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...Villages may be incorporated in the manner provided in sections 707.01 to 707.28 of the Revised Code. Application for incorporation of a village shall be made by petition addressed to the board of county commissioners. No territory within the boundaries of a military base, camp, or similar installation under the jurisdiction of a military department of the United States government, that is used for the housing of me...

...which the annexation of another city or village or part thereof is sought as provided in sections 709.22 to 709.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may by ordinance, and the board of education of a city school district to which the annexation of another city school district, exempted village school district, or local school district containing a village is sought as provided in such sections may by resolution, assent...

...Any person may lay out a village, or subdivision or addition to a municipal corporation, by causing the territory to be surveyed, and by having a plat of it made by a competent surveyor. The plat shall particularly describe the streets, alleys, commons, or public grounds, and all in-lots, out-lots, fractional-lots, within or adjacent to such village. The description shall include the courses, boundaries, and extent.

... the time of surveying and laying out a village, or subdivision or addition to a municipal corporation, the proprietor of such village, or subdivision or addition, shall plant at the corner of the public ground or lot, if there is such, and if there is none, then at the corner of one of the in-lots and at the corner of each out-lot, a good and sufficient stone, of such size and dimensions and in such manner as the su...

...ublic way, or any portion thereof, in a village, or addition to or subdivision in a municipal corporation, a plat, map or other plane representation showing such public way sought to be vacated, and all intersecting or connective public ways, shall be prepared and certified to by a licensed surveyor or engineer, and shall form a part of the petition and proceedings for such vacation. Any such public way sought to be ...

...ars. The legislative authority of each village may establish a commission of five members, consisting of the mayor, one member of the legislative authority to be elected thereby for the remainder of the individual's term as such member of the legislative authority, two citizens of the village, and one public member to be appointed by the mayor for terms of six years each, except that the term of one of the members o...

...or board. (B) If the county in which a village is located administers a county zoning resolution, the legislative authority of the village and the board of county commissioners of the county may contract with each other to have the county administer village zoning regulations, with its powers to include hearing and deciding zoning appeals and authorizing variances.

...ch 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. Whe...

...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 s...

...assed by the legislative authority in a village, except as provided by such section. When a petition, signed by ten per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent general election for the office of governor in the municipal corporation, is filed with the city auditor or village clerk within thirty days after any ordinance or other measure is filed with the mayor or passed by the ...

...The village clerk shall be elected for a term of four years, commencing on the first day of April next after his election. He shall be an elector of the village.

...g in appointive and elective offices of villages shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the remainder of the unexpired term, provided that: (1) Vacancies in the office of mayor shall be filled in the manner provided by section 733.25 of the Revised Code; (2) Vacancies in the membership of the legislative authority shall be filled in the manner provided by section 731.43 of the Revised Code; (3) Vacancies ...

...ection 733.72 of the Revised Code, the village solicitor or city director of law shall appear on behalf of the complainant to conduct the prosecution, and the accused may also appear by counsel. A time shall be set for hearing the case, which shall be not more than ten days after such return. If a jury is demanded by either party, the probate judge shall direct the summoning of twelve jurors in the manner prov...

...The legislative authority of a village shall provide by resolution or ordinance for the care, supervision, and management of all public parks, baths, libraries, market houses, crematories, sewage disposal plants, houses of refuge and correction, workhouses, infirmaries, hospitals, pesthouses, or any of such institutions owned, maintained, or established by such village. When the legislative authority determines to pl...

...refighter with the fire department of a village or other city prior to July 2, 1970, and receives a fire training certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code. (C) No person who is appointed as a volunteer firefighter of a city fire department shall remain in that position, unless either of the following applies: (1) Within one year of the appointment, the person has received a certificate issued...

...ical subdivision" means a county, city, village, public library, township, park district, school district, regional water and sewer district, or regional transit authority. (C) "Public library" means a library that is created, maintained, and regulated under Chapter 3375. of the Revised Code. (D) "School district" means a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district; a science, technology, e...

... prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in whose jurisdiction the probable fraud or theft occurred, unless the prosecuting attorney, director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation is identified in the report as the alleged perpetrator of the fraud or theft. (B) The auditor of state shall ...

...icipal corporation, the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer, or the officer who, by virtue of a charter, has the duties and functions provided in the Revised Code for the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer; (3) A school district, the treasurer of the board of education; (4) A regional water and sewer district, the secretary of the board of trustees; (5) A joint township hospital distr...

...ut not limited to, state, county, city, village, township, and school district units, and records pertaining to the delivery of educational services by an alternative school in this state kept by the nonprofit or for-profit entity operating the alternative school pursuant to section 3313.533 of the Revised Code. "Public record" does not mean any of the following: (a) Medical records; (b) Records pertaining to p...

...the clerk of the court of common pleas, village clerks, township fiscal officers, and other authorized agents designated by the chief of the division of wildlife. When required by the chief, a clerk, fiscal officer, or other agent shall give bond in the manner provided by the chief. All bonds, reports, except records prescribed by the auditor of state, and moneys received by those persons shall be handled under rules...

...rs that will represent the interests of villages and townships and that will review and select the capital improvement projects which will be submitted by the subcommittee to the administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission for consideration of assistance from the portion of the net proceeds of obligations issued and sold by the treasurer of state which is allocated pursuant to division ...

...r held within the corporate limits of a village subsequently to the time of their purchase and improvement, become incorporated for cemetery purposes, as though the lands held by the association were outside such corporate limits. Any association incorporated under this section as the successor of such an original association may, with the concurrence of the original association, take possession of, hold, and use, f...

... ___________________ township, city, or village; or To the sheriff of _______________________________ county; or To any authorized bailiff of the ____________ (name of court): Whereas, in a certain action for the forcible entry and detention (or the forcible detention, as the case may be), of the following described premises, to wit: ____________, lately tried before this court, wherein _______________ was plaintiff...

...901.11 of the Revised Code. A part-time village solicitor or city director of law or part-time assistant village solicitor or city director of law of any municipal corporation may be appointed as a magistrate, serve in any case in which the municipal corporation is not an interested party, and receive the prescribed compensation. (C) Except in the Cleveland municipal court, the court may appoint an administrative as...

...ecuting attorney, city director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of a municipal corporation who has defended against habitual and persistent vexatious conduct in the court of claims or in a court of appeals, court of common pleas, municipal court, or county court may commence a civil action in a court of common pleas with jurisdiction over the person who allegedly engaged in the habitual and ...