§ 9.1. Administrative officers, appointment, terms, remuneration.

(a)

The administrative officers of the City shall be the City Manager, Clerk, Treasurer, Assessor, City Attorney, Health Officer, Chief of Police and Fire Chief. The Council may, by resolution, create such additional administrative offices, and prescribe the duties thereof, as it may deem necessary for the proper operation of the city government. Any two or more, or all of such administrative officers, or any part of the powers and duties of any of them, may, by resolution of the Council, be combined in any one person. No person shall be eligible to appointment as an administrative officer of the City unless he is a citizen of the United States.

(b)

The City Manager and the City Attorney shall hold office by virtue of appointment by the Council, which body shall also set their salaries or remuneration. They shall hold office at the pleasure of the Council.

(c)

All other administrative officers of the City, except the City Attorney, shall be appointed or selected by, and serve at the pleasure of, the City Manager, who shall set their salaries or wages in accordance with budget appropriations.

(d)

All personnel employed by the City who are not elected officers of the City, or declared to be administrative officers by or under authority of this section, shall be deemed to be employees of the City.

State law reference

Mandatory that charter provide for certain officers and for qualification of city officers, MCL 117.3(a), (d), MSA 5.2073, (a), (d).

Editor's note

The citizenship requirement in the provisions of charter § 9.1(a) is unconstitutional insofar as it relates to administrative officers that do not formulate, execute or review important policy. See Sugarman v. Dougall, 413 U.S. 634 (1973); Foley v. Connelie, 435 U.S. 291 (1978); Cabel v. Chavez-Salido, 454 U.S. 432 (1982); Ambach v. Norwick, 441 U.S. 68 (1979).