15-4-202. Employees; manager; employment, salary, vacancy; attorney; other positions; salaries, duties; municipal judges; experts; exception.

(a) The governing body, as soon as possible after the first election, shall employ a city manager and a city attorney and fix their salaries. The city manager shall receive no other or additional salary for the performance of any of the duties required of him as city manager. The city manager is an employee and serves at the pleasure of the governing body. His salary may be changed from year to year, and his employment may be terminated at any time by a majority vote of the governing body.

(b) The manager shall give thirty (30) days notice in writing to the governing body before resigning from his position. If the position is vacant for any reason, the governing body shall immediately proceed to employ another person. If there is a delay in securing a new manager, the governing body shall immediately appoint an acting manager to fill the vacancy on an interim basis. He shall qualify the same as the manager and shall be vested with authority and charged with the duties and responsibilities of the manager until a manager is employed and qualified.

(c) The governing body may fix the salaries for the various offices in the city to be paid in twelve (12) or more installments per year.

(i) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(ii) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(iii) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(iv) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(v) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(vi) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(vii) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(viii) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(ix) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(x) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(xi) Repealed by Laws 1985, ch. 8, § 2.

(d) The governing body shall appoint one (1) or more municipal judges with jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases arising under the ordinances of the city or town. The rules of practice before the municipal judges shall conform as nearly as possible to the provisions of the justice code concerning complaints, continuances and trial, but no change of venue may be granted in any case.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the manager may require any appointive officers and any employees to perform duties and services in one (1) or more departments of the city or town. No person shall receive compensation in addition to the salary of his position for the performance of any required duties. The city attorney is not required to perform any service other than legal service. In cities and towns having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000), policemen and firemen are not required to perform any service other than that normally considered to be within their departments. Salaries of the members of the police and fire departments shall be established in conformity with the civil service laws of the state and ordinances of the city applicable to those departments.

(f) The governing body may employ experts to perform unusual or special service upon the recommendation of the manager or otherwise. Subject to equal qualifications, preference shall be given to bona fide residents of the city or town in employing applicants for positions.

(g) Except for the city manager, attorney and municipal judges, all employees shall be employed by the city manager, be selected on merit and serve at his pleasure. He shall fix their salaries by and with the consent of the governing body. Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting or superseding the provisions of chapter 5 of this title.