§ 3-109. Authority relative to officers and employees.

(a)

The City Manager shall have jurisdiction over and power to appoint to serve during his pleasure, to remove when he deems it in the good of the City, and to fix the compensation for the following officers, heads of department, and functionaries of the City, all of whom shall be in the unclassified service of the City:

(1)

The clerical staff secretaries and assistants of the City Manager;

(2)

Assistant City Manager;

(3)

Heads of the departments or bureaus of the City;

(4)

Functionaries having fiduciary responsibilities, construction code and related code enforcement powers, sanitation and fire code enforcement powers and zoning code enforcement powers;

(5)

Other functionaries or positions as may from time to time be designated by ordinance.

(b)

The City Manager shall have exclusive power to determine and prescribe their qualifications and their duties. The City Manager shall exercise exclusive supervision and control over the departments, functions, and operations in which they are engaged. In the event of the absence, illness or incapacity for any reason of any of them, the City Manager may appoint an acting temporary substitute.

(c)

The heads of departments shall appoint or approve for appointment to all positions within their department that are in the classified service and shall fix or approve the salaries for such appointments, subject to the approval of the City Manager and the provisions of Chapter 3 of this article entitled "Civil Service." The heads of departments, with the approval of the City Manager, shall, within their respective departments, appoint and fix the salaries within the unclassified service to the following positions and in the case of the uniform services the following ranks:

(1)

Assistant department heads and, in the case of the uniform service, assistant chiefs;

(2)

Bureau heads or division heads;

(3)

In the case of the fire department, battalion chiefs or the equivalent title, and, in the case of the police department, majors or the equivalent title;

(4)

Functionaries having fiduciary responsibilities, construction code and related code enforcement powers, sanitation code, fire code, and zoning code enforcement powers;

(5)

Such other positions or ranks as may from time to time be designated by ordinance.

(1953 Ga. Laws, Nov.-Dec. Sess., page 2019, § 8; 1955 Ga. Laws, page 2197, § 3; Ord. of 11-19-1984, § 1)