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In said city there shall be a legislature, an executive and a judicial department. Neither of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as permitted in this act.
==Legislative.==
===Section 3.===
The legislative power of said city shall be in a board of twelve aldermen which shall be styled the [[Pensacola City Council|council]].
===Section 16.===
Executive and ministerial officers, unless otherwise provided in this act, shall be removable by the board of aldermen, sitting as a court, under oath or affirmation, upon charges preferred by the mayor or any two members of the board, and, in case of the mayor, upon charges preferred by a majority of the board. No person so tried shall be removed from office without the concurrence of two-thirds of the aldermen; and when a person has been so removed from office, he shall be ineligible thereto during the term for which he has been elected.
===Section 17.===
The council shall have power to pass ordinances imposing fines not exceeding five hundred dollars for any designated misdemeanor, or imprisonment for not exceeding sixty days, or both.
===Section 18.===
Th» council shall have power to pass, for the government of the city, any ordinance not in conflict with the constitution of the United States, the constitution of Florida, and statutes thereof.
==Executive.==
===Section 19.===
The executive power shall be vested in the mayor and in the board and departments authorized by this act. The mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city on the first Tuesday of June, 1895, and at the regular election every two years thereafter as hereinafter provided.
===Section 20.===
The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the city. Any person shall be eligible to the office who is twenty-five years of age, and who has been a citizen and resident of the State three years, and a resident of the city two years next before the election.
===Section 21.===
No person shall be mayor who is, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract with the city as principal or surety.
===Section 22.===
If two or more candidates for mayor receive the same number of votes, and this number of votes is greater than the number of votes cast for any other candidate, one of them shall be chosen mayor by a vote of the majority of all the members of the council, in session, immediately after its organization.
===Section 23.===
When a vacancy shall take place in the office of mayor the mayor pro tempore chosen by the council, by the votes of a majority of the members elected, shall perform the duties of mayor. The mayor pro tempore chosen by the council shall serve until the regular election for mayor.
===Section 24.===
Should the mayor be temporarily absent, or unable to discharge his duties, his office shall be administered by the mayor pro tem, who shall continue to discharge the duties of the office during the continuance of the disability, or the absence of the mayor. His compensation shall be the same as the mayor, and the sum so paid must be deducted, in whole, from the salary of the mayor.
===Section 25.===
The mayor shall take office on the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in June, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, his predecessor acting until he qualifies.
===Section 26.===
It shall be the duty of the mayor:—
First—To be vigilant and active in causing the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State to be executed and enforced.
Second—To communicate to the council, at least once a year, a statement of the finances and general condition of the affairs of the city, and also such information in relation to the same as the council may from time to time require.
Third—To recommend by message, in writing, to the council all such measures connected with the affairs of the city as he shall deem expedient.
Fourth—To fill, with the consent of the board of aldermen, all vacancies in executive and ministerial offices not herein provided for. He shall with the consent of the board appoint the city clerk.
Fifth—He shall act an police judge as hereinafter provided.
===Section 27.===
He shall exercise a general supervision over all the executive and ministerial officers of the city, and see that their official duties are honestly performed. He may require from them statements in writing concerning the discharge of their duties.
===Section 28.===
He may, by a written order, giving his reasons therefor, remove from office any head of a department, or other officer or employee appointed by him. A copy of said order shall be sent to the board of aldermen at its next meeting. Unless such order be disapproved by the board of alderman within thirty days, said order shall stand. He may suspend any officer or employee of the city for cause provided he files within twenty-four hours for action of council written charges, and convenes the board within forty-eight hours for the purpose of considering same.
===Section 29.===
Except a resolution to adjourn, every proposed ordinance or resolution which has passed the council shall be presented to the mayor, and if he approves it, he shall sign it, and then it shall be obligatory; but if he disapproves it, he shall return it with his objections in writing to the board, and said board shall then reconsider the same, and if two-thirds of the members-elect concur in adopting it again, it shall be obligatory; but in such cases the votes in the board shall be taken by yeas and nays, and recorded in the journal. Should the mayor withhold a proposed ordinance or resolution beyond the next regular meeting after its presentation to him, it shall be obligatory as if signed.
===Section 30.===
The mayor may disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to the rules and limitations prescribed by law for the passage of bills over the mayor's veto.
===Section 31.===
The mayor shall, as often as he may think proper, appoint a competent person to examine, without notice, the affairs and accounts of any city department, trustees, officer or employee, and the money, securities and property belonging to the city in the possession or charge of such department, trustee, officer or employee, and report to him the result of such investigation.
===Section 32.===
The mayor may convene the council at any time.
===Section 33.===
The mayor shall have the same power to administer oaths or affirmations that justices of the peace and other judicial officers of the state have.
===Section 34.===
The mayor shall receive a salary not exceeding twelve hundred dollars a year.
===Section 35.===
The mayor shall have power to purchase all articles needed by the city in its several departments. If the amount to be expended be over one hundred dollars, the council must approve before the purchase is made. He shall report the purchases made by him at each meeting of council.
==Executive Boards.==
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