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Ohio Rev Code § 731.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.06 | Division of City Into Wards.

Effective: July 16, 1970|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 994 - 108th General Assembly|(A) The legislative authority of a city shall subdivide the city into wards, equal in number to the members of the legislative authority to be elected from wards, within ninety days after:(1) The first day of October of the year following the decennial census year;(2) The approval of the adoption, change, or abandonment of an alternative plan for the composition of the legislative authority of the city under division (B) or (C) of section 731.01 of the Revised Code, if the number of wards is changed;(3) The annexation of territory containing, according to the last federal census or a census authorized by the legislative authority, such population as will entitle the city to an additional member of the legislative authority under division (A) of section 731.01 of the Revised Code.(B) If the legislative authority fails to make such subdivision within the time required, it shall be made by the director of public service.(C) In order to provide substantially equal population in each of the wards, the legislative authority may redivide the city into wards at any time.(D) All wards shall be bounded, as far as practicable, by county lines, streets, alleys, lot lines, avenues, public grounds, canals, watercourses, municipal corporation lines, center lines of platted streets, or railroads, and shall be composed of adjacent and compact territory, and substantially equal in population.(E) The legislative authority may authorize and provide for conducting a census of the population of the city at any time in order to carry out the powers granted by this section.(F) Action of the legislative authority to divide the city into wards shall be taken by ordinance and shall be effective for the first municipal primary election occurring at least one hundred fifty days after the passage of the ordinance.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.07 | Salaries Shall Not Be Changed During Term.

Effective: January 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 299 - 113th General Assembly|The salary of any officer of a city shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he was elected or appointed. This section does not prohibit the payment of any increased costs of continuing to provide the identical benefits provided to an officer at the commencement of his term of office.Unless otherwise provided, all fees pertaining to any office shall be paid into the city treasury.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.08 | Power of Legislative Authority as to Salaries and Bonds.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in Title VII of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a city, by ordinance or resolution, shall determine the number of officers, clerks, and employees in each department of the city government, and shall fix, by ordinance or resolution, their respective salaries and compensation, and the amount of bond to be given for each officer, clerk, or employee in each department of the government, if any is required. Such bond shall be made by such officer, clerk, or employee, with surety subject to the approval of the mayor.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.09 | Members of Village Legislative Authority - Election - Terms of Office.

Effective: March 22, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 347 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, the legislative power of each village shall be vested in, and exercised by, a legislative authority, composed of six members, who shall be elected by the electors of the village at large, for terms of four years. At the municipal election held in the year 1961 two members shall be elected for terms of two years and four members shall be elected for terms of four years. Except in villages where a primary election was held in 1961 for the nomination of candidates for member of the legislative authority, the four candidates who receive the greatest number of votes cast shall be elected for terms of four years, and the two candidates who receive the next greatest number of the votes cast shall be elected for terms of two years. All candidates nominated prior to June 8, 1961, except by primary election, shall have their names grouped together on the election ballot regardless of whether their nominating petition or declaration of candidacy designated that they were candidates for a two-year or a four-year term.At the municipal election in 1963 and quadrennially thereafter, two members shall be elected for terms of four years.At the municipal election in 1965 and quadrennially thereafter, four members shall be elected for terms of four years.Beginning with the year 1964, all members of village council shall hold office for a term of four years.(B) The legislative authority of a village may adopt an ordinance or resolution that, if approved by a majority of the electors voting on the issue, would reduce the number of members of the legislative authority to five. A certified copy of the ordinance or resolution shall be filed with the board of elections no later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the next election at which members of the legislative authority are to be elected.(C) The electors may propose a reduction in the number of members of the legislative authority from six to five by initiative petition in accordance with the procedure set forth in section 731.28 of the Revised Code.(D) If a majority of the votes cast on the question proposed under division (B) or (C) of this section is in the affirmative, the legislative authority shall be composed of five members, who shall be elected at large, for terms of four years. If members of the legislative authority have staggered terms of office as required by this section, the decrease in number of members shall be implemented as necessary over the next two municipal elections at which members of the legislative authority would be elected. If the legislative authority has adopted an ordinance or resolution to eliminate staggered terms of office under section 731.091 of the Revised Code, the five members shall be elected as set forth in division (B)(2) of that section.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.091 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.091 | Elimination of Staggered Terms of Office.

