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Ohio Rev Code § 705.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.03 | Form of Ballot in Submitting Question of Organizing Under Plan.

Effective: August 22, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly|In submitting to the electors of any municipal corporation the question of organizing under any one of the plans of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall have printed on the ballots the following question: "Shall the (name the plan) plan of government, as provided in chapter ________ section ________ of the Revised Code be adopted?" Immediately following such question there shall be printed on the ballots the following propositions in the order here set forth:"For the adoption of the (_______________) plan.""Against the adoption of the (________________) plan."When the question is on the adoption of the federal plan of government there shall also be submitted the question: "For councilmen-at-large," and "For councilmen-by-wards." There shall also be printed on the ballots at any such election the following supplementary proposition:"For the adoption of the recall;""Against the adoption of the recall."Immediately to the left of each of the propositions shall be placed a square in which the electors may vote for or against any such propositions.At least thirty days prior to any such election, the board shall mail a copy of the proposed plan of government and the supplementary propositions to each elector of the municipal corporation whose name appears on the pollbooks or registration books of the last general election, and each such copy shall contain, on the front cover thereof, a facsimile ballot and the date and hours of the election.Any elector may, at least forty days prior to such election, file with such board a written argument of not more than three hundred words, for or against any proposed plan of government or for or against any other proposition submitted, and, upon payment of the cost of printing, the board shall have such written argument printed and a copy thereof mailed with the copy of the proposed plan to each elector, or otherwise distributed to every voter as far as practicable.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.04 | Adoption of Plan.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, the proposition of adopting a plan of government submitted as provided by sections 705.01 to 705.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is approved by a majority of those voting thereon, such plan, together with any of the supplementary propositions approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, shall be the charter of such municipal corporation. When so adopted, sections 705.01 to 705.92, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall go into effect immediately, insofar as they apply to the nomination and election of officers provided for in such sections, and in all other respects such sections shall go into effect upon the first day of January following the next regular municipal election. All officers of any plan of government superseded by adoption of a plan provided in such sections, except members of the legislative authority, shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until the legislative authority elected under such sections provides by ordinances for the performance of the duties of such officers, whereupon the terms of all such officers shall expire and their offices be abolished.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.05 | Submission of Supplementary Propositions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In any municipal corporation in which a plan of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code, has been adopted, any of the supplementary propositions not previously adopted may, at any municipal election, be independently submitted to the electors in the manner provided by sections 705.01 to 705.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code. If the proposition to adopt such a plan is rejected by the electors of a municipal corporation, it shall not again be submitted in that municipal corporation within one year after such rejection.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.06 | Board of Elections Shall File Certificate of Election Results.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Immediately after an election upon the adoption of any plan of government or proposition provided in sections 705.01 to 705.92, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall file a certificate of the results thereof with the secretary of state.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.07 | Sections Applicable to Each Plan.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 705.07 to 705.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, apply to and are a part of each plan of government provided in sections 705.41 to 705.86, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The powers conferred upon municipal corporations by Title VII of the Revised Code so far as applicable, shall govern unless otherwise provided by law. Each such plan may be proposed by the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, or by the electors of such municipal corporation by petition in the manner prescribed by law for the submission of initiative petitions. Such plan shall take effect and be in force when approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.08 | Treasurer - Duties.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The treasurer shall be the custodian of all moneys of the municipal corporation, and shall keep the moneys in such manner and in such place as is determined by the legislative authority thereof. He shall pay out money only on warrants issued by the auditor.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.09 | Auditor - Duties.

Effective: November 1, 1977|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall choose an auditor, who shall keep an accurate account of all taxes and assessments, and of all money due to, all receipts and disbursements by, and of all assets and liabilities of the municipal corporation, and of all appropriations made by the legislative authority. The auditor shall, at the end of each fiscal year, and more often if required by the legislative authority, audit the accounts of the several departments and officers and shall audit all other accounts in which the municipal corporation is interested. The auditor may prescribe the form of reports to be rendered to his department, and the method of keeping accounts by all other departments, and he shall require daily reports, showing all money received and the disposition thereof, to be made to him by each department. The auditor shall, upon the death, resignation, removal, or expiration of the term of any officer, audit the accounts of the officer, and, if the officer is found indebted to the municipal corporation, the auditor shall immediately give notice thereof to the legislative authority and the village solicitor or city director of law, and the latter shall forthwith proceed to collect the indebtedness.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.10 | Clerk - Duties.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall choose a clerk and such other officers and employees of its own body as are necessary. The clerk shall keep the records of the legislative authority and perform such other duties as are required by ordinance or resolution. All officers and employees chosen by the legislative authority shall serve during the pleasure thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.11 | Village Solicitor or City Director of Law - Duties.

