St. Louis County Code Governing Executive's Replacement Was Repealed
In a bizarre turn of events, it turns out that the St. Louis County Council in February repealed the part of the county code that deals with selecting a replacement for the county executive. And they never adopted language spelling out a new process.
That means the code is officially silent on the matter of how to replace Steve Stenger, who was indicted earlier today.
According to a source familiar with the council's actions, Stenger's absence at meetings earlier this year was making it difficult to fill vacancies as they occurred. So the council officially repealed the language outlining the replacement process on February 22. That leaves them with a code silent on how to replace the top executive now that he's been indicted.
(The online Municode library, which serves as a repository for county ordinances and codes, isn't updated in real time — which is why that version of the code is missing this latest update.)
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2019/04/29/stengers-replacement-shouldnt-be-picked-tonight-st-louis-county-code-says
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