(1) 
An elective city officer shall be a qualified elector under the state constitution and shall have resided in the city during the 12 months immediately before being elected or appointed to the office. In this subsection “city” means area inside the city limits at the time of the election or appointment.
(2) 
No person may be a candidate at a single election for more than one elective city office.
(3) 
An elective officer may be employed in a city position that is substantially volunteer in nature. Whether the position is so may be decided by the municipal court upon the request of the city council.
(4) 
Except as subsection (3) of this section provides to the contrary, the council is the final judge of the election and qualifications of its members.
(5) 
The qualifications of appointive officers of the city are whatever the council prescribes or authorizes.
(1) 
The council shall prescribe the compensation of city officers. The council may prescribe a plan for reimbursing city personnel for expenses that they incur in serving the city.
(2) 
No establishment of compensation of the mayor or councilors, or increase in such compensation once established, may take effect, however, until the first of the oddnumbered year immediately following the first general election after the increase is authorized.
Subject to council approval and to all collective bargaining agreements between the city and one or more groups of its employees, the city manager shall prescribe rules governing recruitment, selection, promotion, transfer, demotion, suspension, layoff, and dismissal of city employees, all of which shall be based on merit and fitness.
No person shall attempt to or actually coerce, command or require any appointed city official or employee to influence or give money, service or anything of value to promote or oppose any political committee, the nomination or election of a candidate, the adoption of a measure, or the recall of a member of the council.
Before assuming city office, an officer shall take an oath or shall affirm that he or she will faithfully perform the duties of the office and support the constitution and laws of the United States and of the state of Oregon and the charter and ordinances of the city of Brookings.