Effective: November 1, 1977|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly|The village solicitor or city director of law shall act as the legal advisor to and attorney for the municipal corporation, and for all officers of the municipal corporation in matters relating to their official duties. He shall prepare all contracts, bonds, and other instruments in writing in which the municipal corporation is concerned, and shall indorse on each his approval of the form and the correctness thereof. No contract with the municipal corporation shall take effect until the approval of the village solicitor or city director of law is indorsed thereon. He or his assistants shall be the prosecutor in any police or municipal court, and shall perform such other duties and have such assistants and clerks as are required or provided.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.12 | Qualifications of Members of Legislative Authority.

Effective: August 21, 1973|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 188 - 110th General Assembly|Members of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall be electors of the municipal corporation. They shall not hold any other public office or employment, except that of notary public or member of the state militia, or state or county central committeeman of a political party, or state or county executive committeeman of a political party, or state or county officer of a political party, and shall not be interested in the profits or emoluments of any contract, job, work, or service for the municipal corporation. Any member who ceases to possess any of the qualifications required by this section shall forthwith forfeit his office. Any contract in which any such member is or becomes interested may be declared void by the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.13 | Salaries and Attendance of Members.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall, by ordinance, fix the salary of its members which shall be paid in equal monthly installments. For each absence from regular meetings of the legislative authority, unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of all members thereof, there shall be deducted a sum equal to two per cent of such annual salary. Absence for ten successive regular meetings shall operate to vacate the seat of a member, unless such absence is authorized by the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.14 | Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.

Effective: September 19, 1985|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 66 - 116th General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in section 705.53 of the Revised Code, at the first meeting following each regular municipal election, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall elect one of its members as chairman and one other member as vice-chairman. The chairman shall preside at meetings of the legislative authority and perform such duties as are imposed upon him, as presiding officer, by the legislative authority. In municipal corporations in which a municipal court is not otherwise provided, the chairman shall perform all of the general duties provided in section 733.30 of the Revised Code, shall have such jurisdiction as is provided by section 1905.20 of the Revised Code, and shall be styled "police justice" in the performance of all judicial duties, and in such style he shall sign all processes and judicial records during the time he serves. He shall keep a docket in which he shall enter all cases brought before him. Such docket shall be provided by and be the property of the municipal corporation. At the end of each month, such police justice shall make a report to the legislative authority of all cases brought before him.When the chairman of the legislative authority or police justice is absent from the municipal corporation, or is unable to perform his duties, or in case of death, resignation, or removal, the vice-chairman shall act as chairman and perform all of the duties provided for chairman and police justice, pending any future meeting of the legislative authority at which it may select one of its members, who has been elected as provided in sections 705.31 and 705.32 of the Revised Code, to become the chairman and police justice for the period of time that such chairman is absent from the municipal corporation, or is incapacitated for any cause, or in the event of his death, resignation, or removal. The member so selected shall become the chairman of the legislative authority and police justice for the unexpired term.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.15 | Powers of Legislative Authority.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A majority of all members of the legislative authority of a municipal corporation constitutes a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the legislative authority is necessary to adopt any motion, ordinance, or resolution, and on the passage of every ordinance or resolution the vote shall be taken by "yeas" and "nays" and entered upon the journal. Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be in written or printed form, and shall contain not more than one subject which shall be clearly stated in the title. General appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are appropriated. No ordinance, unless it is declared an emergency measure, shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days, the first and second reading of which may be by title only, and if such measure is printed and a copy thereof placed on the desk of each member the third reading may be by title only. The rule requiring every ordinance to be read on three separate days may be suspended by a three-fourths vote of all members elected or appointed to the legislative authority, taken by "yeas" and "nays" on each ordinance and entered on the journal.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.16 | Publication of Ordinances or Resolutions.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|(A) All ordinances or resolutions shall be in effect after thirty days from the date of their passage, except as provided in section 705.75 of the Revised Code. (B) A succinct summary of each ordinance and resolution of a general nature, or providing for public improvements, or assessing property shall, upon passage of the ordinance or resolution, be promptly published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipal corporation. Such publication shall be made in the body type of the paper under headlines in eighteen point type, which headlines shall specify the nature of such legislation. The publication shall contain notice that the complete text of each such ordinance or resolution may be obtained or viewed at the office of the clerk of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and may be viewed at any other location designated by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation. The city director of law, village solicitor, or other chief legal officer of the municipal corporation shall review the summary of an ordinance or resolution published under this section prior to forwarding it to the clerk for publication, to ensure that the summary is legally accurate and sufficient.(C) Upon publication of a summary of an ordinance or resolution in accordance with this section, the clerk of the legislative authority shall supply a copy of the complete text of each such ordinance or resolution to any person, upon request, and may charge a reasonable fee, set by the legislative authority, for each copy supplied. The clerk shall post a copy of the text at the clerk's office and at every other location designated by the legislative authority.(D) No newspaper shall be paid a higher price for the publication of summaries of ordinances than its government rate established under section 7.10 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.17 | Annual Tax Ordinance.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An annual tax ordinance to determine the amount of the tax levy shall be prepared by the mayor, the chairman of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, under the direction of the legislative authority. For the purpose of preparing such ordinances such officer shall require from the head of each office or department for which appropriations are made, a detailed statement, upon uniform blanks furnished by such officer, of the expenses of such office or department for the previous years and the estimated expense for the next year. The tax ordinance prepared by such officer shall set forth in detail the probable revenues of the municipal corporation from every source, in such form as to indicate the means by which it is proposed to provide for the estimated expenditures set forth in such ordinance, and shall also include detailed statements of the contemplated expenditures of the municipal corporation and of each office, department, and functional division thereof. After the tax ordinance is prepared by such officer, opportunity shall be given, after at least one week's notice, for public hearings thereon. The ordinance shall then be submitted to the legislative authority and by it to the county budget commission which shall fix the total maximum tax levy permitted to the municipal corporation for the ensuing year. The legislative authority shall then fix the actual tax levy for the ensuing year, but such levy shall not be higher than the estimate submitted by such officer or exceed the limit fixed by the county budget commission. Such levy shall not be higher than the maximum provided for by law.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.18 | Annual Appropriation Ordinance - Supplemental Appropriation.