Effective: June 30, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) The legislative authority of a village may, by the adoption of an ordinance or resolution to eliminate staggered terms of office, determine that all members of the legislative authority shall be elected at the same municipal election as provided for in this section. (B) At the regular municipal election occurring not less than ninety days after the certification of the ordinance or resolution to the board of elections eliminating staggered terms of office, the following apply:(1) If there are six members of the legislative authority, the number of members eligible for election at that regular municipal election shall be elected to two-year nonstaggered terms, and all members of the legislative authority shall be elected to four-year nonstaggered terms at all following municipal elections.(2) If there are five members of the legislative authority, a number of members that is one less than the number of members that would otherwise be eligible for election at that regular municipal election but for the first-time implementation of the new membership of five, or, in the case of a village that has previously reduced its number of members to five, then the number of members eligible for election at that regular municipal election shall be elected to two-year nonstaggered terms, and all members shall be elected to four-year nonstaggered terms at all following municipal elections.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.10 | President Pro Tempore of the Legislative Authority - Employees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|At the first meeting in January of each year, the legislative authority of a village shall immediately proceed to elect a president pro tempore from its own number, who shall serve until the first meeting in January next after his election. The legislative authority may provide such employees for the village as it determines, and such employees may be removed at any regular meeting by a majority of the members elected to such legislative authority.When the mayor is absent from the village or is unable, for any cause, to perform his duties, the president pro tempore shall be the acting mayor, and shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the mayor.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.11 | Vacancy When President Pro Tempore Becomes Mayor.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the president pro tempore of the legislative authority of a village becomes the mayor, the vacancy thus created shall be filled as provided in section 731.43 of the Revised Code, and the legislative authority shall elect another president pro tempore from its own number, who shall have the same rights, powers, and duties as his predecessor.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.12 | Qualifications of Members of Village Legislative Authority.

Effective: August 22, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly|Each member of the legislative authority of a village shall have resided in the village one year immediately preceding the member's election, and shall be an elector of the village. No member of the legislative authority shall hold any other public office, be interested in any contract with the village, or hold employment with said village, except that such member may be a notary public, a member of the state militia, or a volunteer fireman of said village, provided that such member shall not receive any compensation for his services as a volunteer fireman of the village in addition to his regular compensation as a member of the legislative authority. Any member who ceases to possess any of such qualifications or who removes from the village shall forfeit the member's office.The purpose of establishing a one-year residency requirement in this section is to recognize that the state has a substantial and compelling interest in encouraging qualified candidacies for election to the office of member of the legislative authority of a village by ensuring that a candidate for such office has every opportunity to become knowledgeable with and concerned about the problems and needs of the area the candidate seeks to represent. In enacting this requirement, the general assembly finds that the one-year period is reasonably related to this purpose, while leaving unimpaired a person's right to travel, to vote, and to be a candidate for public office.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.13 | Compensation and Bonds of Village Officers, Clerks and Employees.

Effective: January 9, 1981|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 299 - 113th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a village shall fix the compensation and bonds of all officers, clerks, and employees of the village except as otherwise provided by law. The legislative authority shall, in the case of elective officers, fix their compensation for the ensuing term of office at a meeting held not later than five days prior to the last day fixed by law for filing as a candidate for such office. All bonds shall be made with sureties subject to the approval of the mayor. The compensation so fixed shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which any officer is elected or appointed. This section does not prohibit the payment of any increased costs of continuing to provide the identical benefits provided to an officer at the commencement of his term of office.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.14 | Contracts by Legislative Authority of a Village - Exception.

Effective: October 13, 2020|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 4 - 133rd General Assembly|All contracts made by the legislative authority of a village shall be executed in the name of the village and signed on its behalf by the mayor and clerk. Except where the contract is for equipment, services, materials, or supplies to be purchased under division (D) of section 713.23 or section 125.04 or 5513.01 of the Revised Code, available from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to sections 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code, or required to be purchased from a qualified nonprofit agency under sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code, or, during the period of emergency declared by Executive Order 2020-01D, issued on March 9, 2020, when the purchase is for personal protective equipment necessary to respond to that emergency, when any expenditure, other than the compensation of persons employed in the village, exceeds fifty thousand dollars, such contracts shall be in writing and made with the lowest and best bidder after advertising once a week for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the village. The legislative authority may also cause notice to be inserted in trade papers or other publications designated by it or to be distributed by electronic means, including posting the notice on the legislative authority's internet web site. If the legislative authority posts the notice on its web site, it may eliminate the second notice otherwise required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the village, provided that the first notice published in such newspaper meets all of the following requirements:  (A) It is published at least two weeks before the opening of bids. (B) It includes a statement that the notice is posted on the legislative authority's internet web site. (C) It includes the internet address of the legislative authority's internet web site. (D) It includes instructions describing how the notice may be accessed on the legislative authority's internet web site. The bids shall be opened and shall be publicly read by the clerk of the village or a person designated by the clerk at the time, date, and place specified in the advertisement to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the legislative authority of the village, provided that written or oral notice of the change shall be given to all persons who have received or requested specifications no later than ninety-six hours prior to the original time and date fixed for the opening. This section does not apply to those villages that have provided for the appointment of a village administrator under section 735.271 of the Revised Code. As used in this section, "personal protective equipment" means equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause workplace injuries and illnesses.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.141 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.141 | Village Administrator to Make Contracts and Purchases.

