9-10-11. Removal of city manager from office. The manager shall be appointed for an indefinite term but may be removed by majority vote of the members of the governing body. At least thirty days before such removal may become effective, the manager shall be furnished with a formal statement in the form of a resolution passed by a majority vote of such governing body stating the intention of such governing body to remove him, and the reasons therefor. He may reply in writing to such resolution. If so requested by the manager, the governing body shall fix a time for a public hearing upon the question of his removal, and the final resolution removing him shall not be adopted until such public hearing has been had.
Upon passage of a resolution stating the governing body's intention to remove the manager, such governing body may suspend him from duty, but his pay shall continue until his removal shall become effective as herein provided. The action of the governing body in removing the manager shall be final.
Source: SL 1917, ch 303, § 9; SL 1918, ch 57; RC 1919, § 6236; SL 1935, ch 158, § 4; SDC 1939, § 45.0903.
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