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 Manassas Park
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER
 Chapter III. ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT

  § 3.17. City manager, generally.  

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  • There shall be a city manager who shall be the administrative officer of the city and shall be responsible to the governing body for the proper administration of the city government. The city manager shall have no direct responsibility or accountability to the mayor other than as shall be directed by this Charter or the direction of the governing body. The city manager shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body and shall be appointed for a term acceptable to the governing body and the city manager. The city manager shall be chosen on the basis of executive and administrative qualifications, with special reference to actual experience in or knowledge of accepted practice in respect to the duties of this office and need not, when appointed, by a resident of the City of Manassas Park or the Commonwealth, but during his term of office, the city manager shall reside within the city. No member of the governing body shall, during the time for which elected or appointed, be chosen as city manager.

    The city manager may be suspended by the mayor or governing body and removed from office by the governing body for cause. Before the city manager may be suspended or removed, the city manager shall, at the option of the city manager, be given a written statement of the reasons for suspension or removal and the right to be heard concerning the proposed removal at a meeting of the governing body prior to the final vote on the question of his removal. Pending and during such hearing on removal from office, the governing body may suspend the city manager from office. The action of the governing body in suspending or removing the city manager shall be final, it being the intention of this Charter to vest all authority and fix all responsibility for such suspension or removal in the governing body. The mayor shall have no direct oversight or power to direct the city manager in matters relating to normal administration of city business, nor shall the mayor have the power to act in the capacity of city manager in the absence of the incumbent.

    In the case of the absence, disability, death or resignation of the city manager, the governing body may by ordinance designate some qualified person to perform the duties of the office during such absence or disability, or until appointment of a successor.