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term of office of any Treasurer who has died, resigned, or been removed
from office.

1929, ch. 142, sec. 7B.

118. In the event any elective officer shall have been convicted of any
felony, involving moral turpitude, by a court of competent jurisdiction,
or is guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance in office, may be
impeached and removed from office; provided, however, that before any
impeachment proceedings may be brought against any elective officer, a
petition shall be filed with the Mayor and Town Council containing at
least twenty-five names of qualified voters, which petition shall get forth
the offense or offenses for which the said elective officer shall be tried and
that the facts set forth in said petition shall be under oath and signed
by the informant; that upon receipt by the Mayor and Town Council of
such petition, it shall be the duty of the said Mayor and Town Council
to notify the elective officer named in the said petition of the charges made
against him, by furnishing said elective officer with a copy of the said
petition duly certified by the Clerk as being true and correct, and naming
a day and hour and place certain for a hearing as hereinafter provided
for said elective officer to appear and stand trial before the Mayor and
Town Council, acting as impeachment officers; provided, however, that the
said elective officer shall have at least 10 days' notice of said hearing, and
for good cause shown may be granted further time within which to appear.
It is further provided that the Mayor and Town Council shall act as judge
in all impeachment proceedings brought against the hereinbefore men-
tioned elective officer of the Town of Brentwood, and that a majority of
the Mayor and members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the
purpose of the impeachment proceedings herein provided; provided, that
in order to convict an elective officer of the charges preferred a unanimous
verdict must be entered upon the record of the hearing. It is further pro-
vided that the Mayor shall have the same vote as any Councilman when
acting as one of the judges of an impeachment proceeding; provided, how-
ever, that any elective officer against whom impeachment proceedings have
been instituted, and notice of which has been given to him, shall be from
the date of such notice suspended from office and shall not be reinstated
unless such impeachment proceedings are abandoned or he has been ac-
quitted of such charges, and provided further, however, that unless the
proceedings are heard within 30 days from the date the elective officer-
is notified by the Mayor and Town Council, unless for good cause shown
same is extended, and in no event shall same be extended more than 90
days from the date of said notice, of the charges preferred against him,
the proceedings shall be considered abandoned and the said elective officer
shall thereafter during the remainder of his term of office be entitled to
hold same and exercise all rights and privileges thereunder; and the deci-
sion of the Mayor and Town Council acting as impeachment judges shall
be final and conclusive on all parties. It is further provided that at the
hearing that the rules of evidence obtaining in the Circuit Courts of