Effective: March 2, 1992 Latest Legislation: House Bill 228 – 119th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (D) of this section, the legislative power of each city shall be vested in, and exercised by, a legislative authority, composed of not fewer than seven members, four of whom shall be elected by […]
Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly Members of the legislative authority at large shall have resided in their respective cities, and members from wards shall have resided in their respective wards, for at least one year immediately preceding their election. Each member of the legislative authority shall be […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, one member of the legislative authority of a city from each ward and such number of members thereof at large as is provided by section 731.01 of the Revised Code shall […]
Effective: July 26, 1984 Latest Legislation: House Bill 338 – 115th General Assembly Within ten days from the commencement of their term, the members of the legislative authority of a city shall elect a president pro tempore, a clerk, and such other employees as are necessary, and fix their duties, bonds, and compensation. Such officers […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The powers of the legislative authority of a city shall be legislative only, it shall perform no administrative duties, and it shall neither appoint nor confirm any officer or employee in the city government except those of its own body, unless otherwise […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
