(65 ILCS 5/4-5-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 4-5-3)
Sec. 4-5-3.
Except where candidates for commissioner are required to run
for a specific office, the council, at the first regular meeting after an
election of a member or members, shall designate by a majority vote one
commissioner to be commissioner of accounts and finances, one to be
commissioner of public health and safety, one to be commissioner of streets
and public improvements, who ex officio shall be commissioner of public
works, and one to be commissioner of public property. This designation may
be changed by the council whenever it appears that the public service would
be benefited thereby. The mayor shall be commissioner of public affairs.
The commissioner of each department shall be superintendent of that
department.
If the municipality has voted, as provided in Section 4-3-19, to require
candidates for commissioner to run for a specific office, each commissioner
shall be superintendent of the department bearing the same designation as
the office to which he was elected. The mayor shall be commissioner of
public affairs. The Commissioner of streets and public improvements shall
be, ex-officio, commissioner of public works.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2677.)
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