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...d shall serve the several directors and officers provided in Title VII of the Revised Code as legal counsel and attorney. The director of law shall be prosecuting attorney of the mayor's court. When the legislative authority of the city allows assistants to the director of law, he may designate the assistants to act as prosecuting attorneys of the mayor's court. The person designated shall be subject to the approval...

...nal compensation as the board of county commissioners allows.

...The city director of law, when required to do so by resolution of the legislative authority of the city, shall prosecute or defend on behalf of the city, all complaints, suits, and controversies in which the city is a party, and such other suits, matters, and controversies as he is, by resolution or ordinance, directed to prosecute. He shall not be required to prosecute any action before the mayor of the city for the...

...When an officer of a city entertains doubts concerning the law in any matter before him in his official capacity, and desires the opinion of the city director of law, he shall clearly state to the director of law, in writing, the question upon which the opinion is desired, and thereupon the director of law shall, within a reasonable time, reply orally or in writing to such inquiry. The right conferred upon such offic...

...The city director of law shall pay to the city treasurer all moneys which come into his hands belonging to the city or by way of fines, forfeitures, costs, or otherwise, and take the treasurer's duplicate receipt therefor, one of which he shall file with the city auditor.

...The village solicitor or city director of law shall apply, in the name of the municipal corporation, to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order of injunction to restrain the misapplication of funds of the municipal corporation, the abuse of its corporate powers, or the execution or performance of any contract made in behalf of the municipal corporation in contravention of the laws or ordinance governing it, or...

...When an obligation or contract made on behalf of a municipal corporation, granting a right or easement or creating a public duty, is being evaded or violated, the village solicitor or city director of law shall apply for the forfeiture or the specific performance thereof as the nature of the case requires.

...In case an officer or board of a municipal corporation fails to perform any duty expressly enjoined by law or ordinance, the village solicitor or city director of law shall apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for a writ of mandamus to compel the performance of the duty.

...If the village solicitor or city director of law, upon the written request of any taxpayer of the municipal corporation, makes any application provided for by section 733.56, 733.57, or 733.58 of the Revised Code, the taxpayer may be named as a party defendant and if so named shall have the right to assist in presenting all issues of law and fact to the court in order that a full and complete adjudication of the cont...

...If the village solicitor or city director of law fails, upon the written request of any taxpayer of the municipal corporation, to make any application provided for in sections 733.56 to 733.58 of the Revised Code, the taxpayer may institute suit in his own name, on behalf of the municipal corporation. Any taxpayer of any municipal corporation in which there is no village solicitor or city director of law may bring su...

...No action to enjoin the performance of a contract entered into or the payment of any bonds issued by a municipal corporation shall be brought or maintained unless commenced within one year from the date of such contract or bonds.

...If the court hearing a case under section 733.59 of the Revised Code is satisfied that the taxpayer had good cause to believe that his allegations were well founded, or if they are sufficient in law, it shall make such order as the equity of the case demands. In such case the taxpayer shall be allowed his costs, and, if judgment is finally ordered in his favor, he may be allowed, as part of the costs, a reasonable co...

...The city director of law shall make a report to the legislative authority of the city, at its first regular meeting in January, of the business of his office, the moneys by him collected during the year preceding, and such other matters as he deems proper to promote the good government and welfare of the city.

...As used in this section, "chief legal officer" means a city director of law, village solicitor, or similar chief legal officer of a municipal corporation. Subject to section 2921.421 of the Revised Code, a chief legal officer of a municipal corporation may appoint, as an assistant legal officer, prosecutor, clerk, stenographer, or other employee, a person who is an associate or partner of, or who is employed by, th...

...The mayor of a municipal corporation may appoint a sealer of weights and measures, who shall hold office coextensive with the term of office of the mayor who made his appointment, unless otherwise removed from office.

...The sealer of weights and measures of a municipal corporation shall be a competent person for the position, and shall receive a salary fixed by ordinance, to be paid by the municipal corporation, which salary shall be in lieu of all fees or charges.

...The sealer of weights and measures, before entering upon official duties, shall take the oath of office required by section 733.68 of the Revised Code. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the sealer shall give bond to the municipal corporation in such amount as is prescribed by ordinance, with security to the approval of the mayor, and conditioned for the fa...

...The sealer of weights and measures of a municipal corporation shall, at such times as may be required by regulation of the director of agriculture, submit all of his standards to the state sealer for comparison with the state standards.

...The municipal sealer may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating any provision of the weights and measures laws or regulations of the director of agriculture issued pursuant thereto.

...other section of the Revised Code, each officer of a municipal corporation, or of any department or board of a municipal corporation, whether elected or appointed as a substitute for a regular officer, shall be an elector of the municipal corporation and, before entering upon official duties, shall take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state and an oath that the...

...section 3.061 of the Revised Code, each officer of a municipal corporation required by law or ordinance to give bond shall do so before entering upon the duties of the office. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority thereof may at any time require each officer to give a new or additional bond. Each bond except that of the municipal audit...

...The official bonds of all officers of a municipal corporation shall be prepared by its village solicitor or city director of law. Except as otherwise provided in Title VII of the Revised Code, the bonds shall be in such sum as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation prescribes by general or special ordinance and shall be subject to the approval of the mayor. The mayor's bond shall be approved by the le...

...hat new duties have been imposed on the officers, or that any merely formal objection exists shall not be available in any suit on the instrument.

... service, or is or has been acting as a commissioner, architect, superintendent, or engineer in work undertaken or prosecuted by the municipal corporation, contrary to law; (C) That a member of the legislative authority or an officer of the municipal corporation has been guilty of misfeasance or malfeasance in office. Before acting upon such complaint, the judge shall require the party complaining to furnish suffic...

...On the day fixed by the probate judge for the return of the citation issued pursuant to section 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...