Section 16-12-1 Appointment, compensation and removal.
Section 16-12-1
Appointment, compensation and removal.
The city board of education shall appoint a city superintendent of schools to hold office at the pleasure of the board. The city superintendent of schools shall receive such compensation as the city board of education shall direct. The city board of education may remove the city superintendent of schools for incompetency, immorality, misconduct in office, willful neglect of duty or when, in the opinion of the board, the best interests of the schools require it.
(School Code 1927, §219; Code 1940, T. 52, §177.)