A.    To nominate, and with the consent of the council, to appoint all nonelective officers of the city provided by the council, except as provided in the state laws;

    B.    To suspend, and with the consent of the council, to remove any nonelective officer, stating in the suspension or removal the cause thereof;

    C.    To cause the ordinances of the city to be executed, and to supervise the discharge of the official duty by all subordinate officers;

    D.    To communicate to the council, at the beginning of every session and more often if deemed necessary, a statement of the affairs of the city, with such recommendations as the mayor may deem proper;

    E.    To recommend to the council such measures connected with the public health, cleanliness and ornament of the city, and the improvement of the government and finances as the mayor deems expedient;

    F.    To call special meetings of the council, and when so called the mayor must state by message the object of the meeting, and the business of the meeting must be restricted to the subject stated;

    G.    To cause to be presented, once in three months, a full and complete statement of the financial conditions of the city;

    H.    To bid in for the city any property sold at a tax or judicial sale, where the city is a party or interested;

    I.    To procure and have in his custody the seal of the city;

    J.    To take and administer oaths;

    K.    To call on every citizen of the city, over the age of eighteen (18) years, to aid in the enforcement of the laws and ordinances in case of riots, to call out the militia to aid the mayor in suppressing the same or other disorderly conduct, preventing and extinguishing fires, for securing the peace and safety of the city, or for carrying into effect any law or ordinance, and any person who does not obey such call forfeits to the city a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00);

    L.    To require any of the officers of the city to exhibit his or her books and papers;

    M.    To perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law or by resolution or ordinance of the council;

    N.    The mayor has the power as may be vested in the mayor by ordinances of the city, in and over all places within five miles of the boundaries of the city, for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof. (Ord. 131 (part), 1998: prior code § 2.04.010)