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...All contracts made by the director of public service shall be executed by him in the name of the city, one copy of which shall be filed in his office and one with the city auditor. No liability shall be created against the city as to any matters under the supervision of such director except by his express authority. No director of public service or officer or employee of his department shall be interested in any co...

...When a city has in contemplation the building of, or is in the process of constructing or furnishing, a city hall, the director of public service may employ five citizens of such city, to be named by him, not more than three of whom shall belong to the same political party, who shall constitute a commission, under his supervision and direction, to procure the necessary land for the construction or to furnish such cit...

...Subject to the approval of the director of public service, the commission appointed under section 735.10 of the Revised Code may acquire in the name of the city, by purchase or appropriation, land for city hall purposes, and may employ architects and approve plans and specifications. It shall make, in the name of the city, all contracts necessary for the construction and furnishing of such city hall, which shall be m...

...When a city has a market house or public hall in connection therewith in contemplation or in process of construction, the director of public service may employ three citizens of the city, to be named by him, who shall constitute a commission. Each person so appointed shall receive such compensation, not to exceed five dollars for each meeting attended by him, as the director fixes, which shall in no case exceed twe...

...Subject to the approval of the director of public service, the commission appointed under section 735.12 of the Revised Code may contract in the name of the city for and supervise the building and furnishing of a market house or public hall in connection therewith, and acquire the necessary lands for such purpose, by purchase or appropriation, in the name of the city. The commission shall adopt plans and specificatio...

... of construction, buildings for public, municipal, or county purposes within the boundaries of such city, the director of public service may employ three persons, to be named by him, at least two of whom shall be architects. Such persons shall be employed at a salary not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum each, to be fixed by the director and paid by the city from the general fund.

...have control of the location of public, municipal, or county buildings to be erected on ground acquired within the limits of the city, and of the size, height, style, and general appearance of such buildings. All plans and specifications for the erection thereof shall be submitted to and approved by them before adoption by the authority engaged in such construction.

...ruction or rebuilding of a public hall, municipal water-works system, municipal electric lighting system, or the rebuilding in whole or in part and combining of a municipal water-works system and a municipal electric lighting system, the mayor of such city may appoint a commission consisting of the mayor, the director of public service, and three electors of the city, subject to the approval of the board of control o...

...The director of public service shall be the platting commissioner of the city, and shall provide regulations governing the platting of all lands to require all streets and alleys to be the proper width and coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys. Whenever the legislative authority of such city deems it expedient to plat any portion of the territory within the city in which the necessary or convenient streets o...

...When acting as the platting commissioner, the director of public service may employ an engineer and such assistants as he finds necessary, and fix their salaries within limits to be prescribed by the legislative authority of the city.

...The platting commissioner shall cause a plat to be made of the territory which he is ordered to lay out, as soon as it can be conveniently done, showing the location of the streets and alleys already dedicated, and those proposed. For the purpose of making the necessary surveys, such commissioner may enter upon all property within the limits of the city.

...When a whole plan, or any portion thereof, as provided in section 735.19 of the Revised Code is completed, or when the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley has been finally determined by the platting commissioner of a city, a plat of the plan, avenue, street, roadway, or alley shall be placed in the office of the city engineer for the inspection of persons interested, and notice that it is ready fo...

...The platting commissioner of a city, at least once each week during the six-weeks period provided under section 735.20 of the Revised Code, at the time and place stated in the advertisement, and at such other times and places as he deems proper, shall hear any objections that are made against any portion of the plat, or the location of any avenue, street, roadway, or alley, and such alterations may be made as he deem...

...At the end of the six-weeks period provided by section 735.20 of the Revised Code, the platting commissioner shall cause copies of the plat as finally adopted to be prepared and such monuments or marks as he thinks proper to be placed on the grounds. He shall deposit one copy, certified to by him, in the office of the county recorder, and another in the office of the city engineer, and such plan shall be deemed to be...

...No streets or alleys, except those laid out on a plan made by the platting commissioner pursuant to sections 735.19 to 735.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall subsequently be in any way accepted as public streets or alleys by the city, nor shall any of the public funds be expended in the improvement or repair of streets or alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat, but any city may exercise the power of...

...The owners of any portion of the ground platted under section 735.19 to 735.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code, by a declaration of their intention to do so, properly acknowledged and recorded in the county recorder's office, may at any time accept such plan so far as it concerns their property. Such acceptance, or the selling of lots referring to the plan or to the streets and alleys therein laid out, shall be a st...

...When municipal corporations adjoin each other, the legislative authorities thereof may agree, in any manner they determine, upon the appointment of a joint commission for the purposes of sections 735.17 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such commission, when appointed, shall have all the power over the territory of the municipal corporations described in the resolutions of the legislative authorities thereof...

...Plans made under sections 735.19 to 735.24, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be amended after adoption, by like proceedings by which they were originally adopted.

...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...

...The legislative authority of the village may establish the position of village administrator by ordinance. The village administrator established under this section shall have those powers provided by section 735.273 of the Revised Code. The village administrator shall be appointed by the mayor, but shall not take office unless his appointment has been approved by a majority vote of the members elected to the legislat...

...elected at the next regular election of municipal officers held in the village occurring more than one hundred days after the appointment of such members by the mayor, as provided by section 735.28 of the Revised Code. Such board of trustees of public affairs shall have those powers and duties as provided by sections 735.28 and 735.29 of the Revised Code and as otherwise provided by law.

... and regulations, when not repugnant to municipal ordinances and resolutions or to the constitution of this state, shall have the same validity as ordinances. The rates for service and charges for municipally owned utilities shall be determined by the legislative authority of the village. The village administrator shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as are provided in sections 743.05 to 743.07, i...

...llows: at the next regular election of municipal officials occurring more than one hundred days after the appointment of the first members of such board as provided in this section, one member shall be elected for a term of two years and two members shall be elected for terms of four years each; and thereafter all such members shall be elected for terms of four years. When the legislative authority establishes such...

...er shall be appointed by the mayor of a municipal corporation and confirmed by the legislative authority thereof for a term of one year. He need not be a resident of the municipal corporation at the time of his appointment but shall become a resident thereof within six months after his appointment and confirmation unless such residence requirement is waived by ordinance. Vacancies in the office of street commissioner...

...r or other chief executive officer of a municipal corporation, the street commissioner, or an engineer, when one is provided by the legislative authority, shall supervise the improvement and repair of streets, avenues, alleys, lands, lanes, squares, wards, landings, market houses, bridges, viaducts, sidewalks, sewers, drains, ditches, culverts, ship channels, streams, and watercourses. Such commissioner or engineer s...