§ 2.03. Assumption of office by, meeting of council, and seating of mayor and vice mayor.

The council shall be sworn in and assume office, subject to the qualifying provisions of this charter, upon receipt of a certified statement of the results of the election pursuant to California Elections Code 15372, as it may be hereafter amended. The council shall hold its first meeting at that time. Following the certification of the 2020 General Municipal Election, the councilmember who received the highest number of votes in the 2018 election shall be seated as mayor for a two (2) year term and the City clerk shall draw lots among all of the electoral districts except the district where the mayor resides to determine the selection of the initial vice mayor. The selected councilmember shall be seated as vice mayor for a two (2) year term. Following each General Municipal Election thereafter, a vice mayor shall be seated by rotation in sequential order of the five (5) districts. Upon termination of a councilmembers' term of office as vice mayor, the vice mayor shall be seated as mayor. The mayor and vice mayor shall each serve a two (2) year term.

(Amended May 20, 1980; amended December 22, 1993; amended by General Municipal Election on November 7, 2000; amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010; Amended by General Municipal Election on November 3, 2020)