The form of government for the Town shall be the Council form as provided by S.C. Code § 5-5-10(1976).
[Adopted as Ch. 1, Art. I, of the Town Code]
The Council shall be composed of a Mayor and four Council members.
[Amended 8-14-2001]
The Mayor shall be paid an annual salary of $540. Each member of Council shall be paid an annual salary of $300. The Mayor and each member of council shall receive payment for actual expenses incurred in the performance of his/her official duties. No increase in salary shall take effect during the term of the incumbents in which such change is authorized. Any decrease in salary shall take effect immediately if unanimously approved by all members of Council.
The Town Council shall, at the first meeting of the newly constituted Council, elect one of its members as Mayor pro tempore for a term of two years who shall act as Mayor during the absence or disability of the Mayor or in case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor.
In the absence or inability to act of both the Mayor and Mayor pro tempore, the duties of Mayor shall devolve on and be performed by such member of Council as the Council may name.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The Mayor shall have the power to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew during such state of emergency pursuant to Chapter 123, Curfew, of this Code.