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Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh City Code, Title One: Administrative, Article IX: Boards, Commissions, and Authorities, Chapter 175: Art Commission to transition the Art Commission into the Public Art & Civic Design Commission.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article IX: Boards, Commissions and Authorities, is hereby amended at CHAPTER 175: - ART COMMISSION, as follows:
CHAPTER 175: - ART COMMISSION PUBLIC ART & CIVIC DESIGN COMMISSION
? 175.01 - CREATION, ORGANIZATION, QUORUM AND RULES. COMMISSION
(a)
The City Art Commission shall consist of the various members to be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of Council. Members shall hold office during the term for which the Mayor who appoints them has been elected and until their successors are respectively appointed and qualified.
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The Director of Public Works and the Director of Mobility and Infrastructure shall be ex-officio members of the Commission. In addition, the Commission shall consist of one (1) painter, one (1) sculptor and three (3) architects all of whom shall be eminent in their respective professions, and two (2) others, neither of whom shall be a painter, sculptor or architect.
(c)
All appointed members shall serve without compensation.
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In case any vacancy occurs, the vacancy shall be filled by the Mayor for the unexpired term.
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The Commission shall elect a president and secretary, whose term of office shall be for one (1) year. They may employ clerks and other persons, whose salaries and wages, together with the other necessary expenses of the Commission, shall be provided for, in the discretion of Council, by the proper appropriations and ordinances.
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A majority of the seven (7) appointed members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or the decision of any matters within their competence or jurisdiction, and the majority of the quorum ma...
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