§ 6.01. Recall authorized.

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Any Council member shall be subject to recall and removal from office by the qualified voters of the City on grounds of incompetency, misconduct, or malfeasance in office.
(1)

For purposes of this section, the term "incompetency" shall mean lack of ability, legal qualification or fitness to discharge the required duty.

(2)

For purposes of this section, the term "misconduct" shall mean a transgression of some established and definite rule of law, charter provision or city ordinance. In order to constitute "misconduct," such conduct must be of a forbidden nature, a dereliction from duty, unlawful behavior, and willful in nature.

(3)

For purposes of this section, the term "malfeasance" shall mean a wrongful act which the actor has no right to do and which affects, interrupts, or interferes with the performance of official duty of any officer, employee or member of the governing body of the city.

(Ord. of 11-17-08; Ord. No. 2015-017-01, § 1(Exh. A), 8-24-15, elect. 11-3-15)

                    
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