[Adopted 3-14-1949 by L.L. No. 1-1949;
amended in its entirety 4-2-1954 by L.L. No. 1-1954]
[Amended 7-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 2-2019]
Every village shall have a Mayor, not less than two Trustees,
a Treasurer and a Clerk. A village of the first or second class may
also have a Deputy Clerk, and any village may have a Village Engineer,
a Superintendent of Public Works, a Village Auditor, a Street Commissioner,
a Village Justice and such other officers as the Board of Trustees
shall determine. Excepting in such villages as are a part of a consolidated
health district, there shall be a Board of Health in each village,
consisting of the Board of Trustees of such village.
[Amended 7-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 2-2019]
The Mayor, Trustees and Village Justice shall be elected officers.
All other Village officers shall be appointed by the Mayor subject
to the approval of the Board of Trustees.
[Amended 12-6-1983 by L.L. No. 17-1983; 7-2-2019 by L.L. No. 2-2019]
An official year begins at 12:00 noon on the first Monday in
the month following the annual election and ends at 12:00 noon on
the same Monday in the next calendar year. The term of office of the
Inspectors of Election shall be for one official year; of the Treasurer,
two official years; of the Clerk, two official years; and of the Village
Justice, four official years, except as hereafter provided.
[Amended 7-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 2-2019]
The Mayor shall appoint the Village Clerk subject to the approval
of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees may define the powers
and duties, and fix the salary of the Village Clerk, whose term of
office shall be for two official years, and who shall exercise the
powers granted and the duties imposed by such Board notwithstanding
any provision of the Village Law to the contrary.
[Amended 7-2-2019 by L.L.
No. 2-2019]
The term of each Village officer, elected or duly appointed
for a fixed term, begins at 12:00 noon on the first Monday in the
month following the annual election, except that Village Justices
in office when this article as hereby amended takes effect shall continue
in office until the expiration of their terms, and at the annual Village
election preceding the expiration of the term of office of any such
incumbent Village Justice, there shall be elected to such office a
successor of such incumbent Village Justice for a term to end at 12:00
noon on the first Monday in the month following the annual Village
election in the fifth calendar year following, and thereafter the
successors of the Village Justice so elected shall be elected for
terms of four official years.
No person shall be disqualified from holding
office in a Village by reason of the fact that he or she holds any
other public office.
