Section 60. - Compensation of officers.

The mayor and council shall fix the compensation of the city attorney and city manager, subject to the other provisions of this Charter. The city manager shall fix the number and salaries, or compensation of all other officers and employees, with the approval of the mayor and council. The salaries or compensation so fixed shall be uniform for like service in each grade of the service as it shall be graded or classified by the city manager. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, all fees or money collected by officers and employees shall be paid to the city clerk and receipts therefor taken; said receipts to show on their face the purpose for which said money was collected, and no police or other officer shall be paid any fee whatever for making the arrest of any person. All activities or functions of the City or a trust of which the City is beneficiary must make full financial reports to the mayor and council monthly. (Amended General Election, April 7, 2009).

Section 61. - No compensation except salary.

No elective or appointive officer or other person shall under any circumstances receive any further compensation than that specified in the salary attached to his position at the time of his election or appointment, except as herein otherwise specifically provided.

Section 62. - No appointment for definite time.

No appointment to an office or place in the City shall be made for any definite time.

Section 63. - Officers and employees to have no interest in any City contract.

No officer or employee of the City, elective or appointive, shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or for materials or supplies or the profits thereof, or any purchase made or sales made by, to or with the city, or to own stock in any corporation having any contract or subcontract for doing any contract, job or ware, and all such contracts with such City officers or employees shall be void, and the violation of this clause shall be deemed a cause for removal from office or employment of such officer or employee. For the purposes of this Section the depositing of any funds in a bank or other depository shall not be considered the making of a contract. (Amended General Election, April 5, 1977).

Section 64. - Bribery prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any candidate for office or for any officer or employee of the City, directly or indirectly, to give or promise to give, to any person or persons, any office or position, employment or anything of value, for the purpose of influencing or obtaining support, political or otherwise, aid or influence of any persons or person; the doing of any of which things shall be ground for removal from office of such officer, employee or candidate if elected.

Section 65. - Nepotism prohibited.

No person who is a relative by blood or marriage within the third degree of the mayor, any of the councilmen or the city manager shall be appointed to any city office or head of any department.

Section 66. - Mayor and councilmen cannot accept newly created office.

Neither the mayor nor any councilman shall be appointed to any office, created by the mayor and council during his term of office, until the expiration of one year after his connection with the office shall have been severed.

Section 67. - Officer may administer oaths.

The mayor, the municipal judge, and the city clerk shall have the power to administer oaths.

Section 68. - Claims against the City.

Within 90 days after the adoption of the Amended Charter, the Mayor and Council, by ordinance shall adopt and prescribe rules and regulations pertaining to how claims against the City are to be submitted. (Amended Election, November 3, 1998).

Section 69. - Individual liability of officers.

Every officer who shall approve, allow or pay any demand on the treasury of the City not authorized by law, ordinance or this Charter, shall be liable to the City individually and on his official bond for the amount of the demand so illegally approved, allowed or paid. The City Council may by ordinance indemnify City officials, whether elected or appointed, on such a basis as they may deem appropriate. (Amended General Election, April 5, 1977).

Section 70. - Auditing of accounts and publications of same.

At the end of each fiscal year and at such other time as deemed necessary, the mayor and council shall cause a full and complete examination and audit of all books and accounts of the City, including those of municipally owned utilities, to be made by a certified and bonded accountant and cause said audit to be published in a local newspaper of general circulation in the City of Edmond. (As amended in 1937).

Section 71. - Exemption for taxation.

The mayor and council when authorized by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the City, are hereby empowered and authorized to exempt from municipal taxation for a period not to exceed five years, manufacturing establishments and public utilities as an inducement to their locating in the City; provided, however, the provisions of this Section shall not apply to manufacturing establishments and public utilities located in the City on the date of the approval of this Charter by the governor of the State.

Section 72. - Amendment and repeal.

This Charter may be amended at any time, by initiated petition as provided by the constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma, at an election at which the proposed amendment is submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the City, by a majority vote of such electors voting at such election on such proposed amendment. The mayor and council may propose and submit any amendment to this Charter to a vote of the qualified electors of the City at any general or special election. At such election the general election laws of the State shall govern. All references to male gender in this Charter shall be deemed to include both male and female gender. (Amended General Election, April 5, 1977).

Section 73. - Mayor to submit Charter.

After this Charter has been completed and signed in duplicate, one copy thereof being returned to the mayor of the City who is chief executive thereof, and one copy filed with the county clerk (register of deeds), said mayor shall call a special election and submit this Charter to the qualified electors of said City for their adoption or rejection, and as provided for by the constitution of this State.

Section 74. - Saving Clause.

If any section or part of a section of this Charter is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid it shall not invalidate or impair the force or effect of any other section or part of a section of this Charter, except in so far as such other section or part of a section is dependent for its operation upon the section so held invalid.