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...vised Code shall be the property of the municipal corporations jointly, and they may take all necessary steps to keep them in proper repair and condition and to protect them from damage and improper use. Such municipal corporations may, by ordinance jointly passed, prescribe the terms, including the price to be paid therefor, upon which other municipal corporations, public institutions, or individuals may connect wit...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide for the repair or reconstruction of any sewer, ditch, or drain and the proceedings for that purpose shall be the same, so far as applicable, as are required for the original construction thereof.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, in accordance with Title VII of the Revised Code, may provide for the construction and maintenance of sewer pumping stations, equip them with necessary machinery and apparatus and provide the necessary buildings therefor.

...A municipal corporation may purchase and hold land outside its limits, to be used as a sewerage farm, and may construct and maintain thereon all the necessary appliances for the proper disposal of the sewage of such municipal corporation, under such rules and regulations as are prescribed by the legislative authority thereof and approved by the department of health.

...In a city the director of public service shall manage, conduct, and control the sewerage system and sewage pumping, treatment, and disposal works mentioned in section 729.49 of the Revised Code, and, when the legislative authority thereof has established a schedule of rates or charges of rents therefor, the director shall collect sewer rentals, and shall appoint the necessary officers and agents for such purposes. W...

...The director of public service and the board of trustees of public affairs may make such bylaws and regulations as are necessary for the safe, economical, and efficient management and protection of the sewerage system and sewage pumping, treatment, and disposal works mentioned in section 729.49 of the Revised Code, and for the construction and use of house sewers and their connections to the sewerage system. Such byl...

...osited weekly with the treasurer of the municipal corporation. Money so deposited shall be kept as a separate and distinct fund and shall be known as the sewer fund. When appropriated by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, the fund shall be subject to the order of the director of public service of a city or of the board of trustees of public affairs of a village. The director or board shall sign a...

...(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 wards and three of whom shall be elected by electors of the city at large. For the first twenty thousand inhabitants in any city, in addition to the original five thousand, there sha...

...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 an elector of the city, shall not hold any other public office, except that of notary public or member of the state militia, and shall not be intere...

...y of January following the next regular municipal election, except as may otherwise be provided by the legislative authority to establish staggered terms of office among members of the legislative authority. A city legislative authority whose members' terms of office are four years may, by a majority vote, adopt a resolution establishing staggered four-year terms of office among members of the legislative auth...

...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 and employees shall serve for two years, unless the members of the legislative authority serve terms of four years pursuant to division (B) of section 731.03 of the R...

...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 provided in Title VII of the Revised Code. All contracts requiring the authority of the legislative authority for their execution shall be entered into and conducted...

..., 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 legislat...

...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.

...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 go...

... 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 ...

... 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...

...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 electe...

...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.

...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...

...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...

...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 o...

...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 the amount specified in section 9.17 of the Revised Code. When an expenditure, other than the compensation of perso...

...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 R...

...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...