Effective: September 28, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly|In those villages that have established the position of village administrator, as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator shall make contracts, purchase supplies and materials, and provide labor for any work under the administrator's supervision involving not more than fifty thousand dollars. When an expenditure, other than the compensation of persons employed by the village, exceeds fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure shall first be authorized and directed by ordinance of the legislative authority of the village. When so authorized and directed, except where the contract is for equipment, services, materials, or supplies to be purchased under division (D) of section 713.23 or section 125.04 or 5513.01 of the Revised Code, available from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to sections 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code, or required to be purchased from a qualified nonprofit agency under sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code, the village administrator shall make a written contract with the lowest and best bidder after advertisement for not less than two nor more than four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the village or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The bids shall be opened and shall be publicly read by the village administrator or a person designated by the village administrator at the time, date, and place as specified in the advertisement to bidders or specifications. The time, date, and place of bid openings may be extended to a later date by the village administrator, provided that written or oral notice of the change shall be given to all persons who have received or requested specifications no later than ninety-six hours prior to the original time and date fixed for the opening. All contracts shall be executed in the name of the village and signed on its behalf by the village administrator and the clerk. The legislative authority of a village may provide, by ordinance, for central purchasing for all offices, departments, divisions, boards, and commissions of the village, under the direction of the village administrator, who shall make contracts, purchase supplies or materials, and provide labor for any work of the village in the manner provided by this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.15 | Bids and Proceedings.

Effective: October 1, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 117th General Assembly|Each bid on any contract under section 731.14 or 731.141 of the Revised Code shall contain the full name of every person interested in such bid. If the bid is for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement, it shall meet the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. If the bid is for any other contract authorized by section 731.14 or 731.141 of the Revised Code, it shall be accompanied by a sufficient bond or certified check, cashier's check, or money order on a solvent bank or savings and loan association that, if the bid is accepted, a contract will be entered into and the performance of it properly secured. If the bid for work embraces both labor and material, it shall be separately stated, with the price thereof. The legislative authority of a village, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator may reject any and all bids. The contract shall be between the village and the bidder, and the village shall pay such contract price in cash. When a bonus is offered for completion of a contract prior to a specified date, the legislative authority, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator may exact a prorated penalty in like sum for each day of delay beyond the specified date. When there is reason to believe there is collusion or combination among bidders, the bids of those concerned therein shall be rejected.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.16 | Alterations or Modifications of Contracts.

Effective: September 28, 1965|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 397 - 106th General Assembly|When it becomes necessary in the opinion of the legislative authority of a village, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator, in the prosecution of any work under contract, to make alterations or modifications in such contract, such alterations or modifications shall be made only by the legislative authority by resolution, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, such alterations or modifications shall be made only by the village administrator in writing, but such resolution or written modification shall be of no effect until the price to be paid for the work and material, or both, under the altered or modified contract, has been agreed upon in writing and signed by the contractor, and by the mayor, or, in the event a village administrator has been appointed as provided by section 735.271 of the Revised Code, the village administrator on behalf of the village. No contractor shall recover anything for work or material because of any alteration or modification, unless such contract is made as provided by this section, nor shall he recover for such work or material, or either, more than the agreed price. The law relating to requiring bids and the awarding of contracts for public buildings, so far as they apply, shall remain in effect. A duplicate copy of each contract shall be filed in the office of the village treasurer.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.17 | Passage of Ordinances and Resolutions.

Effective: November 19, 1975|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 350 - 111th General Assembly|(A) The following procedures shall apply to the passage of ordinances and resolutions of a municipal corporation:(1) Each ordinance and resolution shall be read by title only, provided the legislative authority may require any reading to be in full by a majority vote of its members.(2) Each ordinance or resolution shall be read on three different days, provided the legislative authority may dispense with this rule by a vote of at least three-fourths of its members.(3) The vote on the passage of each ordinance or resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal.(4) Each ordinance or resolution shall be passed, except as otherwise provided by law, by a vote of at least a majority of all the members of the legislative authority.(B) Action by the legislative authority, not required by law to be by ordinance or resolution, may be taken by motion approved by at least a majority vote of the members present at the meeting when the action is taken.
Ohio Rev Code § 731.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 731 | Organization|Section 731.18 | Style of Ordinances.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The style of all ordinances shall be, "Be it ordained by the __________ filling the blank with the name of the legislative authority of the city or village) of _______________state of Ohio," (filling the blank with the name of the city or village.)