Visalia Municipal Code Art. IV Officers, Deputies

Section 1. The officers of the City of Visalia shall be five members of the Council, members of the Board of Education, five Library Trustees, a City Manager, a City Clerk, and a City Attorney. The Council may also provide by ordinance for additional offices and for the duties thereof, and for additional duties of officers herein provided for, but in no such manner as to encroach upon the duties of any officer as provided for by this Charter. The Council may also provide by ordinance for such subordinate officers, assistants, deputies, clerks and employees in the several offices and departments as they deem necessary. The members of the Council and the members of the Board of Education shall be elected from the City at large, as provided in this Charter; provided, however, that all qualified electors of the Visalia Unified School District shall also have the right to vote for members of the Board of Education. All other officers, assistants, deputies, clerks and employees shall be appointed as provided in this Charter, or as the Council may provide by ordinance in case no provision for their appointment is herein made, and shall hold their respective offices or positions at the pleasure of the appointing power. Where the appointment of any of said officers, assistants, deputies, clerks or employees, is vested in the Council, such appointment and any removal must be made by a three-fifths vote of the members of the appointing power.

Section 2. All elective officers of the City shall be subject to recall as provided in this Charter.

Section 3. All officers, assistants, deputies, clerks and employees shall receive such compensation as the Council may from time to time determine by resolution; provided, however, that the compensation of elective officers, not otherwise fixed by this Charter, shall be fixed and determined by ordinance only.

Section 4. The Council shall not appoint to a salaried position under the City government any person who is a relative by blood or marriage within the second degree of any one or more of the members of such Council and neither shall any department head or other officer having appointive power appoint any relative within such degree to any such position.