Langlade County, Wisconsin - Chapter 3: Elective Officers, 1922

Section 1. The elective officers of the said city shall be a mayor, clerk, treasurer, assessor, one school commissioner, and three justices of peace, from the city at large, and two aldermen, two school commissioners, one supervisor, and one street commissioner from each ward.

Section 2. All the officers elected from the city at large, except justices of the peace, shall hold their offices for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Justices of the peace shall hold their offices for two years.

Section 3. All the elective officers from the city at large, and the aldermen, school commissioners and supervisors from each ward, shall be qualified voters, electors and freeholders in said city, and the ward officers shall be freeholders in the ward where elected.

Section 4. The school commissioners from the several wards and aldermen shall hold their offices for two years, and the street commissioner and supervisor for one year.

Section 5. At the first election in said city one of the aldermen and one of the school commissioners in each ward shall be elected for one year, and one for two years, the ballots to designate the term of office of each. Thereafter at the annual municipal election each ward shall elect one alderman and one school commissioner, who shall hold their respective office for two years.

Section 6. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor, aldermen or justices, each or such vacancy shall be filled by a new election, which shall be ordered by the common council within ten days after such vacancy shall occur. Any vacancy happening in any ofno fice shall be filled by the comnnon cour.cil. The person elect to fill in any such vacancy shall hold the office and discharge the duties thereof for the unexpired term, and shall be subject to the same liabilities as the person whose office he may be elected or appointed to fill.

Section 7. Every officer or agent, who shall be appointed by the common council, may be summarily removed, by a vote of two-thirds of all of the members of the common council elect, and the office declared vacant. No other officer shall be removed from office, except for good cause, nor unless furnished with charges, and an opportunity given such officer to be heard in his defense. The common council shall have power to compel any and all persons in said city to appear before it and testify, in any hearing or proceeding instituted to remove from office any officer mentioned in this act, or any agent under said city government for any violation of duty, or of any provisions of this act, or of any ordinarxe, resolution rule, order, regulation, or by-law of the common council of said city, either of omission or commission and such violation shall be cause for removal, and to revoke and vacate any license granted under this act, and for that purpose said council may make its order commanding. The person or persons therein named to appear before it and testify, which order shall be certified by the clerk of the said city, under the corporate seal thereof, and personally served on the person or persons therein named by delivering to each a true copy thereof, and for the purpose of compelling such appearance before it, and the giving of the testimony on such hearing or proceeding the said common council is hereby vested with the same power and authority possessed by any court of record in this state, and any violation or disobedience to the commands or requirements of a subpoena issued out of any court of record in this state. The common council shall proceed to said hearing within ten days -from the service of the charges upon the officers as charged, and may adjourn from time to time, as may be deemed necessary and if such officer neglects to appear and answer to such charges, or if such charges are sustained, then the common council may, by a twothirds vote of the whole council, remove such officer and declare such office vacant.

Section 8. No person shall be eligible to any office of said city unless he shall be a resident elector of said city, nor to any of the ward offices, unless he be a resident elector and freeholder of the ward for which such officer is to be chosen, and otherwise qualified to perform the duties of office to which he may be elected or appointed; and whenever any person, elected to any city office, shall remove from the city or any ward officer shall be removed from the ward in which he holds office, he shall be deemed thereby to have vacated his office.

office of said city or the wards thereof shall, before, he enters upon the duties thereof, take and subscribe the oath of office required by the constitution of the state, before some proper officer, and file the same with the city clerk, within ten days after notification of election.

Section 10. The city clerk, city treasurer, city marshal, justices of the peace, and such other officers as the common council may direct, shall severally, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, execute to the city of Antigo, a bond, with at least two sufficient sureties, which bond shall contain such penal sum and such conditions as the common council shall prescribe. Such bonds, together with the affidavits of the sureties hereinafter provided, shall be filed with the city clerk and recorded in books in his office for that purpose.

Section 11. Sufficiency of the snreties upon bonds, provided for in the next preceding section, may be determined by the affidavits of the sureties, severally taken, in which affidavits it shall appear that said sureties, in the aggregate, are worth, in property, over and above all debts, exemptions and liabilities, the penal amount of such bond, or the common council may, in any other manner, aside from the affidavits of such sureties, determine their responsibility and sufficiency, and either accept or reject such sureties, or require other additional sureties.

Section 12. The common council shall, at any and all times, have the power to require other or additional official bonds, over or additional sureties thereof, at any time during the official term of any officer of said city.

Section 13. Every person elected or appointed to any office in said city, who shall neglect to take and file with the city clerk his oath of office, as herein required, or neglect to file his official bond as provided by this act, or as may be required by the common council, within ten days after notification of election or appointment, such office shall be deemed vacant, and the vacancy shall be filed as provided in this act.

Section 15. No alderman or member of the common council, while holding office, shall be appointed to, or be competent to hold any office, of which the compensation is paid by the city.