Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024
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Mayor of Limerick | ||
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9. (1) There shall be a mayor in respect of the administrative area of Limerick City and County Council, who— | ||
(a) shall be known, in the Irish language, as Méara Luimnigh and, in the English language, as the Mayor of Limerick, and | ||
(b) is referred to in this Act as “Mayor”. | ||
(2) The office of Mayor of Limerick shall stand established on the establishment day. | ||
(3) Subject to section 13 , the Mayor shall be elected in accordance with Schedule 2 . | ||
(4) The Mayor shall hold office in accordance with this Act. | ||
(5) Subject to subsection (6), the person elected to be Mayor (including the person first so elected) shall hold office on a full-time basis for a term commencing on the ordinary day of retirement falling in the year in which he or she is so elected and ending on the next ordinary day of retirement. | ||
(6) Where a vacancy occurs in the office of Mayor in the circumstances referred to in subsection (3) of section 13 , the person elected to fill the vacancy so occurring shall hold office for a term commencing on the day immediately following the day on which the returning officer declares under subparagraph (2) of paragraph 29 or paragraph 54 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 the result of the poll at the mayoral by-election and ending on the next ordinary day of retirement. | ||
(7) Subject to subsection (8), a person who holds or has held the office of Mayor and who (having held such office) has not, by virtue of paragraph (a), (c), (d) or (e) of subsection (1) of section 13 , ceased to hold such office shall be eligible for re-election to that office but a person shall not hold the office of Mayor for more than 2 terms referred to in subsection (5), which may be in addition to any term held in accordance with subsection (6). | ||
(8) The Mayor shall not, while holding office as mayor, engage in any trade, profession, vocation or other occupation, whether remunerated or otherwise, which might reasonably be seen to be capable of interfering or to be incompatible with the performance of his or her functions as Mayor. |