There shall be a council which shall consist of five councilmen. There shall be one councilman from each of the five wards. Only qualified electors of the City who have resided within the city at least two years at the time of their election or selection to fill a vacancy, shall be qualified for the offices or councilmen. No councilman may hold any office or position in the City government.
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A. 
At the first meeting after the time prescribed for the beginning of the term of a newly elected councilman or councilmen, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the council shall elect from its membership a mayor and a vice mayor, who shall serve until the time prescribed for the beginning of the term of the next newly elected councilman or councilmen and until their respective successor have been elected and qualify.
B. 
The mayor shall preside at meetings of the council, and shall certify the passage of all ordinances and resolutions passed by it. He shall be recognized as the head of the city government for all ceremonial purposes and by the governor for purposes of military law. He shall have no regular administrative duties except that he shall sign such written obligations of the city as the council may require. As a councilman, he shall have all powers, rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities of a councilman, including the right to vote on questions.
C. 
The vice mayor shall act as mayor during the absence, disability or suspension of the mayor, or, if a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor, until another mayor, is elected by the council from its membership for completion of the unexpected term and qualities. If the office of vice mayor becomes vacant, the council shall elect from its membership another vice mayor for completion of the unexpired terms.
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Each councilman shall be paid $120.00 per year as compensation for his services, and such amount may be paid in equal monthly or quarterly installments as the council may determine.
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Except as otherwise provided in this charter, all powers of the city, including the determination of all matters of policy, shall be vested in the council. Without limitation of the foregoing, the council shall have power, subject to the state constitution and law and this charter:
(1) 
To appoint and remove the city coordinator.
(2) 
By ordinance to enact municipal legislation;
(3) 
To raise revenue and make appropriations and to regulate bond elections, the issuance of bonds, sinking funds, the refunding of indebtedness, salaries and wages and all other fiscal affairs of the city;
(4) 
To inquire into the conduct of any office, department or agency of the city, and investigate municipal affairs;
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To appoint or elect and remove the members of the personnel board, the members of the planning commission, the members of the board of adjustment and other quasilegislative, quasijudicial advisory officers and authorities, now or when and if established election personnel, and city attorney and his subordinates; or prescribe the method of appointing or electing and removing them;
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To grant pardons for violations of the charter and ordinances, including the remission of fines and costs, upon the recommendation of the municipal judge;
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To regulate elections, the initiative and referendum, and recall;
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To regulate the organization, powers, duties and functions of the municipal court and of the minor violations bureau, when and if established.
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To create, change and abolish all offices, departments and agencies created by this charter, and to assign additional powers, duties and functions to offices, departments and agencies created by this charter.
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The city clerk, hereinafter provided for shall also serve as clerical officer of the council. He shall keep the journal of its proceedings, and shall enroll in a book or books kept for the purpose all ordinances and resolutions passed by it; shall be custodian of such documents, records, and archives as maybe provided by applicable law or ordinance; shall be custodian of the seal of the city; and shall attest, and affix the seal to, documents when requited in accordance with applicable law or ordinance.
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The terms of the office of councilmen shall begin at 7:30 o’clock p.m. on the second Monday after the first Tuesday in April in the year in which they are elected. If a councilman-elect fails to qualify within one month thereafter, his office shall become vacant; and the council shall fill the vacancy.
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The council shall hold at least one regular meeting every month, at such time as it may prescribe by ordinance or otherwise. The mayor or any three councilmen may call special meetings. All meetings of the council shall be open to the public. And the journal of its proceedings shall be open to public inspection.
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If the mayor or any other councilman shall be absent from more than one-half of all the meetings of the council, regular and special, held within any period of four consecutive calendar months, he shall thereupon cease to hold office.
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The mayor or any other councilman may be removed from office for any cause specified by applicable state law for the removal of officers, and by the method or methods prescribed thereby, and by recall as provided in this charter.
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The council, by majority vote of its remaining members, shall fill vacancies in its own membership for the unexpired term or until successors are elected as provided in this section. If a vacancy occurs before the beginning of a regular filing period for candidates for councilmen, and the unexpired term extends beyond 7:30 o’clock p.m. on the second Monday after the first Tuesday in April, then a councilman for that place shall be elected at the election of that year to serve the rest of the unexpired term beginning at 7:30 o’clock p.m. on said second Monday after the first Tuesday in April.
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A majority of all of the members of the council shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day-to-day or from time-to-time. The council may determine its own rules. On the demand of any member the vote on any questions shall be by yeas and nays, and shall be entered in the journal.
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The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by the council shall be, “Be it ordained by the Council of the City Tishomingo, Oklahoma,” and of all ordinances proposed by the voters under their power of initiative, “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Tishomingo, Oklahoma.”
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Every proposed ordinance shall be read, and a vote of a majority of all the councilmen shall be required for its passage. The vote on final passage of every ordinance shall be by yeas and nays, and shall be entered in the journal. The mayor shall have no power of veto. Within ten days after its passage, every ordinance shall be published in full or by number and title in a newspaper of general circulation within the city. Every ordinance except an emergency ordinance, so published, shall become effective thirty days after its final passage unless it specifies a later time; provided that a franchise for a public utility shall not go into effect until the ordinance granting it has been published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the city and has been approved at an election by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question.
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An emergency ordinance is an ordinance which in the judgment of the council is necessary for the immediate preservation of peace, health or safety, and which should become effective prior to the time when an ordinary ordinance would become effective. Every such ordinance shall contain as a part of its title, the words “and declaring an emergency”; and in a separate section, herein called the emergency section, shall declare the emergency. An affirmative vote of at least four councilmen shall be required for the passage of an emergency ordinance; which vote shall be yeas and nays, and shall be entered in the journal. An emergency ordinance shall take effect upon passage unless it specifies a later time.
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The council by ordinance may adopt by reference codes, or ordinances, standards and regulations relating to building, plumbing, electrical installations, milk and milk products; and other matters which it has power to regulate otherwise. Such code, ordinances, standard or regulations so adopted need not be enrolled in the book of ordinances; but a copy shall be filed and kept in the office of the city clerk. The city clerk shall keep copies of all such codes, ordinances, standards and regulations in force for distribution or sale at their approximate cost.
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The ordinances of the city shall be codified and published in a book or pamphlet form at least every ten years unless the council, by use of a loose-leaf system, provides for keeping the code up-to-date. Titles, enacting clauses and emergency sections may be omitted from the code; and temporary and special ordinances and parts of ordinances may be omitted. Permanent general ordinances and parts of ordinances which to be repealed by the code, shall be omitted from the code. The ordinances and parts of ordinances included in the code may be revised, rearranged and reorganized; and the code may contain new matter, provisions of the state constitution and law applicable to the city and this charter. A copy of the published code shall be filed in the office of the city clerk after the council adopts the code by ordinance, but the code need not be enrolled in the book or ordinances.
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