The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-21
THE TAXING POWER.
The New Law to Regulate Municipal Taxztion-
Important Restrictions on appropriations and
Contracts

Contracts.
AN ACT to amend sections 81. 6i3, $50,
and Csc of an act entitled "An act 10 pro-
vide for the government ofmunlcipal cor
porations," passed May Z, 1869 vol. 90, p.
1861, and section 663 of said act, as amend
ed April Is, 1870 vol. 81, p. 81.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Geller-
GE assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
section ninety seven of said act be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 81. All ordinances and reso-
lutions, and all bylaws for the govern
nent of the Council, shall require for
their passage or adoption the concur
renee of a majority OF all the members
elected, and the vote on their passage or
adoption shall be taken by yeas and
nays. and recorded on the journal; and
no contract, agreement, or obligation, or
resolution of the Council, and any ap
preparation of money for any purpose be
made, except by an ordinance; and the
power or authority to make contract,
agreement, or obligation to bind the
corporation, or TO make an appropria-
ton, shall not be delegated. And every
contract, agreement, or obligation, and
every appropriation of money made con-
trary to the provisions of this section,
shall be void, as against the corporation,
but binding OH the person or persons
making it,.
SEC. 2. That section >ix hundred and
forty-three be AMENDED - as TO read as
follows:
Section 643. The CoupciI shall have
power to anticipate the tax authorized
TO be levied. for sanitary and street
cleaning purposes, by temporary loans
for that purpose; but no loan shall be
made of any amount in excess of the
gross amount of revenues raised by tax
alton for expenditures for such purposes
during then current year, except in cases
of extraordinary emergencies caused by
the general prevalence of epidemic dis
eases, and such revenue, when paid into
the treasury, shall be applied first to the
payment of such loan"
SEC 3. That section 649 of said act be
amended so as to read as follows:
''Section 649. The Council shall cause
to be certified to the Auditor of the
county, OH or before the first Monday in
June, annually, the percentage by them
levied on the real and personal property
levy, and the County Auditor shall place
the same on the duplicate of taxes for
said county, in the same manner as
township taxes are now by law placed ON
said duplicate, and the ordinance pre-
scribing said levy shall specify distinctly
each and every purpose for which it is
made, and the per cent. levied therefor"
SEC. 4. That section six hundred and
fifty OF said act be amended so as to read
as follows:
Section $50. The taxes of the corpor-
alton shall be collected by the County
Treasurer and paid into the treasury of
the corporation, in the same manner,
and under the same laws, rules and reg
ulations as are or may be prescribed for
the collection and paying over of State
and county taxes, and the corporation
Treasurer, or other person or officer hav-
ing charge of the taxes paid over by the
County Treasurer, shall keep a separate
account with each fund for which taxes
were assessed, and which amount shall
at all times be open to inspection"
SEC. ). That section six hundred and
fifty-six OF said act be amended so as to
read as follows:
''Section 656. The Council shall not
make any appropriation, nor contract
debts or obligations of any description,
for either of the purposes specified in
the levy of said Council, as provided
for in section six. hundred and forty nine,
exceed iii the amount of taxes and rev.
enue for other sources for the current
year received for such purposes; and
the money belonging to one fund shall
not be transferred to another, or used
for any purpose except that fer which
it was collected or received"
SEC. 6. That section 6G3 of said act,
as amended April Is, 1870. be amended
SO as to read as follows:
''Section 663. No contract, agreement,
ot other obligation, involving the expen-
diture OF money shall be entered into,
nor shall any ordinance, resolution or
order fer the appropriation or expendi-
ture of money, be passed by the city
council of any municipal corporation, or
by any board or officer thereof, unless
the Auditor of such city, and if there be
no Auditor, the Clerk thereof, shall |
have certified ON the back of every such |
contract, agreement, obligation, ordi- |
nance, resolution, or order, that the |
money required for the payment Of any |
such expenditure, or to make any such |
is in the City Treasury
to the credit of such fund, and not ap-
for any other purpose; and |
all amounts or sums of money so certi-
fed to by such Auditor or Clerk, shall
not be considered in the City Treasury
rs unappropriated, in his making any
certificate, until the contract,
agreement, obligation, ordinance, reso-
ution, or order, bearing such certificate,
has been indefinitely postponed, or 9th
erwise finally disposed of, and all ordi-
lances, resolutions or orders, passed,
or contracts, or obligations entered into
rs aforesaid, contrary to the provisions
,f this act, shall be null and void.
SEC. z. That sections 81, G43, $40, $50
md $50 of the act of Nay z, 1869, afore-
aid. and said, section 663, as amended
Is aforesaid, be and they are hereby re-
1ealed.
SIC. Q. This act shall take effect from
nd aftpr itS DnSSaUa