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.... The same fees shall be allowed to the officers certifying and recording them as are allowed under division (R) of section 2303.20 of the Revised Code.

...Each city auditor or village clerk who is required to make a certificate under section 733.15 of the Revised Code, and each clerk of the court of common pleas required to record such certificate when it is presented for record, who neglects or refuses to perform such duty, shall pay fifteen dollars to the treasurer of the municipal corporation for each such neglect or refusal, to be recovered in a civil action, at th...

...When bids are required to be filed for the letting of contracts by the director of public service or the director of public safety, the city auditor or his chief deputy shall attend and assist at the opening thereof and inspect them.

...The city auditor may, when authorized by ordinance, appoint a deputy who, in the absence or disability of such auditor, shall perform his duties.

...The legislative authority of a city shall provide a seal for the city auditor, in the center of which shall be the name of the city, and around the margin the words "City Auditor," an impression of which seal shall be affixed to all transcripts, orders, certificates, or other papers requiring authentication.

...The mayor, director of public service, and the director of public safety constitute the board of control of a city. The mayor shall be ex officio president. The board shall keep a record of its proceedings. All votes shall be yeas and nays and entered on the record, and the vote of a majority of all the members of the board shall be necessary to adopt any question, motion, or order.

...Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of section 713.23, and sections 125.04 and 5513.01 of the Revised Code, no contract in the department of public service or the department of public safety, in excess of five thousand dollars, shall be awarded except on the approval of the board of control of the city, which board shall direct the director of the appropriate department to enter into the contract. The member...

...al, street commissioner, and such other officers and departments thereof as are created by law.

...r shall be the chief conservator of the peace therein and shall have the powers and duties provided by law. He shall be the president of the legislative authority and shall preside at all regular and special meetings thereof, but shall have no vote except in case of a tie.

...When the mayor is absent from the village, or is unable for any cause to perform his duties, the president pro tempore of the legislative authority shall be acting mayor. In case of the death, resignation, or removal of the mayor, such president pro tempore shall become the mayor and shall hold the office until his successor is elected and qualified. Such successor shall be elected to the office for the unexpired ter...

...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.

...(A) The legislative authority of a village may, by ordinance or resolution passed by at least a majority vote, combine the duties of the clerk and the treasurer into one office, to be known as the clerk-treasurer. The combination shall be effective on the first day of January following the next regular municipal election at which the village clerk is to be elected, provided that a clerk-treasurer shall be elect...

...ice, to be known as the village fiscal officer. To make this change, the village legislative authority shall pass, by a two-thirds vote, an ordinance or resolution proposing to make the change effective on the first day of January following the next regular municipal election at which the village clerk or village clerk-treasurer is to be elected. So that no election for the office of village clerk or village...

...(A) The village clerk shall attend all meetings of the legislative authority of the village, and keep a record of its proceedings and of all rules, bylaws, resolutions, and ordinances passed or adopted, which shall be subject to the inspection of all persons interested. In case of the absence of the clerk, such legislative authority shall appoint one of its members to perform the clerk's duties. (B) The village cler...

...The village clerk shall keep the books of the village, exhibit accurate statements of all moneys received and expended, of all the property owned by the village and the income derived therefrom, and of all taxes and assessments. The legislative authority of the village may, by majority vote, merge the duties of the clerk of the board of trustees of public affairs with those of the village clerk, allowing the village ...

...The legislative authority of a village shall provide a seal for the village clerk, in the center of which shall be the name of the village, and around the margin "Village Clerk," an impression of which seal shall be affixed to all transcripts, orders, certificates, or other papers requiring authentication.

... obeyed and enforced. He shall sign all commissions, licenses, and permits granted by such legislative authority, or authorized by Title VII of the Revised Code, and such other instruments as by law or ordinances require his certificate.

... appoint a person to serve as an acting officer to perform the duties of the office until a permanent officer is appointed to fill the vacancy. (B) Unless otherwise provided by law, vacancies arising in appointive offices of cities shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the remainder of the unexpired term. (C) A vacancy in the office of president of the legislative authority of a city shall be filled in th...

...The mayor shall communicate to the legislative authority from time to time a statement of the finances of the municipal corporation, and such other information relating thereto and to the general condition of the affairs of such municipal corporation as he deems proper or as is required by the legislative authority.

...If, in the opinion of the mayor, an expenditure, authorized by the legislative authority, exceeds the revenues of the municipal corporation for the current year, he shall protest against such expenditure, and enter such protest, and the reason therefor, on the journal of the legislative authority.

... shall supervise the conduct of all the officers of the municipal corporation, inquire into and examine the grounds of all reasonable complaints against any of such officers, and cause their violations or neglect of duty to be promptly punished or reported to the proper authority for correction.

...upervision over each department and the officers provided for in Title VII of the Revised Code. When the mayor has reason to believe that the head of a department or such officer has been guilty, in the performance of his official duty, of bribery, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, misconduct in office, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, or habitual drunkenness, he shall immediately file with the legislati...

...rity shall be final, but to remove such officer the votes of two thirds of all members elected thereto shall be required.

...Pending any proceedings under sections 733.35 and 733.36 of the Revised Code, an accused person may be suspended by a majority vote of all members elected to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, but such suspension shall not be for a longer period than fifteen days, unless the hearing of such charges is extended upon the application of the accused, in which event the suspension shall not exceed thi...

...e against the head of any department or officer, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation may issue subpoenas or compulsory process to compel the attendance of persons and the production of books and papers before it, and such legislative authority may provide by ordinance for exercising and enforcing this section.