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83.570 Executive departments and directors.

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83.570 Executive departments and directors. The board of aldermen may establish such executive departments by ordinance as it <br>deems necessary and proper for the efficient administration of governmental matters of <br>the city. The board of aldermen shall designate the duties and powers of departments so <br>established by ordinance and may transfer to any such department duties and powers <br>which it may have previously assigned to another department. Each department shall be <br>under the supervision and direction of a director appointed by the mayor and said <br>directors of any departments so appointed shall be removable at any time at the pleasure <br>of the mayor so appointing them, or any of his successors in office, but not by any officer <br>who may merely for the time be filling the office of mayor in the absence or during the <br>temporary disability of the regularly elected or appointed mayor. The directors of said <br>departments shall have the same qualifications as members of the legislative body of the <br>city and shall be selected for their special fitness for the work of the departments, and <br>shall devote their entire time to the discharge of their duties and shall receive adequate <br>compensation fixed by ordinance. No member of the legislative body shall be eligible to <br>appointment as director of any department. Directors shall hold office until they resign or <br>are removed as herein provided. History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 17.