Effective: September 10, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|An annual appropriation ordinance shall be prepared by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation from estimates submitted by the mayor, the chairperson of the commission, or the city manager, as the case may be, in the manner provided in section 705.17 of the Revised Code for the annual tax ordinance. The annual appropriation ordinance shall be submitted to the legislative authority at its first meeting after the beginning of the municipal corporation's fiscal year, and the total of any appropriation ordinance passed by such legislative authority shall not exceed the total balances carried over from the previous fiscal year plus the estimated revenue of the current fiscal year. Supplemental appropriations shall not be made during the current fiscal year except from an contingent fund regularly set aside by the legislative authority in the annual appropriation ordinance or unless by an ordinance passed as an emergency measure.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.19 | Limitation on Appropriations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No money shall be drawn from the treasury of a municipal corporation except in pursuance of appropriations made by the legislative authority, and whenever an appropriation is so made the clerk shall forthwith give notice to the auditor and treasurer. Appropriations may be made in furtherance of improvements or other objects or work of the municipal corporation which will not be completed within the current year. At the end of each year all unexpended balances of appropriations shall revert to the respective funds from which they were appropriated and shall then be subject to future appropriations.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.20 | Payment of Claims - Procedure.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No warrant for the payment of any claim shall be issued by the auditor until such claim is approved by the head of the department for which the indebtedness was incurred. Each head of a department and his surety shall be liable to the municipal corporation for all loss or damage sustained by such municipal corporation by reason of the negligence or corrupt approval of any claim against the municipal corporation in his department. Whenever any claim is presented to the auditor he may require evidence that the amount claimed is justly due and is in conformity to law and ordinance, and, for that purpose, he may summon before him any officer, agent, employee of any department of the municipal corporation, or any other person, and examine him upon oath or affirmation relative thereto. Such oath or affirmation may be administered by the auditor.
Ohio Rev Code § 705.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 705 | Plans of Government|Section 705.21 | Investigations by Municipal Corporation - Production of Testimony.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or any committee thereof authorized by it, may compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and other evidence at any meeting of such legislative authority or committee, and for that purpose may issue subpoenas or attachments in any case of injury or investigation, to be signed by the presiding officer of such legislative authority or chairman of such committee, which shall be served and executed by any officer authorized to serve subpoenas and other processes. If any witness refuses to testify to any acts within his knowledge, or to produce any papers or books in his possession, or under his control, relating to the matter under inquiry, before the legislative authority or any such committee, the legislative authority may commit the witness to prison for contempt. No witness shall be excused from testifying touching his knowledge or the matter under investigation in any such inquiry, but such testimony shall not be used against him in any criminal prosecution, except for perjury.