Indiana § 36-4-11-2 Appointments by city executive; exceptions; suspension or removal;
appointees serving remainder of unexpired term

Indiana Statutes

§ 36-4-11-2 — Appointments by city executive; exceptions; suspension or removal; appointees serving remainder of unexpired term

Indiana·Title 36 LOCAL GOVERNMENT·Art. 4 GOVERNMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS·Ch. 11 City Deputies and Employees

(a)The city executive shall make the appointments prescribed by law. If an emergency requires additional employees for a city office, board, commission, department, institution, or utility, the executive may also appoint those employees.

(b)This subsection does not apply to appointments made under IC 20. An executive may not make an appointment between midnight December 31 and noon January 1 of the last year of the executive's final term of office.

(c)This subsection does not apply to appointments made under IC 20. The executive may remove from office a board or commission member appointed by a prior executive if the appointment was made on or after the date of the general election and:

(1)the prior executive was a candidate for nomination as a party's candidate for election to the off

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(a) The city executive shall make the
appointments prescribed by law. If an emergency requires additional
employees for a city office, board, commission, department, institution,
or utility, the executive may also appoint those employees.
(b) This subsection does not apply to appointments made under IC 20. An executive may not make an appointment between midnight
December 31 and noon January 1 of the last year of the executive's
final term of office.
(c) This subsection does not apply to appointments made under IC 20. The executive may remove from office a board or commission
member appointed by a prior executive if the appointment was made
on or after the date of the general election and:
(1) the prior executive was a candidate for nomination as a party's
candidate for election to the office of executive at the primary
election held during the last year of the prior executive's term of
office and the prior executive was not nominated at that election;
or
(2) the prior executive was a candidate for another term of office
as executive at the general election held during the last year of the
prior executive's term of office and the prior executive was not
elected to another term of office at that election;
and if the executive notifies the appointee of the removal and sends a
written statement of the reasons for the removal to the city legislative
body.
(d) The executive may suspend or remove from office any officers,
deputies, or other employees of the city appointed by the executive or
a prior executive, by notifying them to that effect and sending a written
statement of the reasons for the suspension or removal to the city
legislative body.
(e) A person appointed by the executive to fill a vacancy caused by
a removal under subsection (c) serves the remainder of the unexpired
term of the appointee removed from office under subsection (c).
(f) Notwithstanding any other law, if the term of a member of a
board who was appointed by the executive expires and the executive
does not make an appointment to fill the vacancy, the member may
continue to serve on the board for only sixty (60) days after the
expiration date of the member's term.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 18-1-6-2
part; 18-2-1-9 part.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.212, SEC.3. Amended by
P.L.185-1988, SEC.3; P.L.68-1996, SEC.7.

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