There are only three ways* to remove a New York City mayor: they may be fired by the governor, removed from office by the New York Supreme Court, or determined by an “inability committee” of city officials that they are “unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of mayor.” There is no voter recall system for elected officials in New York State.
- For details on Eric’s corruption, nepotism, and various abuses of power, check out Hell Gate‘s Eric Adams Table of Success.
- For details on Eric’s assault charges, check out the analysis and documents provided by Politico.
- For Adams’ new five criminal counts, see NY Mag’s live update reporting.
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Eric Adams: Cop, Rapist, Zionist. You can do better, NYC! Tell Governor Hochul to fire Adams TODAY. 518-474-8390 Governor.Hochul@exec.ny.gov
*See the following laws:
New York City Charter, Section 9: The mayor may be removed from office by the governor upon charges and after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense. Pending the preparation and disposition of charges, the governor may suspend the mayor for a period not exceeding thirty days.
New York City Charter Section 10(2): There shall be a committee on mayoral inability consisting of: the corporation counsel, the comptroller, the speaker of the council, a deputy mayor who shall be designated by the mayor, and the borough president with the longest consecutive service as borough president. If two or more borough presidents have served for an equal length of time, one of such borough presidents shall be selected by lot to be a member of such committee. If at any time there is no valid mayoral designation in force, the deputy mayor with the longest consecutive service as a deputy mayor shall be a member of such committee. The authority to act as a member of such committee shall not be delegable.
Public Officers Law, Chapter 47, Article 3, § 36: Any town, village, improvement district or fire district officer, except a justice of the peace, may be removed from office by the supreme court for any misconduct, maladministration, malfeasance or malversation in office. An application for such removal may be made by any citizen resident of such town, village, improvement district or fire district or by the district attorney of the county in which such town, village or district is located, and shall be made to the appellate division of the supreme court held within the judicial department embracing such town, village, improvement district or fire district. Such application shall be made upon notice to such officer of not less than eight days, and a copy of the charges upon which the application will be made must be served with such notice.