officer, and such other employees as may be necessary. The
chief health officer of the city shall be appointed by the city manager,
and shall be an actual bona fide resident of the City of Cushing,
and a graduate of a reputable medical college or school, and shall
have been a practicing physician for at least two (2) years preceding
his appointment. He shall be required to maintain such office hours
as shall be designated by the board of commissioners.
The health officer and his assistants have the same right and
power to arrest any person violating any regulation of the department
of health prescribed by ordinance, as the chief of police, or any
police officer may have, for the violation of any ordinance of the
city, and shall have power to establish and enforce quarantines against
infectious or contagious diseases.
Every physician in the city shall promptly report in writing
to the health department, every patient treated by him for any infectious,
contagious or communicable disease dangerous to the public health,
and every householder, upon reasonable notice from such department
that an occupant of his house is suffering from such disease, shall
forthwith adopt such preventive means and regulations as the department
may prescribe. Every physician who shall fail to report such cases
of disease as is required herein, and every householder who shall
fail to comply with the rules, regulations and requirements of the
department of health, shall be subject to such fines and penalties
as the board of commissioners may prescribe by ordinance.
The board of commissioners shall have power to pass on all ordinances,
resolutions and regulations necessary for the preservation of public
health, and the suppression of all disease, and to establish quarantines
in any locality or house.
The police department shall consist of a chief and as many other
police officers as shall be provided for by the commissioners.
There shall be established a good and efficient police department
which shall be under the management and control of the city manager;
provided that in case of riot or insurrection, the chairman of the
board, or, in his absence or inability to act, the vice-chairman of
the board, or in the absence or inability to act of both, any member
of the board, may take charge of the police department.
The city manager shall appoint and commission a chief of police
and such officers and patrolmen as may be authorized by the commissioners,
and shall have power to appoint and commission special policemen whenever
he deems it necessary. The chief of police shall give bond to the
city in such amount as required by the board of commissioners, and
subject to their approval.
The board of commissioners shall adopt such ordinances, rules
and regulations as may be necessary for the efficient maintenance
and control of the police department.
It shall be the duty of the police department to maintain order
and to enforce the laws of the state and the ordinances and resolutions
of the city and to that end, every police officer shall have power
and it shall be his duty to make arrests upon warrants or without
warrants when he shall be a witness of the violation of any law or
ordinance or upon request of a complaining witness who offers to institute
a prosecution forthwith; and to likewise make arrests in all cases
authorized by law, and he shall forthwith bring the offender before
the court having jurisdiction.[,] and the police department, and all
officers thereof, shall perform all such other duties as may be required
of them by the law, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations
which may be made governing the police department.
